At 7 a.m., Memphis smells of mud after heavy rain. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Anxi walked through the hotel's open-air atrium to the restaurant at the back, where the spurs had a training session in the morning, but Anxi took a few hours off, and Yvoclark and Time reporters were already waiting in the café on the first floor of the hotel.

Anxi saw Ivo Clark from afar, he waved his hand, and Ivo Clark also saw Anxi.

Ivo Clark stood up, and there were two strangers sitting next to him, a man and a woman, and when they saw Ivo Clark stand up, they also stood up.

An Xi walked over quickly, and several people greeted each other.

"Hello, Ann, I'm John Sal, a reporter for Time magazine. The male reporter got up first to introduce herself, and the female reporter followed: "I'm Keisha Mina." ”

An Xi nodded: "Hello." ”

"Well, I guess I'll give you a little bit of a rundown between the two of us, Keisha will interview you as the host, Ann. An Xi nodded, and John Sal continued: "I will participate in this interview as a photographer. ”

An Xi smiled: "Okay, let's do it as soon as possible, after all, time is limited." ”

John Sal also laughed: "Understood, you still have to go to training later." ”

Soon, John Sal held up his camera, first took a few photos of Anxi, and then asked Anxi for a few posters. Then I shrank back and started to pick out the posters. Because of the tight schedule, Time magazine did not have a plan to shoot a special cover for Anxi, so John Sal was ready to choose among the posters provided by Anxi.

The selected cover poster also needs to give Anxi a purpose.

And Keisha Mina has already started an interview with Anxi: "Then An, let's start, the main content of this interview is ten questions." ”

"Ten questions?"

"That's right, ten questions handpicked by our editorial team, and we'll be interviewing Mr. Ivo, Mr. Greg Popovich, and a few of your teammates to flesh out the story. ”

Hearing this, An Xi nodded, and by the way, he was relieved, looking at it this way, there is not much content in this interview.

"Then we're going to get started?" Keisha Mina asked again, An Xi nodded, and she opened a small notebook and began an exclusive interview with An Xi.

"The first question, a long time ago Shaquille O'Neal in an interview with us, once gave the NBA a level of excitement, he thinks that when he first entered the NBA, the excitement of the game was A-, Michael Jordan became C--after leaving the NBA, and then gradually stabilized to C, but in 1998 the labor dispute, it became D, the labor dispute ended, the excitement of the game began to rise, and gradually stabilized at B+, until he retired. ”

"So, what do you think of the current NBA game? Recently, the outside world thinks that the Spurs' game is extremely boring, do you have anything to say?"

An Xi smiled, this question is a bit to the point of the current situation, but the answer is simple, he thought for a while, and said: "If Shaquille O'Neal was stable at B+ before he retired, then it should be B now, a slight decline, but it is still very exciting." As for the Spurs' extremely boring game, I think it should be the argument of a bunch of pseudo-fans, and I don't have much to say. ”

Keisha Mina showed a surprised expression, after all, Anxi's response to the outside world seemed to be a little rigid, and what was even more surprising was that Ivoclark didn't mean to stop Anxi at all, after all, Anxi's response to "a group of pseudo-fans" was likely to create an uproar.

"Go on, Miss Keisha. ”

Keisha Mina was stunned, then reacted and asked the second question: "So Ann, this season is your sophomore season, and you played in the NBA for two years, what do you think is the biggest difference between the NBA and the NCAA?"

An Xi thought for a long time this time before he said slowly: "The biggest difference, I think it should be confrontation, the NBA pays great attention to confrontation, and the NCAA is different, it seems that tactics are the focus of the NCAA's greatest attention." ”

The interview continued, and Keisha Mina asked questions a little faster: "Which athlete do you admire the most in the basketball field?"

This question is not easy to answer, Anxi thought about it and gave a very perfect answer: "Anxi." Then, as if seeing Kaisa Mina's surprise, Anxi hurriedly explained: "Yes, that's right, I think it's me, the reason is simple, I only believe in myself." ”

Keisha Mina nodded, then asked a fourth question: "Outside of basketball, which athlete do you admire the most?" ”

"Liu Xiang, he is the first yellow 100-meter flyer, and I am the first yellow person to dunk the trapeze. An Xi smiled and gave this answer.

Liu Xiang was also on the cover of Time Magazine, and Keisha Mina naturally knew about it, so she nodded and quickly recorded it.

"China's economy is growing rapidly, and China's market is very large, as a player from China, do you think you will have a lot of advantages because of that?"

"I think there's definitely an advantage, but for me, it's not important. Anxi's answer was still very confident, and Keisha Mina had already thought of how to write the subtitle of this interview.

"If you had to choose a player as a teammate, who would it be?"

"Manu Ginobili, in fact, I played in the NBA for two years, and I have cooperated with Manu the most. It is still a seamless answer, indeed, this season Anxi was transferred to the bench, and the most coordinated is naturally Manu Ginobili.

"There are a lot of big players in China, such as Ba Teer, like Wang Zhizhi, and Yao, and you are one of the few non-big players, do you grow up differently from them?"

"Of course, I didn't play professional basketball in China, I grew up in the NCAA in the United States, and it's not like them. ”

"So the eighth question, you became the best sixth man in the NBA this season, but with your strength, you can play as the main team, have you ever thought that if you are the main team, you will achieve more?"

The penultimate question, this question An Xi had guessed that it would appear before, so he answered very simply: "No, I never thought about it, because although I played as a substitute, my playing time was at the starting level." ”

"In addition to the Sixth Man of the Year, you've also got the Most Improved Player, have you ever heard of the curse of the Most Improved Player? Do you think you're going to be affected by this curse?"

"No, I'm confident in myself. ”

Keisha Mina laughed, she looked at her little notebook, in fact, there were only 9 questions in her little notebook, the tenth question was given to her by the editorial department of Time Magazine, and this last question, Keisha Mina already knew what kind of questions she should ask.

"Ann, this is the last question, from the first nine questions, I can hear your self-confidence, where does your self-confidence come from?"

In the last question, An Xi laughed, and then replied: "I have always been very confident, if I didn't have this confidence, then I wouldn't be an NBA player, I wouldn't be a Spurs player!"

After asking ten questions, Keisha Mina ended the interview with a smile, but she didn't let Anxi go directly, but pulled Anxi to talk about the situation in the playoffs this season.

John Sal on the side quickly selected a poster of Anxi's dunk in the playoffs, and after showing Anxi a look, it was passed.

"Then we'll use this one for the cover, but we'll use a little PS in the post. John Sal explained to An Xi, An Xi nodded, he didn't have any opinion, no matter how the cover was made, it was the same, as long as the person was that person.

At the end of the interview, Anxi returned to preparing for the fourth game of the Western Conference semifinals.

Time flies, and the fourth game between the Spurs and Grizzlies has started again at FedEx Arena......

After 0:3, the Grizzlies looked at this game very lightly, Lionel Hollins did not refuse to sweep, but from the perspective of the arrangement, the Grizzlies still wanted to win, they were on the main force, and Marc Gasol was also on it.

However, from the beginning of the game, the Spurs found that the Grizzlies were actually testing the Spurs in this game, and they still maintained a high-intensity offense and defense for a quarter of the game, but after one quarter, when the Grizzlies saw that they were still 2 points behind the Spurs, Lionel Hollins began to make substitutions.

The first to be replaced was Marc Gasol.

Sprained in the second game, played 40 minutes in the third game, Lionel Hollins should be most worried about Mark Gasol, after all, after the sprain, the possibility of follow-up injuries has increased exponentially, not to mention that the Grizzlies have to use Mark Gasol so overloaded, it can be said that after the third game, Mark Gasol's body has reached a critical point.

The Spurs still made substitutions like in the first three games, and in the second quarter, with Marc Gasol leaving, the Spurs began to quickly open up the difference.

In the first quarter, the score expanded again, and just like that, after two quarters, the Spurs led the Grizzlies by 13 points.

In the second half of the game, Lionel Hollins began to deploy troops, and he began to constantly replace the main players who were overloaded in the first three games, obviously a little bit of giving up the game.

Popovich on the sidelines shook his head, obviously, in the case of losing the series, Lionel Hollins made a very different choice from others, the Grizzlies have a poor bench, they have been playing most of the games with the main force in the first three games to bite the Spurs, in fact, the Grizzlies have shown some strength to hold the Spurs in the last two games.

If this game had continued to be so big, the Spurs would not have won so easily.

But Lionel Hollins clearly didn't want to have serious injuries to his main players because of a must-lose series, so he ...... He chose to give up. (To be continued.) )