Chapter 302: Swept Again
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In the team training in preparation for the second round against the Trail Blazers, the Spurs players inevitably mentioned the four major curses that are being discussed by the outside world, and Li Yang and Popovich in the center are naturally the focus of discussion within the Spurs team.
"I've dropped my trophy in the far corner of the room, I don't want those damn spells to affect the game, pop, where did you throw your trophy?"
When jokingly asked by Ginobili about the trophy, Li Yang replied, and also asked Popovich.
"Trophies, what trophies?"
Hearing Li Yang's question, Popovich's surprised expression made Li Yang's eyes widen directly, and he even wondered if Popovich liked to read domestic online novels and knew how to pretend to be forced.
But then again, although the Spurs players talked about the four major curses, in fact, no one paid much attention to it.
It's true that according to history, it seems that the Spurs really have the four major curses in front of them, but if you don't think about them seriously, they are nothing.
When they were eliminated by the Grizzlies in '11, some people said that the Spurs had retired from the stage of history, and when they were eliminated by the Thunder in '12, some people said that the Spurs were old?
When asked by reporters, Li Yang was also asked about these curses, and Li Yang's answer was not shy about it: "Yes, I heard some voices from the outside, but did POP lead the Spurs to the championship while winning the best head coach in '03?
"When the Spurs didn't do all this, did those curses spread even more evil? But in the end, the Spurs broke these curses! Since the Spurs can break the first time, they can break the second time, I only believe one thing, the Spurs are the most consistent team in the NBA in the past 15 years, and we have only one goal this season, that is, to defend the title, whether it is the opponent or the curse in front of us!"
Li Yang's answer was loud and exciting, and many Spurs fans were very excited, and they liked Li Yang's confidence.
And Li Yang does have such self-confidence, because he doesn't believe in any magic spells at all. He's a soul traveler, and nothing else is evil compared to that.
Of course, for the Spurs, the best way to face this or that outside voice is to fight back on the court.
But then again, in the eyes of most people, the Spurs are still the biggest favorites to win the championship this season, after all, the Spurs have performed well enough this season to almost have no shortcomings, and relatively speaking, several other teams with championship strength, whether it is the Pacers, Thunder or Heat, have very obvious shortcomings.
So even though the Trail Blazers performed very well in the first round, eliminating the Rockets 4-2, and Lillard had a stunner performance in the game, no one thought that this Trail Blazers team could cause too much trouble for the Spurs.
But, again, no one expected the Trail Blazers to be so vulnerable in front of the Spurs.
On the whole, the strength of the Trail Blazers is not bad, they have Robin Lopez and Aldridge on the inside, and the three players on the outside, Lillard, Batum, and Matthews are also good at offense and defense, and the strength on the books can be described as quite good.
And the strength in actual combat can be seen from the fact that they were able to eliminate the Rockets with Harden and Howard in six games.
However, what people didn't expect was that when the second round of the playoffs came, the Trail Blazers who faced the Spurs had no power to fight back at all.
Perhaps after a wide range of rotations at the end of the regular season, the Spurs were still a little out of shape against the Mavericks, but after four games against the Mavericks in the first round of the playoffs, the Spurs have completely found their rhythm to win in the regular season.
And the Portland Trail Blazers, who were just in time, unfortunately became the whetstone of the Spurs.
In the first game, the Spurs set the tone of the game in the first half, and at the end of the first half, the score of the two teams was 39:65, and the Spurs led by 26 points.
In the second half, the Trail Blazers slowly regained some form when the Spurs relaxed, but they were unable to close the gap to within 15 points throughout the second half.
In the end, the score was fixed at 92-117 at the end of the game, and the Spurs got off to a good start with a 25-point victory.
Originally, the outside world thought that after experiencing the first game, the Trail Blazers should be more adaptable in the second game, at least able to show the strength to resist, but the fact is that in the second game, the two teams opened up a 19-point difference in the first half of the game, and the lead was still the Spurs.
With a score difference of 97:114 and 17 points, the Spurs once again won comfortably.
The third game returned to the home court of the Trail Blazers, thinking that the Trail Blazers could take advantage of the home court and play better than the first two games, but under the suppression of the overall strength of the Spurs, the Trail Blazers only scored 40 points in the first half of the game, which made the difference between the two teams reach 20 points after the first half.
118:103, a 15-point difference, the Spurs won the third game without much effort.
At this time, the outside world finally saw that the two teams were not at the same level at all, and in front of the strong strength of the Spurs, the Trail Blazers had no ability to resist at all.
After the third game, the media agreed that the Spurs would once again sweep the promotion.
The Spurs did not disappoint in the final game, 104:82, in the whole game, the Spurs pressed the Trail Blazers to only 82 points, and won the game for the fourth consecutive game with a 22-point victory.
In this game, there was a small accident that Parker strained his thigh in the game, and left the court after only 10 minutes of the first quarter, but fortunately, the injury was not serious after the game, and the Spurs' sweep of the Trail Blazers also gave him plenty of time to recover.
Swept the opponent 4-0 and won every game, and the Spurs once again showed their unstoppable side in the face of the constant mention of magic before this series.
The team they support does not have the slightest resistance, and the Trail Blazers fans are depressed, and at this time the Rockets fans even began to balance in their hearts, thinking that if the Rockets are promoted, and then they are eliminated by hanging four games, it seems to be worse than not making the cut.
Of course, Spurs fans are excited enough, after sweeping their opponents in two consecutive rounds, the Spurs easily entered the Western Conference Finals, which is also the third consecutive year that the Spurs have reached the Western Conference Finals!
(To be continued.) )