I'm teammates with Kobe

Chapter 34 The Sign of Shooting the Sun
When the host yelled "Kobe" loudly, the audience erupted and burst into the most enthusiastic applause of the night.

Kobe ran out with his mouth pursed, clapped his hands and encouraged his teammates one by one, and then called everyone to form a group. He stood in the middle of the crowd and shouted, "Shoot the sun!"

Chu Xiao and the others shouted together, "Shoot the sun!"

This is tonight's pre-match slogan, which means-Shooting the Sun.

After shouting the slogan three times, the players returned to the home team's bench together, where the four wounded had been seated in advance, namely Nash, Howard, Gasol and Jordan Hill.

The five starters took off their jackets to reveal the purple and gold jerseys inside, and then led by Kobe to the center of the field, hugged and greeted the five starters of the Suns one by one.

"Hello, hello!" Everyone said the same thing to Chu Xiao, only Shannon Brown put his arms around him and said, "I really envy you! The Lakers started after just two games. If I had known, I wouldn't have left."

"Then you come back, from this round, let's play 6 against 4, haha." Chu Xiao said jokingly.

"Fuck you!" Shannon Brown teased Sun Yue after they separated from him, "What is Sun Yue up to? Tell him, you are much more cheerful than him, and he is a flirt, very sullen." .”

When the players were in their positions, the referee looked at the time and blew the whistle of the game. Thackeray and Gortat jumped the ball in the midfield, and the Suns had the ball.

The point guard of the Suns is Gran Dragic. He is a basketball player from Slovenia. He entered the NBA through the draft in 2008. He is particularly good at playing fast breaks. He has a tough style of play and is not afraid of confrontation. He has height and wingspan and quick reflexes.

So after the opening game, Dragic advanced all the way to the frontcourt at the speed of light, used Scola to cover Chu Xiao's frontal defense, and took advantage of the Lakers insider Jamison and Thackeray's defense yet to take shape, and scored a layup in an instant.It takes only 3 seconds before and after.

"Young man, welcome to the NBA!" Dragic smiled at Chu Xiao while stepping back.Although Popovich called Chu Xiao a Chinese Kobe, he didn't take it seriously, thinking that he was just a rookie, and he just pushed a dragon at the speed of light just to give his opponent a blow.

Chu Xiao probably understood the other party's intentions, but he didn't take it seriously. If you had to accept Kobe's uninterrupted attack for an hour every day, then you wouldn't be disturbed by any attack method, because that is the way of human attack. limit.

The Lakers started to attack. After holding the ball in a high position, Chu Xiao forcibly broke through the inside line. After attracting the double team of Scola and Gortat, he decisively passed the ball to Thackeray on the flank, and assisted the latter with a strong dunk with both hands. What he said was true, Thackeray gave a thumbs up.

Conversely, after Dragic got the ball, he advanced at the speed of light, wanting to continue to attack the cowardly inside of the Lakers. Chu Xiao decisively started to press from the midfield, using his advantages of height and strength to limit the opponent.

For some reason, Dragic played extremely tough today.Facing Chu Xiao's oppressive defense, he showed cunning dribbling skills, stopping abruptly for a while, getting up abruptly for a while, and began to change his rhythm.Especially after rushing up, the sudden stop made Chu Xiao elusive, and he felt good from the outside line, hitting several shots in a row.

Chu Xiao did not give up too much. In the first 6 minutes of the first quarter, he showed great patience and played his best pass and control skills to the extreme. All assists were received at the basket, allowing the Lakers to tie with their opponents 16-16.

Halfway through the end of the first quarter, Kobe suddenly asked to switch defenses with Chu Xiao. He would defend Dragic, and Chu Xiao would mark Shannon Brown.

what 's wrong?Chu Xiao knew the answer just after being confused for a while.

I saw that when Dragic faced Kobe with a sudden stop and start, he seemed unable to grasp a "speed" in the frontal confrontation, allowing Kobe to continuously make offensive fouls on him.

With 1 minute and 18 seconds left in the first quarter, Dragic was fouled by Kobe again in the offense. This was his third personal foul in just 5 minutes. Shaking his head, he could only be replaced temporarily.

Lacking a player like Dragic who is good at defending pick-and-rolls, Chu Xiao immediately began to use "black words" to direct the insiders to come out and play pick-and-rolls.

"Show!"

It means that the big man needs to expand to the outside to delay the opponent.

"Long Show!"

It is to let the big man expand farther.

The Suns had no leader, and they couldn't understand the meaning of "black words", so they were beaten into a daze.

At the end of the first quarter, the Lakers led by 28 points 22-6.

"Did you see it? Faced with this kind of point guard who plays with changing rhythms, he has to use anticipation to draw fouls. Once he succeeds a few times, he will not dare to play like that." When waiting for the start of the second quarter, Kobe asked Chu Xiao imparts experience.

In the first quarter, Chu Xiao kept revitalizing the team, so he got 7 assists, but didn't score any shots.However, under his support, Kobe became the biggest beneficiary, scoring 5 points on 4 of 12 shots, and his efficiency was amazing again, so he said gratefully, "Don't always think about assisting your teammates, don't give up the opportunity when you can misplace the singles .”

"Okay!" Chu Xiao obeyed the arrangement obediently.

In the second quarter, after Dragic returned to the field, the Suns immediately rose to power. Although he deliberately reduced the rush to stop and start, he still used the ball to break through and caused Thackeray to foul. After making two free throws, he helped the Suns stabilize first. Hold the situation.

Taking advantage of Chu Xiao's assist and Jamison's failure to make a shot, Dragic still chose to attack by himself, but Chu Xiao predicted the direction of the breakthrough, and the ball in his hand was almost intercepted.He hurriedly turned around to look for the ball. When the attack clock entered the countdown, he got the ball without even thinking about it. He turned around and shot a three-pointer, and the basketball hit the net.

His two waves of operations have made the Suns only 1 point behind.

At this moment, Kobe was still resting off the court, and Chu Xiao came on stage with a rotation lineup. Since his teammates couldn't make shots with assists, he had no choice but to resort to singles mode.

First, he used his height advantage to misplace Brown in singles, and hit a jumper with an emergency stop.Then using Jamison's screen, he hit the board outside the three-point line.In the end, a breakthrough with the ball caused a foul and made 2 of 2 free throws.

On the other hand, when defending, during the break in the first quarter, he also got gossip from Nash that Dragic likes to take a step-back jumper in the middle distance, but the frequency of action is slow. This technical flaw makes him rarely In the mid-range shot, either a breakthrough layup, or a three-pointer from the outside.

So Chu Xiao used his quick footwork and wingspan to prevent him from breaking through and force him to take a three-pointer.

In this way, at the critical moment when Kobe did not play, he completely carried the Lakers.

(End of this chapter)