Chapter 429 [Return to Los Angeles, Fatal Flaw]
? The second stop of the Suns' road trip is Los Angeles, facing the Clippers on the 14th.
The Lakers were not playing a game and the players were on vacation in Los Angeles. Guo Xu had a meal with O'Neal.
In yesterday's game, the Lakers lost 108 to 112 to the Trail Blazers, who had declined in strength and were outside the playoffs, and suffered their sixth defeat of the season.
Without the "Eagle County Incident", the conflicts in the Lakers' locker room have become more serious.
In Guo Xu's previous life, Kobe would fly back from Colorado some nights. When introducing the starting players, Kareem Rush would start the game. Afterwards, Kobe would come directly from the airport, change into game uniforms, and dance after the introduction of the players. He came on the court immediately before the ball, scoring three or forty points directly without warming up, and he was definitely the most focused player in the game, as if nothing happened off the court.
Now, Kobe will participate in the team's training and attack his teammates instead of having a good guiding effect on them.
Kobe's theory was: "Look, I'm the first one to come to practice. I work harder than everyone else. I'm more talented than everyone else. I give it my all every game. So you all should pass the ball." Me." Some people admire Kobe for this, such as Fisher, who is used to dribbling the ball and passing the ball after halftime.
And what about O'Neal? During training, he always kept telling jokes and said to his teammates: "I will protect you." If someone fouled a teammate, O'Neal would say, "Give that guy to me." These details make it impossible not to like O'Neal.
The conflict between the two has always existed, and the Lakers locker room was divided into two factions.
People also criticized the triangle offense. At the beginning of the season, opponents were all afraid of the Lakers, and some teams would take the initiative to surrender their guns out of fear. When other teams overcame the fear of "this is an All-Star team," they began to challenge the Lakers, and the Lakers slowly revealed their problems. They don't know how to win through tactics and can only play one-on-one.
They didn't mesh well together as a whole, they were just a successful group of people.
Aopang now complains when he sees Guo Xu and doesn't think much about this season anymore.
Guo Xu will never tell O'Neal how good he is in another world. He partners with healthy Tracy McGrady and Bibby, and is estimated to be guaranteed seven championships. If O'Neal is willing to cut his salary and give up power in the future to support young stars, He won't do too badly at the end of his career. He became a hero in Orlando, management would never trade him, and he might have a retirement cycle.
Now O'Brien can only work hard for one season with Kobe, who is not the "Eagle King", and then consider the options. It is no problem to make a lot of money. His commercial value has always been very high.
night,
When the Suns played against the Clippers, Guo Xu received warm applause from Los Angeles fans when he came on the court.
The Clippers have only won 7 games since the start of the season and are an underdog with no hope of the playoffs. They rarely have live broadcasts in the United States, but today Staples' home court was almost full.
CCTV5 broadcasts live games. In China, the Suns are the second most popular team after the Rockets. When the Rockets are not playing, the Suns are usually broadcast live.
Zhang Liji said: "Guo Xu feels like he has returned to his home court. I think many Los Angeles fans came to see him. In the All-Star voting that has begun, his total votes ranked first in the league. It is very likely that Re-elected as the vote king.”
Xu Jicheng said: "Guo Xu may also win the regular season MVP again. He is different from Vince Carter, who was the most popular before. Carter only had good dunks and poor performance in leading the team. His best performance was in the second round. Last season, the Raptors had consecutive seasons. He didn’t even get into the playoffs. Guo Xu is very good at everything except dunking.”
Zhang Lili said: "This is the role of a super core, one person can activate the whole team. I think he is actually good at dunking, but rarely dunks. His floor style is not easy to get injured. His attendance rate has been very high since he entered the league."
Guo Xu really doesn't like to take off, whether on offense or defense. Even if he returns from leveling up in the time loop, he will not choose to force dunks in the game. Against the Magic, he will still focus on floor play. If he can shoot, he will not jump. If he jumps, it will be a throw.
Dunking on opponents is known as the most domineering way to score, but Guo Xu feels that it is not cost-effective for players to dunk on opponents at the risk of serious injury in order to score two points. Except for O'Neal, there is no risk when he dunks on his opponent.
During the warm-up, Guo Xu had a good shooting touch and was ready to take more shots, but D'Antoni chatted with him alone and suggested that he focus on breakthroughs this time, attract double teams, distribute the ball to teammates, and help build confidence in his teammates. The coach didn't mention it, but he forgot that his young teammates were at a low ebb before entering the cycle.
The starting lineup for both sides was the Suns' five players: Guo Xu, Raja Bell, Joe Johnson, Marion, and Stoudemire.
Clippers starting lineup: Marko Jaric, Corey Maggette, Quentin Richardson, Elton Brand, Chris Wilcox.
The Suns sent three swingmen to play small-ball tactics. On the defensive end, Stoudemire was responsible for guarding Brand. Marion was tasked with guarding the power forward and the pick-and-roll.
Wilcox is a Swift-style spring man inside. He is 208cm tall and weighs only 100 kilograms. Marion will not be crushed by his body when fighting against him.
In the 2002 draft, Wilcox was ranked No. 8 ahead of Stoudemire. In his rookie season, he averaged only 3.7 points and 2.3 rebounds per game. The Clippers moved away from Odom this season. He got more playing time and could only score 8.6 points and 4.7 rebounds. His offensive area is mainly within the penalty area, and his mid-range shooting is very poor, with a 28% shooting rate.
Stoudemire was dissatisfied that Wilcox was picked higher than him. He wanted to compete today. When he was winning the ball, he took off with all his strength and passed it to Bell. The latter passed to Guo Xu and the Suns attacked first.
After observing the situation, Guo Xu asked his teammates to pull away and challenged Yalic directly in the middle.
Wilcox is very mobile and performs well against pick-and-rolls. The Clippers plan to focus on cultivating him. Guo Xu is not going to give this person a chance to practice. The Clippers have obvious weaknesses on the outside. Yalic is a white point guard with a height of 201cm and a weight of 90kg. His movement speed is considered slow among swingmen. There is no need to fight to deal with him. Pick and roll.
Yaric is too slow to play point guard and is not qualified to play swingman. He is too poor in confrontation and has almost no explosive power. He was famous in his previous life because he married the famous Brazilian supermodel Adriana Lima and once divorced Ronaldo. woman.
Guo Xu has been practicing against Bibby and Wade in the past two years. He feels that one of his legs can jump faster than Jaric. Because of his fatal flaw, Jaric only played a total of 7 seasons in the NBA in his previous life and never participated in the playoffs.
Guo Xu dribbled the ball from his crotch to his left hand, suddenly changed direction to the right, moved out of position with one step with speed, completely passed Yalic in the second step, and drove into the basket from the right side. Brand made up the defense, Guo Xu jumped and shook out a little space to distribute the ball. Stoudemire caught the ball on the left, stepped into the basket, and easily scored on the board. 2 to 0.
Yalic organized the ball distribution, and Quentin caught the ball and shot towards Bell. It was an unreasonable choice to rely on his height advantage to make the shot. 2 to 2.
Guo Xu played in singles again, making the same move as before. Yalic moved back a little. Guo Xu changed directions without breaking through and dribbled the ball behind his back to retreat with his left hand, and then used the "Buddha" fake move.
Yalic took a big step forward to interfere with the shot. Guo Xu held the ball in his left hand and changed direction to the right to succeed. He took a step with the ball to attract Brand to switch defense and threw the ball high.
He avoided Brand's defense with a throw, but it was not a throw but a pass. The height was just above and to the left of the basket. Stoudemire took off and scored an alley-oop dunk. 4 to 2.