Chapter 538 - Sequence of Difficult Games 8 (1/2)

So Houston held the ball a little and decided to pass it on to Patrick Ewing ahead, Ewing received the ball and Shaq pressed on defense, Ewing tried to trick Shaq with a feint, but this time Shaq was not fooled and remained firm in defense.

Ewing moved away from Shaq and tried a hook shot and ended up missing, Dennis Rodman managed to be quick and catch the rebound for the Los Angeles Lakers team, Dennis held the ball and passed it to Jake who calmed the Lakers team players and started to move slowly for the attack.

The Los Angeles Lakers team managed to further increase the points advantage and Jake thought they did not have to rush to attack, the game remained balanced between the two teams and the second quarter ended.

The Los Angeles Lakers team was playing better in attack and it was more difficult for the New York Knicks team to recover in the game, in the third quarter the game remained the same and the Los Angeles Lakers team continued to win with a good point advantage.

At the end of the game, the Los Angeles Lakers team won the game with 113 points against 87 points of the New York Knicks team, in that game Jake played for 48 minutes and had 32 points, 11 assists, 8 rebounds, and 8 steals.

”The game with the Los Angeles Lakers team ends with another victory this season, the attack of the Los Angeles Lakers team in that game managed to win the defense of the New York Knicks team.”

”That was expected, the Los Angeles Lakers team has the best attack this season and the New York Knicks team does not have the best defense, a strong attack will always defeat a team with a good defense.”

”Of course, if the New York Knicks had a good defense and a good attack they would definitely win that game and would be one of the favorite teams to win this season's NBA title.”

”The biggest highlight of the New York Knicks team remains Patrick Ewing who played very well in that game and in addition to getting a double-double with 20 points and 13 rebounds and still defending well against Shaq in that game.”

”But the New York Knicks team needs more players like Ewing if they want to win the NBA title, in the Los Angeles Lakers team there are Jake Smith, Kobe Bryant, and Shaquille O'Neal who are excellent players and so the Lakers team is winning so many games.”

”In this game, Rick also played very well and Dennis Rodman helped the team with 12 rebounds, with the Lakers team playing so it was difficult for them to lose this game.”

With this victory more, the players of the Los Angeles Lakers team were very happy with this victory, they would have no rest because the next day they would have another game, luckily after the next game the players would have 3 days to rest.

The players went to their house to rest for the next day, Jake went to his house and can rest better as he had not tried so hard in that game, Jake hoped that the game the next day would be easy.

Soon the day of the next game for the Los Angeles Lakers team arrived, after a few hours Jake went to the Great Western Forum which was already starting to fill up again with the fans of the Los Angeles Lakers team who came to accompany the team that was winning many games.

Jake went to the locker room and soon went to almost with the players of the Los Angeles Lakers team who were ready to start the game, in this game coach Rambis plans to replace Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal for a few minutes and that would leave the game more difficult for the Los Angeles Lakers team to win.

The opponent of that game was the Vancouver Grizzlies team, which for now was one of the worst teams this season, even so, Jake did not underestimate the opponent because in his past life the Los Angeles Lakers team lost a game against the Vancouver Grizzlies team.

The Vancouver Grizzlies team had 4 wins and 25 losses in 29 games this season, it was certain that the Vancouver Grizzlies team would not qualify for the playoffs so perhaps the team's strategy would be to lose a few more games to win a better choice in the next draft.

After all, this season the Vancouver Grizzlies team got Mike Bibby who was an excellent player and was helping the Vancouver Grizzlies team to play better, unfortunately, that was not enough to get more victories for the team.

Soon the game started with the Los Angeles Lakers team putting a lot of pressure on the attack, the Vancouver Grizzlies team was bad this season and so even with the Los Angeles Lakers team replacing Kobe and Shaq for a few minutes, the Lakers team was expected to win.

At the end of the first quarter, the Los Angeles Lakers team was winning with a good lead on the scoreboard as expected, the Vancouver Grizzlies team's players were trying to put pressure on the defense, but the Los Angeles Lakers team was stronger.

In this game all the players on the Los Angeles Lakers team were playing very well, Kobe and Shaq were well on the attack even though they were replaced for a few minutes, Dennis Rodman was also helping the team with his rebounds.

Rick was also playing well in this game as well as in the last games, Rick was gaining more confidence with good performances and coach Rambis who was previously dissatisfied with his performance also started to be happier.