You'd better wrap me

Chapter 325 The Only One in History
After the second game, the Clippers got three days off.

As usual, Su Yang rested for half a day. In the afternoon, he casually watched the Lakers play the Mavericks. The NBA officially announced through the TNT live broadcast that he won the MVP for the second time. Immediately afterwards, he received a congratulatory email from the official, followed by congratulations from his teammates and company colleagues.

Rao has already won it three times, but as the first player in NBA and ABA history to win four consecutive MVPs, Su Yang still feels very excited. He immediately set up the camera, took two children and Alba six daughters, and recorded Video thanks and congratulations.

Discussions from all walks of life broke out simultaneously on platforms such as Twitter.

Kevin Pelton, the number one 'Su fan' tweeted: "Since the establishment of the NBA and ABA, the players who have won three consecutive MVPs are Bill Russell 60-63, Will Chamberlain 65-68, Larry Bird 83-86, and Su Yang became the first player in history to win four consecutive MVPs. He averaged 31.4 points, 11.59 assists and 10.1 rebounds per game this season, and averaged a triple-double for the second consecutive season. He scored a season-high 74 points in the game, scored 60+ points in a single game many times, and led the team in steals four times in a row, leading the team to win 70+ games for the fourth consecutive season. He deserves his name.”

Reporter Max Stein reposted Kevin Pelton's tweet and wrote: "Su Yang's four consecutive MVPs are indeed well deserved, and he does not have any threatening opponents, but according to sources, the delay in the announcement of the MVP ownership is due to In order to confirm whether Su Yang has won the vote of MVP for four consecutive times, the league repeatedly collected and collected the votes of all commentators and reporters.

Four consecutive MVP honors are too exaggerated, as strong as Jordan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar have never done it, the league hopes that there is no mistake. "

Number one 'So Black' Bill Simmons tweeted: "Once again! Su Yang has done something that Michael Jordan and no other player has ever done. I officially declare that I am a Su Yang fan from this tweet, He's number one in history."

After recording the video, Su Yang casually checked the news and saw the comments. He thought that in previous years, the MVP would be announced in the first or second game of the second round. Most of the main MVP winners have home court advantage, which is convenient for the team to arrange. Awards ceremony.

Simply celebrate for a while, watch the game, the Lakers and Mavericks scored overtime again, and finally Kobe faced Kidd and switched defenses for the lore.

The strength of the Mavericks amazed the commentators from all walks of life, but some commentators pointed out that the Mavericks played inextricably against the Clippers in the regular season before. Johnson, but since Avery Johnson was weakened by Cuban because he tried to restore Josh Howard, the internal friction problem has been resolved.

Generally speaking, it is a bad thing for the team's head coach to be restricted in power, but the Mavericks are in a special situation, and Kidd's organizational skills are too strong.

Cuban is playing right and wrong, and he actually gave full play to the true strength of Nowitzki, McGrady, Kidd, Terry, Josh Howard, Jason Terry and Stackhouse as the main lineup, and the backup point guard Tyronn Lu was actually a bit of an off-court coach, which allowed the Mavericks to exert their strength in the second half, and finally ranked third in the Western Conference to enter the playoffs, unexpectedly gaining home court advantage.

The well-known 'Su Hei' Chris Bunty once again emphasized that the Lakers and Mavericks played too hard, which will benefit the Clippers in the Western Conference Finals.That kind of statement still underestimates the Spurs. Some fans commented that it was a provocative method against the Spurs, hoping that the Spurs can consume the Clippers later.

In the early morning of the next day, the Clippers officially released the news, announcing that Su Yang’s four consecutive MVP awards ceremony will be held at NO.13, and the venue is scheduled to be held at the Youtube Center. All media and fans are invited to witness the event. No need to buy tickets, invitations will be sent out one after another mail.

All invited personnel will get a Su Yang's picture album in the later stage, which contains a collection of famous scenes such as Su Yang's lore and dunk, covering Su Yang's high school to the finals.Anyway, for the first four consecutive MVPs in history, it is necessary to do something special.

A few minutes after the news was sent out, the popular presidential candidate Obama forwarded the message and wrote: I must be invited, I must be there, I am a loyal fan of Su Yang, he is the link between the two minority groups of blacks and Asians, I Hearty congratulations to him.

Su Yang saw Obama's tweet and forwarded it to thank him. Then he got 200 invitations from the public relations department and handed it over to Yanxi and Ivanka to draw up the invitation list. Yanxi is mainly in charge of the Chinese circle, and Ivanka Responsible for political and business circles.

In the afternoon, Su Yang rushed to the airport and flew to San Antonio with the Clippers teammates.On the plane, Iguodala's teammates, Spoelstra and other coaches congratulated each other in person again, and assistant coach Payton jokingly said: "As your teammate, I have made a great contribution to your four consecutive MVPs. I think I am qualified to win A better gift than ever, and so will they!"

Veteran Mickey Moore followed suit, and Su Yang nodded again and again: "Of course! I've already decided to give each of you an exclusive pure gold + jade photo album, which will contain special photos of my interaction with each of you, as well as the whole team. Big moment, I made the design with reference to the upcoming Olympic medals, I bet this will be the most awesome MVP gift of all..."

Cheers echoed through the cabin.

The whole team landed in San Antonio instead, and watched the game after having dinner at night. The Bulls in the East defeated Green Kai in the North Shore Garden and won two consecutive away games. The hope of promotion was greatly improved. force.

Early the next morning, the whole team resumed joint training.

As usual, I watched the video of the second game first, but both games were big victories, so there was really nothing to study in detail, so I simply deduced the changes that the Spurs might make.Su Yang took advantage of the opportunity to suggest that the Spurs might allow Duncan to give the ball directly to the weak side, reducing the transmission process of ABCD and speeding up the Spurs' shot rhythm. Anyway, the Spurs' previous strategy of separating themselves from Duncan was not effective.

Spoel nodded in agreement, and then said: "In addition to speeding up the pace, I predict that they will seek more space. In the past when the Spurs were desperate, Popovich liked to put Ginobili on the starting lineup and disrupt the opponent through a large number of off-ball cuts. Formation, which in turn helps other Spurs shooters get better shot space, that way of playing, just restrains our double-team rotation strategy."

Assistant coaches such as Su Yang and Hornacek nodded in agreement. Compared with Finley's stance, cutting without the ball requires attention to both of them at the same time.

Discuss, and the training begins.

In the twinkling of an eye at [-]:[-] pm, the third game between the Clippers and the Spurs in the Western Conference semifinals started at the ATT Center in San Antonio.

As discussed and predicted before the game, the Spurs really changed. Popovich arranged for Manu Ginobili to start. Michael Finley's status in the team further declined. Probably that was his fate. Can't sit still.

The arena cheered everywhere, and the Clippers won the jump ball.

Su Yang leads across the center line, raises his hand to command the corner position, and hits an Iverson cut+STS to cover the starting hand.Seeing this, Ray Allen started from the right wing, covered by Chandler and Millsap, and ran across the free throw line to the left four or five, but Parker chased closely and did not have a chance, Millsap followed closely with Chandler's cover , running from the left side of the free throw line to the right elbow.

There are not many new ideas in tactics, it all depends on the Spurs' defensive choices.

In the blink of an eye, Duncan went up to delay Millsap and chose to leave Chandler to Kurt Thomas, which was airtight.

Seeing that both Ray Allen and Millsap had no chance to escape, Su Yang bowed and prepared to break through.Seeing Su Yang's movement, Chandler tacitly mentioned that the wall at the top of the arc was blocking Ginobili, and Ray Allen moved from the left fourth and fifth to the left corner simultaneously, while Ego, who was standing in the left corner before, Darla, started in a hurry and ran to the right along the baseline, the Clippers team moved, pulling the Spurs formation.

Space appeared, Su Yang pushed the ball and started to break through to the left, ignoring Ginobili's little trick of pulling, and rushed to the left waist.

Thomas hurriedly let go of Chandler to help defend, and Duncan replaced Chandler almost at the same time, and the defense was still airtight.

The difficulty of scoring at the basket suddenly increased.

Su Yang immediately slowed down, stepped back to collect the ball and raised his hands to prepare. He flew towards Thomas and easily jumped out of his hand to shoot.

The basketball slammed into the net hollowly.

The boos stopped abruptly.

Popovich clapped his hands and shouted: "Good defense! Good defense!" He thought that making the four-time MVP winner spend a lot of effort to score is definitely a good defense. It is impossible to expect a complete lock-up, and it can even be said not to let Su Yang relax. An assist counts as a success.

Offensive and defensive transitions on the field.

As predicted from the Clippers before the game, Duncan took the ball from the right waist to support, and when Ginobili made a cross screen with Bowen, he suddenly turned around and rushed to the basket, causing Iguodala and Ray Allen to switch defenses Slow, which eventually led to Ginobili catching the ball and attacking the basket to score.

Originally, Millsap could help defend and interfere a little, but because Kurt Thomas provided Parker with a cover to block Su Yang, he subconsciously made him prepare to prevent Parker from making a sudden stop and back-run, and finally missed the opportunity.In any case, the Spurs team is moving. It is no longer the previous mode where Duncan passed the ball to A after being double-teamed, and then passed to BCDE. The offensive choice is difficult to predict easily.

But all are expected by the Clippers.

Changing sides for the Clippers to attack, Horn Flare starts, Millsap stands on the right corner and pulls Thomas, Iguodala stands on the left elbow and uses Su Yang and Chandler to make continuous screen cuts, but Duncan shrinks the screen and fails No alley-oop dunk opportunities occurred.

Seeing this, Su Yang ran to the right and used Chandler to cover up to get rid of it. Unfortunately, he was blocked by Ginobili as soon as he received the ball. Chandler crossed the screen to get rid of Ginobili, Millsap returned a pass, and tried to fly to make up the defense but was too late for Duncan, so he threw a three-pointer and the basketball slammed into the net.

"Since you're forcing me to make a move, you're welcome!"

Su Yang strode back to defend, thinking that the Spurs' defensive strategy was very clear, and he didn't want to waste too much energy on himself, because the more he put in, the easier it was to be defeated by a strong counterattack, so he simply defended the whole process alone, nothing more than letting himself take 55 The difference between points and 40 points.

But if he scored 40 points, it is very likely that other Clippers will score 80 points. Compared with his own score of 55 points, the rest of the Clippers score around 40 points, which is completely acceptable. Very rare.

After thinking about it, the Spurs attacked.

As expected, Duncan saw that Manu Ginobili didn't get a chance to make an air cut, and directly passed the ball to Kurt Thomas, who had just finished covering for Parker in the left elbow area, and Thomas caught the ball and raised his hand to make a mid-range shot. Then fell into the Nets.

The Spurs' offensive end has changed again, no longer blindly seeking a clear-cut three-point shot, and striving for more possibilities.

The two teams came and went, and the scoring was very tight. After halftime, the Clippers led the Spurs by 56 points 54 to 2.

Back in the locker room, Su Yang concluded his speech: "In this half of the game, the Spurs tried their best to shorten the rotation. Michael Finley only played 6 minutes, and Kurt Thomas only played 4 minutes. What I did was play the strongest third quarter, break down their defense and build a winning foundation, and get the match point 3-0!"

The Clippers cheered and cheered.

Then the third quarter started. Su Yang took the lead to speed up and beat Parker in a row. On the defensive end, a lot of backcourt pressing disrupted the rhythm of Parker and the Spurs. Parker quickly made 7 of 2, and Duncan made 5 with double-teaming. Among them, the key is that the five starters played for 12 minutes, 28 to 11 in a single quarter, and entered the fourth quarter with a 19-point lead, while Su Yang continued to play without rest.

With Su Yang leading the team, the first part of the fourth quarter passed steadily. Iguodala and Ray Allen returned one after another. scored a 111-94 lead.

Participating in the press conference after the game, the reporter asked that it felt unreal, how could he suddenly win 28 to 11 in a single quarter by 17 points to lay the foundation for victory, and how did he do it.Su Yang replied sincerely: "We tried our best! That was our strongest defensive state. Our five starters played for 12 minutes, and the Spurs had shortened the rotation before, and their physical strength..."

The interview was soon reported.

Well-known commentator Stephen Smith tweeted: "Before, Su Yang would directly tell reporters that the overall strength of the Spurs is not as good as the Clippers, but since he became a father, his words have become more tactful, and his performance on the court has become more low-key.

How long have we not seen his personal dunks?
How long has it been since we saw him in Death Coil?
How long has it been since we've seen his extreme pull-up?
He is no longer the guy who steals his teammates and shoots lore at the McDonald's All-Stars. He is no longer yelling at his opponents that you better double-team me. Maybe the Olympic Games in August will be the strongest dream team after playing against Dream [-]. See him all over again. "

After the third game, we rested for another three days.

San Antonio was really boring. Su Yang squatted in the hotel and held a meeting like the company did. By the way, he decided on the list of invited guests to the MVP awards ceremony. Together with Yanxi and Ivanka, he made plans for those guests to come and go. He wished he could send someone to pick them up one by one.

The best first team and best first defense were announced at the same time. Su Yang was selected for the fourth consecutive time, but it was a pity that he was the second defense in the first year.

In the East, the Bulls’ youth team was full of momentum. They won the Celtics at home and led the series 3-0. The Heat also won three games in a row without Billups and Big Ben Pistons. Advantage, more practice shots.

In the West, the Mavericks defeated the Lakers in overtime at home again. Kidd scored a rare 26 points and hit all the main open shots.

No. 11 the next day, the Clippers played against the Spurs again.

Su Yang got two fouls in the first 3 minutes because he was close to Parker, so he had to take a break temporarily, let Morris Peterson play, and then let Iguodala go to the open. freed.

After the first quarter, the Clippers trailed by 8 points.

Su Yang came on stage ahead of schedule to lead the team into the second quarter, but the Spurs gritted their teeth and continued their short rotation. Duncan came on the stage after only a 2-minute break. He abruptly maintained an 8-point lead and did not relax, and he shot more three-pointers very big. Pretty good multiple hits.

The strongest offensive of the Clippers in the third quarter was terminated early because of four fouls by Su Yang and three fouls by Chandler. After entering the fourth quarter, Spoelstra simply withdrew the main force ahead of time. After the game was over, the Clippers lost 99 to 110 For the Spurs, the series scored 3-1.

Although the Spurs won, there were no commentators who praised them after the game. At most, they mentioned that the Spurs made 24 of 13 three-pointers.

The so-called home whistle + good luck.

The Clippers flew back to Los Angeles and had a day off to play against the Spurs. Before the game, Stern came to the scene and held a grand four-game MVP award ceremony for Su Yang. In the end, Su Yang scored 38 points, 14 assists and 14 rebounds, leading the team 101 to 79 Big win.

The series advanced 4-1, the Clippers waited for the Lakers and Mavericks, and the Mavericks narrowly beat the Lakers away to win Tianwangshan.

Faced with the Mavericks leading 3-2, Su Yang and his teammates were a little surprised, as were the commentators and fans. Su Yang then accepted a telephone interview with ESPN, bluntly believing that the Lakers can win in Dallas and bring the game back to the Los Angeles.

The reason why I want the Lakers to win is simply that I don't want to fly to Dallas to play an away game. How comfortable it is to fight in the same city.

After the interview, the Clippers resumed joint training.

The whole team watched the game against the Mavericks and the Lakers together. As a result, Garnett sprained his ankle at the beginning of the game, and the Lakers lost their barrier inside. Eliminate the Lakers.

"I never expected this!"

"The Western Conference finals actually beat the Mavericks!"

"I'm not used to the Lakers!"

(End of this chapter)