Chapter 144: Rookie of the Month
"I lost, I actually lost." Sharif Abdul Rahim's eyes were hollow, the game had just reached the fourth quarter, but it was already garbage time.
originally wanted to step on the Lakers and Kobe Bryant to make a name for himself, but this game became his nightmare. He didn't dare to recall what happened in the game, he was afraid that he would fall into a collapse.
But the big screen over the court played the highlights of the first three quarters over and over again, forcing him to look back at what had just happened.
It was blown up, thoroughly, and cleanly. Kobe Bryant is like a demon king, naming and picking Sharif Abdul Rahim to fight. In front of Kobe, this year's No. 3 show seems to have become a child who has just played, with clumsy movements and disobedient hands and feet.
I was shaken down again and again, deceived and fouled again and again, and was **...
Sharif Abdul Rahim has forgotten how to play, he is like a walking dead on the court, constantly being cut by Kobe Bryant, but he doesn't feel pain.
If it was just being blown up by Kobe, it was nothing. There are more players who have been blown up by Kobe, and if he can score 20 points on the offensive end, everyone will not underestimate him.
But...
Campbell is serious in this game, and the serious Campbell is a quasi-All-Star level interior lineman, with a comprehensive offense and defense, and a solid body. Don't talk about Rahim, I'm afraid that the league's first-line power forward will also have a headache.
2 out of 15! 5 points, 4 rebounds, 3 turnovers! That's what Raheem did in this game against goalkeeper Elden Campbell, who is known as the league's starting power forward. It's useless!
Raheem could already see that the next morning, whether in Canada or Memphis, there would be a large number of reports in newspapers and magazines mocking himself as a parallel trader.
He covered his head with a towel and sat on the sidelines without saying a word. He couldn't face his teammates, his coach. He couldn't look directly at Kobe Bryant and look directly at Campbell.
Bryant scored 23 points on 70 percent shooting from the field on his head and finished with 26 points in the game. In other words, Raheem didn't guard against Kobe Bryant in this whole game, Kobe didn't want to shoot at all, he was targeting Rahim.
The outcome of the game was predestined, and all Kobe had to do was teach Rahim a lesson, and the pick-and-roll did not succeed in changing the defense, or Raheem was no longer on the court. Kobe Bryant lacks interest and has no desire to attack.
And when it comes to Raheem, Kobe Bryant is energetic. Tease! Playing!
Kobe's style of play gave Rahim a very big shadow, and for countless nights after the game, Rahim woke up in a dream, and the dream was the picture of Kobe Bryant brandishing a sickle chasing him.
The magic barrier, Raheem, who was full of confidence before the game, finally figured out the gap between himself and Kobe. The process was fast, and perhaps Kobe Bryant's first offense made him realize this, and the subsequent performance was to consolidate and strengthen it, which made him unforgettable.
Well, I'll leave the big stage of the alliance to you. I'm just going to be the boss of the belly team and get paid.
Kobe Bryant didn't know that Raheem's mentality had become like this, and he eventually chose not to join the strong team and spent his entire career on the Fish belly team. If he knew, Kobe Bryant might have looked down on Raheem even more.
Look at the three good student Marbury! Look at you again! A reform, rapid progress! A self-defeating one!
Today's students are really not as good as one class!
The score of the game was finally fixed at Los Angeles Lakers 95:82 Vancouver Grizzlies. Without stirring up a storm, O'Neal scored a game-high 31 points, 12 rebounds and 2 assists. Kobe Bryant had 26 points, 3 rebounds and 6 assists.
At the end of the game, the Lakers players caught their flight to Portland overnight, where a real tough battle awaited them.
"Kobe! You've won Rookie of the Month! Fisher, the newspaper collector, brought a copy of the newspaper.
MLS has officially announced its Player of the Month and Rookie of the Month for December.
The Lakers won two awards in one fell swoop, O'Neal led the team with a 12-1 record, averaging 28.4 points, 11.2 rebounds, 3.4 assists, 2.8 blocks and 2.1 turnovers per game to win the best rookie of the month in December!
Deserved! O'Neal was the league's best player in December and has a record of leading the team to a win over the Bulls! If the Lakers can lead the team to the top of the league all the time, no, as long as it is the first place in the West. Then O'Neal could even win the first MVP trophy of his career.
In the MVP rankings just announced in early January, Shaq O'Neal ranked first! Michael Jordan is second! Grant Hill is third! Next up are Karl Malone, Hakiem Olajuwon, Tim Hardaway, Gary Payton and many more.
Interestingly, Kobe Bryant also appeared on the list, as a rookie who just squeezed into the tenth place on the MVP side list, which is the league's affirmation of him.
November's Rookie of the Month award was won by Allen Iverson, while in December it was Kobe Bryant who performed better.
In 13 games, he averaged 27.0 points, 4.4 rebounds, 7.5 assists, 2.1 steals and 1.0 blocks per game in a single month. This kind of performance is completely superstar-level, and his on-court performance against Jordan and Iverson has added a lot to him.
The media is already hyping Kobe Bryant's performance, he has been hailed as the next league face, and as long as injuries are avoided, he is the next superstar.
You must know that Grant Hill and Penny Hardaway, the hottest players in the league right now, one has just been blown up by Pippen, the other has fallen into injury, and the team has a very poor result. The league needs a new star, a new future.
At this time, Kobe's emergence has undoubtedly attracted a lot of attention. Stern has made a serious statement to the referee that he wants to protect Kobe Bryant, not to mention the superstar whistle, but he must not let Kobe suffer. Kobe Bryant is the cash cow of the league now, and Stern doesn't want to see Jordan's broken leg happen to Kobe.
O'Neal also got the Player of the Month award he wanted, which made him feel good! The current team is what he wants to be, he has the ball, he has status, he has victory! There is no doubt that this is inseparable from Kobe's role, especially Kobe's feeling for him is very subtle, Kobe is like his old friend, and he has a tacit understanding of his every move, even in pennies.
Sure enough, coming to Los Angeles was the right choice, looking at the Orlando Magic, which is now almost collapsing, and Penny, who dragged his injured leg to continue playing. O'Neill was glad he was gone, and he called Penny, who had an injury to his left knee and would have needed more than a month of rest after the operation, and even to be on the safe side, the doctor advised him to recuperate for more than 2 months.
But the team's leadership felt that if the team didn't make the playoffs after losing O'Neal, they would be disgraced and humiliated. So he said something to motivate the penny to go out of the battle, and the penny only cultivated for half a month before he went into battle, dragging his injured leg to stop and stop, and barely led the team to win a few games, but he fell down again.
O'Neill convinces Penny to get some rest, but Penny shakes his head and refuses.
Shaq, I have my stubbornness, too.