Healthy basketball, starting from eating the old Lakers F4

Chapter 66 Continuous losses, Chinese Derby

The team leader O'Neal is still recovering from his injuries, and Malone, who averaged nearly 20 points per game, suffered another injury. The hidden danger of the Lakers' lack of insiders immediately magnified, and the main force Payton had a conflict with head coach Zen Master.

When this happens, the Lakers will inevitably feel panic.

Even Du En had to worry secretly, not knowing how to resolve the conflict in the locker room next.

"Duen, what's wrong? Don't you welcome me?"

Anthony followed the Knicks to Los Angeles, and found that Duane, who was accompanying him, looked uninterested and absent-minded.

Dunn briefly introduced the recent situation of the Lakers to Anthony.

After hearing this, Anthony smiled and said: "Brother, you are not a star! You are a first-year rookie, why are you worrying?"

The authorities were confused by the bystanders, and Anthony's words directly awakened Dunn.

Du En suddenly realized: "That's right! I only have 100 million a year, so why bother?
Neither O'Neal nor Kobe were worried about the team's record. I was frowning all day long, wondering why?
I just want to be the boss of the Lakers, but I haven't yet.

Now I'm relieved, I'll get my stats done on my own, I'll be in the All-Stars and I'll be done! "

Unlike other NBA players who enjoy themselves in the moment, Duan usually thinks more about his own commercial value and team influence.

This makes it easy to lead yourself to the position of the star in advance. In fact, Du En overthinks everything.

As Anthony said, Duan is only a first-year rookie!

At this time, James is still carrying Ricky Davis’ bags and tying his shoes!
Even if Du En planned to seize power early, it would take another year or two before he would have a chance to take over.

Abandoning unnecessary distractions and returning to his identity as a first-year rookie, Duen no longer cared about the team's record.

That night, Anthony became the number one victim of Dunn who completely let go and scored points desperately.

"Brother, didn't you say you're good at hand-to-hand combat? Why have you been avoiding me?"

Anthony is very strange. Half a month ago, Dunn was head-to-head with him. Why did he keep calling the pick-and-roll to the basket today?

Originally, Anthony was still looking forward to tonight's game.

I feel a little uncomfortable now, probably just like nausea and vomiting.

"Melon, my teammates pass me the ball, hoping that I can score!

It must be admitted that your defense is better than others. In order to score more efficiently, I can only try to avoid you.

There is no way, Shaq and Karl can't play, the team can only rely on me and Kobe.

And I have to help the team win the game, that's what the team drafted us for, isn't it? "

Seeing Du En speak so frankly, Anthony didn't know what to do.

In short, I think what Du En said makes sense, but I also feel that something is not quite right, but Anthony doesn't know where the problem lies...

While Anthony was confused, Duan was getting more and more excited.

"Dunn is so smart. His understanding of the triangle offense far exceeded my expectations."

The Zen master originally admired Du En very much, but unexpectedly, Du En has improved again in recent times!

Duane's progress is not a rapid improvement in personal ability, but a very smart integration into the triangle offense, using the triangle offense to play his ability characteristics.

The triangle offense can magnify the star's ability, and Duane undoubtedly took advantage of this.

Duan integrated both off-ball and ball-holding into the triangle offensive system. Not only did he perform better himself, but he also cooperated better with his teammates.

In addition, Karl Malone just retired from injury, and the Lakers need someone to digest Karl Malone's part of the ball.

Kobe digested a part, and Duane also took over the rest, so Duane's data also skyrocketed a lot.

90 to 95, the Lakers defeated the Knicks with a 5 advantage.

杜恩全场24投13中，三分6投3中，罚球7投5中，砍下34分5篮板8助攻的全面数据。

而科比则是31投15中，三分4投1中，罚球9投8中，狂砍39分6篮板2助攻。

Although the Lakers won, the future prospects are still worrying.

It is impossible for Dunn and Kobe to have full firepower in every game and score 30+ points.

If the Lakers want to stabilize the situation, they still have to make up for their shortcomings inside.

Time soon came to December 12, and the hidden dangers of the Lakers' inside line were finally fully exposed.

The Dallas Mavericks, who had just been defeated by the Lakers not long ago, easily defeated the Lakers with an absolute advantage of 110 to 93.

Although Dunn and Kobe scored 29 and 41 points respectively in this game, they still failed to prevent the loss of the game.

Before the Los Angeles media analyzed the Lakers' internal and external troubles, they bad-mouthed the Lakers' next schedule.

The Lakers lost again in the next back-to-back game against the Trail Blazers.

The successive losses in the game and the completely detonated public opinion made the situation in the Lakers locker room even worse.

Kobe this season was unable to accept criticism from the outside world. When Kobe was criticized for the decline in the team's record, Kobe had to transfer his pressure to the team.

Kobe began to take the initiative to communicate with O'Neal, hoping that O'Neal can come back as soon as possible.

But O'Neill firmly stated that his injury has not healed, and it will take at least a month.

Because of the poor record, Malone really has nothing to do.

Moreover, there is no suitable veteran insider with a minimum salary on the market.

The Lakers management had to put pressure on O'Neal, and even mobilized the media to force O'Neal to come back early.

However, O'Neal had already received guidance from Dunn and knew that this was his best chance to renew his contract in advance and get the last big contract of his career.

Ever since, O'Neill is not afraid of boiling water, and resolutely does not change his words, saying that he will follow the comeback plan formulated in advance and wait until January to make a formal comeback.

In this situation, everyone can only compete for patience to see who can't hold on first.

The Lakers can only continue to play against the major Western teams with hidden dangers inside and conflicts in the locker room.

On December 12, the Lakers played against the Nuggets, the bottom team of last season.

97 to 102, thanks to the warmth provided by the Nuggets, the Lakers who were about to detonate the bomb breathed a sigh of relief.

But the good times didn't last long, and then the Lakers lost to the Suns and the Warriors one after another. The original number one in the league suddenly fell to third in the West.

Next, the Lakers will face the Houston Rockets with Yao Ming at the Staples Center.

It can only be said that the scene that followed was a bit cruel.

In the first Chinese derby, Doon was quite serious.

Before the game started, Du En had a private meeting with Yao Ming.

Yao Ming was also accompanied by members of the Yao team. They came together in the hope of persuading Du En to change his mind and return to prepare for the Athens Olympics after playing in the NBA summer.

Du En still used the previous set of rhetoric. He is immature now and needs to improve his strength. We can wait until 06 to talk about it.

Many people don't know that there are many prerequisites for recruitment to the national team, one of which is that they must be domestically registered players.

Duan has not played in the domestic league and is not a registered player in the country.

This means that as long as it is not for Duane to temporarily change the rules, there is no way to force Duane to play in the Athens Olympics.

The Wang Zhizhi incident that happened not long ago had to make the men's basketball team scruples about international public opinion.

Therefore, when Du En is here, whether to join the national team is not a call, but an invitation.

There is a saying that the 04 Athens Olympics was a good opportunity for Duen to achieve results.

But Duen is worried that everyone's expectations are too high, and the opponents in the 08 Olympics are so strong. Once the results decline, won't Duen have to take the blame?
Liu Xiang is undoubtedly the most representative of Chinese sports, but after being injured and unable to run, the public opinion can only be described as shocking.

It can only be said that for this generation of athletes, it is not necessary to participate in any Olympic Games, but they must do their best this time around.

The more famous you are, the more you fear cyberbullying. After thinking about it, Du En decided not to change his plan.

The members of Yao's team got Du En's reply, and they didn't continue to pester them. They just asked for the contact information, and seemed to want to persuade Du En again after a while.

Duen didn't take these things to heart, he immediately put them behind him, and then actively prepared for the next Chinese Derby.

(End of this chapter)