I’m Really Playing Basketball

After playing the first two games of the finals, it can be said that it was a slap in the face to many American experts.

The two teams tied with a score of 1 to 1, which embarrassed those experts who predicted that the Bobcats would be one-sided in the finals.

In fact, with Jordan's "exciting" and "thrilling" coaching style, it is almost impossible to sweep the opponents in a series without making any mistakes.

Even a seasoned head coach like Popovich has become too old in the series, let alone a young man like Jordan.

As Pat Riley said, with Jordan's coaching style, since you enjoy the surprises brought by this coaching style, you must also bear the thrills brought by this coaching style.

Originally, the Bobcats and Lakers were very close in terms of strength. In addition, the two teams had no restraint on each other, so the game was already very close. Now, coupled with an unpredictable head coach like Jordan, this series between the Bobcats and the Lakers has become more difficult. After two games, it became a bit unpredictable and unpredictable.

However, overall, the Bobcats' mood is quite stable after losing G2 in the finals.

Just like Jordan said when he comforted everyone, I'm already undercover, and we only lost by less than five points.

From this aspect, the Bobcats have a lot of room for improvement, and the upper limit seems to be higher than the Lakers. Therefore, the Bobcats have an advantage in this finals.

Therefore, the failure of this game is not entirely a bad thing. It can be regarded as testing the bottom line of the Bobcats. Even if the Bobcats are at the bottom, they are only less than five points away from the normal Lakers.

So, if you look at it optimistically, this is actually a good thing.

However, for Chen Xiao, the loss in the last game caused Chen Xiao to lose a record in the finals.

Before losing the last game, Chen Xiao had won nine consecutive games in the finals and had never lost a game in the finals in his career.

Nine consecutive wins in the finals, this is actually a moderate record.

Therefore, after the Bobcats lost at home, media across the United States and China reported this record vigorously.

Of course, Chen Xiao doesn't seem to care that much about this record.

In short, after the first two games of the finals, NBA experts in the United States have completely changed their opinion.

One by one, in interviews or on programs, they said that this series between the Bobcats and the Lakers will definitely lead to a tiebreaker.

Judging from the performance of the two teams in the previous two games, it seems that this is indeed a trend.

Chen Xiao and Kobe seem to be on the same level of strength, and there is basically no gap between levels.

At the home court of the Bobcats, Chen Xiao has an advantage over Kobe. For example, when faced with Kobe's dog-walking style of playing that is as musical and artistic as singing, Chen Xiao often keeps up with his steps, but his body may not be able to turn around. It is inevitable that the body will collide with Kobe while dribbling.

If it is during the regular season, anyone who has watched NBA games knows that when an offensive player dribbles the ball, as long as the defensive player's body collides uncontrollably with the offensive player dribbling, it will definitely be a foul.

But in the first two games, Chen Xiao did not commit such fouls several times.

After all, the home court of the Bobcats, although the whistle is fair, the scale is biased towards the Bobcats.

This is also normal.

But when it comes to Los Angeles, home of the Lakers, it will definitely be a different scene. Maybe the referee who didn't catch this kind of foul before will focus on this kind of foul?

This is very possible.

By then, even if Chen Xiao's strength is still higher than Kobe's, the gap between the two sides will also be narrowing.

If this is the case, the strength gap between the Bobcats and Lakers will be even smaller.

The advantage of the Bobcats is the thickness of the rotation, while the Lakers have the rotation and timing of Phil Jackson's rotation players.

Phil Jackson can use his rotation of players to offset the Bobcats' depth advantage.

I have to say that although NBA experts have a lot to complain about and are often very unreliable, not to mention, these people are still quite reasonable when analyzing.

It makes you feel that this is really the case.

In short, after going to the Lakers' home court, these experts believe that the strength of the two teams will be almost the same, and the Lakers may even win a little bit.

At that time, Los Angeles will play the Bobcats 2-1 at their home court, and the big score of the two sides will reach 3-2. Returning to the Bobcats' home court, isn't it a tie-break with a high probability?

As an expert, you can make your own predictions and outlook on the game, but for players, you can't think about so many things.

The Bobcats' away game against the Lakers in G3 of the Finals started on June 12th. The Bobcats finished the game on June 9th and arrived in Los Angeles on June 10th.

Jordan and Chen Xiao brought everyone to Los Angeles so early to check out the spots. Of course, they weren't here to have beer.

In many finals in history, there have been incidents where the visiting team Taiha Beer was extremely happy and sad in the end.

At this point, Uncle Qiao has also been through it, even a victim.

At that time, he himself didn't know how he was poisoned.

In any case, the past has passed, and Uncle Joe just hoped that Bobcats players would not make such mistakes again.

I have to say that most of the current Bobcat players are young, passionate, and full of desire for honor, so they are very obedient and easy to lead.

Once these young people gain honors and become veterans of the NBA, they will not be so easy to discipline.

And this is also the reason why there are so few dynasties in the NBA. It is easy to win one championship, but it is difficult to win the second one. It is even more difficult to win the third one in a row. You need to deal with a lot of internal problems of the team.

Of course, these things are still far away from the current Bobcats.

The current Bobcats are still in a happy time when everyone starts a business together and makes a fortune together.

Due to the failure of the previous game, the two sides tied with a big score of 1-1, which made the third game very important for the away Bobcats.

If G3 loses, it will most likely allow the Lakers to win two games in a row to build momentum.

When the time comes, the Bobcats will panic even if they don't panic. Chen Xiao and Kobe will definitely not panic, but it's hard to say for others.

When the time comes, if this happens, the Bobcats will have the opportunity to win three consecutive games at their home court and take the Bobcats away.

Historically, in the 2012 Finals, the Thunder won one of the first two games. The Thunder should have won the second game, but in the end, the referee did not call James' foul on Durant and the Heat stole one. With a victory in this game, the original 2-0 situation turned into a 1-1.

Losing a game is actually secondary. What is really fatal is that the mentality of the young people in the Thunder collapsed because of this game.

In the end, the Thunder were defeated like a mountain.

You know, after G1 of the 2012 Finals, the whole world was mocking James. No. 24 had just left, and another No. 35 came.

But what happened next was like a mudslide, like diarrhea, and I couldn't stop it even if I wanted to.

Of course, the Bobcats and Thunder are not the same.

Although the Bobcats are also young, Chen Xiao is the leader of two championships, and Jordan is the leader of six championships.

Chen Xiao and Jordan are not comparable to so-called leaders like Er Pang.

If Chen Xiao were replaced by the Thunder in 2012, Chen Xiao would definitely not have an explosive mentality.

After all, if you think about it, you will know that if James really lost in 2012, he really left on the 24th and came on the 35th, and the NBA would immediately enter the era of Durant from the era of Kobe Bryant, then the NBA, David Well, the commercial power of the NBA has supported the spokesperson for 8 years. Isn’t it supporting a loneliness and cultivating a joke?

The Thunder can win in 2012, but please be prepared for the most difficult situation.

Obviously, the Thunder in 2012 were not prepared at all in this regard. After all, they were too young.

In the end, a team that could have built a dynasty was destroyed by dirty business needs.

However, on the other hand, you can complain about James for many things, but his ability to handle pressure is really strong.

After losing in G1 in the 2012 finals and facing the ridicule of the whole world, he was still able to be so calm and keenly aware of his own strength. This is much better than Adu, who has absolutely no ability in this regard. Xiao Zhan is smart and calm.

So, the finals are never just about strength.

Especially in a business league like the NBA, no matter how much David Stern wants to keep the NBA clean and pure, this is still a business league.

Since it is a commercial league, there can never be a clean and pure competition between the NCAA and FIBA.

Historically, at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, that joke took five years to cultivate a group of "NBA stars" that stunned basketball fans around the world.

Without the so-called "stars" protected by NBA rules, even NBA role players cannot win in FIBA ​​games.

This has to make people wonder, if those NBA role players are given enough protection, can they also become NBA 'superstars'?

After that joke came on stage, not only the data exploded in the NBA, but the quality of the stars also exploded.

So, if you imagine, a person who is as strong as a role player can be packaged as a "superstar" by the whistle and rule protection. So as long as the NBA officially exerts its strength, what will happen to you no matter how strong you are?

NBA officials can make each other look like NBA superstars!

How can you play with this?

Of course, that joke is now behind bars, and the NBA has now entered its purest period in history.

Although the NBA will never be as clean as FIBA ​​and NCAA, the current NBA is indeed the cleanest time and the most trustworthy time in strength.

Otherwise, the predictions of those experts are simply a joke.

Even if the strength is equal, as long as the jokes work hard, the Lakers will win three games in a row. Whoever wants to win can win.

Well, I didn’t win the 8-on-5 finals in 2017. I don’t know if it was an accident or if Adu or the Warriors were too strong.

For the Bobcats, G3 of the finals is very important. If they win, the Bobcats will definitely take the game back to their home court.

Similarly, G3 of the Finals is also very important to the Lakers. If they win, they will have the opportunity to keep the game in Los Angeles.

To be honest, the tiebreaker is very detrimental to them.

For the Lakers, it is best not to play a tiebreaker and play as few games as possible.

Therefore, in G3 of the finals on June 12, two teams with the belief of winning played a very strong smell of gunpowder in Staples.

Back at home, the Los Angeles Lakers had no intention of testing the referee's standards, and gave the Bobcats the most fierce game intensity as soon as they came up.

Chen Ling could understand what Phil Jackson wanted by doing this. Obviously, he wanted to give Bobcat a bad start.

Regardless of whether the referee's scale is beneficial to the Lakers, as the home team, it must be full of momentum.

I have to say that coaches like Phil Jackson and Pat Riley are really different from coaches like D'Antoni who are hesitant and hesitant.

That's really decisive.

It's just that, Phil Jackson, who wanted to use the intensity of the game to bring down the Bobcats, probably never thought that the Lakers' players were not at the same level as the Bobcats in terms of fierceness.

Yes, the Lakers are mostly a group of experienced veterans, while the Bobcats are mostly young people.

In terms of comparison, young people seem to be at a disadvantage.

However, seeing Bynum, who was only 19 years old after the referee encouraged the confrontation, punched and kicked Gasol with both hands and feet, Phil Jackson was stunned.

Reasonably speaking, Gasol is actually not considered a weak player. It can only be said that Bynum, a young man, is too vicious!

In this game, the Lakers gave the Bobcats such a big confrontation as soon as they came up, which directly turned on some kind of switch for Bynum who regained the starting position.

Some kind of switch called a villain.

In fact, the villain of the Bobcats is more than Bynum.

Bynum's inside partner Randolph, this big black bear, what kind of civilized player do you think he is?

Of course, David West on the opposite side was also very hard, and the two of them killed in this game had a feeling of darkness.

There are also Lakers point guard Baron Davis and Bobcats point guard Xiao Cannon, who also killed quite vigorously.

I have to say that Phil Jackson's ruthlessness with the Bobcats in this game was really not his fault. The Lakers do have a lot of ruthless people.

However, there is really no way to compare with a team like the Bobcats, where all members are ruthless.

"I thought this rhythm belonged to the Lakers playing at home, but I didn't expect that this rhythm belonged to the Bobcats!"

"The Los Angeles Lakers can play with intensity in this game, but they can't be so ruthless!"

Yes, the Los Angeles Lakers can increase their intensity, but they cannot be too aggressive. If they are too aggressive, it will not be the rhythm of the Lakers, but the rhythm of the fierce Bobcats.

Therefore, in G3, the fierce Lakers lost 84 to 92 at home to the Bobcats. In this game, Gasol's advantage over Bynum was almost lost in Bynum's punches and kicks.

In G4 and G5, Phil Jackson learned the lessons of G3 and led the Lakers to a record of one win and one loss.

In G4 and G5, the score difference between the two teams was very close. In one game, it was 98 to 96, and the Lakers won by two points, while in the other game, it was 101 to 98, and the Bobcats won by a small margin.

These two games can show how close the two teams are.

In fact, if you look at the competition, the three games played in Los Angeles in the finals were really intense, and the games were also quite exciting.

Technique, tactics, intensity, everything is there.

Let's put it this way, according to Barkley, the NBA Finals hasn't had such a close and exciting game for a long time. This is the luck of the entire NBA audience.

But obviously, for Phil Jackson, the final record of three home games was 1-2, which was almost a death sentence for the Lakers in the Finals.

Originally, they could have played 2-1 at home!

But he made the same mistake that Jordan took for granted in G2 in G3.

Jordan saw that Gortat was good at playing Gasol off the bench, so he put him in the starting lineup, and the Bobcats collapsed.

He saw that the Lakers had many ruthless players and experienced them, so he felt that the greater the intensity, the better. In the end, the Lakers collapsed.

It can only be said that in the finals, when even an old bastard like Popovich made mistakes, Phil Jackson's mistakes that shouldn't be counted as mistakes are really nothing.

And this time in G5 of the Finals, after the Lakers lost, the expressions on the faces of Kobe and the Lakers players were not as calm as when they lost in G1 or G3.

Because they know that the difficult moment for the Lakers is really coming!

After all, the Bobcats have won championship points!

They can no longer make any mistakes.

Watching the big score of 3 to 2 on TV after the end of G5 of the finals.

There are various expressions on the faces of Wade, Ron Howard, Yao Ming, Duncan, Tracy McGrady, Carter and others in front of the TV.

There is expectation, joy, envy, jealousy...

No matter what the expressions of these people are, they all have a common look on their faces.

That’s wonder!

"Congratulations to Wonder Boy for winning the most important Tianwang Mountain victory. The third championship in his career is already close at hand!"

Less than 25 years old, the third championship trophy of his career!

How is this not amazing, shocking.