This Forward is Not Serious - v2 Chapter 627
Lin Ying’s metaphor is very subtle, and Durant’s mood has obviously improved.
“And it’s not like you’re not playing anymore! Like the game we just watched, the Lakers can make a comeback, and so can you.”
Lin Ying said that he was working hard and patted Durant on the shoulder.
Hearing this, Durant finally took a deep breath.
This is his first season with the Hornets, and the injury to the Achilles tendon is not small, but not serious.
After a two-month break, he will be able to recover with full health again. By then, he will be better with the Hornets, and the chance of winning will naturally be greater.
And as Lin Ying said, his comeback beat the Bucks, which is enough.
As for the Hornets would lose to the Nets without him?
It’s better to let Lin Ying take advantage of it than to watch Antetokounmpo go to the Eastern Finals with a smug look on his face!
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In the blink of an eye, more than ten days have passed, and the games of the East and West competitions have come to an end one after another.
There was a lot of suspense in the semi-finals of both divisions, but in the division finals, nothing unexpected happened.
The Lakers are too strong, and the Warriors failed to win the game in G1. This has already explained the problem.
4 to 1, the Warriors won a game with a splash of seeds, but Klay Thompson’s unexpected injury and season reimbursement did not even allow them to reach g6.
The Lakers advanced easily. According to most of the outside world, they are only the final finals away from the championship.
On the other hand, Durant’s unexpected absence made the Gemini war a failure, and the strength gap between the two sides was also obvious.
Although the Hornets played extremely tenaciously and even won two games against the Nets with a tough defense, they were eliminated 2-4 in the end.
In this way, the Nets and the Lakers, after a lapse of a season, still came to the top of the Bauhinia and started this peak matchup.
For most fans, this is also the result they are most looking forward to.
If the Lakers can break the Nets’ four consecutive summits, it basically means the official announcement of the arrival of a new Lakers era.
Because although Paul and James are older, they both belong to the type of getting older and more demonic, and Davis will only become more and more mature.
On the contrary, if the Nets can step on such a Lakers to complete four consecutive championships, then he will surpass Jordan in a real sense and become the first person in history.
But everyone knows how hard it is to do that.
The strength of this Lakers team is a little weaker than last year’s Nets.
But now the Nets are really much weaker than last year.
However, the interesting thing about the Nets game is that the strong teams do not necessarily have the last laugh, and this round of finals will be the most interesting in the playoffs this year.
The Lakers have a record advantage, and the Nets still need to start on the road.
The day before the game, the Nets arrived in Los Angeles.
They stayed in a hotel only one kilometer away from the arena, so that the players could go to the arena earlier for training.
When the strength on paper is not as good as that of the opponent, it is necessary to do every detail well to seize the opportunity to win.
The Nets are really cautious about this Finals.
And before going to bed that day, Lu deliberately called Jokic and Lin Ying to his room to study the tactical details of tomorrow’s game.
No matter in the history that Lin Ying knows, or now, Lu is very close to the players, which is one of the reasons why he can win the respect of the players.
The three of them studied until after 12 o’clock in the middle of the night, before Lu let them go back.
On the way back, Lin Ying and Jokic were still communicating.
Just as Lin Ying thought before, after experiencing the baptism with the Raptors before, they have become closer to each other.
Lin Ying went back to the room and videotaped with Swift for a while, and it was already past 1 o’clock at night after taking a shower and going to bed.
Originally, his previous plan was to fight Durant in seven games in the Eastern Conference finals, but now he won easily, but his energy was a little too strong.
So when the finals really came to him, he thought a bit more.
Dazed, it was almost two o’clock before he fell asleep.
However, just when he was about to fall asleep, there was a sudden noise outside the hotel. The loudspeaker “”, which is only used in football games, immediately woke Lin Ying up, and he was instantly drowsy.
In fact, not only Lin Ying, but all the members of the Nets who lived in the hotel were awakened.
And the sound of the horn continued, and there was even a sound of iron collision.
Lin Ying opened the window, and then saw someone near the hotel deliberately making noise.
And after about ten minutes, several hotel security guards who were fully armed went out, and those people ran away with tools.
It’s not that the hotel security guards are slow, but that this is the American street in Los Angeles late at night, and it’s easy to eat peanuts when you go out alone.
After being tossed like this, Lin Ying stayed up for more than an hour before falling asleep.
Then, after an unknown amount of time, he was woken up by the sound of repairs.
It turned out to be downstairs in the hotel, and the side where the Nets lived was repairing and replacing the sewer.
Lin Ying felt that his head was dizzy, and he looked at the time and it was only after 6 o’clock in the morning.
It really is, absolutely.
It was at this time that he remembered that when Jordan chatted with him before, he talked about some of his experiences when he went to Utah to play in the finals.
It’s not just the flu battle, the teams they play are always harassed by fans at night.
It looks like what happened last night.
The Lakers have a lot of moves this year.
But on the bright side, this may also be the performance of the Lakers who do not have enough confidence.
If you are strong enough, you don’t need to make these moves.
But this trick really worked, because when Lin Ying gathered for training in the arena in the morning, Lin Ying saw that the players were yawning.
Especially Jokic, who directly put a panda eye on it, it seems that he basically slept last night.
Lin Ying went over to chat with him for a few words, only to realize that the group of people who had been driven away came again after four o’clock in the night.
It was also because he slept a lot that he was not woken up. Jokic slept lightly, and it was estimated that he slept for an hour or two intermittently.
The Nets also had training during the day and had to prepare for the game in the afternoon. Tonight’s game was really torturous.
And for things like sleeping, don’t think that you can make up for the night during the day. If you stay up late, you can’t come back to sleep during the day, you can only slow down.
If it’s work, you can make a cup of coffee when you’re sleepy, but NBA players can’t drink this during the game.
With a whole body of fatigue, the Nets ushered in the opener with the Lakers.
During the pre-game training, the Lakers were full of energy, and then compared to the Nets, they could clearly feel tired.
This even led to the ridicule of O’Neal over there.
“Did the Nets go to the nightclub last night?”
In the era when they played, “home field advantage” had a special manifestation: the fans of the home team would send people to stuff the small cards into the room of the visiting team, many of which could be door-to-door service, in order to achieve the purpose of consuming the physical strength of the players of the visiting team.
There are not many of these now, because the players will receive calls directly, and some people will go directly to the nightclub to have a good time.
In the finals in which the Thunder lost to the Heat, there is a saying that the nightclubs in Miami are too high-end, and Harden always runs high and is in no state.
O’Neal’s ridicule made this seem even more real.
After the game started, the Nets were much worse than the Lakers in terms of state and feel, and made frequent mistakes.
Originally, the Nets team was much worse on paper, and with the toss up last night, the game was very difficult.
After the final game, the Nets lost as expected, and lost a lot.
At the end of the game, the Lakers players celebrated wildly on the court, and James beat his chest and roared, venting his emotions to the fullest.
In contrast, the Nets players seem a little lonely.
The first game of the finals was lost like this, which was a bit of a surprise.
However, most of the players went back to the hotel after the game, and people like Jokic went to bed without falling down in the shower.
They are so sleepy.
The next day, some team members complained about repairing the sewer downstairs in the morning.
But more people don’t know about it, because they were too sleepy and dead last night.
It was at this time that Kobe came to Lin Ying to chat, and he knew what the Nets experienced last night.
This made Kobe feel a burst of shame.
The Lakers fans he was once proud of, do not know why he has become what he is now.
For him, if winning is going to depend on that, he’d rather not.
After separating from Lin Ying, Kobe posted his personal status on social media, calling on fans not to use extra-disc moves.
This also attracted the response of many Lakers fans.
After Kobe retired, he returned to Los Angeles to focus on youth basketball, where he is still a god.
And soon, fans spontaneously went to patrol around the hotel.
That night, the entire Nets team finally slept soundly.
It’s just that on social media, the Lakers fans exploded again.
Some fans who were trying to make noise again were stopped and felt that those who stopped them were traitors.
However, fans soon came out to support those who blocked them, saying that the Lakers’ current status was achieved by playing, not by these off-the-beaten-track moves.
There’s a classic quote in it: “If we need to win this way, what’s the difference with the guys in Boston?”
In such a noisy atmosphere, G2 of the finals continued to play at the Staples Center.
Kobe Bryant also came to the scene in this game.
After a solid sleep, the Nets played significantly better than G1.
Even in the face of the Lakers’ four-star lineup, they are not at a disadvantage on the scene.
After halftime, the Nets were only 3 points behind the Lakers.
However, in the second half, the Lakers’ advantage in the lineup was still reflected little by little.
Especially in the third and fourth quarters off the bench, the Nets are a bit out of place just like the Warriors.
Although Lin Ying scored 23 points in a single quarter in the last quarter, the Nets eventually lost to the Lakers 116-121.
Lin Ying scored 44 points in a single game, but he still failed to help the team win. Six players on the Lakers scored in double figures, and James, Davis and Cousins all scored 20+ points.
Compared to the unexpected g1, this is the embodiment of the true strength of the two teams.
The Nets are not worse than the Lakers as a whole, but the lineup is indeed one level worse than the Lakers.
Post-game social media was completely occupied by Lakers fans.
Some fans even moved out the pre-season prediction of espn: “The era of James has come!”
At a time like this, holding a group or something has been automatically ignored, because they are about to see James put on his crown.
Even if the crown is just an embellishment, it is still very attractive.
After losing G2, the situation the Nets faced became extremely difficult.
There have been a total of 34 0-2 situations in the history of the NBA finals, but only 4 of them have been reversed in the end, with a probability of only 11.2%.
This is only in terms of probability, and what is even worse is the gap in the lineup of the two teams, which is more difficult to overcome than probability.
The current situation of the Lakers is very similar to that of the Nets last season. The lineup is strong, and it is difficult for any team to pose a real threat to them.
After the end of G2, the members of the Nets also returned to the hotel early to rest.
Tonight’s game was very intense, and with consecutive losses, the players were in a very tired state, both mentally and physically.
Lin Ying also went to bed early, but he was woken up in the middle of the night by his mobile phone.
He picked it up and saw that it was a call from Kobe.
Then he glanced at the time, and boy, it was 4:00 in the morning.
This long-lost scene made him wake up immediately.
Speaking of that year’s draft, the beginning of his relationship with Kobe came from a phone call at four in the morning.
He picked it up, and Kobe’s words over there made people a little dazed.
“I’m at the Staples Center, come and train with me.”
In a trance, Lin Ying seemed to have returned to the original starting point.
He got up quickly after agreeing, and was soon at the Staples Center.
Compared to then, it was a lot more convenient because we lived near the Staples Center.
When he arrived, Kobe was already warmed up.
Although his **** belly can’t go back a year after retiring, his passion for basketball remains undiminished.
After Lin Ying arrived, the two quickly started bullfighting.
What Lin Ying didn’t expect was that he couldn’t win the retired Kobe Bryant quickly.
Although he won all three games, the two were close.
Kobe was no longer physically fit to continue, and the two sat on the sidelines to rest.
“No one can surpass your skills.”
Lin Ying turned to Kobe and said.
He remembered what he had said while chatting with Durant earlier.
Compared to James, who only likes to wear a crown, Kobe is the one who has proven his existence in basketball.
Of course ~www.mtlnovel.com~ this wave has commercial boasting ingredients in it.
But what Lin Ying didn’t expect was that Kobe didn’t brag with him, but his expression suddenly became serious, and then said seriously:
“Lin, it’s not that no one can surpass my skills, it’s that you haven’t done enough.”
These words made Lin Ying froze there.
“You are exhausted physically and mentally, you have overcome a lot of difficulties, you need to rest, it is human nature, but it is not enough.”
Kobe’s words are a bit of a pun.
“Because you are facing an opponent who is far stronger than you, you can’t expect more from your teammates, because those are all uncertain factors, the only thing you can do is to push your own limits, whether it is physical Or mentally, you have to become harder than iron.”
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