lakers championship

Chapter 236
In the 4 regular season matches, the Lakers and Spurs tied 2-2.What's interesting is that the Spurs won the first two games and the Lakers won the last two games. The addition of Cousins ​​completely reversed the situation of the two teams.And the next two games were big wins by the Lakers, and the Spurs struggled very much, so Kenny said 'the Spurs can't do it either'.

But fans who have watched NBA games know that the regular season and the playoffs cannot be whispered at the same time. The defensive strength alone is one sky and the other underground, so the regular season record is of little reference.Regardless of other teams, as far as the Lakers are concerned, they faced the Rockets with 1 win and 3 losses in the regular season, but they directly scored a 2-0 lead in the playoffs.

For this reason, the fans and the media are clearly divided into two factions. The fans firmly believe that the Lakers can easily defeat the Spurs and advance to the Western Conference Finals, while the media believe that the Spurs will completely contain the Lakers.Such a huge disagreement has to be traced back to Kobe's contract renewal in 13. The media agreed that Kobe's big contract would be a burden for the Lakers, but fans believed that Kobe would regain his form and help the Lakers rise from the trough.

As a result, no one expected that after Kobe recovered from his Achilles tendon injury, he suffered consecutive knee and shoulder injuries. The three injuries caused Kobe to lose his explosive, athletic, and shooting abilities one after another. In the end, he had to retire as a last resort.

Unlike Kobe's experience, this time fans and the media have different opinions, but they all agree that the series between the Lakers and the Spurs will play 7 games, and there will never be a one-sided situation.

The heated discussions on social networks naturally fell into the eyes of the Rockets players.Harden was very unhappy, as if the Rockets had already been eliminated, but he didn't dare to say too much. The phrase "now the pressure is all on the Blazers" has become the laughing stock of fans. In the end, he only tweeted a "Rocket come on ' expression.

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The entire Lakers team couldn't wait to rush back to Los Angeles on the night of the game.

According to the schedule, the next game between the Lakers and the Rockets will be held in three days.

Wharton gave the players half a day off, but on the morning of the 19th, the whole team showed up at the training base neatly, and Wharton himself was also there.Everyone looked at each other and smiled. Everyone has a strong desire to win and is eager to train 24 hours a day.

Everyone is excited to start training, but Tianyang put forward a suggestion, hoping that the team can combine work and rest, and relax. In the high-intensity game of the playoffs, just do some light training to maintain the state, and run for a while. Tactics, watching game videos, studying the opponent's characteristics, etc. will do.

Wharton immediately adopted Tianyang's suggestion. After the whole team practiced tactical moves, they began to watch the game video.

Nick Young proposed to watch the video of the Spurs facing the Thunder, because the Rockets have nothing to worry about.But Tianyang and Wharton objected at the same time, saying that they should never underestimate a team, and don't be influenced by media reports. Even if the opponent's strength is really weak, they must win. Besides, the NBA is a place where miracles happen.

After making up his mind to watch the video of the game against the Rockets, Tianyang made another suggestion, hoping that every Lakers player would come up with ways to improve on the things he didn't handle well.

If you want to win a game, you cannot control the strength of your opponent, but you can increase your winning rate by improving your own level.Just like playing MOBA games, watching your own videos, you can always find mistakes.If you can improve these mistakes one by one, not to mention overall improvement, at least you won't make it easily again.

Tianyang's proposal was approved by everyone, so all Lakers players, from the first game of the regular season against the Rockets to the second game of the playoffs that just ended, went through all the replays.

During this period, SkyOcean found many mishandlings and proposed a better way to deal with them.After him, Nick Young, Ingram, Randall and others also discovered their own shortcomings.Even Wharton also found some mistakes in on-the-spot command, saying that some timeouts and substitutions could be handled better.

The whole morning, while watching the video, flew by.

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In the president's office, Jim, Jenny, and Kupchak are in a meeting.

After the routine daily work report, the meeting entered the proposal discussion session.

According to past experience, generally there will be no new proposals. After all, the season has already entered the playoffs, and the work to be performed in the playoffs has already been determined in March, and the process is often skipped and the meeting is adjourned.

But today, Jenny said that she had a new proposal, and everyone suddenly showed curiosity.

"I suggest that the operation department and the public relations department put the team's championship commemorative T-shirts, team championship parade plans, etc. on the agenda. This year's playoffs may be shorter than we thought. Our 2-0 Rockets, Spurs It’s the same as the Warriors, 2-0 against each other, so don’t expect accidents when the time is too tight.”

After Jenny finished speaking, there was silence in the president's office.Kupchak's eyeballs were rolling around, as if he was thinking about something quickly; the public relations director John Black pushed his eyes on the bridge of his nose, looking a little embarrassed.

In the eyes of the three, the word "championship" is too dreamy. After all, after killing the Spurs, there is still a big devil warrior in the West. Even if they enter the finals, the Cavaliers with LeBron are not weak.

If the Lakers want to win the championship this season, it can only happen in movies.

Jim took a deep breath, twisted his neck and said: "I am in favor of preparation in advance. Although the hope is small, we still have to have a dream. The players and the coaching staff work so hard, and we have to make all the preparations."

"Okay, then after I adjourn the meeting, I will arrange someone to take charge of this matter." Black nodded in agreement.

Kupchak also said lightly: "Then I will sort out the team's contract and see if it needs to be renewed in advance."

"Why do you all look like you're in a relationship?" Jenny showed dissatisfaction, "We won 17 last season, and the EPSN forecast for us at the beginning of this season was 25 wins, but in the end we won 52 wins, have you thought about it? Absolutely Didn’t expect it? Tianyang joined the Lakers. All the media and fans believed that he would grow slowly due to injuries, but what happened? He was selected as an All-Star starter in his first year as a rookie and became an MVP contender. Did you expect it? Regular In the game against the Warriors and the Spurs, we are not behind, so why do we think we can't win the championship?"

Jenny's words left Jim and the others speechless. After thinking about it carefully, they really underestimated the team.

Jim slapped himself, "You're right. The Rockets were able to win the championship back then, and so could the Lakers! We must do this matter seriously, vigorously, with style and level."

……

The NBA circle is so big, and it is not something that needs to be kept secret. The news of the Lakers' early bidding for the championship parade advertisement spread like wildfire on social networks.

This time, apart from the Lakers fans, other fans and the media are on the same side.

They agreed that the Lakers were daydreaming, and there were Chinese-speaking fans who, on Wikipedia, changed the idiom 'Idiots Talking about Dreams' to 'Lakers Talking about Dreams'.

　I feel like a genius lol.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)