Chapter 486: The Basketball Association reports on the tragedy with the West
But on the way, many people recognized Ye Xuan and asked to take a photo with Ye Xuan, perhaps because Ye Xuan's height of two meters and one meters was too revealing of the target, so although Ye Xuan met the fans' request for a group photo and autograph, the fans who came over not only did not see less, but there were more and more. Later, Ye Xuan and Shen Wei were also a little overwhelmed, and wherever they went, they would be surrounded by enthusiastic fans or passers-by, and they couldn't do anything.
When the Forbidden City was halfway through, even reporters from Beijing's TV station and several larger newspapers arrived one after another, and seeing this formation, Ye Xuan could only choose to go home in advance. Then Ye Xuan simply gave up the idea of playing, and went directly to the Basketball Association to report, although he had discussed his special rights with the Basketball Association, but now that he can report in advance, it is not impossible to participate in a few training games, after all, as long as there is a game to play, there will be a few points to earn, and he can also run in with his teammates, why not do it.
After living in the dormitory where the men's basketball team stayed, Ye Xuan suddenly found that he was not the latest to come, the roommate arranged for him was Yi Jianlian, and the United Arab Emirates had not come to report it until now, but the United Arab Emirates' wife gave birth to a child, and it was appropriate to come later. After briefly sorting out his luggage, Ye Xuan was ready to go next door to visit his teammates in the national team, although in terms of basketball skills, he should be several grades ahead of them, but in the national team, he is still a small character, and he should be polite to these seniors.
Fortunately, the men's basketball team is no longer the era of factions ten years ago, and there are a total of 15 people who have been selected for the squad this time, plus Ye Xuan, in addition to Ye Xuan, Yi Jianlian, Zhou Qi, Wang Zhelin, Li Muhao, Zou Yuchen, Zhai Xiaochuan, Li Gen, Zhou Peng, Ding Yanyuhang, Guo Allen, Zhao Jiwei, Sui Ran, as well as Liu Xiaoyu and Zhao Yanhao. However, the final list for the Olympics was only 12 people, so in the end, the list will be reduced by three again.
In fact, this list can also see that the men's basketball team is in the stage of age change, the main players a few years ago are basically in a declining state now, and passing national players such as Zhu Fangyu , Wang Shipeng and others have also left the national team, including Liu Wei, who also represented the Chinese team in the Asian Cup last year, has also left the national team, so now those who remain are some young people who are about the same age as Ye Xuan, even if they are a few years older, they can still speak.
In fact, Ye Xuan didn't know that the reason why these people, including the officials of the Basketball Association, were so polite to themselves was because they kept losing big scores during the training after shouting the slogan of fighting for three, and now they urgently need a Dinghai Shen Needle to stabilize the morale of the army, and the UAE did not come, so they can only watch Ye Xuan.
Fortunately, the first stage of training has basically ended, and in the next two weeks, in fact, they don't have any formal competitions, they are basically training-oriented, so this also makes Ye Xuan breathe a sigh of relief, after all, as soon as he comes up, if he starts to compete without being familiar with his teammates, it will be bad if he doesn't play well, or if he doesn't cooperate well.
When Ye Xuan lived in the men's basketball dormitory, the NBA's divisional finals had already begun. In the end, the Warriors still won a hard-fought victory over the Pelicans after returning to their home court, although there were some angry things in the final game, such as Green elbowing Anthony, and the referees were indifferent to this, such as Anthony was almost ejected for an altercation with Green. But in any case, there is no way to change the outcome of the game. In the Western Conference Finals, the Thunder faced the defending champion Warriors.
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Time flies, in a blink of an eye, Ye Xuan has gradually become familiar with his teammates in the national team, after in-depth contact, they found that Ye Xuan did not appear superior because he was relatively leading in basketball skills, everyone also got together with Ye Xuan, the atmosphere of the men's basketball team at this time is still very good, which makes Ye Xuan feel that this team should be able to have a good development, compared to the process from the Pacers to the Lakers, let Ye Xuan feel the most, It's the difference in the atmosphere in the locker room between the two teams, this gap is real, although the strength of the Lakers is indeed the reason for their low morale, but the atmosphere that can make people more and more decadent is really not very comfortable.
The men's basketball team has also begun to prepare for the second phase of training, this time, they still chose the European direction, but this time, their opponents are no longer second-rate teams in Europe, but include Germany, Italy, Greece and other European powerhouses. And this time, in addition to Ye Xuan's joining, the UAE has finally returned to the team, as the core of the Chinese team, the importance of the UAE is naturally self-evident, and Ye Xuan also found some clues in the communication with the UAE, the taciturn and a little bad at communicating made Ye Xuan immediately understand, why the UAE's technical actions are very suitable for the current NBA rhythm, but no team is willing to sign him. What he lacks is nothing else, but social skills, to speak English, he is not unable to speak, but he is not good at expressing his emotions, so in the process of communicating with the rest of the team, there are often some misunderstandings, and then let him and his teammates drift apart, and the player who is alienated by his teammates cannot play 100% in the game, which is why he is gradually abandoned by the NBA.
However, Ye Xuan quietly made a small calculation, if he can persuade Jeanie Buss, or Coach Wharton Jr. to sign the United Arab Emirates, with himself by his side, his teammates will definitely not alienate him, and when the time comes, he will not only be able to help the United Arab Emirates return to the NBA, but also make the Lakers' No. 4 position more plump, after all, the team's interior line is simply a puddle of mud, even if Gasol returns, the Lakers' interior line is still a little worried.
Ye Xuan has been training with his teammates for two weeks, but the NBA division finals are in full swing, especially in the west, and there are all kinds of ups and downs, which make the audience addicted. Especially when I saw the third game of the Western Conference Finals, everyone felt that the Thunder were already unstoppable. After all, the Warriors trailed by 25 points at halftime, the most in the season, and conceded 45 points in the third quarter, which was also a season high, allowing the Thunder to score 117 points in the third quarter. Today, Curry is still clocking out in the third quarter, but unfortunately, the winner is no longer the Golden State Warriors. The Oklahoma City Thunder delivered the Warriors' 13th defeat of the season with excellent defense and on-court scheduling, as well as a strong overall offense, and once again led the series, completely forcing the defending champions to the brink.
Coupled with the fourth game of the Western Finals, the Thunder still pressed the defending champion to the ground at home and rubbed it hard, and rewrote the total score to 3:1, there has never been a team in history that was 1:3 behind in the Western Conference Finals and could finally turn the tables, but just when everyone thought that the Thunder team was going to reach the finals again after 4 years, something unexpected happened.
In the fifth game of the Western Conference Finals, the Warriors used their home-court advantage to defeat the Thunder again, tenaciously rewriting the score to 2:3, and also leaving the suspense to the sixth game, this game also made the Thunder team particularly depressed, because they were almost passively beaten throughout the game, and did not occupy any peak, and Durant and Wei Shao did not play particularly well in this game, although Durant scored 40 points, Wei Shao also scored 31 points, But the two of them made 31 shots and the other took 28 shots, basically accounting for 70% of the team's shots, but they were a little dizzy by the opponent's rotation defense, so the performance was not as strong as the previous two big wins.
In Game 6 of the Western Conference Finals, the pace of the game was even more ups and downs, with the Warriors repeatedly missing shots at the beginning, and the Thunder took advantage of the home-court advantage to keep fighting back. At the end of the first three quarters of the game, the Warriors trailed by eight points on the road, but at this time, the Thunder fell off the chain again, Durant shot one of seven in the fourth quarter and only contributed four points, while Wei Shao shot two of seven and scored eight points, and the Thunder only scored 18 points in the whole quarter, while the Warriors relied on Klay Thompson alone to score 19 points, and in this quarter of the game, Klay Thompson shot six of nine, including five of six three-pointers, and eight points in Curry on the plane, directly stunned the Thunder team, and finally defeated the Thunder team 108-101 on the Warriors' away road, making the score a difficult 3-3 draw, and allowing the Western Conference Finals to enter the tie-break battle.
In the last game, the Thunder team in the Warriors' home court came up as soon as the opponent was dominant, leading by six points at halftime into the third quarter, but in the third quarter, the Thunder team had problems again, only 12 points in a single quarter, and the Warriors had 29 points, all of a sudden from six points behind the Thunder team to eleven points ahead of the Thunder team, in the final quarter of the game, the stars of the two teams began to go crazy against each other, but in the case that the Warriors already had a great advantage, This kind of matchup was of little use to the Thunder, and in the end, although the Thunder won the opponent by three points again in a single quarter, the final result of the game was that they lost the game.
At the same time, they also lost the playoffs, originally led by a big score of 3:1, everyone thought they could reach the playoffs, but they didn't expect that with such a good situation, the Thunder would actually lose this series, and the Warriors also broke Jordan's 72-win miracle this season, and once again set a record, that is, in the division finals, when they were 1:3 behind, they completed a big reversal and successfully advanced to the finals.
Compared with the wonderful game on the west side, the battle between the two big teams on the east side is also very eye-catching, but what people didn't expect is that this time the Pacers showed combat effectiveness was not as strong as everyone imagined, in the case of occupying the home court advantage, they actually lost a 0:2 directly at home, and in the first game, it was because the Pacers' offensive point was locked, - Smith and Louis Williams did not find their touch, so they lost 17 points at home.
In the second game, the Pacers solved their own problems on the offensive end, and they played very well in this game, the team's three-point shooting rate actually reached 28 shots and 18 shots, but this perverted three-point shooting rate still hasn't been able to defeat the Cavaliers who are all fighting, this game is not because the Pacers played badly, but because the Cavaliers suddenly broke out today, Irving shot 15 of 24 in the face of Rondo's defense, plus 11 of 12 free throws, scored a total of 49 points, which was something that the Pacers never expected, after all, the Pacers had always been the one who played soy sauce when facing the Cavaliers, but they didn't expect that after losing Ye Xuan's containment, Irving would be able to cause them such a big trouble.
After losing the first two games, the Pacers' hopes of advancing instantly became slim, but the Pacers are still very tenacious, and in the third game, the two Super Sixth Man broke out together, contributing 46 points together, plus the shooting rate of the main players is also good, and finally won a game on the road, which is a relief for the Pacers.
And in the fourth game, the Pacers are still fighting away, after winning the game by a big score in the last game, the Pacers' three-point shooting is still very sharp in this game, even Oladipo, who is very unstable in three-point shooting percentage, shot three three-pointers in the first quarter of the game, Rondo also got 8 assists in the first quarter of the game, everything is moving in a good direction, but the situation suddenly changed, shortly after the start of the second half, the Cavaliers' Love took over the game and hit 3 points from the outside in a row, With 28 points in the quarter, 24 of which were scored from beyond the three-point line, the Cavaliers relied on this wave of attacking frenzy to chase the score back.
In the final quarter of the game, the Pacers still maintained a high shooting rate, but the shooting rate of the Cavaliers was not far behind, and finally at the end of the fourth quarter, the double defense battle was tied at 109:109, and the last 0.8 seconds of the pickled pepper failed to make the game enter overtime. Originally, it looked like the Pacers' lineup should be better than the Cavaliers' physique, and they should have more advantages in overtime, but they didn't expect LeBron to suddenly break out at this time, scoring 11 points alone in overtime, which directly ended the game.