Los Angeles is a good place, but this time the Eagles came to Los Angeles again, and again they had no time to experience the lavishness and extravagance of Los Angeles.

After playing the Rockets that night, the Hawks flew to Los Angeles to prepare for the next four games in five days, the first three of which were all California teams.

The first is the Lakers. After a day's rest in the hotel, on the morning of February 20, the Eagles came to the Toyota Center, the Lakers' training center, for training and a team meeting.

Unlike the last time I came to Los Angeles to play the Clippers, I encountered a terrible situation. The Toyota Center training facility is really good. As the home court of the Los Angeles Defenders of the Development League, it has a complete home and away training facility.

Whether the boss has money and whether the boss is generous or not are really two different things sometimes.

In addition to being used by the Lakers, the Toyota Center training facility is also used by the Los Angeles Defenders and the Los Angeles Sparks. It is actually quite a big place.

For the Lakers, who are far away from being able to reach the top four in the Western Conference, the Eagles do not dare to underestimate the Lakers, because after the All-Star weekend, O'Neal is back!

Although O'Neal only played more than 30 of the first 50 games this year, he was extremely efficient! His scoring, rebounds, assists and even shooting percentage all improved slightly compared to last season.

Because it is true that this year's Lakers team is seriously aging, coupled with the self-satisfaction after three consecutive championships, there is no motivation to play. Both Kobe and O'Neal must be in better shape than usual to ensure at least a 60% winning rate.

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Kobe almost caught up with Tracy McGrady for the scoring title this year. O'Neal even started to play very seriously on the defensive end this year. Even if he missed a third of the game, he was still regarded as the favorite for the best defensive player. This is enough to prove that O'Neal's defensive end is not

Not bad, but it's just not necessary in normal times. Now when he needs to stand up and defend, he still has the strength of the best defensive player level.

The Eagles take this very seriously. There is nothing they can't do for a serious fat man and an always serious little blacksmith.

Therefore, the Eagles' tactical training is very circuitous...

At the home team's training ground at Toyota Center, Kobe showed that extremely serious expression again as he studied the video of yesterday's game between the Hawks and Rockets, trying to figure out the Hawks' current style of play.

Unknowingly, Kobe's regard for the Hawks has reached the highest level among all opponents. Even though the Spurs and Kings are threats to them defending their title again, he attaches special importance to the Hawks.

The training of the Lakers team has ended. As a super coach who has won three consecutive championships three times, Master Zen also knows that the Lakers have now entered a period of complete slackness and exhaustion. Except for the paranoid Kobe, the most focused and serious among others is actually

It's O'Neal.

So now that they have won three consecutive championships, Jackson knows that if he wants to go further, he needs to make drastic changes in the lineup. The current Lakers have just experienced their strongest peak. With the corruption of the Lakers management, it will definitely

It is impossible to do something that is unsatisfactory. At least for this defending season, they will maintain the current lineup until the end of the season. After confirming that this lineup can no longer continue, they will rebuild it separately.

This is why every rebuild of the Lakers takes several years. Every time they have to wait for a group of veterans who have helped the team achieve results to fully understand that they are not suitable for this team, and they have to wait until the core they can cultivate by themselves retires.

They began to completely tear down and rebuild, which made every rebuild seem to be a struggle and a struggle.

"Kobe, don't be so serious! It's just a regular season game..." Fisher came over to persuade, "Let's go, let's go have dinner together and come back later to play the game?"

"No need, you go ahead, I'll study it some more." Kobe replied and said nothing more.

Looking at the little blacksmith who was always so unsociable, Fisher was really helpless. As a rookie in the same class, Fisher had the best relationship between the Lakers and Kobe, but there was nothing he could do about this situation. He wanted to integrate Kobe with him.

to his teammates, but Kobe himself had no concept at all.

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"Ding... Kobe's emphasis on the host has reached a new level, and Kobe's hostility has increased."

"Kobe's hostility: The more times you defeat Kobe, the more importance Kobe attaches to the host. Kobe's lifelong enemy has been completed 4/8."

Liu Mang, who had just finished training, heard the system prompt, but Liu Mang was not surprised. The little blacksmith lost again during the All-Star Weekend. He had three regular season games and two All-Star games. Liu Mang's record against Kobe Bryant so far in his career was 4.

Win and lose, with Kobe's character, he might have hated himself so much.

Anyway, he offended the little blacksmith not once or twice. When Liu Mang came to Los Angeles from Houston, he was already ready to compete with Kobe Bryant.

Theoretically speaking, Kobe is the number one player in the league in the next few years, and Liu Mang himself aims to be the number one player in the league in the next few years. It is impossible for the two to become friends, so Liu Mang thinks it is not bad to be enemies.

Fuck him!

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At 7 o'clock in the evening, the Hawks' away game against the Lakers is about to begin at Staples Center.

Liu Mang and Wang Zhizhi chatted for a while. After some pleasantries, the referee urged that the game was about to start.

The Eagles' lineup for the away game was Liu Mang, Prince, Raheem, Boozer, and Ratliff.

The Hawks' lineup has undergone huge changes this year, mainly because Muhammad was placed on the bench to rest, Jason Terry was placed on the bench to increase firepower, and Liu Mang entered the lineup to enhance the organizational ability of the lineup.

For the Lakers, the lineup of Fisher, Kobe, and Fox is still the same. Wang Zhizhi is placed at the power forward position, and the center is naturally O'Neal.

It was time to jump the ball, and Ratliff was about to walk to the center circle to jump the ball as usual. However, at this time, Ratliff suddenly heard a cough. Ratliff suddenly woke up and almost forgot "the big thing."

O'Neal was ready to win the jump ball in one go, and then blast the Hawks inside with a blast at the beginning, and then wait and see how Kobe dealt with the three perimeter players.

However, O'Neal, who was ready to jump the ball, did not wait for someone to come up and jump the ball. Instead, he saw three players in the opponent's frontcourt gathered together.

"What are you doing? Jump the ball quickly!" the referee urged.

O'Neal also followed him in confusion to see what the Hawks' insiders were doing.

"Give us a few seconds, let's punch, and the loser will jump with O'Neal." After saying this, Boozer trembled and punched with Ratliff and Raheem, feeling desolate in his heart.

"Why did the loser jump with me?" O'Neal asked curiously, because he was afraid that the shark wouldn't dare to jump with me?

It was Boozer who answered, his tongue seemed to be trembling: "We all want to play against the Lakers' best Kobe, but we are not interested in the inside."
Chapter completed!