The world's best combo guard

Chapter 180 177 [It's up again]

The NBA is a place where the weak prey on the strong. There is no long-lasting team, and there is no eternally underestimated fish belly.

For the Los Angeles Lakers, from the 60s to the present, they have also experienced waves of recovery to underestimation and then to the peak.

After entering the millennium, there is no doubt that the Lakers are the most successful team in the NBA. They have won four championships in five years.

Starting from the 1999-2000 season, under the leadership of the ok combination, this purple and gold team has just begun to dominate the league.

Everyone also understands that the team's biggest capital to dominate the league is the ok combination, the league's number one center, the league's number one shooting guard, an unsolvable combination.

Once, the challenger Allen Iverson came back with a feather, and the challenger Reggie Miller was out of the game with hatred. As for Kidd, he was shaved directly.

Maybe a team basketball team with a balanced offense and defense can challenge the Lakers.

Thus, the 2003 San Antonio Spurs succeeded.

In 2004, the San Antonio Spurs would naturally follow suit.

But this time, they failed. It seems that they still won the ok combination, but lost to a first-year rookie.

Before the old king left, the new king had already registered, and the blood replacement of the Zijin Army made the alliance salivate.

Larry Brown also experienced the bitterness of Gregg Popovich, and it seems that the Detroit Pistons also lost to a first-year rookie.

Shaquille O'Neal joins the Miami Heat!

Finally, during the offseason, the clouds and mists were cleared to see the sunny sky.

The ok combination finally disintegrated.

Then everyone turned around and re-examined the Zijin Army that had ruled for a long time. Will they continue to be invincible?

People nodded helplessly.

Although the combination of super center + super shooting guard disintegrated, the combination of super point guard + super shooting guard took shape again in an instant.

Of course, the only consolation people can take is that this seemingly terrifying new combination has not yet proved itself, and perhaps they may not necessarily be able to reach the level of a super center + super shooting guard.

"I'm not optimistic about them, guys, look at the current situation in the league, especially in the West, whether it's the San Antonio Spurs or the Dallas Mavericks, or the Minnesota Timberwolves, Houston Rockets, and Phoenix Suns, they all have a very good inside. Excellent support points, and these teams have a combination of super insiders + super guards to a certain extent, but what about the Los Angeles Lakers? After losing Shaquille O'Neal, their insiders dropped sharply. When a strong opponent has inside weapons, the Los Angeles Lakers will be caught at this weak point and completely blown up."

ESPN columnist Perlman publicly stated on a program that he does not think that the Lakers in the new season will be able to succeed only by relying on the outside combination of Kobe + Li Hao without Shaq O'Neal inside.

Of course, after some interested people found out after the Human Espn columnist, this guy has never been very interested in Li Hao.

In the words of Chinese fans on the other side of the ocean, this guy is Li Haohei in essence. Perlman said on the talk show that he is not optimistic about the Lakers in the new season, but in fact he is not optimistic about Li Hao.

Chicago United Center, the Lakers just finished their third preseason game of the season, 100:108!They regrettably lost to the Bulls on the road.

After the game, Li Hao, who was still in a suit, accepted an interview with Yahoo Sports reporter Annie.

One of the characteristics of media reporters is to make trouble, which can also be understood as fanning the flames and creating topics forcibly.

After Annie asked Li Hao a few questions, she suddenly changed her style of painting and directly threw out Perlman's previous remarks on the talk show. She wanted to hear Li Hao's opinion on this.

"Any team will be questioned, and I would say it's okay, we won't stop because of (Pellman's) doubts, all the wins are game after game. , it’s not the last show where I expressed my opinions easily and freely.”

This is the Lakers No. 10 style.

When Li Hao responded to Annie's question with such words, many people smiled and shook their heads.

As you all know, Li Hao has started again. This is a master who never chooses to be patient, and always hates when he is unhappy.

Obviously, he was very disgusted with Perlman's remarks, so he directly responded with a set of sarcasm and sarcasm.

One can imagine that when Perlman saw this interview video or remarks, he would be furious and blackened.

Not playing the game, wearing a suit but causing trouble off the court, maybe the Lakers No. 10 will never be idle.

Of course, everyone will not be surprised by Li Hao's "coquettish operation" against Yahoo Sports at the United Center.

After all, when this guy first entered the league last season, he dared to directly hate the sky, let alone now?
Everyone just wants to look forward to how Perlman, the real initiator of the topic, will respond?
'Maybe he's not the same as McCallum was last season'

Some people guess so.

As we all know, last season's McComb was beaten miserably by Li Hao.

"I have to reiterate that I didn't mean to target anyone, but if someone is willing to bet $2 with me, I don't think I will refuse. The Lakers without the inside pillar just no longer have the strength to hit the championship "

A day later, Perlman chose to respond positively to the incident.

Of course, his response seemed to be very tough, and he directly expressed his willingness to use 2 US dollars to prove his guess.

"I'm going to spend all of that $2 all at once, the moment we hit the West"

Lakers No. 10 of course dared to take this bet, but his response was also full of confidence, good guy, he just regarded it as something in his pocket.

The melon-eating crowd moved a few benches and cut up a few watermelons. Everyone gathered together and waited for who would win in the off-court contest.

Of course, this should be a long process. When the time comes to the end of the Western Conference Finals, it is likely to be next year.

.........

"Lamar, even if it's for the [-] dollars, you have to stand up this season. You know, a man can never say he can't do it"

The reason why Li Hao is so confident and dares to make this bet with Perlman is entirely because after this period of training, he believes that Odom is very hopeful to rise completely in the new season, and Odom in the new season will become The biggest surprise for the Lakers, and even a powerful puzzle for the defending champion.

Therefore, before the last game of the preseason, Li Hao approached Odom directly, and poured chicken soup for Odom in a joking way. He also believed that Odom would definitely listen to his words. , because Odom is obviously also an arrogant person, it is impossible for him to hope that he has been living in the shadow of Shaquille O'Neal.

"Come on Lee, you're going to drive Lamar crazy"

Kobe punched Li Hao.

Like Li Hao, Kobe is also very optimistic about Odom after this period of training. However, compared to Li Hao's high-profile, Kobe has not said these words.

Because it involves Shaquille O'Neal, and Kobe swore he didn't want to hear that name for a long time.

During this period of time, whenever he remembered that he was still preparing to have a good talk with Shaquille O’Neal during the offseason, but this guy decided to leave the Lakers directly, Kobe regretted it very much. He felt that he shouldn’t be so cheap. .

"Li, how is your health? It's the last playoff game, don't you really plan to go up and play for a few minutes?"

Odom turned the topic to Li Hao instead.

"There should be no problem. Look at Rudy's arrangement. Of course I want to play. Look at your record. Two losses and one win. If you lose again tonight, it will be three losses and one win. At that time, Our great Mr. Perlman may be taunting us again, lol"

Li Hao made a joke, and everyone burst into laughter.

"Li, it looks like you're really recovering well, so I've decided that you can play for a few minutes tonight, and you can decide the specific time yourself."

Norwich head coach Rudy Tom's voice rang out.

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At 8:[-] p.m., at the Staples Center, the Lakers ushered in the final game of the preseason. Their opponent in this game is the Phoenix Suns, a team that many people are optimistic about in the new season. one of the potential opponents.

The record of the Lakers in this preseason tour is not good. Although everyone knows that no team will really care about winning or losing in the preseason, but 2 losses and [-] win, after all, it is still not good.

According to the state shown by the Lakers in the previous games, they may not be able to avoid a loss against the Phoenix Suns, which had 4 wins and [-] losses in the preseason last season.

Lakers starters: Li Hao, Kobe Bryant, Devin George, Lamar Odom, Brian Cook.

However, when the Lakers fans saw Rudy Tom and Norwich's starting lineup tonight, everyone was full of expectations, because they saw that the long-lost Li Hao was about to return in this game.

The full body of the Zijin Army appeared, maybe they can win this game.

In other words, even if the Lakers still fail to win this game, at least everyone can see Li Hao's state before the start of the regular season.

On the court, Li Hao looked at the Suns bench on the other side while doing stretching exercises.

Stoudemire, Steve Nash, Sean Marion, Joe Johnson...

Li Hao frowned. It seemed that the Phoenix Suns were also a talented young team.

"Maybe this team will surprise people in the new season"

Li Hao suddenly had such an idea in his heart, because of Steve Nash.

Last season, Li Hao played against Steve Nash in four games before and after the regular season. Although Nash was still in the Mavericks at that time, to be honest, in the four games, Nash impressed him deeply. impression.

In particular, Nash's organizational ability makes Li Hao a little envious. As a point guard, Li Hao is very eager to have Nash's organizational ability one day.

With Nash in the team, there is basically no need to worry about the team's offense. Therefore, this is also the reason why Li Hao is optimistic about this Suns team. Whether it is Stoudemire, Marion, or Joe Johnson, they have shown strong performances. The kind of potential for scoring ability.

At that time, as long as Nash hands the ball to them.

In fact, what Li Hao didn't know was that while he was carefully looking at the Suns' bench, someone from the Suns team was secretly watching him.

This person is the head coach of the Suns, Mike D'Antoni.

The entire league knows that the strongest interest in Shaquille O'Neal during the offseason was not the Miami Heat, but the Phoenix Suns.

Since the end of last season, some media have revealed that Suns coach D'Antoni likes O'Neal very much and hopes to recruit him during the offseason.

In fact, this is indeed the case. D'Antoni really wanted to cooperate with O'Neal. For this reason, he strongly asked the management to trade to O'Neal during the offseason.

However, after getting Steve Nash, the team no longer has the conditions to get O'Neal.

Therefore, I can only watch O'Neal join the Heat.

The stories about the Suns and D'Antoni and Shaquille O'Neal are well known.

But in fact, few people know that besides O'Neal of the Lakers, D'Antoni is also very interested in Li Hao of the Lakers.

In D'Antoni's view, Li Hao is a very suitable player for his bombardment tactics. D'Antoni even imagined that if Li Hao can play under him, he will further liberate Li Hao's offensive ability. According to D'Antoni's meaning, Li Hao will become that kind of historical level scorer.

But it's a pity that D'Antoni can only look at the ocean and sigh. The Suns want to get Li Hao, and now it seems that it is even more difficult than reaching the sky.

"This kid will reach an unprecedented height, the premise is that he can have his own stage"

D'Antoni thought so in his heart, but then he felt sad for Li Hao. In a team like the Lakers, with a super scorer like Kobe in the team, Li Hao's road to rise is destined to become more difficult. up!

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The game started. It had been a long time since I played a game. Li Hao had tight hands. He didn't hit his first shot until the 4th minute of the first quarter.

However, that's all. He didn't play for long in this game. He only played 7 minutes in the first quarter, and then he didn't play again.

95: 90!

Fortunately, Li Hao seems to have his own winning buff. Even though he only played 7 minutes in this game, even though he made 5 of 2 shots, he only got 4 points and 1 assist.

The team won in the end.

2 wins and 2 losses, the defending champions ended their preseason tour with a seemingly average result.

And for many people, it is unavoidable to be a little worried about the Lakers in the new season. If the regular season starts and the Lakers are still in this state, then it may be true that as Perlman said, the Lakers in the new season will not be able to make it. out west.

Of course, there are more optimists. They think that the preseason and the regular season are not a heavyweight game. The Lakers obviously don't pay much attention to it. After the regular season starts, the Lakers will definitely become a brand new team!

(End of this chapter)