I'm teammates with Kobe

Chapter 151 The locker room fight incident

After returning from the timeout, the Knicks found that some small tricks on the field could not affect the Lakers' offense for the time being, and the score was getting bigger and bigger. Since they couldn't really fight, they might as well put all their attention on the game, so Everyone began to execute tactics and running positions correctly, and Kidd's organizational ability began to play its greatest role.

He frequently performed pick-and-rolls with Stoudemire. After the latter screened, he quickly rushed to the basket.

If someone helps Gasol defend Stoudemire, then that person who is missed will definitely get Kidd's pass immediately, causing lethality.

Kidd's main appearance time throughout the first half was concentrated in the first quarter, and he spent most of his energy on defending Chu Xiao, so he only received 2 assists before.

As the game focused on sorting out the offense in this quarter, every move was unpretentious but deadly. When the third quarter ended, he had 6 assists in a single quarter.The total assists came to 8 times.

In this quarter, the Lakers are more blooming, and they don’t even need Chu Xiao to organize. First, Kobe broke through and hit a three-pointer to score 5 points in a row. With a three-pointer and a leisurely look, the Lakers continued to lead 90-86.

Just look at the first three quarters of the game. The first quarter is a competition between Chu Xiao and Kidd, the old and the young; the second quarter is Kobe and Anthony. The moment of explosion.In the third quarter, Chandler boxed Howard, trying to irritate him, but he didn't expect Warcraft to be unusually gentle in the face of provocations. Just when everyone thought he had changed his sex, he inexplicably lost his temper in the fourth quarter.

开局前4分钟，科比在有球和无球模式之间来回空切，他的高效令湖人打出了一波8-2，湖人以98-88领先10分了。

This should be a happy thing, but there are several joys and some sorrows on the field. It is not surprising that the Knicks are worried. The sudden unhappiness of Warcraft is really confusing.

Maybe Kobe's touch is so good, Chu Xiao passed all the ball to him, Kobe can also attract double-teams and assist his teammates to score while scoring.

While grabbing a rebound, Chandler told Warcraft, "Do the Lakers have F4? Why do I only see the Big Three? In their eyes, Howard can only be a blue-collar player."

Warcraft was already angry in his heart, Chandler pretended that the boxing didn't offend him, but this sentence went against the dragon scale.

Before the game, he accepted an interview with the famous reporter WOJ in the player channel, talking about his poor performance after his comeback, and ESPN began to predict that his trade would be the worst support this summer.

"The No. [-] center of the year became the worst signing?" Warcraft repeated in disbelief, almost uncontrollably angry, "Since I left Orlando, I have never encountered any system that revolves around me. In fact, whether it's Kobe or Chu Xiao, they always control the ball, and this has seriously affected me. I know how big my own advantage is, and I'm smarter now, which allows me to take better advantage of it. own quick movement and explosiveness."

These remarks point to Kobe and Chu Xiao's "monopoly" of the ball, and they don't seem to be worried that saying this will cause strife in the locker room, as if speaking without going through the brain.

But World of Warcraft has the capital to say this. After all, he was a man who only changed James. He joined the Lakers with only one purpose, which is to succeed Kobe and become the new king of Los Angeles. Even if he is not as good as Kobe in the team, he still has to be ranked second. That's right.

At 7 minutes and 01 seconds of the fourth quarter, when Chu Xiao dribbled the ball beyond the three-point line, Warcraft yelled at him, "Give me the ball, pass me the damn ball!"

Chu Xiao took a look and saw that the monster had Chandler stuck behind him, while Kobe and the others were defending one-on-one. Without hesitation, he directly hit the ground and passed the ball to the monster, but he didn't want Chandler to suddenly go around and reach out to steal it!
The Knicks took the opportunity to complete the fast break.

Returning to the offensive end again, Chu Xiao found that Warcraft was still entangled with Chandler. Before the game, the Zen master told him that Stoudemire and Chandler of the Knicks were a tricky combination inside. What advantage is there, so the breakthrough point of this game is Chu Xiao's match against Kidd. As long as Kidd's physical strength drops seriously and he can't keep up with his pace, scoring is like picking something out of a pocket.

So Chu Xiao ignored the monster's request for the ball this time, and used his height and physical strength to overpower Kidd. As long as he threw the opponent one step away, he immediately made a fallback jumper, making 3 of 3 shots, and the score opened again.Of course, he also ignored Warcraft's 3 requests for the ball, and he kept his face livid and didn't say a word.

In the last 5 minutes, the game entered the decisive stage. The Knicks replaced Kidd and Brewer, who were physically weak, with Felton and JR Smith, trying to give the nerve knife a go.

Unexpectedly, this substitution received a miraculous effect. Smith hit consecutive gambling three-pointers, shrinking the point difference to 8 points again.

At the moment of life and death, Smith missed a three-pointer for the third time. After Chu Xiao got the rebound over Felton's head, he threw a long pass with one hand in the restricted area of ​​the backcourt, and the ball landed impartially. In the hands of Bryant, the latter easily completed a backhand layup.

In the last 2 minutes, Kobe and Chu Xiao teamed up to show their strength. He succeeded in singles against Smith. Chu Xiao made a shot and a pass. In the end, Gasol completed a two-handed dunk. The Lakers sealed the victory and won the final victory 116-107.

Anthony immediately found Kobe and hugged, "You know, I love you."

"Me too, have always loved you." Kobe patted him on the back.

全场比赛，科比轰下34分、5个篮板，连续9场得分30+，楚晓得到20分、12个助攻、6个篮板，加索尔得到13分、9个篮板和6次助攻，霍华德11投4中获得14分、12个篮板。尼克斯这边，安东尼得到30分、7个篮板，基德5分、12个助攻，他只出手了2次命中一记3分，还获得2次罚球机会，替补他出场的费尔顿得到10分、6个助攻，但19投只有5中。

After returning to the visiting team's locker room, the team ended their three-game losing streak. Everyone was very happy after sweeping away the previous decline. Chu Xiao even joked with Gasol next to him, saying that his dunk at the last moment, Stoudemire, who was facing him all night, was blown away, "Ginger is still old and hot!"

The monster came in at the last moment and knocked Chu Xiao away with a "bang", "Don't get in the way!"

"Hey, Howard, did you do it on purpose?" Chu Xiao complained as he rubbed his chest when he was bumped directly against the closet.

"I did it on purpose, what's the matter?" The monster approached angrily, looking condescending, its eyes staring like copper bells.

Chu Xiao has seen so many ridiculous behaviors of Warcraft, and he no longer has a good impression of it, so he pushed him away.

"Aren't you good at fighting? You hit me!" The monster turned his head sideways, pointing to his head and said.

"You think I dare not?" Chu Xiao raised his fist and was about to charge up, but was blocked by Artest on the other side.

"Howard, what are you doing?" Seeing that the situation was not good, Gasol also pushed the monster away.

"Hmph, what am I doing?" Warcraft smiled innocently, "Why don't you ask what he did?! Of course, you don't care, because he always passes the ball to you, everyone likes him very much, but I I don't like it! Because he is hypocritical, he is contrived, and he is deliberately targeting me!"

"Where did I pretend to be hypocritical? And why did I deliberately target you? You speak clearly." Chu Xiao still clenched his fists and asked after hearing the words.

"You are hypocritical, you are a villain!" Warcraft muttered, but he refused to give an example.

After a short period of anger, Chu Xiao also understood why the monster was upset with him. He asked for the ball many times but was ignored by him, so he let go of his fist and explained, "I know why you are angry with me, it's not that I don't give it to you. Passing the ball, but you always stay in the penalty area, and the opponent waits for the ball to be passed inside to steal it, but you attract their defense, and your teammates have a better chance at that time, so you pass it to others.”

In fact, what Chu Xiao really wanted to say was that Warcraft has been obsessed with low-post singles since he came back from injury, and his style of play is hurting the team.

This is also what other people think in their hearts, but it seems too extreme to say this, and it hurts people's self-esteem, so everyone didn't say it.

However, after the team experienced a three-game losing streak, the coaching staff conducted statistical statistics and concluded that Howard averaged 8 low-post catches per game, the most in the league, and Anthony ranked second. 7.8 times, Kobe, who has better low-post singles skills and currently leads the scoring list, did not make the list, which shows that the latter switches between with and without the ball more frequently.

Howard received the most balls does not mean that he will play low singles after receiving the ball.Low-post singles are mostly offensive methods used by players in the penalty area. The advantage is that they can attract double-teams, and then distribute the ball to assist teammates or directly use their own body and technology to crush opponents.

But Howard failed to achieve both benefits. After he received the ball, he would only fight with the defender in the penalty area, and generally would not pass the ball out. When it comes to deadball, he seemed to be a little afraid of confrontation, perhaps because he had received the ball before. Injury, I was a little scared, so this kind of deadly carry just kept trying to push the opponent away, and did not use the body and technique to crush.

That makes his post-ups look a little bad.

A total of 32 players in the league averaged more than 2.5 low post singles per game. In terms of the average points scored in one low post single, Howard ranked 26th, the sixth from the bottom, but his low post single hit rate was 6%. Ranked 47.9th out of 32.So why is the hit rate actually good, but the score is so poor?
It's all about free throws and turnovers.

Among the 32 players, Howard's foul rate was 25.4%, which means that he was fouled once in 4 low post singles, but his free throw percentage was only 59%, and he could only score 1.1 points.

Compared with free throws, Howard's turnover rate in low post singles is 17.4%, ranking 32th among 6 players. In short, he makes a lot of turnovers after low post singles. I often see him Dribble the ball with your back against the defender, sit on the ground while dribbling, the ball is intercepted, or when you turn around and prepare for a layup, the ball is cut away...

Therefore, the coaching staff concluded that in Howard's 10 low-post singles, 2.5 times were fouled and made free throws, and then he scored an average of about 1.1 points based on his free throw percentage, plus 1.7 balls. After taking the ball away, there are only 5.3 balls left with scoring chances, that is to say, before the ball is shot, his scoring chances are only about half. Judging from his shooting percentage and free throw percentage, the percentage of scoring opportunities after the shot is Scoring opportunities are also deducted.

From this point of view, Howard's low-post singles are really not efficient.

The more critical issue is that Howard lost the ball in too many accidents in low singles, and when he was fouled, he usually made two free throws and one, sometimes two free throws, which was a very serious blow to morale.

The coaching staff and the players agreed that Howard's better offensive method should be the pick-and-roll to bombard the basket and wait for an opportunity to make a tip-up. He averaged 2.9 tip-ups per game and scored 1.29 points per tip-up. In the player rankings, it ranks second in the league.

(End of this chapter)