NBA Building Cardinals

Chapter 252 Eastern Seventh (15)

As the end of the regular season of this season is getting closer and closer, the Bobcats finally ushered in their last wave of western road trip in mid-March.

This is definitely a very big test for the Bobcats' young players.

Because the Bobcats will have nine consecutive Western Conference road trips, whether it is a long journey or facing the pressure of the audience in the away game, this is a very big test for rookie players.

April 3

The first opponent of the Bobcats' western road trip is the league's giants, the Los Angeles Lakers.

It's just that this season, the Lakers currently have no hope of entering the playoffs, and the team's head star Kobe is currently forced to sit on the sidelines due to injuries.

This has also led to the fact that the current Lakers team with the highest score on the court is Caron Butler, who averaged 15 points per game.

I have to say that this lineup is really a bit shabby for the wealthy Lakers.

And unlike other teams, the Lakers don't have high-ranked rookies to train even if they have no hope of entering the playoffs.

This puts the former giants in an embarrassing situation.

Facing the Lakers in this game, Liu Rui chose to let the team's starting power forward Okafor take a rotation.

After all, facing the Lakers without Kobe is equivalent to a tiger without its claws.

As long as the Lakers are not collectively convulsed, then for this game, the Bobcats will have a very good chance of winning.

The reason why he didn't rest the two players again is that in addition to avoiding the vision of the league as much as possible, Liu Rui still has to be cautious when facing this kind of team that is not incapable of fighting back.

After all, the Bobcats are currently at a critical stage of hitting the playoffs.

After the opening game, due to Okafor's absence, the Bobcats' tactics in these two games were once again disrupted, because Okafor is now being developed by Liu Rui into a supporting all-round insider.

Therefore, his rotation also made the Bobcats' main lineup lack a ball point.

For this game, Liu Rui also made some adjustments, placing the starting center Jefferson on the bench again.

Then the veteran Divac on the bench and Eli the Beast were mentioned in the starting lineup.

In this way, the starting roster can once again have a supporting center, and although Eli's ability to play low singles cannot be compared with Okaf and Jefferson.

But in terms of the impact of hitting the basket head-on, it can still continue the Bobcats' style of play.

Even Okafor takes a rest, facing this leaderless Lakers.

At halftime, the Bobcats were still on the road with:

56:45
Leading by 11 points ended the first half contest.

Facing his old club this season, Divac's performance in this game is still stable.

He played more than 8 minutes in the first half and scored 4 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists.

Because the current starting center of the Lakers is Chris Mim, Liu Rui is not at all panicked by the presence of Divac.

After returning from the second half, the Lakers, which lacked Kobe, still failed to show a strong counterattack momentum.

Even the main lineup of the Bobcats made the score bigger and bigger.

At the end of the third quarter, the Bobcats had basically let the game lose its suspense.

In the fourth quarter, the two sides switched to a rotation lineup and played a symbolic fight. With House and Karim hitting a three-pointer with a distance between them, this game completely lost its suspense.

At the end of the game, the Bobcats in the first game of the Western Conference road trip, with:
112:96
16 points away from the Los Angeles Lakers.

While giving this trip to the West a good start, it also brought the Bobcats' record to 31 wins and 28 losses.

Successfully squeezed out the Bulls and rose to eighth place in the Eastern Conference.

And this change in ranking is also the first time that the Bobcats have entered the top eight in the Eastern Conference this season.

The victory of this game also made the players very excited after the game.

And all the Charlotte fans who watched the live broadcast of the game at home slapped the table excitedly and shouted, not knowing how to vent their joy.

Although this ranking is currently temporary, there will definitely be a lot of fluctuations in the next rankings.

But seeing the team they support rank among the top eight in the East still makes fans who support the Bobcats feel excited.

For the further improvement of the team's record, of course, the head coach Liu Rui felt a little happy.

But he was not dazzled by the victory of this game, defeating a Lakers without Kobe, there is really nothing to celebrate.

For the Bobcats, the real test has only just begun.

After defeating the Lakers in an away game, according to the usual practice, they will directly challenge their city rivals, the Clippers, in Los Angeles in the next game.

In the following schedule, the Bobcats challenged the Clippers, Jazz and Grizzlies successively, and achieved a record of two wins and one loss.

After all, today's Jazz ranks second to last in the West, and they are all working hard for the No. [-] pick.

As for the Clippers, the Bobcats have played against them many times this season, so it can be said that they are relatively familiar.

In the first three quarters, the Clippers were still able to catch up with the Bobcats. After the fourth quarter, Liu Rui widened the rotation of the lineup, and the advantage of preserving the physical strength of the main players was revealed.

In the contest in the fourth quarter, the main players of the Bobcats took the game away with a wave of force.

However, the Bobcats did face defeat in the next back-to-back challenge to the Grizzlies.

The Grizzlies are currently ranked eighth in the Western Conference, and because the Western Conference has very close records except for the Suns and Spurs.

So this also leads to the final ranking of the West, which will be more confusing.

The Grizzlies got White Chocolate Williams from the Kings this season, and the arrival of Williams also completely connected the Grizzlies' offense.

Plus Gasol on the inside and Posey on the front.

This makes the Grizzlies this season have been very competitive.

Faced with continuous away games, and back-to-back games.

The shooting touch of the young Bobcats players in this game has become very bad.

Especially in the second half, after returning from the third quarter, the main players of the Bobcats teamed up and contributed 13 strikes outside the three-point line.

It slammed the neck of the basket at home in Memphis.

And facing White Chocolate Williams, Xiao Mo, the main point guard of the Bobcats, was really educated.

Faced with White Chocolate's gaudy pass, Xiao Mo, who was facing him, was deeply educated on the defensive end.

With the completion of these games, the current record of the Bobcats has come to 33 wins and 29 losses.

Not only temporarily kept the top eight places in the Eastern Conference, but also accidentally squeezed out the Bulls in front of him, rising to the seventh place in the Eastern Conference.

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