Healthy basketball, starting from eating the old Lakers F4

Chapter 86 The five giants combine to solve Payton (first update, please subscribe)
Victory belongs to Los Angeles!
This year's Los Angeles All-Star Weekend, the Los Angeles Lakers players undoubtedly became the biggest winners.

Dunn's Rookie Challenge MVP and slam dunk champion, O'Neal's All-Star MVP.

And Kobe, with the help of the All-Star Game, also changed some fans' stereotypes of him.

Although he doesn't pass the ball to other teammates, he still passes the ball to O'Neal.

To put it bluntly, only when the strength is recognized by Kobe can he be eligible to receive Kobe's ball.

Of course, for O'Neal, at the critical moment when Yao Ming's 30+7 is very likely to snatch the All-Star MVP, Kobe suddenly extended a helping hand, which also allowed O'Neal to let go of some old grudges with Kobe.

In life, it may not be possible to continue to associate with Kobe. After all, Shaq also did it and the impact is not small.But on the team, Kobe was still his omnipotent little brother.

"He wants more honors, so go get them!"

Looking at his right-hand man - Kobe and Dunn - O'Neal, who felt that this year's championship has been secured, already had the idea of ​​lying down in his heart.

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Time has come to February 2 in the blink of an eye, the All-Star Weekend has ended, and the schedule for the second half of the regular season has restarted.

Tonight, the Lakers will play at home against the Trail Blazers whose master Rasheed Wallace has been traded away. This is undoubtedly another game that can easily win.

However, for such a game that can predict the victory, the ticket price is more expensive than the previous Western Conference.

This is because, after the All-Star Weekend, the Lakers organized a media conference, saying that Malone has passed the physical examination and will return in the next game.

This means that the Lakers F4, oh no, the Big Five, will play together for the first time in the next game.

Lakers fans have been looking forward to this for a long time, and naturally want to see it soon.

However, after the game actually started, Malone was only a fake starter for the sake of prudence.

全场出战16分钟，6投3中，只拿下了6分3篮板1助攻的数据。

On the one hand, Malone has rested for so long, and he still needs a few games to find his feeling.

On the other hand, the starting lineup of the Big Five makes the lack of possession of the ball more prominent.

Against the leaderless Trail Blazers, the Lakers actually had to play four quarters and only won by 11 points.

Ji Sun's worries are not in Zhuan Yu, but within Xiao Qiang!
The next problem that Zen Master needs to solve urgently is O'Neal's return from injury, and the distribution of ball rights in the Lakers after Duane's rise.

The OK combination plus Duen all have the ability to digest 20+ shots.

It is impossible for Payton and Malone to really be used as role players, and the number of shots is reduced to less than ten.

The problem is that the Lakers only average about 80 shots per game this season.

At least 10 of these shots are required by the triangle tactic and must be reserved for role players.

Also considering that O'Neal's return has made the Lakers unable to play fast breaks at all.

This means that the distribution of ball rights has become an issue that cannot be ignored.

The Lakers need to re-run in order to maintain ample and unrivaled combat effectiveness in the playoffs.

Because the schedule in the second half of the regular season is tighter, the Lakers don't have time to use normal training time to run the lineup, so they can only practice through games.

After beating the Trail Blazers, the Lakers set off overnight and drove to San Francisco.

On February 2, the Lakers played away against the Warriors.

The Warriors have 23 wins and 28 losses so far this season. There are a total of 14 teams in the West, but they rank 10th in the West.

Judging by the current record, the Warriors have basically declared that they will miss the playoffs, and they can prepare for the 04-05 season in advance.

Therefore, the Lakers didn't pay much attention to this game.

Jackson arranged before the game to intentionally reduce the playing time of two injured old guys, O'Neal and Malone, in order to ease the ball rights conflict within the Lakers.

When O'Neal heard this, he immediately said: "It's a deal, double happiness!"

Malone also knows the current situation in the Lakers team. Not long ago, he was injured again, and he clearly felt that his physical fitness had declined. Therefore, he felt that he could sacrifice the ball and playing time for the championship, so he had no opinion.

However, under such circumstances, the Lakers faced the Warriors with Eric Dampier and Clifford Robinson, and the inside line was exploded.

Dampier is a lottery pick of the 96 golden generation. There is no problem with his talent, but his skills are a little rough.

This year happened to be a contract year again, and Dampier's data finally exploded, hitting 12+12 and averaging a double-double per game.

Dampier has always felt that he is second only to O'Neal's center in the West.

Therefore, this time against the No. [-] team in the Western Conference like the Lakers, once O'Neal was off the court, he suddenly became excited.

No one thought that Dampier was so experienced in fighting for the second child and traveling on the wrong peak.

全场打完，丹皮尔打出了18投10中，罚球7投4中，24分15篮板3助攻2盖帽的两双数据。

Clifford Robinson's statistics in this game are not as explosive as Dampier's, but it is still relatively easy to play a white power forward like Stanislav Medvedenko who mainly shoots.

14投8中，三分3投1中，罚球5投3中，砍下20分5篮板。

The Warriors relied on Dampier and Clifford Robinson to score 44 points together, once pushing the Lakers to the cliff.

Fortunately, Zen Master was not really sitting on the sidelines. When he was behind by 6 points in the fourth quarter, he called a timeout and sent both O'Neal and Malone to the court.

At the same time, he ordered Kobe's defensive end to strangle Crazy Van - Nick Van Exel!

Let Dunn guard against his opponent in the dunk contest - Jason Richardson.

Relying on the strength of the starting five, the Lakers finally had a close call with Kobe Bryant hitting a three-pointer. Then O'Neal made 4 of 2 shots and hit a free throw to win, 100 to 98, with a 2-point advantage. Win the hard way.

After this battle, Zen Master also realized that the Lakers still need Malone and O'Neal to do the dirty work in the paint.

And if you want them to be diligent and hardworking, then their part of the ball must be guaranteed first.

Therefore, the rest can only start from the outside, cut some ball possessions, and meet the needs of O'Neal, Malone, and role players.

Because he didn't want to deal with Kobe, and felt that Payton conflicted with his tactical concepts, and felt that Payton was unreasonable, the Zen master could only take the initiative to talk to Du En.

After being invited to drink tea by the Zen master, Du En didn't have much emotion after the chat.

Dunn said: "No problem, I am a team player and can make sacrifices for the team."

In fact, Dunn knew in his heart that in the starting lineup, his reduction in shooting rights would at most affect the scoring data.

As the axis of the triangle offense, in order to ensure the scoring efficiency of O'Neal and Malone, Dunn still has the ball to feed O'Neal and Malone.

When it comes to the bench lineup, is it expected that Fisher will score?Or Devin George to score?

In the end, don't you still have to rely on him to lead the bench and stabilize the score?

To put it bluntly, Duane was the least affected by the triangle offensive tactics around O'Neal and Malone.

The real losers are Kobe and Payton. Once Payton has no data, he may not be willing to play the triangle offense. Then the Zen Master will still have to solve Payton's point.

After Dunn got the Pippen template, he quickly passed the rookie period, and he no longer needed Payton to come to the bench to share the pressure of holding the ball.

At that time, it's nothing to do with yourself and it's over.

Having said that, after playing the Warriors, the Lakers and his team returned to Los Angeles soon.

On February 2, the Lakers faced the 20ers at home.

The starting five tigers have a clear distribution of ball rights, and they scored 84 points in three quarters, easily completing the task of clocking out of get off work in three quarters.

In fact, because of the three quarter clocks, Payton, Duane, and Malone all had similar shot rights, 8, 10, and 9 times respectively.

But because of the difference in scoring efficiency, Payton only scored 9 points, while Duane and Malone scored 16 and 15 points respectively, so there seems to be a gap.

However, the consecutive victories have overwhelmed the contradictions of individual players' possession of the ball.

The atmosphere in the Lakers locker room was very good under the auspices of O'Neal singing and dancing and constantly providing big meals.

Driven by a good atmosphere in the locker room, the Lakers continued to triumph, defeating opponents such as the Suns and the Nuggets one after another.

It wasn't until February 2 that the Lakers played against the second-ranked Kings in the Western Conference at home, and then they once again experienced the taste of failure.

The previous consecutive victories have reduced the ball rights sharply, and Payton, who averaged only 10 points per game, felt resentful.

Taking advantage of the fast break where the Kings had a lot of defensive counterattacks, Payton started the fast break for his own selfish reasons.

O'Neal complained endlessly about this, and the Lakers also disrupted the rhythm of the game because of their sudden increase in speed, just as the King's touch exploded again.

The Zen master took the opportunity to attack Peyton and questioned Peyton.

Payton also put on the posture of an old ball ruffian in the past, expressing all kinds of dissatisfaction, and even swearing at Zen Master.

O'Neill saw that the conflict was getting worse, so he immediately stood up and acted as an intermediary between Zen Master and Payton, persuading both parties to calm down.

However, overtly and secretly, I still hope that Payton will apologize to the Zen master, play according to the triangle offense, and stop making his own claims.

After two days, Payton gave in.

However, Zen Master still chose to cut the mess quickly, change Payton's positioning, reduce Payton's playing time, and make Payton a false starter.

Payton's playing time was cut in half, and the ball rights dropped from 11 times per game to 6 or 7 times.

The extra ball rights are basically evenly distributed by Duane and Fisher.

The Lakers solved Payton's uneasy hidden danger. Payton dared to be angry but dared not speak out, fearing that Jackson would ignore his face and exclude him from the playoff roster, which would affect his ability to receive a championship ring.

In the end, I could only discuss with the team and come up with a plan, saying that I had a groin strain and took the initiative to recuperate.

The Zen master also felt that what is out of sight is not clear, and he nodded to allow Peyton to leave the team temporarily.

In this way, at the end of February, the Lakers had a three-game streak in the Eastern Conference. Relying on the outstanding performances of Kobe, Dunn, Malone, and O'Neal, they defeated the Wizards, Nets, and Eagles one after another, and ate the dividends in the Eastern Conference.

Until March 3, the last stop of four consecutive away games, the Lakers visited the Toyota Center and won the back-to-back away games thanks to the stronger Lakers starting lineup.

After half a month of running-in, the Lakers have truly evolved into a complete entity and begun to officially launch a charge towards the championship.

(End of this chapter)