The first point guard in basketball

Chapter 472 The Meat Shield Comes On, The Crying Shark
To replace Xiao Tian with Kobe and O'Neal, even if the Lakers agree, the Grizzlies will definitely not agree. Xiao Tian's current contract is much lower than O'Neal's, but his contribution to the team is greater than O'Neal's. Among the rookies in the [-] class, his contract can only be considered average. Compared with Iverson and others, it is too ordinary. This kind of player who can sacrifice his own interests for the team is too rare. It can be said that it is a rare animal.

"Father, this is impossible. There is no reason for the Grizzlies to give us their stars. Even if we pay for Shaq and Kobe, there is no way out for us this season. If we don't win the championship, then Gary and Carl will definitely leave. We can pay the luxury tax for a year, but we can't pay it every year. Those upstarts in Los Angeles have just started to be dissatisfied in the audience, so if we can't win the championship, this season will be a failure for us." The Bass family has assets in Los Angeles, but not many. The most important thing is the support of these local tyrants. The Lakers team is a bit similar to the two heroes of the Western Super League. The only difference is that the two teams are membership-based. Every team chairman spends money crazily, and it is not his own money anyway.And there is no such thing as a luxury tax in football, but there is in basketball, so the local upstarts, local tyrants, are the real fathers of the Lakers players. After all, local tyrants like Paul Allen are only a minority, and the background of the James Dolan family is not comparable to that of the Bass family.

Jerry Buss was silent, and now he can only pray that the Lakers can win the game, because Jenny Buss is right, if they don't win this season, it will be a failure for the Lakers, and Gary Payton's contract still has several years left.

In the second half of the game, the Lakers played the OK combination as soon as they came up. Payton and Malone didn't play. Kukoc, Fox and AC Green played, and the Grizzlies were still on the bench. Although the defense is good, he can be called a jack-of-all-trades player, but he can't eat too much. He doesn't know anything, and everything is half-baked. This time the German easily got rid of him. After receiving Ginobili's pass, he raised his hand and made a three-pointer.

Seeing Ginobili, Zen Master’s eyes flashed with envy. Compared with many water dispenser administrators on the Lakers’ bench, Zen Master still prefers Ginobili, a player who can make sudden shots and shoot anything. At his peak, Toni Kukoc was such a person. That’s why he brought the opponent to the Lakers. Let him play a third of the residual heat, and the Lakers’ bench will be much easier to play. In, the organization couldn't keep up with the rhythm of his teammates. It was a complete trap. No wonder that fat man Jerry Krause chose to give him to him. Before that, he thought that fat man had changed his sex. Only now did Zen Master understand that the fat man knew that the Croatian was a trap, so he wanted to take over, and he immediately agreed.

Sure enough, there are no high-quality and cheap things in the world, but why are the drafts of the Grizzlies so good in the past few years? Don’t talk about Xiao Tian, ​​first-round players like Duncan, look at second-round players like Harprin, Ginobili, and Wu Sheng, and then look at the Lakers’ picks.

Zen Master began to have a headache again, but the Lakers must not lose this game. This is the only point Zen Master knows clearly.If the Lakers want to enter the finals, the Grizzlies must be defeated. If they can't even beat the Grizzlies, breaking out of the West is simply a dream.

O'Neal faced the Grizzlies' substitutes and played very easily. Paul Westphal did not start, but waved his hand, replaced Coleman and Rodman, and replaced Jerome James and Augstagg.

These two meat shields were aimed at O'Neal, so during the time when the starter was not up, O'Neal couldn't attack so comfortably, but gave the ball to Kobe. Kobe finally got rid of Harprin's brown sugar-like defense and chose to shoot. The shot went out and hit O'Neal's hand. The Shark was shocked and hurt. Augstagg still didn't show any expression, and the ball belonged to the Lakers.

Kobe was not in a hurry to attack this time. After passing the ball countless times, Kobe got the opportunity to cut, relying on O'Neal to attract the defense of three people, and scored 2 points with difficulty.

With 7 minutes left in the third quarter, Zen master decided to replace several other starters, and Kobe and O'Neal did not go down. Anyway, both of their stamina gauges were infinitely close to full, and the Grizzlies' starters also came up at this time.

Brand came up to receive Xiao Tian's pass, and hit O'Neal with an unsteady footing, dunking with both hands and scored. If O'Neal blocked the shot, he would definitely not score, but O'Neal did not move.

Payton controlled the ball, and this time he didn't give Xiao Tian a chance to steal it. In the frontcourt, the other teammates didn't ask for the ball.

Xiao Tian continued to torture Payton's nerves by leaning back. Although Payton had a beautiful block shot, it was also paid for by two fouls. In addition to the previous one, he now has three fouls in his hands. Are you familiar with the offense? This tactic requires a high basketball IQ. Anyway, about 3% of NBA players can't understand it.If it wasn't for the basketball IQ, the Lakers wouldn't want the opponent at all, which would lead to greater salary pressure for the Lakers. It's okay to win the championship this season, but if they don't win the championship, wouldn't it be nothing?
Peyton's three fouls were like three swords of Damoris hanging above his head, as long as one fell, his game would be overwhelmed, but could he just watch Xiao Tian lean back so unscrupulously?

(End of this chapter)