The convulsion superstar of basketball

Chapter 249 248. Suke Iron Man Battle! ([-] characters ask for a monthly ticket)

As Su Jiu took off with all his strength, he blocked Kobe's fadeaway jumper.

Looking at the basketball slowly falling from the sky at this moment, Su Jiu also jumped up and caught the ball immediately, and then he buried his head and started sprinting forward.

Facing Su Jiu's resolute defensive counterattack this time, Kobe, who had just completed a block behind him, also reacted suddenly.

Afterwards, the whole person gritted his teeth and directly chased after Su Jiu in front of him.

However, Su Jiu's counterattack speed was too fast. Even though Kobe was accelerating with all his strength, he could only witness Su Jiu's two-handed dunk in the end.

"!

After landing, Su Jiu didn't show an overly excited expression. Instead, he patted his chest three times in a row, and then spread his hands downward to press down, and walked out of a posture of overlord step.

This is the rhythm of going the way of James so that James has nowhere to go...

Su Jiu, who was retreating, was always smiling. When passing by Kobe, Su Jiu even grinned directly, and then said very flatly:

"Come on, you almost caught up with me."

Seeing Su Jiu's slightly arrogant look, Kobe didn't lose his temper, but laughed as well.

The expression on his face looked a little playful, and he didn't know what he was thinking at the moment.

In the next period of time, Kobe seemed to be inspired to fight on the offensive end, and in most cases he chose to face Su Jiu to complete individual singles.

And this kind of forcing Kobe to fall into unlimited individual singles is exactly what Su Jiu wants to achieve in this game.

After all, compared to Kobe's endless singles on the offensive end, it is better than the entire Lakers' offense becoming smoother.

However, Su Jiu's defensive efficiency in this game has greatly restricted Kobe, and even this defensive ability moved Stan Van Gundy off the court.

Regarding Su Jiu's personal ability on the defensive end, Stan Van Gundy at least knows a lot about it.

However, Su Jiu's defensive ability in this game is obviously higher than his average level this season.

So this scene also moved Stan Van Gundy off the court and felt a little surprised.

"Mundy, maybe our previous view of Su was still a bit biased. This little guy obviously has more potential to be discovered."

"It's really hard to imagine that he can play this kind of defensive efficiency on the court. Among other things, the two successful defenses against Kobe alone should be enough to move any team."

"You know, he is only 21 years old this year."

Hearing Stan Van Gundy's exclamation beside him, and taking another look at Su Jiu, who was in a fierce matchup with Kobe on the court at the moment, the assistant coach Mundy also smiled lightly, and then said with a face of relief:

"Yeah, this guy seems to be refreshing our understanding of him all the time. Whenever we think we know him well enough, he will teach us a deep lesson with practical actions."

"Haha, I'm really lucky now. I'm glad that Su is facing failure in this year's draft."

"It's even more fortunate that we were able to sign such a player in the offseason."

While Stan Van Gundy and assistant coach Mundy were chatting and laughing happily, the matchup on the court at this moment has entered a fierce stage.

Especially the personal confrontation between Kobe and Su Jiu seemed to be even more angry.

Facing Su Jiuna's close defense like brown sugar, Kobe obviously felt very strong discomfort.

You know, Kobe has gradually entered the peak of his career, and he has encountered too many excellent defenders throughout his career.

However, the personal pressure that Su Jiu brought to him in this game still made him feel very uncomfortable.

Even this feeling reminded Kobe of his former teammate, "The Glove" Payton.

Facing Su Jiu again with the ball, Kobe at this moment has completely put away his contempt.

Even though the defender in front of him is just a first-year rookie at the moment, Kobe is completely afraid to use the standard of rookies to measure the monster in front of him.

Because he already suffered some small losses in the previous two offensive rounds.

"No wonder you are so arrogant. It seems that you really have something, but if it's just that, then I'm sorry, I'm going to get serious."

After Kobe finished speaking, his expression became extremely focused.

Regardless of whether these harsh words will bring some improvement to Kobe's shooting percentage, this momentum alone is enough to overwhelm many defensive players in the league.

But it's a pity, Su Jiu's name must not be included among them.

Because Su Jiu even started to take things like the system as usual, how could he be afraid of Kobe's harsh words? !

As the game time passed, the two teams played anxiously on the court, and Jackson and Van Gundy also made some large and small adjustments to the lineup.

However, the main players basically continue to stay on the court.

Finally, after the end of the first quarter, relying on Su Jiu's amazing personal defense in the first quarter, the Magic also played at home with:

25:19

Leading the Lakers by six points, the contest between the two sides ended in the first quarter.

"At the end of the first quarter, the Magic team at home is temporarily leading the Lakers by six points. However, throughout the first quarter, it is not difficult to find that the biggest highlight of this game has evolved from the original individual confrontation between Allen and Kobe to the individual duel between Sue and Kobe."

"Speaking of which, I have to say that Su's defense in the first quarter was really very successful. Facing Su's personal defense throughout the first quarter, Kobe's offensive efficiency was very low. This was also the main reason why the Lakers fell behind once."

"So regardless of the final result of this game, just Su's defensive mentality when facing Kobe is enough for other rookies to learn from."

After the entire first quarter, Kobe made a total of 7 of 3 shots in the first quarter, and only 4 of 1 shots when facing Su Jiu's personal defense.

It was also Kobe's inability to open up the offensive end that caused the Lakers to fall behind the Magic by 6 points after the first quarter.

虽然苏久在整个首节上场的11分钟里，个人同样只有3投1中，拿下了3分2篮板2助攻的数据。

But compared to Su Jiu's contribution on the defensive end, the lack of firepower on the offensive end can be said to be insignificant.

After all, when someone can successfully limit Kobe's personal performance on the defensive end, then the Lakers will fall into a worse situation.

After returning from the second quarter, the two sides also replaced the substitute lineup for a coaching contest.

Since the bargaining chip used by the team to trade Iverson involved Nelson, this also led to the fact that the current point guard for the Magic on the bench is only the veteran Tyronn Lue.

However, Tyronn Lue is also old after all, and now whether it is on the offensive or defensive end, his contribution to the team can be said to be very limited.

The whole person is fighting on the court with experience.

So this situation is the main reason why Stan Van Gundy chose to place Turkoglu on the bench instead of placing Lewis on the bench.

Because compared to most point guards in the league, Turkoglu's organizational level on the court has reached the level of a guard.

Therefore, putting Turkoglu on the bench can also maximize the offense of organizing the bench lineup, so that a bunch of off-ball shooters and rebounding idiots will not stumble on the court like headless chickens.

Compared with the substitutes on the Magic's side, the Lakers' side is not in the slightest.

The entire Lakers team not only has Odom on the bench who has great hopes of competing for the best sixth man this year, but also has Jordan Farmar, Vucesic, Shannon Brown and other good players.

In the contest between the two sides' substitute lineups, they also launched a very fierce defensive battle.

Because whether it is the current Magic team or the Lakers, there is a fatal flaw on the bench.

That is the serious lack of an offensive scorer with explosive scoring ability.

It can be said that players like JR Smith and Nick Young are definitely what these two teams need most.

But it is a pity that before the trade deadline, the Magic have not been able to come up with a good plan.

Because the entire team has trade value people who are included in the non-trade list, and those who can be traded have no trade value.

So before the entire trade deadline, the Magic also completed the Iverson deal.

On the other hand, the Lakers, although the Lakers really want to strengthen in the middle of the season, but the team's salary space has basically been completely locked.

This situation also prevents the Lakers from completing some powerful player reinforcements, and can only be forced to use the current lineup to fight for the rest of the season.

It is also for this reason that Sun Yue has been able to stay in the 15-man roster this season without being laid off.

Otherwise, once the Lakers have salary space, it is absolutely impossible for Sun Yue to stay so stable.

Even Sun Yue has a high-energy performance averaging a triple-double this season! ! !

Shake the towel 10 times, pass the water 10 times, jump up and shout 10 times...

In the defensive battle between the substitute players on both sides, the scores of both sides were very low, and the shooting percentage was also astonishingly poor.

The rhythm of the game on the entire court seemed to make the home fans feel drowsy, and a dream returned to the most constipated Finals battle between the Pistons and the Spurs.

In the next period of time, the two sides also gradually made some adjustments to the lineup on the field.

As time went by, the main lineup was brought back to the field little by little.

With more than seven minutes left in the second quarter, Su Jiu was brought back to the field by Van Gundy.

Su Jiu, who was put on the field again, had just taken off his clothes on the sidelines when the fans cheered fiercely.

Sensing the crazy shouts from the home fans, Su Jiu also raised his right hand high while going on the field, signaling to the fans on the sidelines, while making his debut with a smile on his face.

Su Jiu, who returned to the court, turned his eyes directly to Kobe.

When Su Jiu found that Kobe was also staring at him, Su Jiu shrugged with a smile, and then made a mouth shape to Kobe:

"Hey, you can't break through my defenses."

In the second half of the second quarter, Kobe faced Su Jiu's defense and started to play singles blindly.

Because Su Jiu's defense obviously brought Kobe a lot of trouble.

The close-fitting defense like a dog's skin plaster and the astute defensive sense of a hound made this all-powerful scorer in the league feel obviously uncomfortable.

And Su Jiu's provocation to him, Kobe is also very clear that this young guy is trying to irritate himself, so that he can perform more individual singles.

After all, in Kobe's entire career, there were not one or two teams that used this trick against him, so Kobe himself is very bright in his heart.

However, when facing this undrafted rookie who was obviously too young and had a strong defensive ability, even though Kobe knew it was a trap, he still couldn't help but play more individual singles against Su Jiu.

Because Su Jiu's slightly strong defensive ability obviously inspired Kobe's desire on the offensive end.

The most important thing is that Su Jiu not only has excellent defensive ability at such a young age, but also his mouth is very flat.

If Kobe hadn't encountered too many tactics that wanted to use his mouth to irritate him, then Kobe would have been unable to resist educating him.

In the offensive and defensive matchup with Kobe, Su Jiu also rejected the help defense from his teammates, and insisted on one-on-one defense with Kobe.

The whole person gritted his teeth and kept fighting with Kobe on the court. Just relying on this perseverance, if he didn't know, he might think that Su Jiu and Kobe had some kind of deep hatred off the court.

In the end, in the fierce hand-to-hand fight between the two like iron men, neither of them would back down half a step. After halftime, the Magic still played at home with:

44:39

Leading the Lakers by 5 points, the contest between the two sides ended in the first half.

In the entire first half, the two sides combined only scored 83 points, but you must know that the Magic averaged 107.6 points per game this season, ranking third in the league.

So 44 points in the half is definitely far below the average level of the season, and from this it can be seen how fierce the defensive strength of the two sides is in this game.

Every attack requires more physical energy, and every score also faces tremendous pressure.

Throughout the first half, Kobe played like an iron man for a total of 20 minutes.

在20分钟的上场时间里，科比个人16投仅6中，三分线外4中1，罚球4中3，虽然也交出了一份16分3篮板以及2次助攻的数据。

But from the perspective of overall efficiency, Kobe's offensive efficiency is still relatively low. Not only did he fail to drive the offense of the entire Lakers team, but he was also somewhat unsatisfactory in his personal aspects.

And the Magic team was able to lead by a slight advantage at the end of halftime, and most of the credit for this must be attributed to Su Jiu.

Throughout the first half, Su Jiu also played 18 minutes, and in most cases, he was responsible for the important task of defending Kobe.

在这18分钟的上场时间里，苏久虽然在进攻端只有6投2中，三分线外4中1，罚球2中1，拿下了6分4篮板以及3次助攻的数据。

However, his contribution on the defensive end is very large, not only relying on his own strength, he has lowered Kobe's offensive efficiency.

The most important thing is that in this obviously defense-oriented hand-to-hand battle, Su Jiu also successfully suppressed the Lakers' offensive momentum, preventing them from hitting a decent counterattack climax throughout the first half.

After all, when Su Jiu can defend Kobe one-on-one from the outside, the entire Lakers team can't use Kobe to open up space and create opportunities for others.

In addition, the Magic's inside line is also guarded by Warcraft Howard, so this also allowed the Lakers to only score 39 points in the entire first half.

And 39 points in the halftime, without any suspense, set a new low for the Lakers in halftime scoring this season...

After halftime, players from both sides returned to the locker room for a truce under the leadership of the head coach.

While the players from both sides returned to the locker room, Kobe on the Lakers' side and Su Jiu on the Magic's side were shown on the big screen.

It can be clearly seen from the big screen at the scene that although Kobe's offensive efficiency in the first half was not very high, it can even be said to be slightly low.

But judging from the expression of the whole person, there is no expression of frustration at all, but there is a slight frown between the brows, and he walked towards the player tunnel while wiping his sweat.

On the Magic side, Su Jiu walked towards the home locker room under the cheers of the fans.

But on the way, it can be clearly seen that Su Jiu's chest has been floating up and down, and his mouth has been open and gasping heavily.

Obviously, in the entire first half of the personal matchup with Kobe, although Su Jiu took some small advantages on the defensive end.

However, Su Jiu's current personal condition is definitely not optimistic. At least in terms of physical strength, Su Jiu is already on the verge of being weak.

After all, Kobe today has not only been in the league for many years, but also has the title of Iron Man all the time.

So in the physical strength contest with Kobe, Su Jiu, who is still only a rookie in the league, is obviously at a disadvantage.

But the more it was like this, the more it reflected Su Jiu's great contribution throughout the first half, because even under such circumstances, Su Jiu still did a good job of defending Kobe, making Kobe unable to open the situation throughout the first half.

Although the Magic's own performance on the offensive end is also a bit poor, but in this defensive battle between the league's first and the league's second, the Magic finally withstood the pressure before the game after the end of the half quarter and temporarily regained a victory...

　I’m going to die, I just got braces today, my god, it’s such a pain, after wearing it, not only my mouth is rubbed, but my mouth is also worn with ulcers, the most important thing is that it’s too inconvenient to eat! !

　　And because I am too old, it is not as easy to correct with braces as young people, so this process is also extremely painful! !

　　Just like me, I had to extract four teeth before I could start straightening...

　　So the third child is here to advise those who want to straighten their teeth, if it is not particularly exaggerated, they should think twice before acting.

　　Because this process is still very painful, and my braces doctor also said that it will take at least two years to wear it...

　　And it's not over after two years. After two years, you still have to wear a retainer, and you have to wear a retainer for 3 years! !

　　In other words, in the next 5 years, my mouth will not be idle! !

　　How many five years are there in a person's life? !

　　ah! ! ! !despair! !

　　At present, my lips are dry, my mouth is ulcerated, and I dare not eat, which also makes me a little weak.

　　But even if it is already so uncomfortable, I still have to get up and type, 嘤嘤嘤 (_).

　　What a hopeless day! !

　　

　

(End of this chapter)