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Chapter 89: Change of plan! (16000 words per day, begging for monthly subscription!)
Led the team to a draw with the Spurs.

Qin Yue, who thought he was accustomed to big scenes, had been unable to sleep for two consecutive nights before the Western Conference Finals.

And he has the same symptoms.
And his teammates and the team coaching staff.

Although everyone usually encourages each other with "never underestimate the heart of a champion", now, with the Warriors really reaching the stage of the Western Conference Finals,
Those Warriors players who had been hesitant, confused, and melancholy before Qin Yue joined the team could hear their own heartbeats almost every moment, already beating with the beating of the drum of liberation.

"Being traded to the Golden State Warriors is God's gift to me!"

Ron Artest, who joined the team midway through the season, was ready to escort the Kings to the top of the mountain.

Since we were able to eliminate the Mavericks, the favorites to win the championship, in the first round of the playoffs and beat the defending champion Spurs in the semifinals, why can't we tear the wings of that damn phoenix in the Western Conference Finals?

Baron Davis, who was depressed throughout the semifinals, has sharpened his sword.

In the upcoming Western Conference Finals.
He will personally strike the blow at Steve Nash.

On the 22nd, the warriors, led by Qin Yue, set out towards Phoenix City.

Before the game, when asked by reporters whether he would be the next one after Nowitzki and Duncan were defeated by Qin Yue, Stoudemire said: "First of all, I have to take my hat off to the Warriors' performance. As for the next round of the Western Conference Finals? I think there is no constant situation in war, and there is no constant shape in water."

Stoudemire is lucky in this life.

Because he was supposed to be ill from overwork during the 04/05 season and was "returned to the factory for repairs" in the summer of 05.
Due to the appearance of Qin Yue, a large number of NBA teams chose to play badly in the 04/05 season, which reduced the intensity of the game that season. Not only did he successfully escape, but under the careful care of the "Phoenix Repair Factory", he also completed the 3/05 season, in which he originally only played three regular season games.

But Stoudemire was also unfortunate.

Because he doesn't have the same steel knees as Qin Yue, he has been suffering from an old knee injury since the Suns entered the playoffs.

Although the famous Phoenix repair shop is confident that it can help Stoudemire recover to full strength this summer, Stoudemire is destined to not be able to exert his full strength in the upcoming Western Conference Finals.

In this regard, Qin Yue said in an interview: "I sympathize with his experience (playing with an injury), but I will not show mercy, because in my opinion, going all out is the greatest respect for him."

Show mercy?

In the NBA, there are many players who choose to play for their team despite injuries. For example, in the first round of the playoffs, would the Suns let the Lakers pass because Kobe played with an injury?
In fact, after putting away their underestimation of the enemy, the Suns won the Lakers by a full 30 points in the seventh game. (The original score was 90 to 121)

In the Western Conference semifinals, will the Suns let the Jazz go because of Paul's sprained ankle?

What a joke! If the Suns wanted to let Paul go, why would they raise their butcher knives and slaughter the Jazz by a full 60 points in Game and Game combined?
This is the NBA, where if you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight. Injuries themselves are the suffering that players must endure.

Before the start of the Western Conference Finals, all Warriors players, including Qin Yue, had a vague feeling that they seemed to be the team that had been blessed with destiny.

The most serious injury to the Warriors since entering the playoffs.
It was the flu that Biedrins had come down with two weeks ago.

In competitive sports, this blessing from luck is especially important for athletes.

Because it will also create strong psychological hints in the athletes' hearts and further strengthen their belief in achieving good results.

This is not metaphysics, but objective sports psychology.

In this year's playoffs, as they win one victory after another, the Warriors players gradually realize that they are likely to become the protagonists, and they will carry their increasingly firm belief in winning the championship.
To face them in this round of Western Conference Finals against the Suns.

On the evening of the 24th.

The America West Arena, which will be renamed the American Airlines Center next season, officially ushered in this highly anticipated Western Conference Finals.

During pre-game warm-ups, several Suns players noticed the difference between this Warriors team and the regular season team.

Each of them has confidence on their face.

This "mysterious self-confidence" even made the Suns players doubt at one point that the Warriors were the team ranked second in the Western Conference in the regular season.

The head coaches of both teams had a pleasant conversation before the game.

Especially when it comes to the rotation strategies each team adopted in this year's playoffs.
D'Antoni, who felt like he had finally found a confidant, said: "The media have been attacking me for only using seven to eight players every night, which has caused the players to be exhausted. But how could they know that as long as I replace the main players, the team may collapse at any time?"

Hearing this, Montgomery said: "Before, the Bay Area media also criticized me for letting Messiah play almost every game in the semifinals, but they don't know that the Warriors are completely different teams with or without Messiah."

At this moment, D'Antoni and Montgomery felt like they had met too late.

If they didn't have to lead the team to the Western Conference Finals, they might even kill pigs and cattle and become sworn brothers on the spot.

Salvatore, who received rave reviews for his performance in the decisive match between the Spurs and the Warriors, will be responsible for officiating Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals.

Since two offensive teams are meeting in the Western Conference Finals, David Stern naturally has to make this Western Conference Finals fair, open and just.

It is worth mentioning that although Nash himself had no intention of being involved in the storm called "trophy theft incident"
But before the game started, local fans in Phoenix expressed their dissatisfaction with Qin Yue who was warming up at the time by booing and insulting him.

"Steve is the undisputed MVP, you shameless detractor!"

"The Warriors are only fifth in the Western Conference. Why do you deserve to be compared with Steve?"

"You are a commodity that the league deliberately promotes. Steve is the real artist on the court!"

Amidst these few insults that were able to "pass the review", Qin Yue, who had gradually forgotten about the regular season MVP, suddenly began to brew emotions.

Before the game, Qin Yue had already expressed through the media that Nash fully deserved this year's MVP.

But since the Phoenix fans are still chattering, given Qin Yue's character, he naturally doesn't intend to let go of the team supported by these fans who insult him.

Brown, who has always been good at observing people's words and expressions, keenly noticed Qin Yue's changes before the game.

In his future biography, he described it this way: "If you ask me what is the most positive change Qin has brought to the NBA? Then I will definitely tell you that he has improved the quality and cultivation of NBA fans, especially those fans at the scene."

In the center of the field, referee Salvatore walked towards the center circle with the ball.

The Suns took the initiative to change their lineup tonight, with Dio partnering with Stoudemire in the interior.

The other three players on the court were Marion, Bell and Nash.

D'Antoni's formation change is mainly for offense.

Because when necessary, Marion and Dio can rotate to the inside to make up for the offensive vitality and athletic ability that Stoudemire lost due to injury.

As for the Warriors, Murphy, who performed well in the semifinals, will return to the bench.

Biedrins, who had previously only played in garbage time in the playoffs, will be included in the team's rotation for this game.

Facing the Suns, the Warriors need to maintain their inside sweeping capabilities at all times.

This is very important.

After all, the Suns' high-speed offense is well-deserved.

At the America West Arena, Brown won the ball for the Warriors during the jump ball.

After Davis dribbled across half court, the Warriors only left Brown to serve as a wall for the first-generation bearded man, and the other three moved away.

Since Stoudemire is also the defensive weakness of this Suns team, the Warriors' offense tonight will revolve around Davis in the opening stage.

At the top of the arc, Nash, who was defending very hard, and Stoudemire, who had never been taught how to defend, teamed up to create a famous scene.

At the moment when Nash was blocking, Stoudemire and Brown indirectly achieved a high-post double pick-and-roll.

Davis did not miss the opportunity to speed up. He lowered his center of gravity, leaned forward and accelerated into the Suns basket.

At this time, Shawn Marion, a player to whom the league also owed a "DPOY" trophy, took the initiative to step forward.

As the de facto rim protector for the Suns, Marion has amazing lateral mobility and a wingspan of over 220 cm.

In Qin Yue's eyes, his choice of timing for assisting defense and his blocking of passing lines during assisting defense could only be described as impeccable.

However, since Qin Yue observed Marion's defense, it also means
There was still a passing lane that Marion was destined to be unable to block.

In a flash, Davis suddenly reached the heart of the Suns and threw the ball high into the air.

The next second, as soon as he turned around, Marion saw the terrifying monster.

There was no time to block or dodge. The moment Qin Yue violently dunked the ball with both hands, Marion, who had physical contact with him, flew out of the court in an instant!
This is a courageous look back.

Because he didn't even have time to adjust his center of gravity before turning around, Marion lost his center of gravity almost in an instant.

But this is also a beautiful world-famous painting.

On TNT TV, Barkley eulogized Qin Yue: "The Messiah dunked Shawn Marion!"

After scoring the goal, Qin Yue slowly landed on the ground and pointed his finger at the audience that had insulted him the most before the game, and shook his finger at them.

This action is called:
——Wag his finger.

As a privileged action, generally speaking, in the NBA, only Dikembe Mutombo is eligible to do this action after completing a block. (In the early days of his career, Mutombo would also get a technical foul for doing this action)

Therefore, the moment Qin Yue shook his finger towards the stands, the always impartial Salvatore immediately called a technical foul on him.

But at the same time, looking up at Qin Yue, Salvatore also said: "My duty determines that I must give you a technical foul, but the reason why you shook your finger just now, I will write it down in the referee report tonight without missing a word."

Before the game, when the fans at the America West Arena were insulting Qin Yue, Salvatore was standing by.

Salvatore knew very well what those words spoken by extreme fans meant, so he knew that Qin Yue was shaking his finger for a reason.

However, as an on-field law enforcer, he had to call a technical foul on Qin Yue.

Hearing this, after smiling at Salvatore, Qin Yue said, "I fully understand your judgment."

No wonder his colleagues all praised him, he was such a well-behaved and sensible boy - at this moment, Salvatore thought so in his heart.

At the America West Arena, Nash, who was responsible for executing technical foul free throws for the Suns, once again demonstrated his signature free throw move: licking the sole of his shoe.

As Nash's signature move, before each free throw, Nash would touch the sole of his shoe with his hand and lick it before taking the free throw.

In "Sports Psychology", there are indeed many athletes who use these iconic movements to strengthen their psychological cues and thereby gain confidence in achieving something.

For example, Nash at this moment, throughout his career, he would lick the soles of his shoes as a psychological cue every time he took a free throw, and he has a free throw success rate of up to 90.4%.

However, no matter how high Nash's free throw shooting percentage was, this action was extremely disgusting in Qin Yue's eyes.

because
No matter how clean the NBA playing field is, players on both sides of the game will sweat all the time.

What if you accidentally lick someone else's body fluids while licking the sole of your shoe? How painful would that feel?

Swish-!
On the court, Nash made the free throw after receiving a technical foul.

Due to playing with injuries, the pick-and-roll of Stoudemire and Nash was not as effective as before tonight.

So Nash accelerated decisively, and after passing Davis, he shot the basketball into the hoop with a horse-riding arrow.

As a two-time MVP winner, Nash is more than just an assist.

However, Nash, who was as beautiful as a painting in the previous second, became a soft persimmon that Davis used his body to attack in the next second.

Tonight, the reason why other Warriors players including Qin Yue took the initiative to create space for Davis was to prevent the Suns' wings from assisting Nash in defense in the first place.

This is Nash's fatal flaw.

On the stage of the playoffs, it is destined to be infinitely magnified.

Davis made a violent breakthrough with the ball, and Nash chased closely behind him, but he was unable to regain his defensive position.

Then, seeing that the Suns' help defense was not as timely as before, Davis jumped directly and vented all his anger at Parker before!

Bang-dang——!
This is a powerful guard version of a one-armed battle axe!
Nash, the famous background board master in the NBA, unfortunately became the background again.

On the court, the Warriors missed the rim twice at the beginning of the game, which seemed to be a sign of them taking the initiative.

If it were any other time, Stoudemire might have done a pick-and-roll with Nash and then used his dunk to vent the anger of the fans.

But tonight, Brown observed, Stoudemire was a shell without a soul.

Having lost his athletic ability, Stoudemire is not like Qin Yue who can exert his offensive influence through pick-and-roll, assists and basketball IQ.

At one point, Brown even thought that Stoudemire, who chose to play with an injury, had become a burden to the Suns.

Because the first half
Brown found himself choosing to bounce out on nearly every pick-and-roll.

There is no doubt that Brown can block Stoudemire alone.

Instead, after the Suns replaced him with Tim Thomas
Facing the Suns' offense that had resumed its high-speed run, Brown began to look increasingly exhausted.

The offensive genius D'Antoni fully demonstrated his imagination in the first quarter.

In the second half of this quarter, Marion, whose actual position on the field had changed to center, was always able to use his elusive running to engage the Warriors' entire defense line.

However, although he could solve the team's offensive problems, D'Antoni could not solve the team's defensive problems.

In Qin Yue's previous life, the Mavericks led by Johnson could score over 100 points per game against the Suns, let alone the Warriors who could find the weak points of the Suns and beat them to death?
The difference between the regular season and the playoffs was perfectly reflected on this night.

It doesn't matter that Davis is tired of chiseling.

Qin Yue just continued to chisel.

In the second half of the first quarter, facing Boris Dio who was defending him, Qin Yue demonstrated his attitude: not only am I taller than you, I'm also faster than you.

On the court, in the Warriors' offensive round, Qin Yue, who was performing three threats with the ball in one hand on the wing, immediately accelerated after a fake shot.

Although Dio cut off Qin Yue's forward route in the first place, he was unable to interfere with Qin Yue's subsequent jump shot.

When——!
The basket that rejected Qin Yue's jump shot became Dio's only savior.

Can.
Before Dio could be happy, Brown passed the frontcourt rebound to Qin Yue.

In theory, it is true that Marion is very strong as he can perfectly play all positions on the front line.

But even the "hacker" couldn't keep the backcourt rebounds for the Suns every time under the Warriors' amazingly talented rotations.

On the right side, after grabbing the rebound from Brown, Qin Yue exploded and stood up, and scored in front of Thomas!

AND-ONE!

The ball went in and the whistle blew. It was an impressive two plus one.

If we say that in the first round of the playoffs, the Mavericks didn’t understand why they lost, in the Western Conference semifinals, the Spurs didn’t understand why the Warriors were so good at shooting and had so many shooters.
In this round of Western Conference Finals, Qin Yue and Brown are the two big mountains that make the Suns feel despair!
When two 6-foot-11-inch talented monsters who can run, jump and have long wingspans are rampant in your restricted area, how can Marion compete with them?

Marion himself is desperate, okay?

"You grabbed a good rebound just now." Before the free throw, Qin Yue praised Brown by name.

Hearing this, Brown smiled and said, “As long as you like, I can rob you for a lifetime.”

At this moment, Qin Yue ignored Brown.

And, influenced by his words.
When——!
Qin Yue even missed the penalty kick, which was rare.

On the Suns bench, D'Antoni frowned as he looked at Stoudemire who was still receiving ice treatment.

Because now, the Suns can only pin all their hopes on offense.

Fortunately, in the second half of this quarter, Nash showed his style as a two-time MVP, repeatedly making explosive shots, either horseback shooting or low layup, scoring 8 points for the Suns alone.

After the first quarter, the score was 36 to 30.

In the second quarter, Montgomery, who was discussing with D'Antoni before the game how to squeeze the star player dry, showed his cunning side.

Unlike the previous Western Conference semifinals, Montgomery gave Qin Yue plenty of rest time in the first half of the second quarter tonight.

Due to Stoudemire's injury, Nash and Marion were over-consumed in the first quarter, and the Suns could only rely on Barbosa to provide firepower for the second lineup. Therefore, the Warriors could completely strengthen the clearance of the restricted area by sending Biedrins and take advantage of the Suns' excellent defense, with Dunleavy Jr. and Murphy to hold on through the first half of the second quarter.

You know, Golden State's "trash duo" are gods in this kind of favorable situation.

In the restricted area of the Suns without the protection of Marion, on the court, the Warriors' offensive round, Murphy broke through the defender in the low post very toughly, and put the basketball into the hoop smoothly with his left hand.

Could this be Troy Murphy?

Yes, this is Troy Murphy, or you can also call him Shaq Murphy.

Then, in the next Warriors' offensive round, Bell, who was completely used by D'Antoni as a "cow and horse", wanted to take the opportunity to adjust his breathing, but
How could young Dunleavy give him a chance to breathe?

On the court, after slipping around Bell for a long time, Dunleavy went back to the top of the arc and made a jump shot after receiving the ball.

As Golden State's "King" who travels off-peak, Mike Dunleavy never asks anyone else to help him beat the opponent's main players who are over-exerted.

America West Arena.

This was the most frustrating period for D'Antoni.

For this reason, he had no idea how to solve the problem and could only let Nash and Marion rest for two and a half minutes before replacing them again.

The effect of Nash and Marion joining forces was immediate.

Because in the first round when they returned to the court together, the previously aggressive Murphy and Dunleavy turned into good boys.

The young Biedrins, due to his lack of experience, received three fouls in just 5 minutes of playing time.

Moreover, he sent Nash to the free throw line twice, which was equivalent to giving Nash 4 points for free.

but.
On the Warriors bench, Montgomery, who seemed to be possessed by the soul of Phil Jackson tonight, did not send Qin Yue back to the court until there were 6 minutes and 01 second left in the second quarter.

On CCTV, Zhang Weiping complained: "Wow, the Warriors coach is finally willing to make a substitution. If he doesn't make a substitution, we will almost forget that the Warriors even have a head coach."

Coach Zhang, who was used to Qin Yue playing every game, and who knew basketball very well, obviously didn't realize why the Warriors dared to let Qin Yue sit on the sidelines to rest in this game.

In fact, until Qin Yue returned to the court
On the scoreboard, the Warriors and the Suns were only tied.

But a Qin Yue who can get a six-minute break.

The Suns fans at the scene will fully experience how terrifying he is in the next half quarter.

On the right side of the court, after actively applying for a singles play, Qin Yue first held the ball with one hand to feel the defensive area of Tim Thomas. Then, noticing that the opponent took a step back, Qin Yue immediately completed the shot.

This is an appetizer that Qin Yue served to the Suns fans at the America West Arena.

It is simple and efficient, elegant and calm.

Swish-!
"Give me all the balls from now on. I want to turn this place into a library!"

On the court, while retreating, Qin Yue said this to Davis.

Hearing this, looking at Qin Yue's burning eyes, Davis smiled and said, "As you wish."

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