The Golden Invincible of Basketball

"The Pelicans are respectable opponents. They are tenacious. They play respectable."

In a post-match press conference, the Grizzlies, Jogel, affirmed the Pelicans' performance.

Respecting the opponent is respecting yourself. In some ways, Jogel is better than Reeves.

Now, the two sides will truly engage in a life-and-death battle.

This is the second time the Pelicans have a tiebreaker in the playoffs.

But this time they are not alone, because the Lakers and Spurs will also face the seventh battle, and ahead of them.

The Pelicans and Grizzlies played in ups and downs, and the Clippers and Spurs did not give up.

The Lakers trailed the Spurs 1-3, and Howard's performance in the fourth game angered Bryant and the Lakers management.

Communication did not help after the game, and management banned Dwight Howard.

Starting a center in a knockout marginal team looks stupid.

But this also seems reasonable.

Now the Lakers are headed by Jim Bath. When the team has conflicts, he must be on the side of Kobe.

Since Howard has a high probability of losing, it is not as good as Shun Kobe's heart.

This is the Lakers' "dead alternative" choice, but the results are surprising.

Without Howard, the Lakers played with all the will, especially Kobe, and regained the excellent form in the first round.

For two consecutive 40+ games, he helped the Lakers drag the game into a tiebreaker.

The tiebreaker will take place before the Pelicans and Grizzlies.

Williams also organized the team to watch the game live.

At the beginning of the game, Bryant showed the excellent competitive status of the past two games, helping the Lakers to get a 10-4 lead in the beginning.

Both Leonard and Green couldn't restrain Kobe.

This is also the biggest problem for the Spurs right now. They lost Tang Tian. Leonard and Green couldn't make up the cut in a short time.

The two teams stalemate for the first half, but in the second half, Vicki is even more fierce.

He caught Kobe's poor feel for a period of time. The defensive end contracted 2-3 defenses, and the offensive end grabbed the Lakers inside for a while.

Big Gasol's defensive end was clearly untenable, and the Lakers began to defeat.

In the end, the Spurs scored 101-89 at home against the Lakers, reaching the Western Conference Finals for the third consecutive year.

This victory also allowed them to continue their hope of impacting the dynasty's three consecutive championships.

The reason the Lakers lost this game is also a bit of a crossbow.

Kobe was icing on the sidelines before the game was over, and his eyes were full of loss.

Howard's attitude, compared to Kobe's eyes, can predict that the Lakers will experience a very large turbulence this summer.

The Spurs were the first to advance to the Western Conference. Their opponents were the winners of the Pelicans and Grizzlies.

If the Pelicans can advance, then Tang Tian will meet his old master in the West.

But for the Pelicans, they are now in a similar situation to the Lakers.

Although there was no civil strife, they could even be said to have reached a city, but they also reached the end of the crossbow.

In the first year of the playoffs, he won two consecutive rounds, still playing the Grizzlies, exhausting his physical and mental energy.

The tired eyes of the team members during training said it all.

In fact, if it wasn't for Tang Tian's birthday, they would have ended their season in Memphis.

And just in the training class, there was another bad news.

Davis has a sore shoulder after the last game and may be absent from the tiebreaker.

After the training, the team members left the locker room one after another, and their momentum looked a little low.

Tang Tian did not return to the hotel immediately, but went to the hospital next door, where Davis was undergoing restorative treatment.

"Don."

Seeing Tang Tian coming, Davis barely smiled.

His expression looked even more frustrated than the other players.

He can't beat the tiebreaker, he should be the most frustrated.

After finishing the treatment, Tang Tian and Davis sat down to chat.

"I'm going to grab a seventh."

As soon as Davis spoke, Tang Tian was surprised.

"I am going to take a closed shot."

In Tang Tian's surprised look, Davis continued.

"no, you can not."

Tang Tian thought that Davis's injury had changed, but he didn't expect to hear this, and said with a straight face.

Closing the needle is to mix the therapeutic drug with the hormone and inject it into the vein of the injured site.

On the one hand, anti-inflammatory and analgesic, on the other hand, numb the injured part, reduce pain caused by inflammation, and eliminate effusion.

This kind of thing looks good, but because it involves hormones, the side effects are very large.

Wounds heal slowly, physical function declines, and endocrine disorders are possible.

And in the case of closed play, it is easy to get injured again, leaving the root cause.

So athletes are very careful when choosing closed needles.

There are countless such counter examples.

The most well-known is McGrady. In the first round of 2008, he closed the game to win the ball. The result was that he did not win. A fat man with only 30 bounces and dunks covered by the basket.

There is also the Thunder team's Ibaka. In history, the West played a closed game and eventually changed from a player with the best defensive level to an ordinary rotation level.

There are countless situations like this.

And more importantly, this pays off.

Although these players who played in closed games barely played, the effects were not good. The general results were lost, and their careers were also greatly affected.

The Pelicans are now in a similar situation. It is difficult to play Davis with a tiebreaker, let alone Davis who is closed and forced to play.

Tang Tian is here, and he knows that Davis listens to him, so he has a strong attitude.

After listening to Davis' silence, he spoke after a while.

"I know the story of Willis Reid, the team needs my presence."

Tang Tian froze when he heard this.

Among the players who played in closed games, Willis Reed was a rare success, and "Reed's Return" was also the most classic moment in the history of NBA.

Reed, the Knicks legendary center, www.novelhall.com, is a rival to Bill Russell.

He was a Knicks star at the time, led the team and the Lakers in five games in the finals, leading 3-2.

But in the sixth game, he left with a knee injury and the Lakers tied the series to a 3-3 draw.

And Reed's situation at the time could not beat the tiebreaker, the Lakers won the championship is rare.

However, Reed was not willing to give up, he closed the field in the tiebreaker and hit consecutive shots above Chamberlain's head at the beginning.

But his injuries were too serious, and the sealing effect soon disappeared, and he could not insist on being replaced.

But amazingly, inspired by the strong spiritual appeal and conviction of "Reed's Return", the Knicks did not give up. They won the game with a rush and successfully won the first NBA championship in team history.

This is the classic history. Davis gave this example. Obviously, although he is cute, he also has the same enthusiasm as Reed.

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