Chapter 183 Who is the shorty?
The Lakers requested a timeout, and both players returned to the bench. Spoelstra watched his players take the lead and felt happy and unhappy. He was happy that his team was leading because if they won, he would definitely be praised as the head coach. After all, the Lakers are a championship-level team, and the Heat without Wade are undoubtedly the worst of the worst.
What he is not happy about is that Yang Mo has become the core now. Not only does the general manager support him, but the players below are also closely united around him. Now, as the head coach, he has to bow to him in many aspects, because now the person who has the absolute say in the team is Yang Mo. The team can still win without him, Spoelstra. But without Yang Mo , they will definitely lose everything.
So, when Yang Mo sat on the bench in the middle, he had to squat over with the tactical board, just like he did with Wade . "Yang, what do you think the team needs to adjust?"
Facing Spoelstra's whispered question, Yang Mo looked at the elderly Magloire. Although it was a slow-paced positional offense just now, his age and body were not enough to support him to withstand a high-intensity confrontation for a whole quarter. After all, Bynum was also quite fierce. So he said, "Why don't we replace Joel Anthony and replace Magloire to rest. He is too tired."
Although Spoelstra was very dissatisfied with Yang Mo's meddling in his personnel adjustments, he had no choice but to nod and agree: "Okay."
This is how the NBA works. When the core of a team is strong enough and the head coach is not strong enough, the head coach will naturally be sidelined or even driven away. In the history of the league's 30 teams, almost 60% of all the head coaches who were fired were driven away by the core of the team. Yang Mo now has everything in his hands, and Spoelstra has to obey. He can figure out with his toes that the person the team needs more now is Yang Mo, so all he can do is bend down and obey.
From being bossy at the beginning, to being jealous and envious later, to being sneaky and obedient before the game, to being humble and submissive now. Spoelstra successfully completed the transformation from a superior to an inferior. In fact, in the final analysis, every step was his own fault. Yang Mo never wanted to do anything to him, but he always treated Yang Mo as an imaginary enemy. As a result, now he has to be humble and submissive in front of this imaginary enemy he created. If he gets angry and the conflict intensifies, he will definitely be the one to leave!
Yang Mo was in control of the bench here. Kobe on the bench over there was the same, except that he directly picked up the tactical board and arranged the tactics there: "Andrew, we will give you a lot of ball possession next time. We need to break through the opponent from the inside. Their inside is very weak. Lamar, you come on to replace Ariza, and you need to help Derek organize the team. We will play a simple in-out tactic."
Kobe Bryant always thinks of the glory of the OK period at critical moments. Although he and O'Neal were very at odds at that time, he has to admit that the Lakers were the most dominant at that time. Although the Lakers don't have the big shark O'Neal now, they still have the small shark Bynum.
Without Phil Jackson, this was the best tactic Kobe could come up with.
Kobe thought that this lineup would definitely not be a problem to defeat the Heat. In his opinion, although the three outside players of the Heat were hot, they were just sudden bursts and could not last for the whole game, so he simply let them continue to be so hot. He just needed to press the Heat's inside players. As long as they persisted and did not collapse, the Heat would have more and more difficulties in the end.
Kobe wanted to fight a protracted war and attack from the inside. His idea was correct, but he overlooked an X factor, Yang Mo.
The one who looks most like a shark on the court is not Bynum, but Yang Mo, who inherited O'Neal's peak strength.
Moreover, Yang Mo, the violent shark, is not just a shark, he also has the peak speed of Allen Iverson. In the 2001 playoffs, there was only one person who stopped the peak Lakers and broke their undefeated record, and that was the lone hero, Allen Iverson.
Soon, the game continued.
After Fisher brought the basketball to the frontcourt, he immediately passed it to Odom. As soon as Odom received the ball, Beasley came up to meet him.
In a sense, Odom and Beasley are actually the same type of players. They are both talented players who keep squandering their talents. Sometimes they don't even know what to do on the court. For example, Odom would suddenly have a flash of inspiration and pass the basketball to his teammates on the bench outside the court. And Beasley is no less capable. He can suddenly have a flash of inspiration and shoot the basketball into his own basket when competing for a backcourt rebound.
When two idiots meet, there will naturally be a lot of exciting things happening.
But at this time, both of them were still focused. Odom dribbled the ball under his hips for two unknown reasons and then passed the ball to Bynum.
Bynum received the basketball, pushed it in hard, then turned around and hooked the shot...swish!
The basketball went into the net. Joel Anthony, who was probably less than 6 feet 8 inches tall, was unable to stop Bynum, who was 7 feet 3 inches tall, from hooking the basketball into the basket. Even if he used his maximum jump, he might not be able to reach Bynum's shooting point.
After Bynum threw the basketball into the basket with a non-standard hook shot, he arrogantly performed O'Neal's signature celebration move: the bully step.
O'Neal's walking action is of course very domineering, while Bynum's walking action is undoubtedly a dog-like movement, which is very inappropriate. However, the Lakers fans still gave him the biggest cheers and applause. After all, this is their future.
They have been saying this since the team selected Bynum in 2005. They believe Bynum will have a bright future because he is so tall, so smart, and has so much potential.
Then what? He was called the Little Shark and had not dominated any game in the four years since he entered the league. He always followed Kobe like a parking boy, and was scolded from time to time, and then bowed his head and reviewed himself like a primary school student who had made a mistake.
Bynum was obviously very excited today. He even got carried away by the cheers of the fans. He even said shamelessly: "You short guys can't even reach my arms. You want to defend me? Dream on."
If Bynum hadn't said this, Yang Mo might have let him score two more goals, but now that he has spoken so arrogantly, he must bear the corresponding consequences.
"Boy, your next opponent is me!" Yang Mo glanced at him coldly and ran quickly to the front court.
Bynum laughed disdainfully upon hearing this, and did not take Yang Mo seriously at all. Although Yang Mo had played up pretty good stats recently, in his opinion, those were nothing more than points scored by shooting from the outside, not worth mentioning.
However, Kobe was worried about Bynum. Others did not understand Yang Mo, but Kobe knew her best. Because they were the same kind, as was Michael Jordan.
People of the same kind always understand each other best.
