On November 1, the first game of the new season between the Lakers and Spurs kicked off at the Staples Center.

It was a nationally watched game, and it was the biggest game of the day. The main attraction is, of course, the veteran confrontation between Kobe Bryant and GDP, and who will emerge victorious in this conversation is undoubtedly quite important.

At the start of the season, both the Spurs and Lakers have a 2-0 record, and whoever loses the game will end the winning streak. While the Spurs have been extremely strong this season, the Lakers don't want to lose.

In an interview with the media, Kobe Bryant also opened his mouth and claimed to win the Spurs, which caused heated discussions for a while.

"My Achilles tendon felt really good and I waited early for the ball to practice shooting and warming up. The opponents are very strong, they have a very good tactical system, they are one of the best teams in the league. I wanted to beat them and it was a great feeling. ”

Everyone can understand why Kobe Bryant said this, you must know that last season, the Lakers entered the playoffs as the seventh in the West, but in the first round of the playoffs, facing the Spurs, who are second in the West, the F4 combination without Kobe Bryant has no strength at all, and went out 0:4, becoming a laughing stock in the league for a while.

Kobe Bryant is very competitive, even if he didn't participate in the game in person at the time, but he is a member of the Lakers, the star of the Lakers, and the soul of the Lakers, he obviously can't accept such a failure. Therefore, in the new season, beating the Spurs is undoubtedly what Kobe Bryant desperately wants to do.

In response to Kobe's pre-game provocation, some Spurs players stood up and responded.

Duncan said: "Bryant's comeback is very exciting, that's what everybody wants to see, they're in great shape. ”

"Kobe Bryant is in great shape, it's hard to believe he's going to be able to play like that after suffering a serious Achilles injury," Ginobili said. I'm enjoying and looking forward to this matchup. ”

Parker said: "It's hard to imagine what it's like to be in this league when Kobe Bryant isn't in this league, and there's always going to be something missing. But luckily, he's back. ”

Such a response is completely off-topic, and the words of GDP are unanimously around Kobe, and there is no mention of the outcome of the game at all. But that's what the Spurs have always done, because they're the biggest "liars" in the league.

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"Obviously, whoever believes what those guys say is going to lose badly."

Sitting in the Staples Center, Chu Xuan immediately expressed his opinion after learning about the pre-game conversation between Kobe Bryant and GDP.

The Spurs are an ageless team, and they have been able to remain very competitive, not only because of the team's overall combat ability, but also because they always use words to numb their opponents.

Generally during the regular season, the Spurs are extremely inconspicuous.

Before every game, they always put their opponents in a high position, and even after they win, they will praise their opponents, talk about what the Spurs players didn't do well, and then the game is over.

And under such a "low profile", as the season progresses, many people are often surprised to find out how many consecutive wins the Spurs have achieved, or the top three records in the league. And this is done with the main players often taking turns off.

But, even then, people who find out about this are momentarily surprised and then don't pay much attention to it, and then the Spurs are often ignored like this.

In Chu Xuan's view, this is related to the overall team atmosphere of the Spurs. You know, this team, from the players to the manager, is not serious. Sometimes, even if you win, they will make you feel like you don't have any sense of superiority. And if you lose, you always feel that it's nothing, that the horse has stumbled, it's normal, and there will be a chance to beat them next time.

It is in this kind of psychology and situation that the Spurs are actually a very strange and very difficult team to handle.

"The only way to deal with these guys is not to speak and them hard."

Chu Xuan glared, watching Duncan, who had a cute face, dangling around the court, feeling more and more that the Spurs were more like a stubborn rock. Playing against such an opponent, it is useless to talk too much, and it is OK to play a dull game.

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The game started quickly, and the Spurs fielded a starting lineup of Parker, Ginobili, Leonard, Duncan and Split.

On the Lakers' side, it's Nash, Kobe, Nick Young, Gasol and Jordan Hill.

Relying on this lineup, the Lakers won the first two games. Under the winning streak, the players' morale and confidence are also extremely high, and they are also full of confidence when they play.

At the beginning of the game, the Lakers' offense was extremely aggressive, and the offensive core of the court also revolved around Kobe.

Judging from the first half of the first quarter of the game, Kobe Bryant's offense was very powerful, facing Ginobili's defense, Kobe scored 10 points, and the Lakers played a 15-13 score under his leadership to temporarily maintain the lead.

Subsequently, Bryant went off the court and Wesley Johnson came on in place of Bryant.

What people didn't expect was that Kobe's departure became a turning point in this game, and the Lakers experienced a terrifying black 6 minutes. In the second half of the game after Kobe Bryant's departure, the Lakers miraculously didn't score a point, and the scene of always not scoring could simply suffocate the fans, and the atmosphere at Staples was a little gloomy because of this.

Just because the Lakers don't score doesn't mean the Spurs don't score, Ginobili beat Wesley Johnson, and he made up for it, scoring eight points in the second half to help the Spurs rewrite the score to 25:15 after the end of the first quarter.

In the second quarter of the game, the Lakers' offense still revolved around the perimeter. But the Spurs' defense is very strong, making the Lakers' offense very inefficient. But the good news is that the Lakers' protection of rebounding is very good. With rebounding guaranteed, the Lakers were aggressive defensively, and at the end of the half, the score was rewritten to 41:44, only 3 points behind.

In fact, the Lakers' preparation is really effective, and the players' defense is also very good. was also able to do a good job of protecting the rebounding ball and limiting Tony Parker as expected.

However, the unexpected happened, which could not be predicted.

Kobe Bryant's desire to attack is too strong, and he always seems to lack patience and wants to rely on individual offense to pull the score away. However, the Spurs always kept the score at a fraction of the score, and then played patiently step by step.

In fact, the Spurs' offensive efficiency in this game was not high, and in many ways, they did not do well.

Of course, it may not be that the Spurs are doing badly, it may be that the Lakers are doing too well.

However, under the tight scoreline, the attack in the last minute or two of the game is the most important, and it is obviously rare to have no patience and want to win.