Chapter 866: Kobe Bryant and Jordan
Kobe Bryant's ability value has risen from 95 to 96, which is definitely an extremely important thing for the Lakers, although the Lakers have five players with A+ potential, in addition to Kobe, Paul, Webb, Hardaway and Hill are all players with A+ potential, but in addition to Kobe, these four people are basically impossible to become an A+ player this season or in the short term.
Paul is too young and needs a lot of accumulation, he hasn't even found his own path yet, it will take a long time to become an A+ player, as for Webb and Hardaway, they are in their thirties, and they were not A+ players at their peak, and now they have returned to their peak, and it is impossible to make any progress in the future.
As for Hill, Zhuang Fei is not sure, his age is also in his 30s, but he is different from Hardaway and Webb, Hardaway and Webb did not reach the A+ level at their peak, but Hill did, if Hill can really recover his peak level then he is an A+ player, but it is obvious that for a player in his thirties, it is difficult.
So in this season, it can be said that Kobe Bryant is the Lakers' first combat power, and the upper limit of his ability determines the upper limit of the Lakers' highest combat power this season, which is why Zhuang Fei did not push Kobe Bryant down to redesign a path for him, and it is also an important reason to allow him to have the right to fire freely in the team and play in his own way as he wants.
Because of last season's Hawk County incident and Phil Jackson's suppression, the Lakers' main guard, who had become an A+ player two seasons ago, has not improved at all in the past two seasons. It even regressed last season. Even when Zhuang Fei came to the Lakers. The Lakers' home guard almost forgot his way of basketball, in this case, Zhuang Fei made Kobe Bryant score crazy in order to be able to make up for the gap in Kobe's ability in the past two years, and this effect soon became apparent, Kobe Bryant finally went one step further again.
Zhuang Fei doesn't know where the upper limit of Kobe's ability is, although A+ potential players are theoretically the pinnacle of all players, but there is no doubt that A+ is also graded. For example, Iverson, who has long been an A+ player, is still 95, and it can be said that his peak ability has not changed, while some other A+ players like Grant Hill fell when his ability reached 96, others such as Carter and Duncan are now 98, and Garnett and O'Neal are 97 and 96.
Of course, O'Neal is because of his age, and the injury factor has dropped from 98 down, so according to some conclusions that Zhuang Fei has drawn from the dynasty system, A+ players are also divided into grades, and it is difficult to say which level Kobe can reach. But for now, 96 is not low. In addition to Duncan, Carter and Garnett, it belongs to him, Maddie is now the same as him, and this kind of combat power is enough for Zhuang Fei, originally Zhuang Fei estimated that Kobe Bryant would take longer, after all, the first two or two seasons Phil Jackson destroyed him too much, and in addition to his own lack of attention last season due to external reasons, his state declined seriously due to external reasons, these all take time, and now, the Lakers' leading guard is indeed talented in the recovery ability.
Of course, no one else knows about the rise of Kobe's ability in this game, except for Zhuang Fei, so after the game, the Lakers players just feel that their head coach seems to be happy, and they don't know why they are happy, of course, Kobe, as the person concerned, is naturally somewhat aware of his own changes in this game, but his perception is only a subjective feeling, and he feels that he has been released again under Zhuang Fei, just like the All-Star Game in 2000, He just enjoyed it
"Mr. Zhuang, this is your seventeenth win this season and your seventeenth winning streak, are you interested in challenging the Lakers' all-time record of 33 consecutive wins or the Grizzlies' record of 34 consecutive wins in the league?"
Recently, the Lakers' crazy score almost makes the world feel that the NBA is a little different from the past, after all, in the eyes of many people, the NBA is different from basketball in other places, the basketball here is similar in strength, the confrontation between all teams is fierce and exciting, but the Lakers have won seventeen consecutive games in the season, and the performance of more than 110 points per game simply makes them watch the quadrennial Olympics, even more exciting than the Olympics, the Lakers played the level of the American Dream Team under the leadership of that Chinese, Even now many people feel the gorgeousness of the Dream Four team in 2000 under the leadership of Zhuang Fei and the Dream Team alongside, and in fact, the Lakers copied the Dream Team, but the other teams in the NBA are much better than those international teams in the Olympics, in this case the Lakers can still play such crazy basketball, and it would be strange if this team was not sought after.
Now the mainstream public opinion in the United States is how long the Lakers can go crazy, and many basketball experts have studied the Lakers' schedule and found that the Lakers are likely to push the winning streak to more than 30 games or more, even if it is not impossible to break the 33-game winning streak of Chamberlain and Jerry West and Carter's Grizzly Bear's 34-game winning streak, you know, in the entire month of December, this is the easiest month of the season for the Lakers, except for the Christmas battle with New York on December 25, Basically none of the other teams can pose a threat to the Lakers, even if the team is weak, even the schedule is very easy, in this case, many people in the United States have been property Lakers can really achieve such a miracle again, you know, whether it is in the Timberwolves or in the Celtics, Zhuang Fei has not achieved a record of more than 30 wins, even if he once played the best record in the history of the league with 75 wins and 7 losses.
"Of course, our goal this season is to win every game, we will give our all in any game, if we can achieve 30 consecutive victories, of course it will be fantastic, but in the NBA everything is possible, we need to come one game at a time" Zhuang Fei looked at the media in the audience and said with a smile.
Recently, because of the strength of the Lakers and Zhuang Fei, almost all of these media in the United States are extremely low-voiced. For these people. The crazier Zhuang Fei and the Lakers go, the more painful the slap marks on their faces. Who made most of them belittle the Lakers so badly at the start of the season that they couldn't even touch the threshold of the playoffs.
Of course, the weak are the weak, and they still have to do it when they need to.
"Mr. Zhuang, the head coach of the New York Knicks, Phil Jackson, said that the Lakers often played a little unconventional in the fourth quarter, breaking the rules of the NBA game, what do you think about this?"
Because Zhuang Fei has been strong recently. These reporters didn't dare to challenge Zhuang Fei, so they said it very secretly, but they could hear it with a little care, this is Phil Jackson saying that the reason why the Lakers' offense scored so many points is really brushing data, not long ago, when the New York media interviewed Phil Jackson, he asked which team in the league has the strongest offense, Phil Jackson said the New York Knicks almost without any hesitation, and the Lakers were jokingly called the 'fourth quarter' team by him.
And the team here in the fourth quarter is naturally not a team to praise, and even after that, the New York Knicks made a technical statistic, a technical statistic about Kobe Bryant and Paul, before this game. Bryant is averaging 38 points per game, which is in the New York Knicks' technical statistics. Bryant averaged 17.5 points per game in the fourth quarter, accounting for nearly half of all his points, and the Lakers have been scoring more than 30 points in the fourth quarter for most of the season.
Like Kobe, Paul averaged 15 points per game and 8.8 assists per game this season, and half of the rookie's statistics came from the fourth quarter, and Paul's average in the fourth quarter was 8 points and 5 assists. And when the technical statistics of the New York Times came out, the Lakers were also caught in the whirlpool of public opinion in the United States, after all, no team had done this before, but in the end they found that the two most controversial in the Lakers, whether it was Kobe Bryant and Paul, did not play a lot of playing time, one was an average of 36 minutes per game and the other was an average of 30 minutes per game.
But anyway, this incident still has a great impact on the two players of the Lakers, especially the rookie Paul, Kobe Bryant is okay, the Lakers have played well this season, and he is the Laker's old nature, whether he is garbage time or not, he is the Lakers' scoring champion and the first contributor, so in the end, the league also chose to give him the best in the West in the first month instead of Webber, who looks equally gorgeous in the data, and similarly, Kobe Bryant is also ranked first in the MVP rankings, but, compared with Kobe, Paul is not so lucky, the rookie player's average of 15+9 per game is actually ranked third in the rookie list, if it weren't for Howard's data and record in the first month is really bad, Paul would even lose the Western Conference Rookie of the Month hat.
So when I heard the reporter's question, Zhuang Fei, who had been smiling, also became a little ugly, this matter has been very hot recently, especially the New York Times has been tracking and reporting recently, that is, after every Lakers game, this media is very timely to list the comparison of Kobe Bryant and Paul's fourth-quarter data and full-court data, this game Kobe Bryant scored more than 20 points again in the fourth quarter, and it is estimated that tomorrow will be another bloody storm.
"Is it the strongest offensive team in the league, I don't really care about this, it's decided by the fans, fans like to watch the offense, so you can let Mr. Jackson check this year's ratings, just hope that Mr. Jackson will never say that the ratings are compared with Los Angeles is a big city bullying a small city" When he said this, Zhuang Fei's face eased a lot, but the following reporters all laughed heartily after listening to it, it was obvious that Zhuang Fei was satirizing New York and Jackson's small belly chicken intestines, The position is seriously inconsistent with the mind, and when these people will smile, Zhuang Fei also continued: "Basketball game, data is very important, players need good data to enhance their value, fans need data to see if the players are worthy of their love, but for basketball, winning or losing is more important than data, any data before winning or negative is a floating cloud, if we lose, but Kobe Bryant and Paul's data is gorgeous, you can blame, blame as much as you want, I don't think this is a provocation, That's how it should be, but if we've been winning, then it's not supposed to be, you need to see the most we win, not what our players did in garbage time, because that's the way we played, we all gave it our all, we won all the games, and you have no reason to blame the way we won"
"Besides, for me, as long as I am willing, as long as Kobe Bryant is willing, he can score 40 points in every game, there is no problem with this, he has the strength to do such a thing, no matter who his opponent is, he can score so many points, regardless of whether the opponent is the main force or not" In the end, Zhuang Fei also spread his hands and said, and at this time, when Zhuang Fei finished speaking, the audience was in an uproar again, scoring more than 40 points per game? This Chinese is not joking.
When the god Jordan said this, the whole world believed that the god Jordan could do it, but Kobe Bryant was not Jordan.
"Mr. Zhuang, I know you have always said that Kobe Bryant is as strong as Jordan, you don't really think so all the time, right" At this time, a reporter in the back row stood up and asked with some sarcasm, this is a reporter from the New York Times, at this time the reporter was sarcastic, the New York Times was doing a special issue of the Christmas War.
"I've always been very serious when I speak," Zhuang Fei answered this question with a smile despite everyone's surprise, which also made the New York Times reporter stunned.
Zhuang Fei's words at the press conference after the game with the Warriors caused a lot of waves, this is not about whether the Lakers are brushing data, but about Zhuang Fei saying that Kobe Bryant can score an average of 40 points per game and Jordan can tie for something, it is obvious that all the reporters present did not see that Zhuang Fei was joking, but serious, in this case, with Zhuang Fei's current status, then the weight of his words is not light at all. Almost immediately, the whole United States quickly threw aside the news of the Lakers' data, and then began to discuss Kobe and Jordan, and finally found that the two were really strikingly similar. And a conclusion of the New York Times after the comparison speaks to everyone's mind.
"A copycat is a copycat, even if he imitates it again, Coach Z becomes ignorant in the face of victory, and the Lakers will be defeated"
At this time, on the second day after the game with the Warriors, Zhuang Fei opened the dynasty system as soon as he came to his head coach's office, and then directly opened the inventory and used a card on Kobe. (To be continued.) )