'They played better than us, so they deserved to win, we didn't do well in many places, we deserved to lose this defeat.'

After the first game of the Eastern Conference finals between the Celtics and the Magic, Howard looked very frustrated at the post-game press conference, he played a tiger's head in this game, although from the data point of view, the data of 23 points and 14 rebounds is still in line with the identity of an interior supergiant, but if you know that Howard cut 10 points and 7 boards in the first quarter, and only cut 13 points and 7 boards in the next three quarters, you know how much he struggled in the second half of the game, and this will be the joy beast finally can't be happy.

"We didn't do a good job, I told the players to emphasize the defense and play more inside and outside on the offensive end, but the players didn't follow my intentions, which made me disappointed and indirectly led to the loss of this game."

Big Van Gundy thought about it for four quarters in the game and didn't come up with a suitable excuse to explain to the Orlando fans, and now that the press conference is over, this Van Bald man is in a hurry and decides to push the pot to the players. Anyway, the coach is just commanding off the field and not playing on the field, many times they also have a lot of helplessness, the tactics are arranged, there are vacant positions, but the players just can't shoot, what should I do? You can't blame yourself as a coach.

'Of course, this kind of thing happened and I think I'm also responsible, because we didn't supervise the training and even though we lost in the first home game, I don't think it's a big problem, it's not the end of the world, we still have six games to play and the good news is that we have a full day to adjust to the next game.

Big Van Gundy first suppressed and then raised, first threw the cauldron to the players, and after transferring the firepower, he secretly took back a part of it, so that others could not say that they could shirk the responsibility, and they would not feel that the responsibility was all his, and the players under him couldn't complain about anything, it was simply a triple win, and he felt very witty.

"Please rest assured, the majority of Orlando folks, we lost this game, but we will definitely be able to defend the next home game, and we will never let those dog-day Boston devils occupy us."

Finally, after expressing his determination, Van Gundy saw that the press conference was exactly half an hour later, and got up from his seat and slipped away, completely ignoring the reporters who were sitting in the audience and preparing to challenge him, leaving them to stare at each other and walk away.

"Well, did you hear Stan Van Gundy say anything of value?"

After being stunned for a long time, a reporter from the Orlando Times asked other colleagues, and the results were all shaking their heads.

"No, this guy has been talking a bunch of for thirty minutes, and there's nothing worth reporting on."

"And what are we doing for half an hour?"

The Orlando Times reporter asked another crucial question, and all the reporters attending the press conference fell silent.

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On May 10, the second game of the Western Conference finals between the Lakers and the Rockets continued, and before the game, Kobe, who had been criticized in the first game, finally accepted an interview with the media in the locker room.

"It's all my fault, you guys came to me right, I'm willing to take all the blame for the defeat in the last game, as a leader, I didn't combine my teammates, and when it came to the moment when the leader needed to score, I was dumbfounded, it was all my fault, I was disrupted by the kid on the other side."

Kobe Bryant dared to take responsibility so bravely, he really blinded the eyes of a group of reporters, you must know that just a day ago, Volute swore that he was talking about his score, accusing his teammates of not doing a good job, this has always been the temper and character of the boss, right?

But all those who think like this are superficial conclusions that can only be drawn without a deep understanding of Kobe, he Kobe is an extremely conceited person, yes, but conceit sometimes does not mean that everything is empty, no one is in his eyes, the boss is now in his thirties, and he has been fighting in the league for decades, what ups and downs have he not seen? How did he lose a game, how did he lose, can he Kobe Bryant not have a B number in his heart?

It's just that many times the boss is unwilling to admit it, and he can't accept others criticizing him, which Phil Jackson also understands very well, after the first loss, the Zen master didn't say a word to Kobe, but after a day and a night, let the boss go home alone and calm down, isn't this everything clear? Even if a person like Kobe Bryant makes a mistake, he can't be said by others, he only allows himself to criticize himself, and if he doesn't understand this truth, he is not qualified to be the coach of Peter Pan.

"This is the Kobe Bryant we know, he must not show up in the last game, and I already have a hunch that we can beat them at home today."

The old fish Fisher said happily on the side, for the Lakers, the boss can untie the knot more important than anything else, Kobe Bryant is fully capable of playing 25+5+5 data, but once he plays 40+5+0, then the Lakers are likely to lose.

"Hehe, their core can still admit mistakes, this is really the sun playing the west side, but I have to admit that a Kobe Bryant who recognizes his mistakes is bad news for us, I know that today's game will be difficult, I expected it."

My Neighbor Totoro laughed disdainfully when he heard the news before the game.

"However, what I want to express is that our Rocket team is not made of tofu, they have a correct attitude, why are we ready all the time? What I'm trying to say is that the Lakers want to win the game or they can't, maybe we're going to sweep them to the Finals, and I have this hunch, I've been dreaming lately, why can't that dream come true? ”

My Neighbor Totoro's words made the Los Angeles reporters in the audience scold shamelessly in their hearts, they have never seen such a cheeky person, won a tail and went to the sky, did he forget that the team was killed by the Lakers three times in the regular season?

Unlike other people, if you want to get a little big news from those who have brains, it's really not good, they are good at a Chinese kung fu called tai chi, the typical representative is Popovich, Yao Ming, they can always talk to you and mud, and when the interview time is over, the reporters will find that they seem to have been listening to their stories all this time, and they haven't got any dry goods.

But interviewing Totoro, but you can always get some hot news material, but Totoro is different from those black players who have no brains, because it is very strange that the reporter found that the hot material he got from him seems to be the same thing, and the ridicule is up to the point, even if he wants to help him process it, he takes the notebook and goes back to take a look, and finds that this is usually the way stars like to live before playing games, if it is distributed through their social platforms, There is no use other than to affect the form of the opposing team, and once again they find themselves being tricked.

However, he shouted in the last game that "Los Angeles is the territory of labor and capital", which made the league unhappy and caused him a fine, but these tens of thousands of dollars Totoro should be sent to call Hanako, as long as he is not banned, anything will be done.

15 minutes before the start of the game, inside the home team lounge at Staples Arena.

"We are the king of Los Angeles now, and we are the future too, the city of Los Angeles will always be our territory, Totoro was not ashamed of his first big words, and he briefly reached his small goal, you say, can he still be so reckless today?"

The Zen master pushed his eyes and asked as he turned to the black players.

"Of course not!"

"Fuck him!"

"I can't defend him today!"

Black players immediately barked like wolfdogs, although it is not a common phenomenon, but most black people are still susceptible to the subjective influence of other people's emotions, ordinary people only have a bowl of chicken soup for the soul to fill a game, but like little Jordan, a bowl of chicken soup for the soul is enough for them to drink a whole game.

The Zen master waved his hand, signaling the group of black and hard to calm down, the morale of his teammates made him very happy, but he didn't know who the player in front of him who said that he wanted to defend Totoro against a point, although his brain was not very good, but his courage was commendable, and after he found it out, let him play for a few minutes today to test the water.

"Well, that's what we want in the playoffs, and as long as we're focused enough and give everything we have now, then I can assure you that there's no team in the NBA that the Lakers can't beat!" Our position in the league is not blown by others, and the name of our aristocratic team is not won by Los Angeles, but by the championship trophies and championship flags! Now, I want you to show the blue-collar workers who came from the industrial city of Houston what real basketball is, go for it! ”

Phil Jackson finished the last pre-war mobilization, and with a big wave of his hand, the Lakers players all ran from the locker room to the players' tunnel yelling like aphrodisiacs.

When the Rockets played, the boos in the entire arena poured towards them, especially when Totoro walked out of the players' tunnel, the boos that greeted him were even about to overturn the top of the entire arena, and some emotional fans even held the mineral water bottle in their hands as a grenade, so scared that Totoro hurriedly moved to the US imperialist security guard, if he was not punished by the referee, but was beaten down by the fans, it would be a great loss, and the league would at most criticize the Lakers afterwards, At most, he put that fan in jail, but who can the Rockets go to if they lose the game? The league isn't going to replay because of this.

Before the start of the game, there was no change in the starters of both sides, after the Lakers lost the first game, the Zen master was not idle, after the game, he put smoke bombs indiscriminately, saying that the next game should be adjusted on a large scale, and Gasol was sent to the second team to play, and there was any messy news, but Totoro knew that the mother was farting, and there were only a few people available to the Lakers, if a few people were transferred to the starting lineup and put them in the bench lineup, their substitute disadvantage would not exist, But it is estimated that their main lineup will be beaten out of by themselves.

The Rockets' lineup can be described as serious cheating, Totoro took advantage of his own traverser to bring all the future stars in the league who really have potential, but have not played now, to the Rockets, such as Lowry and Gasol Jr., who would have thought that one of them could become the king of the North and the first center in the West in the future, when they first entered the league, the scouts gave them exaggerated negative reports, but who knew that in the Rockets, a few of them could still play, Taking a rookie contract or a mid-class contract to play at the level of the main player in other people's teams, this business is so profitable.

But on the other hand, for other teams, especially for the Lakers, it is a blood loss, and the more the Rockets earn, the more they lose, why do you say that? Take a look at the data of the last game, Gasol Jr., who only received $650,000 a year, played 11 minutes and contributed 6 points and 3 rebounds, and Lowry, who only took 2 million, played 25 minutes and contributed 12 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists, but Odom, who received $9 million on the Lakers' side, played 35 minutes and contributed 6 points, 5 boards, 1 assist and 5 turnovers.

My Neighbor Totoro's crazy CARRY in the last game not only made the Zen master very interested, but also made the Rockets' Adelman very concerned, Adelman is not Phil Jackson's opponent in terms of influence and popularity, but in terms of coaching ability alone, A Shuai, who has played 1500 games, will not be worse than the Zen master, he was thinking before the game, if he is the coach of the Lakers, then this game will definitely use all kinds of means to strangle Totoro, so now do you want to do the opposite, Deliberately didn't hit Totoro, and used him as bait to attack other positions.

When the final arrangement was made, Lao Shuai still made up his mind, but this made Totoro a little uncomfortable, not that he didn't want to share the ball with his compatriot Yao Ming, but he had the ability but didn't let people do it, isn't it strange and uncomfortable.

However, the only difference between Totoro and Kobe is that he is not as paranoid as the boss, and no matter how well he is playing, he is also a first-year rookie in the end, but he does not have the confidence of a big volute brand.

The whistle sounded, the yellow and black hands stretched out into the air respectively, today Da Yao's reaction was still as fast as ever, but Bynum seemed to be a little distracted, more than half a beat slower, the basketball was instantly dialed by the little giant, Calderon received the ball, and the second game of the Lakers and Rockets officially began.