Chapter 341 The Lakers surrounded by tragedy(1/2)
Beating the Clippers in the first round of the regular season is just the first step in Wang Da Cannon's plan. It takes the entire season to complete the entire plan.
First of all, Wang Dapao must rack his brains to find ways to get the Lakers into the playoffs.
This is not that easy.
Although the Lakers are not that bad in terms of lineup just, Wang Dapao, Nash, and Gasol can barely count the Big Three, and are not much worse than those mid-range teams in the league, the team's strength is not just reflected by cricket players. Otherwise, the Lakers F4 lineup was so perverted last season, how could they barely enter the playoffs and be eliminated in the first round?
The Lakers now lack a tactic that suits this team's lineup, and Wang Dapao and others are also very unfamiliar with their cooperation. It is almost impossible to gain an advantage in the game with such cooperation.
Wang Dapao is indeed very awesome and can turn the entire battle with his own strength, but this does not mean that he can score 88 points in the remaining 81 games in the regular season, forcing the Lakers to win.
So from the beginning, Wang Dapao set his target on a relatively low-level seat in the playoffs.
The sixth, seventh, or even eighth, can be accepted by Wang Dapao.
However, in the fiercely competitive West, even if it ranks eighth in the playoffs, it will need to win more than half of the total season.
Wang Dapao remembers that last year, the ninth place in the West seemed to have won 50% of the entire season, but he failed to enter the playoffs. This is a pretty sad story.
You know, even the Eastern Conference ranked seventh in the playoffs last year, the regular season wins were not even half.
In the fiercely competitive West, it is undoubtedly quite difficult for the Lakers to enter the playoffs, which makes even Wang Dacan, who has already set his sights to the extreme, feel a little bit Alexander.
If you want the Lakers to live a more comfortable life in the game, your teammates’ support is necessary. If Gasol and Nash can be more powerful, plus Wang Dapao, you may be able to bring the Lakers into the playoffs, but this is almost impossible in Wang Dapao's opinion.
It’s not that he underestimated Gasol and Nash, but that he was so unlucky.
The day after the game with the Clippers, that is, during the game with the Warriors on the 31st, Nash was tragically injured.
In this game, Wang Dapao scored 52 points and grabbed 23 rebounds. However, the Lakers still lost to the Warriors who had blossomed from outside.
What Wang Dapao is most annoying is the team like the Warriors who use running and shooting tactics and still like to shoot three-pointers from the three-point line.
After all, Wang Dapao is just one person, and he can completely defend against the inside, but he can only defend one point on the outside.
Losing to the Warriors was not the key point. Then Nash's inspection report came out and he was injured for one month. Nash was absent in more than ten games a month.
Now the only people who can be seen by the Lakers are Wang Dapao and Gasol, and it becomes even more difficult to win.
Wang Dapao never expected that the Lakers are so unlucky now. They are really unlucky and can even get too bad for drinking cold water. When Nash was injured, the only point guard that the Lakers can take can be Blake. Blake's level is more than enough to be a substitute point guard. However, being a starting point guard is obviously not enough.
But even so, the Lakers can only do this with a tough needle.
So, in the third game of the Lakers lost again with the Spurs.
In this game, Wang Dapao also scored 50+ points, but he still couldn't save the team's fate of failure.
In the fourth game, the away game against the Atlanta Hawks on November 4, Wang Dapao scored 64 points, and the team lost the game with a slight disadvantage of 1 point.
The problem is a bit serious now.
You know, the current lineup of the Hawks is completely different from a few years ago. The team's core Josh Smith went to Motor City. The only player the Hawks can make is Al Horford. However, this team that is probably not likely to enter the playoffs this year has also made ground on the Lakers.
What's even more terrible is that the Lakers' starting point guard was injured again.
Sorry, this starting point guard is not talking about Nash, but replaced Nash to Blake in the starting point guard position.
Yes, both of the Lakers' point guards were injured.
D'Antoni was so angry that his hair was almost pulled out, but even if he pulled himself into a rabbit, the team's lack of available point guards would not be solved.
The Lakers uniform team quickly selected a defender from the Development League to join the team's lineup, but how much effect can this be?
In the first four games, except for the first game against the Clippers, the Lakers lost all the other three games.
Everyone knows that this matter is definitely not Wang Dapao, because in four games, Wang Dapao averaged 63.5 points per game, with a shooting percentage of 57%. He also averaged 19 rebounds per game. His performance could no longer be described as a human, but the team still ushered in a three-game losing streak.
Who can blame for losing? You can only blame your teammates for not being good.
Many people have started to hack the Lakers online.
"No wonder Kobe always complains that his teammates are not good. Now it's true. Wang Dapao averages 60+ points per game, and he can't help the team win. This is obviously not Wang Dapao's problem. What are the other players of the Lakers team doing? You know, as long as each of them scores 5 points in a game, the Lakers' scores can easily break 100 in a game!"
"Bryant's wish for many years has finally come true. He finally waited for a teammate he wanted. But tragically, due to injury, he could only watch Wang Dapao repeat his former pattern off the court. Could this be the so-called karma?"
Many of the people who said these words are supporters of Wang Dapao, and many of them are loyal fans of the Lakers. No matter what, they hope that the Lakers can win.
Faced with this situation, Lakers' superstar player Kobe also made it clear in public that Wang Dapao now lacks some powerful helpers. The Lakers' current condition disappoints him. He bluntly said that if the Lakers continue to do this, even if he returns in December, he will not do much.
The same words have also appeared in the mouths of Lakers' head coach D'Anthony, but he is different from Kobe. Wherever Kobe speaks, he is still the type of talking without a back pain. However, as soon as D'Anthony spoke, he was immediately scolded by many Lakers fans who know how to understand the ball.
"You'll say less. The biggest reason for the Lakers' current situation is that you, the head coach!" A senior old fan in his fifties cursed in a street interview on the local sports channel in Los Angeles. "Look at what the Lakers you brought to play? You have to defend without defense, offense without attack, offense without attack, offense, and nothing is fine. Just relying on a king cannon is enough, but you have to work hard at least on the defensive end, right? Are you thinking this was the Suns in the past?"
The old fan's complaints are not random. One of the important reasons why the Lakers have such a bad record is that the Lakers coached by D'Antoni is too small on the defensive end.
According to the Lakers' current inside configuration, Gasol and blue-collar Jordan Hill should have good strength in defense. But in fact, after playing, the Lakers' defense seemed extremely bad. In fact, this situation also happened last year when Howard and Gasol partnered in the inside.
At that time, perhaps D'Antoni could still use the position conflict between Gasol and Howard as an excuse to influence each other, but now Howard has left, the Lakers' defense is still like this. It's completely unreasonable.
So, after four games, Lakers fans began to shout slogans to get D'Antoni out of class.
If Wang Dapao had not performed, people might have had a smaller reaction. After all, the Lakers themselves were full of wounded soldiers and had no thoughts.
However, Wang Dapao is so awesome and unsolvable now, and the Lakers are playing so badly, which makes fans unacceptable, especially the Lakers defeated the Clippers so beautifully in the opening game, allowing many Lakers fans to see the hope of this season, but this hope has just risen and was immediately suppressed, which is very unacceptable.
However, no matter how the fans make a fuss, it is all about the fans. The team's personnel changes are all about the team's general manager. To be precise, the team's boss should have the final say.
Although the fans shouted that D'Antoni was dismissed, the Lakers' uniform team was very stable and did not express anything.
In this way, we still need to continue to do what we should do.
The Lakers' regular season continues.
However, the Lakers' fifth opponent is a bit special.
Houston Rockets.
This team has no particular grudges from the Lakers themselves, and is different from old rival teams like the Celtics.
But starting this season, these two teams can also be regarded as enemies to a certain extent.
Because the Rockets' most famous player now is Howard, who represented the Lakers last season.
After staying for a season in the Lakers, Howard left everything behind and ran to the Rockets, cheating the Lakers miserably. If Wang Dapao hadn't contacted the Lakers on his own initiative to join, I'm afraid the only move the Lakers can do this season would be Gasol.
Lakers fans were extremely angry about Howard's departure. Many radical fans even marched on the streets of Los Angeles after Howard announced his joining the Rockets.
So for the Lakers, the Rockets can also be regarded as enemies.
In addition, the Lakers and Rockets are also the only two teams in the league that have yellow players.
The Lakers' King Cannon, the Rockets' Jeremy Lin, a Celestial and a Chinese American, will also attract a large number of Celestial audiences to watch.
However, the current status gap between the two is very large.
After joining the Rockets, Jeremy Lin couldn't find his own rhythm for a long time and was slowly replaced by the bench. It turned out that his substitute Beverly had more and more starts. On the other hand, Wang Dapao is the Lakers' well-deserved core. As long as he is on the court, the ball is basically in the hands of Wang Dapao.
In addition to Howard and Jeremy Lin, another reason worth paying attention to is another main force of the Rockets, James Harden.
Since joining the Rockets last year, Harden has soared into the sky, instantly changing from a first-class star to a hot superstar in the league. Especially when Kobe was injured and Wade was sluggish, Harden has been called the league's number one shooting guard by many fans of the league with his outstanding performance.
You know, the name of the league's No. 1 shooting guard, almost all of Kobe's only in the past ten years. Even Carter and Wade were unable to snatch this name from Kobe even once.
For Lakers fans, the title of the league's number one point guard has become accustomed to being at their own home. The sudden first point guard was inexplicably snatched away by a bearded man who only knows how to swipe data. How can Lakers fans tolerate this?
Because Kobe was injured, he could not play. Lakers fans could only hope that the Lakers' defense line would defend Harden to death, in order to prove that Harden was not worthy of being the first point guard, and this title could only belong to Kobe.
Fans’ ideas are often beautiful, but reality always makes them feel sad.
How strong is the Lakers' defense? Although Harden is always questioned, his scoring ability is absolutely nothing to say. Under the Lakers' defense line, Harden is like he is visiting his back garden again, constantly scoring and scoring.
Before the first quarter ended, he had already scored 14 points, which was so efficient.
At this time, Wang Dapao had just scored 18 points.
However, Wang Dapao and Harden did not compete. The Rockets' arrangement was to let Howard defend Wang Dapao throughout the whole process. Howard is different from other centers. His explosive power is very strong, and his short-range sprint speed is even no less than that of most defenders, so he can barely keep up with Wang Dapao's speed.
But even so, when facing Wang Dapao's attack, Howard, who had won several Best Defensive Player Awards, had no choice but to be scored successfully by Wang Dapao.
Howard was extremely depressed in defense, while on the other side, his partner Harden was having a great time. There was nothing more fun than scoring in front of Kobe and proving that he was the best shooting guard in the league, although Kobe was just sitting off the court.
After the first quarter, Harden looked at the technical statistics and found that he was only 4 points lower than Wang Dapao's score, Harden's mind began to become active.
Although Kobe is a veteran superstar and the first point guard in the league, that is already the past. Wang Dapao is a real player now recognized as the most perverted and unsolvable player in the league. What is more exciting than being able to suppress Wang Dapao?
Although it is not a direct match and there is no direct intersection, Harden feels that it is quite a happy thing if his score can be higher than Wang Dapao.
His idea came true soon.
After the second quarter, Harden made a foul of two plus one on the outside and scored 6 points in a row, surpassing Wang Dapao's score in one fell swoop. He increased his personal score to 20 less than one minute at the beginning of the second quarter.
Harden was happy now. He happily retreated. In the process, he did not forget to glance at Wang Dapao and grinned.
What he means is, you see, my scoring ability is not inferior to you. If I want to, I can score 88 points in one game.
But unfortunately, Wang Dapao accidentally saw his movements.
Wang Dapao was inexplicably made by Harden's expression, but although he didn't know why, he felt that this expression was definitely not a good thing.
"No matter what the reason, I'll kill you first!" Wang Dapao didn't think so much, said hello to his teammates, and left Parsons, who had been bullied by him, and rushed straight to Harden.
Harden was still thinking about finding two points to find the opportunity to break his personal scoring record today.
But as he was still thinking, he left a rather sturdy figure in front of him.
To be continued...