The world's best combo guard

Chapter 156 153 [The feeling of deja vu]

The game is over, a hysterical madness, in exchange for a long-awaited victory, even though each of the Lakers players looks exhausted, even if they are extremely tired, they also have that kind of excitement from the bottom of their hearts.

The home fans are almost gone, and they certainly don't want to stay to watch the Lakers celebrate the victory of the game.

For them, this night was a bit disappointing and frustrating. Originally, they came here with great interest to witness the team defeating the Zijin Army and entering the finals again.

But they didn't expect that they witnessed a disastrous night for the team, the kind of defeat that looked like the whole audience was crushed and had no ability to resist.

Is this still the Zijin Army behind 0-3 in the series?
The home fans were puzzled.

Perhaps this is just a "bright flash", the team will win the next game and advance to the finals with a total score of 4:1.

The home fans are still optimistic.

However, Gregg Popovich, who is sitting in the locker room of the home team at the moment, may not think so.

Even though he's the head coach of the Spurs, even though he's supposed to be the one with the most confidence, the truth is, he's in a really bad mood right now.

A loss means nothing, even a fiasco.

But what really made his mood sour was that his previous tactics against the Los Angeles Lakers seemed to be failing, and in turn, Phil Jackson was doing what Gregg Popovich was doing before him.

Phil Jackson also deployed tactics against the San Antonio Spurs.

Popovich was a little weak.

Because he has to admit that Phil Jackson's tactic is a little scary, and it is also what he has always been most afraid of and worried about.

That is to completely release the new best rookie.

Popovich definitely doesn't feel that a first-year rookie is incapable of leading this kind of playoff Western Conference Finals game.

As he once said, "No. 10 Lakers, an incredible rookie, he is a real talent."

The game that just ended was like this. When the game just started and Li Hao showed extreme activity on the offensive end, Popovich already had a bad feeling.

Sure enough, until the end of the game, the Lakers' No. 10 was active in the audience, which completely inspired the real Lakers.

"How to do?"

In part, Popovich asked himself, this is a very serious problem that needs to be addressed immediately.

In Popovich's view, if this problem is not resolved, even if their current total score of the series is 3:1, they may fall short.

When general manager RC Buford found Popovich and saw Popovich's serious face, he was a little shocked. In his impression, Popovich would not usually behave so solemnly in a game loss. Unless the problem is very serious.

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"I just always believed that we would finish the recovery, yes, we had a tough series, but the truth is, each of us did not give up, as you just saw, when we came together, when we each other Believe me, when we started to play more overall, we should win the game as a matter of course, and we have maintained this rhythm in the past season."

After the game, Li Hao and Kobe attended the post-match press conference together with Phil Jackson.

At the press conference, as the player who performed the best tonight, Li Hao was the first to get questions from the reporters.

When a reporter asked why the Lakers played such a beautiful offense tonight, Li Hao said so confidently.

"So, we all know that the total score of the series is 3:1. Even though the team has achieved a hearty victory tonight, the whole situation is still very serious. The Los Angeles Lakers want to win the final victory of this series. In order to advance to the finals, then you still need to draw three games in a row, but in fact, we all know that this is difficult. Regarding this, Li, what do you think?"

A reporter asked Li Hao a question that everyone in the audience was very concerned about.

"Indeed, as you said, we only won one game, and the situation is still very serious for us. Therefore, we will not be immersed in the victory of this game. I think all the Lakers players are the same as me... "

"Kobe, so far in this series, you are the only player in the Lakers team who has averaged 25+ per game. Especially when Shaq is not in good shape, you try to help the team score as much as possible. For you, Is it a tough challenge?"

The reporters then handed the microphone to Bryant, who also played well tonight and scored 28 points.

But obviously, Li Hao felt that this reporter was trying to provoke something, because he mentioned O'Neill and O'Neill who was not in good condition.

"We've had a lot of trouble, we've been in trouble, it's a fact that we've played badly at one point, like one of those bottom teams, but as the core of the team, I have to step up and give my all. I'm doing it, Lee's doing it, our whole team is doing it, including Shaq, so, it's ok, but now everybody's seeing it, we're back, this game, me and Shaq are back That feeling, Lee was phenomenal offensively, Derek Fisher...wait, we all feel good."

Li Hao was a little surprised by Kobe's answer. Li Hao didn't expect Kobe to mention Shaquille O'Neal on his own initiative, and also said that the chemical reaction between the two of them was re-established.

This reveals a signal that Kobe wants to join hands with O'Neal again.

In Li Hao's view, this is very good news. When the ok team is willing to trust each other again, plus themselves, the Lakers will have the ability to win three more games in a row, thus stage a major comeback and advance to the finals again.

Subsequently, Phil Jackson also said that the team is back on track after this game, and he is confident to lead the team to the finals.

"The Zijin Army has fully recovered"

"AT&T Center, San Antonio massacred"

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The next day, the entire NBA was going crazy about the fourth game between the Spurs and the Lakers.

Even though many people had already known or even witnessed the result of the game last night, they expressed their surprise again at this time.

After all, prior to last night, there were few who believed that Los Angeles would remain a playoff hopeful, looking like they would be a lamb at the slaughter and that San Antonio would end it with absolute ruthlessness on their territory. everything.

And by that time, the Zijin Army, which used to have a great reputation in the regular season, will become a big joke in NBA history, and the luxurious F4 will always be the talk of people after dinner.

But now, the people of Los Angeles are awakening, and the purple and gold army seems to be staging the return of the king, and everything seems so familiar...

(End of this chapter)