unfinished glory

Chapter 31

In the second game of the regular season, on November 11, the Spurs flew to Los Angeles to challenge the Los Angeles Lakers away.

Before this match, Li Chongxiao made a lot of preparations.

After hearing Bowen's "Ke Chuan" praise Kobe last time, Li Chongxiao took it seriously.

He was taught a lesson by McGrady, who was not very serious in the preseason, so what level will Kobe Bryant, who Bowen thinks is more difficult to defend than McGrady?
In the past two days, he watched the videotapes of the Spurs in the previous seasons and the playoffs against the Lakers, and carefully figured out Kobe's offensive shots.

If you look at these shots from the perspective of fans, I'm afraid you can only see the word "handsome".

But from a player's point of view, especially from a defensive player's point of view, you will be surprised by such offensive skills and abilities.

For ordinary outside players, it is more difficult to defend the combination of sudden shots. Like Quentin Richardson he met before, Li Chongxiao had a bit of difficulty coping with it.

A more difficult player to deal with is similar to Li Chongxiao's teammate Manu Ginobili in the Spurs. His sudden shots have many fake moves, which seem to be sudden but not sudden, and seem to be shots that are not shots.When you think you have done the anti-penetration shot well, he suddenly passed out again.

And Kobe's combination of sudden shots, before he made an action, he couldn't tell what he was going to do next.He may just pull up and shoot, or he may shake up the defender and choose to pass.

When he shoots, he can choose to make an emergency stop, back up, force a shot, or draw a foul.After he breaks through, he also has a variety of ways to attack the frame such as throws, layups, and jump shots.

He still passes the ball from time to time. During the three consecutive championships, he was called "the best outside pass player in history", and he was the Lakers' assist leader for several seasons.

At the beginning of the game, Kobe gave Li Chongxiao a big "surprise". For a full 6 minutes, Kobe didn't take a single shot, but when he broke through, he caused a foul by Bowen, which was not counted as a free throw.

This is not because Bowen is good at defense, but because Kobe is a babysitter on the court.He's been passing the ball, playing defense seriously, and occasionally blocking for his teammates.

Probably because he felt that this team was finally his, and Kobe wanted to use his own way to lead the team and drive his teammates.

The Lakers' main attacking players on the court were Lamar Odom and Caron Butler, both of whom lived up to expectations and scored 8 points to tie the score at 10:14.

But soon Butler committed two fouls and was replaced by Jumaine Jones.

At this time, Kobe made the first ball, two points in the middle distance.

When Li Chongxiao thought he was going to start his personal attack mode, Kobe assisted Chris Mihm to score two points.

Looking back on the Spurs, Barry had just come on the field to replace Ginobili, but Kobe called a foul and gave the opponent two points.

After another two rounds like this, the time came to more than nine minutes into the first quarter. The two sides changed players. Bo Wen went off and Li Chongxiao came on.

Odom has the ball and passes it to Bryant from beyond the three-point line.

Bryant bent over to catch the ball, then lifted the ball straight up and faked a shot.

Li Chongxiao, who was a little behind, rushed forward, only to realize that Kobe had received the ball, which was a fake move.

"I'm afraid I'm going to be fouled?" He quickly retracted his legs, raised his hands high, and tried to lean to the left.

Bryant then dribbled the ball from the right, all the way to the paint, dodged in the air for a layup, got hit by Malik Rose, and got two free throws.

Poor Malik Rose, just played for less than 2 minutes, just had a foul on Lamar Odom, this will be another one, and he has to rest.

Li Chongxiao came over and patted Rose, indicating that there was something wrong with his defense.

Kobe made two free throws.

The Spurs also scored here, and Parker assisted Nesterovic, who had just been replaced, for a dunk.

Kobe took the ball and faced Li Chongxiao again.This time Li Chongxiao moved a bit forward, holding Kobe's waist with one hand at the top of the arc.

Kobe faced Li Chongxiao sideways, holding the ball on the bicycle with his right hand.

This action is not "picturesque", because Kobe's hands are small, and he can't do the chicness of Jordan and Tracy McGrady holding the ball with one hand.

Kobe began to dribble, took two slow shots with his right hand, and then made a shot to the right, trying to make a breakthrough.Li Chongxiao stepped back quickly to prevent the breakthrough line on the right.

As a result, Kobe picked up the ball and pulled it out directly outside the three-point line. Li Chongxiao tried his best to pounce on it, but he couldn't reach it, and the three-pointer went into the net hollowly.

Seeing Kobe's expressionless retreat to the half court, Li Chongxiao thought to himself: "It's really rude, you don't come forward to say hello, say 'rookie, welcome to the NBA' or something like that."

Facing Kobe in the third round, Li Chongxiao paid for a foul. After being broken by the opponent, he forced his way past, and the referee blew his whistle to stop him.

Re-serving, Kobe did not choose to attack by himself, but passed it to Odom to strike the iron.

Parker made a layup for the Spurs, tying the score at 25:25.

With 29 seconds left in the clock, the Lakers had plenty of time, and the Spurs barely had an offense.

Naturally, Kobe came to the Lakers side. He took him to the frontcourt, checked the time, and when there were about 24 seconds left in 8 seconds, he relied on Li Chongxiao to start a back attack.

Li Chongxiao's body was still relatively thin, and he was pushed into the three-point line by Kobe.Before the Spurs came up to double-team, Kobe resisted Li Chongxiao, turned back and made a hit.

Lost in four rounds!
Taking advantage of the Lakers' unstable foothold, Parker quickly broke through from the backcourt to the frontcourt, passing Chucky Atkins for a layup.

With 1.9 seconds left for the Lakers, Kobe caught the ball near the center circle, resisted Li Chongxiao's defense, and forcibly missed the shot.

Kobe has a lot of this kind of time is not enough, forcibly hit the iron ball.He is also happy to shoot the ball that lowers his shooting percentage.

Beyond Jordan, he will probably start with blacksmithing.

At the start of the second quarter, Li Chongxiao saw Kobe on the court again.

The opponent played the entire first quarter and continued to attack in the second half, but they still didn't take a rest. It is worthy of the iron man Bowen said.

Li Chongxiao was fortunate that Bo Wen was not this kind of iron man, otherwise his playing time would have been compressed.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Kobe still suppressed his desire to attack and let his teammates play.However, the Lakers failed to make several consecutive offenses, making mistakes and hitting iron.

Relying on the opponent's misfire, the Spurs instantly opened the score to 10 points.

Lakers head coach Rudy Tomjanovich called a timeout, changed players, and set up a play.

The Spurs also replaced Li Chongxiao with Bowen.In the 4 minutes just now, except for the last foul, Li Chongxiao's other statistics were zero.

After the timeout, the Lakers' offense still did not improve. Odom and Butler's offensive touches were not smooth, and the Spurs once pulled the score to 16 points.

At this time, Kobe stood up. He hit two goals in a row and made a foul by Bowen. He personally scored 6 points and narrowed the point difference.

Then the two sides come and go, each has its own hit.

With Kobe's last shot, the Spurs led 59:47 at halftime.

(End of this chapter)