Chapter 198 Be a real insider
Swallowing the bitter fruit of the defeat, the Lakers did not stay in Houston for too long, and immediately headed to the next stop of San Antonio.
Li Liang didn't really want to go to San Antonio because his father's branch was run there.
If the person in charge knew that he had gone to San Antonio, he had to go over for a meal, then drink with the owner of the tractor factory, take a photo, or something, and become the spokesperson half-spoken, wouldn't it be ruined?
In fact, Li Liang was just thinking too much. The American tractor manufacturer is not a small factory, but a world-renowned giant multinational enterprise.
You think it's Under Armour, and they come to invite you to eat seafood, and you even kill them.
However, even if the owner of the tractor factory wants to invite him, he can't invite him because of this game of Lakers.
From Houston to San Antonio overnight, the team spent the rest of the day and went directly to the At&T Center to compete at night.
There is no time to train, so let alone do other things.
There will inevitably be another hard battle between the Spurs.
Before the game, all parties predicted that the Lakers would be difficult to play in this game.
The Spurs have Duncan and Split inside, but haven't they broken through the Lakers' inside?
As expected by all parties, the Spurs kept pressing against the Lakers in the first half.
Kobe's performance was still very bad, with 0 shots from the first 5 and even hit a block.
I was about to shoot a dragon-slaying sword, but I relied on free throws to win the first point of the game.
The Lakers' offensive core in the first half became Ci Shiping.
Ci Shiping has been the leader of the team. He has been forcing him to take advantage of the low posts and has committed fouls in the inside.
Nash from the outside took on the scoring task and increased his shots.
Without the restraint of the inside, the Spurs' defense expanded particularly strongly, and Li Liang was once again targeted.
This time, Popovich no longer uses Jackson, and directly lets Danny Green and Li Liang be the dugout.
The Spurs insisted on the strategy of not changing defenses by pick-and-roll, and forced Li Liang and Nash to get the three-pointer after pick-and-roll.
If Kobe comes to pick-and-roll, he will not double-team and replace defense. You, Kobe, have the ability to play.
Kobe's condition in the first half was really bad, and he was also affected by injuries recently.
His calf and fingers were injured, and Leonard made all his efforts to guard Kobe tonight, which led to Kobe's poor performance in the first half.
The Lakers were 48:55 and 7 points behind the Spurs.
In the second half, Kobe suddenly regained his feelings and made continuous shots from outside the three-point line, bringing the score close.
This included a buzzer-beating three-pointer after receiving Nash's pass, which made the At&T center feel frightened.
The damage this man caused to Spurs fans was enough to sentence him to life imprisonment - he was locked up with O'Neal.
On the Spurs, Ginobili, who had completely lost his last game, opened up and kept breaking through and killing the inside.
How bad is this bald man? He beats the snake and beats seven inches. He knows that the Lakers are not good at inside, and even if he is old, he has to kill him.
In this way, the Lakers survived to the fourth quarter and fell 6 points behind.
The Spurs never could trample the Lakers to death. Whenever they were about to take the initiative, someone would come out to give it to me.
It's not Kobe, but the No. 28, Bruce Lee.
Since he was targeted, Li Liang has entered the stealing mode again.
Steal a frontcourt board at the basket and scored a layup.
Intercepted the ball in the frontcourt and assisted Kobe in scoring.
I picked up a gap, threw a three-pointer, and made it.
Li Liang, who did not perform in the first half, was very patient and waited until the fourth quarter to seize the opportunity to score points.
As the score difference was getting closer and closer, the Spurs missed two consecutive attacks.
Kobe seized an opportunity and counterattacked with a mid-range jump shot and a three-pointer, narrowing the gap to only 3 points.
The Lakers struggled to catch up with the whole game, and when the game was about to end, they approached the score.
Then, Mike Brown and Popovich fought.
The two kept calling pause, arrangement, target, and then called pause, counter-arrangement, counter-targeting.
This time, Mike Brown used a surprise weapon on the bench, which is forward Clark.
With Li Liang being targeted, Clark scored 18 points in the game, which was a key figure that the team could bite.
And in the last minute, the Spurs failed to run and Duncan missed the jump shot.
Clark got a key rebound.
The Lakers have a chance to equalize the score.
Mike Brown used the last pause of regular time.
Brown did not waste time setting up any running tactics. It was too difficult to run into the open three-point tactics when facing the Spurs at the last moment.
It’s better to give the ball to the most confident players and create one-on-one opportunities for him.
That's Kobe.
Brown once again used Li Liang and Nash's restraint to give Kobe a chance to play.
After the timeout, Kobe got the ball at the top of the arc and relied on Li Liang's cover to move the difficult three-pointer.
The ball is hollow into the net!
Kobe, who scored only 5 points in the first half, scored 25 points in the second half and scored 30 points in regular time!
The game was dragged into overtime.
Kobe's goal drove all the Spurs fans crazy. Why is it always him? Why is it him again?
But this goal also exhausted Kobe's strength, and he had played for 40 minutes tonight.
And there is an overtime game behind, unless the universe breaks out.
The Spurs showed their stability in overtime, and no matter what happened before, they would not affect their performance later.
Tony Parker dominated overtime, made 4 of 4 shots at the basket, and continued spinning, which made Li Liang faint.
Although Nash and Li Liang each scored a three-pointer in the last moment, the score was approached.
But it's too late.
114:110, the Lakers lost away.
In this game, Tony Parker made 14 of 20 shots and scored 32 points, including 8 consecutive points in overtime.
Without the inside barrier, the Lakers were killed by their opponents' breakthroughs in two consecutive games.
Howard's importance on the defensive end is self-evident.
However, the blows of fate are always one after another, and will never pity you because of your delicateness.
As the saying goes, taking advantage of your illness to kill you. After the Spurs, the Lakers who returned to Los Angeles didn't have time to rest well, and the Thunder slashed over.
The Lakers' schedule is already very intensive.
There are three places running back and forth, with only one day off in the middle.
The team's inside injury was clean, and the Lakers, who were originally in full swing, were hit by the head.
The Thunder are aggressive and they are chasing behind the Lakers.
Durant was made by Li Liang only 14 shots in the last game, and Durant will not make the same mistake again in this game.
In this game, Durant completely controlled the Thunder's offense at Stamps.
He made 16 of 25 shots in the game and scored 42 points. The Thunder have been pushing the Lakers since the first quarter and have not given any chance.
The Lakers have tried their best, but the lineup is not as good as the inside, and the inside cannot defend Durant and Westbrook's attack at all.
In fact, the Thunder's three-pointer was not good tonight, and Li Liang's three-pointer made the Thunder terrified.
But whenever the score approaches, Durant gets the ball at mid-range, Durant gets the ball and makes a layup in the inside, and Durant makes a foul.
The Lakers have no choice, and Li Liang has no choice. He can't control Durant alone.
Westbrook didn't help. Although he had already made 1 of 5 three-pointers, this strength was far from enough.
116:106, the disadvantage of 10 points was suppressed from beginning to end, and lost three consecutive times.
As the year 2013 began, the Lakers' fortune suddenly became worse.
Li Liang said that Kobe was all blamed, and that you would make a New Year's Eve party, so that all the team's luck will be kept in 2012.
Kobe said that this tm can blame me?
But Kobe is the boss, he has the greatest honor to win, and of course he is the first to take the blame for losing.
In this game, he returned to his old style, making 8 of 24 shots, with a shooting percentage of one-third.
Without the restraint of the inside, the opponent's defense against Kobe has become much tighter.
However, Li Liang's shooting rate has not decreased but increased, and he is in good condition.
Therefore, Li Liang did not suffer any condemnation caused by the Lakers' consecutive defeats.
The vast majority of kemigos thought that the boss had come to take the blame, but they didn't expect that Kobe was the real stakeholder.
However, Li Liangcai didn't care about these boring remarks in public opinion.
He felt very uncomfortable when the team lost the game.
Especially the three teams, the Rockets, Spurs, and Thunder, all came with revenge.
As a result, they fulfilled their wish. This was so unhappy.
Chapter completed!