Chapter 499: Kobe Bryant, Shocked Zen Master!
This game between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Los Angeles Lakers turned into a veritable heads-up battle from the first offense of the game.
Yes and Kobe, two of the best offensive and defensive outside players in the NBA.
Before the start of this game, the whole world felt that Yes and Supersonic's game had become the end of the crossbow.
Ten games in a row need to be a stunner to determine the winner, how much of a mental and physical test is this?
Killing in a game has always been an extremely complicated matter for NBA players.
It is a great honor to be able to kill in the NBA, and every NBA player fantasizes about having a lore moment of his own in the NBA.
But in the same way, when a game needs to be killed to determine the winner and loser, it means that the outcome of the game is beyond personal control.
There is no one in this world who thinks that they can hit the lore.
Even a player like Yes, who has a 100% success rate in the NBA so far, doesn't dare to say that he can hit the next shot he throws.
The physical and mental toll of the game is huge, and the outcome is unknown, and while the success of the lore is an honor for the individual, it is only a victory for the whole team.
A lore win will not be counted as an extra win, let alone an extra win, not even a 0.1 extra win.
In this case, most of the NBA players, most of the NBA head coaches, and most of the NBA teams love and hate the killout.
When Yes staged the miracle of consecutive lore, many media experts have counted it.
In the history of the NBA, if a team plays a stunner in the last game, there will be a cliff-like drop in the next game.
This is also why Yes has not completed a lore before, although many media are looking forward to the next lore, but they are more worried that the state of the supersonic in the next game will fall off a cliff.
The performances of the rest of the Seattle SuperSonics in these 10 games did show the ups and downs of the lore syndrome.
The physical and mental state fluctuates greatly.
But Yes has always been extremely stable.
After all, Yes is the most consistent player in NBA history.
And that's why Yes can accomplish this miracle.
In this 10-game streak, Yes has been biting his breath.
This breath is also the last breath of the Seattle supersonics.
In the eyes of many, when Yes completed the miracle of ten consecutive kills in the game, this breath must be relieved.
After all, the achievement is too great.
For Yes, after 10 consecutive kills, it doesn't make sense for him to bite that breath again, unless he can pull off every game for the rest of the season.
It's just that it's obviously impossible.
What's more, even if Yes doesn't want the team to lose, even if he still wants to bite this breath, but how can the reality make Yes get his wish?
Are the knights and spurs really chickens and dogs?
After two fierce battles between the Cavaliers and the Spurs, Yes is on the verge of lying down, even if he doesn't want to lie down.
In fact, after the start of this game between the SuperSonics and the Lakers, the state of the other players of the SuperSonics is very worrying.
It can be seen that the spirit of the supersonic players is still excited, but their bodies can no longer support such excitement.
Although the main highlight of the first quarter is the heads-up between Yes and Kobe, in addition to the heads-up between Yes and Kobe, the card position, cover, and physical confrontation between the other players of the two teams, the supersonic players are obviously at a disadvantage.
In this case, Yes can still stage this extreme offensive and defensive duel with Kobe Bryant in the first quarter of this game, which is really incredible!
After the first quarter of the game, the score of the two teams is now 28-27, and the Seattle SuperSonics have a one-point lead!
In the first quarter of the game, in the face of Kobe's defense, Yes's unreasonable unadjusted three-point shooting rate outside the three-point line was 6 of 11 shots, 3 of 3 free throws, and 21 points in a single quarter!
As you can see from the data, all of Yes's shots in the first quarter were from beyond the three-point line.
On the other side of Kobe, Kobe Bryant's statistics in the first quarter were also 6 of 11 shots, but Kobe's score was only 17 points
Yes and Kobe Bryant have the same number of shots, the same shooting percentage, and the score Yes is four more points than Kobe.
However, the final result of the first quarter was that the Seattle SuperSonics only led by one point.
It's clear that the rest of the Los Angeles Lakers have a decent advantage over the rest of the Seattle SuperSonics in this game.
It's just that because most of the Lakers' chances in the first quarter were on Kobe Bryant, the rest of the Lakers didn't have a chance to play to their advantage over the other superSonics.
Otherwise, the result of this game would definitely not be like this.
At the end of the first quarter of this game, watching the players of the two teams come down from the court under the leadership of Yes and Kobe, the supersonic fans on the sidelines looked at the Seattle Supersonic Nine on the court with really complicated eyes.
They all support what the game will look like.
Yes, yes, this game is likely to be repaired by Kobe?
Why did Kobe Bryant not only fix Yes after the game started, but it seemed that Yes still had the upper hand in the direct one-on-one extreme offensive and defensive heads-up between the two?
"Incredible!"
Even Barkley and Kenny Smith found it incredible.
Popovich in front of the TV was even more stunned now.
In the last game, Yes had just been entangled with Bowen for nearly 48 minutes.
As soon as this game came up, he played with Kobe Bryant like this, and finally pressed Kobe?
This gives Popovich the same kind of last game as if they played a fake match with Yes!
It's just, how can that game between the Spurs and the SuperSonics be a fake game!
Yes's ultra-low score, Bowen's tears, the emotion after the game between the two teams, the emotion of fans around the world after the game, and the Supersonic No. 12 jersey that is now hanging in the Spurs' training gym.
These are all true!
Definitely not his fantasy.
And just today, Bowen wanted to secretly throw away the supersonic No. 12 jersey that was hung in the training hall by the Spurs, but Ginobili found out and told him.
In the end, Bowen certainly had no way to throw the jersey away.
The Supersonic No. 12 jersey with Bowen's name on it hand-delivered by Yes is now the most heavily protected 'treasure' in the Spurs' training gym!
For Bruce, the jersey was an honor, but more of a feeling he didn't deserve it.
After all, I lost the legendary battle with Yes again,
Bruce wants the jersey as well, but he wants it as the winner who beats Yes.
It's just that, for Spurs, there is no such consideration at all.
Yes is wearing a jersey, and it's such a rare No. 12 jersey with Bowen's name written on it, which is the only one in the NBA!
In the future, this jersey will be recorded in the history of the NBA, the history of basketball, and this jersey can bring hundreds of millions of dollars to San Antonio's tourism industry in the future!
After the supersonic No. 12 jersey was put on Bowen's body by Yes, the jersey was no longer just Bowen's personal property.
It's not Bowen's personal glory, it's more about the interests of the Spurs and San Antonio.
Of course, if Bowen feels a little ashamed and uncomfortable to see this jersey every day, that's okay, the Spurs and San Antonio will compensate Bowen for it.
When Bowen retires one day, he'll know that he won't get any less in San Antonio.
In the same way, when he was a player, he was able to get no less!
Next season, the league's salary cap is about to go up sharply, Bowen's contract expires in '09, and in '09 Bowen will get a three-year contract that will not be less than 10 million per year.
It's Spurs' compensation for Bowen's discomfort looking at the jersey every day.
Whether he was going to retire at that time or not, the money was his.
It can be said that the game between Spurs and the SuperSonics is not only an extremely real game, but also an extremely legendary game!
Yes, who played such a game, was able to fight with Kobe Bryant in this game to such an extent, and still have the upper hand.
Looking at the calm-faced Supersonic No. 9 on TV, Popovich really felt that it was really good for his team to have Bruce.
If it weren't for Bruce, how much brain cells would he need to spend on Yes?
If it has an effect, he doesn't care.
I'm afraid that even if he spends countless brain cells, he won't get any effect.
The current 1-10 record between the Spurs and Yes speaks volumes about this problem.
This is still Bruce's record.
Without Bruce, the Spurs and Yes would not have won that game.
Thinking of this, Popovich was quite sympathetic to Phil Jackson, the old opponent who had not been in his seat since the start of the first quarter of the game on TV.
Zen master, Zen master, in the face of Yes, there is no Zen at all!
Phil Jackson does have a headache right now.
This game is a game that the Lakers want to win, and that certainly includes him.
As one of the greatest head coaches in NBA history, how could Phil Jackson not see that the other SuperSonics players were in terrible shape in this game.
As long as the Lakers play the previous triangle offense in this game, the Seattle SuperSonics don't have any chance.
But he couldn't!
Because that black mamba is now spitting out letters!
Looking at Kobe Bryant, who was sitting on the seat with a towel covering his head and his eyes shocked, Phil Jackson was very embarrassed.
It's really quite difficult.
Kobe Bryant wants to compete with Yes in this game!
The firmness of such a belief made him feel incredible.
The last time he saw the look in Kobe Bryant was in the 2004 Finals!
And what was the result of the 2004 NBA Finals?
Even now, when he thinks of the 2004 Finals, Phil Jackson has a feeling of kidney pain.
It's definitely not that Jenny is too beautiful, it's really kidney pain!
Of course, the current Kobe is naturally not comparable to the Kobe in 2004, whether it is spiritual will or maturity, the current Kobe is not comparable to the Kobe in 2004.
At the very least, the current Kobe Bryant will never be able to do such a thing as dying of his head if he is not in good shape when he has excellent teammates.
The current Kobe Bryant will never sacrifice the team and his teammates because of his poor state.
So, if Kobe Bryant's form is not good in this game, he will be happy.
Kobe Bryant is not in good shape, and according to Kobe's maturity level now, he will definitely give more opportunities to his teammates, and will definitely not go to the rhythm of sacrificing the rest of the team with Yes.
However, Kobe Bryant was in good shape in this game!
That's why he has a headache right now.
In the first quarter, Kobe Bryant's singles Yes balls, almost all of them were fairy balls that were used to the extreme.
In this way, Kobe Bryant's shooting percentage in the first quarter exceeded 50%, which is quite incredible.
Phil Jackson bets that even if Jordan comes, he may not do better than Kobe Bryant in terms of the defensive state of Yes in this game.
Kobe Bryant, who is in such a good state, really can't pull back his head.
And whoever dares to pull him, his viper eyes will glare at him fiercely.
In fact, before the start of this game, he knew that Kobe Bryant would play like this in this game, and he was really not worried at that time.
In Kobe's state, in the current state of the supersonics, no matter how Kobe plays, the Lakers will win.
He really didn't expect Yes to suppress such a Kobe!
And in the case of standing against the two strong opponents of the Cavaliers and the Spurs, Kobe Bryant was suppressed!
Phil Jackson can certainly see that although Kobe and Yes took the same number of shots in the first quarter, they also shot the same percentage of shots.
But Yes is all three points, and Yes's dry pull is obviously more relaxed and energy-saving than Kobe's style of play after showing off technical operations.
The effect of your operation is the same as that of a light jump.
It's not even as good as others, can this pros and cons still be analyzed by others?
As long as you don't have to be blind, you can see it.
Otherwise, Kobe Bryant would not have been so shocked in his eyes now!
It wasn't just Kobe Bryant who was shocked, he was shocked by the rest of the Lakers players.
Putting the shock aside, now that he knows, the Lakers want to win this game, and it is not possible to hope that Kobe Bryant will give up the idea of his matchup with Yes.
He can now only hope that the Lakers' rotation players can give the team more advantages.
If the Lakers' rotation lineup vs. the SuperSonics' rotation lineup plus the Lakers' other starters have a five-point advantage over the SuperSonics' other starters, yes, even if the advantage over Kobe Bryant is four points, the final winner is still the Lakers!
Now Phil Jackson has a lot of expectations for the Lakers rotation players on the court.
But the reality is often so unforgiving.
In order to increase the rotation advantage of the Lakers, Phil Jackson also deliberately put Kidd on the rotation lineup in the second quarter.
However, the Lakers rotation lineup led by Kidd, Wharton, Turiaf and others has no advantage in the face of the pure bench lineup led by Barria, Quentin Richardson, Wilkins, David Lee and Kwame Brown!
"No, it's not that there is no advantage, it's that you are at a disadvantage!"
Is this still the most rubbish rotation in the league last season?
Phil Jackson was shocked.
And Ye Si on the side, looking at the court, his eyes were full of brilliance!