After a fifteen-minute break at halftime, plus a period of decent meditation, I already feel that my spirit has recovered a lot, and I have become full of energy again, and we have to make the difference as wide as possible in the third quarter, and it is best to be able to take the Celtics in the third quarter, so that if the fourth quarter becomes garbage time, we can get out of the game early.

Of course, there is another situation where our Lakers are pulled away early by the Celtics, and then the fourth quarter becomes garbage time, so we don't have to play on the court.

But think about how it is possible to do that kind of thing with the strength and talent of this Celtics team, but on the contrary, the score has been alternating like the first two quarters, which will be a little more difficult for us, because if we can not decide the winner until the end of the game, it will undoubtedly be a huge test of our physical fitness and willpower.

Of course, I really hope that the competition can be in a tense state all the time, and only in this tense and exciting state can I push my potential to the fullest, so that I can improve faster.

The second half then kicked off, the first attack of the opening ball belonged to the Celtics, and their offensive tempo after the start of the second half seemed to slow down a little, probably at halftime when their manager gave them a special tactical arrangement, of course, just from the first ball to see the whole situation.

The Celtics organized the offense at this time and seemed to be methodical, and suddenly became quite patient, which made our Lakers a little unaccustomed to defense, in the first half they were always thinking about speeding up, to consume more physical less of us, when we were almost used to that kind of fast-paced game, the Celtics are now starting to control the pace of the game again.

Because we were so not used to being controlled at the tempo, our Lakers players started to become more aggressive on the defensive end, and Van Exel and I spontaneously started to pack and interfere with the Celtics' ball-handlers in advance, while the Celtics still didn't seem to be affected much.

Instead, Van Exel's and I lost our defensive zone due to rushing out of the pack and delays, giving the Celtics a better chance to break through.

And because the projection ability of the other players in the Celtics is okay, so after the start of the second half, our Lakers still adopted a man-to-man defense, and at the same time, they didn't expect me and Van Exel to gamble on defense and lose the defensive position, at this time, only Shaq came forward to block the breakthrough Celtics players.

However, as soon as Shaq left the inside, the Celtics breakaway player used a hand-to-hand pass to a teammate who had already cut along the baseline, and then hit the board with ease.

Van Exel and I were a little discouraged by this result, and I don't know why I suddenly started to lose my breath, it seems that the Celtics' offensive tactics against us really worked, and once we couldn't hold our breath, we would enter a state that was more favorable to them, and then the mood of our entire Lakers team might be affected.

In the next offensive round, there was another very low-level passing error between our Lakers players, not how high the Celtics' defensive intensity was, it was completely like the entire Lakers players were not able to enter the state of the game after the start of the second half, and they were still in a state of sleepwalking, I knew that it would not work like this.

However, the more impatient I became, the more I couldn't play the game well, so I had to focus on the game itself and try to relax myself as much as possible, so as not to be distracted by things on and off the field, so that I could really play a good game.

I spoke to myself in the back of my heart, let myself relax, and told myself that there was still a long way to go, and that impatience wasn't going to help me win.

This kind of psychological suggestion is obviously still able to have a good effect, at least at the moment my whole person is not as anxious as before, the meditation during the intermission has restored my inner calm, but it seems that there is another force in the body is becoming active, I know that this should be Kobe's own soul is awakening, with Kobe's own character, it must be quite easy to enter the state of anger.

I have to learn to control now, maybe one day Kobe's soul will come back to take over his body, but at this time I should still do what I want to do well, I'm not Kobe after all, it's unlikely that I will make exactly the same choice as Kobe, but I'm looking forward to what will happen between us when Kobe's soul reawakens.

The game on the court is still ongoing, the Celtics have become very patient on the offensive end, always looking for the best offensive opportunity to shoot, the most important point is that after the start of the second half, they greatly reduced the three-point shooting, but tried to use the impact of the inside defense to attack, and because of Shaq's defense on the inside, so they will have many people to cut inside when they break through, and find a way to move Shaq out of the restricted area at any time, and then attack through the inside pass.

The Celtics' offensive approach really had a big impact on our Lakers' interior at first, after all, Shaq couldn't defend all the interior offenses alone, his weight was too large, and the turning speed would be slow, so when the Celtics continued to look for opportunities through the inside line, Shaq was dizzy.

The most critical point is that our other Lakers players have no way to interfere with their inward passes after cutting inside, which is originally difficult to pass, because the passing space between each other is quite narrow, and it is relatively easy to make mistakes, but in fact, the Celtics players are quite proficient in such passes, and have played several such balls in a row without mistakes.

And when it came to our Lakers offense, there were repeated passing errors, and these mistakes looked like very low-level mistakes, the result was that our Lakers led by six points at halftime and were chased back by the Celtics all of a sudden, and the game entered the white heat again, it seems that this game is destined to be a way to decide the winner too early, the rhythm of this game is a bit like the last game we played with the Philadelphia 76ers, obviously our lineup on the court is significantly stronger than the opponent, But there was no way to open up the difference.

Or has it achieved a certain score advantage in a short period of time, but still bury such a score advantage in a short period of time, what is the problem?

In the last game of the Philadelphia 76ers, there was an Iverson, who alone scored almost half of the team's points, but the Celtics scored very evenly in this game, and now they have scored eight of the ten players they have played, four of them have scored double-doubles, and the highest scorer, Antoine Walker, has only scored 12 points.

A team with such an average score like this is really a little more terrifying than the Philadelphia 76ers who had Iverson in a violent state before, at least when defending Iverson, I can still have a clear defensive goal, although defending Iverson also makes me feel a little desperate, but now everyone on the other side can score, how is it not a very desperate thing.

Head coach Silver Fox Harris called a timeout at this time, and it was clear that something was not quite right on the court, and if you count the more than a minute at the end of the second quarter, we didn't score a point in the previous four minutes of the game, and let the Celtics hit us with an 11-0 shockwave, which is obviously a bit too much.

In fact, the Celtics' performance on the offensive end can only be regarded as okay, but the performance of our Lakers on the offensive end is really too bad, and this sudden scoring drought came very suddenly, but it was not very sudden.

After all, there was a halftime break between them, which shows that our offensive poor form continued from the first half to the second half, which is really a pretty bad sign, if we don't deal with it well, the second half may not be our Lakers with a wave of harvest of the game, but the Celtics with a wave of harvest of the game.

We don't want that kind of thing to happen to us, for a fateful matchup like the Celtics, the players of the Los Angeles Lakers will also have an additional desire to win, I believe that this desire will exist more or less in every Lakers player, but I don't know if we can show this strong desire to win in this game.

Head coach Silver Fox Harris also started to take the game seriously this time, and the criticism was pointed out mercilessly, especially when he was particularly dissatisfied with our defense, including the defense of me and Shaq.

Shaq and I didn't get angry when we heard the criticism of Silver Fox Harris by name, and we didn't refute anything, maybe we both recognized the criticism of head coach Silver Fox Harris from the bottom of our hearts.

From this point of view, I can see that Shaq actually really wanted to win this game today, his attitude to the game is already okay, especially on the defensive end, although he still can't defend it, but he is already working very hard to defend, and the root cause of such a big problem on our defensive end.

I'm afraid it's the lack of tacit understanding between our Lakers players on the defensive end, which leads to some kind of problem with their positional sense, and many times there will be repeated fills, delayed fills, etc.

In front of the Celtics, who have excellent passing speed and passing awareness, our defense is full of holes, in the first half they shot three-pointers, but the shooting percentage was poor, if they had a good three-point shooting rate in the first half, we would have been behind by more than 10 or 20 points, but after the start of the second half they changed their offensive strategy.

It turns out that they did take advantage of our Lakers' defensive weakness, so the next question is what can we do to make up for it.

The timeout was not long, and although head coach Silver Fox Harris tried very hard to say more, it was soon over and we were back on the pitch, and there was no change of personnel between the two sides during the timeout.

The next game will enter a more intense level, our Lakers team finally played some team cooperation in the first offense after the timeout, Shaq under the arrangement of the head coach no longer crouched inside the line to ask for the ball, but came to the free throw line to cooperate with other Lakers players.

Although Shaq is not a threat near the free throw line, because of his huge size, there are several advantages to this position, one advantage is that he can come to the outside line more flexibly at any time for high blocking, on the other hand, this position itself can also be used as an important point to block the opponent's defensive line, and it is also a good choice to make a secondary block with another player, and there is even a way to reverse block and pick with a guard player.

It is to use outside players to block and dismantle Shaq, and then fight for Shaq to get a chance to go directly to the basket, Shaq is extremely athletic, and rushing into the basket from near the free throw line is actually a matter of two or three steps, and even many times one step after another, you can directly reach the basket to complete the violent dunk.

So when Shaq is near the free throw line, the Celtics don't dare to take him lightly, he can also try to be the tactical core of the team, when he asks for the ball at this point, he can be a passing fulcrum, and our other Lakers perimeter players can choose to run, either cut inside or use the pick-and-roll outside the three-point line to find a shot.

At least after the timeout, our Lakers' first offense was a good result, Shaq took the ball near the free throw line and raised the ball high into the sky, the opposing player had no way to reach it, and then Van Exel ran along the three-point line, I went to help Van Exel make a small block, using a small gap, Van Exel cut directly along the baseline into the basket, Shak's passing awareness at this time is quite good, directly a clever top-down hook pass, It went straight to Van Exel's hands.

And because the ball is a top-down pass, Van Exel's arm is directly held high when he receives the ball, and he throws the ball directly into the basket as soon as he receives the ball, without even putting his hand down.

The most important point is that the Celtics players are generally not as athletic as our Lakers players, so it is actually more difficult to keep up with our off-ball running, as long as our Lakers players can run more actively, it will be difficult for them to prevent us.

However, on the defensive end, the Celtics' offense is still very sharp, and it seems that the timeout still hasn't been able to solve our problems on the defensive end, of course, this may also be because the Celtics have fully cultivated their shooting touch and confidence before, so it is quite difficult for us to suppress their good form at this time.

Shaq is actually already working on the defensive end, but because defense is never just a one-person thing, especially in the face of a team basketball team like the Celtics, their passing speed can greatly make up for their lack of athletic talent, after all, no matter how fast a person's speed is, it is impossible to be faster than the speed of basketball, Shaq is already a little powerless at this time, I know that his physical fitness at this time must have reached a small limit, but at this time it is only more than four minutes into the third quarterIf he has a physical problem at this time, then our next game will be very difficult.

Once again, the Celtics were able to get an open shot from mid-range through multi-player transmission, and their players were very decisive when they took shots.

It's a very important thing to be decisive in the game, although many times you may feel that this is not the best time to shoot, but often when you can make a decisive shot, your shooting percentage will not be too bad, which is very strange, but it may also have something to do with psychological cues, and I have always been very decisive in the game, because I do a lot of shooting training outside of the game, In order to be able to be decisive in any position in the game, in the face of any defense, can have the confidence to shoot.

In the next few minutes, our Lakers took a little initiative in the whole game, but although it seemed that there was a certain advantage on the court, the problem was still the same, that is, there was no way to completely pull the score apart, this Celtics team is not only tactically disciplined, but the most important thing is that the team is resilient, to be honest I feel if they play like they play every game like us.

It is estimated that this season this season the Celtics team has no problem entering the playoffs, and can even impact the top six records in the East, which is not my nonsense at all, I have played so many games in the regular season, and I can still feel the strength of the opponent, they are the players' individual abilities are a little worse, but the tactical literacy is not much worse than the Houston Rockets and Utah Jazz we met before.

If they really have a superstar-caliber player on their team to lead these players, they might suddenly become a strong contender for the championship.

All in all, this is actually a team with quite potential, and it deserves to be the number one team in the league for so many years, and our Lakers team can only be regarded as the second biggest team at least in terms of the number of championships.

Seeing that the team couldn't open the situation for a long time, I was a little impatient, and wanted to use my individual ability to score consecutive points and pull away the lead for the team in a short period of time, after all, in the second game of our away back-to-back, the more the game went to the back, the more disadvantageous it was for us.

In the second half of the fourth quarter, if the body is really completely depleted, then even if it is a good opportunity, I will not be able to shoot, I have encountered this situation before, we have also encountered it with the Lakers this season, in fact, the previous two back-to-back games we seem to have ended in losses.

The Lakers have lost three games this season, two of which were in the second game of a back-to-back, one against the San Antonio Spurs and the other against the Utah Jazz in Salt Lake City.

Thinking of this, my personal determination to attack in singles instantly became much bigger, and I didn't have so many worries when I broke through, and I didn't stop for a moment in the face of the Celtics' multi-player wrapping and defense, and directly used dazzling dribbling to break through their defense.

I realized that the more I tried to keep the fight, the more I couldn't do it, and I had to unleash my energy on the offensive end.

I first used a cross step to shake the center of gravity of Antoine Walker, who was defending me, and then easily broke through his first defense, and then faced the help of the opponent's center, I first made a quick stop, and then followed by a worship movement, the opponent's center was directly deceived by my worship feint, and then I accelerated and broke through the second defense again.

The opponent's interior seemed to have no one to defend at this point, but suddenly out of the corner of my eye, I saw an opponent's striker pounce on my side, and he looked like he wanted to pull me down directly, even if it was a foul.

I didn't pay attention to him, but jumped up directly, the ultimate goal of my action was not to dunk, but to jump up and do a very difficult pull move in the air directly, using the time brought by my super core strength, directly in the air to avoid the defense of this Celtics striker, and then from the right side of the basket directly to the left side of the basket, and in the air to change the ball from the right hand to the left hand, and finally throw the ball before the body landed.

It seemed complicated, but it was only a few tenths of a second in the air, and the basketball hit the rebound accurately and bounced into the basket, at which point I fell to the ground, rolled backwards twice and finally stopped.

The whole body strength I used with this ball was really a bit big, and all the whole body finally felt a little uncontrollable.

After this extremely beautiful goal, the Celtics' home stadium, North Shore Garden Arena, instantly fell into a dead silence.

My goal was a huge morale boost for the Lakers and a morale blow to the Celtics, and in the intermittent way, our lead on the court gradually began to shift into a score advantage.

Soon the score on the field opened up slightly, from a difference of a few points to a difference of more than ten points.

Of course, the Celtics also sensed that the state on the court was starting to turn against them, but at this time they didn't seem to be very flustered, and they still maintained the methodical rhythm they had maintained since the beginning of the quarter, and they still attacked how they needed to attack and defend how they wanted.

I continued to be aggressive in the rest of the offense, but soon I found that my shooting percentage began to decline, and I had already scored seven or eight points in a row for a while, but in order to get these points, I also used a lot of energy, and at this point I had reached a bottleneck in my physical fitness, so it was time to take a good rest.

My offense was over, but Shaq's offense began, and he seemed to have gotten used to the tactical arrangement that head coach Silver Fox Harris had given him to receive the ball near the free throw line.

To be honest, this tactical arrangement is very creative and quite bold, because in fact, judging from Shaq's personality and technical characteristics, if such a tactic does not achieve good results at the beginning, it will most likely be met with negative reactions from Shak, and at this time, Shaq saw that this tactic seemed to have a good effect, so he didn't say anything more, and continued to listen to this tactical arrangement and go to the subsequent games.

Shaq's motivation is the type of play that looks like he has a valve, and as long as his valve on the offensive end is opened, he'll be in his offensive rhythm for the rest of the day.

However, the difference between Shaq and me is that Shaq will still maintain a better hand than me, after all, he is the main inside, and the shooting rate is relatively stable, while my shooting percentage will sometimes be a little unstable, and even more like a nerve knife, once I am accurate, no one can defend me in one-on-one defense, and even when many people go to defend me at the same time, I can always find some scoring opportunities.

But when I'm in a slump, I might lose a lot of shots in a row, or even make some outrageous shots, but I'll be a little bit more daring, and even if I don't feel good, I'll still be full of fighting spirit.

With about five minutes left in the third quarter, the Celtics had been stretched by nearly 15 points by our Lakers, and the Celtics' head coach finally called a timeout.

In fact, I think he should have called this timeout three minutes ago, when we were just getting up, but the Celtics head coach, who was able to call a timeout in a very timely manner in the first half, how could he suddenly become stupid in the second half?

I can't help but start to doubt this, whether this is the Celtics head coach deliberately releasing water, the purpose is naturally related to their bad strategy this season, the first half is just to show their true strength, so that we dare not underestimate, but also to the home fans is an explanation, as for the second half, the appropriate release of water allows our Lakers to lay a certain lead, on the contrary, we lack physical strength behind us, and we can't beat them directly, That's not what their manager and the hierarchy want.

So the current situation has arisen, of course, all of this is just my guess, and I will look at the state of the Celtics after the timeout, or wait until the fourth quarter to see how their head coach arranges the lineup, and basically can deduce whether he is deliberately trying to let the water go or not.

After this timeout, basically all the main players of our Lakers team were replaced, of course, I think this is a fairly sensible approach, it seems that the silver fox Harris's coaching ability has improved in recent games, and he has done a good job in these coaching details, which can't help but make my impression of him change.

At this time, I can't help but think, maybe even without Phil Jackson and his triangle offensive tactics, our Lakers can still win the NBA championship, in fact, in my previous life, Phil Jackson's coaching ability may really be a little exaggerated, but one thing I think is true, that is, his most powerful thing is not the triangle offense tactics, but he can play the strength of his superstars to the extreme.

When I sat on the sidelines and rested, I had a little bit of the idea of closing my eyes and meditating, and at this time, the game situation on the court was indeed our Lakers taking a big lead, so it didn't seem too much of a problem to do some meditation at this time.

As I slowly closed my eyes, there was darkness in front of me, and there was a noise in the darkness at first, but it was soon replaced by another voice.

I'm very familiar with this voice, and this should be the voice of Kobe's soul.

"You and I are in the same body as me, and I think you should know all this, I have been asleep all this time, but everything you have experienced is like a dream to me, and everything you have experienced has become a scene that you see in your sleep."

"Are you Kobe? I'm sorry, but I don't want to occupy your body in this way, because all of this is an unknown mystery to me, and if I can see your childhood memories, will you also be able to see my past life memories? If you can see it, you'll know why I'm here, right? ”

"I do have memories of your past lives, but they're too messy, too broken, and unlike when you were going through these situations, I see more in my dreams than you could see with your eyes, and I can see things you can't."

"Could it be that when you were asleep, you were actually in an out-of-body state, and only then can it be explained that you now exist in the form of a soul? Is it possible for you to return to this body, and how can we both share this body at the same time? ”

"I've also thought about this question, at the beginning of my life of course I had a very great hatred for your appearance, but then I saw your love for basketball, I found that you are a very similar person to me, at least in the love of basketball we are the same, so I gradually accepted the fact that you exist, and if one day my soul will reawaken in this body, then I am very willing to share this body with you, because you seem to know how to cherish it, I think you have the right to be another me within me, and together we can create a really great era in the NBA, and even surpass Michael Jordan. ”

"If you have memories of my past life, then you should also be able to know that I am from the future, and at the same time, you can also see how you have experienced a brilliant career with ups and downs in my time and space, do you think the two of us can create a better future? For example, leading the Lakers to more than five championships, such as becoming a great presence beyond Jordan as you said. ”

"Well, I can see some things about me in your memories of your past life, but in fact, they are too fragmentary, and those fragmentary pictures can't piece together a story that belongs to me, so I'm very interested in talking to you about Kobe Bryant in your time and space. What kind of person is Bryant. ”

"Are you really interested to know? Or maybe I'd better not tell you, because knowing that my future isn't really good, and besides, the two of us can create a completely different future together, and it will be much greater than Kobe Bryant in my plane, don't you think it's a very cool thing? ”

"Brother, to be honest, I never thought I'd go through such a situation, you know, I grew up almost alone, and I was quite lonely, and my only friend seemed to be basketball, and now all of a sudden I found myself with a guy in my body who could talk to me and love basketball as much as I did, it was a strange feeling, but I think I'd get used to it."

"Haha, I should be able to get used to it, you know, I thought you would be a little more difficult to get along with, but I didn't expect the chat with you to be quite smooth, and there doesn't seem to be much of a barrier."

"Maybe it's because you and I seem to have become one body and memory, but isn't talking to you talking to myself? I've already seen you as a different personality from me, and you can think of it as well, if we don't have any further splits in personality after a while, then that's fine. ”

"Or maybe we can do some division of labor, and now you may not have fully woken up, and if one day your soul completely wakes up from its slumber, then then you can control all the time related to basketball, and I can control the time except basketball, and then after a while we will switch roles between each other, what do you think?"

"I don't know, because my soul hasn't been fully awakened yet, and I don't know if I still have the ability to control this body after waking up, if so, then I'm willing to consider your proposal, of course, it is foreseeable that there will be some embarrassing things happening, but I believe we can deal with these things in the future."

"Okay, let's talk about it here today, Kobe, you know that in my previous life, I was a die-hard fan of yours, or a hardcore fan, and it is really my greatest honor to be reborn as you, so I hope you can believe me, and you will not let Kobe Bryant's name be insulted."

"Well, come on, just remember that I'm keeping an eye on you all the time, ahahaha!"

"Terrible!"

I gradually recovered from meditation to a state of wakefulness, and the conversation between me and Kobe Bryant seemed to take a long time, but when I actually returned to the real world, I realized that it was actually less than two minutes.

It seems that the speed of time passing in meditation really cannot be judged completely according to the real speed of time passing, just like we sometimes feel that we have a long dream, but when we wake up, we find that the time has only gone for ten minutes, tens of minutes, or even minutes, all of which cannot be fully explained by science.

When I opened my eyes, the Lakers bench players and the Celtics bench players were in a tight game, and both sides were full of fighting spirit.

What surprised me today was that Byron Scott, an old boy, was quite enthusiastic about the game, and it seemed that he was completely different from the same Byron Scott when he played against the Philadelphia 76ers yesterday.

Byron Scott's more than ten years of NBA game experience is not boastful, after all, he once broke new ground for the Lakers with Magic Johnson, Skyhook Abdul-Jabbar, and Cobra James Worthy, and won so many championships, making the Lakers SHOWTIME a legend of the times.

Of course, if he doesn't look old and disrespectful like before, I still respect him from the bottom of my heart, but I think he is sometimes too partial to Shaq, and I don't think he is at all conducive to Shaq's vigilance, Shaq's personality is too optimistic, and in many cases he can't completely carry the team on his shoulders like a qualified team boss.

It's not that Shaq doesn't have such strength, but his personality traits, which will make him unable to inspire enough fighting spirit when facing opponents with the same strength as him or even stronger than him, he seems to be the kind of master who is a bit of a bully and afraid of the hard, and really meets Jordan, Olajuwon and other absolute gods, Shaq really doesn't seem tough enough when he plays, and he doesn't have the kind of domineering and responsibility that gives up on me.