Chapter 412: Destroying Victory Steps
The Lakers, who defeated the Houston Rockets, were able to end their March journey with eight consecutive victories.
The past March has not only been the crazy March of NCAA, but also the crazy March of the Lakers.
In early March, they suffered a series of losses and fell to tenth in the Western Conference. They looked at stake and returned yesterday, but after Wei Xia's comeback, the Lakers came back to life.
Starting from defeating the Nuggets, eight consecutive victories reaped three months.
Kobe Bryant's performance is mixed, some people like his performance, and some people don't. Looking at his performance in every game in March, except for the Grizzlies at the end of the month, there is something wrong with the Rockets. In other games, they try their best to lose, and Kerry wins. Without him, even if Wei Xia returns, the Lakers may suffer a complete defeat in March.
What is the confidence to say so?
In these difficult and difficult 14 games, Kobe averaged 40.5 points, 6.2 rebounds and 4.6 assists per game with a shooting percentage of 45.5%.
Kobe averaged 40 points per game in the third month, and he also performed like this and was almost unsurprisingly selected as the Western Conference Player of March.
April, the final month of the regular season.
The Lakers still have ten games, and they have reached seventh in the West. If they can win enough victories in the remaining ten games, they can still be among the top six in the West.
At the beginning of the month, Wei Xia went to the hospital for examination again.
The results showed that his injured ankle had completely recovered and there was no need to worry anymore.
This is excellent news.
Before the April game began, Weisha and Elaine Trovis wanted to adopt the advice of Kim DiLecter and take the initiative to attack.
As a result, he almost lost the capital to have children.
When he wanted to get closer, he kissed Trovis without a license, but was kicked into the abdomen by the other party. It was not intentional, it was completely instinct.
Wei Xia learned from this that Trovis practices taekwondo when he is fine.
Level 4 blue belt.
Although it is far from the violent heroines in various film and television dramas who always come out of the entire Black Belt Nine-Dan, it is already a very dangerous existence for people like Wei Xia who never fights much and only knows how to fight and mess up the car.
"Sorry, I didn't mean it." Trovis said guiltily.
Wei Xia covered her cramped belly and forced herself to say, "It doesn't matter, at least I know you are a Taekwondo master..."
He should be glad that it would be a big mistake if Trovis's foot out position was below his abdomen.
In early April, the Lakers' first game, the opponent was from the Kings of Sacramento.
The Kings, who have been confirmed to miss the playoffs, are relatively embarrassing teams. Their record is incomparable to other people who are determined to play, but even if they win all in April, they will not be able to enter the top eight in the West.
If the opponent Ou is the Lakers, they are willing to use all their strength to disgust their opponents, but by the end of the game, they will be more disgusted.
Kobe's March Crazy won him the warm hospitality of double-teaming as soon as he got the ball.
Kobe, who was mentally prepared, made full use of his opponent's double team, with 14 assists in a single game and scored less than 20 points, but allowed Wei Xia to score 38 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists, leading the team to defeat the Kings 129-101.
The Lakers, who have won nine consecutive games in a row, are approaching the sixth place in the West. If they continue to win like this, the Rockets, currently ranked fifth, will be unstable.
Each team in the West has its own little thoughts, and each team has its best first-round target in the minds.
The Spurs want to touch the Nuggets the Most, and the Suns want to touch the Lakers the Most, and avenge last year's one-stop revenge. Of course, the Jazz want to look for the Rockets. They have the configuration of fully defeating the Rockets in all aspects. The Rockets' idea is very pure. As long as it is not the Jazz, anyone can do it. For the Lakers, they have no idea of choosing opponents, because they were ranked tenth in the Western Conference not long ago. What they have to do now is to maintain the qualification for the playoffs and play with anyone.
Oh by the way, there are also the Mavericks who are invincible in the league. They are moving away from the league's first record in a row.
In the first round, they don’t care who they play with. If they insist on choosing one, they will definitely be the Warriors of the team’s former head coach Don Nelson. They don’t look down on the Warriors, they just want to give a favor to the old coach. Anyway, anyone who meets them will be smashed.
The number one in the West is so confident.
The Lakers won't rest when defeating the Kings.
The next day, the Nuggets with a golden double gun.
In order to keep the sixth place in the West, the Nuggets fought with all their strength, almost everyone performed well.
Anthony's 35 points formed a mutual explosion with Kobe, and Iverson was restricted by Wei Xia, but he also scored 20 points.
Marcus Kans, like Bill Russell, has 20 points, 21 rebounds and 5 blocks.
Looking at the data of these people, the Nuggets have no reason to lose.
As a result, they lost, and the final gap was only 1 point.
For the Lakers, Kobe scored 40 points with a 50% shooting percentage, and the showdown with Anthony was the upper hand.
Odom scored 15 points, 14 rebounds and 15 assists Jason Kidd-style large triple-double.
The most unexpected explosion point for the Nuggets is Wei Xia.
After Kobe, he scored 34 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists.
The Nuggets scored five players in double digits, while the Lakers only had three. The Nuggets, who had the right time, place and people, eventually lost the game.
The Denver people collapsed, and the Lakers won ten consecutive victories.
At first, some people discovered that the Lakers should be valued not only Kobe, but also Wei Xia.
He entered another state since the overtime dominance game at the end of March.
In the third game in April, the Lakers and the Clippers' last regular season game between the same-city brothers, Wei Xia scored 30 points again in a downturn in Kobe.
The Lakers defeated the Clippers with a 3-point advantage, surpassing the Nuggets and rising to sixth in the Western Conference.
The ecology of the west is different from that of the east.
The top eight teams can be divided into three levels.
Niu Rima is the first echelon, and it is another level of existence from record to combat power.
The Jazz and Rockets, the life-and-death enemy who loves and kills each other, are the core combat forces of the middle level.
After the top five, the Lakers, Nuggets, Warriors, Clippers, etc. are all third-tier teams.
The Lakers were originally in the middle-level team, with injuries in the inside, unfavorable signings from the management, and the failure of Kobe's transformation in the middle of the season, which made them turn into empty space and fall to the tenth place in the West starting from scratch.
But now, they have once again reached the forefront of the third tier and are eyeing the Rockets and Jazz in the middle.
If the Lakers continue to maintain their current winning rate, he will undoubtedly return to the mid-level team and completely change the playoff layout of the Jazz and Rockets.
Soon, the Lakers ushered in their fourth game in April.
Seattle Supersonics, who have no hope for the playoffs at all, are already one of the top three picks, and are all out against the Lakers and want to end their winning streak.
Kobe made efforts and scored 46 points alone, sending away the Seattle man who was terrified of his bad intentions.
Wei Xia, who scored 30 points in a row, only scored 19 points today, and he was very badly beaten by Chris Wilcox.
The Lakers, who achieved twelve consecutive victories, encountered the biggest test.
The Suns who were blocking them in front of them were trying to stop them from moving forward, and they fought with the Lakers with the idea of playing a playoff game.
"Tonight's game may change the Suns' playoff strategy a lot or less. Do they really want to meet the Lakers?"
This game is very similar to the previous match between the Lakers and the Nuggets.
The Suns scored in double digits, with three of them scoring more than 20 points. Nash even broke the devil barrier of Wei Xia's "Nash Terminator" and efficiently scored 24 points and 15 assists.
The Lakers still only have three players scoring in double digits.
Kobe had a steady 34 points, 14 rebounds and 4 assists, and he beat any defender or wing of the Suns alone.
Odom's 221213's large triple-double shows that he has returned to his excellent form at the beginning of the season.
It was Wei Xia who made Phoenix feel unsatisfied.
"Steve Nash's Terminator is not the nickname that fits wishes the best. The title that suits him best should be the 'Phoenix Hunter'. How do you explain his amazing performance against the Suns?"
In the game against the Suns, Wei Xia's performance focused on the second and third quarters.
In the second quarter, 20 points in a single quarter, and in the fourth quarter, 20 points in a single quarter, the total score of the other two quarters was only 4 points.
With 44 points, 11 rebounds and 5 assists in the game, Wei Xia attracted countless media interviews with her best performance in the game that excited Luocheng.
The media asked him why he always killed Phoenix.
His answer was very modest: "I want to know the answer, but I don't."
The Suns shot down declared the Lakers' thirteen consecutive victories, and they thus left the third echelon and climbed towards the mid-level echelon. The Jazz and the Rockets could already see the back wave coming in full force.
No one knows when their winning streak will last.
Kobe's hope is: "The winning streak is over until the end of the regular season."
The Lakers really aimed at this and their morale and chemical reactions have risen to the highest point, just like another Mavericks who were worried about the regular season when they were even worried.
After a series of killings, he was covered in blood, and behind him were the bodies of more than a dozen losers.
"Who else?"
"Who else can stop the Lakers from winning streak?"
Media questions resounded throughout the United States, while the Lakers won seventeen consecutive victories with a devastating momentum.
In the final battle of the 2006-07 season, the team stuck in front of them was the Golden State Warriors.
The Warriors have firmly ranked eighth in the West, so winning or losing doesn't matter to them.
But the Lakers have something to say.
The success or failure of this battle is related to whether they are the first round of the Spurs as the sixth in the West, or the first round of the Jazz as the fourth in the West.
How to choose the Spurs and the Jazz?
Is that need to be said?
The Lakers defeated the Warriors with all their might and ended the regular season dramatically with 18 consecutive victories.
At the same time, it also caused huge changes in the first round of the Western Conference middle and upper levels.
Chapter completed!