NBA: I was the No. 1 pick at the beginning

After a day of rest at home, the Lakers will go to New Orleans the next day to challenge the Pelicans away.

The crowd arrived in New Orleans in the afternoon.

For the game against the Pelicans, Monty wasn't worried.

There's only one person the Pelicans can worry Monty about.

That's Anthony Davis.

To be honest, the Pelicans are also a wonderful team in the NBA.

It's not that they haven't been brilliant.

When they were still called the Hornets, they selected Chris Paul, the cornerstone of the team.

Under the leadership of Paul, they also got the second place in the Western Conference.

After Paul left, they ushered in a new queen bee, and that was Davis.

But whether it is Paul or Davis, their helpers are really not too many.

In this league, they are not players like Chen Tian who can decide the direction of the game.

So no matter how you need the Big Two to have the possibility of hitting the finals.

But whether it is the Paul period or the Davis period.

The Pelicans' reinforcements during the offseason were all minor repairs, and they never brought them a real helper.

Just like the Pelicans this season.

For the Pelicans this season, Davis' biggest helper is the chosen rookie Hilde.

Other players are completely third-tier players.

Soon the game between the Lakers and the Pelicans will begin in the evening.

For the Lakers, McGee and JR still replaced Jokic and Anthony in the starting positions.

McGee and Asik jumped the ball in the circle, and McGee won the ball without any suspense.

This made Chen Tian feel a little uncomfortable.

After all, last season, the Lakers basically never won the jump ball.

As soon as McGee starts, the Lakers can always win the jump ball.

After Chen Tian got the ball, he immediately turned on the offensive mode.

Although the Pelicans are equipped with twin towers inside, Asik's speed is simply too slow.

Here Chen Tian has not waited for Asik to come back.

Rushing directly to the inside, it was a two-handed dunk that ended the battle.

This made Asik, who ran to the three-point line, turn around and prepare to attack.

Conversely, on the Pelicans side, they really fully understood Davis' point.

They saw that the Lakers did not have a good height limit, and they passed the ball to Davis immediately.

Facing Tucker's defense, Davis easily turned over and scored the ball with a jumper.

This ball was directly depressed to Tucker.

This is not bullying.

But when Chen Tian saw this scene, he didn't try to comfort Tucker, but just laughed out loud.

Tucker was also unwilling immediately.

"Fake."

Then Tucker looked at Chen Tian.

"You guard him next turn."

Chen Tian also nodded with a smile.

This made all the Lakers bench laugh.

Even coach Monty couldn't hold back.

No way, although Tucker's defense is really good.

But his short height is also his flaw.

In turn, the Lakers attack here.

After Chen Tian took the ball to attract double-teams, he passed the ball to Tucker.

Tucker immediately scored a three-pointer, which can be regarded as revenge for the one arrow just now.

Looking back, Chen Tian went to defend Davis.

Chen Tian was very experienced in defending Davis.

Because in his rookie season, Chen Tian had defended these power forwards.

Especially those like Davis and Nowitzki, Chen Tian is very familiar with them.

So when facing Davis' singles, Chen Tian took half a step back intentionally or unintentionally.

It was this half step that Davis couldn't break through.

In the end, Chen Tian also broke the ball.

Then he got the ball quickly, and gave the ball to JR who was flying out with a ground pass.

JR got the ball, and it was a great ride, and after flying up, it was a dunk with a change of hands under the crotch.

Suddenly, the entire Lakers bench celebrated wildly.

A few shots after the opening, immediately knocked out the morale of the Pelicans.

Gentry is also a good coach, and immediately handed in a timeout, trying to ease the Lakers' offensive.

But the Lakers' offense is already open.

After returning from the timeout, Chen Tian passed the ball continuously, opening up the entire offense of the Lakers.

JR feels exceptionally good tonight.

Three consecutive three-pointers scored.

Matthew also scored a layup.

McGee received two feeds from Chen Tian and successfully ate the cake and scored.

The Lakers attacked immediately and directly opened the score.

In the second quarter, the Lakers began to rotate the bench.

Brogdon's integration with the Lakers is getting better and better.

After playing, he scored a three-pointer.

After that, he assisted Yi Jianlian to score an easy two-handed dunk.

Such a player made Davis, who was sitting off the court, very envious.

But soon, Hilde's side also began to play.

After receiving the pass, Hilde also scored a layup against the defense.

Then the Lakers made a mistake and scored a three-pointer from the bottom corner.

These two goals made Davis shine.

Davis didn't care about this moment because he was young.

So he still has a lot of time to wait for his important partner.

If Chen Tian knew about this idea, he would definitely tell him.

No you don't.

You absolutely did not, unless you left the Pelicans.

At the end of halftime, the Lakers took the initiative on the court.

After returning from the second half, the Pelicans did not dare to play Asik.

In fact, this guy is a turtle speed.

But facing Chen Tian's breakthrough, the Pelicans had no good solution.

Finally, in the fourth quarter, Chen Tian made another layup, which caused Davis' thug foul.

In the end, Davis was sent off for six fouls.

Davis was off the field, and the Pelicans were defeated like a mountain.

In the end, the Lakers beat the Pelicans 126:106.

After the whole game, Chen Tian scored 38 points, 11 rebounds and 16 assists in another triple-double performance.

The second best performance of the Lakers is JR.

After the whole game, JR also scored 21 points.

After that, Brogdon also scored 17 points.

It can be said that the Lakers are all soldiers, won the Pelicans, and still maintain the No. [-] position in the Western Conference.

After winning the Pelicans, the Lakers came to the Timberwolves' home court without stopping.

Because it's a back-to-back game.

The Lakers need to face the Timberwolves on the second day.

Due to injury considerations, Monty also took turns to rest Tucker and Matthew.

Let Yi Jianlian and Brogdon start the game.

When the time came to the afternoon, everyone also came to Minneapolis.

For a weak team, the mentality of the Lakers team is still very relaxed.

After all, the Timberwolves have already been a group of Huskies after Garnett.

They no longer have the posture of a wolf king.

So for this game, just play lightly.

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