Chapter 26 The Lakers are about to disintegrate
Li Yuan finished his trial and happened to catch up with the final finals of the 2003-04 season.
The Lakers finally broke through the siege from the West in this year's finals. Of course, this did not surprise many fans. This is the Lakers with "f4". Their strength to enter the finals was something that was recognized by most experts before the start of the season!
The Eastern Conference team that finally reached the finals this year was the Detroit Pistons, which surprised too many fans.
If the Lakers are a group of talented sweethearts gathered together, then the Pistons can be said to be a "waste concentration camp". Wallace, the starting No. 5 position, was undrafted that year, and averaged only about 5 minutes of playing time in the rookie season. He changed four teams in the first five years of his career. Rashid Wallace had just experienced two trades this season. After being traded by the Trail Blazers, he was sent to the Pistons after playing one game for the Hawks; Michael Jordan's starting No. 2 position was Hamilton, who was abandoned by the Wizards; Chauncey Billups, who was also nicknamed "Square-Free Tanhua"!
In other words, except for the "Little Prince" Prince in the third position who was selected and trained by the Pistons themselves, the other players were obtained by the trade, and they were also players who were abandoned by other teams!
It is not an exaggeration to call such a group of people a "meeting together".
Logically speaking, it is impossible for such a group of people to come together to make a splash, but these five guys have caused quite a lot of storms in the east this year.
If the record of 54 wins and 28 losses is not amazing enough, then they will defeat the Bucks with Michael Reed, the Nets with Jason Kidd, and the top Eastern Conference combat power Pacers with O'Neal Jr., Artest, Reggie Miller and other good players. After successfully entering the finals, the entire media and public opinion exploded because of this team.
If the miracle of 2004 had color, it would definitely be the Pistons' uniform!
However, while the outside world was surprised that the team had completed a counterattack and took over, the media in Los Angeles shouted one by one, "This year's championship is stable!"
On the list originally expected by the Los Angeles media, they should face the Pacers in this year's finals. This is the only team that has won 60 wins and more than 60 wins in the regular season this season, and it is also a team that has made the Los Angeles media very afraid. However, this team actually capsized in the gutter and was killed by the Pistons. How could this not surprise the Los Angeles media?
This is what God wants to give the Lakers a championship!
The bad atmosphere in the Lakers this season is something that the entire league knows. As a local media in Los Angeles, they naturally see it and are anxious.
What makes them most uneasy is that the current locker room atmosphere of the Lakers is a bad atmosphere like Phil Jackson, a veteran of the world that cannot be adjusted. In this situation, if you want to keep this "Galaxy Battleship" from disintegrating, you can only win the championship!
It’s not that if you win the championship, the atmosphere of this team will improve, but if you don’t win the championship, the team will inevitably undergo a major cleanup, which is certain.
This also makes the media in Los Angeles this year particularly concerned about the final ownership of the championship...
Li Yuan started watching it in the third game. In addition to the two teams who had just finished the trial training until the third game, there was another reason. He really didn't expect that after the two finals, the Detroit Pistons would lead the lead with a 2-0 score!
This is really a bit beyond Li Yuan's expectations. He originally thought that the Lakers would win because the talent of this team was so terrifying. Even if the atmosphere in this team was very bad, it was enough to settle everything with the personal ability of these geniuses!
Even the Spurs were dealt with like this, and Li Yuanzhen doesn't believe that there are other teams that can be their opponents!
But the facts are now in front of you. The Detroit Pistons took a 2-0 lead, and even the first two games of the finals were the Lakers' home court...
This instantly aroused Li Yuan's interest.
It not only aroused Li Yuan's interest, but fans in the entire NBA circle have a new understanding of this "waste-filled" Pistons.
It also made them curious about the future direction of the finals: whether this round of series was the Pistons who fought back all the way to win the final championship, or whether the Lakers woke up and completed the reversal, the script of the finals began to become interesting.
After watching the third game, Li Yuan also knew what Sun Wukong said about the old saying "Win the game with defense".
The Pistons' talent is not outstanding, at least it is much inferior to the Lakers' guys, but their teamwork ability on the court makes up for this problem to the greatest extent.
To be honest, the Pistons player is not very good at scoring. Among these guys, Hamilton may be the strongest scoring ability, but he averaged only about 18 points per game. This average score is really not even a first-tier in the 2003-04 season when the scorer exploded, and he can only barely be considered a first-tier.
However, this team has a lot of scoring points. Except for Ben Wallace, the starting five players can average double-digit points per game.
And even if Ben Wallace, who averaged less than double-digit points per game, he averaged 9.5 points per game.
This becomes very terrifying when this team has strong team collaboration capabilities.
The Lakers can't completely strangle the Pistons' offense. There are always people who start five players who can find an opportunity to hit the shot!
Of course, what they are most terrifying is their defensive ability. Li Yuan has never seen such a suffocating defensive intensity. Watching this game from the first quarter to the fourth quarter, he always feels like the Lakers are tied up by a huge iron barrel, and it is a sense of restraint that just watching in front of the TV makes it difficult for the Lakers to attack.
The personal talents of Lakers players are really outstanding, especially Kobe and O'Neal. They are in their prime and they are really unsolvable on the offensive end.
However, this kind of inadequate solution now seems to have a prerequisite, that is, the Pistons must be excluded.
Because even these two guys were restricted when they met the Pistons' "Iron Barrel Formation".
Just to say that the game ended, O'Neal scored 28 points and shot a shooting percentage of 70%, which still seemed unsolvable, but the problem was that he could not get the ball at all. The Pistons' defense made it very difficult for him to get the ball. He only made 17 shots in this game, 5 fewer than his usual average of 22 shots, and the Lakers eventually lost 6 points in this game.
Besides, Kobe scored 22 points in this game, but this was obtained by him with 22 shots, and his shooting percentage was not even 40%. The Pistons' "Iron Barrel Formation" was even more obvious in him.
And when they cannot solve problems with talent, their lack of cooperation becomes particularly fatal.
However, then again, O'Neal's few shots and Kobe's shooting percentage are not only good at defense, but also because of the Pistons' excellent defense, there are also reasons why they lacked the previous cooperation between them.
Chapter completed!