Chapter 342: The Power of the Fans

The two of the Lakers' home courts are tied 1-1 and the third game will be moved to Portland's Rose Garden Arena. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the team lost the second game, it seems that the Trail Blazers fans did not criticize the players too harshly, but unanimously aimed their guns at Bynum, who spoke out after the first game, as if he was the culprit of the Trail Blazers' second game loss.

In fact, in a basketball game, it is not the first time that a sudden cold hand has appeared, and there are various reasons hidden behind it, perhaps the players did not rest well before the game, or they did not adapt to the local climate, or maybe they had a bad stomach, a collective cold, and an explosive mentality...... Anyway, there are many reasons, and they are not known to outsiders.

But this time the Trail Blazers fans believe it was Bynum's pot, and if he hadn't cursed in an interview, how could the team have played like this in Game 2? So after the game, there was a lot of condemnation of Bynum on the Internet, and even some fans who were more emotional said that they were going to Los Angeles to compete with the little sharks and teach him a profound lesson. But looking at this buddy's avatar, it seems that he is the one who will be taught a lesson when he really fights......

To the surprise of the Trail Blazers players, fans not only made their voices heard online, but also didn't have a very friendly attitude towards the Lakers offline. I don't know which fan got the time when the Lakers flew to Portland, when Kobe Bryant and Fisher followed the team staff out of the airport, they were faced with more than a dozen huge slogans and banners, although there were no blatant insults because of quality problems, but the sarcasm between the lines was audible to everyone.

Especially when Bynum walked out of the airport, the fans began to yell at him very tacitly, and even had a feeling of covering up the loud noise of the plane taking off. Bynum knew that this was directed at him alone, and his face was so gloomy that it seemed to be dripping.

He naturally knew what the reason for such a "treatment" was, but he still swallowed his anger and took the bus with his teammates with his luggage. It's not that he doesn't want to rant at fans who think he is very brainless, but the league won't let him lose the image of a professional player like this, so he has to stop fighting.

However, this was only the beginning for Bynum, and on the night of the official start of the game, he realized that the slogans and banners in front of the airport were nothing short of pediatric, and there were even more terrifying sounds waiting for him in the Rose Garden Arena.

When the DJ introduced the players, Kobe, Artest and Gasol also got boos, but they were not very big, especially when Kobe Bryant played, and even a faint cheer could be heard. But when Bynum walked out of the players' tunnel, the boos instantly increased by many decibels, and he couldn't hear what his teammates were saying, and the overwhelming boos drilled into his ears one by one, and he couldn't dodge.

Obviously, the fans weren't going to let him go easily, even if they knew that the poor performance in Game 2 was only due to the Trail Blazers' players themselves, but there was no doubt that they could have dumped the pot on Bynum, and who told you to say those things after Game 1?

Once the game began, Bynum quickly became the most uncomfortable man in the game. As the team's starting center, he did learn some skills with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and his interior partner Gasol is a guy who likes to pass the ball to his teammates, so he still gets a lot of opportunities to attack on his own under the basket.

But as long as he gets the ball, the whole court will sound a terrifying boo that is not much different from the opening, and he was even scared when he received the ball for the first time, and the ball was copied away by Ye Feng who assisted in the defense in the blink of an eye. He slapped his palms vigorously, as if to vent his inner frustration, and the fans booed even more vigorously when they saw his demeanor and movements, and now their purpose was to keep Bynum from having a good time.

At the same time, other Lakers players have also been implicated, and of course it is not forbidden for fans to boo away players, and as long as they do not do anything excessive, the league will not take action against fans. Rao is a veteran such as Kobe Bryant, but Bynum alone disrupted the team's rhythm on both offensive and defensive ends, not to mention his poor shooting percentage of 1-of-5 from the field.

Of course, he himself will attribute the poor form to the crazy harassment of the Trail Blazers fans, but in the eyes of professionals, it is a test of each player's own psychological quality, after all, throughout the long season, whenever you play on the road, you will definitely hear the fans boo, the difference is only how much they dislike you. Obviously, Bynum's psychological quality is not very good, and the Trail Blazers fans deliberately target him, which is why he is in such an embarrassing situation.

Thanks to the "assists" of the fans on the spot, the Trail Blazers firmly suppressed the Lakers at the beginning and did not give the opponent a chance to fight back at all. The strange events of the last game finally didn't happen again this time, maybe because this is their home court, or maybe because the fans cheered them on inspired their inner strength, anyway, the Trail Blazers' shooting has returned to a normal level, and it is no longer the previous downcast of less than 30 points in a single quarter.

The Lakers also played tenacious, after all, their leader is a stubborn player. Kobe Bryant has been trying to bite the score with his teammates, and under his guidance, the Lakers' shooting percentage is not bad. Well, that was to eliminate Bynum, his inefficient interior attack made Gasol embarrassed to pass the ball to him again, and could only repeatedly distribute it to outside shooters or teammates who slipped through the back door, and for a while Bynum played like a blue-collar player on the court.

Bynum, of course, can't stand such treatment, there was a time when he even looked down on Kobe, how could he obediently stay near the three-second zone and wait to grab a rebound? He didn't care whether anyone passed the ball to him or not, as long as it was the Lakers' offensive round, he would fall to the low post, and then reach out for the ball, and on a few occasions even blocked the path of his teammates to slip the bottom line, so that Kobe Bryant couldn't help but want to scold him on the court.

In fact, Bynum is indeed a talented young man, and if he can overcome his character weaknesses, then he should be able to support the Lakers' interior line in the near future. But if he can't change it, then it's a double-edged sword, and Phil has to be careful not to cut his own hands when using him.