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Chapter 592 The Things Between Kobe and O'Neal

Chapter 592 The Things Between Kobe and O'Neal

In the arena, Bruce carefully looked at the generals of the Warriors and some sluggish substitutes of the Lakers on the court. For him, the most intuitive feeling is that they are suppressed strongly!

In the second quarter of the game, following the start of the previous game, the Warriors played a very smooth and even very aggressive attack as soon as they entered the court.

In the first half of the second quarter, the Warriors broke out with the combination of Ginobili and Malone, which made them use a 10:0 spurt to completely silence the Lakers' substitutes!

And it was with this wave of attacks that Phil Jackson, who was sitting a little leisurely off the court, finally couldn't help calling a timeout!

Seeing the frustrated Lakers substitutes returning to the court one after another, Jackson first turned his head and glanced at Kobe and the others who were sitting in the rest area, still looking a little tired, and then frowned in a subtle way. They didn't even look at these substitutes, just clapped their hands, and said to Kobe and others: "In the next game, I hope you can explode into the state you should be. I don't want to see you like them!"

After hearing what Jackson said, Kobe looked serious, turned his head and glanced at the slightly indifferent O'Neal, and after a flash of anger flashed in his eyes, he stood up directly: "Guys, even if the Warriors' lineup is indeed very strong , but I don’t think our ability will lose to them too much, so let’s teach these guys a lesson!!”

However, I don't know if the Lakers have already had a small team problem because of the matter between him and O'Neal. Kobe's words did not cause much reaction, but Fisher and Medvedenko responded quickly!

Seeing this scene happening, although Jackson had tried his best to deal with O'Neal and Kobe, after seeing the current situation, he couldn't help but feel more serious in his heart!

Since the relationship between Kobe and O'Neal has deteriorated further, the top executives of the Lakers have been in a very entangled state!

Once the only trace of connection between the two is completely severed, they will have to choose one of the two. The faint confrontation between them produces more unpredictable consequences!

"drop!!"

Afterwards, among the Lakers players' thoughts, as the referee blew the whistle to restart the game, they walked towards the court one after another!

"It seems that the situation of the Lakers is not optimistic at all!" Kenny Smith noticed the looks of the Lakers players, and he couldn't help but said with emotion!

"Hehe, if I were Jerry Buss, I would definitely make a choice between them as soon as possible, instead of letting the problems between them break out again and again like now!" Barkley said with a smile on his face. Slowly speaking, just like what he said, if Buss can't make a choice as soon as possible, I'm afraid the Lakers may really have some very bad results in this season's game. After all, their annual goal It's all an impact on the championship!

Back on the court, Wilkens did not replace the substitutes like Ginobili. He was very satisfied with the performance of these guys, and there was no need to replace them!

"Snapped!!"

Payton quickly accepted Malone's pass. He first glanced at Fisher who was following him, smiled, and joked while running: "Derek, if you can guard an All-Star, I think it will be very difficult!"

"Hehe, is it??"

A trace of displeasure flashed in Fisher's eyes very quickly, and then he leaned towards Peyton with his strong body!

"Hey, of course!!"

The moment Fisher was about to stick to Peyton, he suddenly accelerated and broke through Fisher's entanglement in just two steps.

After that, as the two quickly came to the frontcourt, the players on both sides ran very quickly.

"Snapped!!"

When Ginobili quickly made a circle from the right bottom corner and came to the distance of three steps to Payton's left, Payton passed the basketball directly. He was very confident in Ginobili's impact!

Immediately afterwards, the moment Ginobili took the ball, under Kobe's close defense, he quickly rushed to the inside!

The Warriors' bench lineup, after having Ginobili, they have rarely used the twin towers tactic, but chose a more flexible and faster small ball tactic.

As for O'Neal, who was entangled with Ben Wallace on the inside, after seeing Ginobili approaching quickly, he first subconsciously moved his position, and then based on his years of experience, he directly stood up. Position between Ginobili and Wallace.

"Hey, do you want to try to attack this big man??" Ginobili, who was running all the way to guard against Kobe's sneak attack, noticed O'Neal's movements, and subconsciously wanted to attack this man with both tonnage and experience. Very rich big guy!

As Ginobili and Kobe quickly entered the penalty area, Wallace, who was standing behind O'Neal, suddenly took a step forward and forcefully resisted O'Neal behind him, so that Ginobili could use more way to complete this attack!

"Damn!!"

Seeing that Ginobili next to him didn't stop at all, after Kobe tried to steal again and failed again, he first glanced at O'Neal, who was resisted by Wallace, and then directly He strengthened his strength, and once again used his body to put pressure on Ginobili!

"Hehe, interesting!!"

Ginobili felt the strength coming from Kobe, his already very nimble pace, suddenly stumbled like a lame rookie, and directly charged towards the inside line with a strange twist!

"This.."

Noticing that Manu Ginobili seemed to have fake movements all over his body, O'Neal, who had finally turned over and held Wallace by his side, suddenly became worried involuntarily!

When everyone thought that Ginobili would try to hit the inside line, after Ginobili completed another confrontation with Kobe, after O'Neal subconsciously took a step forward, he made a concealed push and pull with his right hand, directly Throw the basketball from Kobe's crotch to Korver who has long been standing outside the three-point line and pass it!

"brush!!"

Under everyone's gaze, Korver, who is very strong in psychology, shot out the moment he received the basketball, followed by a hollow shot into the net, which directly let everyone see his powerful ability in shooting !

"Aha, I like the composure of this little guy. His shooting is so enjoyable!!" Barkley couldn't help but praise when Korver made the ball!

Kenny Smith, who heard what he said, first touched his big bald head habitually, and then agreed with a smile: "Yes, Bruce has never had any accidents in the draft. This young man from the second round Guy is no exception, his shooting is really good!"

After that, when the entire second quarter ended, although the Lakers relied on the return of the main force, they narrowed the 10-point difference between the two sides to less than five points, but everyone was watching Duncan and others who were still sitting on the court. They couldn't help but shook their heads secretly!

"Hehe, it seems that those guys are in very good condition!" Bruce said to West in a very good mood. Thinking of the excellent performance of Ginobili and others before, he stood up directly and waved "proud" Said to West: "Let's have a good drink!"

"Haha, I am very happy!" West laughed and followed Bruce to the bar on the second floor of the arena.

And the atmosphere in the locker rooms of the two teams is obviously quite different, especially in the locker room of the Lakers. Because of the previous lagging behind, the relationship between the players, which had some problems, directly entered the silence that made Jackson very angry!

Among them, whether it is Kobe, who played very well throughout the game, or O'Neal, who has already scored 12 points and 5 rebounds, the atmosphere between them really makes the atmosphere even more weird!

After that, with the appearance of the arena staff, the players from both sides had different expressions and returned to the arena again!

In the third quarter, as Wilkens put Duncan and others on the court, the Lakers finally ushered in a scene they didn't want to see!

Inside, if O'Neal hadn't tried his best to defend, I'm afraid that Duncan, who feels a little overwhelmed, would turn the Lakers upside down just by relying on his iconic rebounding and shooting.

In the outside duel, Kobe's performance was very good for the Lakers. Because of Gerald Wallace's sluggishness on the offensive end, the Warriors relied on Kirilenko's active running. It's hard to tell!

"Hehe, if the Lakers enter their exhaustion period, I think the final result can already be seen!" Kenny Smith said slowly with a smile on his face.

And Barkley, who was sitting next to him, said in a very strong tone: "It seems that the Lakers can still be stalemate with the Warriors, but once they have no choice but to return to the rest area, I think they are a little weak." Under the impact of Manu and others, the substitute will completely lose the chance of victory in this game!"

As the two of Barkley said, as the game progressed, when the time entered the 8th minute of the third quarter, after Phil Jackson found that O'Neal could not keep up with the more flexible Duncan, he finally had to Neng helplessly shouted a timeout!

Back off the field, Jackson couldn't help sighing secretly when he saw the players gasping for breath!

This year's Lakers, for all the fans who learned about the relationship between O'Neal and Kobe, it was a very disappointing season for them!

Before, the intimacy between the two seemed to be a little bit of an illusion, but now wanting to see the intimacy between them is really more unbelievable than others telling them that they are the champions this year , From here, we can see how bad the Lakers' current situation is!

(End of this chapter)