Chapter 803 [First Arrival, a Dead End]
The Warriors are in the midst of infighting this week, with no star injured and sidelined, with a record of 10-18 and only 12th in the West. To make matters worse, the atmosphere in the team's dressing room has become infighting.
Kobe Bryant's exchange of spat with Troy Murphy during training was exposed by the media, causing an uproar.
Kobe Bryant was dissatisfied with Murphy's laziness in training and defensive garbage, and he was extremely angry. It's like he wants to build a Trojan horse and push it outside Murphy's house, hide in the Trojan horse, and wait for the dead of night to sneak into Murphy's house and kill his whole family.
Murphy has a three-handed hand, rarely scores three seconds on the offensive end of the interior line, nests in his own box on the defensive end, and is happy to grab rebounds in the backcourt. The problem is that "Big Z" Ilgoskas is also a big man who rarely goes out of the box, and the Warriors have a very poor shooting when they encounter blocking and interfering with guards.
Murphy didn't be polite to Kobe Bryant, and replied directly: "You like defensive interior so much to go to the Pistons to find Ben Wallace, why do you refuse the Pistons to come to the Warriors?" ”
ALTHOUGH THE MEDIA LIKES TO SAY THAT MURPHY IS A SOFT EGG, MURPHY, WHO IS 211CM TALL AND WEIGHS 111 KG, IS NOT AFRAID OF KOBE AT ALL, HE MAY BE ALMOST GOOD WHEN HE PLAYS, AND HE WILL BE AFRAID OF PEOPLE WITH A HEIGHT OF 198CM IN FIGHTS?
Even if Murphy is traded by the Warriors, he is not afraid, he just signed a five-year, $50 million contract extension with the Warriors in the summer, and even if he is traded, he will make a lot of money. Kobe Bryant thinks his defense is bad, and he still wants to change to a strong team to hold his legs and win the championship.
Murphy was interviewed afterwards and innocently said: "He said I was bad at defense, and he thought I didn't work hard defensively, but I vowed to do my best to defend." I have my own style of play, and he wants me to be a super defensive player so can I be like that? ”
Kobe Bryant was a little confused, a second-rate player dared to question him? Then he realized that he was no longer the Lakers' willful boss, and no one wanted to coax him here.
When Kobe Bryant sprayed Bogut as much as he wanted, Bogut didn't dare to reply, the Lakers are Kobe's team, and he is a senior who has been playing for 11 years. Now Murphy, who is one level lower than Bogut, dares to speak out publicly, because Kobe Bryant has just arrived, and Murphy has been playing for the Warriors for six years.
In this case, neither the Warriors owner nor the manager will be on Kobe's side.
Less than a third of the way into the season, why do you want to get rid of the team's old insiders? Can you find an inside All-Star who is willing to partner with you before you speak?
Regardless of whether Murphy is a data brush or not, he was an interior player who averaged 14+10 per game last season, and this kind of empty interior line is not easy to find, so the Warriors have been reluctant to trade him. Kobe Bryant came and targeted Murphy, thinking that the Warriors were driven by his family?
Murphy's defense does suck, everyone knows it, but there are some things that really shouldn't be said by Kobe, is head coach Mike Woodson an ornament?
Kobe Bryant's teammates in the team are not the only Murphy, others also complain, but they don't make such a big fuss. Before Murphy clashed with him, he thought he would help his teammates improve and be as "loved" as he was with the Lakers.
Those who have been teammates with Kobe will say that Kobe is not easy to get along with, even in ordinary training matches, Kobe will still spit trash talk to his teammates, and in the interview, Kobe said that he once scolded his teammates and cried.
When the reporter asked who was scolded and cried, Kobe Bryant actually said that it was not just a player who was scolded and cried. There was a young European player who was easily scolded and cried by Kobe, who said that he just said man, you should reconsider what your life goals are, something like this, and he collapsed.
When it came to the Warriors, Kobe Bryant wanted to continue to show his leadership temperament, and his teammates didn't eat it at all, they were used to Joe Johnson's silent person, and they also liked Davis's humor, and they didn't like Kobe's imposition of personal will on others.
After all, in some ways, their fathers are not as wide as Kobe, and they are fierce in scolding.
It's just that the poor strength of the spray teammates is nothing, and the contradiction between Kobe and Davis is more serious, it is a conflict on the ball.
The two began to be hostile to each other after running in the team for a while, never saying a good word about each other at the press conference, and barely communicating in the locker room. The two cores didn't speak, and the others didn't dare to say much, and the atmosphere in the Warriors' locker room became like a prison.
The last man Woodson coached was Nash, and he wanted to copy some of the Hawks' stuff to the Warriors. Davis is an offensive point guard who needs to be on the ball to be powerful, and as he did last season, Joe Johnson can play with or without the ball.
Now Kobe Bryant is also the one who has to attack with the ball, he said that playing without the ball is to let his teammates have no ball in their hands, and he does not give the point guard a way to live at all. The guard he plays with is responsible for dribbling the ball through the half, such as when he was with Ellis when he was with the Lakers, then Ellis would have to be a rangeless spot shooter.
The positions of Davis and Kobe Bryant overlapped seriously, Davis dribbled the ball over the half court without passing Kobe, and directly held the ball to block and dismantle, Kobe Bryant wanted to give him a death glare. On the contrary, if Bryant attacks with the ball, Davis has to catch and shoot dominantly, and there is no guarantee of shooting percentage.
In the past two seasons, Davis has made a lot of three-point shots, almost all of which are chasing three-pointers when counterattacking, and the low catch-and-shoot percentage is pitiful, which is not the rhythm he likes.
Woodson couldn't get the two to work together, so he could only lean to one side. Kobe Bryant is much more famous, gets more balls, and plays the same style as he did with the Lakers, averaging 27 points, 5.5 rebounds and 5.1 assists per game while shooting 46.2% from the field.
Davis was done without the ball, averaging only 15.3 points and 6.4 assists in 37 minutes per game, shooting a measly 38.9% from the field, 33.3% from three-point range, and 1.9 three-pointers per game.
This kind of data is unacceptable to Davis, and after discussing with the broker, he is ready to propose a trade to management, and try to leave the team in the middle of the game to a weak team that can get the ball and is willing to renew his long-term contract with a high salary.
He has 17.8 million left on his contract, which expires in 2009, and he should still be able to get a big contract at the age of 30. It won't work to stay with the Warriors, he knows that his strength is not as good as Kobe, and the Warriors will choose to let him go and use the vacated salary space to sign Kobe's favorite partner.
Another option for Davis was to jump out of his contract in 2008, but that would be very bad for him because his stats have dropped significantly this season, will any team be willing to pay him a high salary?
As for whether the fans will think that he was squeezed out by Kobe, it is not a question for him to consider, and the fans can say whatever they want. Kobe's arrival did make his position awkward.
Miraculously, Rohr Deng and Kobe Bryant also overlapped, averaging 16.6 points, 6.2 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game, shooting 47.7% and making him the team's second-leading scorer, but he was not comfortable playing.
Rohr Deng knows everything, is not good at anything, barely shoots three-point shots, averages only 0.3 shots per game from the perimeter, and his 36.4% shooting rate is false. His offensive area is similar to Kobe's, with 48 percent of his shots from the basket and from close range, and 37.3 percent of his oversized two-pointers.
Center Big Z doesn't shoot three-pointers, can only pull out the mid-range shot, and the weakness of the defensive end is that he can only move around the restricted area. The Cavaliers traded Big Z for this, and the weakness was not obvious in the regular season, because there were many games, fewer times against strong teams, and when they entered the playoffs, they met a three-point guard, and they were a dead end.
In fact, the Warriors can't do without Murphy's three-point now, and they have to let him play for a long time, and his defense is at the level of a black hole, can Kobe Bryant figure this out without hurrying?
With such bad chemistry, it's not easy for the Warriors to win 10 games.
Kobe Bryant sadly found that the biggest role of the Warriors now is to set off the Lakers......