Chapter 62: Heavenly Broken Feet
"Fack, Fack, Fack!!" In the midfield, in the locker room of the Golden State Warriors, Sprewell frantically hammered his closet.
Sprewell was humiliated by Kobe Bryant for half the game, still at Golden State's home court. This made the arrogant Sprewell angry, and he couldn't accept this reality.
"I'm going to have to look good for him in the second half! Certain! "The crazy Sprewell was not cared for, and his teammates and coaches watched from the sidelines.
Compared with Sprewell's poor performance in the first half, the rest of his teammates can be said to have played very well. Of course, they have an opinion about the "boss" of this team, if it is replaced by a normal boss. Just like Mullin, Richmond, and Tim Hardaway in the past, the team is afraid that it has already taken the lead. (The Golden State Warriors are an interesting team, averaging 25.7 per game for Mullin in '91, 23.9 for Richmond and 22.9 for Tim Hardaway.) The coach is Don Nelson, who has no injuries and has only 44 wins in the season. )
The Lakers' locker room atmosphere was still relaxed, with O'Neal scoring 13 points on 6-of-10 shooting in the half and 1-of-4 from the free-throw line. O'Neal found that the cooperation with Kobe Bryant was simply too comfortable, and he could always receive the pass at the right time and in the right position, and O'Neal felt more and more that the tacit understanding with Kobe Bryant was very wonderful, even better than Anfernee Hardaway who had worked together for many years.
That's chemistry. O'Neal couldn't help but sigh that he had beautiful statistics in the Lakers, was relaxed on the court, and the team took him as the core up and down, and his life was too comfortable. The only thing that's bad may be the O'Brien Cup.
"Hi Kobe. Be careful, I see Sprewell is getting a little angry. O'Neal reminded Bryant that he was worried that the 18-year-old brother would be overshadowed by the negative Sprewell.
"Boss, Shaq is right. Sprewell may make small moves, so I might as well defend him for you. Bruce Bowen also saw the clue.
"It's okay, I'll take care of him." Kobe, who has played in American professional basketball for 20 years, has never seen any small moves, he has not been overshadowed by Bowen, the king of iron elbows, Artest, will he still be afraid of Sprewell?
The current crippled Bowen is not in peak condition, but he has already seen that something is wrong with Sprewell, but Bowen believes that his boss can solve it, I don't know why, Kobe Bryant looks at it and makes Bowen feel reliable and relieved. This is also the reason why Bowen, who has gone through ups and downs, is willing to recognize an 18-year-old child as the boss.
"Guys, listen, step up defensively, let's try to win the third quarter, don't drag the game to the fourth quarter, and tomorrow we have the game against the Utah Jazz." Harris also has a headache and the team is in very good shape, but the poor schedule has really put the players' fitness reserves down a lot.
Especially back-to-back away games, or go to the home of the devil like the Utah Jazz. Harris really wanted to complain to the media, although he knew it was useless and would only make him pay a fine of 2.5W Knife.
"Yes, Coach." The players responded that their morale was high.
At the beginning of the second half, it was the Warriors who had the ball.
Sprewell grimaced and said nothing.
The biting dog didn't bark, and Bryant raised his vigilance.
After all five of the Lakers' players improved their concentration on the defensive end, the Golden State Warriors, who had mediocre athletic talent, struggled to score, and several shots were forcefully interfered with and missed.
Bryant held the ball, and Sprewell deliberately put it 2 steps away. Kobe Bryant hit a jumper when he saw this.
"Hooked." Sprewell's eyes flashed, and Kobe Bryant had already noticed this.
Switching offense and defense again, Kobe Bryant held the ball, and Sprewell still put two steps.
Bryant collects the ball and jumps.
"It's now!" Sprewell pounced forward, but his right foot was on Kobe's landing.
"What, it's just a stepping stone." Kobe Bryant in the air was already ready, threw the ball out, adjusted his center of gravity forward, and made a shooting move that leaned forward.
We know that the foot pad is generally very harmful to the player who takes off vertically, because all the force is biased and the center of gravity is pressed vertically down to the ankle, and the leg is easily injured. Sprains are still minor, and some players can even lead to a torn meniscus and a ruptured ligament, a series of injuries that affect athletic talent and ruin careers.
Bryant has been padded countless times, and he has never been injured since suffering a loss. First of all, he pays attention to the exercise of the ankle, and the stability of the ankle joint is very high. Secondly, Bryant's coordination ability is historic, and he has plenty of time in the air to adjust his center of gravity.
This time Sprewell was completely on the wrong track, Bryant threw the ball out, and Sprewell's foot reached over.
Bryant, on the other hand, pretended to be nervous, lifted his leg in the air, raised the toe of his right foot, and stomped hard towards Sprewell's outstretched ankle.
"Ahh Two screams rang out at the same time, but we don't know how much water Kobe's screams had.
Sprewell fell to the ground, holding on to his ankle, which had been stamped hard by Kobe's heel, and he didn't figure out what was going on for a moment.
Why am I the one who stepped on my feet, and I who fell to the ground?
"Fack, boss, are you okay?" Bowen rushed over and looked at Kobe, who was also holding his feet.
Kobe Bryant quietly winked at Bowen, and Bowen instantly understood what was going on in combination with the action of the collision just now.
Good acting! Sure enough, it's a role model for my generation! Not to be outdone, Bowen rushed towards Sprewell.
"Toot!" The referee quickly blew the whistle and stopped the game. A lot of violent clashes during this period occurred after a collision.
The Warriors players rushed to stop Bowen, who pretended to struggle twice before being stopped.
"Damn, my ankle is broken!" Sprewell yelled.
"Fake, it's your footing! You pig, I'm going to kill you. Bowen feigned rage.
After the referee took control of the scene, he quickly watched the video replay, and they felt that Sprewell was deliberately stepping up, and Kobe Bryant was a conscious reaction in a tense situation.
At the same time, both players were injured, and the referee decided to give Sprewell a technical foul to end the mess.
"Can you continue to play?" The referee asked.
Bryant nodded strugglingly, and Sprewell, who was whistled for a technical foul, cried to add insult to injury. The referee felt that Sprewell was simply a drama spirit, how powerful could Kobe's knee-jerk reaction be? Taking the initiative to provoke trouble and pretending to be like this, it's just a soft egg.
"Carry it down." The referee waved to the Warriors coaching staff. Adelman was also helpless, and quickly asked the team doctor to carry Sprewell to the locker room for a check-up.