"Am I starting?" Adrian pointed to his nose with a hand, his face full of disbelief. Although he had expected this day and planned for this day, it came so quickly, as if trains had grown all over the earth overnight.
Adrian was caught off guard.
"What, is there a problem?"
"No, no, no, I'm just a little surprised. I didn't expect to become the starting player so soon." After the initial surprise, Adrian quickly calmed down. This kind of indifference attitude even made even an old man like Phil Jackson tolerate it.
I couldn't help but be shocked, even he, at this age, definitely didn't have such a deep palace.
"Well, in short, that's it." Adrian's calm performance made Phil Jackson's pre-planned rhetoric useless. However, Phil Jackson was worthy of being an old man, and he quickly adjusted like Adrian.
Said: "If nothing else happens, the Sonics' starting point guard should be Luke Ridnour. You have to pay special attention to his assist ability."
"I understand, Mr. Coach." Adrian nodded slightly and said, "I know what I should do."
On the morning before the game against the Sonics, Phil Jackson participated in the team's training that day. After the training, in addition to announcing that Kobe Bryant would return to the starting lineup in tonight's game against the Sonics
, and even announced that Adrian will serve as the starting point guard for tonight's game against the SuperSonics.
This was unexpected news, and it was also frustrating news for many people. Farmar was depressed for a while, and then got excited again. Adrian could become a starter from the bench, and Farmar thought he could too. So he became even more excited.
Training hard! Parker also felt frustrated, but when he was frustrated, he was complaining more.
As for Shamon's Williams, he had no reaction. Adrian started, he was a substitute, Parker started, he was a substitute. Farmar started, he was still a substitute. Because he is the water cooler keeper, who is the starter?
Of course Shamond didn't care.
Relatively speaking, he felt quite happy, because Adrian and he got along well. Compared to Parker, who had a weird temper, Adrian, who was sunny, handsome, and polite, was obviously more popular.
As for Adrian, after the game, he rarely continued his shooting and dribbling training, but locked himself in the video room.
Seeing Adrian walk into the video room after training, Phil Jackson smiled in the dark: "Do you still feel nervous? But he is a good and motivated kid."
In this game, Odom was put into the substitute lineup by Phil Jackson. Although he was said to be a substitute, in fact, Odom's playing time was only more, not less, than that of the main players. Phil put him on the bench.
The only reason for the substitute lineup is to hope that he can lead the players on the court to score as many points as possible during the substitute time. As for the main lineup, the offensive power has improved a lot after Kobe's return. At the same time, because the ball rights will be concentrated in Kobe's hands, O.K.
Dom couldn't get any more chances.
Odom is not dissatisfied with this at all. After several years with the Lakers, he has long been tamed by the Zen Master.
During the day, he watched two hours of video in the video room. At night, when the game started, Adrian had completely calmed down. Sitting in the locker room, Adrian was even a little indifferent, waiting indifferently for his playing time.
"Zen Master" Phil Jackson squinted his eyes and sat in the locker room without saying a word. No one could figure out what the old man was thinking.
"This is an opportunity!"
Adrian knew it all!
I don’t know what the reason was that made Phil Jackson suddenly decide to give himself the starting position. But Adrian understood that this time, as long as he seizes the opportunity, the Lakers’ starting point guard position will be more than half.
fell into his own hands.
This is also the reason why he chose the Lakers in the first place. In addition to the fact that the Los Angeles Lakers are a purple and gold dynasty, a wealthy team. In addition to Los Angeles being closer to his home, the Los Angeles Lakers' shortcomings in the point guard position are also the reasons why Adrian chose the Lakers.
one.
As long as he succeeds, he no longer needs to worry about playing time.
"Hello, audience friends, it's game time again tonight, and here is Stu Lantes to provide commentary for everyone." In the Lakers' commentary box, the golden pair of Stu Lantes and Meyers are still sitting.
.
"This is Meyers."
"Meyers, we just got two pieces of good news just before the start of today's game. After recuperating at the beginning of the season, head coach Phil Jackson has returned to Staples and directed the team this morning.
Training, and now he has returned to the position of head coach. The other thing is that Kobe, after the team doctor’s diagnosis, it has been determined that Kobe’s knee has recovered well and is enough to support the game. And we also learned from the Lakers
The team has received definite news that Kobe will start tonight. Meyers, do you think these two things will have any impact on the current Lakers?"
"Of course it's a good influence." Meyers said without thinking: "We can celebrate a little. After missing two games, now this Lakers is finally becoming complete step by step. Jackson is the best in the NBA.
One of the coaches, Kobe is also one of the best scorers in the NBA, and their comeback is of self-evident significance to the Lakers."
"Okay, let's see, the players from both sides have appeared."
When Kobe stepped onto the court in his training uniform, Adrian had a close encounter with an interpretation of the meaning of a superstar. The deafening cheers and applause that erupted from the audience almost made Adrian suspect that it was
It's not that they have won today's game.
And when Kobe smiled and waved to the audience, Adrian could clearly hear the screams of the fans at the scene suddenly rising an octave higher.
Adrian wouldn't say that he didn't care about this kind of differential treatment, although he didn't show it on his face, although it was not the first time he had seen such a popular superstar, although he had even seen him get warm reception in away games.
The cheering superstar. But when Adrian, as one of them, stood next to him, Adrian still felt envious and jealous!
No matter how enthusiastic the audience's response is to Kobe's appearance, it cannot change that the game will start on time as planned.
Bynum and Portnoy jump ball!
Although Bynum is not very strong, he really has a lot of advantages in jumping the ball. He moved the basketball from above Portnow's head to his own half. Adrian controlled the basketball and surpassed
The Sonics were obviously not confident about their center's ability to jump the ball, and at this time they had fully retreated from defense.
Adrian slowly advanced to the frontcourt step by step, and then directly handed the basketball to Kobe Bryant, who was standing at a 45-degree angle from the three-point line. The other players on the Lakers also pulled away.
Leave room for Kobe to play in singles.
As is customary for NBA teams, the first offense is completed by the core of the team. This is a demonstration of the power of the team boss. Of course, there are exceptions, such as the Magic. No one expects Howard to complete an offense duly.
After catching the ball, Kobe dribbled a few times, but seemed to be unable to find any good openings, and passed the basketball back to Adrian.
"Damn, I told you if you didn't want to attack. Half of the time has passed, and the good position is gone." Adrian complained in his heart, but there was nothing he could do to Kobe. Seeing that there were only more than ten seconds left in the attack time, Adrian
Knowing that he could no longer hesitate, he swatted the basketball and took a big step forward with his right foot. Adrian directly pressed Ridnour and broke through inside.
As a 203cm point guard, Adrian's breakthrough is very unique. His ability to change direction is not strong. After Adrian's unique intensive training, he has only reached the average level of the league's defender, but he has
Has weaknesses that other point guards don't have.
He is tall enough, which allows him to take a very long first step, almost equivalent to one and a half steps for an average point guard. At the same time, Adrian is also very strong. This powerful strength allows him to take a leisurely stroll.
Pressing most of the point guards to break through forcefully.
Luke Ridnour relaxed on defense. Before he could react, Adrian had already rushed past him, and Wilcox immediately pounced from the left.
Adrian's eyes are fixed on the basket!
His right foot hit the ground hard, and before Wilcox could catch up, Adrian had already risen into the sky. Wilcox also jumped up as hard as he could, stretching out his arms with all his strength to block Adrian's hand.
basketball.
"Oops!" Wilcox suddenly showed a look of shock on his face while he was in the air. At the same time, he tried his best to take back the arm he had swung out, because he clearly saw that Adrian, who was also in the air, was stretched out by him.
After growing his arms, he showed a proud smile.
"Bang!" Adrian's arm crisply collided with Wilcox's palm that was fully recovered. At the same time, the fingers of the other hand holding the ball gently picked up, letting the basketball fly lightly to the basket.
"Beep!" The referee blew the whistle that was still in his mouth the moment the two people's arms came into contact. This foul was so obvious that even if the referee didn't want to blow the foul too quickly at the beginning, he had to blow it.
At the same time, the basketball that was gently picked up by Adrian's fingers seemed to be dancing an elegant waltz and got into the net. The basketball that entered the basket softly did not have a trace of fireworks.
"Bah, bang, bang!" applause erupted from the audience.
This goal is indeed beautiful, fully demonstrating Adrian's extraordinary strength and ability to stay in the air, as well as his ability to handle the ball lightly.
The referee also made a gesture that was effective for two points.
