Jim Bass Ambition

Chapter 283 Welcome to the NBA
Jim felt that he had underestimated the Magic. In his impression, before Howard grew into a first-line superstar in the league, the Magic did not have any outstanding records, but he subconsciously ignored the Magic dynasty in the first month of each season.

Today, Boss Fowler and Mobley are trying their best to prove themselves in front of the league. Hill is back on the court, and his all-round skills are still online. It would be a bit irresponsible to regard them as the tank war champions of last season.

After studying some technical statistics, Jim made up his mind.

Thanks to Garnett's jump ball success rate, the Lakers haven't taken the lead in the third quarter for a long time.

Billups gave the ball to Kobe, and he squatted in the corner as a fixed-point turret.

Kobe holds the ball at the top of the key and Garnett comes up and sets a screen.

The Magic switched defenses, forming a small fight big. Kobe saw that although Howard mentioned the free throw line, the overall position was still ready to recover at any time.

"In the second half, we focused on Dwight Howard. Although he looks scary, he is actually softer than Kleenex. Kobe, Dwyane, when you break through, you will find that Dwight will definitely retreat, leaving you room to start , in order to brush some blocks, we can take advantage of this, as for how to use it, you guys are more professional than me.” Kobe remembered what Jim arranged during the intermission, and rushed to Howard without hesitation.

"If I can block Kobe, I will be the top ten shot today." Howard adjusted his steps, preparing to use his height and athletic ability to block after Kobe took off.

Unexpectedly, Kobe did not rush straight to the basket, but withdrew outward, collecting the ball and preparing for a jump shot.

Howard rushed out to try to block the shot, but just toes off the ground, he realized that he had made a mistake.

After flying Howard, Kobe took advantage of the situation, threw the ball to the backboard, then took off, received the rebound ball and easily scored an empty basket.

Top Ten shots are definitely on the way, but not in the way Howard hoped.

Boss Fowler is a man of loyalty, and he can't see rookies in the team being bullied and the Magic attacking. He lobbed the ball to Howard, who is crazy about the position inside, and hoped that he would respond.

But Howard's low-post singles, in the eyes of defensive masters like Garnett, are all flaws in every gesture.

After taking two random steps, Howard collected the ball and turned around to prepare for a strong move.

Garnett thinks you don't take me seriously?Howard's ball was cut off by Garnett with five claws before he got it to his waist.

The Lakers' offense is very simple and crude, that is, Kobe and the inside pick-and-roll, misplaced to attack Howard or Turkoglu, and avoid two good perimeter defenders, Grant Hill and Stephen Jackson.

The Magic also adjusted their defensive strategy. Seeing that the defense was not working, Johnny Davis arranged for the inside players to delay first, and then the outside players squeezed through the pick-and-roll to double-team.

If the teammate covering Kobe is Chris Mihm or Kwame Brown, the Magic's defensive tactics may be successful, because these people's open shooting percentages are not as good as two people in Kobe's mind. Come on time.

But whether it is Garnett or David West, they are all players with coquettish mid-range shots. They are far from being comparable to rough guys like Mim Brown. Kobe sent consecutive assists, and the point difference returned to double digits.

In order to avoid repeating the mistakes made in the second quarter, Jim replaced Billups and Artest in advance, and replaced Korver and Battier. Not high, Jim felt that instead of letting him run back and forth on the court, it would be better to wait a while and lead the bench with Wade. Anyway, the Magic did not have any reliable three-pointers. The defensive end used zone defense to mainly contain the breakthroughs of Francis and Hill.

Johnny Davis also continued his rotation adjustments, first replacing Turkoglu with mediocre physical fitness and Hill with key protection, but instead of Tony Batty, he replaced the white shooter Pat Garrity and Mobley, with a clear purpose, put up two turrets and opened up space with Stephen Jackson, allowing Francis to easily break through.

After Garrity came up, the effect was immediate, taking advantage of David West's weakness that could not be defended, and made a three-pointer.

Jim called a timeout immediately.

"Kyle, you go to defend Stephen Jackson. When he breaks through, you just need to step on the upper line. Give him a chance to go to the bottom line. Kevin will help you take care of the rest. Kobe will go to defend Francis and try to let him go. He's going to shoot threes,"

After the timeout, the Lakers replaced David West and replaced Artest to top the 4th position.

Bryant breaks through, and this time Mobley leaves Battier to double-team.Kobe immediately sent the ball to the outside, and Francis also turned to Battier in front of him for the first time.

Battier passed the ball to Korver in the bottom corner. Korver feinted and knocked off Mobley who was turning around. He took the ball to the inside and was going to show everyone that he could not only shoot three-pointers .

As a result, as soon as Korver's layup left his hand, a black shadow enveloped his head.

Howard, who was depressed for a long time, finally found a punching bag, and a volleyball cap slammed Korver's layup into the audience.

After landing, Howard and Francis first bumped their chests to celebrate passionately, and then muttered and foamed.

Shane Battier walked up to Korver immediately, and signaled him not to mind, being capped or something was normal, and he would do it again next time.

Kobe was expressionless, and came to the top of the arc to ask for the ball, signaling his teammates to pull away, and he wanted to single out.

Stephen Jackson finally waited for this opportunity. He always wanted to prove that he was also a member of Kobe's terminator.

But he forgot a question, just like Tony Stark's anti-XX armor is usually torn apart by hand in the end, XX terminators will often end with X.

With a sharp swing left and right, Stephen Jackson's feet seemed to be nailed to the floor, watching Kobe whizzing past.

Pat Garrity came up to try to block, but Kobe had already picked up the ball, passed Pat Garrity, went straight to the basket, and took off.

Before Howard had time to take off and block the shot, No. 8 Purple Shadow had grown bigger and bigger before his eyes.

Kobe faced Howard, held the ball in his right hand, pulled his body into an anti-bow, and then violently released all the energy, hitting his head and face with a one-handed dunk!
Howard was knocked crooked and staggered out of the court.

"Welcome to the NBA!"

The entire audience gasped, even players on the Magic bench almost jumped up, but fortunately they realized their identities in time.

The Lakers' bench was blown up, led by Jim, crazily celebrating Kobe's dunk that can be handed down for generations.

(End of this chapter)