18 consecutive wins!!! Lakers and Heat are neck and neck!!! Who can maintain a longer season winning streak??? - Los Angeles Times.
The Lakers double-killed the Thunder! Kobe Bryant double-killed Durant! Now his MVP opponent may only be Miami No. 6! - Lakers Nation.
The Spaniard wakes up! The Lakers team welcomes their return! - Lakers Nation.
James believes Kobe Bryant is still among the top three players in the league this season, but he is not prepared to give up the MVP. - Yahoo Sports.
Rumor has it that James urged the Heat to continue their winning streak and make sure it lasts longer than the Lakers! - FOX Sports.
The issues behind the Lakers' victory! Let's see how experts interpret the Lakers' 18-game winning streak! - ESPN.
Internal conflicts broke out! Dongfang Fang and Gasol had a fierce argument on the bench! The scene almost got out of control! - ESPN.
The Lakers are like a rope hanging on the top of the mountain. They are temporarily prominent, but once something changes, they will completely collapse! - Henry Abbott.
The next game is Guan Jian. The Lakers will face the top seed in the Western Conference, the San Antonio Spurs, back to back! - T.N.T official website.
The talisman of 18 consecutive wins! There have been a total of 7 teams with 18 consecutive wins in NBA history, and 5 of them had the last laugh! Not counting the Lakers and Heat this season, the chance of winning is as high as 70%! - Sports Illustrated.
Many reporters said that this winning streak will be an open battle because they will definitely take this factor into consideration when voting for MVP at the end of the season. - New York Times.
Now the Lakers' season strength rankings have changed again. At the same time, Kobe's MVP simulation voting ranking has also risen from the original third to the current second. Durant has directly dropped from first to third.
This is the magic of direct confrontation, which has a great impact on the number of impression flow votes.
But it was a benefit to James, who was still leading the way.
But the advantage is very weak.
The next two games will be the "touchstone" of the Lakers' season. They will play back-to-back games against the St. Anthony Spurs tonight, and then after five days of rest, they will move to Staples Center and continue to play against the Spurs. This is another weird schedule.
Arrangement! A double match against the Thunder, and then a double match against the Spurs. I really don’t know what the league was thinking at the beginning.
But there is nothing to complain about, because this kind of thing also happened to the Lakers in the 13-14 season in the original time and space.
Coincidentally, there was also a double battle with the Thunder and then a double battle with the Spurs, which really drove people to death.
However, under the leadership of Kobe Bryant, no one was ready to give up.
This season, playing every game seriously is a goal that Kobe set for himself before the start of the season, a promise he made. He is so paranoid that he will use all his energy and willpower to complete it.
This gave Tang Qian a great influence.
Because now the league has begun the "rotation" trend. It was Popovich who first started to turn it into a "routine". However, there are not many teams in the league. But with the retirement of the season,
By the 2013-14 season, the number of injury-free rest periods had reached 42 times a season. But before that? There were only 8 times in 12-13, of which the Spurs accounted for more than half. In the 11-12 season, there were 0 times, and in the 10-11 season
20 times. Do you think this is the limit? No, in fact, starting from the 13-14 season, this "rest" battle has just started. Next season, the number of injury-free rests will be as high as 79 times. What about the 15-16 season?
? Doubled again, to 145 times. What about the 16-17 season? It was as high as 310+ times!!!
Therefore, rest breaks became common, and the league finally couldn't bear it. At the end of the 16-17 season, Adam Silver made a speech, demanding heavy penalties for such unreasonable rest breaks. For example, in 2012, the Spurs avoided playing against the Heat, resulting in a boring national broadcast and angry punishments.
250,000 US dollars is even more and heavier. No way, if you only do it dozens of times a season, that's fine. By the 16-17 season, the entire season was as high as 310+, and it was dozens more than before in just 5 years.
times, mainly because the trend is still erupting and skyrocketing every year. This is definitely a huge blow to the reputation and credibility of the league that has just signed a 9-year 24 billion broadcast contract.
However, this did not exist for the old-school players in the past. Now everyone is following the same example, and Popovich was suddenly pushed to the forefront. But he is both a coach and a high-level player in the Spurs.
I work multiple jobs, so I don’t have to worry about fines at all. In the future, I will still go my own way, and you have a good plan, I have a bridge ladder, and if I can’t take rotation without injury, then I will engage in “injury rotation”, right? There are policies at the top, and at the bottom
Are there any countermeasures?
But you are by Kobe's side, and you are not by Kobe's side who is not suffering from serious terminal injuries like before, so you don't have this opportunity.
Because this thing is top-down. If the general does not do this, ordinary players dare to do it? Dare they neglect it?
Leading by example in some fields does have super appeal and personal charm. After all, one sentence can block you.
Labor and management are the bosses and they haven’t had any rest or soy sauce. Why do you do this? Are you worthy?
Therefore, what was thought to be an extremely difficult back-to-back duel, but two hours before the game started that night, the Lakers players received this message:
The Spurs' four main players, Duncan, Parker, Ginobili, and Kawhi Leonard, are all absent and will not play tonight!!!
For a moment, the Lakers players were surprised and happy.
Don't look at the hard battle between the No. 13 Lakers and the Thunder, but the No. 13 Spurs also fought fiercely with the Eastern Conference's top Pacers until overtime to decide the winner. The Spurs' lineup is aging even more than the Lakers.
It's much more serious, so resting after a fierce battle has become a common method used by head coach Popovich.
Without these four people, no matter how integrated and team-fighting the Spurs are, they will not be able to beat the Los Angeles Lakers this season. Even under the leadership of Popovich, the Spurs have indeed played well.
It's good, full of resilience, and it can't change the final outcome.
The Lakers scored 30 points in the first quarter. The Spurs had a slow start and only scored 19 points. But in the second quarter, the Spurs suddenly showed a sense of unity. That kind of perfect ball movement and experienced teamwork were really enough.
It put most teams in the league to shame. Especially 3-pointers, they hit 9 in a single quarter, with a hit rate of over 80%. This made the Lakers unable to react. Halftime ended 55-54.
, the Lakers only led the Spurs by 1 point.
This is not surprising. When Popovich used a full bench to face the peak of Miami, people thought it was a massacre, but the final plot trend was that the Spurs and Heat were inextricably tied. If it weren't for the final key ball,
If the situation is unfavorable, the counterattack may be successful. This shows how terrifying and destructive a super stable core team can be.
In terms of coaching and running the entire team, Popovich is the strongest godfather in the league.
Even Jerry West can't compare to him.
Coaching and management select players, grasp them at once, and add in the stable core and team culture. This is the key to the Spurs' 20 years of success. It has been nearly 20 years and 20 seasons have been almost 50+ wins. What is this concept?
This means that the Spurs have never completely declined in the Western Conference. The playoffs have not yet started, and they have to occupy a spot in advance.
Moreover, in this game, Popovich, an old fox, is actually still training and testing different new combinations and tactics in actual combat. This attitude is really depressing and infuriating!
But the fire is getting worse, and the game cannot be taken lightly at all. In the third quarter, the Lakers fell behind their opponents by 4 points. Fortunately, Gasol hit consecutive inside shots, and Tang Qian grabbed 2 offensive rebounds.
This stabilized the situation and prevented the Spurs from suddenly boosting the overall morale.
In the last quarter, Kobe naturally started to perform, but he almost failed to "catch up" in this game.
It seems that consecutive back-to-back away games are a huge burden for No. 24, who has spent most of the season. The direct impact and effect of this is that his key abilities have declined and his shooting rate has declined. But he still managed to score twice with a three-pointer at the last moment.
The free throw helped the Lakers secure the final victory.
In this game, Kobe still scored more than 40 points, a total of 41 points, but his shooting rate was only a little over 43%, which is far from his shooting rate this season.
In the end, the key shot was 1 for 6, which was also a moderate signal.
The Lakers won 95-92 with only 3 points, extending their winning streak to 19 games.
However, no one felt too happy to win this game, because this Spurs team has a full substitute lineup, and can even be called the Spurs second team. The Lakers and Spurs second team both played like this. If those four people were there,
What will happen?
So at the post-game press conference, Popovich didn't look like a loser at all. Instead, he answered reporters' questions slowly and slowly. The main focus was actually discussing the Spurs' new tactical moves tonight.
Experiment with the new lineup:
I think the Lakers are a very good team, but the performance of our team's players tonight is also remarkable. Patrick Mills made a very accurate three-pointer tonight, and he also did a good job cutting around the pile; Dan
Nigeria's defense is as tough as ever. I think he proved himself tonight. He can not only shoot three-pointers, but also have other unique skills. Thiago's support is also much better than before. I think he can be a match with Tim.
The new cover tactic, but what it is, I won’t explain now...
And so on.
This old man doesn't regard record and winning streak as the same thing at all.
Well, this is also the reason why the Spurs' record has always been very stable, so they have the capital to allow him to experiment and squander like this.
On the Lakers side, the joy was very low. Kobe and others answered the questions and ended the topic in just a few words. If D'Antoni hadn't been "active", I really don't know whether the Lakers or the Spurs would have won tonight.
It was like a fist hitting a ball of cotton.
It makes people extremely depressed.
But Popovich didn’t go too far. When asked about the next game between the Spurs and the Lakers on March 19, Popovich said this:
Of course, next time we will use our best efforts to win at the Staples Center.
A glib answer, but it fits Popovich's personality very well.
This is the case with the Spurs. Many people like it, but there are also many people who are indifferent to it. They feel that the team's way of playing is a bit too alternative and lacks the passion of American basketball.
But in competitive sports, performance ultimately counts. Popovich has brought countless honors to the Spurs, reaching the top 5 times, and has seemingly everlasting vitality. This is enough to make people who don't like it hate him.
Not much strength left.
What's more, this season, the Spurs' team attributes will reach a historical peak!
This is also known as one of the strongest teams in history.
In the 2013-14 Spurs, there was no player in the regular season who averaged more than 17 points per game, no big man who averaged more than 10 rebounds per game, and no backcourt who averaged more than 6+ assists per game. The strongest rim protector was also
It’s the old Duncan who averaged less than 2+ blocks per game. Well, it’s such a team, but the Miami Big Three were so ambitious in the finals that they almost had their heads shaved!!!
Beat the opponent by a full 14 points!!!
Such a civilian's data attributes, but with the super high team understanding and chemical reaction, have produced a qualitative change at a historical level.
One of the pinnacles of true team basketball.
13-14, San Antonio Spurs.
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