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Chapter 87 Kobe is absent, Duane leads the team!The end of the regular season (second update, please subscribe)
"Dunn, Kobe will be absent for the next week. You won't let Shaq down, right?"

The Lakers still have 22 games to play before the end of the regular season.

It just so happened that due to off-court factors, Kobe would be absent for another week.

O'Neal worried that the departure of Payton and Kobe would have an impact on the Lakers' record.

In particular, in the next week, the Lakers have a busy schedule, with five games to play, including two back-to-back away games, and a four-game streak in the East and West.

Such a devil's schedule is undoubtedly a kind of torture for O'Neill, who weighs more than 300 kilograms.

"Shaq, this kind of thing is not something you should worry about!

Didn't you say it earlier?I am the boss of the Los Angeles Lakers!

Don't worry, as the team leader, I will lead you to victory. "

Seeing Dunn's look of needing a beating, O'Neill subconsciously clenched his fists, but quickly let go, and squeezed Dunn's shoulders in a massage way.

"You're right! We're brothers, and Shaq will help you! Let's keep winning!"

O'Neal didn't care whether Duane led the team to win or not. After all, no matter how bad Duane performed next, Kobe would come back.

At that time, when all the Lakers are present, it will be very difficult to lose.

Now that Du En has uttered big words, he should just wait and see what happens and wait for the good news.

As Dunn told him in the summer, it doesn't matter who leads the Lakers and who can't help the Lakers win.

As long as the time comes, when he comes back, when he contributes, when he leads the team to win, then he can confidently say: "You guys need me so much!"

At this time, Dunn didn't care what O'Neill thought.

What Dunn cares about is that some time ago, due to the problem of ball possession, he was basically playing health-preserving basketball, usually with [-] or [-] points.

This season's scoring average has dropped to 23.3 points, which is about to fall out of the top ten scoring champions.

Although Dunn is willing to play team basketball and sacrifice some ball rights in order to win the championship, he is also ambitious!
Being selected to the best team in the rookie season is exactly what Dunn is going after!
Duane's regular season data this season is quite good. In addition to not accumulating enough impression points in front of the judges, Duane still has great hope to hit the best team in his rookie season.

Los Angeles is a big city, and Lakers players are easy to be selected for the best team.

Duane is backed by Nike. As long as Nike mobilizes energy to help Duane with public relations, Duane is not hopeless to win the third team or something.

Of course, it is better to ask for others than to ask for yourself.

This time, Dunn decided to make up for his personal data while Kobe was not on the team.

By the way, also examine the benefits of the Kidd template.

After half a month of digestion, Dunn has almost digested the templates of Eddie Jones, Brent Barry and Kidd.

What is lacking now is the actual combat experience of leading the team to participate in the game as a core player, and leading the team to win with high scores.

There is one thing to say, Duane is lucky, leading the team to the first game is the Western Conference underdog Supersonics.

However, due to the absence of Payton and Kobe, Duane cannot play as easily as before.

Someone on the wing attracts defense, and Duane can directly play one-on-one with the ball in a high position, and then rush to the basket to feed O'Neal.

Now that Kobe is missing, Dunn can only rely on his personal strength to solve defensive problems, and even face high-intensity double-team defense.

Closer to home, after the game started, O'Neal helped the Lakers jump to get the ball, and then Fisher dribbled the ball halfway, and immediately handed the ball to Duane.

Dunn noticed that the Sonics had set up a zone defense and seemed intent on double-teaming him.

So, he stopped at the top arc and dribbled the ball for a while, and at the same time gestured to O'Neill in the low post.

O'Neal knew it and immediately put on a back-hitting posture, and reached out for the ball when he fell down.

Ray Allen and Reggie Evans kept an eye on Duane, wondering what was going on in the low post.

I saw Du En suddenly broke through with the ball. Just as they pinched Du En, Du En quickly lobbed the ball to O'Neill.

After getting Kidd's template, Duane's pass is even more exquisite!
O'Neal felt very comfortable after taking the ball, so he immediately turned around and dunked, and the shark splashed.

The whole set of movements was smooth and flowing, and it only took about a second.

Needless to say, O'Neill's low post dominance!At this time, O'Neal is surrounded by an outside star who can pass the ball well, which is even more terrifying.

In Jackson's triangle offensive system, role players will be given a few balls at the beginning.

However, the current Lakers team is under the control of Duane. The first three offenses were all initiated by Duane, and then O'Neal came to the end.

As soon as he played for more than a minute and scored 6 points, O'Neal was also very happy.

Duane told him to ask for the ball in the low post, and O'Neal did so right away.

It is also because O'Neal's deterrence at the basket is too strong!

Lewis, who was defending Malone, had to break through at the top of Duane's arc. When O'Neal was ready for a singles in the low post, he subconsciously walked into the penalty area and leaned towards O'Neal.

However, Du En pointed at the east and west and passed the ball to Malone, and Malone also started to eat cakes and score efficiently.

This made the Zen master who was about to say something back to the persona of the Zen master, and Gu Jing stood on the sidelines silently.

After playing for more than 2 minutes in the opening game, Supersonics coach Nate McMillan had to call a timeout and adjust his tactics.

Originally, the Supersonic's defense was to effectively limit Dunn's breakthrough and O'Neal's low-post offense.

However, the Sonics lack a defense master like Kirilenko or Marion.

Supersonics small forward Reggie Evans is often attracted by Duane, who breaks through the top arc with the ball.

Wait for O'Neal to get the ball before retracting to the inside, of course it's too late.

In the case of one-on-one at the basket, O'Neal played simply not too easily.

What is the triangle offense?This is called a triangle offense!

With the help of his own shooting threat, Dunn attracted the double-team from the outside of the Supersonics, and then created a one-on-one, or even a 1-on-0 opportunity for O'Neal and Malone.

Even though the pace of the Lakers' game is not fast, the scoring speed is not slower than those teams that play fast break!

Seeing this situation, McMillan naturally couldn't accept it.

In order to limit the Lakers' triangle offense and reduce the scoring efficiency of the Lakers inside, McMillan can only keep Reggie Evans still, and plan to help defend O'Neal on the flank.

Then Ray Allen led Duane until Duane entered the three-point line, and then Antonio Daniels waited for an opportunity to double-team.

It is said that Ray Allen's defense is not bad. In the Yellow-Green War, the Celtics used Ray Allen to lead the defense against Kobe, but Kobe did not break out, which shows Ray Allen's ability.

However, Ray Allen's defense is too clean, leading Duane to have little effect.

When Dunn broke through, he swung his arm to distract Ray Allen, and he could speed up and pass Ray Allen without changing direction or turning around.

When Du En kills the basket, the Sonics are not good at defending inside, but they still have to play two-on-three. How can this be prevented?

Originally, Du En wanted to try to see how his shooting ability improved in actual combat.

However, Dunn easily defeated the Sonics' defense with only two tricks of passing and breakthrough.

It was also relying on Duane's passing and breaking through the ball to make the work of O'Neal and Malone easier. The Lakers opened up the point difference early in the first half.

In the third quarter, Duen also sweated a little and made up some points.

In the end, relying on a double-double of 24 points, 4 rebounds and 12 assists, he left work early.

There is no doubt that Duen's answer in the first game was quite good, and everyone in the Lakers was very satisfied with it.

The Zen master couldn't find any faults in Du En, and O'Neill liked to do this kind of simple and rough but easy work.

The role players of the Lakers are also very happy to play in the garbage time of the fourth quarter.

Of course, does anyone really have any objections to Du En?That's still there.

It can only be said that no one is perfect!
At this time, Payton was in a villa in Los Angeles. Payton, who was unable to attend the game because of his groin, turned off the TV in advance before the game ended.

If Duane has been leading the Lakers to win until the end of the regular season, then Payton can only lick his face and announce in advance that he has recovered from his groin injury and returns to the Lakers to prepare for the playoffs.

However, it is still too difficult for a rookie to lead a team to continue winning streak at the end of the season.

Even if it is the peak Jordan, there is no way to win all the time.

On March 3, after the Lakers defeated the second-ranked Nets in the Eastern Conference at home, they restarted the journey of the Devil's four-game streak.

Early the next morning, the Lakers arrived in Salt Lake City.

Salt Lake City is one of the harshest away games on the back-to-back schedule because of the high altitude climate.

In addition, the Lakers just defeated the Nets who are good at playing defensive counterattacks last night, and O'Neal's physical energy has been consumed a lot.

Therefore, this time against the Jazz, O'Neal, who was physically exhausted, once again took a break.

The Zen master is also worried that O'Neill is overworked and injured, and he is worried that Malone will have another accident.

So only two guys, O'Neal and Malone, played the first half.

Duane was full of firepower in the second half, but the weather in Salt Lake City did have some impact on Duane.

Duan scored 37 points, 8 rebounds and 10 assists in the game, a near-triple-double, but found that he was surrounded by CBA, which was not worthy of his passing.

The quality of the role players is not good. After the Lakers went off the field with O'Neal and Malone, no one could score in the penalty area. This is also a headache.

89 to 94, Dunn learned the lesson of a failure immediately after leading the team to two consecutive victories.

However, the Lakers flew to the East Coast the next day and received Eastern Conference bonuses from their arch-rival Celtics.

O'Neal, who was revived with full blood, struck out and directly put Celtics center Mark Blunt on a stretcher.

The Celtics had no one to use inside, and the starting center was sent to the hospital by O'Neal, and the substitute was even more unable to stop O'Neal, who became more and more courageous.

109 to 98, the Lakers beat the Celtics by 11 points and continued to the next court.

The Lakers played back-to-back away games against the Timberwolves, who overtook the Kings and advanced to second place in the Western Conference. Duan's leadership ability undoubtedly encountered another severe test.

Very helpless, in the multiple choice question of choosing to defend Kassel or choose the madman, Dunn is wrong no matter what he chooses.

Fisher tried his best, but was still beaten black and blue by Cassell.

Duan went to defend Cassel, and the madman beat Kareem Rush again.

Even if Duane effectively connects the team, O'Neal inside has a good offensive efficiency.

However, O'Neill still wants to rest for a while because of physical problems.

Dunn is not Kobe, so he will not push O'Neal to death.

At most, Duan could only say a few words about O'Neal, vigorously promoting O'Neal as the number one center in history.

However, there are still several championships and regular season MVPs behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Dunn hopes that O'Neal can play more passionately.

It's a pity that you can never wake up a person who pretends to be asleep. O'Neill is not fooled at all!
17投10中，罚球10投6中，全场奥尼尔只打出了26分11篮板1盖帽的数据。

As for other centers, it is thankful to be able to hit such stats occasionally.

But Dunn knew very well that with O'Neal's strength, there would be no problem at all if he scored 10 more points in this game.

It can only be said that O'Neal was limited by his own weight and mentality.

Otherwise, with O'Neill's strength, he wouldn't be just a top ten goalkeeper in history.

Speaking of this game, Malone was also entangled by Garnett and failed to perform at a better level.

全场只有16投7中，罚球6投3中，17分8篮板2助攻的贡献。

There is one thing to say, the Lakers' two major insiders combined to score 43 points, which is indeed quite good.

However, if the Lakers want to win, at least they need Dunn to score 43 points from the outside.

Without Kobe to share the offensive pressure, Dunn scored only 27 points on 35 shots under the bite of the madman and the help of Garnett.

98 to 106, the Lakers lost to the Timberwolves by 8 points in an away game, and the gap between the two teams was narrowed to one game.

There is no way, a clever woman can't cook without rice!
Although Dunn has obtained Kidd's template and possesses Kidd's passing talent, there is no way to really tie the team together like Kidd and play around Dunn alone.

What's more, the quality of the Lakers' role players is indeed relatively average.

Kidd was able to lead the team to the finals because, on the one hand, his teammates only had technical flaws and most of their physical talents were fine.

On the other hand, the East does have dividends to eat.

Du En was in the west, fighting to the death with a strong team like the Timberwolves' three-headed monster.

On March 3, the Lakers arrived in Chicago, at the same time, Bryant also returned to the team.

During the week of Kobe's absence, Dunn led the team with 3 wins and 2 losses.

Most of the games lost were due to back-to-back away games, but in the games won, there were still strong Eastern teams like the Nets.

Any team that lacks a top-salary player will more or less show signs of decline.

Therefore, Dunn's performance in leading the team cannot be said to be bad, but it did not meet expectations.

In other words, Kobe's return has added another barrel of oil to the Lakers, the No. [-] super battleship in the West.

The Lakers, who were about to run out of motivation, soared into the sky again!The 11-game winning streak went straight from mid-March to early April.

Among them, the teams the Lakers won also included the Kings, who were third in the Western Conference, and the Rockets, who were seventh in the Western Conference.

It's a pity that in April, the Lakers encountered a counterattack against the Kings and hit the third defending champion Spurs in the Western Conference.

The Spurs lineup is not as good as the Lakers, but the Lakers have won so many games, it is inevitable that they are a little tired.

The Spurs are good at waiting for work at the end of the season, relying on taking turns to rest the leading players to keep the main force at full strength.

After the Lakers lost, Payton finally found an excuse, saying that the team was in difficulty, and he had to come back early to win the championship for the Lakers and continue to play on the court.

A month later, the Zen master is not a small-minded person. In order to win the championship, the Zen master also held a return ceremony for Payton in the locker room.

Next, there are only 5 games left in the regular season, and the Timberwolves cannot threaten the Lakers' first position in the Western Conference.

Therefore, Zen Master also began to adopt rotation arrangements for the veterans of the Lakers.

In the last 5 games of the regular season, the Lakers ended with 3 wins and 2 losses.

But this did not affect the Lakers' 60 wins and 22 losses, ranking first in the Western Conference and advancing to this year's playoffs.

It is worth mentioning that the eighth-ranked team in the Western Conference is the Lakers' regular season victim, the Utah Jazz.

During the regular season, the Lakers and the Jazz each had two wins and losses.

No one expected that Mr. Sloan would be able to take the jazz's crooked melons and split dates to a record of 42 wins and 40 losses in the West, and rushed to the eighth place in the West at the end of the season...

(End of this chapter)