The five star players of the Lakers played together, but the real one was Doug Christie. The Magic "snatched" the opportunity to enter the game on the grounds that "the five of us should appear together."

Since the magician is going to appear together, he is naturally the one who appears on the stage.

And the Magician discussed this matter with Doug Christie in advance, and the latter expressed support.

Since training camp, I have felt that O'Neal and Zhang Hao are not in the way, and Doug Christie also knows that the relationship within the team is difficult to reconcile.

O'Neal has a cheerful personality and has a good relationship with everyone; although Zhang Hao is cold-hearted, he has a strong personal charm, hardworking, talented, and smart...a perfect basketball player.

But the two just didn't deal with each other, and Doug Christie also chose to sacrifice some unimportant things to avoid conflict between the two.

At 7 p.m., the Lakers and Suns game started.

After 2 hours and 23 minutes, at 9:23 pm, the Lakers easily defeated the scared Suns 102-88.

Except for Rex Chapman who seized the opportunity to shoot in the corner and made 7 of 15 shots, including 3 of 3 three-pointers, and 1 of 2 free throws to score 18 points, the rest of the Suns were very disappointed.

With O'Neal's franchise guard, Cebaros scored 4 points from 2 of 7 shots, and was forced to go to mid-range shots. Kidd made 2 of 15 shots, including 2 of 5 three-pointers and 14 points, but only 5 assists. Kevin Johnson made 3 of 9 shots, and relied on 6 of 6 shots to score 12 points...

On the other hand, the Lakers scored far lower than the previous games.

In O'Neal's first comeback game, the Lakers became a team that relied on singles to score. The pace was extremely slow and he only made 70 moves in the game.

O'Neal played 7 of 12 shots in 31 minutes, made 2 of 3 free throws, and scored 16 points, 10 rebounds and 2 blocks.

Zhang Hao made 6 of 11 shots, including 1 of 1 three-pointers, plus 5 of 5 free throws, and scored 18 points, and failed to score 20 points for the first time in the new season.

Kenny Anderson made 2 of 4 shots, plus 8 of 8 free throws, scoring 12 points and 6 assists.

Doug Christie made 4 of 10 shots, including 4 of 6 three-pointers, no other scores, and scored 12 points and 2 steals.

Barkley also worked hard tonight with excitement, making 5 of 8 shots, creating a free throw of 6 of 7 shots, scoring 16 points, 7 rebounds and 1 assist.

...

O'Neal won the first game in his comeback, and the Lakers' performance attracted strong discussion.

Although the Suns lost their chains at critical moments, Cotton Phil Simmons' style of playing is no longer suitable for today's era. Before playing against the Lakers, the Suns are only 2 wins and 6 losses, but the Suns are always prone to collapse in the last few minutes of the last quarter. In the first three quarters, their performance is definitely top-notch. Even when playing against the Bulls, they led by more than 10 points in the first 59-48 halftime. Although they were hit 23-13 in the third quarter, they rushed back in the first half of the last quarter. The Bulls still narrowly defeated the Suns 99-97 by defending the last moment and stably scoring.

But in this game, the Lakers beat the Suns simply by playing singles, which really makes people see their terrible one-on-one ability.

When their five chisels one by one, they look invincible.

...

The day after the game against the Suns, the Lakers came to the home stadium of Southern California to challenge the Clippers.

The Lakers' 4 games in 5 days are generally OK. The first one is not much different from home back to back, and they are just switched to another stadium in Los Angeles.

The Clippers' strength has improved greatly this season.

During this offseason, after the Lakers won Barkley, many players wanted to compete for the championship together, but the Lakers were still waiting for O'Neal and could not give a reply. At that time, the logo man had a clear plan to introduce players. Therefore, Lakers legend Elgin Baylor took the opportunity to take action and helped the Clippers grab several players who wanted to play in Los Angeles.

The best coach of the two-time, and the old coach Bill Feich who has won one championship, finally someone can use it. The Clippers have quickly become a team in the playoff competition, with a 5-win and 4-loss start, just like the Timberwolves.

The opponent has the strength to win, which is more exciting for fans than the slaughter without any suspense.

After the game started at 7:30 pm, the students of the USC gave Zhang Hao and the Lakers the warmest cheers. In the Los Angeles area, at least at USC, the Lakers became their absolute home team, because Zhang Hao is a sophomore in their school. Someone saw him in the examination room in May. He didn't forget to study when he was playing in the NBA. Every exam was A...

However, tonight, more than 3,000 USC students who came to watch the game on site, as well as other fans who came to see the Lakers were disappointed.

There was no chance in the past and the lineup was also broken. Although the Clippers introduced famous coaches, they were still beaten by the Lakers every year.

But this time, Bill Feich saw the opportunity!

First of all, their Clippers have the strength to struggle, second, the Lakers have insufficient tacit cooperation, and there is another key point, O'Neal wants to show himself.

It’s not that O’Neal wants to play singles or whatever, but that he is particularly active and wants to help his teammates very much. He will help when he sees an opportunity to "help".

But this made the Lakers' offense mess.

O'Neal doesn't need to do too much in tactics. Even if the team has O'Neal's tactics in tactics, O'Neal is just doing a very simple job.

Moreover, O'Neal was injured since the beginning of the official training camp.

Now the Lakers are a bit like the Magic, which started last season with the first record in the league. O'Neal's comeback and others won't be able to play anymore...

Facing the Clippers, if the Lakers actively play singles like in the last game, O'Neal played actively during their playing time, and others were excited to keep playing singles, the scoring efficiency might be higher, but there is no...

Zhang Hao seems to have 23 shots, at least half of which were thrown to him in the chaos of cooperation. His attacks performed very well tonight, with 4 of 12 shots, plus regular cooperation or singles performance of 5 of 11 shots, and only 9 of 23 shots. Although he scored 26 points, O'Neal made 6 of 10 shots, plus 5 of 8 free throws, and scored 17 points, 13 rebounds and 3 blocks. His efficiency was very good, but except for them, the Lakers only Jason Williams, who came on as a substitute, scored 10 points and 11 rebounds, and no third person scored in doubles.

Obviously, this is not the opponent of the Clippers who scored 23 points, Rodney Rodgers who scored 19 points, Brent Barry who scored 17 points, and Lorenzen White who scored 15 points and 10 rebounds.

The purpose is very clear. Joe Smith scored less, and Zhang Hao's goal was achieved, so there was only one left to win.

Therefore, the scorer became Zhang Hao VS O'Neal VS Spreeville.

Joe Smith was blocked in the mid-range shot tonight. O'Neal and Zhang Hao took turns to protect the frame at the basket, and only scored 7 points and 4 rebounds, but his ability was indeed pretty good. It is said that the Warriors wanted to renew his contract with 6-year, US$48 million in advance, but he didn't care. He gave 5 assists and two steals when he was defended to death.

On the Warriors, although the back line lost Tim Hardaway, it was still top-notch. The two defenders didn't score high, but substitute BJ Armstrong scored 17 points, former Cavaliers superstar Mark Price scored 19 points, center Felton Spence seized the opportunity to score 18 points and 12 rebounds, Spreville scored the highest 36 points in the game, and finally scored a key goal to help the Warriors tie the score 109-109 with 11 seconds left!

On the Lakers, O'Neal made 14 of 23 shots, plus 6 of 10 free throws, scoring 34 points, 12 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 blocks, Zhang Hao made 12 of 23 shots, including 3 of 7 three-pointers, plus 5 of 5 free throws. The shooting stability made the Warriors and O'Neal crazy, scoring 32 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 block.

The two scored 66 points together, almost helping the Lakers win, but they were tied at the last moment.

Del Harris simply didn't call a timeout at the last moment and let the players do it themselves.

At the critical moment, the Magic chose to pass the ball to Byron Scott when Zhang Hao was bound to be hit by a pincer. Byron Scott, who made 0 of 4 shots in the game, made a final three-pointer, 112-109, and the Lakers defeated the Warriors and avoided a series of losses with difficulty!

...

It’s easy to win, and winning is the best way to cover up contradictions.

After playing against the Warriors, the Lakers returned to their home court to face the Jazz.

This time, the Magician talked about the importance of this game before the game. O'Neal finally calmed down his mentality of fighting. At night, in the back-to-back match against the Jazz, the Lakers played patiently and hard.

Then, despite working hard, the tacit understanding is always insufficient. It is the last game of 4 games in 5 days. Now the strength of the cooperation is indeed not as good as the Jazz, and I was beaten by the Jazz, who entered its peak period!

Although O'Neal made 11 of 24 shots, scored 26 points in 4 of 10 free throws; Zhang Hao made 6 of 12 shots, including two three-pointers, plus 6 of 6 free throws to score 20 points; Van Exel also had 16 points and 11 assists.

But the Jazz's Malone made 14 of 21 shots, 9 of 11 free throws and scored 37 points; Stockton scored 16 points and 13 assists; Hornersek scored 21 points; and Osttarger, who showed extraordinary talent when defending O'Neal, restricted O'Neal's singles.

The Lakers defeated the Jazz 97-113 and suffered a third loss of the season!

With 9 wins and 3 losses, the Lakers were ranked second in the Western Conference because the Supersonics lost, and were immediately tied by the Supersonics.

Losing to the Jazz, he was the first in the Western Conference, with 10 wins and 1 loss at the beginning, which is understandable.

But after playing against the Jazz, after a night of rest, on November 22, the Lakers lost 85-90 at home against the Rockets and suffered two consecutive losses. After the game, the conflict broke out!

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In the whole game against the Rockets, O'Neal played unhappy. He asked for the ball in the whole game and received 20 times, including 14 singles and successfully shot. Although he performed well in 8 of 14 singles, he also scored 6 offensive rebounds in the 14 rebounds, 2 of 4 shots, and 10 of 18 shots. He also scored 3 of 5 excellent free throws, and scored 23 points, 14 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 blocks. However, he made 6 singles mistakes alone and made 8 mistakes in the whole game. It felt like he was back in the 14 finals. In that finals, O'Neal was averaging 5.3 turnovers by O'Neal.

After the game, O'Neal shouted at Zhang Hao: "Don't you know how to pass more? You shot the last two attacks, but didn't make it! Put away your damn three-pointer? Soft egg!"

Although Zhang Hao felt guilty when he didn't make the shot, he did feel that he should shoot. Facing O'Neal, who was angry and angry, Zhang Hao was dissatisfied but his expression was calm: "I made 5 of 7 three-pointers in the front, and I should make the last two three-pointers. If you didn't make so many mistakes when facing Divac and Olajuwon, we wouldn't have only 85 points. Moreover, if I didn't make the shot, can you grab the rebound?"

O'Neal laughed furiously: "You mean I'm the loser?"

Zhang Hao nodded seriously: "Yes, I have never lost in a row before you came."

As soon as this is said, a critical hit!

The teammates were very panicked when O'Neal and Zhang Hao had a quarrel. As soon as the magician was about to persuade him, he heard Zhang Hao release a strategic weapon of mass destruction.

This is so hurtful!

The Rockets are still celebrating the victory. Divac is very excited. His 23 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 steals, Olajuwon's 18 points, 12 rebounds, 2 steals, 3 blocks, and Olajuwon's sniper O'Neal well. Although O'Neal made 10 of 18 shots and his rebounds were not well protected, it suppressed the rhythm. The Lakers only made 71 shots in the game, and half of them were shot by Zhang Hao and O'Neal, locking the Lakers.

But unexpectedly, it caused an internal strife between the other two young superstars!

The fans at the scene were disappointed and prepared to leave, but also stopped and watched and quarreled.

O'Neal's ability to mess around was obviously stronger than the magician expected.

Although O'Neal was very annoyed about what Zhang Hao said, he had a new breakthrough point: "If you have the ability, go and deal with them, don't hand over the inside to me!"

"I can deal with them in the inside, so what else do you want?"

this……

O'Neal didn't expect Zhang Hao to say this. Other Lakers players who were anxious to persuade him to fight were also surprised. It seemed...what was wrong?

Zhang Hao was still calm, as if he was not affected by the loss and quarrel at all, and said, "Defending Olajuwon and Divac is something you should do well? He knew that he would be hit by a pincer, and even though he knew that he would be easily cut by the ball when he hit Olajuwon and Divac, he was still so obviously asking for the ball. What are you thinking?"

Another calm but deadly attack made O'Neal not sure how to answer positively.

However, the teammates heard the changes in the meaning of Zhang Hao's words and speech.
Chapter completed!