Super Evolution of Basketball

Chapter 293 Big victory or big defeat?

After two games, Yuan Qingshan and Towns slowly began to adapt to the intensity of the playoffs, but in Whiteside's words, it's only the first round, it's a warm-up at most, and the Blazers are not a traditional strong team.

Whiteside is the only one of the three Lakers who has followed the team to the playoffs before, so in his opinion, he has the most say.

Although he didn't even get a chance to play at the time.

The third game between the Lakers and Trail Blazers was held at the Moda Center in Portland, and the Lakers flew to Oregon State a day earlier.

After the team arrived at the hotel, they first held a team meeting. Coach Scott warned the players not to take their opponents seriously just because they were leading 2-0. After returning to the home court, the Blazers will definitely fight back.

The heavy burden fell on Kobe and Yuan Qingshan at once. Kobe is a historical superstar, someone who is used to big scenes, and has rich experience in key games, which is nothing.

But Yuan Qingshan is a rookie after all, coach Scott is more worried about him, so he keeps Yuan Qingshan and carefully deduces the tactics that the Blazers may play.

After Yuan Qingshan listened carefully, he found that Scott's analysis was not as complete as Kidd's, but everyone has a different understanding of the game.

Scott emphasized the transition between offense and defense, forcing the Blazers to make mistakes through oppressive defense, and then seize the opportunity to counterattack, while Kidd cared about the rhythm, advocating starting from the first second of the opening, bringing the Blazers into the Lakers' own rhythm on both ends of the offense and defense.

Once the shooter has no rhythm, he will definitely lose his hit rate.

The double guns lost their hit rate, so what else did the Blazers fight.

There have been several 3-0s in the East. I don't know how many sweeps there will be in the first round.

Simultaneously tonight is the Spurs against the Mavericks, the Heat against the Hornets.

TNT selected the Lakers among the three games and sent heavyweight commentators, Reggie Miller, Barkley and Magic Johnson.

It is hard for the fans to imagine that the magician would go to the Trail Blazers' home court to serve as a guest commentator. Under normal circumstances, only retired stars of the home team can be invited to serve as commentators at home.

Barkley: "Ervin, I really didn't expect you to be sitting in the commentary booth. To be honest, I saw you just now and thought you were traveling to Portland and then dropped by to watch the game."

Reggie Miller: "Yeah, we haven't played together for a long time, I thought you didn't care about basketball anymore."

The magician smiled: "Don't care about basketball anymore? Come on, there is no Elvin Johnson without basketball."

Barkley stared: "Could it be that you have some ulterior secret in coming to Portland?"

The magician smiled mysteriously: "It's true, but now is not a good time to make it public."

Barkley and Reggie Miller looked at each other, and they both saw confusion on each other's faces.

Magician Elvin Johnson's commentary job this time is entirely on his own initiative. TNT is naturally happy to have such a superstar willing to come.

The reason Magic made the trek to follow the Lakers to Portland is because of Jenny Buss.

Jenny Buss and the magician carefully watched the tapes of the first two games of the Lakers, and then reached a consensus: Yuan Qingshan and Towns are rare talents, and they can definitely be the cornerstone of the future of the Lakers. Around them, a championship-winning team can be built within three years.

The magician persuaded Jenny to act early, drive Jim Buss away, and take over this young team with a healthy salary and full potential.

Jenny Buss has been hesitant to make a move all season. The team's playoffs have brought her a great shock. Even if the magician doesn't mention it, she is already ready to make a move.

The magician's suggestion strengthened Jenny Buss' determination, and she sent an invitation to the magician that night, promising the magician that after Jim Buss was driven away, he would take over from Kupchak as the team's president of operations.

Therefore, the magician came with the team this time, in fact, he wanted to find out the situation of the team in advance.

In order to avoid alarming the enemy, he used TNT to find a suitable identity to appear at the Trail Blazers' home court.

How could Barkley and Reggie Miller guess these things?
"He must have come here to travel and earn some extra money," Barkley whispered to Reggie Miller.

Reggie Miller's eyes moved back and forth with the mascot running happily on the field, neither affirming nor denying.

How can a star at the level of a magician be so simple?
Players from both sides entered the field, and Kobe still enjoyed the warm cheers at home in the Moda Center.

For this, Lillard is a little unhappy. He thinks that after the Blazers win the game, they can give the veteran a little care, instead of the impatient rebellion like now.

Lillard's cold face appeared on the big screen, his fans started screaming, and the DJ started playing his single. Lillard felt a little better and picked up a basketball.

Yuan Qingshan watched his opponent carefully. Lillard hit the neck of the basket with several three-pointers. This was the result of excessive force, which meant that he was very excited and maybe a little nervous.

The referee called the players together and kicked off.

Whiteside leaps high, a basketball's height taller than Plumlee's.

The ball was moved to the backcourt of the Lakers, and Yuan Qingshan moved to catch the ball.

Lillard posted it. He is 192 cm tall, about the same height as Yuan Qingshan, but a circle thinner than Yuan Qingshan, and looks a bit thin in front of Yuan Qingshan.

Yuan Qingshan unhurriedly pushed forward, pondering over the "rhythm" that Kidd mentioned in his mind.

Lillard's eyes are good and his eyes are fixed on the basketball. To be honest, Yuan Qingshan doesn't think this is a good defensive posture. When your eyes are too focused on one point, you will definitely ignore other details.

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Yuan Qingshan's ball handler pulled up slightly, and Lillard thought he was going to shoot, so he rushed forward, and his legs were ready to take off and block the shot.

"This is a feint!" Barkley exclaimed.

The magician shook his head: "Oh, this kid really wants to win."

When Lillard took off, Yuan Qingshan slammed his wrist back, passed the ball to the other side, then changed his center of gravity, twisted his body, and dodged past Lillard.

The Trail Blazers don't have a signature defender like Leonard. After Yuan Qingshan passed Lillard, he went all the way to the free throw line, riding an archery and throwing the ball in.

Yuan Qingshan seldom attacked by himself on the first ball in the opening game, but today, it seemed that Westbrook had possessed him, attacking extremely resolutely.

Lillard forced himself to be calm, maintained a look of indifference, and went to the bottom line to catch the ball.

Harkless held the ball and looked around at his teammates. Lillard became angry and shouted: "What are you still doing, are you trying to pass the ball directly to the Lakers, to their point guard?"

Harkless looked innocent. He knew that Lillard was on fire, and he had to be careful, otherwise he would get sprayed if he didn't pay attention.

Reggie Miller sighed: "I know Lillard. I didn't expect him to enter this state just at the beginning of the game. Just wait and see. In tonight's game, the Blazers either won or lost."

(End of this chapter)