Chapter 139 [Hurricane Defeat, Thorn Trading]
In the Lakers' back-to-back away games against the Warriors, Phil Jackson gave Kobe Bryant unlimited shots, and let Guo Xudry the ball over half court, pulling away the attraction defense and catching the ball.
In the morning practice, Bryant was in great shape, and Jackson wanted to see how effective it would be to make him the team's first core.
Kobe Bryant exploded and scored wildly with Warriors boss Antoine Jamison. After an overtime, the Warriors defeated the Lakers 125-122 under the leadership of Jamison to defend their home honor, and before this game, they had a record of only 5 wins and 13 losses, and they were the underdogs in the West.
Bryant played 51 minutes, shooting 18-of-35, 2-of-7 from three-point range and 13-of-13 from the free-throw line, finishing with 51 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists and 2 steals, as well as 4 fouls and 8 turnovers.
O'Neal played 40 minutes, 25 points, 10 rebounds, 2 assists, 6 blocks and 5 fouls.
Guo Xu created opportunities for his teammates throughout the game, and he shot very little, and was still the team's third scoring point, shooting 4 of 8, 2 of 5 three-pointers, and 1 of 2 free throws, scoring 11 points and 7 assists.
The Lakers are Kobe Bryant's heads-up with the ball, and the scoring points are too concentrated, except for the trident, only "Cobra" Grant scored 10 points, and only four people on the team scored double-doubles.
On the Warriors' side, Jamison played 53 minutes, shooting 21-of-29, 2-of-5 three-pointers, 7-of-8 free throws, and slashed 51 points, 13 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 1 block.
Kobe's 51.4% shooting rate is already very high, Jamison's shooting rate is even more outrageous, reaching 72.4%, he plays Grant and Fox very easily, and he is not afraid to single O'Neal, breaking through with the ball to cause two 2+1.
JAMISON IS 203CM TALL AND WEIGHS 101 KG, AND IS A SWINGMAN IN THE 3 AND 4 POSITIONS, AN ALL-ROUND FIGHTER. Vince Carter was his junior brother in college, and he quickly became the Warriors' boss when he entered the league, averaging 24.5 points, 8.6 rebounds and 2 assists per game so far this season.
In Guo Xu's previous life, Jamison was a star born in the wrong era, and his strength was seriously underestimated.
At his peak, the NBA's forward competition was fierce. Duncan and Garnett almost swept the first team of the year, Nowitzki and Webb were regulars in the second team, and a group of All-Stars such as Pierce, O'Neal Jr., Walker, Stojakovic, Marion, etc., competed for three teams, and Jamison had no advantage over any of the above.
After that, James, Anthony, Stoudeyer, Pau Gasol and others have risen, and Jamison is completely hopeless, averaging 20+10 per game and not attracting much attention.
Generally speaking, the players who can score 20,000 points in their careers are the boss or second leader of the team, and they should have won a lot of individual awards, such as the second and third teams of the best team, the best team of the week, the best of the month, and so on. But Jamison, the 20,000-point gentleman, has only one "Sixth Man of the Year" award, and he has never won a championship in his career, and there is really no one like this.
The Lakers have a day off and will face the challenge of the SuperSonics at home on the 8th.
It is worth mentioning that Isaiah Ryder did not play a minute in this game. On the morning of the 7th, the NBA officially announced that the Lakers and the Nuggets reached a deal to exchange Ryder for the Nuggets' base salary backup forward Ryan Bowen.
Ryder has not been able to integrate into the Lakers, and Guo Xu's rise has made him unable to even play the familiar ball-holding chaos, averaging only 6.5 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game, and the only thing that can be said is that he is only shooting 44.6% from the field and 37.5% from three-point range.
Ryder has been late to the team's training sessions on a number of occasions this season, missing once, even though this is nothing compared to his past performances, and has upset the coaching staff. Ryder missed training last month, when a Los Angeles reporter said he had seen him show up at a Los Angeles nightclub last night.
If Ryder just trained lazy management could tolerate it, after all, O'Neal is often lazy, but the brainless thing is that this thing doesn't take Kobe Bryant in his eyes, and he hasn't.
Ryder publicly called out Kobe Bryant in many training sessions, spewing trash words at Kobe Bryant, "Grab your tail and roll back to the kitchen". "Don't show it off in front of me, I'm also a star player, and when I was an opponent, I also scored a lot of points on your head."
This is true, since Kobe Bryant entered the league in 96, the two have played against each other in 19 games, and Ryder has averaged 16.9 points per game to beat Kobe's 13.6 points. And in the last meeting between the two in the 99-00 season, Ryder scored 33 points to beat Kobe's 30 points.
Ryder was not convinced, he felt that as long as he had the ball, he could get a high score by shooting high, which was no different from Kobe.
Last week, Bryant finally got angry and blasted back at Lyder: "You really think you can score on my head? You and I, let's have a one-on-one game. ”
Rydell agreed crisply: "Come on, I'm not a soft egg, who is afraid of whom?" ”
Then, under the watchful eye of a group of melon-eating teammates holding drinks and popcorn, Ryder tragedy. Kobe Bryant's pull-up jumper, step-back jumper, breakaway, long-range shot, dunk, left-handed layup, right-handed layup, trick scoring. The heads-up match ended quickly, with a score of 10-1.
At this point, the management completely lost patience with Rydell, an idiot who had no self-knowledge, and decided to trade. If you go to test IQ, Ryder will probably only get Mike's score in "Growing Pains" (27 points casually), and the meaning of his existence is to affect the harmony of the locker room.
This is actually the butterfly effect caused by Guo Xu's joining the Lakers, and if he didn't have this extra scoring point, the management would continue to tolerate Ryder for a while, until he couldn't bear it anymore in the second half and excluded him from the playoff squad.
Ryan Bowen, who was a single "star", is 201CM tall and weighs 98 kilograms, and was selected by the Nuggets in the second round of 26th in 1998. This season, he averaged 12 minutes per game, with 3.4 points, 2 rebounds and 0.5 assists.
While Bowen doesn't have the numbers, it's a win-win deal.
The Nuggets lack an offensive point and need a promiscuous player to take the bench, and the team is averaging 99 points per game, and it is impossible to see where Bowen is good defensively, and this man can be discarded at any time. They chased Ryder in the summer, and with the offer twice as high as the Lakers, Ryder chose the Lakers.
The Lakers need to find a small forward who doesn't possess the ball and is willing to work hard to defend as a substitute, Bowen almost doesn't have to worry about offense, the team doesn't need him to attack, and George can only be a blue-collar player when he plays.
After watching the news, Guo Xu felt that the Lakers had made money, and it was best for Ryder to go with a neuropathy. After knowing each other for more than two months, he and Ryder have spoken less than 10 words in total, and they all greet this thing with cold eyebrows, as if they want to fight. Guo Xu thought he was targeting himself at first, but later found out that he was like a bird to everyone, and even O'Neill didn't bother to take care of it.
Bowen is a poor offense, but he can help the team on the defensive end. In Guo Xu's previous life, Bowen joined the Rockets' camp in the 2004-05 season, starting 3 of the 7 playoff games in 05, responsible for defending Nowitzki, playing an average of 18 minutes per game and scoring 2.6 points.
Nowitzki made just 45 of 128 shots in seven games, a 35.1 percent shooting percentage, compared to 45.9 percent in the regular season.
This kind of person plays 10 minutes off the bench and the performance is definitely qualified.