I always feel that time flies very quickly when I play basketball, and before I know it, I have been practicing alone in the arena for more than two hours, and I have not had particularly high-intensity training, but more on basic skills and shooting practice.

In fact, my shooting consistency is not particularly high now, and I don't feel very good when I'm open a lot of times, and even sometimes I have the illusion that when a defender wants to block me in front of me, I can concentrate more and have a higher shooting percentage, maybe it's really just my illusion.

As time went on, a lot of people started to get into the arena one after another, and I decided to take a break, after all, there will be a tough fight waiting for me, and I will have back-to-back games tomorrow, of course, unless the Silver Fox Harris lets me play more than 30 minutes in both games, otherwise with my less than 20 minutes of playing time, the possibility of fitness problems is not very high.

When I sat on the sidelines and quietly watched my teammates shoot and practice, I kept thinking about how to choose the offensive way when facing different types of defensive opponents, of course, with my current physical state, every ball is like holding a dynamite bag to impact the inside, but I also know that this way of playing may be okay when you are young, but as you get older, it will leave a lot of injury risks.

Besides, my talent is that my body is flexible and coordinated, which allows me to use some difficult layups that are unimaginable for defenders to complete the offense, but the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, I can't pursue such a difficult way for every ball, so even if my fitness is good, after all, when I need to play 35 to 40 minutes per game and need to make a huge contribution on both offensive and defensive ends, the distribution of physical strength throughout the game becomes very important.

Once the shooting coach came to the arena, I started to shoot the ball again, this time outside the three-point line, from the bottom corner to the top of the arc to the center, running back and forth and catching the ball wherever I could.

I didn't find much touch at first, and I was a little discouraged by missing most of the ball on many shots in a row, and then the shooting coach seemed to see my problem, and he started to tell me to put down the basketball and listen carefully to him analyze my shooting shortcomings.

According to his analysis, my shots outside the three-point line are still a little too impatient, and many of the balls are extremely difficult jumpers or even step-back jumpers, and the shooting ability outside the three-point line like mine like mine is not enough to support me to shoot with such a high difficulty and still be able to ensure a high shooting rate.

So he decided to let me use a more reasonable way to shoot first, and after listening to his advice, although I was still a little uncomfortable in my heart, because I always felt that I had enough energy in my body to support myself to use difficult movements for each shot, but in the end I still listened to the coach's words and started training with a relatively simple way of shooting.

Sure enough, when I found my shooting rhythm, I was able to easily hit more than 10 catch-and-shoot three-pointers in a row with a more relaxed shooting position, but I wasn't satisfied with my own improvement, I needed to improve my three-point ability with the ball.

Then I started working with the shooting coach on my ball-handling threes, where he played the defender and I had to shoot the threes with his tight defense.

I found that Kobe Bryant's body really has a very strong talent, that is, he has a very fast nervous reaction speed, and he can react and adapt quickly at any time according to the different points of the defender's defense against me in a very short period of time.

A lot of times I even have the illusion that the defender's movements have become much slower, and I think that every move he makes is like a half beat or even a few beats slower than me, and I can easily anticipate his next move in advance, so that I can always maintain a certain advantage on my offensive end and prevent being limited by his defensive strategy.

Surprise is actually a very important point in the game of basketball, and those players who are particularly nervous and react quickly are often able to seize fleeting opportunities in a few tenths of a second, so as to find better offensive opportunities in the holes on the defensive end.

One of the most typical of this kind of players is Iverson, his body rhythm changes so fast that it is really much more than normal people, even top defensive players like me or even Jordan are likely to not be able to keep up with the rhythm and amplitude of his movements, I can still clearly remember the dilemma I encountered when I faced one-on-one with Iverson in Hollywood, whether it was on the offensive end or the defensive end, I was completely blown up by this little guy who looked less than 1.8 meters.

I know it's going to be very difficult for me to reach and surpass Iverson in at least the last two years, but he's three years older than me, and I've got plenty of time to catch up with him, and I'm even luckier than him is that I'm on a team that is the biggest team in the league and has a lot of really good players and management, including Shaq, who has an all-time level of interior dominance. O'Neal too.

Speaking of O'Neal, I remember betting heads-up with him before, but I haven't been trying to complete the bet with him lately, at least I know that I don't have the slightest chance of winning this duel now, and I'm not a guy who likes to lose, so now I have to work harder to make myself able to beat Shaq in heads-up sooner.

If I had been single-handedly with him, I would have been almost powerless on the defensive end, at least defensively, and I don't know why I would have come up with such a stupid challenge invitation, I must have had a bit of a brain in water at the time, and of course even on the offensive end I wasn't absolutely sure that I would be able to win most of the offensive rounds against Shaq's defense.

After all, this guy doesn't bother to get out of the penalty area when he usually plays, but in fact, his athleticism is fully capable of supporting him to go back and forth between the penalty area and the outside line, as long as he is willing to do this, he has a lot of stride, he is also very fast, and he can cover a very large defensive area with his arm span of more than 2.3 meters, so I am really not sure if I can break through the barrier of Shaq who is defending with all his might.

Our game against the Rockets is finally about to begin, and it seems that the Rockets fans are still very strong, at least today, with the vast majority of seats in the arena filling the crowd, and as time goes on, more and more empty seats are being filled by the crowds that follow.

Probably because the team coming to play today is our Lakers, this season with the arrival of Shaq, our Lakers have once again become the favorite team to win the championship, so no matter which city we go to, it will attract more attention, and on the other hand, this season's opponents tend to do their best when playing against us, at least in my opinion, there are many teams that have increased their defensive intensity to the playoff level when defending us.

For example, in the use of defensive tactics, whether it is against Shaq or against me as a rookie player, the opposing coach will often make a quick reaction speed, which is not like what these teams will show when facing regular season opponents, although our tactics are indeed a little simpler, but the emergence of unconventional defensive methods like shark slashing tactics is enough to show that our Lakers team is now in the eyes of other teams in the league. It's even likely to be similar to the treatment that the defending champion Bulls are going through.

The difference in the tactical system between the Lakers and the Bulls is still relatively large, first of all, we have star players who are more powerful inside and outside, at least on the offensive end, but the Bulls are relatively lacking in a stable interior offensive core, their offensive starting point is Jordan, but on the defensive end the Bulls are more balanced inside and outside, and we are actually likely to be more powerful than the Bulls on the offensive end, but if it comes to the defensive end, the gap is relatively large.

They had three defensive players on their lineup, as well as Ron. Harper is a bit underrated outside defense master, so their defensive balance and overall are very terrifying, whether it is individual defense or help defense, there is almost no team in the league that only relies on talent or individual ability to beat the Bulls.

How desperate a scorer like Iverson must have been when facing the duo of Jordan and Pippen, and Shaq struggled to show his usual power against Rodman, who was about 15 centimeters shorter than him.

Rodman not only behaves unusually tough on the court, but most importantly, his speed and athleticism are very terrifying, otherwise why can he get so many rebounds in this golden age of the inside, this is not only a performance of talent, in fact, the vast majority of top interior players in this era are difficult to take advantage of Rodman, even an interior player like Olajuwon who is known for his skills will be much worse than usual when facing Rodman's defense.

With the referee's jump ball, the game officially kicked off, and after coming up, Shaq easily got the ball, while Olajuwon didn't seem to jump much at all, allowing Shaq to point the ball into the hands of the defender.

Today, the Lakers showed a strong fighting spirit after coming up, and it seems that the team training speech held by the Silver Fox Harris in the morning has had an effect, at least from the mental point of view, the starters are very positive.

And it's rare that we took the lead in opening up the situation on the outside this time, Shaq didn't have a strong desire to attack in the face of Olajuwon's defense, but began to play the ball obediently, I don't understand it a little bit, this is not quite like the Shaq I usually know, you must know that he was full of fighting desire when facing the defense of Camby and Uncle Mu, how can he be so docile today.

But soon Shaq told me with his actions that everything was just my own thinking too much, not that he didn't have a strong desire to attack, but that he was a little smarter today, and when we opened up the situation on the outside, the opponent's defense was no longer possible to contract, and at this time he began to perform one-on-one singles Olajuwon.

Olajuwon's defensive ability is indeed very strong, but after all, he has reached this point, and Shaq is still very young, if it was a few years earlier, Shaq was not as strong as he is now, and Olajuwon's athleticism would be better, but at least in the first quarter of tonight's game, Olajuwon was not able to successfully limit Shak's offense.

With the Rockets' offensive end in a period of time, the Lakers quickly beat the counterattack speed, and Shaq was particularly active in running the fast break today, and he ran no slower than the guard, facing O'Neal's fast run Olajuwon was always late, and Shaq came to two dunks in the fast break in a row, so that Shak's score has come to 10 points.

The opposing coach finally couldn't help but call a timeout, and I didn't get a chance to play after the timeout, maybe because our starting outside performance was good enough today, and if I can play less at the Silver Fox Harris, I will definitely not play much, well, I don't have a good way to do this, I can only cheer for the wonderful performance of my teammates off the court.

However, the Rockets quickly made adjustments, especially on the offensive end, Olajuwon began to use the inside pass tactics with Barkley to tear apart the Lakers' defense, the Lakers' problems are still bigger on the defensive end, and part of the responsibility for this naturally comes down to Shaq, as I said he has enough defensive ability, but lacks enough defensive will, Barkley and Olajuwon both have very stable mid-range shooting and strong interior low-post offensive ability.

When any one of them goes to the low post to receive the ball, it will be very difficult to guard against it without sending two of them to cover it, Shak's huge strength and size are as powerful as Olajuwon's agile footwork, and even Barkley's guy, who is 20 centimeters shorter than Shak, has his own set of tips when playing Shaq with his back.

Therefore, I was surprised to find that Shaq was actually beaten by Barkley and Olajuwon on the defensive end, and once teammates began to cover and assist the person who hit Shaq with their backs, Barkley and Olajuwon would quickly form a posture of opening up space to shoot outside the ball, and they were very skillful in cooperating, which was also mixed with some third player's second blocking tactics to create open space for outside players, so even if Lakers players want to use other players to fill in the position, they are often blocked by secondary blocking players.

What's even more terrifying is that when the outside player doesn't hit a mid-range shot, the other player on the inside can still fight for a second rebound, and the Lakers' defenders are unable to help Shak card because they are pulled out of space by outside players to fill in the position, and their attention is finally on the outside.

As a result, I was surprised to find that both Olajuwon and Barkley were able to take offensive rebounds on top of Shaq's head and then score the ball under Shaq's defense.

Silver Fox Harris shook his head, helplessly shouted a timeout with less than 3 minutes left in the first quarter, and I once again saw the black line on Shaq's face, it was obvious that he was angry enough, Barkley and Olajuwon simply played him between the palms, no wonder he and Hardaway were swept by Olajuwon in the finals that year, many times Shaq really didn't do a good job in the details, in the face of Olajuwon, an extremely delicate and flexible player, It's easy to be teased by the other party.

However, I don't have anything to do about it, and there aren't even too many people in the entire alliance who can crack the opponent's tactic, and I can't think of such a person right now.

Anyway, I got a chance to play after the timeout, when the Lakers were only three points ahead of the Rockets, and we had stretched our lead to more than 12 points during the previous period when Shaq went on a rampage.

When I got the ball and started to watch the changes in the defensive formation, I found that the opponent's defensive strategy was very simple, that is, not to wrap up, to use one-on-one man-to-man defense, not even zone packs and zone defense, which also made me a little strange, after all, the Rockets' staffing is completely capable of using such a defensive strategy.

I didn't continue to think about it, I focused on the players who defended me, I wanted to play earlier to have a duel with the opponent's star defender glider Drexler, but unfortunately now that he has gone to rest, and I decided not to pass the ball for the rest of the time, and just use my personal ability to directly blow up my players, who told them to just adopt man-to-man tactics, then I will play until they change tactics.

The only starter they have now is Olajuwon who hasn't come off the pitch, and Shaq hasn't come off either, so I can't understand what the managers of the two sides are comparing, and I can't see that the other side is not playing on my side.

Seeing Shaq desperately let me pass the ball, I turned a blind eye, and began to hit the opponent's defender with his back directly from the three-point line, this guy's height is about 10 cm shorter than me, and it is obvious that his defensive habits are very bad, and he likes all kinds of balls to pick up, and my reaction speed is fast enough, I can always predict his ball action, and then easily use a back turn to directly bypass his defense, at this time the other players on the opposite side do not seem to have the idea of making up for the defense, I'll just end the fight with an open jumper.

Seeing that I hit two balls in a row, Shaq looked very low, but he couldn't speak, I said in my heart that you guys have enough offensive balls in one game, and they still want to steal my ball, it's a bit too much.

In the last few minutes, I managed to get Shaq to run several laps back and forth, and he didn't even get a chance to rebound, because I hit the basket on all five of my last five shots.

There's no doubt that my targeted shooting drills are very effective, and it seems that coming to the court so much earlier than them pays off, doesn't it?