Chapter 489: A Game That Will Decide the Future of the Alliance
On June 3, 1995, the night in Houston was beautiful, and it was Space City, one of the largest cities in the United States.
In the head coach's office of the Houston Rockets in Houston City, compared with the splendor outside, the environment of the office seems a little dark, and a white middle-aged man with a good temperament is staring closely at the TV screen in front of him.
The white middle-aged man who can sit in the Houston Rockets head coach's office is naturally the head coach of the Houston Rockets, Rudy Tomjanovic.
Since he was defeated by the Lakers in the last game, he has been sitting in his office for more than 20 hours from the end of the game on June 2 to the present, watching the video sent by the video editors, about the Los Angeles Lakers, no, it should be a video about Lin Han.
Unlike other teams in the NBA, to understand the Lakers, you don't need to know anything else, you just need to understand Lin Han, just like the three games lost in the past, the first game was Lin Han's 40-point super triple-double, and the second and third games were Lin Han's cancer mode or God mode's 70 points + super high score.
The Lakers' dominant player has been eye-catching in terms of offense, defense, and playmaking in those three games.
Judging from these three games, this sophomore young player is even more terrifying than Jordan, who was born out of nowhere.
In the NBA for so many years, he has never seen a player who can completely play from the No. 1 position to the No. 5 position, both offensive and defensive ends, Lin Han came in as a scoring guard when he first entered the league, so there is no problem with playing the No. 1 position, the No. 2 position, and the No. 3 position, but what about the No. 4 and No. 5 positions?
The No. 4 position can suppress Barkley on both offensive and defensive ends, and the No. 5 position can compete with Hakim on both offensive and defensive ends, such a peculiar player has never appeared in the history of the NBA.
As a basketball coach, such a peculiar player is an existence that any coach dreams of, because he can realize all the coaches' ideas about his own tactics, he can do anything, and naturally he can do any tactic.
It's just that, as an opponent, such a player can be really painful.
Because he can do anything, you don't know what he's going to do when he's playing against you.
What role will he play on the court in Game 6, the next all-important Western Conference Finals? The axis in the Princeton system? The attacker in the cancer system?
Maybe when the series starts, he won't be so entangled.
He doesn't believe there will be a player in the history of the NBA who has beaten Barkley, Olajuwon and Drexler, and as long as the Rockets have these three, then the Rockets will have no problem facing whoever the opponent is.
But now, after a big score of 2-3, it is impossible for anyone to be confident, because, if you lose one more game, the Rockets will be out.
Since the Rockets spent so much money to form a triumvirate that made the entire league tremble, and it was also the pinnacle of the triumvirate combination, if it was eliminated by the single-core Lin Han, he didn't even dare to imagine what kind of impact it would have.
And now, he has to face a very difficult to accept, but also must accept the reality, that is, how to ensure that he can defeat Lin Han, a powerful but versatile and cunning player, 100%.
As an NBA head coach, you have to believe in your players at all times, which is the most basic quality, and he does, so in front of the players, he never spreads any message of frustration, he just needs to make the players feel that they can win against any opponent, even if they are 3-0 down, they can win all opponents.
As long as they can keep a heart to compete for the championship.
However, he himself doesn't know who of these players on his team will be able to continue to maintain the heart he has always instilled in them to maintain a championship.
Hakim, Charles and Clyde are certainly no problem, they never need to mobilize when facing Lin Han.
But what about the others?
When a person sees God once, he loses his temper, but what about seeing God three times in a row?
Even he is a little shaken in confidence now, let alone others?
"Rudy"
"Huh?"
Just when Tomjanovich was thinking about how to defeat Lin Han 100%, the door of the office was pushed open, and looking at the big black man who walked in, Tomjanovich was a little surprised.
"Hakim is still training so late?"
"It's not just me, everybody is here now, we're fine now"
How are we doing now?
Tomjanovich frowned, and heard something else in Olajuwon's words.
"Rudy, what do you say we have to lose again, I, Charles, Clyde, what more can we lose? What is the shame that that guy has brought to us, and what else can we lose again? ”
"Hakim ......"
"Rudy, right now, we just want the championship, nothing else matters, as long as we can beat that guy, we can do anything!"
The big black man almost said these words before he took a deep breath and suppressed his excitement: "We all hope that you don't have any more worries, as long as you can beat that guy, you can let us do anything, we don't need extra glory, we don't need extra respect, we just want to win"
After all these years with the Rockets, Tomjanovic certainly knew that Olajuwon was not a good-natured person, and even in the beginning, Hakim was one of the league's most famous thorns.
Although it is no longer a thorn, how can the nature of a thorn disappear when it disappears?
What is the nature of a prickly head?
It's greed, it's greed for glory, just like after the Rockets 2-0 at the beginning, what Hakim wants most is not to sweep the Lakers, but to want the perfect revenge of the 4-1 Lakers, even if it is the first two wins, it is obvious that he can directly crush the Lakers with a large score, but Hakim deliberately wants to give the Lakers some hope in the game, and then shatter the hope of the Lakers and Lin Han, which is a play and humiliation of Lin Han and the Lakers.
Victory does not fully satisfy his greed.
And now......
This is the first time he has seen Hakim actually say such a thing, as long as he wins, as for the glory on the road to the championship, it is no longer something he is thinking about.
However, although surprise is surprise, Rudy Tomjanovich's face, which has been suffering for more than 20 hours, is now finally smiling.
"I know how to do it, Hakim, don't worry, the final victory will be ours, tell everyone, don't be too tired from training, we have to play tomorrow"
"Yes, boss!"
After Olajuwon left, Tomjanovic turned his attention back to television.
This time, he looked at the figure of the Lakers No. 24 on TV and it was a little different.
As the head coach of the NBA, victory is not the only pursuit, it can make the team's leading players happy, and sometimes even more important than victory, if the leading player wants a triple-double, you have to accompany him to brush a triple-double, even if you have a good tactic, this tactic can't make the leading player brush a triple-double, you can't use it!
If the player wants to be the top scorer, you have to develop a strategy for the player to make him the top scorer.
Just like after the Rockets 2-0 Lakers, Hakim they want perfect revenge, or after the series starts, Hakim they want to humiliate Lin Han, as the head coach, of course, he doesn't want such a thing, perfect revenge means deliberately losing to the Lakers, humiliating Lin Han in the game, it means that every game is on the verge of fighting snakes and not dying, often walking by the river, how can there be no wet shoes.
However, since Hakim and they have such needs, no matter how unwilling he is, he needs to cooperate.
Therefore, his task in this round of the series is to cooperate with Hakim to humiliate Lin Han, which is a shackle on him, and now that Hakim has personally found him and untied this shackle, he can rest assured that he can implement tactics according to his heart.
"I have to say, you can let Hakim and them let go of those hatreds now, you are really powerful......"
If Hakim's hatred for Lin Han is not so great, in fact, when the Rockets are 2-1, Hakim will state to him that as long as they win, they don't want to play any more games of humiliation and revenge.
But it wasn't until now, until the Rockets were on the verge of elimination, that Hakim threw away these unnecessary ideas.
This can be seen how high Lin Han's hatred is in Hakim's mind.
However, fortunately, it was not too late, and it was indeed difficult for him, who had been wearing shackles before, to find a way to defeat Lin Han.
But now, he doesn't need to beat Lin Han, he just needs to beat the Lakers......
If you don't beat Lin Han, you can only beat the Lakers, he still has it, and it's a 100% method.
Looking at the Lakers players next to the Lakers No. 24 on TV, Tomjanovich's face finally showed a long-lost confident smile.
On Sunday, June 4, 1995, the day of the NBA Western Conference Finals Lakers and Rockets, Los Angeles, the crown was gathered.
This is Los Angeles, where celebrities and beauties are gathered, and there are countless wealthy businessmen.
And in recent days, whether it is these celebrities or wealthy businessmen, they are not the focus of Los Angeles, there is only one focus in Los Angeles, that is, Lin Han and his Los Angeles Lakers.
So much so that as the owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, Old Bass has now become the most honored guest of Los Angeles high society.
Now that the Los Angeles Lakers have not won the championship, the bonus that Lin Han has brought him is not worse than the 'sho-time' era that swept Los Angeles at the beginning, or even better.
I have to say, now that I think about it, for the sake of Lin Han, the entire Los Angeles team was dismantled, and this deal was really worth it.
It's no wonder that even Jerry West is willing to serve him like a babysitter, when did the Lakers general manager make you feel so kind and kind? Although he was indeed a kind and kind man, it was true.
"Mitch, we should be able to win today, right?"
Mitch, we should be able to win today, right?
Hearing the friend next to the boss next to him ask, Kupchak was already a little numb.
He now finally understood why Jerry West would let him take his place with Old Bass and the celebrities in Los Angeles.
These guys are really annoying, they don't usually pay attention to the Lakers, and when they are busy, they run faster than anyone else, obviously they are laymen, but they look like I'm very insider.
He could even be sure that his answer would soon become a source of pride for these people, who would go elsewhere to show off their prophecy and analytical skills.
These guys are so hypocritical.
However, no matter how hypocritical these guys are, they are all friends of the boss, he can only complain in his heart.
"Mr. James, the victory belongs to the Lakers"
Of course, Kupchak, as the assistant general manager of the Lakers, is now accompanying the old Bass to entertain the dignitaries of Los Angeles, and Jerry West, as the team's general manager, is now surrounded by David Stern and Lallybird.
David Stern was also on the scene for this game, along with the league's Western Conference champions.
If the Lakers win this game, then he will award the Lakers with the trophy of the Western Conference Championship.
If the Rockets win, he'll have to take another trip to Houston with the trophy.
As the president of the league, he doesn't dislike this kind of errand, whether it is the Rockets playing the Lakers in the West or the Bulls playing the Magic in the East, it is best to play seven games.
Then the Lakers and Bulls made it to the Finals, fulfilling their 23vs24 wish.
In this year's divisional finals, the ratings are the ratings record of the NBA divisional finals in the past years, because these two matchups have too many attractive things in them, Lin Han vs the Rockets Big Three, Jordan's successor Hardaway takes O'Neal vs. Jordan.
It's the game he wants to see the most.
Since he took over the NBA league, he has not denied that this year's NBA has been the most glorious year, and as far as business is concerned, that's it.
This year's NBA has allowed him to see the present and future of the NBA!
Of course, unlike David Stern, Lally Bird doesn't look at the Lakers and Rockets game differently.
"This game will decide the future of the entire league"
The Lakers won, and there is no doubt about the future of the league.
If the Rocket wins......
Since the Rockets won the sixth game of the Western Conference finals, it is impossible to lose the seventh game of the Western Conference finals, and the Rockets have completed the tempering here with the Lakers, so Jordan and his Bulls are also difficult to stop the Rockets' Big Three.
As for magic, well, magic has actually collapsed......
At that time, the entire league will change because of the model of the Rockets' Big Three......
"It's a really fun game to decide the future of the league."
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