From today on is the king

Chapter 968. Chapter 967. The Eagles Representing Justice

The finals are finally here!

Fans have reached the most fanatical time of the year for the NBA.

The series between the Spurs and the Suns played really well, much better than the Eastern Conference Finals.

However, the Eastern Conference Finals was slowed down by the Pistons. The Eagles' game until the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals has been very good.

The series between the Spurs and the Suns played so well, which gave fans a lot of expectations.

But... According to the fans' impression of the Eagles, the fans can't guarantee what the finals will be like. The game against the Lakers last season could be a defensive battle...

The Spurs and the Eagles performed so perfectly in the playoffs of their respective divisions. The fans didn't worry about the intensity of the game. What they worried about was that the two teams played a defensive battle...the scene would be miserable.

Although the Eagles played so fast in the regular season, the Eastern Conference Finals is as slow as they say. What will happen when they meet the Spurs? The fans are looking forward to it and feeling a little bit sad...

The schedule for the finals was announced at 12 o'clock that night after the game between the Spurs and the Suns.

Two days off, on May 5, the first game of the finals will be played in Atlanta, and the second game will be played on May 28. After the Hawks’ two home games, they will go to San Antonio to play the third game on June 5, the fourth game on June 31, and the fifth game on June 6. If there is a sixth and seventh game, they will return to Atlanta again to play on the 3th and 6th.

The schedule of the finals can last up to 17 days, which is the longest finals in recent years.

But with such a schedule, the Eagles were very dissatisfied after knowing it.

There are two days of rest between each game in the finals, which is quite unfavorable for the Eagles!

Isn't this a time for the Spurs' thigh-hugging players to rest?The Spurs' rotation is as high as 11 people. Bowen, Glenn Robinson, Brent Barry, and Tony Masenberg are all veterans who need to rest.

The Spurs have played so well this season, and a lot has to do with the players they signed last summer with the space vacated by Manu Ginobili's cheap extension and Parker's rookie contract.

And the Spurs' ability to use the rest day to adjust their tactics is also one of the best in the league.

With this schedule, the advantage brought by the Eagles to rest four days more than the Spurs has been reduced by more than half.

However, once the schedule is confirmed, preparations will be made for the live broadcast of the finals by several major TV stations in the United States, TV stations in China, other parts of Asia, Europe, South America and more than 100 countries and regions.

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The Eagles are preparing for the game in full swing. After the Spurs players played away to the Suns to advance to the finals, the next day, at noon on the 26th, they had already arrived in Atlanta by plane and rented the Georgia Tech arena to start preparing for the finals.

But would the Atlanta people be so enthusiastic about borrowing the arena without saying a word?
Just so warm-hearted.

In the afternoon, the Spurs coaching staff and staff took the players to the arena of Georgia Institute of Technology to adapt. They had never trained in this legendary university arena that was no worse than Phillips Arena.

Then, I felt the various ups and downs that Liu Mang once hated.

Accompanied by the wind in the foothills of Appalachia, basking in the scorching sun at the end of May, uphill, downhill and uphill... After going back and forth, the Spurs players arrived at the yellow jacket arena that has been complained about.

Whether it is basketball, rugby or baseball, Georgia Tech is a strong team, and they are all called the Jacket Team. The uniform fan uniform is a yellow jacket, but both baseball and rugby are fine. The stadiums are all outside the school, and the required field is too large. The basketball team’s yellow jacket arena is on the campus, and it is the innermost part of the school against a hillside.

That is, you can only walk from the school parking lot, or you can ride a bicycle, which has always been complained by Georgia Tech students.

The Spurs players started to complain, they walked for half an hour!
In addition, in Atlanta, the pace of life is slow, and people love art and sports. When the Spurs players arrived at the arena, a student's departmental concert was being held inside, and there were more than 8000 seats, and most of the seats were occupied...

"Sorry, Mr. Popovich, the students are very happy to know that your team came to our school for training. They specially held a singing performance for you. They are too enthusiastic and love basketball..." The manager of the jacket team, a junior student and the president of the school's basketball club, came up and explained to Popovich.

Although this situation is a bit weird, Popovich has been through the storm for a long time. It is not once or twice that fans in other cities where the playoff opponents are located deliberately do things to affect their mood. It is just the first time he has encountered such a weird thing after renting the arena so happily.

Stabilizing his mind, Popovich nodded and said: "I understand, I feel your enthusiasm."

Popovich knew that there was no such a good thing!When I contacted the principal of the Georgia Institute of Technology before, the other party immediately agreed without saying a word. At that time, I expected that nothing good would happen!

Not only is the big-headed coach of the opponent in the finals shameless, not only the Eagles are shameless, but even the city is shameless!

This is a large number of students who have concentrated the essence of human beings from all over the world!He actually played this masturbation!

What about the top civilized cities in the United States?

Spend money to buy rankings!
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The Atlanta fans were overwhelmed by the fans when they went to Los Angeles for the finals last year. They found that they were too polite. They hadn’t played in the finals for a long time. They had no experience at all, not only the players, but also the fans.

This year, Eagles fans were well prepared.

Of course, this kind of thing will make the Spurs unhappy, but it can make them unhappy, why not do it?

Of course, when the practices of the Atlanta fans spread to San Antonio, the other party will not be soft... It's just that the other party didn't intend to be soft, so... let's hurt each other!

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On May 5th, the last day of preparation time, both teams are actively preparing for the last day, and major TV stations and major sports media have started various news reports.

There are news such as saliva, forecast, analysis and so on.

This is even more so in China. At this stage, the majority of domestic fans support Liu Mang, and those black fans can't make waves at this time. Liu Mang's performance in this year's playoffs is too good.

Xinhua News Agency gave a rational analysis. Generally speaking, the domestic media will not take the initiative to criticize, even the opponents, the analysis is very positive... This is the regulation of the bare-bones game, which may have a tendency to overcorrect, but it is very helpful for neutral fans, allowing them to freely choose their favorite team.

Of course, which team's game the TV station wants to broadcast more, that is the TV station's own business.

According to the data analysis listed by Xinhua News Agency, fans have a clearer understanding of the current state of the players of the two teams.

For the Eagles, the best performer is undoubtedly Liu Mang. So far in the playoffs, he has averaged 27.5 points, 6.3 rebounds and 7.9 assists per game, with more than 60 points. As a result, he has been flanked more, shot fewer shots, and has more assists. He has played a similar performance to last season's playoffs, with relatively fewer points and more teammates who can score.

McGrady averaged 22 points, 4.6 rebounds and 6.3 assists per game. He has been very stable. His scoring performance has improved. In terms of passing, because Liu Mang was flanked more and needed to support the ball, McGrady's assists decreased and his style of play became more balanced.

Jason Terry averaged 16 points per game, but he can be super gods and super ghosts. He can score more than 30 points in a game, and he can also score 6 points in a game.

Kwame Brown averaged 10.6 points and 11.9 rebounds per game, and is a key pillar for the Eagles.

The Eagles averaged very high points per game in the first two rounds, averaging 116 points per game in the first two rounds, but the average points per game in the Eastern Conference Finals dropped a lot, so Rasheed Wallace, who originally averaged 11 points per game, was pulled down.

Generally speaking, apart from Liu Mang and Tracy McGrady, everyone else in the Eagles has a relatively balanced score. There are many outside shooters and players with physical fitness. Except for being young, they are very balanced in all aspects.

For the Spurs, Duncan averaged 21 points and 15.1 rebounds per game in the Western Conference finals, and he was in a stable state. Bunch Wells performed mediocre in the first two rounds, but when he played against the Suns, he was amazingly strong, averaging 23.1 points and 7.9 rebounds per game.

Ginobili averaged 26 points per game in the Western Conference finals. These three players played like the Big Three.

Parker was close, averaging 11 points per game in the Western Conference Finals, couldn't defend against Nash, and didn't play very well on the offensive end, mainly because he was too young.

From the perspective of lineup structure, both teams have three main scorers and have good substitutes. Relatively speaking, the Spurs have more experienced players, and the Eagles have more impact.

In terms of performance relative to the conference finals, Xinhua News Agency predicts that the probability of the Eagles winning the championship is 60.00%.

It's better to look at your own family.

In the United States, the general public opinion is more optimistic about the Spurs!
The main reason is that the Hawks lost their absolute dominance in rebounding. Last season, the Hawks were so invincible. The playoffs were 16 wins and 1 loss, which broke the historical playoff winning percentage.

Another point is that the Eagles are the defending champions, and the defending champions have always been regarded as slacking off or becoming careless because of winning the championship.

Of course, there are also media in the United States that support the Eagles, and there are many. The Atlanta Daily and the Atlanta Gazette support the Eagles without a doubt. ESPN also supports the Eagles. The strange thing is that the Miami Daily in Miami, where the Heat are located, all support the Eagles...

If Duncan wins the championship again, it will be the third championship, and he will catch up with O'Neal. The media on the Heat's side decisively supported the Eagles to kill the Spurs.

As for the fans...

This is a rare one-sided finals with fans.

The Spurs are so unpopular!

Even the Los Angeles Times, Sports Illustrated, and TNT, the three media that did not deal with Liu Mang, did not say good things about the Spurs or the Eagles. Instead, they attacked the Spurs for being dirty in a neutral situation.

The media, of course, is what the fans like to read and what they write about. If a different team plays against the Eagles in the Finals and they attack the Eagles, the fans will also like to read it.

But the opponent is the Spurs...even the Pistons seem so full of justice.

Popovich acquiesced in all kinds of black feet by Bowen, which offended the entire league. If a newspaper wrote something good about the Spurs these days...the newspaper would not be sold.

The media can analyze that the Spurs have an advantage from the strength of the Spurs, the loss of the Eagles' rebounding advantage, and the fact that the Eagles may be lax in defending the title, etc., but they cannot say anything good about the Spurs.

The fans are all looking forward to the Eagles killing the Spurs. This is a rare time for American fans to have a unified opinion. In all kinds of polls on the Internet, the Eagles' support rate almost exceeds 90.00%...

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Liu Mang kissed Levia and Alexia on the forehead: "Let's watch the game at home today, the arena is going crazy."

The rest time of the day passed quickly, and it was the day of the first game of the finals. In the morning, we had a tactical drill class, held a team meeting, and tried our best to make the best preparations. There was no training in the afternoon, and the arrangement was to rest or watch the game video, just waiting for the game in the evening

When Liu Mang finished his lunch break in the afternoon and went out to the arena to pick up Dinah at Dinah's school, there were already fans everywhere outside the arena, and the surrounding shops were also very popular. The economic benefits brought to Atlanta by reaching the finals were too great.

Mainly fans from China and other parts of Asia came here a lot, bringing huge tourism income.

There are many people in the square of the nearby Phillips Shopping Center. The Eagles Arena is named after the Phillips Shopping Center, so they have negotiated with the Eagles to use the super large LED screen at the entrance of the mall to broadcast the live broadcast of the game during the game. For those fans who came outside the arena but did not buy tickets, the Eagles got an extra income.

And those fans watching the game outside the Phillips Mall, even if only [-]% of the fans enter to buy something, the Phillips Mall will make money.

The hotel industry and catering industry in Atlanta and the cities close to Atlanta in the Atlanta metropolitan area are very happy and busy.

In this situation, Liu Mang didn't dare to let San Niu go to watch the game. It was too chaotic. The police force in Atlanta was not enough. The Georgia state government mobilized the police forces in major cities in the state to support.

Fortunately, it happened once last year, and this time with experience, everything is in order.

"Uncle, Dinah wants to..." Little Loli bouncing up and down in front of Liu Mang.

"How old! They are all big kids! No way!" Liu Mang knocked on the head of little Lolita, opened the door and got into the car.

Little Lolita took a step back with Levia and Alexia unwillingly, and Liu Mang drove to the arena.

The most important battle of this season is about to begin!
　Ask for a ticket, ask for a reward, let’s gather the number of people for 100 points, it’s Monday again~ Thank you! There is another chapter before 12 o'clock, let's have a meal first, and I bought a braised chicken that is going to be cold.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)