"Looks like he's in a good mood." After bidding farewell to O'Mei, Li Hao immediately came to the training center.
"So early today?" Kobe was already sweating profusely when Li Hao arrived at the training facility. From Kobe's state at this time, it can be seen that he should have enjoyed the early morning scenery of Los Angeles today.
"Originally I wanted to call, but I gave up when I thought about your girlfriend coming back last night," Kobe said.
"Uh~~~" You don't have to think about it to know that he must have been followed by the media again.
"Come on, let me see the progress in recent times." Even though Li Hao's attributes have not changed much recently, his experience has improved a lot. This is what Li Hao currently lacks the most.
Especially this past week, both Li Hao and Li Hao were top outsiders in the league, which was of great help to Li Hao's growth.
Kobe has obviously felt this. Li Hao has more offensive methods, his offensive choices and judgments have become better, and his defense is not as easy as at the beginning.
When we first met, Kobe could easily deceive Li Hao with a fake move, but now, it is almost impossible to use a fake move to get rid of Li Hao.
Li Hao still lost more than he won in the one-on-one match between the two, but if you compare this situation with the two who just met, you can fully feel Li Hao's progress.
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"It seems love is more effective than training." Li Hao won this one-on-one challenge.
"Did you let me down on purpose?" Li Hao couldn't help but ask.
"Fart, I never do this kind of thing," Kobe denied.
"Am I getting stronger again?" Li Hao couldn't help but think in his mind, but he didn't feel it at all. The most intuitive thing was that his attributes didn't change at all.
Li Hao didn't even think about how old Kobe was now, and how they spent the past week. In the past four games, Kobe averaged 36 minutes per game.
After the two ended their duel, Lakers players arrived one after another, and Li Hao and Kobe went to the physical therapy room to find a physical therapist. As a veteran, Kobe basically went to the physical therapy room after every game.
Although Li Hao will not be injured, it is a very good choice to loosen the muscles and bones. Besides, you still have to behave normally even if you are not injured.
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After a short period of repair, the Lakers once again started a back-to-back, and the Lakers' first opponent in the new week is the Hawks. The Lakers will visit Atlanta's Phillips Arena.
Before this game, the Atlanta Hawks played nine regular season games with a record of 5 wins and 4 losses. At this time, I am afraid no one thought that at the end of the season, this team without a superstar would become the Eastern Conference regular season champion, with the second-highest ranking The Warriors’ second record.
After losing the Eagle King, the Eagles became a team without an absolute superstar, but precisely because of the absence of a superstar, the Eagles played extremely team basketball.
This season, the Hawks will create a magical record and win all the games in a month. With this incredible winning streak this month, all five Hawks starting players were selected as the Eastern Conference Player of the Month.
In the history of the NBA, there is no such thing as being tied for the best in the month, but only the Hawks can do it with all five starters of a team. This can also be seen from this how many teams the Hawks play.
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However, the Hawks of this team had nothing to do against the Lakers, because Carroll, the Hawks' perimeter defender, was absent due to injury in this game. Although Sefolosha also has good defensive abilities, he was still a little behind in blocking Li Hao.
It is true that Li Hao was too intense in the front, and after several games, Li Hao gradually adapted to this intensity of defense. In addition, Li Hao had a good touch in this game.
At the beginning of the game, Li Hao made two consecutive three-pointers against Sefolosha, and then assisted his teammates to score. Six minutes later, the Lakers were already leading the Hawks by double digits.
At 16:6, Li Hao made 2 of 2 three-pointers, and Kobe also made 2 of 2 shots. The two scored 10 points together to capture all the Lakers' opening points.
After that, Jordan Hill, Boozer and Wesley Johnson also scored. All five Lakers starting players scored. On the other hand, for the Hawks, core point guard Jeff Teague was restricted by Li Hao, and sharpshooter Korver was restricted by Li Hao. Kobe was on guard and completely misfired from the outside.
The only advantage the Hawks have is the inside. The combination of Millsap and Horford is definitely stronger than the combination of Jordan Hill and Boozer.
But when the outside is completely contained, no matter how strong the inside is, it is useless unless it can be completely exploded, but Millsap and Horford did not do that.
At the end of the first quarter, the Lakers led the Eagles by 12 points, 34:22.
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By the way, Nick Young returned from injury in this game, and with Yang Shaoxia's return from injury, the Lakers' bench strength experienced a qualitative leap.
You can say that Yang Shaoxia is an independent player, but you can never say that he is a good player. It’s just Jeremy Lin and Nick Young. Why does this combination feel a little wrong?
You finished the singles, I played the singles, I finished the singles, you played the singles, the two of them were in one round, I was in the one round, the remaining three Qi players almost cried.
Although the two singles caused the remaining three to keep running back and forth, when the two of them were in good condition, they still produced good results. At least when the main force came back, the Lakers already maintained a 12-point advantage.
At the end of the first half, the Lakers' advantage expanded to 18 points. These 18 points almost declared that the game had completely lost suspense.
At the beginning of the second half, the Lakers completely sealed the victory. Li Haohe once again hit two three-pointers. After hitting these two three-pointers, Li Hao had already made 5 three-pointers and made 5 of 6 shots. Li Ritian lived up to his reputation.
In this game, not only Li Hao's shooting percentage was frighteningly high, but Kobe's shooting percentage was also very high. When he was replaced, Kobe made 9 of 16 shots, 3 of 6 three-pointers, and 5 of 5 free throws, which was very efficient. He scored 26 points, 4 assists and 4 rebounds.
Li Hao played 28 minutes, making 10 of 14 shots, 5 of 6 three-pointers, and 6 of 6 free throws. He scored 31 points, 8 assists, 7 rebounds, 1 steal, and 1 block.
This is also the second time this season that Li Hao has scored 30+ points, which is a slap in the face to those who looked down upon him.
"This is the power of love." The fact that O'Mei came back to meet Li Hao has long been exposed by the media, so the media who had a good relationship with Li Hao couldn't help but joke after the game.
In addition to Li Hao and Kobe Bryant's very efficient performance, Nick Young also had a wonderful performance after recovering from injury. Yang Shaoxia, who only played 22 minutes, scored 15 points efficiently. Jeremy Lin scored 13 points, 2 points less than Yang Shaoxia. If Jordan is included Hill and Boozer, six Lakers players scored in double figures in this game.
In the end, with these six players scoring in double figures, the Lakers defeated the Hawks 129:104, ending their four-game losing streak and making a good start for the Devils' schedule in the second week.
The Lakers' Devils schedule in the second week will still start with a back-to-back, so after defeating the Eagles, the Lakers will immediately go to Space City. For the second game of the back-to-back, the Lakers will visit the Toyota Center to challenge the Rockets.
