basketball never sleeps

Chapter 195 It’s been a long time since I played without the ball

Author: I feel restless while bathing

Chapter 195 It’s been a long time since I played without the ball

"I still cannot agree with the decision to send O'Neal away." At the press conference before the game, Jackson said:

"I admit that his skills and physical condition have declined, and his value is also unlikely to increase, but he is still O'Neal, the most dominant player in the league today, and perhaps no one will ever be able to do so again.

Replace him."

The Zen master did not avoid topics that might embarrass management and bosses like his predecessor.

Instead of coyly looking for excuses, it is better to face failure... especially if it is a failure that was not caused by him.

Of course, the Zen Master is not simply complaining here.

He mentioned this point of view as early as last year in the autobiography "The Final Season" he wrote after leaving the Lakers. Now he is repeating the old tune. In addition to showing his wise foresight, he sells O'Neal face and finds a way out for possible failure.

outside.

Mainly to relieve pressure on the team.

One thing is for sure, Kobe and Riley would get along very well because they both like to put pressure on their families.

In Zen Master's basketball philosophy, pressure is as important to players as water. It is a necessity that players cannot live without. However, excessive intake can be harmful to health and affect performance.

Everyone understands the truth, but emotions, such non-objective things, are beyond his control.

Who would have thought that O'Neal could arouse Kobe's anger without saying anything.

None of the other Heat players said anything bad about Kobe or the Lakers.

Even the media didn't take it as seriously as last year.

The Heat won the championship, but the Lakers failed to enter the finals, and there was no point in arguing about many things.

However, if people take charge of themselves, then there really will be nothing else to do with others.

To say something wrong about him is to look down on him; if you don't talk about him or mention him, it means you don't take him seriously, and you look down upon him even more!

On the surface, Kobe, like the Heat players, behaved quite coolly and calmly.

But as soon as he left the camera, this guy immediately changed into another black face that dripped oil.

If Gang Leader Joe has a perverted [desire to win], then Kobe has a [perverted] desire to win.

However, this time, Kobe's imagination is really close to the truth.

The Heat players really didn't take the Lakers to heart, and they didn't pay much attention to this Christmas game.

O'Brien no longer needs to belittle Kobe to reflect his own greatness.

At the level of a superstar, a ring is the absolute right to speak.

For the last two championships of the Lakers dynasty, Kobe had a lot of contributions. O'Brien can't deny it, but he won a championship without Kobe's imprint, which quite straightforwardly proved that Kobe is not irreplaceable.

NBC conducted a survey in Los Angeles this summer, asking how many more championship rings the Lakers can win under the leadership of Kobe Bryant. Out of 15,000 votes cast, 65% of people chose [0].

The Lakers' record this year has improved and they can rank among the best in the league.

However, there are many top-ranked teams in the league, but currently only the Pistons have beaten them.

"Actually, it's not that the Lakers have no chance of winning. If we compare the stars, the two sides are not at the same level at all, but they also have their own advantages, which is that they are not inferior to the Pistons in mobility." Kenny Smith was forcing the Lakers in the commentary room.

Respect.

"And speaking of personnel, the Lakers are not as weak as imagined.

Needless to say, Kobe Bryant is currently second only to Iverson in the scoring list, and his field goal percentage is the highest since he entered the league. At the age of 28, he has reached the peak of his career.

Rookie Chris Paul currently seems to be the best-performing rookie in the 2005 class. Even though he is still far behind the mature top point guards in organizing fast breaks, he is still good enough for a rookie.

Odom, who was also selected with the fourth overall pick by Los Angeles (Clippers), does not have to take on so much ball-handling and transition work. I originally thought he could put more energy into protecting the frame and rebounding, but I didn't expect that he would improve first.

It turned out to be his offense, averaging 18 points per game, and his shooting percentage on both 2-pointers and 3-pointers reached a new high!"

Although Buckley disagreed, it was rare that he did not directly refute it.

He just smiled and flicked the Heat's starting lineup in his hand.

"Oh yes, I admit that the Lakers have improved a lot since last season after Phil came back, but do you need me to introduce to you their opponents? How terrifying is the Heat, which has only lost one game so far?

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After saying this, Kenny Smith, who was in high spirits just now, suddenly became mute and changed into a dry tone:

"It's useless to talk more, you still have to watch the game!"

You're bragging well. What facts are you talking about? Can't you afford it?

On the court, amid the cheers of the audience, players from both sides arrived one after another.

The Lakers don't have much wealth, but they like to show off and use everything they can: Paul, Kobe, Sprewell, Odom, and Kwame Brown.

In this lineup, Kwame Brown can barely stand up to O'Brien, but only a bit. They mainly play fast break counterattacks.

Fast break should be Jackson's best tactic besides the triangle offense. Whether it is the Bulls dynasty or the Lakers dynasty, fast break is an indispensable part.

The Heat came up with a regular lineup: Mo Wen, Wade, Finley, Haslem, and O'Neal.

If it weren't for O'Neal's abnormal body shape, the Heat's current situation would really be a bit like what Riley said about swinging the lineup.

Mo, Wei, and Ha all have the ability to push quickly. Although Finley is older, he was able to play 37 minutes in the fast-break Mavericks last season. He has degenerated into a top model in the Heat.

He has to use the outside turret, and also has to make playing time for the substitute Rasul. Without taking into account the physical consumption, his running ability on both offense and defense is no worse than that of young people.

The Heat's lineup really has no obvious shortcomings except for being unable to defend against a rim-rushing beast like Stoudemire inside.

After throwing two batches of gifts to the audience on the sidelines, the Heat players reluctantly stood back on the court like children who were called home for dinner.

In the middle circle, Kwame Brown, whose neck was pressed against the fangs of the Black Mamba, unleashed his potential. He took off first, shot the ball first, and immediately performed a jumping ball violation.

The referee held the whistle in his mouth, hesitated again and again, but still didn't blow it, and just gave the Lakers a glare warning.

There is a gap in strength between the two sides. For the sake of the "spectability" of the Christmas game, even if it is at Miami's home court, they have to favor the Lakers.

The Heat players also noticed this, but it was just a jump ball. If it was given to the Lakers, it would be given to the Lakers.

After all, given O'Pang's jump ball success rate this year, they might not be used to it if they come up to take the lead.

Paul didn't feel nervous, only excited.

As a person with a strong desire for performance, there is nothing more wonderful than being able to show off his talents in the Christmas game, which has the highest ratings in the regular season during his rookie season.

Unfortunately, before he could be happy for long, the Lakers failed to hit the opening fast break, and the ball was taken away by the evil Kobe.

Scanning the Heat's overall shrinking formation, Kobe suppressed the urge to force a single.

After the Zen master came back, he brainwashed him every day. He wanted to be a leader like Danzi and Aofang, learn to delegate power and train his teammates.

Of course, this cannot change Kobe's stubborn perception, but it also alleviates Kobe's obsession with singles to a certain extent.

The Lakers need Kobe to play in isolation, but they don't need Kobe to play in isolation all the time.

Without the ball, Paul led Wade around the baseline and ran around in circles. The Lakers' two inside men reached the elbow area and found Madman's screen in the high post. Kobe stepped inside the three-point line and found Odom's screen, following.

Mo Wen opened half a body distance, but Kobe hadn't released the ball yet, but ran towards Kwame Brown again.

O'Pang, who had just settled down, was indifferent to Kobe's call and stuck to his inside line.

Kobe took a long step and drifted back to avoid Mo Wen's flying eye seal.

While gliding, Tianyin Wave was thrown out...oh no, it was a basketball.

Swish——

The difficulty of this ball is really high, but it is still within the capabilities of the little blacksmith.

There is no problem with Mo Wen's pursuit and defense, but no matter how experienced he is, he can't defend against this kind of ball.

Kobe's game experience is not as much as Mo Wen's, but his training time is unique in the league.

A hundred times the effort, you will eventually succeed.

Aofang served from the bottom line, and Mo Wen advanced steadily with the ball. Last night's "Christmas Eve dinner" was quite rich. It is not appropriate to exercise strenuously if you are too full.

Suddenly he thought of the text message last night, and he started to think about it.

After passing the logo area, Mo Wen just braked and worshiped Buddha.

Kobe, who was fully focused, stamped his feet and twisted his waist, turning around and sealing himself with his strong coordination ability.

This kind of ultra-long three-pointer Mo Wen almost misses two in every game, which has become one of Mo Wen's trademarks.

After the Heat's "throne" became higher and higher, Mo Wen's style of play became more and more unrestrained.

At first, this kind of behavior would make Pat Riley salivate. But later, after discovering that Mo Wen's shot was accurate enough, Riley, a pragmatist, stopped scolding him and became the coach of the opposing team who doubted his life.

Recently, after Mo Wen's collection of super long three-pointers became famous across the United States, the people who hate Mo Wen have further expanded to include high school and college coaches.

The dog-like NBA misleads people and does great harm to them.

In the 1990s, there was a Jordan who caused their students to either fall back in the open position or pull up the lever with an empty basket.

In the 2000s, the promotion of O'Fatty and Carter made kids with a little bit of talent want to dunk, and I don't know how many arms they broke.

Now he makes a super long three-pointer.

Those long backboards can be bounced directly out of bounds. Is this really a skill that can be used on the court?

Seeing that Nao Cai reacted quickly, Mo Wen had no intention of playing to the end. The basketball that was about to be folded was suddenly swung sideways and forward by Mo Wen.

If Kobe had reacted a little slower just now, it would have been a real shot.

It's too late to wave goodbye.

Driving past the ferocious-looking Kobe, Mo Wen turned on the man-ball mode and ran toward the basket with abandon.

But what surprised Mo Wen was that a slightly short figure came from the side and tried to rob him halfway.

Paul looks short and small, but his physical fitness is definitely at the ceiling level at a height of 180cm.

Then cooperate with his little black hand.

That’s the smell!

However, since he chose to challenge, Mo Wen could only respect him.

The young technician was not very good at it, so Mo Wen had no choice but to demonstrate in person.

In the exquisite confrontational teaching, Mo Wen's speed was not affected much. Seeing that he was about to reach the basket, Mo Wen threw away the cannon and put away his tuition.

Kwame Brown, who came from the side, failed to get back to the basket in time but accidentally hit the passenger car and caught Paul who was about to fall.

boom--

Mo Wen dunked the basketball in just as easily as he elbowed Paul away.

2:2.

After falling from the basket, Mo Wen did not celebrate, as if the dunk was not worth mentioning. Naturally, he did not care about the unwilling Paul on the other side.

Seeing Mo Wen just turn around and leave, Paul twisted his nose.

He is worthy of being a powerful person in this world, and his fighting skills are indeed much better than those of the dawdling people he encountered before.

And compared with Kobe Bryant's hard elbow that had no skills and was just a whistle, Mo Wen's hand was the benchmark for point guards.

However, after playing such a good game, are you being polite if you don't even say "Welcome to the NBA, rookie"?

Fortunately, he was nervous for two seconds just now.

CP3 also experienced the humiliation of being ignored.

No, if you don’t leave these words behind today, don’t even think about leaving!

Lakers offense.

Kobe and Paul, who had just been teased, both had anger in their eyes.

Paul dribbled the ball forward quickly, trying to take advantage of O'Brien's failure to return to his position to take advantage of the numerical difference.

However, the Heat's four-person rotation was quite mature and did not give the Lakers many opportunities.

Kwame Brown has a height advantage, but making layups against opposition is not his advantage.

The current Lakers' fast break speed has increased, but their space-opening ability has regressed compared to last year.

Atkins, Peterson, and Mihm, who could have opened up space, were either traded or moved to the bench. The Lakers' current starting lineup only has Kobe and Odom with three-point ability.

Paul's three-point shooting in his rookie season was pretty bad, almost on par with Wade's.

But it's not all bad.

Without the space and environment for singles, it also forces someone to play tactics to a certain extent.

As long as they don't pass the ball to Kwame Brown, the Lakers' positional battles can still move the ball quite smoothly.

Madman, Odom, Kobe, and Paul all have the ability to be the core ball handlers.

After several interspersed moves, Kobe got the opportunity to beat Wade in the low post.

He pushed twice against Wade, who was similar in size and strength to him. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of O'Brien, who was watching covetously behind Wade. He did not move up, and gave the opportunity to Paul, who seemed to be out of position after switching defenses.

Mo Wen raised his eyelids in surprise.

Passed the ball on the second play?

Who are you?!

Paul didn't hesitate after receiving the ball. He held the ball and pulled it out, taking advantage of his petite body to start breaking through.

However, "Grandpa St. Paul" is an evergreen copy, and Mo Wen is very familiar with him.

When he was still a newbie, he was often taught lessons by this smart little guy with the windy ears. Today is the time to repay the favor.

Keeping a certain distance and observing his scattered probing steps, Mo Wen relied on his rich experience to easily judge his offensive intentions and stayed in front of him, relying on his height and wingspan to bully the smaller ones.

After hanging around for a long time and bumping around like a fly in front of the window, Paul not only failed to find Mo Wen's flaw, but accidentally knocked the basketball away from Mo Wen. Although he recovered the basketball in time later,

But under Kobe's cold gaze, he could only make two symbolic moves and then pass it out.

After two passes, the madman caught the ball and was throwing and throwing in the confrontation with Finley. Fortunately, Kobe, who was ambushing aside, didn't trust him very much, or knew him very well. When he saw him shooting, he took the initiative to run to the inside and crowd in.

O'Neal took off and hit the ball before O'Fatty's black hand reached out.

4:2.

Kobe imitated someone else, pretending to be cool and not celebrating.

Aopang curled his lips and gave Mo Wen a look while passing the ball.

In the next round, Mo Wen took a step closer and slowed down.

After Ao Pang was almost in position, he started to attack.

Movement on the outside, positioning on the inside, the ball turning into traffic, everything goes on and on.

Seeing this scene, the Zen master touched his chin. The tactics cannot be said to be similar, but they are exactly the same.

It's a complete copy of the Lakers' triangle offense!

The triangle offense is not a simple static positioning, but a complex and changeable dynamic tactic.

Facing the triangle offense, as long as the defense doesn't get ahead and create openings, it can only have endless singles that test the star's quality.

Kwame Brown was very nervous during the slightly chaotic movement just now.

Nearby is O'Pang who can crush him, in the distance is the pass master Mo Wen, and on the other side is Wade who has made great breakthroughs. God knows how much pressure he is under.

The only person next to him who could bring him some warmth was the AA-made Odangdang who had bowed to him, sworn an oath, and been beaten with him.

Although O'Dangdang's defense is at toilet paper level in front of O'Pang, he won't look too stupid if there is one more person to suffer.

"Watch out Kwame!"

Paul's prompt made him subconsciously tighten his muscles, so that he was not knocked to the ground by Ao Pang's first round of force.

When he gritted his teeth and wanted to see what madness Ao Pang was doing, a bright red basketball was already held on his head by Ao Pang.

Bang bang——

Before he could figure out what was going on.

Aopang's two hits were like S686 (shotgun double spray) hitting his face, knocking him to the ground.

On the way down, he also saw Odom's apologetic eyes on the outside.

Bang——

Aopang performs a one-handed chop.

What does it feel like to have full bullet speed and weight?

It means you saw him dunk, but didn't feel his jump.

"10!"

Kobe picked up the basketball on the ground, looked like a creditor, and put the ball into the hands of Kwame Brown, who was pulled up by Paul.

"You can't blame Kwame, Kobe."

Paul defended the unfortunate boy.

"This is the stadium, there are only results, no reasons!"

Kobe's cold gaze swept across him. He never concealed his harshness. Olney could not escape, and Kwame Brown would not receive extra preferential treatment because of his weakness.

4:4.

The Lakers resumed their attack, and Kobe conveyed his meaning to Paul with a death glare.

The first two rounds gave him a good feeling, and he wanted to try his own way to take over the game first.

While moving quickly, Paul found the right opportunity and passed the ball to Kobe, who had squeezed away Mo Wen in the elbow contest.

Facing Haslem, who switched defense in front of him, Kobe shook him away with a smooth hip change.

He hugged the ball and made a ballet turn, bypassing O's fat elbow, and Kobe skillfully hit the board for a layup.

He carries his weight on the inside line, but his outside line is as smooth as a lightweight. This technique makes the home audience want to applaud.

6:4.

"Kobe's touch was good today. He made all three shots and scored all the Lakers' opening points." Barkley praised.

"You have to believe in Kobe. I've discovered before that he has this magical quality. He will perform better than usual at critical moments." Kenny Smith found the feeling of tailwind again.

"Do you still remember the game between the Lakers and the Mavericks two days ago? He scored 30 points in just one quarter of the third quarter, and he scored 50 points in three quarters. This kind of terrifying explosive scoring power, in my opinion

In my eyes, he is the most terrifying scorer in the league right now!"

"Hehehehe, you didn't drink too much, right? Not to mention Iverson, who averaged 33 points per game, and James, who is right behind him in the scoring list. Just look at Mo, who is playing against him. They are not weaker than him.

His presence."

Buckley's big face shook like a rattle.

"Do you want me to recall it for you? In the previous playoffs, Mo scored a terrifying 50+ triple-double! That was the playoffs! He is not scoring high now because the Heat have too many offensive points.

If you give him a bad team, his scoring performance will not be worse than Kobe, Iverson or James!"

"Charles, you are too one-sided. Mo is very efficient and has had outstanding performances, but you have to know that when he becomes the team's only strong scorer, the defensive intensity he will encounter is far from what it is now.

I remember someone counted that among all the players who scored 20 or more points, Mo shot the most open shots. You can’t ignore the blessings given to him by the Heat’s lineup!” Kenny Smith retorted citing classics.

"With 50+ triple-doubles, I remember that the Heat were not a full team. How do you explain this?"

"That was a highlight. Nash also had 40+ triple-doubles, but now he is barely able to lead the team by averaging 20 points per game!"

The explanation room was very noisy.

The atmosphere on the court gradually heated up.

Aopang was in good condition today. Mo Wen controlled the rhythm and tried his best to pass the ball to let Aopang play more.

If you ignore his dog-dust-like 1-for-5 free throws, O'Brien's 5-for-7 performance in the first quarter was absolutely perfect.

It's a pity that the Heat did not lead by a few points, because Kobe's touch was also explosive!

The referees were very strict with their whistles on breakthroughs today, and Wade and Kobe both easily earned whistles.

After having the whistle, Kobe played more relaxed and confidently.

The touch was also improved through free throws. In the first quarter, he made 7 of 10 shots, 6 of 8 free throws, and 1 of 3 three-pointers. He scored 21 points in a single quarter.

In this kind of whistle-blowing environment, it is difficult to do anything if you don't listen. It is difficult to guard against a super giant, and with the blessing of a whistle, it is like black silk and lace. How can you resist?

The Heat also tried a few double-teams in the middle, but it was of little significance.

When a superstar becomes more comfortable, there are no defensive methods, and they are all written in the foul penalty clause.

Mo Wen didn't want his efforts to become a backdrop for others. He didn't play the entire first quarter and handed the stage to the referee in the middle... Oh no, it was Payton. He left the game first to rest.

Kobe was not only crazy on the offensive end today, but he was also beaten to death on the defensive end.

Mo Wen's two three-point shots were interfered by him.

There is no positive confirmation, but judging from how careful Kobe is about his three-pointer, the bet in the text message should be real.

Then this is very interesting.

When his teammates are in good condition, Mo Wenle leaves the game to his teammates. On the other hand, Kobe is consuming his physical energy as if he is free of charge. How long can he last?

Do the math, I haven’t played without the ball for a long time...

(End of chapter)