1384. Fight Again! (8th Update)
"The villain? It was like this when we played the Spurs, and it's still like this now, so let's be the villains! ”
Sun Ce was very dismissive of what great scenes they had prevented.
If it's really a great spectacle, then what's there to stop it?
Since they can be stopped by others, what kind of greatness is that?
Every time the team of the older generation of superstars is about to be eliminated, there will be such remarks, such as in the last round, after the Lakers advanced, before the sixth game of their Grizzlies and Spurs, some remarks somehow popped up that they prevented the great scene of Kobe Bryant and Duncan playing again.
Over time, Sun Ce didn't care about these statements at all, others wanted to see it, but he didn't want to! If he lets others see the great scene they want, he's going to lose, why?
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On one side, the Grizzlies are overjoyed to take a 2-0 lead, and on the other side, the Lakers players are on the verge of collapse.
Kobe Bryant really can't figure out what is wrong this time!
Last year, the Lakers faced the Grizzlies and fell behind 0-2 at the beginning, then lost the third game when they returned to their home court, and finally won the fourth game with a difficult win to save their dignity, but were eliminated 1-4 in the end.
This time it's tougher, 0-2 at home!
Kobe Bryant couldn't understand that although he lost the first game, he played back and forth, and even they occupied the initiative for a long time, but Sun Ce broke out at the end of the quarter + threw a key kill, so they lost.
But in the second game, it collapsed directly, and the loss was decisive and crisp, and it felt like it had already been knocked out.
It is true that when Kobe Bryant knew that the opponent in the Western Conference was the Grizzlies, he couldn't help but recall the picture of being almost swept last year.
But for Kobe, it was actually motivation, a huge motivation for him to score 44 points in the first game and 33 points in the second game despite an unfavorable situation.
The preparation training on the afternoon of the 27th ended, and yesterday I went to Memphis for a day of rest, and throughout the training today, Kobe Bryant felt the absent-mindedness of his core teammates Paul and Josh Smith, who he thought were the most powerful.
Finally, Kobe Bryant couldn't help it and broke out before everyone had to go to the shower and change clothes and go back to the hotel after training!
"Look what you guys look like! It's like a piece of toilet paper, it's so soft!
Isn't it just 0-2 down? We lost these two games badly, the first one was only one point, but if we lost, it was a heavy defeat.
And then what?
And then we were casually won by the other side in the second game like a stack of toilet paper?
Even if they go to a nightclub to find a skin, flesh and bone, they will symbolically resist, right?
What about us?
Are we just kneeling and offering our victory to the lord?
You like this, I don't like it, even if I lose, I have to stand and lose, and I have to do my best, if I lose in the end, I can only say that our strength is not as good as the other party, not like this, I don't even want dignity.
And we haven't lost yet! Is it scary to be 2-0 down? What about being down 0-3? Don't we still have a game to play? ”
As a high school student, Kobe Bryant, who secretly reads books when he has nothing to do, speaks without a single dirty word, but many teammates are red-faced.
For example, Josh Smith and JR Smith, who are both high school students, feel that the boss is awesome! Really literate!
The two have many characteristics of high school students, such as being unruly and self-conscious, but both of them have one characteristic - listening to the team's arrangement.
Josh Smith just listened too much to the team's arrangement, and during the Hawks period, there were many head coaches, and each head coach wanted this super genius who learned everything quickly and was talented to become the type of player he wanted, but every head coach was not long, resulting in Josh Smith learning everything to the quasi-first-class or even first-class marginal level, but not a single strength.
But this is also the merit of Josh Smith, so that he can learn whatever he learns and be obedient.
JR-Smith has always been developed as a sixth-man player, and when he first entered the NBA, he actually had a title - Kobe Bryant's successor, and he was talented.
Don't look at him as a thorn, but in general, he often angers opponents, and rarely has conflicts with his teammates, but often leads his teammates to clash with opponents, which is why he is not treated well by Nuggets management.
In addition to the core teammates, most of Kobe's teammates really want to win, and they lost less than ten points in the second game, and Jamison, Blake, and Ci Shiping veterans are desperately inseparable, and the second game is really not without a chance to win, as long as Paul is a little more normal, and the two high school students work hard, they have every chance to win the strength shown by the Grizzlies in the second game.
Although it is not ruled out that they will play harder and the Grizzlies will work harder, they will at least have a chance to struggle.
The teammates listened to Kobe's words and didn't speak, and now the boss is angry, but they all cheer up again, and if they don't fight after falling behind 0-2, it's really over!
Now that it's time to reach the Western Finals, since it's possible to lose, why don't you try your best to see if you have a chance to win, as the boss said?
The eyes of the teammates were all consciously or unintentionally focused on Paul, the key to the loss the night before, the core of the team.
Paul felt the comments from his teammates, and he felt ashamed to break away from that desire to end the season quickly and head into the offseason.
Nodding to Kobe, Paul said he understood.
However, although Paul regained his strength, he had a different idea in his mind than the rest of his teammates - "fight once, fight again, if we win this year, continue to play in the West, if we don't win......"
Paul entered the Western Finals twice, but he encountered the most miserable situation, and he was 0-2 as soon as he came up, which was completely different from the Western Finals he was expecting.
Everyone else is fine, the key is the devil with the same number as his jersey!
He didn't know why, the regular season was fine, and he didn't feel that Sun Ce was so terrible when he lost, but at the beginning of the Western Finals, he kept recalling the situation of 0-3 in the first three games of the Western Finals last year.
Unlike Kobe Bryant, who has won 7 Western Conference finals before, Kobe Bryant can't accept losing, but if he really loses, he will only find a way to improve himself.
And Paul, who has no experience of success in the playoffs, before coming to the Lakers, he went to the second round at most, and before coming to the Lakers, he only visited the second round once, and the rest of the time was the first round.
The first time I lost so badly, there was a shadow, and I don't know why that emotion kept amplifying, once I thought of the miserable experience of being in a Western showdown with the Grizzlies and Sun Ce, and falling behind 0-3 couldn't help but come to mind.