The fourth game between the two sides is still the home of the Clippers, but at this time, most of the Clippers fans have been disappointed, and in the entire NBA history, there is only one time when the team successfully overtook the promotion model when the team fell behind 3:0 in the playoffs, and the miracle was created by the Lakers in the 10-11 season, when the backbone of the Lakers, the two starters, Wang Meng and Gasol have become Hornets players, standing in the game with the Clippers, it is almost impossible for the Clippers to turn the tables.

Refusing to sweep became the slogan of the Clippers as a whole.

Sometimes, however, people don't just do what they want.

The Hornets have already prepared the discussions, and in the fourth game between the two sides, the Hornets will try to win and try to get more time to rest and prepare for the second round of games.

Therefore, as soon as the fourth game came up, the Hornets showed a strong offense, Wang Meng, Wallace, Gasol, and even Oden all consciously strengthened their offensive aggression.

Soon, however, the Hornets players realized that something was wrong.

The Clippers' counterattack was not as fierce as expected, on the contrary, under the tough defense of the Hornets, the Clippers' offense was very difficult, and each offense took a long time, after many blocks and covers to score a goal.

But even so, Wang Meng was surprised to find that the Hornets did not open up the score gap, but the scores of the two sides have been deadlocked.

"What's going on?" Wang Meng was a little strange, so he carefully observed it, and then suddenly realized that from the bright side, it seems that the Hornets have been pressing the Clippers to fight, but in fact, there is not much difference in the number of attacks and hitting efficiency between the two sides. After an invincible 36-game winning streak in the regular season and a 3-0 in the playoffs, the Hornets players have begun to burst with confidence, even for themselves and Gasol, deep down.

"Oops!" Wang Meng, who reacted, suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

The Hornets' mentality at this moment is completely different from the beginning of the season, breaking two regular season records in a row, has made all the Hornets players complacent, not only the players, but even the head coach Monty has this idea, after all, this head coach is not a veteran head coach, he has only been a head coach for two years, and his experience is still very shallow.

This is a very strange mentality, Wang Meng doesn't know when this mentality came about, because Wang Meng is also one of them, and the non-stop wins have made the Hornets players fluttering, except for a few teams in the league such as the Lakers and the Heat Spurs, all other teams have been put into the eyes of the Hornets players.

However, the NBA plays basketball, basketball is round, it has too many unpredictable surnames, no one can guarantee that a weak team will not be able to defeat a strong team, this mentality of the Hornets, once it encounters the reversal of the weak team, will immediately change into a very serious follow-up effect.

"What should I do?" Wang Meng was sweating profusely, he was just a rookie who had been in the league for 3 years, and he didn't know how to deal with this situation. "Talking to the players? Did it work? It's something that goes deep into the subconscious, and just talking about it doesn't work. ”

Looking at the players galloping on the field, Wang Meng suddenly had an idea in his mind. "That's it!"

"Win!" Harden threw the basketball up high and hugged Griffin fiercely, as if he had won a championship, but in reality, they only won one game and refused to be swept by the Hornets.

"Actually lost?" The Hornets players, including Monty, were all dumbfounded, and they never dreamed that this game would inexplicably end in defeat for the Hornets. "What's going on? Does it feel bad? "Monty is also the second monk who is confused.

However, although they lost, the Hornets did not take it too seriously, because the Hornets had already established a 3:0 advantage, and even if they lost this game, they could advance smoothly as long as they won one game in the future, so they were not worried.

But then in the fifth game between the two sides, the Hornets lost again.

At this moment, the Hornets immediately became nervous, and the 3:0 score difference was reduced to 3:2, which is not a trivial matter, if the next game continues to lose, the score between the Hornets and the Clippers will be pulled back to a 3:3 draw, so that the two sides will have no advantage at all.

"What the hell is going on? Can you tell me how the hell you lost? Monty yelled angrily at the Hornets players: "Against a weak team in the league like the Clippers, we also need to play Game 6?" The Heat in the East have advanced 4:0! Other teams, including the Spurs, Knicks, and Thunder, have all advanced 4:1, but the Hornets, who have the best record in the league, were dragged to Game 6 by the Clippers! Even the sixth game has the possibility of failure! What the hell is going on? ”

The Hornets players all lowered their heads, no one spoke, in fact, they were also puzzled, these two games, the Hornets all played according to the methods of the previous games, but they always lost the game inexplicably, and no one knew what was going on.

"I don't care what your reasons are! In the next game, we have to win it, otherwise we will be too passive! Monty said solemnly: "Wang Meng, as the boss of the team, don't you say something?" ”

In fact, Monty is also dissatisfied with Wang Meng's performance in these two games, with an average of 20 points and 10 assists per game in both games, which is absolutely qualified for an All-Star, but for the boss of a team that is in trouble, the standard 20+10 cannot lead the team to victory.

Wang Meng nodded, stood up and said, "Guys, you may not have figured out why we lost. But I don't think any of you want to lose. In both games, we played very well and it wasn't much different from before, but we lost the game, why is that? ”

Wang Meng glanced at everyone, and then said: "I think there is a problem with our mentality, since we broke the league record, our mentality has changed. In the past, we could only be counted as challengers to the best teams in the league, towards the O'Brien Cup, towards the Heat, Lakers, Spurs and other strong teams, but since we beat these teams and broke the league's longest winning streak and the best regular season record in succession, our mentality has changed from a challenger to the strongest. ”

"Wait for others to challenge, not take the initiative to challenge others." Wang Meng said word by word: "Maybe you don't feel it, but deep down in your hearts, you already think that the Hornets are already the strongest team in the league, and it is easy to win the O'Brien Cup." ”

As soon as Wang Meng's words came out, all the players, including Monty, were stunned, and then thought carefully about Wang Meng's words.

"In my opinion, the reason why any team can get stronger is because they have a clear goal, a need to go beyond a peak. But," Wang Meng shook his head, "now we don't!" ”

"If you don't have a goal, you don't have motivation, you just play because of the game, how much can we win in such a game?" Wang Meng's voice was a little unconcealable excited, "What we need is the momentum when we hit the history of the league before, not the lazy style of being the strongest team in the league!" ”

"That's right! Wang Meng is right! As the oldest player in the team, Fisher immediately echoed Wang Meng and said: "There are many of us who are over thirty years old, and they don't have Wang Meng's thoroughness, the Bulls of that year won three consecutive championships in a row, if you have such an idea, it is absolutely impossible to do, and later I and O'Neal Bryant won three consecutive championships in the Lakers, and the Lakers at that time were the same." We shouldn't think of ourselves as too strong, in the process of the game, what we need is to be absolutely low-key mentally, when facing any team, even the current Clippers, we should also see it as a much stronger team than the Hornets, only in this way, we can really go all out and try to win! ”

"Treat any team as a strong team that is stronger than yourself, no matter which team you play, go all out and try your best to win!" This sentence is deeply engraved in all the Hornets players.

Wang Meng looked at this group of players who were thinking and couldn't help laughing, in fact, Wang Meng has been preparing for today's speech for a long time, and Wang Meng, who has never been good at speeches, can say such a large number of words, which takes a long time to prepare. Now it seems that Wang Meng's preparation was not in vain.

This kind of thing, it seems to be just a trivial matter, a casual mention can make the players wake up, but in fact, it is not, if there is no particularly good example of this kind of thing, it will not fundamentally make these players think deeply, so Wang Meng did not hesitate to let the Clippers win two games, in order to let this group of players discover this problem.

The Clippers are not particularly tough opponents, even if the Hornets are not in the right mentality, it is very common to want to beat the Clippers, but in order to let the players better discover and wake up, Wang Meng actually released a little water in these two games.

The Hornets have players from all over the world, including Gasol, Fisher, and Barnes who have won championships in the Lakers, Roy, who was once the core of the Trail Blazers, who was once regarded as the future Oden, Wallace, who was the original Elvis Presley and was later traded to the Hornets, and Tony Allen, who won a championship ring with the Celtics, and even Yi Jianlian, who returned to play in the NBA. These players have only been together for two seasons or even less. Although the team's excellent record makes the relationship between them quite harmonious, there are still some problems in directly making them share the same hatred, but after experiencing this lesson, it is estimated that the next problem is not big.

"I won't say anything more! Wang Meng: They have all made it very clear. Monty coughed, then said, "I hope our Hornets sixth game will win neatly!" ”

"We're going to win Game 6, get it to a tiebreaker, and then knock out the Hornets to advance to the second round!" At the pre-game press conference, Harden seemed to be in high spirits, winning two games in a row has made Harden completely confident, compared to the slightly low-key Griffin, Harden looks very flamboyant, "Our Clippers have a lot of excellent players, they all have very good strength, this season our goal is to hit the championship, how can we be eliminated in the first round?" ”

The current Harden is indeed very proud, but soon, he will regret it.

Game 6 was played at the Clippers' home arena, Los Angeles.

Clippers fans immediately became excited when they saw that the Clippers had pulled two games in a row to drag the score to 3:2, and the Clippers' home court finally had a little home meaning, and the fans finally spontaneously put on uniform clothes to cheer for their teams.

Soon, these fans found out that they had been fooled, and from the beginning of the game, the Hornets and Clippers played as if they were two teams at the same level.

At the beginning, the Hornets directly stunned the Clippers with a 10-0 offensive frenzy, and the cheers of the Clippers fans stopped as if they had stopped abruptly.

In the first quarter of the game, the Hornets scored 30 points and the Clippers scored 12 points, and the difference between the two sides in the first quarter was opened up by as many as 18 points. This is not over, after the start of the second quarter, the Hornets' firepower is still strong, led by Roy's bench group, the Hornets once again widened the difference, and by the end of the half, the Clippers have trailed the Hornets by 25 points.

"I'm rubbing! That's too fake, right? Are the Clippers playing match-fixing again? How did they win the first two games? Looking at the almost one-sided situation on the court, the Clippers fans couldn't accept it, and before the end of the half, a large number of fans had already left the court early to express their dissatisfaction with the team's performance.

"How is that possible? It shouldn't be like this! "Harden sat on the bench, staring blankly at the Clippers who were completely pressed and beaten on the court, and still couldn't react." The ups and downs of life are so exciting, I can't stand it. ”

The Hornets players seemed to be all incarnate All-Stars, and under the defense of the Clippers, they kept playing beautiful offense and beat the Clippers to pieces.

At 130:65, the Hornets ended the game on the road with a score that absolutely shocked the league. The Hornets scored exactly twice as many points as the Clippers, and it has to be said that it is a big irony to recall what Harden said before the game.

(To be continued)