You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 833 His Era
Chapter 844 His Era

The Lakers are also a team that follows trends closely.

They let Jabari Parker play the fourth position, thus obtaining the most critical fourth position candidate in the 41 system.The other four people on the field are D'Angelo Russell, Kobe Bryant, Jordan Clarkson, and Bogut.

In other words, Kobe is now playing the third position just like Jordan in his later years.

At the beginning of the game, Bogut used his height to help the Lakers get the ball.

The Lakers hit Parker first.

In order to adapt to the intensity of the four position, Parker has put on weight in the offseason.In this round, his style of play is not very skillful, just attacking with the ball from the flank.

In this era, the defensive concept and guiding ideology proposed by the Bulls coach Thibodeau to pile up the flanks, emphasizing that positional warfare creates a partial three-defense and two-two situation, has spread as widely as the 76ers' 41 system.

The 76ers have never been self-respecting as the defending champions. They have absorbed a core part of Thibodeau's defensive philosophy.

Moreover, the defense that focuses on partial congestion can just take advantage of the 76ers' flanking athletic talent.

The most exaggerated thing about the 76ers' defensive system is that they can silt up four people on one side at the same time, and only one person stands on the weak side waist to prevent the opponent from cutting into the penalty area.

What if the opponent shifts to the weak side?Easy to handle, both Wei Xia and Farid have enough speed and coverage, and they can return to help defend.

So to beat them, the correct answer is to shoot [-]-pointers, and the system can only be broken by using [-]-pointers to evacuate the players they have piled up on the wing.

As for Parker, his approach was too rough, head-on, and he really knocked Faried away and forced a goal.

Strictly speaking, Parker's experience is still in the rookie stage.Half of his scoring last season came from counterattacks, and the rest were mainly small balls close to the basket after breakthroughs with the ball, mixed with adjusted mid-range shots with retreats.Efficient, but he's not yet a player who makes opponents feel like they have to flank to be safe.

For a talented scorer like him, even if he is given the right to football, it usually takes a year or two to find a killer move.

Kobe was a little calm in the first round.

In the past games against the 76ers, he was always eager to get the ball to make some movement.

Tonight, or since the start of the season, he has not been overly impulsive.He will honestly pull beyond the three-point line, act as a spot-up shooter and a one-on-one player who has nothing to do with everyone.

Because of Parker, the Lakers sometimes won't find him in singles.

This is indeed a whole new era.

The era is so new that even someone like Kobe is sometimes not the first choice for the Lakers in singles.

"what are you waiting for?"

Kobe is not impulsive anymore, but one thing has not changed.

He still likes to defend Wei Xia, even if doing so will put the Lakers at a disadvantage.

"Wait for your attack, I will guard you, listen, I will give you a big hat that appeared in your nightmare!"

Unfortunately, Wei Xia no longer knows what it's like to have nightmares.

To be exact, he hadn't had a dream for a long time.

Every night, as long as he fell asleep, his consciousness came to another time and space.What does it feel like to dream?If the experience of the old time is regarded as a dream, then Wei Xia will never regard it as a nightmare, because he often wakes up very moved.

Kobe threatened to slap Wei Xia, and Wei Xia gave him a chance.

The weak side catches the ball, pulls up without feints, and hits the iron.

Since Parker had changed to the fourth position, Wei Xia did not follow him to play the fourth position. Looking at the Lakers outside, Russell and Clarkson are both young and promising juniors. Wei Xia thought twice and decided to face Kobe.

Kobe dribbled the ball across the half court, and Wei Xia's defense was inseparable.

"If it was you in the past, you wouldn't consider passing the ball now, right?" Wei Xia asked softly.

Bogut came to the high position and Kobe scored the ball.

This is a common offensive move in the 41 system. Wei Xia knew that the Lakers would still play Kobe, but he didn't expect Kobe to make a counter-run in front of him and wanted to shoot from the outside.

Wei Xia was right behind Kobe, following closely. Kobe caught the ball, kept his center of gravity, and made a smooth straight up and down single-action jumper.

Unfortunately, Kobe has not yet mastered this action.

The three-pointer hit the basket's neck.

Curry and the Warriors drove the three-point boom, and the 76ers made the entire league start playing 41 small-ball lineups.Not even Kobe could turn the tide.

Just like when he was a child, he regarded the magician as an idol, so he played from the first position to the fifth position in Lower Merion, and then took Jordan as the target, stealing all the moves of the trapeze.

He has been imitating, taking the best path.

Three points in exchange for the 76ers' counterattack.

While Wei Xia was running, Rondo's ball had already been passed.

Kobe used all his strength to stick up to defend, Wei Xia suddenly stopped, throwing Kobe's center of gravity a few meters away, and made a jumper on the spot, scoring two points.

2 is better than 2
Wei Xia may be the most old-school player in the current style of play.

His breakthroughs and three-pointers accounted for 48% of his shots, and mid-range and long-range mid-range shots accounted for 35%. Stars like him have begun to learn to optimize their shot distribution, and Wei Xia is still happy to shoot those seemingly inefficient long-range mid-range shots like Kobe and others ten years ago.

Three-pointers and breakthroughs will marginalize the effect of mid-range. The skills that used to be necessary for scoring champions to travel at home are now options that cannot be easily used.The CIC is still a dragon-slaying technique. The tactics of both sides are deadly, the breakthrough is incompetent, and when the three-pointer misses, the team that can make the CIC will win the game.

Most normal games don't make it through that time frame.

Wei Xia's insistence on this style of play is the double influence of the old time and Kobe.

He has always been an old-school player. Even if the importance of three-pointers is increasing day by day, even if he has the most stable three-point shooting in the league⑴, he will still control the proportion of three-pointers to 1/3.

Parker is the core, and Russell is the ball-handling tool. He is clearly regarded as the second pick of the "next Jordan" by Bass Jr., but he doesn't have much possession of the ball.

Parker screens for Bryant and Bryant catches the ball.

Wei Xia was affected by the screen and switched defenses with Faried, and he defended in front of Parker.

Kobe played Faried with the ball. He lost his explosive power and speed, and he relied on rhythm to face the basket.Faried's energy didn't play much role in front of Kobe.

Bryant dribbles into the middle of the paint and pops the ball to Parker.

Wei Xia did not expect this.

According to Kobe's nature, he should shoot from that position no matter what - at the moment Parker dunked with both hands, Wei Xia thought, maybe Kobe no longer has the explosive power to stand up in front of Faried without being blocked?

As long as you observe carefully, you can find this obvious problem.

It's just that Wei Xia, like everyone else, is unwilling to accept that Kobe is now in the twilight of the world.

The opening game between the 76ers and the Lakers was like a friendly match, with average intensity.

Wei Xia hasn't fired much yet, and the Lakers' offense has changed a lot from before.

Kobe's position on the offensive end has never been more marginal.

But now, he'll be in the corner, and Parker will make the ball for Thibodeau.They bullied Cousins' weak defensive awareness, and all kinds of passes hit him behind;

Wei Xia also passed the ball to Cousins ​​​​in the low post, letting him try to hit back;

Kobe, who has always been the terminator of positional warfare, suddenly became the opportunity creator of the Lakers.He dribbled the ball into the three-point line many times, and when he saw the opportunity, he did not rush to pass the ball and took the initiative to move outward.Clarkson seized the opportunity created by the leading brother and made a direct shot;
Kobe sent good shots in a row, and he felt that he should reward himself, so he came up with a long-distance two-point pull that he liked very much when he was young.

Wei Xia defended with all his strength, and blocked Kobe with his fingertips.

Single-action shooting has always been known for its quick shot, because it goes straight up and down, without a second move in the middle, as long as the ball is lifted, the defender basically only interferes.

Kobe's shooting can be blocked by Wei Xia, which shows that Wei Xia has always seen his offensive intentions, and his explosive power is indeed not as good as before.

When the shot was blocked, Kobe smiled instead: "It seems that I am not old enough to make you so ready."

If it was normal, Wei Xia would hit him a few words. Now, he said insincerely: "Yeah, you look like an 8-year-old kid who naively thought that as long as he threw the ball, he would win."

Facing Kobe, Wei Xia's passive cynicism will always be activated.

Kobe has already seen it. He threatened to block Wei Xia before, but now he is blocked, but he can see it.

The 76ers' counterattack made the point difference come to 6 points. The young coach of the Lakers, Luke Walton, who was once called "the smartest Laker" by Phil Jackson, promoted something called "egalitarianism" among other Lakers players other than Kobe.

Everyone has equal opportunities, don't fight, don't grab, be selfless and united.

This set of tactics is good for everything, but it is too ideal, too beautiful, and it sees people's hearts too purely.

The only Kobe who has privileges and who can ignore egalitarianism is the one who sees the problem most clearly and the only one who is pursuing egalitarianism.

Watch him hold the ball for youngsters, throw fouls to youngsters, and swish off stance-changing [-]-pointers.

This is really very strange.Wei Xia thought about many possibilities.

Kobe may continue to use complex and gorgeous moves, complete difficult shots, freeze critics' controversy, or the ruthless black mamba snake.

Who would have thought that he would not want the ball and inexplicably "fall in love" with shooting three-pointers?

If he maintains this state, Wei Xia can rest assured that he wants to continue playing.If one day, he suddenly made a lot of shots, looking like a broken jar, it means that he knows that he is really old.His time has passed.

Then, it's time to retire.

⑴ To explain a little bit, Wei Xia's size + athletic ability + other offensive threats make his open three-pointers, three-pointers with the ball, three-pointers with the ball, and three-pointers against the defense very stable.

(End of this chapter)