NBA Old Age Star System

Chapter 160 Fighting Old Kobe Bryant
Su Tian easily hit the opening two goals, and the Cavaliers led 4-0 at the start.

The ball is switched, and it's the Celtics' turn to attack.

It was still Thomas who came to the frontcourt with the ball, and after cooperating with his teammates in the pick-and-roll, he held the ball and killed in.

Irving bypassed the pick-and-roll and chased Thomas, but Thomas Jr. was too fast for Irving to catch up.

Thomas came to the basket and Thompson moved inside to help.

Thomas saw Thompson's movement, so he threw the shot directly.

bang - swish -

The basketball hits the backboard into the basket.

4-2
The Celtics finally started, and the ball was given to the Cavaliers.

Owen pushed forward with the ball, and after coming to the frontcourt, he gave the ball directly to James.

It's been a few rounds since the game, and James has yet to attack with the ball.

James gets the ball and faces Crowder.

Claude has a certain defensive ability, but it is not enough to deal with James.

James held the ball and broke directly from the right side of Crowder, and the rampage impact directly broke through Crowder's defense.

James pushed all the way to the basket, pushed past Claude's defense, and scored a hard layup.

6-2
James' strong play is very useful, but it also consumes more energy, so now James only plays like this at the beginning and at critical moments.

The ball is switched, and it's the Celtics' turn to attack.

This time Thomas did not choose to attack by himself, and began to seek cooperation with his teammates and pass the ball to Bradley.

Facing Su Tian, ​​Bradley also had no intention of playing singles. Su Tian's defense had already been well-known by the media, so he didn't need to try it himself.

Bradley passed the ball to Crowder again, and Crowder stood at the top of the arc with the ball, waiting for his teammates to move.

Relying on his size advantage, Thomas Jr. continued to shuttle back and forth on the field, and suddenly ran back to shake off Irving's defense, and reached out to Crowder for the ball.

Claude passed the ball in time, Thomas got the ball and went straight to the basket, Thompson helped defend in time, and stretched his arms to block Thomas.

Thomas received the ball, took off, and pulled the bar for a layup.

boom--

Swah——

The basketball bumped against the rim and ended up in the net.

6-4
The Green Army's offense was in hot pursuit.

The possession of the ball was switched again, and Irving came to the frontcourt with the ball to cooperate with Love in tactics.

When Irving broke through with the ball, the Celtics Thomas and Johnson double-teamed.

Irving passed the ball to Love at the top of the arc, and Love made a long two-pointer.

boom--

The basketball hit the rim and jumped high.

Seeing that the ball was about to jump out of the basket, everyone felt that the ball was probably hit, so they were ready to grab a rebound.

But Su Tian suddenly came out from the side, jumped high, with a light tap of his hand, the basketball fell into the basket.

Su Tian made a tip-up, 8-4
Seeing Su Tian being so active, James applauded vigorously, very pleased.

James didn't ask Su Tian to score 71 points, at least this enthusiasm is worthy of recognition.

In the next few rounds, James began to take the initiative to hold the ball and take on the responsibilities of the boss. The Celtics obviously couldn't keep up with the Cavaliers' rhythm.

At the end of the first quarter, the score came to 32-20. The Cavaliers led the Celtics by 12 points.

In the second quarter, Irving rested, Dellavedova played, and Su Tian's second position was actually the first position.

Su Tian, ​​who had the ball in his hands, began to fully grasp the team's rhythm and connection work, while James focused on scoring.

Su Tian kept holding the ball and playing pick-and-rolls with Love, and the Celtics didn't have a good way to restrict it.

With Su Tian's connection, James also scored 15 points in a single quarter.

At the end of the second quarter, the score had come to 62-45, and the Cavaliers led by 17 points.

During the intermission, there was a lot of laughter in the Cavaliers locker room, and even Irving started joking with his teammates.

In the third quarter, Su Tian rested off the court, Irving and JR Smith played, and the frontcourt was James, Thompson, and Mozgov.

In the third quarter, James slowed down his desire to attack and began to focus on organizing the team.

And Irving took up the banner of the team's offense and dominated the team's offense.

With the double cooperation of Irving and James, they have a great advantage against the Celtics starting lineup.

And Irving, who let go of the shackles and played, really made the opponent feel how strong Irving is when he plays well.

Thomas of the Celtics has some offense, but compared with Irving, there is still a gap.

Not only is there a gap now, but there will also be a gap in the future.

Soon, the third quarter ended, and the point difference at this time had been widened to 20 points.

In the fourth quarter, James rested, Dellavedova, Su Tian, ​​Richard Jefferson, Love, and Mozgov played.

Dellavedova came to the front court with the ball and gave the ball directly to Su Tian.

Su Tian got the ball, faced Bradley's defense, and directly broke through without calling Love's pick-and-roll.

Bradley defended with confidence at first, but he was knocked away by Su Tian as soon as he resisted. When he turned around and chased after him, he couldn't catch up.

After Su Tian broke through Bradley, he went straight to the basket. The basket of the Celtics was very empty and unguarded.

So Su Tian directly collected the ball and took off, dunking successfully with both hands.

A dunk not only widened the point difference, but also completely lowered the morale of the Celtics.

In the next few rounds, the Celtics continued to fight. Under the leadership of Su Tian, ​​the Cavaliers took the initiative and widened the point difference.

Halfway through the fourth quarter, Stevens saw that there was no hope of victory, so he began to withdraw the main force, replace it with a substitute, and surrendered.

Tai Lunlu did not kill them all, and replaced Su Tian and other main players with substitute players.

At the end of the final game, the Cavaliers defeated the Celtics 113-98 and successfully won the first game of the five consecutive home games.

James scored 27 points, 4 assists, 7 rebounds and 2 steals, and he has not played in the fourth quarter.

Irving scored 19 points, 6 assists and 3 rebounds, and also did not play in the fourth quarter.

Su Tian scored 24 points, 11 assists, 5 rebounds and 2 steals, the second highest score for the Cavaliers.

The next day, February 2, in the second game of the five-game home game, the Cavaliers played against the Pelicans.

Because it was back-to-back, everyone's status was a bit slow, and they were beaten 5-0 by the Pelicans at the beginning.
But James took the ball in time and began to force a layup.

So the Cavaliers slowly opened up the situation from James.

At the end of the game, the Cavaliers beat the Pelicans 99-84.

In fact, the first three quarters of this game were quite thrilling. At the end of the first three quarters, the Cavaliers were 74-70, only leading the Pelicans by 4 points.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the bench lineup put on by the Pelicans couldn't stop Su Tian who was hanging out.

Relying on the huge advantage of hanging up, Su Tian quickly took the lead over the Pelicans.

In the end, Su Tian, ​​James and Owen worked together to successfully win the Pelicans.

It can be said that this game was a near miss. Su Tian scored 26 points, 7 assists, 4 rebounds and 2 steals.

After the Pelicans game, everyone in the Cavaliers took a day off.

It was only one day after the break, and then on February 2th, the game against the Kings came.

The game against the Kings was relatively easy, and Tyronn Lue also took the initiative to expand the rotation space.

Although the rotation was expanded and 12 people played, the Cavaliers easily defeated the Kings 120-100.

The death of the king is no longer a matter of a day or two, it is already rotten to the root.

After the game against the Kings, the Cavaliers only have one more day to rest, followed by the match against the Lakers.

Fortunately, the following teams are all teams with poor records, and the Cavaliers are relatively relaxed, otherwise they may really overturn.

And this game against the Lakers is also the last game before the All-Star Game.

On February 2, the Lakers visited Quicken Loans Arena.

As Kobe's retirement season this season, every team has prepared some tribute videos for Kobe, and the Cavaliers are no exception.

It's just that the short film of the Cavaliers has more shots of Kobe and James playing against each other.

Soon, with the whistle of the referee, the game began.

The Cavaliers still play the regular starting lineup, Irving, Su Tian, ​​James, Love, Thompson.

The starters sent by the Lakers are Louis Williams, Jordan Clarkson, Kobe Bryant, Julius Randle, Roy Hibbert.

Before the game, Su Tian had a chat with Randall for a while.

As a college teammate who is still active in the NBA today, Randall is very envious of Su Tian's life.

Not only can he win, but he can also get statistics, and he also has the ball, and the team boss still trusts him so much.

To be honest, Randall began to envy to jealousy.

At this time, Thompson and Hibbert jumped the ball on the field, and Thompson took the initiative with better bounce.

Irving got the ball and started to advance with the ball.

After coming to the frontcourt, Irving and Love played pick-and-roll cooperation.

With the help of Love's pick-and-roll, Owen broke through to the inside, and Lu Wei followed Owen to interfere.

But Irving's desire to attack became more determined. After rushing straight to the basket, he collected the ball and took off, making a layup.

Hibbert's footsteps were too slow to cause interference in time.

2-0
The Cavaliers started first.

The ball is switched, and it's the Lakers' turn to attack.

Lu Wei advanced the ball to the half court, handed the ball directly to Kobe, and stood aside.

In fact, in terms of off-ball ability, these few are not as good as Kobe, but the first ball in the opening game is given to Kobe according to the usual practice.

Kobe got the ball and faced James, and there was a burst of cheers from the scene.

The fans didn't expect that the game would be king against king at the beginning of the game.

And the 23VS24 that the league has been working so hard to create has never been able to take place.

Kobe got the ball and was not in a hurry to dribble. He first tried three threats to try to mobilize James' defense.

James also showed a very serious look and made a full defensive posture, but Su Tian knew that James didn't think about defending well.

After all, Kobe is in his twilight years, and there is no need for a smart man like James to be a villain at this time.

On the contrary, it is best if the two sides seem to fight back and forth.

After Kobe tried twice, he didn't continue to try again, and directly broke through from the right side of James.

James followed Kobe in step by step, and when he came a step inside the free throw line, Kobe stopped suddenly, turned around, shook his shoulders, and shot a jumper.

James also straightened his arm at the moment of Kobe's shot, interfering with Kobe's shot.

bang - swish -

The basketball bumped and fell into the net.

Although Kobe is old, his power is still there. When he has enough physical strength, it is still no problem to do some difficult moves.

2-2
The possession of the ball was converted, and Irving received the ball from the bottom line and advanced.

After advancing to the frontcourt, Irving also gave the ball to James very interestingly, without continuing to play hard by himself.

In fact, it is understandable that Irving has a strong desire to attack. After all, Irving has always regarded Kobe as an idol, and even tried to invite Kobe to a heads-up when he first debuted, but Kobe did not face it.

James got the ball and started to defend Kobe.

Like James, Kobe looks serious, but the difference is that Kobe is really serious about defense.

James didn't go to the three-threat like Subject, but directly rushed to the basket with the ball.

Kobe's strength has long been unable to confront James, and he can only retreat while fighting, but no one can say that Kobe did not work hard to defend.

Kobe and James fought all the way to the basket. James made a fierce effort to push back Kobe's defensive interference and scored a layup.

4-2
Seeing James and Kobe playing back and forth, the fans at the scene were also very excited. After all, such scenes will not be seen in the future.

The ball was given to the Lakers again, and Lu Wei advanced with the ball.

This time Lu Wei didn't give the ball to Kobe again, but started to play the Lakers' tactics.

Kobe also consciously moved, which affected the Cavaliers' defense.

In fact, Kobe himself also knows that he is not as good as before, and it is the right choice to conduct more off-ball offenses.

Lu Wei chose to play a pick-and-roll with Randall, and use the pick-and-roll to break through to the inside.

Irving bypassed the pick-and-roll to keep up with Lu Wei.

Thompson also moved quickly to the inside, double-teaming Lu Wei.

Although Lu Wei is a point guard, he plays a scoring-oriented style of play. Passing and organization are really not good. Facing the double-team defense of the Cavaliers, all he can do is adjust the angle of the shot and try to score the ball. The probability becomes larger.

Lu Wei flicked around with the ball, but still couldn't escape the Cavaliers' defensive interference, and shot hard.

Love took the rebound and held it above his head.

As soon as Su Tian and James saw this scene, they sprinted to start and rushed forward at the same time.

Le Fu saw the right moment and made a long pass to directly find Su Tian who was in a better position.

Su Tian got the ball and went straight to the basket, and there was only one Clarkson behind Su Tian who was chasing desperately, but there was obviously still a long way to go.

Su Tian rushed all the way to the basket with the ball, collected the ball and took off, and dunked with both hands with a bang.

6-2
The advantage of the Cavaliers at the beginning is obvious, and the Lakers have no good way to deal with it.

In fact, the Lakers are not weak in terms of offense, but they lack a suitable organizer to connect these young talents together.

As a result, these players are now fighting independently and cannot be twisted together.

The ball is switched, and it's the Lakers' turn to attack.

It was still Lu Wei who advanced with the ball. This time after Lu Wei came to the frontcourt, he was not in a hurry to start the game, but waited for his teammates to move and settle.

Seeing that the timing was about the same, Lu Wei passed the ball to Randall in the low post.

Randall held the ball in the low post, faced Love, and started his own low singles.

Seeing that his old teammate Su Tian had just dunked one, Randall also wanted to show himself.

So Randall began to push Love with his back, once, twice, three times, and finally reached the basket, turned around quickly, and hit a layup.

6-4
Randall still has a certain offensive ability in the low post.

After scoring the goal, Randall raised his head and looked at Su Tian proudly, as if saying, look, brother, I'm not bad.

(End of this chapter)