Chapter 41: What Kobe Bryant Needs and Kwame's "Butter Hand"

"Isn't it okay to go around, go around, go around the other side? If he can't get past him, he'll pass the ball out! ”

At the end of the first quarter, Kobe Bryant took the white towel handed over by the staff behind the bench, wiped his sweat, and complained to Fisher.

He's so excited, and the Lakers are naturally at a disadvantage.

At 26-30, the Lakers trailed by four points.

Bryant scored eight points in the first quarter and Arenas scored seven, which was about the same as two men, but Arenas also provided three assists.

The rest of the Wizards team is also working hard, and the Lakers have been passive throughout the first quarter.

Fisher, who communicated on the court several times and didn't understand his intentions, became the object of Kobe's complaints.

Fisher looked depressed and didn't dare to reply.

He does have responsibility, when the Wizards cover each other on the outside, he can't always get around in time, Kobe Bryant switches defenses with him, and he can't get around.

Arenas' 3 assists are basically taking advantage of his weakness of slow lateral movement to play the ball to his teammates.

Caron Butler was "well fed" and he scored six points in the first quarter, two of which came from Arenas' passes.

Can......

What can he do, he is 33 years old, his already inconspicuous physical fitness has further declined, and his lateral movement can't be fast.

On the court, at the beginning of the second quarter, Li Wan came on the court with a bench rotation lineup, and Kwame Brown was among them.

He looked at Eddie Jordan on the sidelines, his eyes full of war.

In the 03~04 season, the first season after Michael Jordan's third retirement, the 21-year-old Kwame Brown averaged a career-high 10.4 points and 7 rebounds per game.

Compared with the same period, this season's "Little Shark" Bynum averaged 13 points and 10 rebounds per game in three games, and the gap was not very large.

Kwame Brown is also confident of playing better in the fourth season of his career, and he also worked on shooting in the summer, but an injury before the start of the training game left him out of the run-in for the entire team, and when he returned from injury, Eddie Jordan was no longer on the roster.

After that, he had a falling out with Eddie Jordan, and the management chose Eddie Jordan and sent him away.

This gave Kwame Brown another blow to his self-confidence and increased doubts about his own abilities.

Just seeing Eddie Jordan, thinking of his lack of attention to himself at the beginning, thinking of the Wizards choosing him between him and himself, no matter how much of a person he has, he will have the idea of playing a brilliant performance.

This is true even for Kwame Brown.

There was a lot of boos from the audience.

That was the Washingtonians who were looking forward to a big game for the Wizards in the 01~02 season, and in their eyes, Kwame Brown ruined everything.

Brown, who was quite scrappy, instinctively shrank his head, but he was slapped on the back, and when he looked back, it was Li Wan.

"Why are you stunned, it's our turn!"

Li Wan motioned for him to stand, and Jordan Farmar also dribbled to the front court at this time, and after communicating with Li Wan, he gave the ball to his hand.

Roger Mason stood across from him.

The man who later saved the Spurs' guard line in the 08~09 season is still working on a stable long-term contract, and Li Wan called Kwame Brown to block and dismantle high.

This is what "parallel importers" do best. Coupled with the awareness of pick-and-roll, these two collars have kept him in this league for 11 years.

Roger reacted quickly and stuck in front of Kwamei, and once Li Wan went around the cover, he could also squeeze over immediately.

The basic skills of this hand anti-blocking and dismantling are still good.

Li Wanti changed direction forward, simply did not take Kwame-Brown's side, lowered the center of gravity, and broke through.

Roger confronted him, couldn't stop him, and watched Li Wan break through to the free throw line.

Andre Bradge on the inside stopped in front of him, and when Li Wan was about to get to him, he took the ball with both hands and stuffed it to the right side, a "don't look at people" pass to the ground, and when the ball hit the ground and bounced up, in front of it, a pair of hands that the outside players felt too small covered it.

That's Kwame Brown who followed up.

"What a ball!"

Phil Handy clenched his fists and shouted unconsciously, the Wizards' big center was struggling to chase after Kwame Brown, Blatch pulled Li Wan to the outside of the reasonable collision zone, the Wizards' interior line was completely empty, and he had already seen Kwame Brown easily score the ball.

Kwame Brown, who just had the ball in his hand, took a step forward and was lifting the ball up, and the ball actually came out of his hand......

Slipped off!

I knew it!

Phil Jackson was no surprise at all.

He once mocked his "buttery hands" by saying in front of the media that "I won't let Kwame Brown hold my baby anyway".

Fortunately, the place where the ball flew was Turyav.

"The Butcher" grabbed the ball, jumped high and completed the dunk.

Kwame Brown's "turnover" turned into an assist.

Seeing that he didn't lose a great offensive opportunity because of his mistakes, Kwame Brown breathed a sigh of relief. But he still didn't dare to look at Li Wan, he felt that he had betrayed Li Wan's trust.

The Wizards fans rang out with mocking boos again.

Kwame Brown is really still Kwame Brown, it really hasn't changed at all!

"Defend and defend, Kwamei, if the opposite side also blocks and dismantles, you don't lift up, get stuck in the basket position, you can interfere with him."

Li Wan patted Kwame Brown and asked him to stand where he wanted him to stand.

When Kwamei saw that Li Wan didn't mention his mistake at all, there was a lot less apprehension in her eyes.

The Wizards' current ball-handler is Antonio Daniels.

This is a lesser-known parallel import, expensive as the No. 4 pick in the first round in '98, when he pressed Maddie and other active superstars behind him.

But so far, the best year per game in the season is the 00~01 season, and it is only 9.4 points per game.

He is not often seen on the "parallel import" list because he helped Tim Duncan win the championship in '99.

It's just that since he left the Spurs, his performance has deteriorated.

Weaknesses: Unable to adapt to high-intensity confrontations, he has always been a surprise soldier on the bench.

"If they block on the outside, then we'll change too!"

Li Wan communicated with Vujacic again.

“OK!”

Vujacic didn't hesitate at all, nodding in response. When I wanted to "touch" Li Wan, the rebellious look was completely gone.

Antonio's idea was expected by Li Wan, he crossed cover with Mason on the outside, and Li Wan immediately switched positions with Vujacic on his side.

This quick switch made Kobe Bryant's eyes shine, and it was the speed he always wanted in the first quarter.

Antonio's pace was good, and he took the first step to sink his shoulders and pass Vujacic in the duel. But in front of him, Kwame Brown took his position early.

Vujacic forced him to break through from the bottom.

It was also at this time that Kwame Brown understood why Li Wan let him sink to the bottom line and not lean up.

Knowing that he couldn't force his way up, Antonio turned back to Mason, and Li Wan waited halfway through and easily intercepted the pass.

The Lakers' fast-break opportunity, Li Wan took the lead, the Wizards only Mason defended, and Li Wan and Vujacic answered him on the other side, fake passes, deceived Mason's center of gravity offset, Li Wan split the dunk with one hand, and smashed the ball into the basket.

It also made the main players sitting on the Wizards' bench smash up.

After Li Wan's goal, they lost the lead, and it was time for the starters to return to the field.

Phil Jackson followed the adjusted rhythm of the opposite side and beckoned Kobe Bryant and others to play.

Kwame Brown was reluctant to get off the court, and for more than 3 minutes, what impressed him the most was the "take-off", and he didn't want to leave Washington with such an impression.