Chapter 817 Kobe Is so Depressed that He Wants to Cry!

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February 20, 2009, Seattle, Key Arena.

The Seattle SuperSonics host the Lakers, now second in the Western Conference.

This game between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Lakers is the third meeting between the two teams this season.

In the previous two confrontations, the Los Angeles Lakers failed. The first time was a scoring battle between Kobe and Yes. Both Kobe and Yes scored 90+ points.

But in the end, the Seattle SuperSonics defeated the Lakers because of Leafs' higher efficiency.

The second time the two teams met was before the All-Star Game, when the Los Angeles Lakers were defeated by Leafs at the last minute at home.

So far this season, the Los Angeles Lakers have only lost eight games.

Two of the losses were to the Seattle SuperSonics.

It can be said that this season, the Seattle SuperSonics, currently seventh in the Western Conference, is simply the nemesis of the second-placed Lakers in the Western Conference.

Of course, in terms of record, the SuperSonics are the Lakers' nemesis this season. There is no problem with this statement.

But in fact, the scores in the first two games between the two teams were very, very anxious.

Therefore, it is actually more accurate to say that the strength of the two teams is similar and between them.

And as analyzed by many expert media, the reason why the Lakers and SuperSonics are playing so fiercely this season is because the two teams are really, really similar.

The Lakers' strongest player is their shooting guard Kobe Bryant.

The Seattle SuperSonics' strongest player is also their shooting guard yes.

The Lakers' point guard is the master of Rondo-style guards, or rather the cancer, Kidd.

The SuperSonics point guard is simply Rondo himself, the ancestor of Rondo-style guards.

The Lakers' insiders are Andrew Bynum and Randolph, a very powerful pair, both of whom have reached first-class inside numbers.

The Seattle SuperSonics' insiders are Milicic and Millsap, two top-notch insiders. In addition, there is also a very powerful Marc Gasol on the bench.

It can be said that from the comparison of the two teams, four of the five starting positions of the two teams are comparable!

In the past, whether the Lakers faced the Spurs, Mavericks or Nuggets, they always had advantages inside and outside. When facing the other three of the top four in the Western Conference, they were always on the dominant side.

But the amazing thing is that facing the seventh-place SuperSonics in the Western Conference, the Lakers' advantages are really no advantage!

Even the first two games were still at a disadvantage.

If Ibaka wasn't too good compared to Artest, the Lakers might not have been able to compete with the SuperSonics in the first two games.

It is precisely for this reason that many NBA experts say that if the Los Angeles Lakers do not meet the Seattle SuperSonics in the playoffs, this season, the Los Angeles Lakers are likely to be the team that represents the Western Conference and reaches the finals.

The Lakers faced the Spurs, who are now No. 1 in the Western Conference. Although the triangle strategy was restrained by Bowen, the players had an advantage both inside and outside. The Lakers defeated the Spurs in the playoffs last year.

Facing the Mavericks, who are currently third in the Western Conference, the Lakers have an advantage inside and outside.

Many people say that the Mavericks this season are the same as the Mavericks in 2007, a regular season team that relies on offense.

Facing the Nuggets, who are currently fourth in the Western Conference, the Lakers have advantages inside and outside.

Facing the fifth-place Grizzlies in the Western Conference, the Lakers have no advantage inside, but they have advantages on the outside and their bench is thick.

Only when facing the Seattle SuperSonics, except for Artest, who is not considered an offensive strong point, the Lakers have an advantage over Ibaka, and the others really cannot take advantage of the SuperSonics.

Milicic has gained more and more experience against Bynum in the previous two games.

Millsap and Marc Gasol are two of Randolph's toughest players in the league.

The result of the duel between Kobe and Yes was less victory and more loss.

As for Kidd and Rondo, this is even more confusing. Every time the two play against each other, they look very lively. But after the game, the data patterns of the two are almost exactly the same, single digits. Points + double-digit rebounds + double-digit offense + appalling shooting percentage.

It is precisely because the performance of the two teams in the first two games this season is too close, and the strength is also too close.

So although the Lakers are second in the Western Conference and the SuperSonics are only seventh in the Western Conference, SuperSonics fans are still looking forward to the result.

Among the top five teams in the Western Conference, the SuperSonics are most afraid of the Grizzlies, followed by the Mavericks and Spurs. The Nuggets are also afraid, but they can all win inexplicably. Only the Lakers, SuperSonics fans are worried every time they meet. I think I can just do it.

"Kenny, do you think it would be interesting for two teams to enter the playoffs with the current rankings?"

very funny?

Kenny Smith was speechless at the bad jokes of his co-stars.

The Lakers and SuperSonics entered the playoffs with their current rankings, one second and one seventh, just in time.

This does have a rather interesting outcome, that is, the Lakers will either win the championship or be defeated by the Sonics.

The Lakers are really afraid of the Seattle SuperSonics this season.

Kenny Smith feels that this guy Barkley may not only want to see the Lakers No. 2 and the SuperSonics No. 7 play in the playoffs.

Barkley probably wants to see the Lakers first and the SuperSonics eighth in the playoffs!

It should be said that the current ranking in the West is a ranking that all coconut flours are very willing to see.

Judging from the situation this season, Durant will not return until the second round.

Regardless of whether the Sonics play the Spurs, Mavericks or Nuggets in the first round, their chances are not that high. Only playing the Lakers has the greatest chance.

Barkley and the fans he represents really want to play the Lakers in the first round of the playoffs!

In the eyes of SuperSonics fans and coconut fans, the Lakers are not just rookies in front of the SuperSonics, but they are also a team of the same level as their own team.

On the court, the Lakers players don't think so.

It's true that the Lakers lost twice this season.

But for the first time, Kobe insisted on scoring points with yes!

And what about the second time?

Who would have thought that it was the last second of the game, and the shoelaces in front of them, yes, suddenly came!

This is all an accident, okay!

Therefore, not only other Lakers players don't think the Lakers are afraid of the Sonics, but even Kobe himself doesn't think the Lakers are afraid of the Sonics.

yes is the first player he admits is stronger than him. He admits yes's strength, but he is never afraid of yes!

Yes has the same talent and the same aura as him, this is already obvious.

And it's true that yes's aura is stronger than his. Kobe always feels that he can't control his aura, but yes can.

As for why yes can control it, Kobe doesn't know.

This is also the direction that Kobe has been working hard on recently.

In addition to Phil Jackson forcing him to watch Yes's All-Star game and see how Yes plays the triangle offense, Kobe has been focusing on improving in this area recently.

However, it was just like he couldn't understand the passes that yes was making in the triangle offense.

He was completely unable to figure out how yes felt that his hand was not good or that he had a good hand.

In fact, when Kobe was very young, he felt the constant talent of his touch in a game.

Really, I don't know if it was middle school or high school, but he felt his explosive talent for iron striking and scoring.

There's no way to control this.

He really doesn't know how to control his touch.

Therefore, he has been working hard, working harder than others.

He hopes to use his strength to change the impact of touch on his shooting percentage.

In a sense, he was indeed successful.

Up to now, no matter how bad his touch is in a game, his hard power can make his shooting percentage not look so ugly.

At the very least, he is much better than his two good friends, McGrady and Iverson.

At least, the shooting rate is no worse than these two people.

Before meeting yes, Kobe really felt that he had reached his limit.

He used his hard work and hard power to control his talents, although he could not control them.

But the appearance of yes changed everything.

He really didn't expect that there was a second person with such talent in the world.

He really didn't expect that there was someone in the world who could use this talent better than him. He controlled this talent, and yes, that was completely controlling this talent!

Therefore, in the last game, Kobe was really shocked when he saw Yes suddenly came to kill him.

At the same time, besides being shocked, Kobe was also looking forward to it.

Since yes can control this talent, why can't he?

Talent is a feeling that cannot be communicated to each other. He also asked some questions during the All-Star period.

Yes, he remained silent, even thinking that what he said was incomprehensible.

He can understand.

Basketball sometimes relies on a feeling.

He has this feeling, McGrady has a different feeling, and Iverson Carter and others have another feeling.

This is a feeling that you can understand all by yourself.

Therefore, for Kobe, Yes is more powerful than him and will not scare him. It will only make him want to move forward and defeat Yes.

"Yes, after this game is over, you may lose something very important."

Bryant said with a smile next to Leafs as Milicic and Bynum jumped the ball.

Lost something very important?

Am I destined to lose this game?

Probably not.

Yes took a look at Ibaka.

Maybe it was more likely that the Sonics would lose a month ago, but now, it's really not necessarily the case.

Milicic and Bynum jumped almost at the same time. Bynum, who was more talented in jumping, defeated Milicic who had better consciousness this time.

The Lakers got the first attack of the game.

The Lakers wanted to win this game and were no longer prepared to let Kobe play willfully.

After Kidd got the jump ball, he threw the basketball directly towards Artest on the fast break without any hesitation.

"Kidd's shot was great!"

"This is a Rondo-style fast break shot!"

Rondo style Nima!

"Artest is on the fast break!"

"Artest is going to run over Ibaka just like he did before!"

Don't call me Artest, now I call it Charity World Peace!

Artest's ball-handling ability is very good.

But compared to those technical small forwards, Artest's dribbling movements are very hard, and his breakthroughs are quite reckless. It seems that his dribbling is not very coordinated, and his shoulders are somewhat clear, but it is Very stable.

There are not too many bells and whistles, it is very stable, very bold, and quite stylish.

In the previous two games, Artest's style of breakthrough was always in front of Ibaka.

But this time, Artest felt something was holding him back.

Artest pushed Ibaka away with his shoulder and still completed the layup.

However, after completing the layup, Artest was a little surprised.

This young man who could be crushed by him in the past seems to be a little different in this game.

Artest's style of play looks confusing.

But compared to those technical skills, Ibaka really likes Artest's style of play more.

Today's game between the Lakers and the Seattle SuperSonics, the Lakers and Kobe are here for victory.

Therefore, even if Kobe still wants to compete with Yes, he must endure the thought of competing with Yes when defending Yes and choose to cooperate with Artest and double-team Yes.

"The Lakers' defense against yes was so strong in this game!"

"However, yes's passing is so good. With double teams like Artest and Kobe, yes can also find Ibaka!"

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In this game, Ye Si's touch was very average.

Rather than force the ball against the double-teaming of Kobe and Artest and pass the ball to Ibaka, Ibaka's hit rate on open shots may be higher than his hit rate on forced shots.

Therefore, facing high-intensity defenses like Kobe, Artest and the Lakers, Yeos remained calm.

As long as Ibaka is there and there is a point for the ball, he is not afraid of anyone's double-teaming, whether it is two or three, it doesn't matter.

As long as Ibaka can catch his super hard balls, he's not afraid of any double teams.

That is to say, the person standing next to him is Ibaka. If Durant and the Lakers defend him so fiercely, the Lakers will probably collapse in the first quarter.

Of course, if he was next to Durant, the Lakers would not dare to defend him like this.

Facing the Lakers' ultra-high-intensity defense, Yeos played very calmly.

If he jumps up and has a good feel, he throws one against his head. If he doesn't have a good touch, he throws the blame to Ibaka, who is in the open position.

It seems that the Lakers' increased defensive intensity has not had the slightest impact on him.

"He is indeed a master of organization!"

Phil Jackson on the sidelines was really impressed by what happened on the court.

This kind of freedom of movement, this kind of sizing up the situation, this kind of golf intelligence, it's really incredible!

Since coaching Yes in the All-Star Game, Phil Jackson no longer feels so good when sleeping with Buss Jr. every night.

Every night, the image of yes fills my mind.

Yes's hands, Yes's legs, Yes's mind, Yes's passing, Yes's smile, Yes's paralyzed face, he felt that all the thoughts in his mind turned into thoughts imagining Yes.

Phil Jackson felt like he was really infected by a virus called yes.

This is simply a virus that has no solution!

Seeing Yes's master-like performance on the court, and looking at Kobe's way of holding back on the court, Phil Jackson really felt like he couldn't laugh or cry.

I didn’t tell you not to take action, and I didn’t necessarily tell you to hold it back.

If you know when to take action, when to pass the ball, and when to do something, do I need to think about yes every night?

In this game, he and the Lakers were very defensive against Yes, and the SuperSonics were also very defensive against Kobe.

Although the two are not double-teamed all the time, Rondo will often release Kidd to help Yes defend Kobe.

When Kobe faced yes and Rondo's defense, in terms of the choice of offense or passing, he was indeed not as good as yes.

Yes can completely trust Ibaka and successfully pass the ball to Ibaka.

Let’s not talk about whether Kobe can successfully find Kidd under the double-teaming of Yes and Rondo. Even if Kobe has the ability to pass the ball to Kidd, Kobe probably feels in his heart that instead of passing it to Kidd, he might as well hold it up himself. Just throw it away!

Kobe really suppressed his desire to attack in this game, but sometimes he really couldn't help it.

This kind of helplessness made Phil Jackson next to him very jumpy.

But Jean's eyes were shining.

In this game between the SuperSonics and the Lakers, the two teams played very anxiously.

The two teams are inseparable on the inside and inseparable on the outside. Even the substitute lineups are inseparable.

The most incredible thing is that Ibaka and Artest's scores are inseparable.

After the first quarter, the two teams were tied.

After the second quarter, the Seattle SuperSonics trailed by one point at home.

After the third quarter, the two teams were tied again!

In this game, the two teams took the lead and tied more than ten times in the first three quarters.

Even until three minutes left in the game, the two teams were tied.

Until the last three minutes of the game, the Lakers were still frantically double-teaming Yes. In the last three minutes, Yes signaled Rondo not to come over to help defend. He defended Kobe one-on-one, which led to more opportunities for Kobe to take shots. Finally, he was suffocated. Kobe finally stopped holding back after a whole game!

I was double-teamed and held back all the time, and I took so few shots. How did I feel until I felt good?

At this critical moment, if you don't dare to stand up and try out how you feel, is it still a Mamba? !

Kobe, who bravely stood up in the end, took 5 of the Lakers' 8 shots in the last three minutes. On the opposite side, the Seattle SuperSonics took 7 shots, but Yeos didn't take any shots.

In the end, the Seattle SuperSonics defeated the Lakers at home.

"I won."

"..."

Looking at the paralyzed SuperSonics No. 9 in front of him, Kobe was silent for a while, and finally couldn't help shouting.

"Yes, you did it on purpose!"

"What's the purpose? I don't understand. You lose."

Damn it, what are you doing on purpose? You are deliberately trying to confuse my touch in front of you. In fact, you have already seen that I am very tough tonight!

"Hmph, you win this time. Next time, I will definitely win my beloved helicopter back!"

Kobe left Seattle with his team depressed.

Just after the plane returned to Los Angeles, he saw a piece of incredible news in the newspaper.

"O'Neal and yes made a bet over the air, and O'Neal won Kobe's helicopter!"

O'Neal and Yes made a bet whether they dared to run away in the city. O'Neal ran away, but Yes did not dare.

O'Neal won.

Then the excited O'Neal lit a fire and lit the helicopter that belonged to him with his own hands.

In the end, his beloved helicopter was blown up by that fat guy...

After reading the newspaper, Kobe felt empty for a while.

I feel so depressed that I want to cry...

"You shameless fat man, I'm not done with you!"

The shouts shook the sky.

The sky above Los Angeles seems to be as lively as it was four years ago...

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