NBA: James wants to team up with me

Chapter 75 Kobe: Your college teammates are pretty awesome

(The plan cannot keep up with the changes, so there are only two updates today. I will update more tomorrow.)

Lakers vs. Heat, just from the starting lineup, you can see the huge gap in strength between the two sides.

The Lakers' starting five are Gary Payton, Kobe Bryant, Wang Chong, Malone and O'Neal.

The Heat's starting lineup is Wade, Eddie Jones, Lamar Odom, Udonis Haslem and Brian Grant.

The tallest player on the Heat team is Odom, who is 2 meters tall.

In the jump ball stage, it was also a jump ball between Odom and O'Neal. The latter easily won the jump ball with his absolute height advantage.

With such a huge inside advantage, the Lakers naturally focused on O'Neal from the beginning.

The Heat's starting center Brian Grant is only a player who is 2 meters tall and weighs 06 kilograms. His body type is more suitable for playing power forward rather than center, but he is the only one suitable for the center position in the Heat. player of.

As a result, he suffered a great crime.

After O'Neal caught the ball inside, he completely ran over him to the basket, and arbitrarily knocked away the opponent's hands and dunked to score.

O'Neal's offense gave the Lakers the lead and set the main tone of the game.

The Heat are completely unable to compete with the Lakers. This game is not so much about winning, but about accumulating experience against top teams and trying to keep the point difference as small as possible.

Especially as a shooting guard, the Heat management and coaching staff are looking forward to how Wade will perform when facing the best first-defense player Kobe.

Wade did not disappoint the Heat management.

The first offense with the ball frustrated Kobe.

Kobe didn't take Wade to heart at first. Wade is not James. Players like Anthony who were famous in the draft, even if they teamed up with Wang Chong to win the NCAA championship, they were still not favored during the draft. The NBA is playing pretty well, but so what?

Wade faced Kobe's defense with the ball, accelerated his breakthrough, and passed Kobe in just one step.

Wade's nickname of "The Flash" is really not for nothing. Currently, there are very few guards in the league who can match him in terms of breakthrough speed. Even Iverson may not be as good as him in pure straight-line breakthrough speed and explosive power.

Kobe's reaction was half a beat too slow, and it was too late to turn around and try to chase Wade.

Wade, who passed Kobe, took the lead and rushed into the penalty area. He ejected and hit a tomahawk dunk to end the attack. Even O'Neal under the basket didn't have time to react.

"This kid is really fast. He deserves to be Wang Chong's teammate."

Wade's breakthrough with the ball immediately left a deep impression on O'Neal.

Kobe was passed by Wade in one step, and his face suddenly became a little confused. In the next round, he chose to hold the ball and play singles against Wade in order to regain the field.

However, Wade's defense is much more difficult than he imagined. Although there is a slight difference in height, Wade's speed, explosiveness, jumping and even strength are all better than Kobe's, and he has already made a name for himself against Kobe. The league's top defender has a strong desire to challenge.

<divclass="contentadv">For a while, Kobe was confused by Wade's defense and failed to score in two consecutive attacks.

Wade's defense is very strong. He was also a player who was continuously selected to the All-Defensive Team during his peak period. However, his peak period was a bit short. In his peak years, because the league promoted Kobe Bryant, Wade was obviously the one with the best defensive statistics and defense. A shooting guard with better efficiency, but the best first defense was still awarded to Kobe, and Wade only got the best second defense.

The most typical one is the 08-09 season. Kobe averaged 1.5 steals and 0.5 assists per game, while Wade averaged 2.2 steals and 1.3 blocks. Whether it was defensive efficiency per rounds or defensive contribution to the team, Wade was better than Kobe, but Kobe It's the first defense, Wade is just the second defense.

Let’s get back to the game.

In a few short rounds of fighting, Wade's offense was unable to be defended by Kobe, but Kobe's offense was successfully interfered and defended by Wade. The result was that Kobe became more and more anxious as he fought, and took crazy shots to suppress Wade on the court.

He succeeded in doing it. Although Wade is very good at this stage, his skills are not yet mature after all. He only has three skills. After Kobe figured out the rhythm, he naturally had no choice but to let Kobe handle it.

Throughout the game, Kobe made 10 of 7 shots. Although he did not take many shots, he made 16 free throws and hit 15 of them. He scored 27 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists.

On the other hand, although Wade played well against Kobe in the first quarter, as his technical characteristics were figured out, Wade was a little constrained.

After all, the Lakers have O'Neal inside, and their offensive skills are almost entirely focused on breaking through and hitting the basket. Even if Wade can get past Kobe, scoring is not that easy. In the end, he made 14 of 6 shots and 5 of 4 free throws, scoring 16 points.

This score is exactly the same as Wang Chong's score in this game.

Wang Chong didn't have many opportunities to play in the game, not because of anything else, but mainly because there were too many Heat teams. By the third quarter of the game, the point difference was already so big that there was no suspense.

On this basis, the player Wang Chong faced in the game was Lamar Odom. This guy is known as the left-handed magician. His strength is quite strong, but his attitude and seriousness in the game cannot be complimented. Especially on the defensive end, Wang Chong could clearly feel that the opponent was absent-minded. From time to time, he would wink at the pretty girls in the Staples Center stands, without any intention of defending himself.

All I can say is that he deserves to be Odom.

The huge strength gap meant that the Lakers' starting players played less time. In the end, only three people scored in double figures. In addition to Kobe with 27 points, there were Wang Chong with 16 points and O'Neal with 18 points and 6 rebounds.

The first match between Wang Chong and Wade ended with the victory of Wang Chong's Lakers team. Wang Chong and Wade did not directly fight on the court, but this is normal. After all, the two positions themselves are different. They directly faced each other. There are naturally not many opportunities.

However, at the end of the game, the two hugged each other to greet each other.

"Wang, the next time we fight is in Miami. This time I think you won a round, but next time it will be my turn to win!"

Teams from the Eastern and Western Conferences only have two chances to meet each other in the regular season, unless they can meet in the finals.

With the Heat's current strength, it is quite difficult to enter the playoffs, so naturally it is not possible.

In the locker room, Kobe took the initiative to say to Wang Chong: "That college teammate of yours is very good, and he will definitely become a top star in the league in the future."

Wang Chong thought to himself, of course. Wade is a shooting guard who won the FMVP earlier than you. In the future, with three championships and one FMVP, he will firmly rank third in the history of shooting guards, second only to Jordan and Kobe himself. If he hadn't He is so selfless, has not suffered scars from fighting for the team, and has not voluntarily given up his position at the core of the Heat's tactics for the sake of brotherhood. His achievements can be even higher.