A professional team, in fact, the most feared thing is to lose confidence and passion for the game.

In the fierce competitive sports competition, the will requirements for athletes are actually greater than the requirements for physical fitness, and there may be the possibility of transformation and cultivation in terms of physical fitness, but the athlete's will and spirit determine his own upper limit.

With the NBA playing 82 games in the regular season alone, and in less than six months, and then the teams that make the playoffs will need to play more intense and wild playoff games, it can be said that any team that has been making the playoffs is very serious about adjusting the mental state of the players.

Now the Lakers are in big trouble after losing their first home court, and their players are having more serious psychological problems, and even their head coach is having the same problem.

In the regular season, the Lakers played the Runners three times, and all three of them ended in Runners wins, and the Runners won all three games with relative ease.

Losing one game may be regarded as a momentary negligence or carelessness, but losing three games in itself can already say a lot.

Although the Lakers seem to be full of confidence after entering the playoffs, and they look ready to win the championship this season, in fact, in the subconscious of the Lakers players and coaches, they have a serious fear of the Runners, a formidable opponent.

When it comes to the Western Conference Finals, the Lakers will be beaten by the Runners in the first game.

Both teams started the game with a run-and-run, and although the Lakers had a temporary advantage, they were quickly caught up by the Runners and overtook the score, after which the Lakers never had any chance to turn the tables around.

After this game, the Lakers have actually had problems all over the team.

In the second game, with the help of the league and the referees, the Lakers won a game by luck, but in fact, it was this hidden help that magnified the subconscious fear of the Runners of the Lakers team.

The previous game in Staples was actually the Lakers' last chance to struggle, if they could win this game smoothly, then the next game may still have to be played, but the reality is that even if the referees have helped the Lakers intentionally or unintentionally, the Lakers still can't beat the Runners.

This is undoubtedly a terrible fact for everyone on the Lakers, who realize that they are no match for the other side at all, or that they cannot pose a threat to the other side even with the help of external factors, and this blow will be sad even for the veterans of the Lakers team.

As soon as this game was over, the various media that were originally optimistic about the Lakers had changed their tunes, and even the local media in Los Angeles had pessimistic reports.

"It's not a team with Lakers traditions, I don't see a bit of fighting spirit as a Lakers player on this team, what they lack is a hard-nosed coach and a defense that scares the opponent, and that team that just throws basketball outside would be scared to pee if it were in our day."

At this point, a number of so-called Lakers celebrities finally came forward, expressing their opinions, but they all shared an interest in Van Lauderway's head coaching position, and a constant criticism of the Runners.

Old people always sigh and recall their own era, and at the same time they also feel that their era is the most beautiful and powerful, these people who have been thrown up by the times stick to their so-called traditions and refuse to let go, and then use their own subjective consciousness to judge the behavior of others, which sounds a bit of a mouthpiece, but in fact not many people care about their words anymore.

For many executives in the league, after watching Staples' game, their desire to continue to manipulate the game has begun to dissipate, in contrast, the Lakers' performance is really not satisfactory to them, after all, they also know that they can't do it too blatantly, after all, this is the NBA Western Conference Finals that are concerned by basketball fans all over the world, and now the big market in the East has opened its doors here, and if they do too much for the Runners, it is difficult to say whether this market can still enter.

According to the meaning of these high-level leaders in the league, the reason why they want to secretly help the Lakers is actually because they don't want the Lakers to lose too ugly, because after all, the Lakers also have a wide fan base, and if they lose too badly, it will inevitably affect the reputation of the league.

But now the situation is that even the Lakers themselves are starting to lose confidence, which requires the league hierarchy to reconsider and change their previous approach.

The Runners are very low-key in Los Angeles, Wang Lei did not give the players a holiday after the last game, on the contrary, they stayed quietly in the hotel after the away victory, according to the hotel's internal information, it is said that the entire Runners team often meet in the hotel conference room.

The day after the Lakers played Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals with the Runners, the Eastern Conference Finals also moved to Miami for Game 3.

Back at home, the Heat swept away the frustration of losing the last game, and they played an iron-clad defense at home that the Wizards couldn't handle.

James Hart made just six of 23 shots in this game, barely managed to score 20 points from the free throw line, and if it weren't for the eleven rebounds and seven assists, he might have lost a little face.

The Heat played a great team offense around superstar Dwyane Wall.

Dwyane Wall had 14 assists despite scoring just 19 points in the game, and what was even more surprising was that as a guard, he had six blocks in the game.

All six members of the Heat team scored in double figures, and the Wizards were almost powerless to fight back.

John Larson struggled to score 23-pointers, and no one on the team scored in double figures except for him and James Hart.

101-78, the Heat beat the Wizards by 23 points at home.

After winning this game, the Heat, who only finished third in the East in the regular season, took a two-to-one lead, and they, like the Runners, have gradually shown their strong trend.

The East-West Finals are becoming clearer, and now many media have begun to hype up the topic of the Finals, whether the emerging team Runners rely on their changeability to laugh in the end or the old powerhouse Heat finally win the championship in one fell swoop, which will take time to verify.