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Chapter 115 Kobe is Angry

The Lakers successfully advanced to the finals. After the management studied the schedule and collected suggestions from all parties, they decided to take four consecutive days off to relieve the fatigue caused by the start of the playoffs and deal with personal affairs. On the fifth day, they flew directly to Miami to prepare for the game.

According to the plan, Li Yue followed Taylor to check the previously selected house early the next morning.

From morning to evening, it took a total of 8 hours, and finally settled in the Ramona community. Within 10 kilometers, there are dental clinics, high-end private hospitals, Mediterranean, Japanese, Mexican and other multinational restaurants, the famous Del Norte nightclub, five Star-rated Wal-Mart hypermarkets, multiple green parks, libraries, several Los Angeles International games, Toyota Sports Center, and the new base that the Lakers are planning to build fully meet the needs of food, clothing, housing, transportation, work, entertainment, and learning.

But it’s all for sure. I can’t afford to rent it yet, so I can only remember to wait until I sign a contract with Nike and get the money before moving.

In the evening, Li Yue drove to his second uncle's house in Irvine, and watched the Heat's game against the Pacers G4 with his cousin Li Zhi.

In the first quarter, the referee whistled very strictly. Wade and Bosh each received two fouls and left the court early to rest. The Pacers also suffered from foul troubles, and every player had them. The rhythm of the game was fragmented. The observation was very poor Incomparable.

I thought the referee would make adjustments, but in the second and third quarters, the whistle was still blowing frequently.

The players of the two teams were affected, and their shooting percentage was always very low. Li Zhi couldn't bear it and chose to go to bed.

In the fourth quarter, the referee intensified and called LeBron four consecutive fouls within 6 minutes, directly blowing LeBron off the field. The rest of the Heat couldn't score, and finally lost to the Pacers.

After the game, Twitter and other social networks were full of curses on referees and the league.

The mainstream view of fans is that the league intentionally controls the field, restricts the Heat to help the Pacers win, and forcibly creates a tiebreaker to prevent the two teams from ending the series early like the Clippers and Lakers, resulting in the league losing tens of millions of dollars.

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On the morning of the 26th, Li Yue hurried back to Los Angeles and went to the cinema alone to watch the hit "Iron Man 3".

There was no one in the early stage, but he was still recognized, and he sat down with a few fans to watch the movie.

I was full of expectations, but after watching the whole film, I can only complain, because the filming is quite nonsense.

Iron Man's character design is deviated, losing his poisonous tongue and arrogance, which is completely different from the previous two films, and the portrayal of supporting roles is also meaningless.

The most damning thing is that Iron Man, a super military expert, was able to blow up the base camp by garbage terrorists. He didn't even install an anti-radar system, and a large number of robots that suddenly appeared at the end of the film were useless when attacked.

But several fans who watched the movie together said that this is about the inner world of Iron Man, who was punished for his arrogance.

Li Yue didn't argue. He left the movie theater and rushed to the Toyota Sports Center for training. He specially aimed at the Heat's penchant for outside rotation. He mainly focused on dribbling and hitting the ground, with some fixed-point long-range shots.

Three hours later, he left the Lakers training base and drove to the most advanced Isa fitness club in Ergoncedo. According to the previous plan, aiming at LeBron's super core strength, he worked hard to improve lateral movement and get rid of quickly, so as to avoid total injury. There was too much physical confrontation in the final.

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On the afternoon of the 27th, Li Yue was invited to participate in the recording of the Kevin Hart talk show.

When talking about the opponents in the finals, he said that as long as the Heat solve the foul problem, they will definitely advance to the finals. The reason is that the Pacers lack strong scoring points. Facing LeBron and Wade’s joint blockade from the outside, Paul George and George Hill are difficult to break through and score. .

Following the topic, Hart asked him what chance the Lakers had of winning against the Heat.

Li Yue did not pretend to be modest, and bluntly said that the Lakers have an 8-point chance of winning, and there is a chance of ending the battle in 6 games, and all of them come from Howard, because the Lakers are not dominant in other positions, but Howard has completely exploded the Heat inside. Breakthrough, one attack and one defense abolished about half of the Heat's skill.

After recording the show, Li Yue returned to the apartment, logged on to Twitter and found many people sent private messages asking Hart if he edited maliciously.

After a closer look, it turns out that Hart announced a video editing preview in advance, which mentioned two predictions he made, but there was no malicious editing. Except for the slightly arrogant post-production animation, it was basically an ocean broadcast.

Pacers fans were very upset about this, and so were Heat fans, accusing him of being arrogant.

Li Yue did not respond, but Howard retweeted that he was flattered and promised to go all out in the finals.

In the evening, he continued to watch the game between the Heat and the Pacers G5.

As expected, the Heat, who were not troubled by fouls, put up the strongest defense in the third quarter, causing the Pacers to make 8 turnovers, shooting only 21% from the field, and a 17-point lead in a single quarter.

The Heat continued to maintain a high-intensity defense in the fourth quarter, and finally won by 11 points, leading the series 3-2.

After the game, many neutral fans tweeted that Li Yue's prediction was completely accurate, because the Pacers team made 13 of 5 three-pointers, and all of them came from Paul George, and all others were strangled. Lost by 11 points.

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At noon on the 28th, Li Yue responded to Kobe's call and ended his vacation early to return to joint training.

The rest of the team arrived one after another. First, they practiced passing the ball while running, mainly simulating how to pass the ball to Howard in the low post or roll down. He will attract the Heat to double-team and create more opportunities for others.

The whole process was quite smooth, but there was a problem when simulating the double-teaming of the Heat-Howard had a hard time distributing the ball, either he passed it crookedly, or his strength was too large or too small, or the route was predicted early, and the effect was not as good as going to the end alone.

Everyone is not entangled. After all, not every center is as good at handling the ball as Divac, so they can only practice more.

In the evening, the team headed to Malibu Beach for a pre-flight dinner.

Although quite excited, the whole team is very restrained, mainly chatting and rarely drinking.

Kobe delivered a speech, referring to the many veterans of the team, emphasizing that he must work hard for what may be the last chance.

Li Yue also delivered a speech afterwards, emphasizing that the finals must also maintain self-confidence, and the Heat's strength is most close to that of the Spurs.

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At eight o'clock in the morning on the 29th, the entire Lakers team gathered at Los Angeles International Airport and set off on Sky One.

Li Yue noticed that like the last time he flew to San Antonio, a large number of netizens still questioned this time, thinking that this behavior was extremely insulting to the Pacers, but this time the Lakers really need to adapt to the three-hour jet lag and rainy weather in advance.

At 01:30 in the afternoon, the Lakers team landed at Miami International Airport, got on the bus and went straight to the hotel.

The location of the hotel is close to the American Airlines Center. Since the Heat have already gone to Indiana, the whole team put down their luggage and went directly to training.

As before at the Spurs' home court, Li Yue and Kobe made a bet on a midline shot first.

After five attempts, Kobe's luck broke out, miraculously hit the board, and won $1500 from Li Yue.

The whole team returned to the hotel after training, prepared nuts and other snacks, and watched the Heat and Pacers G6 game together.

The referee did not control the rhythm of the game as before. Even if Hibbert beat Bosh, Wade's shooting rate was extremely dismal, Paul George and George Hill played efficiently, and the Pacers failed to stop LeBron's crazy CARRY.

In the end, the Heat narrowly beat the Pacers 93 to 91 and advanced to the finals 4 to 2.

After the game, LeBron followed the reporter to ask questions, talking about his feelings about the upcoming Finals against the Lakers.

"Li Yue played an epic performance in the playoffs, leading the Lakers to complete three consecutive defeats. It is the best arrangement to play against him in the finals, and as early as March, we agreed to meet in the finals, and we have done it."

"So you don't agree that the theme of this finals is 23V24, but a duel between two No. 23s?"

"To be honest, Kobe's past performances have been legendary, and he has always been my goal of catching up, but Li Yue's performance in the playoffs is indeed better this time, but this is not a 23VS24 or two 23rd matchups. The confrontation between the players and the Lakers players, I am only responsible for the best players of the Lakers, not as exaggerated as everyone discusses."

With the end of LeBron's interview, Li Yue and others came back to their senses, just in time to see Kobe get up and leave with a straight face.

LeBron answered that there was no problem, but it didn't sound so comfortable from another angle. Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, and they all realized that Kobe was very angry.

(End of this chapter)