Showdown, I'm the God of Basketball

Chapter 150 The Final Advertisement
At this moment, Kupchak, who was far away in Los Angeles, saw such an interview and gritted his teeth angrily.

The bastard Zhao Hao, you praised Tang Shuai, Kobe and other players, why did you just forget me?

This is a thousand dollars, I must trade you!
After the interview, the Lakers rushed to New Orleans, Louisiana, preparing to end the last brigade of the three-game trip, the Hornets (Pelicans).

On November 11, before the game, Kobe came to the Smoothie King Center, the arena of the Hornets, to start warm-up training.

Of course, Zhao Hao is also the second person to come to the arena for training in advance.

"The overall strength of the Hornets is not good. Except for Baron Davis, the team does not have a second stable scoring point."

Kobe suddenly said seriously to Zhao Hao.

Of course Zhao Hao knew what Corvo meant. The team had suffered two consecutive losses. With such a tiring road trip, Kobe still had to come to the arena for training ahead of time.

Isn't this just wanting silver?

"I know that Atkins' defense is not very good, and I will help him defend Baron Davis." Zhao Hao said with certainty.

Bryant took a mid-range shot, hesitated, then continued, "Their center, PJ Brown, isn't a good scorer. The defense is good, but it doesn't work for us."

Um, Zhao Hao really wants to say, this is a bit of a blow to PJ Brown, he also made the second team of the best defense, so it's not bad defense?

That is to say, Kobe Bryant dared to say this.

However, one thing is true, that is, a center who is only good at defense is indeed useless to the Lakers inside.

After all, what the current Lakers are most afraid of is the kind of inside killer with strong offensive ability.

Of course, Zhao Hao also saw his dislike for the Hornets from Kobe's expression, and the reason for this is naturally too easy to understand.

Because the only time Kobe was traded in his career was with the Hornets.

At that time, the Hornets were not called the New Orleans Hornets, they were called the Charlotte Hornets, and they only moved here in 2002.

Zhao Hao bets that the current Hornets management must be so angry every time they see Kobe.

Just kidding, one of the best cornerstones of the perfect team was traded away, can you not be angry?
Of course, this is not the most angry Hornets management in this life. In the future, after they plan to change their name to the New Orleans Pelicans, they will be traded by Stud for a perfect team building cornerstone like Kobe.

Before the game, few media paid attention to tonight's game, and the major broadcast platforms did not broadcast the game.

After all, it has only been two and a half years since the Hornets moved to New Orleans, and fans in this city have a low sense of belonging and support for the team.

Therefore, New Orleans is only a small ball market that no one cares about in the NBA.

Furthermore, New Orleans this season is not a strong team. So far their regular season record is 3 wins and 6 losses, properly at the bottom of the Western Conference.

Such a record compared with the Lakers?
Even regardless of the record, the Hornets lag behind the Lakers in terms of the strength of each position of the team alone.

So in anyone's eyes, there is no suspense in this game, and the Lakers will definitely end their two-game losing streak and achieve an easy victory.

Game start.

Kobe showed fierce eyes and tugged on the wristband on his hand.

Odom and Butler on the side also felt the boss' killing intent, and they were all ready to go.

As for Atkins, in order to get the last big contract of his career, how can he not concentrate on scoring?

But only Mim. Zhao Hao obviously found that Mim on the field today was very absent-minded and extremely inattentive.

Kobe took the lead in attacking and passed the Hornets' starting shooting guard JR Smith with a cross step.

That's right, JR Smith was selected by the Hornets!

This is the guard with a knife next to James in the future, and his shooting level was also famous in high school.

Zhao Hao, who was on the bench, looked at JR Smith's hooligan appearance on the field, hey, let alone, he really looks like a superstar.

Sure enough, the rumors do not deceive me.

No wonder so many commentators and sports commentators in later generations believed that JR was not nervous and was an All-Star every day.

cough cough.

After all, strength and talent are here. If it wasn't for the slightly weaker defense, let alone, there must be a lot of teams willing to get JR over and train them well.

It's just that like most rookies, JR Smith also hit the rookie wall this season, and his three-point shooting percentage was only a dismal 28% per game.

This is the nerve knife JR Smith. Compared with his 40% three-point shooting rate in the latter part of his career, this shooting rate is far behind.

On the field, the Hornets turned their heads and took the lead in attacking the inside.

It's just that instead of letting the inside players launch an offense, it is letting Baron Davis directly break through the inside to cause damage.

Baron Davis' breakthrough is very rhythmic!Just passed Atkins directly.

At this point, the inside meme is completely out of his mind, watching the basketball bounce from in front of him into the hoop.

Just entered like this?
This ball completely fooled Baron Davis. Why did I just want to make a foul, and you just sent me a score?
Zhao Hao sighed, the trade rumors have too much influence on a player.

Even if Mim used to defend his hips before, he would at least defend twice. Now he has no defense at all.

Tang Shuai, who was off the field, also noticed this, and quickly brought Divac up in advance to replace Mim.

This time, the Lakers' defensive efficiency immediately improved on the field.

It's just that old Divac is 37 years old, how long do you want him to last?

So, within 5 minutes, Tang Shuai had no choice but to replace Zhao Hao and put up a small lineup in advance.

"In this game, I want to prevent you to death." Hornets small forward Dan Dikao suddenly rushed over and said frivolously.

Zhao Hao is blinded by Karaka, why am I still studying how to defend your Baron Davis, but you are giving me this?
Zhao Hao knew without guessing that this must be the trick of Hornets coach Byron Scott.

The purpose is to kill his ultra-long three-pointer, and then let other Lakers players kill the Hornets outside the three-point line.

It's just that Odom and Butler are the most unstable outside the three-point line of the Lakers. It's no problem to let them shoot two shots if they have nothing to do.

But let them throw 9 or 10 three-pointers in a game like Zhao Hao?Then they themselves are guilty.

Therefore, the two cannot kill the Hornets, and Byron Scott knows this very well.

Sure enough, when Zhao Hao came on the field, Dan Dikao did lead the defense of Zhao Hao all the way.

He will never give him a chance to shoot a three-pointer, and even if he sees that the inside line is completely open, he will never make up for it.

This shit is going to kill me!

Zhao Hao can only find his teammates to play off-ball pick-and-rolls, and then look for opportunities to shoot.

But Dan Dikao was determined to prevent him to death, and resorted to all kinds of smears, trying to prevent Zhao Hao from having a few three-pointers.

In the end, at the end of the whole game, the Lakers, who had no defense in the interior for half of the time, had a big upset and were narrowly defeated by the Hornets 98:96.

And Baron Davis hit a quasi lore with a layup with 10 seconds left in the game.

All of a sudden, the American media immediately focused their attention on New Orleans. Fortunately, there were not many media here that night, otherwise the scene would have exploded.

However, the major sports news and media have hyped up this matter on the Internet and on videos.

TNT: "The luck of the Lakers has come to an end. They have suffered a three-game losing streak, and even lost to the New Orleans Hornets, which is the last in the West!"

ESPN: "We have never been optimistic about the Lakers, because they don't even have a serious insider, and they don't even have a chance to make the playoffs."

ABC: "To be honest, if it weren't for the Suns' Stoudemire being sent off early, the Lakers would never have beaten the Suns."

FAN: "We agree with all the above points of view."

On the flight, such news kept being reported, and it was the first time that Zhao Hao saw Corvo not saying a word along the way.

He is too competitive and wants to prove himself too much this season.

Originally, since the start of the season, the Lakers have gone smoothly and reached the No. [-] in the West, and they have the momentum of the OK combination back then.

Kobe's data has also reached a career high, with a series of 30+ performances, proving to people all over the world that he is the best player on the Lakers.

but now.
Zhao Hao couldn't help but let out a long sigh. It's really difficult to help Kobe and the Lakers more with his current ability.

His three-pointer attribute is only 70 points, even if it triggers the Korver Medal, it is only 80 points.

In the league, this ability can only be regarded as an upper-middle level at best, but even so he shot 40% of his shots and averaged more than 4 three-pointers per game.

Zhao Hao has already tried his best. In order to be able to hit three-pointers better, he has been studying his shooting skills in addition to the passing training arranged by Kobe during this period.

If Zhao Hao remembers well, he should now be No.1 in the NBA regular season three-pointers rankings, leading No.42 Pejastojakovic by 2 with 6 three-pointers.

But the crux of the problem is that such a hit rate and number of hits are gradually declining as the game increases.

For example, in this game, Zhao Hao's three-point shooting percentage was only 8-of-2, and he was completely blocked by the Hornets' small forward Dandy Kao.

And as the game progresses, this situation will only get worse.

On the contrary, those already famous shooters such as Ray Allen and Peja Stojakovic will only become more and more accurate as the regular season progresses.

After getting off the plane, Zhao Hao went straight back to the apartment.

Sudden!He was dragged by a black shadow rushing out of the room and ran out of the room.

Zhao Hao was a little surprised at first, and then he calmed down after seeing clearly that it was Aden.

I'm just a little puzzled, I'm just going home, where are you taking me?
Help Miss Sister to cross the road?two men?

Am I two people supporting each other!

"Aden, where are you taking me?"

"Where else can I go? Shoot commercials. I'll wait until you come back. During these two days off, you have to finish filming all the remaining 6 commercials quickly. Don't miss a moment!"

(End of this chapter)