Four hundred and twentieth chapters flying inside information
Although the Spurs' style of playing has become more and more beautiful in the past two years, it has left a deep impression on people in the past few years. Pseudo-fans like to follow the trend and follow the crowd. Many people really think that the Spurs are still so ugly now. In fact, these fans who complain about the Spurs have never seen a few Spurs games at all.
But if there are too many people talking about it, it will become real. This is what everyone says, so the Spurs are still not loved by the league, and the fan group is far less than the Thunder, which has a sharp style. Most fans love to watch exciting games that can stimulate adrenaline. The styles of the Thunder and the Knicks are obviously more in line with this requirement. Even the Heat's playing style is much ugly compared to these two teams, so many fans are looking forward to the Knicks' finals against the Thunder, which is also the complete rise of new forces.
Now it seems that this scene is really becoming more and more likely to become a reality...
On May 30, the Thunder played against the Spurs at home. The battle in the whole game was very fierce. The Thunder finally defeated the Spurs 109:103 with Durant's outstanding performance in the final quarter, tied the total score at 2:2.
But Durant was not the only one who played a key role in this game. One minute and 58 seconds before the end of the game, the young Harden was fouled outside the three-point line by the cunning Ginobili. Harden was very upset at this time his stupid foul. But after 54 seconds, Harden received a pass from Durant on the left wing and decisively made a three-pointer. After Durant's crazy performance in continuous attacks on the Spurs, Harden directly hit the Spurs' heart and responded to Ginobili standing opposite him.
Ginobili has rich experience and weird attacks, while Harden surpassed Ginobili at the last moment with his youth, unreasonable gameplay, and dense stubborn stubborn.
One of the highlights of this round of series is the showdown between Harden and Ginobili, the two super sixth men. In the first three games, Harden averaged 3 points, 7 rebounds, and 7 assists, with a shooting percentage of 55%. Ginobili averaged 18 points, 4 rebounds, and 7 assists, with a shooting percentage of 3%. In terms of personal data, Harden performed better than Ginobili. In the third game, Harden defeated Ginobili in this super sixth man match, laying the foundation for the Thunder's home victory.
The 35-year-old Ginobili is like fighting against his Age himself, and he wants to defeat his Age himself. Harden is like fighting with himself 12 years later. The two craziest sixth men in the league are fighting against the past and future self. They want to defeat not only their opponents, but also their former self or their future self.
Ginobili's 3+1 offense on Westbrook's head in the first quarter was a concentrating the essence of his career and a perfect combination of his skills and experience. Harden's personal offense and passing at the opening stage of the second quarter was his youthful and frivolous performance. Just like in the first three games, the two super sixth men were hitting each other in their own way and doing their best to win the team.
Harden only made 1 of 7 shots in the first three quarters, without any free throws, which was something that had never happened in the entire series. Ginobili felt very good, 4 of 6 shots, 2 of 2 three-pointers, and 3 of 3 free throws to score 13 points, but he made 5 mistakes, and both brought the problem to the last quarter to solve it.
When the battle entered the last 12 minutes of life and death, Harden's personal offense and pass were extremely perfect. The old man seemed to be full of wisdom and experience like the 35-year-old Ginobili. Especially at the moment of life and death, Harden could not see the impatience and anxiety of young players, and of course it was also possible that he was covered by his beard.
On the contrary, the bald Ginobili was a little panicked at the critical moment. His passing mistake 33 seconds before the end of the game ruined the Spurs' last glimmer of hope. This fatal mistake made the Spurs lose the initiative in the entire series.
At this moment, Ginobili seemed to be defeated by his year-old himself. His 6 mistakes were like he was himself. In the final 12 minutes of the final battle, Ginobili scored zero. He made 4 of 7 shots and 13 points and 6 mistakes in the whole game. Ginobili finally lost to the young man standing opposite him who scored 11 points, 7 assists and 7 rebounds. Especially when Harden saw his three-pointer at the critical moment of the final quarter, his smart pass assisted to revitalize the Thunder team, becoming Durant's last and best assistant. At this moment, Ginobili seemed to see that he was not bald at the age of 2.
After the game, a voice immediately appeared in the outside world. Many fans and celebrities believed that Harden's existence was more important to the Thunder than Westbrook, especially the two away defeats and two home wins, which further reflected the huge flaws in Westbrook and allowed people to see the huge potential in Harden.
Before the Western Conference Finals series began, the battle of words between Westbrook and Tony Parker added a bit of color to the showdown between the two point guards. In the first two games of the series, Parker and Westbrook became the dominant players on the court, both of whom were the most ball players in the team, but the "French Sports Car" beat Westbrook in these two games, allowing the Spurs to win two games in a row.
In the third game, the Thunder changed its strategy again. Head coach Brooks took back Westbrook's ball like he played against the Mavericks last season, allowing him to devote more energy to the organization and defense, and at the same time gave Harden more ball rights. So in the third game, as long as Harden was present, the bearded man would hold the ball and sort out the team, and Westbrook was completely invisible, but this allowed the Thunder to win a game back.
If just one game doesn't mean anything, then even though Harden felt bad in the fourth game, Brooks still trusted the bearded man very much, and the latter became Durant's best helper in the key decisive battle in the fourth quarter. However, Westbrook had to "disappear" again under the team's strategy in the fourth quarter, which freed up the road for Durant and Harden to perform.
The final facts proved once again that such a choice was wise. Harden completed his organizational task well, and after Durant took over the game, he finally led the Thunder to another key victory.
In four games, Westbrook's ball rights and shots were the first in the team in the first two games, but the team lost one after another; in the last two games, after the Thunder deprived Westbrook of ball rights, the Thunder immediately won consecutive games.
So the question is, who is the cancer?
This can be proved from Westbrook's data. Westbrook's shots were 24 and 21 in the first two games, which was 5 and 4 more times than Durant, but he only scored 27 points and 17 points, while Durant scored 31 and 27 points with fewer shots.
In fact, by this time, many people have questioned Westbrick's shooting choices and his brainless way of handling the ball. It can be said that Westbrook has not made any progress last season compared to Westbrook in the Western Conference Finals. Once in the key game, he once again became the team's biggest hidden danger.
But looking at the third and fourth games, Westbrook's shots dropped sharply to 15 and 10, and his scores also shrank to pitiful 10 and 7 points respectively. Of course, his efficiency is still so bad! In contrast, Durant's shots are still not much, only 17 and 20, respectively, but Xiao Shubao can still contribute 22 points and 31 points. The number of shots reduced from Westbrook was actually distributed to Ibaka and Harden, and the final result was that the Thunder won both games.
It's clear who is the cancer now. Westbrick has been a cancer of the team in the playoffs for three consecutive years. This is not the only case for his deprivation of the ball. Last year, Brooks deprived Westbrook of the ball in the Western Conference Finals, which allowed the Thunder to move back two games in front of the Mavericks. Although Westbrook is even more popular in the regular season and has played in the first two rounds of the playoffs, when he encounters a real tough battle, this young star who was criticized by experts for having a flaw in basketball's IQ still had the old habit of impulsiveness and brainlessness.
"If I were Durant and let a 'reckless man' bear nearly half of the team's mobile phone chances in the fourth quarter, and I had a hit rate of 8%, I only had three miserable opportunities to use mobile phones, then I would tell the coach directly that it was this kind of unequal distribution of shooting opportunities that caused the team to eventually lose hope of a comeback." This is a Twitter article specially used by Emperor Wu to disgust Westbrook four days ago. At that time, many people in the comments below criticized him for not worrying about other people's affairs, and should not be so blatantly mocking other players.
But the wind direction suddenly changed in the past two days. Ninety percent of the new messages were like the Twitter posted by Emperor Wu, and followed the Holy Master to complain about Westbrook. It was like Westbrook was really a big cancer... The Thunder won the game and it was all because of his brainlessness... He didn't have the strength and wanted to compete for the boss. If Durant had driven him away, so...
Well, most of these comments that followed the trend at the beginning were of course mostly the Holy Master’s royal waters, but the ones behind were really the people who were blown down by the wind. Who made Westbrook’s performance in key games really unbearable? In the past three years, he has been the Thunder team’s loss-lossing sinner every year. It is not unfair to say that he is a cancer, so it is too easy for Emperor Wu’s navy to slander him.
However, Emperor Wu did these things not to harm others and not benefit himself, because he saw from the process and results of the fourth game that the Spurs were powerless, and the experience of these old guys could no longer reduce the impact of the Thunder.
Therefore, after internal analysis by the Knicks, the reason for the Thunder to win back two games was that the tactical adjustment was successful. Perkins and Ibaka expanded their defense range and continued to go out to the outside to defend Parker and Ginobili, and Sovlosa went to replace Parker, using their height and wingspan to limit the Spurs' engine. As a result, the Spurs made continuous mistakes, constantly allowing the Thunder to play fast attacks, and eventually formed a vicious cycle that made the Spurs unable to defend.
Although the Spurs have made adjustments in the fourth game to avoid the situation of early collapse like the last game, there are still some weaknesses that cannot be compensated and are easily captured by the opponent. The biggest problem is that the Spurs' offense has encountered big problems. Their pick-and-roll cooperation cannot be played, and there are still many mistakes in the offense, which is completely different from the performance in the previous two games. Moreover, the Spurs' breakthrough can no longer reach the inside, and they can only rely on the outside to shoot, which is very passive. No team really wins on the outside, including the Knicks, which also has a lot of breakthroughs and inside attacks.
**Vic used a strange move in the fourth game. This time the Spurs underestimated the opponent's inside line and chose to focus on Durant and Westbrook. The result was that Ibaka and Perkins exploded. Espanyol used a 26-pointer to severely punish the Spurs' adventure tactics. Perkins' 15 points made the Spurs lose a lot of money. The worst thing was that they still failed to defend Durant after paying such a price. They just blocked Westbrook, who was strategically sacrificed by the Thunder, and then they won the team battle.
In these two games, basically, the Thunder first sacrificed Westbrook as soon as they came up, and then Ibaka had no solution, Harden had no solution, and Durant had no solution. The Spurs could only kill a abandoned Westbrook. Such a team battle was really impossible to win.
When commenting on this group of competitions, Jeff Van Gundy made a metaphor for four teams: "The Spurs really don't seem to be able to do it, and their opponents are better at learning, and every game is improving. Now among the four teams in the east and west, the Spurs are in the whereabouts channel, the Heat are in the maintenance channel, and the Thunder and the Knicks are in the upward channel, which makes the first two teams need to put out more foundations to pass the level, but the reality is that the foundations of these two teams have been exhausted, and subsequent games will be more beneficial to the Knicks and the Thunder in the upward channel."
The first four games of the Western Conference Finals have been completed, and the Thunder and the Spurs played a 2:2 stalemate. Now we have to see if there will be a sweep in the Eastern Conference Finals? Although the chance of qualifying for the Heat is slim, they still need to win the fourth game for dignity. Sweeping out means that the Big Three is likely to not last until 2014, and maybe they will fall apart early this summer.
But Barkley doesn't think that the Heat will break up if they don't win the championship for two consecutive years. He thinks that if these guys are separated because they cannot win the championship, it is tantamount to being a deserter. No matter which team they go to in the future, they will bear the identity of a loser and the infamy that they cannot win the championship, and will never be able to raise their heads again.
"I dare say that if they can't win the championship, they will stay in the Heat. But if they win the championship, I think they are likely to break up because someone needs to prove that they are not holding their thighs to win the championship." Big Butt's words are obviously disgusting James. He is no longer out of jealousy or annoyance. It is entirely speaking for the newly formed senior team to speak up for his boss behind the scenes.
Charles Barkley, Shaquille O'Neal, Kenny Smith, Isiah Thomas, Patrick Ewing, Scotty Pippen, these six people have formed an elderly team, and they will make money all over the world in summer, especially Asia is their main goal of making money. This so-called elderly group still has a large market in Asia, but this requires the appeal of Wu Huang to help Wu Huang promote it, and it also needs to use the connections behind Wu Huang to promote it. Therefore, it is definitely a brainless person not to speak for Wu Huang.
The New York media did not care much about the outcome of the Knicks' fourth game before the game. It would be good to win, but it wouldn't be a big deal if they lost. In that way, they could advance to the finals at home and win the Eastern Conference Championship trophy at home. Therefore, the New York media and fans did not put too much pressure on the team before the game. It doesn't matter whether they lose or win in this game.
The New York Times reported before the game: With the Eastern Conference Finals over three games, Hugo has increasingly shown his strong leadership ability in the playoffs. We are amazed at the stable performance of Gasol, David Si and Iguodala, and also amazed at the efficiency of Bathir, Tony Allen, Whiteside and others. But behind this group name is Hugo's calm organization of offense, life-long defense, and equally efficient scoring.
The third game between the Knicks and the Heat can be used to compare with the fourth game between the Spurs and the Thunder in the Western Conference Finals yesterday. When the game entered the third game, everyone was already very familiar with each other, just as Duncan, Parker, Ginobili, Durant, Westbrook could not play as he pleased, and Hugo, Gasol, James, and Wade could not be able to handle it. At this time, the third person in the team was just needed to stand up. The last game was Tony Allen, Iguodala and Bosh. So who would stand up in the fourth game?
Miami media no longer have any expectations for their own team. Some media found that even Miami fans were very pessimistic when conducting street interviews. They asked 10 people casually, and almost 5 were not optimistic about the Heat who could bring the game to the fifth game. Four of the other five people also thought that even if the Heat won the fourth game, it would be meaningless. They still couldn't advance in the end because no one could have made a comeback when they were behind 0:3.
Wu Huang started to keep a low profile again before the game, but this time he was definitely disgusting. He only heard the Holy Master talk at the pre-match press conference in the fourth game: "It has always been difficult to play away, especially when facing the Heat. It is not surprising that he lost a game, so we did not put too much pressure on ourselves in the fourth game."
"Huh? Something is wrong. He didn't say that the day before yesterday?" Miami media immediately felt something was wrong when they heard this. It seemed that after the third game, this girl was so crazy that she was out of reach. She also said that the Heat had no chance and the Knicks were going to sweep and advance in the fourth game... Why did they suddenly turn the verbal words today and don't put too much pressure on themselves? Does this guy remember what he said the day before yesterday?
"What's wrong? Did I say something the day before yesterday?" Emperor Wu asked with a confused expression in the face of the Miami media's question. It seems that he really doesn't remember what he said two days ago?
The Miami media was confused with Emperor Wu at first, but then someone reacted, "Damn, this bastard is not deliberately mocking us, right?" Miami reporters quickly reacted. Emperor Wu was obviously mocking him for not taking the Heat in his heart at all, so he forgot what he said, because he didn't care at all. Of course, this is a disguised mocking of the Heat in disguise that there is no sense of existence in the Knicks' eyes.
"It's so unethical!" The New York media smirked. Their Holy Lord was so naughty. This kind of satirical method is rare in NBAs. It is worthy of being said to have an IQ of 150+.
Well, what's the corner where did Wu Huang's IQ come from? But since this season, there have been rumors that Wu Huang's IQ ranks first among all NBA players.
The order of things is like this. First, several small media reported insider news that the average IQ of NBA players was only 83. Then several experts from ESPN and Sports Illustrated also exposed the news, which made it look like these two sports media giants also proved that the news was true.
Now sports media around the world have begun to reprint this news, and they have put words such as "espn expert" at the front of the article to prove the authenticity of the news. But in fact, espn has never released this news in the official news. What do you know who this expert is? And there are not many other espn, but its experts are so numerous that they can't count them, so even espn itself can't figure out the inside story of which bastard exposed it.
However, as more people spread anything, fake news will gradually become real news. So later even ESPN itself was very unconventional and said, "According to the media's test of NBA players' IQ, the average IQ of NBA players is only 83." This report was reported like this, but they left themselves clear.
At this time, the IQ ranking of NBA players was also exposed by the so-called "experts" and "insider" and other news. Unsurprisingly, Wu Huang ranked first on these lists, with news such as "Saint Master IQ 150+" and "NBA's most powerful brain" emerging one after another.
Of course, the content of these reports was also fabricated. Whether it is a big media or a small media, everyone was talking nonsense with their eyes open. However, in order to prove that they were not talking nonsense, these guys ranked Wu Huang first, and then in the subsequent ranking, they played freely based on the brainless things these players did off the court to distinguish their sources of information.
Over time, Wu Huang's name as the number one in IQ was confirmed by word of mouth, which made even the source of the false news Wu Huang think his IQ is really so high?
"Maybe the Heat are getting further and further away from the Finals, but can't the Heat really beat the Knicks? I don't believe that although Wade was in poor form in the third game, I am still full of confidence in him. He will not let the Eastern Conference Finals end so quickly. I believe that the Heat will still resist tenaciously, and what must be done is to win and they must restore their confidence as soon as possible." Mo Ning is really confident about the Heat or is only left with a stubborn mouth, at this time he has to make a voice to support his team.
Riley, the master of the gods, also made a rare statement before the game. He believes that the Heat are doing well in defense, but there seems to be some problems in the offense. James and Wade always have to catch and shoot awkwardly. The Heat actually rely more on Bosh to complete the transfer task in the third game, which is abnormal. So what the Heat need to do now is to rely on James and Wade to connect the team's offense, especially Wade's assists are significantly lower than his regular level. Such Wade's lethality is only half, and the Heat need two outside cores to organize the offense in turn.
"I didn't take stimulants, I can undergo a test." Bosh emphasized before the game that he did not take stimulants. In the past two days, there were many rumors about Bosh using stimulants in the previous game. There were even so-called internal news that Bosh's comeback was entirely because of the use of stimulants.
Look at Bosh in the third game. He did a great job in that game, a bit unstoppable and invincible. But facing a Bosh who just made a comeback, there will inevitably be criticism, especially when there are more and more stimulant scandals in the league, there are many people who doubt Bosh. Besides, in the regular season and the first two rounds of playoffs, Bosh did not perform like the Big Three many times, and even disappointed the Heat, and there were considerations to trade him. However, in the Eastern Conference Finals, Bosh is completely different after his comeback, which is a bit strange.
Spoelstra was very angry at these doubts. He said: "I firmly don't believe that Chris will use stimulants. It is unnecessary and impossible. This kind of doubt is a blasphemy for him. Although many players have used banned drugs before, Chris definitely has nothing to do with them. He has the strength. The reason why he did not show up in the regular season is that James and Wade shared his responsibilities more. Chris has always sacrificed his data for the team, but this does not mean that he cannot show such beautiful data. You must know that his data in the Raptors is not uncommon."
The Filipinos believe that "if you have to say that Chris is related to stimulants, then I think he is only stimulated by such 'stimulants', that is, you have always doubted his strength, the Knicks' counterattack against him, and the counterattack against him that he is not worthy of the title of giant. These are his real 'stimulants' and the driving force that prompts him to explode." At the same time, Spoelstra also emphasized, "The Heat cannot rely solely on James and Wade to fight alone. Bosh knows that he must stand up, but he didn't find the opportunity before, and now he has found the best time, so don't doubt his strength. If we still want to win that glimmer of life, Chris will still have to perform in the previous game tonight."
However, this is just Spoelstra's wishful thinking. Bosh was obviously affected by the rumors of doping today. In addition, the Knicks' defensive strategy today was specifically changed to target him and Wade because of this rumors. This made Bosh fall into trouble from the beginning of the game and it is difficult to perform in the previous game.
The Knicks' defensive strategy is savvy. Bosh must be under pressure today, because he must not perform well today, otherwise the contrast between the two games in the first and last days will make people suspect that he used stimulants in the last game. However, this pressure is definitely not a good thing for Bosh, and it is easy for him to perform worse under pressure, thus falling into a vicious cycle. At that time, many people would think that he really used stimulants. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!