Basketball boy, starting to shine from the slam dunk

Training is over.

The players came off the court, wiping their sweat and chatting.

After a period of time, everyone has come out of the shadow of Lopez's injury, the team's record has stabilized and improved, and the atmosphere within the team has also improved.

In the past week, the Lakers played 4 games, with 2 wins and 2 losses. However, including the previous wins, the record is still ranked third in the Western Conference.

In the four games, the opponents in three of them are not weak, such as the Celtics, Nuggets, and Bucks.

It is worth mentioning that the Nuggets have played surprisingly well this season.

Their record was not outstanding at the beginning of the regular season, but now they have rushed to the second place in the Western Conference, even surpassing the Rockets and the Lakers. On the contrary, the Rockets, who many fans had high hopes for, have had a poor record recently and have dropped to fourth in the Western Conference.

The Lakers won 2 of the four games and lost the other two to the Nuggets and Bucks.

However, Zhuang Yu's performance in these four games was still outstanding. In three of them, he scored more than 30 points. Only in one game did he score less than 28+, but he also scored points.

In addition, Zhuang Yu scored very high in the previous few games, so his personal average score has reached 29.6 points unknowingly, almost reaching 30 points.

A quarter of the regular season has passed so far, and it is now the end of October and December is almost here.

In the past quarter of the season, there was only one person in the entire league who averaged over 30 points per game, and that was James Harden. He had the highest scoring season of his career, averaging an exaggerated 35.8 points per game.

Zhuang Yu ranked second with an average of 29.6 points per game.

The third is Paul George of the Thunder. He can contribute 27.8 points per game, which is also very good, but obviously inferior to Zhuang Yu and Harden.

Originally, the outside world believed that with Harden's scoring performance this season, as long as there were no accidents and no injuries, it was a foregone conclusion that he would become the scoring champion.

However, due to Lopez's injury, Zhuang Yu increased his offensive investment during this period, and his personal data improved rapidly, and discussions about the scoring champion became more frequent.

Some people are still optimistic about Harden. After all, Harden's current scoring data can be said to be a huge lead. Even Zhuang Yu is far behind him.

Some people think that Zhuang Yu is a two-time scoring champion and his scoring ability is beyond doubt. Now that Lopez is injured, his average points per game has increased significantly and he may even surpass Harden.

There was also a reporter who asked Harden about his opinion on Zhuang Yu's increased points per game. Harden acted nonchalant, but everyone could see that he still valued the scoring champion very much.

He longed to become the scoring champion, longed to win the "Regular Season MVP", and even more longed to beat Zhuang Yu.

As for Zhuang Yu, he didn't care about it at all.

Just a scoring champion.

If he wants, he believes he can produce the same statistics as Harden, but statistics alone are useless, the results also matter.

A group of Lakers players sat together, talking and laughing, and naturally talked about the next game - tomorrow, they will face the Los Angeles derby.

That means they will play against the Clippers.

"The Clippers look OK, but they are clearly a mess."

"Haha, it seems that even LeBron can't play without the Big Three."

Everyone laughed and joked.

The Clippers have changed a lot this season, and it can even be said that there has been a major change.

The Clippers originally had a core of Chris Paul and Blake Griffin, with DeAndre Jordan and others as the team's core, but later it was discovered that this team had no problem making the playoffs, but had almost no hope of winning the championship.

In the end, this team was broken up, with Paul, Griffin and Jordan Jr. leaving one after another. The Clippers underwent a major change and completely rebuilt this season.

LeBron James, Lance Stephenson, JaVale McGee, Rajon Rondo, Michael Beasley, Marcin Gortat, Elifo Bradley, Montrezl Harrell, Tobias Harris, Louis Williams, Danilo Gallinari, Landry Shamet, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Patrick Beverley, Boban Marjanovic... This is the Clippers' current lineup, with huge changes.

After such a major change, the team will inevitably need a period of adaptation, and the new lineup also means a new tactical system.

This process often leads to a poor team record, which is predictable.

However, a quarter of the regular season has passed, and the Clippers are still hovering outside the top eight in the Western Conference, which is somewhat surprising to people.

After all, the Clippers have LeBron James.

Over the past few years, James has successfully entered the playoffs for 12 consecutive years. If you use other players to say, "A team with xxx is a playoff team," there may still be controversy. But if you change it to "A team with James is a playoff team," no one will come out to refute it.

Some people may even sneer at it.

Is it just entering the playoffs? That would be too unchallenging for James. It should be changed to "A team with James is a championship-contending team."

James has led his team to the finals for eight consecutive years.

When James announced that he would join the Clippers, Clippers fans went crazy.

They began to expect that James' arrival would bring new vitality to the Clippers, allowing them to return to the playoffs and even compete for the championship.

However, the ideal is plump and the reality is skinny.

James' performance after joining the Clippers is still outstanding, but the Clippers' new lineup and new tactical system require the players to adapt, and their lineup seems good, but in fact it is far from people's expectations.

There have been reports before that the condition for James to go to the Clippers is that the Clippers need to form a "Big Three" lineup for him.

It is said that the Clippers have also been working hard to make this happen. They want to recruit 1-2 All-Star level players to form a new Big Three with James to help the Clippers become a team qualified to compete for the championship.

However, after so much time has passed, no new stars have joined the Clippers, and things are obviously not going smoothly.

Although the Clippers do not seem to be very strong at the moment, Zhuang Yu still reminded his teammates not to underestimate any opponent, especially James.

The Lakers defeated the Cavaliers in the finals last season and won the championship.

But James' performance can be said to be impeccable, and he played the most amazing playoffs in his career.

Even though James no longer has All-Star teammates like Wade, Bosh, Love, and Irving, he should not be underestimated as long as he is around.

This has been verified last season. Those teams that underestimated James eventually fell at his feet one by one in the playoffs.