Chapter 189 Relaxed and Comfortable
While the TNT trio were chatting and joking, the game continued.
The Lakers replaced Ariza with Odom. Ariza had no chance of playing again. He even had to receive psychological counseling after the game because his psychological defenses had collapsed. Being knocked down twice in front of more than 20,000 fans, and falling in the same position twice, would have left a psychological shadow in anyone's heart.
However, Odom probably won't have any psychological problems even if he is beaten to a pulp, because he has psychological problems to begin with. His desire to win is close to zero. He is happy when he wins, and may feel a little disappointed when he loses, but he will still laugh when he turns around. To put it nicely, this kind of player enjoys basketball, but to put it bluntly, he is lazy and has no fighting spirit, and is a hopeless case.
Odom enjoys his current status, a sixth man of a championship team. But in fact, according to his talent, he can become a historical superstar. There is only one person in the league who can play from the first position to the fifth position without any effort, and that is him.
If Odom is the typical example of someone who squanders his talent, then Yang Mo is undoubtedly the representative of someone who maximizes his talent.
When Yang Mo first entered the league, everyone criticized and questioned him, but he relied on his brute force to create a world. Now he has gradually grown into a team leader, and this is only the result of entering the NBA for a month. No one can predict how much he can improve in the future. Because talent determines the lower limit, but hard work determines the upper limit.
Fisher brought the ball to the front court and immediately passed it to Odom. Maybe the Lakers were going to play a triangle offense, so they let Odom start the offense.
As soon as Odom got the ball, Yang Mo followed him and spread his arms in an attempt to block Odom's advance. But Odom didn't break through at all, but bent down and dribbled the ball back and forth, looking very relaxed.
Odom didn't attack, and Yang Mo thought he might just be making a simple pass, so he relaxed his vigilance a little.
But at this moment, Odom suddenly spun rapidly in front of his eyes. Before Yang Mo could understand what was going on, the spinning Odom passed the ball into the inside at a weird angle , brushing Yang Mo's ear. When Yang Mo turned around to chase him, Gasol, who was unguarded, had already dunked the ball.
At that moment, Staples was cheering and the whole audience was applauding Odom's imaginative pass.
Amid the cheers from the audience, Yang Mo couldn't help but look up at the big screen. He wanted to see how he was being tricked.
It turned out that at the moment when he relaxed, Gasol behind him ran back and used Bynum's pick-and-roll to rush into the restricted area. At this time, Odom quickly turned, and the basketball flew out from his shoulder at the moment he turned his back, brushed his ear and passed into the inside, and was passed directly to Gasol, who received the ball and made a one-handed dunk.
Genius, absolutely brilliant.
Even though Yang Mo was fooled, he couldn't help but admire Odom in his heart. Not everyone has this kind of talent, Yang Mo doesn't have it. His passing has never been very good. Although his overall view is amazing, he just can't master the passing technique.
Amid the cheers of the entire stadium, Yang Mo smiled bitterly, shook his head, and turned to run back to the half court. He might be able to counterattack, but he really couldn't pass the ball.
So, he decided to single out Odom and teach him a lesson.
Back in the half court, Yang Mo immediately blocked Odom's position. Odom resisted at first, but then he stepped back, avoiding Yang Mo, and finally let Yang Mo turn around and hit the mid-range shot, with great ease, as if he was in training.
When Kobe saw Odom's defensive attitude, his eyes almost popped out, but there was nothing he could do, that was Odom's personality.
God gave him amazing talent, but not a rock-hard will, so he might hit a good ball and then lose a lot of defense for no apparent reason.
Because of Odom's attitude, Yang Mo of course fought hard and kept asking for the ball. Within five minutes, he had seven singles against him and five of them were successful, which is a very high success rate.
Seeing the initiative of the game gradually return to the Heat, Kobe Bryant finally made his decision: defend Yang Mo himself. He must not let him do whatever he wants.
Seeing Kobe walking towards him, Yang Mo chuckled and said rather shamelessly, "You can't sit still anymore, right? But it's too late. I've decided to go inside next."
"You?" Kobe Bryant was suddenly a little angry. He had never seen such a cunning opponent.
"By the way, thank you for your mid-range shooting skills. My shooting percentage wasn't even half as high as it is now."
Yang Mo thanked him very sincerely, then went into the inside and switched defense with Haslem, asking him to defend Odom.
Watching Yang Mo running inside, Kobe Bryant felt as if he had gathered all his strength to deliver a fatal blow to his opponent, but ended up hitting cotton with his fist. He was extremely upset. What made him even more upset was Yang Mo's words. He never thought that this dangerous and cunning opponent was trained by himself. Isn't this a typical case of shooting oneself in the foot?
When Kobe was teaching Yang Mo how to shoot with his wrist, he really didn't expect that Yang Mo could master it in just one game. If he knew that Yang Mo's learning and imitation ability was so strong, he would never teach him, let alone drag him to practice post-up singles with him. God knows how many weapons this guy has stolen from his arsenal? He can learn it after watching it once!
The Chinese are really good at copying!
Kobe looked at Yang Mo's back and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
After Yang Mo ran into the paint, he immediately found Gasol and said with a chuckle, "Hi, sister-in-law, nice to see you again. I will focus on you in the next quarter, are you happy?"
Gasol was not happy at all when he saw Yang Mo coming towards him. In his mind, Yang Mo was even more difficult to deal with than Kevin Garnett. Not only was this guy mean-spirited, but he was also very strong in confrontation, which made his lower body very uncomfortable and it was impossible for him to shoot calmly.
At this moment, Qian Moss from the outside shot...bang!
The basketball missed the target. Gasol was about to reach out to grab the rebound when Yang Mo suddenly pushed him hard and then pushed him two steps away. Gasol could only watch him pick up the rebound that should have belonged to him.
"Do it again!" Yang Mo took the frontcourt board, shouted, and passed the ball.
After Qian Moss received the ball, he tried again...bang!
The basketball missed the target again, and it came from the same corner.
Yang Mo had already firmly occupied his position, so this time he was much more relaxed than last time. He simply opened his arms to block Gasol's scramble for the ball, and when the basketball was about to fall in front of him, he easily stretched out his hand and grabbed another frontcourt rebound.
Gasol really had no way to deal with this. Although he was much taller than Yang Mo, he couldn't get a good position at all and could only watch Yang Mo grab the rebound.
Yang Mo grabbed the rebound and passed the ball again, but this time it was passed to Haslem near the free throw line. Haslem received the basketball, jumped and shot...swish!
His value lies in mid-range shots near the free throw line, so of course he can't miss.
After scoring the goal, Yang Mo finally let go of Gasol and ran back to the front court with a smile on his face. In this round, he added two front court rebounds for himself, which was so cool!
