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However, he can grab a lot of rebounds, and the shooting feel is really good, and there are so many shots. With the Lakers having Whiteside, the rebound collector, Love still got 20 rebounds.

In addition to rebounds, Love's scoring ability is second to none among the current insiders, averaging 28 points per game from the beginning of the season to the present, which is not even today's 33 points.

Later in the season, Love's scoring average will definitely decline, but Liu Ren knows that Love's scoring average seems to have exceeded 25 points per game this year.

The Lakers' 2K rating madman Whiteside was not to be outdone. He played 33 minutes to refresh his career record in a single game. There is no way. Today the Lakers suffered a bit of rebounding. Liu Ren and Gasol are both good rebounders, but I can't stand the opposite side is a rebounder-Han!

Gasol relied on long arms for rebounding, Liu Ren relied on bouncing, the ball did not bounce towards them, not the kind of ball that bounced into the sky and fell down, they couldn't get it. Unlike Love, he has a special rebounding ability, like Rodman, who can predict where the rebound will fall, and then act in advance, regardless of defense or retreat. Just grab a rebound.

The Lakers suffered a loss in rebounding, replaced by Whiteside and the opponent hit it to suppress the opponent's overall rebound.

Why is it said that the overall rebounding suppresses the opponent? It is because although the Lakers grabbed the opponent, it is difficult to grab the rebound except for Love, but the opponent has Love! Love's rebounding is almost no one. Except for shooting and grabbing rebounds, everything else has nothing to do with him.

So even if Love grabbed a lot of rebounds, the Timberwolves' defense was still terribly bad.

Today Love faced the Lakers. This 5 wins and 2 losses ranked third in the Western Conference. He was treated like Yao Ming by Adelman. He went to death and let him all the garbage time. He played 42 minutes and made 10 shots of 26. Scored 33 points and 20 boards.

Not to be outdone, Whiteside scored 11 points and 17 rebounds.

Liu Ren, who was robbed by these two rebounding monsters, had less than 5 rebounds for the first time this season, but he scored 39 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists. Unfortunately, he did not make the last quarter and did not get his first 40 points in his career.

The day after playing the Timberwolves, the Lakers officially announced a two-year maximum salary renewal with Kobe, a total of 48.5 million dollars in two years, and a refusal to trade clause.

What should come will always come. Liu Ren knew that the Lakers would definitely renew his contract with Kobe, and ensure that Kobe’s salary for the next two seasons is the league’s first, in order to give back to this dedication to the Lakers. Hero of career.

At the same time, the Lakers revealed a message to other players: We will never treat our team's players badly. We will not trade him because the team's star is old. Instead, we will give him a big contract to give him peace of mind.

Obviously, this is the Lakers' strike while the iron is hot, taking advantage of the heat that the Celtics traded Pierce this summer.

For this contract renewal, the outside world has mixed praise and criticism, but even if it is a degrading person, it will not belittle the Lakers’ big contract to Kobe, but that Kobe’s salary in the next two years will be too much and will occupy the Lakers’ salary space. , Or it is almost impossible for Kobe to have his previous status, after all, he is 35 years old and not worth such a big contract.

When watching this news on TV, Liu Ren felt that a team should treat meritorious players like this. To make the players loyal, the team's loyal ministers are also essential, even if they are only loyal to the star.

Kobe's contract has greatly increased the impression scores of many stars on the Lakers. Liu Ren has always felt that if the Lakers weren't for the next few years to make the team too bad, they would attract many stars.

"But since I'm here, I won't let the Lakers fall down!" Liu Ren said silently in his heart.

Speaking of the Lakers, except for the time when O’Neal was traded away, in the entire history of the Lakers, all the superstars are basically in the old age of the Lakers, McCann, West, Baylor, Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic, Worthy , These people have retired from the Lakers, the only one in the entire NBA history.

Kobe's contract renewal was just a small episode for the Lakers. Then the Lakers played against the Pelicans again. Only Anthony Davis, the stronger Pelicans, was brutally abused by the Lakers who returned to the home court.

Gasol and Whiteside took turns to wait for him. The Pelicans' perimeter defense made Liu Ren feel a word-cool!

Whether it’s Holiday or Evans, both defense is equal to air. In this game, Liu Ren hit 6 three-pointers, refreshing the number of three-pointers in a single game, scored 27 points and 9 rebounds in three quarters, and then punched in. Off work.

Regarding this, Liu Ren looked at D'Antoni again with a bitter look, thinking: Let me play for a few more minutes to get a double pair and die.

D'Antoni chose to ignore Liu Ren's thoughts, what he thought, and back to back the next day.

In the end, the Lakers beat the Pelicans 113 to 89, winning 5 straight.

After playing the Pelicans, the Lakers flew to Denver that night to challenge the Nuggets away.

If it were the Nuggets last season, it might cause a lot of trouble for the Lakers.

The Nuggets' unexpected rise last season, led by the famous coach George Carr, played wonderful running and bombing, plus a lot of players have above-average defensive standards, all of them are physically fit men, nicknamed the track and field team. .

In Carl's offensive system, the Nuggets played the top three offenses in the league, and their defense was unambiguous. They ranked ninth in the league. With a balanced offensive and defensive record of 57 wins, they ranked third in the West, almost surpassing the Spurs. Shocked the alliance.

George Karl also won the best coach award.

But after being eliminated by the Warriors in the playoffs, the Diggers fired George Carr, hired former Lakers assistant Brian Shaw as a coach, and started playing triangle offense.

I don't know what the owner of the excavator thinks, can anyone use the triangle offense? As for the Nuggets, a group of players who will exceed the average level, UU reading www.uukanshu.com, a group of track and field athletes going to play a triangle offense?

Facts have proved that the Nuggets can play such a good record last year depends on their tactics suitable for George Karl, they are too suitable for running and bombing and defensive counterattack, triangle offense is not impossible without a superstar.

Since the start of this year, the Diggers have lost all 7 games. The smooth offense of last season has disappeared, and the defensive inertia of the triangle offensive team has also been cultivated, and the defensive counterattack has disappeared. Brian Shaw used Lawson as Kobe and Faried as O'Neal, and eventually the Nuggets' offense became sparse.

If the Nuggets played last season with the Lakers this year, it would definitely be a beautiful battle, but unfortunately it has become a one-man show for the Lakers. The Lakers outside counterattacked under the leadership of Liu Ren to fly, and Green and replaced Antetokounmpo, where he was on the field, began to exercise his responsibilities as an organization insider, passing long passes and holding the ball to push back to attract defensive passes.

After Green began to hold the ball to organize the offense, Liu Ren benefited the most. Liu Ren ran too aggressively, just like the description of small forwards in the textbook: catching the ball and making a layup, catching and shooting, and grabbing a rebound. Score.

Against the Nuggets who are still confused and don't know how to play, the Lakers won another big victory, 110-95, and won easily.