Chen Jie's end declared Skiles' attitude that the Bulls would no longer pursue victory.
There were about three minutes left in the quarter, and the Bulls were already leading by more than 40 points. Scales felt that they had already put the victory in their pocket and zipped it up.
However, the Lakers still don't seem to want to give up.
An obvious sign is that Kobe Bryant is still on the court, looking for various opportunities to score.
Without Chen Jie and Griffin off the court, there are really not many people who can limit Kobe. Moreover, there is no one on the Bulls who can score like Kobe.
But this does not prevent Skiles from standing on the sidelines in a relaxed mood, chewing gum, chatting and laughing with the assistant coach.
The reason is very simple. Although Kobe's scoring method is blocked, the players on the Bulls field will not let Kobe lead the Lakers' counterattack.
As I said before, people who are familiar with basketball also understand that there are two things you need to do to chase points. One is to maintain continuous scoring on your own side, and the other is to prevent the opponent from scoring.
The Lakers can't do either of these two things now.[
Although Kobe's scoring is crazy, his shooting percentage cannot reach 100%.
Occasionally, Kobe would miss a shot or a layup.
Of course, if the Lakers players can grab offensive rebounds when Kobe Bryant misses, the Lakers can still maintain a sustained and stable scoring momentum.
But Skiles can rest assured that the Bulls' inside line, especially Kwame Brown, who didn't play much time today, protects rebounds very well.
He used his excellent rebounding to kill the possibility of his old club's counterattack.
This has only lasted 15 minutes of the game. Kwame Brown has already grabbed 10 rebounds. His rebounding efficiency can be said to be astonishingly high.
On the other hand, the Lakers couldn't completely stop the Bulls' offense.
Although Chen Jie is off the court, Chris Duhong is still on the court. Although his breakthrough is still lagging behind players like Chen Jie and Kobe Bryant, for the current Lakers team who are not focused on defense at all, his breakthrough
A breakthrough is still very lethal.
After breaking through, or making a layup or passing the ball, Duhong can also activate the Bulls' offense.
Although the Bulls' offense is not as good as when Chen Jie was on the court, at least they won't have a scoring drought for several minutes.
With these two factors, how can the Lakers chase points?
Until the end of the third quarter, the Bulls' lead was still around 40 points.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Tomjanovich finally replaced Kobe Bryant, announcing that the Lakers finally chose to surrender.
The last quarter has completely become garbage time.
The Bulls' bench burst into laughter in the fourth quarter. Chen Jie and Li Min'er were chatting. Du Hong came over to say hello to Li Min'er. Under the leadership of Du Hong, other Bulls players also joined Chen Jie and Li Min'er.
Among Li Ming'er's chat queue.[
Although due to some media reports, all the Bulls players actually know that Chen Jie has such a girlfriend named Li Ming'er.
However, they had really never met Li Ming'er before, let alone knew her.
The Bulls have never organized any team banquets in the past few months. Of course, Li Ming'er has no chance to get to know Chen Jie's teammates.
In the occasional parties to celebrate victory, Chen Jie, Duhong, Chandler and a group of people went to the nightclub to have fun. How could he bring a female companion with him at such a time?
Therefore, today is Li Ming'er's first contact with Chen Jie's teammates from the Bulls.
It can be seen that everyone is still very happy chatting.
Especially under the leadership of Chris Duhon, a living treasure. The atmosphere among the group of people chatting on the bench was very lively.
In the stands, few of the nearly 20,000 fans at the United Center left early. Although the game had lost its suspense, and although it was no longer possible for Chen Jie to play and break the record of 30 consecutive games, the fans at the United Center were also very happy.
After all, the team had a big victory.
When they just lost to the Pistons, many media said that this might be the end of the Bulls' strength, that they would be knocked back to their original form, and that it might be the beginning of a losing streak.
Now it seems that these media are all nonsense. After this game, it is estimated that a wave of praise will attack the Bulls again.
Chicago fans hate these media who follow the trend of the situation, but sometimes, they have to admit that the mood of ordinary fans can actually be easily guided by the media.
After losing to the Pistons, when they saw so many reports in the media saying that the Bulls were finished, many Chicago fans were actually very worried in their hearts. They were really afraid that what the media said was true.
Now after watching this game, the Bulls fans know that it was just the media farting and hyping it up, and they finally feel relieved in their hearts.
In the stands, groups of fans began to celebrate their team's home victory.
The United Center has become a sea of joy.
In the media box, many reporters no longer pay attention to the game, and they have even started writing tomorrow's press release.
The Bulls' loss to the Pistons was just an accident, a small setback. Today, they used a big victory over the Lakers to prove that they are now ranked second in the Eastern Conference, and they definitely deserve it.
Many media outlets have already prepared such reports.
Although the competition is not over yet, they feel that there is definitely no need to modify it.
They already know the process and results of this game very well.
The only thing missing might be the post-match interviews.
Although after the last game between the Bulls and the Pistons, Chen Jie had a very unpleasant quarrel with the media, especially Ruth, the beautiful reporter from Time Magazine, who even made Chen Jie angry and made him leave the game.
But the media don't care about this. Even if Chen Jie hates them now, they will still go to the press conference to ask Chen Jie many questions.
This is their job, and they will never mix their personal feelings and assets into it.
The Bulls defeated their opponent today. Chen Jie must be in a good mood, right?
He won't refuse our questions, right?
Many media outlets are optimistic.
The Bulls players were chatting and laughing, the fans in the stands were celebrating happily, and the reporters were nervously preparing press releases and questions for later interviews, but the Lakers bench was experiencing a nightmare.
Lost again.
That was a rare thing for the Lakers last season, or even two months into this season.
However, the current Lakers have become accustomed to it.
Losing so many points is not even news anymore.
I don’t know since when, the Lakers are no longer used to winning, but are used to losing.
No matter how hard the player named Kobe and the No. 8 Lakers player try, the Lakers seem to be unable to avoid the fate of failure.
Today, it can be said that Kobe didn't work hard. He scored 34 points in only three quarters, which was a full 20 points more than the opponent's No. 1 player Chen Jie.
But even so, he still couldn't lead the Lakers to a victory.
What exactly is the problem?
On the Lakers side, no one knows.
All of them looked confused, and many even had numb expressions on their faces.
This is actually the scariest thing. A team is not afraid of failure. Who can avoid failure in this league? No one dares to say that they can win all the time.
Even the Bulls team that created the miracle of winning 72 games that year, didn't they also lose ten games that season?
Even the Lakers team that created a 33-game winning streak that year didn't win the championship in the end?
Failure is normal.
Failure is not terrible.
The scary thing is that a team is used to losing. When it loses, it has no desire to win, but becomes numb.
The current Lakers team seems to have such a sentiment.
This is the beginning of the decline!
Of course, there is one person who can never accept failure willingly.
This person is, of course, Kobe Bryant.
He puffed out his cheeks at this moment, and it was obvious that his eyes were full of dissatisfaction and burning anger!
He doesn't like failure, not at all. He hates failure.
He doesn't like what his teammates are like now.
However, he was actually very confused. What was the problem?
Kobe's expression was stubborn yet helpful.
He silently watched the substitute players on both sides of the court come and go, in a trance, in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking.
Other Lakers players were also so silent.
The Lakers' bench was completely silent, which was in sharp contrast to the noise on the Bulls' side.
Time passed minute by minute, and finally, the game skills came down.
In the end, the Bulls defeated the Lakers by 36 points 124-89.
Kobe Bryant scored a game-high 34 points, Chen Jie scored a game-high 14 assists, and the one who scored the game-high rebounds was Kwame Brown, who grabbed 13 rebounds in total.
And to do all this, Kwame Brown only spent 20 minutes.
At the same time, Kwame Brown also contributed 12 points and scored a double-double.
In his debut with the Bulls, Kwame Brown can be said to have done very well.
On the Lakers side, Eddy Curry played 20 minutes and only scored 9 points and 7 rebounds. In comparison, it is clear who is stronger and who is weaker.
It seems that the stupid transactions that the media have been commenting on are not like that.
Of course, from this scene alone, you may not be able to tell much.
After all, the strength gap between the two sides in this game is too big. Kwame Brown performed well, maybe just because he stayed on the winning side. (To be continued...)
