First in scoring

Chapter 542 541. Unreasonable three points!
The All-Star vote king was not a surprise to Zhang Yang, he was used to it.

After winning the championship in 07, his popularity soared and he won the top vote-getting title in 08. He defeated Dream Team 08 in the opening game of the 09 Olympics and his popularity rose again, and he won the top vote-getting title in 70. He won 1 games and the championship last season, and his record in the first half of this season has been good so far, and he is still competing for the scoring title. In January, he performed so well that he interrupted James' streak of being the best player of the month... He would be surprised if he didn't win the top vote-getting title.

What made him even happier was that Iverson defeated Wade with 232 million votes and was selected as the starting backcourt player for the Eastern Conference All-Star Game!
Even if Wade was not selected as a starter, he would definitely be selected as an All-Star by the coaches.

The same goes for Paul. Although he lost to Nash with 198 million votes, who received 211 million votes, he will definitely be selected as an All-Star reserve.

Iverson is not so good. He averaged 13+2+5 per game this season. If he is not selected as a starter, he will definitely not make the All-Star team.

Although Iverson is still nominally the team leader after returning to the 76ers and his teammates respect him, the 76ers no longer regard him as the core and do not provide him with supporting tactics. He is used purely as a sudden scorer. Iguodala, Louis Williams, Brand, and sixth man Gordon are the core combination of the 76ers.

While feeling happy, Zhang Yang also felt a little sad. This year's All-Star Game would be the last gathering of the "four major No. 3 stars".

The three All-Star starters in the Eastern Conference frontcourt are James, Howard, and Yao Ming.

In order to limit Bynum from being selected as an All-Star starter, the league cancelled the center position in the All-Star voting and changed it to 3 frontcourt players and 2 backcourt players. Howard became the biggest beneficiary. O'Neal even dissed the league for not making such arrangements back then.

The five Western Conference All-Star starters: Nash, Kobe, Garnett, Stoudemire, and Duncan.

Mike Brown and Philip Saunders were jointly elected as All-Star head coaches. Originally, the Western Conference All-Star head coach should have been Popovich, but Popovich was elected last season and could not be re-elected according to regulations, so the title was postponed to the head coach of the Mavericks, who were second in the Western Conference with 37 wins and 10 losses.

Zhang Yang was somewhat surprised to see that Duncan ranked third with only 165 million votes and was nearly overtaken by Artest of the Mavericks. He remembered that when the first round of votes were announced on January 1, Duncan ranked first in the Western Conference frontcourt, 9 more votes than Garnett, but in the end he got more than 5 less than Garnett.

But considering Duncan's declining statistics, it's understandable.

Given the Spurs' reputation and San Antonio's influence, fans' love and support for Duncan is purely because of Duncan's good performance. Once his personal performance declines, his popularity will also decline, even if his team's performance is still very good.

This was also the case in the original time and space. After 11 years, Duncan was never selected as an All-Star starter again.

Garnett's popularity is relatively strong. He was even selected as an All-Star starter in 13. However, after being sold to the Nets by the Celtics, his popularity has declined.

Not only the double 21s, the same is true for O'Neal. He did not play well in the 07-08 season and was not selected as an All-Star starter. He played well last season and was selected as a starter again. The same is true for Jordan who made his second comeback. He failed to make the playoffs for the second consecutive year and was directly not selected as a starter.

Among the active players, Zhang Yang can only think of Iverson, Kobe, James, Yao Ming... He should be able to be selected as an All-Star starter regardless of their performance or team results.

...

After five consecutive away games in the Western Conference, Zhang Yang returned to Charlotte with the team. There are still six games to play in the first half.

On the 2nd, the Bobcats will face the Cavaliers at home.

The Cavaliers renewed Marvin Williams' contract with a high salary during the offseason, traded for Jamison, and changed to a no-center formation in the starting lineup. The combination of three forwards further unleashed James' offensive ability, which was indeed amazing.

The Lakers' core lineup of three old men was broken by the Cavaliers in the Christmas game.

Whenever the Cavaliers used this combination to gain an advantage, Mike Brown would replace the twin towers of Varejao and Big Z, or Varejao and Big Ben, according to the matchup requirements, and fight hard on defense to maintain the advantage.

Mike Brown's ability in on-the-spot command is almost non-existent. Most of the time, it is James who writes and draws on the tactical board. But he is really good in building the team system. He learned a lot when he was an assistant coach for Popovich from 00 to 03 and for Carlisle from 04 to 05. It was not a pie in the sky that he became an NBA head coach at the age of 05 in the summer of 35, but his performance as an assistant coach was outstanding enough.

The Cavaliers management equipped him with a deep enough lineup and he had enough space to make system adjustments, so it is not surprising that he was able to do this.

The last time the Bobcats went to play the Cavaliers away, they almost lost, but eventually won narrowly with a score of 91 to 88.

这次客场作战的骑士队打得比上次交手还要好，首节冲出了32比26的比分，第二节和第三节分别打出了27比26、23比25的比分，三节打完以82比77领先山猫队5分！
But the decline in the Cavaliers' firepower is also visible to the naked eye!

The Cavaliers' style of play relies heavily on their outside shooting. After they made 7 of 4 three-pointers in the first quarter, Carlisle stopped fighting the opponent and chose to patiently fight a war of attrition. On the offensive end, he focused on teamwork, not seeking a breakout, but only stability.

The effect was very good. The Cavaliers' score dropped from 32 points in the first quarter to 23 points in the third quarter, while the Bobcats' score hardly fluctuated in the first three quarters!

In the final quarter, the Bobcats pushed the Cavaliers' score down to less than 20 points. However, the Cavaliers' defense was indeed better after they switched back to a big lineup, and the Bobcats' score was also pulled down in the final quarter.

With 30 seconds left, the Bobcats were trailing the Cavaliers by 97 points at 100 to 3. In the first 11 and a half minutes of the final quarter, the two teams had a score of 20 to 18, and the two teams were evenly matched in the final quarter!

In the final moments, Mo Williams faced Afflalo's defense and confidently shot a three-pointer...it missed!
Looking back, Zhang Yang faced the double team of James, Mo Williams and Jamison at the top of the arc. He passed the ball to the left side, and Felton followed up to receive the ball at the sideline, and the three-pointer in the wide open space went straight into the basket.

The score is 100 to 100, and the two teams fight into overtime!
In overtime, the Cavaliers' shooting was completely cold. They surrounded the outside with a circle of shooters, but they only shot 8 of 1. Only Jamison made a long two-pointer. Even with James' 4 of 4 free throws, they only got 6 points.

On the Bobcats side, Zhang Yang made two counterattacks, a three-pointer and a 2+1 directly under the basket, and scored 6 points by himself!
In addition, Okafor's 2+1 against Jamison, Felton's close-range jumper caused James to foul and made two free throws...

加时赛比分11比6，山猫队最终以111比106险胜骑士队，拿下常规赛第32场胜利！
After the game, the hatred on James' face could no longer be hidden, and his expression was extremely gloomy.

James really wants to win tonight. Just yesterday, he lost to Zhang Yang in both the Player of the Month and All-Star voting titles. He is desperately trying to save face.

But still didn’t win!
This season, the Cavaliers' overall performance is definitely better than that of the Bobcats. Even in direct confrontations, they have the advantage in regular time.

But every time at the critical moment, the Cavaliers' offense would be interrupted, and the Bobcats' duo would always be able to turn the defeat around at the last moment!

James was filled with resentment and resentment.

As for Zhang Yang, while he was happy about the reversal, he was also full of admiration for James' performance and was even a little surprised.

26投12中，其中三分球10中4，加上12中9的罚球，拿到了37分7板9助攻1抢断2盖帽！

只看前三节，詹姆斯的三分球7中4！不过末节和加时赛三分加起来3中0，命中率给拉低到了赛季平均的40%。

Yes, this season James' three-point shooting percentage is 40%, averaging 4 of 1.6 shots per game. He also has a 39.6% shooting percentage on long two-pointers within one or two steps within the three-point line, both of which set career highs.

And if you only look at the first three quarters, James' three-point shooting percentage can reach 43%, and his two-point shooting percentage can reach 41%!

However, the mid-range shots before and after the free throw line are quite bad, only 28%. However, James also shoots less in this area, averaging only 1.2 shots per game.

In the past two seasons, James' long-range shooting has actually been improving, but it is particularly obvious this season. It can be seen that he has worked hard. The number of training photos he posted during the offseason has increased. In the early years, he posted a group every once in a while to keep the popularity, but in the past three summers, there have been photos posted almost every day in the forum.

But whenever the confrontations accumulated to a certain level, his outside touch would decline rapidly and hit rock bottom.

This situation is not unique to this season, it also happened in previous seasons. Towards the end of the game, James was almost never seen taking long shots, he just kept holding the ball and driving towards the basket.

It’s just that this season this point stands out!
James chose to gain weight last summer to address his weakness of not having strong offensive ability in the interior.

Marvin Williams is strong and tough enough, but lacks one-on-one scoring ability; the newly introduced strong player Jamison is a shooter, and he had a breakthrough in his early years, but now at the age of 33, he can basically only shoot from mid-range and long distances, so James has to do it himself.

James is very responsible in training whatever the team lacks, even if it means trying a position he has never tried before.

Increasing his weight from 111 kg in the previous year to 116 kg gave James the ability to truly defend the inside and guard the basket together with Marvin Williams, which was enough to deal with most teams. Mike Brown then had the confidence to form a starting lineup of three forwards.

But this also makes James' weakness of having a good touch at the beginning of the game but no shots at the end of the game more prominent. He relies more on auxiliary players at critical moments, but Mo Williams is obviously not competent for this role.

Zhang Yang also noticed James's eyes full of hostility and even hatred. He used to pretend it, but now he doesn't even pretend it... But he doesn't care that he is mediocre if he is not envied. Instead, he hopes that James can become stronger with this hatred, so that the fight will be more interesting.

...

The next day, the Bobcats defeated the Nets 114-88 in a back-to-back at home, improving their record to 33-15.

接着5号客场打爵士队、7号主场打黄蜂队，面对同届俩巨星，山猫队颓了一波，85比92输给了爵士队、加时赛109比114输给了黄蜂队。

The Bobcats really couldn't beat the Jazz. In the harsh winter conditions in Salt Lake City, the Bobcats performed poorly, with the team's shooting percentage only 39%.

Felton also had a conflict with Deron, and Zhang Yang and a group of people went to help, but the two were suspended for two games. In addition, O'Neal and Ibaka were injured. When it came to the game against the Hornets, there were only 3 players on the court, not counting Tyronn Lue who only played for 9 minutes.

In Barkley's words, the conflict on the Bobcats was prevented from escalating thanks to Tyronn Lue. After a group of people started pushing and shoving, Tyronn Lue immediately hung on Zhang Yang, who was sitting on the bench, and restricted Zhang Yang's movements, otherwise it would definitely turn into a group fight.

As one of the youngest teams in the league, in the previous overtime games this season, the Bobcats had always worn out the opponents. This time it was their turn to be worn out by the Hornets in overtime.

With 16 points, 7 rebounds, 20 assists and 2 steals, Paul's hip-twisting dance in the locker room after the game made the news.

The day after playing against the Hornets, the Bobcats' temporary free agent DeSagana Diop finally arrived.

The Bobcats did not sign a 15th player during the offseason and training camp because they were preparing for injuries, and now they are using him.

Diop was once a high school genius, a lottery pick in the 01 center year. His most eye-catching label during the draft was a physique of 213 cm + 128 kg, which was enough to match O'Neal. In his first year in the NBA, his weight quickly soared to 136 kg, making him the toughest pure low-post one-on-one defensive player at the time.

But as O'Neal got older, Diop quickly lost his market. Last summer, the Mavericks cut him to make room for Artest and Caron Butler. He never found another job. If the Bobcats hadn't been short of manpower and given him a short 10-day contract, he would have retired even earlier than O'Neal.

Now, the No. 8 pick who was born to deal with O'Neal is O'Neal's teammate. When he reported to the Turkish Airlines Arena, he saw O'Neal doing recovery training with Thomas Carter and felt that fate was really wonderful.

If it weren't for being teammates with O'Neal, Diop would have rested for more than half a year and might not have made a comeback. In the previous eight years, he earned more than 8 million with the gimmick of "being able to replace O'Neal" and he had long wanted to enjoy life.

It is worth mentioning that although Diop only graduated from high school, he is not an uneducated brainless man. In addition to his native Wolof language, he is also proficient in English, French, Arabic, and Spanish, which are the world's mainstream languages. The only time he appeared in the news during the six months of rest was when he passed the New York tour guide license...

On the 7th, the Bobcats will face the Bucks at home.

Zhang Yang and Jennings staged a duel of missed shots.

It was the first time Zhang Yang saw a rookie who could throw so many balls. Jennings made 35 of 13 shots! He made 10 of 3 three-pointers and 6 of 6 free throws, scoring 35 points. Fortunately, in terms of iron shooting, except for the two brothers from the 96 class, no one in the current service can match him. Jennings threw 35 times, which was enough, but he threw more!
38投18中，其中三分球6中2，加上10中7的罚球，张杨拿到45分，率领山猫队以89比83赢下这场打铁大战，将战绩提升到34胜17负。

Jennings was criticized for holding back the team's offense after missing 20 shots. Although rookies are always given more tolerance, it was really bad to throw 37.1 times with a hit rate of 35%.

Zhang Yang, who took more shots, was praised to the sky. While other outside players on the court only had a hit rate of about 40%, he took nearly half of the team's shots and still maintained a high hit rate of 47.3%!
However, his mentality was a little broken. If he had known about the last buzzer-beating three-pointer in the backcourt in the third quarter, he would not have taken it since it didn't go in anyway.

This is his 16th time to hit 20 misses in a single game, and he is only in his fifth year! He is really aiming to catch up with Joe, surpass Kobe, and chase after Eddie Redmayne!
He just hopes that the old blacksmith can be more powerful and surpass Iverson first.

The Bobcats still have only 9 players playing tonight. Felton and Afflalo are suspended, O'Neal and Ibaka continue to be injured, and although Tyronn Lue and Diop appeared, they only played for a few minutes, giving Collison, Perkins and Okafor some breathing time. Most of the time, Zhang Yang played as a guest point guard and partnered with Matthews in the backcourt.

O'Neal's recovery training before the All-Star Weekend was not to help the team relieve the pressure of injuries and suspensions, but to that opponent...

Matthews has made great progress during his time in the Development League. He has the ability to play in the NBA, but he is more uncomfortable with the game environment and rules. After being tossed around by a group of ruffians in the Development League for a while, he didn't want to stay in that environment anymore. Finally, he took the initiative to learn from older players who seemed kinder, communicated with coaches in the Development League, and also actively contacted the Bobcats coaching staff.

Players with personalities like Matthews are actually not suitable for teams with a good team atmosphere. Instead, they are more suitable for teams with a bad team atmosphere such as the Jazz, Kings, Timberwolves, etc. In those teams, he must force himself to do things that he was not good at or unwilling to do before, otherwise he will be eaten up without leaving a bone.

...

On February 2th, the Bobcats took to the Staples Center court after two days of rest.

The last focus battle before the All-Star Weekend - the defending champion plays against the runner-up in Angel City.

After the entrance ceremony, O'Neal and Kobe took a photo together, which aroused cheers from the fans on the scene.

Zhang Yang sighed: "Life is such a heavy yoke!"

Felton: “What do you mean?”

Zhang Yang: "These two obviously hate each other so much, but they still force themselves to do business in front of the camera. When they were young, they would never do this. Now that they are older, they know the importance of money, so they do business to gain traffic, and traffic is money."

Felton: "They don't seem to hate each other that much, do they?"

Zhang Yang: "If O'Neal didn't hate Kobe, would he be in a hurry to come back?"

Felton thought about it and realized it was true!

Felton and Afflalo were released from suspension and returned to the court. After being absent for more than three weeks due to injury, O'Neal finally returned before this game.

O'Neal's absence was longer than initially expected, showing his lack of self-discipline to the extreme.

A big reason why O'Neal worked so hard last season was that he thought that the reason he didn't play well in the 06-07 and 07-08 seasons was not because he was no good, but because there was a problem with Pat Riley's coaching.

After proving himself, he had no motivation for the regular season. The Bobcats are a strong team and he is not the type of person who pursues good results in the regular season. He was still working hard in the last game, especially when he and Zhang Yang were in the dual-core attack stage. He was very focused, but he was injured and had no patience to recover. He just played as he pleased. If he hadn't had to play against Kobe before the All-Star Weekend, he would have just lay down until after the All-Star Weekend.

After complaining about the OK combination's "brotherhood", Zhang Yang turned his attention to the other players on the opposite side.

The Lakers' roster this season is more complete than in the past two years, but they still adhere to the principle of "just enough is enough", unlike the Mavericks and Cavaliers who are eager to fill every 15-man roster with a star.

Kidd, Kobe, Ariza, Garnett, and Gasol Jr. start, while Fisher, Shannon Brown, Vujacic, Luke Mbah a Moute, McDyess, and Kwame Brown are substitutes. It mainly plays an 11-man rotation. Occasionally, when Kidd and Garnett are resting, it mainly plays a 10-man rotation, and the two are generally not absent at the same time.

Josh Powell, DJ Mbenga, and Luke Walton, who received the full mid-level exception, are all substitutes.

Last season, after the Lakers selected UCLA's senior small forward Luke Mbah a Moute in the second round, Luke Walton gradually lost his position. This season, Mbah a Moute's performance has improved and he has become a strong substitute for Ariza. Luke Walton has been completely marginalized, but he is only in his third season of the six-year full mid-level contract he signed in 07.

Sometimes a bad contract is not born because the player is no longer good enough. Zhang Yang curiously checked Luke Walton's performance during the pre-match preparation stage and found that this player actually had no injuries in the past two or three years. He averaged 06+07+11 in the 5-4 season. At the peak age of 27, it was reasonable for him to get a full mid-level long-term contract in the offseason. He also averaged 07+08+9 when he was a starter in the 4-4 season.

But after Ariza came, he became a substitute and his playing time began to decrease. Last season, he became a substitute among substitutes. However, during these two times when his playing time was reduced, Luke Walton's performance was still acceptable. Last season, he averaged 15 minutes per game and got 5+3+3. He became a substitute and his contract became a garbage contract. It was simply because the Lakers no longer needed him. Ariza and Mbah a Moute were both better players.

There is a similar situation with Kwame Brown. In the 07-08 season, he averaged 10.6 points and 7.2 rebounds per game, with a shooting percentage of 59.1% and strong low-post defense. He got a four-year, $4 million contract extension. There was no problem with the renewal period. He was 2800 years old at the time and would be exactly 26 years old after the end of the season. However, in the first year of his new contract last season, he lost his starting position to the strong-performing Gasol Jr.

This season, Gasol has lost weight and is performing better, averaging 12.7 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists per game. The Lakers have also brought in McDyess, and Kwame Brown's playing time will be up to 20 minutes.

With Kobe and Kidd feeding him the ball, Garnett assisting him as a center, and Gasol Jr. behind him as a power forward, he still played well, averaging 6.2 points and 4.4 rebounds per game.

But based on this performance, the media commented that an annual salary of 700 million is indeed too expensive.

However, Kwame Brown's situation is much better than Luke Walton's. Since Garnett does not play back-to-back games and is occasionally absent due to injuries, Kwame Brown can occasionally start. His average playing time of 20 minutes per game is very stable. After losing weight, he can play two positions and he is still an important member of the Lakers' inside rotation.

Kidd and Garnett really got lucky by joining the Lakers. Zhang Yang remembered that when Kidd joined the Mavericks and won the championship in the 10-11 season, his regular season playing time was the highest on the Mavericks, averaging 34 minutes per game, 0.5 minutes more than Nowitzki. In the playoffs, he also ranked second on the Mavericks in playing time, averaging 35 minutes per game, second only to Nowitzki who averaged 39 minutes per game. At that time, Kidd was already 38 years old!

Garnett was also treated like a beast of burden under Rivers.

But under the Zen Master's leadership, Kidd played in 51 of the first 46 games this season, averaging 27 minutes per game, scoring 7.9 points, 4 rebounds and 7.2 assists. With more players in the interior, he was no longer needed to grab rebounds.

The Zen Master would rather let Fisher hold back and give Kidd more rest time.

Garnett was luckier, playing in 51 of the first 35 games, averaging 28 minutes per game, scoring 14.2 points, 7 rebounds, 2.8 assists, 1.2 steals and 1.2 blocks. Gasol Jr. helped him with all the supporting work, and he could even play on the wing and cut to score without the ball.

科比这赛季出场时间反倒是多了点，从上赛季常规赛的场均34.9分钟，提升到了37分钟，场均拿到27.2分5.6板5助攻1.8抢断。

和上赛季一样，这赛季湖人队也没有像三巨头刚组成那年那样全力拼战绩，目前以35胜16负，排在西部第五，马刺队43胜9负第一、小牛队40胜12负第二、太阳队37胜15负第三、爵士队靠着西北赛区头名的身份以34胜18负排在第四。

The Lakers' winning percentage is similar to that of the Bobcats, at 55 wins, and they maintain the possibility of a 60-win run in the second half of the season. However, judging from the Lakers' situation last season, they will "play dead" until the playoffs, after all, the Big Three are already past the age where they want to prove themselves in the regular season.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the Bobcats' half-time final battle against the Lakers on the road began!

Before the game, the media predicted how wonderful the offense would be and what a beautiful game the two teams would play.

The Lakers average 105.1 points per game and allow 99.4 points per game, and they seem to be strong on offense but average on defense;
The Bobcats averaged 105 points per game and allowed 97.2 points per game. They were good at both offense and defense, and often scored high points.

So far in the regular season, the league's average points per game has exceeded 100.2. The Hornets, who lose an average of points per game, are exactly on that average.

There is nothing wrong with the media making such predictions based on the average data of the two teams and high-scoring games.

But the head coaches of both teams were cunning and wanted to outwit the other side, and ended up thinking of the same thing - start with intensity and focus on defense.

In the first quarter, the Lakers led the Bobcats by 17 point, 16 to 1. Their defensive intensity was so brutal that it was even worse than the previous match between the Bobcats and the Jazz.

湖人队首节18投仅6中，怒打12铁；山猫队20投7中，狂打13铁。

Kobe made 8 of 2 shots, which accounted for half of the team's missed shots, which is already amazing.

Just when everyone thought Kobe was invincible in this regard, they saw Zhang Yang play the entire quarter and only shot 9 out of 2...

With the cooperation of their teammates, Zhang Yang, Afflalo and Hill took turns to deal with Kobe; Kobe, Ariza and Kidd took turns to deal with Zhang Yang, and both made the opponents feel extremely excited.

Would it be better to let teammates shoot the ball? The two of them tried it tacitly, but the result was worse than them throwing the ball and missing it, and then their teammates rushed to grab it, 4 for 3 or 4 for 2, which was better than everyone missing the ball together.

Of the other Lakers' four goals, two were second-chance shots, and of the Bobcats' five goals, two were also second-chance shots.

However, as the strike went on, the aim became more and more accurate, and the first person he aimed at was Zhang Yang!
第二节张杨9投5中，其中三分球1中1，加上3中3的罚球，单节拿到14分，率领山猫队打出26比20的比分，以42比37领先湖人队5分进入下半场。

第三节科比也支棱起来了，10投6中，加上3中3的罚球拿到15分，率队回敬了对面一节26比22，将分差缩小到1分进入末节。

As the two players kept missing shots, their hit rates went up, Zhang Yang went from 9 of 2 in the first quarter to 18 of 7 at halftime, and 25 of 10 in the third quarter; Kobe went from 8 of 2 in the first quarter to 15 of 5 at halftime, and 25 of 11 in the third quarter, and both of their hit rates returned to %. The others were not as good, and their hit rates got worse and worse as time went on. In the end, since the wings couldn't make any shots no matter what they did, they even had trouble grabbing offensive rebounds, and the only thing that went up was the number of defensive rebounds.

Tonight, with the help of Perkins and O'Neal, Okafor had over 20 rebounds after three quarters, and Garnett, with Gasol Jr. and Kwame Brown behind him, also had 16.

In the final quarter, Fisher, Kidd, Ariza; Felton, Afflalo, Collison, staged a symphony of missed shots. The former pitching combination made 7 of 1 shots, and the latter pitching combination made 6 of 1 shots. However, they were not completely useless on the offensive end. At least they absorbed the shooting rights and gave Zhang Yang and Kobe a chance to breathe.

Zhang Yang and Kobe made crazy shots and scored with difficulty in an offensive environment that was more difficult than in the first three quarters.

However, the two of them played very vigorously. As long as they scored one or two more goals, they might lead the team to victory. Both of them shot as much as they could.

This time, the winner is Zhang Yang!

With more than a minute left, Zhang Yang scored two goals from outside the three-point line despite being double-teamed, scoring 1 points in a row, turning the score from 6 point behind into a 1-point lead.

Although Kobe made the long two-point shot and the Lakers defended it in the next round, at the last moment Kobe forced two steps to the top of the arc and turned around to shoot a three-pointer from the front, which hit the rim and the game came to an end.

张杨末节12投5中，其中三分球6中3，加上3中2的罚球，拿到15分，力压13投6中、外加2中2的罚球拿到14分的科比，在末节率队打出了22比20的单节比分！
Zhang Yang scored 37 points with 15 of 16 shots, including 7 of 8 three-pointers, and 7 of 44 free throws. He was slightly behind Kobe in terms of scoring. Kobe scored 38 points with 17 of 6 shots, including 2 of 10 three-pointers, and 46 free throws. But Zhang Yang won the game!

The final whistle sounded as the ball slid out of the basket. Listening to the cheers of thousands of Zhang Yang fans at the scene and looking at the score frozen at 86 to 83, Kobe was furious and irritable to the extreme! His anger was not much different from when he lost the championship 8 months ago.

The feeling of losing in the end made him want to explode on the spot.

He was clearly suppressing Zhang Yang in the final quarter, but the opponent suddenly jumped up and made two three-pointers in a row. The world changed. The opponent, who had been suppressed to the point of being defeated, instantly made a comeback with a sliver of health left!

Old blacksmith: Three points, what an unreasonable thing!

(End of this chapter)