The score on the court was 97:93, and the Heat still led the Lakers by four points.
However, this game is really weird!
Since Kobe was replaced by Phil Jackson in the second half of the second quarter, the Lakers' lineup has been adjusting, but after that, Kobe didn't even have a second of playing time. Phil Jackson also
The old god was here, and he didn't call a timeout or make any tactical adjustments. It was as if these two people were suddenly outside the tactics, or in other words, outside the entire Lakers team. This made Adrian feel...
Pretty bad.
The Heat's lineup is uneven, and the aging phenomenon is very serious. Counting down the Heat's lineup, the only star who can play is Dwyane Wade. It should have been a game that could be won easily, but instead
It is inexplicable that it has reached such a level of entanglement. Considering Adrian's mentality of pursuing an easy win, it is natural for him to be unhappy. But besides being unhappy, there is more confusion.
I'm wondering what happened to the master-disciple pair of Kobe and Phil Jackson!
However, at the last moment of the game, Phil Jackson seemed to suddenly remember his responsibilities and made some adjustments to the lineup in the last minute. Center Bynum, power forward Vladimir Radman
Norwich, small forward: Luke Walton, shooting guard: Vujacic, point guard: Adrian.
This is a lineup that favors three-pointers. There are three players on the field who can shoot three-pointers, especially Vladimir Radmanovic. He was able to get a mid-level contract because of him.
Accurate shooting from the outside. If this lineup is used at the last moment, there is of course no problem except that Kobe does not play, but the problem is the tactics?
There are hundreds of named tactics in NBA. Except for a few classic tactics, 80% of them are used in the last minute of the game and are effective at the absolutely critical moment. It can be said that judging a main
The basis of a coaching ability is his adjustments and tactical arrangements at critical moments.
But Phil Jackson has no intention of arranging tactics...
After this new lineup was put on the court, the Lakers made a mistake in their first offense. After Adrian broke through, he passed the ball to Radmanovic. However, it may be because he did not play for a long time today. Radmanovic
After Vic came on the court, he was quite uncomfortable. He actually made a mistake in catching the ball. He didn't control the ball firmly with both hands and let the basketball fall from his palms to the ground!
By the time Radmanovic reacted and wanted to grab the basketball on the floor, Harlesim, who was quick-sighted and quick-witted, had already picked up the basketball and threw it towards the frontcourt. The running Wade rushed straight into the frontcourt like a bolt of lightning.
He got the basketball before anyone else and scored his 40th point of the game with a fast break dunk.
With less than a minute left, the point difference was widened to six points.
In the next attack, Adrian chose to do it himself, pushing away Williams with his back in the low post and directly cutting to the basket for a layup, narrowing the point difference to four points again.
But immediately afterwards, Wade broke through with the ball and attracted Adrian's defensive attention, but instead of taking credit, he distributed the ball to Williams, who was unguarded on the outside. Although after Pat Riley's transformation,
Next time, White Chocolate's fancy passing gradually disappeared, but its three-pointers became more and more accurate.
Adrian pounced hard, but was unable to interfere with Williams' three-point shot. He made a steady hit and the point difference was widened to seven points.
After losing, Adrian felt helpless and dissatisfied as he looked at the timer on the basketball stand that had reached single digits!
As Adrian missed a random three-pointer at the last moment, the referee blew the whistle to end the game, and the Lakers didn't even use foul tactics...
At the end of the game, Wade deservedly became the MVP of the game with his 40 points, seven assists, five rebounds and two steals.
Adrian was extremely depressed. Although he scored 27 points, 16 assists, and a luxurious double-double of 20 plus 10, Adrian was still very depressed after losing the game like this. It was not that he couldn't accept it.
Losing, but really can't accept losing due to such inexplicable reasons.
Adrian wanted to find out more about Phil Jackson. The reason why it wasn't Kobe but Phil Jackson was because Adrian believed that compared to the aloof Kobe, Phil was undoubtedly more talkative. In today's weird situation, he
I really don’t want to experience it a second time!
But as soon as the game ended, Phil Jackson went to the press conference, causing Adrian to miss the best opportunity. After the press conference, the evening newspaper delivered by the Miami Beach Hotel had already been delivered to Adrian.
questions were answered.
"Kobe Bryant: Kupchak is a piece of trash!"
In the Miami Evening News that day, a large photo of Kobe occupied half of the page.
"Report from this newspaper: Before the start of the Christmas Day game between the Lakers and the Heat at the American Airlines Center in Miami this afternoon, Lakers star Kobe Bryant made a shocking statement in an interview with the media. He publicly accused the Lakers general manager.
Mitch Kupchak's trading operations are called elementary school level..."
Adrian read the report with his mouth wide open. The whole article mentioned names. It is conceivable that this report was definitely not concocted by the reporter of the Miami Evening News. It was actually what Kobe Bryant said during the interview.
talk!
But Adrian couldn't be sure whether he said it or not. After all, he was far away at the time and the environment was relatively noisy. He couldn't hear clearly what Kobe was saying at that time, but he could vaguely remember Phil at that time.
-Jackson was standing a few meters behind Kobe and must have heard everything.
"Is it because of this that these two people are not interested in competing?" Adrian was puzzled, but he couldn't decide. But he also roughly understood that this was not a good time to go to Jackson.
That night, only a few media in Miami made relevant reports. Early the next morning, the shocking words about Kobe had been published on the front pages of major sports media across the country, and it suddenly became a topic in the entire NBA.
One of the hot topics that attracts the most attention, countless people are speculating on Kobe’s intention when he suddenly said these words.
Do you want to transfer and leave the Lakers?
Or force the Lakers management to make a big trade to strengthen the team's lineup?
