Chapter 268 - Ambition from Jackson
When the second quarter of the game officially began, Kobe Bryant was dressed up again, and he really didn't like Li Yao's appearance of showing off his might on his home court, so he decided to teach Li Yao a lesson in the second quarter, so that Li Yao knew that it was not his turn to call the shots in the Staples Center.
But what made Kobe speechless was that he did take the lead in the second quarter, but Li Yao sat directly on the court, which made Kobe feel as uncomfortable as if he had hit cotton with all his strength.
Then Kobe Bryant vented his unhappiness on the court, and let Demar, who was defending him, take out his frustration. DeRozanash complained bitterly, and was completely beaten by the angry Kobe, and it was also DeMar. For the first time, DeRozan got a glimpse of what it means to be a superstar.
Li Yao looked at Kobe Bryant who was raging on the court, but he was helpless, on the one hand, because he himself played a little more time in the first quarter, he really needed to take a break, and on the other hand, Mike. Deng Leavy is the arrangement of the head coach, he wants Li Yao to avoid Kobe, after all, he doesn't want Li Yao to compete with Kobe all the time.
Their Clippers are still very dependent on Li Yao's command on the court, if Li Yao is blindly immersed in the solo battle with Kobe, then Li Yao's physical strength will inevitably be troubled, so when the two sides play again, the Clippers' group of young benches will inevitably be crushed by the Lakers' experienced bench supply.
Li Yao himself is very interested in Mike. Coach Dunleavy also agrees with the arrangement very much, although he feels very good when he plays against Kobe, but Li Yao is also very aware of the shortcomings of this Clippers bench, that is, he is too young, and there is only Eric on the bench. Gordon alone is simply not enough to compete with the Lakers' benches, so if he wants to win this game, he can't fully immerse himself in the competition with Kobe.
And there are not many opportunities to compete with Kobe in daily training, so Li Yao also let go of the idea of continuing to compete with Kobe in the game, and now the only thing he wants to do is to win this derby battle and give his son this gift of victory.
When the second quarter was four or five minutes into the game, Li Yao also appeared again, leading his own starters against the Lakers' full starting five.
After the two starters came on the pitch again, the situation between the two teams fell into a stalemate again, and neither side could completely distinguish the winner during the starting period, and the score continued to rise alternately.
And because Kobe Bryant and Li Yao gave up the idea of playing alone, they began to connect their teammates to participate in the offense, which also made the scores of other players on both teams continue to improve. Gasol's two second-scoring points in the team also took the lead in scoring double-doubles after Li Yao and Kobe.
But in the last three minutes of the second quarter, after the two sides changed to the bench lineup again, the Clippers began to widen the difference between the two sides under the leadership of Li Yao again.
Kobe Bryant, who was sitting on the sidelines, couldn't stand it anymore and directly signaled to Phil. Jackson is going to be back on the court.
The Zen master slowly opened his eyes that had been closed, glanced at Kobe Bryant lightly, and after discovering Kobe's firm eyes, he nodded lightly and agreed with Kobe's idea.
Although as a head coach, the victory or defeat of a regular season game is not so important, but he can't ignore Kobe's thoughts, after all, the Clippers are a neighbor who is unstoppable in their rise just from the performance of today's game.
And with the rise of the Clippers, the reputation and status of Li Yao, the star of the Clippers, in Los Angeles is bound to have some impact on Kobe, the king of Los Angeles, so he agrees with Kobe's continued appearance.
When he was on a dead ball, Li Yao also found Kobe Bryant's reappearance, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a smile, but he didn't expect Kobe to be able to hold back in the end.
But Li Yao didn't know, in fact, in the second half of the first quarter, when Li Yao led the substitutes to play the first wave of climax, Kobe Bryant already wanted to play, but he was pressed down by the Zen master, until this time, Kobe Bryant really couldn't bear the Lakers substitutes being supplied by the Clippers led by Li Yao so casually, so he strongly asked to play.
Kobe Bryant, who reappeared, took over the ball from the Lakers directly from his own point guard, and he had to take over the game in the remaining period to prevent the point difference from being further widened again.
At this moment, under the signal of Li Yao, Jackson took the initiative to defend and defend Kobe.
Li Yao's arrangement actually has his own ideas, after all, he plans to train his good friend to become a strong outside defensive leader. Marion's presence, as well as the fact that Lee and Wade are outside defensive giants, has led to Jackson's role in defense not being well utilized.
And the lack of offensive means also led to Jackson's very limited playing time during the Heat period, but now that he is here with the Clippers, and Li Yao, a good friend, is the core of the Clippers, plus there is no qualified outside defensive elite in the Clippers team today, Jackson's playing time has been greatly improved.
In order to build Jackson into a truly qualified outside defensive leader, Li Yao directly handed over the most rare task of defending Kobe Bryant to Jackson, hoping that he could learn something useful in the confrontation with Kobe.
Although Jackson is positioned as an outside defensive leader in the Clippers team, when he personally stepped forward to defend Kobe, he realized that things were far from being as simple as he imagined.
When Li Yao saw his good friend being rubbed like this, he couldn't help but open his mouth and wanted to switch guards with Jackson, and he went to defend Kobe Bryant by himself, but this proposal was directly rejected by Jackson.
Jackson knows that Li Yao can't bear to see himself being abused by Kobe Bryant like this, but he also has his own pride in his heart, you must know that although he belongs to the bottom of the Stanford Four Masters, he also has his own pride, he knows that his strength on the offensive end is not good, so after entering the NBA, he has been putting his energy into defensive training.
Especially in this year's deal between the Clippers and the Heat to trade Li Yao, Jackson is very clear about his positioning, he is just an addition to the Clippers to show favor to Li Yao, not that the Clippers really fancy him.
After this transaction was announced, many people on the Internet criticized him for mixing in the NBA completely by taking advantage of Li Yao's limelight, and some people even said that the reason why the Heat chose him when they had several small forwards in the team and lacked point guards was also inseparable from Li Yao.
Although Jackson didn't take the unfriendly comments on the Internet to himself, he didn't want some people to criticize Li Yao because of his own reasons, so in this summer, Jackson did not take a vacation like the rest of the team, but chose to work defense, and paid a lot of money for it.
And before, he still remembered that Li Yao had said to himself that he would work harder in the new season, hoping that he would be able to bring Al to the end of the season. Thornton's starting lineup went down, and the two teamed up again to start the starting lineup, giving a good story to the Stanford Four.
Therefore, when Jackson heard that Li Yao wanted to replace himself to defend Kobe, he would not hesitate to refuse, he didn't want to let himself really become a point for others to criticize Li Yao, he wanted to rely on his own strength to be recognized by those who felt that they could survive in the NBA by relying on Li Yao.
After wiping the sweat from his forehead, Jackson met Kobe Bryant again and made a defensive stance.
Li Yao looked at Jackson who was so stubborn, and couldn't help but shake his head, how did he not know Jackson's thoughts, so he let him directly play against Kobe, the most powerful offensive superstar in the league, today, in order to let him get a kind of training, so as to get rid of the influence he had on him.
Kobe Bryant also heard the conversation between Li Yao and Li Yao not far away, and he thought that this rookie who had already been beaten by himself would not hesitate to agree to Li Yao's proposal, after all, no one in this league is willing to defend him.
But what Kobe Bryant didn't expect was that Jackson actually vetoed the help from Li Yao, but instead rushed to his face again with a determined face and put on a defensive posture.
Seeing this, Kobe Bryant couldn't help but glance at Jackson, the rookie in his eyes.
However, Kobe Bryant will not be merciful and will attack Jackson again.
Although the Clippers benches led by Li Yao have been suppressing the Lakers before, with the addition of Kobe, the situation between the two sides has once again fallen into anxiety.
In this regard, Li Yao is not anxious, after all, he can still treat the gap between the Clippers and the Lakers with a normal heart, not to mention that the Clippers are still leading now.
When the gap between the Clippers and the Clippers did not widen at halftime, it remained at 6 points, all of which was the effort of Kobe Bryant, and it was his step up in the bench to prevent the Lakers from being further widened by the Clippers.
After Li Yao and Kobe Bryant looked at each other, they all returned to their locker room with the team.
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