Big Zhi and Kobe's Lakers Dynasty

Chapter 397
It wasn't until the Los Angeles Lakers harvested a wave of five consecutive victories that public opinion finally ushered in an improvement. Media experts and public fans began to re-examine this Lakers team that was out of tune with the times.

In the first two games, the Lakers beat Shaquille O'Neal's new owner, the Phoenix Suns, and the Utah Jazz on the clock, and they didn't encounter any decent resistance in the next three games.

In the sixth game, they were killed by the Seattle SuperSonics in zero seconds.

Compared with five consecutive victories, being a lore in one game means nothing.

The regular season of the shortened season only has 50 games, and the Lakers will only play 50 games against the Eastern Conference in these 5 games. In competition.

Due to the short schedule of the regular season, the room left for the team to adjust is also very limited. Many old-fashioned strong teams like to start the season at the beginning of the season and wait until the All-Star Game to exert their strength, but this year's schedule does not allow this at all. operation.

In this way, the players can only try the full-fire mode at the beginning of the season, but the too long offseason makes it difficult for the players to adapt to this year's high-intensity regular season, which also makes each team's injuries such as tide!

The exception is the Los Angeles Lakers, a group of lads who didn't waste their offseason on women's bellies, and their hard work day in and day out finally paid off.

In the regular season, they made great strides all the way, and many opponents even gave up strategically when they met the Lakers.

Because the Los Angeles Lakers' style of play is really unreasonable. According to the reactions of many veterans, playing half a game with the Los Angeles running and bombing team consumes more energy than playing a game with other teams. need more!
Halfway through the schedule, the Los Angeles Lakers ranked first in the league with a score of 20 wins and 5 losses!

When the lower-ranked teams have not yet entered the regular season, the Los Angeles Lakers have already played the feeling of the playoffs.

This is a good thing, but there are many hidden dangers. In the 50 games of the regular season, the gap between the teams in the same district cannot be widened at all, so many teams don't care much about the ranking in the regular season.

The teams with hopes of hitting the championship seem to be starting to pull back at this time. The fight in the first half was too tragic. On the premise of ensuring a place in the playoffs, they reduced the playing time of their core players.

In the entire West, it seems that only the Los Angeles Lakers are rushing to the position of the Western Conference regular season champion. Many old fritters experts have expressed concern about this situation.

But new coach De Antoni didn't take it seriously. He felt that if he could develop a new style of play that subverted the era, he would be able to win the championship!
As for the rest, who cares?

Not only the head coach thought so, but the players also felt a little elated. When they beat their opponents again, there was a relaxed and happy atmosphere in the locker room!

Kobe: "Today's game was really bad! It was so bad!"

Kobe, wearing a long training suit, slumped on a chair in the locker room with a serious expression on his face.

Steve Nash: "It's another three-quarter clock out, what's so bad about it?"

Steve Nash didn't have much playing time in the Phoenix Suns, and he didn't experience the feeling of enjoying the victory much. When he came to the Los Angeles Lakers, he played the main force and won. The Lakers career that just started is The happiest time of his life.

Kobe: "I clocked in three quarters to get off work, and I didn't sweat much!

My God, I just took a day's pay!I feel so embarrassed! "

After saying this, the whole locker room burst into laughter!
Wang Dazhi: "Yeah, how can there be no opponents who can fight this year?
Originally, my MVP ranking has always been in the top three, but I can't make it to the fourth quarter. I think my MVP dream is a bit difficult! "

The Los Angeles Lakers are flourishing under the support of Steve Nash and Wang Dazhi. Everyone's statistics are very average. With the statistics, there will be big contracts. In short, everyone in the team is enjoying the current time .

But only Robert Horry realized that there were huge hidden dangers in such a team atmosphere, but he was happy to see everyone happy, and Robert Horry was unwilling to break this wonderful atmosphere.

Anyway, when the playoffs fail, it won't be too late for him to stand up and preside over the overall situation. If you have wine today, you will be drunk today!
Everyone laughed and laughed, and Robert Horry took a gulp of Gatorade.

In fact, in the Lakers era of the Sharks, Wang Dazhi was very calm and objective. When the team swelled, he was always the first to notice it!
But when he became the boss of the team and promoted the composition of the cross-age team, he finally became the one who was a fan of the authorities.

It is such a happy family, and they won the first place in the Western Conference in one fell swoop.

This season was the closest Wang Dazhi came to the MVP of the regular season, but the team played too long with garbage opportunities, and in the end he lost to Allen Iverson of the Philadelphia 76ers in the MVP selection.

The Philadelphia 76ers won one more game than the Los Angeles Lakers, and they are also unbeatable in the East!
Tim Duncan supported the defensive system of the defending champions alone, so that the carefree AI in the rear can use his offensive talent wantonly on the offensive end!

Before the start of the playoffs, almost all experts are optimistic that the Philadelphia 76ers will meet the Los Angeles Lakers in the Finals!
Such predictions made the Lakers call them experts!

The league's playoff map is also officially released. In the West, the No. [-] Los Angeles Lakers will face the eighth-ranked Minnesota Timberwolves in the first round.

The two teams played against each other 5 times during the regular season, and the Los Angeles Lakers have an absolute advantage with a record of [-] wins and [-] loss!
In the shortened season, Minnesota Timberwolves' head guard Stephen Marbury was reimbursed for the season after only playing 18 games, but with the efforts of others, this team miraculously caught the last train of the playoffs .

This will be the last season for the Lone Wolf to play for the Minnesota Timberwolves. He feels that the leader of this team should be named Stephen, but unfortunately the management does not think so.

So the Los Angeles Lakers will face an unfinished eighth team in the Western Conference, and they still have a considerable advantage.

In addition to the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference, the Utah Jazz, Portland Trail Blazers and Phoenix Suns ranked second to fourth, and the bottom half ranked five to seven were the Houston Rockets, Sacramento Kings and San Antonio Spurs.

These eight teams basically deserve their names!
(End of this chapter)