You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 512 The only "loser"

"Wish!"

Kobe caught up with Wei Xia.

Wei Xia turned to look at him, not knowing what he wanted to do.

"I don't know what to say." Kobe patted Wei Xia's chest lightly, "I support you."

Wei Xia said blankly, "But you still took that shitty advertisement."

"If you have paid attention to the follow-up, you will know that I am simply raising funds for the Sudanese." Kobe said with a good feeling about himself, "I am not the kind of idiot you say who wants to boycott the whole world at once."

At this time, we still have to come up with the rhetoric of the US House of Representatives.

I think you're an idiot, but I have no proof.

Wei Xia and Kobe returned to the locker room together. Hearing about his feat in the interview room, most of the teammates expressed Resby to Wei Xia.

Wei Xia confronted the media and became the front pages of major newspapers the next day.

Although the reporters are well versed in cutting and selectively intercepting Wei Xia's speeches, there is a video of the press conference.

In order to save Wei Xia's little image, the Lakers sent Wei Xia's 30-minute interview in the interview room to the emerging video website YouTube that night.

Wei Xia's remarks brought about extensive discussions and formed a social phenomenon.

There are not many people who agree with him, and his image has plummeted as a result. Advertisements and sponsors other than Adidas are considering terminating the contract.

He lost a lot, but at least he showed his attitude.Moreover, the league is also secretly preventing players from continuing to participate in the Sudan incident.

This turmoil has affected too many people, and it should come to an end.

Whether Wei Xia is willing or not, the only one who suffers in the end is himself.Those NBA players who filmed commercials to boycott the Olympics will not be affected; those Hollywood stars who slandered China in their interviews can also retreat unscathed; the league repaired its relationship with China in time, and the NBA live broadcast, which was once banned, returned to China again.

Wei Xia was the only one injured.

The only one who got his position right and was not influenced by public opinion.

The only one who told the truth instead of following the crowd.

It happened that such a person became the only loser in this turmoil.

He lost his popularity, media favor, and countless economic losses, and became the unique "villain" in contemporary America.

Maybe these influences will be washed away by time, but this is definitely not something that can be done in a year or two. For those who regard him as the master of Angel City after Kobe, this is a huge blow.

To become the master of Angel City, strength alone is never enough.

From the LOGO, to the magician, the shark and today's Kobe, only the sky hook in the 70s did not conform to the Lakers' facade image.

The same is true of history. In the 70s, the Lakers had a low image and a poor record during the years when Tiangou was in charge. In the end, the boss sold the team to Jerry Buss. Since then, the Lakers ushered in a 30-year heyday.

No one does not recognize Wei Xia's strength and potential, but now, his public image is in a mess, and the NBA is no longer the small league that was on the verge of bankruptcy in the 70s and 80s, but a world-class sports league.As the brightest pearl in the league (the Lakers), the person who wears it should be like Kobe Bryant in the past, the Sharks in the past, the magician in the peak period, and Jerry West in the NBA LOGO. It can be used as a representative of the image of the United States.

Wei Xia does not look like a product of the contemporary sports world, but he is a living existence, and is preparing to sweep the West with his team and enter the finals.

The day after the end of Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals, the Lakers held a belated MVP award conference for Kobe.

Bryant brought his MVP trophy to the scene and spoke elatedly.

"It's like being in Hollywood, like it's in a movie. I can't win this award on my own. I can't thank my teammates enough. They're my buddies. They're my brothers. Let's get ready for tomorrow...I didn't know this award was going to come to me. I'm surprised. I've had a good couple of seasons, but our team hasn't. It just happened."

This is a belated speech, because he has long been the MVP, the trophy has been sitting in his house for a few days.

He didn't announce a press conference until they led the Spurs 3-0, which is simply too conservative.

Listen to his speech. Is this the boy who was exposed in the locker room arguing with teammates and coaches in the summer of 2004? Is it the kid who quarreled with Malone and bickered with sharks?
Lakers assistant coach Brian Shaw said: "Kobe is now a better teammate than he was during the past three consecutive championships. He has become more mature. He was really not a good teammate in the past, but no one put in more effort than him, so he did it today. He didn't get along with his teammates very much in the past, but now as far as I know, he always has dinner with his teammates."

Kobe has no technical shortcomings.

It's just that basketball is such a profound knowledge.

Being the most skilled individual on the court does not mean success.

Once, his competitiveness, paranoia and arrogance brought him into the trough in 2004, but it was also his competitiveness and paranoia that made him survive all the blows.

His paranoia makes him a good leader when he puts the effort for personal glory on winning, whether it's team record, individual ability, or stats.He himself went from Angel to Black Mamba before returning to peak form in the summer of 2008.In the end, he reached the pinnacle of the basketball world, all by himself.Only this time, he wasn't fighting the world—he was making peace with it.

Bryant's image began to improve, and the Lakers were five games away from success.

In due course, they set their sights to the east.

The invincible Celtics in the regular season playoffs in the Eastern Conference is not as smooth as the regular season.

In the first round against the Atlanta Hawks, who were unable to make the playoffs in the West, they fought until the seventh game.

Before the Hawks fell, it was hard for fans not to think of the 1984 Nuggets Black Eight Sonics, the Warriors Black Eight Mavericks last year, and the 1973-win Celtics eliminated by the Knicks in the semifinals in 68-however, if there were no such suspense in the playoffs, it would not be so compelling.

The tenacious battle of the Eagles is reminiscent of the seventh game between Bird and Wilkins, and Pettit's 50 points in a single game in the finals half a century ago prevented the Celtics from achieving ten consecutive championships.

Before the fourth game of the conference finals, Wei Xia would look at the Celtics playoff tape when he was free.

The eagle's team building strategy is very simple, that is, 6 feet 8 inches tactics.

The 6-foot-8 tactic is, in theory, a utopian existence.

Pat Riley once predicted ten years ago: "On the future basketball court, five people will be around 206 centimeters."

When saying this, Anthony Walker and Kevin Garnett tried to cry.

The Eagles listened to Riley's words and resolutely followed this strategy to build the team.

So it can explain why they don't want Wei Xia, but want a Marvin Williams who was beaten by Wei Xia in the finals but has a higher upper limit.

They did form a bird lineup with amazing athleticism.

Wei Xia looked at the Celtics' tactics again, and it was no different from the regular season, with multiple screens and roll cuts at the top of the arc, Garnett supporting the high position behind the axis, and quickly splitting to the wings to seek singles or open shots.

To put it simply, arc top transfer and high multiple screen roll cuts are the main theme.But in the first few minutes of the game, the Hawks' neat average 6-foot-8 gave them incredible rotation speed to follow any pass closely after multiple screen rolls at the top of the key.

Ray Allen and Pierce often cut around the screen and then received the pass, but they failed to get rid of their opponents.

The Celtics, who win with experience and cooperation, met a team that is most suitable for dealing with them in terms of physical structure.

The reason why a strong team is a strong team is not just because they can play a round of offense, but because they know how to deal with it when their tactics fail.Boston rushed to the offensive rebounds in Game [-] and greeted Atlanta's penalty area with a tsunami.

The actual game is only half a quarter.Similarly, when a young soldier meets a veteran, the former will feel dizzy once he sees himself bleeding.The Celtics' offense was not full of opportunities. They shot in a narrow area with no time to go, scored offensive rebounds, and put together inside and outside. At the end of the first quarter, they led by a big score. Atlanta was in chaos.

Who was the Celtics' best player in Game [-] of the first round?
Wesha's choice is Rajon Rondo.Only he and Garnett knew the goal of defeating the Eagles. They were like sharks, who would not stop until they had a skeleton when they smelled blood.The bigger the point difference, the more desperate the Eagles will be.

Therefore, even if the score difference reached 30 points, Rondo still put more pressure on Mike Bibby from halftime, and made a fast break at the first time.He passed around bowls of fruit and vegetables like a hard-working kitchen handyman.The hardworking bee kept the Celtics going until they crushed Atlanta.

It was a brutal night for the Eagles.It's like Samarkand, which has been captured, suffered the massacre of Genghis Khan.

In the third quarter, Pachulia stopped when he watched a ball roll toward the sideline, but Posey went around behind, grabbed the ball, fast-breaked the frontcourt, and dunked... This is the evil wisdom of the players in the finals.

They know how to continue to give you one knife, and then give you another knife, cutting it into pieces.

It wasn't a good series for the Celtics.

They have exposed some weaknesses: there is no matchup advantage against teams with little defensive shortcomings; the opponents follow up quickly and it is difficult to open the front; the 2nd position was repaired by Joe Johnson; the low post has no offensive weapons; the coach is extremely 213.

However, in the seventh game, Taishan collapsed temporarily without changing color; excellent response in non-technical links; tough handling of details; winning spirit;

Looking at the seventh game alone, the Celtics seemed to be recovering. Wei Xia never expected that they would be involved in the bloody tie-break again in the semi-finals.

It was the Eagles last time, and the Cavaliers led by LeBron James in the semifinals.

Wei Xia didn't have enough time, and he couldn't take advantage of the gap between the end of Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals to replay the Celtics game.

He heard that the game between the Celtics and the Pistons may also be delayed until Game 4. If they can defeat the Spurs in Game [-], they will have a few more days of rest, and then they will have enough time to watch the video.

Thinking of this, solving the Spurs seems even more imminent.

(End of this chapter)