Chapter 865: Kobe Bryant's ability value has risen
"Coach, these guys are too difficult, wait a minute, let Grant and them attack on their own, I'll play with them first"
On December 1, 2004, at the United Center Arena in Chicago, the Lakers' bench, Chris Webber sat there panting with excitement, and at this time, other Lakers players nodded in agreement after hearing his words, and so did Zhuang Fei.
This game is the Los Angeles Lakers' away challenge to the Bulls, this game is also the Lakers' back-to-back games after playing the Bucks, of course, it is precisely because of this that the difficulty of this game can be imagined, not long ago at home, the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Bulls is also extremely difficult, this team is a typical team with two twin towers, and such a team is very troublesome for the Lakers.
Especially when there is a player like Chandler in the twin towers, although his independent offensive ability is very weak, but he can turn a team's interior upside down, at least Webber is now embarrassed by Chandler and Eddie Cory, after all, for now, he is the player who has the most responsibility for the Lakers now, interior defense, organizing offense and grabbing rebounds, basically everything except scoring has to count on him, but there are not many times this season when he has no time to organize offense like today, However, if he really wants to be entangled with the Bulls' two interior lines in this game, he can't devote too much energy to drive the team.
"Chris, just do as you say" Zhuang Fei finally said to Webb, and at the same time said this to all the Lakers players, this game started in the first quarter. All the way up to the third quarter now. The Lakers were so entangled by the Bulls. In addition, it was not easy to play the Bucks in the last game, which led to the fact that the Lakers players are now very uncomfortable, especially the veterans of the Lakers, of course, the most refers to Weber, and everyone else has a substitute who can be on top, but Webber has no one to give him a substitute.
There aren't many players in the league who can fill his position on the inside, and even Josh Smith can only replace one or two of them, and Webber is bound to be very tired in this situation. However, there is no way to do this, who makes the inside line in the alliance who meets Zhuang Fei's conditions is too few.
The Lakers and Bulls played a very anxious game in this game. For now, the Lakers maintain a slight lead, and when there is still half of the third quarter, this team is only less than 8 points ahead of the Bulls, which is not easy to see in many games this season, and this is because the Bulls' three-point shooting is really bad in this game, and even then the Lakers have no way to pull the score away, which has to be said to be an extremely uncomfortable thing.
"It's so uncomfortable for the Lakers to hit small sharks now, what should I do if I encounter a big shark in a few days?" In the commentary seat of the Chicago Union Center, Barkley looked at the slightly struggling Lakers and Webber, who was desperately pushing up Eddie Corry after returning to the court, and also sighed and said, This is the sadness of a team without interior defense. Even at this time, Grant Hill was constantly harassing Corey, who was eating Webb alone, but this harassment had little effect.
And at this time, it will be difficult for the Lakers to stop the bull's little shark if they don't get on the pinch. Just let Grant Hill and Webb flank Corey? How is this possible, these two can pinch Duncan and pinch a top superstar like Garnett, and let them pinch a player of Corry's level, isn't it a joke? In the NBA, tactics are tactics, and some tactics can't be used even if they are correct, and the Lakers are too troublesome to play in this situation.
Finally, after Webb defended Corey, the rebounds were snatched away by Chandler at most times, and at this time, the Lakers were completely unable to play a fast break opportunity, even if they finally kept the frontcourt rebounds under the ravages of Chandler and Corey, but the Lakers, who were suddenly ready to break fast, found that the Bulls had all retreated in place, especially when a big man like Chandler ran no slower than the guard, for the Lakers, the Bulls were the most troublesome opponent they encountered this season.
"Now it seems that Webber is preparing the Bulls Twin Towers to create pressure, he went inside to grab the frontcourt rebound" Kenny Smith looked at the Lakers big man on the court with some surprise and said, if it weren't for the Lakers' second team in this game is too strong, how can the Lakers lead the Bulls by 8 points in this game, even if they are behind, it is possible, this is also because the Lakers really can't give the Bulls too many ways to play, and this time after Webb gave up organizing the offense, Grant Hill attacked the Bulls by force, It's just that Chandler Hill didn't dare to be careless in the face of the basket, if it wasn't for Weber entangled Chandler under the basket this time, he really wouldn't dare to kill directly like this, although he is very confident in his personal ability, but this kind of play that rushes directly to the inside can also be successful, but the success rate may not be so much.
"Corey should go to Chandler at this time to fill in the position, his defense is too stinky, and he is really Shaq's successor, but Shaq's basket defense is much stronger than him" Finally, seeing the Lakers' offense, Barkley also sighed helplessly, if Corey's defense can be a little stronger, Webber really doesn't have much to do, although he can entangle one, but he can't stand two.
Of course, although the Lakers played a little difficult in this game, the Lakers have always maintained the lead in the score, and on the Bulls' side, although the Lakers don't have much to do with them, it has been difficult to really play the climax, the Lakers have done a good job of controlling them, at least when the game is getting deeper and deeper, the head coach of the Bulls, Scott Skels, is now very anxious, although he can use his twin towers to suppress the Lakers' offense, Use Jay Williams' tempo ability to suppress the offensive tempo of the whole game.
But there is no doubt that these three are not without flaws, such as two interior twin towers, and Chandler can only grab rebounds in the front court on the offensive end, which leads to Webb only needing to withstand Corey alone, and Chandler does not have enough deterrence to relieve pressure on Corey, even if Corey is now called a little shark, he is still a little shark, and his success rate is not as high as that of the big shark, especially after being fully resisted by Webb. And on the defensive end. Chandler did a great job. But it's Corey's turn again, this guy is like a defensive black hole, and that's why the Bulls are not afraid of the Lakers, but they don't have a problem with the Lakers.
Zhuang Fei asked Webb to go all out to entangle the Bulls Twin Towers, which is very good, and it is precisely because of the defects of the Bulls Twin Towers that when Weber puts pressure on them at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, it is difficult for this team to maintain the concentration and deterrence of the previous game, and the special envoy because of such a defect in the Bulls Twin Towers. Webber also miraculously really withstood two, and the score of the Bulls and Lakers was slowly pulling away.
And when this game came to the end, the Lakers also established their victory, and the final result of this game was 111-96, the first time this season that the Los Angeles Lakers did not score 120 points in two consecutive games, and the 111 points in this game were also the lowest points of the Los Angeles Lakers this season.
"Webber did a great job, the Lakers need his playmaking offense most of the time, but sometimes they need his interior deterrence, which requires him to be very good, and he's pretty good at it," Kenny Smith said after the game. He regretted the Bulls in this game, although the team found a way to deal with the Lakers. However, it suffered from not having good enough players, and this was also the 16th win of the season for the Lakers, which was also a 16-game winning streak.
"Chris, well done" Zhuang Fei looked at the Los Angeles Lakers in front of him The hardest player in this game also gave the warmest hug, and at this time others also understood very well, Webber was one against two in this game, and more importantly, Weber's defensive involvement in the team is now getting bigger and bigger, which means that his feeling of defense has changed, and almost everyone knows it.
When he was in the Kings, he rarely took out the energy to participate in defense because he had been scoring and organizing with all his might, but after he arrived at the Lakers, the offense didn't need him much, and he could still do a good job of organizing him, but he also had enough energy to defend, and when he went all out to defend, this effect was extremely beneficial to the Lakers team, after all, for Lakers players, it is an extremely good thing to have a pillar on their inside.
In the past, Webber was not a pillar player like Duncan who could be relied on on both offensive and defensive ends, although Weber is now much worse than Duncan, but this game of playing the Bulls and the Bulls in two towers did not fall behind, which also gave Webb himself and other Lakers confidence. This is also a thing that Zhuang Fei is extremely happy about.
After the Lakers defeated the Bulls on the road, the Lakers' journey to the East was also over, and the Lakers' journey of internal destruction was also over, after the end of the game with the Bulls, Zhuang Fei also returned to Los Angeles with the team immediately, and when Zhuang Fei and the Lakers returned to Los Angeles, the league also announced other awards last month, such as the head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers Zhuang Fei won the title of the best head coach in the West last month.
Just like this time the best players in the East and West are O'Neal and Kobe, this time the best head coach in the East and West is also Zhuang Fei and Phil Jackson, it is obvious that this is the reason why many people have joined forces to hype, especially as the Christmas war is approaching, Zhuang Fei can clearly feel that the whirlpool around him is getting bigger and bigger, Zhuang Fei and Kobe are different, Kobe doesn't know that he and O'Neal have fallen into a huge trap in the NBA league and the national media, maybe for Kobe and O'Neal, They just simply look down on each other and simply want to defeat each other, but now after public opinion brings several obviously oriented reports, the contradiction between the two has slowly begun to change direction. It's just that for Zhuang Fei, this is the NBA.
Since you are here, you have to adapt to the rules here, although Zhuang Fei can defy some rules when he is strong to a certain extent, but he can't despise everything, of course, although the NBA officials and media have begun to hype up the Christmas game crazy, but the impact on the Lakers is not too big.
December 3rd, Los Angeles Staples Arena, today is the Los Angeles Lakers' home game against the bottom of the West, before this game, Kobe Bryant also accepted the NBA official player of the month trophy from you in the applause of the fans, and now he has been completely recognized by all the Lakers fans, you know, O'Neal's departure Kobe Bryant is one of the important reasons, for Kobe, Lakers fans have no pimples in their hearts, it is impossible, but this season averages 38 points per game in a single month, The team played crazy offensive basketball, and the Lakers' results were also the first in the league, all of which accelerated the fans' forgiveness of Kobe, so before this game, Kobe Bryant was also extremely excited when he received the trophy and heard the fans chanting MVP, which was his heart knot.
And when this game started, the Warriors really felt the fighting spirit of the Lakers, the new player of the month.
The Warriors have been unlucky in the past two seasons, last season's boss Anthony Walker suddenly lost his fighting spirit, his physical condition was completely out of shape due to alcohol and others, and the competitive situation was naturally getting worse, this season's Warriors' leading player is still the same, and even more tragic when they traded Fisher from the Lakers last season also left on a free basis after one season, which also allowed them to give the Lakers a No. 3 pick for nothing.
This is definitely an unacceptable thing for the ambitious and ready to do a big job, but whether you accept it or not, it happened like this, and in the end the team finally became like this, and there is no way to do it, and in the end, it can only be led by Larry Hughes to compete for the top pick for next season. You know, next year, there will be a real Duncan successor, Andrew Bogut.
Of course, the battle for Bogut is next season's thing, whether Bogut can come to the Warriors to lead this team to rise like the Spurs is also a matter of the future, and in this game, the Warriors have no resistance at all, and in the last game, the Warriors also lost to the Lakers 88-140 away, which is still the reason why the Lakers did not embarrass this team, and in this game Kobe Bryant scored 51 points on 20-of-32 shooting, and he was in excellent shape, including 22 points in the fourth quarter.
Of course, most of the starters of the Lakers and Warriors were off the court in the fourth quarter, of course, the rotation of the Lakers this season is different from most teams in the league, there are no substitutes and main players, so many times even garbage time Kobe and Paul stay on the court, for many other players garbage time should be to clean up the mess, but Kobe and Paul will not stand on the court and walk around to clean up the mess.
At the end of the game, Zhuang Fei was a little surprised to hear the electronic sound of the system ringing in his ears.
"Ding, Kobe Bryant has a sense of ability because of the game, the ability is +1, and now the ability is 96, please pay attention to the host"
Kobe Bryant's ability has risen. (To be continued.) )