Reborn My Name Is Kobe

I came to Staples Arena very early in the afternoon to prepare for the game against the Hawks. Since I haven’t had any special training these days, I feel that my physical fitness has recovered a lot, but I still need to feel better about shooting.

It took some training to get it back.

I found that my shooting touch is actually relatively unstable. When I am in good condition, I can ignore the defense and make many difficult shots, but sometimes there will be a sudden cutoff, even if the opponent lets me go.

The space allows me to shoot, and I may hit the ball continuously. I have been looking for the cause of this problem.

Because I came very early, there were not many people in the gym. Fortunately, the shooting coach also came early, so I took him to conduct a series of special shooting training for me, the most important of which was

The focus is on shooting after the confrontation.

He would hold a huge shield-like pad in his hand, and then I would have to fight him while looking for shooting opportunities. This is a very physically demanding training method, and the shooting coach’s body is

His quality is not bad, he is over 1.9 meters tall, and he will try his best to fight against me every time.

This kind of training uses ten balls as a group, and a total of 5 groups are performed. I will rest for a period of time between each group and perform some ordinary shooting training, such as catching and shooting training.

But the strange thing is that I often find that my rhythm of catching and shooting is not very good. I don’t know if it has something to do with my shooting movements. Kobe’s body is too light. I feel like I like to jump very fast every time I shoot.

I will take action after reaching a high point. In fact, this will significantly reduce my shooting speed to some extent.

So after discussing with the shooting coach, I started to make some adjustments to my catching and shooting. I changed the previous pursuit of shooting height to the appropriate pursuit of shooting speed. Of course, any change will seem a little difficult at the beginning.

When I deliberately try to change my shooting movements, sometimes I can't find my own shooting rhythm.

Of course, I am always able to make a lot of difficult shots during training. This should be related to my good physical condition. My core strength is strong enough, so even though my body has lost its balance many times when shooting,

But I can still maintain the stability of my shooting point to a large extent, which also ensures the stability of my shooting.

This is my advantage, but I also have some shooting disadvantages, that is, my shooting movements are relatively diverse. I can shoot and hit shots from most places on the court, but my shooting is not that perfect.

, as I mentioned before about the instability of the shooting feel, you can score crazy goals for a period of time, or you may not feel it at all for a certain period of time. I think this is actually quite normal.

After all, Stephen Curry, the super shooter who will bring the small ball era to its peak many years later, will also go crazy on many occasions, especially after encountering more powerful defense and physical confrontation in the playoffs. His hand stability will

It's a little worse than Klay or Durant, but his shooting power is so terrifying. Even if he has missed 10 consecutive three-pointers, you don't dare to let him shoot, because once

If he finds his touch, he will probably score more than 5 consecutive three-pointers in one quarter.

Therefore, the problem for a pitcher is not whether he can make a shot, but that he must always maintain a strong fighting spirit. When you encounter a cold hand, you still have the courage to continue shooting. You have to believe that you will always find the touch, and then score consecutive points to beat the previous ones.

The disadvantages are recovered.

Of course, most of my points in this season's games actually came from singles. My score-to-assist ratio must be quite low. Except for a few balls passed back to me by Shaq, which can be regarded as assists, other passes from defenders

The ball generally can't be converted into an assist for me.

This is actually mainly due to my shooting habits. When I receive a pass from my teammate, I don’t have the habit of shooting immediately. Of course, I have been cultivating my feeling in this aspect, but I am used to it.

The change may not happen in a day or two. I need to find some shooting rhythm by dribbling before taking the shot. Moreover, my offensive methods are relatively rich, and there is no need to only score by shooting.

Although I have just entered the NBA, even though my body is only 18 years old, the energy contained in it is extremely terrifying. Not only do I hardly feel tired, but I am always filled with a strong desire to prove myself and to rush forward.

Go inside for a dunk.

As time goes by, teammates all appear in the arena one after another, and Shaq is indeed the laziest one on our team. He should be the last one on the team to arrive at the arena.

, and he didn't do any pre-match training. Even the warm-up exercise was just a very careless run around the court twice, and then he lay down on the chair on the sidelines with a lazy look, not knowing what was going on.

What to think about.

Seeing how relaxed he is, he must not pay attention to the opponent's inside line at all. However, I remember that this season's Eagles inside line has a mobile hotpot vending machine Muttom who is about 2.2 meters tall and has extremely strong defensive capabilities.

Uncle Bomu, can he really ignore the other party?

There is also a star insider on the opposing team, that is, the college player Laettner who once competed with the Dream Team in the Barcelona Olympics. At that time, there was actually some controversy over whether to choose Shaq or Laettner, although Laettner was overwhelming at the time.

Shaq entered the Dream Team, but later Shaq and Laettner, who were players in the same draft, were still promoted in the NBA.

The gap opened up.

Shaq was the No. 1 pick, and Laettner was the second pick. In fact, Laettner was not weak. He scored nearly 20 points and 10 rebounds in his first season, but it was still inferior to O'Neal's divine performance that day.

Quite a few.

Several years have passed, and now Shaq has become one of the four major centers. Some media have even counted Shaq as one of the 50 greatest stars in NBA history, but Laettner has gradually become invisible to everyone.

The gap is naturally mainly due to the gap in talent. Shaq's physical talent and smart mind allow him to become a historical-level interior ruler without much effort at all.

This season, as long as there is a game played at the Lakers' home court, Staples, there will be no full house. The influence of the Lakers in the NBA is too terrifying, and with the addition of a super insider like Shaq,

The team itself has some quasi-All-Star players, and there are even rookies like me who have great potential not long after entering the league. This season's Lakers team is indeed worth the fans' expectations.

Our current record is 4 wins and 1 loss. If our good game momentum continues, it is not impossible to get at least 55 wins this season, or even 60 wins. The Chicago Bulls last season won a lot of games after Jordan returned.

Directly creating a terrifying regular season record of 72 wins and 10 losses, and in the playoffs, they were blocked and killed, and they easily won the championship. Now, as the defending champion, they are still aiming to win the championship. If

If we can finally break out of the Western Conference, then if nothing else happens, we will still face this terrifying dynasty team in the finals.

Whether Shaq and I can interrupt Jordan's consecutive championships is indeed a very exciting thing, but it seems a bit too early to think about these things now. I should still not be as conceited as the original Kobe, and I can even completely

The extent to which Jordan ignored it.

In fact, I know that during Jordan's last two seasons with the Bulls, the league had already begun to look for Jordan's successor. David Stern was very successful in promoting Jordan and the NBA to the entire world, but with Jordan's

As he gets older or even passes away, the influence of the NBA is suddenly weakened a lot. Especially when Jordan retired for the first time in 1993, the entire Wall Street stock market was even greatly affected by Jordan's departure. It can be seen that

How terrifying Jordan's influence is.

When Jordan returned to the NBA again, he received an annual salary of more than 30 million, which was even higher than the entire salary cap of the entire team. However, the NBA specifically provided Jordan with such a privilege because he is the God of basketball.

The supreme being in this alliance.

And what I want to challenge now is such a supreme existence. Kingship has no eternity. No matter how powerful the dynasty is, it will end one day. No matter how powerful the players are, they will also grow old. At this time, I, the 18-year-old Kobe, will be the next player.

As a person who bears the scepter of Jordan, even though I am not even the best player among our generation, I am very similar to Jordan in many aspects.

We have the same height, similar body shape, and similar basketball skills. Well, I admit that I am still watching Jordan’s past videos and slowly imitating his various basketball skills, although these skills are not suitable for me now.

I am not able to fully understand them, but I believe that one day they will eventually become the sharpest weapon in my hand.

The game against the Hawks started at 8 o'clock in the evening. The fans in the entire Staples Arena welcomed their home team into the stadium with extremely terrifying enthusiasm, especially when Shaq's name was called.

When the name of Kobe Bryant was called, the cheers from the audience were the loudest, and what surprised me was that when the name Kobe Bryant was called, the cheers from the audience were also extremely enthusiastic, which made me feel a little bit

I'm excited. It's obvious that my performance in this arena has been recognized by the fans, and this will also be the motivation for me to continue to move forward.

After the game started, I sat on the bench again. Although the head coach Silver Fox Harris had slightly increased my playing time, this old man seemed to be at odds with me. It was said that he was a guy who didn't like to use the game very much.

A rookie player is very similar to Larry Brown, the head coach of the Pistons in 2004. Kobe's playing time has indeed been greatly compressed by him this season.

I knew all this well and naturally I didn't dare to conflict with him head-on. I knew that even if the management put pressure on him this season, it would not change my fate of being a substitute player for most of the time.

Unless the main players have extensive injuries, that is not what I want to see. I hope that the entire Lakers team will complete this season in a healthy and complete state and achieve a better regular season record.

Take home court advantage to face every opponent in the West and even the East.

So I silently watched Shaq killing everyone on the court. Facing Uncle Mu's full resistance, he seemed to be more and more excited. Compared with Camby's style of avoiding Shaq and then looking for opportunities to take advantage of Shaq,

Uncle Mu obviously prefers to go head-to-head with Shaq. After all, he still has the advantage of height and arm length.

But in the face of absolute power, these advantages of Uncle Mu disappeared. Especially today, Shaq was more excited than usual, just like in that game where he and I bet that he would score 30 points in the half.

From the very beginning, he showed the terrifying power in his body, turning around and dunking on his back, knocking over Uncle Mu for dunks, alley-oop dunks, and even a one-stop dunk after grabbing a rebound.

Although I had seen Shaq's similar performance in a video in my previous life, it was still a little bit strange to see it with my own eyes at a distance of less than a few dozen meters.

Unexpectedly, his dribbling speed was comparable to that of a defender. During the dribbling process, he even dribbled the ball with his back to bypass the defensive player. I was stunned off the court.

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The entire Staples was excited because of this ball, and I could even hear the shouts of MVP coming from the crowd. Although there were not many, there were definitely some.

I don’t know why the Eagles have never adopted the double-teaming tactic against Shaq that other teams would adopt, but insisted on letting Uncle Mu defend alone. The more this happens, the stronger Shaq’s desire to attack will naturally be. Uncle Mu has obviously tried his best.

He tried his best, but facing a big shark that was already red-eyed, he still seemed a little powerless.

However, Shaq's crazy offense has once again led to a particularly obvious problem for our Lakers this season, which is the relative tear between the inside and outside lines, because our guards do not have players who are particularly good at organizing, and Shaq

He also serves as an end point rather than as the center of the team's operation. He has no way to become the point that activates the entire team's offense like the diggers' fat inside Jokic did later.

Because of this, many times the better Shaq's offensive status is, the result is that the outside performance is further abnormal. Compared with Shaq's unstoppable inside performance, our two quasi-all-star players on the outside

But there is no way to fully utilize his strength.

This may also be related to the tactical focus of Silver Fox Harris. Most of the time, the outside players have become Shaq's role in transporting cannonballs. They are responsible for dribbling the ball across the half court, and then handing the ball to Shaq.

He goes to the inside of the opponent's three or more people by himself. Occasionally, Shaq may pass some balls through the gaps. However, these outside players have too little time to touch the ball and cannot guarantee their shooting accuracy. And they

The harder the shot is, the stronger the opponent's inside defense will be.

In this game, the Eagles adopted another defensive strategy, which was to let Uncle Mu defend Shaq one-on-one. Even if there was no way to completely limit Shaq's power, they could only use up Shaq's physical energy as much as possible.

It's ok, but then the connection between Shaq and the outside is cut off, so that Shaq can indulge in the quagmire of personal singles, while the outside players will be strictly guarded to prevent Shaq from passing the ball back to the outside players.

In this way, Shaq completely became the end point of the Lakers' tactics, and the entire team's operation suddenly came to a standstill. In this way, the opponent's defensive intention was achieved, and it was completely impossible for Shaq to play like this for two or three quarters.

There is no problem, but with Shaq's weight and physical fitness, Shaq will definitely have no energy to attack in the fourth quarter, and if the Lakers can't find the offensive feeling from the outside for the entire game, then it will be like this

The Lakers can't beat them.

I already understand their plan, but I don't know if head coach Silver Fox Harris knows this, or if he knows this, he is unwilling to make appropriate changes.

The time came to the last 4 minutes of the first quarter, and I was finally replaced. However, Shaq didn't have much physical strength at this time, which meant that I needed to shoulder the offensive responsibility alone in the second team.

At this time, the score between the two sides was tied at 20. Although Shaq scored 14 points in the paint, we shot 2 of 10 from the outside and only hit two three-pointers, so the score between the two sides was basically not tied.

open.

When the opponent saw Shaq being substituted, they also substituted Uncle Mu. I didn't know any of the players they substituted, but it was obvious that the opponent had studied my offensive style before the game.

This surprised me a little. After all, as a rookie player who had just played a few games, the opponent would give me targeted defensive strategies. This still made me feel a little flattered, but it also meant that this game was definitely not the best.

It will be very easy.

Sure enough, the opponent knew very well that I like to play in singles with the ball, so they actually adopted a local multi-player double-teaming tactic similar to zone defense. Logically speaking, zone defense does not exist in the NBA in this era, but I think their defensive strategy is very similar to zone defense.

Like, no matter where I want to break through or play alone, I will be quickly covered like a pocket by other players who come to help defend me. Their inside players will even come out to cause a big delay, completely ignoring the possibility that I will hang up.

Possibility of inside pass.

However, under the interference of their long arms inside, it was difficult for me to successfully hoist the ball into the inside. This kind of defense was indeed very disgusting. It was completely aimed at my personal singles. After all, at this time, I had not

Jordan's ability to break double teams was so incomprehensible that in the end I could only pass most of the balls back to my other teammates.

However, these teammates of mine seem a bit unreliable. The Lakers' starting players are good enough, which means that it is difficult for the substitute players to have the money to sign particularly powerful roles. Among the substitutes, apart from me, there are stronger players.

In addition to personal finishing scoring ability, it is almost impossible to find a person with independent offensive ability.

In this way, in the last three minutes, we were beaten by the opponent with a 10-2 spurt. At the end of the first quarter, we were 8 points behind 24-32.

However, the coach did not criticize my performance between sections. After all, he could also see how targeted the opponent was in defending me, and because the personal abilities of our substitute players were really limited, even if I could

The ball was passed quickly, and with their finishing ability, they were not very confident in scoring.

We have to make some changes in the second quarter.