So I am the god of basketball?

Chapter 166 "The Hardest Spear" and "The Strongest Shield"

Meng Lang dunked on Ewing. Still with the most exciting posture in Nan Tong's eyes (I don't understand, I just said it casually), this scene stimulated the Lakers fans at the scene. The cheers came one after another, just like the ice and snow at the North and South Pole, which never melt.

Van Gundy frowned as he looked at it.

For a defensive team like the New York Knicks, defensive enthusiasm is a very important factor in whether the team can perform well.

On the defensive end, talent and attitude are more important than ability!

People with physical talent and attitude generally have good defensive abilities.

For example, let's take a certain person. No one denies his defensive ability, but his defensive attitude is really criticized. So much so that when he was with the Heat, Kalami Chalmers pushed him back in person, and even continued to disgust him in interviews after he retired.

Now that the momentum is suppressed, along with the defensive enthusiasm, it will also be suppressed!
"Dangdang!"

To make matters worse, the New York Knicks were not in great shape on the offensive end tonight.

Ewing took off continuously, and being dunked did not affect his enthusiasm. But the ball was still in Barkley's hand and he grabbed it. He carried it to the front court.

A strong impact came, and Ewing subconsciously hugged the fat butt that hit his face. At the same time, above his head, there was a sound of the basket exploding.

"Return to defense quickly, take position quickly, what are you waiting for?"

They were stubborn, hard-working, and never gave up, but because they met Jordan, they became the "background board" of this era.

在这场比赛中，孟浪拿到了33分6篮板10助攻3抢断；巴克利拿到了21分15篮板4助攻2抢断；约翰逊拿到了16分5篮板3助攻；琼斯拿到了15分4篮板5助攻；迪瓦茨拿到了一份“双15”的数据……

It can be seen that Ewing does not believe in fate.

Barkley wasn't in a hurry either.

He waited for Meng Lang to come to the frontcourt and gave the ball to him. Then walked towards the inside line.

He will not give up the fight, but there will always be blows coming...

"Bah!"

But tonight's game is not about attitude. Moreover, Ewing was very positive, but in fact, he couldn't stop anyone. The Lakers' momentum was completely unleashed, and the point difference continued to widen, from 15 points to 20 points. points, from 20 points to 30 points.

Dry!
Needless to say, I know that I was detained again!
The cheers that had just filled the entire stadium were like a pool that was filling up quickly.

Facing the confrontation at the No. 1 position, he deliberately stayed close to him, then pushed away the opponent and rushed straight towards the basket.

"Bah!"

Van Gundy shook his head slightly.

On the bench of the New York Knicks, there are already "water cooler players" holding their hair with both hands and closing their eyes in despair.

With 3 minutes and 14 seconds left in the first quarter, the Lakers led by 14 points.

Counting from the day he became an assistant coach, he has been in this industry for nearly ten years. He knows very well that some nights, it's like this, all the bad luck hits the same player at the same time as planned.

This round can be regarded as a microcosm of his entire career.

At the end of the game, the Lakers defeated the New York Knicks by 121 points 90-31 at their home court.

In just one round, Ewing was dunked again, and they couldn't stand it anymore.

By that time, the new generation of fans only remember that he was dunked hard by Jordan. But he didn't want to look back at his entire career and learned that he had also resisted tenaciously many times throughout his life.

Meng Lang didn't hesitate at all when he took the ball. It seemed that the dunk just now gave him enough confidence. He took the ball and broke through directly.

At 6 minutes and 34 seconds of the first quarter, Eddie Jones suddenly made an air cut, and after receiving the ball, he "pulled onions on dry ground", which was abruptly cut into Ewing's riddled body tonight, adding another conspicuous scar.

Ewing still blocked it without fear of death. Before Meng Lang took off, he "passed the ball without looking at anyone" and passed the ball to the right side.

Tonight seems to be the turn of his ill-fated "King Kong".

Some games may not be over yet, but the grass has already grown.

Michael Jordan counts as one!
And tonight's Ewing counts as one!
Brother, it’s hard!

And every piece is as if it is equipped with positioning and navigation, so it is impossible to hide.

When Oakley saw Ewing being dunked again, he couldn't help but persuade him: "Brother, stop making up for it. If you make up for it tomorrow's 'NBA Five Best Balls' will be all your highlights!"

After this dunk, the Lakers' momentum completely overwhelmed the New York Knicks.

But after playing against Barkley for so many years, he seems to have forgotten why this "Jazz" is called the "Flying Pig in the Sky". He goes straight up and down, as if he has a "rocket catapult" installed under his feet, rising straight up. , what was originally a fat face in front of Ewing, before he even blinked his eyelids, turned into Barkley's crotch.

Their offensive defeats are in stark contrast to the Lakers' offensive success.

Ewing is the epitome of most superstars of this era.

With Van Gundy shouting at the top of his lungs, the New York Knicks successfully established a defensive formation before the "Lakers Army" rushed through the center line.

Anyway, if Oakley was dunked twice one after another, when he saw someone rushing towards the basket for the third time, he would definitely hide to the side. How does he look like Ewing! Even after being deducted twice, he still jumped out without any hesitation.

Barkley, who came down the line, happened to appear in this position.

He had few people he admired.

Ewing, who was about to take off, immediately stabilized his center of gravity and rushed towards Barkley.

And then in the next decade, and the decade after that, completely forgotten...

They joined forces to give Chuck Daly a "meeting gift" when he took office with such a hearty and exciting game.

In the next round, he completed a throw with his signature "rabbit jump" to the cheers of the audience. Showing his stubborn side.

Chuck Daly joked after the game: "I knew they would always be full of energy, even if there are two old guys on this team who have reached retirement age!"

For this 31-point victory, he didn’t praise himself much, nor did he take credit for it: “They have such a ceiling, and once they can attack smoothly, I believe they can win against any opponent. "

"Including the Bulls?" the reporter asked.

Chuck Daly paused for a moment and nodded: "I'm talking about...all teams!"

Johnson was very excited and said: "Attention everyone, 'show time' is back!"

This game is the Lakers team where he thinks everything is right.

There is no head coach forcing Lai Lai from the sidelines, and there are no tactical rules. Players have the greatest degree of decision-making power on the court!
Then they had a 31-point victory.

Gorgeous and aggressive.

I just feel a little sorry for Ewing.

At the end of the game, he even went to comfort Ewing: "Just treat it as a dream..."

You probably won’t be very impressed when you wake up.

His intentions were good, but Ewing looked at his outstretched arms and chose to refuse.

Ewing can show his tough side on the court. But off the field, he is like all blacks. No, it should be said that he has all the shortcomings of blacks. Later, when he said on the "labor agreement" negotiation table, "We earn more, we also spend more." It has always been the most apt description of black players becoming bankrupt when they retire.

And he has another question that is not a problem:

Ignorant and afraid of death!

Johnson has always been sensitive to this, so now he felt that the Lakers' dunks on Ewing were too few in this game.

This guy should be charged with a concussion!

The good news is that early the next morning, the Lakers dunked Ewing on all three of his "best five" shots, which made Johnson feel sour!
The offensive talent displayed by the Lakers in this game has the entire media talking a lot.

Although the new season has been going on for a month and a half, the first game of the season also faced the Magic with a score of 65 points, the largest point difference in the NBA regular season. But after this game, they seemed to have just gotten to know this Lakers team again.

Their attacks were still fierce, but there was a fluidity they were unfamiliar with in their fierceness.

This fluidity does not refer to the coordination between players.

But...

Offensive continuity!
Yes, it’s the consistency of the offense!
Just like the consecutive dunks on Ewing, this was rarely seen by the Lakers in the past.

This is actually easy to understand:

Because after the Lakers made a beautiful offense, Harris would definitely shout defense on the sidelines, while pointing at someone and shouting "Top defense, top defense". This is like buying something for your mother. It was a very nice cardigan, and you happily asked your mother to put it on, and it looked very nice. However, your mother said, "Why did you buy this? It was a waste of money," so you quickly returned it.

Two words to describe it are:
Disappointing!

The result of repeatedly emphasizing defense is that the energy on the offensive end is mobilized to the defensive end. Although the offense is still very smooth, it definitely doesn't have that hearty feeling.

In this game, Chuck Daly didn't even call a timeout, he just stood on the sidelines and watched.

The main reason was that the Lakers were blown away from the beginning, and there was no need for him to call a timeout.

But even if he just stood on the sidelines, the on-site cameras would give a close-up shot after every wonderful Lakers goal.

This is Chuck Daly!

After defeating the New York Knicks, who are fourth in the Eastern Conference, the Lakers continue the next game.

Just like this game, the Lakers showed a vivid offensive wave. In the next four games, they averaged 4 points per game, beating their opponents by about 115 points.

Even opponents average 99.3 points per game...

This average points loss per game is not low in the current league.

But with 16 points in every game, who else cares about such a defensive stat?

Anyway, Chuck Daly did not mention any defense-related topics during this period.

However, Meng Lang noticed that Chuck Daly had been paying more and more attention to Ben Wallace recently, and during the team's training games, he constantly placed him at the center position for observation.

The assistant coaches of the Lakers are Harris's remaining team, and they have no idea why Daly would do this.

But Meng Lang, who is familiar with the future, knows very well how terrifying Ben Wallace will be if he moves to the fifth position.

But he didn't expect that Chuck Daly could actually discover this.

You know, it wasn't until Ben Wallace went to the Pistons in 02 that he met Rick Carlisle. It was then that he became the top player in the league.

Chuck Daly didn't expect that Meng Lang would actually notice his adjustment in this area. He didn't say much, just said: "Ben reminds me of a person..."

"???"

"Dennis Rodman!"

When he said this, Meng Lang was not surprised.

I almost forgot that the person who discovered Rodman was none other than Chuck Daly.

And Ben, isn't he a Rodman-type player?
Although he does not have such a terrifying second take-off ability, he also has his own unique ability to grab rebounds. You must know that he also won the "Rebound King" twice in the future, and even won one that Rodman never had. "King of shot blocks".

His sense of timing for defense and protection of the basket are top-notch.

It's just that he's not that good in terms of defense, and he can only be completely blown away when he encounters someone like Shaquille O'Neal. There is some gap with Rodman.

But in other aspects of the defensive end, there is absolutely no problem that Ben Wallace can be called another "Rodman".

It was also at this moment that Meng Lang realized that Chuck Daly didn't care about losing an average of 99 points per game, but just pretended not to care and didn't mention it in front of the media. But he has also noticed this hidden danger and is actively thinking of solutions.

In fact, the Lakers now have a pretty good defensive leader on the outside:
Eddie Jones!

What this team lacks is just an inside help defender.

In this regard, neither Barkley nor Divac can provide excellent defense, not even to an excellent level.

Based on this phenomenon, Chuck Daly is preparing to train Ben Wallace as the Lakers' second center.

Judging from the current training matches, Ben Wallace is not as bad as Meng Lang thought.

Originally, Meng Lang thought it would take a long time for Ben Wallace to level up.

But in fact, he is 22 years old now!

All aspects of his body are basically in shape, and adding more will only increase his strength. But in this regard, he has now reached the standard of an inside player.

If you think about it more carefully, as soon as he was established as the defensive core of the Pistons, he immediately became the winner of the "Best Defensive Player Award". This aspect also shows that at that time, his defensive ability had already reached the top of the league, but he always lacked a head coach who trusted him.

Now, he is more inexperienced than incapable.

Chuck Daly increased the time he played the fourth and fifth positions in team training games to gain experience for him.

Big Ben himself can feel it. Chuck Daly is giving him a chance. He is full of energy and energy every day.

The ability to make up for defense mainly depends on enthusiasm and innate sense of smell. Ben Wallace has neither of these two things, so soon his defense as an inside player became impressive.

On December 12, the Lakers won the last victory of their "18-game winning streak". Ben Wallace got his first chance to play in his career. He played a total of 4 minutes and 10 seconds without scoring and scored 34 goals. A rebound. All other data are missing.

But Chuck Daly was satisfied with his performance.

Because he focused on the defense aspect, Ben Wallace did a good job.

His mobility can completely delay him to the three-point line.

Although I got 10 fouls in 2 minutes.

But as far as Chuck Daly is concerned, that's totally fine.

Even if he gets 10 fouls in 6 minutes, Chuck Daly will not feel a problem.

After all, if he can play these 10 minutes well now, he is already very good.

After all, he is just a newcomer.

Speaking of which, the Lakers have a total of three newcomers this year:
Kobe, Fisher and Ben Wallace.

Now all three rookies are getting playing time in the rotation.

Kobe played about 12 minutes and 13 seconds in each game. Fisher originally had 14 minutes and 12 seconds of playing time, but in recent games, it has dropped sharply to about 7 minutes. Chuck Daly doesn't seem to be very interested in him. , would rather use the unconventional "Kobe plus Eddie Jones and Wilkins" combination than let him control the ball on the court.

Ben Wallace can be regarded as coming from behind, and now he has also received 10 minutes of regular playing time.

After the game, the media asked Chuck Daly why he suddenly let Ben Wallace play in this game and gave him 10 minutes of playing time. Chuck Daly's answer was: "He is a very positive newcomer, and I like newcomers like this!"

You can't just say that this is the Lakers' "secret weapon" on the defensive end, right?

But the speaker has no intention, and the listener has intention.

His words fell in Kobe's ears, and he felt like he had the key to the door to a new world.

Did you hear that?

Chuck Daly loves positive newcomers!
I'm Kobe...

Apart from talent and positivity, there is nothing else!
He has become even harder. As long as he is in Los Angeles, he will definitely show up at the training ground at 7 a.m. to practice extra.

On December 12st, Meng Lang celebrated another birthday.

On this day every year, Grant Hill would prepare a set of clothes or some clothing for him.

I don’t know if it was for this reason, but David Stern specially arranged the game between the Lakers and the Pistons on this day in the new season. It seemed to be convenient for Hill to personally hand over the gift to Meng Lang.

It was also rare for Meng Lang to hold a birthday party the night before his birthday and invite all the Lakers players.

On the night of the party, Madonna came uninvited and prepared a luxury car for Meng Lang as his birthday gift. It could be seen that she had completely given up, so when she saw Martha at the party who was having a good time with "Second Dream", she just glanced at Meng Lang lightly: "Your new girlfriend?"

Meng Lang shook his head: "Family!"

With the arrival of Madonna and the presence of the "Magician", the party finally became a "* party".

Hill was not used to such an occasion. When the situation was about to get out of control, he chose to leave. Meng Lang drove into the luxury car sent by Madonna, picked up Massa and "Second Dream" and left.

How crazy this party was, he didn't know.

He knew that in the game against the Pistons the next day, everyone's feet were as weak as if they had taken "Tou Xiang Ruanjin Powder". It didn't matter if they couldn't stand up to people on the defensive end, and they couldn't jump on the offensive end. Meng Lang scored a season high of 44 points alone, but failed to help the Lakers win at home.

With this victory, the Pistons jumped to the same second place in the Eastern Conference as the Heat!
After a season and a half of transformation, Detroit's "young army" gradually showed their "new powerhouse in the East" side.

The Lakers' winning streak was also ended at this moment.

Before this defeat, they had won 9 consecutive games.

After the game, Meng Lang took all the responsibility for the loss. Even though he was the Lakers' best performer tonight, who told him to hold a "birthday party" yesterday that didn't stop these people from having fun!

It was also this defeat that caused Meng Lang to miss the "Player of the Week Award" in the third week of December.

The "Player of the Week Award" for the third week belongs to Michael Jordan!

It is worth mentioning that so far in December, in terms of the "Player of the Week Award", it is still the "duo" of Meng Lang and Jordan. Only one of these two people won the "Best Player of the Week", and the other one won the "Best Player of the Week" award. You will definitely get the "Best of the Week" for the next week!
This month's first "Best of the Week" went to Jordan, the second went to Meng Lang, and the third went to Jordan again.

pressure……

Got it to Meng Lang!
Obviously, he has to get the "Best of the Week" in the last week to tie Jordan in momentum.

And if you want to win the "Best of the Week" for the last week, it's straightforward...

Win the much-anticipated "Christmas War"!
Perhaps this battle is just around the corner. After losing to the Pistons, during the Lakers' team training on the second day, everyone was obviously much more serious than usual, as if they had switched to playoff mode.

Chuck Daly is very satisfied with this atmosphere.

He even felt that losing the last game was a good thing!

A winning streak can indeed numb players' nerves and make them lose their awe of victory. When the Celtics won the next two championships for their "eight consecutive championships", there were no cheers or celebrations. They just opened two bottles of champagne silently, as if they had done the right thing.

"I like your current state!" Chuck Daly said directly, "I also hope you can maintain your current state!"

Before the "Christmas War", the Lakers have one last game, which is also a tough battle, in nearby Golden State, challenging the Golden State Warriors!
At the beginning of the season, the Golden State Warriors made a deal with the Magic to acquire Anfernee Hardaway, thus forming a "four-core" lineup of Hardaway, Chris Webber, Chris Mullin, and "Madman" .

As soon as the deal came out, most media believed that the Warriors would officially join the list of the Western Conference's top players this season.

result……

Their predictions were indeed correct!
The second month of the new season is coming to an end. The Warriors now rank third in the Western Conference with a record of 20 wins and 7 losses, second only to the Los Angeles Lakers and Utah Jazz. They have surpassed last season's runner-up SuperSonics. Below, the momentum is evident.

On the plane to Golden State, Chuck Daly only said one thing: "If you can't beat the Warriors, forget about the Bulls!"

That light sentence seemed to strike a match, igniting the fighting spirit of all the Lakers players.

The Warriors naturally regarded this game as a big battle.

Hardaway and Meng Lang "had an affair" before the war. No, they met secretly.

They usually see each other every day, but now they only see each other once every half a year. However, this does not affect their friendship. They usually keep in touch by phone and text message. While chatting, Hardaway talked about Michael Jordan: "Man, this old guy has become more terrifying! To be honest, I rarely feel helpless, but those few minutes made me feel like I was back. When we were in training camp, the gap never seemed to close!”

The Warriors just played a game against the Bulls in mid-December.

The Warriors played well in that game, and they were in a stalemate with the Bulls until the last quarter, and they even tied the score in the last 4 minutes of the game. But starting from the last 3 minutes, the atmosphere of the game suddenly became uncomfortable. Jordan and Pippen were "double-teamed". In addition, Jordan stepped up and scored 7 points in a row. The Bulls quickly opened up a 6-point difference. The final score Fixed at 98 to 91.
What Hardaway is talking about is these more than 3 minutes.

He has lingering fears!
Meng Lang listened to his vivid words and could clearly feel the terror Jordan brought to Hardaway.

But in fact, even if Hardaway didn't say it, Meng Lang also knew how terrifying Jordan was in the past two seasons.

要知道这个时候的皮蓬已经31岁，场均20.2分6.5篮板5.7助攻1.9抢断，47.6%的投篮命中率看着很出色，是绝对的“二当家”。

可事实上，这个赛季季后赛的皮蓬场均数据只有19.2分6.8篮板3.8助攻1.5抢断，投篮命中率更是低至41.7%！

You can see Pippen's status very intuitively. Except for rebounds, all other statistics have basically declined, from the offensive end to the defensive end.

This is only the 96-97 season. By the 97-98 season, Pippen's condition will decline further.

It can be said that during the Bulls' first "three consecutive championships", Pippen was the perfect "second boss", but during the third "three consecutive championships", Pippen's state was no longer qualified. As the "second boss", Rodman is more reliable than him in many cases.

Just because he is Pippen and he stands next to Jordan, he continues to wear the title of "Second Master" above his head.

There is another piece of ironclad evidence that illustrates this issue:
Klaus, the general manager of the Bulls, was unwilling to renew Pippen's contract and even wanted to trade him in advance during the 97-98 season!
You know, although Klaus didn't deal with Jordan, he never involved personal emotions in building the team. Many of his transactions have proven to bring reinforcements to the Bulls. So even Jordan still has to rely on him to build the team.

He is unwilling to renew Pippen's contract. To a large extent, this is enough to explain Pippen's condition!

But this team still won the "three consecutive championships"!
Most of the reasons for this lie in one person, and that is:

Jordan!

N years later, Jordan released "The Last Dance". Pippen was stained with a lot of negative images, which made Pippen very sad for a time. But even so, he did not openly choke on Jordan. ——He started to choke on Jordan, and it started when Jordan's son got together with his ex-wife.

Because even if there is a certain degree of improvement, Jordan in the past two years has indeed been the only "backbone" of the Bulls!
That kind of dominance over the game is really like "God puts on the No. 23 jersey."

Dominance is a very mysterious thing, but on the playing field, it can be seen at a glance.

For example, Embiid is the regular season MVP, but many fans call him a "regular season superstar." But when it comes to Tim Duncan, even though he only won the regular season MVP for 2 seasons, the Spurs have him. In those years, as long as you entered the playoffs, no matter where you were ranked, you would be called the "favorite"!
Unlike some teams now, which are ranked first in the Eastern and Western Conferences, but there are still not many media calling them "championship favorites"!
This can be regarded as one of the wonders of the "joke era"...

Jordan has the kind of dominance that makes Hardaway fearful!
Of course, this was Hardaway's current thinking. When the game was over the next day, he looked at Meng Lang in surprise: "No, brother, who are you? Are you Dream!"

No wonder he was so surprised. Meng Lang's playing style this season is indeed very different from before.

Although Meng Lang also attacked with the ball last season, he basically dealt with the ball while facing the frame. Most of the time, he mainly ran without the ball.

But this season, he switched to the No. 1 position, and his "post-up" frequency increased.

Even more than Hardaway.

And after playing the No. 87 position for so long, he has finally mastered the "post-up" ball handling experience he learned from Johnson in the summer. It can be seen from his "post-up ability" that it has improved to points, which is higher than the average All-Star level and is moving towards the "super giant" level.

In addition, after he turns around now, he either breaks through directly or makes a "turnover jump shot". His skillful shooting makes this move almost become Meng Lang's signature skill. Hardaway failed to adapt to defending Meng Lang for the entire game.

No, it's not that I haven't adapted, it's that I haven't accepted it yet. This "old fritter" in the first position is actually Meng Lang!

“Save me a ticket for the day after tomorrow!”

Hardaway wants to watch the game live.

Judging from Meng Lang's performance in this game, he believes that the "Christmas War" will definitely be exciting!
Meng Lang then hugged Chris Webber.

This guy has also grown into the league's top power forward, averaging 21.1 points, 10.4 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game. But at this moment, he looked at Meng Lang with admiration on his face: "Man, you are obviously far behind us now!"

He had been convinced for a long time, but now he was even more convinced.

即便这场比赛他拿到了21分11篮板4助攻，可对比孟浪的33分12助攻6篮板2抢断还是有很大差距的。

And this is only reflected in the data.

If you look at the differences on the playing field...

It will only be bigger!

Meng Lang scored 8 points in a row at the last moment, but he missed two consecutive shots.

It seems that Meng Lang scored consecutively at the last minute, which reminded Hardaway again of Jordan in the game against the Bulls.

Frankly speaking, Meng Lang's experience is definitely not as good as Jordan's.

But his current ability is too high...

"Larry Bird" plus "Johnson", guys like this, even if they don't have much experience, can easily play a game that has great influence on both offense and defense. What's more, he has the experience of winning two championships.

It can be said that he is young but full of experience!
Even though he still lacks experience compared to Jordan, playing a dominant game is not a problem.

What's more, he has so many badge bonuses!

In terms of personal ability alone, Jordan may be the only one who can beat him slightly now.

And, maybe it’s just Jordan this season!
Wait until next season, Meng Lang can point to everyone in this league and say:
Everyone here is rubbish!
It's not that he looked down on Jordan in the 97-98 season.

Strong is definitely strong.

But in Meng Lang's view, the alliance during this period is completely a stage of "new and old succession". The older generation of super giants are getting older one after another, and the new generation has not yet grown up. Only the "Two Old Men of Utah" are left struggling to support themselves.

Of course, this is Meng Lang's subjective impression.

If Karl Malone and the Jazz had won one of the two rounds of the Finals, then his impression of the past two years might have become "the last feast of the super giants in the 90s."

But tomorrow summer, he believes that he can increase his strength to 99 points, and by then he will also reach the age of 24.

If the 24-year-old still thinks that he can't defeat Jordan and become the most powerful player in the league, then he will be too embarrassed by the "travelers" and the "system party".

In short, no matter what, after next summer, Meng Lang will snatch the title of "the first man in the league".

This is his goal for next season!

As for this season…

Of course I want to fuck Jordan again!
It is only natural to knock Jordan off his throne as the number one player first and then talk about transcendence!

Meng Lang ambitiously planned to knock Jordan off the throne of "the league's number one". What he didn't know was that it wasn't just him. Other media also regard him as Michael Jordan's biggest competitor in "defending the title."

On the night the Lakers played the Warriors, the Bulls also had a game against the Jazz.

The game lasted until the last minute, and the game was won with Jordan's "fallback jumper."

When talking about whether he thought he would lose at the end of the game, Jordan shook his head firmly: "No, we have experienced moments like this many times this season, but we all had the last laugh. This is the rhythm we are good at. We love playing at this pace!”

Jordan was not wrong. The Bulls averaged only 92.5 points per game this season, but they were able to limit their opponents to 87 points per game, with a margin of victory of less than 6 points in each game. For such a team, the record ranks third in the league. As a team, you can imagine how many "anxious games" they have played this year.

But as Jordan said, he and the team won 99% of the "burning games". This is the rhythm they are good at this season.

They are the team that allows their opponents to score the fewest points in the league, and the Lakers happen to be the team that averages the most points per game in the league.

These are two teams with completely opposite styles.

When the two teams meet like this, it can be said that the "hardest spear" meets the "strongest shield."

"We can defend against any opponent, I have such confidence!"

When a reporter asked whether it would be the "hardest spear" that would pierce the "strongest shield" or the "strongest shield" that would break the "hardest spear", Jordan did not hesitate and was extremely confident.

It was only the last reporter's "hypothesis" that almost made him break through.

"Suppose the Bulls lose to the Lakers this season. I'm not talking about the Christmas game, but the Finals. When the Bulls fail to defend the title and the Lakers win the championship, can we think that the NBA era belonging to Jordan has begun? It’s going downhill and we’re about to usher in a new era?”

It was such an assumption that Jordan "patiently" listened to the end, but he couldn't help but exert force on his hand, and accidentally pulled out the microphone and it fell apart.

He glanced at the Bulls staff next to him in confusion and asked him to get a new microphone.

"As you can see, any opponent standing in front of me, I will turn him into the microphone just now!" Jordan said wittily using the microphone just now, "It belongs to my era, unless it is my second time." I retire for the first time, otherwise, no one can take it away from me!"

These words are as domineering as "As long as I die, you will always be my concubine!"

But the scene of him twisting off the microphone also revealed a message:
Meng Lang was also considered a powerful enemy in his heart, a powerful enemy that he feared!
"It's time to test the quality of our team!"

The Bulls arrived in Chicago overnight. Before getting off the plane, Jordan looked at everyone and said this.

Obviously, no matter how much the Bulls win before, they can't win the "Christmas War" the day after tomorrow!
When Jordan came down from the cabin, he saw other members of the Bulls team looking at another plane that had just landed and opened the cabin door. There were also a group of people coming down from the cabin. The reason that stopped them was also very simple. Everyone recognized this plane:
This is the Los Angeles Lakers’ special plane!
We actually met at the airport in advance.

Barkley also noticed the Bulls team on the opposite side. He glanced back and reminded: "Cheer up, you guys, those Bulls bitches are on the opposite side!"

Kobe immediately became energetic and rushed out of the cabin in a hurry.

Meng Lang looked at his appearance and thought belatedly:

This is the opponent he has tried to defeat throughout his life!
Speaking of Jordan, Meng Lang suddenly thought of an interesting incident in "Youke".

When he originally joined the Lakers, he had a big conflict with "Crazy Fan" because of Jordan's videotape.

The reason is that Kobe promised "Crazy Fan" that as long as he gave him the Jordan video tapes he collected, he would give "Crazy Fan" 10 dollars.

"Crazy Fan" agreed when he heard so much money, but in the end, the video was brought to Kobe, but Kobe forgot to give him the money. The two men had a quarrel. "Crazy Fan" rushed directly to Kobe's house and took the videotape back.

There is no other meaning when I think of this story. It is from this that we can see how dedicated Kobe is to Jordan!
It's a pity that "the falling flowers are intentional, but the running water is ruthless". Kobe's eyes were full of Jordan, but Jordan only had Meng Lang in his eyes.

He watched Meng Lang being the last one to walk out of the cabin, and was about to make some "eye contact" as a warm-up before the competition. But before he could use his eyes, Meng Lang, who glanced at him, quickly turned his head to look at Elsewhere, it was as if he was not there.

damn!

This bitch!

(End of this chapter)