After the second game, the Spurs lost to the Thunder at home, and the overall score was tied 1:1. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, the focus of attention from both fans and the media is not the scoreline of the two teams, but Parker's injury.

Judging from the first two games, the Spurs undoubtedly have the upper hand in terms of overall strength, and the Spurs with a full lineup almost easily defeated the Thunder in the first game, and in the second game, when Parker was injured, the Spurs also stalemate with the Thunder for two quarters, but the back arrangement was disrupted and finally lost.

So at this time, whether Parker will return to the team and when he will return to the team has become an important factor in the direction of this round of cold in the series.

Because the Spurs with Parker and the Spurs without Parker, it's completely different. This can be fully seen from the second game and the third quarter of the game, after all, Parker has been the main controller of the Spurs for so many years, even if the Spurs pay attention to team basketball, but in the final analysis, such basketball is based on players, and the absence of such a key player has a huge impact on the Spurs.

Therefore, the fans are waiting and waiting, the media is waiting and waiting, and the teams such as the Thunder, Heat, and Pacers are also waiting and waiting, waiting for Parker's final injury identification.

It was in this situation that Parker underwent an MRI the morning after his injury.

"Tony Parker is expected to be out for 2 to 3 weeks with a left thigh strain. This simple sentence on the official website of Spurs caused a shock to the outside world.

Parker will have two to three weeks off, which means that he will likely miss more than half a month, but even if Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals is played, it will only be twelve days away, which means that the entire Western Conference Finals Parker will not be able to play.

No, to be exact, even in the first two games of the Finals, Parker may not be able to play, of course, all this is premised on the Spurs being able to make it to the Finals.

In the odds of the previous major bookmakers, despite the four major curses, almost all of the companies' predictions have the Spurs at the top of the championship probability, and after Parker confirmed that he was injured and will miss all the games in the next Western Conference Finals, the Spurs' probability of winning the championship has been ranked at the bottom of the four teams in the Eastern and Western Finals.

Heat, Thunder, Pacers, Spurs, this is the latest ranking of championship probabilities, and the Spurs are ranked fourth among the four teams.

In this regard, the bookmaker's explanation is: "There is no doubt that Parker is the most important player for the Spurs, and his absence is a huge blow to the Spurs who want to defend the title, although the Spurs are still a good team without the French sports car, but they will have a hard time getting past the Western Conference Finals." ”

The bookmaker's prediction was not questioned this time, with media pundits agreeing that the Spurs would have a hard time beating the healthy Thunder after losing Parker, and the facts seemed to quickly confirm their assumptions.

With Parker off the Spurs' roster heading to Oklahoma, Popovich used Corey Joseph as the team's starting point guard in Game 3. Joseph is a very solid point guard, in the playoffs last season, because Mills's play was inconsistent, he played a lot of opportunities, playing more time than Mills, but this season, with Mills in good shape, Joseph can only play the third point guard.

Joseph is more of a playmaking defender than Mills, not as powerful in attack as Mills, but slightly more capable of controlling the tempo and defending than Mills.

Popovich started Joseph and put Mills on the bench in the hope of not disrupting the team's rhythm throughout the game, and at the same time, Joseph is more defensive, he did a good job of defending Curry in the playoffs last season, Popovich hopes that Joseph's starters can play a role in limiting Westbrook's offense, and Westbrook played very well in the second half of the last game.

However, the end result was a little disappointing for Popovich, Joseph was not able to cause much trouble for Westbrook, on the contrary, Westbrook, who returned to the home court and did not have to play against Parker on the defensive end, was completely liberated, and he played a form that he did not have in the first two games, and he got a triple-double of 27 points, 11 rebounds and 13 assists in the third game.

And the Spurs were also unable to defeat the Thunder in this game, because they saw the hope of eliminating the Spurs, and the Thunder at home were full of momentum, and the enthusiasm of this game at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends was much higher than the strong two.

Not only that, but the Thunder also played a surprising overall game in this game, with a total of six players scoring in double figures under the leadership of Westbrook and Durant, which is almost very rare in the Thunder.

On the contrary, the Spurs, who were without Parker, played extremely passively in the face of the Thunder, who had strengthened their defense.

92:106, in the end, the Spurs lost to the Thunder by 14 points, and the big score was 1:2 behind the opponent.

When the Spurs really lost to the Thunder as expected, the media and the fans who supported the Thunder became more and more active at this time.

The bookmaker's odds for Spurs to win the championship have been updated again, and Spurs have become more and more unoptimistic.

Those media who originally supported or did not support the Spurs almost overwhelmingly began to support the Thunder at this time, and in terms of fan support, the voice of the Thunder entering the Finals is much higher than that of the Spurs.

"It's clear that the Spurs are going through a terrible phase, and although the Spurs supporters didn't think it was the case when Li Yang won the Sixth Man of the Year three weeks ago and the media listed the four curses, it's clear that now the curses seem to have come true. I have to say that this is indeed a very strange thing, the Spurs originally had a great chance, they could beat the Thunder to enter the Finals, and then with this season's excellent performance to defeat the Heat to successfully defend the title. But at such a critical moment, Tony Parker is injured, and although every basketball fan doesn't want the player to get injured, the French sports car is so weirdly injured, God seems to tell the Spurs in this way that there are some things that have to be believed, such as spells. ”

Some media began to discuss the curses that had been circulating before, and people even said in the discussion that if the Spurs, which combined the four major curses, could still win the championship, it would be intolerable, so Parker's injury occurred at such a critical moment.

As for the media's statement, most people in the outside world agree with it, and people are saying that there seems to be no better explanation except for this, otherwise how could the Spurs suddenly lose an important player when they are in the most popular state to win the championship?

There seems to be no other explanation other than the curse, so most people believe that the four curses on the Spurs' head are finally coming true, and the championship will be completely out of their way. (To be continued.) )