Chapter 849: Popovich's Ambitions and New Star Card Pool!

The 2008-2009 regular season was an extraordinary season.

But no matter how extraordinary this season is, this season's regular season is over.

By the end of the regular season and the world was still immersed in Yes's incredible five-double, many people were already focusing on the playoffs.

After all, no matter how extraordinary the regular season is, it's still the regular season.

What can really make the team and the players immortal is the playoffs!

And the end of the regular season means that the NBA playoffs are about to begin.

The first shot of this year's playoffs was on April 18, 2009, with the opening game featuring the Heat, who were second in the East, against the Pistons, who were seventh in the East.

Out of the opening game of the Heat, who are second in the East, and Pistons, who are seventh in the East.

There are three more games on April 18th.

The second game is the Cavaliers, who are first in the East, take on the 76ers, who are eighth in the East.

The third game was a game between the Mavericks, who are fourth in the West, and the Grizzlies, who are fifth in the West.

The fourth game was a game between the Nuggets, who are third in the West, and the Timberwolves, who are sixth in the West.

The game between the SuperSonics and the Spurs started on April 19, and it was the finale on April 19.

In addition to this finale game between the SuperSonics and the Spurs, the other three playoff games on April 19 are the Celtics in third place in the East and the Bulls in sixth place in the East, the Wizards in fourth place in the East and the Magic in fifth place in the East, as well as the Lakers in second place in the West and the Suns in seventh place in the West.

Most of the eight games played by the East and West were considered quite exciting by many experts and the media.

In addition to the Wizards, who are first in the East, against the 76ers, who are eighth in the East, the Celtics, who are third in the East, the Bulls, who are sixth in the East, the Spurs, who are first in the West, and the SuperSonics, who are eighth in the West, are predicted by expert media to be 4-0 sweeps.

The remaining five games are quite suspenseful.

The second Heat in the East and the Pistons in the seventh in the East should have no suspense, but who let the Heat directly connotate in the last game of the regular season, and the Pistons team led by Iverson really didn't know whether it was rain or sunny on their heads, Iverson got up, and the means of killing people were no worse than Arenas.

Therefore, in the matchup of this group, many experts predict that they will play seven games, and the most optimistic ones are six, and the support rate of the Pistons to advance is more than 30%, which is quite a fierce general.

The Wizards in the fourth place in the East and the Magic in the fifth place in the East are also quite difficult to guess, the Magic has no outside line to control Arenas, and the Wizards have no inside line to control Howard, these two teams are really inside and outside each other, and they are also predicted by experts to play seven games, and the support of the two teams to advance is half each.

There is also the matchup between the Lakers, who are second in the West, and the Suns, who are seventh in the West, and the two teams have won and lost each other in the regular season, and as for the historical record of the two teams, the Suns have the advantage recently.

Therefore, when the expert media in the United States predicted the matchup of this group, most of them still thought that this round would definitely be a seven-game matchup.

Among them, the support for the Lakers' promotion is sixty percent, which is still quite close.

The Nuggets, who are third in the West, and the Timberwolves, who are sixth in the West, are a matchup between the old powerhouses and the rising teams, and in the second half of the season, the Timberwolves clearly look a little better than the Nuggets.

Of course, this is the second half of the fixture, and overall, the performances of the two teams are comparable.

And the Nuggets have even more experience.

But the Nuggets also have a disadvantage, that is, this team's playoffs did not play as well as the regular season, and last season it was a 3-0 lead and was overtaken by the SuperSonics 4-3, creating the biggest shame in the playoffs in NBA history.

So for the Nuggets, the inherent impression of many expert media is that this team is a little unreliable.

In particular, the head coach of the Nuggets, George Carr, and the leading player of the Nuggets, Carmelo Anthony, are strong and powerful, but these two really don't feel like reliable people.

Generally speaking, as an old strong team, in the face of a playoff newcomer like the Timberwolves, the strength is generally a great advantage without being at a disadvantage, but these media experts dare not support the Nuggets too vigorously because of the Nuggets' past.

Also in a similar situation with the Nuggets are the Mavericks in fourth place in the West and the Mavericks in fifth place in the West.

As the second- and third-place teams in the West, the matchup between the Mavericks and Grizzlies was certainly the most intense in the first round.

Therefore, many media experts also think that this matchup will be played at least six.

Only this time, these experts don't believe that the top-ranked teams have a higher chance of qualifying.

Even on the contrary, in this round of matchups, 8 percent of media experts think that the Grizzlies are the one who can advance in the end!

The Mavericks and Grizzlies also had a flickering season this season.

The Mavericks' record is even better than that of the Grizzlies.

It stands to reason that two teams with similar regular season performance will have the same promotion support rate, not to mention that the two teams will have the same promotion support.

It's not going to be twenty-eight, right?

It can only be said that if the league pundits don't have that good image of the Nuggets, then the stereotype of the Mavericks is even worse.

Black Eight, and it's swept Black Eight, just two years ago!

If the Nuggets' 3-0 lead is a shame, the biggest shame, it's because that kind of thing never happens.

But to pursue the essence of shame, as the first team in the league was swept away by the eighth team in the league, that is the greatest shame!

"The reversal of the 3-0 lead is unlikely to happen again in the future."

"The first place in the west was swept by the eighth in the west, and it is also unlikely to appear again in the future."

"In comparison, the Nuggets won at least three games in the first round, first in the West against eighth in the West, and didn't even win a single game, Nowitzki's presence injects puff-like energy into any team that looks strong."

"Scott, what kind of energy is the puff-like energy?"

"There's a kind of energy called 'soft,' and a team with that energy can't go down in the playoffs, where the tough guys and the strong guys are."

After the playoff matchups were released, the Mavericks really became the object of ridicule from all walks of life.

The Black Eight of two years ago was dug up now, and then it was reported in a big way.

Whipping corpses to such an extent that even many NBA players and coaches can't stand it.

Although within the NBA, everyone is also very disdainful of the fact that the Mavericks were swept in 2007.

But one yard to one yard, this season's Mavericks are really strong.

However, in any case, the colored glasses have already been worn, and if this colored glasses cannot be broken, I am afraid that Nowitsky will have to wear such colored glasses for the rest of his life.

With the playoffs approaching, these controversies and controversies in the NBA now have nothing to do with the SuperSonics and the Spurs.

The other five sets of matchups are all suspenseful matchups, the SuperSonics and the Spurs, there is really no suspense.

April 17, 2009, San Antonio, Spurs training gym.

The first playoff game with the SuperSonics on April 19 is about to begin.

It stands to reason that the Spurs' side should be nervous.

After all, the Spurs have won three of the last sixteen games between the two teams, which is indeed a bit worse.

It's just clear that there is no such tension in the Spurs' training tube.

It's not that the players themselves don't want to be nervous, or that they can't bring it up.

Rather, as the head coach of the Spurs, Vicky doesn't want the Spurs players to be nervous.

"This series with the SuperSonics is an ordinary series that can't be ordinary, I don't need you to be nervous, and I don't need you to take this series too seriously, because this game is a series that you can't lose as long as you show a normal level."

"In the last three years, we've been too nervous against Yes, no, more importantly for me, I've been too nervous against Yes, we've taken Yes too seriously, which has led to us not being able to perform well every time we have been playing against Yes, and the end result is to keep making mistakes on the pitch."

"Tim, Tony, Manu, if you didn't pay too much attention to Yes and weren't too nervous in the face of Yes, would you have been on the battlefield where Yes and Bruce fought like you did in the previous games of the season, and finally Yes seized the opportunity to make trouble for Bruce?"

"No, as long as you treat Yes with a normal heart and don't treat Yes as a Superman who can score 100 points and get four or five doubles, you won't mess with Bruce, and we will win!"

"Boys, give Yes all to Bruce, you have to get used to one thing now, in front of Bruce, Yes is not the Yes that can score 100 points or a Yes that can get five doubles!"

"In front of Bruce, Yes is a superstar who is slightly stronger than the average superstar!"

Here's what Spurs head coach Vicky said to all the players during the team's training.

I treat Yes with a normal heart.

Don't think of Yes as a superman, treat Yes as an ordinary person.

Vicky's remarks and demands were agreed upon by the Spurs.

They lost when they met Yes before, and every time they made trouble for Bowen and helped Yes undercover Bowen, it was because they took Yes too seriously.

Even Duncan himself felt that it was because he paid too much attention to Yes, and felt that Bowen must not be able to prevent it, so he ran over to help.

But in the end, he didn't help after the game, and Yes was even less efficient against Bruce alone than he was in the past.

In other words, when Bruce defends Yes alone, he is more efficient than when he and Bruce play together.

This kind of data is amazing, so magical that Duncan doesn't want to believe it, and even thinks that this data is fake.

But in fact, this data is so true.

"Boys, I think you've all watched the news recently, and you've all seen the tragic situation of the Mavericks, the reason why the Mavericks were swept by Yes two years ago was because they attached too much importance to Yes, they could have ignored Yes, as long as they used their own strength to forcibly crush the past, they could have won, but in the end, they fell into a strange circle that must defeat Yes, because there was no way to defeat Yes, their mentality eventually collapsed, and they were finally swept by Yes."

"Two years ago, we are very clear about the strength of the Mavericks, they are definitely not as the media renders now, useless, just such a powerful Maverick, and in the end they also lost in tension and apprehension."

"So, boys, let go of your nervousness, let go of your worries, and don't think about winning or losing, because we will be the victors in the end, and if this is the case, why bother to win or lose!"

"Bruce, do you think I'm right?"

"That's right, this round of the series, the winner has been decided!"

**Vicky's reprimand, coupled with Bowen's confident and calm and arrogant reply, has established the current Spurs such a unique aura.

And seeing the team's relaxed aura ** Vicky is quite satisfied.

Without Durant's supersound, nothing to worry about!

As long as Yes is held up by Bruce, there is no reason why the Spurs should lose!

The SuperSonics' last win over the Heat was a real shock, but Ibaka's last two shots against the Heat is unlikely to be possible against the Spurs.

Yes, that's really quite limited.

And, in terms of Durant's recent news reported by media reporters and the video of him training games, if Durant can give, it will be even better news for the Spurs.

"We're the strongest team in the West, it's not considered possible to be a black eight, we're not the Mavericks of two years ago, we can't make any mistakes!"

This season, our goal is to win the championship!

That's what he and his players are saying.

He didn't say the next half of the sentence.

If you don't win the championship!

So......

Vicky's falcon-like eyes swept away the players except Duncan and Bowen.

He relented and changed his style of play this season and didn't let those who had held Bruce and Thiem behind.

If he can't save these people by changing tactics and playing styles, then these people don't deserve him and the Spurs and Tim and Bruce!

Neither Bruce nor Tim are that young.

He didn't have enough time to spend it.

Even if he had time, Tim and Bruce wouldn't have time.

Feelings are feelings, but ......

Thinking of this, Vicky's eyes narrowed slightly.

Of course, he's a benevolent man, and if the team wins the championship this year, it's all good, isn't it?

"I'm sure they'll finally achieve all my ambitions and those of the Spurs!"

"This season is the most glorious season for me and the Spurs!"

Vicky and the Spurs are already thinking about the championship.

And on the supersonic side, old Nelson does have a headache.

Durant is really not suitable to play for the Spurs and make a comeback.

But after Yes was resisted by Bowen, supersonic speed did not have other reliable strong points.

This series is really hard to beat!

Old Nelson and supersonic up and down are actually quite dignified.

And what about Yes?

Ye Si was also a little dignified now.

The tenth ring of the superstar completion mission: five pairs of supermen

Requirements: In a regular game, get a super quintwin, and reach the top four of the even number to add up to a total of more than 80.

Task Description: The completion of the first nine rings of the host's supplementary task has reached excellent, and what you get is a guaranteed five-star ten-draw fragment, and the tenth ring task will automatically match the excellent difficulty tasks, increasing the total number of original tasks from no less than 70 to 80.

Mission progress: In the game against the Miami Heat, he got 42 points, 10 assists, 10 rebounds, 10 steals and 10 blocks, and the total number of five-doubles was 82.

Reward: Guaranteed Five-Star Ten Consecutive Draw Fragments 10 (10)

Yes's current guaranteed five-star ten-consecutive gacha roll has been integrated.

Of course, the final quest of the completion quest is also brushed out.

But what made him frown wasn't the new ultimate task.

It's about whether to use this guaranteed five-star ten-draw now.

Because, the card pool has changed now.

It was Chamberlain's six-star card pool before.

After he completes the ten tasks he completes, the card pool changes......

And it made him very speechless.

"The strongest veteran in the universe, the grandfather team of Harvard Westlake Middle School in Los Angeles, sporadic cards, fifty-eight-year-old Lin Han is absolutely praised!"

Yees is generally rarely exploding.

But look at the guy on the card pool who doesn't look like he is fifty-eight years old at all, and at first glance he is a bad guy villain......

Nima's strongest veteran in the universe!

Limhan of Nima!

Rajan, borrow your mouth fetish first.