They said the Nuggets and Lakers played like a Game of the Western Conference Finals.
Who are they? Just those online! I watched the game while surfing social media, and I was really a person who loved to join in the fun. But I really don't see where this game has the level and posture of the Western Conference Finals. The Nuggets are fine, but you can clearly see what's wrong between them and the Lakers. No matter how much hope and expectation they had before this game, they wanted to beat the Lakers at home and take a big step forward on the road to catching up with the first place in the West, they all failed. Because what they wanted to do, how to plan, James knew.
The difference between them is that James knows what to do with every step to the championship, while the Nuggets are still there, repairing bridges and making up the way.
In this way, James took the Lakers to smoothly cross the dog days, stood firmly in the first place in the West, and began a small long vacation with the advantage of at least four wins ahead of other Western opponents.
The word dog day is not what I thought. This is the expression of the NBA world for the days before the All-Star after the New Year. After about fifty games, people are sleepy and tired, the small long holiday is in front of us, people are still working, and the heart has already taken off. Everyone plans their vacation in advance and finds a warm, quiet place to stay with family and friends. Thinking about it makes people feel joy and relax mentally. But you can't really relax, there are still games to play, the west must be the first to defend, the tiger wants to take advantage of the dog day to bite you, chasing the opponent in the close position must be wary. So Vogel said in an interview a few days ago: This dog's life is really not good.
All managers are cautious, but not all teams know how to deal with it. In the previous tweet, I wrote about the 76ers, and obviously the situation in Philadelphia is in leadership, and there is no experienced, responsible and authoritative leader in that locker room. The Lakers have ah.
James.
Listen to what James had to say: "I've been through that situation, and I want to be desperate to get the first place in the division, I can almost guess how their Malone coach explained to them before the game, and I can almost hear the echo of those words in my head." 」 He will definitely say that the Lakers are three games ahead of us, and if we want to get the first place in the West, we have to beat them today. I know what they're thinking, and even I feel like I can hear their conversations in the locker room, and they definitely want to beat us and go into all-Star break with a crucial win. So I'm going to deal with them with the same intensity. ”
James hasn't seen anything! His insight and hierarchy are presented in two ways: first, he has seen and remembered. James is a man with a general memory of a camera and has spent a thousand sails in his 17-year career. Second, they have all experienced it, so the realm is different, and they can show their due work performance in a peaceful state. This is a very difficult thing. Their work is done under the physical confrontation, it is necessary to have enough passion, it is not difficult to exert energy and passion, it is rare that you can control the rhythm and magnitude of the output, know when to use how much energy, how much energy can be used to complete the task at this stage.
This is the real old driver, the timing, the heat, the tightness is controlled just right. The legendary degree of relaxation is probably like this.
The old driver led the Lakers through this dog day. He's reluctant to say how important this game is, or how important the First Pair of Lakers in the West is. Say what to do, just do this. His teammates watched what he was doing and knew how to play the game. Several Lakers players have found out that 80 minutes before the Nuggets game, James is ready to go, so everyone understands how to play this game.
James took the twelfth triple-double of the season, Davis scored a team-high 33 points, grabbed 10 rebounds, and since Kobe Gasol in 2008, finally another pair of Lakers players have contributed 30+10 in the same game. The two of them are the ability and support of the Lakers. Davis is incredibly talented on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, james has seen everything...
I didn't say he could win anything, I meant he knew what to do.
Playing the Nuggets is the time to see the real chapter. In fact, James has not been in such good shape lately, or you can say that he is controlling and converging. In February, his shooting percentage dropped by 4 percentage points from the previous month, his average outside the three-point line increased by almost two, he narrowed some sharp edges when playing against weak teams, and he shot 29 times in this game with the Nuggets, the only time in all games in February that he exceeded 20. He knows how to react when he hits fifty games in the season, and he knows how to adjust his 35-year-old body to get the job done.
Watching an old cannon work and savoring the craftsmanship of a craftsman is really full of taste. Because he is not in a hurry, it seems that all the output is done under control. That's how I feel when I watch James play recently. The Nuggets played this game urgently, stormy, and played a team with a bad record before, slowly.
Do you remember playing the Warriors, the first game in the West was the first to last, the Lakers led by up to 21 points, but the leader slowed down, the strength and killing heart of the entire team declined, so that the Warriors threw the suspense back in the fourth quarter. James had to play again to end the game. I was so impressed with that goal, outside the forty-five-degree three-point line on the left, he moved one step sideways and hit a long-range three-pointer to kill the game. Then slowly walk to the bench, and each of the teammates who greeted him completed the celebration in a different high-five, took the braces out of his mouth and handed them to the staff. That means, look, isn't this done, finish the work, get it done and go home.
After explaining the drive home, I kept this poem floating in my mind: "After the matter is whisked away, hidden and famous...
Of course, James doesn't score every time that he can score such a goal, for example, with the Nuggets, the last shot did not score, and the game went into overtime. But the 35-year-old James always has such a mature work charm, when a person knows how to complete the work, not hurriedly, step by step to complete the temperament.
With such a leader, the Lakers can be so calm, so Vogel wants to defend to execute so well.
This is Davis's first year as a teammate with James, and the two things that impress him the most are: "First, he was always very peaceful, loved his life, and lived his life to the extreme. Whether he wins or loses, he has a smile on his face, and of course he may smile less when he loses. He just loves what he's doing. I've never seen him angry, frustrated. Second, he is very supportive of his teammates, I have heard a lot of so-called how difficult it is to be a James teammate, but for most of the season, I have never seen him angry with anyone, he always supports his teammates, arranges in-team dinners, and he always makes us laugh happily. ”
Has James always been like this? Of course not. But after a thousand sails, he is now like this.
Therefore, I really don't think that the Nuggets and Lakers have the posture and charm of the Western Conference Finals, which is far behind.
Those really strong teams are stable and do not rush to complete the work output. They have superstars, veterans, backgrounds, experience, desires and control, such as bucks, such as Clippers, such as the Lakers...