lakers championship

Chapter 228 Secret Weapon
On the night of defeating the Warriors, Kobe took the lead in tweeting, congratulating the Lakers on their 52 wins and making it to the playoffs.

After Kobe, Magician, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Worthy and other Lakers celebrities also tweeted their congratulations.

Some Lakers fans mentioned that Tianyang has fulfilled the promise made at the rookie conference and successfully led the Lakers to the playoffs.Looking back on the entire season, Tianyang's super performance of averaging 26 points and 9 assists per game has amazed commentators and experts from all walks of life.

It's unbelievable that a rookie who has been seriously injured, under the pressure of playing in Los Angeles, has experienced setbacks such as the Jenner incident and the opening losing streak, from 17 wins to 52 wins.

In addition, the Lakers defeated the Warriors three times in the same season. Although two of them were due to the Warriors' poor feel and Cole gave up the game early, it at least shows that the Lakers have the strength to fight the Warriors.

The Warriors are a championship-level team.Based on this inference, will the Lakers' 17th championship be far behind?

Bill Simmons said that he will not only vote for Tianyang as the first MVP vote, but also spontaneously lobby people he knows in the circle to support Tianyang, because even novels cannot write such dreamy stories.

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In order to seize all the time to prepare for the playoffs, the Lakers did not take a break and returned directly to Los Angeles.

When we arrived at the airport, it was already 1 o'clock in the morning, and Jim and Kupchak still came to pick us up.

Walking out of the airport, there were actually hundreds of die-hard fans, holding banners to welcome the Lakers home.

52 wins, making it to the playoffs, 17 wins last year, and a rocket-like improvement speed. The Lakers fans are in a state of extreme excitement. There was originally a larger-scale pick-up event, but Jenny persuaded him to stop.

At first, there was no way to persuade them. It was not until Jenny suggested to the fans to save the best welcome until the end, when the Lakers won the championship, that the fanatical Lakers fans gradually calmed down.

The Lakers players and fans took photos and chatted, and they didn't go home until 2 o'clock.

Even so, at 9 a.m. the next morning, when the team usually sets the training gathering time, Tianyang still showed up at the training base, along with Walton, Ingram, Randall, and Cousins.

All five of them were full of energy and started discussing how to deal with the Rockets in the first round.

After a few minutes of discussion, Nick Yang and others also arrived one after another, and everyone gathered together to continue the discussion.Offensive tactics, defensive tactics, and player characteristics are all talked about, and Brewer has become the main sharer.

Kupchak and Jim contacted the professional analysis team and received the analysis report that had been scheduled. This was not because they did not trust their own analysis team, but because they wanted to see more different viewpoints.In addition to the Rockets, Jim also booked the analysis of the Jazz and the Clippers, because no one knew who the Lakers would play in the first round.

It can be said that the Lakers attach great importance to this game from the players to the management.

After all, the Lakers have not entered the playoffs for a long time,

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The game has not yet started, and on social networks, various articles about the analysis of the strength of the two teams are popping up like cut leeks, many and fast, wave after wave.

总的来说，结论都比较极端，要么湖人4比0或者4比1火箭，要么火箭4比0或者4比1湖人，最多预测4比2，没有任何人预测4比3。

Articles supporting the Rockets stated that Harden will beat Nick Young on the outside, Capela will limit Cousins' performance at the basket, Ariza and Patrick Beverly will make it difficult for Tianyang to move, and Anderson will have a super long range on the outside Will crush Randall's defense.

In addition, the side that supports the Rockets also lists the comparison of regular season data. The Rockets have 2 wins and 1 loss. Foreign lore, and inferring from this, as long as the Rockets are not stupid, they will basically win the Lakers.

Articles supporting the Lakers used this to refute, saying that it is true that the Rockets won one more game, but the Rockets have not yet played against the Lakers with Cousins.Even Green and Adams can't stop Cousins, Capela's head limit?
Lakers fans commented under the article supporting the Lakers: Even if Beverly and Ariza play together, Tianyang is still unstoppable.Ingram and Randall will beat Anderson and Ariza.

The two sides were at loggerheads, and TNT launched a vote. After 24 hours of statistics, the support of the two teams was split [-]-[-].

Fans of both teams disagree with this result, but neutral fans agree very much.

Neutral fans said that in the last few games, the Rockets met the Jazz and the Clippers and were suspected of releasing water. They seemed to deliberately pick the Lakers as their opponents. Before the Lakers played the Warriors, there were voices calling for voluntary abandonment, and they also wanted to pick the Rockets as their opponents. .The two sides challenged each other, and both were very confident in their own strength.

Neutral fans said that Western teams like to pick the Rockets as their opponents in the playoffs for a long time.

It can be said that the Rockets are unique in terms of not being favored in the playoffs.

As far as this season is concerned, firstly, the Rockets are relatively weak on the inside, and Capela, who can only eat cakes, needs relatively little defensive energy; secondly, the Rockets only have one offensive core with the ball, that is, Harden. Harden, the Rockets' offensive power has dropped by at least 50%.

Of course, Harden can't lock up if he wants to. After all, he averaged 29.1 points per game. In addition to stepping back three-pointers and forcing layups with his left hand, he also has confusing foul techniques.

The discussion finally came to nothing, and the Rockets fans spoke harshly, wanting to avenge 09.

Lakers fans also spoke harshly, wanting to step on the Rockets to enter the Western Conference Finals.

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At 4 am on April 15th, the Lakers officially announced the 3-man roster for the playoffs. Marcelo Huertas, Anthony Brown, and Metta World Peace were excluded, but the three still went to Houston with the team .

At 15 pm on the 2th, the Lakers team bus stopped outside the Sasa Hotel in Houston.

Just as Tianyang got off the car, the hotel manager came up with a group of staff to welcome him.

The manager holds up a sign that reads: "NOW OR NEVER!"

How can anyone welcome people to use this kind of brand, or this kind of content?It's too weird!

But the opponent would not do this for no reason, Tianyang was stunned for a while, and finally realized: This is the hotel where the Sequoia team played the NCAA finals last year, and the words on the sign were before the last game against North Carolina, The hotel manager specially invited him to write it down for his collection, but he did not expect to keep it.

Returning here a year later to participate in the NBA playoffs, Tianyang felt emotional.

The management is too caring!But the smiling eyes of his teammates showed that he was the only one who didn't know about it.

Tianyang took the sign with a smile, raised his hands above his head, and said in a loud voice: "Last year, I won the NCAA championship in two games here. This year, I will also win two games and get two home court advantages!" ".

Ten seconds later, what Tianyang said spread quickly through Twitter.

Rockets general manager Morey liked it and retweeted: "Welcome to Houston, we have prepared a secret weapon for you!"

(End of this chapter)