You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 495 February 2008, 5

Chapter 500 July 2008, 5

The Lakers did not play according to the pre-set tone of the coaching staff. They failed to solve the Jazz in five games.

The Jazz is by no means a team that will be slaughtered. Jerry Sloan has worked hard for many years and sent away generations, just to prove in an increasingly incomprehensible league that the paternalistic team-building model can also be successful.

In the first game of the series, the Jazz learned the lesson of the Nuggets, and would rather die than be beaten to death by Kobe than lose the rhythm and fight with the Lakers.

Wei Xia did not have such a good touch as Kobe. He took turns hitting the penalty area and was brought down by the Jazz players at home, but the referee ignored all of this.

Even though countless people claim that the off-court incidents will not affect Wei Xia, the difficulty for Wei Xia to make free throws has indeed increased.

Those things are having a bad effect, and Wei Xia can't do anything about it. He can only find tricks in wrestling, or, learn from the Zen master, do nothing, and watch Kobe Bryant go 16 of 8 and make a personal record 23 free throws.

He made 23 of 21 free throws in the game. Both the number of free throws and the number of free throws were the best in Kobe's career.

He hasn't surpassed those numbers in free throws in his long career spanning multiple eras.

In the eyes of the referee, Wei Xia seemed to have hit the iron shirt with a golden bell cover. The Jazz didn't hesitate to call, calling a foul counted as the referee's help.

Kobe was ridiculed by Carlos Boozer as "Mr. Untouchable" after the game.

"Under this scale, any guard can behave like Michael Jordan." Jerry Sloan knew what Kobe valued most, and deliberately mentioned Jordan to stimulate him.

If he could start all over again, Sloan might not have said those words.

Kobe, who was irritated, reduced the frequency of sprinting to the penalty area in Game2.

He made 18 of 12 shots and made 11 free throws. With a super high shooting percentage, Kobe led the team to play a mercury-like offense and completely smashed the Jazz.

Big score 2 to 0
The Jazz, who returned to the home court, increased their defensive strength. They went all out to limit Kobe. As long as they can stop Kobe, they are willing to pay any price.

With the rest of the Lakers, they mainly resorted to brutal physical contact and made the game ugly.

Wei Xiameng went back to the first round last year, also against the Jazz. He has made great progress, but under the double standards of the referee, he still can't feel the scale of fouls.

He needs to use a wide open and close way to avoid a series of difficulties caused by the referee changing the standard.

It's hard, but he has to figure out a way to get over it.

Weixia's downturn concealed Gasol's mediocre performance with only 10 points. Kobe was 20 of 10. In the away game, his whistleblowing treatment did not change.

It was still the "Mr. Untouchable" who made Utah people terrified. He made 17 of 16 free throws and missed all three-pointers. He scored 34 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists. Unfortunately, the Lakers lost by 5 points.

美国的2008年5月11日，中国的2008年5月12日。

The Lakers and the Jazz started the third game. Kobe, who scored three consecutive games, finally allowed the Jazz to limit one game.

How can I guard against Kobe?Wei Xia has three standards.

Standard one, let Kobe take a lot of shots with a shooting rate of less than 40% to get 30+ points, even if it is limited.

Standard two, let Kobe take a lot of shots with a shooting rate of less than 40% to score 30+ points without free throws.High shots and low efficiency, and no free throws show that Kobe is completely a black hole with the ball, and the effect is weak.

Standard three, let Kobe take a lot of shots with a shooting percentage below 40% to get low points and no free throws.There are very few teams that can defend Kobe to such a virtue, but if they can do it, it means that Kobe is completely restricted and turned into the ultimate cancer on the offensive end.

For Wei Xia, this day is no different from other times.

They still played, Kobe was restrained, but everyone else played well.

The Lakers and Jazz played out a game where everyone played at their own level except for Kobe.

Kobe scored 33+5+6, which is good in terms of statistics, but the 33% shooting rate is obviously unqualified.

Wei Xia found his touch in the middle and long distances. Even Gasol hit the first 20+10 in the series.

Six seconds before the end of the first overtime, Deron and Boozer played a pick-and-roll and hit the ground to pass the ball.

"John Stockton-like passing!"

The announcer at the Energy Solutions Center yelled, and Boozer hit a jumper to kill the Lakers.

The roar of the mountains and the tsunami could be heard at the scene, and a group of Mormons seemed to see the gods coming to the stadium.

Boozer really played like a god, with 30 points, 20 rebounds and 4 assists, including a buzzer-beater that didn't give the Lakers any chance.

2 is better than 2
The Lakers are destined to be unable to solve the Jazz in four games.

When Wei Xia walked into the locker room, he suddenly heard the people around him say, "Have you heard? There was an earthquake in China!"

"Of course, the TV station broadcast several flash news in a row, all about the earthquake!"

"It's really scary. Can that place really hold the Olympic Games? Now I doubt not only the air quality and human rights issues there, but also the geographical conditions there. If there is another earthquake during the Olympic Games." The person who said this stupid sentence was Magloire.

"Forget it, no one will ask you to play in the Olympics, you can't even get into the Canadian national training team."

Kobe scoffed at him sarcastically.

He wasn't against Magloire, he just used words to stimulate him habitually.

Magloy was pissed off and lost his temper. The news about the earthquake in China spread in the locker room.

At the beginning, Wei Xia just listened to it and gave up, not taking it seriously.

After he got home, he checked the news and realized the seriousness of the situation.

For many Chinese (especially those born in the 2008s), 80 is one of the most impressive years in the new century.

This year, it seems that all unlucky things are coming to China.

Factories shut down, extranets are lifted, taxi drivers learn English, and volunteers. At the beginning of the new year, people in this country are full of expectations.

Then, a severe snowstorm in the south that ravaged most of China blocked roads, leaving millions of people stranded on their way home in freezing conditions.

In March, there were frequent outbreaks in the west.

Wei Xia didn't take it seriously, he never paid attention to these hot spots.

Then today, at 5:12 pm on May 2th, Beijing time, a wave from Wenchuan swept across the world.

Not even halfway through 2008, the Chinese seem to have hit the half-century disaster.

This is not the end. A few months later, the stock market crash will trigger an international financial crisis, and the poisoned milk brought by unscrupulous traders will also cause a crisis of public trust. All kinds of things will wash away the people of the country.

In that year, even the leading actor Edison Chen announced his permanent withdrawal from the entertainment industry, which was so impressive.

Wei Xia, as a Chinese-American who could not bring much help to China, did not empathize with the sufferings that China has endured this year. He only learned about the tragedy of the earthquake through Google for the first time, and felt sad.

He was wondering why he could see part of the future in his dream, but not this more meaningful future?

As soon as a question arose, he answered it himself.

Even if he knew an earthquake would happen, so what?

Spread the word all over the world?Turn yourself into a magic stick and prophesy everywhere?Or pretend to spread "false" news on the Internet in China, can "cheat" one is one?
Either way, there are very few people he can save in the end.

Although he lives a life of a superior person, on the other side of the world, in China, he is just a Chinese-American sports star, and most people don't care what he says or does.

He was a little frustrated, and then he thought about what he could do.

He thought of something he could do.

He decided to donate some supplies to the disaster area anonymously.

The reason for his anonymity is naturally that he doesn’t want others to know that his reputation as a “meritorious traitor” is already loud enough. If people find out that he was in a hurry to donate supplies just after a disaster hit China, wouldn’t that justify his title?

He took out 100 million US dollars and asked his sister Wei Chun to do it.

Apart from Wei Chun and his financial assistant, few people knew about it.

But paper can't cover the fire, Wei Xia can hide it from the Americans, but it can't help the well-intentioned people in China who don't want him to do good deeds and no one will know.

Later, Wei Chun's name was dug up first. Chinese fans first confirmed that Wei Chun was Wei Xia's sister, and then judged whether she had the ability to donate those materials based on Wei Chun's financial income at the time. The final conclusion was naturally transferred to Wei Xia.

That's a later story. What Wei Xia didn't expect was that the Wenchuan earthquake did not bring sympathy from the Americans, but the peak of the celebrity boycott of the Beijing Olympics.

(End of this chapter)