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Chapter 772 After the First Battle

After the Spurs won the first game at home, the momentum of the whole team suddenly rose.

This is the finals, taking the lead first is a psychological advantage for either side.

After the game, Popovich was also satisfied with the team's performance. He pointed out that when the scores of the two teams were anxious, the players were able to withstand the pressure, respond calmly, and make timely self-adjustments. This is the key to the Spurs' victory today.

In particular, he praised the old sports car Parker. Parker showed FMVP-level field control ability in the second half, successfully helping the team stabilize the situation in the crisis and suppressing the Heat's counterattack.

Of course, he also criticized certain people on the team, who were whimsical, grandstanding, and doing everything to win attention. Popovich said that he would give appropriate severe punishment to such players, and he also called on the league to put an end to this kind of atmosphere. Spread blah blah blah...

When Popovich was spitting on the stage and talking endlessly, the reporters in the audience were really embarrassed. The locals in San Antonio were better. When the recorder was turned on, they took the opportunity to doze off. Everyone who saw this kind of scene didn't know how to make the old man stop.

The agreed old guy is usually not very good at interviews?Why did you talk so much?

Moreover, after talking so much, it is really hard to say how much can be used.

Several interview routines of Popovich summarized by Al-Quds Media:
1. The things he tells you on his own initiative must be unbelievable.

2. What he is willing to reveal to you must be unbelievable.

3. Even the punctuation marks in what he said in the general interview are not credible.

4. Except for the first sentence at the beginning and the sentence at the end of the interview, the rest of the interview is not credible.

Well, knowing these 4 laws, the rest of the true and false is up to the reporter's own flexible judgment. Anyway, the Spurs have never had serious news, so why not.

"Coach Popovich, what is your goal for the next game? Is it to continue to defend the home court?"

This one looks like a reporter from Miami. The team is losing, and I feel upset.

"Well... if we can win, of course we will continue to win, but we don't care about this issue now, we will only take every game seriously, that's all."

An old handsome is an old handsome, but he just doesn't answer directly. It seems to make sense whether he is confident or not.

"So what do you think of the opponent's performance in today's game?"

The reporter in Miami immediately changed the question, hoping to hear the evaluation of the Heat from Popovich's mouth.

"The opponent, the opponent is great. I always think that Miami is a good team. Three talented young people who are in their prime are gathered together. They are destined to do great things." Popovich Start talking nonsense, if according to his words, the Heat are great, so what is the Spurs that beat them?
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After the first game, Popovich gave the whole team a day off. The atmosphere in the finals was quite tense. In order not to put them under too much pressure, Popovich would give them time to relax.

Of course, it is not a simple matter for young players to relax themselves at this time.

There are always one or two energetic people who cannot relax.

No, in the team training hall, the two figures were still there one-on-one.

Judging from the sweat on the two of them, they should have been here for a long time.

The attacking guy suddenly rushed to the inside line, the defensive figure did not dodge, but went forward without fear, the two collided heavily, at the same time, the attacking guy raised his hand suddenly Throw the basketball in the basket towards the hoop.

"Bang, bang, swish—"

This throw is okay, although it is not very straightforward to score, but it is still scored after a while.

"Tsk, it should be right, LeBron played like this in the last game."

Naturally, it was Qin Yan who imitated James' attack. Although he scored the goal, it always felt a little bit wrong.

"Still not right, his throw is better than yours."

Leonard, who was knocked away, gently touched his chest, which was slightly numb from Qin Yan's bump, but he still pointed out what was wrong with Qin Yan.

Yes, James' throws are basically hollow balls.

Yes, the two did not listen to Popovich's arrangement to go back for vacation, but spontaneously came to the training hall for extra training.

The content of the additional training is also very simple, it is a simulation exercise for James.

Although the Spurs won the last game, it was based on the godly operation at the end of the second quarter. Without that wave of offensive frenzy, the Spurs really might not have won.

Especially in the last game, to be honest, the Spurs did not do well in restricting James, especially Leonard's frontal defense against James was not successful.

The most important reason is that James learned to throw.

So today Qin Yan specially imitated James' move and asked Leonard to find a way to crack it.

"Kawhi, I'm not very good at throwing shots, it's good to be able to hit like this."

Qin Yan was a little dumbfounded. He didn't regard throwing as a conventional weapon. If it wasn't for helping Leonard today, he wouldn't fight like this.

"I said, have you found a way to break James' style of play? This kind of imitation is very tiring."

Qin Yan sat down on the floor and began to take off his clothes at the same time. The clothes were heavy and full of sweat.

Tired, from four o'clock in the morning when Leonard called him out of his bed, and now the two of them are sweating and out of breath. He has been practicing here with Leonard for a full five hours !

"……No."

Leonard also sat directly on the ground, lifted the clothes on his body that could be squeezed, wiped his strong sweat, and then took them off.

The two of them still had towels and the like in their carry-on backpacks, and after taking them off, they quickly changed into spare training clothes, otherwise the two of them would catch a cold in a while.

If you can't participate in the next game because of a cold from extra training, needless to say, these two guys will be dragged out by the head coach to kill them.

"His throwing should be specially practiced to deal with the two of us. If he can't stop it, then forget it. Anyway, throwing can't kill the game."

After Qin Yan changed his clothes, he began to think about it. During the regular season this season, he didn't hear that James would drop the ball. He didn't know that he made this move suddenly in the last game. He understood that it was to deal with the Spurs.

"Your stance is, let him shoot in the next game?"

"That's right, defend if you can, and let him go if you can't. If he can really kill us all by himself, then we have nothing to say." Qin Yan thinks that with the current book strength of the Spurs, let James alone It is a better choice for people to score and strangle others.

"Then let's try this for the second game." After Leonard finished speaking, he stood up from the floor and walked to the weight room.

"What are you going to do?"

Qin Yan still sat on the ground and didn't want to move. He was already very tired after being pulled as a training partner.

"Practice strength, I'm not like you and LeBron, you two are not human."

"Hey, hey, just practice, don't say it so ugly..."

"Two monsters!"

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(End of this chapter)