Healthy basketball, starting from eating the old Lakers F4

The regular season is coming to an end and the playoffs are about to begin. This year's sixteen playoff teams are about to enter a new stage.

The Bulls are ranked first in the Eastern Conference and their morale is high.

The team's lineup is relatively complete, the main players and main substitutes are not injured, and the team's cooperation and tacit understanding are among the best in the entire league.

Next, the Bulls will face the Washington Wizards in the playoffs. They only won 43 games in the regular season and are not considered a team with the potential to compete for the championship.

The Bulls players, who have rich playoff experience, naturally won't feel any pressure facing such an opponent in the first round of the playoffs.

Of course, the lion fights the rabbit with all his strength.

The playoffs are about to begin, and the Bulls need to regroup and put on a serious and rigorous attitude.

The phenomenon of playing music and then dancing during the regular season must be investigated and stopped.

As the team's star player, Durant cannot use the excuse of helping Curry compete for the regular MVP as he did some time ago, but in fact he has been playing health-preserving basketball.

As the saying goes, if a knife is not sharpened, it will rust; if a person does not learn, he will fall behind.

Playing health-preserving basketball for a long time can easily lower your competitive level, which can lead to the team being in trouble. Instead of being able to help, you may even cause more trouble.

Duane knew very well that there was only more than a month from the first round of the playoffs to the finals.

If Duane wants to ensure victory in the finals, he must make plans early in the first round of the playoffs and start working hard to restore his physical condition and competitive level.

Coincidentally, the first two rounds of the Eastern Conference playoffs were not difficult for the Bulls.

As time goes by, Duane started to get serious sooner and used the first two rounds of games to warm up for the Eastern Conference Finals and the Finals.

"Stephen, you know, our goal this year is still the championship!
The road to defending the title is always full of difficulties and obstacles.

We made it through the regular season, but the playoffs are tougher.

If you want to win the final victory and lift the final trophy, as the team leader, you have to contribute more to the team. "

In order to avoid some mistakes in the first round of the playoffs, Durant also pua Curry in advance to keep him alert and start the super giant mode in advance.

Curry understood that as the team leader, he needed to provide a safety net for the team, so he did not object to Durant's statement that the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.

“Duane, you are right, I am ready to contribute to the team.

The regular season is over, and I am no longer obsessed with the regular season MVP.

You know, I want to add to my legacy with a championship.

I want to follow in your footsteps and become one of the best players in NBA history.

I took over the torch from you last year, and I will continue to lead the Chicago Bulls to success this year!"

Curry’s current situation is actually a bit awkward, just like Magic Johnson next to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at the end of his peak.

He has a championship ring and a FMVP trophy, but he still lacks recognition from inside and outside the circle.

Of course, this is due to people's inherent prejudice against him in the past.

It is precisely because of the existence of prejudice that Curry needs to prove his personal strength and leadership ability in front of the world on the one hand, and on the other hand, he also has to consider whether the team can continue to achieve good results under his leadership after the decline of the team's big brother Duane.

In other words, even if Curry won the regular season MVP this year, he would not be recognized by the outside world as long as he failed to help the Bulls win their 16th championship trophy.

Even if they win the championship this year, Curry will still be questioned in a few years if the Bulls no longer have the strength to compete for the championship due to the aftereffects of their championship.

Therefore, if Curry wants to maintain his position as the leader of the Bulls, he has to lead the Bulls to win one championship after another.

Considering the Bulls' four core players next season, Curry, Durant, Horford, and Jokic, the combined salary of the four is as high as 1.25 million, which has already reached the luxury tax line.

It will undoubtedly be more difficult for the Bulls to win the championship in the next few years.

This also forces Curry to seize the last window of opportunity to win championships in the next few years, win a few more championships before Durant retires and before his personal strength declines, and completely establish his historical position.

Duane knew Curry's ambition, so he didn't say much, lest Curry think he was taking advantage of his age.

Anyway, the power of the team leader has been handed over, and it will really depend on Curry to lead him to win the championship.

Before the playoffs officially started, Duane trained more seriously than usual and was more actively involved in preparations for the playoffs.

And just in these two days, the news that Wade is about to retire has been rampant.

Then, Wade got together with Anthony and the retired Bosh to do a podcast together.

Wade, who created the gimmick and hot topic of his upcoming retirement, is the main character, while Anthony and Bosh serve as supporting roles.

At first, the audience thought that this podcast was just a few guys chatting about their past years in the NBA, historical honors, and little-known stories of the team.

Who would have thought that the three of them would start a group and send an uncrowned king to the hot search. Wade said: "In my second year as a rookie, the team traded for O'Neal, the No. 1 player in the league.

Then, under everyone's expectations, we quickly entered a state where we had to win the championship.

I had to grow into a player like Kobe, and then I succeeded.

Although I am not a great shooter, I am very good in many aspects.

No one can beat me in my area. No one can really guard me during the game.

I thought I was qualified to chase Jordan, and I could win three consecutive championships with O'Neal like Kobe.

Unfortunately, we were all injured, O'Neal declined, and I missed a lot of important games.

Our roster didn't remain competitive, O'Neal was traded, my teammates kept changing, and I was lost.

For a long time, I didn't know how to lead the team back to the finals.

As I get older, I know that the window to win a championship will get smaller and smaller, and I don’t want to end up with only one championship in my career because of the wrong decision.

My previous experience of winning the championship told me that I needed a helper like O'Neal.

But there is no second one in the entire league, so we still need a reliable helper.

We didn't want him at first, but he came to us on his own initiative. He was the regular season MVP and had good eloquence, so he finally convinced us.

Yes, we cheated to win the championship.

But I didn't expect that he couldn't bring us any competitiveness other than public opinion.

It was hard for him to adjust, he thought he was the best in the league.

However, he is neither omnipotent nor has the ability to solve one-on-one problems like a star player, and he has to have the ball at all times.

The summer after our first failed collaboration, I asked Kobe for advice.

You know, Kobe once asked me for advice in order to win the championship. I told him how to set the pick and roll and how to deal with the problem of multiple double teams.

Then Kobe achieved success, and I also wanted to gain experience of success from Kobe.

Kobe told me that being the boss of a team needs to do the hardest thing!
Let the role players do what they are good at first, and then I will take care of the remaining tasks that no one else wants to do.

So I made sacrifices, Chris made sacrifices, a lot of people made sacrifices, and we still didn't succeed.

Now it seems that we didn’t change at all during those years except that we became weaker.”

As Wade described his career and mental journey, Anthony added insult to injury, saying, "The league is changing too fast.

When I first entered the league, it was still an era of big men, O'Neal, Duncan, and Garnett.

Then our group of small forwards and shooting guards started to exert their strength.

Iverson, Kobe, McGrady, Durant and me, we solve problems one-on-one like Jordan.

Until someone won the regular season MVP with the pick-and-roll, times became different.

My experience of playing together on the national team told me that he never participates in one-on-one matches within the team.

One-on-one skills are meaningless to him, after all, they are of no use on the court.

For both scoring, pick-and-roll is much easier than one-on-one. As long as the ball is in hand and the defense is weak, it is easy to score.

But when the team needs to solve a problem in a one-on-one duel, the ball is either in Kobe's hands or in my hands.

Sometimes I don’t understand the outside world’s evaluation of us.

He can’t do what we can do, and we can do what he can do, but he is just better than us.”

Bosh expressed his understanding of Anthony's doubts: "People are biased and partial, and from the beginning we were the ones who were biased, not the ones who were partial.

However, no matter how favored it is, basketball still relies on strength.

The reason why Dunn can win everyone's respect is because of his unparalleled strength.

We all know that if Durant was not prejudiced, he would have been the regular season MVP every year since winning his second championship.

Someone intercepted the ball that should have been the honor for Dunn, but he still suffered in the playoffs.

Facts speak louder than words, and champions are above all else! "(End of this chapter)