The brutality of the NBA

Chapter 298 Adelaide Injured
In the face of this wave of offensive from the Blazers, Kobe did not give up, and constantly mobilized his offense, wanting to counterattack, but the second period was only 1 minute and 12 seconds away. After consecutive mid-range shots, the score caught up to 46: 38, only 8 points behind.

After the intermission, the game continued.

For the Lakers, Kobe Bryant made his debut directly, and the head coach of the Trail Blazers still let the substitute play against the Lakers' pair.

Xue Ding understands that the head coach considers the overall situation. First of all, he must ensure that the substitutes cannot sit on the bench for a long time, which will affect the feel of the hand. More importantly, the main players can get enough rest. Suppress the opponent's strength.

So in this case, fighting a protracted war is the correct way of thinking.

Under Roy's leadership, the Blazers' substitutes also played very actively, but facing the first team of the Lakers, they were still stretched.

First of all, from an offensive point of view, Artest and Kobe's defense on the outside made the Blazers have no good shots, and facing the inside twin towers, no one has the strength to attack the heart.

Therefore, both offensive and defensive ends are quite passive. The only point of scoring is that Roy uses his own experience to create shooting opportunities through his own rhythm in the absence of speed.

Fortunately, Roy has a good touch and scores every time he attacks, but the Lakers quickly adjusted their defensive strategy and double-teamed Roy. Interference, Roy's hit rate also plummeted after being interfered.

湖人借此机会打出了一波16:4的小高潮，反超比分，并且领先了4分，比分来到54：50.时间还有9分15秒。

McMillan decisively called for a timeout and replaced the main force again.

Xue Ding once again led Ade and other main players to climb the mountain field for a head-on confrontation.

Xue Ding was very successful in consuming Kobe's physical strength before, especially at the end of the second quarter, Kobe's desire to attack was very strong, but his physical strength dropped too much, and his shooting rate was also greatly affected. It is also the most important reason why Xue Ding led the Blazers to continuously play defensive counterattacks and open the score.

But after the intermission, Kobe's physical strength has obviously recovered to a certain extent. In this short period of 3 minutes, he took four shots and hit all of them. He scored 9 points alone and led the Lakers to overtake the score.

And Xue Ding also noticed that Kobe's style of play has also undergone adjustments. Before being stimulated by himself, he fell into a crazy singles, but after playing in the third quarter, he played very reasonably. Also take into account the cooperation with teammates.

For this, Xue Ding is not surprised at all. After all, the head coach of the Lakers, Zen Master, is only called Zen Master. The most important feature is that he is very good at adjusting the players' mentality.

I must have communicated with Kobe specifically during the intermission. This change means that when I continue to face Kobe, I must have a new strategy.

Xue Ding's strategy is very simple. Continue to strengthen against Kobe in the matchup, consume his physical strength, and at the same time increase his own scoring, give his teammates more confidence through his own scoring, and at the same time create better shooting opportunities for them .

It can be said that after the confrontation in the first half, the two sides have a certain degree of understanding of each other, and with the recovery of physical strength during the intermission, they are now in the best state to confront each other.

Xue Ding on the Trailblazers is constantly making breakthroughs. While scoring himself, he will not miss any chance to create points for his teammates on the inside. passed in seconds.

As a very competitive Kobe, he was unwilling to be overwhelmed by Xue Ding, and he also made full use of his super scoring ability to restrain the defense and connect the team in series.

But the only difference is that Kobe believes in himself a little more, and thinks that he can solve it. The first choice is himself, but Xue Ding can't completely restrain Kobe when he has good physical strength.

The two sides came and went, biting each other's score tightly, so that the point difference never had a chance to widen.

With 5 minutes and 45 seconds left, after a fierce fight for most of the quarter, the score was 72:76, and the Blazers still maintained a weak lead of 4 points.

The similarity of the configuration of the two teams also determines the similarity in style, so once a stalemate is entered, the inside becomes more important.

After all, the place closest to the basket is the easiest place to score, and as the physical strength of the outside line declines, the shooting percentages of both sides are declining. Opportunities for defensive counterattacks.

Obviously, they all realized this, and they started feeding each other's inside lanes.

A new round of fierce confrontation broke out again on the inside line. Perhaps due to the decline in physical strength, the movements of both sides began to be less clean and neat, which caused each other's movements to start to increase.

But the referee turned a blind eye to these. As an experienced referee, he also knew very well that fans need to see exciting games, and exciting games cannot be separated from fierce confrontation.

Xue Ding was also keenly aware of the referee's penalty scale, and quickly changed his scoring method, constantly passing breakthroughs, frequently hitting the Lakers inside, attracting double-teams, and once again played an alley-oop with Chandler, one after another.

The Lakers responded, and Gasol also took advantage of his good touch to catch the ball frequently at high positions and hit two-pointers continuously.

The home fans kept cheering and screaming to express their excitement. After all, the opponent team made a mid-range shot, and my side immediately responded to the alley-oop dunk. Isn't that a cool word? amazing.

While constantly fighting inside, Kobe was unwilling to be lonely. Facing Xue Ding's defense, he once again hit a super difficult fadeaway mid-range shot and rushed to the frontcourt like a glider.

Xue Ding decided to give a quick response. At this time of the game, the competition of momentum is more important. If we say that at home, after letting the opponent's superstar get stronger, it will definitely bring the opponent more toughness in all aspects.

After dribbling the ball for half the court, facing Kobe's defense and changing directions continuously, Kobe kept pulling out balls with his hands, trying to disrupt Xue Ding's rhythm. A body position, the ball rushed to the inside.

Gasol quickly came up to defend, and Adelaide also followed, but Adelaide just pulled up, quickly made a counterrun, and ran to the basket. Xue Ding passed the ball accurately from the crowd at the first time.

After catching the ball, Adelaide started quickly, raised the ball with one hand and prepared to end the score with a dunk, only to see Bynum rushing over from the right side, with a heavy elbow to Adelaide who was already in the air De, with a bang, De's body weighing more than 200 kilograms fell heavily on the floor, holding his left knee with both hands, his face full of pain.

(End of this chapter)