Being tied by a sentinel three-pointer, but also a three-pointer, which hurt morale.

The road lost two times in a row, and the home field was dragged into overtime, which also hurt morale.

Even if the Warriors have seen a lot of big scenes, but when faced with this situation, the players are inevitably a little frustrated.

In the surrounding audience, all the fans have stood up to watch the game, but the shouting is much smaller.The regular time of 48 minutes of fierce competition, several times equal points, several times back and forth over the score, which has consumed the physical strength of the fans, the fans' voices have been hoarse.The peddler who was walking in the audience selling drinks has become the busiest person on the scene.

After a short break, we entered the overtime session.

In the extra time, it is only a short five minutes, and if it is distributed, each team will only have about seven or eight offensive opportunities, so each attack is particularly important.

Li Dai still did not arrange any tactics, at this time he can only trust the judgment of the veterans.

The old men chose to break through with the ball.Even if it is impossible to score directly, it is also expected to make a foul to get a free throw, which is indeed the most stable way to score for the superstar player of the technology.

In terms of the Warriors, they continue to implement the previous tactics, they still focus on the projection outside the three-point line, which depends on the player's feel, but this is the most threatening way to score, because the three-point ball is always one point more than the two-pointer.

The two sides exchanged four rounds, each with six points, the Warriors hit two 3-pointers, and the Clippers scored four free throws plus one layup.

Looking at the veterans like a cannon building into the Warriors basket, and then the body like twisting flowers to lay a layup, the eye can not help but be a little moist.

These guys really want that championship ring.

He was touched not only by Li Dai, but also by the explorator, and by countless viewers in front of the TV.

“Wood directly bumped into the Warriors’ inner line, the defender went to find physical contact with the center, it was like a suicide!”

"Hall dared to lay a layup like this, and he wasn't afraid of his knees scrapping again?"

"Raymond this breakthrough, the body is distorted into this!"

"Vincent, fly up, oh my God, this has caused a foul, but it's hard to fall!"He is 39 years old. . .

Everyone can feel that these veterans are really working hard, and their breakthroughs are like gambling on their careers!At this time, they are like soldiers who see death as a return, and even if they pay more sacrifices, they will also win.

“Crazy, these crazy people!Do you have a ball, do you need that?Are they all superhuman?If everyone did this, the health insurance company would die!”Dale's heart is dark.

Dale has won three championships at a young age, so for him, the fourth championship is just the icing on the cake.

Not only Dale, the other players of the Warriors also have this idea, especially a few main players, have a championship ring, they feel that they can't fight for what they have.

“These old guys are red-eyed, don’t fight them!”

“They’re not afraid of getting hurt, I’m afraid of getting hurt!”The season is almost over, and I don't want to spend a summer in the hospital."

"At the age of these veterans, I can't play for a year or two to retire again, and my career is still very long!"They are barefoots who are not afraid of me wearing shoes, forget it, or let it be.”

"I have reached the contract year, but also expect to sign a 100 million contract next year, if this time injured, the big contract will certainly be ruined, no, I have to hold back, in order to big contract, but also to protect their health!"Or honestly float three points outside, so it is the safest!”

The Warriors players have different minds, but what they have in common is that they don’t want to work hard with the Clippers.

The so-called narrow road to meet the brave to win, to the last two minutes of overtime, is really to the "narrow road", but the warriors "courage" can not rise.

Sudden death!

That’s what happened with the Warriors.The previous minute was still hot, the score bit very tight, followed by three consecutive rounds without scoring.

And the three most important rounds in overtime.

The team that shoots three points in a row, three consecutive shots, is not surprising, it is a common thing.

But in the last two minutes of overtime, three consecutive shots failed, that is fatal!

That is, in these three rounds, the Clippers pulled the advantage of 5 points.Two layups scored, and one foul and one of two penalties.

The Warriors' fourth three-point attempt finally scored, and then the Clippers did not give the Warriors a chance to respite, breaking directly to the inside, and made a foul, followed by two penalties, the difference was once again increased to 4 points.

The difference of 4 points is a very embarrassing number, which requires two rounds to equalize or super.

The Warriors advanced quickly after the serve, took ten seconds to grab a quick two points, and then took a foul tactic.

It’s time to test the Clippers.

Fans kept making noise, making all kinds of noise, wanting to interfere with the Clippers' free throws.

Then the two penalties of the Clippers were all in, but they let the fans calm down.

Just like just now, the difference is still 4 points, and it still takes two offenses to equalize, but the time is 10 seconds less than just now.

This time, time has not allowed them to have two points quickly, they have to try three-pointers.

At this time, the three-point shot, in addition to strength, needs more luck.

However, the coach of the Warriors team does not have the lucky horseshoe, there is no prayer skill, and there is no improvement of luck.

The most critical three-pointer, the Warriors did not throw, and then the Clippers grabbed the rebound, and then the Warriors had to foul.

The Clippers went on the penalty line again, one of the two penalties, and the difference of 5 points.

The Warriors called a pause, the midfield serve, and immediately hit the three-pointer, this time.The difference becomes 2 minutes.

Immediately after the Clippers serve, the Warriors foul again, the Clippers on the free-throw line, the two penalties in the whole, the difference will change 4 points, and the time is only 5.5 seconds.

The Warriors used the last pause and then continued serving in midfield, grabing three-pointers.

Did not enter, the Clippers got the rebound, the Warriors foul again, but this foul, it no longer makes sense.

There are still 2.2 seconds left, the difference of 4 points, there is no pause, you need to attack from the backcourt, even if you score the ball, the 2.2 seconds will be exhausted.Even if you score a three-pointer, the Warriors will still lose one point.

So in a game, the Warriors are completely cold.

...

When the sound of the whole game sounded, the fans had begun to leave in an orderly manner.

The big score in this round of the series became 3-0, and the Clippers have already won the match point.And for the Warriors, they can already say goodbye to this year's playoffs.

In the NBA, the NBA has never used the team to turn the game behind 0-3.If the team is 2-0 down, the mentality is already in a state of surrender.

Two days later, in the fourth game, Li Dai only let the main players play for ten minutes, hot hands to maintain the feeling, and then on the non-rotational lineup.This is equivalent to the early receipt of gold, take the initiative to give up the fourth game.

The Warriors faced the water dispenser of the Clippers and easily achieved a victory, turning the total score to 1 to 3.

Although the Warriors won, but the Warriors players are not happy at all, 3 to 0 behind the case, it was a force to prepare for the frenzied counterattack, to find some face, but did not expect a punch on the cotton.

And this ball did not help the Warriors to find confidence, the victory is the other side of the water dispenser, which feels like two meters high man beating the children, lost certainly humiliating, won no half of the sense of accomplishment.

In any case, victory is unscrupulous.

The Warriors coaching staff is a little depressed, originally wanted to use this victory to boost the morale of the players, but did not expect people did not intend to come just positive, directly oscillating a shot to hide.

Li Dai put forward a natural look, in the face of the reporter's question directly replied: "Our players are relatively older, in the playoffs in this fierce confrontation has been some lack of physical strength, so we need to rest."You can’t let a group of forty-year-olds work as hard as young people.”

Li Dai's statement, those reporters at the time were speechless.Such a large number of players, the appearance time is called "dedication", it must be people to see people, but if you play a few health basketball, you can't say three or four.

There is a virtue called respect for the elderly and love for young children, but in the NBA, only respect for the elderly, no love of children, young rookie to be bullied is normal, but respect the old man, but it is politically correct thing.

...

In the fifth game, the two sides returned to Los Angeles.

Los Angeles is also a champion traditional team, although this year has the opportunity to impact the championship is not the Lakers but the Clippers, but this does not affect the enthusiasm of fans, the entire stadium nearly 20,000 seats are filled, there are many Hollywood famous movie stars to the scene, witness the Clippers to get the Western Conference champion moment.

The game has not yet begun, and Li Dai is talking with Xiao Tingtian in the VIP seat.

“I didn’t know American sports were so profitable.I play football in China, lose more than ten billion a year, play basketball in the United States, a game can make more than 20 million dollars!"Xiao Ting added an opening sigh.

Dingtian Football Club loses more than a dozen billion every year is a normal operation, but more than a dozen billion for Dingtian Group, but the development of several buildings, it is an advertisement.

When the Dingtian Group acquired the Clippers, it did not intend to make a lot of money, as long as it did not lose too badly.What can be expected to be that in the United States, sports can really make a lot of money.

This game, the average price of tickets has exceeded a thousand U.S. dollars, creating the Western Conference final ticket price, according to the Staples Center's 20,000 seats, the game's ticket revenue reached 20 million U.S. dollars.

Playing a game, a star player's salary for a year has earned.

The price of tickets in Los Angeles is already relatively expensive, and if it reaches the finals, the average price of tickets in Los Angeles can exceed $2,500.

Li Dai replied with a smile: "The commercialization of sports in the United States is indeed incomparable to other countries."

"It's a pity that this game is not our own."He sighed again, then looked at the audience for four weeks.

Xiao Tingtian himself is the development of real estate, and Dingtian Group is still the world's top 500 companies in the top 200 large enterprises, this court is not their own, which makes Xiao Ding feel not in the heart.

Develop a lifetime of real estate, and finally have to rent someone else's court, this can not bear!

Just listen to Xiao Ting add a low voice and say, "I want to build a new stadium, that is, our own stadium."If you win an NBA championship this year, the board of directors will certainly be unimpeded."

The NBA's 30 teams have a total of 29 stadiums, and the Lakers and Clippers share a Staples Arena.

Of the 29 arenas, only seven and a half teams have their own real home arenas.These include: Pistons home Auburn Hills Palace, Wizards home Verizon Center Arena, Raptors home Air Canada Center Stadium, Nets home Barclays Center, Trail Blazers home Moda Center, Nuggets Home Pepsi Center, Jazz Home Wit Smart Home Arena.In addition, the owner of the Bulls owns 50% of the joint center of the Bulls, so the Bulls have half of their own venue.

In addition to these seven and a half teams, the other teams have to rent venues.For example, the Toyota Center, where Chinese fans are more familiar with the Rockets, is owned by the Houston Sports Bureau.

“It costs a lot of money to build a stadium, doesn’t it?”Lee asked unconsciously.

"I'm going to give that number."The fascination directly held out a finger.

A hundred million dollars?This money can not build an NBA basketball hall in Los Angeles.

$10 billion?The group doesn’t have that much money.It doesn’t take so much money to build a stadium.

So this gesture certainly represents a billion dollars!

A billion dollars to build a stadium, this is certainly a high standard of the game.

Today, most of the NBA team's arenas were built in the last century, and earlier ones, such as the Bradley Center and Auburn Hills Palace, were built in 1988, when the cost was no longer reference value.

After 2010, there were three NBA arenas built and opened, namely, the Orlando Amway Center Arena, which opened in 2010, at a cost of $480 million; the Brooklyn Barclays Center, which opened in 2012, at a cost of $1 billion; and the opening of the Sacramento Gold No. 1 Arena in 2016, with a cost of $558 million.

In addition, the Warriors' new arena in San Francisco is also known as an investment of $1 billion.

Barclays Center is located in New York, where the land is more expensive, so it has a cost of $1 billion; San Francisco's land price is also very high, so the new stadium of the Warriors is also rising.

The land in Los Angeles is also very expensive, and the construction of a new arena in Los Angeles, $ 7 billion or $ 8 billion is certainly indispensable.But if you spend $1 billion, it must be a very standard arena.

As for whether it can recover the cost, Li Dai is not worried, as a coach, Li Dai himself believes that it is world-class, but when it comes to real estate development, the top is also world-class.Since the faucet is willing to take 1 billion to come out to build a stadium, there must be a way to profit from it.

...

Among the spectators, many of them are not Clippers fans, they just come to witness a new Western champion, of course, some people are to witness the Warriors being eliminated.

The Warriors have reached the finals for four consecutive years and won three championships, which is the first time in five years that the Warriors have not reached the finals, and they really need to witness it.

And many fans are also aware that this may be the Warriors' final game in this lineup.

Some of the Warriors players are in a contract year and want a big contract.Some people have lowered their salary for the championship, and some people are about to usher in their own contract year.If there is a champion in hand, the player's salary reduction and renewal is not a problem, but if you don't win the championship or even enter the finals, then the Warriors lineup is likely to disintegrate next year.

So this game, after the Warriors lose, their players are likely to go their separate next season.

Even the fans can be aware of things, professional coaches and players, can not be aware?

This ball, the main players in the Warriors team, is playing with the confusion of the future.Their minds are no longer about winning the game, but thinking, “I’m going to get a top salary next season,” or “I should go to that team next season.”

People are broken, and it is difficult to win again.

...

In the game, the Clippers and the Warriors also played back and round, both sides have a very good goal, but in the eyes of basketball professionals, this game did not reach the intensity of the Western Conference finals.

Even when the Warriors lost the game in the end, people did not see the frustration of being eliminated on the faces of the Warriors players, at best, some disappointment, and even some players will show a relieved expression.

Perhaps for the Warriors players, the championship is also a pressure, the so-called high is not cold!Now not into the finals, it is more like removing the burden of the shoulders.

The Clippers defeated the Warriors by a total of 4-1, just one step away from the championship.

On the other hand, the Eastern Conference final is still in progress.

Unexpectedly, the final winner of the Eastern Conference was the Milwaukee Bucks.

The Bucks are also a team with a long history, having won the NBA championship in 1971, but since 2000 the Bucks have begun to decline, and it has only been a strong team in the East again in the last two years.

However, even so, before the start of the playoffs, there are still not many people who are optimistic about the Bucks, but the Bucks have reached the finals under the leadership of the team's core "alphabet brother".

I believe that before the start of the season, no one will expect the Clippers and Bucks to be in the finals.

The day after the Eastern Conference finals, the Clippers took a flight to Milwaukee.

The first two games of the finals are the home of the Bucks.Because the Bucks' regular-season record is better than the Clippers.

This does not mean that the Bucks are stronger than the ticsap, mainly because the competition in the Western regular season this season is too fierce.

This season, the West has become a pot of porridge, especially in the first half of the regular season, with seven or eight teams taking turns to the first position in the West.Today is still the first team in the West, tomorrow if you lose a goal, you may fall out of the playoffs.This chaotic situation has made the Western team's overall performance down.

The competition in the East is not so fierce, as in previous years, the top five or six early established playoff seats, the other few teams with a winning rate of less than 50% compete for the remaining playoff places, and the few behind began to rot at the beginning of the season, becoming the eyes of other teams.

So the top three teams in the East are better than the top of the Western rankings.

...

In the first game of the finals, unknowingly, the Clippers achieved a double-digit lead.

The Bucks actually did not make any mistakes, the tactical execution is also in place, and the hit rate is not very bad, but it is the score behind.

This is the power gap!

The lineup is weaker and the experience is worse, and in the finals, this gap becomes backward in the score, and it is still the kind of backward that can't be chased.

Obviously, it has been done very well, but it still has to lose, and the Bucks really can't do it.

On the bench on the sidelines, Li Dai's face was relaxed and comfortable, and assistant coach Kassel chatted:

“That boy is fine!”Li Dai pointed to the core of the Bucks, the name is a long "alphabet brother", and now Li Dai still can not spell his name.

Li Dai's detection results show that this 24-year-old young owner of the S+ level of talent, is likely to become the ruler of the next generation of the league, and his data of 26 points and 13 rebounds and 6 assists this season are also impeccable.

Li Dai continued, "Such a young man, he shouldn't stay in Milwaukee, he should go to the big city."

“Are you going to bring him here?”Kassel asked tentatively.

Mr. Lee went on to say, “He has two years left on his contract, but we’re afraid it’s hard to get him to Los Angeles.”He said in an interview that he would like to stay in Milwaukee.”

“He said that because he hasn’t experienced enough failures!He is still young, he feels that his future career is still very long, and he is not so urgent for the championship.When he experienced one defeat, one despair, he would change his mind when he realized that Milwaukee would never win a championship."Li Dai said.

“Indeed, Milwaukee is a small ball market, and it’s hard for them to attract superstars.And now the NBA, without enough superstars, there is no championship!”Kassel answered honestly.

Milwaukee is not a small city, they have a population of nearly 2 million, which can be at the forefront of many cities in the United States.

But as far as basketball is concerned, Milwaukee is a small ball market.

The city's preference for baseball is much higher than basketball, and the major league baseball brewers have been at the bottom of the list of winners and less achievements for many years, but in Milwaukee, the popularity of winemakers has always been higher than that of the Bucks.

Listening to Li Dai continue, "At the end of the season, I intend to resign as head coach."

“What?”Kassel's body was stunned and looked at Li Dai with an incredible eye.

"Next year is another Olympic year, and I can't continue to focus on the team."Li Dai put his hands together and continued: "I intend to advise the management that you take over the position of head coach, anyway, in the past two years, the team's tactics have always been in charge of you."Next season, I will continue to be responsible for physical training.”

“Make me a coach!”Kassel opened his mouth, and he did not expect to harvest such a big surprise on this occasion.

As long as he is an assistant coach, he definitely wants to be a coach, and so does Kassel.

And what Lee Dai left for Kassel is still a championship team.

Casselton felt that his daughter-in-law for many years had finally become a mother-in-law!