The Lakers have been in good shape recently, and they were in good shape when they lost to the Wizards, but the opponent was in a bad state.

After 60 games, the Lakers won 52 and lost 8, with a shocking record!

At this time, the Lakers, like the Bulls in the past two years, do not want to meet them if they need to win and rush upward, and those teams that need to win and secure their rankings.

The Pistons don't want to meet the Lakers now.

After most of the season, the chaotic situation outside the top four in the Eastern Conference finally became clearer.

The Pacers, Bulls, 76ers, and Heat dominate the first half of the Eastern Conference playoffs. The Hornets, Hawks, Cavaliers, and Knicks have a fierce competition, and are currently ranked 5th to 8th in the Eastern Conference.

The situation where the 5th to 13th place performances gradually widened the gap since mid-January.

Up to now, the Bucks and Celtics have basically fallen out of the ranks of playoff contenders, while the Magic and Raptors continue to be at the bottom.

The three teams of the Pistons, Nets and Wizards still have hope of making the playoffs.

At present, the Pistons have played 62 games, 30 wins and 32 losses, and have survived three quarters of the season, and are finally no longer out of reach.

Grant Hill feels his life is miserable. He averages 16.5 shots, 8.1 shots, and averages 21.3 points, 7.6 rebounds, 6.9 assists and 1.8 steals per game. Plath's version of Pippen.

As a result, Jordan was given to him by the team, Jerry Starkhouse...

When the team did not introduce scoring outside, Grant Hill already missed Alan Houston very much. Now, Grant Hill directly wants to kneel down to the Pistons management.

Since Jerry McClosky gradually faded from the Pistons management, the Pistons management has been like crazy.

However, tonight's away game against the Lakers, Jerry Starkhouse performed well, making 8 of 18 shots, including 2 of 6 three-pointers, plus 6 of 6 free throws, scoring 24 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists.

But there is a problem with this. The Lakers often choose to empty Jerry Starkhouse to attack Lynch Hunter, Joe Dumas and Grant Hill who are holding the ball.

Jerry Starkhouse often takes open space, or cuts to the basket without defense and causes a foul.

Grant Hill was defended by key points, and still made 8 of 17 shots and 10 of 12 free throws, scoring 26 points, 12 rebounds, 5 assists, 1 steal and 2 blocks, but the others of the Pistons couldn't do it...

Although Grant Hill and Jerry Starkhouse scored 50 points together, the Pistons only scored 89 points.

106 to 89, the Lakers continued to make great strides!

People’s ideas will change according to the current situation.

Originally, in time and space, Grant Hill had the idea of ​​leaving the team and joining forces with others in the summer of 2000 after Duncan and O'Neal won the championship one after another.

Joe Dumas, who had just retired at the time, became the general manager of the Pistons. He met Grant Hill's request and sent Grant Hill to the Magic team, who had vacancies for 29 million in salary space that summer. After obtaining Grant Hill, he still could sign two maximum salary contracts naked.

At that time, the Pistons only returned to Keith Atkins, a rookie who averaged 9.5 points and 3.7 assists per game, Ben Wallace, a blue-collar worker who averaged 4.8 points and 8.2 rebounds per game.

Joe Dumas's operation is to help Grant Hill, so that Grant Hill can go to a team that can sign two maximum-paid players immediately.

It is extremely loyal.

However, the result was quite unexpected. Grant Hill was not lucky, but Joe Dumas had a cheat after this deal. Ben Wallace moved to life. Two years later, in May 2002, Ben Wallace became the third team + one defense + best defensive player.

In the summer of 2002, he got Billups like a free pick, and used Jerry Starkhouse to rob Jordan for Hamilton. In the 2003-04 season, Rashid Wallace got Rashid Wallace...

He won a championship smoothly.

As the only player in the Bad Kids Legion whose character is unquestionable, Joe Dumas is loyal and made the champion core Ben Wallace by mistake.

Grant Hill in the original time and space did not help but want to leave the team until he struggled for 6 years.

Now Grant Hill, watching Zhang Hao win the championship, watching Anthony Hardaway join forces, and watching Iverson and Duncan shine...

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With 53 wins and 8 losses, the Lakers continued to make great strides.

After the Lakers won three consecutive victories like a storm, they have surpassed the best record that the Rockets, the eighth-ranked West, can achieve in theory.

The Rockets are currently 33 wins and 30 losses. Even if they win all the remaining 19 games and lose all the remaining games, the Rockets will not be able to make it to the top in the Western Conference.

The Rockets became the first team in the top eight in the West, with no hope of theoretically reaching the top.

On March 13, the Lakers challenged the Clippers away.

Relying on O'Neal's 29 points, 9 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 blocks, Zhang Hao's 26 points, 11 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 blocks, Kenny Anderson's 18 points, 5 assists and 4 steals, Jason Williams's 11 points, 14 rebounds... The Lakers easily defeated the Clippers 108-96.

More than 10,000 people in the Los Angeles Memorial Stadium were wearing Lakers No. 8 jerseys, and Clippers players really didn't have the intention to play.

Joan Barry really seized the opportunity when he joined the Clippers. After joining the Clippers, he averaged 21 minutes per game, scoring 9.2 points, 1.3 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.1 steals. His three-point shooting percentage, which he once scored in the 95-96 season, also reappeared in the Clippers. During his time in the Clippers, his three-point shooting percentage averaged 43.3%...

But he didn't play so well when he was on the Lakers. The key is that as a pitcher who should play without the ball, Joan Barry had to play with the ball.

Obviously, the Lakers cannot meet Joan Barry's play needs, but they went to the Clippers. In this team that does not have a clear core of ball holding, Joan Barry has played his abilities.

Of course, it's not strong enough. He played as the main substitute in a team with 12 wins and 51 losses.

After defeating the Clippers, the Lakers' record became 54 wins and 8 losses, with 20 games left.

After the game with the Clippers, Zhang Hao and Jason Williams were having a random conversation about the record.

Just as Jason Williams was about to say something, Zhang Hao, who was covering the bath towel and ice compress, suddenly stood up. The exposed big brother made Jason Williams cover his face with grief and anger...

"The Lakers, where the special signing player Zhang Hao is located, had a record of 54 wins and 8 losses when they entered the sprint stage after 62 games in the regular season, ranking first in NBA history with the same game. The series of tasks was blown by the wind and the dream journey of the fourth phase of the mission was triggered."

"The General Season Overlord: The Third Goal of the Dream Journey.

Mission preconditions: Publicly announced that it will break the Bulls' record of 70 wins.

Goal: Under the guidance of the host, Zhang Hao needs to help the Lakers break the Bulls' historical record of 70 wins and 12 losses.

Reward: The Lakers' final victory in the 1997-1998 season will be rewarded with 70 wins for every 70 wins higher than the final victory in the 1997-1998 season.

This is the most luxurious reward task Zhang Hao has ever encountered!

"If I don't lose the game against the Wizards, it would be a pity to play against the Knicks. It's a pity to play against the Supersonics. Why didn't I help the team adjust faster when playing against the Hornets? It's a pity that the 17-game winning streak was over...

Uh... Haven't the Bulls lost 12 games a year in the past two years? The Warriors lost 9 games 73 times...

What do you think about so much? The next step is to try your best to win every game."

After excitement and annoyance, Zhang Hao calmed down and had 20 games left. To break the Bulls record, he had to win at least 17 games, which is 85% of the winning rate... The Lakers' current winning rate of 54 wins and 8 losses seems to be almost the same.

And the next schedule...

Zhang Hao remembers that starting from this game against the Clippers, he will play against the Suns twice, the Supersonics twice, and the Jazz twice, this is a damn...

"Look at it one step at a time. Anyway, it's enough to win every game. If you have to rely on more lives for 70 days, if you can already ensure that the record is broken or sure that the record cannot be broken, you will give up. Anyway, we are currently leading the second place and have all the home advantage...

After Zhang Hao determined how to deal with it next, his mood completely calmed down.

Suddenly, he felt as if he had forgotten something, and turned on the system again and saw... "I! System Master, can't I win secretly for 71? Do I have to make a big fuss?"

At this time, Zhang Hao found that there was no one in the physiotherapy room...

"Where is Giant Jia? At this time, there is no one to talk to someone for a while!"

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Playing against the Clippers is the starting point for the Lakers to travel three times in a row.

On the morning of the 14th, the Lakers set off for Vancouver, played the Grizzlies away on the 15th, and played the Supersonics away on the 17th. On the 18th, they will return to home to play the Suns back-to-back.

The schedule is particularly difficult.

But the Lakers players are full of fighting spirit and have not relaxed and slacked off because they were seven wins ahead of the second-place Jazz.

Lakers players have a clear goal now... Since the Bulls can win 70, why can't they?

All 54 wins and 8 losses, who can still have no idea?

Must have an idea!

When we arrived in Vancouver, Kenny Anderson, O'Neal, Rick Fox discussed for a while, and in the afternoon, he gathered his teammates to discuss the next back-to-back game between the Supersonics and the Suns.

As for the Grizzlies in the middle, just do it with all their strength. This is an opponent who cannot lose even if they are in the bad mood. Even if their Lakers are in a ridiculous state, the Grizzlies will find ways to play worse by themselves.

Just the day before yesterday, on the 12th, in the top 32 of the NCAA Basketball Championship, the Duke University Blue Devils met with the champion popular Utah Utah Utah.

Kobe Bryant scored 14 points, 14 rebounds, 7 assists, 6 steals and 4 blocks, helping the Blue Devils beat the Utahs 77-59.

Although it was just a college game, Kobe's performance reminded the media of that joke, let Michael play center.

Originally, Olovo Candy, Mike Bibby, Reeve Lafrenz, one of Kansas doubles, North Carolina doubles Jamison and Carter, Arizona Elvis Mike Bibby...and others have already made this draft very popular. Even Odom, Artest, Barron Davis, Francis and others have made it clear that they will not participate in the draft this year, and many teams will still play badly. Of course, there are also Kobe's contributions. After this game, the situation has become even more irritable...

It looks like the 1998 draft and the 1984 draft. The most popular No. 1 pick is an African genius who only started to get involved in basketball in college. The 23-year-old Olovo Kandi averaged 31 minutes per game in his senior season and scored 23.2 points, 12.2 rebounds and 2.8 blocks. He has excellent physical conditions and mature skills.

In addition, there are Reeve Lafrenz, the top three picks, as well as Jamison, an all-around power forward, and Jason Williams, who passed the ball in college, who was comparable to Stockton's... There is also a shooting guard who could lead the team to win the championship in college!

Since everyone loves center, choose Kobe to play center!

For a time, Duke University became the most "favorite" university for NBA team fans, and Duke Blue Devils became the most supportive team in NBA team fans.

Because Kobe said that he would choose to participate in the NBA draft after leading Duke to win the championship.

The Grizzlies have played 63 games so far, with 15 wins and 48 losses. The gap is very big from the bottom and basically can't catch up. It's a big deal to see whether the Nuggets can win 10 wins.

However, it is not once or twice that the last one won't get the No. 1 pick, and the Grizzlies still want to take a try.

Yesterday, the Grizzlies played against the Raptors at home, and the two major Canadian NBA teams staged a good show to control the game.
To be continued...