This voodoo doll has a secret past, and no one knows how much hope the people who created it at the time wanted to defeat their enemies through this mysterious thing, but can there really be voodoo in reality?

Anyway, I won't believe in this kind of thing, although there are too many weird things that Jessica and I have encountered, but if you understand many things in depth, it is still possible to find a reasonable explanation, even if many things are incomprehensible with our current human technology, but after all, we can still understand from the perspective of future technology.

Although some people say that the end of science is theology, this statement is actually very unscientific, and it is not possible to simply equate the theology in this sentence with the theology we usually say.

Jessica was staring at the voodoo doll as I saw her take out the little notebook she had with her from her backpack and start sketching the voodoo doll as well.

Seeing Jessica's slightly longing eyes, I didn't stop her from doing it, thinking that this voodoo doll is also a special clue, Jessica wants to draw it, and if we encounter something related to this voodoo doll in the future, we can also take it out as a reference.

Although I wish I had never encountered anything related to this voodoo doll.

Jessica will be much faster when she draws this voodoo doll this time, after all, this voodoo doll only retains an incomplete appearance, which can be sketched with three or two strokes, and there is no need to be as careful as the scepter of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh before.

"Jessica, do you really believe that there is such a thing as voodoo in this world?"

"In fact, religion and these special beliefs are the same, it doesn't matter whether the things recorded in their sacred scriptures are true or not, why we human beings need these religious and theological things, it is not because people have no way to explain many things in reality, so they need a fictitious image to make them worship and believe, which can actually stimulate their huge potential energy, so religious beliefs have always been very important to us human beings."

"What you said is indeed right, after all, before the belief in science has not become the mainstream thought, people still need something to explain everything in this world, then religious belief and theological system have become this important medium, they help human beings to come together, jointly resist the unknown dangers from this world, from this level religious belief is indeed irreplaceable, because in many cases only science can not achieve the power that religion can bring to human beings."

"This is a wonderful thing in human nature, the spirit of science is very important to us human beings, but on the other hand, religion and theology also seem to have an irreplaceable role, even in today's explosive growth of science and technology, you actually have no way to completely use science to replace the role of religion and theology, because in essence, the spirit of science is questioning, and the spirit of religion and theology is unconditional belief, from this point of view, they do meet the different spiritual needs of human beings."

"Jessica, so you seek the help of so-called psychics just because you want to find spiritual solace?"

Jessica was silent for a moment, then nodded slightly, then shook her head again, I looked at her with a puzzled look, and she looked at me with a puzzled look, as if she couldn't understand why I couldn't understand her.

Well, if seeking religious or theological explanations can help Jessica's heart to gain peace for a short time, then I actually support her to do so, people who don't believe in science must be ignorant, but people who don't have any religious beliefs are actually sad, this seems to be a contradiction, but in fact, if you think about it carefully, we humans are such an advanced animal, so we also have many troubles that other ordinary animals do not have, and often in the process of pursuing scientific truth, We human beings always need to artificially create a lot of contradictions and doubts.

However, this kind of contradiction and doubt that we can improve as human beings is not something that everyone can bear, after all, some people are relatively fragile in their hearts, so they need the kind of white lies in religion and theology more than the cruel truth of science, to make them believe that this imperfect world is actually perfect.

If you think about it carefully, in all religions, people will artificially create an omnipotent or even many omnipotent gods, the purpose of which is to make themselves believe in miracles, and these gods are always based on the appearance of human beings, this is to make people believe that we human beings are the closest to the gods, and as long as we believe in these gods, we can obtain some kind of benefit in this life or the next life.

Whether it is ascending to immortality or being reincarnated, these are all expectations for the future, a kind of artificially created goals, so that we human beings can find a trace of spiritual solace in the reality full of difficulties.

If you understand this, you will no longer feel that religion or theology is in opposition to science, in fact, as the saying goes, the end of science is theology, and the real correct understanding of this sentence should be that when the speed of development of science has exceeded the scope of what we humans can bear, it has become a kind of religion and theology in itself.

Whether we are superstitious theology or superstitious science, in fact, the essence is the same, I hope that there is a way to explain the world, when science can really one day do to explain all the phenomena in this world, it will naturally replace religion and theology to become the only thing that people believe in, at this time science also exercised the role played by religion and theology at a certain level, so this is the end of science is the correct understanding of theology, at least at this time I think so.

However, when science has not yet developed enough to explain all the phenomena in this world, religion and theology will still exist, and will still be an important option for people to explain those phenomena that cannot be explained by science.

I told Jessica what I thought, and she nodded silently, a kind of approval of my idea, and after she finished drawing the voodoo doll, we continued to move on to other venues.

Time is always passing rapidly without realizing it, especially when we are very focused on the things in front of us, the speed of time will seem to pass even faster.

When you're focused on what's in front of you, you feel like there's never enough time, so you have the illusion that there's less time and that time seems to be passing faster.

And when we have nothing to do, we will feel that time passes very slowly, because when we have nothing to do, we will naturally feel that we don't need so much time, so there is an illusion that there is too much time, which makes us feel that time passes very slowly, and there is a feeling that life is like years.

Jessica and I then wandered around the North American Pavilion for a while, and then we were ready to leave the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Even if it took a whole morning, we just scratched the surface of the Asian, European, African, and American pavilions, and this museum is so big that if you really want to read it next to each other and listen to the narrators tell you about the background of these collections, then I'm afraid that a week or a month is not enough.

I took Jessica's hand tightly and walked out of this great art museum, the reason why it is great is because of the greatness of these countless cultural treasures displayed in it, because of the greatness of these civilizational legacies in human history, and because of the greatness of the infinite wisdom and creativity of our human beings.

Then Jessica and I went to a restaurant to eat casually, usually we eat relatively casually at noon, unlike sometimes in the evening after the game will go to find some more distinctive restaurants to eat.

After lunch, I was ready to head straight to the Boston Celtics' home arena, which is one of the most famous in NBA history, the North Shore Garden Arena, which is hung with more than a dozen NBA championship flags, as well as the numbers of many retired players, and the division championship flag is completely unqualified to hang in this arena.

Like the Los Angeles Lakers, the Boston Celtics have a history that no other team can match, and the NBA team that ranks third in the championship list has almost a dozen fewer championships than these two teams, which is a terrifying thing.

Jessica didn't go with me to the North Shore Gardens, but went on a tour of Boston alone, and she familiarized herself with the local situation in Boston in advance to help us move tomorrow, anyway, it's a good thing for me to train alone, at least I can keep myself focused on basketball itself.

Last night's physical training and stretching work seemed to be quite good, after yesterday's fierce battle with the Philadelphia 76ers, my body recovered quite well today, there was no obvious muscle soreness in my body, presumably today's game will be quite a difficult challenge, the Boston Celtics' home court is never easy to deal with, let alone against our Los Angeles Lakers, the atmosphere at home will be quite lively.

In fact, no matter what era it is, no matter how strong the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics are in the league at the time, the matchup between these two teams will not be lacking in topicality, and the tension between the two sides will not need to be specially exaggerated.

Because I feel that my physical condition is still quite good, so I started today's training as soon as possible, in fact, I didn't spend a lot of extra time in training during this time, so when I felt that my current physical condition was okay, I felt that I could do an afternoon of basketball training alone.

However, it is precisely because of the abundance of time that I did not rush to start formal training, but spent more time on preparation and warm-up exercises, and I wanted to develop a good habit of adjusting my body to the best condition before each high-intensity training, which would be more conducive to improving the effectiveness of training and better preventing possible injuries.

I'm still feeling pretty good about my own physical care this season, at least now that almost twenty NBA regular season games are over, I haven't had even the slightest injury to it.

Because of my experience in my previous life, I have some experience on how to protect my physical condition, and for me, this Kobe Bryant's body is very worth cherishing, so I will do my best to keep it in the best condition no matter what.

As the saying goes, the body is the capital of the revolution, and this is especially true for NBA players, as long as they ensure that they are not injured as much as possible, the competitive state can be preserved to the greatest extent.

In this regard, I think Kobe Bryant in the time and space where I was in my previous life did not do very well, he has too many games with injuries, and his training may be a little too much, especially when he gets older, too many injuries directly lead to his final competitive state decline, although his spirit is extremely valuable, but as a fan, I would like to see him be able to play healthy for a few more years, rather than completely overdrawing his body in advance.

It is precisely for this reason that I am very careful and careful when arranging training, and I will adjust my training plan according to my physical state of the day at any time to ensure that my training can achieve the maximum effect and at the same time will not cause excessive consumption to the body.

Even though I arrived quite early, I wasn't the only one practicing at the North Shore Garden Arena at this time, and there were several Boston Celtics players who also started training early, and I don't know if they arranged the team to practice in the afternoon, but I didn't know these people anyway.

A few days ago, our Lakers players received a player analysis report about the Boston Celtics in advance, and this season they are completely a team with all the people on loan, and no one in the team has averaged more than 20 points per game, and Antoine, who averages the most points per game. Walker is only averaging 17 points per game.

However, they have as many as eight players in double figures per game, and a full ten players who average more than 7 points per game, it is hard to imagine what a terrifying team this is, and it also means that this is a team that plays very differently than our Lakers, and their scoring is so spread out means that this is a team that relies mainly on tactics to score, rather than relying mainly on the individual ability of the stars to score.

And this obviously leads to a situation where our Lakers may lose ground on the defensive end, because we may not be able to find their main point of attack on the court, and it will be difficult to develop a very targeted defense.

Defense is already a relatively big weakness for our Lakers team, and with this being back-to-back games on the road, the lack of fitness will also cause our defensive intensity to drop in the late game, and we may be in big trouble at that time.

So although this Celtics team is not strong on paper, and the players on the team seem to be just stinky fish and shrimp, it seems impossible to compete with our Lakers team with a luxurious lineup, but the actual game is really not necessarily.

In view of the possible predicament, I practiced a lot of free throws and three-pointers in today's practice, when our game with the Celtics entered a stalemate, it may be a good choice to break through and cause damage, and at the same time, they can indeed confront Shaq's interior players head-on, so there is a high probability that Shaq will be multi-person packaged, so I should have more three-point shooting opportunities on the outside today, and I must seize these better shooting opportunities as much as possible.

However, my three-point shooting didn't seem to be very good today, at least after nearly an hour of shooting practice, it was a lot worse than the three-point shooting percentage I had in practice.

However, I really can't figure out why my three-point hand is so bad today, it stands to reason that my physical condition today seems to be good, it is unlikely that the three-point hand feeling is poor due to lack of physical fitness or physical discomfort, so what is the real problem?

Maybe this is an unanswered question in itself, because in fact, the shooting feel is sometimes really metaphysical, although the physical state will affect the feel of the shot, but it is not the only influencing factor, the psychological state and the grasp of the rhythm are also factors that affect the shooting feel, in addition to some potential factors that I don't know much about will affect the feel of the shot.

And the most annoying part is that the more three-pointers I shoot, the lower the overall shooting percentage seems to be, which is not a good omen, is it true that I am going to have a very low day today?

If I really can't get back to the outside shooting feeling in time in the game, then our Lakers game today will be quite difficult, but I won't be knocked down by these small difficulties so easily, the more bad the hand is, the more crazy I will shoot three-pointers, thinking that I must find the feeling of three-point shooting before the game.

Time flies very quickly during training, and although I spend most of my time in the gym in the afternoon, the actual training effect is not particularly good, and my shooting feels like I've entered a low point today.

Did I hit the legendary "rookie wall"?

The rookie wall is actually objective, many NBA players will have a period of sluggishness when they first enter the NBA, and the intensity and density of NBA games are much higher than their previous games in high school and college, so it may be that after a certain period of season, these players will slowly show fatigue and have a period of decline in competitive status, which is called the "rookie wall" period.

And if you can get through this difficult period, the players will generally improve, and at the same time, they will be able to get better and even stronger.

Of course, those NBA players who can't adapt to it may gradually become the end of the team, and thus gradually be eliminated and abandoned by the team, after all, the NBA is a competitive sports league with extremely cruel competition, and there are a large number of players who are in a declining competitive state and unable to adapt to the NBA, and they are often in a situation where they have no ball to play.

Thinking of this, I'm not too worried that I will become a situation where I have no ball to play, after all, after this period of training and competition, my personal strength has improved quite significantly, even if I really meet the so-called "rookie wall", it is unlikely that I will suddenly become a state of not being able to play at all, as long as I can maintain the previous state of seven to eighty percent, it is still very strong.

Of course, it may be that I am overthinking, after all, the season has only started for less than 20 games, and judging from my physical talent and physical reserves, it is unlikely that I will meet the rookie wall so early, and it is probably just a short period of bad feeling, and I should not scare myself.

Luckily, aside from a sharp drop in three-point shooting, my mid-range shooting and free-throw shooting were still pretty good, and maybe the stop-and-go mid-range shooting felt a little bit down, but it was within the normal range.

It is for this reason that I think the precipitous decline in my three-point shooting percentage is quite weird, because I changed the three-point shooting position after being coached by the Lakers' shooting coach, which has been proved to be the right decision for a long time, and my three-point shooting percentage has improved a lot at that time, and I have maintained this good state for a long time until today's training.

It's very strange that my shooting posture hasn't been adjusted again, why can't I shoot the ball today?

Then I thought that maybe it was because of my physical reasons, could it be because of the fatigue of the arm muscles caused by the strength training last night, which affected the feel of the shot, so I suddenly thought that it was a little possible, after all, yesterday's game with the Philadelphia 76ers was extremely intense, and the strength training in the evening may indeed affect the shooting feel of the next day.

As time went on, there were more and more people in the arena, and the players and staff of our Lakers and Boston Celtics teams entered the stadium one after another, and the fans here came very early, at least I felt that the fans were the first of the away teams I played, which shows how enthusiastic the fans in this city are.

After the referee's whistle, the opening basketball was thrown into the air, and Shaq jumped to the ball with great ease.

I listened to the Celtics' starting lineup, and their starting point guard was David. Wesley, this player should be more familiar to Rockets fans, he used to have Yao Ming and Maddy teammates for a period of time with the Houston Rockets, with his good three-point shooting ability, or a fairly stable outside output of the Rockets at that time, but his height is indeed a little short, only six feet tall like Iverson, and because of his poor athleticism, he is a considerable colander on the defensive end.

And the Celtics' starting point guard is Rick. Fox, in the time and space where I was in my previous life, this guy would be traded to our Lakers in the following 9798 season, and won three consecutive championships with the OK group, until the 0304 season when the Lakers F4 group returned in the Finals before announcing their retirement. Wesley also has above-the-top three-point shooting, but his shortcomings are also his lack of athleticism, but his six-foot-seven-inch height can still help him gain a certain height advantage against shooting guards.

The Celtics' starting small forward is Eric Williams, who was selected by the Celtics with the No. 14 pick in the first round the year before, and his strength can only be regarded as average, but he also has the strength of a starter from an average NBA team, his advantage is that his athleticism is relatively good, but his outside shooting ability is not very good, and he lacks tactical awareness on both the offensive and defensive ends.

And the Celtics' starting power forward is a future All-Star-caliber player, and he is Antoine. Walker, who is also the draft player of the 96 golden generation this year, and his draft pick is still relatively high, the sixth in the first round, his athleticism and outside projection ability are quite good, the only drawback may be that the height of six feet and eight inches at the power forward position will be a little bit more disadvantageous, but it can also be regarded as the kind of spatial No. 4 position, and Robert in the Lakers. Horry is about the same, but Robert. Horry's individual offensive ability with the ball is better than Antoine's. Walker is a lot worse, and he's also the Celtics' top scorer, averaging more than 17 points per game this season.

In the end, the Celtics' starting center is called Dino Ladia, this guy may be the weakest point in the entire Celtics starting lineup, so Shaq should have a lot of room to play today, and the Celtics may not be able to stop Shaq if they are crazy about Shaq, and at the same time, they can also provide us with considerable space to shoot outside.

Because of this, I used to be crazy about three-point shooting training, but unfortunately in this afternoon's three-point training, my three-point shooting feel is really quite average, I hope my three-point shooting feeling can slowly recover in this official game.

After Shaq jumped to the ball, the ball fell into my hands and I carried the ball straight forward, and Shaq showed a strong desire to attack in the first offensive round of the opening game.

I know that Shaq is going to be a very crucial point in this game, and if he can open the court first on the inside, the offensive operation of our entire Lakers team will be much easier.

Shaq went straight into the Celtics' inside box, and if I didn't pass him, he would have been whistled for a three-second violation.

I directly lobed the ball, passed through the height that all Celtics players could reach, and flew straight to the basket, and Shaq didn't wait for the ball to fly in front of him, just jumped in advance, with a long arm, and actually caught the basketball at the position of the upper arm of the basket, and then pressed down and smashed into the basket.

Shaq's operation simply scared everyone, including me, when he jumped up to the top of the ball, the top of Shaq's head was almost above the basket, and the top of his arm felt like it was almost enough to reach the top edge of the rebound, and his jump was even a jump on the spot against the opponent's center, which shows how terrible Shaq's athleticism is.

At this time, the entire Boston Celtics home fans were silent, and the Celtics center who was pressed by Shaq below was even more faceless at this time, who would have thought that the first ball of the opening game would be humiliated by Shaq in this way.

Looking back, the Celtics were not to be outdone, and after quickly dribbling to the frontcourt, they directly found Antoine who was in advance outside the three-point line in the bottom corner through passing while our Lakers' retreating players were not fully settled. Walker, his sneak three-pointer hit the basket directly, and the fans at the North Shore Garden Arena instantly boiled, and the offense of both sides after the opening quickly ignited the enthusiasm of the home fans.

I looked at Horry, who was defending Antoine, and found that the reason why he didn't defend this time was because he wanted to help Shaq to make up for the Celtics center who cut inside, and Shaq was still immersed in the joy of scoring after the dunk just now, and spent a lot of time celebrating and showing his terrifying biceps to the fans at the scene, which led to giving the Celtics an opportunity.

This goal has actually reminded us that this Celtics team has their team's long-term excellent team style, that is, the team's tactical execution and the team's organizational discipline are quite good, although it may be that they do have a particularly powerful superstar in the team, resulting in the team's overall ceiling is not high enough, and some key moments can't grasp the opportunity, but they are quite powerful in regular time, because you don't know what kind of tactics they will use to attack, Each of them has the potential to be the starting point or the end point of the tactic, which is a terrifying point.

Then Shaq continued to exert power on the interior of the Boston Celtics, forcing them to start the multi-player package tactics in advance, but the Celtics' interior line, whether it was a center or a power forward, Antoine. Walker couldn't resist the terrifying power of Shaq, who opened the game today like a god, doing whatever he wanted on the inside of the Celtics.

When it came to the back, the Celtics simply didn't include Shaq, as if they wanted to tell us to the Lakers, you either directly rely on Shaq to blow up our whole team, and then we will admit it.

The Celtics don't shrink their defense, that is, they don't want to let our Lakers outside players, and they also began to cut off the connection between Shaq and our outside line, once Shaq receives the ball inside, he doesn't help defense at all, and focuses on the running position and receiving of outside players, although Shaq is invincible on the inside, but if he is asked to chisel the inside line like this every ball, I'm afraid he doesn't need to play four quarters, and Shaq will have to be tired and half dead at halftime.

At the beginning, the other players of our Lakers team still felt that the Boston Celtics' tactic was really stupid and naïve, and no team in the league dared not to contain Shaq, even the Rockets with the big dream Olajuwon had to help defend and package Shaq.

But soon we understood that we were the more stupid and naïve side, in fact, although Shaq is relatively invincible in the offense, he is also quite a big hole on the defensive end, which is why many times our Lakers team is so powerful, but there is no way to directly blow up the opponent.

Shaq was too bad when it came to defensive pick-and-roll tactics, and the Celtics' tactics today were to have their center and power forward Antoine. Walker keeps playing blocking and dismantling, Shaq usually goes inside after blocking and dismantling, and Antoine Walker will withdraw directly, and Robert Horry's footsteps are not fast enough, and it is difficult to keep up with Antoine Walker after the pick-and-roll, so Antoine Walker continues to let Antoine Walker get open shooting opportunities outside the three-point line.

This guy's three-point shooting percentage is close to 40%, and the three-point shooting rate in the open position is close to 50%, which is why when Shaq scores on the offensive end are quickly lost on the defensive end.

And the Celtics' offensive tactics are very changeable, their players on the court can block and pass each other, and it's hard to imagine who they will use as the starting point for the next round when you are on the court, and who will be the final endpoint.

Originally, this game was an away back-to-back game, and the physical reserves of our Lakers team must not be enough, yesterday I originally wanted to quickly end the game with the Philadelphia 76ers, where could I have thought that relying on Iverson's super god of more than 50 points, it was not until the fourth quarter that the victory of the game was laid, except for Shack yesterday because of too many fouls and not much playing time, the other starters actually played a long time, and yesterday's game was very intense, At the end of the first half, we were even 11 points behind Philadelphia.

So when the physical reserves are insufficient, our Lakers are even more reluctant to chase after the defense outside the block, and sometimes it is a few tenths of a second of a slower pace, which is enough for the Celtics players to get a chance to shoot.

The vast majority of the Celtics' scores come from mid-to-long-range shooting, and their interior players are indeed the weakest to be honest, after facing Shaq's inner line, he didn't dare to enter the interior line to directly challenge Shaq, although his three-point shooting rate may not be high, but they are also pulled to the outside to shoot, just know that Shaq will not defend it, as an NBA player, the three-point shooting rate is close to 30%, and it is equivalent to a two-point shot with a 50% shooting rate.

And they play so easily, unlike Shaq every time he goes to the inside to attack, he turns around, dunks, these very physical-consuming actions, and the center of the Celtics has a height of almost seven feet, and when Shaq is physically sufficient, there may be no room for resistance at all, but with Shak's continuous attack, he will naturally be tired, and at this time, when Shak's reaction speed drops, he will be able to carry Shaq behind him a little.

Then the other teammates of the Celtics will snatch the basketball in Shaq's hands at a very fast speed, this method of defending Shaq is actually used by many teams, that is, suddenly go to the Shaq, and then try to steal his ball, anyway, Shaq's passing awareness is not good enough, even if the defensive player is released in a short time, Shaq has no way to pass the ball to the empty teammates in the first time, so once Shak's physical fitness declines in the late game, these teams will take this method to deal with Shaq.

At this time, Shaq's physical fitness declined rapidly, and the Celtics were keenly aware of this, and immediately launched all kinds of crazy bags and steals against Shaq with lightning speed.

Shaq usually makes mistakes or fouls at this time, but today's Celtics' home whistle is quite obvious, and many referees have not blown Shaq's small actions and ordinary foul actions, which makes Shaq quite irritable, and there are faint signs of wanting to go crazy.

The more impatient Shaq became, the more crazy he was to ask for the ball, and the result was in the hands of the Celtics, and the more crazy he was to bag and even foul, which was completely a vicious circle.

Obviously, the players of this Celtics team are a bit dirty in their playing movements, but many players in this era are actually like this, especially traditional giants like the Celtics, who have always had such a glorious tradition, and making the opponent unhappy is the biggest victory.

When Michael Jordan first entered the league, wasn't he also robbed of the first bird, the so-called Jordan rule is a variety of despicable means specially used to deal with Jordan, and the league has actually encouraged physical confrontation over the years, which has also caused players in this era to often be particularly iron-blooded.

Shaq had seen another terrible kind of defense at this time, three or four people were tearing at his clothes, some leaning on his feet, some pushing his back, some grabbing his arm.

I watched these Celtics tactics from the outside, and I sweated for Shaq, I really didn't know it, I was shocked when I saw it, playing in the NBA in this era is really quite dangerous!