Chapter 139 [Crazy Failure, Prickly Trade]

In the Lakers' back-to-back away games against the Warriors, Phil Jackson gave Kobe unlimited shooting rights and asked Guo Xu to pass the ball halfway through the court, attracting the defense and catching the ball.

Kobe was in great shape during training in the morning, and Jackson wanted to see the effect of having him be the team's first core.

Kobe Bryant exploded and scored like crazy with Warriors boss Antoine Jamison. The two sides fought fiercely offensively. After an overtime period, the Warriors, led by Jamison, defeated the Lakers 125-122 and defended their home honor. Before this game, their record was only 5 wins and 13 losses. West underdog.

Kobe played 51 minutes, making 18 of 35 shots, 2 of 7 three-pointers, 13 of 13 free throws, 51 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists, 2 steals, 4 fouls, and 8 turnovers.

O'Neal played 40 minutes, 25 points, 10 rebounds, 2 assists, 6 blocks and 5 fouls. Because of foul trouble, he did not play long in regular time.

Guo Xu created opportunities for his teammates throughout the game and took very few shots. He was still the team's third scoring point. He made 4 of 8 shots, 2 of 5 three-pointers, and 1 of 2 free throws. He scored 11 points and 7 assists.

The Lakers are dominated by Kobe singled out with the ball, and the scoring points are too concentrated. Except for the Trident, only "Cobra" Grant scored 10 points, and only four of the team scored in double figures.

On the Warriors' side, Jamison played 53 minutes, making 21 of 29 shots, 2 of 5 three-pointers, 7 of 8 free throws, scoring 51 points, 13 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 1 block.

Kobe's 51.4% shooting rate is already very high, and Jamison's shooting rate is even more outrageous, reaching 72.4%. He played Grant and Fox easily, and he was not afraid to single out O'Neal.

Jamison is 203cm tall and weighs 101kg. He is a swingman at positions 3 and 4 and an all-around fighter. Vince Carter was once his younger brother in college. After entering the league, he quickly became the leader of the Warriors. He is currently averaging 24.5 points, 8.6 rebounds and 2 assists per game this season.

In Guo Xu's previous life, Jamison was a star who was born in the wrong era, and his strength was seriously underestimated.

During his prime, competition for forwards in the NBA was extremely fierce. Duncan and Garnett almost dominated the first team of the year, Nowitzki and Webber were regulars in the second team, and Pierce, O'Neal, Walker, Stojakovic, Marion and other All-Stars competed for the third team. Jamison has no advantage over any of the above.

After that, James, Anthony, Stoudemire, Gasol and others rose up one after another, Jamison was completely hopeless, and the average of 20+10 per game did not attract much attention.

Generally speaking, players who can score 20,000 points in their careers are the bosses or second-in-commands of the team. They should have won many individual awards. But Jamison, the 20,000-point man, has only one "Sixth Man of the Year" award, and he has never won a championship in his career.

The Lakers have a day off and will face the challenge of the SuperSonics at home on the 8th.

It is worth mentioning that Isiah Leder did not play for a minute in this game. The NBA officially announced on the morning of the 7th that the Lakers and the Nuggets reached a deal, exchanging Leder for Nuggets' minimum-salary backup forward Ryan Bowen.

Ryder has never been able to integrate into the Lakers. Guo Xu's rise made him unable to even play the familiar ball-handling chaos. He averaged only 6.5 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game. hit rate.

Ryder has been late for team training many times this season and missed one. Although this is nothing compared to his past performances, it still provoked the coaching staff to be very dissatisfied. Leder was absent from training last month, and a Los Angeles reporter said he saw him in a Los Angeles nightclub last night.

If Leder is just lazy in training, the management will still tolerate it.

After all, O'Neal often slacks off, but the stupid thing is that this guy doesn't take Kobe in his eyes, and he never does.

Leder publicly challenged Kobe in many training sessions, trash-talking him and saying, "Put your tail between your legs and go back to the kitchen." "Don't show off in front of me. I am also a star player. When I was your opponent, I also scored a lot of points on you."

This is true. Since Kobe entered the league in 1996, the two faced off in 19 games. Lederer averaged 16.9 points per game, beating Kobe's 13.6 points. In the last meeting between the two in the 1999-00 season, Leder scored 33 points to beat Kobe's 30 points.

Leder was dissatisfied. He felt that as long as he had the ball, he could score high points with his high shots, which was no different from Kobe.

Last week, Kobe finally got angry and responded to Leder: "Do you really think you can score on me? You and I, let's have a one-on-one game."

Leder agreed readily: "Come as long as you want, I'm not a wimp, who is afraid of whom?"

Then, under the watchful eyes of a crowd of teammates holding drinks and popcorn, Ryder was tragic. Kobe's pull-up jumpers, fadeaway jumpers, breakthroughs, long-range shots, dunks, left-hand layups, right-hand layups, and all kinds of scoring. This one-on-one match ended quickly, with the score 10 to 1.

The management had completely lost patience with Leder, an idiot who had no self-awareness, and decided to trade. If IQ is measured, Ryder can probably only get the score of Mike in "Growing Pains" (27 points written casually), and the meaning of his existence is to affect the harmony of the locker room.

This is actually the butterfly effect caused by Guo Xu joining the Lakers. Without his extra scoring points, the management will continue to tolerate Leder for a period of time, until it becomes unbearable in the second half and excludes him from the playoff roster. .

The "star" Ryan Bowen is 201cm tall and weighs 98 kilograms. He was selected by the Nuggets with the 26th pick in the second round of 1998. He was not retained by the Nuggets after the draft. He worked hard in Turkey for a year before joining the Nuggets. This season he averaged 12 minutes per game, 3.4 points, 2 rebounds and 0.5 assists.

Although Bowen has no data, this is a win-win deal.

The Nuggets lack attacking points and need a master of scrambling to lead the bench. The team concedes an average of 99 points per game. It's hard to see where Bowen is good defensively. This guy can be discarded at any time. They pursued Leder in the summer, and when the offer was twice as high as the Lakers, Leder chose the Lakers.

The Lakers need to find a small forward who doesn't occupy the ball and is willing to work hard to defend as a substitute. Bowen's offense almost doesn't matter. The team doesn't need him to attack. George can only be a blue-collar player when he plays.

After reading the news, Guo Xu felt that the Lakers had made money, and it would be best for a lunatic like Ryder to go away. After knowing each other for more than two months, he and Leder had spoken less than 10 words in total. They greeted the guy with cold expressions, as if he wanted to fight. Guo Xu initially thought he was targeting him, but later found out that he was treating everyone like this, even O'Neal didn't bother to talk to him.

Although Bowen is extremely poor offensively, he can help the team on the defensive end. In Guo Xu's previous life, Bowen joined the Rockets in the 2004-05 season and started 3 of the 7 playoff games in 2005. He was responsible for defending Nowitzki, averaging 18 minutes per game and scoring 2.6 points.

In seven games, Nowitzki took a total of 128 shots and only hit 45 goals, with a shooting percentage of only 35.1%. In the previous regular season, Nowitzki's shooting percentage reached 45.9%, which made him so big. The reason for the lack of standard is Bowen's candy-style defense.

This kind of person plays 10 minutes off the bench, and his performance must be qualified.