Chapter 195: Replica?
Soon, the halftime break ended and the game resumed. Since Yang Mo took the initiative to defend Kobe, he was arranged to be the shooting guard. In addition, he was worried that the Bynum and Gasol duo, who were stunned by Yang Mo, would revive, so Spoelstra actually sent out a lineup of Beasley, Joel Anthony and Magloire.
This lineup is equivalent to giving Yang Mo unlimited firing rights in the true sense, allowing him to compete with Kobe Bryant.
Spoelstra didn't believe in Yang Mo, but he had no choice.
Before the game started, he didn't want to win at all. He was waiting to see Yang Mo's joke. But when the team, led by Yang Mo, was actually suppressing the Lakers, he inexplicably started to have a little ambition. He also wanted to become famous, and now leading a bottom-ranked team to defeat last year's Western Conference champion will undoubtedly become the most glorious achievement in his coaching career.
Therefore, he suppressed all his unhappiness towards Yang Mo, chose to support Yang Mo unconditionally, and cooperated with Yang Mo's ideas to arrange personnel.
At this time, the Heat team was united from top to bottom, and everyone wanted to win. However, there was only one person on the Lakers who still believed in winning, and that was Kobe Bryant.
At the beginning of the game, he took the initiative to take over the ball and dribbled across half court. When Kobe Bryant came over with the ball, Yang Mo immediately rushed forward and defended Kobe Bryant head-on with his terrifying arms.
When Yang Mo stood in front of Kobe with his arms open, the audience watching the TV program were instantly excited. Are the ace core players of the two teams finally going to face off?
Yang Mo looked short when standing in front of Bynum and Gasol, but now he is on equal terms with Kobe. Although Kobe Bryant is slightly taller, Yang Mo is stronger than him. From the appearance, the two can be regarded as evenly matched.
"Finally it's your turn to defend me." Kobe Bryant bent down and said to Yang Mo with a smile: "But you can't stop me, just like the day before yesterday."
"Really? The day before yesterday I didn't have to use any strength at all." Yang Mo said tit for tat.
"Oh, really?" Kobe smiled faintly and said disdainfully: "Then why don't you try harder?"
Being stimulated by Kobe, he immediately stepped forward, opened his arms and began to squeeze Kobe with his body. Kobe's physical strength is strong among guards, but it is still a little worse than Yang Mo's strong body that can make a living in the interior. So, he was squeezed back two steps.
After stepping back, Kobe suddenly let out a strange cry and threw the ball high up... Ding!
The referee immediately came over and blew the whistle, indicating that Yang Mo had committed a pushing foul.
"Did I push him?" Yang Mo explained to the referee with an innocent look on his face, "I was just delaying his defense. I didn't use any force!"
The referee didn't listen to all that and ran outside to organize a throw-in.
At this time, Kobe Bryant actually reminded Yang Mo: "If you squeeze me again next time, I will still make you foul."
Yang Mo was a little confused when he heard this. He really didn't understand what was wrong with this.
Seeing that Yang Mo didn't seem to understand, Kobe Bryant added, "Rookie, I told you a long time ago that official games are different from one-on-ones. In one-on-ones, you can use all the methods you can because there are no referees. But in a game, there are referees, understand? Finally, let me kindly remind you that NBA rules always favor offensive players. Only offense can attract fans and attention. This is a commercial league."
After saying that, Kobe remembered that Yang Mo was his opponent and he shouldn't have given him such advice. But seeing Yang Mo so lost, he couldn't help but want to help him. It felt like helping his little brother . This feeling was ridiculous, but it always existed.
After hearing this, Yang Mo finally understood what was going on. At the same time, he also made up his mind to become an offensive player. Defensive players in today's league are indeed a bit miserable. From the 1990s to now, the revised rules are all aimed at defensive players. This is the result of David Stern's vigorous promotion of offensive basketball. From an economic perspective, he is right to do so. But returning to the essence of basketball, it is still unfair.
After Odom passed the ball back to Kobe out of bounds, Yang Mo continued to defend but did not press further. He did not want to get a second foul. After all, there was a limit on the number of fouls in each game. He did not want to sit on the bench and watch his team get beaten black and blue while he was powerless to do anything before the game was over.
Without Yang Mo's close defense, his strength advantage would be completely reduced to zero. Without the strength advantage, Yang Mo only had defensive awareness and quick footwork to deal with it. This was equivalent to returning to the state of the two people's one-on-one duel the day before yesterday.
In the duel the day before yesterday, Kobe generally outplayed Yang Mo, but Yang Mo did not lose in the last few shots on both offense and defense. Now it depends on whether Yang Mo can continue his form in the last few shots.
Kobe made three or four tentative moves with the ball, and suddenly slapped the ball and rushed to Yang Mo's left side. Yang Mo hurried to catch up, with his arm raised to guard against his sudden stop jump shot. After all, Kobe is an all-round and all-weather offensive killer, and no one dares to relax against him.
Yang Mo was so cautious, but Kobe still found space to shoot. After he broke through quickly, he suddenly stopped. Yang Mo quickly retracted his feet, but Kobe had turned around and approached Yang Mo. Yang Mo stopped immediately, and Kobe quickly turned around and shot a backward jump shot.
Yang Mo tried his best to block the shot.
However, his advantage in shooting space made it impossible for him to touch the basketball. He could only watch the basketball pass over his head, and then...swish!
Enter the network as soon as possible.
After Kobe scored the goal, the audience cheered for MVP again.
Yang Mo quietly picked up the basketball and served it outside the court, not being disturbed at all. After the one-on-one match the day before yesterday, he had become accustomed to this kind of unreasonable shooting.
Back in the half court, Yang Mo took the basketball directly from Qian Moss, took a tentative step like Kobe, then suddenly started to run to the left at an extremely fast speed. Kobe hurriedly followed, followed for three steps, and Yang Mo suddenly stopped. Then he turned around and leaned on Kobe who was chasing him with his body. Kobe was immediately pushed back by Yang Mo, and Yang Mo used this step to quickly fade away and jump shot... swish!
The basketball went into the net.
This set of movements was exactly the same as Kobe Bryant's, as if Yang Mo had completely copied Kobe Bryant's moves. The fans at the scene were a little surprised at first, and then they booed wildly, thinking that Yang Mo was copying Kobe's unique skills.
Kobe himself felt like he was fighting with himself. He asked in surprise, "You learned this move too?"
“This trick is so simple, you can understand it after just two glances. Is there any need to learn it?” Yang Mo shrugged and said very easily.
"I don't believe you have imitated all my attacking methods. Counterfeits can never defeat the originals." Kobe spit out a sharp trash talk.
"Is it as if you can never surpass Michael Jordan?" Yang Mo laughed and calmly turned the tables on Kobe.
The whole world can say that Yang Mo is a knockoff, except Kobe, because he has been imitating Michael Jordan all his life, even learning small actions like sticking out the tongue.
Kobe was so angry at Yang Mo's words that he wanted to vomit blood, but he really couldn't refute it. He could only grit his teeth and use a trick in the next round that Yang Mo couldn't copy.
