NBA: Becoming stronger starts with hard work and mastery

The new season is coming.

Kobe's talent can be seen in the training games, and his hard work is the best in the team. More importantly, Kobe's popularity among fans is also very high, even higher than that of the current absolute boss O'Neal.

It seems that there is no reason to put such a guy on the bench. Even if Harris is unwilling, the management told him that Kobe must start in the third season!

The biggest incentive for Kobe to start is that Fox, the starting No. 2 last season, was injured. Kobe is the only No. 2 who can attack and defend, so his starting is a natural thing.

Kobe did try his best. He was in pretty good shape after he entered the starting lineup. So even when Rick Fox returned from injury, Kobe's starting lineup was still not shaken.

But Harris's worries still broke out. If the opponent is not strong, the team's hidden dangers are not obvious, but as long as the opponent is strong, it will be obvious that O'Neal and Kobe are really a mismatch!

Both of them are terminators, and they are the kind of terminators who don't observe the positions of other teammates and know how to make reasonable switches between attacking and passing.

Whether they attack or pass will not change because of the situation on the court, but I want to attack and pass in this round.

However, the only difference between these two guys is that O'Neal can score the ball steadily against 90% of the opponents, while Kobe depends on the weather. If he feels good today, he will score continuously. If he feels bad, no matter who defends him, he will be iron-clad!

At the beginning of today's game, Kobe had a good touch. His opponent was an old and slow combination. It was indeed the day for Kobe to explode, but why did he become unlucky again?

"Coach, did you fall asleep off the court?" During the timeout, O'Neal was almost mad: "Kobe is hurting the team, you should replace him!"

"Coach, it will be fine," Kobe said calmly: "I just had a bad touch just now."

Faced with the chattering of these two guys, Harris chose to vote with action, replaced Kobe in advance, and continued to play around O'Neal!

So, Kobe was EMO again. A few years later, when Kobe really became a superstar, he sprayed the silver fox Harris on various occasions, saying that he discriminated against young people and was an old stubborn who didn't know how to explore the potential of young people. If he knew that he had to sit on the bench in the Lakers, he would have gone to college long ago.

He did not mention that he was a bad player in his early years. If he was just a bad player, it would be fine. Once he got on the court, he thought he was good again. He did not follow the coach's arrangement after two rounds. Who would like such a player?

At this time, Han Yi was about to speak again: "I like such guys. As long as they are not on the same team with me, I am a real Kobe fan!"

Really, Han Yi really likes Kobe. When Kobe left the court, the game suddenly became difficult. All the ball rights were given to O'Neal, and then O'Neal began to turn the tide in the interior.

Harris's strategy was very simple. He moved Han Yi out of the interior and let O'Neal take on Ben. Ben could indeed withstand the power, but it was useless to withstand it. Ben Wallace, who lacked absolute height, could not stop O'Neal, who had an absolute height advantage, from dominating over his head!

O'Neal in his prime had the absolute ability to take the ball. Facing opponents weaker than himself, he was really a live eater without any mercy!

Therefore, Han Yi could only defend in the interior, and O'Neal was also very smart. As soon as Han Yi came back, I, your brother, would pass the ball!

Even if Kobe was off the court, Rick Fox, a qualified role player, was substituted in, but Rick Fox could make the shots that Kobe couldn't make!

Rick Fox's 34% three-point shooting is already very average, but compared with Kobe's 26% three-point shooting rate this season, it is still much more accurate!

When Kobe was on the court, the Celtics were shrinking, and when Kobe was replaced with an average-level space point like Rick Fox, the space on the court was suddenly opened up, and the Lakers' offense suddenly became more difficult to defend!

With O'Neal's inside support, plus enough shooting points on the outside, and these shooting points, no matter how capable they are, are willing to play around O'Neal, which makes the Lakers a team again.

After Kobe went down, in the second half of the first quarter without Kobe, the Lakers not only evened the score,

Even when Han Yi went off the court in the first quarter, they had a 3-point lead!

In the second quarter, O'Neal was off the court, Kobe led the substitutes to play, and the Lakers launched another outside attack mode with Kobe as the main attack point, but in this wave of lineups where the Lakers should have taken the lead, the Celtics substitutes, who looked weak, exploded!

Stephen Jackson, as the main attack point among the substitutes, played a 50-50 match with Kobe, and in the competition among other role players, the Celtics won!

Even though the Lakers still had Rick Fox and Derek Fisher, who had the strength to start, among the substitutes, the Celtics substitutes still won points!

Unlike last season's rigid stubbornness, Rick Pidino this season can be said to be open to all kinds of lineup experiments.

Even in the duel with such a strong enemy as the Lakers, Pidino dared to play five up and five down, extending the rotation list directly to Manu Ginobili, the 11th man!

Ginobili is really doing well. Although his shooting is terrible now, his ability to find a way in the corners where no one pays attention is probably the strongest in this Celtics team!

He made several moves and always appeared in the basket where the Lakers' defense was not timely. If Stephen Jackson had not only the basket in his eyes, Ginobili's speculative attack on the basket would have beaten the Lakers coach to the ground.

Despite this, Ginobili, who scored 6 points in the second quarter, became the winner, helping the Celtics regain a 2-point lead when the main lineup returned.

It's time for the main players to face off again!

PS: Some people say that I am a Kobe hater. Here are the statistics. In Kobe's third season (the season I am writing about now), he averaged 15.6 shots, 19.9 points, 46% shooting percentage, 26% three-point shooting percentage, 5.3 rebounds, 3.8 assists, and 3.1 turnovers per game. Russell Westbrook's first year with the Lakers: 15.8 shots per game, 44.4% field goal percentage, 29.8% three-point shooting percentage, 18.5 points, 7.4 rebounds, 7.1 assists, 3.8 turnovers. Telling the truth really can't be considered black!