NBA Old Age Star System

Chapter 259
After the Lakers rested a lot of the main players, the starting lineup can only be sent, Hart, Clarkson, Pope, Kuzma, Nance.

The starting lineup for the Warriors is Cook, Nick Young, Durant, Kevin Looney, and Pachulia.

But compared to the Lakers, the Warriors still have Livingston and Iguodala sitting on the bench.

On the Lakers side, only Caruso, Zubac, Derek Williams, James Young and so on are left on the bench.

In the first quarter, the starting lineups of the two sides fought each other. Durant didn't make a special effort, and the Lakers could barely cope.

At the end of the first quarter, the score came to 23-26, and the Lakers were only 3 points behind for the time being.

In the second quarter, the two sides began to replace the substitute players for personnel rotation.

As a result, with this change, the strength and background gap between the two teams came out. In the second quarter, the team was led by Livingston and Iguodala, and there was still a clear gap between the team and the Lakers.

At the end of the second quarter, the score came to 50-60, and the Warriors directly opened up the double-digit point difference.

During the intermission, Walton could already see that the Lakers had little hope of winning this game, unless someone suddenly broke out.

In the third quarter, the starting lineup played again, and Durant began to exert his strength. Facing a crippled lineup like the Lakers, Durant only exerted his strength for half a quarter and directly stabilized the point difference at double digits, keeping it at around 15 points. .

At the end of the first three quarters, the point difference has reached 17 points. It is basically impossible for the Lakers to come back, so Walton also let go, and directly started large-scale training, experimenting with a lineup that they usually dare not take.

In the second half of the fourth quarter, the Warriors also won all the main players, and also started a large-scale training state. In the end, the Warriors easily won 117-106.

Durant easily scored 26 points, 6 assists and 5 rebounds. The two sides played very harmoniously, and there was no smell of gunpowder throughout the process.

In fact, the game between the Warriors and the Lakers would have sparks hit the earth, but because of the same rotation on both sides, the rotation crashed, so that the Warriors easily won a victory.

After the game, the Lakers' record came to 53 wins and 15 losses, while the corresponding Warriors' record came to 52 wins and 16 losses. At the same time, the Rockets' record was 53 wins and 14 losses.

The three teams in the West are entangled with each other. The Rockets temporarily surpassed the Lakers to come first in the West, the Lakers went to second in the West, and the Warriors ranked third in the West.

The next task for the Lakers is very important, and they must remain vigilant at all times, and strive to win the No. [-] in the Western Conference again before the end of the season, so as to complete their plan to go further in the playoffs.

On March 3, the Lakers returned to Staples. At the same time, the Rockets also opened the game against the Clippers at home.

In the first half, the Clippers were barely able to play back and forth with the Rockets, and they didn't fall behind too much, but the Rockets' three-pointers exploded at the beginning of the second half, and the Clippers were directly beaten by the Rockets before they had time to react. up.

In the end, the Rockets easily defeated the Clippers 111-96. The Rockets have a record of 54 wins and 14 losses, further consolidating their No. [-] position in the Western Conference.

Seeing the Rockets win, Su Tian secretly sweated, and then looked at the Lakers' schedule.

On March 3, the Heat came to Staples to play against the Lakers.

Last time at the Heat's home court, the Lakers were able to win the Heat steadily. This time at the Lakers' home court, Su Tian naturally would not let the victory of this game slip away from his hands.

In the end, the Lakers easily won the game 112-92, raising their record to 54-15, reaching the same number of wins as the Rockets, but losing one more game than the Rockets.

If the Lakers want to return to No. [-] in the Western Conference, they must not only guarantee their own victory, but also expect the Rockets to lose a game.

After the game against the Heat, the Rockets played against the Pelicans the next day. The Rockets won 107-101 and also maintained their victory.

On March 3, the Rockets won back-to-back against the Timberwolves 18-129.

On March 3, the Lakers went to Indiana to play against the Pacers. Although the Pacers did not have Paul George, Oladipo still has some strength, but facing Su Tian who is fully fired, the Pacers still cannot escape the fate of failure .

In the end, the Lakers won 110-100. Su Tian completed the 30+10 task as usual. Kuzma also scored 27 points, 8 rebounds and 1 assist, becoming the best performing player of the Lakers besides Su Tian.

After the game against the Pacers, the Lakers went to New Orleans to play against the Pelicans non-stop.

The Pelicans' inside line is an advantage, but the Lakers' inside line is relatively weak. Su Tian can only help the team a lot on the offensive end. After all, no matter how strong Su Tian is, he cannot switch to Anthony Davis.

In the first quarter, Su Tian was fully fired, and Davis on the Pelicans also finished the entire quarter. At the end of the first quarter, the score came to 44-40, and the Lakers temporarily led by 4 points.

Both sides are full of offense, but the defense is not very good.

In the second quarter, the two sides began to rotate personnel and replace players from the bench.

The Lakers on the bench still have some advantages, but the Pelicans have brought in Rajon Rondo this season, which has raised the team's overall performance by more than one level.

Halfway through the second quarter, Su Tian came on the field. At this time, the two sides still did not widen the gap, and the basic scores were rising alternately.

After Su Tian came up, he played a few pick-and-rolls with the ball, and then used his offensive threat to attract the Pelicans' defense and began to assist his teammates.

At the end of the first half, the score came to 74-71, and the Lakers temporarily led by 3 points.

In the third quarter, Su Tian continued to play hard, but the Pelicans suddenly misfired for a few minutes. Su Tian seized the opportunity and took the opportunity to open the score.

Su Tian led the Lakers to a 5-point gap in just 10 minutes.

At the end of the third quarter, the point difference had reached 13 points.

With a 13-point lead, Wharton doesn't have to worry about it in the fourth quarter. Su Tian can solve the problem by himself, and the others just need to do their defensive tasks well.

In the end, after a whole game of fighting, the Lakers defeated the Pelicans 128-116, and Su Tian completed the basic task of 30+10.

On the Pelicans side, Nongmei Kong scored 33 points, 9 rebounds, 1 assist and 3 blocks.

After the game against the Pelicans, Su Tian didn't leave the field in a hurry, but ran to hug Davis and patted his shoulder.

Su Tian thought to himself, if James was able to get thick eyebrows back then, it meant that thick eyebrows still wanted to come, so he could try it himself, in case it would happen, anyway, it would not hurt to take the initiative to make friends with an all-star insider.

On March 3, the Lakers continued to travel to Memphis to play against the Grizzlies.

The game between the Lakers and the Grizzlies set the tone from the very beginning. Su Tian played uncharacteristically with the ball at the beginning of the game. In the first quarter, the Lakers scored 40 points in a single quarter, 30 of which were related to Su Tian.

Therefore, under Su Tian's fierce pursuit, the Lakers led by 10 points in the first quarter, setting a relaxed tone for the next three quarters.

The Grizzlies are responsible for defending Su Tian by Dillon Brooks. Although Dillon is good at defense, he is obviously not Su Tian's opponent, and Su Tian has been singled out several times in a row.

In the second quarter, substitute players from both sides came on the court, and the overall morale of the Grizzlies was visible to the naked eye. Both the starters and the substitutes only cared about their own statistics, and they had no expectations for the team's victory at all.

At the end of the first half, the point difference was stable at around 15. Su Tian could feel that the Grizzlies players no longer wanted to play, especially the only All-Star player on the Grizzlies field at this time, Marc Gasol.

The atmosphere throughout the second half was also very relaxed, the Lakers played freely, and the Grizzlies also had data.

In the end, the Lakers easily defeated the Grizzlies 110-93 and continued to win.

While the Lakers won, the Rockets also won, or since March 3, the Rockets have not lost.

On the 26th, the Lakers came to Detroit to play against the Pistons.

Playing against the Pistons is dangerous, not because the team is dangerous, but the city is dangerous.

Therefore, as soon as I came to the hotel Wharton, I emphasized that I can't go out at will, and must be accompanied by the staff, otherwise, if something uncontrollable happens, it will be a disaster.

On January 1th, the Pistons and the Clippers made a deal. The Detroit Pistons sent Tobias Harris, Avery Bradley and Boban Marjanovic and a 30 first-timer. Round and a 2018 second-round pick from the Clippers for Blake Griffin, Bryce Johnson and Willie Reed.

Griffin switched to No. 23 with the Pistons.

而格里芬在刚来到活塞的时候表现的还不错，首秀就拿到24分10篮板5助攻，成为活塞队史继1994年11月的格兰特·希尔之后首位在首次代表活塞出战的比赛中至少得到20分10篮板5助攻的球员。

And just in the first two days of the game, Griffin also contributed a good performance.

3月21日，活塞客场以115-88战胜太阳。格里芬本场比赛出场32分钟，得到26分9篮板10助攻的两双数据。加上这场比赛，格里芬职业生涯共取得了240次两双。

3月23日，活塞客场以96-100不敌火箭，格里芬出战42分钟，22投9中得到21分10篮板10助攻2抢断。这是本赛季格里芬第3次得到三双数据，同时这是格里芬生涯第8次三双。

Griffin's performance made the Pistons very satisfied, and the Pistons' inside combination is also extremely lethal. Of course, the premise is that Griffin can always maintain such an output.

On the contrary, the Lakers have more problems inside, Randall is short, Lopez is slow, and Nance is weak.

After the upgrade, the Pistons saw the Lakers again, and they were also eyeing the Lakers. The head coach of the Pistons, Stan Van Gundy, also wanted to make a fuss about the "soft persimmon" of the Lakers.

Stan Van Gundy has always felt that the Lakers are a soft persimmon, weak inside, no defense, maybe they can rule the roost in the regular season, but they will definitely fail in the playoffs.

Faced with this "soft persimmon" in his own eyes, Stan Van Gundy decided to let the world take a good look at his coaching ability.

Griffin also wants to perform in this game. In any case, Griffin was once one of the owners of Staples, and now he was kicked out by the Clippers. Not reconciled.

Soon, the game started. On the Lakers side, Ingram was still injured and did not come back. The starting lineup was still Ball, Su Tian, ​​Kuzma, Randall, Lopez.

For the Pistons, the starting lineup is Reggie Jackson, Reggie Baroque, Stanley Johnson, Griffin, Andre Drummond.

The opening ball was snatched by the Pistons. Reggie Jackson advanced to the frontcourt with the ball. After encountering Ball's defense, he passed the ball to Griffin who came forward to respond.

Griffin actually has a certain organizational talent, but because he has been playing next to Chris Paul before, he has no chance to play the so-called point forward. As for how much of Griffin's organizational ability is left Got it.

After Griffin got the ball, he turned around and started hitting Randall with his back. Randall was not too thin, but he still felt a little smaller against Griffin.

After Griffin hit the basket with the ball on his back, he turned hard and turned around for a layup.

Swah——

The basketball successfully entered the net, and the Pistons took the lead.

In fact, according to the team's tactics, the first ball is usually to run the team's tactics, and there are very few singles with the ball directly. It's just that Griffin was a little excited today and wanted to show himself. Van Gundy didn't say much. What.

The possession of the ball was changed, and it was the Lakers' turn to attack. Ball held the ball and advanced to the frontcourt. He stood at the top of the arc with the ball and began to direct everyone to move.

Su Tian also actively participated in the team's tactical running. After two consecutive pick-and-roll cooperation, Su Tian successfully ran an open opportunity, and Ball quickly passed the ball to it.

Su Tian catches the ball and shoots directly.

Swah——

Su Tian made a direct three-pointer.

3-2
The ball was given to the Pistons again, and Griffin still held the ball. This time the Pistons started running tactics, and Griffin hit the ground and passed to Reggie Jackson who was cutting.

Jackson got the ball and was about to make a layup, but Su Tian let go of Baroque to help defend.

Under the interference of Su Tian's defense, Reggie Jackson made a layup.

Su Tian turned around and directly received the rebound, turned around and started a fast break, took the lead and ran to the front with the ball, and Baroque followed closely behind, but did not give any effective interference.

Su Tian came to the basket in the frontcourt, blocked the route that Baroque stepped forward to interfere, and made a layup directly.

5-2
The Pistons were counterattacked by the Lakers, so they had to organize an offense again. This time, the Pistons cooperated with each other and finally scored a goal.

The ball returned to the Lakers, and Ball advanced to the frontcourt with the ball and passed the ball directly to Su Tian.

Su Tian got the ball and started the pick-and-roll directly. With the help of the pick-and-roll, he broke through and went straight to the basket. With a lever, he avoided Drummond's help defense and scored a layup.

7-4
In the next few rounds, although the Pistons were able to score goals, the efficiency was too low, and it was not as simple and effective as the Lakers.

At the end of the first quarter, the score came to 30-24, with the Lakers leading by 6 points.

Although Su Tian was on the field all the way in the first quarter, he didn't use much strength, and his physical strength was well preserved. Su Tian mainly relied on the team as a whole to overwhelm the Pistons.

In the second quarter, the two sides began to rotate the lineup. The Pistons didn't have any reliable players on the bench. The only player Su Tian could name was this year's rookie Kennard.

(End of this chapter)