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Chapter 670 The Uncrowned King in Advance
After finishing the press conference, Su Yang led the team back to the hotel, woke up at noon the next day, and saw a lot of discussions.

Stephen Smith said on the "first take" program: "God! I predicted that the Kings would win the game before the start of the Western Conference Finals series, but I didn't expect them to win three games in such a cruel way. Yang made a mistake in the rotation, and after Curry scored 11 points in a row, he hit the iron many times, and I will report to the FBI that the Kings team is an alien."

Pippen tweeted: "It turns out that I did overestimate the strength of the Rockets, mainly because I didn't expect James Harden to perform so badly. He doesn't seem to care about the outcome of the game at all. He always has to wait until there is no way out. , just choose to shoot mid-range shots, that is definitely not a strategy that a team leader should adopt, let alone his defensive performance is like a disaster movie."

Bill Simmons said in the podcast: "Strictly speaking, although the Rockets have lost three games in a row, they have enough potential to beat the Kings. They still have some shortcomings in personnel rotation. Players like Ryan Anderson cannot Appearing in the series, it was a mistake for Morey to give Anderson such a high salary, and they can only look for veteran players in the summer."

Kobe Bryant tweeted: "This round of the series, our "detail" program team has a full follow-up record. Soon you will see how the Kings prepare for the game and how to adjust during the timeout. I promise you, Su Yang and the coaching team led by him will let you re-understand the coach's influence on the game, and let you understand why the Rockets are so difficult."

All kinds of discussions, either feel that the King is too strong, or feel that the Rockets are too difficult, and Harden has been criticized by tens of thousands of people.

Paul's reputation has also become worse and worse. Fans ridiculed that he is really strong in ball-handling organization, but every time the team needs him to break out and score, he can't stand up. At the end of the third game, no matter how good Paul plays A little bit, and the Rockets can win.

Seeing those comments, Su Yang felt a little unfair for Harden and Paul. The King's lineup is much better than the Rockets. The Rockets can rotate with 7 people. After falling behind 0-12 in the start and Curry scored 11 points in a row in the third quarter , Forcibly playing to the last moment, it can be said to be quite tough, but ordinary fans don't think about that, they are only upset that the Rockets failed to let them witness the King's loss.

Before the start of the series, they were praised to the sky, and after the series lost consecutively, they were discarded like rotten shoes, which perfectly reflects the characteristics of radical fans.

Few fans blame Morey, probably because although he advocates magic ball, it is always Harden's decision on how to play.

There was no training in the afternoon.

Su Yang took Antetokounmpo and others to visit the aquarium in the center of Houston, took photos with big sharks and other animals, and went to the open-air theater to watch the concert, and then returned to the hotel. Raptors.

There is no suspense between the two teams.

O'Neal, who explained the game live, also played tricks: Please ask the Raptors and Cavaliers to fight for a runner-up qualification, while Barkley bluntly said: Unless there are no wars and conflicts in the world in the next year, and the world is completely peaceful, the Cavaliers can only take the runner-up.

The king's generals laughed when they heard this.

On the contrary, Su Yang reminded the whole team not to be too complacent, they haven't defeated the Rockets yet, of course what they think in their mind is that they will definitely advance to the finals.

Rest for one night, race day 22.

At 12 o'clock in the morning, the entire Kings team gathered for a video conference to watch and study the peak of the two points lost in the third game. The first time was after leading 0-[-] in the first quarter. At the beginning and middle of the festival, the whole team went crazy.

"Rhythm, we let the Rockets enter a comfortable rhythm at that time. The main reason is that Harden is very strong in singles. We will not improve this. Our first principle is still not to allow Harden to pass the ball comfortably. In the early and middle of the fourth quarter , The whole team’s frenzied iron-making situation is largely due to lack of patience, which was caused by me, I really want to kill the Rockets in one wave..."

Su Yang took the initiative to review. If he didn't want to kill the Rockets in a wave, he would not have arranged for Curry to play for 16 consecutive minutes.

In fact, Curry no longer had a fiery touch at that time. He was a bit superstitious and relied on Curry's ability, which really shouldn't be.

The coaching staff, Cousins ​​and others also put forward their own ideas one after another. The whole team agreed that more balls should be given to Cousins. Although that would reduce the overall offensive speed and fluency of the Kings, it would be more lethal to the Rockets. Four bloody battles is fitting.

In a blink of an eye at [-] pm, Game [-] of the Western Conference Finals between the Kings and the Rockets continued at the Toyota Center in Houston.

The Rockets did not seem to be affected by the 0-3 deficit, especially Harden, who was very determined after the opening. After two consecutive mistakes, he did not hesitate to break through and score the ball for the third time. He successfully assisted Tucker and hit the corner three. Points, quite tough.

The Kings first launched an attack around Cousins, but Capela's superb defense allowed Cousins ​​to only make 6 of 1 shots. Su Yang could only adjust his strategy against the situation of falling behind by [-] points. Curry and George slowly Stabilize the situation without a major crash.

After the first quarter, the Kings were 22 points behind 39 to 17.

Cousins ​​blamed himself angrily, Su Yang reassured that it was okay, the main reason was that the strategy was too obvious, which made Capela's defense very targeted, and it was not ineffective at all. Capela's two fouls, and the Rockets in order to maintain the defensive strength, A large number of defenses against Cousins ​​caused Ariza and Tucker to almost play the full 12 minutes, and Harden even played the full 12 minutes directly, overdrawn.

The second quarter started immediately.

As Su Yang predicted, the Rockets' main force was seriously overdrawn in the first quarter, and they had a seven-man rotation, and they would continue to play in the second quarter. The performance was the same as Curry played for 16 consecutive minutes in the third game. The subsequent shots were either short, biased, or Long, crazy strike iron.

The Kings took the opportunity to hit a 22-5 shock wave, and by the end of the half, they tied strongly 55-55.

The momentum went directly to the king's side.

The key Ariza also got 2 fouls.

In the first quarter, those King fans who were still in high spirits couldn't type out any words, knowing that the Rockets' general situation was over.

Compared with ESPN data, Harden had 15 points, 4 assists and 4 rebounds in the first quarter, and only 10 points, 1 assist and 1 rebound in the second quarter. The scoring is not much worse, but the Rockets are much worse. Except for him, the rest of the Rockets have a single quarter. Take 6 points in total.

Come back from the halftime break and start the third quarter.

The performance of the Rockets has improved slightly due to adequate rest, but George and LaVine have entered the state, and they will lose points if they switch defenses a little slower. It is useless to defend Curry with all their strength. They can only enter the fourth place with 7 points behind. Festival, the momentum plummeted.

As the Kings started the fourth quarter with a wave of 10 to 2, the Rockets completely collapsed and did not score for a full 5 minutes.

Paul then scored 8 points in a row, but it was too late, and LaVine followed Harden with three consecutive three-pointers.

Throughout the fourth quarter, the Rockets scored only 17 points, and the Kings won 115-94, sweeping the score [-]-[-] to advance.

At the press conference after the game, Su Yang checked the statistics and found that George quietly averaged 29.8 points, 5.7 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game, and Curry averaged 25.6 points, 6.6 rebounds and 5.7 assists per game. Hutch.

ESPN reporters asked who they wanted to play in the finals, and the audience burst out laughing. Su Yang also deliberately said that he had to wait and see the results.

Everyone knows that it is 100% for the Cavaliers to advance to the finals. Some fans announced in advance that LeBron is the uncrowned king.

The whole team flew back to Saskatchewan overnight. As soon as Su Yang got off the plane, he received a text message from Sam Hinkie, saying that there was a rumor that George's agent was in private contact with the Lakers and other teams. The purpose seemed to be to seize the initiative. Key words: FMVP.

(End of this chapter)