The Basketball Court Swordsman

For most basketball fans in the world, June 1st is not as simple as Children's Day.

At the Banker's Life Arena in Indianapolis, a grand battle between the Pacers and the Warriors is about to take place. Who is ruling this era? After this round of the series, fans will get the result.

Henson came to the arena early today, standing on the empty playing field. His eyes fell on the three eye-catching championship pennants at the dome of the arena.

Once, he won the O'Brien Cup three times here. But now, what meets him is a greater challenge.

Henson knows very well that there is not much time left in his coaching career and he must seize every opportunity to play in the finals.

If you can add a new one behind those three championship pennants, your career will be very complete.

Look at those NBA coaches, not everyone can achieve Henson's achievements. The well-respected Jerry Sloan has never touched a championship in his career. Henson hated "Crazy Carl", and he missed the championship in this life. "Mad Scientist" old Nelson developed many new ideas in tactics, but still couldn't win the championship.

And Henson, he has already started to make an impact towards his fourth championship ring. If you can wear all five fingers, it must be very beautiful.

Henson took a deep breath with his hips akimbo, closed his eyes and imagined what this stadium would look like later. He seemed to feel the players passing by while he roared in the fierce confrontation.

Thinking of this, Henson's hands trembled. The finals, I am here again!

"Hello everyone, audience friends, welcome to lock in eSPN. This is Mike Brin, we will bring you the live broadcast of the NBA Finals soon!"

Mike Brin’s magnetic voice rang in front of the TV. As soon as he heard this voice, the fans would immediately enter a "state of combat". After all, this is already the 12th year that Mike Brin commented on the Finals. What's unbelievable is that for a third of this time, Mike Brin is watching Henson's team play the finals!

The cheers of the fans, the aggressiveness shown by the players, and the intense preparations of the coaching staff made Henson's fantasy before the game all become reality.

Faced with such a big battle, Henson, who had been away for two years in the finals, was not nervous, but extremely excited.

Sure enough, the basketball court is his world!

Just as the players were warming up, reporters from the sidelines began to interview. Due to the death of Sager, this year eSPN did not invite him to continue to participate in the finals, but replaced it with eSPN's own name, Stephen A. Smith.

Steven A. Smith’s interview style is completely different from Mike Brin. He is not very humorous and doesn’t make jokes much. But the questions raised are always sharp and sharp.

As soon as the first question came up, he asked Pachulia without any shy, "What do you think of the scolding battle between you and Henson a few days ago? Do you think you have the ability to respond to him on the court?"

"We will naturally use the game to prove everything. Coach Henson will know how strong the opponent he is facing." Since the mouth fight was actually lost, Pachulia was very embarrassed when facing this problem. One sentence.

On the other hand, Henson's response was more in line with Stephen A. Smith's appetite.

"How to evaluate? They quarreled and lost, what else is there to evaluate? In short, the league now attaches great importance to Pachulia's every move. I think that guy should no longer dare to interfere with the game with those dirty moves. Then you will find in this game that Pachulia is useless except for playing dirty."

Henson, who wears a floral suit to pay tribute to Thrall, looks extremely proud in front of the camera. He will not let go of any opportunity to show off his "record". The victory of the saliva battle is also a victory.

After listening to Henson's answer, Stephen A. Smith smiled slightly. It was the first time he felt the difference of this coach. No wonder he was so annoying at first, but now his popularity is so high.

The interview with Steven A. Smith reminded the fans of the grievances between the Pacers and the Warriors before the start of the finals, and made them look forward to the game even more.

The victory of the saliva battle is just foreplay. When the 48-minute game time is over, the person who can really take away the game is the final winner!

"Execute the game according to tactics! Defensive, I need you to use meat grinder-style defense to bring down the Warriors from the first second of the game!"

Two minutes before the start of the game, Henson's state was quite different from his composure in the interview. At this time, the Chinese coach was impassioned, wishing to silence the noise made by more than 18,000 people with his own voice.

At what Henson said, Antetokounmpo swallowed. Playing well in the regular season is not a superstar. Only if you prove yourself in the playoffs and lead the team to victory, you are a real superstar!

Since Henson needs to attack by himself today, let's attack! Even in front of him, the Warriors defensive core Draymond Green.

"Coach Henson, time is almost up."

The referee walked to the Pacers bench to urge, Henson nodded slightly at the referee, and then waved at the players.

"Go on the court and run as much as you like, Pacers."

When the two parties' starting positions were fixed at the designated locations, eSPN also displayed the starting list of both parties on the TV screen.

Mike Brin thought that the two tactical masters, Cole and Henson, would change in the finals, but he did not expect that they both chose to be conservative, and the starting lineups of the two teams were the same as before.

The Warriors' starters were Curry, Thompson, Durant, Green and Zaza Pachulia. On the Pacers side, it's the same.

After all, neither Cole nor Henson knew each other enough. When Henson led the team to win three consecutive championships, Cole was still a commentator. And when Cordy led the Warriors to rule the league, Henson was thinking about how to increase the annual sales of sports drinks.

In the face of unfamiliar opponents, radical may be able to achieve miraculous results, but conservative is undoubtedly the safest and safest. In the finals, no one likes to take risks.

"Unexpectedly, I really met him in the finals. Interesting..." Cole, holding his chin, stood on the sidelines and glanced at the Pacers bench.

Over there, Henson did not sit on the Diaoyutai leisurely like playing the regular season, but crossed the sidelines with his hips akimbo.

"Be careful, Steve. Henson Joe has all kinds of labels, but absolutely no one thinks he is interesting." Cole's assistant coach, who just joined the Warriors coaching staff last summer Coach," Mike Brown reminded.

"It doesn't matter, Mike. Believe me, he is out of date." Steve Kerr smiled lightly, meanwhile, the referee on the court threw the basketball high into the air.

Pachulia made a leap, perhaps because he wanted to save the face he lost in the scolding battle, so he worked very hard in the scramble.

The basketball was placed in the hands of Stephen Curry, but Curry did not control the ball as a number one, but gave the ball to the team's fourth position, Draymond Green.

Green steadily advanced with the ball, dribbling and gesturing, looking like an experienced point guard.

In fact, this is not the first time Green has done an offensive job. In this regard, he is familiar with the road.

Antetokounmpo opened his arms and waited for Green to make the net, but Green didn't even plan to score. He first passed the ball to Curry, and then immediately set up a screen for Curry.

After Curry broke through to form a defensive contraction, he gave the ball to Green again.

At this time, Green and Curry's two-person cooperation has attracted most of the attention of the Pacers Origin. So Green suddenly changed the pass object and delivered the basketball to Klay Thompson. At this point, Thompson had just borrowed a ball-free screen to come out.

Thompson has not forgotten the humiliation of scoring 50 points in the regular season this year but still losing to the Pacers. In that game, the Pacers persisted to the end with perseverance, so today, Thompson will defeat the Pacers' confidence from the beginning!

As Danny Green gets older, he is no longer the sports boy who could not run to death. Now he plays a bigger role in assisting defense, while one-on-one defense is not so good. His follow-up defense is still very active, but still a step slower.

One step is enough for Thompson, a top off-ball scorer, to take a shot.

"brush!"

Thompson's three-pointer steadily hit, and Draymond Green's organization also paid off. Let Green become the organization forward and allow Thompson and Curry to be freed from the ball, this is the biggest masterpiece of Cole's coaching career.

Seeing Thompson score a goal, Cole smiled triumphantly, then turned to look at his assistant Mike Brown.

"What am I talking about? That guy is out of date."