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Chapter 48 Kobe Bryant successfully limited the performance of his teammates! !

In the second quarter, Li Mu played the main offensive lineup, and Kobe continued to play.

He is an iron man, and it is unrealistic for the Lakers to divide the giants from the bench and build a second team.

The bench players consist of Harper, Curry, Horry and Brad Miller.

When Paul Westphal saw it as the head coach of the Supersonics, he felt a little bit like cursing.

Harper, Curry, and Horry all have the strength to play in the starting lineup. These three are already too strong to play, and they are still playing the main force of 'Kobe'. This is not giving the Sonics a way out!

You know, the Sonics are a small team, and the team owner is known for being stingy, and he is not willing to spend money for the team at all.

The starting five look good, but the bench lineup is much worse, almost all made up of veterans and rookies.

At this time, the Sonics are not yet called the Thunder, and the draft vision is not so awesome.

A veteran's fuel tank won't have much fuel.

Paul Westphal looked at Gary Payton, and he could only let the team's true core play a little longer.

The rest are veterans Billy Owens and Don McLean, and two rookies in 98, Vladimir Stepania and Ruben Patterson.

The second quarter started, and Kobe caught the ball and was marked by Payton.

Brad Miller stepped forward to help cover the pick-and-roll, and Kobe waved it like a fly to let Brad Miller get out of the way, and he wanted to fight Payton one-on-one.

Kobe's mentality of being number one in the world and daring to face the strong in heads-up, grew up under pressure, which made his skills improve rapidly.

At this time, he was in a good state of mind, and Payton was unambiguous, teaching Kobe a lesson.

First, Payton stepped forward to press and interrupted Kobe's frontal breakthrough.

After Kobe dribbled with his back, he immediately fell into Payton's stealing routine.

Payton made a fake cut to the left, luring Kobe to move to the left. When Kobe broke to the right, Payton knew it in advance and moved to the right to wait for Kobe.

Directly exhausted Kobe's turning moves, and when Kobe failed to break through and was about to lift the ball to force a shot, Payton predicted Kobe's action again, rushed in front of Kobe, used his left hand, quickly and unexpectedly, and knocked down the basketball with one palm .

Stealing the basketball, he took advantage of the situation to launch a quick counterattack, jumped up from the basket, and scored the basketball with a dunk.

In the first round, Payton used textbook steals to teach Kobe how to be a man.

On the field.

Lakers frontcourt.

Outside the three-point line on the left, Kobe held the ball and continued to single out Payton.

Fall from there, Kobe will get up from there.

Of course, he is not stupid, knowing that playing technology in front of Peyton is simply courting death.

He posed three offensive threats, feinted a shot, immediately started, rushed to the inside, was followed by Payton, and did not panic. Kobe stopped suddenly, twisted his waist, jumped up, stayed in the air, raised his hand for two points and shot a fallback jumper... …

科比身高1米98，佩顿身高1米93，差了5公分。

Kobe hasn't gotten any worse yet. Known as Peter Pan, he has a strong ability to stay in the air, and his shooting posture has been leaned back. This kind of physical talent is strong in attacking methods. Payton can only stare blankly, or sneak attack Kobe's foot, or... …

You said that Kobe turned into three irons?
There must always be someone who will invest in it, why can't that person be me?
In fact, Kobe hit the ball steadily.

Next, Kobe and Payton continued the trick for several rounds.

Kobe successfully allowed the Sonics to narrow the point difference between the two sides to 7 points.

This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the Lakers' bench lineup is better than that of the Sonics.

Kobe succeeded in limiting the performance of his teammates!

There are rumors in the market that there are two tactics to deal with Kobe, one is the snake tactic.

As long as Kobe can't kill your team, in the end, Kobe will kill his own team.

The second trick is to irritate Kobe, and then let Kobe play infinite singles.

At that time, Kobe will ignore his teammates, even if he faces the enemy's attack, he will choose to shoot himself.

In the end, Kobe would score high, but the Lakers would lose the game because of their inefficiency.

This is the so-called useless teammate. In the second quarter of the game, Kobe perfectly demonstrated his future 'characteristics'.

Of course, if you just look at the data, Kobe and Payton are singled out, but they can't beat them, which really limits the performance of their teammates.

It's just that sometimes the factors that determine the direction of the game are not just superficial data.

Still have to see some things that can't be seen.

For example, Payton, who is on the field now, has beads of sweat on his forehead and is gasping for breath.

No way, Payton is too versatile.

Controlling the ball, organizing, defending, scoring, bringing a substitute, facing each other... This style of playing as a father and a mother is too wasteful of physical fitness. Does Payton, who is already 30 years old, have physical fitness in a hurry?

Payton thought, he couldn't fight Kobe like this, he only had a few drops left.

His gaze was on Ruben Patterson.

He is very optimistic about this second-round pick in 98.

Because, as soon as he entered the team, this guy dared to challenge Hersey Hawkins to a one-on-one match.

Sometimes, he will lose, but he still doesn't admit it.

Sometimes, it really still wins.

As a result, Payton unilaterally ended the heads-up game with Kobe and chose to pass the ball to Patterson.

Many players in the league have the idea of ​​stepping on Kobe to get ahead.

Patterson is just one of them.

Some players want to beat Kobe to the top with their skills, and some players simply want to beat Kobe and then get ahead.

Patterson is a grown man, he wants both.

It's just that he overestimated his own strength and underestimated Kobe's strength.

It took only 3 seconds to meet Kobe.

Kobe copied Payton's homework, broke the basketball in Patterson's breakthrough, counterattacked the fast break, rushed to the frontcourt, and used a gorgeous 360-degree turning dunk to send the basketball into the basket.

Later, Payton realized that he was wrong, he should choose and continue Kobe heads-up.

Now he chooses to stop, allowing the advantages of the Lakers' lineup to gradually play out.

Brad Miller screened from the side, and Curry received a point from Harper, raised the knife and scored a three-pointer.

Immediately afterwards, Kobe made an air cut and Brad Miller passed the ball, allowing Kobe to lay up easily and pick the ball into the basket.

Horry also showed the shooting power of a space-based power forward, catching and shooting a three-pointer from the bottom corner, and making a precise hit with a swish.

The Lakers no longer played Kobe Bryant alone, but played a multi-point offensive situation where everyone was a soldier.

Payton regretted it at the beginning, and Kobe handed him the knife, but he didn't catch it.

In the 7th minute of the second quarter, the Lakers had already led by 14 points.

The originally narrowed point difference actually widened again.

Kobe made sudden and outside shots, succeeded in frequent offenses, and was able to hit three-pointers, and he suddenly came alive again, becoming the brightest star on the court.

On the Supersonic side, Payton couldn't hold on anymore, and the opposing coach Paul Westphal could only replace him to rest and replace him with other main players.

At the same time, Li Mu waved his hand and replaced Billups, Rice and O'Neal.

At this time, the Lakers lineup is Billups, Curry, Rice, Horry, O'Neal.

The real one-star four-shot lineup, the Sonics' defense, dare not shrink the defense at all.

If it shrinks, it will rain three minutes outside at any time, killing them.

If not, O'Neal will clean them up in the penalty area.

Moreover, the Sonics without Payton are toothless wolves. In front of the Lakers, they can only transform into Huskies.

At the end of the second quarter, the Sonics have trailed the Lakers by 19 points.

In the third quarter, Li Mu waved his hand and replaced Bo Wen and Da Ben on the court, starting to test the defensive strength of the Lakers.

The scene was still one-sided, with the lagging Sonics frequently attacking the tough defensive lineup of the Lakers, the offensive efficiency would naturally not be that good.

As a result, the Lakers set off a wave of counterattacks.

With this style of play, the efficiency of the Lakers is surprisingly high.

After the first three quarters, the Lakers led by 28 points, and the main players officially clocked out.

In the fourth quarter, the Lakers had obviously withdrawn their forces. As a result, the Sonics still couldn't stand up to the undefended attack from the bench. The score difference continued to widen as the game progressed.

hum~~
The beep sounded on the scoreboard, the game was finally over, and the Sonics could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

With a score of 123 to 90, the Lakers beat the Sonics by 33 points, and the number of victories in the new season has also expanded to 10 games.

O'Neal scored 31 points, 11 rebounds and 6 assists, and continued his performance of "hip pulling".

Fortunately, his scoring has dropped, but his assists have increased a lot.

Three of them were contributed by the newcomer Rice.

Rice scored 21 points, 3 assists and 3 rebounds, including 8 of 6 three-pointers.

科比砍下23分8助攻6篮板2抢断2盖帽，效率不怎么高，表现依然抢眼。

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(End of this chapter)