Chapter Twenty-Four: The Way That's Not the Way
There is a kind of person in the NBA called paranoid. These people have basically succeeded in the NBA. The representatives of them are Jordan, Kobe and James. These three people not only have extremely strict requirements on their performance on the court, but even their teammates will also be extremely strict. Jordan and James have a good relationship with their teammates at least in the team.
Kobe is completely a cold-hearted person. Whoever dares to come and hug him will be ready to ice at any time. So he is not very popular in the team. In the first quarter, Kobe shot four goals, and two of them were blocked by Zhang Kong. The remaining two shots were also very outrageous, one was not touched by three, and the other hit the rebound, and the basket was not even next to each other.
This situation made Kobe very angry. At 27-22, the Kings led the Lakers by 5 points in the first quarter of home court.
The team is in trouble now and someone needs to stand up. In addition, four goals were dropped by Zhang Kong... Kobe was furious!
At the beginning of the second quarter, he brought the ball to Zhang Kong to fight one-on-one. Yes, he came to fight one-on-one. Generally speaking, Anthony and others would not come to fight one-on-one in this case. If he couldn't score, wouldn't that be a waste of opportunity?
But Kobe doesn't care. He must come to Zhang Kong to fight alone. Even if Phil Jackson doesn't let him go, it will be useless.
Unless he is replaced, but if the team is behind, the absolute core of the team is not what Phil Jackson and Lakers boss Bass are willing to see. Seeing Kobe dribbling the ball through halftime, Zhang Kong posted it up.
Now Zhang Kong's only task is to defend Kobe, although this seems to be getting more and more troublesome in Zhang Kong.
This is Kobe's third time dribbled the ball himself in the second quarter. Kobe's dribbled the ball himself in his own way. This is his tradition.
Maluf was sitting in his office at this time, holding a cigar while watching the performance on TV.
Now Zhang Kong and Kobe are fighting, Kobe attacking and Zhang Kong defending, have been back and forth for seven rounds. Although he has added three blocks to Zhang Kong, Kobe has also thrown the ball four times. As long as Kobe throws the ball in, he will get the momentum back.
"Scoring the goal, scoring! How easy it is for you. As long as you score the ball!" Maluf started to cheer for his enemy at this time. In his eyes, this bastard Zhang Kong became very disgusted.
However, the goal was not as simple as they thought. Kobe looked at Zhang Kong in front of him. He had already suffered a lot in the hands of this young man, but his surname was like this. If he didn't score a goal, he wouldn't even convince himself.
Although Phil Jackson has noticed Kobe's changes, he did not say much. He knew best what kind of person Kobe was. If he couldn't pass the newcomer Zhang Kong, then he wouldn't be Kobe!
"Come on, young man!" Kobe stared at Zhang Kong in front of him with cold eyes. His dribbling speed was getting faster and faster. Zhang Kong used his special skills to get stuck on Kobe's way forward. Facing Kobe, Zhang Kong really didn't have many ways except skills. Defense depends on skills and experience more than offense. Although Zhang Kong's skills are good, his experience is very poor.
He only played these four regular games in total and had no experience in the game. Every time Kobe dribbled the ball to challenge him, he would have new moves, which made Zhang Kong even more difficult to adapt. If he had no skills, Zhang Kong might have been sieve long ago! Fortunately, Zhang Kong also has skills, and this skill is very powerful!
Kobe half-squatted down and suddenly accelerated and rushed towards Zhang Kong's right. Kobe's speed was very fast. Although he was not as perverted as Wade, Harris and others, he was definitely one of the fastest speeds in the league.
Zhang Kong saw Kobe's movements, moved his small steps gently, and then came to the other party first.
Kobe looked at the blocked road. If he was an ordinary player, he might have to stop suddenly. However, Kobe could suddenly change direction during the process and then break to the left. Such a change of direction is very harmful to his knees. Zhang Kong on this side also made a turn on the spot, with his left foot as the axis. Just a turn turned around just in front of Kobe again. The two fought wits and courage, and kept fighting, fighting near the three-point line. Although he did not score, it also stunned the other players.
Looking at Zhang Kong who was defending Kobe, Phil Jackson's eyes narrowed. Zhang Kong was even more difficult to deal with than he thought. He was very fast, jumped very high, and had very good steps. He dribbled well, had no problems with physical fitness, and had very strong strength. With such a body, it was impossible for Phil Jackson to understand Chinese players to appear on Chinese players. However, Zhang Kong came out of nowhere and came to Sacramento and became the Kings' defensive vanguard.
"If the Lakers have his defense, they can definitely win the championship!" Phil Jackson thought to Zhang Kongxin.
Now that the Lakers' offense has taken shape, they are not short of offense now, what they lack is defense!
In the finals last year, the Lakers lost to the Celtics because there was no solid defensive gate. Now it seems that if Zhang Kong had, it would have been almost a matter of being the Lakers winning the championship. Unfortunately, Zhang Kong would never be able to join the Lakers. After all, Zhang Kong's identity is there... 0 basic salary is good, but that contract...
At this time, Kobe had already started his new round of offense on the court. If he couldn't break to the left, there were other ways.
Kobe has recognized it now. He has no way to force Zhang Kong to succeed by himself, so at this time it is better to take a step back and make a secret gesture to Bynum in the distance. Bynum ran out of the inside with a sarcastic smile on his face.
When Miller saw Bynum go out, he knew that things were not good! Sure enough! Although Zhang Kong took a step forward, Bynum was still stuck. Kobe took advantage of this opportunity to break into the basket.
He played small at the basket and faced Miller, who was already very slow in moving speed, so Kobe had a very good chance of scoring.
But just when everyone thought that Kobe would score his first goal in the game, Zhang Kong next to him suddenly lost his balance and hit Kobe in front like a shell. Just as Kobe was not prepared, he hit him directly.
Zhang Kong's collision not only made Kobe's movement center of gravity stumble, but also scared everyone. Generally, no one would do this under such circumstances. Maluf in the office even jumped up all of a sudden.
He didn't understand what Zhang Kong was thinking. He dared to hit Kobe for two points! How did Kobe be Zhang Kong's opponent? With huge power, the two flew out horizontally. However, Zhang Kong made a move to protect Kobe in the air, and then landed on the ground first. However, even so, Zhang Kong had a malicious foul, and Kobe fell to the ground hit the crowd. Seeing him covering his arms and not getting up, you know that Kobe was injured...
The two groups of people were like a frying fry, and surrounded the two people who fell to the ground. Zhang Kong was fine, so he shook his head and stood up, while Kobe was still lying there. Through the replay on the big screen, everyone could see clearly that when Zhang Kong was chasing back, he did not deliberately hit Kobe, but was tripped by Bynum's open right foot, and then he flew out.
In this situation, the referee didn't know how to make a penalty. Zhang Kong didn't do it on purpose, but he did bump into Kobe, and it seemed that Kobe was really injured. After the team doctor checked, he carried Kobe off the court. After the three referees and the fourth official made some calculations, they also showed Zhang Kong a second-level malicious foul gesture and drove Zhang Kong out.
At this time, the players on both sides calmed down. Zhang Kong left the court and exchanged for Kobe to leave the court, which was definitely a very worthwhile thing.
Originally, everyone thought that Zhang Kong knocked down Kobe was an accident, but no one noticed that when Zhang Kong left the field, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Today, he received the most blocks, a total of 250,000, and no points were lost!
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Chapter completed!