The Clippers and the Warriors, these two teams can be considered strong teams in the eyes of NBA fans, but they are not particularly strong, and they are not among the championship contenders anyway. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The next opponent of the Lakers is different, last year's runner-up, the San Antonio Spurs who won the championship with one free throw.

Liu Ren said before the game: "We hope to get revenge in last year's playoffs, the opponent is very strong, they almost won the championship last year, but even if it is such an opponent, we will not be afraid, I believe that my strength and my teammates." ”

Competitive? Liu Ren doesn't lack this thing at all, but is full of competitiveness.

Eliminated by the Spurs in the playoffs last season, Liu Ren felt the frustration that no matter how hard you tried, you couldn't win. This frustration did not break him, but rather motivated him.

He just didn't say it, he didn't forget that loss, he trained day after day in the summer, didn't slack off a day, worked hard every day to adapt to the strength of his body, and found his touch, and one of the motivations was eliminated by the Spurs.

What's more, if the opponent is Duncan's Spurs, Liu Ren doesn't want to miss a game, although this guy is nicknamed the No. 21 rookie, but everyone knows that Duncan's days in the NBA have entered the countdown, and there are few years before he can play against the No. 1 forward in history.

Generally speaking, most teams choose to turn a blind eye to the provocation of their opponents, which seems to people to be steady.

But......

The Spurs look like a steady team, with a sudden change in style.

"Hmph, a little kid who just got the middle class is starting to get proud?" This is Parker.

"Let him wait and see how we kick his ass." This is Ginobili.

"Tell him the future is his, but for now let's watch us old things play." This is Duncan.

"Tell him I'm going to let ...... Tim, what am I supposed to say? "Leonard, an honest boy, didn't remember the lines.

"Ahem." Duncan, an old facial paralysis, was a little embarrassed to see the performance of small facial paralysis, and young people still have to hone their acting skills more! I didn't remember the lines, so it seems that I have to practice a lot.

Duncan fled the scene with two other wagons and a small facial paralysis with a few perfunctory words.

"......" reporters are still speechless about the fact that Spurs have become a little immune to comic commits in recent years.

The Spurs' core quartet returned to their rented UCLA arena to train in preparation for the evening's game.

Ginobili shot a three-pointer and said with some regret: "Greger's vision is really accurate, that Chinese Liu played really well this year, but it's a pity that we didn't get them in the summer, otherwise the forward line formed by him and Kehuai will definitely suppress the Heat." ”

"It's not difficult to suppress the Heat's outside line, we still have Kawhi and Danny, the point is that we can't make mistakes and play every game well." Duncan said lightly, unlike the teasing just now, it seemed that nothing could affect him.

"Tim, you also watched it, yesterday's game between the Lakers and the Warriors, Liu's performance was really terrifying, the Lakers were really lucky, Kobe Bryant was just injured, so he gave them another Liu." Parker was a little surprised, and it was a mistake not to dig Liu Ren over in the summer.

"Don't they all say that God favors Los Angeles? Which time they weren't, the Magic retired two teams sent OK, O'Neal came to Gasol. Ginobili pouted.

The three elders of the Spurs were talking about Liu Ren, and Leonard on the side seemed to be practicing three points with a blank face, and muttered "Liu ......" when he picked up the ball.

On the other side, Popovich and Buford, who were drinking coffee, were watching clips of Liu Ren's preseason and the first two games of the regular season.

Liu Ren's impact can be compared with James, just from the perspective of that kind of unstingy interior play, Liu Ren's impact is stronger than James, and what makes him worse than James is that he has no all-round organizational ability.

James's all-around has advantages and disadvantages, the advantage is that as long as he is on the team, at least he can ensure that the regular season record can compete for the division championship, as long as his teammates are not particularly bad, he can lead it. The disadvantage is that almost every ability of him is the strongest in the team, offensive and defensive rebounds, assists and even rim protection ability, which is the strongest in the team, which makes it difficult to find a helper for him, you find a scorer who is not as good as him, find an interior defensive warrior who is not as good as him, find a point guard with strong organizational ability, and even find a rebounder who is not as good as him.

This led to him having to play a big game, which led to a very large physical burden, and if it weren't for his historically rare physical fitness, he would have been exhausted long ago.

Liu Ren now only does the matter of attacking the basket every game, and the rebounds are incidental, and in his opinion, the rebounds that fly in his direction in the sky are all the ones he should pick up.

"If I had known, I would have sent 10 million contracts directly, Greg, do you think we still have room for 10 million?" Buford said depressedly.

Buford listened to Popovich's words to recruit Liu Ren, and gave a middle-class offer, giving Duncan a 3-year 30 million contract, Ginobili a 2-year 14 million contract, and Dior a 3-year 27 million contract, and he could only give Liu Ren a middle-class offer.

In Buford's view at the time, a mid-level contract was good enough for a player who was almost in the final season of his career last season.

If he knew Liu Ren's current performance, Buford would definitely go to discuss with these people, and these people would definitely be willing to take more than one million less every year and put together a higher offer for Liu Ren.

Let Buford look forward to Liu Ren's luck in these games? Buford is not the kind of general manager who is incapable, he is not blind, Liu Ren, a player who attacks the basket with his body and brain, can only play better and better, don't you see that after the start of the regular season, he runs out from time to time to score three points.

"Don't think about it so much, it's just three years. And we have Ke Huai, he's no worse than Liu, but we've been winning, and the Lakers don't have the winning atmosphere that we have. We've got a big chance of getting him in three years' time with the atmosphere of our team, and then Tim and they'll probably retire and we'll have plenty of room to go for a big contract. "Popovich has a long-term vision, if he doesn't get Liu Ren this year, he doesn't get it, the Spurs are the strongest team in the league now, he is very confident, and it doesn't matter if he doesn't get Liu Ren for the time being, the most important thing now is the championship.

"It's me who has lost my eyes, I thought I was looking for a replacement for Kehuai, but I didn't expect Liu to form a double gun with Kehuai, or a combination of big gates with excellent defense." Buford smiled bitterly.

On the Lakers' side, seeing the Spurs' interview video, I felt that the sky was full of crows, which were quacking by.

"Has the legendary Spurs' tease-band finally been formed?"