I'm teammates with Kobe

Chapter 76
At the beginning of an NBA game, the players of the visiting team will be introduced first, but only the name, player number, school of origin, and main position will be mentioned, and then a shot will be done. It is not like introducing a lot of lighting effects like introducing the home team.

Chu Xiao and the others sat quietly on the sidelines and listened to the commentary introduce themselves, then watched themselves appear on the big screen above their heads with a blank expression, and finally watched the home team players one after another amidst the deafening cheers of the fans. debut.

After the debut, the game is about to start, and the starting players of both sides began to come to the center of the field to shake hands and greet each other.

To Chu Xiao's surprise, Gasol, who deliberately avoided suspicion and didn't talk to his younger brother during the warm-up, suddenly said while hugging his younger brother, "Be careful, I'll blow you up!"

His brother, who was 5 years younger than him, responded, "Just rely on your old arms and legs? Go aside!"

Oh my god!Chu Xiao's heart was agitated, thinking that these two brothers talk so hard, wouldn't it be embarrassing to meet at home?Is this the so-called "opponents on the court, brothers off the court?"

Howard continued to truce due to injury, and the Lakers' starting lineup was still Chu Xiao, Kobe Bryant, Artest, Gasol and Jordan Hill.

It is estimated that in order to satisfy the fans who love to watch brothers kill each other, at the opening jump ball, the two sides tacitly sent their respective Gasol.

As a brother group, these two stood in the middle of the field, which was really conspicuous.The two are about the same height, have the same skin color, and have the same long flowing hair. They are currently the only pair of brothers in NBA history who have been selected to the All-Star Game at the same time and have been selected to the best team in their career. If they win the championship with their identity (Pau Gasol has already won two NBA championships, and now only his younger brother has not won the championship), then they are definitely worthy of the title of the strongest brother group in history.

After they took off, the younger brother had better jumping ability, so he easily passed the ball to his own Conley.

Mike Conley was selected by the Grizzlies with the 2007th overall pick in the first round of the 1 NBA draft. He has a wide range, strong defense, accurate steal judgment, and is a steady point guard who puts the ball first.The only disadvantage is that he is only 4 meters tall and has a thin body, which makes him a bit disadvantaged when facing other powerful and tall point guards.

However, he usually gives priority to passing the ball, especially for the black and white bears on the inside who constantly deliver shells. He is accurate and rarely makes mistakes, which is already an invaluable treasure for the team.

After Conley got the ball, he crossed left and right and moved forward. Chu Xiao kept a step away from him to prevent the opponent from breaking through or making a sudden long shot.

Conley looked at the Asian guy in front of him and found that he had obvious muscles and was 11 centimeters taller than himself. Knowing that he would suffer in singles, he observed his teammates' running positions and provided assists at any time.

When he glanced inside, Pau Gasol was wrestling with his brother. The two were pushing and shoving, not giving in to each other, and they almost pulled each other's hair. It seemed that there was no chance to pass the ball.

Looking at the other end, the tonnage of the black bear has backed Jordan Hill, the same posture, familiar taste, Conley understood in seconds, he first dribbled the ball with his right hand and pretended to break through from the right, when Chu Xiao's center of gravity turned to the right After leaning slightly, he immediately changed direction, dribbled the ball from his crotch to his left hand, and then pushed the ball out with a flick of his wrist.

"No, he's a left-handed point guard!" Chu Xiao habitually focused on his right hand and didn't pay attention to the left, so he easily passed the ball.

In the next second, the ball came to Black Bear Randolph. He bent over and arched his buttocks, and Jordan Hill was knocked away by his bulldozer-like back. There was no one under the basket, and Black Bear took off easily Dunk, the whole basket is shaking, 2-0.

Looking back, Chu Xiao used Gasol's pick-and-roll to cut to the inside line at the top of the arc. Seeing that Randolph was resisting Jordan Hill on the edge of the penalty area, and the basket was empty, he accelerated his speed and took off after crossing the free throw line. Dunk, ready to return an equally powerful dunk.

When he was still in the air, he saw a blackness in front of his eyes, and Gasol, the big white bear, appeared out of nowhere, and jumped on top of his head first, holding up his hands with five fingers spread high, covering the entire road ahead. Sealed.

Although Chu Xiao has a good ability to stay in the air, he knows that if he continues to dunk, he will only be blocked, so he twists his body with his own air stay. Hooked the ball to Kobe.

But he felt a flash in front of his eyes, a black figure flashed past, grabbed the ball before Kobe, and then ran in the opposite direction at high speed.

After Chu Xiao landed on the ground, all he could see was the back of that man. He was wearing the blue Grizzly No. 9 jersey. Tomahawk split button.

"Wow!"

The fans immediately burst into cheers like a tsunami.

"That man's name is Tony Allen. He is extremely fast and steals cleanly. You must be careful about his position when passing the ball to me. It is best to give me the ball in advance, otherwise it will be easy to be intercepted." Kobe stepped forward. After explaining a few words, Chu Xiao had just experienced how powerful that person was, so he hurriedly nodded and agreed.

When attacking again, Chu Xiao was a lot more careful. He didn't rush to break through. Instead, he observed the position of everyone on the opponent while dribbling, and read their defense.

It can be seen that the Grizzlies' defense is systematic. Tony, Conley and other perimeter iron gates are biting their targets one-on-one on the outside. Let go of one side, and after Chu Xiao goes deep, let the White Bear go up to defend, and then the Black Bear waits for an opportunity to get in and grab the rebound; if the Lakers center can't beat him inside and runs outside to shoot, the Black Bear basically makes the shot , or a symbolic pounce.

In this way, their defensive strategy has become very obvious, which is to shrink the basket and force all opponents out of the paint, leaving themselves to wreak havoc inside and do whatever they want.

In terms of offense, Rudy Gay and Tony Allen are two muscular bouncers who are responsible for air cuts or fast breaks. The white and black bears cooperate with Conley's main position. The three of them are complementary to each other.The White Bears are good at everything except singles and offensive rebounds, and Conley is the best point guard in the league who knows how to feed the ball to the inside at a fixed time, but neither he nor the White Bears have the ability to take over the game in singles, but the Black Bears have it. His strongest He has an excellent sense of position, whether it is a close-range hook, a back step, or a fadeaway jumper after two steps to the left, plus a left-handed general, the Lakers are unstoppable inside.

In addition, the black bear's projection ability is also good.Since the time of the Grizzlies, his long-range shooting has become more and more stable, and later he can even expand beyond the 3-point line.And despite his large tonnage, his movement is extremely flexible, and it is difficult for the generally clumsy insiders to keep up with his footsteps.In terms of technical characteristics alone, Randolph is like a replica of Bob McAdoo.

The Lakers faced him, unless Warcraft came back from injury, they might be able to fight him, but at this time, Jordan Hill was defending him. look.

The outsiders didn't dare to rush in easily, and their insiders were pushed out of the paint and wandered. Therefore, in the entire first quarter of the game, the Lakers scored mainly by Chu Xiao and Kobe taking turns to score jump shots under the cover of the insiders.

楚晓3投2中拿到4分，科比6投4中拿到9分，球队却以20-29落后了9分。

The most fundamental reason for this result is that the black and white bears dominated the inside. They scored a total of 22 points and 10 rebounds in the first quarter.

After the start of the second quarter, the two teams rose alternately.Although Kobe turned on the singles mode and used consecutive turnarounds to hit jump shots, the Lakers couldn't prevent the Grizzlies' inside offense. The Black Bears scored another 6 points with penalties. After dividing the ball, they led the team to play a 9-4 attack wave, pulling the score to double digits.

With 6 minutes and 35 seconds left before the end of the first half, Zen Master had to ask for a timeout and arranged more singles tactics for Kobe, while Chu Xiao was in charge of running.Because the opponent dominates the inside, one's own players can't get in at all, and they can only rely on the outside to score.And it just so happened that the opponent only sent Tony Allen to defend Kobe alone, and he was the only one who didn't yell and need players to help defend when defending. This is very suitable for Kobe's singles.

After returning from a timeout, Bryant got into a one-on-one fight with Tony Allen on the perimeter.

He first pretended to break through, tricked his opponent into moving with him, and then turned around 360 degrees. He disrupted Tony's take-off rhythm with continuous footsteps and shoulder-shaking feints, and he made a fallback jumper.

Looking back, Kobe made another shot at the top of the circle.

It seems that Allen can't completely guard against Kobe, but the Grizzlies just refuse to send someone to support.

Because when Kobe kept scoring, the Grizzlies kept increasing points by using the inside.Once Kobe fails to make a shot, nine out of ten rebounds are black and white. They counterattacked, and Gay and Tony, two muscular bouncers, went down like lightning, and the point difference became wider and wider.

Anyone who has played basketball knows that shooting from the outside requires constant use of feints and dribble breakthroughs to gain shooting space, which consumes a lot of energy.Kobe is the No. [-] scorer of the Lakers. Once his physical strength is affected, the Lakers' offense will fall into a low shooting percentage.

On the other hand, Tony Allen, who is defending him, is not afraid of physical exertion at all, because his role is to defend, and scoring is not something he needs to consider.

Because he has no worries, when he is defending, when he faces Kobe, he has to fight him head-on. Even if Kobe keeps scoring on him, he will continue to carry him and put pressure on him, and never back down. To die to the end of the kind.

Chu Xiao, as a third player, can see very clearly on the court. Tony Allen is the kind of defender who is really uncomfortable. Try to steal the ball from time to time without losing position, even after you shake him up, he will still try to cover your eyes with his hands-in other words, he is like Xiaoqiang who can't be beaten to death, stalking him without flinching, This is definitely the last type of defensive player you want to run into.

On single defense, he is also one of the best outside stealers. If the ball holder is a little careless, he may take the basketball from his hand. The important thing is that Tony Allen's defensive moves are clean. He is not like Bowen. It takes some small moves to stop the opponent, and more often it is to use skill and judgment to destroy the rhythm of the ball holder.

Under his entanglement, Kobe missed 4 consecutive shots after making 4 consecutive shots.

The 4 balls and rebounds missed were all captured by the black and white bears. They used the counterattack to hit a 9-0 attack wave.

半场战罢，灰熊队以60-42领先了18分，黑熊得到22分8个篮板，白熊得到18分9个篮板。

Although Kobe Bryant of the Lakers scored 17 points, his physical strength has been consumed by Tony Allen.Chu Xiao scored 6 points and 3 assists, but he was basically invisible in the second quarter.None of the other teammates scored more than 10 points.

It can be said that the Grizzlies' defensive system has firmly locked the Lakers, and it has become very slim to win in the second half.

(End of this chapter)