Coach, I don't want to retire yet

Chapter 592 Michael, shall we have some fun?

Chapter 592 Michael, shall we have some fun?
In the Bobcats' training hall, the Bobcats players are training in full swing.

There is a lot of noise outside about the predictions for the finals.

As the Western Conference Finals between the Lakers and the Thunder came to an end, the Lakers successfully advanced to the Finals, which made the media, experts and even fans outside really excited.

The team that Coach D is leading now is going to play the team that Coach D previously led. So the question is, what kind of treatment will Coach D get when he takes the Bobcats to Los Angeles?
At the beginning, Lakers fans will definitely welcome Coach D very much. But if the two teams get angry and the game becomes tense, what will the atmosphere on both sides be like?

Will Coach D be booed at the Lakers' home court?

In this matchup between the Bobcats and the Lakers, Coach D is a major highlight.

In addition to this major highlight, there are many other highlights in this finals.

For example, the duel between the Bobcats' star players Jordan and Kobe. Kobe and McGrady have already given Jordan a warning in the Western Conference Finals. So is Jordan ready?

For example, in the duel between O'Neal and Kobe, O'Neal had already announced after the Eastern Conference Finals that he would lift his fifth NBA championship trophy in front of Kobe in Los Angeles.

In addition, there is the master-disciple duel between the Bobcats' GDP and Popovich.

Ten years ago, Spurs fans would never have imagined that GDP would one day stand against Popovich in the finals.

Whether it is GDP or Popovich, they are both legends and symbols in the history of the Spurs.

Ever since Leonard backstabbed the Raptors and made the truth about the Spurs team public, both Popovich and GDP have received great sympathy.

Simply put, because of the actions of Kawhi Leonard and Leonard, Popovich and Parker were whitewashed.

I originally thought that Leonard was the victim, but unexpectedly, Popovich and Parker, GDP are the victims.

Popovich and GDP worked hard for the glory of the Spurs until their death. What's wrong with Popovich letting the three of them have a glorious ending? This is human nature. If you think you are strong enough and don't want to play supporting roles for three old men like GDP, you can say that.

But you don't say it, for fear that others will say you are ungrateful. After all, it was Popovich who pulled you up, and it was Duncan who always supported you when you were in the most difficult times.

If you don't dare to express your dissatisfaction, then don't be dissatisfied and cooperate with Popovich for one or two years.

If you are dissatisfied, just express it openly, and everyone can part ways amicably. You can also be used as a bargaining chip to exchange for a player who is willing to cooperate with GDP's glorious end. You can also go to the team you want, and everyone will be happy.

In the end, Leonard's choice was to not dare to express his dissatisfaction, and he refused to cooperate, holding back his bad intentions, and secretly causing trouble. In the end, not only did GDP fail to make a perfect farewell with the Spurs, even a star of Duncan's level did not even have a retirement parade, and he retired so quietly.

If Coach D hadn't brought Duncan to the Bobcats to continue his comeback, Duncan's retirement from the Spurs would have been the quietest among the top ten in history, and even worse than some ordinary NBA superstars.

Moreover, when Duncan announced his retirement, Parker and Popovich were not around. Popovich and GDP were torn apart by Leonard.

It is said that Coach D is a scheming and scheming person, and is good at destroying the team. Without Leonard's cooperation, the Spurs would not have been destroyed by Coach D like this.

Now Leonard doesn't care about public opinion.

He has already submitted a trade request to the Boston Celtics and is ready to leave the Celtics. He may change teams three times in a year. At this point, what's the point of reputation?

Well, Leonard really doesn't care about reputation.

So Leonard didn't even say a word about the criticism from Spurs fans.

In the end, the Spurs fans are now divided into two sides, one supporting Popovich and the other supporting GDP.

Of course, there are definitely more Spurs fans who support GDP.

There are so many things to watch in the finals between the Bobcats and the Lakers.

But the real highlight is naturally what Barkley said, that the six strongest players in NBA history will compete in this finals.

Now they are almost universally recognized as the five strongest players in the NBA.

Yao Ming, Kobe, McGrady, Beasley, and Jordan.

If Thabeet doesn't rise, the top five players will play 3 vs. 2 in the finals.

Now, Thabeet used a 10-0 duel to beat Embiid, allowing the whole world to see his terrifying strength. The height of a center, the skills of a shooting guard, and the athleticism of a small forward are already beyond expectations.

Many people believe that he is now one of the six strongest players in the NBA, reaching the Goat level.

The six players who have reached the Goat level in NBA history will compete on the same court, which is naturally something to look forward to.

Especially since they are so distinctive.

Yao Ming is a man of both inside and outside talents, the strongest organizing center, and a quadruple-double harvester.

McGrady's strongest kaleidoscope, both inside and outside, the strongest swingman.

Kobe is the strongest pick-and-roll offensive player, who can protect the ball, pass and control the ball all in one. As long as he doesn't want to duel with you one-on-one, he can kill any opponent with pick-and-roll.

Jordan's strongest defense, the unlimited full-court pressing defense with unlimited physical strength, even if Jordan sealed his offense because of "I am your father", he still has the extraordinary Goat strength. Facing Jordan's mad dog-like defense, I am afraid that no one can easily get rid of it except Goat-level players.

Beasley's strongest off-ball movement, that artistic off-ball movement visible to the naked eye, allows him to be open at any time. As long as his teammates' passes can be delivered in time, combined with his offensive kaleidoscope ability, he will be the strongest offensive player in NBA history.

There is also the strongest template player of Thabeet, who has the height of a power center, the athleticism of a small forward, and the technical ability of a guard. Many fans joked that even if they were playing games, they could not create a player template like Thabeet. There is no doubt that Thabeet is the most talented player in NBA history. This talent does not need to be evaluated by anyone. It is obvious to everyone, even people who don't understand basketball know how strong Thabeet's template is.

Moreover, in addition to the confrontation between the six GOAT-level players, there are even several MVP-level players under the two teams.

On the Bobcats side, Rose, O'Neal, and Grant Hill are definitely super players with MVP level strength. Rose needs no mention. As for O'Neal and Grant Hill, they can only play one out of two games and only about 20 minutes in a game, but as long as they are on the court, they are MVP level super players.

On the Lakers side, there are not so many qualifying words for Jokic and Antetokounmpo. The performance of these two together in the seventh game against the Thunder speaks for itself.

These two players are MVP-level superstars at all times.

Especially Antetokounmpo. In the confrontational environment of this season, Antetokounmpo has been infinitely strengthened. In the seventh game of the Western Conference Finals, Antetokounmpo scored 40 points, 13 rebounds, 5 assists, 5 steals and 5 blocks. Durant on the opposite side was also explosive, with a super triple-double of 49 points. However, no matter who comes to evaluate, they will not think that Antetokounmpo is the loser. The two are evenly matched.

That is, in the Lakers, the Lakers have Kobe, McGrady, Yao Ming, and Jokic. Otherwise, in any NBA team except the Bobcats, Antetokounmpo can be the boss, definitely at the MVP level, even at the MVP level, which is considered strong.

In addition to Goat-level and MVP-level superstars, both teams also have many players with superstar-level strength.

The Bobcats have shown players with superstar qualities this season, Duncan and Parker are undoubtedly the two.

As for the Lakers, Roy, Ebanks and McCaw are absolutely superstars. It should be said that ordinary superstar players may not be able to get any advantage when facing these three.

In addition, Kidd, Marion, Batum, Ginobili, Ding Yanyuhang of the Bobcats and Li Kai, Dinwiddie, Zhang Tielin and others of the Lakers are also elite and star-level players.

Therefore, both teams can gather at least 10 rotation players with star-level strength in one game, and these 10 players have All-Star level or even higher strength.

This is terrible, because it means that in a 48-minute game, both teams can achieve high quality in every second.

Relatively speaking, the Bobcats seem to have more All-Star level players.

However, Kidd, O'Neal and Grant Hill cannot play in every game, so these three can only be regarded as one person. Therefore, the two sides are actually close in strength.

Of course, being close in strength does not mean being equal in strength.

You have three Goat levels, and I also have three Goat levels, that's called proximity.

However, the Goat class is also ranked.

So far, Yao Ming is still the strongest player in NBA history and is recognized as the number one.

Beasley and McGrady compete for the second place, Beasley is the strongest offensively and McGrady is the most versatile.

Kobe is the consensus No. 4.

Jordan is recognized as the fifth.

Tabit is currently ranked sixth.

In addition, the MVP-level Rose seems to have a gap with Antetokounmpo and Jokic, and Grant Hill and O'Neal have shortcomings. Although the strength of the two sides is similar, the Lakers are still more stable and stronger.

Even at the superstar and elite level, the Lakers look younger and have been growing over the years. Everyone has witnessed the Lakers' three consecutive championships in the past.

So, overall, the Lakers are definitely the stronger side.

Therefore, in terms of odds, the outside world is more optimistic about the Lakers, and the winning odds of the Lakers and the Bobcats are about 82.

This is reasonable.

After all, the Thunder's winning rate against the Lakers is 1% and 99%, which means that the Thunder can snatch a 1% winning rate from the Lakers. When other Western teams meet the Lakers, they probably won't even have a 1% winning rate.

It is very commendable that the Bobcats can snatch a 20% winning rate from the Lakers.

The Bobcats players remained calm about such voices.

Because no one knows their own strength better than themselves.

At this time, O'Neal was broadcasting live and was arguing with netizens. The topic of their arguments was that public opinion outside was looking down on them.

"Guys, although we don't care about the so-called pre-match predictions, it is obvious that they underestimated us. They actually thought that Derrick was not as good as Jokic and Antetokounmpo? Hahahaha, this is one of the funniest jokes I have ever heard. You will never know how powerful Derrick is now. Derek, tell me yourself, how powerful you are now!"

Rose, who was passing by, ignored O'Neal, glared at O'Neal without any cooperation, and left.

How powerful are you now?
He didn't know either, because he hadn't demonstrated it to his full potential in a competition.

However, he has learned off-ball movement from Beasley.

Rose himself cannot see his own skill level, but he can feel that he has successfully learned off-ball movement and has made great progress.

Coupled with the three-point and mid-range shooting skills he learned from Beasley, and his coach's efforts to strengthen his three-point attributes, Rose can clearly feel that even if he does not have the ball, he has top-level strength as a receiver without the ball.

Rose feels that he is now a smaller version of Kobe? Or a smaller version of Kobe and Wade combined?
There is definitely a little distance from the Goat, but it should be very close.

"Derrick, your new task is to use off-ball movement to knock down ten top off-ball movement players of the same level as you during the game."

Rose's off-ball movement has reached gold. If he wants to continue to reach purple, he can only transform in the game. It is not easy to run down ten gold-level off-ball movement players, and it may never be achieved.

However, as long as it can be achieved once, the skill can be upgraded to purple-gold. Although it is not purple, it is the only one below purple.

Currently, Beasley is the only player in the purple off-ball running category in the NBA. If Rose can outrun Kobe or McGrady, Yao Ming, McCaw, or Ebanks once in the next game, he will become the strongest off-ball running player after Beasley.

"Mike, your mission is very simple. In the next games, you need to continue to dribble past McCaw, Ebanks, Kobe, McGrady, Yao Ming, Antetokounmpo and even Danny Green, just like you did against Leonard, George, James and Davis in the Eastern Conference Finals."

The light speed engine that Beasley learned from Rose has reached the gold level. It is impossible for him to continue to improve because the Bobcats do not have a purple-level light speed engine and cannot learn further.

But Rose's ankle terminator is purple, and Beasley's ankle terminator has also learned gold. After knocking down Leonard and others in the Eastern Conference Finals, it reached purple and gold (4/10)

As long as he can knock down six more players whose defense reaches the gold level, Beasley's ankle terminator skill can reach purple. The Lakers have six players whose defense reaches the gold level.

"Coach, do you want me to continue playing unlimited singles?"

Beasley was a little surprised.

In such an important confrontation, are you still so indulgent towards him?
"Winning the game is important, but your growth is even more important."

Du Kang has always been sober.

As long as your players are strong enough, it's always a good thing.

Players are the foundation of NBA games and basketball games.

"Don't suppress your nature because of the attention and importance of the game, Derek, Mike, you are the two most important players on the team's offense, you need to maintain your nature."

Tomorrow, June 6, is Game 2 of the finals, and the coach hopes they will remain threatening.

Rose and Beasley looked at each other and nodded seriously.

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion in the Bobcats' training hall.

Even O'Neal, who was broadcasting live, was surprised.

He quickly turned the camera over, and then the netizens who were watching the live broadcast and were arguing with O'Neal were also stunned.

"Kobe, McGrady and Yao Ming!!!"

"Is it the entire Lakers team?!"

"No, it's the old players from the Lakers, not Danny Green and other Spurs players!"

"Are they here to challenge?"

It’s really a challenge!
"Coach, the finals are tomorrow. As soon as I arrived in Charlotte, I couldn't wait."

"Michael, shall we play?"

Kobe's eyes were glowing.