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

The Lakers started the game with an 8:0 offensive, until David West, who was outside after the pick-and-roll, received an assist from Paul and hit a 1-foot shot, which helped the Hornets break the scoring drought.

In a semi-transition offense, Zhou Ze, who was mismatched with Chris Paul, said with a smile on his face: "Chris, you can shoot as much as you want. I won't even lift a hand."

Zhou Ze said this while deliberately pretending to be "unguarded".

"Hmph!" Paul snorted angrily. After a crossover step, his body suddenly sank, seemingly breaking through to Zhou Ze's right. After Zhou Ze took half a step back, he suddenly stopped and made a jump shot with a "swoosh".

At the same time, Zhou Ze, who had been "talking nonsense" to Paul a second ago and said that he wouldn't even lend a hand, immediately pounced over.

But unfortunately, the speed of the rebound was still a little off, and the basketball passed through the air between his fingers and fell into the basket with a "swish".

After scoring the goal, Paul clenched his right fist excitedly.

"Man, you finally scored." After Paul scored, Zhou Ze sent his sincere congratulations.

"Shut up, you shameless bastard." After Paul finished cursing, he ignored Zhou Ze.

But at this moment, he was actually feeling lucky that he was smart enough not to believe his lies.

fuck!

Shameless guy, don't even think about bashing me!!!

In the past 7 minutes, Paul made 6 of 2 shots, including 3 mid-range shots, all of which missed.

This was his first mid-range shot in the game.

24 to 15, Paul narrowed the gap to only 9 points.

But in the next offensive round, Kobe used a breakthrough to attract a double-team, and then passed the ball to Zhou Ze in the corner. The Hornets forward Desmond Mason, who is 201cm tall and weighs 102kg, quickly ran to the corner.

After receiving the ball, Zhou Ze made a fake move of low-lying and breaking through, immediately forcing Desmond Mason to take a step back. Zhou Ze immediately retracted his right foot, exerted force with both feet, and jumped up to shoot.

With a "Swish!", the three-pointer was hit.

27 is better than 15!

The score was widened to 12 points again, and with this three-pointer, Zhou Ze had scored 14 points, including 3 three-pointers in a single quarter, and 5 of 3 three-pointers.

"Damn it..." Paul couldn't help but curse in his heart.

"Kobe." Paul heard that annoying voice again.

"What's wrong?" Kobe, who was returning to defense, couldn't help but look at Zhou Ze.

"Kobe, I have a feeling tonight that I will break your single-game three-pointer record." Zhou Ze said with a smile.

Kobe, who holds the record for the most three-pointers made in a single NBA game, calmly responded with "Oh, come on," and then devoted himself to defense.

"Hmph, you arrogant guy...dream on." Paul gritted his teeth when he saw Milestone, who treated his team as his personal ATM.

However, as the game progressed, Paul felt his scalp tingling more and more.

Zhou Ze, who hit 3 three-pointers in the first quarter, continued his hot hand in the second quarter, hitting 6 three-pointers in the first half.

One of the three-pointers was made despite his own defense.

Paul, who was being played in-your-face by Zhou Ze, angrily threw the towel handed to him by the caddy after being substituted out, and said angrily: "This bastard simply doesn't take me seriously."

At the end of the first half, the Lakers' lead reached 59 points, 42 to 17.

It is worth mentioning that they are the two strongest contenders for the Rookie MVP.

Zhou Ze scored 23 points, 4 rebounds and 1 steal.

Chris Paul also scored 8 points and 4 assists, but his shooting percentage was only over 30%, and he also had 3 turnovers.

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As the game entered the third quarter, the Hornets once again sent out their starting lineup after the opening.

The Lakers made some adjustments to their starting lineup in the second half.

The Phil Jackson paired up the new Lakers bust second pick, Darko Milicic, with Zhou Ze to form a twin tower inside.

Before his official debut, Zhou Ze, a rookie born in 05, acted like an older brother, stroking Darko Milicic's lush hair and saying, "Relax, man. It's just like the team practice this morning."

The second overall pick in 03 nodded seriously, and with a heart full of gratitude, he gave Zhou Ze a big hug.

The first attack of the third quarter was carried out by the Hornets. Paul passed the ball to Schneider who got an open position after bypassing the pick-and-roll, but the latter's shot was interfered by Kobe who caught up and missed.

The rebound flew a little far and Zhou Ze couldn't control it, but Darko Milicic reached the rebound first and grabbed it.

Death God Parker came over to receive the ball, and Zhou Ze once again used his speed to rush to the frontcourt. David West was completely unable to match him. Hornets forward Draymond Mason immediately switched to defend in front of Zhou Ze and adopted a close pressure.

Zhou Ze continued to run towards the basket, came to the low post, and trapped Draymond Mason behind him.

"fine!"

"fine!"

"Don't go over there, let him play solo."

Chris Paul gestured and directed traffic, signaling David West not to go over to help defend, but to just switch to defend Lamar Odom.

Although Zhou Ze has excellent strength and a large body, his inside attack is very poor, so he can only bully a short guy like me!!!

After Zhou Ze received the ball in the low post on the right wing, he prepared for a back-to-the-basket shot. Kobe made a run through the defense, clearing one side for him and creating good space for a one-on-one play.

After receiving the ball, Zhou Ze chose to play with his back to the basket and attacked Mason behind him. The opponent was shocked by Zhou Ze and took a step back, but still kept himself between Zhou Ze and the basket and did not really lose his defensive position.

This made teammate Kobe Bryant shake his head: "This little bastard's post-up footwork is really rubbish. He only knows how to use brute force to push forward."

Just when Zhou Ze was trying to make his second shot, Darko Milicic ran in from the top of the arc, with PJ Brown a step slower behind him. Zhou Ze suddenly passed the ball with his back to the follow-up Darko Milicic, who received the ball and bombarded the basket.

"Nice pass!" After a successful dunk, Darko Milicic was beaming with joy and shouted excitedly to Zhou Ze.

"Brother, be careful of your saliva." Zhou Ze said half-jokingly after he and he high-fived to celebrate.

Darko Milicic, whose appearance was only slightly inferior to Zhou Ze's, wiped the corner of his mouth in a foolish manner.

"Zhou, he seems happier partnering with Darko." Kwame Brown said secretly on the Lakers bench.

"Reborn!"

"Zhou's potential is probably even higher than Amar'e Stoudemire's."

Hornets coach Byron Scott's pupils widened and his tone was full of surprise.

"Boss, this is a good pass, but it may just be a flash of inspiration." The assistant coach disagreed.

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P.S. I'm going to give new characters some screen time. Although this book is about growth, I also want to create a sense of group portraits rather than a one-man show for the protagonist. To this end, there will be a lot of writing to take everyone back to the classic battles.