228. The mind of the spurs
Nick Young's strength is really good, but he is the kind of player who has no ability to distinguish, although there are certain advantages to saying this, such as he will not be afraid of any opponent, and he dares to play his strongest strength in the face of any opponent, but like these three games, it is clear that the three teams with poor records have the strength to win, especially the Trail Blazers and Nets, which are obviously stronger than the Rockets and Raptors. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
After Nick Young was yelled at by Kobe, he was like an injured little daughter-in-law who was so aggrieved that he didn't dare to speak.
"Oh, Kobe, if Nick is right, the Clippers are really, really good, they won one of us this year, and we didn't win that game with all our might, I'm going to go back and get a good night's sleep, and go all out tomorrow!" Liu Ren teased.
"That's right, I think so too, there are not many teams in the West that have won against us this year, I believe the Clippers are very good, I have to prepare well, see you tomorrow!" Whiteside took the initiative to cooperate.
"Well, it looks like I can't work hard if I don't work hard, Giannis, stay and practice shooting with me!" Kobe Bryant picked a soft persimmon at random.
"Ahh I know! Antetokounmpo didn't say a word and didn't expect to be named, and the good boy was still excited to train with Kobe.
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The Preavista Center, another property of Clippers owner Raheem Sterling, is the Clippers' training facility.
While it can't compare to the Lakers' Toyota Center, which is home enough to be the home of an NBA team, there aren't many teams that have a separate training center, and the vast majority of teams have a home stadium.
Unlike the Lakers, who watched other teams' live broadcasts together, less than five people from the Clippers came here to watch the game today, and everyone else expressed their reluctance to train in Sterling's arena, and in the past month, Griffin, Barnes, Jordan Jr. and others have rented UCLA's arena for training, and they are not even willing to step here, obviously to draw a line with Sterling.
Paul watched the seven-and-a-half-hour match without saying a word, and he was now in a state of dazedness.
In just one month, just one month, what seemed like a close championship has now become incredibly far away.
A month ago, they came close to winning 18 in a row, narrowly missing the Lakers for second place in the West, and could even compete with the Spurs for the regular season title.
But now the Clippers can't even organize a practice game, and more than half of the players say they don't want to train at the facility.
Rivers patted Paul on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, Chris, Shelly (Sheri Sterling, the wife of the Clippers owner) has already told me that Donald has always had depression and that she will sell this team as a guardian and just wait for the court to rule and sell it later!" ”
Rivers didn't speak, but as soon as he said Paul, he blew up, and he roared, "No! That's not what I want! I want the championship! We would have been the strongest team, but now what! We're going to face the Lakers and they didn't take us seriously! Did you know that the Lakers watched the game this afternoon while celebrating their playoff season at the Toyota Center? They may think that the 76ers are better than us, at least the 76ers will give it their all, and none of us are willing to play well and want to get out of here! ”
After saying that, Paul didn't bother with Rivers and walked away with his bag.
"I know I've had the best year and why is that!"
Paul had a feeling that there would never be such a good situation as this year again......
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At the ATT Center in San Antonio, the Spurs, who just lost a game, are having a team meeting.
"Greg, we can't keep our hands anymore, I don't want to be the same as two years ago!" Duncan's eyes widened and he said to Popovich.
However, Popovich drank his red wine with a nonchalant face, as if he was not listening to anyone, and was startled by Duncan's sudden speech: "Tim, what did you say?" Two years ago? Oh, I've long since run out of the wine I bought two years ago, why don't you try the bottle I'm drinking now? This is the ...... Kobe Bryant sent me last Thursday."
"Greg!" Duncan slammed the table hard, knocking Popovich's bottle of wine almost over.
Popovich is also helpless, if it was ten years ago, Duncan would not be so unbreathable, there is no way Duncan is 38 years old, and there is no time to wait, if he doesn't win the championship this year, no one can say for sure what he will be like next year.
"Okay Tim, I know you're in a hurry, but if we win the Grizzlies easily, everyone's attention will be on us, don't you think the Lakers are paying too much attention to us? We used all the substitutes in the last game, and they actually used more than 20 professional scouts to observe our tactics, and you should know that if our tactics were studied thoroughly, we wouldn't have that much advantage, right? Popovich suddenly mentioned Luke Wharton, the new assistant coach.
Luke Wharton obviously didn't expect Popovich to mention him all of a sudden, but although he came to learn and didn't have a strong sense of belonging, he had a very strong work ethic and focused on working for any team he was on.
Wharton nodded and said: "That's right, our trump card is very powerful, but as long as this trump card is used, all teams will follow it, and this is not a very difficult tactic, but it is very simple, and it is very easy to spread to the tactics of all teams in the league, as long as we use it, all teams will play according to our style of play in the future." ”
Wharton is worthy of being called the most suitable guy to be a coach by Zen masters, and it was originally because the Spurs used a new era of small-ball tactics in this year's playoffs that the Warriors started a new small-ball storm that swept the league next season, and he foresaw this in advance.
"But we're still going to lose like we did in the regular season! Grizzlies are strong! Duncan was still a little dissatisfied.
Popovich appreciated Wharton's words very much, he had the same opinion of Wharton as a Zen master, this guy is really wasting talent as a player, he should be the head coach!
Popovich knew that he would not be able to keep Wharton in the future, but in the spirit of loving talent, after seeing Wharton's talent as a coach, he poured his money into teaching him in the past month, and did not hesitate to hand over all the system concepts he developed to make big changes in the NBA to Wharton.
Instead of answering Duncan's words, Popovich asked Wharton, "Luke, what do you think we should do?" ”
Wharton knew that Popovich was testing him, and he thought for a moment and said, "Tim is okay, we just need to win four games, right?" There are six games left, and it will be enough for us to win four......"