The rest is just noise

Flog the Spaniard

Lu Wuxia's absence from the first half due to injury was like a bolt from the blue to Celtic supporters.

Many are reminded of the injury issues that have plagued the Celtics this season.

Before Lu Wuxia was injured, they had already lost Alan Houston, Dwyane Wade, Brandon Roy and Tony Allen due to injuries.

These five people are all guards. If they are there, the Celtics' back line will be qualified to compete for the best backcourt in history.

Even with so many elite players injured and unable to play, the Celtics still had the best record in the league.

Lu Wuxia was elected MVP, entered the first team for the second time, and led the team to an astonishing 11-game winning streak in the playoffs. Even neutral viewers who have no interest in the Greens have to admit that they are the best team this year.

Seeing that the Celtics were about to win another championship, injuries suddenly came like bad news.

This time, it is no longer the important but replaceable main rotation players who are injured, but Lu Wuxia.

"Did Reid really take away Boston's good fortune?"

Tom Heinsohn looked stunned and said this with the microphone turned off.

In the second half, the Celtics needed to find a second strong point due to the lack of flawlessness.

Although Ginobili has this ability, without the shooting touch, his breakthrough threat is reduced.

Fortunately, although Yao Yueban was not good in singles with the ball, he finally found an average three-point shooting rate of 40% from the outside.

He made two three-pointers in the first half and was even more heroic in the second half, shooting 4 of 6 from outside. He scored 38 points and 2 rebounds on 14 of 24 shooting.

Yao Yueban's resurgence in touch has led to a group of Celtics shooters.

However, in the absence of flawless roads, the Celtics' offensive firepower has never been able to fully explode as it did in the regular season.

Therefore, throughout the second half, they just held on to the score, but failed to go further.

In the end, 111 to 104, the Suns defeated the Celtics at home to avoid being dropped in three straight games and broke Louis' mythical 68-game winning streak in the playoffs.

"As the first head coach to defeat Boss Lu in the playoffs after 1997, what do you think?"

After the game, Mike D'Antoni was asked this question by a reporter.

This is what the authorities know, but the onlookers are confused.

For D'Antoni, breaking Louis' record is not a happy thing, because if the Suns want to win the championship, they must defeat the Celtics four times. During this period, ending Louis' record is just a matter of course.

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But the current public opinion is going in the direction of "the Suns will be successful if they win one game".

This is too strange. The team that is clearly at a disadvantage is the Celtics...

"I am very honored."

That's all D'Antoni could say.

In the media room at the Celtics' postgame press conference, Louis could feel the gloom on the faces of the Boston media.

Lu Wuxia's injury may completely change the situation of the finals.

Therefore, when the reporter asked Louis whether Lu Wuxia's injury would affect the team's confidence in subsequent games, Louis couldn't help but think of the 2018 Western Conference finals. After the Rockets scored 3-2 against the Warriors, Cole's reputation was famous in the cold game.

Scene, "I am very satisfied with the current situation."

"Our current situation is very similar to this year's Miami Heat." Louis said, "Wish is even more important to us than Gilbert is to the Heat. However, we are not the Heat. The real champion team will

Prove yourself without anyone else, because a champion is a champion."

Afterwards, the reporters showed off their traditional skills: "You mean, Wish will miss the next games?"

Louis suspected that the reporter was sent by the BBC.

"No, I mean, whether Wish is absent or not, we will win the finals."

The night when Louis' mythical record came to an end did not cause much turmoil, because to the outside world, Lu Wuxia's injury was the main reason for this result.

The next day, the Boston Celtics announced Lu Wuxia's injury report: he suffered a first-degree sprain in his right foot and will need to miss 6 to 10 days.

According to the estimate of the shortest injury date, Lu Wuxia will not be able to return until at least the sixth game of the finals.

The Celtics have no attitude towards this.

Only assistants like Steve Kerr said: "Wish has no clear timetable for his return unless he fully recovers."

However, what is certain is that Lu Wuxia will definitely miss the fourth game of the finals.

There is a two-day interval between the third and fourth games, and then there is a three-day interval between the fourth and fifth games. Louis wants to see if Wuxia can come back in the sixth game. Before that,

, the Celtics need to prepare for the worst.

What Wu Xia wants to do is to come back in the fifth game.

Of course Louis disagreed, so Wuxia started to rub him the hard way.

Louis said there is no father and son in the team, so don't do this.

Wu Xia said that now they are father and son, because he is injured and cannot play, so he is not a player.

Louis also said that since they are father and son, isn't it natural for a son to obey his father?

Lu Wuxia also had a counterargument, so why couldn't his father support his desire to play despite injuries? Athletes have to be prepared to endure pain, so how can they recover from a minor injury? This is the finals.

When she said this, Yao Yueban felt a chill on her back, as if someone was speaking ill of herself.

Even so, Louis still disagreed.

"Don't be stupid. Even if you come back, you can only help us win one game at most. It's not worth it." Louis said seriously, "Or do you think your teammates can't win the championship without you?"

"It's not that I'm not there," Lu Wuxia said, "it's that it's difficult to win the championship without me, Alan, D-Wade, Brandon, and Tony."

Louis said: "They will find a way."

"Really? I think this is unfair to Team Yao. If I can't play, there won't be many people around him who can help him share the pressure."

As soon as Lu Wuxia finished speaking, Ginobili said: "Wish, watch me in the next game."

"I believe in Manu, and I believe in Andre..." Lu Wuxia said, looking at Gasol, "Paul, is KG so scary? I provoked him so much, but he didn't eat me, why are you so afraid of him?

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Gasol shook his head and said harshly: "No, I'm not afraid of him, I'm just not in the right state."

"It's been three games, aren't you out of shape?" Louis interrupted the ineffective communication between his son and the coward, "I want to know how long it will take for you to adjust to your condition before you can compete with KG? Two days.

?Three days? Ten days? Or adjust to next year? Maybe next year the Suns won't make it to the Finals, and then you can perform well against other people and announce that you have found your form, but KG doesn't come?

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Gasol was speechless.

"Remember what I said to you last night? KG is not even the best insider on the US team. If you take revitalizing Spanish basketball as your mission, you should prove that you have this ability in the NBA. Otherwise, even if you are in

So what if you beat the US team on the FIBA ​​stage? The rules are different and the standards are different. You just gained the upper hand for a while by relying on a better understanding of the rules and standards of FIBA ​​competitions, which doesn't explain anything."

"Now, since you said that you have been adjusting your condition in the past few games, then I will be looking forward to your performance in the fourth game." Louis announced the matchup in the fourth game of the finals in advance, "In the next game, KG

It's up to you, you can play whatever position he plays, and let me see if you can adjust your condition."

The reason why Louis put pressure on Gasol was not to make him reborn.

To be honest, no matter how awakened Gasol is, at most it will be that after Akagi was beaten by Owada until his heart was broken, Otoru Daigo began to play a blue-collar guy and showed his performance, instead of Rukawa being too excited to reveal the whole drama after being completely blasted by Zebei.

Only Smile and unlock the Triple Threat.

The next two games lack flawlessness. If the Celtics want to win one of them, Gasol must perform.

Otherwise, it would be difficult for Yao Yueban to compete with Garnett and Milicic inside.

Lu Wuxia did not expect that his father would use his words to spur Gasol. Although he did feel that the Spaniard had not played well in the previous games, was his father really not afraid of crushing him under such pressure?

He could only wait and see what happened. No matter what, he couldn't play the fourth game.

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