Chapter 857 This Is a Natural Chasm!

I don’t know why, every time I play against the Supersonics, before the game, Popovich always feels very stable.

From the first season of Yes entering the NBA, when the Spurs met the Supersonics, whether it was the regular season or the playoffs, Popovich felt that his team should win every time.

Even later, in those extremely dark years, Popovich now thinks back that he still felt good before the game.

Why does he feel very good every time he faces Yes and the Supersonics?

Popovich once had such a question.

Because every time he feels good, there are always inexplicable losses and tragedies.

13 points in 35 seconds, 10 consecutive buzzer beaters, and a series of horrible background moments.

Anyone who has experienced what he and the Spurs have experienced in the past few years will doubt life.

Every time he feels good, but the final result is always so embarrassing.

Anyone with a normal IQ will doubt whether there is something wrong.

As for what went wrong, Popovich has not found the answer yet.

However, for him, it is not so important whether he has found the answer now.

Now, it is finally time to get rid of the darkness and enjoy the light and victory!

Sitting on the bench, Popovich, the head coach of the Spurs, looked at the players on both sides of the court with a smile full of confidence, pride and excitement on his face.

However, his smile made Ginobili, who was sitting next to him, a little nervous.

Popovich rarely wanted to stand on the sidelines to direct the game.

This is indeed not so friendly to Ginobili.

In this playoffs, the Spurs were very brave, and only he and Parker were beaten all the time.

Popovich also played a blow dryer on him and Parker more than once.

Although facing Popovich has always been very stressful, it has been particularly great recently.

Fortunately, because of his master, although his performance was still quite bad when facing Yes, the team was able to win and the team was going to advance, so he barely didn't have to worry about the greater pressure after losing.

Of course, Popovich, who was enjoying the victory and felt that it might be better to have a glass of red wine at this time, naturally didn't care how great the pressure was on Ginobili next to him at this time.

For someone as amiable as him, others can feel pressure from him. That is definitely not his problem. He is neither fierce nor evil. It must be the problem of these people themselves.

It has nothing to do with him.

He will be elegant in this game. He will greet the greatest victory elegantly like his old rival Phil Jackson!

When he played against Phil Jackson before, what he couldn't stand the most was Phil Jackson, who was holding a card like OK and pretending to be elegant.

Now after feeling it, this feeling is really quite good.

It is completely different from his own style of winking at the referee on the sidelines.

Popovich really didn't expect that a person like himself who likes to worry about the team would have such an elegant day.

Just like he never thought that one day he would play offense on the court.

He never thought that one day, because of the sweep of Yes, those coconut black media who originally hated him very much, those who used to describe him as the worst person in the NBA, actually described him as a kind old grandfather recently.

Haha, Popovich is a kind old grandfather. If someone had described him like this five years ago, he would have been laughed out loud and embarrassed.

Time is really the most wonderful thing in the world.

Just like ten years ago, when people thought Jordan was the greatest player of all time and in the future, they never thought that Yes would appear.

Time is magical and wonderful.

Especially when you are enjoying victory, time is the most wonderful aftertaste.

Because I know that this game is a must-win game.

So even when he saw the jump ball, Tim lost again, and it was still a very miserable loss, there was no worry or unhappiness on his face, and there was still an elegant smile, the elegant smile of a winner.

Old Nelson was desperate. This was the judgment he made when he saw the starting lineup of the Supersonics before the game started.

In fact, after the game started, the content of the game was almost exactly the same as his judgment.

In the first three games, Yes used a method to deal with Bruce in every game.

Reduce his shooting speed, sit in the low post and back up, and in the third game, unlimited mid-range pick-and-roll mid-range shots with teammates.

In this game, Popovich wanted to see what other tricks Yes would use.

In the end, when he saw Yes's first attack in this game, Popovich was disappointed.

Yes did not use other tricks.

Yes's first attack was a pick-and-roll with Milicic, but Bruce's defense was so good that he did not give Yes a chance to play a small-to-big pick-and-roll, but instead rushed in front of Yes again.

In this attack and defense, Bruce's perfect defensive skills were once again fully demonstrated.

Although Yes finally hit the mid-range shot.

But just like Duncan was not worried about losing the jump ball, he was not worried about Yes's mid-range hit.

"Yes has no other means, Yes is also desperate, Yes has begun to use his past failed means!"

Even!

Popovich could guess that Yes had no new means in this game, and might mix the means of the past three games.

Such a Yes reminded Popovich of a very interesting story.

Three cups of 25-degree water, poured together, what is the degree of this cup of water?

Haha.

Looking at the cheering crowd around, perhaps many people are willing to believe that three cups of water mixed together are 75 degrees.

But in fact, it is still 25 degrees!

Of course, this is still the first attack of the Supersonics in this game. As for whether Yes really used three means mixed against Bruce, it is still unclear.

However, Popovich did not wait for too long. When the Supersonics attacked for the second time, when he saw Yes sitting under the basket on the court, the smile on Popovich's face became even brighter.

Ginobili, who had been paying attention to Popovich's mood and emotions, was a little dumbfounded at this time.

How could Popovich's level of smiling tiger be so high?

Yes hit!

Yes hit, but Popovich smiled!

And he smiled so brightly and so creepy!

Isn't this too scary?

Well, if Popovich, who thinks he smiles elegantly, knew that someone around him said his smile was creepy, he would definitely be unhappy.

Of course, Popovich definitely didn't know.

Judging a game is the most basic skill for a head coach.

And a successful head coach is often a person who successfully predicts the trend of the game.

Popovich felt that he was a successful head coach who couldn't be more successful in this game.

He predicted the despair of old Nelson, and he also predicted the despair of Yes.

When the two most difficult opponents were beaten into despair by him, is there anything more joyful than this?

Of course not!

So, time is the most wonderful aftertaste!

Just like the people who like to watch the slow slicing and the people who are being slow slicing have very different moods. Every cut and every second is not long and painful, but wonderful!

"The game is still very intense, but Yes and Nelson have no choice!"

"The current situation is very, very unfavorable to the Supersonics!"

In the Lakers' locker room, everyone was watching the game attentively at this time.

Phil Jackson's words made the Lakers players around him nod subconsciously.

28 to 29, this is the score of the first quarter of this game. The Seattle Supersonics were one point behind the Spurs in the first quarter at their home court.

The score seems to be very close.

In fact, it is very, very close.

It seems that the Supersonics also have a chance to win.

If it is true on the surface.

But!

If the first three games between the Supersonics and the Spurs, except before the Supersonics used the foul tactics, the biggest difference between the two teams was no more than 5 points 1 minute before the end of the game, but in the end the Spurs won.

Will there be a different interpretation when looking at the small score of the two teams in the first quarter of this game?

Why did Popovich emphasize after each of the first three games that the game was intense, but the Spurs won?

It's because of this reason!

"This is a natural chasm!"

No matter how hard Yes struggles, he can't cross it!

In a sense, this natural chasm is more despairing than those big-score massacres.

In this world, no one knows better than Phil Jackson how terrible this kind of natural chasm that seems like metaphysics is.

In the 1997 Finals, the Jazz's momentum and reputation were extremely high before the game.

Many people thought that the Jazz would become the king that year.

But in the end, the king was still the Bulls!

Why?

There were a total of six games in the Finals that year, three of which were decided by three points. In these three games, the Bulls won all of them!

Three games and it was like seeing a ghost, each game was won by two points!

This was of course exciting and thrilling for the Bulls.

But for the Jazz, how terrified and powerless they would be when facing these three games?

Three games with a difference of two points, all lost!

Victory is within reach, but it is just out of reach!

This is the chasm!

How similar are the three previous games between the Supersonics and the Spurs and the three games between the Bulls and the Jazz!

This is a similarity that makes no sense.

Of course, the chasm between the Supersonics and the Spurs is much greater than the chasm between the Jazz and the Bulls.

So don't look at the fierce competition between the two teams now, it seems that anyone has a chance to win, but when the game is over, when the result comes out, the whole world will suddenly realize it.

Of course, he suddenly realized it before the game was over.

No, it's not just him...

"A wonderful game always brings back many wonderful memories!"

Looking at the score of 53 to 55 at the end of the first half, Jordan took a deep puff of the cigar in his hand, and his mind was full of the intense memories of eight years ago.

In the first half of this game, Yes performed very well.

It should be said that it is still unimaginable that he defeated Bowen for the fourth consecutive game!

At least, in the first half, Yes once again proved that he could beat Bowen, and not just one, two, three games, or even four, five, six, or seven games as long as he is given the opportunity!

Yes proved that he is the only player in basketball history who can maintain such an offensive advantage over Bowen, but he has no chance to beat Bowen for the fifth, sixth, or even seventh time in a row.

"After this game, Yes will be as desperate as Karl and John!"

Jordan still can't forget the desperate eyes of the kings of the mountain Malone and Stockton and the Jazz fans.

Because that was the third game they lost with a difference of two points!

As if cursed!

Now, this team that seemed to be cursed by God has become the Supersonics, and the person cursed by God has become Yes!

The first half of the game between the Sonics and the Spurs was very intense, and such intensity was really heartbreaking.

The Sonics fans in the stands and the coconut powder in front of the TV, this was already their fourth game to watch such an intense game!

"Basketball is a game where ten people run on the court and the Spurs win in the end!"

At the end of the third game between the Sonics and the Spurs, Pippen, who has been saying golden sentences recently, said a very popular golden sentence.

For the fans who came to accompany the Sonics and Yes on the last journey, they really would rather this was a game of slaughter by the Spurs.

They don't want to watch such a game that is heartbreaking for them and even more heartbreaking for Yes!

After watching three such games, they really don't want to watch the fourth game.

But after the third quarter started, the game was still at this rhythm!

So much so that at the end of the third quarter, looking at the score of 81 to 82 on the court, many Sonics fans, especially female fans, had lost their voices and covered their faces and cried.

This is a very, very strange scene.

A team is only one point behind, but the fans of this team are so desperate!

But anyone who has followed the progress of the past three games between the Supersonics and the Spurs in front of the TV can understand why they are like this.

"In the past three games, the Supersonics have never led the Spurs except for the first two minutes of each game!"

"In the third quarter, the score was only one point behind, and the Supersonics fans showed all kinds of people!"

Kenny Smith was very excited!

Popovich was also very excited!

Be elegant, don't be reckless, tonight I am Phil Popovich!

Half an hour later...

Tonight, Popovich, who must be elegant, stood on the sidelines with his mouth wide open, staring at the last jump of the scoreboard.

Jordan, who was enjoying the taste of the victory cigar and the wonderful memories, stared at the score on TV dully, and didn't notice that the room became more fiery and hot.

As for Kenny Smith, who was still excited just now, he has lost his voice like the audience at the scene.

However, the audience at the scene lost their voices for a moment, and then there was a booming explosion!

But Kenny Smith was completely voiceless!

108 to 107!

Yes beat the Spurs at home!

The Seattle SuperSonics pulled one back at home!