But even if he didn't get a quadruple-double, this triple-double including blocks is a magical performance that has never been seen in the history of the NBA Finals!

For others, getting double blocks is as hard as climbing to the sky. Even for the top blockers, it is enough to brag about getting double blocks once in their career. But for Han Yi, getting double blocks? That's just the way it is!

When Han Yi and McGrady accompanied Rick Pidino to participate in the post-match interview, Han Yi was very calm about his historic triple-double today, but praised McGrady for his 36 points:

"I knew T-mac had such ability a long time ago. He is not going to be a star player in the future. He is already a star player now. Entering the All-Star Game is a matter of next season!"

"Although this is the finals, it is no different for a scorer like McGrady. No, no, if you only regard McGrady as Pippen beside me, you are underestimating him."

"McGrady has offensive ability that Pippen can never achieve in his lifetime. If I must say, I would like to regard him as a combination of Jordan and Pippen," Han Yi paused and continued:

"And, the most incredible thing is that he is only 20 years old. He is destined to achieve greatness in the future."

Stephen A. Smith began to brag about his pre-match insights after the game:

"Did you see it? Did you see it? What did I say? The key is the quality of the second-in-command. The side with the stronger second-in-command will win the final victory. McGrady scored 36 points and David Robinson scored only 5 points. All of this has doomed the Spurs to defeat!"

"If the Spurs want to win, they have to find a way to let David Robinson regain his strong performance in the past to suppress the young McGrady."

And Popovich was not stingy in praising McGrady after the game:

"I knew this young man before. I liked him very much when he came to our Spurs for training. He is a scoring genius. If he is just the second-in-command, it would be a waste of his talent. He should be the boss of an ace team, not Han Yi's little follower."

But the Spurs knew very well that the real terror of the Celtics was only Han Yi. If Han Yi didn't interfere, even if McGrady scored 40+ points, it would still be impossible to win the game.

But Han Yi's strength is clearly laid out here. This is already an open card.

Because the Celtics have Han Yi, they can use Han Yi alone to limit David Robinson, who is still at the tail end of his peak, to only single-digit scores!

Because the Celtics have Han Yi, they can still play an advantageous game in the final critical moment of the game by letting Han Yi directly compete with Duncan in a king-to-king competition!

For the Spurs, the key to winning the Celtics lies in how to deal with Han Yi, but dealing with Han Yi seems to be an impossible task.

Unless the aging David Robinson can be replaced with Shaquille O'Neal without paying any price, forming a double hegemony of Duncan + O'Neal in the interior, there is really no other way to stop Han Yi from being domineering.

"So, in fact, our strategy in the first game was not wrong!" After Popovich pulled the coaching staff and players to watch the video of the first game of the finals twice, Popovich made an assertion:

"We still have to try to squeeze through every Celtics screen, don't let go of the defender in front of us easily, facing McGrady, we should not panic, we have to wait for him to lose his accuracy. Instead of caring about how McGrady plays, we should pay more attention to protecting our restricted area and raising the defensive level!"

"Don't care about fouls, fouls are not a problem, letting them score easily is a problem, we want to make their every attack more difficult under the threat of our fouls, see blood, right? I don't mind a little blood on the court, if this blood comes from Han Yi, it would be the best!"

In the second game, the Spurs not only did not change their strategy, but raised the level of melee to a higher level than the first game!

Facing the 20-year-old McGrady, the battle-hardened veterans of the Spurs used the same intensity they had used to deal with Jordan and Drexler to torture him the most painfully!

The result was that McGrady, who was extremely brave in the first game, disappeared in the second game!

The chain reaction of McGrady's disappearance was that the Celtics' outside players lost their way one after another. Except for Joe Dumars who played at his normal level, all the other Celtics' three-pointers smashed the baskets and made no shots!

Han Yi still imagined thatIn the previous game, Han Yi used his own attraction to the Spurs defenders to open up space for the Celtics role players, but he pulled and pulled, and he was lonely!

If you can't make a shot, you can't make a shot. Today, even if there is no one in front of the Celtics players, you can't make a shot!

In the end, Han Yi could only open up his own single-handed solution to counter the surging offense of the entire Spurs team.

89:80!

In the end, Han Yi lost the second game by 9 points!

In this game, Han Yi made 21 of 37 shots, scored 51 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists, and 5 blocks!

The data is still luxurious, but it failed to turn the data into victory!

Looking at his muscles covered with blood red scratches by the fierce defense of the Spurs, Han Yi saw the foundation of the Spurs.

Popovich will indeed become a famous coach in the future, but now, Popovich, who learned from Larry Brown, relies on the twin towers for offense and relies on intensity to win.

Except for Han Yi, only Joe Dumars scored 14 points in the Celtics team, and no one else scored in double digits!

This battle made Han Yi feel the full sense of powerlessness when facing the Chicago Bulls last season, but this time the opponent became the San Antonio Spurs led by the young Tim Duncan!

Tim Duncan once again scored 35 points, 13 rebounds, 3 assists, and 3 blocks!

Of course, in terms of exaggeration, there is indeed a gap with Han Yi, but it is only a gap with Han Yi!

Because of the loss in the first game, although Tim Duncan scored 46 points, only the San Antonio media simply blew it.

But in the second round, when most people thought that the Celtics, with the home advantage, would continue to bully the best in the West like they swept the East, they saw a terrifying and exciting melee!

In this battle, the more experienced Spurs seemed to be better, and the young Celtics, except Han Yi, were obviously panicked.

Although the score was only 1:1, the San Antonio Spurs, as the visiting team, could steal a game at the TD North Shore Garden Center Plaza, which was already a big victory!

Everyone can see that when the Celtics' unbeaten record was broken, the Spurs were no longer the underdog, but gradually began to gain an advantage in this finals match.

In this bloody game, Duncan became the final winner, and the wind direction also reversed with the two poles!

"Compared with Han Yi, I think Tim Duncan deserves this year's regular season MVP more."

Steve Kerr said so.

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