"Pretty Acoby!" During the timeout, the Lakers praised Kobe, who led the team to a 7:0 mini-climax in the opening game.

Neither the team expected the start to be so smooth, thanks to Kobe's suppression of Payton.

Why can Kobe Bryant play so freely in front of gloves?

First of all, Kobe's current disadvantage is the strength confrontation, and he will suffer more when facing a strong defender with good defensive skills, that is, the average blue-collar forward.

But when it comes to skilled point guards, whether it's Payton or Stockton, there are different ways to score.

No matter how good your skills are, they are not as good as mine.

No matter how experienced you are defensively, you don't have as much experience as I do.

A defender like Payton, who is not as tall as Kobe and whose strength is not much different from Kobe, Kobe has a lot of ways to score points on his head.

Compared with a Payton, Kobe Bryant is more afraid of purely talented defenders, like Hill, or James in the future, Kobe Bryant will have a harder time playing.

The game continued, with the Supersonic possession, Payton and Sean Kemp played a pick-and-roll, and then hit the ground and passed to Kemp, who took off into the air and slammed the ball into the basket

"Boy, have you learned? It's called a point guard, it's called passing! ”

Bryant tried to sew Peyton's mouth shut.

Kobe Bryant held the ball, competed against each other, and played a block with O'Neal, throwing the ball high, and O'Neal caught the dunk in the air.

"Yo Roar, it seems that our wonder boy and Glove are on the bar, the current Kobe Bryant is not at all intimidated by Glove's ferocious defense, and his offense is very decisive." Goodrich was a little surprised that last season's best defensive player couldn't restrain Kobe, and even showed signs of being blown up.

"Kobe and Payton were talking non-stop, spewing trash talk to each other, and I really wanted to know what they were talking about." James Worthy is curious, and few people can compete with Payton with trash talk.

The game was in full swing at the beginning, and Payton's own offense was limited by Kobe, but he still organized the team's offense and repeatedly assisted his teammates to score.

The supersonic perimeter was on fire, and neither Eddie Jones nor Bruce Bowen could contain their firepower.

The main reason is that the two sides played a lot of offensive and defensive conversions, the offensive rhythm was very fast, and there were few hard positions.

Kobe Bryant was very bright in the first quarter, fast play, three-pointer, organization, defense. One brilliant performance after another overshadowed Gary Payton.

"You can't stop me at all, I'm going to hit a three-pointer here." With 18 seconds left in the first quarter, Bryant held the ball over half the court and pointed to the huge LAKERS logo in the Great Western Forum arena.

"No kidding, it's halftime." Payton thought Kobe Bryant was playing tricks and took the opportunity to break through.

Kobe Bryant really thinks so, as long as Payton comes forward to press, he will break through.

But Peyton didn't.

So, go for it.

Kobe Bryant ignored it, jumped up directly on the LOGO, shot with one move, and pushed the ball out with one hand.

Like the training ground, like the shot that was practiced before the game, the standard posture can be written into the textbook.

Payton hurried up to grab the interference.

It was late, Kobe finished the shot, hooked his right hand, and hung his left foot at Payton's feet.

"Huh." The basketball frame is very far away, and the high arc falls into the basket while the referee's whistle blows.

"Fack, he hit me himself." Payton went crazy, and Bryant's foot got tangled with him, and he fell to the ground after shooting.

"The goal is valid, 3+1!" The referee didn't care, and he judged that Payton interfered with Kobe's continuation of the movement.

“WTF！” The auditorium boiled, what did they see!

3+1 near the midfield LOGO!

What's something this group of Lakers fans who have been through countless superstar games haven't seen before?

They really haven't seen this scene before.

In front of the best players in the league, in the midfield LOGO, scored 3+1.

That's Kobe Bryant.

"It's amazing, Kobe Bryant's ball is amazing." Goodrich had goosebumps, and as a shooter he knew how difficult the ball was.

"Didn't you say the coach was going to kill him? I think the coach on the other side, George Karl, wants to kill him. Worthy laughed.

"Thank you Jerry for bringing us this genius, God forbid." Goodrich drew a cross directly on his chest.

Kobe Bryant steadily scored the ball and whispered to the indignant Payton on the side: "This glove doesn't fit your hand." ”

Payton was in a hurry, but he didn't dare to make a move with two fouls on his back.

"Boy, don't be complacent, there are still three quarters in the game, let's see."

At the end of the first quarter, the Lakers led the SuperSonics 28-22 under Kobe's bombardment. Bryant played the entire first quarter, shooting 6-of-9 from the field and 2-of-4 from three-point range, scoring 16 of 28 points.

On the Supersonic side, Detreve Schramf scored 11 points on 4-of-6 shooting with height advantage and excellent touch, and Kemp scored 8 points on 3-of-5 shooting in front of Campbell.

Payton was 0-of-3, his back was covered, and his two mid-range shots were interfered with by Kobe Bryant, but they didn't hit.

"I don't know if Payton will be ashamed to recall the words of Kobe Bryant before the game, at least in the first quarter, he was kept a clean sheet." Goodrich is full of praise for Kobe, who has become an absolute fan of Kobe.

"But the Lakers need to guard against the rest of the SuperSonics, and the SuperSonics are not a team that will lose when the offensive point is dumb." Worthy pushed his glasses, and Detreve-Schramf's excellent touch worried him.

In the second quarter, the Lakers fielded an all-bench lineup, while the SuperSonics brought Jose Hawkins on the court to lead the second team.

To everyone's surprise, Fisher locked Jose Hawkins to death!

Jose Hawkins is a 1.91-meter shooting guard who mainly attacks from the mid-range and has strong breakthrough ability.

It may be that after returning to Los Angeles, Bryant gave Fisher a couple of tips, and Fisher followed Jose Hawkins closely, suppressing him with excellent power and not being able to score normally.

And after Jose Hawkins was suppressed, the Lakers' three musketeers immediately pulled the score away. George Carr saw that the situation was not good and replaced him with Peyton.

Payton, who was suppressed by Kobe Bryant in the starting competition, was like a duck in joy at this time, eating Van Exel alone in a crazy low position, and the score was instantly close.

"Kobe, are you going to play?"

"There's no hurry." Kobe Bryant thought for a moment.

"Ben!" Bryant yelled at Big Ben in the field.

Ben Wallace instantly understood, and in the next round, he directly threw his defender to help defend Payton and gave Payton a sturdy hat.

"Great!" Bryant jumped to his feet, shook up his towel, and the technique he learned from Thackerae made a lap of teammates off the bench look stupid.

The Lakers starters didn't return to the court until midway through the second quarter, and the SuperSonics starters chased the deficit back from six to two.

With Big Ben's help, Payton was terrified every time he scored, but finally broke the clean sheet.

And Detrev-Schramf's heavy artillery continued to work in the second quarter.

Finally, both starters appeared at the same time again in the second half of the second quarter!