UGB Chapter 438 Fight the Lakers again! Christmas battle!
Chapter 438 Fight the Lakers again! Christmas battle!
After defeating the Dallas Mavericks, the Celtics' winning streak has extended to 21 games. So far this season, they are still without a single defeat, and the last one that is expected to beat them is the Los Angeles Lakers!
This season's Lakers, after the fiasco last season, did not significantly change their lineup, they maximized the stability of the team's core.
At the same time, Kobe Bryant, who has worked hard all summer, has once again ushered in explosive progress this season. From the data point of view, Kobe's average of 25 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists per game has not increased much, even compared to the previous year. There is still a slight drop, but everyone who has watched the Lakers games will know that Kobe's progress this year is almost all on the defensive end!
Kobe Bryant has replaced Pippen as the Lakers' number one defensive gate on the perimeter, averaging 1.8 blocks and 2.2 steals per game, both career highs. He is also the only guard in the league with 1.5+ blocks and 2.2+ steals!
This season's Kobe Bryant has become a strong contender for the best defensive player in addition to ensuring the fire on the offensive end! Everyone can see that this is Kobe's challenge to Lin Long! His goal is only the championship!
In addition to Kobe, O'Neal's state this year is also extremely hot. He averaged 27 points, 13 rebounds and 2 blocks per game. This offseason, he took the initiative to practice additional training. Although he was not as exaggerated as Kobe, he finally Entering the new season with a perfect figure, the details of various technologies have made obvious progress.
At the same time, because of the weight reduction, O'Neal has returned to the terrifying monster that can rush and run in the magic period! This season, O'Neal has both the lethality that can destroy everything and the flexibility and speed that are rarely seen in the interior.
The Celtics would be fooling around to train O'Neal with a small guard like Aaron after the pick-and-roll like last season!
As for Karl Malone, he is still willing to serve as a green leaf, although he did not continue to play as a substitute, but the defense line formed by him, Kobe and Pippen has become the most difficult fortress in the entire NBA!
This season, although the Lakers did not win like the Celtics, they only lost 3 games. In terms of hit rate, it surpassed the Celtics and ranked first in the league!
These two teams both possess spears that can destroy everything, and giant shields that resist all attacks.
Their duel this season will be even more exciting and beautiful than last season!
The first matchup between the two teams this season will be the Christmas battle of the season!
This much-anticipated yellow-green battle and the replay of the finals have touched the hearts of thousands of fans. Countless people are looking forward to the two teams meeting again. If even the Lakers can't deal with the Celtics Man, then I'm afraid they're really going to end the season with a winless record.
Similarly, Boston fans are also looking forward to the team being able to take another head-on attack on the Lakers, and let this group of Los Angeles hillbillies who are delusional to prevent their team from 3 consecutive championships know.
What is crushing, what is strength, and what is destroying everything!
The Celtics continue their winning streak in the final week before Christmas!
With a 24-game winning streak, we waited for the challenge of the Lakers.
The Lakers are also in full shape. In the three games before Christmas, they beat their opponents by 21 points, 27 points and 34 points respectively!
Both sides are ready for the most important Christmas battle!
On December 25, 1999, the last Christmas of the 20th century, the Lakers and the Celtics finally waited for their first encounter of the season!
The North Shore Garden Arena was once again packed, and more than 20,000 spectators poured into the arena excitedly to see how this group of Los Angeles people lost to their own team!
The smell of gunpowder permeated the entire court since the players from both sides entered the court. Even if Lin Long and Kobe had a good relationship, the two did not greet their opponents before the game. Everyone looked at each other with murderous intent. As if this Christmas battle is not a basketball game, but a life-and-death final showdown.
Everyone on both sides is working hard, they are going to give the opponent a head-on blow in the game!
After a long pre-match ceremony and warm-up, the game finally officially started!
The referee blew the whistle, the basketball was thrown into the sky again, O'Neal and Lin Long took off at the same time, and their hands clapped on the basketball at almost the same time!
This is the first time in Lin Long's long jump ball career that someone can match him in the scrimmage!
However, in the end it was still Lin Long who had the upper hand!
He hooked back hard, and the basketball was forcibly snatched from O'Neal's hands and slapped to Billups.
"々. Next time, I will definitely win you 々々!"
O'Neal almost squeezed out this sentence from between his teeth.
"Yes, yes, you said the same thing last time in the finals, I remember it.
Lin Long deliberately put on a tireless look, trying to make O'Neal angry, but unfortunately this year's sharks have obviously grown up, and he is completely indifferent to Lin Long's provocation (Wang Dehao).
"I heard that you practiced hard in the summer?" Lin Long continued reluctantly:
"Is it a training where you go to a random passerby in the block and scold you for 3 minutes, and then you hold back your anger? Make you completely immune to trash talk and stop being angry?
"Shut up, if your game is half as good as you speak, you're also..." O'Neal stopped suddenly.
Lin Long's basketball seems to be stronger than his trash talk.
"What's wrong with me?" Lin Long said deliberately: "Can it be more than what I have now?"
"Shut up, bastard! 35
O'Neal became furious, he knew that his bickering was definitely not Lin Long's opponent, and in the end he turned all the words into the simplest, most direct, and most easily communicated swear words, and sprayed them out at Lin Long.