Chapter 709: Chapter 490: The Dragon King Returns, Everyone Move Aside_2 Chapter 709: Chapter 490: The Dragon King Returns, Everyone Move Aside_2 “`
“Blow it out your ass!” Brown was only tough with his mouth, “He’s just learned a bit of the basics!”

James dribbled the ball hard on the court, took a step and charged under the basket, drawing a foul on DeAndre Jordan and scoring a 2+1.

DeAndre Jordan’s face was filled with helplessness; he wanted to call for traveling, but he found the NBA’s traveling rules too complicated to understand.

Yu Fei responded immediately, calling for another pick and roll, this time a 1-4 pick and roll with Chris Bosh.

James decided to “trust” Pau Gasol, letting Bosh roll freely, confident that Pau Gasol could handle a 2-on-1. He was optimistically thinking, teaming up with Kobe to clamp down on Yu Fei.

This was the most oppressive defense any basketball player could endure at the moment.

Yet, Yu Fei’s ballhandling was like a butterfly flitting through a flower bed; he weaved it between his legs, and with a final wide behind-the-back crossover, he pulled up for a step-back jumper–shaking off the double team and shooting from a relatively safe spot.

James’s superior athletic reflexes allowed him to react quickly, but still, he couldn’t catch up.

Yu Fei’s shot arced over James’s outstretched hand and gently dropped into the basket.

It was a three-pointer.

“How does it feel to play with a burden on your back, Kobe?” Yu Fei adopted a disdainful attitude towards James, aiming directly at Kobe’s mental state.

Kobe responded, “Didn’t you lose enough last game?”

“I scored 64 points, and you really think I lost?” Yu Fei laughed, “Perhaps it’s because of the burden beside you. When have you ever scored 64 points against the Lakers?”

They didn’t continue the trash talk; if they had, Yu Fei might have brought up the game when he scored 71 points over James.

Yu Fei’s shot stirred up the Lakers’ two superstars.

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James believed that they couldn’t allow Yu Fei to score easily.

If he must shoot, let him shoot; last time he scored 64 points and still lost, what difference would it make if he got 74 tonight?

This decision would become a foreshadowing of the game’s direction.

The Lakers’ on-court defensive mismatches seemed, on the surface, a strategy to align suitable defenders against suitable opponents, but in reality, not everyone was positioned appropriately.

Artest guarding Durant was the correct choice; his defensive style was just what was needed to suppress the current Durant.

But James wasn’t prepared to switch to the power forward position at any time.

He also didn’t know what the right defensive approach for a power forward was.

He continued to handle Yu Fei’s pick and roll offense based on his original defensive understanding.

Lock down Yu Fei, let Bosh go, leave the secondary problems to his teammates.

The Lakers’ perimeter retained their strong firepower, as Richard Hamilton received the pass and hit the three-pointer.

Then, Yu Fei once more targeted Bosh.

The foreshadowing of the last play would be collected this time.

James pressed even more aggressively, unwilling to give Yu Fei any room to maneuver.

Yu Fei stopped the ball; while it was difficult to launch an offense, passing to Bosh was no problem at all.

Bosh caught the ball in an open spot, not understanding why the Lakers were disrespecting him so much.

Could anyone just overlook him based on his career achievements?

Bosh took the jump shot and hit it.

“Come on!!!” Bosh roared, spittle flying.

Yu Fei thought that to impersonate Kevin Garnett, he still needed a fierce chest pound.

James drove hard with the ball but was affected by DeAndre Jordan’s basket protection, unable to get a shot off and passing the ball out.

Hamilton, pressured to the corner by Moro, had no choice but to fling the ball towards Kobe.

But this pass was bad news because Kobe was not in a position to receive it.

Hamilton’s passing lane was covered by Durant’s long arms.

Interception, fast break.

Having been thoroughly annoyed by Artest, Durant struggled to get a chance to attack the basket, leading the charge like he was taking flight with a soaring slam dunk.

The Lakers started to panic.

Under Yu Fei’s solo defense, James’s shots would be disturbed, and although he could penetrate, the SuperSonics’ interior line, propped up by two tall players, wouldn’t give him free rein to attack the basket.

King suddenly felt like he was back with the Cavaliers.

Zen Master on the sidelines instructed him to run the Triangle Offense, but his posture was more like, “I believe we can still observe the situation further.”

With the last five seconds ticking away, James suddenly remembered, oh, he’s with the Lakers now, isn’t that when you give Kobe the ball to handle the buzzer-beater? Clearly, there’s only one person inside the Lakers who’s keen on defusing a ticking time bomb.

Kobe, without hesitation, but with only five seconds, was forced to opt for a crossover, quick stop, one step inside the three-point line to the left and a fadeaway jumper.

“Bang!”

It missed.

That was pretty normal.

That shot belonged to the “would there be any justice if this went in?” category.

Although Kobe might be history’s most skilled at making these types of shots, those who want to wear the crown must bear its weight. You like to take these shots, you get low efficiency, and you get excluded from most advanced stat sheets. But that’s okay; even with “Why don’t we see Kobe in high-level data if he’s so good?” you can still be the NBA highlight reel Greatest of All Time.

If greatness comes in all sizes, it’s worth it.

Interestingly, when the rebound came down, both Yu Fei and Bosh were standing at the landing spot.

According to SuperSonic’s rules, giving Yu Fei the rebound was a basic courtesy.

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But this time, Yu Fei stepped aside and let Bosh take the easy rebound.

It didn’t matter who grabbed the rebound because the Lakers were falling back fast, and there was no opportunity for a defensive counter-attack.

On the other hand, Yu Fei didn’t want Bosh’s morale to sink too low.

Indeed, he came to join a winning team, and making the corresponding sacrifices was necessary, but if the concept of sacrifice was drilled deep into every aspect of the game, then the Dragon King of Toronto would die beside him, replaced by Chris Bosh from the Miami Heat’s Big Three era, a pseudo-superstar without a board.

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