The Lakers and Spurs Western Conference first round G3 is over, and Spurs fans throughout AT&T arenas can't believe what happened that night.

It's another defensive battle, another defensive battle that Popovich and the Spurs are good at, and in the end, it's still the Spurs who lose!

And in this game, the Spurs didn't even score 70 points.

So much so that after the game, the Spurs DJs on the scene were silent.

And on the big screen, Spurs head coach Popovich is even confused.

When Coach D took the initiative to freeze Wade and Seth Curry in this series to play a defensive battle with the Spurs, who would have thought that the end result would be like this?

After three defensive battles, the final result was that the Lakers led 2-1!

And in two games in a row, the Spurs are playing harder and harder.

Even fools know that if they continue to play at this pace, the Spurs will definitely continue to lose.

The luck component of the defensive battle is too low and too low, playing offense, luck may also affect the whole battle, but playing defense, the probability of luck is too low and too low.

Don't look at the Spurs lost so many games in these two games, in fact, it's not how close the Spurs and Lakers are, it's just that Coach D didn't squeeze Garnett and Barkley many times, and many times Coach D chose to believe in Pierce, let Pierce lead the team when he was ahead, and let Garnett and Barkley rest.

Therefore, in these two games, Popovich did not lose to the neat Lakers, but the remnants of the Lakers!

How Garnett and Barkley don't rest, in these two games, the Lakers will win bigger, and the Spurs will lose even more!

What made Popovich even more uncomfortable was that Leonard, who he had high hopes for, was actually suppressed by the veteran Pierce in such a defensive battle!

Before the start of this series, Popovich felt that his Leonard, it was Kobe Bryant, it was Jordan.

And now, after playing those three games, he was wrong.

His Leonard strength is indeed stronger than Pierce, however, he doesn't have the heart of steel like Kobe and Jordan now, but, Pierce on the other side, there is!

In these two games, Leonard shot more than 45% from the field, and in such a defensive battle, Leonard played a very good, even excellent, performance.

And his opponent, Pierce, did not average 30% of the shooting rate in these two games.

But!

Viewers who watched the game in its entirety would not have felt that Leonard performed better than Pierce.

G2 won't talk about it, Pierce is lore.

G3, Leonard didn't make a single shot in the fourth quarter!

And Pierce, in G3, with Duncan, Garnett and Barkley all on the court, with no one on either team to score, Pierce was 2-of-8 in the fourth quarter and scored the most important 4 points for the Lakers to win.

Leonard is a superstar of the year, this is no problem, this series, Leonard one-on-one display of offensive and defensive standards, so that blind viewers can see his strength.

Pierce is a veteran, a veteran who has reached the retirement stage, and there is no problem with this, in this series, in addition to his amazing physical strength, Pierce's athleticism is indeed completely incomparable to the peak.

However, such a veteran, under the leadership of Coach D, actually defeated Leonard led by Popovich!

In the case that Coach D took the initiative to let Garnett and Barkley, and Popovich did not dare to go to Duncan, and handed over the game to Leonard and Pierce to decide the winner, who would have thought that it was Pierce who won in the end!

That's what made Popovich the hardest.

Coach D is slapping him in the face!

Coach D is telling Leonard, telling him, telling the entire Spurs that his development of Leonard was wrong from the beginning.

He taught Leonard how to play alone, how to defend alone, but he never taught Leonard how to deal with the bag.

It should be said that he never taught Leonard to deal with the bag like Kobe and Jordan.

This is because he can't accept that he has players on his team who can be above the team, and he doesn't want his players to play like that.

He wants Leonard not to be Kobe Bryant and Jordan, but to surpass the two in terms of play.

Now, he knew how wrong he was.

It is impossible to produce players who surpass Kobe and Jordan in his imagination of reasonable basketball.

His Leonard, under his leadership, took this path to become a superstar at best.

You can never be a supergiant!

Because, supergiant is what you can do that others can't and others can't, you can do, this is supergiant!

What you do, it's all other people, it's all things that your teammates can do, and you're a big role player at best.

Popovich was remorseful.

Obviously, he looks down on James so much, and thinks that James is a big role player at best, not a supergiant at all, no supergiant at all, only a single defense is enough, he obviously admires Kobe so much, and cultivating Leonard is also cultivated according to Kobe and Jordan's way, but in the end, he forgot to teach Kobe and Jordan the most important things, and in the end, he just taught a Leonard who is similar in shape, but almost meaningless in the core.

In the end, Jean Leonard was humiliated by Pierce in both games!

And he himself was also humiliated by Coach D!

In these two games, Coach D taught Leonard the same way that old Nelson taught Nowitzki.

This NTR feeling, it is difficult for others to understand his pain.

He sent Parker away for Leonard's sake!

Leonard is his forbidden body, but now, he is being touched by Coach D.

Moreover, in the face of Coach D's use of Pierce to teach Leonard, he has no way at all.

Looking at the video of the match on TV in front of him, Popovich was in pain.

Especially when he saw that at the end of the game, Coach D took the initiative to comfort the confused Leonard, which made his pain rise even more.

In the end, the red wine glass in his hand was drunk again.

There was also an unnatural flush on Popovich's face.

And at this moment, the assistant coach of the Spurs, Budenholzer, softly pushed the door in.

Erin said that Bobo did not come home, and Budenholzer came to Popovich's office.

If he was away from home, he would have to go to a famous local tavern to find Bobo.

Looking at the painful and unwilling look on Bobo's face at this time, and then at the two empty red wine bottles beside Bobo, Budenholzer sighed.

This series, the damage caused to Bobo, he can understand it too well.

It can be said that in the first three games of this series, Coach D wiped out all the pride of Bobo's life.

The biggest pride of Bobo's coaching life is to defend and develop players.

And in this series, Coach D used a worse lineup, worse player quality, and worse circumstances to tear Bobo and the Spurs to pieces.

Not even a reason was given to Bobo.

Ordinary people will always find a reason to lose, as long as they can find a reasonable reason, they can get over any hurdle.

In the previous two fiasco against Coach D, Bobo can find a reason.

And this time, I really can't find any reason!

Before the series began, Coach D took the initiative to let Wade and Seth Curry go.

After the game started, when it was time to decide the outcome of the game, Coach D gave up Garnett and Barkley, two players with great decision-making energy.

Then, Bobo and Spurs still lost two games in a row.

In the end, even Kehuai doubted life and relied on Coach D to comfort him.

Budenholzer certainly knows that 1-2 is not the end of the world for the stronger Spurs, and they are not without any possibility of change.

Spurs have a chance, and a big chance, but Bobo, he ......

Bobo never had a chance to prove himself again.

In this defensive battle with Coach D, he did lose.

Coach D took the initiative to play a defensive battle with him, and the final result was not that Coach D gave up, but that he gave up himself.

What an irony.

What made Bobo even more difficult to accept was ......

"Mike, you say, is it really all about Tim for my achievements in the NBA? Tim and I, aren't we really mutually beneficial? If Tim is in the hands of Coach D, surely he can be a superplayer who can build a dynasty, right? It's me who is holding Tim back......"

The Spurs' problem now is that it is no longer possible to defeat the Lakers defensively, and they can only rely on offense.

And by offense, you have to rely on Tim's advantage on the inside to suppress the Lakers.

In the end, simplifying it becomes, at critical moments, the Spurs are not Bobo's tactics or Spurs' system, but Thiem's strength.

Every time.

In the past three years, every time I met Coach D, every time it came to a critical moment, it was Tim, Tim, Tim, Bobo didn't have any way!

Even for the first time, Bobo replaced Duncan and gave the Lakers frontcourt rebounds, which was the key to the Spurs' loss.

For the second time last year, Bobo underestimated Yao Ming at a critical moment, allowing Yao Ming to shoot in front of Tim to kill the series, and the Spurs lost 3-4, which was also very pitiful, in fact, before this tactical round, Bobo was very pitted by Coach D, and Coach D was banned, just gestured and commanded at critical moments, and both killed the Spurs twice, bringing the Lakers two key victories.

If it weren't for these two victories, there would definitely be no picture of Yao Ming killing in front of Thiem later.

In the first two years, Bobo and Tim were undoubtedly the two most important people for the Spurs, but it was indeed Bobo who pitted Tim.

So......

"Coach D, it's really murderous!"

Thinking back to the G3 game, Coach D smiled and said to Bobo: "A lot of people say that you have achieved a lot of players, but I think you are also ruining a lot of players, you think these people are already very strong, but, actually, they are stronger than you think, Tim is like this, Kehuai, too." ”

Budenholzer quickly shook his head and threw all these images out of his mind.

Can't be influenced by Coach D!

Bobo has been completely demoralized by Coach D, and I definitely can't be a Coach D again!

Coach D did it on purpose!

"Mike, hehe, you can drink two glasses too, this wine is good, haha, very good......"

Watching Bobo take the glass and drink it all again, Budenholzer snatched the glass with an expressionless face.

Bobo is an alcoholic.

Inside the Spurs, everyone calls Bobo the old man of literature and art, drinking red wine and watching movies, which is his hobby.

For the sake of these two hobbies, he has done a lot of ridiculous things.

Alcohol is not allowed during the game, which is the Spurs' team rule.

Especially during the playoffs, no one is allowed to drink.

However, Bobo will drink many times after losing, and get drunk, even away from home, all like this, if it weren't for the team's public relations, Bobo would definitely have a lot of news about drinking after losing the game.

A person with Bobo's personality loses a game, gets angry, gets drunk without drinking, and can't sleep well many times.

Therefore, it is precisely because of this, coupled with Bobo's status in the team, that everyone will turn a blind eye.

You can't let Bobo die of anger, right?

Red wine can't kill people, but anger can make a magnanimous person like Bobo angry to death.

"Bobo, if drinking can beat Coach D and the Lakers, I'm willing to drain this bottle of wine."

Budenholzer snatched Popovich's glass, picked up the bottle next to him, and prepared to blow directly into the bottle.

The look on Budenholzer's face was serious, serious.

He was Popovich's apprentice, but not an ordinary apprentice.

They are more like friends, partners.

"Bobo, I've always felt that you know Coach D better than me, do you really think that Coach D won't know about your self-abandonment?"

Budenholzer looked at Popovich, who had come back to his senses a little at this time, and continued to speak.

"Do you really think that Coach D will not be able to guess your next change of formation? Do you really think that if you give up on yourself and give the game to Tim, Tim will beat Coach D and win? ”

Budenholzer shook his head.

"Bobo, you're a naïve person, a lot of the time you've been naïve, but I never think you're a fool, I don't know if everything about you was brought to you by Tim, but I know that against Coach D, neither you nor Tim can win on your own, and if you really want to prove the weight of your career in Thiem, now is a good opportunity."

"Take Tim, in this series, beat, Coach D!"

Popovich looked at Budenholzer in front of him in shock, this was the first time he had seen Budenholzer so angry with him.

Although the voice of the voice was not so angry, and the content of the speech was not mean at all, it was all in his heart.

If it weren't for decades of friendship, I wouldn't know him that well.

But......

"Mike, maybe, like Coach D said, it's better for Tim without me, maybe, without me, last year, the year before that, Tim was on the throne of the NBA......"

Hearing Popovich's bitter sigh, the expression on Budenholzer's face was equally unusually bitter.

Why don't you say that Coach D is really murderous?

Bobo is not a man who can't afford to lose.

Bobo is a very strong person.

But even people like Bobo can be collapsed by Coach D, which shows how terrible Coach D is.

Finally, Budenholzer thought about it and gritted his teeth.

Actually, Bobo is also a smart decision, and Budenholzer doesn't believe that Bobo really doesn't have the real intentions of Coach D at all.

It's not that Bobo doesn't understand, it's that it hurts so much that he needs a reason, a reason to get back on his feet and get back by Tim's side.

"Bobo, maybe Coach D is right, Tim might be better without you, Kewye might be better, but, Bobo, are you really giving up now? As I said, neither you nor Tim or Kawy, none of you can beat Coach D alone, and now isn't the perfect time for you to prove yourself? ”

"Coach D says they're better off without you, but you can tell Coach D that they can beat the invincible, the greatest Coach D, isn't that the most important?"

Looking at Popovich, who was silent at this time, Budenholzer once again looked seriously into Popovich's eyes.

"Bobo, beating Coach D is a more important thing than being angry with Coach D, right?"

Silence spreads.

Silence spreads in the Spurs head coach's office.

Outside the door, Spurs general manager Buford leaned against the wall and closed his eyes.

After half a ring.

The office finally spoke again.

Very short.

However, it is very powerful.

"Yes!"

Hearing this, Budenholzer's face finally smiled.

Outside the door, Buford's closed eyes finally opened, and then left silently.

He has many, many things to do.

For example, the AT&T arena is decorated like a hell!

A place that feels like hell for those Spurs veterans!

The hotel where the Lakers descend the tower.

After the win over the Spurs on the road the night before, the whole country was full of praise for the Lakers.

Especially for the head coach of the Lakers, Coach D, he has praised it to the extreme.

Do you know what an achievement it is to defeat Popovich in the defensive battle?

According to O'Neill, it is!

"This is one of the most incredible achievements in NBA history!"

Do you know what kind of achievement it is to beat Popovich, to beat Popovich to self-containment, and to beat Popovich to the ground when he leaves the field?

According to Kenny Smith, it is!

"This is one of the most incredible achievements in NBA history!"

Now the news from the outside is simply that the Lakers have stepped into the second round with one foot.

Coach D will escape death, nail Popovich to the pillar of shame completely, make Popovich want the black eight, and finally steal the chicken without losing to the Spurs in his mouth as the strongest Spurs in history, and finally lose to a group of CBAs led by Coach D.

And Coach D successfully slapped the whole world in the face!

It turns out that it's really not Coach D dreaming!

It turns out that it is the whole world that is dreaming!

In short, the world is very optimistic about him and the Lakers right now.

Even the Lakers players themselves are optimistic.

These two games are incredible!

The Lakers players were stunned!

Even Du Kang himself is optimistic.

Because, Bobo, he really broke down!

Thinking of Bobo's flat fall, Du Kang had a smile on his face.

This old villain has finally been by himself!

Moreover, as evidenced by the system simulation game, the Spurs team did collapse!

Before the game, the last simulation!

Check it out.

And then!

Du Kang's eyes widened!

(End of chapter)