Jim Bass Ambition

Chapter 15 Director Lu's Most Glorious Moment

Staples Center, the first game of the finals of the 00-01 season, was staged in the eyes of everyone.

The Sharks defeated Uncle Mu in the jump ball, and the first ball was handed over to him for singles without any suspense.The Sharks chose to break through the front frame step by step.

It has to be said that he has a degree of flexibility that does not fit his body type. Uncle Mu can only choose to block the middle lane and let O'Neal go to the bottom line.O'Neal, who got the gap, made an emergency stop throw. The ball bounced a few times above the basket and bounced out.

The 76ers grabbed a defensive rebound. After Iverson dribbled the ball for halftime, he ignored Fisher in front of him without making too much sense, and made a jumper.

Kobe grabs the rebound and advances quickly along the right side of the court. A giant yellow shadow flashes by. O'Neal is already in the low position. The man arrives at the ball. Deep in the three-second zone, no one can stop O'Neal from scoring, even if he just got the best Dikembe Mutombo of the Defensive Player Award is no exception.

After Iverson dribbled the ball for halftime, without much reason, he ignored Fisher in front of him and shot a jumper, and this time the goal was scored.

Facing the defense, Kobe chose to force a breakthrough, plunged into the encirclement of Tyrone Hill and Snow, and the ball fell.Snow made a long pass from the quarterback and threw the ball to the frontcourt. After receiving the ball, Iverson directly pulled the bar and scored a layup.

Kobe threw the ball from the baseline directly to the 76ers' basket, O'Neal ran like a running elephant, ahead of everyone, received the ball and violently hung the basket for a slam dunk.

Snow holds the ball at the top of the arc, Iverson rolls out from the weak side along the free throw line, uses Tyrone Hill's screen to shake off Fisher, catches the ball and makes a mid-range shot, misses, grabs the rebound himself, and continues to make up Basket, still missed.

Kobe holds the ball, breaks through Snow's defense, faces the supplementary defender, and throws the ball in the air to Fox, who is emptied in the corner on the other side, with a 3-pointer.

Facing Kobe's defense, Iverson pulled back after a crossover. Kobe, who lost his center of gravity, slammed on the brakes, abruptly controlled his body, and made a blocking motion. Iverson's shot passed through Kobe's fingertips , hollow into the net.

O'Neal holds the ball in the ribs and distributes the ball to Fox, who is in the air. Mr. Fox, facing Mutombo, who is defending, rounds his arms to block the dunk, and the ball viciously hits the back frame and flies out.

Iverson borrowed Hill and Mutombo's double screen, slipped from the baseline to 45 degrees, and hit a jumper immediately after receiving a pass from Snow.

O'Neal held the ball in a low position, turned around and squeezed Mutombo behind the backboard, and dunked iconically. Mutombo kept signaling to the referee that O'Neal was fouled by elbows, completely forgetting that there were countless ghosts under his elbow.

Tyrone Hill dribbled through the free throw line. After seeing the basket assisting the defense, he chose to jump up and pass the ball. As a result, he passed the ball to a position with no one in a three-meter radius. Fortunately, O'Neal was still playing on the court and did not start to do it. The show, otherwise his ball will definitely be on the list.

Kobe continued to change direction with his crotch and dribbled the ball to his heels. McGee picked up the ground ball and threw it directly to the Lakers basket. The No. 3 Phantom was already in position and scored an easy layup.

O'Neal got a position at the basket, squeezed Mutombo away, turned around and scored with a small hook.

Mutombo's position at the basket failed to squeeze O'Neal, but a bad elbow rested on the shark's armpit, creating some space, and scored with an ugly big hook.

Kobe holds the ball, observes his teammates' running positions, and doesn't watch out for Snow reaching out behind his back and touching the basketball. He is fouled for a fast break layup, and Iverson follows up and vacates, smashing the popped ball in with one hand. Basket, unfortunately invalid.

Kobe broke through Geiger's defense in one step and took off to dunk with both hands, but was slapped by Mutombo's flying palm.

The 76ers missed a shot, and O'Neal showed unprecedented fighting spirit, throwing his huge body on the floor to fight for the ball.

The two sides come and go, not giving in to each other. Except for the first few minutes, the score has been in a stalemate.

Just like two boxers, without too many fancy moves, without too complicated tactical coordination, they just defend desperately, and the stars lead the offense, leaving their shots to the most certain point, that is, Iverson and Iverson. O'Neal, the others are just responsible for shooting some open shots.

Jim on the sidelines watched anxiously. With the interior crowded with people, Kobe’s face-up singles options became very simple. The 76ers could easily make defensive responses. On the offensive end, Kobe could not effectively deal with Iverson. Killing, and Iverson's agility and tireless running off the ball made Kobe's defense a little bit battered.

Fisher and Shaw basically can't make too much contribution to the team on the court. They don't have the ability to attack independently, and they can't share the pressure on Kobe on defense.The rookies Reed and Stevenson simply didn't get a few minutes of playing time, basically running back and forth.

At the end of the first half, the Lakers have fallen behind by 6 points.

After a 15-minute break, the two sides returned to the court, but the Lakers did not follow the starting lineup of the first half. Standing in front of Iverson was a man who was exactly the same in height, shape and hairstyle.

"My father and I will be disappointed if we don't sweep the 76ers to win the championship. In tomorrow's game, you can verify what I said."

"This kid is not very old, but he is even more arrogant than his father." Zen master remembered what Jim left before the game, and he still couldn't calm down. "I don't think he is a person who understands the ball, but he did guess the layout I was thinking about. And the trend of this game was actually right by him."

Zen Master certainly does not believe that Jim has the ability to predict the future, and he certainly does not want to be the background board for Iverson's fame in World War I.

As soon as they played in the third quarter, the Lakers changed their tactics.

Kobe no longer defended Iverson on the defensive end, and the newly replaced Tyrone Lue entangled the opponent like a shadow throughout the entire process. Iverson had to consume more physical energy to go around the screen and get rid of the defense.

On the offensive end, O'Neal temporarily retreated to the second line, while Kobe took over the gun of the main attacker. In the first half of the game, he chose to face up to the frame and the offensive effect was not good. Go low for a post up.

At this time, Kobe is not the black mamba who is proficient in low-post offense, and Peter Pan's back-up technique is still jerky, but when facing Iverson's defense, it is obviously better to use his height and weight to slowly advance choose.

It's just that Kobe doesn't like the more efficient way of scoring. He often turns around and makes a jumper instead of directly hanging up to make a foul.So he didn't gain too many points with a normal hand, but the tactical goal has been achieved, reducing the rhythm, suppressing Iverson's fast break, consuming him on both ends of the offense and defense, and allowing O'Neal to save energy to harvest the game.

After all, Mutombo is older and does not have the monster body of O'Neal's historical level, and even if O'Neal does nothing on the court, but just goes to the opposite basket, the opponent has to use all his power to push him as far away as possible Gotta push off the basket.

Iverson's running position was not as agile as in the first half. Snow did not dare to pass the ball too fast, and was shot by Lu from the air. Kobe quickly picked up the floor ball and threw it forward. , and Iverson succeeded in the same fast break layup in the first half.

In the next round, Lu blocked Tyrone Hill's pass to Iverson in the same way, and then quickly placed a three-pointer to seal his throat. The Lakers successfully overtook the score.

The atmosphere in the Staples Arena exploded in an instant, and the biggest cheers from the audience were not given to O'Neal or Kobe, but to the copycat Iverson at the end of the bench.

Lu enjoyed the cheers from the home audience and extended two fingers to Iverson.

"My proudest moment? It's now."

(End of this chapter)