After changing careers, I became No.1 in basketball

Chapter 324 Chapter 323: Hei Ba doesn't have a miracle?Key characters return!

As a young man, Popovich served as an intelligence officer and was sent to perform missions in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

So the future Steve Nash once said: "The scariest thing about the Spurs is that they have a particularly terrible coach. That old man was once a spy stationed in the Soviet Union. God knows how many evil ideas he has in his mind."

After finishing speaking, Nash was knocked out by the Spurs in the next game.

Killing and silence is like the usual method of intelligence personnel.

Popovich doesn't know how many ghost ideas are in his mind, but his military career as a young man taught him to be meticulous, demanding and disciplined.

He replicated all of this on the Spurs.

And with these excellent qualities and Tim Duncan in place, the San Antonio Spurs have risen completely!

In 99, in the original history, it was the first year in the history of the Spurs to win the championship trophy.

That season, the Spurs lost only two games in the playoffs and won the championship.

And, also swept the OK Lakers 4-0.The big shark, which was already in full swing at the time, was blown upside down by a second-year idiot.

This is why, ten or twenty years later, the narrow-minded sharks will still say: "The championship in the shrinking season has no gold content! The Spurs championship does not mean anything at all!"

He couldn't bear the fact that he was swept 4-0 by the Spurs, so he kept belittling the 99 champion.

The Spurs in 99 were indeed strong, and today's Spurs have further improved their strength because they have absorbed Pippen, the strongest third in history.

It is the only team that can get 40 wins this season!

The Spurs twin towers were unscrupulous and abused the entire league.

Therefore, it is understandable that Popovich looked down on the Lakers.

Popovich's imaginary enemies are the Jazz, the Suns, the Heat and the Pacers.

Los Angeles Lakers?
Just a team that just made it to the playoffs after working their ass off, and a team that lost to us three times in one season.

In fact, the team that Popovich most wants to meet in the first round is precisely the Lakers!
He wants to trample on the former league king first, and then win the championship.

There is no better handover ceremony than this!

The Lakers dynasty is history!
As soon as Popovich spoke, the media in the holy city also began to act like monsters, and they all began to be eccentric:

"There are still two games left in the regular season, and the eighth Lakers haven't been fully confirmed yet, so you're thinking about the miracle of the black eighth?"

"The Lakers fans have been ignorant of the concept of the eighth in the Western Conference playing the first in the Western Conference for too long. They are still immersed in the days when they suddenly killed the Quartet in the playoffs. As everyone knows, the situation has changed."

"Black Eight? This is the funniest joke I've ever heard.

In the top four in the Western Conference, the Lakers with Shai only won an old Rocket, and the Suns, Jazz and Spurs still couldn't beat them.

No one really thinks that the Lakers' current ranking is due to playing against a strong team, right?They can only brutalize lottery teams. "

The media in San Antonio hasn't been this active in years.

Although they had an admiral before, but the admiral is small and thin, and he is the one who gets blasted by other superstars every time!
Finally found a best defensive player Rodman to assist the general, but Rodman was not obedient.

The most angry thing is that after Rodman left the Lakers, he showed a very brilliant performance and won the championship ring.

This incident has always seemed that Popovich is a fool who buries his genius, and that the general is a person with no leadership ability.

In short, in the past few years, although the Spurs have basically been a strong team in the Western Conference, the media and fans in the Holy City are too aggrieved.

The Spurs, a phoenix tail that has been stepped on by strong teams, are not as good as chicken heads.

Now that the Spurs have become so powerful, the Holy City media and fans are naturally extremely retaliatory.

Those who bullied us back then will now be liquidated one by one!Now, we're going from under attack!

The Lakers are the first to be liquidated!
The clamor of the holy city media has completely heated up the enthusiasm for the first round of the playoffs.

Marbury watched the TV talking about the most high-profile eighth VS first in history, and suddenly became angry.

You guys don't take my Political Commissar Ma too seriously! ?
The regular season isn't over yet!It is not certain who is the eighth in the West!

I really want to slap him to death, how dare you say that?In the last game, if you had a brain twitch and had to kick the cobra and you were sent off, how could we lose?

It's no wonder that people have completely ignored the Timberwolves, because the Lakers faced the lottery Celtics and Mavericks in the last two games. The Lakers really didn't want to win, and these two teams had to support the Lakers to win.

For the Lakers, the battle for a playoff spot has reached a critical moment.

For the Celtics and Mavericks, the lottery battle has reached a critical moment.

Especially Lukay, they missed Duncan in 97 and Nowitzki in 98, everything went wrong.

This year, they really don't want to miss Yao Ming again!

So in the game, the Green Kai players even temporarily forgot the feud between the Lakers and the Celtics, and the audience frantically performed badly.

In the 7th minute of the third quarter, Antoine Walker passed the ball to the inside teammate Potapanko in an attack.But at that time, Potapanko was defended by Big Ben, which means that he had no room to catch the ball at all.

Of course, it's not that you can't feed the ball to the teammate in front of you. In fact, as long as you hang the ball accurately enough, you can pass the ball to the inside teammate through the defensive player.

But when Antoine Walker faced Potapanko who was circled, he passed a ground strike!The basketball bounced steadily back into Daben's hands, and Daben stuck around and even completed a steal!
Don't try to analyze Antoine Walker's brain circuit. After all, he is a strange person who is questioned "Why do you shoot so many three-pointers" and answers everyone "Because there is no four-point line in the league".

On Lukai's bench, head coach Rick Pitino was trying to hold back his laughter.

With the rotten artifact Walker in hand, Green Kyle doesn't have to worry about losing at all!
Lukai and Mavericks are basically in this way.

Faced with such a request to actively ask for sex, how could the Lakers go against the other party's wishes?
Therefore, the Lakers won the last two games steadily.

Although the Timberwolves also won the last two games, in the end they were kicked out of the playoffs with a gap of one game.

The Lakers finally entered the top eight in the Western Conference with a record of 26 wins and 24 losses this season!
In the 21 games of Shay's return, the Lakers only lost 3 games, and the winning rate was 86%!

If sorted by winning percentage, the record of the Lakers can rank first in both East and West!
Therefore, the media in Los Angeles are promoting: "The true strength of the Lakers is at the level of the top four in the Western Conference!"

In this way, after the last game of the regular season on May 5, the matchups for the first round of the Western Conference playoffs have all been determined.

The Spurs VS Lakers series is officially on the agenda!

The match that the fans have been waiting for for a long time will finally be staged!
The old king, the Lakers, played against the league's upstart Spurs.

The first round was pretty exciting!

Naturally, the league is also vigorously promoting this round of games. The day after the end of the regular season, all major sports channels are showing trailers for this round of the series.

Los Angeles and San Antonio have also become quite lively, and the smell of gunpowder has begun to pervade these two cities.

After training that afternoon, the Lakers even held a special press conference to answer various questions about the playoffs.

And Shay was asked the most, without a doubt, about the miracle of Hei Ba!
"No team in history has staged a black-eight miracle, of course I know that.

But don't forget, no team in history has ever made the playoffs with a 9-21 start.

So, history is made to be broken.

The probability of No.8 counterattacking No.1 is very low, but... I also have a 0.1% chance to bring the Lakers into the playoffs! "

Shay's confident answer made more and more Lakers fans firmly believe that the miracle of Black Eight will eventually appear!
Even, the TV station also interviewed many retired stars to predict this game, which shows how big this round of the series is.

Barkley, who is now the top commentator of TNT, raised his fist in an interview: "If anyone can eliminate the Lakers in the first round, then this person can only be me. But unfortunately, I have retired .So, there's no one in the world who can knock out the Lakers in the first round."

When Drexler saw reporters coming to interview him, he was absolutely unwilling: "What else can I say? Shay won't lose!"

While playing golf, Jordan took a deep breath on his cigar while facing the camera:
"Will Shay be eliminated in the first round? You're fucking kidding me! What idiot thought up that question?"

After finishing speaking, Jordan looked at the reporter who was interviewing in front of him with the eyes of a fool.

Basically, most of the retired superstars feel that the eighth in the West can beat the No. [-] in the West!

If Shai is just bragging, it can only be regarded as a player who is confident enough.

But when even so many celebrities support Shay, it's telling.

Only the magician said why everyone is so optimistic about Shay:

"Popovich is a great coach and the San Antonio Spurs are a great team.

But the fact is that the Spurs led by Popovich have never played against the peak Shay in the series.

It's hard to imagine how amazing Shai is in the playoffs without playing against Shai himself.

Popovich thought it was No. [-] in the West VS No. [-] in the West. No, this is the best regular season team of the season, VS the best team of this era!
You all said that there is no black eight miracle in NBA history.

But don't forget, the defending champion's round trip in NBA history has only happened once!

Don't underestimate the defending champion! "

Popovich looked at what the celebrities said in the newspaper, and he was out of breath.

I am number one in the West, why am I still underestimated! ?
But fortunately, the mentality of the two big men of the Spurs has not been affected.

During the training interval, they were still happily chatting about topics related to nuclear energy reactions.

In this world, there is probably nothing that can affect their mentality.

The battle is imminent, and the mentality of the admiral and Duncan is actually an advantage. They will not be affected by any public opinion from the outside world.

Popovich crumpled up the newspaper in his hand and threw it in the trash.

No. [-] in the West is No. [-] in the West.

In this world, there is no such thing as a black eight miracle!

In this way, the Lakers first flew to San Antonio to challenge their destiny at the Alamo Dome!
In the first game of the series, the Spurs showed a high degree of discipline.

They play the game with a single eye, never a mess.

In the offensive position, the Spurs are like a machine that never stops running.

On the defensive end, the Spurs' defensive ability is even stronger.

The Spurs' starting five are the Twin Towers, General Johnson, Sean Elliott and Pippen.

Not to mention the Twin Towers and Pippen, they are both defensive champions.

And Elliott was one of the best 90D players in the 3s.

Although the real height of General Johnson is estimated to be only 1 meters, his tenacious style also guarantees his defensive power in the first position.

So facing the Spurs' defense, first of all, it is difficult for the Lakers' breakthrough to make a difference under the protection of the twin towers.

Finley tried to cut to the basket several times today, but when he received the ball, he always found that the expressionless No. 21 had quietly moved back to the penalty area.

Moreover, this damn idiot is still not eating!

The most typical scene occurred in the second quarter, when Finley took the opportunity to cut inside and received a pass from Billups. He rushed to the basket and forced a layup directly against Duncan who came up from the defense.

Finley was thinking that even if he failed to score, there was a possibility of fouling.

However, in the face of Finley hitting the basket, the No. 21 did not jump, he just stood on the spot and raised his arms high, and with a light wave of his palm, Finley was taken aback!
Duncan's judgment on the timing of the block is simply historic!

Fortunately, the basketball that was taken off fell into the hands of Finley again, and Finley still had an offensive opportunity at the basket.

As a result, Finley began to make fake moves under the basket, but the No. 21 still just raised his arms high and pressed against Finley in a daze.His feet seemed to be rooted on the wooden floor, never leaving the ground!

Finley couldn't swing any space, and just when he was worried about his offensive three-second violation, the referee blew his whistle.

Finley didn't violate the three-second offense, but just got anxious and walked under the basket!
With Duncan not jumping all the way, Finley was forced to make a mistake and lose the ball!Once again, Duncan protected the rim with his defensive prowess.Duncan's frame guard is not like Big Ben's, frightening opponents with bloody flying shots.He's just stupidly throwing his arms up, but you just can't score.

It is indeed the No.1 standing defense in the NBA!
After hearing the referee's whistle, the Spurs No. 21 didn't say any trash talk to Finley, nor did he show any complacent expressions. He turned his head and ran to the frontcourt, as if he didn't have any ordinary emotions

Finley even suspected that this guy was sent by the Skynet system as an undercover agent!
Not to mention Finley, even Shay was taken by Duncan once today.

At that time, in order to help Shay open up space, Xiao Ao directly pulled to a position one step inside the three-point line.

Duncan followed up and defended Jermaine near the free throw line.

At the same time, Shay broke through Pippen from the flank, took two long steps and jumped directly to attack the frame.

In front of Shay, the admiral was stuck by Big Ben and couldn't get away temporarily, and the basket was equivalent to no defense.

As a result, at this moment, a big hand stretched out from the back of Shay's side, and pressed the basketball firmly against the backboard.Shay turned his head and saw that it was Duncan who was still near the free throw line just now!During this period, Duncan had great running and jumping ability, and he returned to the penalty area very quickly.But Duncan's ability to block Shay depends not only on his speed, but also on his extremely terrifying defensive area and accurate timing of blocking shots!
The power of the Spurs Twin Towers is indeed terrifying!

For a while, the Lakers were forced to have difficulty scoring in the penalty area, and could only rely on Shai's mid-range singles to support them.

But no matter how accurate Shay's mid-range is, it can't be as accurate as the general and Duncan's strong play at the basket.

The Spurs' twin towers, one is very accurate in mid-range shots, the other is capable of post-up singles at the basket, and has offensive capabilities in both high and low positions, making it difficult for the Lakers to double-team.

O'Neal should double-team Duncan. Duncan can assist the general in mid-range shots, and the general's mid-range is too stable.

The outside line went to double-team Duncan, and the Spurs' outside firepower was also very stable.

The Spurs team pays great attention to the quality of role players.Their group of outsiders are all leaders among the tool people, and they all have the ability to respond and share the right to digest shots.

于是，邓肯最终全场打出了37分14个篮板7个助攻4个盖帽2次抢断的全能数据！

What's even more exaggerated is that Duncan's shooting rate today is as high as 78.6%! 14 of 11 shots, almost never miss!
After Daben finished this game, not only did his hair explode, but his head really exploded too!

Why does that silly-looking No. 21 feel more difficult than the little dried fish on the east coast?
Duncan's 37 points, supplemented by the general's 19 points and the general's Johnson's 18 points, finally allowed the Spurs to beat the Lakers 108 to 97!

Shay did his best with 35 points, and Finley's 21 points were not bad.

The main problem for the Lakers is that the insiders really can't guard against the Twin Towers.

The Spurs turned the big score in the showroom into 1-0 at home, and the fans of the Holy City cheered one by one.

Spurs on-site commentator Bill Rand also concluded in a joking tone:

"No matter how much you boast about the eighth in the Western Conference, it doesn't matter whether the eighth in the Western Conference is the defending champion.

Eighth in the West is eighth in the West!And tonight this is a typical game where the No. [-] in the West teaches the No. [-] game in the West!
Lakers want to beat the Spurs?In fact, there is no way, they only need to do two steps:
First, remove all sharks from the sea.

Second, tell Tim to go back to swimming practice!

If the Lakers move faster, Tim might be able to catch up with the Sydney Olympic swimming competition. "

The on-site commentary was mocking the Lakers, and the fans did not let Shay and the others go.

As Shay and his teammates walked into the tunnel, fans on both sides yelled:
"Shay, leave your crown in San Antonio! Don't worry!"

"It's okay Shay, you can lie on the soft big bed when you go back to the hotel later, and you can continue to dream of the black and eight miracles!"

"The Black Eight Miracle is the most boring fantasy I have ever heard!"

It's no wonder that the Spurs' commentary and fans are so rampant. The Spurs really won this battle too beautifully and without suspense.

Although the point difference has been small, the Spurs have taken the initiative from beginning to end, and the Lakers have no chance at all.

Popovich was also very happy after the game. He not only mocked Shay, but also mocked all the celebrities who supported Shay:
"No offense, Michael, Charles and Clyde, great people.

But they supported Shay simply because they were all Shay's losers, and they habitually thought that Shay could win.

Maggie said before that I haven't played against the peak Shay in the playoffs, so I don't know how terrible Shay is.

On the other hand, Michael, Charles and Clyde, none of them have played against the current Spurs!They don't know what we are capable of!
The Black Eight Miracle may eventually appear, but definitely not in 1999! "

Popovich is so high-spirited. So far this season, his record against the Lakers has been 4 wins and 0 losses!

The former king was trampled under his feet and played with wantonly!

Of course, Popovich is not the type to get carried away easily.

He is very clear that the series is not a game to determine the outcome.

But the first round of the playoffs was a best-of-five game, which meant that the Lakers' fault tolerance rate was very low.

Next, the Spurs only need to win two more games to advance, and the next game will still be played at the Spurs' home court.

Once it is 2 to 0, the team will get the match point!
Popovich simply didn't know how he lost!
Fans all over the Spurs are still wondering what Shai, who was swollen in the face, will say at the press conference.

They all wanted to see Xie Yi's loveless expression.

But Shay not only did not have nothing to love, but answered the reporter easily:
"Just a little spurs, I can killing spree."

Literally, little Spurs, I can kill anytime.

But the word Spurs, the name of the Spurs team, also has the meaning of inspiration and stimulation.

So Xie Yi's other meaning is: the little excitement of today's defeat will actually make me start a killing feast!
This is the lyrics about the Spurs in Shay's previous song that made fun of all the teams in the league.

It's not hard to imagine what Spurs fans are feeling now, they are all looking forward to the former proud Shai's depression because of the loss of this game.

In the end, Xie Yi not only didn't feel depressed, but also thought about playing his boring puns!

Spurs fans have never seen such a crazy eighth in the West!

It feels like you're trying to punch as hard as you can, wanting to hear the moan and frown.However, the other party just said nonchalantly, "Have you entered?"

This suddenly made the Spurs fans lose interest!
Popovich is also very angry, Shay, you are too disrespectful to me, the No. [-] in the Western Conference!
The next day, Shay's calmness at the press conference was ridiculed by the Al-Quds media as "the last tough talk before dying".

After being beaten like this, how can the eighth in the Western Conference make a big kill?

But, is Xie the kind of person who can only talk lip service?
When Shay said he was going to kill, he wasn't being blunt.

Obviously, the Lakers now lack an insider who can defend in the low post and slightly limit Duncan.

Although Daben has excellent defense ability, one-on-one defense is really not his strong point.

And in the Lakers lineup, there is actually such a player!
The day after the end of the series G1, the man no one knew how old he was, finally appeared on the training field wearing a jersey:

"Shay, I kept you waiting!"

(End of this chapter)