After that, Jessica and I walked to the Jazz's home arena together, and she said she wanted to shoot with me, and I didn't stop her from doing it, in fact, shooting training alone is quite boring, and it was a very happy experience to have Jessica practice with me.

Half an hour later, Jessica and I were at the Utah Jazz's home stadium, there were not many players in the stadium at this time, but I saw several role players of the Jazz team also came to the stadium early in the morning for training, it seems that the reason why the Jazz team is so strong this season is not only because they have a strong combination of Utah and Utah, but also because the other players have also put in a lot of effort for this, under Jerry Sloan's strict management, everyone will do their best for the championship.

Seeing me and Jessica enter the arena, several players of the Jazz team did not look at us at all, they trained quite seriously, and did not have any separation because of the surrounding situation, at least from this point of view, our Lakers players are not good enough, if Shaq can have half the spirit of these Jazz players, our Lakers are afraid that they will be invincible directly.

It's a pity that it's not so simple to activate Shaq's desire to win, and now there are few opponents in the league who can enter his eyes, but I think he always overestimates himself and underestimates his opponents, especially Shaq's pride in many times, I think it's a strong resistance for our Lakers on the way to the championship.

It's a lot more fun to have Jessica in my training, and the fact that Jessica has the height and athleticism to be a professional women's basketball player, and even when she's jumping at full strength, she can touch the basket, which is incredible for a girl who has never been formally trained.

When Jessica was around, she could also do some auxiliary work for me like passing and picking up the ball, and I already regarded her as my shooting coach and began to work with her in all aspects of shooting training.

My shooting drills usually have a warm-up process, and then I shoot lap by lap from different points on the inside to the outside, but I don't pay the same attention to shooting drills at different points.

First of all, I will find the most important points to ensure the shooting rate when I usually play, the first of which is the shooting training of the free throw point, in the usual training I have enough time to keep my breathing steady and smooth, and let my attention be completely focused on the basket, and my eyes are actually not looking at the movements of the hand, I will let the instinctive reaction guide the feeling in my hand, and project the ball from between my fingers.

Most of the time I can keep the free throw shooting rate in training above ninety, and even many times I can shoot dozens of free throws in a row, there is no doubt that Kobe's palm is a little smaller, but the control of basketball is just right, too big a palm like Shaq will not be conducive to the maintenance of the free throw feel, if the average person wants to experience this difference, you can use some small basketball or even volleyball to shoot, when your palm is too big, The position of the ball in your hand is not so fixed, and if you don't work hard enough in training, it is not conducive to maintaining the free throw shooting percentage.

Secondly, I will do some training on my shooting feeling under the basket, but these training will not be too much, the most important point is that the whole body must be relatively smooth when shooting under the basket, in fact, no matter where you shoot in any way, it is very important to maintain the stability of your body and shot.

In the official game, when you encounter a foul under the basket or some strong physical confrontation, it is very likely to lose the balance and stability of the body and the shot, at this time the role of the usual training can be reflected, of course, these usual training in addition to the non-confrontation shooting training, but also includes a lot of such as physical fitness improvement and shooting training in the case of confrontation.

At the beginning, Jessica was able to show a lot of enthusiasm for my training, but as the training progressed, the boring shooting training still made her feel a little bored, and her physical fitness could not compare with me after all, so after about half an hour of double training, Jessica sat alone on the chair on the sidelines to cheer me on.

I smiled and watched her wave at me, while continuing to focus on the shooting training in front of me, I found that my three-point hand felt much worse than in today's practice, which may be directly related to my physical exertion in the past two days.

And my fitness today is obviously not as good as yesterday, and my body has a slight soreness, which has never happened before my previous game, probably this is a signal from my body, and today's game will definitely be more difficult than any previous game.

There was a back-to-back game in the previous game against the San Antonio Spurs, and our entire Lakers team was in a slump at that time, but after all, the Spurs are a bad team this season, and we are facing the top three teams in the league today, the Utah Jazz, which can compete with the Chicago Bulls.

But I can't just give up training because of a little bit of fitness, no matter what we do today against the Jazz, it's just a normal regular season, and for me who wants to be a superstar and challenge for a championship, I need to take a long-term view, and I have to work harder than other players if I want to grow and improve faster than other players.

What's more, I also saw today that even the average role player of the Jazz team is working hard, and how can I just talk about it if I want to achieve higher goals?

After a lap of three-point workout, I decided to take a break, I put the ball down and walked over to Jessica and sat down.

"I don't seem to feel very good today, do you think you should be responsible?"

I looked at Jessica with a wicked smile, and Jessica didn't react at first, but then she looked very angry and opened her hand to hit me.

I just smiled and grabbed Jessica's hand with my hand, but my face pressed tightly to Jessica's face.

"Humph!"

Just as Jessica and I were about to kiss sweetly, a voice came from behind us.

"Young people pay attention to personal influences!"

I looked back and saw that this guy was none other than the first heads-up opponent I had ever faced since I first entered Kobe's body, and that was Lakers veteran Byron Scott.

It stands to reason that this guy can be regarded as a meritorious veteran of the Lakers, but he can't see the demeanor he should have as a predecessor in the world, and he really feels like a bad boy who is disrespectful to the old, maybe there will be such a bit of ruffian in the personality of the people who came over in their time.

During this time, as I got along with my teammates throughout the Lakers, I found that many of their personalities are not exactly what they appear to be, and it seems that there will be people who live with masks at all times, even NBA players, but I don't know what the real face behind the mask of the old boy Byron Scott looks like.

"I didn't expect your old man to come so early, it just so happens that my hands are a little itchy today and I can't find a sparring partner, or let's pick up a few more balls, but don't worry, this time we don't play 100 balls so much, this time we will play 21 points, 2 points for a goal, 2 points for a three-point goal, 2 points for a three-point goal, and whoever gets 21 points first will win."

"Why should I accept your challenge? Besides, you are young and vigorous, and you are full of physical energy, how can an old man like me afford to toss you! ”

"Otherwise, I can only shoot from the outside, I can't break through to the box to attack, and you don't have that limit, what do you think?"

I saw that Byron Scott hesitated for a long time, and I didn't know what was going on in my head, but in the end he agreed, and I smiled and gave Jessica a hug, so that she could take a good look at how I cleaned up this old boy.

Byron Scott has reined in a bit of his arrogance since losing to me last time out, and my performance in the regular season has been obvious to all in recent times, he and Shaq finally stopped calling me a rookie, but I still still don't feel the importance and respect they deserve for me.

Of course, this does not bother me, in the NBA, if you want others to respect you, first of all, you must have strength, no matter how many people in the past or now underestimate or even ignore me, I will use my own efforts and strength to find the scene one by one, to use my own strength to gain a firm foothold in the league, to prove myself.

Today's heads-up between me and Byron Scott became quite intense from the beginning, on the one hand, because this time we had fewer heads-ups, and if we were too slow to get into the groove, it would be difficult to have a chance to turn the tables, and on the other hand, we both wanted to win the game more this time than last time.

Especially Scott, this old boy must have been holding his breath since he lost to me last time, this time he saw me and proposed not to break through to hit him, in his opinion my most advantageous weapon is gone, this is a good opportunity to defeat me and fight again, after all, he also had the upper hand at the beginning of the last heads-up.

However, how did he know that I had already improved a lot now than I did at that time, when I had just been reborn into Kobe's body, and I couldn't control Kobe's body too well, so the whole person entered the game very slowly, and the outside shooting was completely incomprehensible.

And now I have been practicing hard shooting regularly for a period of time, I already have a stronger self-confidence in my shooting touch, and the reason why I dare to propose not to break through the inside line and go head-to-head with him today is to have enough self-confidence to beat him with only shooting and back-to-back singles.

The rule we used today is an offensive substitution, which means that everyone has only one chance to shoot when they attack, they can't grab rebounds, and they have to exchange the ball whether they score or don't.

Scott has no objection to this, after all, he must suffer in terms of physical fitness and height, so not being able to grab rebounds seems to be a more favorable rule for him.

I gave up the first chance to attack directly to Scott, he didn't rush to attack after getting the ball, it seems that after watching me play after the last heads-up with me and during this time, he has realized that my defensive ability is not bad, so it is unlikely that he will simply tear up my defense, on the contrary, it is better to use experience and rhythm to play me.

To be honest, Byron Scott's dribbling rhythm is very good, although he doesn't like to use all kinds of fancy dribbling in official games, but he lets go of his hands and feet during heads-up, and actually plays all kinds of fancy moves in front of me.

However, I didn't really defend his dribble, because I knew that no matter how fancy his dribble was, his real purpose was to steer my center of gravity off the defensive end, and I did the opposite, just to see what kind of offense and defense he wanted to use to hit me.

I leaned back a little bit as I defended him, leaving him plenty of space to shoot from the outside, and of course I wouldn't let him shoot his three-point shot, after all, the rules are two points and two points are one point, but as soon as he gets inside the three-point line, I'll deliberately let him shoot and let him shoot the least efficient big two-point shot.

And I also calculated that Scott wouldn't use James Harden's step-back three-point shot, so this kind of defense is not too much of a problem, and if Scott wants to use the dribble to find space to break through, it is not so simple.

After all, as long as I keep my defensive center of gravity low, with my height and foot speed, it will be difficult for him to break through, so I can say that my current improvement is in all aspects, at least from the beginning of the defense to give him enough pressure.

After much trial and error, Scott finally found that he couldn't find easy scoring opportunities with fancy dribbling, and too many dribbles would only continue to drain his energy, so in the end he could only choose to shoot from a distance where my defense was relatively lax.

However, this guy didn't have a shooting warm-up training in advance just now, and he shot a big two-point offensive method when he came up, so I was naturally very happy to have this situation.

Sure enough, the first attack on Byron Scott ended with an iron, and then it was my first attack.

Byron Scott didn't score the first shot, and the whole person became a little annoyed, and he showed the appearance of an angry cockfight, and started to press me closely on the defensive end.

I'm not very panicked, after all, judging from Scott's age and physical reserves, he must be anxious to choose such a defensive method, and I don't need to be too anxious, but if I really bully his physical fitness and age, it will definitely not sound good to pass it out, and there will definitely be no way to convince him if he wins like that.

So I just went hard, I beat him with absolute strength, and only then could I convince him to lose, and I started to show my dribbling skills and physical control against Scott's defense.

Back dribbling, forward and back turns, stops, cross-steps, in short, I always have the rhythm of the dribble in my own hands, and Scott's close defense is almost always empty, and the ball can always be dribbled in the other direction when he is about to touch it.

Scott's defense was so good that I was able to get away from his defense with ease, but I couldn't just run inside to dunk after getting rid of his defense.

That's probably what Byron Scott thought of and that's why he pressured me with this desperate close defense, and even if his gambling defense was passed by me, it would only give me an open shot at most.

But unfortunately, what he didn't expect was that the mid-range pull-up shot was almost a sure way to score for me who had just warmed up my shooting, and after the shot, the basketball hit the basket directly in the air with a very low arc, and the sound of the basketball passing through the net was so crisp and moving.

I spread my hands and smiled and threw the ball back to Byron Scott, his face was already a little ugly, and it was clear that he was even more wrong when he saw my smile.

The next few offenses Byron Scott started to hit me with a breakaway, and I didn't use a particularly high defensive intensity against him, and I didn't want to completely break his self-confidence, which was not a good thing for our Lakers as a whole, I just wanted to teach him a small lesson.

So on the defensive end, I give him a certain chance to break through and shoot, but I'll interfere a little bit at the end of his final layup, and he can shoot if he can, and if he can't shoot, he can't shoot.

But on my offensive end, I'm going to give it my all, and in fact even if I don't break through to the interior to attack, there's no way for Byron Scott to defend me.

Some time ago, after analyzing and learning Jordan's back-to-back singles video, I have preliminarily mastered some basic techniques and timing when back-to-back singles, which is very important in addition to protecting the ball, and it is necessary to observe the defensive player's defensive center of gravity and defensive intentions at all times, and use his defensive center of gravity changes and possible rhythm changes at any time to hit him.

Jordan mentioned in one of his interviews that one of the most important aspects of back-to-back singles is to use your back to feel the position of the defender and the defensive strategy they use against you, so as to find the flaw in the defender in the fleeting moment and seize it to hit the opponent.