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Chapter 788 An easy 19-game winning streak
18 consecutive victories! ! !The Lakers and the Heat are neck and neck! ! !Who can maintain a longer season winning streak? ? ? —Los Angeles Times.

The Lakers double-killed the Thunder!Kobe double-killed Durant!Now his MVP opponent may only be Miami No. 6! — Lakers Nation.

Spaniards wake up!The Lakers say welcome back! — Lakers Nation.

James believes that Kobe is still the top three players in the league this season, but he is not prepared to give up the MVP. -- Yahoo Sports.

According to the gossip, James urged the Heat to continue the winning streak, and must keep it longer than the Lakers! — FOX Sports.

The Question Behind the Lakers Victory!See how experts interpret the Lakers' 18-game winning streak! — ESPN.

Internal conflicts broke out!There was a fierce quarrel between Dongfang Tang and Pau Gasol on the bench!The scene almost got out of control! — ESPN.

The Lakers are a rope hanging from the top of the mountain, temporarily conspicuous, but once something happens, it will collapse completely! —Henry Abbott.

The next game is Guan Jian, the Lakers will face the top seed in the West, the San Antonio Spurs back to back! ——TNT official website.

18连胜的护身符！NBA历史上一共出现了7支18连胜球队，其中5支笑到了最后！不算本赛季的湖人和热火，夺冠几率高达7成！——体育画报。

Many reporters said that this winning streak will be an open and secret struggle, because they will definitely take this factor into consideration when voting for the MVP at the end of the season. --New York Times.

Now the Lakers' season rankings have changed again, and Kobe's MVP simulation voting ranking has also risen from the original third to the current second.Durant slipped directly from first to third.

This is the magic of direct confrontation, which has a great impact on the number of votes in the impression flow.

But it's cheaper for James, he still leads the way.

But the advantage is very weak.

The next two games will be the "touchstones" of the Lakers' season. They will play back-to-back against the San Antonio Spurs tonight.This is another fantastic schedule!Two games against the Thunder, and then two games against the Spurs, I really don't know what the league thought at the beginning.

But there is nothing to complain about, because Yuan Shikong, the Lakers in the 13-14 season, also had this kind of thing.

Coincidentally, it was also a double battle with the Thunder and then a double battle with the Spurs. This is just driving people to death.

But under the leadership of Kobe Bryant, no one is ready to give up.

This season, every game has been played seriously, which can be regarded as the goal and promise Kobe set for himself before the start of the season.He is a paranoid man who will use all his energy and willpower to complete him.

This point gave Tang Qian a great infection.

Because now the league has begun to "rotate" the atmosphere, and it was Popovich who first turned it into a "routine".But the teams used in the league are rare.But with the retirement of the season, by the 13-14 season, the injury-free rotation has reached 42 times a season.And before that? 12-13 only 8 times, of which the Spurs accounted for more than half. 11 times in the 12-0 season and 10 times in the 11-20 season.Do you think this is the limit?No, in fact, starting from the 13-14 season, this "rotational rest" campaign has just started. Next season, the original time and space will have as many as 79 non-injury rotations. What about the 15-16 season?Doubled again, to 145 times. What about the 16-17 season?More than 310+ times! ! !
Therefore, the rotation became common, and the league finally couldn't bear it. At the end of the 16-17 season, Adam Silvall gave a speech, and he would punish this kind of unreasonable rotation.It is more and heavier than the 2012 Spurs avoiding the Heat, which caused the national live broadcast to be dull, and the angry fine of 25 US dollars.It's okay, if you only do it dozens of times a season, it's fine.In the 16-17 season, the whole season has reached as high as 310+, and it has increased dozens of times compared to before in just 5 years. The main reason is that the trend is still breaking out every year, and it is skyrocketing every year. The alliance is definitely a huge blow to word of mouth and reputation.

But this didn't exist for the old-school players in the past. Now everyone is following the example, and Popovich was pushed to the cusp of the storm all at once.But his old man is both a coach and a senior executive in the Spurs, so he is not afraid of fines at all.The future is still going its own way, and you have Zhang Liangji, I have a bridge ladder, and if there is no injury, I can't take a rotation, so I will engage in "injury rotation", right?There are policies above, but there are countermeasures below.

But you are by Kobe's side, and you are not by Kobe's side who was seriously injured at the end of the game like before. You don't have this opportunity.

Because this thing is top-down, if the main general does not do this, ordinary players dare to do it?Dare to neglect?

Leading by example in some fields, indeed has a strong appeal and personal charm, after all, one sentence can stop you.

Labor and capital are bosses who don’t take a break or make soy sauce. Why do you do this?Do you deserve it?

So, I thought it was an extremely difficult back-to-back matchup, but 2 hours before the game started that night, the Lakers players received this message:
The four main players of the Spurs, Duncan, Parker, Ginobili, and Kawhi Leonard, are all absent and will not play tonight! ! !

For a while, the Lakers players were both surprised and happy.

Don't look at the No. 13 Lakers fighting hard with the Thunder, but the No. 13 Spurs also fought fiercely with the Pacers, the top Pacers in the East, until overtime.The aging of the Spurs' lineup is much more serious than that of the Lakers, so taking turns after a fierce battle has become a common method for head coach Popovich.

Without these four people, even if the Spurs have integrity and team combat effectiveness, it is impossible to beat the Los Angeles Lakers this season.Even under the leadership of Popovich, the Spurs did play well and were full of resilience, and they couldn't change the final outcome.

The Lakers scored 30 points in the first quarter, and the Spurs got off to a bad start, scoring only 19 points.But in the second quarter, the Spurs suddenly showed a sense of unity. That kind of perfect ball movement and experienced teamwork is really enough to make most teams in the league feel ashamed.Especially 3-pointers, 9 hits in a single quarter, with a hit rate of over 80%, which made the Lakers unable to react at once.At halftime, 55-54, the Lakers only led the Spurs by 1 point.

This is not uncommon. When Popovich used a full bench lineup to face the pinnacle of Miami, people thought it was a massacre, but the final plot trend was that the Spurs and the Heat were inseparable.If it wasn't for the unfavorable handling of the key ball at the end, perhaps the counterattack would have been successful.It can be seen from this that what kind of terrorist and destructive power does a super stable core team have.

In terms of training and running the entire team, Popovich is the strongest godfather in the league.

Jerry West is no match for him.

Coaching and management selects players and grasps them at once, coupled with a stable core and team culture, this is the key to the Spurs' 20-year history.Nearly 20 years, 20 seasons are almost 50+ wins, what is this concept?It means that the Spurs have never completely declined in the Western Conference. Before the playoffs start, they will occupy a spot in advance.

And in this game, Popovich, an old fox, is actually training troops by the way, experimenting with different new collocations and tactics in actual combat.This attitude is really depressing and infuriating!
But the fire is back to the fire, and the game cannot be taken lightly at all. In the third quarter, the Lakers fell behind their opponents by 4 points.Fortunately, Gasol made consecutive hits inside and Tang Qian grabbed 2 offensive rebounds in a row, which stabilized the situation and did not let the Spurs boost the overall morale all at once.

In the last quarter, Kobe naturally started to perform, but he almost didn't "catch" this game.

It seems that consecutive back-to-back away games are a huge burden for No. 24, who has consumed most of the season. The direct impact and effect of this is that the key ability has declined and the hit rate has declined.But still relying on a three-pointer and 2 free throws at the last minute, it helped the Lakers establish the final victory.

In this game, Kobe still scored more than 40 points, a total of 41 points, but his shooting percentage was only 43%, which is far from his season shooting percentage this season.

In the end, he made 6 of 1 shots on the key ball, which is also a small signal.

The Lakers won by just 95 points, 92-3, and increased their winning streak to 19 games.

However, in this game, no one felt too happy to win, because this Spurs team has all the substitutes, and it can even be called the second Spurs team.Both the Lakers and the Spurs' second team are playing like this. What if those four people are all there?
So at the post-match press conference, Popovich didn't look like a loser at all. Instead, he took his time and answered reporters' questions bit by bit.The main focus is actually discussing the Spurs' new tactical running position and new lineup matching experiment tonight:
I think the Lakers are a very good team, but the performance of our players tonight is also remarkable.Patrick Mills is very accurate on three-pointers tonight, and he also does a good job of cutting around the post; Danny's defense is as tough as ever. I think he proved himself tonight, not only can shoot three-pointers, but also other Unique skill; Thiago's support is also much better than before. I think he can make a new cover tactic with Tim, but what it is, I won't explain it now...

And so on.

This old man doesn't take record and winning streak as the same thing at all.

Well, it's also the reason why the Spurs' record has always been very stable, so he has the capital to give him such experiments and squandering.

On the Lakers side, the joy was very low. Kobe and others answered the question in a few words and ended the topic. If D'Antoni was still "active", I really don't know whether the Lakers or the Spurs won tonight.

It was as if a fist had hit the cotton ball.

It's frustrating.

But Popovich didn't go too far. When asked about the next game between the Spurs and the Lakers on March 3, Popovich said:
Of course, next time we will do our best to win at the Staples Center.

Slick answer, but very in line with Popovich's personality.

The Spurs are like this. Many people like it, and many people don't feel it. They feel that the team's way of playing is a bit too unconventional and lacks the passion of American basketball.

But in competitive sports, in the end it is the results that speak. Popovich has brought countless honors to the Spurs, reached the top 5 times, and has seemingly enduring vitality.This is enough to make people who don't like it so dark that it doesn't have much strength.

What's more, this season, the team attributes of the Spurs will reach a historical peak!
This is also a team known as one of the strongest teams in history.

In the 13-14 season, the Spurs did not have a player who averaged more than 17 points per game in the regular season, no insider who averaged more than 10 rebounds per game, and no backcourt with more than 6 assists per game.The strongest rim protector is the old Duncan who averaged less than 2+ blocks per game.Well, it is such a team, but the Miami Big Three who played ambitiously in the finals almost got their heads shaved! ! !

The net victory over the opponent is as much as 14 points! ! !
Such a commoner data attribute, but under the super high team tacit understanding and chemical reaction, a historical level of qualitative change has taken place.

One of the ultimate in true team basketball.

13-14, San Antonio Spurs.

PS: I will strive for more updates tomorrow~~~
Thanks to the leader of the Demon King 1982 and the Pope's oath for the great reward~Thank you~~~
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