At this time, the coach of the Hornets was in the training hall of a rented hotel in Sacramento, training the players: "Tomorrow is the third game against them. This game is very important to us."
"Although we are missing Bunyama, which seems to be very detrimental to us, in fact we should look at it from a dialectical point of view, which is also beneficial to us."
All the players are a little confused. Their team is missing their main player. Is this beneficial to them?
The head coach knew that everyone was puzzled, so he continued: "Just because we lack a leader, the Kings will definitely despise us, and their contempt is a favorable factor for us."
Everyone understands.
The coach continued: "And now that the Kings have won two games in a row, they will definitely have arrogance and contempt for us, so we just use this to win them."
Throughout the next day, public opinion continued to ferment.
Although the Kings players have refuted the rumors, it seems that all media reporters hope that the situation will develop in a worse direction. Their reports are still that Wang Yi ordered Dog to beat David Shearer.
Before the start of the third game, reporters also kept asking Wang Yi and others questions about David Shearer being beaten at the pre-match press conference.
Wang Yi and the others seemed to take the trouble.
But in fact, these memorizers swarmed in and continued to put pressure on the Kings, but this was exploited by the Kings.
Precisely because the Hornets know the tremendous pressure the Kings are under, they will despise the Kings, which is actually more beneficial to the Kings.
D'Antoni watched Wang Yi attend the press conference from the side door, and he sighed again in his heart, Wang Yi is the devil.
In D'Antoni's view, Wang Yi not only took everything into account after Doug injured David Shearer, but also took advantage of the victim.
Taking advantage of David Shearer's desire to vent his anger, and David Shearer's method of creating public opinion, the Hornets despised the defense team.
When his teammate was injured like this, instead of sympathizing with him, he took advantage of him. This is inhumane from a normal perspective.
But D'Antoni also knows Wang Yi's character. Wang Yi definitely has a clear distinction between love and hate.
If David Shearer hadn't caused so many things before, Wang Yi would never have treated him like this.
Looking at all of Wang Yi's teammates, basically as long as they don't do anything too outrageous, they will get good results from Wang Yi, except for David Shearer.
Of course, there is another point, and that is whether it will help the team.
Wang Yi will naturally not take kindly to people like David Shearer who do not help the team in any way and instead cause trouble everywhere.
Next game 3.
Due to the Hornets' underestimation of their opponents, the fact that they were missing one of the team's main offensive and defensive cores, and the fact that they lost a total of 85 points in the first two games, their morale was already very low.
In the end, the Kings still won the game in Game 3.
Although they only won the opponent by more than 20 points in this game.
But the score of three to zero also made everyone dumbfounded.
After all, before the game, everyone imagined that the Hornets could win the game with a score of 4-2, 4-1, or even 4-0, but they did not expect that it would be 3:0.
At this time, although the Kings are still facing pressure from outside public opinion, the players within the team have begun to look forward to the moment of winning the trophy.
Although the head coach has repeatedly emphasized to the players that the final victory has not yet been achieved, they still have one game to win.
But after all, the team is composed of young players, and all of them are already feeling proud and complacent at this time.
Wang Yi took this into consideration and did not train these players.
Because he knows that when pride and complacency grow in people's hearts, it is difficult to listen to anyone's words. Only by making a big mistake can they have a longer memory.
There are only three people in the entire team who are not complacent.
One is Wang Yi, one is Doug, and the other is Ross.
Doug's goal is only to defeat his opponent. No matter the current score is 0:3 or 3:0, his goal is to win a game anyway.
For a character like his, there is basically no feeling of pride and complacency.
Rose has been wandering around in the last years of his career, and all his efforts have been devoted to the championship.
Therefore, when he was one victory away from the championship, he became more and more cautious.
He has missed the championship several times in his career.
The most recent time was the second year after Wang Yi retired. He once reached the finals with the Bucks, but in the end he failed to win the championship.
That experience was unforgettable for him.
So now that he is closer to victory, he becomes more cautious.
In the next fourth game, the Kings really stumbled.
After Wendanyama experienced a sprained foot, perhaps due to the training of an expert, he played very fiercely in this game.
Even though Doug pestered him fiercely, he was not timid at all, but rolled up his sleeves and confronted Doug.
According to the current regulations, if a player accumulates two kicks in the same round of the series, he will be directly suspended - and will not be allowed to play again in the entire series.
So Doug can no longer just step in Wenbanyama’s footsteps.
This made Bunyama fight even more fiercely.
In addition, the three goals in this game really showed his characteristics. The pick-and-roll between him and Vunbanyama made it difficult for the Kings to defend.
At the same time, Wang Yi did not sign any experience cards for this game.
His current condition is only about 70% of his peak.
It is still very difficult for him to lead such a Kings team to win without an experience card.
In the end, Wang Yi fought hard for 39 minutes, and his legs cramped up to the end.
But still failed to win the game.
Bunyama scored a huge double-double with 40 points and 19 rebounds in this game.
Although Wang Yi also scored a near-triple-double with 45 points, 11 rebounds and 9 assists, as analyzed by many experts, if Wang Yi does not score 50 points, it will be difficult for the Kings to win.
So in the end, the Kings unfortunately lost by 4 points.
After this defeat, Wang Yi remembered what Popovich once said - the first two games are the easiest for the Kings to win, and the later the game becomes, the harder it will be for the Kings.
At this time, he couldn't help but sigh, this old uncle was really scheming, just like Zhuge Liang who had already determined three parts of the world before he was born.
After the loss, Wang Yi did not see the heavy hearts on the faces of the young players of the Kings. Instead, several players were joking in low voices.

Chapter completed!