Legend of Tomorrow

In the second half, Raptors head coach Lanny Wilkens did not dare to let Dell Curry play again. He could not guard Guo Xu, let alone Kobe. No matter whether he played the 1st or 2nd position, there were defensive holes.

Mark Jackson, who is 185 cm tall and weighs 82 kg, can't guard Guo Xu. He is almost 36 years old, and he is slow to chase and defend when encountering pick-and-rolls, and he still can't jump on the floor.

After playing for a few minutes, Wilkens adjusted the lineup again, reusing Peterson at position 2 and letting Alvin Williams, who is 196cm tall, to defend Guo Xu, which limited his scoring. But on the other hand, Guo Xu is also very easy to defend against Alvin. This player is not good at shooting, and his breakthrough ability is not good.

In the third quarter, the Raptors recovered a little point under the leadership of Carter and Oakley.

In the final quarter, the Lakers focused on the triangle offense. In order to help defend O'Neal, the Raptors chose to release role players. As a result, Fox hit two consecutive three-pointers, widening the point difference to 20 points, and the game entered garbage time.

The Raptors management is doomed to be disappointed this season. They invited a famous coach to do a big job, but the team's record is very mediocre.

Just looking at his resume, Wilkens is great. In 1989, he was inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame as a player. In 1996, he was selected as one of the top 50 NBA stars and top 10 coaches. He was re-inducted into the Hall of Fame as a coach in 1998.

But in fact, Wilkens' coaching level is average, and his career winning rate is just over half. He can become a thousand-win coach because his coaching career is so long. He has only won one championship and one best coach in 30 years. He has good popularity, fair defense, rigid offense, no surprises, old school can no longer be old school.

Compared with other great figures in the coaching world, his winning rate is hard to come by. After taking over the Raptors, his tactics were the 76ers' style of one superstar taking charge of the offense alone and the whole team working hard on defense. Whether he can win depends mainly on it. Carter's play.

In the end, the Lakers won 109 to 92, and all four of the team scored in double figures.

Guo Xu played 28 minutes, scored 20 points, 8 assists and 2 steals. He scored 15+ points in two consecutive games, and his form has recovered.

After the press conference, the Lakers flew to Orlando non-stop to play away against the Magic. The focus of the league's publicity is the super shooting guard matchup again, Kobe VS McGrady, the Lakers just cleaned up the cousin, and now they are going to fight the cousin again.

O'Neal's matchup against his old club is no longer a big attraction. The Magic boss has been slapped in the face by O'Neal long ago. Fans are tired of talking about the trash of the Magic management.

A top center in history was handed over to the Lakers, and the general management really can't do this kind of thing. Only one of the fat man and the thin man can stay in magic.

From the fans' point of view, even if an SB is chosen, O'Neal has to be chosen.

Although O'Neal had 23+14 points in his rookie season, and although O'Neal played a much greater role on the court than Hardaway, Hardaway, the Jordan successor, was more popular at the time. The Magic management really thought that it would be easier to win the championship if the guard was the boss. , it was better to sell tickets, so I chose to keep the thin guy.

The Magic traded O'Neal because Hardaway wanted to be the boss and didn't want anyone on the team to have a higher salary than himself. At that time, people like Uncle Huo and Mourning had contracts worth over 100 million, and the Magic actually made an insulting offer of 69 million to O'Neal in 7 years. How could he not leave?

The two sides decided the winner in three quarters, and the Magic were unable to fight back. Only McGrady and Mike Miller scored in double figures, while the Lakers had five players score in double figures, with many more points coming.

Guo Xu scored 19 points and 5 assists, and defended the Magic 183CM starting point guard Darrell Armstrong, who made 2 of 14 shots, 0 of 6 three-pointers, and 4 of 4 free throws. He only had 8 points, 4 rebounds, and 8 assists.

Against a small point guard, Guo Xu can reduce the opponent's shooting rate and efficiency by relying on personal confrontation and quick pursuit. But when it comes to the Lakers' defense, the media seems to have agreed that he is a loophole in the team's defense, and he feels helpless about this.

The Lakers flew to Texas again, and will have back-to-back road trips on the 21st and 22nd.

Continuous away games are a great test for the players, and it is easier for players with good physical strength to perform.

In the game against the Rockets, Kobe was god to earth. He made 20 of 26 shots, 1 of 1 three-pointers, and 4 of 6 free throws. He efficiently scored 45 points, 4 rebounds, and 3 assists, and shot 76.9% from the field.

Guo Xu's performance was average, making 4 of 10 shots, 1 of 5 three-pointers, and 2 of 2 free throws. He only scored 11 points and 5 assists. Fortunately, this performance was enough to help the team win.

O'Neal was in a sluggish state and the Rockets players used the shark-killing tactic. He made only 7 of 22 free throws and scored 25 points, 12 rebounds and 6 assists.

Then, the Lakers defeated the Mavericks 118-103.

Perimeter defense is the Mavericks' Achilles' heel. They can't guard Kobe and they can't limit Guo Xu. After the players opened up in the second quarter, Guo Xu relied on pick-and-rolls to break through big bamboo pole Bradley several times, scoring or assisting, and opened the score.

Guo Xu easily scored 18 points and 6 assists in 31 minutes, while Nash, the starting point guard of the Mavericks, scored 18 points and 8 assists. He did not take any advantage against Guo Xu for the first time.

Nash claims to be 191cm, but Guo Xu is about the same height as him, and Nash is actually only 185cm. Guo Xu had the advantage during the confrontation, but Nash's strength was extremely weak. He was the kind of person who couldn't even bench press 84 kilograms.

The Mavericks mainly focus on positional warfare, and Nash advances quickly, and it is difficult to take advantage of his wide field of vision. Before he joined the Suns, no one would have regarded him as a superstar. Even after he was selected as an All-Star as a substitute, some people thought he was overrated.

As for Tyronn Lue, who scored 3 points and 1 assist in this game, he is already a public enemy in Dallas. When he played today, he was wildly booed by the home fans. When Guo Xu made a three-pointer under his defense, the atmosphere was so... He could have been named Momonosuke in Japan.

The Lakers returned to Los Angeles with a winning streak and will face their old rival Trail Blazers at home on Christmas Day.

In addition to the Finals and the All-Star Game, the most eye-catching game in the NBA is the Christmas Day Game, which is as popular as the Chinese Spring Festival Gala.

Popular stars sacrifice the joy of spending quality time with their families, and the league, television stations, advertisers, and all NBA-related peripheral industries will benefit greatly from this.

Only two rookies can perform on this big stage this year, Guo Xu and the Magic's Mike Miller. The league arranged for the Magic to face the Pacers away from home.

The records of both teams in the Eastern Conference are very bad, with a winning rate of less than half, but the league has arranged the schedule early and cannot change it. David Stern's original plan was for the upstarts in the Eastern Conference, led by Tracy McGrady and Hill, to compete with last season's Eastern Conference champions. As a result, the stars of both teams were injured and were useless.

The Lakers players had a day off on the 24th. Guo Xu slept until noon, which was a bit out of his comfort zone.

Normally, Megan Fox would cook and knock on the bedroom door to wake him up. When he came back from playing an away game this time, Megan had already gone back to Port St. Lucie to spend the holidays with her family.

American schools generally have Christmas vacation from December 10th to January 5th, which is similar to the winter vacation for Chinese students. Megan and Guo Xu talked on the phone and would not return to Los Angeles until after New Year's Day.

Jason Statham will spend Christmas with his girlfriend Kelly Brook, and Austin Nichols will spend Christmas with his family. Guo Xu was a little lucky that there was a game tomorrow, otherwise he would have been too bored. He would have been alone, searching for everything, deserted and miserable.

In the afternoon, Guo Xu was bored at home and went to the gym to practice shooting.

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