The world of basketball

Chapter 87 Advancing to the Second Round

In fact, there was nothing to say about the subsequent games, just like the Spurs' usual style, flat.

The Lakers are working very hard, everyone is working very hard, they are all fighting with their bodies, and they don't spare any energy in the defensive rotation, but at the level of the NBA, hard work is just the most basic thing.

Who doesn't work hard?
The Spurs are also working hard!

Who doesn't work hard?In the world's top basketball league, hard work is just the most basic thing, and it's more about talent, method, IQ and style.

They strictly control their diet according to the diet plan formulated by the nutritionist. The most they eat is boiled chicken breast, fish, vegetable and fruit salad, and they seldom eat fried food.

They train strictly according to the training plan formulated in the training room. Yes, those training will keep them in their own state, and those training will allow them to improve the strength of their various muscle groups.

But this kind of restraint, the pain behind this kind of training, the sweat behind it is very distressing.

And these are just the basics.

The so-called hard work is the only way to be a master, and the so-called crown must bear its weight, so they can reap a lot of money, a huge reputation, and the glory brought by the spotlight of the world.

Of course, I am not saying that they are all for this, they still have dreams and the most passionate love for this sport, but those just now must occupy a large part of their hearts.

James played for 44 minutes at the end of the game and took a short rest for 4 minutes. Although he said that the task of this season is to train new players to welcome the summer signings, he was still very honest physically in the end, and he still played. 44 minutes, I still don't want to lose.

The Spurs just maintained their own game rhythm and their own game style, which is to stay in the position, play inside, slow down, and prevent the Lakers from playing their best counterattack.

And James' performance is already great, scoring 44 points in [-] shots. He knows that he can't take so many shots. He knows that the Lakers can only win if their teammates are motivated.

But to lose is to lose.

The Spurs won the game 118:110 at their home court, and also won this series. The most important thing is that they got enough time to rest and study their opponents.

And Adelaide will also play in the second round of the series. At that time, Adelaide was the league's top power forward who was resurrected with full blood.

After the game, James hugged Kuzma and Mu Xiaobei, and said his words of encouragement to these two juniors. He also felt that these two boys had a promising future.

In the end, James and Popovich said a lot when they hugged. The conversation between these two old acquaintances was watched by many media. If the signature of the Lakers is now James, the signature of the Spurs is Popovich .

These two old acquaintances encouraged each other and comforted each other. Popovich seemed to invite James to drink red wine at his home. For James, a person with a high emotional intelligence, many old people in the league have a good relationship with him friend.

For example, Durant, and Stephen Curry, who seems to be incompatible with him.

Li Dan, a non-famous philosopher in my country, once said: "In fact, few celebrities are willing to make friends with fans, or else do you think those bodyguards are guarding against whom?"

Many times we think that some stars are incompatible with each other, but they actually have a good relationship with each other. Those are just figments of our rich imagination.

In other words, although they all set the championship as their goal, they are all colleagues after all, so there is no need to make it so rigid.

The NBA is a vanity fair, and this sentence describes it very well.

In the NBA, it's really not just the record wins and losses, etc. Every player, whether he is a role player or a top superstar, needs to consider a lot of things.

Playing basketball is just their job. Of course, basketball is what they love, but it is also just a high-paying job that they love very much. What they love most is definitely not basketball, but their family.

For example, why did James come to Los Angeles?Isn't it more hopeful that he wants the championship to go directly to a team that has always been strong?Because he no longer puts the championship first, he also has to consider his children's studies, which place his wife likes, which place has a bigger market, which place is more prosperous, and so on.

And there are very few superstars who can stay in a not-so-big city. For example, Kobe played his entire career in Los Angeles, but if that place is not the Lakers but the Cavaliers, Kobe may not have been playing there. go down.

For example, why did Anthony leave the Denver Nuggets?Is it just because the basketball philosophy is different?Not necessarily?
Of course, a city that can own an NBA team is definitely not a small city, such as Cleveland, which was also a city with a very developed industry.

But everything has its opposite, Cleveland is definitely a small city for cities like Miami, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles.

And, of course, Houston.

It can be said that the Rockets have experienced several ups and downs this year. For example, at the beginning of the season, with the addition of Anthony, they did not play very well as the outside world speculated. In the end, there were rumors of a breakup with Anthony.

Following these rumors, the Rockets hit the bottom of the league at the beginning of the season, and Anthony also communicated with various teams.

But, yes, in the end Anthony stayed with the Rockets. Anthony, who used to be all-powerful, who used to fight against D'Antoni, finally accepted D'Antoni's tactical arrangement and played as much as possible off the ball on the bench. The core of the offense as a role player rather than a ball handler.

And with the bouts of running-in, they slowly found a tacit understanding. Anthony, in his substitute position, improved the stability of the open three-pointer a lot, completely abandoning his back-up and his own middle distance.

The Rockets and Anthony have reunited. Anthony is no longer the low-post killer Anthony, but a role player at the Rockets' fourth position who plays a catch-and-shoot shooter.

What Mu Xiaobei didn't know was that in his original world, Anthony should have broken up with the Rockets, and his next home might be the Lakers they just killed.

But in the middle of the season they turned into the unstoppable Rockets, and Mr. James Harden is also in the top five in this year's MVP voting, with LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Nikola Jokic, Anthony Day Weiss tied.

Yes, Curry's performance this year brought him back into the MVP discussion,
Jokic led the team to the fourth position in the Western Conference, an improvement of five nouns from last season, and he averaged 22 points, 10.4 rebounds and 8.8 assists per game. The core of the Golden Team, let the world see another possibility of the fifth position.

Davis has also played against the sky this year, such as the data of a 60+20 super center, but he has been injured for too long, and the team's record is not good, so this year's hope is not too great.

And yesterday, the MVP contender led his Rockets to a win over the Orleans Pelicans, tying most of it to [-]-[-].

It seems that the situation is really as Popovich said, and these two teams may really reach the tiebreaker if they can't stand it.

(End of this chapter)