As soon as the contract with Mitsui Kotobuki was signed, it seemed that it was time to start.

The Mavericks and Spurs G6 went into overtime again, and in the face of the Mavericks' defense against Duncan, Popovich sacrificed the Spurs' ace to the Admiral of the Twin Towers on the inside.

The combination of the twin towers cooperated with each other on the inside, so that this move had previously amazed the entire league's defensive tactics around the front fell off the altar in an instant.

It can only be said that there is no invincible tactic in the NBA, only second-rate coaches who don't know how to think, and in front of a famous coach like Popovich, as long as it is not absolute strength suppression, then he can always find a way to confront him.

In the East, the Wizards and Cavaliers have already passed their opponents early, with the former 4:1 and the latter 4:2, taking the lead in locking the ticket to the Eastern Finals.

And by the time of G7 on May 11, the Mavericks and Spurs, who had been cornered, played an evenly matched game again.

In three overtime games, the final score was 145:136, and in the end, the Spurs, who had the GDP combination and the admirals, were superior.

With more experience, a bigger heart in the last minute, and Popovich's tactical blessing, the interior twin towers saved the Spurs from the bottom of the storm several times at critical moments.

Duncan fought until he almost had leg cramps, and the admiral fought until he was paralyzed on the ground, and finally cut the three musketeers off his horse and advanced to the West with difficulty.

For the SuperSonics, the Spurs are so tired that this is probably the most happy outcome to see.

Don't say anything about winning without martial arts, our Peyton is still injured and can't play, who won't win? It's just to find a balance, everyone is tired, half a pound and eight taels.

On May 14, the two sides will meet in San Antonio for the G1 match.

Although it is the home of the Spurs, it is clear that the outside world is still more generally optimistic that the SuperSonics will win G1.

On the one hand, the Spurs are too tired after 7 games, and they have played 9 overtime in only 7 games, can you believe it? Although the three musketeers of the calf did not let the spur hurt anyone, they directly cut off half of their combat power.

On the other hand, the supersonics, although there is one less Payton, but the combination of Lin Dong and Sakuragi Hanamichi also shined against the three-time champion Lakers OK combination, winning G5 with a big score, and all the members got plenty of rest time for more than a week afterwards, and the combat power was all full, and they were still the pioneers of the front defense, and the strength felt like it was still above the Spurs.

Therefore, it is widely predicted that the SuperSonics will win G1, and Spurs may fight desperately to defend their home stadium in G2, with the two sides likely to draw 1:1 in San Antonio.

This is certainly good news for supersound, and the good news for supersonic in the past few days is obviously not limited to this.

On May 11, in a taxpayer survey launched by Seattle City Hall three days ago, more than 48.6% of taxpayers voted in favor of building a key arena, and only 14.4% of taxpayers voted against, counting 37% of abstentions, invalid votes, etc.

This is completely reversed from the previous Schultz application for the stadium, which often had more than 40% of the negative votes, because the SuperSonics are too hot this season.

After all, the streets are now full of supersonic news and elements, and the 4-1 defeat of the defending champion Lakers has made Seattleans even more excited, and the whole city is jubilant.

Coupled with the fact that the Russians are going to move the supersonic away from Seattle during this time, the fans are desperate to keep the supersonic speed, so how do you stay? Of course, it is to make people make money with supersounds, how can you make money without repairing the stadium?!

Everything is logical, and under the combination of multiple factors, there is this full 48.6% of the votes against the sky.

The Seattle Department of Finance has now officially approved the official document for the renovation of the key arena, which is expected to invest a total of 280 million US dollars in batches, and the supersonic team will give repair opinions and design drawings, and then look for an engineering team under financial supervision, the construction period will be about half a year, and it is expected to complete all the expansion and repair work by the end of this year, and before that, the regular season in the first half of next season will be changed to the old stadium before the superSonics, that is, the stadium of the current subordinate team Supersonic Storms.

After finalizing this big event, the most excited in the supersonic team is the management, but they are also the busiest.

And a few old employees brought by Yang Dong who had been with her in the glass factory for ten years were also formed into a temporary construction supervision department, responsible for all matters related to the renovation of the stadium.

As for the supersonic internal high-level, Lin Dong's advice to his mother is not to move for the time being.

In fact, there were some problems with the original management of the supersonics, but after Bob, who wanted to do something big, came, Schulz was not in Seattle, and gave Bob a lot of power, so that Bob had cleaned up a lot of diehards who were eating and waiting to die in advance, and even some high-level executives in the team who originally had a messy relationship with the league thought that someone in the league wanted to interfere in the team's various affairs, so they were all killed by Bob, who was backed by Stern.

Therefore, the overall operation of the supersonic last season was actually quite good, up and down are quite a bit of a sense of hard work, in addition to the team's performance is rising, whether it is the financial department, the coaching team, the logistics department or the management, etc., the cooperation is quite good.

Professional things are handed over to professional people, this kind of thing, Lin Dong just mentioned the operation of supersonic last season, Yang Dong quite understands that the best way to let this kind of mature and tested management team is to let it continue to grow naturally, and it is not too late to intervene when it feels like it is starting to grow too long.

Of course, Yang Dong is about to become the new boss, and his teammate Lin Dong is about to become the supersonic 'prince', and even in the supersonic team, only a few people such as Bob, McMillan and Payton know about it.

The first is that the contract has not yet been officially signed, and the second is because they do not want anything to happen to the financial allocation of the city hall at this last moment.

Originally, it was planned that the funds would arrive on the 12th, and the contract was signed with Schultz on the 13th, but it was only faxed a signed letter of contract intent, and then the contract was signed on June 20 under the pretext that it was impossible to get away.

On June 20th, even the finals have been played, and this abacus is ...... It's just that he wants to drag all the ticket revenue of the supersonic season into his hands.

Yang Dong was also a little speechless, originally the mother and son had a very good impression of Schulz, but the nature of a capitalist can only be seen when it is related to money.

The fight still has to be fought for, although with Mitsui Shou's investment, there is still 100 million wealth to buy the team as the team's operating funds for next season, but to be honest, it is still a little tight.

After all, the expansion and repair of the Key Arena needs to last until at least the end of the year, and there are only six or seven thousand seats on the side of the temporary auxiliary hall, and there are very few tickets that can be sold except for some season and annual tickets.

Therefore, in addition to the tens of millions of salaries that will be paid out at the beginning of the season, there is at least half a season, the supersonic will have to make ends meet, and the reserve of 100 million US dollars seems to be enough, but the anti-risk ability is very poor.

And during the negotiations between Yang Dong and Schultz, the G1 of SuperSonics and Spurs has also started.

Outside predictions proved to be inaccurate......

The supersonic G5 can successfully win the Lakers, a big reason is from Sakuragi Hanamichi's advanced forward tactics, and the Lakers do not have a strong backup center, and there are no inside twin towers to rely on to crack.

But the Spurs' interior twin tower combination of Duncan and Admiral restrained the superSonics to death, and when the game began, the Spurs didn't show the extreme exhaustion that everyone predicted.

The two-day break allowed the Spurs to recover a lot, at least on the surface, and it was also scrappy.

Sakuragi Hanamichi's data is okay, 15 points and 11 rebounds, but compared to Duncan's 29 points and 18 rebounds, and the Admiral's 17 points and 9 rebounds, the supersonic interior line has finally been blown up.

There's no way, no one in the entire league now dares to say that they can win the Twin Towers Spurs on the inside, the Mavericks can't, even the Lakers with O'Neal probably can't.

In view of the characteristics of supersonic run-and-bomb tactics, Popovich's tactics are also quite targeted.

It is not specific to Lin Dong, but is desperately blocking the ball holder, which brings huge trouble to the supersonic led by the single core.

If Brent holds the ball, in the face of various pinching and blockades by the Spurs, mistakes are inevitable, and no matter how many points Lin Dong goes, he can't withstand one or two mistakes from time to time by Brent.

And if Lin Dong is allowed to hold the ball, although the Spurs can't block it, most of the pressure on scoring has to be piled up to the outside of the supersonic, and the inner twin towers have a lot of advantages over rebounds, no matter how flexible Sakuragi is, he can't compare to the cooperation of Duncan and the Admiral, and he has lost a lot of rebounds, so once the outside line is inaccurate, it will be an absolute disaster for the supersonic.

It can only be said that the supersonic without Payton is not a complete body after all, and the supersonic players who have been caught by the Spurs to die and have rested for 8 days are relatively relaxed in their minds as a whole, and they can't find their hands on the outside, and the offense after the whole game seems a little fragmented.

Although Lin Dong continued to chase the score after the second half was full of firepower, the 15-point gap that fell in the first half was still not completely erased, 108:101, and the supersonic G1 was defeated, which also made the wind of the outside world change rapidly.

Seeing the wind makes the rudder, it is always a characteristic of human nature, and the American people are no exception.

Various analyses say that the Spurs Twin Towers are invincible inside, various analyses say that the performance of supersonic Sakuragi Hanamichi is just a flash in the pan, and various comments say that Lin Dong is still not enough to determine the outcome of the game in the playoffs......

But G2 then slapped everyone in the face.

The Supersonic sacrificed a run-and-gun death five lineup, and Sakuragi Hanamichi did not choose to go around the defense, but chose to go head-to-head with Duncan on the inside.

The normal defensive position made him no longer need the help of his teammates, forcing the Spurs' interior twin tower combination to be pulled away a lot, and losing part of the advantage of the twin tower linkage.

And Sakuragi, who was in a heads-up state, threw all the previous moves against O'Neal on Duncan.

With a body size of 211 cm and a body size of 113 kg, Duncan does not have the absolute strength advantage of O'Neal, compared to the brute force Sakuragi Hanamichi, he can only play basket skills with Sakuragi.

But this dozen gave Sakuragi Hanamichi the nickname of 'inside dpoy'.

All kinds of Rodman-style signature small movements continued, stuck feet, stuck bodies, and the extra-long two arms were like a net around Duncan, so that Duncan, who shot 71% of the shooting rate in the last game, dropped directly to 54% in this game, and the rebounding was also on par with each other.

Although comparing the data of the two sides, Duncan has 23 points and 14 rebounds, and Sakuragi Hanamichi has 11 points and 15 rebounds, it seems that Sakuragi lost, but in fact, everyone understands that it should be the Japanese newcomer who wins.

Because Duncan's more points are based on more shots, not to mention a regular season MVP, who is currently known as the league's top center, was defended to 54% by a first-year rookie and grabbed 15 rebounds from your head, so it can't be said that the former has any advantage in any case.

And once Sakuragi opened, once the rebounds were guaranteed, the supersonic outside began to wield, and the whole team had 6 people score double-doubles, Iguodala hit a full 6 3-pointers, plus a breakthrough layup, and got the first 20-point data in a single game in his career, and even Desmond, who usually doesn't like to shoot 3-pointers, hit one.

Lin Dong comfortably held the ball and played the whole game, scoring 32 points, 14 assists, 3 steals and 1 block for him, helping the SuperSonics win G2 with 112:105.

Outside commentators felt a little slapped in the face, predicting that the G1 superSonics would win, and the superSonics would lose, and then they changed the wind and predicted that the G2 Spurs would win, and the Spurs would lose.

This time they decided to maintain their dignity, not to follow the rhythm, not to sing down whoever loses, so they once again gave a unified argument.

G3 still has to look at the Spurs!

What is an 'inside dpoy'? A newcomer, he also deserves it?

Just like the G5 performance he performed against the Lakers last time, this kind of newcomer's performance, no matter how impressive, is just a flash in the pan, and they simply don't have the ability to fully control and exploit their own strengths.

G2 supersonic can win, but because of the extraordinary play of the outside line, and when G3, the Spurs will definitely change back to the inside double-tower play style of winning the game before, and use regional joint defense to curb the supersonic inside line, strengthen their own inside advantage, and once the supersonic rebounds lose a few more, the confidence of the outside pitchers will immediately fall, and the victory or defeat is already obvious.

Experts predict that G3 will be the Spurs winner!

Outcome......

(End of chapter)