I'm a ball devil

Chapter 332 Sweeping the Spurs and entering the Finals
The Spurs' timeout did not solve the problem. Popovich still had nothing to do with Ye Hao as before.

What can be done?When Ye Hao was in the Thunder before, he couldn't think of a good way to deal with Ye Hao.

Letting Leonard defend Ye Hao in a misplaced position this year is already a coup for him.

But there was still no way to restrain Ye Hao.

Ye Hao is stronger than before, and more than one level stronger.

The higher the level of strength, the more difficult it is, even if it is half a level, it is a substantial leap.

What's more, Ye Hao has raised more than one level.

That's the gap between an ordinary All-Star-level star and a superstar, and the gap is almost insurmountable.

And now Leonard, who came to defend Ye Hao, is just a kid who has just entered the league, just a core player embryo, and he is always a little tender, so how can he be able to restrain Ye Hao?

Even in Ye Hao's previous life, Leonard had to go through several seasons of growth before he could take on James in the finals.

But even James, he actually couldn't completely restrain it.

James still played a very good performance.

It's just that the Heat's overall performance was not as good as the Spurs, and they eventually lost the series and the championship.

The current Ye Hao is one level better than James, or two levels?
Such a Ye Hao, can Leonard alone be able to prevent him?
A little whimsical.

Popovich also discovered this and made adjustments during the timeout.

After returning from the timeout, the Spurs began to flank Ye Hao, instead of defending alone.

Leonard and Parker flanked together.

It's just that it can't prevent it from pinching.

Ye Hao used sharp passes to continuously assist his teammates.

And his teammates are also upbeat, able to throw the basketball.

Artest received a pass from Ye Hao and made two three-pointers.

Pau Gasol also stole the opportunity to layup again and again in the paint.

Kobe was even better. After catching the ball, he made outside shots and mid-range jump shots, which felt so hot to the touch.

When Kobe feels online, should the Lakers opponents flank Kobe or Ye Hao?

It's really not a good choice.

Anyway, by pinching Ye Hao, Kobe can get an easy shot.

If he didn't flank Ye Hao, then Ye Hao would be able to single out the opponent's entire team.

It is really possible.

The players on the back line are generally not as tall as him, and they can turn over and shoot jump shots by relying on their height, or they can rely on their physical strength to force them.

It is also very effective to crush and hit inward, just like James, simply crushing the body.

Few people in the league can prevent James from attacking like this.

With this trick alone, James can already become a top attacker.

This Ye Hao will also do it, don't forget that Ye Hao's physical strength is now close to the full level of 100.

If he wanted to, he could crush the defenders and hit him hard at any time.

It's just that he rarely uses it.

He still prefers to rely on technology to crush opponents a little more.

After all, this is more technical, cooler and more handsome.

The players who meet the striker are not shorter than him, but he can overwhelm the opponent with strength or speed.

As for the big and muscular center forward, he can be played around with his technique and dexterity.

In short, it is a sentence, shorter than him is not as strong as him, and taller than him is not as fast as him.

In short, it is very strong, in short, it is invincible in the alliance now.

Invincible is the loneliest.

He has slowly felt it.

Maybe after playing for a few more seasons, his feeling will be more profound.

In the past, Jordan changed his career to play baseball halfway, wasn't it because he felt invincible loneliness in the league?
Looking at the league, you can't find an opponent, and you don't have a challenge, which is rather boring.

Sports competition, the key is the word "competition".

It's boring without an opponent.

In Ye Hao's previous life, those superstars gathered together to form a super team, just to win a championship easily.

This probably lost the "competitive" flavor a bit.

Back to the Western Conference Finals series between the Lakers and the Spurs.

In the first game, the Spurs defended Ye Hao at the expense of the other. They wanted to defend against his offense, but they couldn't defend his pass. They surrounded and suppressed Ye Hao but were beaten by other players, and finally lost the first game. Contest.

In this game, Ye Hao sent 17 assists, completely activating the Lakers' team offense.

And he also scored 21 points, plus 10 rebounds, 2 blocks and 2 steals.

Super triple-double data.

Of course, Ye Hao would also nod and admit that Kobe helped him get the last rebound.

When Ye Hao was only one rebound away from a triple-double, Kobe deliberately missed a layup and gave Ye Hao who followed him a basketball tip-up to score.

Directly help Ye Hao achieve a triple-double.

In this game, Bryant himself also sent 31 points and 5 assists.

On the other hand, the Spurs scored a total of 46 points in GDP, and the total score of the three players was not as good as that of Ye Hao and Kobe.

As for Leonard, he only scored 7 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists.

The second game of the Western Conference Finals will continue at the home court of the Lakers.

This time, the Spurs changed their defensive strategy.

Instead of double-teaming Ye Hao, he went to defend other people.

Flank Kobe and mark the rest of the Lakers.

Just rely on Leonard to defend Ye Hao alone.

I have to say that this strategy is pretty good, preventing Kobe from making only 15 of 6 shots and scoring only 18 points.

But Kobe reduced the number of shots and handed over the right to fire to Ye Hao.

The Spurs didn't pinch Ye Hao, Ye Hao let himself go on the court.

Let go!

Ye Hao kept scoring jump shots in front of Leonard, and broke through Leonard time and time again for layups.

He personally scored 51 points in the game.

It really made Leonard doubt his life.

It is estimated that it is about to cast a psychological shadow.

A guy keeps scoring in front of you, and you can't guard against it, as if he can make a shot every time he raises the ball, what a terrible thing that is!
At the end of the defense, you will suspect that it is useless to take a step forward and make defensive actions.

It's better to lie down, weep silently and enjoy being abused.

This is probably the greatest psychological trauma that Leonard suffered as a child.

So, in the second game, the Spurs lost again.

96 to 108, lost by 12 points.

In the third game, the Spurs returned to the home court.

For them, this is a game that cannot be missed.

If it fails, there is no hope of reversing the Western Conference Finals series.

But no team can come back from a 0-3 deficit in the playoffs.

This is desperate situation.

So the Spurs don't want to let themselves fall into desperation anyway.

They start to defend the zone.

Zone defense was allowed in the NBA in 2001.

At that time, the head coaches of the league were trying their best to find a way to restrain the bloodthirsty shark.

The unreasonable style of play of Shaquille O'Neal is that any defensive method will fall apart.

This guy has a super strong body and very good skills.

There is no one who can restrain the overwhelming insiders.

In such cases, the alliance is allowed to take zone defense.

Zone defense is the best defensive way to limit superstars.

However, before this, the joint defense has been playing sideways, and it is not non-existent.

This is the case with the "Jordan Law" that resounded through the league in the 80s.

The fundamental reason why the league prohibits zone defense is that zone defense will greatly compress the offensive space, leading to stagnation of offense and greatly reducing the perception of the game.

But when there are super players in the league and the whole league has nothing to do, the league will acquiesce in the emergence of some defensive rules that can limit super players.

However, joint defense doesn't work for Ye Hao either.

The zone defense can defend the breakthrough, but it is very difficult to defend the three-pointer.

Ye Hao is definitely the strongest three-point shooter in the league right now.

It can even be said to be the strongest three-point shooter in NBA history.

The laurel of the three-point king is really not a mess.

In this game, Ye Hao scored 10 three-pointers from the outside!
He scored 30 points just for three-pointers!
Moreover, Artest, Kobe, Kapono and other Lakers players all have three-point shooting ability.

Together, they also made 8 three-pointers.

The three-pointer broke the Spurs.

The Spurs lost Game [-] again.

Although they changed their defensive strategy in the second half and no longer used zone defense.

But it still doesn't work.

When Ye Hao's hand feels smooth, even if Leonard and Parker are standing in front of him, he can face the defense and make a three-pointer.

This is a bit like Curry, a future elementary school student.

When Curry went crazy, that's how he shot.

Absolutely crazy.

Terribly crazy.

Now, Curry is learning Ye Hao's three-point play.

Of course, Curry didn't know that Ye Hao also incorporated his style of play from his previous life into his own.

So it can be said that Curry learned his own style of play in the future through Ye Hao.

Although it is a bit of a mouthful, it is the truth.

The Spurs lost again in the third game.

The Lakers lead 3-0.

This is a very insulting and hurtful result.

The fourth game will continue at the home court of the Spurs.

Popovich doesn't want his team to be swept out.

What's more, the team led by Ye Hao was swept out of the game, which is very unacceptable.

In the fourth game, he instilled chicken soup in the locker room, and kept going crazy, asking the players to do their best to win this game.

Otherwise, he probably wants to retire and doesn't want to continue coaching.

Because such a team can't give him hope of victory.

It is conceivable that in the next few seasons, the West and even the league will still be shrouded in the shadow of the Lakers' dominance.

So what's the point of continuing to teach?

Popovich put all this ugly talk in front of the players.

Duncan, Parker, Manu Ginobili and other three core members of the team all stated that they would do their best to win a victory for the coach.

They are all excellent disciples brought out by Popovich, and they all want to retire under Popovich.

They naturally didn't know that Parker failed to do this in the future, and was traded out at the end of his career.

So in the fourth game, the two sides fought fiercely at the beginning.

Falling to the ground and fighting, muscles colliding, and even Duncan threw his elbow...

The fans at home were also cheering for the Spurs hoarsely.

They are a team with a championship tradition, and they are not Xiaobai who broke into the Western Conference Finals for the first time.

They have a mighty pride.

So these fans absolutely don't want to see their team swept.

These allowed the Spurs to take the lead for a while.

In the first half, the Spurs still led the Lakers by 8 points.

But back in the third quarter, Kobe received a pass from Ye Hao and made two consecutive three-pointers, which immediately helped the Lakers narrow the point difference.

Playing in the playoffs with a superstar in charge is just so reassuring.

Popovich quickly called a timeout again.

Continue to give the Spurs players blood.

Returning after the timeout, Ginobili's consecutive snake-like breakthroughs helped the Spurs temporarily stabilize the situation.

The Spurs re-opened the point difference to 8 points.

However, Ye Hao's unreasonable three-pointer and breakthrough Leonard for a layup also caused Leonard to foul and succeeded in the three-pointer.

The point difference was narrowed to 2 points again.

In the third quarter, the two sides saw-saw back and forth between the points.

After the third quarter, the Spurs entered the fourth quarter with a weak 2-point lead.

As soon as the fourth quarter came up, Leonard shot out of the three-point line to score points.

Ye Hao made a false pass, rushed into the crowd of the Spurs, and passed the basketball to Artest. Artest scored a three-pointer and returned the favor.

Barkley said that in the Western Conference Finals, this game was the most exciting.

The two sides are really coming and going to score, rather than overwhelmingly with one team being crushed.

But he hasn't finished breastfeeding yet, his mouth has definitely been opened.

Poisonous milk!
Ye Hao scored consecutive points, three-pointers from the outside, mid-range jumpers after a breakthrough, and a pass from Kobe to dunk Leonard.

In one fell swoop to help the Lakers take the lead.

He was like a cat, with the Spurs ahead, like watching a mouse play, and no matter what, he was able to catch it back and put it under its claws.

Popovich was so angry that his face twitched on the sidelines, but he thought of all the methods he could think of and used them on the court, but they were useless.

He said in an interview after the game that he was left to defend Ye Hao himself, damn it!Ye Hao is a player of another dimension, no one in the league can restrain him!
Afterwards, he scolded the Thunder, saying that the Thunder was stupid for trading Ye Hao to the Lakers, and that they exchanged a thousand dollars for a few zero cents, saying that the Lakers' deal was a robbery.

However, in the end, he shook his head and said that even if the Thunder did not trade Ye Hao, the Thunder would be the champions of the Western Conference in the end. A team with Ye Hao in the team would probably have no opponents. Now he hopes that the Heat can play well. Good enough game to take on the Lakers.

In this way, the Lakers swept all the way to the finals.

Sweep in the first round, sweep in the second round, and sweep in the Western Conference Finals.

The opponent they will face in the finals is the Heat who defeated the Pacers 4-2 to advance.

The final match that people were looking forward to before the start of the season finally came.

The Heat didn't let people down, let alone the Lakers.

Who will win this year's championship trophy?

(End of this chapter)