The Rest, Only Noise: Chapter 1420 Uncle Buck, take care of yourself
Latest website: After the bubble of 80 wins was blown, the media quickly found new fun. Ironically, the fun is provided by *** companies.
There is a *** company opening, predicting the fourth team to beat the Lakers this season. One of the most promising is the Knicks.
They are the third opponent the Lakers have encountered after the end of the All-Star weekend, and it is only three days since the Lakers lost to the Pacers.
According to the schedule, the Lakers will move to New York to challenge the Knicks after playing the New Jersey Nets away. The performance of the Knicks in Los Angeles last time made people have high expectations for them.
At the home court of the Lakers, they stubbornly dragged the game into overtime. If Benj hadn't changed his life and made a three-point lore, the Lakers might have lost four games now.
The Knicks didn't win, but it made people see the possibility of winning.
This is not the same as the Pacers who took advantage of the Lakers' poor state to perform outstandingly and win.
Because when the Lakers' state is adjusted, even if they play ten more games against the Pacers, they may not win a single game, and a team like the Knicks that has fought the Lakers head-on, no matter how many times they play, in the eyes of the fans, they will never win. Everyone has a chance to win.
However, the situation of the Lakers is far more complicated than outsiders imagined.
After losing to the Pacers, Louie held an internal team meeting specifically for the game, severely criticized the performance of Bodhi Loga and Duncan, and by the way shot the two high school students as targets.
Even Benj got a comment that "this is not how the first man in the league should behave." "If you guys really take the hype seriously, we're going to be in **** in the playoffs!"
Louis sternly rectified the team's atmosphere, and issued an ultimatum to Rodman before the meeting ended: "Dennis, starting today, if you dare to miss training and cause trouble off the court again, I will terminate your contract!"
Re-cleared the team's thinking, and then embarked on a road trip.
In New Jersey, the Nets, eager to hold home, were relentlessly blasted for 150 points.
Wilson and Bodi Loga scored triple-doubles at the same time, and Duncan and Garnett each had 20 points, 7 rebounds and 3 blocks. The angry Lakers turned into a terrible team.
In an interview after the game, Wilson said indifferently: "Our work is not done yet, and the arduous away trip has just begun."
The next day, New York ushered in the Lakers with a full face.
Fans who were counting on the Knicks to barely hold off the Lakers were disappointed.
The Knicks' strategy was the same as last time. They started with intensity and confrontation, trying to make the Lakers lost in hand-to-hand combat. Last time, they did it because the young Lakers weren't ready, and tonight was different.
The Lakers are not only prepared, but also more active and fierce than the Knicks in confrontation.
Duncan did not lose against Ewing, and Garnett faced the Knicks' power forwards whatever they wanted. This was something unimaginable when Kemp was there.
Without Kemp, the aging Ewing was also unable to hold the restricted area for New York. Ben Wallace is the surprise soldier of the Lakers.
As Duncan's substitute, he sent 7 big caps in 20 minutes, helping the team set off a wave of quick counterattacks, and the situation of the game was also determined at that time.
The defense failed, the offense was weak, and the Knicks were forced to deal with the most terrible offense ever.
Especially when Louie played beautiful basketball with Bodi Loga, Kobe, Wilson, Garnett, and Duncan, the scene was simply asymmetrical.
"Before tonight, no New Yorker believed they were going to lose this badly." "Has this Lakers team really lost three games?"
The person who said these two sentences was the newly promoted Knicks home commentator Brad Rohaus-yes, the vanilla gorilla has retired, and there is no legend of the seven-foot Bird in the world.
After retiring, Rohaus stayed on the Knicks as an announcer and was Frazier's partner.
However, the progress of this game was unexpected. No one expected that the Knicks would be beaten like this. They are the number one team in the Eastern Conference!
Halfway through the third quarter, Knicks head coach Rudy Tomgiano
Veitch traded in the future hope of the Big Apple - Tracy McGrady.
Although McGrady entered the league as a No. 3 pick, he still needs to develop in all aspects, which does not meet the current needs of the Knicks.
Meeting an opponent like the Lakers, the Knicks replaced him in the middle of the third quarter, which can only show that they have given up the game. This is normal.
Because, the point difference at that time was 100 to 63.
Just after halfway through the third quarter, the Lakers scored 100 points and went on to score 150 points. However, the Knicks had no offensive status tonight and lost more than the "New York Clippers" Nets. Misery is entirely possible.
Rudy conceded defeat, and Louis didn't kill them all.
For the sake of their friendship, just... replace Nash, Dumars, Kobe, Barkley, and Big Ben to deal with it casually. The result is not difficult to predict. The strength of the Lakers' bench lineup is terrible. After three quarters, the Knicks were bombarded with 122 points. 122 to 70
The fourth quarter is completely unnecessary for fans. Tragically, they had to keep fighting.
Louis didn't want to embarrass his old friend too much, so he replaced Barkley, who dared to fight hard in garbage time, to rest, and replaced him with Buck Williams, who hadn't planned to play.
The old Buck stayed with the Lakers for another year last summer, because he felt that good things come in pairs, and taking advantage of the team's momentum to get a ring would not be in vain for his nearly 20 years of hard work in the professional basketball world.
Although the old Buck has not helped the Lakers much as a player, but his role as a veteran is significant.
As long as he wants to play, there are always teams willing to take him.
There are only a few teams that compete for the championship every year, but there are a lot of teams that put up high-level picks and raise young people. They need a mentor like Barker Sr. to let young players know what to do and what not to do.
Old Buck is willing to play for another year, and Louis agrees with both hands.
Moreover, in addition to lying down to win the championship, Old Buck also wants to develop in the direction of coaching after retirement, which brings together the right time, place and people.
With the Lakers, he can choose to have it all.
Therefore, so far this season, Barker Sr. is not so much a player as an intern assistant who plays part-time.
Because the old Buck was not prepared, he twisted his foot after running a few times on the court. When the team doctor ordered him to be carried down on a stretcher, several young players looked sad.
"Uncle Buck, pay attention to your health!"
"Don't make noise~www.mtlnovel.com~ I will be back!"
In this scene, I didn't look at the score and thought that the Lakers lost and hurt people again.
Louis couldn't help scratching his neck after watching it. He should have signed up for Wang Mukong if he knew that old Buck's condition was so bad. People's drinking fountains are so good, isn't it because they play for a while at this time?
After that, Louis simply let Rodman go up and finish the rest of the game.
It seems that due to the accidental injury of Barker Sr., the Lakers did not play the previous devastating offensive firepower in the garbage time that followed.
The Knicks recovered some points as a result, and McGrady also had several wonderful matchups with Kobe. 142 to 99
This game, known as the game that the Lakers are most likely to lose in the next month, ended with a 43-point defeat by the Knicks. It's just that not many people can foresee that this game is not the peak of the Lakers' state, but the beginning of a **** storm.
The Nets and Knicks were just the first two victims.