NBA Dynasty Sniper

Chapter 363

That night, the Knicks played back-to-back, the players were not in good condition, and the outside line that relied on the touch was not accurate. They lost to Mosaic and lost the fourth game.

The backcourt duo composed of Alan Houston and Francis jointly contributed 61 points, blasting the Knicks outside.

Zhao Dong didn't put all his strength into it either. In these three games, he most wanted to win the Spurs and Lakers, not the Western Conference teams like Mosaic that had no threat to the Knicks.

At noon on the 27th, the Knicks arrived in Los Angeles, and they will challenge the Lakers on the 28th.

When the Knicks landed, O'Neal accepted media interviews at his door.

"Shaq, how sure are the Lakers of beating the Knicks?" a reporter asked.

"100 percent." O'Neill blurted out.

Knicks arrived at the hotel, got off the bus, and was surrounded by the media.

"Flying Dragon, just now O'Neal said that he has 100% confidence to beat the Knicks. Do you have any response?" A reporter asked.

"Does O'Neill's confidence come from his tonnage?" Zhao Dong complained.

"Haha..." Everyone laughed.

After getting settled in the room, Da Ben called and asked Zhao Dong to have lunch.

"Ben, how are you doing here?" During the meal, Zhao Dong chatted.

"good."

Big Ben seemed content with his time with the Lakers.

"That's good." Zhao Dong smiled.

From Big Ben, he took a check of 200 million US dollars, which is the most money that Big Ben can take out now.

Daben used to have too little capital, and did not make much money during the two years when the U.S. stock market soared four times. This time, he did not set any investment limit for Daben, and he could invest as much as he could.

After dinner, Zhao Dong was about to call home when Lindsay's call came first. The two cooked a big pot of porridge until Zhao Dong's two mobile phones and four battery boards were dead before hanging up.

On the evening of the 28th, the game day, the Knicks came to the Staples Center.

"Have they arrived yet?"

Outside the locker room of the home team, O'Neill asked a security guard ghostly.

"Here we are, the bus is entering the No. [-] underground parking lot," said the security guard.

"OK."

O'Neal nodded excitedly, then immediately left the locker room.

Ten minutes later, the Knicks parked the bus, and the players were coming up from the underground parking lot.

O'Neill hid at the corner of a fork. Behind him was the safety passage of the No. [-] parking lot. It was a bit dark there, and it was dark because of the people. Old Nelson, who was walking in the front, didn't pay attention and walked over directly.

"Shaq, what are you doing hiding here?"

Zhao Dong from behind saw O'Neill and asked casually.

O'Neill said angrily: "I just came up from the parking lot and saw you coming up. I waited here to greet you and see what your coach did? Mr. Nelson is too much!"

Old Nelson heard the voice behind him, looked back, and saw O'Neill pointing his finger, a little dazed.

"Does it have anything to do with me?" He asked blankly.

"You just walked by like that, Coach Nelson, and you ignored me?" O'Neill looked sad and angry.

Old Nelson felt a toothache, what the hell, I didn't see you at all, did you hide in that black hole on purpose?

Zhao Dong said helplessly: "Shaq, the joke is over, let's go first, see you on the court."

"Keep up, keep up, and ignore this idiot."

As he walked forward, he beckoned to his teammates to follow.

"Ignore me and call me an idiot, Feilong, you and I have become enemies, I will change your basket tonight." O'Neill yelled strangely.

"Let's get over it, I'm trying to mess with you." Zhao Dong said without looking back.

O'Neill was stunned, his neck couldn't help shrinking, Xie Te, have you played it?This damn dead snake changed several baskets for us last time, won't it come again tonight?

He went back to the locker room and yelled as soon as he entered: "Guys, do you know what happened just now?"

"Shaq, what happened?" Bryant asked.

O'Neill said with grief and indignation: "I waited there to say hello to the Knicks, but they ignored me, and then Feilong called me an idiot. We have a big feud. What do you think we should do tonight?"

The Lakers players in the locker room looked at each other in blank dismay, idiot, the dragon is indeed right, shark, do you really want the dragon to change a few more baskets for us tonight?
"Come on, let's go shopping."

Out of freshness, after throwing his luggage in the visiting team's locker room, Zhao Dong took his teammates for a stroll here. The new arena is really good, but the equipment and decorations of Madison Square Garden are outdated and not as luxurious as here.

After wandering around, he took a group of people and a dozen of his bodyguards to the home team locker room.

"Hey, Dragon."

Phil Jackson and General Manager Jerry West were discussing something outside the locker room, when they saw Zhao Dong, they hurriedly greeted him.

"Hey, Jerry, Phil."

After saying hello, Zhao Dong said with a smile: "The new arena, can we visit it?"

"Of course." The two were startled, and West said quickly.

He pushed open the door of the locker room and shouted to the inside: "Hey, everyone pay attention, Feilong is here to visit."

"What is he doing here?" O'Neill screamed and jumped up.

"Take a look, do you have an opinion?"

Zhao Dong walked in, looked at O'Neill with a playful face and said, "Shaq, don't you have an enmity with us? Why don't we play on the court first?"

"Impossible, basketball problems must be solved on the basketball court." O'Neill shouted hastily.

Zhao Dong looked around in the locker room of the home team, and other Knicks players blocked the door and looked around.

"Boss?" Big Ben moved closer to Zhao Dong.

"It's okay, let's go shopping." Zhao Dong smiled.

"Flying Dragon, Shaq was just joking just now, don't take it to heart." Phil Jackson said at this time.

"Of course, Shark is a fool. I won't take him seriously." Zhao Dong nodded.

O'Neill said sadly and angrily: "Feilong, you actually called me a fool. This feud has become serious. Tonight I will definitely blow 50+ on your head."

"Haha, your highest score so far is only 53 points, so you are so confident that you can hit 50+ on my head?" Zhao Dong laughed.

"Of course." O'Neill said fiercely.

"Then why not make a bet?" Zhao Dong said.

"How do you want to bet? I'm not Jordan, I don't gamble." O'Neal said quickly.

Zhao Dong thought for a while, and suddenly remembered the bet between Barkley and Kenny Smith, so he said with a smile: "If you don't hit 50+ in this game, you can go kiss..."

Having said that, he glanced at the players in the locker room, saw Big Ben, and said, "...Ben's ass."

"what?"

Big Ben jumped up, as if he had been molested, he instinctively covered his ass with his hands.

"..."

O'Neill was stunned, the bet was too unexpected for him, and he felt a little nauseous.

"Then what if I hit 50+?" He said unwillingly.

"Me too." Zhao Dong said holding back his nausea.

"Boss, you bet, take my ass as a bet, do you consider my feelings? I just washed my butt the day before yesterday, and I don't want to wash it again in the past few days."

Big Ben said sadly and indignantly.

Everyone present looked at each other in blank dismay. This bet was indeed different.

"Puchi! Haha..."

I don't know who laughed, and then everyone burst into laughter, except Zhao Dong, O'Neal, and Da Ben.

O'Neill looked at Da Ben, and then at Da Ben's butt hidden behind. He really felt he couldn't say anything!

Wanting to hit 50+ on Zhao Dong's head, even with his dominance, the degree of difficulty is not so high. He has played these seven or eight seasons, and he has only hit two 50+ in total. What can I do when I come out?

"No gambling?" Zhao Dong asked.

After he said it, he actually regretted it. It’s good to choose a beautiful woman. There are a lot of cheerleaders outside, what kind of big bet should you choose?

"another……"

O'Neill looked at the others, seeing that he wanted to re-elect a butt.

With a click, everyone blinked, including Phil Jackson and West, some rushed into the bathroom, and some simply ran out of the locker room, for fear that their ass would be selected.

"Look, there are no butts here, it's not that I don't gamble." O'Neill breathed a sigh of relief.

"OK then."

Zhao Dong also went downhill. This bet was really disgusting. He couldn't help admiring Buckley and Smith, and he was not as good as them.

At eight o'clock, the two teams announced their starting lineups.

Knicks: Zhao Dong, Fortson, Sprewell, Stackhouse, Ginobili

Lakers: O'Neal, Ben Wallace, Glen Rice, Kobe, Ron Harper
TNT broadcast the game live, and Bill Walton analyzed: "In terms of interior, the offensive capabilities of the two teams are similar. Fordson's offense is stronger than Big Ben's, but O'Neal's basket dominance is stronger than that of the Dragon, and it can be a tie. .

In terms of forward money, the 32-year-old Glen Rice averaged 17.5 points per game last season and 15.9 points per game this season, which is far worse than the 96 points in the 97/26.8 season at his peak. On the one hand, his state has declined. On the other hand, because of Kobe's growth, Kobe is the person the Lakers want to train, and his shots have been seriously affected.

Compared with the three guards of the Knicks, he is definitely stronger than the rookie Ginobili now, but he will not have an advantage against Madman and Stackhouse, and the height advantage of 201 cm is not great.

On the back line, Ron Harper is also old, and his scoring ability has been limited since the Bulls. He came to the Lakers this season and averaged 7 points, 4.4 rebounds, 3.4 assists, 1.1 steals and 0.5 blocks per game. He still has strength, but he should not be able to keep up. Three guards on the Knicks.

Kobe Bryant averaged 25 points per game this season, and his scoring ability has begun to explode. He has performed well on both offense and defense and has a bright future.

Compared with the Knicks' three guards, he should have a certain advantage overall if he wins Ginobili, Maniac and Stackhouse.

In short, compared to the outside line, the Lakers and Knicks should be similar. "

Matt continued: "Bill, what do you mean, the overall strength of the Lakers and Knicks is [-]-[-]?"

"Yes, the benches of the other two teams are average, because the main lineup takes up most of the salary space, and even the main lineup of these two teams exceeds the salary cap, so they mainly rely on the main force to fight. It's hard to tell a game," Bill Walton said.

Matt nodded, introduced Kobe again, and said: "Peter Pan Kobe has been training during the offseason for three consecutive seasons, and his strength has improved very quickly. He and O'Neal have already established the name of the OK combination. In Los Angeles very popular."

At 08:30, the game begins.

"Flying Dragon, I don't jump the ball with a role player. I want to jump the ball with you. You come up. If you don't jump, I'll let Ben jump with him."

Seeing Fortson come up to jump the ball, O'Neal quit.

"Then let Ben dance." Zhao Dong said indifferently.

"..."

Seeing that Zhao Dong didn't accept the move, O'Neill really stopped jumping, and waved angrily to let Da Ben come up to jump the ball.

When Kobe saw his boss's childish behavior, he cursed inwardly, you idiot, isn't this giving up the right to attack first?

Compared with the jumping ability, although Daben is good, he is still weaker than Fortson. Fortson touches the ball first and the Knicks attack.

Zhao Dong came to the left wing, more than two meters away from the left line of the paint area, about two steps away, and under the dotted line of the free throw line, avoiding the 136 restrictions of the flying dragon rule.

The Lakers didn't let O'Neal follow them, but switched defenses, letting Da Ben follow Zhao Dong.

This is one of the benefits of introducing Big Ben, who made up for the weakness of the Lakers' inside defense.

Especially when Zhao Dong and O'Neal are facing each other, just like he pulls outside now, if there is no big book, once O'Neal follows, Zhao Dong will definitely rush in and fight, just like playing against the Spurs Twin Towers, O'Neal has no chance at all If you go back, the Lakers' penalty area will be directly blasted into scum.

Big Ben's moving speed is good. After all, he is not tall and is a few centimeters shorter than Zhao Dong, but his speed is still not as good as Zhao Dong's. So when he came to the latter's side, he immediately started to stick close to him, clamping the latter's arm with his arms, Don't let him move around.

His current upper body strength is very strong, more than [-] kilograms, the first in the league, stronger than the postman, even after Zhao Dong's arm is clamped by him, it is difficult to get rid of it in an instant.

As long as Zhao Dong's first step is lowered, he has a chance to keep up with Zhao Dong's movement.

He has a lot of defensive experience against Zhao Dong, because he often matches up in team training and knows how to defend Zhao Dong.

Of course, Zhao Dong would not be easily defended by his younger brother. After struggling for a few times, he got rid of Da Ben's arm, and then used faster movement and continuous reverse running to get an open chance to catch the ball.

But after receiving the ball, Daben came to his side again and put a hand on his body to prevent him from rushing up.

Under the entanglement of Da Ben, Zhao Dong dribbled the ball with his left hand to the left line of the paint area. O'Neal didn't defend it, but small forward Glen Rice double-teamed him and blocked him.

"squeak!"

Zhao Dong suddenly braked to a sudden stop, and pulled the ball back with his left hand. The moment after the sudden stop, he took a step back and jumped up.

Because seeing his teammate Glenn Rice double-team in place, the boss Feilong has no breakthrough channel, the ball must be shot, and Daben is ready to block the shot.

But when Zhao Dong made an emergency stop and retreated for a jump shot, he still couldn't react enough. By the time he caught up with the next step to take off, Zhao Dong's ball had already flown to the basket.

This is because Zhao Dong's series of technical movements are too fast and smooth, and at the same time, his own explosive power is not enough, and the speed of bullets is also mediocre, and the speed of following steps is even more mediocre, unable to keep up with Zhao Dong's rhythm.

"Shh!"

Splashes appeared and Zhao Dong hit the first goal.

"Ben, are you confident that you can guard against me? Don't cry when I blast you to pieces."

After Zhao Dong succeeded, while retreating, he leisurely sprayed trash talk at Da Ben.

"..."

Big Ben rolled his eyes, Boss, as long as you don't bet on my ass, you can talk trash all you want.

Coming to the frontcourt of the Lakers, O'Neal squeezed directly to the basket, extremely domineering.

His tonnage reached 145 kilograms at the beginning of the season. After this month, it is estimated that he has weighed several hundred grams. Whether it is Zhao Dong or Fortson, they can't handle it alone, so they adopted off-the-ball defense. The double-teaming tactic puts the big Ben who has no shooting ability.

Fordson intercepted the pass in front, and Zhao Dong defended in the back, making O'Neal into a sandwich.

"Pfft!"

Seeing Zhao Dong desperately defending against O'Neal from behind, Zhang Lili burst out laughing.

Su Qun also couldn't help explaining: "O'Neal is 216 centimeters, 11 centimeters taller than Zhao Dong. Zhao Dong squatted down behind him to defend, and he looked even shorter. The top of his head didn't reach O'Neal's armpit. It's kind of funny like a dwarf against a giant."

Under double-teaming, it was difficult for O'Neal to catch the ball. Ron Harper, who was holding the ball, didn't dare to pass it, so he could only give it to Kobe, who wanted the ball from the right wing.

When Kobe got the ball, he was facing a madman.

Kobe's small hands are a natural weakness. After taking the ball, he can only hide it under his right rib with both hands. It is not as convenient as catching the ball with one hand, and it is also inconvenient to make fake moves.

If Zhao Dong and Jordan were grabbing the ball with one hand, as long as they raised it up suddenly, they might send the madman flying, but Kobe couldn't do this feint.

"Bang bang..."

Kobe began to dribble, and his feet also moved slightly, either forward or backward, and the madman also continued to move and adjust his defensive position.

"squeak!"

Kobe broke through and made a pendulum-like breakthrough, breaking through the madman and reaching the right wing.

In his previous life, he had a weakness in breakthroughs, that is, the first step was not fast enough, and he was sloppy when he broke through, and he couldn't completely get rid of the defender.

In many cases, his shots after the breakthrough are close to the defender and take off.

Of course, he has the league's top ability to stay in the air, fight in the air, dodge in the air, and control the body in the air. Even if he is close to the defender and takes off to shoot, his shot threat is also the top in the league.

And in this life, he deliberately strengthened the training of the first step. Zhao Dong observed that his first step was obviously faster than the previous life.

This step allowed him to completely get rid of the madman, and after two steps into the right wing, he stopped and shot a jumper.

Without the defender, Kobe's jump shot is pleasing to the eye, the movement is very comfortable, and has a very high aesthetic feeling. The high-raised wrist is like a swan's neck. With a slight push forward, the ball flies to the basket.

"Shh!"

Splashes appeared and two points were hit.

"It's not fair, Feilong. We didn't use off-ball double-team tactics against you. You can't do this to me." O'Neal, who couldn't catch the ball, shouted dissatisfiedly at Zhao Dong.

"You can use it!" Zhao Dong said.

"..."

O'Neill opened his mouth wide, the script shouldn't be written like this, you shouldn't say, well, you don't need it, and I don't need it, so that you can appear to be strong?
(End of this chapter)