Zhou Mubai gave up holding the ball, and Kobe took the ball with no choice but to take it - in fact, he snatched it.

Zhou Mubai defended seriously and put in the effort to protect the frontcourt rebounds. When he returned to the offense, he did not hold the ball, landed in the bottom corner to open up space, actively grabbed rebounds, and strived for a second attack.

People's attention is always focused on the hands of the ball holder. During this period, Kobe held the ball and directed other people to run, but more of it was still attacking himself.

But the Lakers under Kobe's command has significantly reduced their fluency and their shooting percentage has also decreased - this is because of the Suns' strict defense against Kobe.

This also gave Zhou Mubai the opportunity to grab rebounds. Zhou Mubai is fast, small in size, and strong in confrontation. The key is that he has a strong judgment on the landing point of basketball. Even if he can't grab the rebound, he can still take the opportunity to sneak attack and steal a few - he is too thief.

At the end of the first quarter, Phil Jackson was stunned when he took over the statistics. Zhou Mubai scored 10 points, 10 rebounds, 6 assists, 2 blocks and 4 steals in one quarter!

He has many assists, scored not many, and rebounds have exploded directly.

But he obviously gave up the ball.

Zhou Mubai rested in the first half of the second quarter and returned to the court with Kobe in the second half.

Zhou Mubai still gave up holding the ball. Even though he rarely received the ball, he was running actively, so he did one thing - to cut the ball at a free kick and grab the rebound.

After grabbing the rebound, he either attacked the second time or attracted the defense to feed the inside the empty cut. In this way, he scored 8 points in the second quarter and grabbed 5 frontcourt rebounds and 3 backcourt rebounds, and sent 5 assists (three were fast attack assists directly formed by the backcourt rebounds).

After halftime, Zhou Mubai's data had soared to a triple-double of 18 points, 18 rebounds and 11 assists!

Most of this data is obtained without the ball - he only controls the ball in four rounds at the beginning of the game (and passes to Kobe).

This is a bit scary.

Ten of these 18 rebounds are backcourt rebounds and eight frontcourt rebounds, which is still very scary.

Some centers failed to make up eight rebounds in a game (the center who averaged eight rebounds per game is already a very good center), and this was snatched by the inside men like Bynum, Lopez, Odom, and Sir!

When grabbing rebounds, not only are the opponents, but teammates are also the opponents - everyone wants to have better data, especially the inside.

Bynum looked at Zhou Mubai with a little sad look - he had to get in the inner line with the Sun, but Zhou Mubai was basically empty.

Zhou Mubai has a strong ability to judge the landing point and is even more frighteningly fast. When Bynum is always about to touch the ball, Zhou Mubai will always grab the ball a little faster.

Of course, Zhou Mubai is not targeting him. Xiao Si, Odom, and Lopez have been repeatedly snatched rebounds by Zhou Mubai.

The thing about grabbing rebounds is not that you can definitely grab more if you grow taller and strong. Focus and hard work, speed and judgment are the keys to grabbing rebounds.

Rodman averaged 18.7 rebounds per game, which was not snatched by his height. He had a natural sense of rebounding, and he was very focused and hardworking, so it was not surprising that he could average 18.7 rebounds per game.

In fact, there are also such Wizards among the guards, such as Long Center Rondo, a point guard who is only 185cm tall, often performs 10 rebounds.

Zhou Mubai has a good sense of rebounding and is not short of strength and speed. He usually holds the ball, and occasionally picks up bargains and has 10 rebounds. When he is dedicated to grab rebounding, he directly turns into a rebounding hungry beast, and even a few powerful insiders can't snatch him.

Things are starting to become interesting.

Phil Jackson couldn't help but sigh - when Zhou Mubai gave up the ball but obtained better data (at least much better than Kobe), Kobe was in a dilemma.

This also intensified the Lakers' conflicts.

Under this situation, Kobe was under too much pressure. Zhou Mubai's data was much better than Kobe, and Kobe felt it was not good.

But now that Zhou Mubai has given up all the ball, his data is still better than Kobe.

If Kobe can't accept this and insists on driving Zhou Mubai out of the Lakers, Kobe will be criticized by everyone.

This incident made the Lakers management even more painful.

When Zhou Mubai holds the ball, he is the top point guard. When he doesn't hold the ball, he is a top off-ball player and can also turn into a super rebounder. Such a top player actually has to send him away because of internal strife?

This is simply sending a mountain of gold to others. Is there anything more painful in the world than this?

"Or what if we think about the plan to send Kobe away?" Kupchek hesitated.

Old Bass was silent for a long time: "...Let's take a look first."

The offensive shooting rate under Kobe's leadership was not very high, but with Zhou Mubai's crazy competition for rebounds, his shooting rate was much higher than that of the Suns. In the first half, the Lakers led by 14 points.

In the third quarter, Gentry had to pay attention to Zhou Mubai, allowing Nash to block Zhou Mubai's empty cut and let other people join in the competition for rebounds. This did limit Zhou Mubai and reduced his success rate of rebounds, but also slowed down the Suns.

——When everyone has to protect the rebound, it is natural for the entire team to slow down.

The fast pace is precisely the lifeblood of the Suns. When the Suns have to slow down, their shooting percentage has dropped significantly in the face of the Lakers' position defense.

This is in another crisis - something went wrong with the offense.

The Suns are teams that cannot defend against their opponents, but their opponents cannot defend against them. Simply put, they are teams that use attack instead of defense.

When they are forced to slow down, it means giving up the way they play best.

When Gentry meant this, the Suns had already lost their momentum. At the end of the third quarter, the Suns had already broken through 20 points.

The 20-point difference is naturally not completely without a chance for a team like the Suns, but the Lakers are too strong - even if the two core members of the Lakers are already in conflict.

It's a ridiculous game.

——The point guard did not control the ball, but scored 20 rebounds;

——Without any connection between the two cores and no communication at all, the Lakers still beat more than 20 points;

Whether it was the fans on the scene or the audience in front of the TV, they all looked at each other, unable to believe that this was true.

Some people remembered the Lakers about ten years ago. The same was true for the OK group at that time, but the Lakers still crushed the entire league team.

Will the scenes of the past be staged again?
Chapter completed!