Basketball Legend: When Pride Still Matters Chapter 773 773 509 God is Not Kind to Me

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As the second dominant ball-handler in the league to Fei, Jas had beco a transporter, taking the ball across the court and then passing it to Pau Gasol.

Having Pau Gasol take the high post and direct the inverted triangle offense led to the collapse of the system dominated by Jas.

The Lakers returned to the “correct path” in the eyes of the Zen Master, and Pau Gasol did not disappoint; in his first possession, he found an opportunity for Antawn Jamison, a lob pass that helped him score.

Jackson hoped Jas could be like Frye, but that was only what the coaching staff thought. For soone like the Emperor who carried the hopes of Nike, the scorn of his hotown, and the obsession to surpass Fei, there was much more to consider.

With Marc Gasol as the pivot, Jas could still make a contribution.

His current three-point percentage was close to that of Fei during the regular season, at 39%. However, like Pau Gasol, his efficiency needed to be controlled to a certain output to be maintained, so he couldn’t shoot in large volu. Even so, as long as he was willing to move, he could still create many opportunities within the Lakers’ system.

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But Jas was unwilling to settle. Now that Kobe was not there, he should have controlled the ga; he hadn’t even exerted much effort and Jackson was already urging him to think of the greater good, to sacrifice the individual for the collective.

So, he could only stand aside and watch.

A bizarre scene suddenly unfolded on the court.

The player the SuperSonics cared most about was the least active player for the Lakers.

Whenever he was without the ball, Jas would stand at one end of the court, neither directing nor moving, the Zen Master wanted him to be like Frye, but to be realistic, he was indeed just like Frye now.

Fei was resting off the court, he was resting on the court, you could say it was the sa.

Knight fans were familiar with this scene.

In last year’s Eastern Conference semifinals, Jas had bid farewell to the Knights in the sa manner.

Fei was even more familiar with this scene.

Because Jas becoming a spectator on the court when he was unhappy was not strange to him.

If the coaching staff was to bla him, then he also had sothing to say.

He had played the entire first quarter, and now not having the ball gave him a good reason to catch his breath; wasn’t Pau Gasol more suitable for handling the ball? Then let him handle it.

The decrease in Jas’ offensive impact was not fatal for the Lakers, because the Lakers were a team with an overflow of offensive firepower; even if both Kobe and Jas were silent, they wouldn’t be troubled with scoring.

Hamilton, Miller, and Jamison all stepped up to score at this ti.

However, the lack of defense was unavoidable.

Especially since Jas was delegating on the offensive end and not exerting much effort on defense, Durant was free to roam on the periter.

Against Hamilton, he could just pull up and shoot.

When facing Jamison, a big step with the ball was enough to break through.

Pau Gasol’s help defense was only effective in the paint, while Durant and Chris Bosh’s pick-and-roll offense often forced Pau Gasol to leave the basket area.

The Lakers needed to limit Durant, and the only one who could do that was Jas.

But Jas was now like Gao Yuliang in the opening scene of “Ren Yi”, unhurried, as if everything was under control.

Jackson’s face darkened.

Having coached for so many years, he had seen all kinds of teams, from dominators like Jordan to sensitive and self-doubting country bumpkins like Pippen, ga-lovers but quick-witted ones like Shaquille O’Neal, and even paranoid obsessives like Kobe whom he could manage. However, with Jas, he never felt like he was truly coaching him.

Because among these people, only Jas considered victories and losses as re tokens.

Probably because of the deep-seated Fei virus, Jas had a pathological desire to “share the cake” on the court.

In the Lakers’ balance of power, he and Kobe should each have half, with others partaking of what’s left after them.

Once you touched his share of the cake, he wouldn’t explode in anger like Jordan; he would just adopt an “I have transcended the mundane” attitude and compete fiercely with a non-competitive deanor.

The opponent was the SuperSonics, and the Lakers couldn’t afford his tanking.

It was just that Jackson hadn’t expected that rely instructing him to temporarily hand over control of the ball to Pau Gasol would elicit such a rebound.

But Jackson was not one of those tool coaches dominated by Jas.

During the regular season, he could allow Jas to manipulate, but now, since he wanted to delegate, it was ti to let Kobe take over.

A few minutes later

Before Kobe took to the court, Jackson told him: “LeBron lacks energy tonight, you need to take on more.”

This was never a problem for Kobe.

“Consider it done.”

Midway through the next quarter, the SuperSonics subbed out Durant and Bosh, the Lakers subbed out Jas.

However, even with Durant in good form, the SuperSonics, not only didn’t trail behind the Jas-led secondary lineup but instead pulled ahead by 6 points.

“Well played,” Fei joked, “you’re more likely to beco ’01 Kobe than Kobe himself.”

Suddenly Durant said out of nowhere, “Can becoming ’01 Kobe get Scarlett’s contact info?”

“Did you forget sothing?” Fei said, “She’s married.”

With a smug smile, Durant replied, “Is that so? No worries.”

As soon as Fei took to the court, he greeted his friends from Marvel: “Sitting on the bench got a bit boring; want to see sothing? I’ll give you a live performance.”

Robert Downey Jr. wanted to see an alley-oop, Scarlett didn’t understand basketball, but she pretended to, so she requested sothing Fei couldn’t deliver: “Hit a ho run!”