On January 29, the Lakers traveled to the Auburn Hills Palace Arena and had a strong confrontation with the Pistons. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info The two teams can be called the two favorites to win the championship under the rocket, and they are also splashing sparks. Bryant continued his hot streak, scoring 39 points on 12-of-28 shooting. Gasol also scored a double-double of 20+14, but the likes of Delon and Odom were dumb and failed to score a double-double. In the end, the Pistons relied on a strong defense to narrow out the opponent 100-102.

It was supposed to be an ordinary regular season, but after the game, Lakers fans protested against the Pistons' rough defensive moves. Prince, as the Lakers' outside defensive knife, bore the brunt, and many fans complained that he had too many small movements, which affected Kobe's play. The double Wallace on the inside, as a representative of the tough guy faction's defensive power, has naturally been criticized a lot. One fan even edited the footage of Kobe Bryant's assault into a video, which was posted on the Internet and won a lot of views.

Stern couldn't sit still, and he was furious when he watched the video.

This has to start from the previous years, when the Spurs, Pistons, Pacers, and Nets (in the 03-04 season, these four teams conceded points in the bottom four of the league in 100 games) put too much emphasis on defense, resulting in unsightly low scores in games, and even no team scored more than 100 points in a series in the playoffs. In the 04 Eastern Conference semifinals, the Nets only scored more than 100 points in three overtimes in seven games against the Pistons, and in the Eastern Conference finals, the Pacers and Pistons battled six games, and the highest score of the two teams was a pitiful 85 points. Because the score was too low, the game was unwatchable, and the ratings continued to decline.

Stern was determined to reform in the face of this dilemma, boldly eliminating the handcheck rule (see Chapter 123 of the League's Conspiracy for an explanation of the rules, and parts of this chapter are related to the content of this chapter), with the intention of strengthening the offense and increasing the average points per game. The effect of this change is still good, the defender can't just start to make moves, especially can't predict the opponent's next move by touching, and the offensive player is more and more easy to change direction and break through. However, the problem is that more defenders use **** to defend opponents, which increases physical contact and more fouls.

(The team averaged 1,985 free throws in 2003-04, 2,137 in '05 and 2,157 in '06)

The handcheck rule is theoretically just the touch of the hand, at most it can be erected, but it cannot push the person with force. However, in practical applications, it is difficult for referees to distinguish the small differences between them, which directly leads to some defensive players having open-minded pushing and pressing actions. This actually makes it difficult for offensive players to break through with the ball. The rules have just been changed, and the referees also have a process of adaptation, and there will be some relatively vague penalties in the early stage of the change. The rules have been changed, but the players still have some minor moves to rub the ball, which is what Stern is unhappy about.

On January 30th, Tim. Donasi and other league referees once again received a video tape from the league, the content of which was the video of Kobe Bryant's violation edited by netizens, and they quickly understood the intention of the league's top brass after they were already familiar with it.

January 31, Madison Square Garden Arena, New York. Two of the league's most powerful teams, the Knicks and Lakers, met in a narrow way. The Knicks are a veteran powerhouse, but in recent years, they have repeatedly made stupid moves, with poor management and no less money, but the lineup is incomplete. Alan. Houston reimbursement was not reimbursed by "Alain. The Houston clause" is even more absurd. In the first quarter, Bryant made seven of eight free throws and scored 16 points in the quarter to give the Lakers the lead.

Next, Kobe Bryant's hand became colder, and he shot again and again. But he still made several fouls and hit four free throws in a row. Quentin. Richardson and Jamal. Crawford is a good player, but he is much worse on the defensive end. Using them to take turns to keep an eye on Kobe Bryant is simply a dessert delivered to the door. In the third quarter, Kobe Bryant made persistent efforts and made 0 shots in a single quarter, but scored 10 points on 10-of-11 free throws. The Lakers have expanded the difference to more than 20 points, and the outcome has long been out of suspense.

But Bryant's free throw performance was not over, and he was replaced after making 2 of 3 free throws in the fourth quarter. Bryant made 23 of 26 free throws, tying his career record for both shooting and shooting, and he scored 40 points on just 17 attempts. The Lakers were also able to easily beat the Knicks by a huge margin of 33 points.

The scary statistics of 26 free throws in a single game still attracted a lot of media attention, and many reporters interviewed industry insiders.

"He's Kobe Bryant, the man who scored 72 points the other day. Our foul on him was worth it. "Knicks new coach Larry. Brown forced his defense. Brown is cunning and will not incur a league fine for criticizing referees.

"Bryant was such an offensive threat that the opponent had to use a lot of fouls to stop him." Gasol commented that he is a well-known good old man and that it is in his nature to say good things about his teammates.

"Kobe Bryant deserves to be so fouled" seems to have become the mainstream view of public opinion. Wang Yuanfei scoffed at this.

"No player deserves a foul like that, unless it's O'Neal who sucks on free throws." Yuan Fei commented: "Kobe Bryant is really strong, but his athletic score is close to 50%, let him stand on the free throw line, it will be close to 9!" Which one is more disadvantaged, the fool knows. ”

"Then why is everyone spreading such rumors?" Bosh asked.

"I can only say this in private, making stars." Yuan Fei said with a smile: "This alliance can do anything for the sake of ratings. I'm willing to bet that Iverson, last season's leading scorer, averaged points per game at the end of the season at the end of the season. ”

(Iverson, the all-time scoring leader in the 04-05 season, averaged 30.1 points per game.) In the 05-06 season, Kobe averaged 35.4 points per game, Iverson averaged 33.0 points per game, and James averaged 31.4 points, all three of whom surpassed Iverson in the previous season. Even fourth-place Arenas has 29.3 points)

"We still had a handcheck rule when we beat the Lakers in the last playoff game, and it's a real headache to play against a guy like Bryant right now." Jefferson shook his head, as if to dispel the bad thoughts in his mind, "According to the current state of the Lakers, it is likely that they will be the opponents in the Western Conference finals this year." Hopefully Tracy will be back then, and only he will be able to defend against Bryant. ”

"No matter who the opponent is, we will win at our own pace." Billups doesn't say much, but it's powerful. He's a big brother in the team and the players believe in him.

As Chauncy said, the rocket was not affected too much and continued its pace. The day after Kobe Bryant beat Maddison, they relied on Yao Ming's 24+13 stable performance to defeat the Bucks by 12 points at home and move forward solidly. (To be continued.) )