Healing Basketball

   Chapter 427 427. Who will they choose? (5000 words)

  Kobe was struck by lightning!

   Halfway through his serve, he grabbed the ball with one hand and made the action of pushing the ball out when he served, and it stopped... The ball didn't hold steady, and it fell all of a sudden.

   If the ball hadn't fallen, Kobe really wanted to hit Odom with a very serious expression!

   Knowing that Odom has a bad brain, more than half a season has passed, and Kobe has long known this.

   But this time it was too annoying!

   Fortunately, the whistle sounded at this time. Frank Humberland suddenly found that the difference was 9 points and called a timeout. Odom, who found that the boss had betrayed this secret, avoided the fate of being silenced.

   Kobe took a deep breath: The world is so beautiful, but I am so irritable, this is not good... this is not good...

   Adjusted his emotions, and after returning to the bench, Kobe's sense of gap came again.

  Interim coach Frank Hamblen, Kobe felt that this old coach is capable. After all, he has been an assistant coach for nearly 30 years, and he has done a good job in normal lineup rotation, tactical adjustment, and pre-match preparations.

   But the ability to respond on the spot... This time the time-out was called just because the score difference was 9 points and it should be called a time-out?

  What kind of trick is it to replace Wang Zhizhi with Brian Grant, who averaged 3 points and 3 rebounds per game?

   Time to make a substitution?

   Kobe finally adjusted his mood, and began to become irritable again...

  …

   came back from the suspension, and the Blazers replaced the combination of Payton, Liu Xiu, extrajudicial fanatics, Raheem, and Kwame Brown.

   Liu Xiu looked at these four teammates, defending against Kobe, should be fine, right?

It's a bit hanging, the extrajudicial fanatic will improve for another two years. With his physical condition, he can restrain Kobe's type... The peak is actually enough for anyone, but Kobe is 26, and the extrajudicial fanatic is only 20. Wait for six or seven years , it can be seen that the outsiders beat Kobe with blood on the defensive end.

   That picture is beautiful when you think about it.

   Back on the court, when Liu Xiu saw that the opposite twin towers were Odom and Brian Grant, it was his turn to be confused.

  What is this!

   For the Lakers nearly half a quarter, apart from Kobe and Odom scoring, only Wang Zhizhi scored a three-pointer, called a timeout, and replaced Wang Zhizhi?

   "Brian Grant, 33 years old, 206 cm, 115 kg, C/PF, ability rating 63, offense—, defense 67...Averaged 3.6 points and 3.3 rebounds..."

  Athletic ability, physical strength, compared with the plummeting last season, a role player inside, in his 30s, it is not surprising.

   But Brian Grant's salary is $13.23 million this year, and the next two years are $14.34 million and $14.85 million. Such a contract is very hurtful for any team.

That summer five years ago, the Heat poached Brian Grant with a huge seven-year contract with a max starting salary but not a full increase. At that time, most people thought it was a junk contract, because Duncan and McGrady's starting salary is also the same price, but the increase for the two is the full increase of Bird Rights. This year, Duncan and McGrady's salary is more than 14 million US dollars.

   I heard that when the Heat poached Brian Grant at the time, the gods were afraid that the Blazers with a small contract and deep pockets would directly match them, so they directly gave the maximum starting salary…

   With such a **** contract with three years left, the gods can dump O'Neal to the Lakers, which is really awesome!

   slandered, Liu Xiu noticed that Kobe Bryant's face was stinky, and his attention was immediately concentrated.

   The referee blew the whistle to continue the game, the Lakers attacked and served from the centerline.

  Terry Brown received the serve and passed it to Kobe. Kobe faced Payton's defense and used his sense of rhythm to break through. After getting the gap, he exploded and accelerated!

   Kobe burst into the middle distance, faced the extrajudicial fanatics and defended against interference, and made an emergency stop and made a mid-range shot!

The   Pony Malone version of Kobe, apart from being easily injured, really has no flaws, not even physical flaws, and still averages more than 40 minutes per game.

   Kobe trained his body like this, but it was still his previous technique. Naturally, he was easily injured, but he was really strong!

   The extra-legal madman's interference flow and supplementary defense. In the face of Kobe who is confident that he will not be blocked, he will completely ignore the interference. This wave of supplementary defense has become an ineffective supplementary defense.

  11 to 18, the point difference narrowed to 7 points.

   Offense and defense transition. After Liu Xiu advanced to the frontcourt, Odom did not come out to attack in advance.

  What a pity, I really want to see Kobe's expression as if the world is collapsing...

   But you can still ask Odom to come out to scorch Kobe's eyes, and Liu Xiu continues to find Kwame Brown to play the pick-and-roll!

   Compared with the left-handed magician who frowned and returned from a pause last time, Odom's expression seems to be much simpler now.

  Liu Xiu used Kwame Brown to block Kobe, Odom expanded the defense, Kobe also chose to go around the line, double insurance to prevent Liu Xiu's shot, who had already scored 10 points in the half quarter.

   Liu Xiu chose to make a breakthrough, passed Odom, who was pressing up to defend, and followed Kobe, who was on the line, from behind.

  Odom came up with a tempting idea - to block Kobe and take revenge on the boss who blocked him before.

   But Odom held back, and he chose to follow Kwame Brown, who was cut apart.

   Kobe's life-threatening pursuit of Liu Xiu, he really caught up with him!

   Liu Xiu has a 1 second speed + 3 bonus after the pick and roll, but he didn't get rid of Kobe!

   Liu Xiu rushed all the way to the close range, and saw that Kobe was chasing after him, and Brian Grant was crossing the basket. He was about to stop the ball and pull it out or find someone to support him. Brian Grant expanded!

  Liu Xiu made a surprise shot, and Rahim at the basket made a layup!

  Brian Grant, who is in Avalanche, always makes some strange defensive choices. Liu Xiu felt that this attack was a failure. As a result, Brian Grant took the initiative to give him a scoring point.

When Liu Xiu and Raheem gave high fives and retreated, the images of Kobe Odom standing on the left with a smirk, Brian Grant standing with confidence on the right, and Kobe shouting, "The dragon and the phoenix are all in my urn". screen.

   But unfortunately, Liu Xiu only saw Kobe's stinky expression.

   If it wasn't for Odom's wave of operations and Brian Grant's defense, Kobe would really go wild.

   But now... what a big deal! His boss is a traitor.

   When the Lakers attacked, this time the defender of Kobe became an extrajudicial fanatic!

   After discovering that the extra-legal maniac's defensive features were equivalent to ineffective defense in the face of Kobe, Payton instructed his teammates to switch defenses, Liu Xiu went to guard Butler, the extra-legal maniac guarded Kobe, and Payton guarded Terry Brown.

   It is an advantage to play an opponent later.

   The extrajudicial fanatics relied on the brilliant performance of defending Iverson, McGrady, Carter and others, and Kobe naturally noticed this talented defensive player who was also a high school student.

   To deal with the outlaw madman, it is very simple, the great **** has an advantage that the other three shooting guards do not have - stronger than the extrajudicial madman who can play the power forward!

   When playing against the Raptors before, the GIF of Kobe sitting in the low position and eating Bosh to catch the ball, turn around and put the basket was once popular all over the Internet.

   In the face of extrajudicial fanatics on the outside, Kobe made a direct attack!

   Butler contained Liu Xiu, and Peyton couldn't stop him from making up the defense, so he had to use Rahim in the inside to make up the defense.

   Kobe chose to pass the ball this time, and it was Lamar Odom.

Lamar Odom received the ball in the middle distance, Kwame Brown extended to make up the defense, Odom used a guard-like dribble behind the back to break through the space and rushed forward, Kwame Brown defended the outside line well, and he went up in time, but Odom Mum is not an ordinary perimeter, he is a center body, Kwame - Brown's confrontation did not play a big role, Odom smoothly burst into the basket.

   Following Butler's move to the bottom line on the right, Liu Xiu shrunk in and scrambled, Odom scored the ball... Butler retreated to the bottom corner and hit a three-pointer!

  14 to 20, the Lakers grabbed the score!

  The expression is cool, silly, and silly, representing the three states of Odom's concentration, ordinary, and distracted.

   A few minutes ago, Odom's state of concentration came and went quickly, but the current state is okay, ordinary, at least he didn't continue the genius operation, and it was no problem to assume the role of the first contact point beside Kobe.

With Odom's assistance, Butler's outside scoring, and Brian Grant's degradation, no matter how serious he is, he is an insider and has a natural ability to contain himself at the basket... With these basic conditions, Kobe took on the Lakers that were about to collapse at the beginning. , with the Blazers hard nibbling!

   At the end of the first quarter, with Kobe's 9 points, 2 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 steal, the Lakers did not let the Trail Blazers continue to widen the point difference, trailing the Trail Blazers 25-32 by 7 points and entering the break!

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Liu Xiu didn't score a few minutes after the first quarter. The Lakers defended very tightly, but he also made good use of the Lakers' strict defense. While scoring 10 points in a single quarter, he also scored 3 rebounds and 3 rebounds. 4 assists, and 1 steal.

   Entering the inter-season break, Kobe looked at Liu Xiu's three main stats just overwhelmed him, and was so angry.

   Now he has no control over his anger, he needs anger, anger makes him stronger!

   On the Blazers side, they tried to further widen the point difference in the first quarter to lay a greater advantage, but they didn't do it, but they also got a clearer understanding of the Lakers' current strength.

Tonight's Kobe Bryant's state was not so hot to the point where he beat the Mavericks alone, and their coach was still dragging his feet. Without having to face Kwame Brown and make two shots by himself after May Brown pulled out and Bryant rushed inside, the Trail Blazers' lead may not be able to be maintained.

   Kobe's strength is really nothing to say! As long as it doesn't hurt, he is basically the strongest outsider in the league today.

   If Tomjanovich is still coaching, the Trail Blazers may capsize in the gutter tonight!

   However, the ability of the coach is definitely a part of the team's strength, or a very important part. The current Lakers have lost that ability.

   Having understood the situation of the Lakers clearly, Maurice Cheeks has made a decision - with Kobe hard steel carrying the Lakers forward!

   Slow and steady is a good strategy, but what if Kobe goes wild?

   Therefore, Morris-Cheeks boldly sent a combination of Momoko, Liu Xiu, Outlaws, Randolph, and McDyess, ready to be unstoppable.

   It turns out that sometimes bold decisions are right!

   In the second quarter, Kobe really went wild!

   Fortunately, the Blazers sent Momomoko. With Liu Xiu's defensive restraint, Momomoko scored again and again on the outside, and fought against Kobe Bryant!

  Liu Xiu and Momonga both have obvious strength gaps compared to Kobe.

   Kobe Bryant can get up alone, Liu Xiu and Momonga need to cooperate with their teammates.

   But the two of them just have teammates who can cooperate! And a lot!

At 11 minutes and 41 seconds into the second quarter, Bryant turned around to face the defensive back and hit a long two-pointer, raising his personal score to 15 points in a single quarter, chasing the score to 53-60, and biting the score. .

   Kobe's goal now is to bite the score and hit the key ball at the end.

   But then, Raheem hit a three-pointer from the sideline, and the Blazers extended the lead to 10 points!

   The last attack Odom received the ball and scored three points in the backcourt.

   The whistle sounded at the end of halftime, 63 to 53, the Trail Blazers led by 10 points and entered halftime!

  Maurice Cheeks' bold rotation allowed the Blazers to avoid being pierced by Kobe!

   This is a lesson learned from the Mavericks.

   This season, the Lakers and the Mavericks have played against the Mavericks 3 times. The Lakers have 2 wins and 1 loss, and the two wins the Lakers have won were all due to Kobe Bryant's runaway and the Mavericks' steady and steady response, but they were overturned by Kobe.

   The only game the Mavericks won was when Nelson had 8 players in rotation and smashed the whole game. In the last 8 players, 7 of them scored in double figures. They fought with the strongest firepower throughout the whole process, and finally won the game with 118 points.

However, to take the lead with Kobe's 4-for-7 shooting (including 2-for-3-pointers), 5-for-6 free throws, 15 points, 1 rebound, 3 assists and 1 block in a single quarter, the Lakers coach has to rely on it. Rigid rotation.

   And this is also the reason why Kobe, who scored 24 points and 6 assists at halftime, is getting angry now.

   He scored 15 points and 3 assists in a single quarter!

   Their team only scored 28 points in a single quarter!

   Kobe became angrier the more he thought about it, because of the effect of the "reverse conqueror" on Liu Xiu's side, he was much more sensitive than usual tonight.

   For other opponents, even if the situation is the same, he will have a lot less negative thoughts.

  The coach was replaced by Tomjanovich to Frank Hamblen. Tonight, Kobe, who was extra sensitive, felt a bigger gap than ever before!

   He really thinks it's better to vote alone!

   It would be better for him to come by himself!

   Maybe he shoots alone and scores more points than the opponent!

After passing the player tunnel, he was about to enter the locker room. He stopped, took a deep breath, and meditated: I'm the boss, I want to calm down, I want to lead the team forward, and I can't be as petty as before, no one cares. Help me out...

   Underpinning?

  The figure of a fat man appeared in Kobe's mind.

  How can you think of him?

   Kobe, who had just tried to calm down his emotions, became excited again. Seeing the fire extinguisher hanging on Qiang, it was red and red, like the face of the fat man in the red jersey, and he punched it.

"what…"

  The Lakers coach and players in the visiting team's locker room heard a scream...

  …

   In the home team locker room, although the Blazers players lead by 10 points, they dare not be careless.

   Kobe went berserk in the second quarter, and the point difference was chased down to only 3 points at one point. The loss was Mumbai’s 9 points in a single quarter and Rahim’s 5 points in a single quarter to hold up the situation.

   Liu Xiu's performance in a single quarter with 6 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist is not bad. Basically, it is his average single quarter performance without breaking out, which is quite good.

  The first game in the second half of the season must be won. If you are behind at the beginning and fail to come back in the end, then there is nothing you can do if you don’t accept it. You can’t beat it.

   But tonight, they had such a big advantage at the beginning. If they were overturned by the opponent alone, where would they save face?

   24 points and 6 assists at halftime. The loss is due to the poor response of the opposing coach, rigid rotation, and Atkins being defeated by the warden...

  The Blazers players concentrated on preparing for the second half. After the coaching staff arranged the lineup and adjusted tactics, the players spontaneously gathered to discuss how to deal with Kobe.

Suddenly, the door of the locker room was pushed open by a 'bang', and a staff member rushed in.

The    coach yelled at the staff member: "Damn, what are you doing?"

   This is not a question of status. Anyone who is disturbed by someone other than the participants during a meeting will be angry.

   The staff quickly said, "Bryant was injured and went to the hospital!"

   Watt?

   Blazers coaching staff and players collectively asked questions, what's the situation?

   The staff continued: "It looks like Bryant is punching the fire extinguisher, and his palm is broken!"

   Everyone present: ? ? ?

  …

With Kobe and Tomjanovich, the Lakers have shown a 50-win level; with Kobe and without Tomjanovich, the Lakers have shown a strength of about 40 wins, plus Kobe's words If there is disagreement, it will run wild, and it can barely be regarded as a playoff-level team; but there is no Kobe...

The strength displayed by the Lakers is estimated to be a little stronger than that of the Hawks, Hornets, and Bobcats, which are the three teams that are in the first position. Compared with the Jazz, Magic and other teams that are in the second position Strength advantage.

   Without Kobe, the best player on the Lakers is Lamar Odom.

  Odom has a very high ceiling, but his average performance in a season will not be much better than the current Hill, even worse than Kirilenko, who led the team alone.

  Odom's upper limit of strength is very high, which is more terrifying than his lower limit of strength...

   Kobe was injured and left the arena suddenly. The Blazers’ halftime adjustment became useless, and the hastily made temporary adjustments were not subtle at all—strengthening defense in case of trouble.

  As a result, the Lakers performed an avalanche. The inside pillar Odom scored 0 points, 2 rebounds, 1 assists and 3 turnovers in a single quarter. Compared with the performance of 9 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks in the first half, it was surprising!

  A player on the other side is injured and is still a star, so the Blazers players will not sympathize with the other side, winning is the key.

   In the first half, the Lakers, who played back and forth with the Trail Blazers with Kobe Bryant's 24 points and 6 assists in the first half, collapsed directly in the third quarter.

  The Trail Blazers scored 25-11 in a single quarter! After three quarters, the Trail Blazers led the Lakers 88-64, putting the game into garbage time!

   In the third quarter, Liu Xiu played half a quarter, scored 5 points and 1 assist, and played 26 minutes in the third quarter, scoring 21 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists, 1 steal and 1 block.

In the last quarter, Liu Xiu did not play again. Derek Anderson, Fred Jones, Delfino, Extrajudicial Maniac, and Varejao made their debut to play in the last quarter. In the middle, Momoko and McDyess appeared and played for a few minutes. There is no end to it.

   Even so, the Lakers were only on par with the Trail Blazers in the final quarter.

In the end, relying on Liu Xiu's 20+5+5 in the third quarter, Rahim scored a team-high 22 points, and the flying squirrel scored 18 points and 6 assists... The Blazers easily defeated the Lakers 114-90 and won the second half of the season. Cheng's first battle victory!

   Winning the game, Liu Xiu is very happy, but also very regretful, Kobe has gone crazy, Liu Xiu played very well in the first half, and was looking forward to the second half to compete with Kobe, but Kobe actually broke his hand with a fire extinguisher! It made Liu Xiu unable to play against the berserk volute... Wait, fracture?

   Injured for 100 days, Kobe Bryant this season, I am afraid that he will be reimbursed?

   Look at the performance of the Lakers in the second half, if there is no Kobe... The biggest resistance of the Lakers will disappear!

   Liu Xiu asked Randolph next to him: "Butcher, do you think the Lakers will choose Bogut or Marvin Williams when they get the No. 1 pick?"

  “…”

  Randolph looked at Liu Xiu speechlessly... The warden's brain circuit, the butcher really understood this time!

  In Randolph's view, even without Kobe, the Lakers wouldn't be fighting for the No. 1 pick, right?

   (end of this chapter)