Reborn My Name Is Kobe

After the start of the fourth quarter, I was still on the bench with Shaq watching other Lakers players struggling on the court. However, I also noticed that Shaq's face looked quite serious at this time. He suddenly became like this

To be honest, I'm really not used to this look, and suddenly I thought that maybe Shaq, who usually makes people feel relaxed and comfortable, is pretty good.

The good momentum the Lakers had previously achieved on the court was slowly brought back by the Jazz. Less than 1 minute into the fourth quarter, the Jazz used their breakthrough to cause the Lakers two consecutive fouls.

And these two fouls were both shooting fouls. In the end, the Jazz used free throws to get three points.

In fact, the lineup that the Jazz sent after the fourth quarter was quite strange, at least it was completely different from the lineup that the Jazz used before. Their coach Jerry Sloan actually used the Utah double-shackles separately and just sent them

core defender Stockton, and then placed Karl Malone on the bench.

In addition, among the players sent by the Jazz, there are no particularly tall inside players. Generally speaking, the Jazz's lineup is more like a small lineup of a point guard and four strikers.

Of course, I’m not surprised at all that Jerry Sloan arranged the formation like this, because this is also to correspond to the Lakers’ current lineup. After all, the Lakers did not send Shaq, a top insider, and the center on the court actually looked better in the paint.

Very soft, his personal presence is not very strong either on the offensive or defensive end.

It is precisely because the Jazz's formation is completely based on the characteristics of our Lakers players, and the overall physical fitness of our Lakers players is still slightly worse, so even if the Lakers players on the court are still playing

They worked very hard, but the situation gradually began to tilt towards the Jazz, and the 14-point point difference gradually widened to 17 points.

At this time, Lakers head coach Silver Fox Harris was the first to call a timeout because he couldn't sit still. After all, the current score difference was 18 points, and there were still about 10 minutes left before the end of the fourth quarter. If the two sides could not stop the score now,

If the difference widens further, the Lakers will completely lose hope of chasing points.

During the timeout, I found that Silver Fox Harris's thinking was relatively clear, and he was also very clear about the Jazz's tactical arrangements. However, he wanted to let the already very tired Lakers recover 18 points in 10 minutes of game time.

The point difference is still very difficult. After all, we have been outburst for a long time in the third quarter. At that time, we almost pushed our physical fitness to the limit. The most critical point is that we did not have enough rest time to recover our physical fitness.

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Speaking of which, it's because the hole we dug in the first half was too deep, a full 37 points. Not to mention losing so much at halftime can be considered a big shame. If we can recover in the second half, it will only be a big loss for the Jazz.

I'm afraid it will be an even greater shame and humiliation, so it can be foreseen that the Jazz will go all out in the next game. This is also their home court after all. If they lead in front of tens of thousands of fans in the audience,

If they are overturned with 37 points, then they really don’t know how they will be sprayed in the future.

In fact, Silver Fox Harris didn't make too many tactical arrangements. He just replaced Shaq and me on the court, plus point guard Van Exel, small forward Eddie Jones and power forward Robert Horry who were on the court before.

This is the strongest lineup of our Lakers team now, but since the second half, the overall playing time of our lineup has been very long, and the next ten minutes of game time will be a huge test of willpower.

When I first came to the Utah Plateau, I didn't actually feel that it was difficult to breathe. In fact, because of the dry and refreshing air and weather here, I once felt that breathing here was more comfortable and smoother than at lower altitudes.

However, after several hours of high-intensity competition, your entire body is severely overdrawn, and every breath in your lungs requires more effort than usual. At this time, the hypoxia problem in the plateau climate will arise.

It became very tricky.

Compared with the Jazz players who have lived here for a long time, we have to put in extra effort to adapt to this lack of oxygen. For a short while, I even felt some small black spots appearing in front of my eyes. I knew it must be

This is a precursor to my symptoms of hypoxia. Maybe after this game, some of our Lakers players will need to go to the ceiling fan to drink a few bottles of saline or inhale a few mouthfuls of pure oxygen.

In addition, because we are currently lagging behind, we must speed up the pace of the game and try our best to prevent the Jazz from falling into a positional attack.

But on the other hand, our player configuration can handle positional battles very well if we can shoot from the outside. But can our outside shooting still maintain stable firepower when our physical fitness is declining?

Eddie Jones has made consecutive hits from beyond the three-point line before, so I think if there is a chance later, I can pass more balls to him for shooting. Shaq and I are not only the initiators of the tactics, but also must play roles at the same time.

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Different from other teams’ guards who have super organizational ability, our Lakers’ guards are almost all of that type.

A player whose offensive ability is far stronger than his organizational ability. Even the main point guard Van Exel plays like a combo guard. If the ball comes into his hands, he will often choose to attack by himself.

However, the very contradictory point is that our Lakers lineup has too many players who need shooting rights, but lacks someone who can effectively organize and distribute the ball rights. At this time, I am not able to play the role very well.

In this role, after all, as a shooting guard, my first priority is to score, but my style of play will definitely squeeze out a lot of Van Exel's ball rights.

It is precisely for this reason that my relationship with Van Exel is not very good. In fact, the better I perform, the smaller his living space is, because in the past, the Lakers often needed a single point.

It depends on him, and Eddie Jones and Horry are more like the Lakers' off-ball shooting points from the outside. After I have shown a stronger ability to finish the offense during this period, Van Exel is in our current lineup.

The role was basically replaced by mine.

And he is still the kind of player who needs the ball in his hand to score. It is impossible for him to play without the ball. Originally, I have good catching and shooting ability. If the defender is a strong pass organizer,

As a point guard, I am willing to give up the ball and play without the ball.

However, this Van Exel is a player with a very poor passing awareness. This is not only reflected in his passing skills. In fact, if he wants to pass a good ball, he has that ability.

The key is that passing is always at the back of his mind. The defenders who are more similar to him are Iverson or later Irving. However, it is very unusual for a player like him to exist in our Lakers team.

Good for the team.

It is precisely for this reason that on the surface our Lakers team seems to have a lot of players who can score, but in the game they often turn into their own singles, whether it is Shaq's singles, my singles, or Van Exel.

In singles, unfortunately, Eddie Jones and Robert Horry, who play without the ball, can only be used as the fourth and fifth offensive options.

Eddie Jones' personal data has naturally plummeted this season. Perhaps deep down at this moment, he is also beginning to think about the idea of ​​playing for other teams. The most critical point is the relationship between him and Shaq.

The tacit understanding of the game is very low. This is like a very strange thing, and it is difficult for you to find a reasonable explanation.

After the timeout, the Jazz also replaced all their starting players. At this time, they still looked expressionless. Sometimes you may even think that they look harmless from the outside, but

Only when you actually fight with them, their tough defense and ruthless hand-to-hand confrontation will let you know how terrifying the militarized management these guys believe in is.

Different from their slightly loose defense at the beginning of the first half, at this time the Jazz actually began to double-team and delay our ball-carrying players in advance. Maybe Jerry Sloan saw that our team

There is a lack of a good backcourt organizer. Once the ball holder is double-teamed, it will easily cause our ball holder to make a mistake, thereby giving us the opportunity to easily counterattack.

Regarding this point, Silver Fox Harris also specifically reminded us to increase the speed of our ball movement. After getting the ball, no one has to dribble the ball in place for more than ten seconds before passing it out.

I quite agree with this. The reason is, as I analyzed before, simply because at this time our Lakers players’ desire to win the game has temporarily overwhelmed their personal desire for performance, and they are no longer as strong as before.

I like dribbling to delay time.

When the ball movement between our Lakers players quickened, the entire team's offense was suddenly activated. After all, the personal abilities of our players are there. If we separate them and let the Jazz

If the players compare with us, then we will definitely be able to win.

However, the game is not one-on-one or three-on-three. It is a game between five people. If you want to bring out the strongest strength of the team, sometimes someone must make sacrifices, otherwise a team will fight on its own.

The team definitely won't be able to go very far.

The Lakers may not be united at ordinary times, but the players on the court at this moment have shown the personal abilities and passing vision that a star player should have. This fully illustrates the point that our Lakers are not incapable of players.

It's not that we can't cooperate well, it's just that we are too selfish with each other. Many times we put our personal honor far above the overall honor of the team. Only when we face desperate situations can we put it aside.

We became a real team.

So sometimes this kind of difficulty and adversity is also a kind of teacher, which can help our team to run in better. I believe that after this game, no matter what the final result is, we will be able to understand what a team is.

Have a deeper understanding and understanding.

At this time, even though I like singles very much, I have become a little smarter. When I can attract the opponent's double-team at the first time and see my teammates on the field running out of the tactical position, whether he has formed an opening or not,

I will pass the ball out as soon as possible because I know that I am only part of the team's overall tactics and I cannot

It delays the entire team's tactical execution.

If it comes to a critical moment when the score is not much different, I will be happy to take over the last few offensive opportunities, but now I must let myself believe in my teammates, and I also need to let my teammates believe in me. We should join together to form an invincible team.

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At least within the first three minutes of playing, our Lakers withstood a wave of crazy attacks from the Jazz. In fact, the Jazz's physical fitness has also declined a lot at this time, and their main offensive methods still rely on tactics.

The system was used to create open shooting opportunities, but under our tireless pursuit of defense, the mentality of the entire Jazz players seemed to have gradually changed.

When their outside shots begin to be inaccurate, their decisiveness in taking shots will decrease when open shots appear again. Basketball is such an interesting sport. The court will be affected by an invisible force called momentum or morale.

The influence of something that cannot be touched.

When the Jazz's offense suffers repeated setbacks, their subsequent tactical execution ability will decline significantly. When tactics cannot win them points, they will also fall into the quagmire of star singles.

However, our Lakers team has a strong point in singles. The Jazz's Utah duo is not best at singles. Whether it's me guarding Stockton alone or Shaq guarding Karl Malone alone, it's very easy.

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The reason why Karl Malone was able to score so many points so easily in the first half was not mainly because Shaq was too defensive on the defensive end. After the second half, when he made up his mind to guard Karl Malone, Shaq

With Gram's height, wingspan and athletic ability, it is really difficult for Karl Malone to get the opportunity to score easily.

Of course, the Jazz's defensive strength is still strong, especially their defensive system is very mature. It can be seen that even if it is just a regular season game, it is treated as a playoff game for them with strict discipline.

The Jazz's highly integrated defense is very restrained by the Lakers, a team that relies on star players in isolation. Although our cooperation and willingness to cooperate have greatly improved at this time, the Jazz's defensive players

He knows how to use seemingly inconspicuous ways to disrupt the operation of our team.

In fact, their seemingly inconspicuous defensive moves have very deep principles. In fact, our Lakers also lack a top organizer who can read the defense at any time on the court. Kobe has a strong passing ability.

He has ball talent and learning ability, but when it comes to his ability to read the game, he is still much worse than players like LeBron James.

Although I have been thinking very hard about the Jazz's defensive system at this time and want to find a way to break their defense, the thinking time given to me is too short. Most of the time, I can only rely on intuition and

Playing instinctively, the same goes for other Lakers players. Even if we wanted to have more tacit cooperation, we were ultimately cut into individuals one after another by the Jazz's defense.

Fortunately, because we defended the Jazz very well and were able to protect most of the defensive rebounds, we got many fast break counterattack opportunities.

If we can't find a way to break the Jazz's defense in positional battles, then fast break counterattacks will be the last lifeline for our Lakers team. Of course, our physical fitness limits the power of our fast break counterattacks. Even so, it still caused the Jazz's failure.

With continuous fouls and free throws, we can score points on the one hand, and on the other hand, we can stop the game time and win some breathing time for the players.

It's just that when the physical strength is severely exhausted, both Shaq and the Lakers perimeter players, including me, can basically only maintain a free throw shooting rate of about 50%. At this time, Shaq's free throw shooting is quite stable, almost every time.

Each time he made two free throws.

The score between us and the Jazz has been narrowing with difficulty, from 18 points to 15 points, then to 13 points, and finally we are about to catch up to within 10 points. However, at this time, the Jazz's outside line finally fired, maybe it was

Because the physical fitness of our players on the court is so poor, it is difficult to completely keep up with Hornacek on the outside. We can only watch his almost open three-point shot.

There are less than 7 minutes left in the fourth quarter. Our Lakers are still 13 points behind the Jazz. This score is not impossible to catch up with, but now we need to readjust our breathing and take a break, so head coach Harry Silver Fox

Si finally called a timeout.

After this timeout, we only have the last timeout left, so we have to work hard to support it until the end of the game. There will be almost no time to rest unless we can stop the Jazz directly.

Our Lakers team did not make personnel adjustments after this timeout. Even though the physical fitness of the players on the court has already bottomed out, we still have to persevere. No matter what the final result of the game is, we have tried our best in the second half.

Well, in the face of the strong enemy Jazz, when they were behind by so many points in the first half, they were able to grit their teeth and persevere until now, and still recover so many points, which is worthy of the fans who spent money to buy tickets to watch the game at the scene.