The first goal, Li Ao wants to get rid of this task.

He didn't have 40+ in 1 playoff game, so do you want him to have an average of 40+ per game?

The good news is that this is not a task that must be accomplished for all goals.

“……

Goal 2: The host needs to average more assists per game than Chris Webb in this Western Conference Finals.

Complete one of the two objectives at any time, and you will be rewarded: Peja Run, Catch, Shoot Level 1 Training Method or Webb Breakthrough Level 1 Training Method.

Both objectives are completed, both training methods are obtained at the same time, and the training method is upgraded to level 2 training method.

Goal 3: Defeat the Kings to advance to the Finals.

Goal 4: The series must average more points per game than the Kings.

Rewards: Insight Level 1, if you advance within 6 games, you will be rewarded with an additional level 4 skill upgrade card, and if you are swept to advance, you will be rewarded with an additional level 5 skill upgrade card. ”

In the first half of the task, Li Ao felt that the probability of completing them together was not large, but it was still possible to choose a reward for completing one of the goals.

The Kings didn't defend him well, and if they wanted to pinch him, he would have a chance to pass the ball.

He is their team's biggest advantage against the Kings, and this is the consensus in their team.

When the media, experts, and well-known fans analyzed and predicted the Western Conference finals, they also regarded his advantage in this area as a breakthrough for the Clippers to break through the Kings' defense.

Good at running, catching and shooting, fast, good vision and fast ball distribution.

James Worthy was invited to attend. T Sports' celebrity roundtable said: "The players who raise the ceiling of a team are not only Jordan and Bryant, Spider-Man also has the ability to raise the team's ceiling, not as simple and easy to use as Jordan and Bryant, but with the right teammates for him, his role is no worse than those two, and the Clippers' lineup is very suitable for him, just like when playing the Lakers, no matter how well Bryant defends and how well the Lakers do to supplement and assist the defense, as long as he receives the ball and is not blocked, he has the ability to throw the ball in, And his height and reach doomed him to be difficult to block. ”

In the second half of the mission, Li Ao felt that there was something wrong with Goal 4 at first glance, but when he thought of the series in which the Pistons eliminated the Hornets, he thought of a situation - they won the Kings, they might win by a single-digit point difference, and the Kings rushed up to win them, and the margin of one win might be higher than if they won two or three games.

The second half of the game is focused on winning the Western Conference Finals, at least 4-1 to get the extra reward...... Goal, get all the rewards!

It doesn't matter if you get it or not, the goal is set first.

…

The starters of both teams are still the same, and they are the most balanced and powerful lineups in attack and defense.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the first battle of the Western Conference Finals began!

O'Neal Jr. beat Divac to win the jump ball, and the Clippers went first.

The Kings players had expected this, and Divac jumped off the ground on tiptoe and quickly stepped back after landing, moving faster than the forwards on either side.

Li Ao ran to the front court at a uniform speed, sneaked up on the fast attack at the beginning, and beat the weak team in the regular season, hitting the opponent in front of him, he started to charge, and it is estimated that he can't even affect the opponent's defensive formation, and his strength can still be saved a little.

As a party, he knows best that a big reason for the reversal of the Lakers is physical strength, Kobe Bryant has a 6-minute break in 7 games, O'Neal has a 10-minute break in 7 games, even if it is two iron men, it is difficult to play a continuous explosive performance like the first 4 games when it comes to G6G7.

In this Western Finals, he didn't really regard himself as the first scoring point, but as a threat point that could continue the whole game and continue to affect the opponent's defense.

He thought so, and did so, and when Bibby advanced to the frontcourt, he began to run at a regular pace, not seeking to run directly to score opportunities, pure stirring, and Bibby blocked and launched an attack or Jordan singled to attack, and when the ball came, he threw or passed, not to pull down.

It was Bibby who attacked, and he and O'Neal Jr. blocked and pulled Divac out.

Li Ao cut into the bottom line, Webb received the position, and together with Peja, he successfully blocked Li Ao's attack frame, and helped Peja continue to pursue Li Ao after Li Ao completed the bottom line.

But as soon as Li Ao came out of the basket, Matt Harprin went straight inside......

Webb reacted quickly and moved in time, but was slammed away by Matt Hardling, who rushed up......

Matt Harprin's rugby charge, violent layup!

Adelman started the game with a mask of pain and asked them to defend against Kobe, Carter, and Iverson, and none of them were so uncomfortable.

These three are all singles scorers, and they always have to have the ball in their hands first, have an offensive swing, and can give defenders a chance to prepare.

Spider-Man here, he didn't stick to the ball and threw it away.

Usually it's okay, after seeing Li Ao play the Lakers' average of 25+ shots per game, they really didn't dare to let Li Ao receive the ball and make a shooting action.

This guy really dares to throw! The 61 points in the penultimate game of the regular season are vividly remembered.

Fortunately, he was mentally prepared for this situation, and he was also prepared for contingencies, and gestured towards the players.

When it came to the Kings attack, they also started to attack directly!

Webb catches the ball and jumps away from the defense and hits a close-range jumper from the front of the rim.

has been carrying O'Neill for a long time, and when he encounters another champion show who is floating and fighting, O'Neal Jr. feels quite fresh, but the two opponents also have something in common - they can't prevent it.

When it came to the Clippers' offense, Jordan continued to hang around on the flank, Li Ao continued to run, and Bibby continued to block and attack with O'Neal Jr.

But this time it was Webb, who had been hand-to-hand with Matt Harprin for a few seconds, with Divac staying at close range.

Jordan immediately moved in the direction of Matt Harprin, and when Matt Harprin received the final score, Doug Christie, who defended Jordan, was already in a position where he could make up for it, but he didn't move.

Matt Halprin catches the ball from a 30-degree angle on the left and hits a long two-point shot!

Gentry, who was watching from the sidelines, was puzzled, but when the Kings continued to attack with all their might, he quickly understood the opponent's intentions.

It was not difficult to analyze the thoughts of the head coach opposite, and Doug Collins next to him also saw it, saying: "Adelman wants to bring up the confrontation from the beginning. ”

Gentry responded: "Yes, relying on their 8 main forces with strong individual ability and high continuity, they can directly fight a war of attrition, which is his usual trick." ”

"It's a very good trick to fight against Matt, block Mike's three-point and Michael's mid-range shot, and keep the basket, how do you deal with it?"

"It might be useful for him to consume Big Q, but it consumes our captain...... Hmph, Matt is a tough guy who can maintain stability when playing against the OK group, whatever he wants. ”

Doug Collins nodded as he watched the players on the court start to take the initiative to create scoring opportunities for Matt Harplin, taking advantage of the opponent's tricks, as the head coach said, they can really let the opponent toss at will.

It's not that Adelman's approach is bad, but Matt Haprin has improved a lot after the Los Angeles derby, and the Kings can't compare to the Sharks' terrifying under-the-basket defense.

Thinking of this, Doug Collins sighed and said: "Matt's value has increased a lot after playing the Lakers, and his contract does not have the right of first refusal from the parent team, so we may be passive in the offseason." ”

Gentry responded: "It's not just Matt, many of our players have risen a lot because of the last round, and it was rumored that the Jazz were ready to provide Mike with an average annual contract of 8 million, and I heard that now the Jazz are ready to give an average annual contract of 10 million, and Jermaine will definitely be ......targeted when his contract expires next summer."

Gentry said most of the main players in the team, except for Li Ao, Odom, and Jordan.

These three people, Li Ao is what they will keep no matter what, and other teams will give non-bird rights the highest salary at most, and they can give more.

Odom has already been promised a maximum salary, there is no room for growth, and there is still the right of first refusal of the parent team, and he can't dig it.

Jordan...... At present, he is also getting the highest salary, God knows how many years he will play, and other teams can't dig it, and where he chooses to play has little to do with the salary.

Counting it up, it is not easy for Li Ao and Odom to stay in the team, and it is difficult for others to say, after all, people's hearts are the most difficult to grasp.

Doug Collins lamented: "It's not easy to build a championship team, with a good draft, a good rookie and a role player...... It's still not enough, and I have to face the targeting of other teams, which was like this when I was in the Bulls, and it was not easy to cultivate a player who suited us, and there were other teams to poach people, obviously not suitable for them, they also had to dig, but fortunately, Crowder was capable......"

Speaking of which, Doug Collins froze, and he remembered a past that he didn't want to look back on - the Bulls had just put together a championship roster and he was fired......

He pinched himself, put the sad memory aside, and asked, "But why didn't we talk to Matt, Mike, and Jermaine about a contract extension earlier?" Then we don't have to worry about other teams charging high prices. ”

After asking, Doug Collins felt that Gentry was looking at him like he was looking at a fool.

Gentry was speechless for a moment and responded: "Of course, it's to keep salary space in the offseason, and we don't know if Michael will play after this year, as for the salary, have you forgotten who our big boss is, and we have Spider-Man...... Someone will go, players look at more than just salary, we can't stop this, we just need to focus on winning, the joy of winning is more important for many players than the extra salary, and we can only do this well. ”

Doug Collins was stunned when he heard this, he seemed to be thinking too much, and actually forgot that the big boss was Ballmer.

It's all to blame on the Microsoft tycoon, who doesn't necessarily come to the office once in three or two months, and when he watches the game on the sidelines, he shouts on the sidelines like a crowd of onlookers.

Even in the NBA, where salary rules are strict, high salaries can solve most of the problems......

…

On the court, the Kings players were a little furious with the bang.

The manager's defensive strategy didn't work well!

Webb was right for Matt Halplin's hand-to-hand fight, but Matt Halprin hit the iron once from distance, and the next offense went straight to the basket.

Webra went to the high post to block and dismantled, no one on the flank intercepted, Divac was also stunned when he encountered the impact of Matt Harprin, and he was able to block in place by moving early, and he had the ability to take care of the defense of O'Neal Jr., but he couldn't take care of the defense of Li Ao around the baseline.

As long as Divac doesn't delay Li Ao, Li Ao comes out around the bottom line and accelerates directly to catch the ball and shoot in the gap, without mercy.

And Matt Harprin cut in very aggressively, and the more he cut, the more excited he became.

In the last round of O'Neal's frame, the opponent's basket was airtight, and Matt Harprin was about to suffocate.

This time, when he met Divac, he rushed and rushed, and he chiseled Divac with all his might, as if he wanted to make up for the number of times he didn't hit the basket in the previous round.

Adelman's defensive strategy did not play a substantial role, but allowed Divac to eat an early foul in the first half of the first quarter, laying the foundation for the rest of the game, and not only that, Webb's defensive movement range also increased.

This strategy is more than worth the loss!

Fortunately, the Kings played well offensively, and they were very good at dealing with the Clippers' defense that cut off in the middle, and the extended Princeton worked smoothly.

At 6 minutes and 37 seconds in the first quarter, the Kings trailed the Clippers by one point 13-14 and relied on offense to bite the score.

Entering the official timeout, Adelman abandoned the strategy of hand-to-hand attrition.

He can now see that the Clippers, who have won seven games with the Lakers, are very different from the regular season.

In the game under the high-intensity confrontation, the opposite side has become accustomed to it, but they have easily played 4 games with the Mavericks, and they have suffered a little bit in this regard.

On the other side, Matt Hardlin was used as the first endpoint, which he didn't expect, and he didn't follow the routine at all, Bibby, Li Ao, and Jordan didn't use the three clear advantage points, and actually used Matt Halprin, even if it was O'Neal Jr.'s main attack, Adelman figured it out.

The adaptability and confidence of the opposing head coach have been greatly improved in the Los Angeles derby.

This kind of coach, who is still in the development stage, is an opponent that Adelman does not want to meet.

He is not the leading Zen master in the Analytical Ability Alliance, and when he encounters such an opponent who does not play according to the routine, if the opponent's response is effective, it is often difficult for him to come up with a targeted solution.

For example, now, he didn't think about how to deal with the opponent's strain, but directly switched to the conventional style of play, took the king road, and fought hard with the opponent.

However, when the strength is strong enough, this kind of strain can really solve most of the problems.

At least this time, no problem.

After the timeout, the Kings played a balanced offensive and defensive style of play, which surprised Gentry, who was watching cautiously from the opposite bench.

The other party's contingency strategy, Gentry is really difficult to adjust.

However, the lover on the field reacted quickly, commanded Bibi to adjust his playing style, and smoothly started offensive and defensive battles with the opponent.

When the opponent makes an unexpected response, it is the best choice to respond with a smooth style of play.

Although Li Ao and Adelman are not on the same line at all, the response is surprisingly uniform, because their Clippers team is strong enough!

The players have a good choice of independent response, and Gentry is not idle, in his opinion, they will definitely suffer a loss by beating them like this, and the Lakers and Magic will suffer, but at least he can carry it for a while, and he must seize the time created by the players to think about the situation.

But the situation on the field was very different from what he expected......

Adelman also believes that as long as he switches back to the regular style of play, the lineup where Jordan and O'Neal Jr. have been replaced on the opposite side will not be their opponents, that is, their side will be more tired and consumed more because the opponent is too familiar with their style of play.

But the reality is that the Clippers returned a 12-7 after being beaten 4-0!

With Bibby Qiang's burst of white chocolate, Peja, who hit a close-range throw and caused a supplemental defense, was fouled and hit a free throw, and the score came to 26-24, and the Clippers took a two-point lead!

It's not over yet, when the Kings attack, Li Aofei stole Tekoglou's pass from Webb, who cut into the basket, and turned around, Bibby singled white chocolate and hit a three-point shot.

The score came to 29-24, the Clippers' lead extended to 5 points, and Adelman called a timeout again!

…

Adelman is panicking now.

It didn't look like it in the starting stages, but when it came to the rotation and Tekoglou and Scott Pollard came on in place of Peja and Divac, it was very obvious.

They are not in as good shape as the other side!

The opposite side only rested for two days after the tiebreaker, continuing the form of the Los Angeles derby.

The Clippers were in surprisingly good form in the Los Angeles derby, beating the Lakers for the entire game.

And they have rested for too long, for 9 days, and their physical strength is very, very good, which is why Adelman is not afraid of consumption to open the royal road strategy.

But they played the Mavericks in the second round, and they played too easily, and now he doesn't take the initiative to arrange players to play hand-to-hand combat, and the intensity of the confrontation can't be tightened, and the score in the second round is too easy, and now he encounters the high-intensity defense of the Clippers, and he is obviously defeated!

And the opposite side is accustomed to high-intensity confrontation, the confrontation they give, in the eyes of the other party, is like paper paste, Bibi is hi, and when it comes to the rotation stage, he doesn't want to block and dismantle, and he plays directly singles, which has not appeared in the regular season 4 times!

On the other side of the bench, Gentry was pleasantly surprised.

It's not that he hasn't thought about the advantages in this area, but things are always relative.

Jordan was in average form during his preparation today, and he had a great impact on him in seven Los Angeles derbys.

So Gentry didn't take this as an advantage in the preparation stage.

Now he found that the advantage was even greater than he had anticipated!

And he now looks back at the first half of the first quarter and finds that even if Jordan only made one shot, most of the time the offensive end goatized and walked cross-legged, the opponent still did not dare to relax the defense of Jordan, who performed well in the second round.

Of course, Gentry should take advantage of such a situation!

Don't hesitate to rush! Attack with all your might!

During the Los Angeles derby, he had already figured out that their Clippers were not an old powerhouse, but an emerging team dominated by young players, and the momentum that rushed up was their strongest point! Conditional rush must rush!

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After the timeout, Adelman didn't make any adjustments, and the lineup didn't make any changes.

Instead of rushing to the brim when he encounters an unsolvable problem like Doug Rivers, he chooses not to act.

He's won 71 games this season, there are a lot of difficult games, he doesn't do anything, the probability of winning is even greater, and over time he's got used to it.

However, it is not always a good choice to put it badly, and the official timeout was a good choice, before a mistake and was hit by Bibi's strong three-point shot, they were not in a good state with the opposite Clippers, and the opponent played a score of 11-12, back and forth.

This time it was not a good choice, in the last two minutes of the first quarter, the Clippers rushed the Kings to a wave of 8-4!

At the end of the first quarter, the Clippers led the Kings by 9 points, 37-28!

In the second quarter, Adelman had to choose to fight, and if it continued like this, the game was directly gone.

He really didn't want to play key shots with the Clippers.

The Lakers were able to rely on key shots to take a 3-1 lead in the first four games, relying on Kobe, Fisher, and Horry.

Their Kings' key shots, not to mention compared to Kobe Bryant and Horry, may not be as strong as Fisher's alone.

It's not just others who think so, but their own perception of this aspect is deeply ingrained.

This is a terrible thing, the first round was dragged to a tie-break by the Timberwolves, except for Garnett Wonder Webb, and there is no one on their side who is Billups' opponent at critical moments, and they are beaten by Billups at every critical moment.

But the young players of the Clippers, who had already played with momentum, did not let the Kings turn the situation back in the second quarter, and their momentum even drove Jordan.

The Kings played offense and defense in the second quarter, only pulling down the Clippers' score from 37 points in the first quarter to 32 points, and their own score was a little lower than the first quarter, scoring only 27 points.

At halftime, the Clippers led the Clippers by 14 points, 69-55!

In the third quarter, the Clippers' offensive firepower came down, not as hard as in the first two quarters.

But at this time Peja softened.

With a margin of nearly 15 points, he was scared at halftime, and when he came to the court, the boos failed to motivate him.

If a teammate had stepped up and scored, stabilized the situation and given Peja some confidence, he might have been able to get the ball in.

But he didn't have such teammates, Webb, who played full in the first half and scored 20 points in the half, also weakened in this quarter.

The Clippers relied on a momentum to play a 25-20 single-quarter score to extend the lead to 19 points, with a score of 94-75!

In the final quarter, Webb, who had rested for half a quarter in the second half of the third quarter, rebounded and scored 12 points in a single quarter, helping the Kings to score 31 points in a single quarter.

But even so, the Kings didn't see any hope of winning.

The Clippers slipped further in the final quarter, but they showed something the Kings hadn't seen in their regular season – unstoppable momentum!

The Clippers players frantically attacked the interior and seized the opportunity to counterattack.

Divac didn't have long to eat the consequences of the foul, he had 4 fouls in the 9th minute of the third quarter, and he was full of 4 fouls in the fourth quarter, and the defensive end was timid, but the more so, the earlier the 6 fouls left, leaving Scott Pollard to be destroyed by Matt Harplin and Li Ao.

The Clippers scored very little from the outside in the fourth quarter, but they scored 25 points in a single quarter by hitting the inside, and firmly withstood the Kings' counterattack, and the difference was fixed at 13 points at the end of the game!

Webb shot 11-of-23 from the field, plus 10-of-13 free throws, scoring a game-high 32 points, as well as 9 boards, 5 assists, 2 steals and 1 block.

When there was a team-wide best pitcher who scored 17 points on 6-of-19 shooting, not to mention Webb, O'Neal and Duncan had to shake their heads when they came.

On the Clippers' side, Bibby shot 10-of-20, including 4-of-7 three-pointers, plus 5-of-5 free throws, scoring a team-high 29 points, plus 5 assists!

Li Ao didn't have many opportunities tonight, and the opponent prevented him, the youngest 60+ gentleman in history, as expected, who shot 6 of 13, including 2 of 5 three-pointers, plus 7 of 8 free throws, and scored 21 points, 7 boards, 8 assists, 2 steals and 3 blocks.

Odom had 8 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists, Matt Halprin scored 20 points to set a new personal playoff scoring record, O'Neal Jr. had 15 points and 10 boards, and Jordan had 13 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists......

119-106, the Clippers defeated the Kings and led 1-0!

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The first game of the Western Finals surprised fans who didn't watch the game.

Fans have analyzed the possibility of a big margin win in the Western Conference finals, but when they analyzed, they all regarded the Kings as the winning side.

Unlike the Kings' Princeton style of play, the Clippers are the first to defend when they encounter a strong opponent, which is the inherent perception of the two teams.

Unexpectedly, it was the Clippers who beat the Kings by a big margin.

But after watching the game, you know that the Kings lost this game unjustly.

The Clippers had a group of forwards rushing to the basket like cattle, and they were in great shape, and Matt Harprin had a football charge, and everyone was pulled down, but he still threw the ball in, and it was 2+1.

Bibby shined tonight, using Jordan's containment, Li Ao's threat, and Matt Halprin's outburst to the extreme, scoring 29 points with a 5 percent shooting rate!

In addition to scoring, his main job is also very good at distributing the ball, and when Li Ao arrives at the response point, he sends the ball to Li Ao in time, if there is no pass from him, Li Ao does not deliberately brush, and the assist is less than half.

In this game, although the Kings were a little less adaptable on the spot, their overall performance was still very strong, and they deserved the title of 'the strongest basketball team in the world in regular performance'.

But the Clippers were too fierce tonight.

By the next day, the eyes of the media and fans were back on the side of the East Finals.

Although the Western Finals are popular, compared with the Los Angeles derby, there is a world of difference, and the ticket price and live broadcast ratings have both been cut in half.

TT Combo vs. Ghost Talent Kidd's East Showdown, after the first game, the attention is not lost to the West Showdown.

Such a change made the Clippers players quite uncomfortable.

Even Li Ao, who doesn't pay much attention to the news during the playoffs, is a little unaccustomed.

But Jordan and Gentry feel good about it.

Playing the Lakers, they need extra motivation, they need passion.

But against the Kings, they need to be calm.

In the evening of the Eastern Conference Finals G2, Maddy missed a three-point shot, and the Nets narrowly defeated the Magic 87-85 to steal the home-court advantage.

Li Ao watched the live broadcast, if it weren't for his son next to him and he would be mixed doubles by his parents, he would have scolded and sweared.

The Nets can win, mainly on defense.

Tonight, Duncan only made 8 of 19 shots, not many free throws, 3 of 5, and only scored 19 points, 16 boards, 2 assists and 3 blocks.

The Magic's top scorer was Maddy, who scored 25 points on 9-of-17 shooting, and apart from the two, the Magic's only 13 points and eight boards, Hores Grant scored a double-double to score 13 points.

But the Nets can win not only by defense, their overall offense is also poor, and only 3 players on the team scored double-doubles, the Magic team prevented everyone who should be defended, Kenyon Martin made 18 crazy shots to score 14 points, and the other double-double was Kittels of the 96 golden generation.

It's just that...... Kidd shot 11-of-20 tonight, including 4-of-10 three-pointers, plus 4-of-5 free throws to finish with 30 points, 13 boards, 6 assists and 2 steals......

Ki Bu scored the highest score in the game, and killed Duncan by shooting!

While Kidd took at least 10 of his 20 shots, which were completely empty, and seven or eight of which were successful in getting open shots before the defense was in place, there were almost no serious singles...... But if you can score so many goals, it's very unserious!

Kidd played the playoffs for the sixth time, dozens of games, and this is the first time that he has made more than 7 shots in a single game!

The performance of the Magic team can be said to be quite stable, the opponent's knock defense limits their scoring, and their knock defense limits the opponent's normal scoring even worse, purely being shot to death by Kidd!

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Today, I was busy preparing a barbecue for the family during the day, so I will make up for it later~

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