Jim Bass Ambition

Chapter 402 Fighting the Knights
Next, the Lakers challenged the Portland Trail Blazers, which is now a mess.

Facts have proved that the Blazers' draft vision is as bad as ever. The Martell Webster they selected is useless except for being young. Others believe that Webster was only 18 years old, and when Scottie Pippen was 18 years old, he was nothing.

The Lakers clocked in at halftime and swept the Blazers 127 to 94.

Since taking Kobe's original sneakers, Ruben Patterson has played better game after game against the Lakers. In this game, Patterson contributed the highest 23 points for the Trail Blazers. 15 of 9 shots is also quite impressive.

But many Trail Blazers fans didn't buy it, thinking that Patterson robbed Webster of the shooting rights that should have belonged to Webster, violated the development space of rookies, and should be sent away. Anyway, the Blazers don't have any record requirements this season. Aiming for the No. [-] pick next year and training as a rookie, anyway, the fans have a lot of time to grow up with their children. Anyway, since Bill Walton and Clyde Drexler, the Blazers have not touched for many years. Over the floor of the finals.

On the contrary, Kobe, who has always been regarded as a rival in life by Ruben Patterson, took the initiative to stand up after learning that Patterson had been attacked by his own fans.

"I know Ruben, we played in the same team, when we were young, he would take the best man in training against the best ... that's him, no matter when, which team, They always maintain a competitive mentality. I think there is nothing wrong with it. You know, as a professional player, your only obligation is to play hard for the team. Ruben has undoubtedly done this, so these criticisms I really don't understand the sound, you must know that your position in the team is won by your own strength, not by the fans."

Jim can understand this feeling, especially when no one in the team has overwhelming strength, and the fans are unwilling to admit that the rookies selected by their team are not as good as other teams, and they are willing to believe in their own vision and vision for the future. A beautiful vision, so 4 rookies in a team formed 10 groups of supporters, and they had a great time arguing with each other every day. Give their own children all the opportunities and chances to go round.

After beating the Blazers, the Lakers returned home to a challenge from LeBron James and his Cleveland Cavaliers.

Dajuan Wagner announced his comeback after undergoing intestinal surgery, and Eric Snow formed the Cavaliers' backcourt, Zaidrunas Ilgauskas did his part as center, power forward It is the newly introduced three-point turret Donyell Marshall this season and the sixth man Drew Gooden. The Cavaliers' lineup is still quite competitive in the overall weak Eastern Conference.

People are looking forward to the Kojan duel and the 03 James-Way duel, but Don Nelson feels that it is better not to let them directly match up. It is simply wasteful to leave Artest alone.

Cavaliers first attack, James used the cover of Ilgauskas, forced Artest to a deep position, but Garnett quickly defended and blocked James' breakthrough to the basket.

Today's little emperor is not the Thanos Zhan who is proficient in various offensive methods in the future. He obviously does not have much confidence in his mid-range shot. Seeing Artest bypassing the screen and chasing him, he can only choose to pass the ball back to the bomb To Ilgauskas near the free throw line.

Billops immediately took turns to defend. Big Z has the inherent passing vision and handwork of a European center, and his height of 2 meters allows him to look at the overall situation and find a suitable passing route.

Eric Snow received an assist from Big Z and opened the scoring for the Cavaliers.

But on the defensive end, it was difficult for Big Z to deal with the flexible Garnett. A simple screen by Billups and Garnett made Big Z dizzy, and Garnett responded with a high jumper.

Artest always kept one step in front of James to prevent the opponent from suddenly accelerating, and James' desire to attack was not particularly strong when he came up. He distributed the ball to the big Z inside and used his height to beat Garnett. , turned over and made a hook shot.

Billups was in possession of the ball on the wing. Kobe first took advantage of Garnett's cover, but instead of catching the ball, he turned around to help Wade block Wagner who was chasing him. The ball screens, and James, who will make up the defense, also blocks it.

Wade took advantage of the trend to run back and went straight to the basket. Billups sent an exquisite lob. Wade made an alley-oop and bombed the basket.

This is an improved tactic based on Jim's philosophy last season after Don Nelson took office this season. The three of them successively used each other's off-ball screens to look for opportunities in different directions, while Billups held the ball to read the defense. Send the best pass.

After Wade dunked, he looked at James who came back to serve.

James holds the ball, and after confronting Artest, he turns around and kills the basket.

In terms of pure strength, Artest is not afraid of James, but once James uses flexibility to break through, Artest looks a little clumsy and stiff.This time, he tried his best to prepare for a soul-to-body collision with James, but he just feinted.

Garnett immediately covered the defense, and Kobe on the weak side let go of Marshall and came back to defend the big Z at the basket.

James threw the ball to Marshall in the bottom corner from the gap, and Kobe was only half a hair away from breaking the ball.

Marshall caught the ball, took aim, and hit a three-pointer.

Jim on the sidelines sighed for a while, no matter what, the lineup that can maximize James' ability is really one-star.

When it was the Lakers' turn to attack, Artest tried to return a three-pointer and hit the iron. James grabbed the rebound, drove straight all the way, counterattacked dunks and scored his first two points of the game.

Here Kobe held the ball and met James' defense.

Seeing that James lowered his center of gravity and stretched out his hands as if he was facing a serious enemy, Kobe also showed his real kung fu, turned his back, and pushed hard towards the basket.

James didn't expect that Kobe would take the initiative to hit a striker who was taller and heavier than himself, and hurriedly adjusted his steps to prevent being wiped by Kobe.

Kobe firmly pressed against James, turned over with his strength, and had already opened up enough space for a shot.

If it was an ordinary defender, this space is enough for Kobe to score comfortably, but James immediately adjusted his center of gravity and took off to try to block the shot.

Unexpectedly, Kobe's second play was still a fake move. James secretly yelled that it was not good. Over there, Kobe had already stepped up, smashed the ball on the backboard, and then took off, received the rebound ball and made a light pick and hit the basket.

This attack was a stroke of genius.Completely detonated the Staples Center.

(End of this chapter)