stadium ambition

Chapter 376 Back Waves and Front Waves

At four in the morning, the Clippers arrived in Dallas.

It was already six o'clock in the morning when he settled in the hotel, and Su Yang slept until two o'clock in the afternoon.

The coaching staff canceled the tactical running training and only held a video analysis meeting, but it also ended early.

In the evening, Su Yang plays games and watches dramas like he does in regular season away games, intending to relax his body and mind.

In the middle of the night, when the second game between the Lakers and the Spurs ended, Kobe scored 41 points and led the team to victory.

Su Yang liked the ESPN report, and many media outlets took screenshots and posted articles, speculating that he wanted to play the Western Conference Finals with the Lakers.

In the afternoon of the next day, the entire Clippers team rushed to the American Airlines Route Center Stadium to challenge the Mavericks away.

As soon as the game started, Su Yang made a breakthrough and assisted Jordan to score an easy dunk.

Turning around, Kidd immediately assisted Nowitzki to retaliate, and the competitive atmosphere suddenly increased.

However, the Clippers offered a super defense ahead of time, causing Chandler to make mistakes, Stevenson to hit the iron, and Nowitzki to walk. Taking advantage of the situation, they played a wave of 8-0 attacks and grabbed offensive rebounds one after another. Grab the lead.

In this way, after the first quarter of the game, the Clippers led 31 to 22, and the momentum of the team increased greatly.

Who would have thought that in the second quarter, even though the Clippers encouraged Dirk Nowitzki to catch the ball, they still failed to restrict them too much. All hits, scoring 17 points in a single quarter.

Fortunately, McGrady, O'Neal and other substitutes performed well, and the Clippers only lost 4 points in a single quarter.

Returning to the locker room during the halftime break, Van Gundy emphasized again that the team is not ahead of the Mavericks in hard power, and must pay attention to the details to win the game. This is destined to be a hand-to-hand battle.

With the idea of ​​​​winning and peeling, the Clippers returned to the court for the second half of the game.

The Mavericks seemed to have the same idea. The two teams launched a defensive battle. The Mavericks fought bravely and relied on 4 more fouls, in exchange for 6 more turnovers by the Clippers. However, the Mavericks lacked rebound control and only won the Clippers in the third quarter. 1 point.

In the fourth quarter, the situation did not change, but Su Yang got 2 fouls early and accumulated 4 personal fouls.

Constrained by that situation, Su Yang did not dare to go all out on the defensive end, and Kidd took the opportunity to score 7 points rarely.But Su Yang was unambiguous on the offensive end, helping the Clippers always take the lead, leading by 18 points until the last 2 seconds of the fourth quarter.

As a result, the Mavericks arranged a perfect tactic, and Nowitzki rushed to the basket and caused a foul.

Amidst the MVP cheers all over the court, both free throws were hit, and the Mavericks tied the score.

The Clippers requested a suspension of tactics, and the Mavericks will double-team Su Yang with all their strength, intentionally leaving other players empty.

For more than three seconds, Su Yang didn't pass the ball, and forced a pull-up shot against the double-team, finishing with a bang.

The game dragged into overtime, the Mavericks team was in full swing, and after Su Yang got another foul, the Clippers became restless.

Throughout overtime, the Clippers scored 6 points only by Su Yang, while the Mavericks scored 11 points.

In the end, the Mavericks defeated the Clippers 112 to 107, and the series was chased to 1 to 2.

At the moment when the whistle sounded at the end of the game, cheers erupted in the American Airlines flight center. Countless people shouted at Su Yang, mocking the audience for scoring 38 points and 9 assists, while Nowitzki scored 40 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists. assists.

Su Yang returned to the locker room with a calm expression. After taking a shower, he was interviewed. When the reporter smelled him, he would reflect on whether he would think about it, because at the beginning he bragged that he wanted to take away the Mavericks 4-0. .

He said it's no big deal, it's just a failure of the estimate, and it won't affect the Clippers' advancement.

Such words were quickly spread to the Internet, and many black fans who had been lurking for a long time seized the opportunity to blackmail.

After a day off, the Clippers and the Mavericks started their fourth game.

The Mavericks took the initiative to change again, and let Chandler and Nowitzki play high and low in the opening game. It was a bit like imitating the tactics of the Grizzlies. point.

With such an advantage, the Mavericks used the extra energy on the defensive end in turn.

In this way, the Clippers were made quite uncomfortable, and it took nearly 7 minutes to tie the score.

Su Yang fired ahead of time for this, spending a lot of energy in advance, and only got a one-point lead in the first quarter.

In the second quarter of the game, the two teams launched a defensive battle at the same time. On the offensive end, the Mavericks presented the iron triangle cooperation model of Barea, Nowitzki and Marion, while the Clippers mainly relied on Su Yang and Gordon. two points.

The situation remained unchanged in the third quarter, and the Clippers won another point and entered the final quarter with a four-point advantage.

The two teams came and went, fighting hard until the last 13 seconds, and the Clippers still led by 4 points.

Then Terry and Kidd hit the iron with two consecutive three-pointers, and the Clippers finally won 100 to 96.

The moment the whistle sounded, Su Yang waved to tens of thousands of Mavericks fans and shouted goodbye next season.

That night, the Clippers flew back to Los Angeles overnight, and the fans stepped forward holding various signs to welcome them.

Su Yang slept happily until the afternoon, got up and practiced shooting in the backyard for a while, then went back to the room to watch the Lakers challenge the Spurs away game, and the Lakers have already led the Spurs by 3-0, which is very likely to decide the winner of the series.

Perhaps it was too much lead and the momentum was too fierce. The Lakers kept pressing the Spurs, and Kobe scored 22 points in three quarters.

In the fourth quarter of the game, the Spurs finally responded, but they couldn't prevent Kobe from making a mid-range shot.

In the end, the Lakers defeated the Spurs 103-97 and swept the series 4-0 to advance to the Western Conference Finals.

At the end of the game, Paul took the initiative to find the reporter and called out Su Yang's name to the camera, saying that he had fulfilled his commitment to the meeting in the Western Conference finals and asked Su Yang to hurry up and stop playing against the Mavericks. He couldn't wait to play against the fast Boat.

Su Yang watched and laughed on the spot, knowing that Paul was trying to arouse the Mavericks' fighting spirit and make it more difficult for the Clippers to advance.

Even so, he still took a selfie on the TV screen and tweeted that he had noticed Paul shouting.

The conversation between the two quickly became a hot topic on Twitter, and people from all walks of life forwarded and discussed it one after another.

The Mavericks were relatively calm, and even Cuban didn't make any response, only saying that time will witness everything.

On the evening of the 11th, the Clippers sat at the Staples Center and started their fifth game against the Mavericks.

Perhaps because there is a high probability of winning the game and advancing to the Western Conference finals, many stars showed their faces at the scene, and the price of VIP seats on the sidelines was once heated up to [-] US dollars. The then Governor Schwarzenegger and the mayor of Los Angeles also watched in the high-level private room .

The Clippers went straight to the sky, and with a wave of super offense in the second half of the third quarter, they established an 11-point advantage.

In the end, the Clippers won by 18 points, swept the Mavericks 4-1 and advanced to the Western Conference Finals.

Su Yang was interviewed and talked about how he viewed Kobe competing for a place in the finals for the second time.

He said bluntly: "I have been learning Kobe's offense and defense since high school. To this day, I still learn many of Kobe's technical moves through video, and I will continue to learn in the future, but this time, I want to win."

(End of this chapter)