Chapter 478 Bishop's Horse

The Celtics in Boston and the Purple and Gold in Los Angeles took the lead in the finals of the East and West respectively.

The defeat of Detroit and San Antonio has now completely made them the background of their respective leagues.

No one in the east is optimistic that the Pistons can reverse success. After all, the strength shown by the Celtics in the first confrontation is already an overwhelming advantage. They have always controlled the situation on the court and never relaxed.

This highly focused defense grinds the Pistons to death. Unless the Detroiters can turn into a scoring master, it is difficult for them to find offensive opportunities in the interception of the Green Shirts.

A team without scoring points, even if it rarely makes mistakes in defense, how much trouble can it cause to its opponents?

Although the Celtics are also slowing down and fighting with you, they have too many offensive players to choose from.

At this point, even the Detroit media are sighing helplessly, "When your opponent uses the same tactics as you, your most helpless feeling is that they are better than you in efficiency and scoring ability."

This is the key to the Pistons' defeat. Rivers plays against you, but every point of him can create pressure on you and suppress you in offensive ability. How can you break the game? This is very insoluble.

This is copying your tactic, and then more extreme than what you play. This is an unsolved proposition. The only thing left of the Detroiters is to persist. Their toughness does not allow these guys to admit defeat in advance.

Detroit, a car city, will also hold out the race until the last second. Even if they are really unable to stop the Greens, at least they can still beat the moment they lose like last season.

And the situation of the Spurs is almost like this. They failed to take the initiative in the two overtime games, which undoubtedly tempered the Lakers' nerves more tenaciously after going through purgatory.

A talented team is not terrible. The terrible thing is that in addition to their talent, they also have a fearless heart. Now the number of people who are optimistic that the Spurs can reach the finals again is gradually decreasing.

This has nothing to do with the theory of winning the championship in a few years. It's just that in front of the younger Lakers, the sharp edge of the Spurs is weakening, and the Lakers are like their nemesis, in the Western Conference finals.

If you want to kill this group of Los Angeles people, I'm afraid Duncan and his GDP combination will really kill you this time.

However, after the first match, most of the support has been directly given to Boston and Los Angeles.

The media has been exclaiming that the era of the two heroes has begun again. In the next two or three years, will the entanglement between Boston and Los Angeles begin again? Is it like the days of Larry Bird and Johnson?

"We may be witnessing the re-emergence of a pair of old enemies, and the confrontation between them will continue like a legacy. The feud between Boston and Los Angeles, the two cities, may continue."

Maybe it's a little early to say all this. After all, these two teams have not been able to win the championship or meet in the finals, but if you deny their strength, if you really do this, it will only show that you are an idiot. Everyone can see how fierce these two teams are now. Fierce.

One is the league leader in the regular season, and the other is from the eighth in the West to the first place. Such a record is enough to show how horrible the state of the two teams is in the regular season.

After entering the playoffs, Boston's sweeping posture in the first two rounds has said everything, and the Lakers lost two games to the Jazz, but they could meet the Spurs. That kind of tenacity is still fierce.

It may not be enough to say that they have brought the NBA back to the era of hegemony, but I'm afraid no one will say that the strong recovery of these two teams is not an impact on those traditional strong teams.

One is the Green Shirts who have been sinking for nearly 20 years, and the other is the capital army that has fallen all the way to the bottom after O'Neill left. Now, in just one season, they have completed a gorgeous turn.

The only thing missing may be to win the final championship. Before that, what they have to cross is the block of the Pistons and the Spurs respectively.

I don't know if it's a coincidence that Boston hit the Pistons and the Lakers hit the Spurs. They were still competing for the championship two seasons ago. Now, they are about to become a stepping stone before the birth of the new champion.

No one will say that Detroit and San Antonio do not have the ability to counter each other. Maybe they will succeed in the next game, but those who believe in this are far less than looking forward to the finals.

Perhaps in the eyes of those fans, they are more looking forward to seeing the two cities with the most championships, colliding again in the finals and making the league burst into a spark again.

The same heavy history, the same honorful past, the difference in the number of championships between the two teams is only two behind the Lakers. I'm afraid this is the only opponent of the Celtics.

Now the media is eager for such two opponents to meet in the finals, resentment and hatred. These themes are simply classic topics of the competition, and they don't even need to waste more brain cells.

And the fans of Los Angeles and Boston also make an appointment with each other, but it is obvious that Boston is more confident, "Hey, Los Angeles! If there is a seventh game, you will definitely not win!"

Well, this is an obvious slap in the face and a stabb. Boston fans are very unkind, but when facing Los Angeles, they are definitely not kind people. This is a feeling of hostility from the heart.

They are right. In the entanglement of the past decades, as long as the finals are dragged to the seventh life-and-death battle, Los Angeles has never won.

Either end the battle early, or look at the Celtics complete a reversal in a desperate situation.

Anyway, the Lakers have learned this lesson more than once, and Auerbach is the culprit.

The old guy usually doesn't talk, but when it comes to the Lakers, he is really exciting to give the other party a sentence, "Do you want to win Boston in the seventh game? This assumption won't come true until the day I die.

"As long as I live, Boston will not lose, especially in the face of Los Angeles."

Although it has not been met yet, this kind of appointment has become a new round of confrontation between Boston and Los Angeles. Auerbach's opening is also adding fuel to this confrontation.

However, the cardinal's intention is not to be idle and bored, and he has to flirt with his old enemies.

Those reporters shifted the topic to the finals too much, which is undoubtedly distracting the players.

Maybe this is just a small interference, but for these small details, the old cardinal can also let go. Now the Celtics want to block all possible mistakes.

When they reached the Eastern Conference finals, Auerbach saw players who were too excited. Even Garnett, Ray Allen, Pierce and other experienced guys would inevitably have emotional fluctuations.

Maybe these guys haven't tasted this for a long time, so many people are too nervous. In fact, after the first two quarters, the rhythm of the game should be firmly controlled.

But it was not until the beginning of the third quarter that Chen Feng's sudden outbreak on the inside line completely eliminated the counterattack momentum that the Pistons had just remembered.

For this, Auerbach rarely smiled, because that wild boy is now almost a Celtic pacemaker. Once there is a need, he will kill him fiercely!

If the game is deadlocked, then no one dares to say that the final winner must be Boston. After all, this is the Eastern Conference finals, and the Pistons are not soft persimmons. If you pinch it randomly, there may be some surprises.

Even if Rivers is ready, there will always be an unpredictable uncertainty in the game.

Auerbach doesn't want fanatical fans to drive a more dizzying atmosphere, and he doesn't want those unscrupulous media to speculate about the finals at this time, which will affect the players.

Although those guys are all old deep-fried dough sticks, most of them have not been involved in the finals in their previous careers, and that occasion is still an undiscovered field for them.

A desire and an impulse often make people's mentality unbalanced. Auerbach doesn't want to see a failure happen in Boston. A season of hard work can't be in vain.

Therefore, the Cardinal, who has not been in the media for nearly ten years, is sharing the firepower of the media for the Celtics. At this age, he still stands on the opposite side and mocks the Lakers as an old opponent.

Maybe no one is more suitable for this role than him. When he won eight consecutive championships, he didn't know how many times he ended the Lakers' championship dream. It was even because of his existence that a group of talented players of the Lakers failed to get a championship ring when they retired. This hatred is estimated to have gone deep into the bone marrow. It is.

You have to admit that as soon as this old guy comes out, things often become very simple. The confrontation between the two cities, because of Auerbach's appearance, directly diverts the media's attention from the team. The cardinal is almost 90 years old, but he is not confused, and he still has a strong desire to fight. Lie.

Spray a city on your own. Well, just thinking about this picture is enough.

And this kind of famous predecessor, one of the symbols of Boston has stood out. How can those media who are willing to catch the wind and catch the shadows when they have nothing to do? How can they let go of such a war of words? They are eager to speculate.

Now the old bishop is playing with his life to attract media attention, and the Celtics are ready to continue to put pressure on the Pistons in the Eastern Conference finals.

Let the Detroiters collapse. This is their only idea now. Rivers doesn't want to miss such an opportunity. This wave of counterattack of the Green Shirts must be carried out to the end...

(The editor-in-charge has resigned. I wish him a safe journey and all the best.)