"Coach, Kobe Bryant has been feeling a little manic lately"

On December 15, 2004, in the Los Angeles Lakers head coach's office, Stephen Green, assistant coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, said to Zhuang Fei helplessly that the situation of Kobe Bryant in the last week of training made him a little careful.

It can be said that his current Zhuang Fei is almost able to burn himself, and at this time, Zhuang Fei just let him only play three quarters a game, which is undoubtedly making the Lakers' leading player a little uncomfortable, Kobe Bryant must have no objection to Zhuang Fei's arrangement, and in the end he can only hold back on the team's training ground, and finally make Green on the side look a little uncomfortable.

For him, it is much better for Kobe to vent his anger on the court at this time than in practice, because several rookies on the team who defend him, whether Ariza or Tony Allen, have been choked by him enough, and in this case, neither Green nor Thibodo wants the player, who has been fierce this season, to play his teammates to death without playing the enemy to death.

"Wouldn't that be nice? It's not bad to let him hold back for a while, aren't there still three games? Just keep playing" Faced with his assistant's proposal, Zhuang Fei also put down the newspaper in his hand and said with a smile.

At this time, the Lakers head coach who got Zhuang Fei's reply also sighed helplessly, and finally had no way to return to the training hall, and at this time Kobe Bryant is estimated to be still abusing Tony Allen or Ariza Of course, it may also be Jones.

And looking at the back of his assistant leaving, Zhuang Fei also showed a smile on the corner of his mouth again. Then his eyes looked at the newspaper on his desk with some amusement. The front of the newspaper reads 'The New York Times,' and the headline at the top of the paper reads, 'December 25th.' The New York Knicks will settle everything with that Chinese', and this report is the New York Times Christmas War special interview with New York Knicks general manager Dolan Jr., it is clear that Dowlan Jr. wants to settle everything between him and Zhuang Fei.

With Christmas approaching, the United States has become more and more festive, especially for an international metropolis like Los Angeles, Zhuang Fei has received a lot of Christmas wishes every time he goes out shopping, and the number of Santa Claus in Staples Arena has also increased in recent home games. This is the most important holiday in the United States, and it is also the most important holiday in the NBA, and this holiday is also likely to be Zhuang Fei's midterm exam.

Although Christmas is approaching, Zhuang Fei's midterm exam is approaching, but there is still a period of time in between, and during this time, the Lakers' schedule is not so easy, although they beat the SuperSonics on the road, it is also because the SuperSonics and the Lakers have a similar style, but the strength is indeed inferior to the Lakers. And on December 16, the Los Angeles Lakers challenged the Kings away, and the game was not so easy to play

Which team has lost the most to the Lakers this season. There is no doubt that everyone knows that it is the Magic, who scored the most 202 points in NBA regular season history by the Lakers at home, and was abused by 169 points at home, which can be said to be the worst loss in NBA history, and it is precisely because of the loss of this game that the Magic is now facing the fate of being disbanded.

However, even if it is such a big loss to the Lakers, although the Magic fans are absolutely unwelcome to the Lakers, but this team, whether it is the fans or the management, is aimed at their own people, not at Zhuang Fei and his Lakers, not long ago the Lakers and Magic in the second game of the season The new head coach of the Magic also praised the Lakers and Zhuang Fei.

And unlike the Magic, the Kings, who were originally ambitious and ready to rise again at the beginning of the season, were caught off guard by the Lakers in the first game, and the team quickly fell into a quagmire, knowing that the Kings Lakers, who have only slowly returned to the right track in recent times, are absolutely hated, and this hatred is not even lower than that of the Jazz Lakers.

At least on December 16, when Zhuang Fei appeared at the King's home arena with the Los Angeles Lakers, the huge boos from all directions simply made Zhuang Fei think that he was coming to the Jazz home court again, if it weren't for the fact that the Lakers were not surrounded by crazy fans when they got off the plane, this really made the Lakers think they had come to Salt Lake City.

And in addition to the crazy boos of the Kings fans, Zhuang Fei can also clearly feel that the eyes of the Kings players after they come on the court are different from the first game of the two teams. These guys are ready to fight hard in this game, and in the NBA, for any team, as long as the opponent is desperate, then the game will be very difficult.

In fact, although the Kings are not in the playoff zone now, the strength of this team is definitely in the playoff zone, and the first game between the Lakers and the Kings is not a reflection of the true level of both sides, and Zhuang Fei is also very clear about this, after all, the Kings killed the Lakers in the preseason before that game.

At that time, they were in a position of underdog, and the team's rookie player Ben Gordon was still in the first game of the NBA, and he did not relieve the pressure on Byron Davis and the Kings at all, but continued to add chaos, in this case, it is understandable that the Kings lost the first game like that, and then the team's confidence was hit by a huge loss in the first game is also understandable.

It's just that when this sinking team climbs up from the sinking, their combat power is absolutely terrifying.

Of course, in this game, whether the Kings are back on their feet or not, Zhuang Fei is not ready to stay, even if the Lakers have a back-to-back game against the Wizards tomorrow.

The Kings are now at home with some concerted efforts to wash away the shame of the first game of the season, and Zhuang Fei did not intend to let the Kings choke the Lakers so easily.

After all, the team's starting point guard is Byron Davis, who is the top in the league in terms of experience and ability, if it weren't for the fact that he was humiliated by Hardaway in the first game, and finally humiliated by Paul again, he would not have played that kind of game, and the King would not have lost so badly in the end, and in addition to Byron Davis, the passing and possession ability of other Kings players is also very good.

And after the start of this game, the almost crazy King also played a little anxious with the Lakers, at least at the end of the first quarter, the Los Angeles Lakers and the King played a little equal.

"Coach, they're preparing for this game when the finals are playing, right? Don't they know they have back-to-back games tomorrow?"

On the Lakers' bench, Lakers assistant coach Green also wiped the cold sweat on his forehead helplessly and said, and at this time, the game in the second quarter also began, compared with the Lakers' large-scale rotation, the king still kept the main players on the court in the second quarter.

"It seems that they are really ready to give up tomorrow's game" looked at the dignified head coach of the Kings not far away, Zhuang Fei also said with a wry smile, the NBA is afraid that every game will encounter such a bad team, but he appreciates Adelman's persistence in this game, you know, in the past, Adelman was not such a character, if it wasn't for the Lakers in the first game of this season, the king was injured too deeply, it is estimated that he would not be like this in this game.

The Kings played fiercely in this game, and the Lakers were not prepared to concede, in this case there was a lot of physical contact in this game, although the Los Angeles Lakers were able to take the initiative slightly with their own strength, and the Lakers' No. 5 tactic also looked slightly better than Princeton.

But there is no doubt that at the end of the half, when the Kings played almost the full half, the two teams tied at halftime, which was also the first time this season that the Los Angeles Lakers drew with a team at halftime, and at halftime Zhuang Fei clearly saw that the momentum of the Kings players was still very strong.

In fact, at the beginning of the second half, the king still inherited the spirit of the first half, the Lakers and the king still played fiercely, which made Zhuang Fei unable to see that this is a team with extremely bad defense, sometimes this kind of crazy physical contact can make up for the team's defensive holes to a certain extent, and when the third quarter of the game ended, the Lakers only led by less than five points, because at the end of the third quarter of the game, the score of Shuangfei was 86-82, and the Los Angeles Lakers only led by four points.

"Coach, do you want Kobe Bryant to play in the fourth quarter?" Kobe Bryant's performance in this game is still very good, facing Ben Gordon, a rookie player, he scored a Lakers' highest 36 points, 36 points in the third quarter, which is still very high, but there is too much physical contact in this game, so the Lakers' overall offense is not extremely good, which also made him not able to score 40 points, and at this time, after the game dragged into the fourth quarter, the game was still anxious, and it was not appropriate to sit on the bench at this time as the head of the team. So after Green asked, Zhuang Fei's face was also a little tangled, but in the end he gritted his teeth, and then continued Kobe Bryant on the bench.

But fortunately, in this game, the Kings, who were almost exhausted in the first three quarters, failed to continue to block the Lakers in the fourth quarter, and in the end, with Webb's performance of 14 points in the fourth quarter, the Lakers defeated the Kings 120-107 away, and in this game Webber alone scored a triple-double performance of 24 points, 16 rebounds and 12 assists, and also won the MVP of this game, and in Zhuang Fei's view, the former leader of the Kings won the MVP on behalf of the visiting team in this place that originally belonged to him, At this time, he should have been in an extremely complicated mood.

In fact, when the host interviewed him after the game, in the MVP calls of some Kings fans, the voice of the Lakers' current leader was a little choked, which also made Zhuang Fei sigh a little.

But Webb was much luckier than Hardaway. (To be continued.) )