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Chapter 186 Make It Crazy First
On the afternoon of the 22nd, the entire Thunder team arrived in Los Angeles. After checking into the hotel, Su Yangming ordered him to leave the team and ask for leave.

For some unknown reason, the news quickly spread to Twitter and other social platforms. Many people ridiculed him for making a fuss out of a molehill, thinking that he did not believe in the self-control of the players, and treated the players like children. Doing so would only backfire and reduce the players' combat effectiveness.

Su Yang didn't bother to care about it, and led the team to watch the video and run tactics as usual, and promised in advance that no matter what the result of the third game was, he would lead the team to Malibu Beach after the end. Anyway, he couldn't delay the rest privately, which would affect the normal performance of the game.

On the next game day, at [-]:[-] p.m., Su Yang brought Durant and others to the arena to prepare for practice in advance.

The staff at the Staples Center did not make any trouble. Several people entered the arena, only with some faint lights, but found that Kobe was already training, and his chest and back were soaked. He estimated that he had practiced for at least an hour.

Durant and the others showed surprised expressions, and Su Yang felt a little excited, and took the opportunity to encourage them to learn from Kobe.

After the two sides greeted each other, Kobe continued to train until 05:30, when the Thunder team arrived and did not leave.

Su Yang made some arrangements, and then went to the media center for an interview. After several consecutive uninspiring questions, he was finally asked what he thought of ESPN's survey statistics of '90% of fans want the Lakers and Celtics to play in the Finals' Report.

"That's a common practice of false reporting, or a common error of poor reporting, like your politicians like to say the US economy has grown 09% since 13, but only the wealthiest 1% have grown...

In the same way, the 90% of fans who want to see the Lakers and Celtics play in the finals must be a very small part of all fans. If you don’t believe me, let ESPN count how many fans don’t want to see two teams play in the finals . "

After the two sentences were finished, the reporter was stunned on the spot, but Su Yang turned and left, thinking that it would be cool to pretend to be smart all of a sudden.

But in the final analysis, I still want to find an advantage in public opinion, so as to avoid the idea that it is normal for the Lakers to enter the finals among the Thunder players.

In a blink of an eye, at 50:9000, more than [-] fans all entered the stadium, and the grand pre-match ceremony began.

Famous Lakers players from all walks of life appeared on the scene one after another, and several big-name fans like Denzel Washington who did not come to the scene cheered for the Lakers one after another. Then Maroon [-] lead singer Adam Levine led the singing of the national anthem.

At seven o'clock, the game officially started.

The starting lineups of the two teams have not changed, the Thunder grabbed the first attack, Westbrook and Ibaka cooperated in the pick-and-roll, and the Lakers still double-teamed.

With previous replay experience, Westbrook did not go so deep, and gave the ball to Ibaka early, but it was a pity that he shot hard.

The Lakers grabbed the rebound and launched a counterattack. Kobe directly cooperated with Gasol's low pick-and-roll and patiently scored 2 points.

Immediately afterwards, the Thunder ran a new tactic around Durant according to Su Yang's on-the-spot arrangement. The Lakers were successfully deceived, and Artest didn't know how to defend in a hurry. Not only did he not restrict Durant, he was also labeled as two plus one , 3 points for nothing.

The two teams immediately increased their defensive strength, and the scoring efficiency also became very low, and they did not break 5 points in nearly 10 minutes.

The whistle blew occasionally, and the penalty scale was not much different, but Westbrook didn't pay attention and got a second foul.

Su Yang thought for a moment, worried that Westbrook would be difficult to control, and the first quarter of the game hadn't finished yet, if the Thunder fouled again, the Thunder would have a messy rotation, so they could only bite the bullet and replace Westbrook with Harden, and temporarily adjust their tactics. , Let Durant attack.

Harden led the team to do the same after playing, but the Thunder did not have Westbrook, and the speed of pushing and counterattacking was greatly reduced.

Every time the Lakers score, or even after hitting the iron, the return to defense is better than before. Even because they are no longer afraid of Westbrook leading the team to push back, Gasol and Bynum are deeper on the offensive end, taking the opportunity to get A couple of offensive rebounds.

Because the Thunder fell into a hand-to-hand battle and lacked a master of rushing to the rim like Westbrook, their scoring efficiency dropped again.

However, the Thunder's defense resolutely narrowed the inside line, and the rotation was fast enough. After the first quarter, they were only behind by 18 to 26.

Facing a situation similar to that of the second game, Su Yang did not panic, nor did the Thunder generals.After Westbrook reappeared, with a lot of venting energy, he teamed up with Harden and Green to hit a 15-6 attack wave and overtake the Lakers strongly.

The main players of the two teams returned to the field one after another. Westbrook encountered strict defense and his scoring efficiency plummeted.Fortunately, Durant easily got rid of Artest's entanglement through new tactics, and his shooting percentage was extremely high, while Ibaka blocked shots and made Gasol 4 for 1.

After halftime, the Thunder led the Lakers 47 to 45, but Westbrook and Chandler also had three fouls.

Returning to the locker room at halftime, Su Yang warned the team to be cautious, predicting that the Lakers would counterattack fiercely in the second half.

As he expected, after the start of the third quarter, the Thunder fouled four times in less than 2 minutes.

The worst thing was Sefolosha, who was fouled twice by Kobe's superb sudden shot collection skills and could only end early.Su Yang temporarily sent Matthews to defend. As a result, Matthews was obviously overwhelmed by Kobe's momentum, lost ground, and gave two or three points for nothing.

The key point is that the Lakers are also making various big moves on the defensive end. Even if they are called fouls, they will not restrain themselves, just highlighting a fierceness.

After several rounds of practice, the Thunder didn't panic, but their scoring efficiency returned to the level of the first quarter.

During the timeout, Su Yang reminded the whole team not to panic, this is their home field advantage, even if they lose, they cannot lose momentum.

Just like that, after the third quarter, the Thunder fell behind by four points, and in the fourth quarter, the situation remained unchanged.

With the Thunder's 12 foul whistles and the Lakers' 8 foul whistles, the game lasted to the last five seconds.

The Thunder trailed by two points, seeing the attitude of the Lakers choking three points and willing to give two points, after two consecutive timeouts, Su Yang considered the Lakers' overall free throw percentage, consciously grabbing two points was hopeless to win the game, so he took the risk to arrange three points around Green ball tactics.

After the referee's whistle, the tactics ran out successfully, but it was a pity that Green's shot hit the iron, and the Thunder regretted losing a three-pointer.

In the whole game, Durant scored 32 points and the Thunder blocked 17 shots in vain.

In the post-match press conference, when talking about why he didn’t grab two points in the end but shot a three-pointer, and instead of letting the most confident Durant shoot a three-pointer, Su Yang didn’t want to explain, and felt that there was no need to explain. He said that the tactics were fine. vote back next time.

That explanation caused a lot of controversy, and many people felt that he was greedy for success and refused to keep his feet on the ground.

Su Yang ignored it, fulfilled his promise the next day, and took the whole team to the Malibu beach for fun, but was criticized again.

On the 25th, Lei Ti once again visited the Staples Center for the fourth game against the Lakers.

In the first quarter of the game, Westbrook did not get into foul trouble again, but Artest made a lot of small moves when defending Durant. Even Bynum interfered with Durant's body when he passed the screen, but none of them were whistled. Durant Affected by continuous strikes.

Su Yang was quite angry, but those actions were very subtle. The referee did not blow or did not blow, there was nothing he could do.

The game continued like that until 2.8 seconds left in the fourth quarter, and the Thunder still took a 1-point lead by virtue of their physical advantage.

Bryant lore also hit the iron, but Bynum pushed Chandler tipped, and then ran straight back to the locker room.

The referee immediately announced that the Lakers won. Su Yang knew that he could not change the result, so he left the game calmly and decently.

That night, the Thunder returned to Oklahoma with a score of 2-2.

Su Yang reposted his previous tweet, reiterating that Jesus could not keep the Lakers, and he was ridiculed by all kinds of people.

Many fans think that his crazy approach is really a harbinger of demise.

(End of this chapter)