Chapter 256: It's Not Just the Records That Were Missed
The atmosphere in the home team's locker room was very low, and anyone who encountered such a super-god Kobe Bryant would feel very helpless, but fortunately, Iverson stepped up in time in the second half of the second quarter to help the team open up the situation, which did not allow the opponent to further expand the point difference.
The 76ers' players were doing massages with the help of physiotherapists, while constantly stuffing things into their mouths and listening to Brown's second-half tactics. So the players were also very busy at halftime, but everything was to prepare for the next two quarters, if they didn't recover well at halftime, then the second half would have turned into soft-footed shrimp, and the manager would definitely not hesitate to press them on the bench at that time, so as not to kill the team.
"I have to admit that we can't guard against Kobe Bryant in this game, but we can't give up either. Raga, in the second half, you are still responsible for defending him, if you can't stop him from shooting, try to consume his physical strength, so I think that in the final moments of the game, he should not have such perverted scoring efficiency, and we will have more chances to win the game. ”
"As for offense, Allen you did a great job in the second half of the second quarter and I hope you can keep it up in the second half. As long as we can mobilize everyone's offensive firepower, even if Kobe Bryant can score 60 points in this game, we have nothing to fear. Of course, it doesn't matter if we can play alone, but now we have to focus more on scoring. ”
Listening to Brown's words, Chang Wei couldn't help but laugh next to him, it seems that the Lakers' offense in this game still puts a lot of pressure on the old coach, otherwise with his style of liking defense so much, how could he say that he should pay more attention to scoring?
Chang Wei himself is more inclined to attack, and with the current configuration of the 76ers, you can't say that you don't hold the offensive banner high. However, the offense still has to talk about routines, and it is not impossible to let Iverson score like Kobe Bryant, but the efficiency is too low, after all, the position, physical fitness and technical characteristics of the two people are different, Kobe can score but Iverson may not.
So Iverson was at his best in the second quarter, and once he got his teammates up to the touch, he could have plenty of room to score himself. If nothing else, the inside line will be as wide as the sea as soon as the three-point opening is opened, and there is no one on the Lakers team other than O'Neal who can stop his breakthrough layup, which is good news for him.
After the start of the second half, the Lakers really didn't mean to replace Kobe, in fact, he only rested for a few minutes in the entire first half.
But this time, every time he scored, it took more physical strength than the first half, because Bale had already stuck to him, always following Kobe's footsteps like a fart, even if others came up to cover, Bale would stubbornly squeeze through, just didn't want Kobe to have a better time, and high-intensity physical confrontations were even more commonplace.
Still, Bryant struggled to score, but he just felt that Bell was getting tougher on the defensive end and didn't think anything else. Bale has already made up his mind to consume Kobe's physical strength, and the experience of defending Kobe Bryant in the first half tells him that the man in front of him can't be prevented at all in this game, and can only try to make him more uncomfortable on the offensive end.
Bale spent a lot of effort on the defensive end, so naturally he began to be invisible on the offensive end, but his teammates didn't plan to let him take on any scoring tasks, Iverson, Snow and Lewis directly scored the round, and Mutombo also used his good blocking to add icing on the cake, so it looks like the 76ers' offense is very similar to that.
The 6-point gap has long been tied by the 76ers, but they can't pull the score apart, and the difference between the two sides has always fluctuated back and forth within 3 points, of course, the 76ers seem to be the dominant side. The Zen master began to be a little anxious, but now he can only pin all his hopes on Kobe, he knows that with Kobe's character, even if he asks him to hand the ball to O'Neal to score in a more secure way now, he will not listen to it nine times out of ten.
However, even if O'Neal takes the initiative to ask for the ball, maybe Fisher will give Kobe Bryant first, his personal relationship with Kobe is quite good, and now Kobe Bryant is not unable to score, but it takes more time per round. The Lakers themselves are not known for their fast offense, and since Kobe Bryant can still score, it is better to let him score, and it is not a bad thing to slow down.
Compared to the slow offensive tempo of the Lakers, the 76ers' pace is about to fly fast, and it is difficult for the basketball to stay in everyone's hands for more than two seconds, and everyone is already looking for the next catch point when they receive the ball, until the basketball is moved to a safe place for the terminator to shoot with ease.
As the minutes passed, Kobe's shooting percentage slowly began to decline, while O'Neal's scoring began to improve, after all, he was fighting for rebounds inside, and the more Kobe Bryant hit, the more opportunities he had to score on the second offense. However, this way of scoring made the Zen master frown, in his opinion, the team is too ugly to score like this, but what can be done? Kobe Bryant is not an iron man, and under Bale's "meticulous" care, it is good to be able to hold on until now.
In the third quarter, the 76ers completely turned the unfavorable situation, and although they couldn't open up the difference, they were much better than the first half. And Kobe Bryant didn't continue to score crazy points in this quarter, only scoring 10 points in a single quarter, although it was also a very good performance, but it was not worth mentioning compared to his perverted data of 35 points in the half.
In the final quarter, Kobe Bryant's situation was even worse, and when the Lakers' role players were all struggling to score, Snow also began to unscrupulously start to wrap him up with Bell. This is a notch up from Reed and Bale's bag before, after all, Snow himself is an important defensive force on the team's perimeter, and he is more professional than Reed on the defensive end. At this time, the Lakers wanted to shift the offensive focus to O'Neal but it was too late, leaving them not much time, and the 76ers firmly controlled the pace of the game, so that the Lakers had to run crazy behind their butts, and naturally their physical strength dropped faster.
In the end, Kobe Bryant's personal score was fixed at 52 points, and he still failed to break Baylor's record, but what made him feel even more helpless was that not only was the record gone, but the team also lost the game, so he could only return to Los Angeles with 0-2 to prepare for the third game.