The fourth quarter of the Lakers-Rockets game started very quickly, and coach Silver Fox Harris chose to let me and Shaq both sit on the sidelines for the first half of the fourth quarter to rest, and I found that although I still didn't play more than 20 minutes, Harris had clearly started to choose to put me on the court at the end of the fourth quarter in many games.

That's a good affirmation for me, and with my physical fitness, I don't have any problem playing more than 35 minutes per game, but after all, I still have an All-Star caliber player at the No. 2 spot on the team, and unless management can see enough potential in me during the regular season to trade Eddie Jones in the middle of the season, I'm still going to have to get that opportunity.

Of course, although I want to have more playing time, I am also very aware that my current personal quality has not reached the point where he has completely surpassed Eddie Jones, and his performance during this period has been a bit unsatisfactory, but after all, his quality has been recognized, and the management and coach will definitely give him enough opportunities to prove himself.

Eddie Jones seems to want to prove his strength at this time, and he played particularly hard after coming on the court in the fourth quarter, and he has been very bad in the fourth quarter in the previous games, so he specially saved his fitness for the fourth quarter today.

In the first few quarters of this game, the Lakers' outside broke out one after another, and Eddie Jones was tepid, so the Rockets were relatively lax in his defense, who knew that he began to turn on his personal scoring mode after the fourth quarter.

After all, Eddie Jones is also an All-Star level player, in fact, one of the main reasons why he doesn't play well is that he has some incompatibility with Shaq's style of play, and the Silver Fox Harris is too focused on the use of Shaq also leads to his lack of enough performance opportunities as a scorer, and the current Lakers are really a team that is far stronger on offense than defense, and at least 4 people have the ability to average more than 20 points per game, but when they are together, it is difficult to really exert their power.

Eddie Jones' outbursts were also a flurry of sorts, and in the first 4 minutes of the fourth quarter, he was fully open up on the inside and out, and the Rockets waited until his hand was fully explosive before trying to limit it, and most of the star-level players in the NBA have a strong scoring explosion, especially on some nights when they are in particularly good shape, and they can completely ignore most of the defense.

The Rockets' defense is mainly strong on the inside, but not too strong on the front and guard ends, and their All-Star guard Draxler is not too young, and it is difficult to contribute a lot of strength on the defensive end, they can only go all out on the offensive end, so as to avoid the score being completely pulled apart.

In order not to let the score be stretched to more than 10 points all at once, the head coach of the Rockets called a timeout when the score of the two sides had reached 7 points, and after the timeout came back, the main players of the Rockets all played in advance, and on the other hand, on the side of our Lakers, because of a certain score advantage, the silver fox Harris decided to let Shaq continue to rest, and let the in-form Eddie Jones continue to play on the court with the bench.

Sure enough, although Eddie Jones was still able to hit some goals in the subsequent period, the overall scoring speed of the entire Lakers team still lagged behind the Rockets, and the Rockets' Big Three gave full play to their advantages on the offensive end after they came up, and the Lakers' defense was directly beaten into a sieve, seeing that the score between the two sides was about to be tied, but the silver fox Harris still had no intention of calling a timeout for substitutions, and Shaq and I were about to lose standing on the side, and they all stood up and looked at the situation on the court a little nervously.

Finally, when there were only 5 minutes left in the fourth quarter, the Silver Fox Harris finally took advantage of a foul dead ball opportunity to replace me and Shaq, and at this time, the opponent's Big Three had already played more than 3 minutes in the morning than us, and they were physically inferior to us, not to mention that the three of them were older than me and Shaq.

Perhaps it was because of the gradual lack of physical fitness that caused the decline in offensive form, the Rockets were only one goal away from being able to overtake us, but this breath just couldn't be lifted.

By the time Shaq and I were back on the pitch at full strength, there was almost nothing they could do to stop us both.

We played very easily in the remaining minutes, mainly because the overall offensive shooting rate of the Rockets went down, the pace of this game was a bit too fast, and their core players were older, and they no longer had enough physical reserves at the final critical moment, and the offense was not good and the frontcourt rebounds could not fight, which led to us being able to quickly launch defensive counterattacks, and their physical strength was further squeezed clean in our continuous fast-break counterattacks.

In the last five minutes, Shaq and I scored 16 of the team's 18 points to lead the Lakers to a 135-123 victory over the Houston Rockets at home.

However, looking at the current Toyota Center, it is simply quiet and terrible, and when the game finally enters within 2 minutes, many fans have begun to leave the stadium early, which is also a characteristic of local Houston fans, when the team is at a disadvantage, it is easy to give up support for the home team and choose to leave the stadium early, and I don't know how busy they are.

Regardless, the game gave our team another morale boost, and the Lakers' overall record came to 6-1, tied with the defending champions for the league's first record.

After the game, Shaq made a lot of nonsense in the locker room, claiming that if he met Olajuwon in the playoffs again this season, he would definitely be able to lead the Lakers to sweep the opponent, and he would average more than 3 dunks on the top of the big dream's head per game.

I shook my head next to me, this guy has the strength to have a personality that is too high-profile, of course, isn't this kind of personality typical of Americans, I think if it weren't for the fact that we have to play the San Antonio Spurs back-to-back tomorrow, this guy Shaq will definitely have a big party tonight, and then perform his new dance at the party.

It was late at night after the race, but we couldn't afford to make a stop in Houston and a few hours later we had to get on the plane to San Antonio.

When the excitement of winning the game passed, the deep exhaustion began to spread throughout the team, and the more excited people were now, the more sleepy they became, and the whole plane seemed exceptionally quiet, and I guess there were only a handful of people who had not fallen asleep except me.

And the reason why I can't sleep is not because I'm not tired, in fact, even if my body doesn't get tired so easily, but my spirit will be tired, especially when part of my energy is spent thinking about Jessica who is still at home in Los Angeles, I admit that I really have a lot of love for her, and that feeling of being particularly worried about someone has rarely occurred even in previous lives.

Unlike in my previous life, I am now Kobe. Bryant, the future NBA Hall of Fame-level superstar, has a fortune of hundreds of millions, but that doesn't mean that I will have a particularly big change, now my personality seems to be a combination of the personality of my previous life and Kobe's personality, I can't completely separate the two, they are influencing each other, changing some of each other's personality traits, I don't know whether all this is good or bad, I can only accept it silently.

Thinking about it, I also fell asleep, when I woke up again, the plane was still safely parked at the airport in San Antonio, I found that this sleep did not make me more energetic, but made my head seem a little groggy, I don't know why I feel that this is not normal, is it because I have a cold?

My speculation was quickly confirmed, it seems that there is a small flu spreading among the team, although the physical fitness of our players is much better than the average person, but it does not mean that we will not get sick, in fact, because the intensity of the NBA game is too huge, when our body is overdepleted, we will enter a period of weakness, at this time it is easy to be invaded by external diseases, There may not be a major illness, but a minor illness like the flu can also greatly weaken the overall combat effectiveness of the team.

Considering that there are back-to-back games tomorrow, everyone is not willing to spend too much time going to the hospital for infusions or something, and after simply buying some medicine at the pharmacy and clinic, everyone drove towards the hotel on the team bus.

When I lay on the comfortable and wide bed in the hotel, I realized that this flu may not be as simple as others imagined, not only did it come and go very quickly, I felt that my body was hot and cold, and I squirmed in bed for a long time before finally falling asleep.

After waking up the next day, I also felt that the strength of the whole body had not been recovered, although the headache and poor breathing feeling yesterday were no longer obvious, but the muscles of the whole body were very weak, and I had a simple breakfast after getting up, and then simply returned to the bed to continue sleeping.

Anyway, the city of San Antonio is not very prosperous, at least it is certainly much worse than Los Angeles, so I don't need to go out and wander around, it is better to get as much sleep as possible to get a better recovery of my body, so as to stay in the best shape during the night game.

I forgot to turn on the alarm clock, so I got up a little late again, I washed up and rushed to the competition venue, compared to yesterday when I appeared in the Toyota Center so early to practice, today I arrived at the competition venue a little late, leaving me not a lot of time to train.

But today, as soon as I got the ball, I obviously felt a little stiff and weak, and my body flexibility, which I originally felt good, became much worse at this time, and many shots were made on the front of the basket.

Of course, I'm not the only one who has performed this way, and a large part of the team has been affected by this flu, and their training shooting percentage has fallen off a cliff compared to usual.

There is only one person who still looks so relaxed, and even completely ignores the painful expressions of the other players, but instead says some tepid words with a little underbeaten, and this person is Shaq, who has a physical talent beyond ordinary people. O'Neill, he doesn't seem to have anything at all, he should not be affected by the flu, but with his physical fitness, even if he is infected with the flu, it is estimated that he will not be affected too much.

I tried my best to get my shooting back on track, but it seemed that the more I tried, the more I couldn't do it, the speed of my physical fitness passed faster than usual, and my light calves seemed to be poured into some metal liquid, and the whole person looked a little bulky.

Soon the game against the Spurs will officially begin, and I don't seem to have heard David from the player introduction. Robinson's name, maybe he was out of action due to injury, but the name of another person made me feel a little surprised, this person is Dominic, who is nicknamed the essence of human movies. Wilkins, this guy is also a fierce player of the same era as Jordan, he has met Jordan in the dunk contest many times, and has an average of nearly 30 points per game at his peak, but unfortunately he is almost 37 years old this season. Robinson doesn't play, and the strength of this Spurs team is indeed not very strong.

In addition, the Spurs' game strategy this year is to put it on the wrong foot, for the top pick next year, for the eternal No. 21 rookie.

However, when the game started, we found that this game was much more difficult than expected, specifically it was a game of iron, if the last game was played by no one on both sides, so the defense did not matter at all, because even if you defend seriously, you can't prevent it.

Then the defense in this game is not important, because even if you don't defend the opponent much, you can't shoot anything.

On the Spurs' side, the reason is that the players are not good at individual strength, and Popovich obviously wants to play badly, so that the only star player, Wilkins, has very little playing time, and whoever feels hot will soon be put on the bench at the next timeout or dead ball.

Even so, the Lakers still couldn't take the lead, and the only player who shot more than 40% from the field in the entire first quarter was Shaq, and Shaq wasn't as unaffected by the flu as he had shown, because I could already see that his speed was dropping significantly today, and his speed and explosiveness under the basket were decreasing.

Maybe it was because the starter's physical condition was really bad, the silver fox Harris quickly replaced with a substitute, but even I was a big loss today, the first five outside shots actually missed once, and the two breakthrough layups almost must have scored balls also shook on the basket for a few seconds and then slipped out of the basket, which almost me off, because the opponent's defense was extremely lax, and it was just waiting for me to go to the empty basket, but the basket was like being covered and couldn't be thrown.

Originally, my shooting percentage before this season was above 5 percent, but after this game, it was estimated that it would have dropped by several percentage points, until the end of the first half, my stats were 1 of 10 shots, and I only had 5 points, 2 rebounds and 0 assists for 3 points from the free throw line.

Actually, I had a couple of potential assists, but no matter how good the chances were and how big the gaps were in front of my teammates, they just couldn't get the ball into the basket.

On the Spurs' side, Popovich was almost by us, even though he had been replaced by a substitute on the bench, but the Spurs still led us by five points at halftime, 40-35, and he yelled in the direction of the Lakers' bench, as if protesting against our match-fixing.

However, we don't want to, you must know that yesterday's offensive state was so good, who knew that the whole team would shrink like this in a day's time, it's simply unscientific.

Head coach Silver Fox Harris is also very aware that the physical condition of the whole team is quite bad now, so he does not act like he usually chatters, in fact, he can also see that the opposing Spurs are trying their best to lose this game, not only the players are very poor, but also there is almost no intensity on the defensive end.

It may be precisely because the defensive intensity of both sides is too low, so the foul free throws on both sides are very few throughout the game, and the rhythm of the whole game is already slow, so the game time passes quickly without many pauses.

This extremely ugly game also caused the already small number of fans in the stadium to boo, and most of the time they booed the home team, and the most terrifying thing was that no matter whether the home team Spurs scored or did not score, there would be people booing.

By the beginning of the second half, the attendance of the entire Spurs home court was less than 5 percent, and the popularity of the game with our Lakers this season would not be too low, and the attendance of this game was at least seven or eight at the beginning, but the actual performance of both sides of the game disappointed the fans.

Fortunately, this game is not broadcast live in the United States, otherwise it would be a big joke, it is completely two NCAA, it should not be a CBA-level team playing, I even think the CBA is much better to watch than this game.

After the start of the second half, the offensive state of both sides was still sluggish, and the Spurs even shamelessly used all the substitutes at the beginning of the third quarter, and at that time the league did not have a specific restriction law for swinging, so in addition to the constant boos from the fans, the thick-skinned Popovich even smiled when facing the boos, as if enjoying the boos.