The joyful atmosphere of the stunner-winning game was completely gloomy with the recurrence of Leonard's old injury and the resulting season reimbursement.

Does everyone know what Leonard's season reimbursement means?

For the Cleveland Cavaliers, for LeBron James Cavaliers, they will definitely learn the lesson that the Warriors didn't take their chances after Leonard's injury in the Western Conference Finals.

It's hard to imagine what the Spurs, without Leonard, the offensive and defensive core, can do against James!

"Damn injuries, San Antonio's 2-0 good situation may disappear because of this, is it possible that after last season's Finals after completing a shocking comeback after falling behind 1-3 in the finals, LeBron James led the Cavaliers to stage another shocking comeback this season?"

"What happened in the Finals last season is still fresh in people's minds, and if it weren't for the reimbursement of Andrew Bogut, the Warriors' inside gatekeeper after Game 3 of the Finals, then LeBron James would not have been able to complete the reversal."

"But the fact now is that kawaii, as the offensive and defensive core of the Spurs, his reimbursement is, to a certain extent, more terrible than the Warriors' loss of a Bogut..."

"Warriors without Bogut are invincible to the Cavaliers, so can the Spurs without kawaii parry the Cavaliers' crazy counterattack?"

"There is no doubt that putting aside the sad reality of Kawaii's injury, this is undoubtedly a great opportunity for the Cavaliers, who gave them hope and gave them a chance to turn the game around"

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The Spurs won the first two games of the finals, but now it is the Cavaliers who are relieved by a big score of 0:2.

Everyone knows how much trouble Leonard has caused the Cavaliers in the first two games, everyone knows that the Spurs without Leonard are far behind the Cavaliers, at least on paper, and everyone knows that the Cavaliers are likely to win four games in a row to defeat the Spurs to defend the championship, because they have done it before.

In the 22-point loss in the first game, everyone felt that the Cavaliers were going to be finished, and in fact, maybe the Cavaliers themselves felt that they had little hope.

After Leonard's last-minute shot in Game 2, the Cavaliers players were honestly desperate.

However, when they were told that Leonard was reimbursed for the season, there was renewed hope because they saw hope.

0:2 behind, to a certain extent, there is no 1:3

It's terrible to be behind.

So, from another point of view, the Cavaliers are the "winners" of the second game.

So, after winning the "second game", LeBron James and others feel much more relaxed, and next, they will return to Cleveland's home court, with home-court advantage, and the Cavaliers will obviously do something they desperately want to do.

This is also the case with many expert reporters, who believe that the Cavaliers have taken an "alternative advantage" after Leonard's season reimbursement.

Before you know it, the situation of the series has been reversed, and at the same time, public opinion in the United States has also changed dramatically, and the Cavaliers suddenly have the advantage in the finals, even if they are down 0-2.

However, when the outside world is either worried about the future of the Spurs Finals or "happy" about the future of the Cavaliers' Finals, the Spurs are very calm inside.

Leonard's season reimbursement was indeed terrible news, but from Popovich to Jin Feng, each of them was not annoyed or depressed by this.

In other words, they didn't panic!

In Popovich's words, "It's nothing, the San Antonio Spurs never rely on a single player to win a championship, and Kawai's injury is indeed a loss for us, but we haven't encountered this situation, we have beaten the Warriors without Kawai in the Western Conference Finals, and the Warriors of the Big Four are no weaker than the Cavaliers of the Big Three."

The players themselves were not panicked, and with such a "heart booster" listed by Popovich, naturally, Jin Feng and them behaved very calmly.

Jin Feng and they behaved very calmly, which made Popovich and Messina, who were secretly observing them, also very pleased.

"That's what I'm most proud of in my 20-plus years of coaching, man, and I've been fortunate to have been with the San Antonio Spurs for so many years, you know, it's been a culture."

"yes, Greg, to be honest, the players did what I expected, they really are a team with championship looks"

"Especially that little guy in China, right?"

"Honestly, that's why I've always been bullish on him, he's a real fighter, a fighter who is 100 percent like Kobe Bryant, and that fighting spirit is going to be infinitely tapped" in the Spurs' basketball culture."

"Jin did perform very calmly, he surprised me, and also reassured me, looking at his performance so far in this playoffs, it is definitely top-notch"

"So Grieg, most people in the outside world are talking about how hard Cohuai's injury hit the Spurs and so on, but very few people can talk about Jin's role for this team, and I think maybe Jin will surprise everyone........."

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After a day of rest in San Antonio, Popovich began arranging for the group to travel to Cleveland the next day.

The Spurs, as in previous rounds of the playoffs, rented a training gym in Cleveland, then chose a hotel near the Quickloan Arena, and when the Spurs arrived in Cleveland, they went straight to the hotel.

Then, after a night's rest, everyone was actively engaged in the pre-race preparations.

For Jin Feng, after Leonard's absence, they need to adapt to a new starting lineup and tactical coordination.

Although everyone is teammates with each other, there should also be a familiar link.

Not surprisingly, Popovich put Jonathan Simmons in Leonard's place in the pre-game training match, and Simmons also performed very well in the training match.

In fact, for Jonathan Simmons, this playoff journey has also been a metamorphosis journey, with his stats rising from 6.4 points, 3.2 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game in the regular season to 10, 2 points, 4 rebounds, 8 rebounds and 2.7 assists.

Although there is still a big gap compared with Leonard, who averages 29.5 points per game, he is also qualified for the role of starting small forward.

Not to Jin Feng's surprise, after the morning training match, Popovich found himself.

However, although Jin Feng guessed that Popovich would find him, he did not guess that Popovich would find the content of his conversation.