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Chapter 803 [The first time you arrive, there is a dead end]

This week, the Warriors were in an internal strife crisis. Without any star injured and absent, they had a record of only 10 wins and 18 losses, ranking 12th in the West. What's worse is that the team's locker room atmosphere has already shown a trend of internal strife.

The incident of Kobe blaming Troy Murphy during training was exposed by the media, causing an uproar.

Kobe was dissatisfied with Murphy's lazy training and defensive garbage, and was extremely angry. He was like he wanted to build a Trojan and push it outside Murphy's house, hiding himself in the Trojan. When the night was late, he sneaked into Murphy's house and killed his whole family.

Murphy has a three-pointer, and as an inside offensive end, he rarely enters the three-second zone, and his defensive end is in the penalty area, and he enjoys grabbing the backcourt rebounds. The problem is that "big z" Ilgoskas is also a big man who rarely goes out of the penalty area. The Warriors do a very bad job of shooting when they encounter pick-and-roll interference with the guards.

Murphy didn't be polite to Kobe, and replied directly: "You like the defensive insider to go to the Pistons to find Ben Wallace. Why don't you refuse the Pistons to come to the Warriors?"

Although the media likes to say that Murphy is a soft boy, Murphy, who is 211cm tall and weighs 111kg, is not afraid of Kobe at all. He may be almost the same as playing basketball. Will he be afraid of people with a height of 198cm when fighting?

Even if the Warriors are traded, Murphy is not afraid. Xia Tian had just renewed a five-year, $50 million contract with the Warriors. Even if he was traded, he would make a lot of money. Kobe thought his defense was bad, so he wanted to change to a strong team to win the championship.

Afterwards, Murphy was interviewed and said innocently: "He said I was bad at defense and thought I didn't work hard in defense, but I swear to do my best to defend. I have my own style of playing. He wants me to become a super defensive player and I can become that way?"

Kobe was a little confused. A second-rate player dared to question him? Then he realized that he was no longer the boss of the Lakers who could be willful, and no one here was willing to coax him.

When Kobe was in the Lakers, he could beat Bogut, but Bogut dared not respond. The Lakers are Kobe's team, and he is a senior who has played for 11 years. Murphy, who is one level lower than Bogut, dares to challenge publicly because Kobe has just arrived, and Murphy has been playing for the Warriors and is a six-year veteran.

In this case, neither the Warriors boss nor the manager will stand on Kobe's side.

Less than one-third of the season at the beginning, you just want to drive away the team's inside old man? Can you find an inside All-Star who is willing to partner with you before speaking?

Regardless of whether Murphy is a data brush or not, he was an inside player with an average of 14+10 per game last season. This type of air-removing inside player is difficult to find, so the Warriors have always been reluctant to trade him. When Kobe came, he targeted Murphy, thinking that the Warriors were his family?

Murphy's defense is indeed bad, everyone knows it, but some words should not be said by Kobe. Is head coach Mike Woodson a decoration?

Kobe has not only Murphy who has criticized the teammates in the team, but others have complaints, but they are not so powerful. Before Murphy clashed with him, he thought that doing so would help his teammates improve and would be "loved" as much as he was in the Lakers.

Those who have been teammates with Kobe will say that Kobe is not easy to get along with. Even in ordinary training matches, Kobe will still swear trash to his teammates. In the interview, Kobe said that he had scolded his teammates to cry.

When the reporter asked who was scolded and cried, Kobe actually said that it was not just one player who had been scolded and cried. A young European player was scolded and cried easily by Kobe. Kobe said that he just said, "You should rethink what your life goal is." Something like this, but he collapsed.

When the Warriors Kobe wanted to continue to show his leadership temperament, his teammates didn't like this at all. They were used to people like Joe Johnson who didn't say anything, and they also like Davis' humor and wit, and they didn't like Kobe who imposes his personal will on others.

After all, in some aspects, their fathers are not as broad as Kobe's, and they are scolding them fiercely.

It’s nothing but criticizing the teammates’ poor strength. The conflict between Kobe and Davis is even more serious, and that is a conflict on the ball.

After a while in the team, the two began to be hostile to each other. They never said a good word from each other at the press conference and could hardly communicate in the locker room. The two core members did not speak, and others dared not say much. The atmosphere in the Warriors locker room became like a prison.

The last guy Woodson coached was Nash, who wanted to copy some of the Hawks to the Warriors. Davis is an attacking point guard who needs to hold the ball to exert his power. This was how Joe Johnson played last season, and he could play with balls and without balls.

Kobe is also a person who must take the ball to attack. He said that playing without the ball means that teammates are out of the ball and do not give the point guard any chance. The defender he partnered with is responsible for dribbling the ball through the half. For example, if he and Ellis were on the Lakers, Ellis would have to be a fixed-point pitcher with no range.

Davis and Kobe's positions overlap seriously. Davis dribbled the ball over halftime and did not pass Kobe, but directly held the ball to play the pick-and-roll. Kobe wanted to stare at him. On the contrary, if Kobe held the ball and attacked, Davis would have to catch the ball and shoot, and the shooting percentage could not be guaranteed.

Davis has made many three-pointers in the past two seasons, almost all of which are chasing three-pointers when counterattacking. The low shooting percentage of the ball is pitifully not the rhythm he likes.

Woodson couldn't let the two cooperate tacitly, so he could only lean on one side. Kobe was much more famous and got more ball rights, which was similar to his playing style when he was with the Lakers, averaging 27 points, 5.5 rebounds, 5.1 assists per game, and a shooting percentage of 46.2%.

Davis was finished without the ball. He averaged 37 minutes per game and only scored 15.3 points and 6.4 assists. His shooting percentage was a pitiful 38.9%, his three-point shooting percentage was 33.3%, and he averaged 1.9 three-point shooting percentage.

Davis couldn't accept this data. After discussing with the economic man, he was ready to propose a deal to the management, and tried to leave the team in the mid-term to go to a weak team who could get the ball rights and was willing to renew his high salary and long-term contract with him.

His contract has 17.8 million yuan left for one year and expires in 2009. He is 30 years old and should still be able to get a big contract. It would be impossible to stay with the Warriors at a glance. He knew that his strength was not as good as Kobe. The Warriors would probably choose to let him go and use the free salary space to sign Kobe's favorite partner.

Davis' other option is to jump out of the contract in 2008, but that is very bad for him, because his data has dropped sharply this season. Will there be a team willing to give him a high salary?

As for whether the fans think he was squeezed away by Kobe, that is not a question he needs to consider. Fans can just say whatever they want. Kobe's arrival has indeed made his position very embarrassing.

What's amazing is that Rollden and Kobe also overlapped their positions. He averaged 16.6 points, 6.2 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game, and his shooting percentage was 47.7%, which was the team's second scorer, but he didn't feel comfortable playing.

Luo Er Deng knows everything, is not good at anything, he almost doesn't shoot three-pointers, and averages only 0.3 shots per game, and his shooting percentage of 36.4% is weak. His offensive area is very similar to Kobe, with 48% shooting at the basket and close range, and a large two-pointer account for 37.3%.

Center Big Z does not shoot three-pointers, so she can only pull out the central shot. The weakness on the defensive end is that she can only move near the penalty area. The Cavaliers traded Big Z for this. The weakness in the regular season is not obvious, because there are many games and fewer matches against strong teams. When entering the playoffs, they encounter a defender with accurate three-pointers, and they are dead end.

In fact, the Warriors are now inseparable from Murphy's three-pointer, and they must be allowed to play for a long time. His defense is at the black hole level. How can Kobe not hurry to figure this out?

With such a bad chemistry, it is not easy for the Warriors to win 10 games.
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