Chapter 165 After the Christmas Battle

After the Christmas battle, at the end of December, the Lakers lost to the Celtics and the Jazz one after another.

This season, in order to use an O'Brien Cup to comfort Auerbach's spirit in heaven, the Celtics, like last season, were acting like they were on steroids, hammering whoever they caught.

Especially when encountering a team with Su Feng.......

That was like enemies meeting, especially jealous.

It is worth mentioning that, after the Lakers defeated the Wizards through a change of formation, those media who stood up and praised Coach Lue by name immediately started a new round of verbal criticism against Coach Lue after the Lakers suffered a three-game losing streak.

Fortunately, Coach Lue, who was very Buddhist in his mentality, was not affected by public opinion.

Otherwise, if it were someone else, wouldn't he have carried an RPG to blow up these media?

Yes!

That's right!

We're talking about you!

Vince Carter!

Time flies.

Saying goodbye to 2007.

In 2008, after spending the Christmas holiday with Kobe at home, Su Feng led the Lakers to Portland.

This season, as the number one favorite to win the championship, the Portland Trail Blazers' performance in November and December was not ideal.

Because the Trail Blazers, who regard each other as their own Pippen, are now facing a problem that their head coach McMillan cannot solve.

That is.......

Apart from Garnett, who can be excluded first.......

Who should take the final shot for the Trail Blazers?

At the end of last season, in order to win, Paul, who was still inexperienced, finally chose to compromise with Pierce.

After all, he, who might not even be able to reach Pierce's knee when he jumped, was indeed not as effective as Pierce in handling crucial shots.

But this season, with the arrival of Carter and the growth of Paul.......

For a time, the Trail Blazers were like three men putting on a show. On the surface, everyone respected each other, but in private, no one was convinced by anyone else.

As early as when Feng Huang (Su Feng) was opening up territory in the Northern Border, the conflict between Carter and Pierce was already well known.

In addition, these two people usually say things like, "Your dunks are not worthy of being compared with Su!" and "Your three-pointers are still not good enough, even my grandma shoots better than you"........

Therefore, even with Garnett mediating, Carter and Pierce could not see eye to eye.

And as for this season...

In order to prove that he is not a perennial runner-up!

Look, what has Garnett, who used to dominate in Minnesota, been forced into by Su Feng?

As long as he can win!

What does it matter if he is a humble little wolf?

It has to be said that if this Trail Blazers team can really succeed in the future, then Garnett, who can bend and stretch, will definitely be credited with the first achievement.

At the Rose Garden Arena, under the gaze of nearly 20,000 fans, after warming up, the starting five tigers of the two teams stepped onto the court one after another.

Trail Blazers: Ratliff, Garnett, Pierce, Carter, Paul.

Lakers: Little Gasol, Zilong's spear, Zilong's cloak, A Dou No. 1, Su Feng.

At the center of the court, Ratliff and Little Gasol started the game with a jump ball.

As a fierce general from Alabama who once followed Su Feng in criticizing Jordan eight years ago, Ratliff, who is old, is no longer as brave as he was in his prime this season.

In the jump ball, Little Gasol easily used his height advantage to win the opening attack for the Lakers.

At this time, looking at Pierce in front of him, Su Feng said to Pierce with an angry face, "Put away your damn switching defense!

If you have the guts!

Just let Chris come over and go one-on-one with me!"

Pierce, Paul: ".......”

On the court, Pierce and Paul certainly couldn't agree to Su Feng's unreasonable request.

After all, with my Pao's (Paul) small stature.......

How could he withstand Su's (Su Feng) center's fierce attack?

On the court, the Lakers' first attack, Little Gasol cut to the right wing through a screen, and after receiving Su Feng's wonderful pass, he completed a long-range shot in front of Ratliff.

Swish!

3 to 0.

On the sidelines, on the Lakers' bench, seeing McMillan, who had a bunch of good cards but didn't know how to play them, Coach Lue couldn't help but complain, "Theo (Ratliff) is obviously no longer suitable to be the starter for this Trail Blazers team.

Instead of using him as a center, why doesn't Nate (McMillan) consider using Shane (Battier) to play the 4, and using Kevin to play the 5?"

In Su Feng's original timeline, Garnett had indeed played as a center in the later stages of his career.

In addition, with Battier playing the four.......

Even if Garnett would suffer a little when facing a low-post killer like Little Yao.......

Battier can also help Garnett through help defense.

In Su Feng's previous life, McMillan's biggest characteristic as a coach was that if you gave him a team with a rating of 70, he might be able to bring you to 85.

But if you really give him a team with a rating of 100.......

Then the result he can bring out may only be 85 points.

At the Rose Garden Arena, after several rounds of exchanges, Su Feng discovered that the issue of ball possession between Paul, Pierce, and Carter was not an excuse for the Trail Blazers' poor performance at all.

Because no matter how much difference there is in the offensive ability of these three.......

They do have a certain offensive ability.

So even if these three take turns playing......

The Trail Blazers are at most using one hundred dollars as ninety-five dollars.

And with the Trail Blazers' lineup that James would cry when he saw it, and Durant would want to join.......

Su Feng really couldn't understand.......

Why doesn't McMillan try to stagger the playing time of these four as much as possible.

This season, most of the time, the Trail Blazers' Big Four's playing and resting times have remained consistent.

But in this way, because there is always only one basketball on the basketball court.......

So the Trail Blazers simply cannot fully unleash Paul Allen's banknote power.

So, at the Rose Garden Arena......

After Su Feng scored 22 points for the Lakers in the first quarter, and Little Mo (Maurice Evans) scored 13 points for the Lakers in the first half of the second quarter.......

The group of media who were still criticizing Coach Lue before immediately activated their "opportunistic" skills.

Like what, flexible use of people, invincible on-the-spot response, good at recognizing and employing people.......

In short, on this night, Coach Lue is awesome!

However, this group of media may not believe it when they say it.......

In Coach Lue's opinion.......

The Lakers won this game inexplicably.

At halftime, after entering the second half with a score of 58 to 55, the second half was almost the same script as the first half.......

Su Feng led the team to withstand the Trail Blazers' Big Four's counterattack.

Little Mo led the Lakers' A Dou (incompetent players) to fight the Trail Blazers' substitutes to a standstill.

Then.......

There was no then.

Under Su Feng's personal guard, at the crucial moment of the final quarter, "Pi Jordan" (Pierce) could not stand up to take over the game.

And "Carter Pippen" and "Paul Rodman" fell into a crazy cycle of hitting iron.

In the end, 116 to 110.

The Lakers unexpectedly defeated the Trail Blazers, whose overall strength was far above them.

After the game, Paul felt uncomfortable.

Because in this game, he only made 4 of 14 shots, besides being very similar to Kidd in terms of shooting percentage......

Because in the game, the Lakers resolutely adopted the strategy of letting Su Feng switch Paul to face him through pick-and-rolls whenever there was a chance, so on this night, my Pao's (Paul's) defense was also very similar to Nash.

On the other side, although Carter, who made 5 of 15 shots in this game, was very similar to Kobe in terms of shooting percentage;

And his sleepy performance at the decisive moment was on par with his cousin;

He can even be compared with Iverson in terms of misplaced steals, but.......

Lost.......

Just lost.

As for "Pi Jordan" who wanted to prove himself in front of Su Feng?

Since even the real Jordan is only worthy of driving a truck for Su Feng, then what's more, this fat, low-profile version of "Jordan"?

In the whole game, except for Garnett, who made 7 of 10 shots and scored a total of 18 points, 10 rebounds, 3 assists, and 2 blocks for the team, including free throws.......

In Su Feng's opinion, if he were to lead this Trail Blazers team, then everyone else would have to be executed!

However.......

Although the Trail Blazers fans experienced another "refund rnm (ri ni ma, cursing)" night in great grief.......

But the good news is that after this game, McMillan was fired.......

At the same time, a long-planned transaction is about to take place in January of this year.......

Shocking the entire league.

……

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