Chapter 1736 Who Can Win the Lakers if They Want To?

The Lakers lost, the Heat won!

Since the Heat defeated the Lakers at home on March 11, this has been the hottest topic in basketball circles for two days.

Although winning or losing a game is nothing, there are 82 regular season games to be played in a long season. No team can avoid losing. If so, it must be in a dream.

But after all, the protagonists are the Lakers and the Heat. Today, the two most watched teams in the east and west of the league are also the two most popular teams for the championship. The teams have the top two players recognized by the league at the second and third positions. In this way It is difficult to say that this set of confrontations was an ordinary regular season game.

And just like the rival Green Army general manager Angie made no secret of his hope that the Lakers will continue to be in chaos, the Lakers are in such a position now that even if they lose a small game, there will be a lot of rhythm waiting for them.

Immediately after losing the game, all kinds of news, ridicule and criticism came one after another, and the forum exploded into a mess as usual.

Even the news of civil unrest in the Lakers has resurfaced, and the media who reported the news said with certainty that he heard it with his own ears at the door of the Lakers locker room.

Of course, after losing this game, the Lakers were indeed a little unhappy. In the locker room, Kobe became angry about it. Ji Feng also said that they need to start over, and Gasso, who did not perform well in this game, Er and others also apologized to the team and said they would adjust in time.

The words were very intense, which is normal. After all, they are a group of hard-blooded men. To the outside world, this seemed to be evidence of internal strife in the Lakers. However, this was just a normal reaction after losing.

Zen Master didn't say anything from beginning to end. Instead, he praised Ji Feng and Kobe's performance and didn't criticize anyone on the team.

As mentioned before, the Lakers are now adjusting their state. Losing is not unacceptable. Quite frankly, Jackson even thinks that losing one or two games is a good thing, especially losing to the Heat - the team they least want to lose. .

At least this can let the players know that they are not invincible. All pride and complacency can be thrown into the trash can. It will also help them put down the burden of the Triple Crown and get back on the road. This will be very important for the upcoming playoffs. All benefit and no harm.

Maybe the only problem is that they need to face outside public opinion.

However, for the experienced Lakers, they have long been accustomed to such public opinions. Ji Feng was even in the mood to joke with reporters: "Hey, you don't need to interview me. After all, Lao Zhan next door is the winner. , you hurry up and interview him, you’re too late to make it!”

Ji Feng's relaxed interview atmosphere also made Lakers fans feel relieved. It seems that the Lakers are still normal, and they are still in the mood to joke, right?

I don’t know since when, Ji Feng has become a barometer for the Lakers. As long as he is normal, many fans feel that it is no big deal. This thing seems to compete with Japan’s TV Tokyo!

Of course, there are still people who want to take advantage of the Lakers' poor condition to do something, such as Howard...

"Listen! The Heat just defeated them. If they can do it, it proves that we can do it too! Now, let's go to Los Angeles and kill the Lakers!" Howard, who is generally eloquent, encouraged his teammates before the game for the first time in a long time. It can be seen that beating the Lakers It seemed that he could open up Howard's second line of Ren and Du, allowing him to develop some skills that he didn't have originally.

The Magic generals were very proud and said that they would do their best. Nelson said boldly that they would give the Lakers their first losing streak in four seasons.

And Turkoglu, who had just been traded back to the Magic, even promised that he would suppress Ji Feng. I don’t know if he lost his mind because he was anxious to achieve his previous state in the Magic...

But one thing the Magic said is right. Now, it does seem like the best time to beat the Lakers.

But before this game begins, it is necessary to briefly introduce the current Magic team.

After they reached the historic finals in 2009 but were easily defeated by the Lakers, in order to strengthen, they launched drastic (seven) broad (eight) axe (bad) reforms. They will use their excellent outside testing Turney Lee, Alston and other three-pointers collectively packaged the deal in exchange for Vince Carter, and at the same time let go of Turkoglu in exchange for several third positions whose names do not need to be known.

This kind of operation caused their strength to decline instead of increasing. Howard, who had evolved to the full version, had a depressing season last season. They finally suffered a loss in the Eastern Conference Finals and were unfortunately eliminated.

And this season, the Magic management wants to put things right. Vince Carter, who proved to be ineffective last season, was just given up. Not only that, the team's meritorious players who reached the finals also left the team one after another!

Before the All-Star break, two trades that shocked the league came from the Magic.

First, the Suns will send Hedo Turkoglu, Jason Richardson, and Earl Clark to the Magic, while Vince Carter, Marcin Gortat, Michael Pietrus and the Magic will The 2011 first-round pick will be sent to Phoenix, and at the same time, the Magic will also send 3 million in cash.

The Wizards and Magic completed a big contract deal. Arenas, who paid $110 million in six years, and Lewis, who paid $128 million in six years, swapped clubs.

After the trade, the Magic's lineup looks very luxurious.

The starters are Nelson Jr., Richardson, Turkoglu, Buss, and Howard, and the substitutes are Arenas, Redick, Big Q, and Ryan Anderson.

However, what happened afterwards was that Hidutkoglu and Agent Zero did not rejuvenate the Magic. After the trade, the Magic lost four games in a row and the Heat ranked third in the Eastern Conference, and the Celtics ranked second in the Eastern Conference.

After Bass was mentioned in the starting lineup, Anderson could only contribute a few outside three-pointers on the bench. Clark showed good athletic talent and plasticity, but he was not plug-and-play. He was long-awaited from the free throw line. The fourth position, which provides support, has long range, and can respond internally and externally, is still blank for the Magic. Turkoglu's three-point shooting percentage dropped to 23%. Arenas has already declined, averaging only an embarrassing 10 points per game. At 9.8 points, Richardson and Du Hong were in trouble, and Warcraft was pinned to the inside and became a trapped beast.

To make matters worse, they lost two important generals this season-Rashard Lewis and "Polish Hammer" Gortat.

As a tall shooter with a height of nearly 2.10 meters, Lewis is the most important part of the team's ability to create sufficient space for Howard. He also averages 1.8 three-pointers per game, which is the second most on the team.

Center Gortat, who was trained by the Magic themselves, although his statistics were not eye-catching at the time, his excellent frame protection ability was able to buy Warcraft a lot of rest time.

It's a pity that now, the Magic has truly become Howard's team...

They eagerly hope to defeat the Lakers, and may not want to change the atmosphere and morale of the team, but soon, they will know that the Lakers really can't win just because they want to!