Chapter 198: Invisible Humiliation

Joe Johnson singled Kobe Bryant with the ball, and Kobe Bryant's defense was serious. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info people are afraid of comparison, and when there is comparison, there will be problems.

Kobe Bryant is comparing Wu Di with himself, and if he wants to prove that he is the core, he has to do better than Wu Di. Wu Di's defense is excellent, and Kobe Bryant is even better than him, so Kobe's defensive attitude is extremely serious.

Joe Johnson squeezed Kobe Bryant, trying to squeeze past him. Kobe Bryant gently let it, Joe Johnson easily crossed Kobe, and he was happy at the moment, Kobe Bryant was not very good! I just saw that he was very serious, but I didn't expect to be distracted.

However, in the next second, Joe Johnson's face darkened, because he couldn't feel the presence of the basketball anymore. Hurriedly turned around, and saw that Kobe Bryant had an extra basketball in his hand, and was about to rush to the front court.

Joe Johnson immediately gritted his teeth and chased after him, stopping Bryant just as he crossed the halfway line. But as soon as Kobe Bryant stopped, he threw the ball out, and Joe Johnson didn't react, and he heard a loud "bang" behind him, and someone dunked.

Joe Johnson turned around and saw Wu Di falling from the sky, then ran over and punched Kobe Bryant, and the two celebrated in front of him.

It was an empty catch, and it was rare for someone to pass an empty catch near the midline because it was too far away and prone to mistakes.

But Kobe Bryant and Wu Di did this, they are confident in themselves, so they will pass such a long-distance empty catch.

Joe Johnson was not convinced, and he continued to look for opportunities to challenge Kobe. A few minutes later, his chance arose when Joe Johnson shook off Kobe Bryant, took the basketball from his teammates, and rushed inside from Kobe.

Inside Bynum came out to make up for it, but Joe Johnson didn't take him seriously. A quick stop jump shot on the edge of the box threw the ball out.

"Smack-"

Joe Johnson suddenly had a bad feeling that it was the sound of a cap. Before Joe Johnson could ask himself who he was blocked, he felt like he had been hit, flew half a meter away in the air, and fell to the ground all at once.

"Drip—"

The referee's whistle blew, and Joe Johnson subconsciously looked at the referee, who gave the opponent a push foul. Joe Johnson breathed a sigh of relief that he didn't lose possession of the ball, although he gave the opponent a block statistic, but also let the opponent receive a foul.

Joe Johnson stood up and looked at where he had just stood. Wu Di was standing there and raised his hand to signal that he had committed a foul.

What's going on with him? Shouldn't it be Kobe Bryant? Joe Johnson was puzzled and looked at Kobe, but saw Kobe Bryant looking off the court with an indifferent face, and even waved to a few fans.

Joe Johnson rubbed his hip bone, it hurt just now. He complained a little to the referee in his heart, shouldn't this ball give him a free throw? However, he just complained in his heart, he actually knew that Wu Di blocked him first and then hit him, and Wu Di did not have any illegal actions. If it weren't for the fact that he was still in the air, he wouldn't even give Wu Di a foul, it would be a normal collision.

Joe Johnson took the serve and wanted to continue to play Kobe, but the pain in his hip bone made him afraid to play hard, and passed the ball to Mike Bibby, allowing Mike Bibi to organize the attack.

Next, because of hip pain, Joe Johnson went off the game and didn't come up until the second quarter. In the second quarter, he played against Kobe, and finally there was no Wu Di to make trouble, and Joe Johnson could rest assured that he could be one-on-one with Kobe.

Joe Johnson got a good chance when he shook off Kobe Bryant, caught the ball and shot a three-pointer, and hit it.

After hitting a three-pointer, Joe Johnson looked at Kobe Bryant proudly, I scored on your head!

However, to Joe Johnson's embarrassment, Kobe Bryant still didn't say anything, he didn't even single himself, but called Gasol to cover.

Joe Johnson shook off Gasol, who was in the way, and rushed towards Kobe. Wrapping Kobe Bryant with Josh Smith, Kobe flicked the ball lightly and passed the ball to Gasol, who hit a mid-range shot.

Joe Johnson was uncomfortable, he felt discriminated against. Of course, this is not racism, Kobe Bryant himself is black and belongs to the disadvantaged group.

This kind of discrimination is discrimination in ability, he has shown his ability, but he still does not let Kobe Bryant take it seriously, Kobe Bryant obviously does not look down on his ability, so it will make him feel that he is discriminated against.

There's a humiliation called turning a blind eye, and now Joe Johnson feels like he's being humiliated by Kobe.

So far in the game, Kobe Bryant didn't look at him squarely, Kobe Bryant's eyes only had basketball. But as an opponent, Kobe Bryant is so unkind to himself, Joe Johnson is difficult to accept, am I so non-existent?

Does Kobe really want to humiliate Joe Johnson? Of course not, because in Kobe's cognition, there is no Joe Johnson at all.

Even though the two had a classic Eagle and Snake battle last season, it was Joe Johnson who broke out. Joe Johnson didn't break out today, and the strength he showed didn't make Kobe pay much attention.

For the current Kobe, as long as the opponent is not as good as himself, it is not worth paying attention to. He wants to pay more attention to Wu Di, he and Wu Di were teammates for a season last season, but he has not paid much attention to Wu Di's way of playing, only knows that Wu Di is very efficient.

After watching these few games, Kobe Bryant has an understanding of Wu Di's way of playing. He is trying to summarize Wu Di's technical characteristics, how can he have any other thoughts to look at Joe Johnson?

But Joe Johnson doesn't know! He only felt that he was being ignored and discriminated against. For this reason, he even did not hesitate to beat Kobe Bryant in a row, wanting to get Kobe's attention.

But it's a pity that Kobe Bryant ended the game and still didn't look at Joe Johnson. The Hawks were also easily pulled away by the Lakers because of Joe Johnson's many strong hits, which ultimately led to the Hawks losing the game.

Kobe Bryant was still terrible under his full attention, and Kobe Bryant scored 24 points and 11 assists in this game, and rarely got a double-double. Joe Johnson was a bit more miserable, scoring 16 points and shooting only about 35%, which is not at all in line with a team's core statistics.

After this game, Kobe Bryant also learned some of Wu Di's technical characteristics, all of Wu Di's actions are based on his strong physical fitness, and ordinary people are really busy.

Kobe Bryant can't either, and now Wu Di has gradually changed to a strengthened version of James, and he can attack inside and out. Now it's really hard to find someone in the league who can defend Wu Di.

Perhaps this is also the reason why Jeanie Buss identified Wu Di as the core of the future Lakers early! Such an invincible player, any owner wants to keep it, and it is impossible to have him in the team with a bad record.