578. Kobe Bryant, who is in an up-and-down state
After three consecutive wins in the opening season, the Lakers next ushered in a home and a four-game road trip, including a back-to-back, which was a back-to-back challenge to the Nuggets in the West on November 4, and a back-to-back home game against the South Coast Heat and Magic on the 6th and 7th in the East, and two consecutive away games on the 10th and 12th in New York.
The Nuggets selected Nikola Jokic and Emmanuel Moodier in last year's and this year's draft, respectively.
After Jokic was drafted, he was too young and too young to be placed in Europe to play in the lower leagues for an extra year, and only came to the NBA this season, Moodier graduated from high school in 2014, he went to the CBA for a year, he was originally the biggest favorite of this year, he did not play NCAA, but went to play CBA, and was injured, which caused the draft market to plummet, originally the first target of the 76ers was Moodier, and then Russell, but Moodier averaged only 18 points and 6 assists per game in the CBA, It turns out that his scoring ability in the adult league is not as great as he seemed in high school.
After falling to the seventh pick and being drafted by the Nuggets, the facts also proved what was written in the scouting report, the passing is average, and the finishing ability is poor.
Moodier's first few games hit a measly twenty-five percent! He averaged only 11 points on 16 shots per game, and his assists were okay, and as a scoring point guard, he averaged seven assists per game in his first three games, but he also averaged five turnovers per game......
This is the same as the Moodier in Liu Ren's memory, except for physical fitness, he has not reached the NBA level in other aspects, to be precise, it is similar to the original Liu Ren before he came to this world, except for physical fitness.
However, the figure is tall among point guards, the dribbling ball sense is good, and the speed and explosiveness are first-class, and the Nuggets are desperate when they see Moodier entering the NBA, but they still retain their expectations, what if they open up one day?
And the Nuggets management in this time and space has more expectations than the Nuggets management in Liu Ren's time and space, and the reason is naturally Liu Ren.
After Liu Ren's rise, every bit of his selection by the Lakers into the NBA was exposed and studied by the management of other teams.
The conclusion is that his physical fitness is good, but he didn't open his mind at first, and then he suddenly opened up.
As a result, the low-to-mid teams in the NBA suddenly began to be very friendly to those players who were physically fit but played averagely, looking forward to another ......
So no matter how hard Moodier shot or how badly he played, Nuggets head coach Mike Malone broke his teeth and held on to give Moodier more than 30 minutes of playing time.
In fact, if the Nuggets are a very bad bottom team, Mike Malone also admits it, and it is regarded as a rotten rookie by the way, Moodier will not say it, Jokic's offensive talent is simply explosive! The inside and outside skills are very good, worthy of being a technical man honed in Europe, and the rebounding is also at an excellent level.
But it was Moodier that the management was grooming.
Moreover, the depth of the Nuggets lineup is too good, not only that, but they also dare to fight, and they bite the score very tightly in the game with the Lakers, and do not let the Lakers widen the difference to more than 15 points, giving the players hope to catch up.
But hope is just hope, and the Lakers maintained a lead of more than ten points until the end.
In the end, the Lakers, under the leadership of Liu Ren, who scored 29 points and 6 boards, easily defeated the Nuggets 109-100 and won four consecutive victories.
For the Lakers, this game didn't take much effort, and the point difference couldn't be opened for a long time, because D'Antoni wanted to give enough rotation to the interior, and when there were 5 starter-level interior players, this kind of happy troubles can sometimes be very painful.
And for Mike Malone, this game is not so friendly, Moodier has unlimited firing rights, yes, but when the Nuggets' power players Nelson, Will Barton, Gallinari, Farid, JJ Hickson, Jokic ...... When people saw that there was still hope for the point difference, they directly ignored Moodier and beat themselves.
Although it seems that Moodier still has the most shots in the whole game today, and more than before, scoring 15 points on 6-of-22 shooting, but Moodier almost always does it himself with the ball, and others are not happy to cooperate with him.
It is worth mentioning that Kobe Bryant did not perform very well under Gallinari's defense, and he was still stubborn, and he was stunned to go it alone with the ball.
But the rest of the Lakers didn't care, anyway, there was always someone who had to shoot on the outside, since Kobe Bryant wanted to shoot, let him vote, who made him the boss. And the Lakers have too big a rebounding advantage, facing the Nuggets and grabbed 56 rebounds, while the Nuggets only have 41, Kobe Bryant loves Liu Ren and they let him wave, old man, you have to get used to it.
And Kobe Bryant doesn't seem to be in such a good shape in the new season, and his teammates are willing to let him shoot more to get a feeling.
After playing the Nuggets, the Lakers flew to Miami on the South Coast to challenge the Heat.
Liu Ren "stole" Whiteside, the future core of the Heat, to the Lakers, the Knicks poached Wade in the past summer, and the Celtics robbed Dragic from the original Heat.
The best player for the Heat right now is ...... High round round Hibbert......
Pat Riley has been counting for more than 30 years, but I didn't expect anything to go wrong in the last two years, Bosh, who won 118 million in 5 years, basically announced his career reimbursement last season, James Wade left one after another, and now the only valuable player on the Heat team is Justis Winslow, the No. 9 pick selected this year.
I have to say that Pat Riley is really good, stunned to choose a player at the No. 9 position who is predicted to be in the middle of the first round, and this player also played the strength to be ranked in the top six of this year's rookies, in addition to Towns, Russell, Okafor, Jokic and the Porzingis in New York, Winslow performed the best.
Great defending, great sense of movement, mature big-picture ...... It's a perfect championship puzzle.
But it's useless! The Heat are running for the top pick this year, and it's a waste to throw a championship puzzle piece at them, and Pat Riley is now sitting on the aisle with his hands on his knees, just like Kupchak in the 12-13 season, and an old face is as helpless as he wants.
Even if Winslow and Liu Ren are hard and fearless, what's the use? Kobe Bryant abused Josh Richardson, a rookie, to death, Josh Richardson was originally selected by Pat Riley to play Wade as a substitute, and now he is forced to play as a starter.
There was no suspense in this game, and the only thing that made the Lakers players feel strange but happy was that Kobe Bryant was in great shape today, scoring 41 points on 17-of-24 shooting.
However, the defense of the Heat guard line is so poor, Kobe's performance makes people feel that there is nothing wrong, but it is much stronger than the previous game.
After playing the Heat, the Lakers rushed to Orlando overnight, and No. 7 played the Magic back-to-back.
The Magic look like they're doing well with a young lineup, and there's even a natural surplus of talent, with Elfried Payton, Victor Oladipo, Evan Fournier, Tobias Harris, Jahir Okafor, Aaron Gordon, Nikola Ucevic, and a full of talent.
But just like D'Antoni, Coach Scott Skels, who has just found a new job, is a little confused about too much talent after coming to the Magic, too many geniuses! And the key thing is that the talent gap between everyone is not so big, the talent is good, but none of them are cornerstone-level young people, it is not particularly cost-effective to give up who cultivates the other, and the talent has overflowed, and at this time, the goal given by the Magic management this season is to make the playoffs in the weak East.
Scott Skeles genuinely wants to curse.
The Lakers are also a team with explosive talent, and compared to the young people who are still waiting to be fed on the Magic side, the Lakers are completely adults bullying children, and the Magic lost their armor in three or two strokes, and easily won 6 consecutive victories.
But the Lakers players saw the strange picture again, and Kobe Bryant was very uncomfortable defended by the Magic's two-meter-and-three-meter shooting guard Evan Fournier......
The first six games are an appetizer for the Lakers in the league, which is basically equal to the record of the gift, and several teams have no possibility of defeating the Lakers, giving the Lakers benefits at the beginning, after all, the defending champion can't play so ugly at the beginning.
After an easy six-game winning streak, the Lakers ushered in their first real highlight game of the season, visiting Madison Square Garden, the mecca of basketball!