Basketball: Start with the nerve knife

Chapter 41 What Kobe Bryant Needs and Kwame's "Butter Hands"

"Go around, go around, go around from the other side, can't you? If he can't get through, he will pass the ball!"

At the end of the first quarter, Kobe took the white towel handed over by the staff behind the bench, wiped his sweat, and complained to Fisher.

He is so excited, the Lakers are naturally at a disadvantage.

26 to 30, the Lakers trailed by 4 points.

Kobe scored 8 points in the first quarter, and Arenas scored 7 points. The two scored almost the same, but Arenas also sent 3 assists.

The rest of the Wizards are also working hard. Throughout the first quarter, the Lakers have been passive.

Fisher, who communicated several times on the court without understanding his intentions, became the object of Kobe's complaints.

Fisher showed a depressed expression, not daring to speak back.

He is indeed responsible. When the Wizards were covering each other outside, he couldn't get around in time. Kobe switched defenses with him, and he couldn't get around.

Arenas' 3 assists are basically using his weakness of slow lateral movement to make the ball for his teammates.

Caron - Butler "eat a lot", he had 6 points in the first quarter, two of which came from Arenas's pass in the distance.

Can……

What can he do? He is 33 years old, and his already inconspicuous physical fitness has further declined.

On the court, at the beginning of the second quarter, Li Wan came on the field with a substitute rotation lineup, including Kwame Brown.

He looked at Eddie Jordan on the sidelines, his eyes full of fighting spirit.

03~04赛季，迈克尔-乔丹第三次退役后的第一个赛季，21岁的夸梅布朗打出了职业生涯新高的场均10.4分7篮板。

Comparing horizontally with the same period, this season's "Little Shark" Bynum averaged 13 points and 10 rebounds in three games, and the gap is not very big.

Kwame Brown is also confident that he will perform better in the fourth season of his career. In the summer, he also specially practiced shooting. It was just an injury before the start of the training game, which made him absent from the running-in of the entire team, etc. He returned from injury, and Eddie Jordan's lineup has no place for him.

After that, he had a conflict with Eddie Jordan, and the management chose Eddie Jordan and sent him away.

This made Kwame Brown's self-confidence hit again, and he doubted his ability more and more.

Just seeing Eddie Jordan, thinking that he didn't pay much attention to himself at the beginning, and thinking that the Wizards chose him between him and himself, no matter how useless a person is, he will have the idea of ​​​​playing brilliantly.

This is the same even for Kwame Brown.

There was a lot of boos from the audience.

That was the Washingtonians who had expected the Wizards to do a big job in the 01-02 season. In their eyes, Kwame Brown ruined everything.

Brown, who was quite motivated to fight, instinctively shrank his head, but was slapped on the back suddenly. Looking back, it was Li Wan.

"Why are you standing still, it's our turn!"

Li Wan signaled him to stand. Jordan Farmer also dribbled the ball to the frontcourt at this time. After communicating with Li Wan, he gave the ball to him.

Roger Mason stood across from him.

The man who later saved the Spurs' back line in the 08-09 season is still working hard for a stable long-term contract. Li Wan called Kwame Brown for a high pick-and-roll.

This is what the "parallel import champion" is best at doing.Coupled with the awareness of guarding against pick-and-rolls, these two skills have allowed him to stay in this league for 11 years.

Roger reacted quickly, getting stuck in front of Kwame, and once Li Wan came around to cover, he could also squeeze past immediately.

The basic skills of this hand to prevent pick-and-rolls are still good.

Li Wan changed his direction forward, simply did not go to Kwame Brown's side, lowered his center of gravity, and broke through directly.

Roger confronted him, but failed to stop him, and watched Li Wan break through to the free throw line.

Andre Blatche on the inside line blocked him. When Li Wan was about to reach him, he took the ball with both hands and slammed it to the right. When it hit the ground and rebounded, in front of it, a pair of hands that seemed too small for outside players covered it.

That's Kwame Brown following up.

"Good shot!"

Phil Handy clenched his fist and yelled unconsciously. The Wizards center was chasing after Kwame Brown, and Blatche pulled Li Wan out of the reasonable collision zone. The Wizards' interior line was completely empty. He's already seen Kwame Brown knocking the ball in with ease.

It's just that Kwame Brown, with the ball in his hand, took a step forward and was lifting the ball, and the ball came out of his hand...

slipped off!
I knew it!

Phil Jackson wasn't surprised at all.

He once said in front of the media, "I won't let Kwame Brown hold my baby anyway", mocking his "butter hands".

Fortunately, the place where the ball flew was Turiaf.

"The Butcher" took the ball, leaped high, and dunked.

Kwame Brown's "mistake" turned into an assist in seconds.

Kwame Brown breathed a sigh of relief seeing that he didn't lose a great offensive opportunity because of his mistakes.But he still didn't dare to look at Li Wan, he felt that he had failed Li Wan's trust.

The Wizards fans at the scene once again booed mockingly.

Kwame Brown is still Kwame Brown after all, nothing has changed at all!
"Defense, Kwame, if the opponent is also picking and rolling, don't lift it up, get stuck at the basket, just interfere with him."

Li Wan patted Kwame Brown and asked him to stand where he wanted him to stand.

Kwame saw that Li Wan didn't mention his mistakes at all, and the anxiety in his eyes was much less.

The Wizards are currently holding the ball by Antonio Daniels.

This is a not very well-known parallel importer. He was the No. 98 pick in the first round of 4. At that time, he put McGrady and other active superstars behind him.

But so far, the best season averaged in the season was the 00-01 season, which only averaged 9.4 points per game.

I don't often see him on the "parallel imports" list because he helped Tim Duncan win the championship in 99.

It's just that since leaving the Spurs, his performance has gone from bad to worse.

Weaknesses: Unable to adapt to high-intensity confrontation, has always been a surprise soldier on the bench.

"If they pick and roll outside, then we'll switch!"

Li Wan communicated with Vujacic again.

"OK!"

Vujacic nodded in response without hesitation.The unruly look of wanting to "touch" Li Wan at the beginning was completely gone.

Antonio's thoughts were within Li Wan's expectations. He crossed screens with Mason on the outside, and Li Wan immediately switched positions with Vujacic.

This quick switch made Kobe's eyes shine. This is the speed he always wanted to switch defenses in the first quarter.

Antonio's speed is not bad, he took the first step to sink his shoulders, and passed Vujacic in the confrontation.But in front of him, Kwame Brown stood up early.

Vujacic forced him to break through from the bottom.

It was also at this time that Kwame Brown understood why Li Wan let him sink to the bottom line instead of leaning up.

Knowing that he couldn't come forward by force, Antonio turned to look for Mason. Li Wan waited halfway and easily intercepted the pass.

For the Lakers' fast break opportunity, Li Wan took the lead, and the Wizards had only Mason back to defend, and Li Wan and Vujacic were on the other side to meet him. The fake pass deceived Mason's center of gravity, and Li Wan hit the ball with one hand. Dunk, smash the ball into the basket.

It also caused the main players sitting on the Wizards bench to get up.

After Li Wan's goal, they lost their lead and it was time for the starters to return to the field.

Phil Jackson followed the opponent's rhythm and called Kobe and others to play.

Kwame Brown was reluctant to leave the game. In more than 3 minutes, what impressed him the most was the "letting go". He didn't want to leave Washington with such an impression.

(End of this chapter)