There were no dark horses in the second round.

The Eastern Pistons won the Pacers 4-1, and the 76ers battled with the Celtics 4-3 to reach the tiebreaker, and both advanced to the Eastern Conference finals with the Pistons.

But according to the regular season records of the two teams, the Pistons and the 76ers have met four times and won 3:1, the style is more restrained, the interior line is completely the world of the Pistons, and the outside level of the 76ers is only average, and now they are optimistic about the Pistons advancing to the finals.

In the West, the Lakers first beat the Spurs 4:0, and Da Yao, who completed the integration with Kobe, showed the absolute strength that surpassed the once another world, and steadily suppressed Duncan for the first time at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, and Kobe, who was helped by Yao Ming, also seemed to have completely released himself and entered the peak period in advance.

With an average performance of 35+ per game, in the last game, under the protection of Yao Ming's rebounds, he scored 49 points to refresh his personal playoff scoring record, which can be called unstoppable, coupled with his style of play, it has a bit of the shadow of the real Jordan.

This made Kobe Bryant rise a wave of fans, and also made the Lakers feel like they are back at the top, and they are currently the biggest favorites to win the championship.

The supersonic speed continued to beat the calves 4:0 silently.

Lin Dong's average triple-double data of 46.5 points, 14 assists and 11 rebounds per game continued to update the myth of his 40+ triple-doubles in the playoffs, and then brought fire to the lines of an old Stephen Chow movie - don't get me wrong, I didn't mean to target anyone, I mean everyone here is LJ!

It is rumored on the Internet that this is Lin Dong's own joke, but in fact, how could Lin Dong say such a thing.

It was first popular on the Dragon Kingdom Internet, and then it soon spread to the Internet all over the United States, and even the whole world.

And it was precisely because of this line that I don't know who circulated that he had a relationship with Lin Dong that suddenly pushed him to the cusp, and before the arrival of the Western Decision, it caused a lot of incidents.

- Lin Dong's words are too bad for Da Yao, they are all from a national team.

- I would like to see the Lakers win the championship...... There is no meaning for supersound, I just want to see Lin Dong lose once.

- Or is it better to have a supersonic triple crown? The first dynasty team with our dragon people as the core.

- It doesn't matter, Kobe Bryant and Yao are not bad to win the championship, Da Yao hasn't won the championship yet, he works so hard, this year is still quite promising.

This is the voice of the Dragon Nation Internet, which is relatively neutral.

For Lin Dong and Yao Ming, the support rate of Longguo fans was originally about 73, but since that line came out, it has almost opened five or five.

After all, Lin Dong married a 'Japanese wife' and recognized a group of 'Japanese brothers' is very unpleasant in China, not to mention that Da Yao became famous earlier, and there are more loyal die-hard fans in the older batch.

Of course, for the sake of the three consecutive championships, coupled with the energy of young fans and female fans, even if Lin Dong is more controversial, he can still maintain a five-to-five support rate.

But on the Internet in the United States, there are more and more voices unhappy with Lin Dong.

- Is this trying to say that Kobe Bryant and Yao Ming are also rubbish? This guy was too crazy, Michael wasn't as crazy as him back then!

- It's only been two consecutive championships, I don't know that the sky is high, and Michael has six championships! Kobe Bryant also has three consecutive championships!

- I feel that this Asian is becoming less and less cute.

- This guy is very good at playing big names, I heard that Nike asked him to shoot an advertisement before it was very perfunctory, and he was too lazy to go, the last All-Star Slam Dunk Contest, he obviously voted for him, but he didn't participate, isn't this a big name?

- Lakers come on, kill the supersonics! Kill Lin Dong!

Frankly speaking, Lin Dong felt that this was provoked by someone with a heart.

But to be honest, with Lin Dong's current temperament, he didn't care when he decided to marry Yuya, and now he still cares about this voice?

On the contrary, Stephen Chow, who was brought to fire twice in a row, moved his mind and called Lin Dong before the Western Finals, wanting to prepare for a basketball-related movie, "Kung Fu Basketball"!

Now his gold medal screenwriter Liu Zhenwei has almost got the script out, and a group of royal actors have all been negotiated, and the film can be started at the end of this month, if Lin Dong is willing, I hope that in the offseason after the playoffs, from August to September, he will take the time to make a cameo, with a salary of 10 million, and give him 5% of the net profit dividend of the movie.

Lin Dong was also a little crying and laughing when he heard it, but he didn't expect that he would have to enter the film and television industry one day.

Lin Dong still has a good impression of this king of comedy who is famous in the Dragon Country film industry, and Stephen Chow often went to Seattle to watch supersonic games, and the two are also very familiar with each other.

Listen to Stephen Chow's various 'Guaranteed fun, just take a holiday', 'Don't worry, no one dares to yell at you on the set', 'It's also to promote Dragon Country basketball', 'Delay you for a week at most!' 's flickering down.

Anyway, during the offseason after the playoffs, Yuya was still in Atlanta with her panda mother, who had just been pregnant, Yuya's baby couldn't do it, and she couldn't wait to sleep on the edge of the panda cage at night, and she would pick up a phone call at night and trot a hundred meters first, and then whisper at the end of the corridor, for fear of making noise to the panda sleeping in the cage over there...... Tsk, it's a pity, so that Lin Dong, who originally wanted to try to love on the phone, could only say nothing.

And the 05 Doha Asian Championship or something, I have already told Lao Li not to participate, La Liga will also be in the offseason, and there will be nothing to do at that time, so I simply agreed, and the scheduled shooting time is from early August to mid-August.

A small decision will not distract Lin Dong from the upcoming Western Finals.

There is no shortage of NBA champions, but the dynasty honor of three consecutive championships is the first time, and it must be false to say that it is not taken seriously.

The Lakers have been really tough this season, and the chemistry of Yao Ming and Kobe Bryant has been far above the pre-season predictions.

In the same West, the SuperSonics played against the Lakers four times in the regular season, with a record of two wins and two losses, not because the SuperSonics are releasing water, but because the Lakers' interior line is too strong.

Not to mention the main center Yao Ming, Yao Ming, who was upgraded with Kobe, originally synthesized the three major centers in the league with O'Neal and Duncan, but now O'Neal has pulled his hips one after another, and all kinds of things that are incompatible with his teammates have gradually reduced him from the first person in the league to the role of a clown, and the glory in people's minds is no longer there, and Duncan was comprehensively suppressed by Yao Ming in the second round of the playoffs that just ended.

This makes Yao Ming already faintly stand out from the current three major centers and become the strongest first center in the league, the only flaw is that the physical strength problem can never be solved, if he really wants to explode with all his strength, or meet the combination of supersonic Sakuragi Hanamichi and Chandler, Da Yao's physical strength is only enough to support three quarters, and the fourth quarter is almost ironclad to pull his hips.

But the Lakers' backup center, pigtailed coach Grant, perfectly makes up for this shortcoming.

As the most diligent engineer player in the NBA, his functionality on the interior is quite prominent, and he is also a bull who has won 20+ rebounds in a single game, with the three leaders of the Lakers today, the so-called most comprehensive star in the NBA, Ramal Odom, a power forward, is enough for him to support the Lakers' interior line with Odom when Yao Ming needs to rotate and rest, so as to ensure Yao Ming's most sufficient firepower.

Yao Ming, Odom, Grant, the Lakers interior line composed of these three, even Duncan was crushed to lose his temper, and the SuperSonics were at an absolute disadvantage with the combination of Sakuragi Hanamichi and Chandler as a whole.

However, the supersonic outside line is stronger than the Lakers, and Lin Dong's personal ability is still stable in Kobe's first line.

One is strong on the inside and the other is strong on the outside, so as to form a balance between the two teams, and the regular season ended in a 2:2 draw.

But only Lin Dong knows in his heart that the Lakers can't win the game......

Although everyone didn't show a 100% desperate attitude in the regular season, the Lakers just didn't break out at best, but if the supersonic is ...... The SuperSonics in the playoffs are two completely different teams than they were in the regular season.

Especially against a team as challenging as the Lakers.

This season, since entering that kind of back-to-basics realm, to be honest, Lin Dong feels that he has never gone all out.

It's not about the technique, the physical explosion, etc., it's about the choice of the ball and the desire to win.

The so-called desire to win should not be misunderstood as 'not wanting to win', but a feeling of not feeling danger and always feeling calm as water.

Lin Dong knew that this was an improvement, but to be honest, he didn't like it very much.

After all, his body is just in his early 20s, and his state of mind has always made him feel a little awkward, and he can't find the passion he once had on the court.

But this time in the Western Showdown, facing a really threatening opponent, Lin Dong finally felt a little passionate.

May 22, 2004, GOD Arena, Seattle......

As the Western Finals, which has been regarded as the 'finals stage' by all parties before the game, it has naturally attracted wide attention from all media and fans.

The 2-2 in the regular season, as well as the current eight games in the playoffs, have not lost a game on both sides, making all parties predict this game to be five or five.

Except for a few comments with personal wishes, no one dares to easily determine which side is stronger.

The suspenseful game also had a resurrection effect on the NBA's declining ratings this year, with the nation's timely ratings surpassing 45 million for the first time this year, which is very close to the result when the SuperSonics faced the Wizards for the first time.

In Dragon Country and Asia, the NBA's ratings have not gone down in the past two years, and this year's Dragon Kingdom's Finals ratings have exceeded the 60 million mark before the first game opens, counting Japan and other Southeast Asian regions, the overall ratings have exceeded 80 million, and it has completely become the NBA's largest audience in the world.

- Supersonic! Supersonic! Supersonic!

——GOD！ GOD！ GOD！

- Lin! Forest! Forest! Forest!

In the hustle and bustle of the arena, the Seattle fans were as enthusiastic as ever, cheering for the home team and their names.

Both teams have just finished their pitches and warm-ups, and are making final preparations in the bench area.

The tactical arrangement and distribution work that should be done have already been completed, all the players of the Lakers gathered in a group, holding each other's shoulders and heads on their heads, and Kobe Bryant shouted loudly at everyone to make the final mobilization.

"The East is not worth mentioning to us, beating the SuperSonics means we have won the championship!"

"And if you want to beat the supersonics, you must win the first victory in this first battle! If we can't beat the momentum, we can't suppress the momentum of supersound, and we will fall into passivity! ”

"Yao! The inside line is yours, and when the red-haired one goes around, Odom will be there for you! ”

"Chuckie! German! Seal their outside line, don't think Payton's three-point is not good, that old guy really dares to shoot now, and he really dares to score if he gives an empty position! ”

“…… No matter how tired you are, no matter what other thoughts you have, put them away,"

"This is already the closest we are to winning the championship, breaking the supersonic dynasty, the championship must be ours!"

"Overall Champion! Overall Winner! Overall Winner! Everyone followed him and shouted: "The Lakers will win!" ”

"Roar! Roar! Roar! ”

"Victory! Win! Win! ”

"Up!"

The Lakers started five Tigers: No. 8 shooting guard Kobe Bryant, No. 11 center Yao Ming, No. 7 power forward Odom, No. 9 point guard Chakey Atkins, and No. 3 small forward Devin George.

And the supersonic ...... on the other side

Although most of them are only third-year players in the league and can be called newcomers, the team that has won two consecutive championships and is aiming to defend the championship three times in a row, the team's confidence is obviously very different from ordinary teams.

Everyone was also gathered around like the Lakers for the final pre-war mobilization, but the atmosphere was much more relaxed.

"Boss, are you coming?"

"Fake, are you being funny? Haven't you been beating the drums for the whole team for the past two seasons? ”

"The main thing is that my throat is a little dry today."

"Didn't sleep well yesterday? Fack, you're not, aren't you? Didn't your wife go to Atlanta? ”

"Didn't I get harassed by Bob yesterday and talked to him all night on the phone, that guy was in trouble in New Jersey, Kidd ......"

"What do you think, old thing? I'm going to play today, and I talked to you on the phone for so long last night, really, I'll scold him when I go back, what are you doing......"

"Ahem, bosses, it's about to be a game, isn't this the time for small talk, right? We are mobilizing before the war, and everyone is waiting. Iguodala reminded the two team bosses with a smile.

"That's it!" Sakuragi Hanamichi followed to help: "Brother Gaoren, Lao Pei, let's hurry up!" Go home and accompany your wife after doing it! ”

Haruko was pregnant at the beginning of January, and now it's more than 4 months old, and it's starting to show a little pregnancy, Sakuragi Hanamichi has recently been in addition to training, and all team party activities have been pushed off, and he accompanies his wife at home whenever he has time, and 'accompanying his wife' has become his mantra.

Lin Dong looked at Peyton with a smile, his voice was hoarse and he didn't want to talk or anything, it was just an excuse.

Peyton, the old thing, will retire from the ranks of the team's main force next year, this team was built because of him, and this dynasty appeared because of him, Lin Dong just wanted to leave him with a last good memory.

"Okay, okay, then I'll come, I'll come! It's as if hypersonic is just a speech, but what to say? Peyton cleared his throat with a smile and pondered for three or four seconds: "MD hasn't said this for a long time, I don't know what to say, don't beep, it's over!" ”

"Haha, yes! That's it! ”

"Supersonic wins!"

"Up!"

The supersonic starter Five Tigers walked out in high spirits.

No. 23 small forward Lin Dong, No. 7 center Chandler, No. 10 power forward Hanamichi Sakuragi, No. 9 scoring guard Iguodala, No. 20 point guard Gary Payton!

The players of both sides are in place, and the Western Conference Finals are about to start.

(End of chapter)