293. Group photo of Yang Fan's faction (6K words)(1/2)
The Lakers' Christmas battle against the Rockets is just a small episode in the league.
After all, before this game starts, the possibility of the Lakers winning is far greater than that of the Rockets. Even if the Rockets play very well this year, it is obviously worse than the Lakers.
After the Christmas battle, it means that December is coming to an end. Next, each team will compete in the new year and show its magical powers in the new year.
Those who are interested in winning the championship should try their best to win, and those who want to play badly should find ways to lose more games so that the team can have a good result at the draw at the end of May.
In a blink of an eye, January has entered. After January, the Lakers are still in full swing and are the biggest favorite to win the championship in the league today.
Moreover, the Lakers have only lost one game in total, and no one knows how long it will take to lose next time. After all, there are as many as a dozen teams in the league this year, which seriously affects the overall level of the league.
Some fans have even kept complaining online, saying that the NBA has become increasingly ugly in recent years. The gap between strong teams and weak teams is too big, and even the championship has become no suspense.
These voice alliances in the outside world naturally hear this, but the alliance does not have a good idea about this.
As for the reason why the alliance has developed to this point, everyone knows it, that is the monster Yang Fan!
Fortunately, this season is the last season of Yang Fan's coaching career. After this year, Yang Fan will officially retire and leave the coaching industry.
By then, once Yang Fan is not leading the team to play games, the league will have enough confidence to bring the NBA back to balance.
There are only a few monsters like Yang Fan, so the alliance doesn’t believe that Yang Fan will appear again!!
If this is true, the league will definitely kill it in the cradle before it grows up. Yang Fan has taught the league a bloody lesson about this matter.
Because of Yang Fan’s strong team building idea, the NBA’s ratings have continued to decline in the past two years. When competitive sports no longer have suspense, it will definitely be a disaster!
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Throughout January, the Lakers also encountered some troubles during the battle, such as Kobe and Rondo were fighting against injuries.
There is no need to say more about Kobe's age. His more than ten years of career left too many injuries on Kobe.
Now as Kobe enters the end of his career, these potential injuries are gradually coming to the door, making Kobe very painful in every game.
As for what troubles Rondo, he has always been his finger injury. As we all know, Rondo has a big palm, which is considered a big one even among NBA players.
In addition, Rondo is an excellent defensive locker, so Rondo always bruises his fingers when he reaches for a steal.
As early as the Celtics, Rondo's fingers were dislocated more than once. When playing in the finals, Rondo would simply fix it after his fingers were dislocated, and then continue to play with injuries.
So far, Rondo's fingers have become recurrent injuries, and even his wrists often suffer from dislocation.
In January, Rondo and Kobe missed many games due to injuries, which forced Yang Fan to become cautious off the court.
As long as the team's leading advantage can reach more than double digits, Yang Fan will replace all the main players as soon as possible to avoid injuries.
After all, if Yang Fan wants to break the best record in history, the first thing he needs to ensure is the health of the players. Otherwise, once the player is injured, no matter how capable Yang Fan is, he can only sigh helplessly.
The time comes January 21, and on this day, the Lakers ushered in their second defeat in the season.
The Lakers, who ranked first in the league in this game, lost to the Kings, who ranked third from the bottom in the West.
This result was something that no one expected. On the roster of teams that could defeat the Lakers, the name Kings was definitely thrown out of the blue.
Even if fans think about it once, no one could have thought that the Kings would defeat the Lakers in an upset manner.
The reason why the Kings were able to defeat the Lakers in the whole game was mainly because the character players' touch was too perverted.
In this game, the Kings' shooting percentage was as high as 63%, especially the unfamous substitute players who usually make a name for themselves, basically hit every shot after playing, which is quite a bit like having to pass through the ball in half.
Head coach Yang Fan, who shot directly with the Kings with efficient shooting efficiency, was sweating coldly.
Even though the Lakers once narrowed the gap to three-pointers in the fourth quarter, the key is that the Kings feel too generous. They can shoot at critical moments and get into the net with just throws outside the three-point line.
At that moment, Yang Fan even thought that the King was the team that cheated, otherwise how could he be so perverted on the field!
Or maybe the Kings burst out all the luck he had accumulated in this game, but no matter which one it was, it was an indisputable fact that the Lakers eventually lost the second game of the season.
After this game, the Lakers' record reached 43 wins and 3 losses. The Lakers will have a total of 36 regular season games this season.
If the Lakers want to break the Wizards' best record of 77 wins, then the Lakers can only lose two games at most in these 36 games.
It sounds nonsense to lose one game per 18 games on average, but considering the Lakers' outstanding performance in the past, as long as the Lakers can stay healthy in the future, this is not an impossible task!
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As time comes to the end of January, it is getting closer to the 2015 All-Star Weekend.
The All-Star voting window has already opened. At present, fans and media can vote for the stars they support, select the lineup they most want to see this year, and form two teams of luxurious All-Star battleships.
At present, in the first round of voting that has ended, all the five starting players of the Lakers are far ahead in their respective fields, especially the three Kobe, James and Paul George's voting are completely ahead of other players.
Even this year's All-Star Weekend is likely to have a weird scene, that is, the five starting players of the Western Conference All-Stars are actually Lakers players, and this possibility is very great at present!
Since Yang Fan formed this luxury battleship this offseason this year, the Lakers' attention has already spread throughout the sports world before the season started.
In addition, the market in Los Angeles is originally one of the most economically developed cities in the United States. In Los Angeles, players are far more caring for than small cities.
And when the influence of Los Angeles and Yang Fan’s influence are combined, this is simply a tingling thing!
It is worth mentioning that Zach LaVine, who has been playing as a substitute in the Lakers this season, is also far ahead in the All-Star vote in the Western Conference backcourt.
No matter how you look at this incident, it reveals incredible. As a substitute, LaVine was able to beat Lillard, Westbrook and others in the All-Star voting.
Even Curry and Harden's votes are equal to those of Lavine, which is really shocking.
It is not difficult to see from here how terrifying power will burst out when Yang Fan and Los Angeles' influence are combined.
If Zach LaVine can really be selected into the All-Star lineup this season, it can definitely be called a miracle in NBA history.
In fact, the reason why LaVine is so popular this season is not only because Yang Fan and the Los Angeles market have brought him traffic.
Laven's playing style and explosive physical fitness on the court are the most attractive things for fans.
The Lakers' attention this season can be said to be unprecedented, which has led to many fans coming to watch every game of the Lakers.
LaVine often performs difficult movements such as windmill dunks and air spinning in actual combat, so LaVine has become a favorite in the media's eyes in the Los Angeles market.
Even though LaVin is just a substitute for the Los Angeles Lakers this season, and even if LaVin's average data is not that outstanding, in the eyes of the media, LaVin has been identified as the next Kobe of the Los Angeles Lakers.
All media are boldly predicting that when Yang Fan retires next season and Kobe retires in two seasons, LaVine will definitely become the core of the Lakers' team building.
Originally, before LaVine truly realized its potential, the media could not make such a bold prediction, but LaVine was Yang Fan's rookie in the lottery pick.
Considering Yang Fan’s bug-level talent show vision, the media is not afraid that LaVine is a parallel person at all, so this is why LaVine is so popular this season!
He has a strong physical fitness and a good-looking playing style. In addition, he has a genius label selected by Yang Fan in the Lotto. When all these conditions are concentrated on one person, not to mention being an outside fan, even David Stern and Adam Xiaohua are considering whether to promote Lavender vigorously.
After all, no matter how you look at this, it is a matter of making a profit. Lotto may have parallel products, but the rookies selected by Yang Fan must not be parallel products!!
What's more, this player is still so eye-catching, and as Kobe is gradually fading out of the league, Zach LaVine's appearance is just right!
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Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is February 14th. Today, the NBA's annual All-Star Weekend will be officially held in New York.
At present, the All-Star lineup of the East and West games has been completely determined, and the Lakers have also created history in the All-Star matter, becoming the first team in NBA history to have six players selected as All-Stars at the same time in a single season!
The six players selected for the Lakers' All-Star lineup this year are: Rondo, Kobe, George, James, Gasol, and Lavine.
Among them, LaVine's selection also made him the second player in NBA history to be selected as an All-Star as a pure substitute.
As for the first place, LaVine's current teammate Kobe Bryant.
In this way, all the only two All-Star substitutes in NBA history are from the Lakers.
That year, Kobe was selected into the All-Star lineup as a substitute because of the strong promotion from the league.
After Michael Jordan retires, the league hopes that Kobe can stand up and act as Jordan's successor.
The reason why LaVine is currently selected into the All-Star lineup is because Kobe's gradual fading out of the league. The league hopes that LaVine can stand up and act as Kobe's successor.
It has to be said that history is always surprisingly similar. Nearly 20 years have passed in a blink of an eye, but the various means of the alliance are still in use.
The All-Star Weekend will be held for a total of three days. The first two days are mainly some rookie challenges and dunk contests.
But Yang Fan was not interested in these things at all. Yang Fan just gave some suggestions for Zach Lavender and asked him to sign up for this year's slam dunk contest.
Yang Fan knew that the real thing about LaVine attracting fans is the dunk. Participating in the dunk competition is only beneficial but not harmful to LaVine.
Regardless of whether LaVin can win the championship in the slam dunk competition, at least LaVin's outstanding dunk will definitely further increase his popularity.
If nothing unexpected happens, LaVine's popularity will be close to LeBron's? A top star in the league, becoming one of the players with the greatest contrast in popularity and data in the league today!
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Yang Fan just took a brief look at the first day of the rookie challenge. In the end, the second-year rookie team defeated the first grade with a better lineup depth and defended the dignity of the seniors.
As the main player of the first-year rookie team, LaVine scored 26 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists in this game. Among them, the windmill dunks in several fast break counters were so exciting that fans were excited.
In this semi-performing and semi-competitive rookie challenge, Lavin simply interpreted his explosive physical fitness to the extreme.
Looking at Zach Lavin, who is getting more and more popular, even Yang Fan, who is sitting on the sidelines, can't help but smile.
Because strictly speaking, LaVin can be regarded as Yang Fan's masterpiece in the retirement season, so when LaVin's popularity began to break through the sky, Yang Fan, who created all this with his own hands, was really relieved!
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Yang Fan didn't even go to the dunk contest the next day to cheer for Lavender. The players who participated in the dunk contest this year were very average. If nothing unexpected happened, Lavender might have decided to be the dunk champion.
The final dunk contest was indeed as expected by Yang Fan. With the strong windmill under his crotch and the 360-air spinning body, plus the free throw line in the final, LaVine easily gained the reputation of being the new dunk king.
This year's slam dunk contest also allowed fans to see Zach Laven's terrifying physical fitness again, and at the same time, more and more fans began to fall in love with Laven and fell in love with this rookie who can only contribute 9.1 points per game this season.
To be continued...