Chapter 687: Chapter 482: The Chosen One Battles Nike’s Twin Walls_3 Chapter 687: Chapter 482: The Chosen One Battles Nike’s Twin Walls_3 The timeout ended, and the Zen Master anticipated Karl’s prediction.

He substituted the underperforming Artest, but instead of bringing on Walton, he chose to have James defend the four position and brought in Mike Bibby as the point guard.

Seeing James play the four position, Yu Fei was initially taken aback.

It wasn’t that he had never seen James play the four position; in his past life, an older James often played inside, but having a prime James play the four?

After the timeout, the Lakers’ first offense still focused on Kobe.

Kobe continued his bulldozer-style backdown against Roy.

Looking at the back-to-the-basket offense alone, Kobe’s aggression could be compared to that of the inside players because he was very adept at using his shoulders and elbows to push.

Roy struggled to hold his ground but couldn’t prevent Kobe from entering the sweet spot.

When the time was right, Kobe turned around for a jump shot and easily scored.

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This, however, posed a matchup problem for the SuperSonics.

By putting James in the four position, the Lakers were creating isolation space for Kobe, including James, several players had a three-point shooting percentage above 36%, and Pau Gasol also moved out, although it was unclear if he had trained on three-pointers during the offseason, but if he wasn’t confident, he probably wouldn’t have moved out.

Karl stepped forward and said, “If Kobe goes against Brandon again, let Kwame double-team!”

This was to test Little Gasol’s shooting.

But before testing Little Gasol, the SuperSonics first needed to probe James’s defense at the four position.

Little O called for the ball in the low post, easily got it, and received the pass from his teammate.

What followed was a simple offense, Little O backed down a few times, casually moved up to the line, and scored over James with a hook shot.

Now, everyone could see it.

James was merely symbolically stationed at the four position, expecting him to defend vigorously wasn’t realistic, hence, letting Little O continually perform one-on-one became one of the offensive options for the SuperSonics.

Coming to the SuperSonics’ defensive end, Kobe called for the ball in the low post again.

The Lakers continued to exploit his strength.

Following Karl’s instructions, Brown left Little Gasol and fell back to the paint.

Kobe seized the opportunity and passed the ball.

On the perimeter, Marc Gasol, a traditional European big man who had never shown his range before entering the NBA, fired a three-pointer.

“Swish!”

This scene made Karl clench the data sheet in his hands.

It showed that Marc Gasol was averaging 1.5 three-point attempts per game this season, hitting 0.5 per game, with a 34% shooting percentage.

This was a player who had never systematically practiced three-point shooting before.

This shooting percentage suggested that Marc Gasol’s prospects as a five-position shooter were very bright.

As the coach who initiated Carnival Basketball, Karl certainly knew how precious a five-position player like Marc Gasol, who was good both offensively and defensively and had developed a three-point shot, was.

The only one inside the SuperSonics who might surpass Marc Gasol’s performance as a space-creating five was Chris Bosh, who had switched to playing the five-position.

But changing positions for stars relates to their careers; unless it’s absolutely necessary, they wouldn’t easily let Bosh make this transformation.

However, having James play the four position was bound to be a failed decision for the Lakers.

Because James couldn’t defend Little O at the four position, and who else could the Lakers send out to guard Yu Fei at the three position?

They only could give Kobe a tough assignment.

Kobe was of course willing.

This also allowed Kobe to experience what it felt like for Roy to defend him.

As a former Kobe fan and now a Kobe critic, Yu Fei had studied his low-post offense back in the Dream Team days, setting aside the opponent’s footwork and combining his own offensive skills, those minor details aside, Kobe’s application of elbows in back plays was extremely precise.

It was the kind of move that was both a foul and not called as such, similar to how before the introduction of the 012 step rule, James’s number of steps in his layups worked.

The main idea was that it’s something you can do, but if someone else does it, it’s a violation.

It can be said to be the privilege of stars.

The more veteran the star like Kobe, the more they shed reliance on dynamic quality, make use of the rules, and transform the privilege of a star into a part of their on-court power, which is also the secret for star players to remain timeless after turning 30.

Roy immediately passed the ball to Yu Fei.

After catching the ball, Yu Fei asked, “Brandon, how did the basketball Mr. Eagle County play against you?”

Roy didn’t know what Yu Fei was up to, he just said, “Indescribable.”

As soon as Roy had spoken, Yu Fei charged forcefully at Kobe, dropping his shoulder.

Yu Fei weighed at least 20 pounds more than Kobe, and under such a discrepancy in size, unless Kobe’s squats and bench presses were at competition level for his weight, he simply couldn’t withstand such a collision.

The audience only saw Kobe getting pushed back significantly by Yu Fei, while the referees tightly clenched their whistles.

This was an action that could either be called or not.

The whistle didn’t blow, they weren’t going to call it.

As Kobe’s defense crumbled in an instant, Yu Fei turned and attacked the basket, with James jumping up to help defend, only to be pushed away by the scientifically savvy old black player’s elbow.

Number 23 lost his defensive capability.

Yu Fei then put the ball into the basket.

The Staples Center audience expressed strong dissatisfaction.

They thought Yu Fei’s move was dirty.

Yu Fei then looked at Roy, “Is it like this?”

“You’re too much.” Roy answered.

Yu Fei scored 8 points, but more than his performance, his trash talking significantly affected the opponent’s mindset.

James was contemplating how to utilize his strengths at the power forward position, something they hadn’t practiced, a sudden inspiration from Zen Master.

Just then, Kobe suddenly ran to the middle, taking the ball from Bibby, and it was like a computer running at 100% memory usage. His intellect zeroed out, basketball IQ nonexistent, his only thought was to hit back at Yu Fei.

He forgot that he was no longer young, lacked absolute speed, but still decided to challenge Yu Fei.

Forcing a jump shot in front of Yu Fei with a bit of drift, Kobe avoided getting blocked but such an irrational jump shot could not yield results.

This was the Lakers’ classic show, Kobe playing alone, the other four watching.

Then, Kobe delivered a strong miss.

Yu Fei turned around, grabbed the rebound, and immediately launched a fast break.

The Lakers fell into disarray.

This was exactly what Phil Jackson feared, James ineffective at the four, the out-of-control Lakers over-reliant on Kobe’s solo plays, while Kobe’s CPU got burnt by Yu Fei in a moment when he needed to stay cool.

In less than four seconds, Yu Fei rushed to the front court.

Jackson already knew what was coming.

He turned and walked toward the scorer’s table, prepared to call the game’s second timeout within the opening four minutes
“BOOM!!!!!”

“C’mon, Kobe! Buck up, N-word!” Snoop Dogg yelled angrily, “You can’t just be this crappy, N-word! Show that Asian bastard your strength, N-word! How the hell can you lose to him, N-word!”

Yu Fei scored ten points in a row.

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The Lakers called for another timeout.

From these first four minutes, both Reebok and Nike saw some scenarios they wanted to see.

But Reebok saw more.

Or rather, Reebok hoped this play would continue just like this.

Yu Fei scored the last ten points for the SuperSonics, first scoring a three-pointer over James’s head, then a super long three-pointer that exploded the court, now he dominated Kobe both offensively and defensively.

Nike’s proud twin towers were dominated.

Paul Arrington specifically had someone bring binoculars to take a look at Nike’s representative Lynn Mermitt across from him.

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Good, that fat-headed, big-eared N… mutt was already boiling red.

Frye, keep doing this to them!

Don’t give them any hope!

Until the game is over!

PS: If Bilibili Gaming loses to Bend tonight after this, I don’t know how I’ll hold back from finishing this chapter.