champion heart

Chapter 135 134. Christmas Dinner
In the second half of the game, the Lakers began to strengthen the inside offense. Kobe and Tang De teamed up to pass the ball to Baibian.

Baibian did not disappoint the trust of the two big men of the team. Facing Bosh in the paint, he scored a lot of goals.

After returning from the second half, the Heat obviously paid more attention to the inside line, and even James kept rushing for rebounds.

Kobe played about 10 minutes in the second half and scored 8 points. After the whole game, Kobe played a total of about 10 minutes and scored 15 points and 7 assists with a shooting percentage of just over [-]%.

唐德虽然在下半场再次拿到14分，全场比赛打了36分钟，砍下了33分5助攻5篮板的华丽数据。

But in this Christmas game, the Lakers still lost to the defending champion Heat at home by 8 points.

Although everyone in the Lakers was working hard, they still failed to withstand the fierce offensive firepower of the Heat.

The "Big Three" scored 77 points together, especially in the fourth quarter, when James and Wade took turns bombing, which directly led to the Lakers' loss.

After the game, James and Wade even came to the Lakers' locker room to exchange pleasantries with Kobe and Tang De.

The two expressed their blessings to Kobe, and also expressed their appreciation for Tang De, especially James, who looked at Tang De with light in his eyes.

But it's just a casual chat. After all, the team lost the Christmas game, and Kobe and Tang De were not very interested.

After the two left, amidst the intense anticipation of the reporters, Kobe and Tang De participated in the post-match press conference after the game.

Probably the content is similar to what James said, nothing more than asking Kobe how he feels, and then blowing a wave of Tang De in various fancy ways.

The other is to focus on asking what kind of changes or adjustments the Lakers will play in the future.

For this question, D'Antoni did not elaborate, but gave the reporters an ambiguous answer.

Because even D'Antoni himself didn't think about how to play next.

However, although the Lakers lost this game, D'Antoni is still very satisfied from the specific details of the game.

Kobe sent 7 assists and Tang De scored 33 points. Isn't this in line with the pre-match tactical arrangement?

Kobe came to organize and Tang De came to score.

The reason for the loss can only be blamed on the fact that there is a real gap between the strength and the opponent.

……

Even though the team lost and it was past nine o'clock in the evening when everyone left the arena, under Tang De's strong organization, everyone went to Tang De's villa to play for a while.

After all, today is Christmas, and the team will not have a game tomorrow, so Kobe did not refuse, and joined the party with his teammates.

In the entire team, only Tang De dared to tell Kobe what he wanted to play at this time. After all, Kobe was always terrible after losing.

It basically belongs to the kind of situation that no one dares to mess with.

With Nick Young and Bai Bian around, Tang De's house has everything to eat and drink, even all kinds of red wine.

Back at the villa, everyone worked together to prepare a table of delicious food in a hurry. Of course, it was not junk food. The Christmas dinner belonging to the entire Lakers team began soon.

At the dinner table, as the nominal boss of the team, Kobe took the lead in raising the red wine glass and organizing everyone to raise a glass.

Kobe: "Guys, have a good night tonight, and we will continue training tomorrow!"

Nick Young: "Bro, we lost the first game you came back. Are you really not upset?"

Nick Young still feels that the Kobe in front of him is unreal. Although tonight is the first time he has cooperated with Kobe on the court, before coming to the Lakers, he has learned from various aspects what kind of person Kobe is.

Annoyed, paranoid, difficult to get along with.

This is what Nick Young knows about Kobe in his heart.

However, Kobe is so easy-going now, and Nick Young was really not used to it for a while.

Kobe: "What does that matter? Who stipulated that I must win when I come back? And I think we played very well tonight. Everyone worked hard. Maybe we can score a few more goals and win the game." It will be us, so I say we have to keep working hard, and the defending champion is nothing to fear. Man, Laozi is a guy who has won five championship trophies. One day I will win the sixth one, right? "

Everyone was amused by Kobe's words, this is Kobe.

Kobe: "Especially Hassan, I have to praise you, you guys are so cool to grab rebounds, and your attitude is much better than Dwight, I like playing with you!"

Baibian: "Haha~ha, I'm used to this style of play. I'd rather not score than give up rebounds. I can't resist the temptation of rebounds."

As soon as he heard Naka praise himself so much, Baibian's speech became a little incoherent.

No wonder, after all, last season, Baibian was still a homeless man who had no ball to play even overseas, but now he suddenly became the starting center of the Lakers and is the most important part of the team's defensive end. Kobe's recognition, how can he not be excited?
Tang De: "The boss is right. No matter what, we all train hard and play hard. I believe we can have a good future!"

While speaking, Tang De also raised his wine glass to touch everyone.

Kobe: "Don, let me give you a suggestion. Your current style of play is a bit too dependent on breakthroughs. It's not that your style of attacking the basket is not good. It's just that if you can improve your shooting ability to a higher level, you will be able to do so if you are on the court. The threat will be greater, you know what I mean?"

Tang De: "Of course I understand that. It's really tiring to always break through. I really should practice shooting more, but don't worry, we are not practicing extra shooting every day. Sooner or later we will practice it!"

Even if Kobe doesn't say anything, Tang De is aware of his current shortcomings. He has strong physical fitness, can defend and hit the basket, but relatively speaking, his shooting ability is indeed a bit poor.

But it doesn't matter, fortunately, he practiced every day now, and more importantly, Tang De found out a few days ago that his points were already enough to exchange for a permanent skill.

There is no doubt that Tang De is going to choose a shooting skill.

……

The Christmas party ended quickly, and everyone went home immediately, but maybe this was just the surface.

Maybe that guy Thackeray doesn't know where to go to have fun. It's not unreasonable that this guy is an "optimist". Anyway, he doesn't have much chance to play in the Lakers, and he can see it well.

After all, he can get the team's salary without any effort. For a person like him who has no pursuit of the game, why not do it?

……

The next morning, Tang De was woken up by a sudden phone call at just over five o'clock in the morning...

(End of this chapter)