Chapter 373 Advancing to the Western Conference Finals

——10!9!8!

Fans around the stadium stands cheered and started counting down to the game.

Lin Dong stopped dribbling and chose to grab the ball in his hands.

Kobe Bryant also gave up the confrontation and stepped forward and stretched out his hand to Lin Dong: "Go and win the championship, man. I wish you good luck. You must get it and keep it safe for me. I will win it again next year." Come back!"

Lin Dong laughed and stretched out his hand to shake his hand: "Okay, buddy, I'm waiting for you to get it!"

——7! 6! 5!

O'Neal had straightened up, turned his head and glanced at Sakuragi Hanamichi, who was still planning to go around to defend him, and shouted angrily: "You are still going around, like a fly, going around and around me. Go around...it’s over! Everything is over! We’re done fighting now, don’t go around anymore!”

"Life goes on and the fight goes on!" As Sakuragi Hanamichi spoke, he once again walked around O'Neal with enthusiasm. He was really excited. He purely regarded O'Neal as a training partner for him to defend in front of him, and then he was full of passion. She shouted: "Don't give up until the last moment, come on Shaq! Let's fight until the last second!"

O'Neal was so angry that he slapped him and wanted to call him on the head, but he thought about the fine and endured it.

This slap is enough to buy my dear Mrs. O'Neill a 5-carat diamond ring...

O'Neal finally decided to ignore him and turned around to leave. Unexpectedly, Sakuragi Hanamichi caught up with him and pulled him: "Don't go, Shaq, the game is not over yet! Let's hit another one. You hit, I will let you pick it up." ball!"

"Ah!" O'Neal felt like he was about to be driven crazy, and he clenched his sandbag-sized fists several times.

Farke! Farke! Farke!

Now do you understand why I can't help but want to beat him?

Is this guy mentally retarded? ! Who knows how it feels to be defended by such a psychopath!

Not only are there cheers and countdown sounds at the scene, but at this moment in the distant Dragon Country and in distant Japan, countless fans are standing in front of the TV, following the live broadcast and counting down excitedly.

——4, 3!

In a themed tavern in Yanjing, three 'down and out' young people were staring at the TV and drinking wine.

In this year's CBA, Guangdong Hongyuan and Yanjing Aoshen were blocked again. They thought they would be their biggest opponents in this year's August 1st, but after Yao Ming left, these young people finally had the opportunity to stand out, but they Unexpectedly, both teams fell to the hands of the Magic City Sharks one after another.

Yi Jianlian is so fierce... Since the World Championships, this kid has risen rapidly like a cheat. From the substitute at the beginning of this season, to the main player, to the starter, and then to the absolute core in the playoffs, then Boy, it only took one season!

His body is soaring as if he has taken hormones, and his impact on the basket is already a bit like that of Yao Ming. It is said that the Magic Sharks are planning to sign a supplementary agreement with him before this year's playoffs. After a short contract, he was offered a maximum salary of five years in advance, but was rejected by Yi Jianlian. He only planned to sign for one year. It seemed that he also wanted to go to the NBA...

Anyway, this year's CBA has become a show for Yi Jianlian. In his rookie season, he defeated Bayi and won the championship with an average of 32 points and 14 rebounds per game in the finals. In the first round and semi-finals of 1/8, the three of them were defeated. He was so suppressed that he had no temper at all.

This has made Zhu Fangyu, Wang Shipeng and Sun Yue very depressed recently. But now, watching their good brothers lead the team to defeat the Lakers and advance to the second round of the NBA playoffs, the three of them are finally a little happier: "MD, Lao Lin is still awesome. How about we go to the NBA? If we go to the SuperSonics, maybe we can follow Lao Lin and get an NBA championship ring..."

"Will Hongyuan let you go?" Sun Yue joked: "Besides, this Supersonic does not belong to Brother Lin, and it is not him who has the final say on who to sign..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhu Fangyu threw a melon seed shell at his face: "I'm having a daydream and you interrupt me, aren't you, brother?"

"Hahahaha!" Sun Yue laughed while hiding: "When Brother Lin breaks through the Western Conference Finals, let's just go and watch the finals!"

"Okay! Let's make a bet. It's 4-0 in the Western Conference Finals. I'll cover all the expenses, and I'll cover the other results!"

"Damn it, are you betting like this? It must be fair! You guarantee 4:0 and 4:1, and I guarantee the other results! You look down on me, Brother Lin!"

"Forget about the Western Conference Finals, the countdown is on! We're going to win!" Wang Shipeng followed the excited people in the bar and shouted: "5, 4, 3..."

——2, 1!

Japan, all over...

Countless basketball-themed bars have become the newest and hottest new industry in Japan this year.

On the door of these bars, without exception, are the portraits of Hanamichi Sakuragi and Lin Dong. Occasionally, there are also portraits of Hanamichi Sakuragi and Kaede Rukawa, but what is absolutely unified is the dark green jersey color of the SuperSonics, which has become The everlasting colors of these bars are such that on the streets of Japan, as long as you see a store with an overall dark green decoration, it must be related to basketball when you walk in!

In Kanagawa, there are undoubtedly more such theme bars and even restaurants.

Eel restaurant, No. 12-19, Sasuke Ichimachi, Kamakura City, Kanagawa.

The color of the restaurant has long been changed to a dark green theme, and the walls are covered with various basketball-related posters. There are scenes of the owner Jun Uozumi fighting when he was in Hidaka, some photos of the Kanagawa Prefecture competition, and of course, more It’s still Sakuragi Hanamichi, it’s Lin Dong, it’s Sonics.

At this time, the restaurant was filled with almost all familiar old faces.

People from Xiangbei, people from Lingnan, people from Hainan, people from Xiangyang... Whether they went to school in other places or have dropped out of school to join the workforce, they are all here today, including Sendō who is still playing in the Japanese Professional League. people.

This was a party invitation initiated by Uozumi Jun, and the person who was surrounded by stars in the store at this time was suddenly none other than Mitsuyoshi Anzai.

Coach Anxi's face was filled with an unstoppable smile.

Sakuragi's performance in this game was so exciting that Coach Anzai could not believe it. He had watched every previous SuperSonics live broadcast. He originally thought that Sakuragi had encountered a huge bottleneck, and even had He may have reached the limit of his talent, but he didn't expect...

Groundbreaking tactics, groundbreaking defensive concepts!

Coach Anzai is undoubtedly the type of person who knows the ball best. He doesn't know who made Sakuragi Hanamichi's forward defense in this game.

That SuperSonics head coach McMillan? Or Lin Dong?

Coach Anzai thinks it is possible. These two people can take the SuperSonics from a traditional team to today's super team famous for its running and gunning in one season. Their advanced tactical concepts are enough to amaze all insiders. , and under the training of these two people, it seems not surprising that they came up with an ingenious forward defense.

But no matter what, the first executor was Sakuragi Hanamichi, and once he used it, he actually eliminated O'Neal, who the entire league could not restrict even if the rules were modified. The effect was even better than the once famous shark-cutting tactic!

This alone is enough for the whole world to recognize Sakuragi and Japan.

Although Coach Anzai just kept smiling throughout the whole process, no one noticed that he was so excited that he clenched his fists throughout the whole process. As a Japanese basketball person, what could be more exciting for him than this?

"This guy was tortured by me with one hand before..." Mitsui Shou laughed and said, smiling, but a little uninterested.

After playing with the team for a year, to be honest, it was not as exciting as he imagined. The games here made him feel extremely bored.

The level is not high enough. The professional-level league is not even as exciting as the US High School game he went to Seattle to watch before. Moreover, there are many problems within the Japan Basketball Association. Even though Coach Anzai is trying his best to promote various reforms, various reforms have not been implemented. But it is all more difficult. Japanese professional basketball is too immature, and if you want it to become mature, it will touch the interests of too many people, making it difficult to move forward.

Hisashi Mitsui feels that if Coach Anzai continues to serve as the chairman of the Basketball Association, maybe he will be able to see another world of Japanese basketball in ten or twenty years. However, these ten or twenty years will be so boring that he is so boring now. I almost want to give up.

Look at games like the SuperSonics, look at the growth of Sakuragi, this kind of league and this kind of team is interesting to play!

"The countdown is on! The countdown is on!"

"5, 4..."

"Wow! Boss, look at Haruko!" The sharp-eyed Ryota Miyagi saw at a glance on the TV screen, Haruko wearing Supersonic work clothes, jumping and shouting excitedly on the sidelines. After all, this is the home court, and the on-site director has already I have seen the interaction between Haruko Akagi and Sakuragi on the court several times, and I guessed that the identity of this 'staff member' was unusual, so I specially gave a separate scene.

Takenori Akagi, who was still excited to count down with everyone, was suddenly startled, and then his eyes widened in shock: "She said she was at school when she talked to me on the phone yesterday. Haru and Haruko also learned to lie. Got it!"

"Hahahaha!" Ayako, who was sitting next to Miyagi, laughed loudly: "Okay, okay, boss Akagi, isn't this great! Sakuragi is here, don't worry!"

"I'm only worried because he's here! It's because that idiot is so innocent that he doesn't understand anything, so he can do anything!" Takenori Akagi said in a dumbfounded voice. Although he didn't object to his sister and Sakuragi falling in love, he Oppose some premature actions...

"No, I'm going to Seattle!"

"Ah?" Miyagi immediately regretted his talk just now, and quickly grabbed Takenori Akagi: "Call! Just make a phone call, boss, how expensive is this ticket..."

"Boss, I want to go to Seattle? Why should I book a flight? I happen to want to go there and come with me. I have a special plane!" Mitsui Shou leaned over after listening to half of it.

"Shut up!" Miyagi and Ayako shouted at him angrily and in unison: "What's so awesome about having a plane!"

Others in the restaurant were in the commotion and didn't pay attention to the small situation on Akagi's side. Instead, they followed the countdown on the TV and shouted: "3, 2, 1, 0..."

--Won! we won!

The home stadium burst into deafening cheers, and countless fans stood up and jumped up and down.

After defeating the Lakers who won three consecutive championships, the SuperSonics have gone through many hardships since the glory of the 1996 season. Now they have finally advanced to the Western Conference Finals again. They will compete with the winner of the Spurs and Mavericks in the Western Conference Finals on May 14th!

A rising super rookie, on both offense and defense, faced off against Kobe Bryant, the most popular player in the league, and even suppressed him steadily.

Another newcomer, however, made an explosive performance in the last game, and even used groundbreaking forward defense to defeat the Shark, who is known to be invincible in this league!

It was only then that people suddenly realized that it seemed that the media and fans were always using the words "newcomers and newcomers" to flaunt the two perverts of the SuperSonics. But look at the performance of those two, they are newcomers. Is it something?

——These two Asians will definitely break the perception of the league, and they will set off a storm in the entire league!

The reporter from Sports Weekly wrote so sharply and unstintingly in praise, but what he didn’t even expect was that the storm would come much faster than he imagined!