As a Kobe hater, he was actually teammates with Kobe!

3 days later.

The Lakers traveled to the Utah Jazz's devilish home court to play Game 3.

Before the game started, some people outside were optimistic that the Jazz could make a comeback.

After all, the plateau climate is not easy for many athletes to adapt to.

Of course, it’s not that Zhou Ze and Kobe can’t handle the slight altitude sickness, but his teammates.

However, after the game started, the Jazz were suppressed by the Lakers just like in the previous two games.

When Carlos Boozer sets a screen for Deron, Zhou Ze always gets to him in the first place and receives the ball.

If a 226cm tall center with relatively slow steps faces Boozer, Boozer's face-to-face ball-handling offense can be very fancy, and he can even make a small change of direction in advance, but Zhou Ze's speed and reaction are too fast.

Boozer's dribbling breakthrough is easy to be intercepted, and secondly, even if he rushes towards him, he can't gain any advantage.

At 1 minutes and 4 seconds in the first quarter, Boozer received a pass from Deron and started with a fake shot, seemingly trying to break through to the left, but actually broke through to the right.

Zhou Ze was deceived.

Of course, this is not the first time Zhou Ze has been cheated in this round of the series.

But after being deceived, Zhou Ze immediately burst into acceleration and blocked Boozer's breakthrough route in advance.

Boozer used his speed to rush towards Zhou Ze.

The bald-headed Boozer, with his elaborate tattoos, tried to clear the way with his strong arms, but he only pushed Zhou Ze back a small step. Then, like a little cat with a dead battery and a used-up spring, he rushed into Zhou Ze's arms.

Just when Boozer was about to take the opportunity to shoot a hook shot, Zhou Ze pressed his hand.

"Snapped!"

The incredible arm span of 231cm and the "imperial giant hand" that Kobe envied so much pressed firmly on the basketball.

At the same time, Zhou Ze exerted force with his fingers and clenched them hard, like a suction cup, directly "sucking" the basketball into his hand.

"Catch the hat!"

"My goodness!"

"This block is incredible..."

"Yeah, this is a terrifying standing shot."

"This is too crazy."

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"Nice pass!" Zhou Ze said to Boozer with a smile again after being blocked.

Zhou Ze has been talking trash like this since his rookie season until now...and it seems like there's no difference.

But the targets of criticism don’t see it that way.

Zhou Ze’s acting skills were not as good as they are now in his rookie season.

There is a naked mockery in it.

But now the word "nice-pass" was said very sincerely, as if he had really passed a good ball.

Not only has the insult become stronger, but the harm has also become greater.

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Boozer felt very aggrieved.

His face-to-the-basket offense and low-post one-on-one plays were all unable to break Zhou Ze's defense.

On the other hand, Zhou Ze can beat himself almost any way he wants.

The first half ended with the score being 60 to 44!

The Lakers' lead reached 16 points.

After the start of the second half, the Jazz did not start Ronnie Brewer.

No way!

Ronnie Brewer's mentality collapsed after being beaten by Kobe.

Well...

Why not use AK47 to defend Kobe?

Because Ronnie Brewer is no worse than AK47 when defending guards, and may even be better.

AK47 is 206cm tall, so his center of gravity is higher than Ronnie Brewer's who is 201cm tall. He also has better footwork, lateral movement, distance and strength.

Jerry Sloan usually sent Ronnie Brewer to defend the opponent's shooting guard.

in addition...

The Jazz need AK47 to help defend Zhou Ze.

If he faces Kobe, Kobe will use his off-ball control to take AK47 away, making it difficult for him to harass Zhou Ze's face-to-face breakthrough.

In fact, although the Jazz were beaten badly, Zhou Ze's face-to-face breakthrough from the three-point line in positional warfare was not very efficient, and all of this was thanks to AK47.

However...

What Jerry Sloan could not have imagined was that Ronnie Brewer, the best perimeter defender on the Jazz, was beaten by Kobe.

Do not!

To be precise, he was overwhelmed by the attraction of Kobe and Zhou Ze.

Kobe is a top-notch off-ball master.

Zhou Ze too.

Every time he moves, he can tear apart the Jazz's defense, allowing Kobe to avoid a lot of help defense and double-teaming, and get more 1v1 opportunities.

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In the third quarter, Jerry Sloan started the game with the white shooter Korver replacing Ronnie Brewer.

And executed several shooter tactics for it.

But Kobe, who was mainly defending Korver, frequently used the "puppy step" and his body was like a piece of paper, constantly squeezing through the screen and seriously interfering with Korver's shooting.

Korver is a pure shooter...

Typical ones are 3 without D.

For Kobe, this was just shooting practice.

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At the end of the third quarter, the Lakers led by 98 points, 72 to 26.

It is worth mentioning that Kobe scored 29 points and Zhou Ze scored 23 points. According to Zhou Ze's personality and character, he will definitely score more than 30 points tonight.

However...

Zhou Ze played for 8 minutes in the fourth quarter and only scored 4 points.

During this period, Zhou Ze was the main defender with AK47.

Such good defensive effect made reporters interview AK47 after the game.

However, AK47 didn't say much.

But a careful media reporter found that AK47's face was red...