Bishop of the Devil

"Beep!" The referee blew the whistle to start the game.

Rondo calmed down. Although he knew that there was no hope of catching up with Paul in this game, he still had to work hard to narrow the gap with Paul as much as possible.

…

From the very beginning, the iron plate combination showed its considerable power.

Kobe missed his first shot in the opening game, but Ben grabbed an offensive rebound and passed it to Odom.

Odom passed back to Kobe again, and Kobe hit a three-pointer.

With Ben under the basket, Kobe can take shots unscrupulously. Even if the shot misses, Ben has a good chance of grabbing the rebound.

At the beginning, in several consecutive offensive rounds, the Lakers made all the hits and directly took a 10:6 lead.

Richard was a little helpless. If Mourning was present, it would be impossible for the Lakers to play so easily. Although Mourning triggered the group healing effect, his strength is not as strong as the big one at the moment.

But if Mourning is here, he can at least create some threats to Ben...

Varejao is far less effective than Mourning in this regard. First, he is young and inexperienced. Second, his own strength is indeed not as good as Big Ben.

Fortunately, the Lakers' advantage was not further expanded in the following time. Kobe didn't know why he was crazy and started to organize his teammates' offense.

After eight minutes of playing in the first quarter, Jackson called a timeout and replaced Ben with the team's backup center Kwame Brown.

Seeing Kwame Brown on the stage, Richard remembered Jordan's previous instructions...

If nothing else, Kwame Brown probably won’t be able to survive with the Lakers.

Although he can still get some playing time, don't forget that there is Bynum on the Lakers team.

Bynum's statistics last season, his rookie season, were quite poor, averaging only embarrassing 1.6 points and 1.7 rebounds per game.

The Lakers basically didn't use Bynum in his rookie season. They probably felt that Bynum was too young and wanted to polish it up first.

Richard has always remembered Jordan's instructions, but now is not a good time to take down Kwame Brown. This matter needs to be considered in the long run.

…

With four minutes left before the end of the first quarter, Rondo was left on the court by Richard.

In the first eight minutes, Rondo's statistics were not particularly impressive, with only 2 points, 2 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 steal.

Counting on this efficiency, if you want to surpass Paul tonight, there will definitely be no chance at all.

Rondo is unlucky. His offensive touch was quite bad tonight.

Maybe it was because Omotoru was in the paint, so he couldn't get any opportunities for breakthrough layups, and shooting was not his strong point. In these eight minutes, he only made a poor 1-for-3 shot.

…

Finally caught the opportunity for Ben to leave the game, how could Rondo miss this opportunity to score points.

But the touch made him frown, and he made two close throws from the basket, all of which turned out to be irons.

Rondo directly hit 1 of 5 in the opening game. If he continues to attack with this efficiency, Rondo feels that the Pirates may lose because of him tonight.

Losing is not scary. What is scary is losing because of yourself. What is even scarier is that if you lose, you can only get half of the points.

…

"Since the hand feels bad, let's not attack at all. Anyway, if the east is not bright, the west is bright!" Rondo thought to himself.

It felt too cold. Normally, Rondo would have been quite confident in scoring those two small throws.

Now that he doesn't want to lose and also wants to earn points, he naturally has to focus on other data besides scoring.

…

Granger made a very cool and elegant fadeaway three-pointer from the outside, which was quite like Kobe's picturesque style, especially the sound of iron, which perfectly replicated Kobe...

Varejao and Kwame Brown were entangled under the basket, and Milicic was not under the basket. At this time, Rondo directly rushed out, accurately judged the landing point of the rebound, and grabbed the rebound with his big hand like a leaf fan. down.

If you observe carefully, you can find that Rondo's hands are really big and unreasonable.

Kwame Brown is right next to him, and it can be clearly seen that the hands of Kwame Brown, a seven-foot center, actually don't look as big as Rondo's...

Richard is no stranger to this. Rondo's big hands are his signature weapon. With hands that are much larger than ordinary people, Rondo is unfavorable on the rebounding and defensive ends.

Paul on the sidelines, although he has seen this scene countless times in the previous fourteen games, can't help but admire it now.

This little skinny guy who is about the same height as himself, if he were twenty centimeters taller, would he become a rebounding monster like Rodman or Ben?

"Coach, why do I always feel that Rajon is a blue-collar center, um, a blue-collar center with organizational skills..." Paul sighed and asked Richard next to him.

Richard smiled and nodded, right? Who in the future generations of fans would not know the name of center Long.

If we want to talk about the weird players in the entire NBA history, Rondo will definitely be among the top ten.

The most representative statistics of his entire career are 8.3 points, 7.5 rebounds, 10.8 assists and 1.7 steals.

In addition, Rondo posted incredible statistics of 18 points, 17 rebounds and 20 assists, almost completing a double triple-double. This was only achieved once by Chamberlain in the entire NBA history...

2 points, 6 assists, 14 rebounds, 2 points, 12 rebounds and 19 assists, 0 points, 11 assists, 0 points, 15 assists, 6 points, 11 assists, 11 rebounds and 8 steals.

Especially this last statistic, almost a quadruple-double...

Anyway, when it comes to weird data, Rondo's data is definitely very representative.

As a defender, his scoring and rebounding data are almost the same, and he also has so many weird statistics. This is definitely the weirdest among the weird.

"Just think of him as a blue-collar center with organizational skills..." Richard said with a smile.

…

After Rondo grabbed the rebound, he passed it to Milicic who was running without the ball.

As a result, Milicic also missed the ball. Rondo opened his big hands again and grabbed the rebound from the heads of Varejao and Kwame Brown.

Rondo has firmly decided not to attack. After getting the rebound, he immediately passed the ball...

This time it was passed to Milicic. Maybe he felt that Milicic had strong offensive firepower and had a high chance of getting assists for him.

What made Rondo dumbfounded was that Milicic missed the ball again. In desperation, the Rondo center could only take action again and grabbed another offensive rebound.

The fans at Staples Arena were going crazy. This little black and thin man actually grabbed three offensive rebounds in a single offensive round? !

How can others play with this? !

Amazing, really amazing.