"The Los Angeles Lakers and Indiana Pacers' Christmas game, the second half of the game is about to start, judging from the starting lineups of the two teams in the second half, these two teams have not made any changes in the starting lineups, and it seems that they will continue to play the first half in the second half."

"No, Charles, although there are no changes to the starting lineups of both sides, considering that the Pacers will habitually explode in the third quarter, the trend of this game in the second half is likely to be different from the first half."

When the Lakers and Pacers players walked out of the player tunnel one after another, Kenny Smith on the sideline commentary bench also became excited, the Lakers and Pacers in the first half of the duel is actually very exciting, but for most people who pay attention to this game, the first half of the game between the two sides actually did not meet their requirements, because the scene they expected Meng Xu VS Kobe did not appear, but according to the Pacers' consistent tactics, and Meng Xu's habitual outburst in the second half, Kenny Smith has reason to believe, After the start of the second half of the game, the scene of Meng Xu vs Kobe Bryant will be staged soon.

As the team that failed to open the jump ball, the Lakers have the right to kick off in the second half of the game, and when the Lakers just sent the baseline ball, Fisher, who received the ball, did not take two steps forward with the ball, and found that Tyshawn Prince pressed him, and Fisher, who was pressed by Tyshawn Prince in the backcourt, did not hesitate at all, and directly passed the basketball to Pau Gasol, who advanced to the front court after sending the baseline ball, and Pau Gasol, who received Fisher's pass, did not choose to advance with the ball himself, Instead, he directly passed the basketball long to Kobe Bryant, who had reached the vicinity of the center circle.

"Meng, you finally can't help it?" After receiving the ball, Kobe Bryant just turned around and found that Meng Xu was already standing in front of him, but Kobe actually laughed after finding out that it was Meng Xu who was defending himself, because Kobe had been waiting for this moment for a long time, and in the first half of the game, Kobe kept provoking Meng Xu, wanting to provoke Meng Xu to one-on-one with himself, but Meng Xu never reacted.

"I hope you'll be smiling so much later." After seeing Kobe's happy face, Meng Xu was also speechless for a while, if he was replaced by another player and encountered his own close defense, he was afraid that it would be too late to be nervous, how could he be like Kobe, and he was so happy that he smirked.

"Then give it a try." Soon, Kobe's expression regained his calmness, while slapping the basketball, while staring at Meng Xu with a cold face, due to the different positions of the two on the court, plus the Pacers in addition to Meng Xu, there are also James Posey and Tyshawn Prince, the two defensive giants, so in recent seasons, Meng Xu is rarely directly opposite Kobe, but the Lakers, it has always been Kobe Bryant to defend Meng Xu, but because they often train together, they have to have a heads-up from time to time. Kobe Bryant is still very familiar with Meng Xu.

Compared with Meng Xu, Kobe's biggest disadvantage is physical fitness, so when dealing with Meng Xu, Kobe Bryant knows very well that he must not go to Meng Xu, Kobe has seen a lot of how Meng Xu bullied Odom, although Kobe is so confident that he is already a little arrogant, but he understands his own situation, Kobe thinks that there is still a little gap between his physical fitness and Odom.

So in this offense, Kobe Bryant's first thing to do is to lower his body center of gravity, in order to deal with Meng Xu's outstanding physical talent, defensive and anti-sky swing man, Kobe Bryant has been practicing fingertip dribbling in recent seasons, although it is slightly inferior to Meng Xu's fingertip dribbling skills, but due to his short height, Kobe Bryant uses his fingertips to dribble, and the actual effect is not much different from Meng Xu.

However, what shocked Kobe was that his body's center of gravity had been lowered enough, and he also used the fingertip dribble to control the ball, but in this offense, Kobe not only failed to get rid of Meng Xu's defense, but was almost directly tackled by Meng Xu, so after he couldn't get rid of Meng Xu's defense with his body low and dribbling continuously, a strong sense of crisis arose from the bottom of Kobe's heart.

"Meng Xu's defense is really good, although Kobe's defense is also great, but compared to Meng Xu, his defense is still a lot worse." Although in the first half, Kobe Bryant has been defending Meng Xu, but Meng Xu did not defend against Kobe, so Meng Xu went to defend Kobe Bryant in the first attack after the start of the second half, and was also regarded by the reporters and spectators at the scene as Meng Xu wanted to start a one-on-one rhythm with Kobe.

"Kobe, if you keep doing this, then you will never be able to defeat me." When Meng Xu blocked Kobe's breakthrough again, Meng Xu unceremoniously ridiculed Kobe, competitiveness, sometimes it's a good thing, but sometimes it's also a bad thing, just like now, if Kobe Bryant can't get rid of himself, he passes the basketball to his teammates, the Lakers' offense is now afraid that it has been completed, but Kobe didn't do it, because Kobe wanted to defeat Meng Xu too much.

Listening to Meng Xu as if he was reminding himself, and as if he was spraying his own trash talk, Kobe Bryant, who was still trying to dribble the basketball, frowned more and more tightly.

Kobe Bryant wants to defeat Meng Xu, and wants to prove to everyone that he is not worse than Meng Xu, so Kobe will keep provoking Meng Xu, wanting to beat Meng Xu one-on-one, but now it seems that it is difficult to complete things, even if Kobe Bryant barely gets rid of Meng Xu's defense, Kobe Bryant, who is already at the end of the crossbow, cannot pose much threat to the Pacers' basket, but Kobe Bryant can't let go of the dignity and face of a superstar, and passes the basketball to his teammates when he can't stand the opponent alone, Perhaps this is the biggest difference between himself and Meng Xu!

While sighing in his heart, Kobe Bryant decided to try again, after mobilizing all the abilities in his body, Kobe Bryant rushed towards the left side of Meng Xu's body, and after being occupied by Meng Xu in the best defensive position in advance, Kobe Bryant leaned sideways on Meng Xu, and then the unwilling basketball was passed to Pau Gasol who ran over to pick him up.

After Kobe Bryant handed over the basketball to Pau Gasol, Phil Jackson, who had been sitting on the sidelines and seemed relaxed, but frowned, also showed a smile on his face, and at the same time, Phil Jackson was still looking forward to what Kobe could learn from today's game.