Salish has thought many times about what kind of attitude he will appear on the highest stage of world basketball, but in fact, when he walks into his own arena, he still can't avoid extreme nervousness.

A veteran who has played in the World Championships and Olympics with the Serbian national team, as well as topped the Champions League podium in Europe, Salish has arguably the most experience of the Runners apart from the two veterans and Blair, but when he stepped onto the stage of the Western Conference final, Salehi felt like he couldn't sense where his hands and feet were.

In fact, Salish had no idea that the team's captain, Blair Bowman, was not much different from him at this time.

This is his eleventh season in the NBA, but this is his first time playing in the Western Conference Finals, and he has only reached the first round of the playoffs in the previous ten seasons.

Although Blair has always known himself as a tough guy, and his Indian blood has always made him advertise that he wants to fight like a warrior, when Blair actually arrives in the Western Finals, he is also a little at a loss like Salish.

Wang Lei actually perceived the tension of the whole team very early, and now this state seems to Wang Lei at this time to be a player's life must experience, only after experiencing such scenes and emotions, and still playing their own ability in this mood, such a player is worth cultivating in Wang Lei's opinion.

If a player is really fearless even in such a scene, Wang Lei would not dare to use such a person, because such a person is either indifferent and does not care about the feelings of the people around him, or there is a psychological problem, such a player is no different from a time bomb in Wang Lei's opinion, and he will never use such a player.

Wang Lei always believes that tension is not terrible, but what is terrible is that the players and coaching staff do not know how to overcome and adjust.

Wang Lei's method of letting players adjust their emotions is actually not effective until the game, which is completely different from the method he has used many times before, after all, this is the game of the Western Conference Finals, which is completely different from the game that the players have experienced before.

The best way to calm a nervous player is to distract them and make them forget about their environment with something more interesting, so some pre-match tactics are very limited and can be used at best in less important games.

But now the game is the Western Conference Finals, and many times, the intensity of the confrontation in the division finals will exceed the finals, which leads to the players' emotional fluctuations will be more intense than usual, so it is impossible to calm the players in the game before the game, and the only means that can be used is for the coach to use tactical arrangements to let the players focus all their attention on the game itself as soon as possible, rather than thinking about what will happen after the game.

Wang Lei wants to use this method, in fact, the running and bombing style that the runners have been using has this effect, players often ignore their own environment in high-speed running, and at the same time, passionate goals are also conducive to players to self-exclude nervousness.

However, when the game really started, Wang Lei found that the opposing head coach Van Laudeway actually had the same purpose as himself.

Although the Lakers team does not lack much experience in the game compared to the players of the Runners, it must be pointed out that the Lakers were killed three times by the Runners in the regular season, which is definitely a huge shame for the Lakers, who have always been the traditional powerhouse of the league.

Although sometimes shame and courage will make a player show more strength, but usually, facing a strong player who has beaten them many times in a row, many people will have a sense of fear and nervousness.

Obviously, there is a frustration with the Runners in the current Lakers team, which is the last thing Van Laudeway wants and wants to see, so he decisively thought of the fifth game against the Grizzlies when arranging the team's first game to play.

So when the first Western Conference Finals between the Runners and the Lakers officially began, the Sa City fans in the audience almost thought that it was two same teams playing against each other.

The Lakers went straight to the fast-break after winning the jump ball, which caught the Runners off guard, and before they could finish their defense, Lakers point guard Charles Mobley went straight down to the defense of Turgun to complete the layup.

Turgon's defense is actually quite good, but his body is too thin, and Charles Mobley just bullied Turgun and didn't dare to foul at the beginning, so he completed the layup with a lot of aggression.

Turgon, who was still in his right mind, did not make a move at this time, he knew that the foul in such a situation was actually worth the loss.

Next, the two teams started a back-and-forth fast-break duel.

Like the Runners' fast break, the Lakers' fast break and run also attach great importance to the role of the outside three-point shot, whether it is a three-line fast down or a sudden point in a positional battle, the Lakers have players with good three-point ability in both bottom corners.

The Runners' side still looked a little nervous after entering the game, Turgon's pass can be said to be very good, but the shots of Salich and Blair and other main players seem to be a little too biased.

The Lakers, who were the first to get into the groove, actually used the fast break to run and bomb the road to lead the Runners, who pioneered this style of play.

Wang Lei called his first timeout just four minutes into the game, and he knew that if the game continued like this, it would definitely be detrimental to his team.

In the box of the Energy Balance Arena, Francis Leonard was rubbing his hands nervously, and he didn't act like a team owner at all, but rather like a regular fan.

At this time, in the ordinary stands, many fans around Ma Dongmei looked sideways at this tall oriental woman.

Many Sa Cheng fans actually want to judge whether their head coach is confident through Ma Dongmei's expression, because they feel that as long as Wang Lei's wife is not so nervous, the team will definitely have arrangements.

Sure enough, many fans saw Ma Dongmei's expression indifferent, and at the same time full of confidence, which made the fans feel a lot more relieved, but what they didn't know was that Ma Dongmei had full confidence in her husband at all times, because she knew that her husband was completely different from others.