Legendary star

Chapter 755

"Are the Lakers going to end this game?"

When the third quarter ended, Kenny Smith, who was on the commentary bench, was also in a daze for a while watching the score of 65 to 77 between the two sides.

Although before the start of the third quarter, he had a hunch that with the Pacers' efforts in the third quarter, the Lakers are likely to be opened by the Pacers, but the Lakers were given a penalty by the Pacers in the third quarter. A score of 18 to 27 was clearly beyond Kenny Smith's expectations.

In terms of the overall strength comparison between the two sides, the Lakers are not inferior to the Pacers, and the Lakers even have a slight advantage in the interior. However, in the third quarter, the Lakers' powerful interior has no room to display, because in many cases, basketball They couldn't pass to the inside, and the combination of the inside and outside of the Lakers was completely cut off by the Pacers. Not only that, the Lakers' starting point guard, Fisher, was also an obvious shortcoming from the beginning to the end because of his height, and he was repeatedly beaten by the Pacers. The player's few outside lines are strong.

As for the defense against the Pacers, after Meng Xu began to take over the game, the Lakers did not have a perimeter defensive player who could restrain Meng Xu. When the Pacers started to exert their strength in the third quarter, the score of the two sides was directly stretched to 12 points. According to the past game experience, no team has been able to trail the Pacers by more than 10 points in the fourth quarter. Under the circumstances, it was reversed, so when the third quarter was over, Kenny Smith had no hope for the Lakers. Although everyone kept shouting that the basketball is round, anything can happen until the end of the game , but in front of a team that has a high probability of winning as long as it establishes an advantage, even if the basketball is round, there is no way to change the final result.

"It's a pity that Ron can't play today. If Ron can play today, the situation on the field will definitely not be like this." Just when Kenny Smith was still sighing about today's game, while Barkley is already looking for a reason for the Lakers to lose. Of course, Barkley's move is also trying to excuse himself.

Although Barkley often scolded Ron Artest for being a fool, but if you want to talk about who has the best defensive effect on Meng Xu in this league, Ron Artest is definitely one of them, otherwise the Lakers It won't take much trouble to trade Ron Artest from the Kings, but it is a pity that in the last game between the Lakers and the Pistons, Artest died because he played too high. Sprained his foot, although before the start of the game, Ron Artest applied again and again, wanting to play in the game against the Pacers, but Phil Jackson still let him sit on the court to rest, and in Barkley mentioned Rowan After En-Artest, the live broadcast footage was also given to the Lakers' bench. Artest was sitting on the sidelines in a suit, chewing gum in his mouth, with an obviously unhappy expression on his face.

"Haha, Charles, do you think Ron can restrain Meng by playing? If Ron can play today, Meng's performance will definitely be better than today." After the start, Reggie Miller immediately came out to refute him. Although Ron Artest is a top perimeter defensive player and was once selected in the top three in the selection of the best defensive player, but if he can Meng Xu is limited, he is really not qualified, especially after the end of the famous NBA game 2.0 in the United States, Artest has been clamoring that he is not afraid of Meng Xu at all, Meng Xu every time Seeing him, they will use their strongest strength to ravage him.

"Haha, Reggie, although what Charles said is a bit exaggerated, I still support his point of view. Compared with other Lakers players, Ron's defensive effect on Meng is obviously better." Among them, Kobe Bryant and Lamar Odom were used successively to defend Meng Xu, but the effect was not very good. Kobe's body is not as good as Meng Xu. When defending Meng Xu, he always Being crushed by Meng Xu with his body, Odom's body is strong enough, but when defending Meng Xu, his movement speed is obviously a bit slow, and he is often caught by Meng Xu, but compared to Kobe and Odom Dom, Artest has both physical strength and moving speed. The important thing is that Artest's defensive awareness is much stronger than Odom's, and he doesn't need to be distracted to attack like Kobe, so Barkley It will be said that Artest is the best candidate to defend Meng Xu, and Kenny Smith also supports this.

After Kenny Smith stood on Barkley's side, Reggie Miller smiled and said nothing. Although he wanted to use Meng Xu's post-up singles as an example, Reggie Miller did not say anything in the end. Exit, because he knows that Meng Xu's post-up singles are very strong, not to mention Artest, even Odom can't withstand Meng Xu's post-up, but in most games, Meng Xu rarely uses the post-up. Body singles are the main means of attack. After all, compared to face-up attacks, post-up singles are more difficult and consume more energy.

Several commentators on the commentary booth were still discussing enthusiastically. By the way, when they were teasing each other, the last quarter of the game also started as scheduled. The Pacers, who had already led by a big score, directly sent A group of substitute lineups were put on, and for the Lakers, Phil Jackson obviously hadn't given up, and continued to arrange for Kobe to play.

"This guy is still the same." After the battle between the two teams' bench lineups, Meng Xu also shook his head helplessly when he saw Kobe playing crazy singles with the ball on the field. In this way, he chooses to play singles with the ball, but most of the time, Meng Xu will let his teammates play first and save some energy for himself, especially when he is facing double teams, Meng Xu is now the first choice It's also a pass, but Kobe is different. This guy's singles desire is stronger than his own, and he is still the kind of guy who gets stubborn. I don't care how many people defend you. I don't care if there are better teammates around you. Opportunity, anyway, I just want to come by myself. During the training together during the offseason, Meng Xu also tried to persuade him in a roundabout way, but Kobe told him, "I'm not as convulsive as you are, so I'm not as convulsive as you."

From then on, Meng Xu knew one thing. Before he defeated himself, Kobe might not be able to make any changes, because for the stubborn and competitive Kobe, if Meng Xu could do it, he would do it too. , Meng Xu can be 80+ in a single game, and he also needs to be 80+ in a single game. Meng Xu can average 35 points per game in a season, and he will also average 35 points in a single season. The scoring leader, Meng Xu can score 3+ against the Lakers, and he will also score 60+ in the game against the Pacers. This is also the main reason why Kobe scores crazy points every time he faces the Pacers.

But if he doesn't change his style of play, Kobe has no chance to beat himself, so everything has fallen into an endless loop.

In the end, at the end of the game, the Lakers lost the Christmas game 90 to 97 in an away game. The Lakers still continued their embarrassing record of losing away to the Pacers in the regular season.

　Thank you for the reward I want to wake up the world, thank you.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)