You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 493 Wipe out Denver
If the first game was the wrong script, then in the second game, the two sides returned to the originally established track.

Iverson maintained a fiery offensive state. Wei Xia originally wanted to attack him, but suddenly, Kobe opened fire.

Bryant's state is extremely eye-catching, it is a state that cannot be ignored.

Iverson ignored the height difference, and made all kinds of shots after a large recline and raised the arc of the shot. He made 8 of 4 shots in a single quarter and scored 10 points.

Wei Xia, who was facing him, made 3 of 1 shots, and his peripheral touch was not good. Due to Kobe's explosion, he didn't even have a chance to break through and pull back his shooting percentage.

Once again, Anthony, who played against Kobe, played well, 6 of 3, and a half-hundred hit rate. From the start, it is not bad.

However, Kobe on the opposite side did not play cards according to common sense!

科比首节10中8，只3个罚球，单节砍下20分0篮板0助攻。这意思就是除了得分，其他都不干。

The 80% shooting rate is sensational, which established the advantage of the Lakers in the whole game in one fell swoop.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Wei Xia played a role in Iverson's defense.

It was difficult for Iverson to catch the ball, attack and score. He took 4 shots in a single quarter and only scored 1 goal. He no longer had the smooth feel just now.

Wei Xia did a good job of defending and assisting his teammates to attack. He scored only 3 points personally, but let the Lakers play a 30-16 single-quarter offensive.

The performance in the first half was enough to seal the victory for the Lakers.

The Nuggets, who wanted to attack with offense from the very first game, made a wrong calculation. The Lakers' offense may not be as good as the running and bombing Suns.

In the second half, Anthony and Iverson worked together to score 30-30 against the Lakers.

But it didn't work.

Just showing the same level as the Lakers, rather than a big score like the Lakers in the second quarter, won't help.

Michael Thompson said something about this: "I can understand the urgency of the Denver people, but they can't even let Kobe play the full three quarters with the concentration of the first quarter."

Kobe's 20 points in the first quarter seemed to be aimed at breaking Michael Jordan's single-game scoring record in the playoffs.

As a result, only 9 points were scored in the next two quarters, but it did not delay the Lakers' offense at all.Because of his active performance, the Nuggets have to send heavy troops to guard him every time.

Kobe has no intention of performing a classic old show with more than a dozen, but borrows his own attractiveness to defense to guide the Nuggets to double-team, and his teammates open one by one.

Except Wei Xia.

Wei Xia was the only one who didn't take advantage of Co's gravitational pull.

He wanted to lock up Iverson, and every kid who grew up in Philadelphia regarded Iverson as an idol.

Wei Xia did not. Kobe was his favorite when he was a child. Later, he regarded Kobe as a benchmark. As for Iverson, the other party occupies a special place in his heart.He is not Wei Xia's idol, he is not the goal that Wei Xia is chasing, and he does not even serve as a benchmark for Wei Xia like Kobe.

Because Wei Xia didn't like tattoos, RAP, dreadlocks, fancy dresses, and stayed away from gangsters since he was a child.

Before Wei Xia grew taller, Iverson's meaning to Wei Xia was to give him a reason to work hard.

The 15-year-old Wei Xia was less than 170 centimeters tall. At that time, he hardly had any professional basketball prospects, so he always comforted himself this way: If even Iverson can become the No. [-] pick in the NBA draft, if even he can make a rebellious speech "I don't want to be anyone, I just want to be myself" and score a jumper in a game that is watched by the United States, why should he not work hard?
Iverson's existence gave him a reason to work hard.

Later, amazing changes took place in him. He no longer needed to motivate himself through Iverson, but it also made him respect Iverson's achievements more.

LeBron James said it well, in terms of his size, he is the best in history.

In the first match a few days ago, Wei Xia and Iverson exploded each other. Today, he gave up offense and concentrated on defense.

In the whole game, Iverson's performance was even better than Game1. 21 of 10, scored 31 points and 6 assists alone, but Anthony's performance was worse than the previous game, his shooting percentage dropped to 40%, he only scored 20 points, and was crushed by Kobe on the ground.

Against the Nuggets, Kobe ran away in the first and fourth quarters, boiled frogs in warm water in the second and third quarters, made 26 of 17 shots, scored 49 points, 4 rebounds and 10 assists.

跟在他身后的，是加索尔的18分10篮板3助攻，和韦夏被人低估的18分8篮板7助攻。

The Lakers once again scored 120+ points and beat the Nuggets 2-0.

Wei Xia experienced life in the 60s in reality.

Compared with the bad things outside the court, the game is the only thing he can calm down and focus on doing his own thing.

During the press conference, journalists from all over the world will ask various questions.

Most of the questions that reporters posed to him were not easy to answer.

He became more and more silent.

Today, Pau Gasol was also asked a related question.

About whether they will boycott the Olympics because of human rights violations by a big country and disregard for the butchers who are against humanity there to provide weapons.

Unexpectedly, Gasol's answer was negative: "No, I don't understand this matter, but I will not boycott the Olympics because of this matter."

This is a flattering rhetoric. He is a Spaniard, so he doesn't need to care about what the media thinks of him.

Unable to dig deeper, the reporters gave up.

In the corridor, Wei Xia thanked Gasol, and the other party's speech was a strong support for him.

"Don't thank me, I'm just expressing my heart." Gasol said inexplicably, "Why should I boycott the Olympics for something that can't be achieved? Do those reporters know how many times we can participate in the Olympics in our lifetime?"

It's also "just speak your mind", why is Gasol not so much trouble, but he was chased and bitten by mold?Is there any humanity?
"If this goes on like this, I'll have to see a psychiatrist." Wei Xia said despondently.

"Don't! My brother just went to see it." Gasol mentioned his younger brother Marc Gasol, who was also selected by the Lakers. "He was troubled by obesity. He tried a lot to lose weight. It didn't work at first, so he was depressed and went to see a doctor."

Although Wei Xia thinks that the depression that cannot be lost due to weight loss is different from his kind of random words that will be interpreted endlessly like Zhou Xingchi's movies.

But he still asked politely: "And then?"

"And then he became the vanguard of the boycott of psychotherapy clinics!" Gasol laughs. "Psychotherapy clinics are the only place in civilized society where [you] as a patient have no reason to speak."

I haven't known Gasol for a long time, but Wei Xia's friendship with him has grown rapidly.

He's a talkative guy, funny, and a good joker without being pushy.Moreover, the selfless team has all the characteristics of being a good teammate.

They entered the locker room together and exchanged their achievements today.

Phil Jackson came later and took the initiative to say to Wei Xia: "For any future games, if you don't want to, you don't have to attend the press conference."

To do so is to defy league rules and regulations, but the Lakers have good reason to protest.

Ever since Wei Xia got involved in politically incorrect incidents, the reporter's interview with him has changed.

Especially in the press conference held in the media interview room, eight out of ten questions had nothing to do with basketball.

The Lakers have already protested this, but the media used freedom of the press as a weapon to break it down.They believe that what questions to ask and how to ask questions are the freedom of the media, and it is also a symbol of the news media as the fourth power.If you can't ask questions freely, what's the difference from ***?
The Lakers have a good reason, and the media has a good reason, but Wei Xia has fallen into another rumor.

The rumors are as follows: In order to prevent reporters from continuing to dig out his dark side, Wish used intimidation to force the Lakers to file a complaint with the league.

This can be regarded as Wei Xia's blame for the Lakers management, and he never made a request.

Jim Bass was trying to protect him at first, but now he set him up on the fire, and there were waves of ups and downs, and the topics around him were always sensitive social topics.

Wei Xia couldn't say no to the media harassment, the only thing he could do was to close his ears and mouth.

2008/4/26

In the third game of the first round of the playoffs, the battlefield moved to the Pepsi Center in Denver.

Wei Xia still remembers that the first official NBA game of his career was an away game in Denver.

What impressed him most in that game was not his own performance, but after Kobe entered the field, the Denver people who came to the scene booed him full of hatred and hostility.

He became the best player in the game despite thousands of boos and took away the victory of the game.

Wei Xia only remembers that Jackson asked him to defend Anthony that day. Because the opponent didn't feel good, his defense was still qualified.

Today, Bryant still has not won back the respect of Denver people.

He was booed all over the place.

After the first two defeats, the Denver people learned a lesson and stopped fighting with the Lakers on offense. They took the initiative to lower the pace of the game, played defense, played hand-to-hand combat, and fought to the death in areas where both sides are not so good at.

The skills are unbeatable, and the tactics are incomparable. Once they fail, turning to confrontation is an old skill for Eastern teams. The Nuggets suddenly played this game with the Lakers, but it also had a good effect.

In the first quarter, the two sides were 23 to 20, and the Lakers temporarily led by 3 points.

Wei Xia's performance is disturbing.

"Paul Gasol was weak in the confrontation, and Kobe also lost the brilliance of the first two games, but Wish, he seems to be extremely adaptable to the away atmosphere and the intensity of the confrontation."

In the second quarter, Wei Xia scored another 10 points and led the Lakers to 30 points in a single quarter, breaking the Nuggets' tactics.

They want to delay the rhythm, but they don't want to delay it.

They wanted to play defense, so they used 30 points in a single quarter to destroy their plan.

The third quarter is the one that seals the victory.

Gasol did not perform well in high-intensity confrontation, and only blocked 2 shots in a single quarter, which is considered a positive performance. Driven by Wechat and Kobe's combined score of 27 points, the Lakers swept the Nuggets' fighting spirit in one fell swoop.

The game has lost its suspense since then.

The last quarter was just garbage time, most of the fans left the field, and the game came to the end.

104 is better than 84
Overall, the Nuggets completed their strategic mission and slowed down the pace of the game. The Lakers didn't score more than 120, but they couldn't help themselves to score less.

Anthony and Iverson scored a total of 31 points, and the combined shooting percentage of 22%+31% will be 2 percentage points higher than that of the Lakers who scored the most points, just like a test question that has been given a reference answer.

Tell you clearly where the Nuggets lost.

From the first game to the third game, Anthony didn't play well. Iverson went crazy for Kyrie in two consecutive away games, and finally returned home to pull the stride.

3 is better than 0
The Lakers clenched the match point and were about to wipe out Denver and advance to the semifinals.

(End of this chapter)