In the cafe, Zhong Yu and Scarlett Johansson sat facing each other, both of them drinking coffee...

"Your exposure has been getting higher and higher recently." Scarlett Johnson said to Zhong Yu: "I think the whole of the United States is your name now... Almost everyone cares about you."

"Even, even many people who don't like basketball are caring about you," said Scarlett Johnson. "They think you have brought hope to many Americans and a kind of effort that will definitely succeed."

"Ha~ American Dream?" Zhong Yu asked with a cup of coffee in his mouth.

"Yes, it's the American Dream. The real realization of the American Dream makes people see hope." Scarlett paused for a moment and asked, "Zhong Yu, then, as yourself, do you believe in the American Dream? Do you believe that hard work can really succeed?"

"You can succeed by working hard?" Zhong Yu pressed a sip of coffee into his mouth, then smiled and said, "I don't believe it."

"Don't believe it?" Scarlett Johnson felt that what Zhong Yu said had subverted her thoughts, so she quickly asked, "Why?"

"No, I just don't believe it anyway." Zhong Yu said: "People are born different. Why do everyone wants to do what they want to do and can succeed as long as they work hard?"

"So that's the case." Scarlett Johnson said: "What's the point of working so hard? So many people, including you, have the rewards they want when working hard, what does this mean?"

Zhong Yu said: "Say something old-fashioned to you. If you work hard, even if the chances are slim, there will always be some, but if you don't work hard, there will be no hope at all."

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The fifth battle between the Lakers and the Hornets, also their battle of Kings Mountain, began at the Staples Center at the Lakers' home court.

In the game, the Lakers used their inside tactics and their ability to use their inside tactics to curb the Hornets' offense and defense well. Finally, they won the game with steady and steady playing and the team's efforts.

And no one knows how this game will be carried out, and they don’t know if the Hornets can counterattack the Lakers in this game, win a victory, and re-establish the lead in the total score.

Or the Lakers beat the Hornets at their home court, defend their dignity and get match points.

These are all questions that have not been solved yet. But no matter what, the team that loses will be at a disadvantage in momentum and many things, which is undoubtedly.

Both teams were ready. Although both sides were very tired after playing this game, they could not be vague in this game.

The lights of Staples are still shining extremely, and the fans here are still quite fanatical.

This is Los Angeles, the home court of the Lakers.

"The game is about to begin!" Scott said: "Young guys, you must remember a lot of our arrangements before. We must defeat this opponent, and we cannot let our previous efforts go to waste..."

At this time, the DJ on the scene also began to introduce the players.

When it was Zhong Yu's turn, DJ had just finished speaking, and there were booing sounds one after another. The booing sounded as if the entire ceiling of Staples' center was shaking among their booings, and dust fell.

Zhong Yu has become one of the most unwelcome people in this stadium. In the game between the Hornets and the Lakers in this stadium, it is very literary. Zhong Yu defeated the Lakers at the last moment, and many people still remember it freshly.

Moreover, the Internet, news, and Zhong Yu's name are overwhelming recently.

After all these incidents, Lakers fans did feel quite strong hatred for Zhong Yu - this is not only because Zhong Yu had defeated the Lakers in this stadium, but also because many people think that Zhong Yu is gradually gaining popularity this time by stepping on Kobe's head of the Lakers.

Everyone cared about this game and wanted the Lakers to win. Thinking of Zhong Yu’s wonderful scoring methods, they felt even more angry with Zhong Yu.

Because, this guy is definitely a dangerous person, there is no doubt about it.

When Zhong Yu heard the booing of the audience, he didn't care.

He knew that the louder the boo, the more panicked the home fans would be with a player and the more destructive the team could bring to them.

When I first entered the league, I heard the uniform booing of more than 10,000 fans in the entire arena. As a rookie, I might be scared, but the situation is completely different now. Zhong Yu would not have any unnecessary reactions. Instead, I felt that the blood in his body was slowly boiling.

The competition officially begins!

The right to jump the ball was grabbed by the Lakers, and then they organized their first offense.

The first offense did not continue the inside tactics of the Lakers' game, but was left to Kobe to execute. Kobe faced Zhong Yu, then suddenly took a step back and pretended, then turned around and made a jump shot.

Kobe took the lead in opening a game for the Lakers with a very beautiful goal. The audience at the scene shouted at them and cheered for their Lakers and their Kobe.

The Hornets' offense failed to hit, and the Lakers grabbed the rebound again, and another competition between the two sides began.

As the game started, the Lakers still used the inside offense that took advantage of the game and finally helped the team win. They wanted to defeat the Hornets again in this way. This is also a way to break the trick with force. This is what you can say when you reduce ten with one force.

Within the first three minutes of the game, the Lakers continued to occupy the wind with this style of play. They scored a 72 start.

At such a start, the Lakers' morale was greatly boosted, and the Lakers' audience also cheered and shouted. Everyone was quite satisfied with the start.

At this time, the ball finally returned to the Hornets.

The Lakers' tactics of playing hard inside the line went smoothly, and the Hornets could not take any advantage under their offensive and defensive systems.

And now, Paul handed the basketball over to Zhong Yu.

Zhong Yu controls the ball and hovers outside the three-point line. Needless to say, Kobe's defense against Zhong Yu is still quite strict. Kobe knows Zhong Yu's strength and knows that he can pose a threat to the Lakers. He is very hard when defending him.

It took Zhong Yu a lot of effort to break Kobe's defense, but at this time, Paul took the initiative to stand beside Zhong Yu, and then Zhong Yu broke through directly into the inside.

The Lakers' inside defense is very good. Zhong Yu didn't seem to find a chance and passed the basketball back to Paul. At this time, the one who defended Paul became Kobe.

Kobe knew Paul's combat effectiveness, so he didn't dare to relax. He could only defend Paul, but as soon as he defended, Paul's ball was passed to Zhong Yu.

Zhong Yu was already outside the three-point line at this time, and Kobe couldn't complete his defense. In this way, Fisher had to come nearby to defend Zhong Yu.

Zhong Yu was not under any pressure when facing the old fish Fisher. He directly jumped to the point where he didn't even have the chance to interfere.

"Swish!" His jump shot easily and the score became 75. The Hornets were two points behind.

"It's him again!" Seeing Zhong Yu scored again, the audience next to the basketball court were really angry. Zhong Yu jumped out to score at such a critical moment. However, Zen Master, Kobe, and several other Lakers players suddenly smelled some different smell in the ball just now - it seemed that the Hornets were playing something that was very unfavorable to them.

The game continued to begin. The Lakers missed the offense, and then the ball was back in the hands of the Hornets.

This time, the ball came to Zhong Yu's hands again, and West came to help Zhong Yu with the pick-and-roll. Of course, Zhong Yu entered the inside from West without any hesitation.

Kobe was blocked for a moment, and Odom could only defend Zhong Yu. In this way, the defense was misaligned again. Zhong Yu faced Odom. He was already in the first area and a false move to break through to the left. Then he quickly retracted the basketball and entered the depth of the inside from the right.

Gasol came to stop him, which caused Chandler's space to be vacant.

Zhong Yu passed the ball out, and Chandler immediately prepared the basket, but was disturbed by Admanovic and the basketball failed to hit.

Although they failed to win the ball, both Kobe and Zen master felt that it seemed that the Hornets really had their own plans.

Next, the Lakers missed the shot, but Gasol caught the rebound, and Gasol made a direct second attack, but the basketball was rejected by the basket.

The Lakers missed three consecutive attacks, Paul took the ball through half and began to break through.

As soon as he made such a breakthrough, the Lakers' inside line felt a bit overwhelming.

Although the Lakers have strict inside defense, even though they still have to take into account the outside line Zhong Yu, they cannot share more people with them to deploy inside.

And they dare not lose their position, otherwise they might have to be dunked by the opponent's inside line. So, Paul took advantage of the gap between them and went directly to the deepest part of the inside line, and then jumped up.

Basketball hit! Paul scored two points. In this way, the scores of both sides were dressed up as seven to seven.

The two teams fought against each other several times, but the success rate was not high. At this time, it was another pick-and-roll. Paul temporarily blocked Kobe, and then Zhong Yu moved over and faced the old fish Fisher again, and made a three-point jump shot.

Another three-pointer.

Zhong Yu has already made two three-pointers in this game.

Seeing this scene, the Zen master really knew what they were going to do, that is, to use flexible pick-and-roll from the outside to find opportunities for the team. It is best to play singles in a misplaced manner and give full play to the players' personal advantages.

Of course, it is obvious that this set of tactics is still centered on Zhong Yu and Paul.

Because no matter what kind of defensive players these two people face, they always have their own methods. Especially Zhong Yu, after the pick-and-roll, if he faces Odom like that, he can break through or choose to pass the ball. If he faces the old fish Fisher, then he is not polite... he takes action directly.

The old fish can't cover him anyway.

The power of the pick-and-roll was exerted. In many games of the Hornets this season, the pick-and-roll cooperation between Paul and Chandler, Paul and West, Paul and Zhong Yu created countless classic goals. The biggest reliance on the Hornets in tactics this season is also the pick-and-roll. Now the pick-and-roll has been used in a somewhat mutable way and is exerting its power.

13:10, the Hornets overtook the Lakers and the Lakers called out a timeout.

In response to the Hornets' pick-and-roll, Zen masters make everyone as vigilant as possible and pay attention to the Hornets' passing, which is best to destroy. In addition, they can try to rush the pick-and-roll players to the outside line so that they don't have the chance to score easily.

After all, this is an outside offense, too far from the basket, and the Hornets rely quite on individual performance, as well as their outside players.

The offense of outside players often depends on the feel, and the Lakers also have rebounding protection, so this arrangement seems more meaningful.

Can the Lakers protect rebounds?

The game continued to begin, and the Lakers were overtaken by three points. Now they will use the secret of the Zen master's face-to-face teaching to teach the Hornets a good lesson.

This time, the Lakers attacked.

They still gave it to the inside to play, but Gasol passed the ball very well. When he saw Kobe coming in from the outside, he seemed to have grasped the time and space, he threw the basketball to the ground. The basketball bounced up and just bounced into Kobe's hand.

Kobe made a jump shot directly and recovered two points.

The ball rights are back in the hands of the Hornets. The Lakers have just received the guidance of Zen masters. Now they are planning to find the Hornets' offensive plan, hoping to be strangled into the cradle by their pick-and-roll pass.

However, they miscalculated again. This time, Zhong Yu himself received a pass from Paul, followed by West's pick-and-roll and went straight into the inside.

Now, Odom was a little hesitant to go over to defend Zhong Yu, because West is also a good jumper. If he defends Zhong Yu at this time and lets West score a jumper, he will be under great pressure.

Odom hesitated for a moment and decided to defend Zhong Yu, but Zhong Yu ignored it at all, but increased the speed to the maximum and went directly to a place not far from the basket.

Gasol came to defend, and Zhong Yu pushed him, using his body to become stronger and stronger under the wedge mark, and pushed Gasol's basket.

Zhong Yu's basketball flew into the basket. In fact, the shot was not that comfortable, but he still made a shot.

The Zen master was really helpless. Although he had formulated the policy of driving the Hornets to the outside, Zhong Yu's scoring ability is not an exaggeration. If such a super scoring ability is really full of firepower and driving the Hornets to the outside, although it is not right, it may not have that much impact on Zhong Yu.

When I thought of this, the Zen master felt a little headache - the appearance of Zhong Yu was really a mess...

Now, he can only continue to watch the game for a while to see if the Lakers can solve the problem.

Zhong Yu himself has scored points in the first quarter. According to his momentum, Zhong Yu, who averaged 35 per game, is back.

He is back and scored. To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation.
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