dognovel Chapter 580 The first challenge of the season! 【Subscription】
Chapter 580 The first challenge of the season! 【Subscription】
The politeness of the opponent and the yearning for peace made the Celtics feel extremely boring.
Rasheed even publicly stated in a post-match interview: "This era is too soft! The whole league is full of soft eggs and cowards! I don't like this era."
Afterwards, Rashid was fined $5,000 for his remarks.
But other teams in the league scoffed at this.
Are we soft? We are right - you are soft!
Change to another team and see if we are playing hard!
But after thinking about it, no one really wants to say these words. After all, secret fear and serious counseling are two things that are far apart.
The Celtics' winning streak continued until mid-December, and although some teams were gradually able to bring the suspense of the game to the fourth quarter, no team could really threaten the Celtics' winning streak!
There is even a conclusion: I am afraid that only like last season's Christmas battle, there will be a warrior to fight with the Celtics.
Well, maybe it's possible to end their winning streak if a warrior appears to let the Celtics give the Celtics a good beating and get Lin Long and others suspended again.
Otherwise, it's really like now that the Celtics have a winning streak all the way, and at the same time have the best defense, the best offense and the largest net rating in the league, maybe they really want to win 82 games in a season. Victory!
According to the evaluation of fans, management and the media and the prospect of the schedule, the matter of defeating the Celtics can only fall on the Los Angeles Lakers in the short term.
The Lakers were the only team to win the Celtics twice last season, both in the Finals! They even had a chance to drag the game into a tiebreaker at one point, and they lost Game 6 by just one goal. .
If there is one team in this league that could possibly play a game with the Celtics, it's probably only the Lakers!
Even this year's Lakers have a lot of problems that have caused their record to drop a lot compared to last year.
But they are still ranked first in the Western Conference, second only to the Celtics in the league.
The eyes and expectations of the entire league all fell on the Christmas battle between the Lakers and the Celtics.
Except for the most die-hard Celtics fans, everyone is looking forward to a big fight between the two sides in the Christmas battle!
Even if there is a real fight, it is excellent!
At least after the suspension, everyone has a chance to beat the Celtics.
The Christmas battle that the whole league is watching is imminent.
Before Christmas Day, the Celtics continued their winning streak, which they had won from October until the end of December, with the exact same 28-game winning streak as last season!
The situation for the Lakers is much more complicated.
Because of last season's finals fiasco and Olympic fatigue, O'Neal, the behemoth, finally collapsed at the beginning of the season because he played too many games, he did not participate in the team's training camp, preseason and the first month of the season. the match of.
If it's really because of injuries, that's fine, but the paparazzi in Los Angeles have once again played to the level of the number one paparazzi in the world. They found that the fat man was not injured!
He'd go to nightclubs, he'd go to concerts, he'd go to music festivals to record his RAP album, but he just didn't train and prepare for the season.
Obviously, last season's exhaustion and failure, so that O'Neal's laziness broke out again.
When all this was revealed, Lakers general manager West, owner Sir Bass and head coach Phil Jackson all stood up and spoke for O'Neal, including Reggie Miller, Fisher, and O'Neal on the team. The others also stood up one after another, saying that O'Neal was really injured, and these were his pastimes after rebuilding.
It's just that no one can see whether O'Neal is injured or not, but even a fool can see that O'Neal's body is obviously bigger!
He gained at least 10kg again!
This will definitely affect his state after his comeback.
But in any case, the entire Lakers team expressed their support and trust in O'Neal in front of the public. At least before O'Neal officially returned to the team, the team was in harmony.
・・・・Seeking flowers・
All the contradictions have to start from O'Neal's return to the team.
In the days of O'Neal's absence, Bryant took over the banner of the team leader. He averaged 44.6 points, 5.1 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game in November, including 40 in 9 consecutive games. + score, refreshed a score record of its own.
Under the leadership of Kobe Bryant, the Lakers have maintained their own record and ranking, ranking first in the Western Conference, and even in the MVP rankings, Kobe once surpassed Lin Long and ranked first in the league!
But when O'Neal finally finished his vacation and returned to the team, Kobe was reluctant to let go!
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He considers himself to be a harder, more responsible person who can support the team.
But O'Neal thinks he is the strongest, and should be the team's boss and the first core.
The contradiction between the two sides heated up rapidly. From the beginning of the training, the needle and Maimang refused to give each other, to the unwillingness to pass the ball to each other in the game, and the connection between each other became less and less.
And in mid-December, someone broke the news that these two guys had a complete breakdown during training and fought each other!
In the end, Malone hugged O'Neal, and Miller stopped Kobe, so that the conflict did not continue to evolve.
But the infighting of the Lakers has become a secret known to everyone in the league. Except for the fact that the parties did not express "there is no me" in public, everyone knows that the Lakers are on the verge of falling apart.
It has developed like this. There are reasons why the team loses in the finals in a row, O'Neal is too lazy, and Kobe is too paranoid, but in the final analysis, it is because of the strength of the Celtics that O'Neal has the feeling that instead of working hard, it is better to enjoy it. idea of life.
But even so, even though the Lakers' twins have been separated from each other and may officially fall out at any time, the Lakers still occupy the first place in the Western Conference by virtue of their strong strength, and they are still the most likely team in the league to defeat the Celtics. !Big.