I just play ball

Chapter 437 Super Endurance
Amidst the laughter, the recording of the podcast was completed.

Li Yue originally wanted to treat guests to dinner, but Durant wanted to join Thunder and Nick Young was going to accompany IGGY, so he had to give up.

Early the next morning, the staff of "Sports Weekly" called for an interview as scheduled. The topic was the life changes after becoming famous in the past few years. Li Yue chose to answer. , In the next ten years, as the head player of the Lakers, lead the team to win more championships.

In the evening, the Lakers sit at home and face the Spurs who came to challenge.

Leonard failed to play because of tight hip muscles, and a large number of fans believed that the game would be a one-sided massacre.

But maybe because of the rest of the three days, he couldn't find his status for the time being. After the game started, Kobe only hit 9 out of 2 shots. Fortunately, Kobe made 5 fouls by hitting the basket, easily hit [-] free throws, and also made steals. Ginobili's showy dribbles twice, and even promoted the fast break to score, helping the Lakers and Spurs tie.

In the second quarter of the game, Duncan and Belinelli played efficiently, and the two teamed up to make 8 of 6 shots.

Duncan also made several exquisite positioning, causing Gasol to get into foul trouble, but Li Yue stood up, and through cooperation with Kobe, he personally hit 5 three-pointers and sent 2 blocks on the defensive end, helping the Lakers beat 54-50 Half time.

Back from the halftime break, Duncan's shooting touch was still hot, and the Lakers directly sent Li Yue, Kobe, and Iguodala to play together. The three defended like a heavy rain, resulting in a total of 9 of 1 shots by Tony Parker and Danny Green.

The Spurs still only had 25 points in a single quarter, while the Lakers scored 32 points, extending their lead to 11 points.

I thought that we could win by playing steadily. As a result, at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Danny Green stole Kobe twice in a row and pushed a fast break to help Corey Joseph hit two three-pointers in a row. Then Kobe made two consecutive shots. The Spurs It took only one minute and 23 seconds for the team to narrow the point difference to only one point, and Li Yue had to come on stage early to help control the situation.

It's a pity that the Spurs have always played with a strong style of play. After the momentum was formed, it was difficult to suppress. The two teams took the lead alternately until the last 4.3 seconds. With Li Yue making a strong shot against Danny Green, the game entered overtime.

The Lakers sent a pure five small lineup to fight, Kobe changed to point guard, Li Yue and Iguodala crossed the baseline to get shot space many times, and the three teamed up to play a wave of 11 to 2 attacks, completely killing the game.

In the end, the Lakers defeated the Spurs 125 to 113, extending their winning streak to 23 games.

Throughout the game, Bryant made a total of 22 of 7 shots, and his offensive efficiency was much lower than those of the previous games.

Many media made a fuss about this, implying that the Spurs are not as strong as they seem, mainly due to Kobe's poor performance, and after entering December, except for the game against the Kings, Kobe played relatively average in other games.

The media also emphasized that even in the game against the Kings, Kobe had an embarrassing data of 11 of 3 in a single quarter.

Kobe Bryant did not make any response, but D'Antoni hopes that the media will never engage in a 'one argument'.

On the night of NO.14, the Lakers visited Minnesota to challenge the Timberwolves.

At the end of the game, the Lakers defeated the Timberwolves 100-94, but Kobe made 20 of 7 shots and 0 assists. If it weren't for Li Yue's 14 of 10 shots and Gasol's 10 total of 6 shots, the result of the game is likely to be the same. to rewrite.

Regarding Kobe's performance like this, the media seemed to be asking about a bloody shark.

Regardless of all kinds of criticism, even specially made GIF animations of each shot and iron, pretending to analyze why Kobe hit iron objectively and rationally, but every time the conclusion is almost "Kobe wants to grab points and deliberately does not pass them to his teammates , Forced to shoot against the double-team', just didn't say that Kobe was selfish, ignored the team's win or loss, wasted the efforts of his teammates, and wanted to win the regular season MVP again.

Kobe still did not respond, and Walton emphasized in an interview that everyone will have a trough.

The Lakers team rushed to Indiana overnight to adjust the Pacers in back-to-back away games.

Paul George failed to play because of a finger injury, but the Pacers' defense was still strong. Kobe was surrounded by many people. After the game, he only made 26 of 7 shots, and there were 3 turnovers and 4 fouls, so that Li Yue 12 of 8 shots failed to save the situation. The Lakers finally lost 91 to 110 to the Pacers, and the winning streak was fixed at 24 games.

On the way back to Los Angeles, Li Yue noticed a heated discussion on Twitter about Kobe's sluggish performance.

Some people think that Kobe is unscrupulous. After all, the overall strength of the Lakers is very strong. They just play casually. As long as they play hard, everything can be done;

All kinds of discussions are raging. Few people mentioned that the Lakers played back-to-back games. Before the game against the Timberwolves, they fought against the Spurs until overtime.

The Lakers really don't have much news to write about, and only this kind of controversial topic can drive traffic.

After a four-day break, the Lakers host the Pelicans at Staples Center.

With Eric Gordon out because of a sprained ankle, many fans thought the Lakers would win.

Kobe made a hollow hit on the first goal, but then there were 4 strikes in a row. Fortunately, Gobert helped the Lakers get more shots through blocks and offensive rebounds, so that the Pelicans did not take a big lead.

After the first quarter, Kobe made 6 of 2 shots and the Lakers trailed the Pelicans by 6 points.

In the second quarter of the game, the Pelicans made another old mistake. The Lakers did not adopt a defensive arrangement. Davis, who made 1 of [-] shots in the first quarter, suddenly couldn't get the ball. [-] point.

Evans and Anderson, who occupy the ball, only made 13 of 5 shots in total.

For the Lakers, Kobe deliberately controlled himself to only take 2 shots to help the team tie the score.

Back from the halftime break, Kobe still felt bad.

On the Pelicans side, the Lakers Davis regained control of the ball and teamed up with Holiday to launch a counterattack. The two made 9 of 6 shots.

But Li Yue stood up in the second half of the third quarter, and through ingenious organization, helped the team cling to the score.

The two teams entered the fourth quarter with a tie. Kobe still controlled his shots and changed to defend with all his strength. He cooperated with Iguodala to send three steals, while Li Yue and Davis launched the simplest pick-and-roll attack 8 times in a row, efficiently Beat 7 times.

In the end, the Lakers narrowly beat the Pelicans 104 to 99.

The whole game, Bryant 18 of 6 shots, plus 4 assists and 2 steals, the efficiency can be described as quite satisfactory.

The media and fans who like to make trouble still haven’t given up on cynicism. Some people think that Iguodala should be arranged as the starter and Kobe should lead the bench. Anyway, Kobe doesn’t like to pass the ball, so he can shoot whatever he wants; some people think that Kobe should practice hard Improve the three-point shooting rate, while the defensive skills are still there, transform into a 3D player like Robert Horry as soon as possible.

Kobe still did not respond, and the rest of the team did not refute, and the team no longer cared about this matter.

After a day off, the Lakers went to Sacramento to challenge the Kings away.

Cousins ​​was unable to play due to an elbow injury, but the Lakers narrowly won 98-95.

It is so difficult to win, one is because Collison played 18 of 11 top performances, and the other is because the King seems to have an obsession with beating the Lakers, and the defense feels like giving up everything. In addition, the referee deliberately blows the whistle. Li Yue made 11 of 3 shots, Li Yue made 13 of 5 shots, and Gasol only made 9 of 3 shots.

However, the media and fans turned a blind eye to the downturn of Li Yue and Gasol. They either accused Kobe of being inefficient, or accused Kobe of not paying attention to the King, or accused Kobe of intentionally fouling.

After the team arrived in Orlando, Kobe finally spoke out, but instead of making excuses for various doubts, he announced that he would have a truce in the next game against the Warriors, specifically to those fans who had bought tickets to watch his game.

The reason for the truce was that he felt a little tired. Kobe laughed at himself that he was old and needed an indirect rest.

Many fans expressed their disappointment through Twitter messages, but said it was understandable.

Some media predicted that without Kobe's ball-holding strength, the Lakers will be extremely difficult to play against the Warriors.

When the game was officially held, the Warriors really played a 9-3 attack wave, but Li Yue immediately assisted Davis to score a dunk, and then led the team to play a 10-2 attack wave, and completed the overtake in less than 2 minutes.

Moreover, the Lakers boldly emptied Green and restricted Curry with all their strength. Green failed to make a punitive response on 4 of 0 shots. The Lakers ended the first quarter with a 34-24 lead.

In the second quarter, Covington showed his power on the defensive end, first stealing Curry, then blocking Thompson, and Bazemore, who came off the bench, made three of four three-pointers. The Lakers led 30 to 25 in a single quarter.

Back from the halftime break, Curry hit shots one after another, but was also attacked by Clarkson and Covington, resulting in three turnovers. In addition, Thompson was restricted by Iguodala, only 5 of 1 shots, and the Lakers scored 7 points in a single quarter leading.

Although trailing by 22 points and entering the fourth quarter, the Warriors did not give up. Curry and Thompson made their appearances ahead of schedule. Unfortunately, they hit consecutive three-pointers.

In the end, the Lakers defeated the Warriors 125 to 105 and successfully won three consecutive victories.

The damn thing is that the extreme media and fans deliberately ignored the excellent performance of Clarkson and others, and instead believed that it was because of Kobe's truce that the Lakers players except Li Yue got a chance to play.

After returning to Los Angeles, the Lakers officially announced that after the team doctor's diagnosis, Kobe's Achilles tendon, knee, shoulder and back all had varying degrees of muscle tension, and there was even a slight tear in the right shoulder elbow muscle.

These situations are estimated to exist for at least two weeks. It may be because Kobe's ability to endure pain is so strong that he himself has not noticed it, otherwise there would not be the embarrassing situation of the extremely inefficient shooting in the previous game.

The Lakers officially announced that in order to ensure Kobe's health, the coaching staff will arrange for Kobe to take a temporary truce. Now it is confirmed that he will miss the Christmas game against the Bulls at home, and the subsequent games will be arranged according to his physical condition.

(End of this chapter)