592. Bryant's answer
11-0, the Lakers dominated the game on both ends of the floor.
Facts have proved that Kobe, as an offensive containment point, relies on the deterrence of the past, and helps the team much better than him as the main scorer!
Kobe Bryant attracted away the strongest point of the opponent's defense, and Liu Ren and Antetokounmpo played flying, which was very good for the power of Liu Ren and Kobe Bryant when they partnered to attack last season.
The first 3 minutes were beaten 11-0, and Raptors head coach Casey quickly called a timeout.
Switch defenses!
Kobe Bryant is really not good, the Lakers have abandoned him! Just use him as a guise to attract defensive firepower! When I played a weak team before, it was a lie to let Kobe Bryant play the main game! Lie to them as a strong team honest person!
It was only a few minutes into the game, and neither side was to the point of substitution, and the game resumed after the timeout.
It's time for the Lakers to attack again, Carroll is in front of Liu Ren, DeRozan runs to entangle with Antetokounmpo, although DeRozan is more than ten centimeters higher than Antetokounmpo, but the height difference is not as big as when Lowry met Antetokounmpo, not as high as the opponent's chest.
So, Bryant faced Lowry's defense.
Kobe Bryant's body was shocked and immediately asked for the ball.
How can the giants not give the ball if they want it? Antetokounmbo Ma uploaded.
Kobe Bryant's first shot in this game! After more than ten games, the opponents found that his explosiveness was really not good, and his strong shooting ability was greatly reduced, so those defenders who were taller than Kobe were not shaken at all, so Kobe Bryant played very hard, the explosiveness was not good, the opponent was not shaken, the strong shot was interfered with, and it was natural for the hit rate to drop sharply.
But playing against opponents who are shorter than himself, Kobe Bryant is very freehand, he is already a tall guard among guards.
So, Lori, who just thought that he had gotten rid of the two demons of Antetokounmpo and Liu Ren, and was about to follow Kobe Bryant to chase Kobe to death, suddenly found that Kobe Bryant had the ball, and he was still so strong one-on-one.
When Kobe Bryant leaned on Lowry to play two and one, Lowry was hit again: "Coach, you lie...... Who said Kobe Bryant couldn't do it......"
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109 to 75,
The Raptors were beaten by the Lakers.
It's not a big deal, the Raptors weren't supposed to be seen as a real powerhouse in the first place, the point is that they're completely teased!
In the Lakers' previous games, it was clear that Kobe Bryant was the arrowhead, and the Lakers gave him a lot of ball possession to find his state.
Even when playing one of the best teams in the East like the Knicks, the Lakers still played like that, and then the Knicks stared at Kobe Bryant's defense, and when Kobe Bryant played in the third quarter, he used Louis Armondes, a tall player with excellent defense, to defend Kobe, and then tied or even overtook the score against the trend, and finally used the starter with excellent offensive firepower to bite the situation.
Therefore, other teams think that Kobe Bryant's self-care style of play this year will hurt the Lakers, if it weren't for the overall strength of the Lakers team and a good start schedule, they would have been defeated by their main opponents long ago.
The Raptors came with such an idea, who knew that Kobe Bryant suddenly stopped playing hegemony and became a lewd uncle with obscene development!
When the Raptors used Carroll or James Johnson, two defensive giants who came off the bench to defend Kobe, he ran obscenely, occasionally ran out of the open position and fired a cold shot to show his presence, and Antetokounmpo and Liu Ren and even Nick Young and McCollum who came off the bench caught the tyranny of the weakest defense of the Raptors, this person is poor Lowry, the Lakers scored a total of 86 points on the outside players today, most of which were scored on his head.
And when the Raptors used DeRozan, James Johnson, and Carroll, the three defensive giants, to prevent Liu Ren and others from not defending Kobe Bryant, but using Corey Joseph, who was poached by Lowry or the Raptors from the Spurs, to defend Kobe, Kobe Bryant caught the Raptors point guard, the weakest link of defense, tyrannical, and Kobe Bryant was really strong in the face of players who were shorter than himself.
Bryant played just 17 minutes today, shooting a season-high 7-of-10 shooting, and he switched to a role-player style of play to not only improve his offensive efficiency, but also make his teammates more comfortable, and set aside 10 minutes of playing time for Antetokounmpo.
Antetokounmpo and Liu Ren formed an outside defensive circle, with Green, Whiteside and Blake and Nance Jr. who came off the bench on the inside, and the defense was good, guarding the interior and locking the Raptors!
At the beginning of this year, the Raptors backcourt double-gun performance is very eye-catching, and they are named super brothers, because Lowry and DeRozan have a very good relationship, Lowry has just arrived in Toronto and has not found a rental house, and only signed a three-year middle class reluctant to buy a house, borrowed from DeRozan's house for more than half a year, and the two mixed like wearing a pair of pants, otherwise Lowry would not have had such a good relationship with DeRozan, his "enemy" fan.
But today, the Raptors scored 21 points, Lowry 10, DeRozan 11, and the two combined for 9-of-29 shooting, 20 irons.
The super brothers have also become garbage brothers......
Post-match ......
Press conference......
Liu Ren scored 31 points today, and it was not easy to get 30+ for the first time this season, and he was in a good mood and followed Kobe Bryant and D'Antoni to participate in the post-game press conference.
This year, Liu Ren's data has not been the best for the Lakers, with the second in the rebounding list, Whiteside, who averaged 14.1 rebounds per game, and Kobe Bryant, so he did not participate in the press conference in the first 11 games, and the Lakers management and press officer said that they were desperate, so he was left to him, but since Liu Ren wanted to participate today, they were naturally willing.
Originally, Liu Ren thought that he had finally won the highest score in the game today, and he hadn't attended the press conference for so long, and the reporters would definitely miss him.
Who knew that after the press conference began, the media all stretched out their guns and guns to Kobe's side, completely ignoring Liu Ren's existence.
To tell the truth, the media likes Liu Ren's big mouth very much, and the interview is a big news at the headline level.
But! Liu Ren's magical brain circuits and uncontrollable mouth that likes to talk nonsense make the media love and hate, and when the news is not bad, they say they haven't seen Liu Ren.
The media said that there is such a big thing as Kobe Bryant, who suddenly plays a role today, the news is enough, little ancestor, you still rest, think about the joke, let's talk about it next time.
Regardless of whether anyone interviewed Liu Ren, who looked resentful, there were a lot of people on Kobe's side who were asking questions.
"Kobe, you seem to have changed your style of play today, is it the coaching staff's arrangement that weakens your offensive play?"
"Kobe Bryant only took 10 shots today, which is a new low number of shots since his comeback, is the Lakers going to focus on developing other young players and making you a player mentor?"
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The first ones are still relatively polite, and most of them are friendly and friendly cooperation units.
However, ESPN's old rival's question was sharp: "Were you dropped by the Lakers because of your previous poor performance?" You didn't play in the third quarter today, and you didn't play a minute in the second half, is this a sign that the Lakers are ready to change the dynasty? ”
The media's questions were like machine guns, and they were all at Kobe.
Kobe Bryant is an old man, and he has seen a lot of this kind of scene, which means that he is very calm.
Kobe Bryant smiled: "Okay, okay, I heard everyone's questions almost the same thing, and you want to ask me what is going on today's play, right?" ”
"The reason is simple, I found that I was really old."
'I hate to admit it, after last season I had a month off and you know I'm getting older and I'm definitely going to be tired after a crazy season and I'm really tired, so I took a month off before I got back into training.
"Oh, when I just finished training and looked at me in the mirror, I was going crazy, it's only been a month, and my belly is as big as when my wife was pregnant."
"I was very unhappy, so I trained like crazy and lost weight in a month, and I'm very proud."
"But after I lost weight, I didn't seem to have changed much, I was still so old and so slow."
"From the pinnacle of basketball to giving it my all and then taking a break for a month, I realized that I was really that old, which is different from the previous two years, when I was battling injuries and I could play well as long as I was healthy, but now it's different."
"I can't do it like I did when I was 18 years old, eat for a month after a season, then come out and practice for a few days, and then play a 360-degree dunk in front of my teammates, and I can't do a dunk with my crotch so easily."
"Going to be a role player? I'm getting to this stage, but I'm not reconciled! ”
"I'm working really hard to keep the shape I was and lead the Lakers as a helmsman like I did last season, last season."
"However, a dozen real matches have passed, and I have begun to recognize the cruelty of Old Man Time."
"I don't want to admit I'm old, I don't want to be a role player, I still want to be on the front line and play against the best opponents, so I'm stubborn and take all the shots and play against the best players on the other side."
"But the truth is that you're really old."
"I hated to admit it, but I eventually accepted it."
"Now I wish I could help the team in the way I could, we have the boss, we have Hassan, we have Drummond, we have Giannis, we have CJ...... Wow, after I've been hit for a dozen games and my head is starting to clear, I'm starting to notice this, we have the best talent in the league, we have the best roster, why should I be stubborn? ”
'I'm willing to make sacrifices, to be on the fringes of the team, as you said, to be a mentor to the young lads.'
"We all need to sacrifice, I know we have a lot of kids who are future superstars, but we're in a boat called the defending champions right now, and we should all be sacrificed, like the boss, he's taking half as many shots this year as he did last season, and he knows his teammates have grown another year and need more opportunities to perform."
"So I'm willing, willing to be a role player, what's so bad about that? What's better than throwing the ball into the basket as easily as you did today? ”
"I don't want to be as stubborn as I was before, I just want to win the next championship......"