From today on is the king

Chapter 677 676. The annoying noble team
If you like the Lakers, go to the Lakers home to watch a game, if you hate the Lakers, go to the Lakers home to watch a game, both can deepen the original love and hate.

Liu Mang feels this way every time he comes to the Staples Center.

Lakers fans are so annoying!I was completely spoiled by the Lakers, a historically strong team that may not even be comparable to the Celtics!
Sometimes the away team fans are too unenthusiastic, but it is very uncomfortable for the away team players.

Because the feeling of the Lakers fans is almost exactly the same as the feeling of their team, which is annoying!

The Lakers players all look full of arrogance. Their glorious history and the fact that they now have a powerful Big Four are all things they are proud of, and their fans also give people a sense of pride.

Like the Lakers, except for being ruled by the Celtics in the 60s and being ruled by the Bulls and Rockets in the 90s without winning championships, they have won championships in all other ten years, and even created dynasties. All fans feel like a "noble team".

It's normal for so many people to hate the Lakers and Lakers fans, because they are arrogant, and you can't refute their arrogance. This feeling is too bad.

Therefore, the Eagles are extremely motivated in today's game!
Today's game is another live broadcast across the United States. The Eagles played against the Lakers for the first time this season.

Although the Timberwolves are now ranked first in the West, the Lakers are only two wins away from the Timberwolves. Not only the Lakers fans, almost all NBA fans believe that the Lakers are still the best team in the West, and even the strongest in the league.

The most powerful Eagles in the East came to the Staples Center as a guest, which is undoubtedly a major event that basketball fans in the United States and even the world pay attention to!
Taking advantage of the warmth of the All-Star Weekend, when Liu Mang entered the stadium, there was still sparse applause.

But most of the fans were slouching, some even licking the jelly on the donuts.

Just like the players of the Lakers, O'Neal is playing breakdancing with his teammates. Although this fat man is fat, he is very flexible.

Liu Mang counted the players of the Lakers, and his heart skipped a beat, a blacksmith hasn't come yet!
At this point, there are more than 10 minutes left before the game starts, and the guy hasn't come yet, that is, he may be called by the court in Colorado!

Just when Liu Mang secretly called Ya Ling, the fans at the scene finally reacted and burst into cheers. Liu Mang subconsciously looked towards the home team's player tunnel, where a physical therapist came out chasing a caliper-head blacksmith whose hairline was obviously getting higher and higher!

Kobe felt Liu Mang's eyes, gave Liu Mang a faint look, then lay down on the bench, and the physical therapist quickly stretched Kobe.

"Ding... special status: triggered when rushing to the game, from Kobe Bryant."

"Ding...Kobe Bryant (when rushing to the game), ability rating 98, offense 95, defense 97, three-pointer 81, mid-range shooting 98, layup 97, speed 91, strength 85, talent skill: Mamba bite level 4."

"Ding... Kobe Bryant's strong hostility is triggered. Every time the host meets Kobe Bryant in a game, Kobe Bryant will take preventing the death of the host and blowing up the host as the first goal."

"As the official Mo Ruozhi Jinwu, facing the strongest team in the history of the NBA, the host's path to become a superstar in the NBA era has officially begun. In this season when all heroes are rising together and old-school basketball reaches its peak, the host's season goal is the championship. Trigger mission: King's Landing. Mission reward: unknown, failure penalty: unknown."

"..."

"..."

Liu Mang looked at the tasks triggered in the system list, as well as the strongest team in the new century, the enemy of the Black Mamba, and the path of the Black Mamba against the battle...

Liu Mang found that most of the tasks this season were related to the Lakers!Even the main tasks in the early years of the century were related to the Lakers.

Simply enough!
However, it is also reflected from the side, what a great achievement it was for the original Pistons to kill the Lakers in the Finals!

Thinking of this, Liu Mang couldn't help scratching his head. It seems that he snatched Prince and Rasheed Wallace away. The Pistons collapsed before the Five Tigers era started, and this task fell to him?
Cang Le God!

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Finally, the pre-game preparation time was over, and on the Lakers side, Kobe went on the court without making a complete warm-up preparation.

The Lakers sent a super starting lineup of Payton, Kobe, Rick Fox, Malone, and O'Neal.

The Eagles are really bleak in comparison. Although Raheem, Ratliff, and Rasheed Wallace have all been selected to the All-Star, compared with the Lakers, there is a gap between rural teams and urban teams. The Lakers are armed to the teeth, and the Eagles are just a patchwork lineup.

The Eagles continued to send Liu Mang, Prince, Raheem, Rasheed Wallace, and Ratliff's starting combination.

After Liu Mang and Boozer embraced, they played and the game officially started!
O'Neal won the jump ball with Rasheed Wallace. Such a huge body can still jump so much that people want to know how the fat man's body structure is combined.

Liu Mang continued to post his old opponent—Payton, and the arduous task of defending against Kobe was of course left to Prince.

After Payton advanced to the frontcourt, he saw Liu Mang coming up to defend him, and wanted to make a wave of Liu Mang, but he was really powerless, so he immediately passed it to Kobe.

Kobe singled Prince, and Prince defended extremely well. Kobe came up with an angry fight, which opened the prelude to the game.

From Kobe's mid-range singles with the ball, the basket was already in chaos. Ratliff and Raheem fought hand-to-hand with O'Neal alone, and Rasheed Wallace and Malone fought hand-to-hand.

The offense and defense switched, the Eagles attacked, Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt, and Kobe posted it immediately.

The Lakers' defense is really strong!Much better than the previous two seasons!Make full use of this season's loose whistle, Malone and O'Neal's muscle collision, although Fox and Payton are very old, they can't defend this year alone, but their off-ball defensive tricks are really powerful, and the anticipation of defensive experience is strong, so that Liu Mang has no chance to connect with his teammates!

The teammate's off-ball running position is really not very good. If Liu Mang doesn't create a double-team, his teammates really have no chance to get open.

"Hi, Kobe, long time no see." Liu Mang waited for his teammates to move beyond the three-point line, observing his teammates while 'chatting' with Kobe.

"We just met the day before yesterday." Kobe really answered.

"Oh, Kobe, I haven't seen you for a day, it's like three winters." Liu Mang suddenly accelerated to the right as he spoke.

But Kobe didn't fall for it at all. He blocked Liu Mang's breakthrough route at the first time. Liu Mang immediately took a step back. Kobe followed up and pressed in front of Liu Mang immediately. He defended like a mad dog.
After Liu Mang took a step back, Kobe posted it, and there was no chance to snipe!

There was no other way. After Liu Mang stopped the ball, the Lakers' off-ball defense became stricter. To make matters worse, the Eagles' lineup seemed to have a lot of ball-holding points, but apart from Liu Mang, there was no second outside ball-holding attack launch point, and no one came up to meet Liu Mang!

The Zen master said he was a chicken soup coach for the soul, but he was expected to win 9 championships by relying on chicken soup?
Maybe other teams didn't find this flaw in the Hawks' starting lineup, or maybe other teams didn't have a defensive mad dog like Kobe, but Zen Master found out that the Lakers' defense against the Hawks was extremely targeted, and Liu Mang got caught!

There is no other way, Liu Mang can only force a three-point shot when Kobe is sticking to him!

Kobe immediately bounced up and blocked Liu Mang. Liu Mang's take-off height was not high enough, and there was a big gap between his jump and Kobe's 95 jump. He was forced to lean back and made a three-point shot!
Although the ball was picked up by Ratliff, when Ratliff turned around and took a step to shoot, the 24-second attack time was up, and the Eagles violated the 24-second rule!
In just one round, the Eagles felt that the Lakers' bone is really hard to crack!
It is true that the Lakers, who averaged only 97 points per game this season, have fallen back a lot on the offensive end compared to the average of more than 100 points per game during the three consecutive championships, but the defensive end is obviously the best except for their first championship in the 99-00 season before they won the regular season.

The two teams started a magnificent journey. Kobe's outside singles, and the 98's almost invincible ability in outside singles when he was really rushing to the game. The evaluation of Kobe's singles is really strong. Under Prince's all-out defense, he maintained a shooting percentage of more than 40.00%. It's really not that easy for O'Neal to play two players, but this year's Lakers' starting power forward is no longer Samaki-Walker and his ilk, but Malone!

Every time O'Neal was double-teamed, Malone's side was exposed, and O'Neal passed to Malone. Malone shot the highest mid-range shooting percentage since the new century this year. He has never had so many open mid-range shots in his career. He didn't waste opportunities like Samaki Walker or Medvedenko. He scored 5 points on 3 of 6 shots in the first quarter.

In addition, Wang Zhizhi, who came off the bench, made a three-pointer and an air-cut dunk, O'Neal scored 4 points and 3 rebounds, and the Lakers scored 23 points in the first quarter.

On the Hawks side, Liu Wei was cut off from his teammates by the Lakers' defense. He couldn't connect with his teammates in the dynamic offense. He could only do more individual singles. He scored 10 points on 4 of 10 shots in the first quarter. Wallace singles, all singles.

The Lakers' 23 points in a single quarter are not enough, and the Eagles only have 21 points in a single quarter!
A feast of blacksmithing in a bloody muscle confrontation!
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After the first quarter, the Eagles didn't dare to replace any starters, fearing that once the meat grinder defensive combination goes down, it will collapse if the defensive connection is not good.

The same goes for the Lakers. The OK combination is not only the core of the inside and outside offense, but also the combination of inside and outside defense. Zen Master also dare not replace it.

During the holiday break, Liu Mang was really tired from playing, mainly because he was tired!

It's too difficult to hit, but it's okay to hit the iron, he is not afraid of the iron, and he is not afraid of getting tired from too many shots, the main reason is that he is often unable to defend himself!

Kobe is really just like the media said, he is a lunatic on the defensive end, which is also the only reason why he and the other three of the four shooting guards have widened the obvious gap. Iverson's career average of more than 40 minutes per game seems exaggerated.

Liu Mang returned to the bench: "Coach, is there anything I can do?"

During the official timeout of the first quarter, the Eagles did not make any substitutions. Coach Kruger asked the starters to hold on for a while. He observed the Lakers' defensive gap.

"..." Coach Kruger didn't speak.

Well, Liu Mang knew it, and he definitely didn't see it. If the Lakers' defense was so easy to find loopholes, they wouldn't be able to reach the finals with so many conflicts.

If it were so easy to find loopholes, in the original time and space, before the conflict broke out, the second round of the playoffs between the Lakers and the Spurs would not be so easy for the Lakers to defeat the defending champion Spurs. It seems that the Spurs and the Lakers had a famous 0.4-second Tianwangshan battle. All three games were won by more than ten points or even twenty points.

The defense of the Lakers this year is really strong!Quite a feeling of the regular season of the 99-00 season.

Seeing Coach Kruger frowning, Liu Mang suggested, "Coach, use that!"

Normally, Coach Kruger would try Liu Mang's suggestion, but this time he shook his head: "Ace, your tactic has a high probability of success, but it's too early, and the opponent may soon find a way to target it. In the regular season, we need to find other strategies that may be able to beat the Lakers."

Instead of chatting with Liu Mang, Coach Kruger had his own ideas and called the players together: "Ace, Jason, Matt, Carlos, Kwame, you all come on, Ace, you cooperate with Carlos..."

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After the intermission, the Eagles took the lead in the second quarter. The Eagles sent Liu Mang and the second team led by Boozer. Jason Terry, Barnes, and Kwame Brown played together.

For the Lakers, Fisher was replaced, Kobe continued to play, and Devin George, Wang Zhizhi, and O'Neal started in the second quarter.

Stockton was not replaced, so that the Salt Lake City fans who came from afar wearing Malone and Stockton's Jazz jerseys were a little surprised.

Liu Mang received Jason Terry's serve and advanced to the frontcourt.

Liu Mang was a little surprised by the tactical arrangement in the second quarter, but he had no other ideas that were better and more in line with the team's plan, so he strictly followed the coach's tactics to attack.

After Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt, the Lakers seemed to believe that Jason Terry would hold the ball and play, and Kobe went to defend Jason Terry.

After pushing forward, Liu Mang looked at Fisher defending himself...

There is no way around this, the coach's tactics... What is that, let's talk about it later!
(End of this chapter)