basketball player

Chapter 601 599: Cole's Masterpiece
On June 6st, for most basketball fans in the world, this is not as simple as a simple Children's Day.

At the Bankers Life Arena in Indianapolis, the epic battle between the Pacers and Warriors is about to be staged.In the end who is ruling this era, after this round of the series, fans will get the result.

Henson came to the arena early today and stood on the empty playing field.His eyes fell on the three eye-catching championship pennants on the dome of the arena.

Once, he won the O'Brien Cup three times here.But now, what meets him is a bigger challenge.

Henson is very clear that there is not much time left in his coaching career, and he must seize every opportunity to play in the finals.

If you can add a new one behind the three championship pennants, your career will be extremely complete.

Look at those NBA coaches, not all of them can achieve Henson's achievements.The highly respected Jerry Sloan has never won a championship in his career."Crazy Carl", whom Henson hates more, has no chance of winning the championship in this life. "Mad Scientist" Old Nelson developed many new tactical ideas, but he was still unable to win the championship.

As for Henson, he has already launched an impact towards his fourth championship ring.If you can wear all five fingers, it must be very beautiful.

Henson folded his hips and took a deep breath, closing his eyes and imagining what the stadium would look like in the future.He seemed to feel the players passing by him, and he yelled in the fierce confrontation.

Thinking of this, Henson's hands couldn't help shaking.Finals, here I come again!

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"Hello, viewers, welcome to ESPN. This is Mike Breen, and we will bring you a live broadcast of the NBA Finals soon!"

Mike Breen's magnetic voice sounded in front of the TV. As soon as they heard this voice, the fans would immediately enter the "battle state".After all, this is the 12th year that Mike Breen has called the Finals.What's incredible is that for a third of the time, Mike Breen was watching Henson's team play the finals!
The cheers of the fans, the aggressiveness shown by the players and the intense preparation of the coaching staff made Henson's fantasies before the start of the game all become reality.

Faced with such a big battle, Henson, who had been away from the finals for two years, was not nervous, but extremely excited.

Sure enough, the basketball court is his world!

Just as the players were warming up, the reporters on the sidelines began to enter the field for interviews.Due to Sager's death, ESPN did not invite him to continue to participate in the finals this year, but replaced him with ESPN's own name, Stephen A. Smith.

Stephen A. Smith's interview style is completely different from Mike Breen's. He is not very humorous and can't make jokes very much.But the questions asked are always sharp, and all very sharp.

As soon as the first question came up, he asked Pachulia without hesitation, "What do you think of the scolding battle between you and Henson a few days ago? Do you think you have the ability to respond to him on the court?"

"Naturally, we will use the game to prove everything. Coach Henson will know how strong the opponent he is facing." Since the verbal battle was actually lost, Pachulia was very embarrassed when facing this question, so he had to pass it off.

On the other hand, Henson's response was more to Stephen A. Smith's liking.

"How do you evaluate? They have already lost the quarrel, so what else is there to evaluate? In short, the league now attaches great importance to Pachulia's every move. I think that guy should no longer dare to use those dirty moves to interfere with the game. Then you will find in this game that Pachulia is nothing but dirty."

Wearing a floral suit to salute Thrall, Henson looked extremely proud in front of the camera. He would not let go of any opportunity to show off his "record". The victory of the verbal battle is also a victory.

After listening to Henson's answer, Stephen A. Smith smiled slightly. It was the first time he felt the difference of this coach.No wonder, he was so annoying at the beginning, but now his popularity is so high.

Stephen A. Smith's interview reminded the fans of all the grievances between the Pacers and the Warriors before the start of the finals, and made them look forward to this game even more.

The victory of the war of words is just a foreplay, and the person who can really take the game away after the 48-minute game time is over is the final winner!

"Execute the game according to the tactics! Defense, I need you to use the meat grinder defense to drag down the Warriors from the first second of the game!"

Two minutes before the start of the game, Henson's state was very different from the calm and composed interview just now.At this time, the Chinese coach was impassioned, wishing to use his own voice to overwhelm the noise made by more than 2 people in the audience.

After hearing Henson's words, Antetokounmpo swallowed.Playing well in the regular season is not called a superstar.Only by proving yourself in the playoffs and leading the team to victory can you be called a real superstar!

Since Henson needs to attack by himself today, let's attack hard!Even if it is the Warriors defensive core Draymond Green who stands in front of him.

"Coach Henson, it's almost time."

The referee went to the Pacers' bench to urge him, and Henson gave the referee a slight nod, then waved to the players.

"Go out and run, Pacers."

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When the two sides started at the designated position, ESPN also played today's starting list of both sides on the TV screen.

Mike Brin originally thought that the two tactical masters Cole and Henson would change their lineups in the finals, but he didn't expect that they both chose to be conservative, and the starting lineups of the two teams were exactly the same as before.

The starting lineup for the Warriors is Curry, Thompson, Durant, Green and Zaza Pachulia.As for the Pacers, it's the same old style.

After all, neither Cole nor Henson knew each other well enough.When Henson led the team to win three consecutive championships, Kerr was still the commentator.When Kerr led the Warriors to rule the league, Henson was thinking about how to increase the annual sales of sports drinks every day.

In the face of unfamiliar opponents, aggressiveness may achieve miraculous results, but conservativeness is undoubtedly the safest and safest.In the finals, no one likes to take risks.

"I didn't expect that I actually met him in the finals. It's interesting." Kerr, holding his chin, stood on the sidelines and glanced at the Pacers' bench.

Over there, Henson did not sit on the Diaoyutai leisurely like in the regular season, but crossed back and forth on the sidelines with his hips akimbo.

"Be careful, Steve. Henson Joe has various labels, but absolutely no one will find him interesting." Kerr's assistant coach, Mike Brown, the former "best coach" who just entered the Warriors coaching staff last summer, reminded.

"It's okay, Mike. Believe me, he's out of date." Steve Kerr smiled slightly, and at the same time, the referee on the court threw the basketball high into the air.

Pachulia jumped hard, perhaps because he wanted to save face after losing in the scolding battle, so he worked very hard when scrambling for the ball.

The basketball was transferred to Stephen Curry, but Curry, as a number one, did not control the ball, but gave the ball to Draymond Green, the team's number four.

Green pushed the ball steadily, gesturing while dribbling, and looked like a seasoned point guard.

In fact, this is not the first time Green has done the work of organizing an offense.In this regard, he is familiar with the road.

Antetokounmpo opened his long arms and waited for Green to throw himself into the net, but Green had no intention of scoring at all.He first passed the ball to Curry, and then immediately set up a screen for Curry.

After Curry broke through to form a defensive contraction, he gave the ball to Green again.

At this time, the two-person cooperation between Green and Curry has attracted most of the attention of the Pacers.So Green suddenly changed the target of the pass and sent the basketball to Klay Thompson.At this point, Thompson had just come out of an off-ball screen.

Thompson has not forgotten the humiliation of scoring 50 points but still losing to the Pacers during the regular season this year.In that game, the Pacers persisted until the end with tenacity, so today, Thompson will break the confidence of the Pacers from the beginning!
As Danny Green grows older, he is no longer the sports boy who "can't run to death".Now he is more effective in assisting defense, but not so good in one-on-one defense.His follow-up defense is still very active, but it is still a step slower.

The space of one step is enough for Thompson, a top off-ball scorer, to shoot calmly.

"brush!"

Thompson made a steady three-pointer, and Draymond Green's organization also paid off.Making Green a point forward and allowing Thompson and Curry to be freed off the ball is the greatest masterpiece of Kerr's coaching career.

Seeing Thompson score, Cole smiled triumphantly, then turned to look at his assistant coach Mike Brown.

"What did I say? That guy is out of date."

(End of this chapter)