Chapter 891: East Zhan West Du!

On May 22, 2009, the third Eastern Conference Finals between the Heat and the Cavaliers. Before the game, many people predicted that after the Heat slaughtered the Cavaliers in two consecutive away games, they would definitely slaughter them again at home.

But what was surprising was that LeBron James, who performed very well in Cleveland, suddenly became lame after returning to Miami!

In the previous two games, James played a total of 60 minutes, and each game was almost three quarters of 30 minutes. In these short 60 minutes, James scored a total of 84 points, 17 rebounds, and 15 assists, and his hit rate was as high as 70%!

These were almost two god-like games!

Such god-like performance made the Cavaliers, who were very strong in the regular season, seem to have become a weak team.

At the same time, these two games also let the world see how strong the Heat is when James is not undercover.

Just when the world thought that the Heat might win the championship with six consecutive wins in the future, James went undercover again!

Anyone who watched the third game between the Heat and the Cavaliers really couldn't understand how James could play so badly at the Heat's home court.

Low hit rate, many mistakes, and not good-looking data.

Every time Wade and other Heat players finally caught up with the score, James stood up to take over the Heat's offense.

Either mistakes or misses.

And those mistakes and misses are really jaw-dropping!

In the third game between the Heat and the Cavaliers, James even played Nowitzki's Golden Rooster Stand in the game, and although the posture looks a bit ugly, the difficulty is really not low at all. As for the effect, of course it is clang-clang!

After all, James is not playing against his opponent, but using the Golden Rooster Stand to play O'Neal!

In addition to playing the Golden Rooster Stand in the game against O'Neal.

James is still madly learning Yes's jump-up pass without looking behind the person in this game.

Anyone who knows a little about the NBA knows that what James played is the pan pass that Nash called the strongest pass in history.

In the NBA, many people have learned the pan pass like Nash, but only Nash has finally mastered it.

And even if he has mastered it, according to Nash, it is only the beginner level.

Therefore, the difficulty of Yes's pass is recognized as difficult.

James has to play such a difficult pass in a formal game, especially in a formal game at the level of the Eastern Conference Finals, and the final result is also obvious.

Mistakes!

Mistakes!

All mistakes!

The Heat should have easily won a victory, but James turned it into a loss.

Yes and the players of the Supersonics also watched this game.

After the second game between the Heat and the Cavaliers.

The faces of the Supersonics were solemn.

Looking at James, the eyes are also sympathetic to Durant and the team's small forward.

But after watching the third game between the Heat and the Cavaliers.

The eyes of the Supersonics players looking at James changed.

"This guy... I'm afraid he is a fool?!"

"I think he is sick!"

Listening to the comments of his teammates around him about James, Yes's face was not surprised.

If he is not really a fool or a sick person, it is really hard to imagine that he will do such things again and again on the court.

Of course, Yes naturally does not think so.

Obviously,

James wants to make the final preparations.

He wants to try his best to make himself more perfect before the finals.

He knows James.

James is a very complicated person. He is a person who is willing to challenge difficulties, but he is not a person who is willing to challenge difficulties.

He is willing to take risks, but he is not willing to take risks without complete preparation.

He is eager to compete with himself, but he is afraid to compete with himself.

If you understand James's personality, it is not difficult to understand his sudden behavior now.

At the end of the first game between the Cavaliers and the Heat, Yes saw James's great power and slaughtered the Cavaliers, and felt that he had completed the reshaping of his style of play.

Now it seems that James is still not so confident.

He still wants to continue to drag it out.

So, no matter how this James changes, in terms of personality, he is still the James he is familiar with...

The Miami Heat lost the game at home, which made those people around the world who shouted that the Heat and Supersonics could consider the next opponent a little embarrassed.

"There was a little surprise in the Eastern Conference Finals, and there shouldn't be any surprises in the Western Conference Finals?"

Will there be some small surprises in the Western Conference Finals?

This is a problem that many Seattle Supersonics fans are a little worried about now.

After all, the Lakers are a very strong team.

After all, the Lakers ranked second in the regular season in the West, while the Supersonics ranked eighth in the West.

Although Durant is slowly regaining his offense.

But Durant is still in the trough of regaining his offensive state.

Maybe they don’t have to worry about Durant being useless now.

But they do need to worry about Durant suddenly being unable to climb out of the trough.

In the last game, Durant’s performance was 8 of 24 shots, which is not very good, much worse than his first game against the Lakers.

Will Durant be worse in the third game?

This is a problem that many Coconut fans are worried about now.

In fact, the head coach and players of the Supersonics are also a little worried.

Durant's current offensive state does need to be adjusted.

Seven games in the last round, two games in this round, no games for a year, and only nine games in the playoffs this season. It is really difficult to ask Durant to maintain a certain level.

Therefore, even if he performs worse against the Lakers, he cannot be blamed.

Others are worried that Durant, the player who helped the Supersonics win in the first two games, will become a big pit for the Supersonics in the next game.

Yes has never worried about this problem.

Durant does dig pits in the game, especially after the Lakers changed their defense against Durant in the last game, Durant's offense did encounter great difficulties.

In the first game of the Lakers, Artest focused his main attention on Yes, and Durant was slightly relaxed.

In the second game, Artest completely ignored Yes's defense.

Instead, he hung on Durant.

Confronting Durant, fighting Durant, and constantly squeezing Durant's offensive space.

Facing this very targeted defense, Durant is no longer afraid of such physical confrontation after gaining weight.

But such defense still has a great impact on Durant.

Such defense not only requires Durant's physical confrontation and back-to-the-basket offensive ability, but also requires more use of his ball-handling offense to get rid of it.

But Durant's current ball-handling offense is precisely one of the most unstable links after his body gaining weight. He often drops the ball inexplicably when breaking through, and sometimes even falls inexplicably.

This is why Durant made 8 of 24 shots in the last game, a tribute to Kobe.

The biggest difference between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Supersonics in this round of confrontation between the two teams and the regular season confrontation is that the Supersonics have Durant.

It can be seen that Phil Jackson is trying to minimize Durant's influence.

This is also what Phil Jackson believes is the only chance for the Lakers to win.

Durant has now proved that his offense is not useless.

But in this series, Phil Jackson will try to make Durant's defense look useless.

And this is the source of worry for old Nelson and many Sonics players.

In old Nelson's view, the Sonics are leading 2-0, and of course they have a great chance of advancing.

But it's not as easy as those media imagine.

Phil Jackson is a very, very tough opponent.

But for Yes, he didn't think so much.

In this series, Phil Jackson wants to contain Durant, and madly contain Durant, which is actually a very, very good thing for Yes.

This is to help him train Durant.

And the Lakers are indeed a very suitable team to train Durant.

Artest of the Lakers has both strength and defensive skills, which is very suitable for helping Durant adapt to the close-range melee defense.

And the Lakers' backup small forward Ariza is a very good long-armed and long-legged defensive player. He does not have the close-range melee attribute like Artest.

But Ariza's frontal defense is very good, which is very suitable for training Durant's ball-holding offensive ability.

In the eyes of Phil Jackson and the Lakers, there is nothing to say about the other positions of the two teams. Now Durant is the key to this round of games.

So in the pre-match press conference before the third game between the Supersonics and the Lakers, Lakers head coach Phil Jackson almost couldn't leave Durant in every sentence.

"KD is a very good young player. He has all the conditions to become an excellent player. He will become an excellent player in the future. Just as you said, he may become a player of McGrady's level in the future."

"After the serious injury last year, it did not affect his growth. He is very different from last year, but the same thing is that he is still very good."

"It is always a very happy and very uncomfortable thing to be an enemy of such an excellent player, especially such an excellent opponent and the help of a player like Yes."

"It is very difficult to completely organize Durant's performance in this series, but we will work hard to make Durant's contribution on the court equal to the dedication of our other small forwards on the court, so that we will succeed."

"I know you are all looking forward to seeing KD perform well in the playoffs this year and become the most reliable assistant to Yes, but for me, I hope you will never see it again this season. However, next season, I will be a fan of KD like you, and I will always bless him."

Phil Jackson is a very graceful person.

In the pre-match press conference of the two teams, Phil Jackson also showed his grace.

But for Durant himself, Phil Jackson's words in the pre-game press conference were a bit murderous.

He was a bit uncomfortable with the Lakers' changed defense in the last game.

Phil Jackson meant to make Durant even more uncomfortable in this game.

On the evening of May 23, 2009, KeyArena in Seattle.

KeyArena was once again full.

After losing the previous two games, this game was generally considered to be a counterattack for the Lakers.

Generally speaking, in such a counterattack, the team must change its formation.

But what embarrassed Phil Jackson and Kobe was that the Lakers seemed to have no way to change their formation when playing against the Supersonics.

It was really too familiar!

When Yes is familiar with the Lakers' core tactic, the triangle offense, and is even more familiar with it than Kobe, there is no point in changing it unless you create a new tactical system.

If it doesn't make sense tactically, then start with the people!

In the first home game between the Supersonics and the Lakers, Milicic defeated his old rival Bynum in a jump ball amid the cheers of the Supersonics fans.

Rondo pushed through half court and passed the ball to Yes. Facing Kobe's strong close defense, Yes passed the ball to Durant next to him.

If it was last season, it would not be so easy for Durant to catch the ball under such a high-intensity confrontation.

But now, Durant, who has gained weight, has become a veritable perfect catcher.

Basically, he can catch any ball.

He won't miss the ball because he can't jump up due to the strong confrontation or because his body is squeezed and tilted.

However, after catching the ball, facing Artest's close defense, Durant still has some difficulty dealing with it.

The best way to crack Artest's defense is to pull away directly and then break through with the ball in an instant to get rid of Artest.

Last season, Durant could have done it.

But now, Durant is really in trouble. He has recovered a lot of his pull-up shots, but holding the ball...

He is still adapting and searching.

So facing Artest's defense, Durant finally chose to turn around and pull up with Artest's back.

The difficulty of this attack...

Most people feel uncomfortable watching it.

Most NBA players face Artest's high-difficulty attack. I'm afraid they can't even touch the basket, and they just miss three shots.

But Durant's shot seems to have a navigation, with a clang!

This iron sound made Phil Jackson's scalp numb!

"This kid is really gifted!"

Being able to miss shots with such a difficult offense is also a gift, the same gift as Kobe!

Don't think that anyone can dare to shoot and miss shots when facing a double-team of four people!

You are underestimating Kobe's talent!

Phil Jackson, who is used to seeing Kobe's various tricks, was amazed even when Durant missed shots.

But others don't see it that way.

"I have a very bad feeling about this game!"

Watching the Sonics' first offense end in this way, Barkley's eyes were straight!

116 to 111!

After more than 47 minutes, looking at the score on the big screen at the scene, Barkley was choked by the score and couldn't say a word.

"The Sonics really lost..."

"Don James and Durant..."

Durant went undercover again...

These two wizards in the undercover world are going crazy!