A few hours later I arrived at the Phoenix Suns' home arena in a pretty good mood, and once again I chose to come to the court a few hours early to practice.

To be honest, I like the Suns' home stadium because the overall color of the floor looks very comfortable, and when I'm in a really good mood, the shooting feels much better.

I didn't do too much warm-up exercise this time, because I had basically opened up my body when I was hanging out before, and I had been in the sun for a while, so I felt pretty good.

Probably because I was in a good mood, I started to try to shoot more difficult shots, some of which I mimicked by watching videos of Michael Jordan's games.

Because Kobe Bryant's physical talent is similar to Jordan in many ways, he has an innate advantage in imitating Jordan's movements, and coupled with his excellent on-court learning ability, I found that I didn't encounter much resistance when using movements similar to Jordan's.

However, there will still be a big difference between training and actual combat, and some of the movements that I could train in the previous training, including dribbling, shooting, triple threats, and feints, were not fully integrated.

When the game is more critical and tense, I will still subconsciously choose those movements that I am more familiar with before, of course, my body to make such a choice itself is understandable, this is part of the conditioned reflex, in order to allow me to be more fluid and skillful in the use of new offensive moves in the game, it requires me to put more time and energy into training.

And this process may not be as fast as I thought at the beginning, because many times it is relatively simple to simply imitate the action, even if I can imitate the action again, but if the soul lacks this action, there is still no way to exert its due power.

I can't use those new moves at any time without a choice, but what I need to do is integrate them into my basketball skills through training to make everything more natural and fluid, not a deliberate imitation.

For this reason, I have not forgotten to practice and perfect the old technical movements while training the new movements, no matter how to practice some basic skills must be not wrong, the more critical I need to rely on the original conditioning and muscle memory of the nerves, after all, in that tenths of a second reaction time, my brain is impossible to make a perfect temporary judgment, everything needs to rely on my instinctive reaction.

To be honest, it may be because this era does not pay enough attention to three-point shots, Kobe Bryant's body did not deliberately train too many three-pointers in the previous growth process, but he actually has a pretty good talent in shooting three-pointers, which actually depends on his strong core strength on the one hand, which can maintain the balance and stability of the body and shot to the greatest extent in any shooting situation, and on the other hand, it may be a pitcher's talent. After all, Kobe's father, Joe, was also a professional basketball player, and some shooting talents can really be inherited.

An obvious example of the inheritance of talent is the Curry family, Stephen Curry is naturally recognized as a super-first-class shooter, and can even be said to be an epoch-making shooter, and the small-ball era has also reached its peak because of his existence.

However, his shooting talent can be traced back to his father, Dell Curry, and Stephen Curry's brother Seth Curry has also inherited their father's good genes, and all three of them have terrifying lethality beyond the three-point line.

Of course, the three of them have achieved their own highs and lows in the NBA, although only Stephen Curry has reached superstar height, but the NBA has gradually become more and more important since the 90s.

In the 90s, the NBA was still in the era of interior giants, and although the most powerful player, Michael, was an outside player, more teams in this era must prioritize interior players when choosing the core of the team and the cornerstone of the team.

That's why the vast majority of the NBA's draft picks are used to select interior players with super physical talent, and no matter how good the outside players, especially shooting guards, are likely to be too high.

And among the outside players who were selected by the team with the top pick, they are basically point guards, if anyone will say that Iverson is not a typical scoring guard, then I can only tell you that Iverson was selected by the Seven and Six as a point guard in this draft, but later because his scoring ability is too prominent, so he switched to the position of scoring guard.

In fact, in the long history of the NBA, there are really many players who have been selected as the champion as a point guard, such as the big Oscar Robertson in ancient times, and the Magic Johnson in the 80s of the 20th century.

After the 21st century, there have been many top guards, such as Rose Rose, John Wall, Siddy Simmons, and then Fultz.

However, there are very few players who can be selected as the top pick as a shooting guard, and even a basketball god like Jordan has no chance to become the top pick, and can only be overpowered by the big dream Olajuwon.

One of the most important reasons for this is that the role of the shooting guard in the long history of the NBA has never been that important, and this cannot be compared only to a super-well-rounded top star like Kobe Jordan.

More often than not, the role of a shooting guard is to look for open opportunities to shoot, or to take on the role of a pitcher in the team's playbook.

The most important core and brain of the team is, of course, the point guard, and the interior line to protect the rebound and complete the task of protecting the rim is also very important, after all, there is a rule in basketball, that is, the closer you are to the basket, the higher the shooting percentage.

And compared to shooting, which can be greatly improved through acquired training or is not too dependent on physical talent, the physical talent required by interior players and the ball quotient talent required by guard players are difficult to cultivate through acquisition, so in things like the draft, which value more potential and talent, scoring guards have naturally become a more neglected part.

But this does not mean that the scoring guard is not important, in fact, when it comes to players like Kobe, Jordan, or later LeBron James, their role in the team has long been more than just a guard or a forward, they are called swing guards, who can adapt to multiple positions and different tactical systems on the court, and even become the core component of the tactical system.

Just like Kobe Bryant and Jordan's success, Phil Jackson's triangle tactics are a very successful tactical system, and like the later LeBron James, it belongs to its own system, relying on his super basketball IQ and personal ability to create a new tactical system.

Now I not only need to improve my all-round offensive skills, but what I need to do is to be at the forefront of this era and thoroughly develop my three-point shooting ability.

Considering that the defense of the team in this era was much fiercer than that of the later NBA, and the referees were more strict on the scale of foul blowing on the outside, so after the playoffs, I had to make my three-point shot more stable and tough.

After all, considering the defensive strength that Shaq can attract on the opponent's inside, having a stable three-point threat can form a better coordination and complement with Shak.

A championship ring is the highest reward that every NBA professional player dreams of, but it is extremely difficult to achieve, and only one of the thirty NBA teams each year can finally get this ring that represents the highest achievement, and my inner desire for this ring seems to be getting stronger and stronger.

Every time I walk into a stadium that is overwhelmed by passionate fans, I can't hold back a desire to prove myself, I can feel my heart burning, and that hunger for victory is not satisfied by winning, but rather hunger and thirst, eager to win more and more, to beat stronger and stronger opponents, to be at the forefront of the spotlight, and even to replace the supreme basketball god.

Thinking about it, I began to feel that my body was starting to become hot from the inside out, and my hand seemed to be infected by this hot passion, all the movements became more fluid, the process of jumping and shooting seemed to be smooth, I had already made 20 consecutive shots outside the three-point line, and this was done without anyone picking up the ball for me, which was a small victory or a small milestone for me.

Time flies really fast, especially when you have a basketball in your hand, no matter how long you train you always feel like you don't have enough time, you want to train longer, Kobe's passion and dedication to training seems to have begun to manifest in me, this is a desire without the slightest sense of exhaustion, an infinite desire to make myself stronger.

Maybe it's because I'm too focused, until the first quarter of the game between the Lakers and the Phoenix Suns has begun, I'm still immersed in my brain remembering and thinking about Jordan's various offensive moves.

Every detail of his attack, every moment of receiving the ball, and the rhythm of every turnaround and jumper are constantly repeated in my mind, and each repetition reinforces my own impression of these movements, deepening my understanding of these movements, and those things hidden behind simple actions can only be fully mastered by relying on the constant thinking of the brain.

By the time my attention returned to the court, the Lakers had a 15-point lead at 20-5, and the first quarter had barely six minutes into the game.

Head coach Silver Fox Harris seemed to be very satisfied with the team's performance today, he stood on the sidelines and kept waving his fists, his eyes kept following the figure on the court, he seemed to want to show his excitement, but he found that no one around him seemed to be able to listen to him pour out this feeling, so this feeling was reflected in the body movements.

Seeing him so excited, he must have felt that what he said in yesterday's team training had a role, after all, compared to the previous game against the Clippers, this time the speed of our Lakers team entering the game state has greatly improved, which is mainly due to psychological influence.

Of course, as our opponent, the Phoenix Suns are a bit miserable, in the face of the Lakers outside line who are full of firepower at the beginning, their defense is a little unexpected, maybe their head coach has arranged for them to focus on Shaq when he arranged their defensive strategy before the game, so as to properly release the outside players, after all, according to the previous games, our Lakers' starting outside players did not perform very well.

However, today is completely abrupt, and it is difficult to say whether it is because of the effect of Silver Fox Harris's speech yesterday, or because the weather in Phoenix is a little comfortable today, which makes the cold hands of the Lakers' outside players warm up again.

Anyway, the game turned into a one-sided slaughter in the first quarter, which was a bit unexpected for everyone, after all, they were able to put up some resistance the last time we played against the Suns.

After all, my training today looked better than any previous time, and at halftime I felt like I had made 5 of 8 shots, 4 free throws, and 3 three-pointers, and had 17 points, 2 rebounds, 2 assists, and 1 steal.

And the Silver Fox Harris didn't give me more playing time because of my excellent performance, in fact, the Lakers did have a lot of players who performed well in this game, and four players had already scored in double figures at halftime.

The score between the two sides at this time has come to 65-30, the Lakers led the Suns by as many as 35 points at halftime, this game almost began to enter garbage time from the past half of the first quarter, the other party basically has no willpower to resist at all, if the Suns at the end of the first quarter and the beginning of the second quarter a few minutes under the reprimand of their head coach still have a slight change in mental state, and then with the score from more than ten points to more than twenty points to more than thirty points, In the face of this situation, anyone is afraid that they will fall into a state of mental explosion and be unable to extricate themselves.

And the head coach Silver Fox Harris barely said much useful words during the half-time break, in fact, in this case, the dogs in the dugout were able to win the game in the second half, so almost everyone's attention may have been taken away from this place.

Especially Shaq, his face was a little more serious in the first quarter, showing a little murderous aura, and then as the opponent gave up resistance, he only had that silly smile on his face, which fully shows how low Shaq's laughter is.

What's even more speechless is that after the start of the second half, the Suns directly sent all the substitutes, and the entire Phoenix Suns home fans couldn't sit still when they saw this scene, and the endless boos kept coming into their ears.

However, the Suns' bench players have been quite tenacious, especially under their promising rookie guard Jason Kidd, who has been more disciplined than their starters, both offensively and defensively.

In the first three minutes of the third quarter, the Lakers didn't score a single point, while the Suns used defensive counterattacks to play several fast breaks under the leadership of Kidd.

A wave of 8-0 counterattack made the silver fox Harris unable to sit still, and then called out the first timeout of the two teams in the second half, and shouted loudly in the face of Harris, so none of the Lakers players responded, and even Shaq, who had been smiling all over his face, also showed a silly look at this time, and seemed to be very surprised by what was happening in front of him.

He should have been surprised that he had three mistakes in less than three minutes into the second half, and I could clearly see them on the sidelines, not because of how unexpected the opposition defense was, not because of how strong the opponent's defenders were, but because he didn't know where to go.

After the timeout, the Suns still had those bench players on the court, and the Lakers still fielded starters, and when Shaq refocused on the court, everything went back to the original script.

Although the Suns bench has done their best, but the helpless thing is that the physical talent of the players on their court is too limited, even if they have carried out three or four people to cover Shaq with all their might, they found that Shaq alone has the ability to defend and dunk against four people, which makes them play.

In this way, the mentality of the Suns' bench players was on the verge of collapse, and even Kidd, who looked like a teenager and an old man, showed an extremely ugly look, which seemed to be a kind of desperation, despair when everything was completely out of his personal control.

Of course, because the score difference between the two sides has been hovering above 30 points, the referee's penalty scale has begun to tilt towards the Suns, and the Suns have made more free throws in the entire third quarter than the Lakers have made more free throws in the first three quarters, but no one has complained about the referee because of this, in fact, the Suns have no other effective way to score at this time except for being able to barely suppress the difference within 40 points by free throws.

I felt a little bit in a trance, and it felt like it wasn't our Lakers players who went to the nightclub and had an all-night party the day before yesterday, but this Suns team.