Chapter 429 [Return to Los Angeles, Fatal Flaw]

The second stop of the Suns' road trip is Los Angeles, where they will face the Clippers on the 14th.

The Lakers didn't play, the players were on vacation in Los Angeles to recuperate, and Guo Xu asked O'Neal to have a meal together.

In yesterday's game, the Lakers suffered their sixth loss of the season with a 108-112 loss to the Trail Blazers, who are down in strength and out of the playoffs.

Without the "Eagle County incident", the Lakers' locker room conflicts are getting more and more serious.

In Guo Xu's previous life, some nights Kobe would fly back from Colorado, and when introducing the starters, Karim Rush would start the game, and then Kobe would come directly from the airport, change into game clothes, and appear immediately before the end of the player introduction and the jump ball, without warming up, and he was definitely the most focused player in the game, as if nothing happened off the court.

Now, Bryant will be in the team's drills and will hit his teammates instead of being good at guiding them.

Bryant's theory was: "Look, I'm the first one to train, I'm working harder than everybody, I'm more talented than everybody, I'm going to give it my all every game." So you should all pass the ball to me. "Some people have a lot of respect for Kobe Bryant because of this, like Fisher, who is used to passing the ball past half court.

And what about O'Neill? During training, he always kept telling jokes and saying to his teammates: "I'm going to cover you". If someone throws a foul on a teammate, O'Neal will say, "Give that guy to me." It's hard not to dislike O'Neill with these details.

The conflict between the two has always existed, and the Lakers locker room is divided into two factions.

There was also a lot of criticism about the triangle offense, and at the beginning of the season, opponents were afraid of the Lakers, and some teams would voluntarily surrender their guns because of fear. When other teams overcame the fear that "this TMD is an All-Star team" and they began to challenge the Lakers, the Lakers slowly revealed their problems. They don't know how to win tactically, they only play one-on-one.

They don't blend well into a single unit, they're just a group of people who have made a name for themselves.

Ao Pang now complains when he sees Guo Xu, and he doesn't have much to think about this season.

Guo Xu will never tell Ao Fat how good he is in another world, he is partnered with healthy Maddie and Bibby, and it is estimated that he will have seven crowns, if O'Neal Ken cuts his salary in the future and gives up his rights to young stars, he will not be too bad at the end of his career. He's become an Orlando hero, management will never trade him, and he'll probably have a retirement loop.

Now Ao Fat can only work hard with Kobe, who is not the "King of Eagles", for a season, and then think about the back road, it is no problem to make a lot of money, and his commercial value has always been very high.

In the evening, the Suns played against the Clippers, and Guo Xu received warm applause from Los Angeles fans when he played.

The Clippers have won just seven games and are underdogs with no playoff hopes, rarely broadcast live across the United States, but today's Staples home court was almost full.

CCTV5 live broadcast of the game, in China the Sun is second only to the Rockets, the second most popular team, when the Rockets are not playing, they generally broadcast the Sun.

Zhang said: "Guo Xu is like returning to his home court, I think a lot of Los Angeles fans came to see him, in the All-Star voting that has begun, he ranks first in the league in total votes, and is likely to be the top voter for a second time." ”

Xu Jicheng said: "Guo Xu may also win the regular season MVP, he is different from the most popular Vince Carter before, Carter just dunked beautifully, led the team to a bad result, the best one reached the second round, and the Raptors didn't even enter the playoffs last season." Guo Xu is not good at dunking, but everything else is very good. ”

Zhang Li said: "This is the role of the super core, one person revitalizes the whole team." I think he's actually good at dunking, but he rarely dunks, and his floor-flow style is not easy to get hurt, and his attendance rate is very high after he enters the league. ”

Guo Xu really doesn't like to jump, whether it's offensive or defensive. Even if he returns from training in the time loop, he will not choose to force a dunk in the game, against the Magic or the floor flow style is the main one, if he can shoot, he will not jump, and if he jumps, he will also throw.

Blocking opponents is known as the most domineering way to score, but Guo Xu feels that it is not cost-effective for players to risk serious injuries in order to score two points. With the exception of O'Neal, he has no risk in shutting down opponents.

During the warm-up, Guo Xu had a good shooting touch and was ready to shoot more, but D'Antoni chatted with him alone and suggested that he focus on breakthroughs this time, attract the bag and divide the ball for his teammates to shoot, and help his teammates build confidence. The coach didn't say that he forgot that his young teammates were at a low ebb before he entered the loop.

The two sides started the game, and the Suns had five players: Guo Xu, Raja Bell, Joe Johnson, Marion, and Stoudeyer.

Clippers starters: Marco Jaric, Corey Margetty, Quentin Richardson, Elton Brand, Chris Wilcox.

The Suns fielded three swingmen to play small-ball tactics, with Smalls in charge of defending Brand on the defensive end, and Marion tasked with defending power forwards and pick-and-rolls.

Wilcox is a Swift-style spring man insider, 208cm tall and weighs only 100kg, Marion will not be crushed by his body against him.

In the 2002 draft, Wilcox was the 8th pick ahead of Smalls, but averaged only 3.7 points and 2.3 rebounds per game in his rookie season. This season, the Clippers have gone Odom, who has gained more playing time and has only been able to score 8.6 points and 4.7 rebounds. His offensive area is mainly inside the box, and his mid-range shooting is poor, with a 28% shooting percentage.

Xiao Si was dissatisfied with Wilcox's higher rank than himself, and he deliberately competed today, and when he earned the ball, he jumped with all his strength to Bell, who passed to Guo Xu, and the Sun attacked first.

After observing the situation, Guo Xu asked his teammates to pull away, and directly singled out Yaric in the middle.

Wilcox is very maneuverable and does well in pick-and-rolls, and the Clippers are ready to focus on developing him. Guo Xu doesn't plan to give this person a chance to exercise, the Clippers have obvious weaknesses on the outside, Yaric is a white point guard with a height of 201CM and a weight of 90 kilograms, and his movement speed is slow in swing people, and he doesn't need to play blocking and dismantling.

Yaric is too slow to play point guard, unqualified to play swing man, too poor to fight, almost no explosiveness, he was famous in his previous life because he married the famous Brazilian supermodel Adriana Lima, the woman who once divorced Ronaldo.

Guo Xu has been practicing solo Bibi and Wade for the past two years, and he feels that he jumps faster than Yarich on one leg. Because of his fatal flaw, Yarich only played a total of seven seasons in the NBA and never played in the playoffs.

Guo Xu dribbled the ball to his left hand under his crotch, changed direction to the right side violently, shook his position in one step by speed, and completely passed Yaric in the second step and smashed into the basket from the right side. Brand made up for the defense, Guo Xu jumped and shook a little space to divide the ball, Xiao Si received the ball on the left side, stepped into the basket, and scored easily. 2 to 0.

Yaric organized the ball, Quentin received the ball and shot at Bale, and the unreasonable choice was to rely on the height advantage to shoot. 2 to 2.

Guo Xu singled again, the same action as just now, Yaric stood a little back, Guo Xu changed direction and did not break through the back dribble to the left hand to retreat, and then used the "worship Buddha" feint.

Jaric 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 side successfully, took a step with the ball to attract Brand to change defense, and threw the ball high.

He dodged the Brand defense with a throw, but it wasn't a throw but a pass, and the height was just above the basket to the left, and Smalls took off to score a dunk. 4 to 2.