I'm teammates with Kobe

Chapter 35 The Extremely Rare Employment Shortage
This is the case on the basketball court. Once the offense is straightened out, the players will find ways to play aggressively to enhance their momentum.

At 8 minutes and 38 seconds into the second quarter, the Lakers had an 8-point lead.

When Dragic was forced by Chu Xiao to miss the three-point line, the Lakers immediately counterattacked quickly. Clark, who replaced Artest, rushed to the free throw line, received a pass from Chu Xiao, and swung directly. He raised his arms and was about to strike a tomahawk-style snap, but was slapped on the face by the "bad boy" Beasley who was chasing after him, and fell directly from the air.

Clark landed on his left knee and was unable to get up at the time.

Although the referee whistled Beasley's foul, the players on the Lakers' bench were very dissatisfied with the whistleblowing scale. The bench gangsters headed by Du Hong saw that the boss Kobe also stood up, so they rushed forward to defend the foul. Clark came out.

Duhon, Goodlock, Morris, Meeks, and Ebanks surrounded Beasley in the middle and kept pushing him.

At this time, all the members of the Suns also gathered around. Markieff Morris, who took the lead, rushed up from behind and pushed Du Hong directly with his arm. How could Du Hong suffer from this loss? A punch in the face.When he was about to throw his second punch, he was pulled away by the Suns who arrived later.

Goodlock, Morris and others thought that Duhon was being beaten, and the boys were a group of vigorous young people, and immediately greeted Morris indiscriminately.

Seeing this sudden wave of conflict, Kobe couldn't help scratching his head. As the boss of the team, he first reached out to stop Chu Xiao, Thackeray and others from coming forward, so as not to escalate the situation, and then came to the conflicting crowd by himself In front of him, the players of the Suns began to give up their fear with their fingers, and slowly pulled Beasley and Morris out of the ring.

Although Du Hong and the others on the Lakers side stopped, they were still swearing. Seeing that Kobe frightened the enemy away and glared at him, they didn't dare to speak for a moment, and retreated to the bench one after another.

After the conflict on the field finally ended, the referee's whistle sounded one by one, and the fans on the scene also booed the referee all over the sky.Kobe took the opportunity to take the initiative to find the referee to argue, and asked angrily why he didn't call Beasley a malicious foul?

The referee also gave Kobe face, directly chasing Beasley for a second-degree malicious foul and expelling him from the field. Beasley smiled helplessly, then took off his jersey and went to the locker room.

But the matter is not over. Although the referee chased Beasley, he will not let go of the two sides that broke out in the conflict. No matter how Kobe fights, Duhon, Goodlock, Morris, Ebanks, Meeks and The Suns' Morris was ejected!
In this way, the Suns only lost one starter and one substitute, but the Lakers encountered an extremely rare "employment shortage" in NBA history.

With Clark's left knee injury and being lifted off the field, Nash, Gasol, Warcraft and Jordan Hill were all injured. The Lakers have "reduced" to 6 players. They are Chu Xiao, Kobe Bryant and Artes Tet, Waldpease, Jamison and Thackeray.

For the rest of the second quarter, Chu Xiao, Kobe Bryant, Artest, Jamison and Thackeray had to play the entire game.

Although his teammates were injured and expelled, this aroused everyone's fighting spirit, and Chu Xiao also played more resolutely. He dribbled the ball at the top of the arc to face Dragic's defense. In the next step, his body almost lost his balance, but he threw the ball directly with a shot put-like action.

The basketball crossed a beautiful arc and entered the net hollowly, and the audience erupted in exclamation in an instant, obviously surprised by the rookie's genius.

During another Lakers attack, Chu Xiao broke through Dragic's defense, slipped to the bottom line, and attracted the opponent's double-team. buckle.

Afterwards, Kobe also scored consecutive shots with penalties. He beat Shannon Brown, who was in charge of defending him, all over the floor, and teamed up with Chu Xiao to play a wave of 10-2 offense. The difference between the two sides instantly expanded to 16 points. , If this continues, the sun will collapse.

But facing the Lakers with only 6 players left, the Suns were obviously unwilling to lose the game. They immediately called a timeout, removed Shannon Brown, and replaced Jared Dudley. A well-rounded forward who can play the 2nd position. He is known for his defensive ability and has a strong mid-range and long-range shooting ability. His purpose of playing is to make Kobe's shots less comfortable.

In terms of offense, as soon as Chu Xiao and Kobe come out to defend the outside ball holders, they will immediately pass the ball to the inside, and Scola and Gortat will take turns single-playing Jamison and Thackeray with only one purpose, which is to make fouls and free throws , and "create" one of them.

Without the reminder from the coach's bench, the opponent only attacked for two rounds, and Kobe and others understood their intentions, but nothing happened.If you start defending, you will be easily fouled. If you don't start, you can only watch the opponent layup easily.

Those who can enter the NBA are naturally the top basketball players in the world. They have iron-clad professional ethics, and they can shoot easily when facing the opponent. How can they not defend because they are afraid of fouls.

Therefore, when there were 2 minutes left in the second quarter, Thackeray had already received his third personal foul, and Jamison had received his fourth foul. The Zen master had a headache and could only be replaced by Waldpease. jamison.

In the rest of the time, the Suns still attacked the inside. Although Kobe and Chu Xiao could stabilize the situation for the Lakers by scoring continuously, they still couldn't resist the collapse of the inside. At the end of the first half, they only led by 62 points 57-5.

There was only 15 minutes of intermission. Kobe returned to the locker room angrily. After sitting down, he began to look around. No one dared to look up at him, especially the five people who were expelled. He buried his head deeper, but in the end he didn't blame anyone, but exercised the responsibility of the captain to summon everyone.

"It's time for us all to come together and talk about what we did and what we didn't do," Bryant said.

Everyone raised their heads and listened carefully to the training.

"Hey, Thackeray and Jamison, when you're guarding a guy in the paint, maybe you want to wait until he jumps first. Let him jump first, and when he drives to the hoop, he wants to make a 2 +1 chance, every time he gets physical with you guys, then it's too late. You guys just try to make it hard for him, that's it."

"Do you know? If you take off with him, if he is good at adjusting his body balance, and then scores a layup, not only will you be fouled, but you will also be fined. We are short of manpower now, you two must pay attention to this point, you can't Let them take off easily. As long as you don't get sent off, we will take care of the rest." Kobe said a lot to Thackeray and Jamison, and they nodded in agreement.

"Hey, buddy!" Kobe turned his head to look at Chu Xiao, "Hey, let's make all the shots next, you know, don't turn the ball inside anymore, we two take turns to score, it can't be said that we can continue lead."

"Okay, we must invest!" Chu Xiao nodded.

After Kobe wiped his sweat, he told Artest again, "Old man, when you want to get up in the penalty area, you'd better wait for the opportunity to attack when the opponent's defense is weak, because if you let them concentrate there , they can stop you and even foul you. Anyway, let them do what they want. You know, you want the ball, and everyone is going to get out of the way and go straight to the middle and crush it with power."

"OK, OK." Artest kept nodding.

(End of this chapter)