Chapter 868: Coach Z's Quotes
When facing Zhuang Fei, Kobe Bryant felt very lucky many times, because many times he could see a lot of things in Zhuang Fei that he couldn't see in others, and Zhuang Fei gave him too many things, and it was difficult for him to count them himself.
At least the two most important leaps in his own career or NBA career were given to him by Zhuang Fei, the 2000 All-Star made him know that he could become a superstar who could be compared to O'Neal, and the current regular season let him know that he can do more than O'Neal superstar.
Just these two points are enough to make Kobe feel grateful, not to mention Zhuang Fei's various support and solidarity with him in the past, although many people were laughing at Zhuang Fei for talking nonsense at that time, but he believed it very much, and in fact this is indeed true, Zhuang Fei really thinks that he can be compared with the first person in basketball, he used to think so, and now he thinks so.
For this, Kobe Bryant is very grateful, just like Kobe said, only Zhuang Fei understands him in the whole league, and similarly, he is also very ashamed of what happened to Zhuang Fei now, after all, he caused this matter himself.
Zhuang Fei is a very team head coach, this is something that the whole world knows, so Kobe Bryant is naturally very clear about this, and it is precisely such a team head coach who has no team requirements for him after coming to the Lakers, and Kobe feels that Zhuang Fei gives him much more freedom than he wants.
He once thought that after Zhuang Fei came to the Lakers, he would try to make himself a player who met Zhuang Fei's standards, and what kind of player met Zhuang Fei's standards, of course, Carter and Maddie. In Kobe's mind, he has plans to become a player like Maddie and Carter. He is also willing to sacrifice something for Zhuang Fei. Change your playstyle.
It's just that what he never expected was that Zhuang Fei directly rejected his idea, and it was completely to make him feel happy and playful. Now many people outside are saying that Zhuang Fei dotes on him too much, for this, Kobe Bryant does not object, this is indeed true, a team-type head coach, let a team serve a player, such a thing could not have happened but the reality really happened. It's not what coddling is.
After the start of the season, Kobe Bryant was very excited to see his rising number of shots and average points per game, but now he is also a little sad to see Zhuang Fei and the criticism he encountered, he doesn't care very much, because he has been scolded by many people since he started to compete with O'Neal for the boss two years ago, but he feels a little guilty about Zhuang Fei, after all, Zhuang Fei is for him.
In this case, this somewhat childlike Lakers player also thinks that it should be changed again? Although he played well under Zhuang Fei's existing system, did it bring a lot of trouble to Zhuang Fei and his Lakers teammates? This is also the reason why Kobe Bryant asked Zhuang Fei in the Lakers training whether he could reduce his shots, but in the end, the result was that Kobe Bryant didn't know what kind of mood to use.
Zhuang Fei again rejected his suggestion. And he thinks that he has too few shots, which not only makes Kobe Bryant a little unsure of what to say. It's also the same that makes the other players of the Lakers also don't know what to say.
Of course, they have no meaning for Zhuang Fei's arrangement, the outside media can ignore Zhuang Fei's achievements in the Lakers, but they can't ignore it, if this team is not led by Zhuang Fei this year, it will be possible for them to play like this with the young and old who are said to be old, either abandoned or rookies? It's impossible.
So after Zhuang Fei gave the final answer, these Lakers players did not feel uncomfortable, no matter any orders from Zhuang Fei that they needed to be executed, since Zhuang Fei felt that Kobe Bryant's shots were less, then they would pass the ball to Kobe Bryant more, and for now, except for the team's three veterans, no one else can compare with Kobe, and these three veterans now have a stronger desire to pass the ball than an offensive desire.
"Coach, are you serious" Looking at Kobe's back in a trance, Green, who had been standing beside Zhuang Fei, also looked at Zhuang Fei with some worry and asked.
For any basketball professional, when a certain player in a team shoots too much, the team's offense will become solidified, the mobility will be reduced, and the chance of being choked in the end will also become greater, except for Jordan who said that he will never be guarded, no one dares to say that he is invincible.
Even against Carter in Wake Forest and Maddie in the Celtics, Zhuang Fei did not hand over such a heavy offensive task to them.
Although Kobe Bryant's shooting percentage is very good now, and no team can defend the Lakers' offense and Kobe's offense, but this is just the regular season, what about the playoffs? There are still many teams such as the Grizzlies, Boston, Celtics, New York Knicks and other teams, and the Los Angeles Lakers have not yet met.
Even if he met the Spurs, the Raptors and even the Bucks, Green felt that these teams had a hand, of course, Green naturally knew that the teachers around him also had a hand, but in any case, if you want to win the championship this year, it is not as simple as it seems now.
Since Kobe Bryant is willing to reduce his offense, why doesn't Zhuang Fei take advantage of the trend? In Green's opinion, this is the best period for the Lakers, but he doesn't understand why Zhuang Fei refused so directly, and he just refused and let Kobe Bryant vote more? This is not normal no matter how you look at it.
"Stephen, do you really think Kobe Bryant can change now?" Zhuang Fei looked at the Lakers guard who was back on the training ground, and said with some sighs.
For Kobe, he knows better than everyone else, and Zhuang Fei knew about Kobe's change of playing style in his previous life, but in the end, no matter how Kobe Bryant changed his playing style and how he adapted to team tactics, he would return to the original point in the end, this is Kobe's style.
This style is more obvious now than Zhuang Fei's previous life, or this Kobe is more personal than the Kobe Bryant in Zhuang Fei's previous life, which of course has a lot of Zhuang Fei's credit, such a Kobe let him learn what team basketball is like? It's impossible.
Zhuang Fei had no intention of doing so since he accepted the invitation of the Lakers head coach. Otherwise, he wouldn't have turned down Nowitzki's chance. From the very beginning, Zhuang Fei was ready to build Kobe Bryant into a peerless sword. It's just that everyone sees that he averages a whopping 39 points per game, ignoring that he has only averaged less than three assists per game this season.
"For Kobe, we don't need to change too much, team basketball does not necessarily have a player who is outside the rest of the team, this is also a very interesting new attempt," Zhuang Fei finally looked at Green with a puzzled look and said with a smile.
In fact, although he is willing to give Kobe Bryant the opportunity to shoot at will, Kobe does not have the ball in his hands, so Zhuang Fei is not worried that Kobe will shoot in vain, which is also the bottom line that Zhuang Fei gives Kobe Bryant's personal style of play. Compared with crazy shooting, crazy possession of the ball is more unteamed, as long as this is solved, the Lakers are still a team team, but the offensive point is slightly more concentrated.
Of course, it is naturally impossible for Green to know why Zhuang Fei thinks that Kobe Bryant is impossible to change, after all, when Zhuang Fei first arrived at the Celtics, Maddie's style of play was not much better than Kobe, wasn't it changed by Zhuang Fei in the end? Of course, Green didn't know that there was a difference between Maddie and Kobe.
Maddie was an A-tier player who didn't find his own path back then, and he could choose to evolve like Kobe Bryant or like Carter. In the end, Zhuang Fei forcibly pushed Carter's path, and now Kobe. Already a player who has completely found his own path and almost went black on that path, such a player is unlikely to change much.
Of course, no matter whether Green understood it or not, he knew that since Zhuang Fei had decided something, there was no possibility of change. Then in the end, Green can only hope that Kobe Bryant will not live up to Zhuang Fei's trust
In the United States, in the NBA, anything as long as Jordan or Zhuang Fei is involved, it is an extremely troublesome thing, especially when it comes to competing with Jordan, and if this person is still Zhuang Fei, then it is a trouble in trouble.
At least in the recent past, most of the media in the United States have been satirizing and ridiculing Zhuang Fei and Kobe, and for a while, all the people who sang praises to Zhuang Fei and the Lakers some time ago have all retreated back at once, which makes Zhuang Fei feel a little incredible.
He had already estimated the discipline value of the media low enough, but in the end, he found that the discipline value of these guys could be even lower, and Zhuang Fei, who was praised by them a day ago, was sprayed with scum a day later.
Of course, the media's ridicule and sarcasm of Zhuang Fei is just that, after all, the two sides have a big hatred, and it is impossible to find an opportunity not to retaliate, but Clippers owner Sterling recently suddenly stood up in a high-profile manner and said that the Clippers will take over Los Angeles again and then make Coach Z sober and sober, but Zhuang Fei is a little puzzled.
Wouldn't this guy have forgotten that the Clippers had just suffered a crushing defeat on the road not long ago? Does this guy really think that this game is the home court of the Clippers and he can pull it back? Is it really that big of a home advantage? Didn't he know that the Clippers' home court would immediately become an away game after spraying the Lakers?
Zhuang Fei now doesn't understand what kind of mentality the Clippers owner suddenly stood up in a dizzy state of mind, thinking that the Lakers would be defeated, and stepped on two feet by the way.
In fact, Clippers head coach Dunleavy Sr. also didn't know what kind of mentality his boss suddenly stood up and asked the Clippers to teach the Lakers an unforgettable lesson, and at the beginning of this season, Dunleavy did have the idea of beating Zhuang Fei.
At that time, Zhuang Fei was in the middle of a dispute over the team's lack of a center, and it was for this reason that many head coaches who were defeated by Zhuang Fei thought that they could find a chance for revenge this year, just like the Jazz's Sloan and him.
Only in the end he found that this could not win Zhuang Fei, this Chinese is definitely not so simple to beat, so this season's goal Dunleavy is only to take this Clippers to the playoffs at this time, he did not think about whether this season can make the Clippers replace the Lakers as the symbol of Los Angeles, in fact, this is impossible.
However, in the end, he was also a little powerless in the face of the team's boss's nirvana, he did not have the same decision-making power and respect as Zhuang Fei, although he was also a famous coach.
"Mr. Dunleavy, hopefully it's going to be a good performance today"
Looking at the Chinese in front of him with a smile on his face, old Dunleavy also smiled a little bitterly, especially after hearing Zhuang Fei's words.
Now the whole world knows several famous sayings of Zhuang Fei, the most famous of which is naturally when he said when he played the king, 'I am already thinking about the next round', and there are many similar after that, and among these similar quotes is 'I hope the next game will be a good game', because as long as the Chinese said this sentence before the game, this Chinese will make the team go all out, even more than just go all out.
Of course, as a famous coach, although he knows that Zhuang Fei's words carry several strong hints of winning, Dunleavy still has the dignity of his own famous coach.
"I hope so" Finally, the Clippers coach also said with a final smile, and after Zhuang Fei left, it is estimated that he did not see the Clippers head coach shaking his head helplessly at the moment he turned around, and at this time, the fans in Staples Arena were shouting the name of the Lakers, and after hearing such a voice, Dunleavy also sighed again.
Although this is the home court of the Clippers, it is actually the home court of the Lakers, and he now understands the reason why Sterling gave him a must-kill order in this game, if it is him, I am afraid he can't wait to bring down the Lakers immediately.
It's just that the Sakado Lakers are really that simple? Of course not, with the current situation of the Lakers, the outside is indeed very fierce, but no matter how fierce the outside scolding is, it will not help Dunleavy and his Clippers, the Lakers are a strong team, that is still a strong team, no matter how much the media scolds it, this cannot be changed, and this strong team also slaughtered the Clippers by a large score not long ago.
So at this time, he really didn't have confidence for Dunleavy to beat such a team.
In fact, when the final result of this game came out, the head coach of the Clippers also looked at the scoreboard on the sidelines when the corners of his mouth were only twitched, and seeing Zhuang Fei's smiling expression after the game, the head coach of the Clippers was even more heartbroken.
147-95, the Clippers were slaughtered by 52 points at home. (To be continued.) )