Chapter 122 [Secret History of the Draft]

Author: Can play the harmonica

Chapter 122 [Secret History of the Draft]

The second half of the game begins.

Both sides put on substitute lineups.

But this time, the Heat's second lineup has been adjusted. It is no longer a pure substitute lineup, but is led by Wade.

They suffered a loss in the first half, and Lu Yusheng led a wave of substitutes to open up the score.

In the second half, Pat Riley obviously didn't dare to be stubborn anymore.

On the Lakers side, Zen Master let Lu Yusheng rest and replaced him with Smush Parker.

After all, Lu Yusheng played a lot of time in the first half. In the first half of the third quarter, the Zen Master decided to let him rest.

William Jones said, "The Heat probably thought that the Lakers would still lead the substitute lineup, so they left Wade on the court to avoid the tragedy of the first half from happening again. But they probably didn't expect that in the second half, Jackson would not

Lu was not asked to lead the substitute lineup."

"Obviously, Lu played a long time in the first half, so Jackson had to let him rest so that he would have enough energy to play key points," Bird said.

"Now Master Jackson has almost no longer concealed the fact that he let Lu play the main point guard. Now basically everyone can see that Lu is the main point guard of the Lakers and Smushparker is the backup.

" said William Jones.

"What's the problem with this?" Bird said, "As for Smushparker's performance in the playoffs last season, I think it was cheaper for him to play on the bench. If I were Zen Master, if he still appears next season

In the team, I will leave immediately."

William Jones laughed.

"I'm not kidding. A player of this caliber can start in an NBA team. I think it's unfortunate for our league." Larry Bird said unceremoniously.

Although this is true, it still makes William Jones a little bit unable to accept it. After all, it is really not good to evaluate a player so straightforwardly.

He could only focus on the game, "OK, the second half of the game has begun, and the Lakers took the lead in attacking."

At the beginning of the second half, the Heat's second team led by Wade went to play the Lakers' first team, which had almost no main players.

This is basically massacre.

After only one minute of play, the Heat evened the five-point difference.

Facing Smushpark's one-on-one defense, Wade was simply free to play whatever he wanted.

Then they barely played for another minute, and the Heat led by 8 points.

The Lakers quickly called a timeout.

Zen Master made this timeout very clear and directly replaced Smushparker with Farmar.

Smushpark didn't play much in the first half, but he was replaced immediately after just two minutes in the second half, looking very unhappy.

Of course, he himself had nothing to say. After all, he knew best why the score fell behind.

On the contrary, after Farmar came on the court, the effect was pretty good. Although it is not said to completely restrict Wade, it was at least not as exaggerated as when Smushparker was on the court.

At least it was temporarily stable, preventing the Heat from quickly widening the points gap again, and giving the main lineup valuable rest time.

The third quarter was interrupted, the official timeout came, and both sides finally replaced their main lineups.

The score was 75:85, and the Lakers were 10 points behind.

"Look, I've said it a long time ago. A player of Smushparker's caliber should never appear in the NBA. Farmar, a rookie, has a much greater role on the court than him." Larry

Bird said.

William Jones smiled and said, "Indeed, I have to say that although the Lakers' two draft picks this summer were not at the top, the results were indeed pretty good. One Lu and one Farmar made up for the Lakers very well.

The team’s lack of talent at the first position last season was a problem.”

"Their draft vision is pretty good, at least better than ours," Bird said.

William Jones smiled and said, "Idol, I don't know which side you are talking about. Is it the Pacers...or Boston?"

"Do you even need to ask? Of course it's Boston," Bird said without hesitation. "I've only been a coach and team manager in Indiana for a few years, and Boston is where I have my whole life. Everything I have.

, all given to me from Boston.”

William Jones smiled and said, "It is true that since you retired, Boston has indeed not selected excellent players for a long time. I mean players of the level that can help the team win the championship."

"Yes, in the new millennium, Los Angeles has already won three championships, but we still have no harvest. Their number of championships will soon catch up with ours." Bird said, "Every time I think about this, I

I want to rush to Boston and smash their management office to pieces."

William Jones laughed loudly, "You have retired for so long, and you are still thinking about competing with LA?"

"Of course, we, the Celtics, will never be at odds with them."

"But you just said that you are still a fan of Kobe."

"Oh, Jones, you have wrongly blamed me. When I was a fan of Kobe, he had not yet joined the Lakers." Bird said, "I think you may not know that before the draft, Kobe went to Boston for a tryout.

Yes, I happened to participate in that trial training, do you know what happened during the trial training?"

"Oh? It sounds interesting. What happened?"

"The year they drafted...which year was it?" Bird tried to remember.

"96 years."

"Yes, 1996 was recognized as a big year for the draft, so when Kobe and other players went to Boston for workouts, many of our Celtics players also went to watch, and I was also there.

Then after the trial training started, I noticed this kid. Although Kobe was only a high school student at the time, his physical statistics and technical assessment were very good.

What's interesting is that during the two-on-two simulated training, this kid beat up the assistant coach who was in charge of the trial training at the time, and then continued to talk trash. At this time, several of our Celtics players couldn't watch.

After that, I started blaming Kobe and telling him not to be so arrogant. What do you think Kobe said?"

"We must let him come out for a one-on-one challenge," William Jones said.

"That's right, man," Larry Bird laughed, "that's what this kid said. At that time, Eric Williams went straight up. It could be seen that Williams was really a little angry and wanted to teach him a lesson.

Seeing this arrogant high school student, I was really worried about Kobe at the time, after all, Williams was the Celtics' starting small forward at the time."

"Yes, it is indeed a bit exaggerated for an NBA small forward to beat a high school student. What is the result?"

"Two people are playing a 21-point game. What do you think the final score will be?"

"How many?"

"21:15"

"Then Kobe is really good. He only lost by 6 points under such circumstances. It's really amazing."

"It's pretty impressive, but you're wrong. Kobe is the one who won."

"ah?!"

William Jones was stunned!

"Do you think this is the end?" Bird laughed, "The rest is outrageous."

"What else?" William Jones asked hurriedly, which aroused his interest.

"He didn't rest after that, and he singled out Rick Fox and David Wesley. Both of them were our starters, but no one could beat Kobe."

"this……"

"They all rushed to deal with that high school student, but they were all dealt with by that guy. Do you know how arrogant that kid was at that time? His trash talk almost brought down our championship banner. Let me tell you, if

It wasn’t because I was worried about not being able to beat him that I almost took off my suit and got on him." Larry Bird said.

William Jones laughed.

"So I told Angie at that time that I must get this kid, and Kobe was also willing to join us at that time, and we had the fifth overall pick. As a result, Angie, the bastard, promised me on the surface, but he didn't show up on the day of the draft.

Didn't listen to me and chose Anthony Walker."

Larry Bird said, "I don't mean to belittle Anthony Walker, but man, that's Kobe! To this day, I'm still bitter about Angie's stupid choice!"

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Chapter completed!