From Harden entering the NBA in 09 to the present, Kobe Bryant has played with him many times. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

From a young rookie, to a playable major rotation, to the league's best sixth man, and finally to the cornerstone of a team, Kobe Bryant has witnessed every step of Harden's growth to this day; And Harden also watched Kobe Bryant slip from his peak little by little.

As a representative figure in scoring guards, the only one who can beat the now glorious Kobe Bryant is the old hooligan Jordan who "has you everywhere".

But we can't keep looking backwards, that's going backwards.

Although it is a fact that the quarterback is gradually declining in the current NBA, there are still some talents to be found in this position. Harden is one of them.

So after he became famous, he was often compared to Kobe.

One is in the middle of the day, the other is in the wane, if you rely on strength alone, Harden is naturally better than the current Kobe.

But the new generation of fans who grew up listening to the legend of Jordan's old hooligans since childhood, experienced the quarterback prosperity led by the four quarterbacks, and saw Wade perform against the sky in the Finals, and now look at Harden, how can they be satisfied?

Even if Harden is the No. 1 quarterback in the league today, many fans don't buy it.

There is no traditional attribute of a shooting guard, which is picturesque, nor is there a shooting guard's all-around mastery talent - an offensive kaleidoscope, nor does he awaken the flying soul of a shooting guard to become a person who flies to play on the basket.

Although he does have his unique skill in the league - the ability to make fouls, it is precisely this ability to play tricks that makes some fans dislike him completely.

But Harden didn't change his mind at all. It is the stupidest thing to change yourself for the sake of people who don't like you.

Tonight, the two people who are often compared are once again in the same position.

Kobe Bryant offense, Harden defensive.

Kobe Bryant's explosiveness is not as good as before, but after two changes of direction, he actually broke through Harden's defense!

It seems that Harden is still not "serious", at least on the defensive end.

After Kobe Bryant broke through Harden, he didn't go any further, because he saw that his rival was eyeing him and was ready to give him a bloody cap that cut his head and covered his face.

Without asking for trouble, Kobe Bryant directly made a stop-and-go jump shot.

The basketball jumped twice on the hoop and fell into the net bag.

At 10:9, after Harden scored to help the team overtake the score, Bryant threw a mid-range shot to help the Lakers overtake the score again.

The Rockets arranged for Ariza, a small forward, to misplace Yi Feng at the No. 2 position, but in fact, this situation only happens when the Rockets are defending, and the other times the two are doing their own roles.

The Rockets are attacking, and Harden doesn't have much of a sense of being the breakthrough point for the opponent's offense. Although the current 10 points scored by the Lakers are all scored by him as a breakthrough, I don't know if it is because he doesn't pay attention to defense, and he is not aware of these.

After being scored by Kobe, Harden didn't mean to play the answer-ball when he turned around.

Perhaps a big part of the reason is that his defender is not Kobe, but Yi Feng.

With a move of reaching out, Howard lifted himself up to cover, and Harden took advantage of the situation to kill under the basket.

Howard didn't have the ability to shoot, and he had to go down after the pick-and-roll. But even so, the "Warcraft" after running is not easy to stop.

Hibbert didn't notice it for a while, didn't follow too closely, and let Howard find an opportunity. Looking at No. 12, who was completely rushing up, Hibbert's face flashed away with an ugly face.

Immediately afterwards, Harden naturally connected with Howard, and the two staged a gorgeous Houston dance with one pass and one dunk.

At 10:11, the Rockets added two more points to overtake the score.

Then Kobe Bryant broke through Harden twice in a row, once he fouled Howard, hit two free throws, and scored four points in a row.

And Harden, after a wonderful pass to Howard, suddenly put his focus on sorting out the team's offense, and stood in the No. 2 position to do the work of the No. 1 position.

Harden broke through and drew the pack, then distributed the ball to the weak side, and then after a transfer or two, the Lakers' defense was leaky.

Although Harden was not able to directly obtain assist statistics, the Rockets' overall offensive fluency is still the most due to him.

Beverley and Ariza hit three-pointers from the bottom corner, thanks to Harden attracting enough defense.

The Lakers are also not weak, even on the opponent's home court, they are as brave as tigers.

And the Lakers just saw Harden at this point, using him as a breakthrough every time they attacked, and finally broke down the Rockets' defense little by little.

Kobe Bryant and Yi Feng also hit a three-pointer successively, both from the breakaway shot.

Then the game entered a timeout, and at this time, the score of the two sides was 20:17, and the Lakers achieved the largest score lead in the game with Yi Feng's three-point shot.

On the Lakers' side, Byron Scott changed to the bench lineup early due to the physical strength of the players.

Because of the long back-to-back road games, and tonight is the second game of three back-to-back games in 10 days, the Lakers seem to be at the end of their game.

Although judging from the performance of the main players in the first quarter, it seems that it has not been affected by physical strength, Scott still can't help but be a little worried.

And his worries soon became a reality.

After the substitute lineup came on the field, it was in a state of collective dumbness. Whether it is Louis Williams or Nick Young, they are all hitting iron again and again, and the Lakers are in a scoring drought.

The Rockets took the opportunity to overtake and widen the difference, and Harden used his strong strength to crush Williams to make two layups, one of which was 2+1. Not only did he score five points in a row, but he also assisted Howard to dunk inside again!

At 20:24, the Rockets scored 7 points in a row, directly surpassing the Lakers by 4 points.

Scott saw that the situation was not good, and replaced Williams with Yi Feng.

After Yi Feng returned to the court, the Lakers' situation did improve. It's as if you have a backbone all of a sudden.

As soon as he got back on the court, he hit a three-pointer from beyond the three-point line to nearly erase the team's backward disadvantage.

But then Harden resolutely broke through and scored two points, neutralizing Yi Feng's efforts.

Yi Feng, who attacked again, wanted to repeat his old tricks, but the three points after retreating directly hit the iron.

Perhaps there is a reason why Harden is trying to defend, if eye defense is also defense.

Looking back, Harden hit a step-back three-pointer directly against Yi Feng's defense. He wasn't stimulated by Yi Feng, this was originally his way of playing.

At 23:30, the Rockets' lead came to a relatively solid 7-point lead.

The Lakers attacked, Yi Feng broke through Harden, and the basket threw out of the frame again.

It seems that he also realizes that he is not feeling right, so he starts to focus on the organization. But his teammates felt worse than Yi Feng's, wasting many good chances in a row.

The Rockets, on the other hand, took the opportunity to stretch the margin to 11 points.

Despite the continuous wasted opportunities of his teammates, Yi Feng still chose to believe them.

In the first quarter of the game, the Lakers' last offense, Yi Feng created chaos on the Rockets' defense through running, and after receiving the ball, he broke through the attraction package and passed directly to Nick Young, who had an open opportunity in the bottom corner.

Nick Young shot 0 of 2 three-pointers before, but now he didn't have the slightest stage fright, and after receiving the ball, he got up and down with his hand and threw the ball into the net bag cleanly.

Harden then received Motai Yunas' baseline serve, rushed to the frontcourt, and threw the ball out before the clock ran out.

The ball hit the rebound straight onto the backboard and didn't touch the basket.

At the end of the first quarter, the score was 26:34, and the Lakers trailed by eight points on the road.

Scott is upset that the consequences of back-to-back away games are now finally being revealed. Players began to shoot inaccurately in the first quarter due to physical reasons. This is true of Yi Feng's main force, and the same is true of the substitute group.

It's not that the players are physically exhausted, they can't run, they can't jump, it's just the first quarter, and with the ability of a professional player, there won't be such a problem.

Instead, the fatigue of the long period was not released, so that the players' physical strength could not be restored. But at this time, the brain thinks that the body has fully recovered, so it gives instructions to the body according to the situation in the complete state, and the body at this time is actually unable to complete it.

A slight deviation can make the thrown basketball deviate from the trajectory and finally fail to go where it should be.

In this regard, Scott also did not have a good way. Although this battle for eighth place is important, the tired Lakers, who are dragging their bodies, have already lost at the starting line.

If the Lakers want to win this game, they need some surprises and variables.

At the start of the second quarter, Scott made his usual substitution lineup, Marcelo Hurtas, Louis Williams, Nick Young, Larry Nance Jr. and Brandon Buss.

The Rockets, for their part, also switched to a pure bench lineup, with Ty Lawson, Marcus Thornton, Corey Brewer, Terrence Jones and Donatas Motaiyunas.

The surprises and variables that Scott had hoped for didn't materialize, and the Lakers' bench lineup continued to be disappointing.

But on Team Rocket's side, someone broke out.

Thornton shot 3-of-3 from beyond the three-point line, hitting the basket twice, making a layup once and assisting on Motaiyunas once. The Rockets scored 14 points in a row!

The Lakers, who only scored 6 points, trailed the Rockets by 16 points at 32:48!

Thorton is 193cm tall and is on the short side in the second position, but he doesn't have excellent speed and explosiveness, so he is not favored. When he entered the draft in 2009, he was only selected with the 13th pick in the second round.

But after years of hard work, he has also developed a skill. A strong frame allows him to squeeze through opponents and gain space to shoot, and lack of height is no longer a limitation; His increasingly consistent shooting ability has made him a surprise player on the bench many times, acting as a variable in the team's winnings.

It's a pity that such variables are not what Scott wants to see. The substitute played like ****, and he could only do his best.

After both sides changed the main lineup, Kevin McHale still let Ariza come to the wrong position to defend Yifeng, so Kobe, the old bone, could only take over the responsibility.

Bryant's offensive efficiency in the second quarter was also quite impressive, shooting 4-of-7 and 4-of-4 from the free-throw line, scoring a total of 9 points; In addition to singles, he did not forget to pass, although he only scored 2 assists in the end, but without Kobe's performance, the Lakers could not chase the score close.

Aside from Kobe, Yi Feng is the best one for the Lakers. He scored a total of six points on 3-of-8 shooting and 2-of-2 from the free throw line in the second quarter, along with three rebounds and one assist. The shooting percentage is a bit miserable, who made his defender Ariza. Tall and long-armed, not slow to move, plus rich defensive experience, it is enough for Yi Feng to drink a pot.

And the rest of the people, the state is up and down, and the hit rate is not as good as Yi Feng.

If it hadn't been for Kobe's all-out performance, the score would not have been 51:61 by just 10 points at the end of the first half.

At halftime, ABC's commentators also began to ridicule the Lakers' physical problems, and then shifted the topic to the league's schedule.

The Lakers who rested in the locker room experienced the impact of lack of physical strength.

They sat or lay down, no one talked to each other, no one played with their mobile phones, they were all like plagued chickens, listless.

Scott looked at the crowd in the locker room and broke the silence with a remark.

"Everyone, listen!"

"How fucking this fucking schedule is, I know as well as you do! I know as well as you know how tired this damn back-to-back is! ”

"But thankfully, tonight is the last one! After tonight's game, we can go home! ”

"All, this last half of the night, everyone! Cheer me up! ”

Scott's words are spitting, but the players below are still dying.

You know the fuck of the schedule, you know the back-to-back exertion, but what's the use? You don't have to play in person, you know how tired it is to go back to back, and have a hair?

Scott watched the reactions of his disciples and knew that what he had just said was in vain. But it doesn't matter, this trick doesn't work, he still has a trick!

"In December, we played seven away games and only won two! Although these 7 games were played in 10 days, that doesn't make it a reason for you to lose! ”

"It's not even a 30 percent win rate, and you've completely let me down!"

"If we don't win more than 30 per cent of our away games in December before we go home, just wait!"

The Lakers' brains are starting to run fast, winning only two of their seven away games in December, with a win rate of 28.6%, less than 30%! But if you win the game tonight, it will be an away record of 3 wins in 8 games, and the winning rate is 37.5%, which is more than 30%!

But at present, the Lakers are 10 points behind at halftime, and there are still problems with physical strength, how to win this game?

After calculating the account, Randle asked in a low voice, "Coach, if the win rate does not exceed 30 percent, we will ...... Will they be abused? (To be continued.) )