Chapter 360 Popovich Wants to Cry

This playoff game between the Seattle SuperSonics and Spurs has a huge impact.

This is a game that fans have been looking forward to for a long time and experts have been looking forward to for a long time.

The anticipation for this game may have even exceeded the Western Conference semifinals itself.

With such high expectations, this game was extremely 'exciting' and 'legendary'.

As a result, when Yes came to the press conference after the game, he personally felt the media's enthusiasm far beyond all the games he had played before.

Reporters from across the country and around the world were frantically asking Yease about what happened between him and Bowen on the court.

From the first confrontation between him and Bowen in the game to Bowen's sad tears at the end because of losing, the curiosity of these uncrowned kings about this game, him and Bowen has reached unprecedented heights. .

"Yes, how do you evaluate the most exciting defensive performance in the history of the playoffs by the 36-year-old Bowen in this game?"

"Attitude is everything, and Bruce's competitiveness does wonders for him."

"Control, thinking, running, unlimited quick starts and stops, constantly looking for and utilizing space. In this game, you and Bowen had a legendary offensive and defensive battle. You are the first player in NBA history to play without a player. A player who has reached an artistic level in ball offense, Bowen is considered to be the first player in NBA history who has reached an artist's level in off-ball defense. How do you evaluate Bowen's defense?"

"Defense is simple, simple defense is difficult, Bruce makes defense easy."

"Bowen abandoned his dignity and cried again in this game. This is the second time he cried in front of you. What do you think of Bowen's two tears that touched the world?"

"Crying has nothing to do with dignity. Victory is more important than anything else. Bruce explained that nothing can be higher than victory. He is a person born for victory. The NBA will not lose respect for him because of his crying."

"You are one of the greatest offensive players in NBA history, and Bruce Bowen is one of the greatest defensive players in NBA history. Many people say that the duel between you is comparable to the duel between Jordan and Payton. Jordan, Payton, Bowen, who would you choose?"

"Payton, good, Jordan, better, Bruce, best."

"I love playing against the best players."

With a cold face, Ye Si answered the last question seriously and then turned around and left the post-match press conference.

A group of media reporters were left behind, staring at his back in stunned silence.

Looking at Yes's leaving figure, the reporters at the scene felt that they might have encountered a fake Yes today!

They followed Yes for a season, and they knew very well what Yes was like.

When did Yes say so many words? !

Whether it's winning or losing, whether it's evaluating an opponent or a teammate, the answer to Yes is always concise and to the point.

Generally speaking, general answers will not exceed three words, and answers that require explanation will also end within five words.

Hear Yes answer these questions about Bowen? !

This is far beyond their imagination!

And what did Yes say when answering the last question? !

Payton, good, Jordan, better, Bruce, best? !

Bowen is the best!

Of course they don't think Yes is saying Bowen is the strongest.

Bowen's overall strength is inferior to Payton and Jordan.

Yes, the meaning of this passage is very obvious. In terms of defense and defense without the ball, Payton and Jordan are both very strong. Payton has a glove, and Jordan can't run to death, but they are not as good as Bowen!

As the strongest off-ball offensive player in NBA history, Yes is qualified to say such things.

He is also qualified to rank Payton, Jordan and Bowen in the field of off-ball defense!

The reporters on the scene actually agreed with the ranking of Yes.

Admit it, admit it, but it’s still too high!

Yes’s evaluation of Bowen is too high!

It was so high that the reporters at the scene had an unreal feeling!

No, it’s not completely untrue!

What Yes added before leaving was very true.

I love playing against the best players!

This is so real!

Bowen is already so strong, but Yes can still score 54 points on Bowen, and can still throw a buzzer beater over Bowen's head!

Yes is telling them and the whole world that even if Bowen's defense is unrealistically strong, he can pull Bowen from the sky to the earth!

This is the Yes they are most familiar with!

That person doesn't say much, looks calm and cool, but is actually domineering. Yes!

This Yes is definitely not someone pretending to be someone!

"attitude decides everything!"

"Defense is very simple, simple defense is difficult, Bruce makes defense easy!"

"Crying has nothing to do with dignity, winning is more important than being together!"

"Payton, good, Jordan, better, Bruce, best!"

"I love playing against the best!"

"I feel that this Yes post-game press conference will also become a legendary classic!"

"Yes, these words after the game will become famous quotes that fans will talk about in the future!"

"For us media reporters, this game is completely unreal!"

"Did God create such a classic and legendary game?"

Even after they came back to their senses, the faces of these uncrowned kings were still full of disbelief.

The SuperSonics win again!

After the SuperSonics defeated the Spurs in an away game, this is the SuperSonics' fifth consecutive victory in the playoffs!

Who would have thought that the first team to win five consecutive games in the playoffs this season would be the Seattle SuperSonics? !

Moreover, the Seattle SuperSonics' opponents in the playoffs are the Mavericks and Spurs, two traditional powers in the Western Conference!

If we say that the Mavericks, who are first in the Western Conference and first in the league, do not live up to their reputation, they did not have the dominance they deserved in the regular season in the four games against the SuperSonics.

Well, the Spurs, the strength shown in this game with the SuperSonics definitely far exceeds their fifth ranking in the Western Conference!

May 8, 2007, the second day of the SuperSonics' away game against the Spurs.

The game between the SuperSonics and the Spurs is in the news across the United States.

The national media's evaluation of this game was terrifying!

"The perfect Bowen, the perfect Spurs, met the perfect Yes, presenting us with a perfect legendary battle!"

This is USA Today's evaluation and positioning of this game. It can almost summarize all the current pursuit of this game by the American media!

Perfect match!

Fans can see what they want to see in this game.

Expert and famous coaches can also find what they are looking forward to seeing in this game.

Even media reporters like them can get everything they live for in this game.

"People always say that players cannot become legends before they retire. Greatness takes time to develop."

"But I am willing to say that Yes and Bowen are living legends in the NBA!"

Hustle!

Restless!

carnival!

The entire NBA is going crazy for this game between the SuperSonics and the Spurs!

Such madness is beyond everyone's imagination.

This also includes **Vicci.

When he led the team to win three championships, neither he nor his team had received such high praise.

Even because none of the three championships were consecutive championships, coupled with the Spurs' ugly basketball and poor publicity, he and his team were discriminated against and ridiculed.

They are the team with the most honors in the NBA in the past 10 years!

But they have never received corresponding respect.

**Vitch and the Spurs really didn't expect that the Spurs would be respected by the national media!

And the person who earned them respect was actually Bruce Bowen!

This really has a sense of absurdity that God may be a girl!

Happy?

sad?

Pleasurable?

pain?

The Spurs training facility.

Bowen now felt like he was going crazy being tortured by that demon!

He betrayed his teammates!

He betrayed his mentor!

He betrayed his soul!

He got cheers!

He got applause!

He gets the glory!

What is lost and what is gained are so clear!

But now, his mood is so complicated.

How great would it be if he could get this respect, this applause, and the Spurs win again?

But this seems so impossible and far away.

Angry, unwilling, and melancholy about gains and losses, Bowen now feels like he is schizophrenic.

He had a dream last night.

On one side of the dream are flowers and applause.

On the other side are **, Tim, Tony and Manu, who turned into zombies.

Awakening from his dream, Bowen could no longer sleep.

"Bruce hasn't spoken today?"

"No, he has been like this since yesterday's game."

Look at that crazy Bowen on the training field.

The Spurs are really respectful now!

They really didn't expect Bowen's feelings for the Spurs to be so deep before!

Bowen is the person in the Spurs who has the deepest affection for the team!

Seeing Bowen like this, Duncan felt a little bit ashamed.

"Bruce performed so well in the last game, but the team lost. It's normal for him to be so sad."

Anyone would be sad when a team loses despite a perfect performance.

But seeing Bowen so sad.

The other Spurs players were embarrassed and looked even more sad.

No matter how much he shows, nothing can compare to Bruce's love for the Spurs!

Instead of doing this, it is better to think about how to defeat the Sonics and dedicate the victory to Bruce.

Bowen is sad now.

The Spurs watched him up and down and cared in his heart.

**Veach is also very concerned about Bowen's current situation.

But compared to the Spurs players' pure worry about Bowen.

**Vitch trusts Bowen more!

Full of trust!

Undoubted trust!

He can't find a way to deal with Yes now.

Faced with Yes, he didn't know where his answer was.

He doesn't have the answer, but Bruce does!

I have to admit that in the NBA, sometimes the performance of the players is more effective than the tactics of the coach!

Who would have thought that Bruce could be so strong against Yes?

As long as Bruce is there, this matchup between the Spurs and SuperSonics will have an absolute advantage!

**Vicci is more convinced of this than ever!

He is looking forward to the stronger Bruce giving him a completely different answer in the next game!

He is also very confident that the stronger Bruce will definitely bring him completely different results in the next game!

Defeated the Spurs away from home.

The big score in the Western Conference semifinals is 1-0.

For the Sonics, this was a real surprise.

Although the SuperSonics swept the Spurs 4-0 in the regular season, others don't know what kind of team the Spurs are. As an NBA player, don't you still know?

The Spurs are the team with the biggest contrast between the NBA regular season and playoffs!

This team's pretending to be dead in the regular season is simply amazing!

If Yes hadn't torn away the Spurs' disguise in the sprint stage of this year's regular season and forced them to reveal their true colors, this team might still be in the dark.

He tore off the spurs of the salted fish mask and transformed from a salted fish into a giant beast.

The Spurs' record in the sprint phase can be said to be on par with the records of the Mavericks, Suns, and Rockets in the Western Conference!

This is still just the regular season.

Come the playoffs, the Spurs will change even more.

The Spurs are the most experienced team in the league!

The Spurs are a team born for the playoffs!

As the head coach of the SuperSonics and the teacher of **Vitch, Nelson clearly knows how big the gap is between the SuperSonics and the Spurs.

How big is the gap?

Even if he could guess **Vic's tactical intentions.

He couldn't find a good solution.

Generally speaking, when the gap between the two teams reaches such an extent, winning is impossible.

During the game, Nelson saw how vulnerable Milicic was in front of Duncan and how unbearable other Sonics players were in front of Spurs players. He was already prepared to lose.

It's not that the Sonics players aren't good enough.

But the Spurs players are really good!

The current state of the Spurs players was completely inspired by the regular season sprint and the tiebreaker against the Jazz in the first round of the playoffs.

The biggest problem of the veteran team is that it is slow to heat up. If it does not heat up, it is fake weak. After it heats up, it is really strong!

According to the state linear chart of the veteran team, perhaps the Spurs will be unable to maintain it in the future due to exhaustion of energy.

But now, this series with the SuperSonics is definitely when the Spurs are at their best and strongest!

It's really incredible that the Spurs and SuperSonics can win a game at their home court.

As far as this game is concerned, Yes single-handedly saved the Sonics, and there was no problem at all.

Yes's rescue of the Sonics this season lasted from the regular season to the playoffs!

"Yes carried the SuperSonics into the playoffs!"

"Yes, carry the SuperSonics to victory in the playoffs!"

"Now the whole world is looking forward to the rookie Yes. Where will the limit of his own power be?"

This is the expectation of many media and many fans. Even Nelson is looking forward to it.

Facing the Spurs, the help he and the Sonics can provide to Yes is really limited.

Now everything can only rely on Yes himself.

University of Texas training facility.

Players from the University of Texas are sparring with Sonics players.

The rivalry between the University of Texas and Seattle was intense.

But everyone's focus was on Yes, who was sleeping on the floor.

"I have been with the SuperSonics for a season, and this is the first time I have seen Yes so tired and exhausted."

"Yes has been sleeping for most of the day since the morning. It can be seen how much last night's game consumed Yes. Yes is one of the most physically fit players in the NBA!"

"On the defensive end, Parker was strangled, and on the offensive end, he had to face the already amazing Bowen. It's incredible when you think about it."

"That's Yes. If it were any other player, I'm afraid it would have collapsed during the game!"

"The Spurs are really strong this year. Maybe the Spurs' real strength is even higher than the Rockets and Celtics, maybe second only to the Suns!"

"Although the other Sonics players are no longer so rubbish and are no longer the weakest team in history, they are definitely one of the weakest teams in the NBA. With such a team, we can defeat such a powerful Spurs. It’s amazing just thinking about it.”

"Even if it is Yes, there is still a price to pay to complete the incredible fairy tale!"

"Now is the price you have to pay for Yes!"

"Yes has been lying on the sidelines of the training ground for 8 hours today!"

"The whole world knows that Yes is a training madman. He devotes every moment and every second to basketball!"

"When he can't dedicate his time to basketball, he's really tired!"

"Extremely tired, extremely weak!"

"If Yes can really sleep like this for 8 hours, I won't worry. What worries me more is that Yes can't even sleep well!"

"According to my observation, when Yes is sleeping, he opens his eyes every 20 minutes, making it difficult for him to sleep peacefully!"

If you can keep sleeping, you can still get some rest.

You can't even sleep well like this, which is the scariest thing.

Anyone who has ever suffered from insomnia knows how painful it is.

"Supersonic speed is really dangerous this time!"

Opening his eyes again, Ye Si's frown deepened.

Big Event ‘Irving’s Rebellion/Take the Throne in Cleveland! ’ It failed again.

This is the 24th time he has played in the 2016 finals today.

24 times, 135 games, the last one was also the closest he came to success.

This time, the game went to a tiebreaker, but in the end they fell short and lost to the Warriors 3-4.

In the tiebreaker with the Warriors, James was normal in the first half, but suddenly lost his fighting spirit in the second half.

Yes now has found the key to completing this mission.

That is what must give James hope of seeing the Finals MVP.

For James, he would rather not win the Finals MVP.

For him, a championship without a Finals MVP is also meaningless.

Both people want the Finals MVP, but there is only one Finals MVP.

The two are teammates, and James seems to have the radar of the Finals MVP.

As soon as James feels that he has no hope of winning the Finals MVP, he instantly loses his fighting spirit.

‘Irving’s rebellion/come to the throne in Cleveland! ’ This person’s mission, as Kyrie Irving, is not only to fight the Warriors, but also to fight James.

Irving wants to rebel and usurp the throne. James can't just watch Irving ascend the throne in front of him.

He is LeBron James!

He is the emperor!

The most essence of the emperor's mentality is: he would rather be with his foreign ministers than his domestic slaves!

Players who would rather give up the Finals MVP to the Warriors than give it to their teammates and let their teammates threaten their status.

If you give the Finals MVP to your opponent, you will only lose one Finals MVP.

If you give the Finals MVP to your teammates, you will lose more than just a Finals MVP!

This is the key to this mission!

Ye Si must make James feel that the Finals MVP is waving to him at all times, so that James will be his closest comrade, the best comrade, and the most reliable comrade.

When James feels that no matter what he does, the Finals MVP no longer belongs to him, then James will become his most terrifying enemy, more terrifying than the Warriors!

The Cavaliers are James' team.

The emperor of the Cavaliers is James.

The emperor took the lead in going undercover, what else could he do?

There is nothing you can do!

In the past few days, he has played in the 2016 Finals more than 60 times, and he and James have been teammates for more than 300 games. He was almost driven crazy by James!

Facing James who plays him crazily, the best way for him to complete this task is to keep pace with James until the last game, at the last second, when he uses a stunning buzzer-beater to eliminate the Warriors and win the championship.

It's easy to say, but too difficult to do.

This difficulty may be more difficult than when he led the team to defeat the Spurs in the playoffs.

The series with the Spurs was also very difficult. Even if Bowen was his undercover, and even if his touch was fixed at 80 in the last game, he only beat the Spurs by 1 point.

But no matter what, he can still beat the Spurs.

After being teammates with James for more than 300 games, Ye Si found that he was desperate to steal the Finals MVP from James!

"Yes, wake up!"

"Yes stand up!"

"Yes, his current mental state is extremely poor!"

"After eight hours of sleep, your mental state is still so exhausted?!"

In the training hall of the University of Texas, media from all over the United States and the world were in an uproar.

May 9, 2007, San Antonio, AT&T Center.

"Bruce!"

"Bruce!"

"Bruce!"

Game 2 between the Seattle SuperSonics and Spurs.

All the Spurs fans chanted ‘Bruce! ' In the sound, the Spurs defeated the Seattle SuperSonics 97-93 at home!

The Spurs fans on the sidelines were excited.

Won!

Finally won!

The Spurs players on the court were also very excited.

Especially Bowen, at the end of the game, Bowen cried again!

The once most "hardcore" defensive player in the league now seems to be made of water.

I cry when I lose, and I cry when I win.

It's so emotional that even the Spurs players don't recognize it.

Listening to the crazy cheers of the fans at the scene, watching the players on the field feel as excited as if they had won the finals.

**Vicci wanted to cry.

He really wanted to cry!

Finally won Yees!

I really finally won Yes!

Who would have thought that this was the first time the Spurs had defeated the Sonics this season, the first time they had defeated Yes? !

Only one win in six games!

Even in this game, Yes still scored 41 points under Bruce's zero-error defense!

I was almost overturned by Yes again!

Six games between Yes and the Spurs, all 40+!

If it weren't for Bruce, Vicki wouldn't even dare to imagine what kind of data Yes would produce on the Spurs!

fortunately!

Spurs have Bruce!

Fortunately, Yes has reached the end of its life!

4 to 1!

Everything is in his calculation!

Vicky, who wanted to cry, put away her complicated emotions and showed a confident smile on her face.