Reborn My Name Is Kobe

Before the joy of beating the Knicks was completely over, we had to immediately board a plane to the next city.

Tomorrow, November 6th, we will go to the Charlotte Hornets' territory for another game. This is also the first back-to-back game we have to face this season. There is no doubt that physical strength will be one of the biggest challenges we face.

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Today's game actually showed the problem of our poor physical strength in the away game. Although we finally won the victory thanks to our efforts in the second half and my lucky winning goal, tomorrow's game is obviously not that easy to play.

Yes.

Speaking of which, Kobe was able to come to the Lakers thanks to a trade between the Hornets and the Lakers this summer. The Lakers sent their All-Star center Divac to obtain the Hornets' No. 13 draft pick.

And used this pick to select Kobe Bryant, which is me now. In my previous life, I sometimes thought about what would happen if Kobe was picked by another team before the 13th pick.

In this case, what kind of career will Kobe have without Shaq?

In a way, Kobe and the Lakers have achieved mutual success. Whether the Lakers are without Kobe or Kobe is not in the Lakers, they are unlikely to win these five championships in the early 21st century. In fact, if Shaq does not have Kobe by his side

I don't think he can lead the Lakers to three consecutive championships.

Of course, it makes no sense to think about these things now, because now I am Kobe Bryant. I can create a completely different future. I have a chance to dominate the league with Shaq a few years in advance. It is completely possible.

A chance to steal 1, 2 or even more championships from Michael Jordan's Bulls.

Maybe Mike, who has never won a championship, will consider playing until he is 40, or he may retire early because he cannot win a championship. I can’t guess the answer. Maybe only time will tell me the result.

This time the plane took off around 10 o'clock in the evening. After the last experience, I took the time to buy a pair of headphones that were very comfortable to wear. When choosing headphones, I only had one criterion, and that was sound isolation.

The effect must be good enough that I can sleep well on the plane.

In fact, my worries were a bit unnecessary. Perhaps it was because today’s game consumed too much physical strength and energy. Most of my teammates, including me, quickly fell asleep. Even Shaq, who was usually very noisy, was

It also seemed much quieter.

It was less than two o'clock in the morning when I arrived at the hotel this time, and I quickly fell asleep again. Good sleep is indeed the best medicine and can help you restore most of your energy.

During the day today, I didn't go out to look around anymore. Instead, I came to a cafe in the hotel with a very comfortable environment to sit and read magazines and newspapers.

I'm not very interested in fashion magazines, but rather travel and technology magazines, especially ones like National Geographic, Mystery, and Science Fiction World.

The feeling of the magazine in 1996 is not that different from the feeling of the magazine more than 20 years later. In fact, many of the ideas put forward by science fiction authors at that time are still just ideas even after more than 20 years.

It’s just a hole. Sometimes technology develops faster than people expect, and sometimes technology develops slower than people expect.

In my previous life, I had always lived a more impetuous life. After the age of 20, it was difficult for me to calm down and read a book with peace of mind. But now I seem to be in a more peaceful mood, maybe because I have the memory of two lives.

, it is obvious that this 18-year-old body contains a soul that does not match his age.

But it's obvious that when you have Kobe's talent, you will also have his arrogance, which is more like something that comes from genes and cannot be changed.

The game started at 7 o'clock in the afternoon. I still found a few familiar names in the Hornets' formation, such as Glenn Rice and Curry's father Dell Curry. They are both very good three-pointers.

, and there is Bogues who is particularly powerful, because he is only 1.6 meters tall, but he can play for several seasons in the NBA with so many people, and he can provide good firepower support in every game.

, it is really worthy of people’s admiration.

If Iverson succeeded in the NBA with the height of an ordinary person and became the idol of countless people, then

The fact that Bogues can survive in the NBA at a height much lower than ordinary people can be regarded as a quite inspirational example.

The game started soon, and the atmosphere at the Hornets' home court was obviously far inferior to the New York Knicks we visited yesterday. Not only was the attendance rate of the audience in the stadium low, but even their cheering sounds were rustling.

It feels like not having enough food for two days. Playing a game in a place like this will not only make the home team feel depressed, but also the away teams like us who are visiting here will feel listless and unable to feel too energetic.

Show great enthusiasm.

However, there is one person who does not seem to be affected by the lack of enthusiasm from the fans. This person is naturally Shaq. After the opening, he was the fastest to enter the game state, and today the opponent does not have strong inside players and endless

The double-teams went to deal with him, and he could finally let go and have a big fight.

However, although Shaq scored 6 points in a row for the Lakers from the beginning, several of our outside players are still in a state of confusion. Didn't they have a good sleep? Not only did they miss consecutive three-pointers, but they also missed free throws.

The small floaters near the line were also ridiculously skewed. On the other hand, the opponent's core player Glenn Rice hit three consecutive three-pointers after missing the first three-pointer, which made Eddie Jones, who was guarding him, couldn't help but

He shook his head repeatedly.

In fact, I found that Eddie Jones's defense was basically not out of position, and most of them were very good at interfering with Rice's shooting. But what is helpless is that Rice's touch is excellent, even the shot with his eyes completely blocked.

, he was also able to hit after hitting the board in the front. The difficult three-pointers he hit one after another immediately made the home fans enthusiastic, and the atmosphere suddenly changed.

The coach decisively called a timeout, and he kept yelling about double-teaming Rice. However, what happened later proved that this was not a good idea, because after the timeout came back, the opponent hit another three-pointer by Dell.

Curry came up and let Rice move to the small forward position. This was equivalent to a three-guard play. This was an extremely novel tactic in the NBA in the 1990s. It may have been used in more than 20 years.

This tactic is quite common in the post-small ball era, but in the 1990s it would almost become the laughing stock of most people.

But when your team has two backcourt players with a three-point shooting rate of more than 40%, and they both appear on the court at the same time, then you have to consider the feasibility of double-teaming tactics.

, just like the Warriors' super backcourt splash brothers later, when Curry encounters a double-team early, he will provide Clay with better shooting opportunities.

When the Lakers started double-teaming Rice, Dell Curry was always able to appear in a better three-point shooting position in time, and the opponent's release speed was fast enough, and he hit two more three-pointers.

, the coach had no choice but to call a timeout again. At this time, the Lakers were already 11 points behind 10-21, and 15 of the opponent's 21 points came from three-pointers.

The coach had to cancel the use of double-teaming tactics again, and then decided to let me play. The task given to me was very simple. I must lock one of the opponent's guns one-on-one. I shook my head slightly.

I thought to myself, couldn't I have been played earlier? Every time I played, the team was many points behind.

This time, the tacit understanding between Shaq and I seemed to have improved a bit. He actually took the initiative to set up a pick-and-roll for me. Seeing his good attitude, I threw him an alley-oop with my backhand, and he also

My pass didn't live up to my passing. The two men in the opponent's post pushed the ball directly into the basket, and when it was over, they didn't forget to roar and roar at the opponent's bench.

To be honest, my passing of the ball was not good at all. Not only was the height a bit too high, but the receiving point was also in the opponent's crowd. Only Shaq's abnormal athletic ability could catch the ball and complete the dunk.

Of course, when your teammate is Shaq, you have to learn to make some more imaginative passes.

Returning to the defensive round, the opponent also noticed that our defensive intensity had been greatly improved. In order to cut off the opponent's passing route, I performed a personal death wrap on Glenn Rice to prevent my teammates from passing him the ball.

The ball, and he could only keep running, trying to get rid of my crazy entanglement.

But after all, I came on the field late, and my physical strength is very good. Although this is the second game of back-to-back games, there is no problem in maintaining the defensive intensity in a short period of time.

Soon he couldn't run anymore, so he simply stood one step outside the three-point line with his waist in his arms, but I still didn't give up my deadly defense against him.

If I remember correctly, this season was the most accurate three-point shooting season in Glenn Rice's career, with a shooting percentage of 47%. This is a very scary statistic even in the small ball era. Even Curry

It is difficult for such a super three-pointer to achieve such a shooting rate. I dare not relax my defense on him at all. Even if others have completely understood the three-point line, I know that even there he still has the ability to hit three-pointers.

However, even though my defense against Rice has reached the extreme, it is obvious that the defense of my teammates is not so good, especially this guy Shaq, who goes all out on the offensive end and paddles on the defensive end as always, when the opponent breaks through

After that, he would indeed rush over and try hard to block shots, but he would also directly miss his defender. The opponent soon discovered this and used the tactic of breaking through, passing and cutting inside to hit two consecutive shots, which made him angry.

Shaq almost crushed the ball.

However, after the reverse, our offense did slowly come out. I also hit two three-pointers in the bottom corner to prevent the score from getting further widened.

In the second quarter of the game, the shooting percentages of both sides suddenly fell to the bottom. Ours was due to the decline in physical strength from back-to-back games, while the opponent's shooting percentages seemed more like a natural decline. After all, their shooting percentages in the first quarter were really terrible.

During the half-time break, although the coach kept cheering me up and arranging offensive tactics, everyone was not very interested. After all, the back-to-back away games were too tiring, and sometimes even talking would make me feel tired.

He didn't have any strength. Shaq also exerted too much force in the first half. Now he was sitting on the ground panting, and he didn't know what was going on in his huge head.

But in fact, after all, it is still those tactics. After all, the final executor of the tactics is the players on the field. No matter how fancy the tactics your coach arranges, there is no way to implement them when they finally get to the field.

Due to the impact of physical strength, Shaq's desire to attack has also dropped to freezing point since the second half. Coupled with the constant boos from the home fans, I found that the morale of the whole team has dropped to freezing point, and it seems that they are ready to surrender, and

In fact, less than 5 minutes into the second half, we were already 20 points behind the Hornets, and even the coach seemed to feel that there was no need to call a timeout.

In the end, the official timeout automatically entered at 6 minutes, and Shaq was replaced. He had his head hanging down, looking very unhappy, but I got playing time in advance. This was originally something that should be done.

It was something that made me happy, but when I saw my teammates looking listless and wanting the game to end as soon as possible, I was affected by their emotions and became less energetic.

This feeling of boredom is reflected in all aspects, from running to passing to shooting. Every technical action seems to be half a beat slower than normal, and the most intuitive consequence is ironing and mistakes.

and being taken advantage of.

The biggest deficit was even close to 30 points at one point. It was only then that I saw the fighting spirit burn again in Shaq's eyes. Maybe he just didn't want to be tortured so miserably.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Shaq returned to the court. With a huge deficit, we began to gradually relax and no longer think about the score. We only saw the opposite basket.

Sure enough, Shaq is still the unstoppable guy, and the biggest gain from this game may be that I found a way to cooperate with Shaq, which is the high pick-and-roll. I even discovered that Kobe actually doesn't know how to pass.

Kobe Bryant's passing talent is excellent. Many passes feel like they come easily, and he can often pass wonderful balls unexpectedly.

I counted silently in my mind, one, two, three, four, five. How come my five assists in this game were all alley-oop passes to Shaq? Well, Shaq seemed to have passed the ball back.

I have a few good shots.

Anyway, although we lost the game 85-94 in the end, it was finally over. We tenaciously recovered a nearly 20-point difference in the fourth quarter. If it hadn't been for the hole we dug before, it was too big.

, maybe the game is really a little suspenseful.

And now that I was exhausted, I just wanted to go back to bed at home and rest. Before the game ended, Shaq and I gave each other a high-five. His palm was almost 1.5 times the size of mine. Judging from his tired eyes,

I also saw something else in it. It was obvious that he was quite disgusted with the feeling of failure.