Healthy basketball, starting from eating the old Lakers F4

Chapter 73 Physical bottleneck, No. [-] striker in the West
After defeating the Kings and returning to No. [-] in the Western Conference, the Lakers returned to Los Angeles overnight.

The next night, the Lakers host the Clippers back-to-back.

89 to 91, also because of the days of hard work and back-to-back schedules, the Lakers played against the Clippers, a Western underdog, and they played inextricably, until the last minute to decide the winner.

Fortunately, they still won. After all, the Lakers used this battle to stabilize their No. [-] throne in the Western Conference.

Immediately afterwards, on January 1, the Sun once again visited the Staples Center.

Because the sun's inner line is relatively weak and Stoudemire is relatively fragile, he was injured not long ago.

Facing the Lakers who now have O'Neal in charge, naturally they can't get any cheap.

88 to 102, the Lakers won again with a huge advantage of 14 points.

However, in this game, Duane seemed to have reached a bottleneck in physical strength and hit the so-called rookie wall.

He made 21 of 8 shots, 5 of 1 three-pointers, and 6 of 3 free throws. He had no touch and was in poor condition.

Fortunately, relying on simple balls and scoring off the bench, he still scored 20 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists in the end.

All in all, with the help of O'Neal to attract defense inside, even if Duane is not in shape, the situation shown by the statistics is not too bad.

Of course, Du En himself clearly noticed that something was wrong with his own situation.

Even though I have physical therapy and maintenance after each game, and usually eat nutritional supplements such as wolfberry, abalone, and sea cucumber, it seems that I still can't keep up with the consumption of my body.

"It seems that I should also play smarter on the court!"

After obtaining the Pippen template, Duane's physical fitness has also been strengthened, and because of his improved defensive strength, Duane wants to create an offensive and defensive personality for himself, and become an NBA superstar in advance.

However, it is not easy to truly integrate offense and defense.

As strong as McGrady, he will also be unable to provide stable scoring for the team in the fourth quarter due to lack of physical strength, and will be forced to give up defense and concentrate his physical strength on the offensive end.

Garnett and Pippen are both offensive and defensive, but the offense is not as hard as the defense.

It can only be said that what you give is what you get.Like Jordan and Kobe, who have unlimited physical fitness and are full of offense and defense, there are still too few in the NBA.

Leonard also plays offense and defense, but he still suffers from physical effects and often takes turns during the regular season.

After James won two championships with the Heat, he also began to save energy and reduce emissions.

Dunn's physical fitness level is not enough now, so he can only do the offensive task first and manage his data well.

After all, the value of the defensive end is difficult to reflect with data.

Dunn has a lot of game experience in his mind and knows how to combine work and rest on the court.

I didn't do that before, it's just that Du En hasn't encountered the physical bottleneck like now.

In fact, many players, including stars, will encounter this kind of exhaustion approaching the All-Star weekend.

The more obvious one is the representative of health-care basketball——Andrew Wiggins. Zui Ge is in good condition at the beginning and end of the season every year, and the month before the All-Star Weekend is relatively slow.

Of course, other people's performance is very hip, usually the scoring average dropped by four or five points per game, and the shooting percentage dropped by four or five points.

Wiggins has dropped by one or two points, and his shooting percentage has dropped by two to three points. The daily scoring data is still within the fluctuation range of Wiggins' constant.

It can only be said that Wiggins deserves to be the No. [-] pick in the draft year. He is better than most NBA players just by playing casually with talent.

It is said that in a few years, Dunn will be filled with templates of various players, and he will be similar to Wiggins.

Talent alone can crush the vast majority of NBA players. Even without relying on the team system, without playing smart or simple balls, you can easily score [-] or [-] points on opponents.

But right now, Duane still has to play smart.

I haven't finished my leveling yet, and with O'Neal and Kobe around me, I can just leave the difficult balls to them and that's it!A simple ball score is also a score, why should you mind this or that?

On January 1, the Lakers restarted their road trip, which also included a back-to-back away game. This is undoubtedly another huge test for Dunn's physical fitness.

Fortunately, the Lakers defeated the Grizzlies in Memphis in their first game.

The Grizzlies are also in the playoffs this season, but they are still far behind the Lakers.

O'Neal is not something that Gasol and Lorenzen White can compete with. Duan clearly knows this and reduces some independent attacks and passes the ball to O'Neal more.

However, because the pace of the game under his command is relatively slow, the score of the two teams after the game was only 88 to 82.

Duane only scored a double-double of 16 points, 5 rebounds and 11 assists when he reduced his shot rights and did not adjust his own state.

After winning against the Grizzlies, the Lakers left overnight for Dallas.

The back-to-back schedule is the most difficult, even as strong as O'Neill is also affected by his physical fitness.

Like the last back-to-back away game in Denver, O'Neal couldn't run after the first half.

The reason why I was physically weak when playing against the Nuggets was because of the weather, but when I was playing against the Mavericks it was because the Mavericks were so good at running.

As the Mavericks troika continues to gallop around the court, even stronger than O'Neal, Gyarados will also degenerate into Magikarp, lose any temper, and directly transform into salted fish and lie down!

In the second half, O'Neal only played half a quarter. Zen Master saw that the difference between two and a half quarters was approaching 20 points. O'Neal's difficulties were really insurmountable, so he chose to hand over the gun in three quarters and gave up the game early.

As for Duen, he only played three quarters of the game.But thanks to facing the Mavericks this time, Duan scored more points than before by relying on transition offense.

With 26 points, 5 rebounds and 8 assists, he is the leading scorer in the Lakers team.It is not an exaggeration to say that the Lakers lost, but Duane did not lose.

After losing to the Mavericks, the Lakers and their team rested in Dallas for a day, and did not go to Salt Lake City overnight until the night of the 23rd.

The Jazz's record this season is not bad. Even though Malone and Stockton, the Utah duo, have left Salt Lake City one after another, the Jazz, under the leadership of coach Sloan, still have a record of 21 wins and 21 losses in the Western Conference.

However, a 50% winning rate cannot advance to the playoffs in the West.

Unfortunately recently, Jazz leader Kirilenko has also suffered from injuries.

Some people may ask, if Kirilenko becomes the boss, does he have this ability?
The problem is, under Sloan's leadership, if Kirilenko is not injured, the Jazz really have a chance to make the playoffs in the West.

It's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice, and there is really no one who can use the knight.

Even though the Lakers are already a tired force after a long battle, they are still not something the Jazz can defeat.

The Lakers defeated the Jazz on the road with a score of 54 to 89, relying on O'Neal and Dunn to score 83 points.

After defeating the Jazz, the Lakers and their team did not stay in the icy Salt Lake City, but returned directly to Los Angeles.

Because there will be no games for the next three days, most of the Lakers players can find time to take a good rest.

But Duane can't, Duane still has to shoot the warm-up commercial of Duane's first generation with Nike.

The results of the third round of All-Star voting have been released, and the Los Angeles All-Star Weekend will also be held in the middle of next month.

Now Duane has accumulated as many as 127.5 million votes, surpassing Garnett with 127.3 million votes and Duncan with 121.9 million votes, ranking first in the Western Conference.

According to the disclosure from Nike executives to Duane, Nike will continue to help Duane collect more votes to ensure that Duane can steadily participate in this Los Angeles All-Star Game as the starting forward of the Western All-Stars.

There is one thing to say, the promotional video for Dunn's first generation has been filmed, and Nike has prepared hundreds of thousands of pairs of sneakers. Naturally, it is impossible to give up the best marketing opportunity of the All-Star Game.

Compared to spending millions of advertising dollars to promote Duane 1 and spending 10,000+ US dollars to acquire All-Star votes, this marketing expense is not worth mentioning...

(End of this chapter)