Chapter 530 - The Season Continues 10 (1/2)
If this dispute between Allen Iverson and Kobe Bryant was in a few years in the future Jake would want to watch, after all, in the future, Kobe would be an excellent defensive player and would also attack even better, but in this game, Jake preferred to defend against Allen Iverson.
”Welcome to everyone who came to watch this game this NBA season, in this game the Philadelphia 76ers team that is playing at home faces the Los Angeles Lakers team.”
”The Philadelphia 76ers team is having a good season with 13 wins and 9 losses, with Allen Iverson as the big star of this team they have been achieving good victories and can reach the playoffs this season.”
”The Los Angeles Lakers team is playing the fourth game as a visiting visitor, yet they haven't lost any of the last 3 games, they have a great start to the season with 24 wins and just 1 loss in 25 games.”
”So half of this season is over and the Los Angeles Lakers team has just 1 loss, with Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant and Jake Smith the Los Angeles Lakers team has the best attack that has worked very well this season.”
”The Philadelphia 76ers team has one of the best saves this season and with Allen Iverson, they can beat this Los Angeles Lakers team.”
The Los Angeles Lakers team would start that game with Jake Smith playing as PG, Kobe Bryant playing as SG, Rick Fox playing as SF, Robert Horry playing as PF, and Shaquille O'Neal playing as Center.
The Philadelphia 76ers team would start this game with Eric Snow playing as PG, Allen Iverson playing as SG, George Lynch playing as SF, Tyrone Hill playing as PF, and Matt Geiger playing as Center.
The game started with Shaquille O'Neal winning the first ball possession for the Los Angeles Lakers, Shaq passed the ball to Jake who started organizing the attack, Jake moved forward and passed the ball to Rick Fox on the left.
Rick was not playing very well in those last games, he knew that coach Rambis just did not replace him because he had no other good players in the SF position to play as his replacement and because Rick was scoring more than 10 points in most games.
Rick received the ball and George Lynch arrived pressing on defense, Rick held the ball a little and passed it to Kobe Bryant on the right, Kobe received the ball and Allen Iverson arrived pressing on defense.
Kobe tried a feint to try to deceive the opponent and made a crossover to try to advance to the internal area, Iverson was not deceived and managed to continue well in the defense, Kobe made another feint and managed to advance for the left quickly.
Kobe drive to the basket and tried the layup to make 2 points for the Los Angeles Lakers team, Kobe didn't play well in the last game and wanted to have a good performance in that game, especially because he wanted to show Jake that he was able to defend and attack.
Of course, Jake knew better than Kobe how skillful he was and how he would be even better in the future, but Jake knew that although Kobe is currently a player who helps in defense he did not play as well against very skilled opponents in the attack.
Soon the Philadelphia 76ers team went on the attack to try to tie the game, Erick Snow advanced with the ball and passed to Allen Iverson on the left, Iverson received the ball and Kobe came pressing on the defense.
Iverson did not expect this intensity in defense since the beginning of the game, Iverson held the ball and passed it to Lynch on the right, Lynch received the ball and Rick arrived at the defense, Lynch made a feint and managed to trick Rick, so Lynch tried a mid-shot range to score 2 points for the Philadelphia 76ers.
The two teams were pressing in the attack and the Philadelphia 76ers team were better in defense, Jake advanced with the ball and passed to Kobe on the right, Kobe received the ball and Iverson arrived pressing in defense.
Kobe held the ball a little and passed the ball to Rick from the left, Rick tried to make a feint to deceive the opponent, but Lynch was not deceived, so Rick passed the ball to Jake further back.
Jake received the ball and Snow arrived pressing in defense, Jake advanced with the ball and made a feint to deceive the opponent, Jake deceived Snow and advanced using his speed for the attack.
Snow still tried to keep up with the defense, but Jake was faster and advanced with the ball, Jake advanced to the inside area and Matt Geiger tried to defend against him, Jake saw Geiger coming to defend and passed the ball to Shaq later on.
Shaq received the ball without anyone defending against him, so Shaq advanced and scored 2 more points with a dunk for the Los Angeles Lakers, Shaq praised Jake for the good move and they went back to the defense.
Even though Jake was the highlight of the team today and scored more points than all his teammates, Jake was highly respected by his teammates and no one was jealous of him.