I have a data panel in basketball

Chapter 232 The Only Threat
The second quarter of the game had just started, and both sides were playing small fights. The substitute players played back and forth on the court for a long time, but they didn't make a difference.

The point difference is still 3 points ahead of the Suns.

At 2 minutes and 31 seconds, the Lakers took the lead in replacing all the main players on the field.

However, it's not that Phil Jackson can't sit still.

But Kobe couldn't sit still.

Being behind in the score is really a torment for him!

Although he said before the game that he didn't care about winning or losing, even if the Suns won, it would only be a 2-2 score.

But these words are just words for others to hear.

How could he want to lose?
Especially in such a high-profile game!

Then you can't lose.

As for the reason...he could see the nervousness of the other Lakers players in the game against the Suns, and it was precisely because of their nervousness that he couldn't lose this game.

Otherwise, they would have to be even more nervous when they meet the Suns in the playoffs!

This game cannot be lost!
After Kobe came on the court, he continued to increase the intensity of his shots.

For him, one lucky thing is that his state came out very early in this game, which gave him greater confidence in controlling the game!
Everyone on the Lakers also cooperated very well. After playing, they continued to serve Kobe and let him play singles by himself.

In the first round after playing, Kobe felt the changes in the Suns' defense as soon as he got the ball. They began to constantly press his shooting space, forcing Kobe to break through.

Kobe did not go against the grain. He has played in this league for so many years, and he knows very well what people in this league are thinking. If you are forced by the opponent, the more unwilling you are to follow the opponent's defensive intention, the harder they will push you.

When you finally have to follow their defensive intentions, you have already fallen into a passive state. Therefore, for Kobe, what he has to do is "actively cooperate, and then wait for the opponent's backhand. If the opponent has no backhand, then he can gradually take the initiative in the offense!"

This is the method of No.1 in the current alliance!

Forcing me to layup, am I afraid?
It's just a layup, and I may not be able to make it!

When Kobe was thinking so in his heart, he rushed towards the inside line.

"Dangdang!"

However, after Lin Ri played longer and longer in this league, he became more and more familiar and accurate with the interference of outside breakthrough players.

No, Kobe's first ball went out of the frame under Lin Ri's interference.

"Dude, you seem to be making great progress!" Kobe said to Lin Ri.

The two of them communicated a lot during the All-Star Weekend. After the conversation, the two of them added their contact information. Although they didn't say anything, the relationship is at least much better.

No, the Virgo Kobe even took the initiative to talk to Lin Ri.

Lin Ri spread his hands and replied with a smile: "No way, this is my task!"

Kobe curled his lips slightly to Lin Ri's response and didn't say much, but in the next round of the Lakers, he rushed towards the inside again. This time he avoided Lin Ri's interference and put the ball into the basket with a pull bar.

"Dude, this time, your mission has not been completed!" After Kobe finished speaking, he turned his head and ran towards his defense zone.

This guy is really arrogant!
Lin Ri didn't respond to Kobe's words, because this guy turned his head and ran away after finishing speaking, and didn't give him this chance at all!

Let's talk about it when I also score a goal!

Lin Ri muttered something in his heart, then turned his head and glanced at Pau Gasol intentionally or unintentionally.

His sixth sense as a "sister-in-law" told him that he was being targeted.

He subconsciously increased the physical contact with Lin Ri after halftime.

As for why...

Maybe it was because he was a little afraid of being bullied by Lin Ri in the first quarter!
The best way to stop being bullied is to not let your opponent get the ball... that's the only way to do it on the basketball court, um...

But Lin Ri wanted to get the ball, not because he didn't want to get it.

After several confrontations, Lin Ri successfully got the ball, and Pau Gasol, who had been resisting just now, stopped resisting immediately after Lin Ri took the ball.

"Bah!"

Then Lin Ri hit him hard!
It made him make a helpless gesture of spreading his hands.

He really can't guard against it!
What saddened him the most was that after Lin Ri finished dunking, this guy didn't see him at all, and directly made a gesture of "Look at me, I'm okay with this move" towards Kobe.

Didn't look at him at all.

Kobe also became interested in seeing him like this, and began to kill inside more frequently.

Originally, he was going to the inside of the Suns, but now that Lin Ri was competing with him, he had another reason to go to the inside of the Suns.

Of course, as far as the current situation is concerned, he can only kill inside.

Naturally, Kobe’s ability goes without saying. When he wants to score, the only thing that can stop him is his touch. However, Lin Ri’s interference still has some influence. After all, he is currently the league’s current four.

This is something for sure.

This can be seen from Kobe's shooting rate, which is currently only barely maintained at about 50%, which is much worse than in the first quarter.

You must know that Kobe's state came very quickly tonight, this should have been his "explosive" game on the court!
Now that Lin Ri's supplementary defense can achieve this step, to be honest, it is already considered very good.

Anyway, Gentry on the sidelines was very satisfied. He watched Kobe shoot out of the basket again, and said to the assistant coach on the sidelines: "Good defense, Kobe's shooting percentage is obviously not as high as before!"

Look, that's the general attitude of the league's head coaches.

As long as the style of play they design can affect Kobe, then for them, it means that the tactics have succeeded.

Facing Kobe, I really can't think that I can completely restrict this guy.

If this is still possible in his rookie season, in this state, with a little restriction, it is a success!

Gentry is satisfied with Bryant's current "struggle".

He chose to turn a blind eye to his still shooting 50 percent...

And Kobe's "struggle" also made the Lakers' point difference change from 3 points behind to 5 points behind.

From the further expansion of this point difference, it can be seen that the Lakers currently rely on Kobe.

In fact, this dependence is not just shown in this game.

It's a situation that has been shown this season.

The Lakers are more dependent on Kobe this year than in previous years.

Including this game, in many cases, Kobe's state directly affects the role of the Lakers on the court.

The reason is that in 08 and 09, the "Little Shark" Bynum, who was expected to be high, failed to perform efficiently.

He didn't improve as everyone expected.

In other words, his progress has been much smaller than everyone expected.

At present, only the quasi-first-line strength has been played.

But in the past two years, the rest of the Lakers have gotten older. Even Pau Gasol and Odom have not experienced a decline in status, but the status of others is really not guaranteed. From the first position to the fifth position, the only position with a decent substitute is the second position.

The man in this position is Shannon Brown...

This was chosen by the taller one among the dwarfs.

This makes the Lakers need Kobe to stand up and bear even more!
And when he has a little ups and downs on the court, the score of the entire Lakers team will also fluctuate during this period of time...

The game continues for the rest of the time.

Kobe, who was still "bickering" with Lin Ri just now, as the score was gradually pulled away, he no longer wanted to bicker with Lin Ri, and put all his attention on offense.

However, in the process of constantly breaking through just now, his physical energy was consumed a lot. Although he planned to change his routine to attack at this moment, his physical energy was no longer enough for him to carry out many offensive moves in a few seconds, and he was still full of strength when he shot.

More importantly, Kobe's touch was destroyed during the breakthrough, and it would do more harm than good to try to force a shot at this moment.

This is also a point that Kobe has criticized by many people: he has too many unreasonable shots.

Although in many cases he can forcibly turn these unreasonable balls into reasonable balls, making you shout "beautiful"!But more often than not, his unreasonable balls are unreasonable balls.

This is also the reason why his historical ranking of the number of strikes is gradually attracting attention!

But there is no way, this is Kobe's character.

Only when he made such a move at such a time did he prove that his self-confidence still existed.

Of course, the more important point...

Looking around, the entire Lakers team, if he doesn't attack, who else can he let attack?
This is Kobe's difficulty.

"Dangdang!"

"Dangdang!"

"Dangdang!"

It's a pity that more people heard the sound of iron hammering.

As Kobe also fell into a struggle, the Lakers' point difference was once again opened by the Suns. When the halftime whistle sounded, the Lakers' trailing score had reached 10 points.

There was no sound at all from the auditorium at the scene when the halftime whistle sounded.

A difference of 10 points is nothing.

With the league's offensive rhythm getting faster and faster, the 10-point difference is actually no different from playing around.

But the problem is that the state of the Lakers before the intermission really makes it impossible to see any possibility that they may catch up with this 10-point difference.

On the contrary, the Suns, with the momentum before the halftime break, made people feel that they were the team that opened up the point difference faster!
You said, in this situation, how could the Lakers fans have the mood to cheer or shout?

It's already a performance that I love the Lakers very much to leave without halftime.

Fans of the Zijin Dynasty can't accept the scene of being abused for half the game.

They're not masochists!

"Okay, guys, you did a good job in the second quarter, and you will continue to do this. Keep an eye on Kobe and don't give him a chance to breathe!"

"As long as we can maintain this point difference until the third quarter in this game, we should be able to accept the game!"

If they can continue to widen the point difference to 10 points and maintain the game time of one quarter, even if the Lakers' counterattack momentum is fierce, it should be vented.

By the time of the fourth quarter, this point difference will continue slowly, and it will be very easy to win this game.

At least that's how Gentry sees it.

However, he was still very wary of Kobe.

When explaining how to play in the second half, Kobe still put Kobe in the first place on the defensive end!

This guy's fighting spirit is so terrifying!
It's so scary that his fighting spirit can affect his touch. He belongs to the kind of player who can explode into a "small universe" as long as he continues to fight.

Well, that is, "big heart player"!
In today's game, Gentry did not expect that his tactics could affect Kobe's state, and he also influenced him very well through subsequent tactics. This is something he did not expect, and it is for this reason that he is very wary of Kobe. He does not want all the arrangements for Kobe tonight to become "wasteful" in the end!
That will definitely not work!
Therefore, the targeting of Kobe must continue and be carried through to the end!
And from Gentry's point of view, the Suns have a great chance of winning this game, and there is only one guy left on the Lakers side who can form a counterattack!
That is Kobe.

As long as he can't fight back, then nothing will happen!
In short, to say a thousand words and ten thousand, keeping a close eye on Kobe so that he can't get rid of the struggling state is what Gentry believes is the key to victory!

The time for the second half of the game is coming soon.

The Suns took the lead in attacking.

Steve Nash's "fast break tactic" was still watched by the Lakers. When he got the ball, the rhythm of everyone on the Lakers instantly accelerated a lot. The speed of building defense really made the Lakers fans on the scene stunned.

It turns out... how quickly can we build a defensive formation?

However, although Steve Nash failed to make the first attack, the Suns did not succeed in many fast breaks in this game, so he was not in a hurry at all, slowly dribbling the ball across the half court, and gave the ball to Lin Ri in the first time.

As soon as Lin Ri, who was standing firmly near the high position, got the ball, there was a lot of annoyance from the auditorium on the sidelines.

Obviously, in the eyes of this group of people, it is already a terrible thing for Lin Ri to take the ball.

No wonder, after halftime, Lin Ri had already scored 16 points and 7 rebounds. If this number were doubled, it would be too luxurious. In the current fourth position in the league, except for Lin Ri, no one else can beat the numbers!

However, if it can't be played, the rest of the Lakers can pretend not to see it.

After all, "out of sight, out of mind"!

Moreover, Pau Gasol is also a very good fourth position in the league, an All-Star player. There are really few players who can be better than him at the fourth position in the league.

But now Lin Ri beat Pau Gasol in front of them time and time again, you say, can they not be sour?

They are all normal men, who can not be sour?

(End of this chapter)