You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 233 God Opens His Eyes

Sunday, August 2006, 1

Today is another game day, the Lakers will face the Toronto Raptors at home.

The Raptors are not a strong team. The only player in the team who can match the All-Stars is Chris Bosh.Bosh is another All-Star who can't make a difference, so that's it.

Although the opponent is not strong, the Lakers' preparation strategy is still rigorous.

Two days earlier, they had lost by double digits against one of the strongest teams in the Western Conference, the Phoenix Suns. Bryant's 36 points didn't help.

In the morning and at noon, Wesha trained at the place arranged for him by Jim Buss.

In the afternoon, go to the Toyota Center to participate in the team's training session.

Before the game, Jackson will not do high-intensity training, run, shoot, practice tactics, then close his eyes and meditate, it's over.

Kobe is more serious than anyone else. He completely treats the Raptors, the bottom of the Eastern Conference, as the top team.

After all the things that should be done are done, he will find an unlucky guy to single out.

Kobe basically singled out everyone on the team. He is not an arbitrary tyrant. If someone uses excuses to shirk, he will not force it.

Latrell Sprewell is an undisputed ruthless person, the kind who dared to strangle the coach's neck, but he was scared by Kobe. Since the New Year, every time Kobe asked him to fight one-on-one, he said that his back was sore and his legs were cramping. Can you let him go?OK.

Brian Russell is also good. He was a ruthless man who challenged Jordan countless times. Although he was completely abused by the latter, he never felt good about himself and refused to admit defeat.He had the cheek to say that he and Jordan were very coquettish in a 12-[-] relationship. Kobe admired his competitiveness, but he only persisted for a month. Since mid-December last year, he pretended to pass out every time he saw Kobe approaching him.

"Get away from me, Kobe! I'm allergic to you!"

Why didn't Wei Xia think of such a good excuse?

Everyone has their own excuses, Kobe is not a carnivore, he only picks those who are worthy of single-handedly, some people who are not afraid of his challenge, he does not want to challenge.

Like Smush Parker.

Every time he bumped into his face, Kobe was disgusted by the way he wanted to be dissatisfied, and then quickly ignored him.

It seems that only Wei Xia is the most worthy of a fight.

Wei Xia doesn't know how to refuse, and he won't be beaten. Since January this year, he has been Kobe's fixed one-on-one opponent.

The same is true today.

They came to a field and started playing. Kobe felt very good, and he didn't stop talking when he attacked.

"I'll kill you in seconds, Wish."

not at all.

"With this defense, I can score five goals in a row without changing the pattern!"

Actually only got two.

"See? Even that stupid Smash pig is making fun of you."

"That's because his laugh point is relatively low." Wei Xia retorted.

The two sides played ten balls and the score was 5 to 8.

Kobe's offensive success rate is very high, Wei Xia still plays more body ball, he does not have Kobe's delicate skills and experience.

There is nothing wrong with playing bodyball, but not for long.

Wei Xia is getting along day and night with the best perimeter player in the world in terms of pure offensive skills. He can learn a lot from the opponent and often use it in actual combat. But when facing Kobe, he has no confidence in using the moves he stole from the opponent.

The creed of not daring to play big swords in front of Guan Gong made Wei Xia fight like a rough brother when facing Kobe.

I feel good today, so I can play 5 to 8 with Kobe.

Kobe was not happy enough to win and decided to hit another 10 balls.

Wei Xia, who continued to play body balls but couldn't maintain his touch, scored 1 goal with his body, while Kobe made 10 of 9 shots, and Wei Xia accidentally caught up with the block on the missed ball.

"I'll fix you in minutes!"

Kobe, who shot 17 to 6, said arrogantly.

"It turns out that this is what you pursue, and I'm really disappointed." Wei Xia sat on the ground and mocked lightly.

"You figure it out, what I took care of was not the idiot rookie with rough skills, but the 'Shark Terminator'." Kobe called Wei Xiaxin's nickname given to him by the Los Angeles media.

Because he made the Sharks suffer several times, got the opponent ejected twice, and scored an unrivaled dunk on the opponent's head, he is called the "Shark Terminator".

Wei Xia suddenly found that compared with these fancy but embarrassing nicknames, "Wish" is really small and fresh, and he likes it.

Wei Xia got up and said, "Do you want me to press your head to complete the dunk? Yes, next time."

"Stop fucking nonsense, buy me water!" Kobe took out a food voucher from his pocket!
Note, it's food vouchers, not cash or small checks.

Lakers players can receive $400 in food vouchers per day, and they don’t have to use them to sell food. In short, as long as they are legal expenses, they can be reimbursed by the team within $400.

People like Sprewell, who need tens of millions of annual salary to support their families, use food vouchers to promote the good style of saving, Kobe?What does he mean by giving food vouchers?
"Did you go to mass today?" Wei Xia asked.

Kobe believes in Catholicism. During the season, as long as he has time, he will go to church for mass.

"Done." Kobe said.

"Oh, so, you can't eat meat or drink alcohol today, let alone drink junk drinks, so I'll buy you a bottle of ice water." Wei Xia had a simple "I'm definitely not revenge on you" face.

Kobe shouted: "Today is not Friday, I don't have to practice hard fasting!"

Wei Xia shook the food voucher with his hand and said, "Who cares about you?"

"Asshole!" Kobe turned around angrily, "He's getting more and more presumptuous!"

Sprewell was stretching his legs and feet with the help of Weaver. Hearing Kobe's complaints, he said bluntly: "It's not all because of you. Look how honest Vaughn is, he is a rookie."

"You're right," Weaver said earnestly.

Kobe sarcastically said: "You old bone who can't do a shit can just bully rookies, and you are useless in the game!"

"Worthless?" Sprewell said unconvinced, "The management will give me 1000 million a year?"

Kobe said hurtingly: "They got water in their heads and lost their heads."

"One thing to say, indeed." Russell helped out, "If they give me 1000 million a year, I guarantee that I will be more useful than Latterier."

Bryant is not interested in mixing the cynicism among the veterans.

Today is no ordinary day for him.

In the evening, the Lakers training ended, and Jackson asked the players to leave separately, and they had to arrive at the Staples Center before eight o'clock.

Wei Xia arrived half an hour early, this is a little trick he asked Tony Kukoc.

Regardless of the home or away game, stepping on the field half an hour in advance to warm up is good for adapting to the basket on the game scene.

It turned out that Kobe was even earlier than him.

He seemed to arrive at seven o'clock. By the time Wei Xia arrived at 07:30, he had already thrown hundreds of balls.

Normally Kobe would not arrive so early, he is a busy man.

"That's my grandmother." Kobe pointed Wei Xia with his eyes, "Dorothy Roxana Ridley (Dorothy Roxana Ridley), she came to watch the game for the first time, today you have to pass the ball to me more."

Wei Xia rolled his eyes when he heard this, as if he had passed the ball to him less frequently.

Among other things, Wei Xia is currently averaging nearly 4 assists per game, and more than half of them are obtained from Kobe.

"I'm not the starter, you have to talk to the starter!" Wei Xia hinted that the person who didn't pass the ball was not him, but someone named Parker.

"It's not that the idiot didn't pass the ball to me, he just didn't know when to pass and when not to pass." Bryant rarely had a positive comment on Parker.

Wei Xia chatted with him a few more words, and then walked up to Dorothy to say hello.

It is said that Kobe inherited his personality from his mother, who in turn inherited his mother's personality.

But Wei Xia can't imagine this old lady who looks good and talkative as the old lady's version of Kobe.

Dorothy was very kind to Wei Xia, and then she asked Wei Xia why he didn't have a braid.She misunderstood that he was from China, and she also misunderstood that today's Chinese people still have braided hair. According to Wei Xia's experience, there are not a few older Americans who hold this stereotype.

"Actually, the Chinese don't wear braids long ago." Wei Xia explained.

"Keep it, the popular science channel doesn't lie." Dorothy's stubborn look really resembles Kobe.

Wei Xia is not interested in changing the old lady's impression of Chinese people. This is the first time she has come to watch Kobe live. Let her focus on it.

The reason why Dorothy didn't come to watch Kobe's game live for the first time until today was because she had a nerve problem and couldn't bear the noise of the scene.Today is the birthday of Kobe's grandfather who passed away a few years ago, so she chose to come to watch Kobe's game live today.

So, today is really a big day for Kobe.

He went to mass in the morning and was very devout. He was more focused and serious than everyone else in the training session in the afternoon. In order to warm up for the game in advance, he went to the scene early to try his hands.

The Raptors are not a strong team. They have no way to limit Kobe except to pray that he doesn't feel good.

To make matters worse, they also have a man named Jaylen Rose in the lineup.

He played for the Pacers in 2000. As we all know, the Pacers reached the Finals that year and encountered the OK Lakers who were about to start their dynasty. They fought six hard games and exhausted all kinds of dirty methods, but they still couldn't stop the wheels of history from crushing them.

The Pacers have exhausted all their potential and used all their tricks.One of the tricks was that Jaylen Rose took the initiative to slap Kobe during the first game.Kobe only played 9 minutes in the second game, missed the third game, returned with anger and played 47 minutes in the fourth game, and led the team alone after O'Neal fouled out, scored key goals, and grasped the match point.

Afterwards, Rose admitted that he deliberately played the black foot. If Kobe missed the finals due to injury, he would have a chance to get the championship ring.

So Lakers fans, look away, now you must know that God opened his eyes the moment Jaylen Rose made a black foot.

(End of this chapter)