Chapter 666: Turning Advantages into Victory
The Spurs this season are full of ambitions.
From summer operations, team training, season running-in, and steady progress in the playoffs, the Spurs have taken every step very solidly.
Although gdp is one year older, it is in good condition.
Duncan was even better, and he practiced hard in the summer.
Ginobili also recovered his injury and was in good shape throughout the season.
Only Parker declined, but Mills' efficiency and stability made up for Parker's shortcomings.
Moreover, in 2013, Parker's core style of play has been transformed into a comprehensive team style of play, making the Spurs' offense and defense even more terrifying.
Dior, a fat man, was like a fish in water in the Spurs system and became an important factor. Belinelli and Split inherited the high-quality swing of the Spurs International Legion.
The most important growth comes from Leonard. In his third season in the league, he has become an elite small forward and has shown great potential.
So before this round of series began, Popovich and the Spurs were very confident.
The regular season is just a formality, and the playoffs are the real battlefield.
After the first three games, the Spurs have gained psychological and tactical advantages.
Although they lost in the fourth game, the Spurs still felt that they could end the series in Game 6.
But unexpectedly, Leonard, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, turned out to be rebellious?
Suddenly, I had a conflict with Popovich without warning.
And Popovich's temper suddenly became irritable.
This is not like him. Although Popovich likes to scold people, he is very patient with players most of the time.
Especially for Leonard, he has been giving careful guidance in the past three years.
No one knows what he had given birth.
Leonard returned to the court at the end of the third quarter.
But the overall momentum of the Spurs has been taken away.
However, the Clippers were very motivated and regained their sense of offensive end.
Their attacks were like a tide.
Li Liang completely integrated into the offense of the Clippers and became a stealing stolen player.
Leonard seemed to be a little awake and began to follow Popovich's instructions to guard Li Liang, but it was too late and the entire Clippers' offense had already started.
In this game, Barnes made five three-pointers from the outside, completely blowing up.
Inside Griffin scored 27 points, Paul scored 19 points, and Li Liang scored 21 points.
The Clippers once widened the score difference to more than 15 points in the fourth quarter, close to 20 points.
The strong and tough Spurs collapsed inexplicably.
The so-called Thousand Mile Dike was destroyed by an ant hole. Li Liang himself did not expect that this self-taste agent would have such a great impact.
In fact, the main reason is that the Spurs are a team-type team.
If you use this thing for the Lakers back then and give Kobe and O'Neal a little, it would be useless.
The two of them had a bad relationship and were about to fight off the court. They turned a blind eye on the court and played well.
The Lakers play superstar basketball. If the two superstars ignore them, they can still crush their opponents.
The Spurs cannot do it. In the perfect group created by Popovich, there must be no thorns or major contradictions, so that the system can operate perfectly.
So after winning the O3 championship, Popovich wanted to send Jackson away, so Van Ixel's effect was not good after coming to the Spurs in 2016.
Originally, under the control of Popovich and the Spurs, the series turned out to be nothing...
This is the most powerful fart ever.
In fact, Li Liang didn't fart at all.
At the end of the fourth quarter, at 1o9:97, the Clippers defeated the Spurs with 12 points at home and won the match point of the series.
The Clippers are only one step away from the Finals.
The Clippers fans were in ecstasy. After the game, the fans on the scene were reluctant to leave for a long time.
To be honest, Los Angeles is a city belonging to the Lakers.
Of course, there are indeed diehard Clippers fans, but they are definitely far fewer than Lakers fans, and they are forced to lift their heads up by Lakers fans for a long time.
This situation reached its peak last season, as Li Liang led the Lakers to a sieve in the Los Angeles derby in the semi-finals.
However, the Clippers fans hated Li Liang at that time, and the more they loved him at this time.
When Li Liang left the court, countless fans shouted "Bruce Lee". The fans on both sides of the passage reached out and just wanted to slap Li Liang in high fives.
Satisfied.
It seems like the series is over.
After the game, the Clippers' locker room was obviously much happier.
After the third game, everyone seemed to be stuffed in the water and breathless.
Now, I can finally show my head and take a good breath.
Regain the right to breathe.
However, Li Liang, like the previous two games, refused the interview after the game. He went into the bathroom alone, turned on the faucet, and let the cold water pour himself from head to toe.
Calm down, Li Liang must remain calm until the series is completely over.
You can't be blinded by victory.
Li Liang could have a foreseeable feeling that as long as he rushes through the Western Conference Finals, playing against the Heat in the Finals will not be too big a problem.
Even if James has three heads and six arms, he cannot change the fact that the Heat is declining as a whole.
Just after the fifth game between the Clippers and the Spurs, the Heat did take away the series as expected in the fifth game, after returning to Miami.
They easily defeated the Brooklyn Nets with a 1oo:87 and 13 points at the American Airlines Center, won the Eastern Conference championship for the fourth consecutive year and reached the finals.
LeBron James is already waiting for Li Liang on the finals stage.
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Two days later, on the last day of May, the entire Clippers arrived in San Antonio and began their sixth game to the Finals.
This could be a game to end the series.
After the fifth game, everyone was wondering why Popovich held Leonard on the bench for so long.
Popovich explained at the post-match press conference that Leonard's body was not very comfortable.
However, sources within the Spurs pointed out that "Popovich and Leonard had inexplicably conflicts and conflicts in the fifth game, but the conflicts have been resolved at present."
The conflict was indeed temporarily resolved. After the game, Leonard apologized to Popovich, saying that he was blinded and did not obey the coach's command.
Popovich forgave Leonard and apologizes for his rudeness.
The entire Spurs said that they would focus on their energy in Game 6 and would not give up their hope of rushing to the finals.
Relatively speaking, Clippers Rivers is like crazy about giving players chicken soup, and then bringing out his O8 years of experience, constantly cheering the players on the plane, in the training ground, and in the locker room.
Li Liang was about to vomit when he heard this.
How did the team win? Are you not sure about it?
Actually, he really didn't. He won like this anyway.
Sometimes Li Liang feels that being a coach is really happy.
Coaches like Rivers, Mike Brown, and Tyron Lue don’t worry much. Wouldn’t you win this game?
However, Li Liang, with a salary of 5 million yuan, was a father and a mother, and had to be a stepmother, engaged in sabotage work behind the enemy, and helped the Clippers win the fifth battle smoothly, making great contributions, but no one except him knew about it.
He is really an underground worker who works silently on the enemy's front, a man who changes the alliance pattern.
Before heading to San Antonio, Li Liang simulated the game between the Spurs and the Clippers in David Stern's simulator.
With a surprise appearance, the Clippers' win in Game 6 is quite large.
It seems that there is indeed a problem with the Spurs, and the series is indeed on the Clippers' side.
What Li Liang needs to do is turn the advantage into victory and help the Clippers reach the finals in one fell swoop!
Then, beat James again!
Chapter completed!