Reborn My Name Is Kobe

After the start of the fourth quarter, the game between our Lakers and the Golden State Warriors entered a fierce state, but it was us who got into the rhythm of the game faster.

At least in the first half of the fourth quarter, with the outstanding performance of Shaq and I, the score between the two sides was quickly opened to more than double digits. At this time, the home fans became much quieter, especially when Shaq

When Ke slammed the ball into the basket again and again, the audience was eerily quiet, and it was completely impossible to tell that it was an almost full stadium.

During this process, the head coach of the Warriors called two timeouts in a row. After the first timeout, they played two consecutive rounds of good shots to prevent the score from getting further open, but then I completely opened up the offense and defense.

With the key to the end, he used a series of forced breakthroughs to tear a big hole in the Warriors' defense.

At this time, the Warriors coach had to call the second timeout. What surprised me after the timeout was that on the surface, the Warriors did not seem to have made any huge changes on the defensive end, but from the results

However, they blocked our attack in several subsequent rounds.

Several of these balls were actually relatively good offensive opportunities, but we didn't seize them. Then I understood the change in the Warriors' defensive strategy. They decided to give it a go and directly attack other players except me and Shaq.

The players were put aside, and the defensive end focused heavily on Shaq and me. As for the others, they deliberately left them open, so that they could complete the shots when the game was not feeling particularly good.

Not to mention that this defensive strategy actually achieved very good results. Shaq and I almost had two people guarding us, and they began to use bypassing and early interference and delay to destroy the passes passed to us by our teammates, and the other

In front of his teammates, there is almost an open door.

But if other players of the Lakers take advantage of the gaps to break through, they will encounter interference from their rapid defensive contraction. In fact, although the Warriors' inside height and athletic ability are not good, their defensive tactics are very flexible and can use small

The advantage of the foot speed of this lineup can quickly shrink on the defensive end.

If a ball like this was handed over to me and Shaq, it might not be a big problem. However, when several other teammates of the Lakers faced the Warriors' rapid double-teaming and contraction when they broke through, they suddenly seemed to have entered the game.

In a very powerful pocket formation, it is very easy to enter a panic state in a short period of time, and thus be intercepted by the Warriors' players with extremely fast hands and feet.

Originally, it was very simple to break this tactic, that is, if the released outside players could have a certain three-point shooting percentage, then the problem could be easily solved.

In fact, the Lakers' outside players have good three-point ability, such as Eddie Jones, Byron Scott and even Robert Horry at the power forward position. They should have given their opponents a huge blow at the three-point line.

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However, I don’t know why their shooting feeling is very poor since the beginning of this season. This does not mean that their shooting ability is not good, but more like a psychological problem. After getting a good shooting opportunity, they are very hesitant to take the shot.

, this may be because they did not perform well in some previous games, so they hesitated when shooting.

As a result, this creates a vicious cycle. The less they dare to take shots, the less they can find the shooting rhythm. The less they can find the shooting rhythm, the less accurate they are. The less accurate they are, the less they dare to take shots.

The result is that these few players in our Lakers team who were supposed to be elite pitchers have turned into waste. Throughout the game, they have become more and more dependent on Shaq's performance, and they have even begun to rely on my performance. .

In a sense, this situation is what I want to see. After all, it gives me a better opportunity to replace them as the starters of the Lakers, so that I can gain a foothold in the NBA faster. , and grow into a basketball superstar faster.

But I obviously can't just think about this in such a selfish way. Maybe this is a good thing for me personally, but it is a very bad situation for our entire Lakers team.

I don't even know if I'm ready to take on all the tasks that they failed to accomplish after these guys who were supposed to have All-Star ability are gone.

Just like the current situation, the Warriors were keenly aware of the problem with the condition of these outside shooters in our team, so their coach very boldly adopted a strategy of directly abandoning their outside defense.

Sometimes people are like this. If the opponent is guarding you seriously, you may feel very good shooting, because when you usually train, you always consider taking shots when someone is guarding you, but when the opponent completely ignores your existence, When you are asked to shoot an empty blue, you may have more time to prepare for the shot, but often when you spend a longer time to aim at the basket, you lose your usual best shot rhythm, resulting in an empty blue instead. Even more inaccurate and bizarre results.

What is the most important thing to a pitcher?

Of course it's self-confidence. If a shooter loses the confidence to even hit a shot, then he will become more and more useless. The less he dares to take a shot, the less likely he is to make a shot.

The Warriors saw that this tactic had an unexpected effect, disrupting the offensive rhythm of our entire team. Many of the original open shot opportunities failed to hit. Instead, the Warriors took advantage of the mistakes caused by double-teaming to attack us. Playing a successful counterattack caused the situation on the court to change again.

When you just miss two or three consecutive goals, you may still be able to calm down, but when you find that your misfire on the offensive end lasts for three minutes or more, you will start to get nervous. When you become impatient, you may even experience self-doubt.

Even players with sufficient strength like Shaq and I will experience emotional fluctuations when the frustration of the entire team is contagious. Especially Shaq, a guy who is very easily affected by emotions. When the Warriors When the team starts to use small moves to interfere with him, he will get angry because the referee turns a blind eye, and then his emotions will further affect other players around him.

I'm trying

Desperately trying to calm myself down, I first decided to stabilize the ball first. However, the Warriors were ruthless enough. When they saw me getting the ball from the outside and preparing to control the rhythm, they actually started to attack me directly in the half court. When I press the defense, not only will the inside players come out to the high position to delay my dribbling, but once they see that I have a tendency to stop the ball, many people will immediately come up to double-team me and force me to pass the ball out.

And I couldn't pass the ball directly to Shaq. There were people in front of him trying to pass the ball, and there were people behind him who were going to defend him, making it difficult for him to jump up and catch the ball. In this case, I could only

Pass the ball to several other Lakers players.

However, these guys seemed extremely impatient at this time. When they got the ball, they didn't care whether they had the touch or whether they were in a good shooting position. They hurriedly finished like a novice than me.

, as a result, their random shots also made it difficult for Shaq to grab offensive rebounds.

The momentum on the basketball court has always waxed and waned. When our offensive momentum was suppressed, the Warriors' offensive momentum suddenly picked up. Their offensive tactics are very advanced, at least compared to this era.

I would say it is absolutely groundbreaking.

Of course, I actually discovered some patterns when I was studying and thinking about the history of basketball development in my previous life, that is, any so-called basketball tactics and playing styles that were popular at that time were actually nothing new.

In fact, in the decades since the NBA was founded, the league's game rhythm has not been static. In the so-called ancient times, there was no 24-second attack time limit at the beginning, so the overall rhythm and score were very different.

of low.

But after the emergence of 24 seconds later, and with the gradual growth of dribbling and shooting skills, and the improvement of player professionalism, the offensive rhythm of basketball games reached a very fast period in the 1960s and 1970s. At this time, a game

After the game, both sides often take more than a hundred shots. Although their shooting percentage is not very high, it can be seen from the extremely high number of rebounds that NBA teams in this era actually play very hard.

Fast.

Later, the NBA entered the late 1980s, and after the 1990s, the overall game rhythm began to gradually slow down, and the offensive rhythm and scores of all teams began to decrease. Although the three-point line was invented during this period, all teams

The core of the tactics is still the positional battle based on the inside line or the star singles after the draw.

This situation reached its peak in the early years of the 21st century. The most illustrative of the problem is the Pistons and Spurs from 2003 to 2005. They were both teams that took defense to the extreme.

Later, with the changes in defensive rules, the entire NBA once again entered a faster era, which is also the so-called small ball era.

But in fact, the fast tactic was not invented in the small ball era. It is just that in different eras, due to the combined influence of culture, rules, personal personalities of players and other factors, different mainstream game styles will exist in the league at different times.

Whether it is comparing offense, defense, stars or tactical diversity, there is no eternal king or undefeated team or tactic in a basketball game. No matter how powerful a team or tactic is, there is always some kind of difference.

Can restrain its tactics or playing style, and this replacement process also brings about the replacement of NBA eras and dynasties.

As the saying goes, royal power has no eternity. If you want not to be swallowed up by the times, you must keep pace with the times.

At least during this period of time, the Warriors' tactics have been very successful. This is mainly due to the inherent hidden dangers within our Lakers team. Although there are many All-Star players on paper, we have

They often fight on their own, and it is difficult to form a power that one plus one is greater than or equal to two, so they are beaten back to their original shape in front of the more united Warriors.

Just because the previous point difference with the Warriors was close to 15 points, so even though the Warriors continued to chase points at this time, they only narrowed the point difference to 6 points. After all, the Lakers still have a lead and are currently fourth.

There are less than three minutes left until the end of the quarter.

Head coach Silver Fox Harris finally couldn't hold back anymore and called a timeout, so the Lakers only had one timeout left to use after the timeout ended.

The faces of all the Lakers players looked extremely gloomy, as if it was our Lakers who were 6 points behind at this time. Even Shaq's forehead had a trace of black lines and wrinkles, which seemed to be a sign of the Warriors' failure in the previous three minutes.

Their crazy performance is a bit frightening. If they are allowed to continue in this state for another three minutes, not to mention that the six-point advantage is not safe, even if the advantage is doubled to 12 points, it will be restored in an instant.

Silver Fox Harris did not blame the players. Instead, he tried his best to comfort everyone, especially repeatedly emphasizing that outside players must take decisive shots after getting open opportunities. It does not matter even if the shot fails, and Shaq also tried not to fight for it.

There was an offensive rebound, but he immediately retreated.

The reason why Silver Fox Harris said this is probably because he saw that the Warriors always use two people to take care of Shaq, and Shaq usually has more or less physical problems at this time in the fourth quarter.

, asking him to compete with two Warriors players for offensive rebounds at this time will bring greater consumption to his physical fitness, and the success rate of doing so is not high. Once the rebound is not grabbed, it will cause a huge loss to the Warriors.

When there is an opportunity for a quick counterattack, Shaq is not very active in retreating, so he should be allowed to retreat in advance to prevent the opponent from going straight to the basket on a fast break.

In fact, our Lakers' current tactics are also one inside and four outside. It is difficult for anyone except Shaq to form enough defensive deterrence in the paint. Once the Warriors' fast break counterattack hits the Lakers' inside line, it will basically be

It's equivalent to giving points to the Warriors.

After the timeout, our Lakers served, and I held the ball to keep the rhythm of the game down, while the Warriors still followed the previous tactics. When they saw me holding the ball and stopped, they quickly double-teamed me, and this was exactly what I did

Things you want to see.

Silver Fox Harris has designed a set of counter-tactics for the Warriors' defensive strategy, which is to let Shaq directly lift his defender outside and double-team him.

My players, most of the Warriors' defense, had their attention drawn to me.

At this time Eddie Jones directly started from the bottom line

I cut into the basket, and then I lobbed the ball directly into the paint. By the time the Warriors player reacted, the ball had already been smashed into the basket. After all, people are still not as fast as the ball.

flight speed.

In fact, this tactic almost failed. The Warriors defensive players quickly reacted and prepared to shrink inside to defend, but I reacted faster and passed the ball ahead of time. Eddie Jones was also led by my passing.

Cutting inside to successfully complete the alley-oop.

At this time, the already noisy Warriors home fans once again fell into a long state of silence. Obviously, this alley-oop greatly affected the arrogance of the fans and the Warriors.

However, this Warriors team is indeed very resilient. Even under the unfavorable circumstances of being 8 points behind with less than three minutes left in the game, someone was still able to stand up and respond to us with an ANSWER BALL from beyond the three-point line.

The most important thing is that this three-pointer was shot directly by our Lakers players when they were celebrating the previous goal. At this time, the home fans on the court once again let out earth-shattering shouts, as if

They have all been holding back for a long time, and they want to completely release the held-in emotions in one breath.

Several Lakers players on our court looked at each other, but this was not the time to complain to each other. I took the serve and dribbled the ball across the court at a very fast speed. However, at this time, the Warriors double-team came again.

, and it was faster and more fierce than the previous time, and it surrounded me with a three-pointer as soon as I passed the midfield.

I failed to pass the ball out in time, and the ball was taken away all the time. At this time, almost all my other teammates had not even reached half court.

After I reacted, I quickly returned to defense. However, Chris Mullin, who had been guarded by me for almost the whole game and didn't have much performance, was determined to kill me, and he chased me with another goal before we had time to establish a defense.

The body three-point shot is almost the same as the previous three-point shot.

As the basketball hollowed into the basket, the Lakers' lead was suddenly reduced from 8 points half a minute ago to only 2 points. At this moment, the cheers of the fans on the sidelines were heard one after another again.

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Head coach Silver Fox Harris was forced to call the Lakers' last timeout. At this time, there were only more than 2 minutes left before the end of the game.

My mind was in chaos at this time, everything happened too fast. We had an 8-point advantage just a moment ago, but now we were almost pulled back to the same starting line by the opponent.

However, after the timeout, our old problem of low tactical execution reappeared. Originally, Silver Fox Harris arranged a tactic for Shaq to complete the finish. However, when the ball was released, Shaq did not follow the tactical design.

Go running, which makes Scott, who is holding the ball from the outside, hesitant. He doesn't know whether to pass the ball to Shaq or directly shoot by himself. After all, the opponent's defensive player in front of him is quite a distance away from him at this time.

, as if to say that if you have the ability, just vote for me!

As a result, Scott really took the shot by himself. Luck seemed not to be on our Lakers side today. The basketball had already entered the center of the basket, but due to excessive rotation, it kept spinning on the basket.

Not going.

The spectators on the sidelines and the players on the court held their breath, waiting for the ball to enter the basket, and no one under the basket dared to touch the basket with their hands.

The shocking result was that the ball spun out from the basket after spinning dozens of times. Shaq was not ready to grab the offensive rebound, and the rebound fell directly into the hands of a Warriors player.

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After grabbing the rebound, the Warriors had no intention of stopping. They dribbled the ball quickly across the half court again, and then used quick passes to find a position where we didn't have time to retreat and hit a three-pointer.

The arc of the basketball looks extremely beautiful in the air, but at this moment it looks particularly scary to us, the Lakers.

Because it did not spin continuously on the basket and then fall out like the three-pointer shot by Scott. At this time, the three-pointer shot by the Warriors directly hit the basket hollowly.

All the Lakers players, including me, stood there dumbfounded, watching the Warriors players celebrate desperately.

My mind finally regained clarity at this moment, and I signaled Shaq to serve quickly. After receiving the serve, I once again dribbled the ball across the half court as quickly as possible.

But this time I didn’t stop the ball to observe the situation around me, nor did I give the Warriors a chance to double-team me in advance. When they reacted, I had already marched straight in, holding the ball alone and rushing into the Warriors’ penalty area.

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With a bang, I felt my head was a little dizzy, and my body fell heavily to the ground. While I was lying on the ground, I was still watching the direction of the basketball with my eyes. To my disappointment, the ball did not fall into the frame.

, but my breakthrough still won me two free throw opportunities.

I held my breath, and everything around me seemed to slow down a lot at this moment. The basketball in my hand felt bigger and smaller. I closed my eyes slightly. When I opened it again, I only felt the basketball in front of me.

The basket became as wide as the sea. With this feeling, I shot the ball without hesitation.

As the basketball went hollow into the net, the score between us and the Warriors came to a 110-110 tie. If I could hit my second free throw, I would have taken the lead again at the last moment, and it was still far from the end of the game.

There are less than thirty seconds left.

I took a deep breath of fresh air and shot the last free throw.

It's in!

In the end, we took away the victory with a one-point advantage at the Warriors' home court. This season, our Lakers' overall record has reached 9 wins and 2 losses, which is tied with the Bulls for first place in the league.

But tomorrow we will fly to the home court of the Utah Jazz for a back-to-back game. This will be a difficult game. I remember that the last time we played a back-to-back game was very difficult, not to mention the Utah Devils’ home game early.

As we all know, Utah's terrible duo is very powerful in itself, not to mention that we need to challenge them back-to-back on the road.