Legend of Tomorrow

This week the Warriors are in the midst of an internal strife crisis. Without any star players injured and missing, their record is only 10 wins and 18 losses, ranking only 12th in the Western Conference. What's worse is that the atmosphere in the team's locker room is already showing a tendency of internal strife.

Kobe Bryant's exchange of insults with Troy Murphy during training was exposed by the media and caused an uproar.

Kobe was dissatisfied with Murphy's laziness in training and garbage defense, and he was extremely angry. It was as if he wanted to build a wooden horse and push it outside Murphy's house, hide in the wooden horse, and wait for the dead of night to sneak into Murphy's house quietly and kill his whole family.

Murphy is good at three-pointers. As an inside offensive end, he rarely enters the three-second zone. The defensive end stays in his own penalty area and enjoys grabbing backcourt rebounds. The problem is that Big Z Ilgauskas is also a big man who rarely leaves the penalty area. The Warriors do very poorly when encountering pick-and-roll interference with defenders' shooting.

Murphy was not polite to Kobe and replied directly: You like defensive insiders so much that you went to the Pistons to find Ben Wallace. Why did you refuse the Pistons and come to the Warriors?

Although the media likes to say that Murphy is a softie, Murphy, who is 211cm tall and weighs 111kg, is not afraid of Kobe at all. He may be a little bit worse in playing, but would he be afraid of someone who is 198cm tall in a fight?

Even if Murphy is traded by the Warriors, he is not afraid. He just renewed a five-year, $50 million contract with the Warriors in the summer. Even if he is traded, he will still make a lot of money. Kobe thought his defense was poor, and he wanted to find a strong team to win the championship.

Afterwards, Murphy accepted an interview and said innocently: He said that my defense was bad and that I didn't defend hard, but I vowed to do my best to defend. I have my own playing style, and he wanted me to become a super defensive player. Can it become like that?”

Kobe was a little confused. How dare a second-rate player question him? Then he realized that he was no longer the boss of the Lakers who could do whatever he wanted, and no one here was willing to coax him.

When he was in the Lakers, Kobe could criticize Bogut all he wanted, but Bogut didn't dare to reply. The Lakers were Kobe's team, and he was a senior who had played for 11 years. Murphy, who is now one level below Bogut, dares to openly challenge him because Kobe has just arrived, while Murphy has been playing for the Warriors and is a six-year veteran.

In this situation, neither Warriors owner nor manager will side with Kobe.

Less than a third of the way into the season, you really want to get rid of the team's old man? Can you first find an insider All-Star who is willing to partner with you before you speak?

Regardless of whether Murphy is a data brush or not, he was an insider who averaged 14+10 per game last season. This type of open-minded insider is hard to find, so the Warriors have been reluctant to trade him. When Kobe Bryant came, he targeted Murphy. Did he think the Warriors were owned by his family?

Murphy's defense is indeed terrible;

Everyone knows it, but there are some words that really shouldn't be said by Kobe. Is head coach Mike Woodson just a decoration?

Murphy was not the only teammate that Kobe complained about on the team. Others also complained, but not so much. Before Murphy clashed with him, he thought that by doing this he could help his teammates improve and that he would be as loved as he was with the Lakers.

Anyone who has been teammates with Kobe will say that Kobe is not easy to get along with. Even in ordinary training games, Kobe will still talk trash to his teammates. In the interview, Kobe said that he once scolded his teammates and cried.

When reporters asked who was scolded and cried, Kobe actually said that it was not just one player who was scolded and cried. There was a young European player who was easily scolded by Kobe and cried. Kobe said he just said, man, you should reconsider your goals in life, something like this, and he collapsed.

When it comes to the Warriors, Kobe wants to continue to show his leadership qualities, but his teammates don't accept this at all. They are used to Joe Johnson's silent person, and they also like Davis's humor, and they don't like Kobe's imposition of his personal will on others. body.

After all, in some aspects, their father was not as lenient as Kobe and scolded them fiercely.

Just complaining about the poor quality of his teammates is nothing. The conflict between Kobe and Davis is more serious. It is a conflict over ball rights.

The two began to be hostile to each other after running in the team for a period of time. They never said a good word about each other in press conferences and barely communicated in the locker room. The two core members didn't speak, and others didn't dare to say much. The atmosphere in the Warriors' locker room became like a prison.

The last person Woodson coached was Nash, and he wanted to copy some things from the Hawks to the Warriors. Davis is an offensive point guard who needs to hold the ball to exert his power. This is how he played last season. Joe Johnson can play with or without the ball.

Now Kobe is also the one who must attack with the ball. He said that playing without the ball means leaving his teammates without the ball, completely denying the point guard a way to survive. The guard who partners with him is responsible for dribbling the ball through half the court. For example, if he and Ellis played together in the Lakers, Ellis would have to be a fixed-point shooter without range.

The positions of Davis and Kobe seriously overlapped. Davis dribbled the ball through half court without passing it to Kobe, but directly held the ball in the pick-and-roll. Kobe wanted to give him a death stare. On the contrary, if Kobe attacks with the ball, Davis has to catch and shoot mainly, and there is no guarantee of hit rate.

In the past two seasons, Davis has taken a lot of three-pointers, almost all of them chasing three-pointers during counterattacks. His catch-and-shoot shooting rate is pitifully low, which is not his favorite rhythm.

Woodson couldn't get the two to cooperate and could only lean to one side. Kobe is much more famous, gets more ball rights, and plays similar to when he was with the Lakers, averaging 27 points, 5.5 rebounds, and 5.1 assists per game, and shooting 46.2% from the field.

Davis is finished without the ball. He averages 37 minutes per game and can only get 15.3 points and 6.4 assists. His shooting percentage is a pitiful 38.9%, his three-point shooting percentage is 33.3%, and he averages 1.9 three-pointers per game.

This kind of data is unacceptable to Davis. After discussing with his agent, he is already preparing to propose a deal to the management. He will try to leave the team in the mid-term to an underdog team that can obtain the ball rights and is willing to renew his high-paying long-term contract. .

He has one year left on his contract worth 17.8 million, which expires in 2009. When he is 30 years old, he should still be able to get a big contract. It seems that staying with the Warriors is not going to work. He knows that he is not as good as Kobe. The Warriors will probably choose to let him go and use the free salary space to sign Kobe's favorite partner.

Another option for Davis is to opt out of the contract in 2008, but that would be very detrimental to him, because his data has dropped significantly this season. Will any team be willing to pay him a high salary?

As for whether the fans will feel that he was squeezed out by Kobe, that is not an issue that he needs to consider. The fans can say whatever they want. Kobe's arrival has indeed made his position very awkward.

Miraculously, Luol Deng and Kobe Bryant also overlapped in position. He averaged 16.6 points, 6.2 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game, and shot 47.7% from the field. He was the team's second leading scorer, but he was not comfortable playing either.

Luol Deng is good at everything but not good at anything. He almost never shoots three-pointers. He only averages 0.3 shots per game from the outside and his 36.4% shooting rate is false. His offensive area is very similar to Kobe's, accounting for 48% of the shots at the basket and close range, and 37.3% of the large two-pointers.

Center Big Z doesn't shoot three-pointers and can only pull out for mid-range shots. His defensive weakness is that he can only move around the penalty area. The Cavaliers traded Big Z for this, and their weaknesses were not obvious during the regular season because there were many games and few games against strong teams. Entering the playoffs and encountering a three-point-accurate defender, there was a dead end.

In fact, the Warriors are now inseparable from Murphy's three-pointers and must let him play for a long time. His defense is also at a black hole level. Can Kobe not be in a hurry after figuring this out?

With such a bad chemical reaction, it is not easy for the Warriors to win 10 games.

Kobe sadly discovered that the biggest role of the Warriors now is to set off the Lakers...

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