NBA Please Answer 2007

Chapter 195 Lacob

After the Warriors rested for a few days, they began preparations for the playoffs.The training intensity is not too high, but a training game is played every day to ensure the feel.At this stage, I can no longer relax. Once I am eliminated, I can only go home and fish.

Under Nelson's urging, in addition to training games, the Warriors are crazy about connecting three-pointers. Shooting is the foundation of the Warriors.

The Warriors have many good three-point shooters, Morrow, Jackson, Milicic, Crawford, Gerald Green, and Barnes, who has a low shooting percentage but is relentless at critical moments.If Li Zhi is double-teamed in the playoffs, they will get a shot.

The biggest hidden danger for the Warriors now is not the power forward, but the point guard.After Lowry left, neither Livingston nor Crawford could take on the role of organization well. In most cases, only Li Zhi played the role of point guard, so this season Li Zhi averaged 5.4 assists per game.This is not the job that Li Zhi likes. The organization, offense and defense make Li Zhi physically and mentally exhausted at certain times.

At this time, Li Zhi cursed Chris Mullin again, and traded Lowry away, which made Li Zhi and Mullin directly have a deep grudge.

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Negotiations between Renault and Chris Cohan made progress, but Chris Cohan was up for sale and raised the price to 6 million, which made Renault want to kill the miser.

Another Peter who was interested in acquiring the Warriors was also shocked by Chris Cohan's shamelessness. He scolded Chris Mullin several times in the media, but he still made concessions in the matter of acquiring the Warriors.

In desperation, Peter found his partner Lacob, hoping that he and himself would jointly fund the purchase of Mullin's shares, but Lacob was also in a dilemma.He feels that this is an opportunity. With Li Zhi here, the Warriors will never worry about not being able to sell tickets. It seems that this is a sure-fire business.But Lacob can't come up with 3 million U.S. dollars. The two billionaires in the eyes of outsiders can only scrape together 4.5 million U.S. dollars at this time, but they are still short of 1.5 million U.S. dollars.

At this time, Lacob called Renault, hoping for a joint venture between the three. Renault was not sure, and he could buy it himself, but he couldn't see Chris Cohan's success, so he repeatedly delayed the acquisition plan.However, Lacob and Peter were obviously very sincere, so Renault called Li Zhi under the balance.

Li Zhi was also stunned when he heard the disappearance. He didn't expect that because of Renault's involvement, the old ghost Chris Cohan would make an inch.But the three-person joint venture seems to be a good plan. Reynolds doesn't know how to run an NBA team, but Lacob and Peter do. It is a fact that the two brought the Warriors into a championship team in their previous lives.

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The first round of the playoffs is about to start, and the Warriors and Trail Blazers had a war of words before the game.

When interviewed by reporters, Fernandez said confidently: "The Warriors can't beat the Blazers. The only confusion for the Blazers is which game to send the Warriors home."

"You ask me why? Brandon is stronger than Li Zhi, and I, Rudy Fernandez, will prevent Li Zhi!"

After Li Zhi heard this interview, he secretly thought that Fernandez had swelled up this season.

The reporter asked Li Zhi: "There are discussions on the Internet about who is stronger, you or Roy. What do you think?"

Li Zhi inherited the tradition of the Chinese nation, and said modestly: "We are not strong, the strongest is Fernandez, he is the king of strong mouth!"

The reporter was dazed by Li Zhi's question and answer, and didn't understand what "the king with a strong mouth" meant for a long time, but after a few minutes, the reporters still started laughing, and they understood the meaning of the word "king with a strong mouth".When other players were asked this kind of question, some were humble and some were arrogant. The answer was nothing more than these two, but Li Zhi was very humorous.

As soon as Li Zhi's interview came out, Fernandez became angry. He vowed to make Li Zhi look good in the playoffs.

Although Roy didn't care about this issue, he was secretly serious with Li Zhi in his heart. He averaged 25.6 points, 5.1 assists and 4.7 rebounds per game this season, ranking seventh in the MVP rankings, beating Tony Parker.Many people think that if Li Zhi is not injured, this position will not belong to Roy.

Roy is purely skilled, and his style of play is very similar to Kobe, so he won the title of "Yellow Mamba" in his rookie season. He was complacent about it in the first two seasons, but this season the Blazers' record soared. Roy didn't want to continue to live in Kobe's shadow, he wanted to surpass Kobe.

In the past two years, the Trail Blazers suffered from constant injuries and their record has been poor. This season, except for Oden, their team is healthy. He will not allow the team to fall in the first round, even the Warriors.

Stimulated by Li Zhi, Fernandez performed well. This is his rookie season, averaging 18.5 points, 2.3 assists and 4.5 rebounds per game. He has become the third core of the Blazers, which is why the Blazers are so strong.In addition to Fernandez, another rookie of the Trail Blazers, Batum, also performed well, with 14.1 points, 2.8 rebounds and 1.0 assists. He has replaced Blake in the starting lineup.

At the center position, Oden was reimbursed. The starter Channing Frye averaged 11.7 points, 6.7 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game, especially the one-handed three-pointer, making him another center shooter after Okur.

And all the changes in the Blazers were caused by Li Zhi.Competition makes the pioneers stronger.

The playoffs are 7 games and 4 wins. There are home and away games. The team with a high winning percentage in the regular season has home court advantage.The pattern of the game is 2-2. The one with the highest winning percentage in the regular season will play two home games first, then two away games, and then one will play each.The finals are in 232 mode. Because of the confrontation between the East and the West, the long-distance flight affects the status of the players, so three appearances are arranged in the middle.

In the evening, in the locker room, Nelson summoned the Warriors players and said with a big victory: "The game is about to start. I don't care if you are nervous or not, you have to focus on me! The playoffs are all about tactics, defense, and willpower. If you win, we are close to the second round. If you lose, go home and fish! Do you want to go home and fish?"

"No!" The Warriors players answered in unison.

Nelson is very satisfied. He is very worried about the performance of the young bastards of the Warriors in the playoffs, but now it seems that the state is not bad.

Milicic is a person who followed the Pistons to the finals. Although he didn't play much time, he has always seen the scene of iron and blood fighting.So now he is very comfortable, looking at the nervous little Jordan with contempt.

"I said, Maodan, why are your legs shaking?"

Little Jordan numbly turned his head and glanced at Milicic, and said miserably, "Brother Golden Retriever, I'm nervous..."

Nick Yang heard the conversation between the two, and immediately joined in, saying: "Don't be nervous, shitty, this is just a small scene, and we are going to play in the finals in the future!"

Nick Young opened his eyes wide and had a funny expression on his face. Milicic snorted coldly and said, "Have you ever played in the finals?"

Nick Young said contemptuously, "I've never eaten pork, and I haven't seen a pig run away?"

Milicic stood up straight away and threw the towel on Nick Young's face.

"FXXK, who are you calling a pig!"

(End of this chapter)