I was determined to be bad, but I went straight to the Basketball Hall of Fame

Chapter 367 The Mouth Smiles Crookedly (Part [-])
Min Congda was very happy with his first defeat.

The unhappy part is that there is no salary for losing in the playoffs.

From the perspective of the system, it is already a failure for you to lead the team to the playoffs.

You deserve to lose, and you will be fined if you win!
According to Min Congda's plan, the Clippers should only win two games in this series.

In the end, they lost to the Thunder with a big score of 2:4. The Thunder went to the Western Conference Finals and the Clippers went home.

In this way, after this year's playoffs, Min Congda was deducted 18000 US dollars.

The fine earned 20000, and the offset earned 2000 dollars.

"Oh my god, it's a laborious job. You only earn two thousand. It's not as satisfying as losing a game in the regular season."

"Forget it, everything is under my control anyway! I just said it, the Clippers are not the Thunder's opponent!"

In this game, Kevin Durant scored 29 points, Westbrook 25 points and Gordon 20 points.

The three young people scored 74 points together, and the young Big Three have begun to take shape.

For the Clippers, only Zach Randolph scored 22 points and 11 rebounds steadily.

Anyway, Fatty Lan only has this output every game. It is very difficult for you to expect him to break out and score 40 points to save the team.

Randolph is the Clippers' bottom-line player, and the upper limit of the Clippers' real outbreak depends on Curry, Harden and others.

Young people are not used to the speed and intensity of the Thunder, they are obviously not prepared enough.

The dull atmosphere in the locker room after the game made Min Congda feel very comfortable.

He lingers in the cramped away dressing room for a while, enjoying the frustration of the loss.

"I'm afraid I'm not a pervert, am I? Why do I enjoy this kind of negative energy depression?"

"I understand, this is a harbinger of bankruptcy and poor performance, the smell of decline, the smell of corruption."

In just a few days, the players went from celebrating in the locker room to saying nothing. Competitive sports are so magical and cruel.

Min Congda's elation seemed to the players to be a kind of feigned ease.

Anyway, every time he loses, Min Congda will spend more time with the players.

Curry thought to himself: "As long as we lose, Mr. Smart will stay to comfort us, but he will leave if we win."

George no longer dances: "My performance tonight was terrible. I didn't get anything done. I don't know if Mr. Smart will be disappointed in me."

The person in the worst mood is James Harden.

He still has some feelings for Oklahoma City, after all, it is the first team he played for.

Last year he was still cheered by the fans at this venue, but tonight it was mostly booed.

The faces of the fans became faster than scumbags and scumbags.

Everyone's faces are smelly tonight, only Min Congda is very normal and slightly relaxed.

Steve Kerr couldn't help asking Min Congda: "Smart, how did you manage to lose without looking sad?"

Min Congda said: "What is there to be sad? The game is over, can being sad change the result? There is no turning back in competitive sports, you can only keep running forward. This is not a trial. If you lose the case today, go back and collect evidence again , retrial can overturn the case. There is no overturn in basketball games, no rematch, only the next game, understand?"

Cole said: "Of course I understand, but...no one can do it like you..."

"I'm not human? I just can, because my vision is very long-term, very long-term~"

Min Congda pointed to his own eyes with two fingers, and then pointed to Cole's eyes.

"Guys! Get ready for the next game! Don't worry, the series is far from over, it's just begun!"

After saying this, Min Congda happily left the locker room and went back to the hotel to play games.

The Clippers players quickly got out of the slump, and losing is the norm anyway.

Those who don't accept failure cannot gain a foothold in the league.

But it's hard to accept when you fail one after another.

Two days later, on May 5, the rematch between the Clippers and the Thunder.

The importance of this game to the Clippers is self-evident.

They must win this game, otherwise it would be too passive to return to Los Angeles with a score of 0:2.

Therefore, from the first quarter of the game, the Clippers changed their decline in the first game and strengthened their offense.

Since the Thunder are faster than the Spurs, then I have to be faster than the Thunder.

The Clippers team is running at high speed, using a lot of running positions, passes and cuts to cooperate with the Thunder's defense.

The Thunder's defense is far less detail-oriented than the Spurs'.

In many cases, it depends on the talent and personal ability of the players to suppress.

At high speed and high intensity, the lack of defensive details gave the Clippers opportunities.

Baron Davis used his sophisticated organizational skills to pass the ball, make air cuts, score throws, and assists one after another.

He seems to have returned to the peak in 2007, when he single-handedly directed Pao Ding Jie Niu.

The relatively inexperienced Curry came to the auxiliary position, using non-stop running positions to mobilize the opponent's defense.

The Clippers' offense was extremely flexible, making the Thunder a little dizzy and hard to defend against.

At halftime, the Clippers 57:53, leading the Thunder by 4 points.

The Clippers played very well in the first half, but Min Congda shook his head when he saw it.

He thought to himself: "The Clippers played too hard in the first half of the year, and they used too much force. Their moves were too early, their state was too early, and they were easy to be backlashed in the second half."

Min Congda, who lost the first game, calmed down a lot and saw the Clippers' problems at a glance.

Dunleavy and Kerr didn't really solve the Clippers' problems.

In the first round against the Spurs, young people used their imaginations in the first half. In the second half, Baron Davis and Zach Randolph ended up with the bottom line.

This kind of game rhythm is very comfortable, and it can give full play to the advantages and characteristics of the players.

So the Spurs were stabbed heart-to-heart.

Now, you have Zach Randolph and Baron Davis going all out in the first half, and the rest of the team revolves around them.

Can you play like this the whole game?

Except during the regular season, the team's idea of ​​building a team is to revolve around Randolph Baron, and then match a group of high-quality role players.

But Curry, Harden and others are not role players, they are full of imagination, this is not their game rhythm.

And they are young, inexperienced, and have not learned to adjust themselves in the face of adversity in the playoffs.

The good news is that the Thunder are also young.

The bad news is that the Thunder are at home, and they are in a hot state in the third quarter.

Especially Kevin Durant.

Durant, who deliberately kept his strength in the first half, suddenly exerted strength in the third quarter.

Hit two consecutive three-pointers to overtake the score.

This is purely an individual player's personal ability.

In tonight's game, Durant made these two three-pointers.

But with these two overtaken three-pointers, the situation of the game was completely reversed.

The Clippers once again followed the Thunder panting for points.

Both Harden and Curry can score goals, but their efficiency has obviously dropped a lot.

The whole team fell into the same vicious circle as the previous game.

Falling behind, ruthless the main force, the substitute has no chance, there are few players, the main force has no feeling, the more backward, the more ruthless the main force...

Mike Dunleavy seems to have forgotten about the "everyone has a ball" strategy he has pursued all season.

He returned to the 2006 six-man rotation in the playoffs.

The game was very anxious, Curry, Harden, and Randolph all scored consecutively.

But Durant, Westbrook, and Gordon can also respond.

The scores of the two sides rose alternately, and the Clippers could not find a comeback point.

With Ibaka giving the Clippers two consecutive caps at the critical moment of the fourth quarter.

In the counterattack, Gordon received a pass from Westbrook and made a layup.

Thunder 109:103, 6 points advantage to seal the victory again!

In Oklahoma City, the Thunder won two consecutive cities, leading 2:0!

Min Congda almost laughed crookedly.

(End of this chapter)