Chapter 791: A rare victory

Leonard is just a 13th pick, the edge of the lottery show, and is not the kind of all-round player. The only thing that can be achieved is the defensive strength.
Generally speaking, no team will use a pure defensive player as the absolute core of the team...
Therefore, Leonard never thought that he would become Richard's number one general...
Among the newcomers who entered the league at the same time, Clay Thompson is higher than his pick. Although his defense is not as good as him, his offensive firepower is stronger than him...
Among other players, there is a player such as Horford who entered the league as a show show.
In Leonard's view, these two men may have a better chance of becoming Richard's most important player than themselves.
But now Richard tells him that he will be the absolute leader of this team. This great trust has made Leonard feel that the breeder is dead for the soulmate.
He is a poor-spoken person, and instead of such a slick-mouthed person like Sun Yue, I am afraid that he is already crying and holding his thighs in tears...
"Thank you, coach."
"I will work hard!"
Leonard said firmly to Richard.
Richard nodded, "Go ahead and train well. You will live in Los Angeles for training this year. If you have no place to live, you will live in my house. I will let Kobe train with you. of."
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After Leonard left, Richard breathed a sigh of relief.
He likes the card player very much. Richard was a fan of that kind of fraternity. He likes many teams. The Spurs are one of them.
In the years when Xiaoka played for the Spurs, Richard made the killer like him. Even if Xiaoka had a conflict with the Spurs, Richard did not give up his love for Xiaoka because of this.
In his view, the nasty things between Xiaoka and Spurs are actually no one to blame.
Think of a sixteen-year-old child without a father. Uncle came out to replace his father's role at this time. Xiaoka itself is not a kind of very assertive child. Naturally, he will be greatly affected by his uncle.
In this matter, Xiaoka is more like a puppet, like a robot controlled by his uncle...
In addition to blaming uncle, Jordan also had to bear a little bit of pan.
(Jordan: MMP?! What do I do...)
At the time of the Spurs, Xiaoka was a signed player of the Jordan series. The fans may not believe it. His shoe contract is only $500,000 a year...
Even if it expires later, the other party will only provide the small card with a four-year 20 million US dollar contract, which is really awkward.
The Jordan brand is not charitable. There is certainly a reason for this awkward contract offer.
The reason is very simple, that is the low value of Spurs players' goods...
It is no exaggeration to say that the lowest commercial value player group in the league is the Spurs.
One is because the Spurs City is not good enough, and the other is because the Holy City media is not good. It has its own influence and then rarely praises its own players.
For example, Duncan, the greatest player in Spurs history, never even got a DPOY in his career, and the league owes Duncan at least three DOPY.
In various historical rankings, James can be selected in the top five by the media, but when did the name of Duncan appear in the top five?
Isn’t Duncan better than James?
The two men played 16 times in the finals, Duncan won 11 times, and most of the five losses were due to age.
From this point of view, this ranking does not have any rationality at all, it is entirely the media that ranks according to their own preferences.
Well-known, good players who engage in media relations, then they can rank up. As for dumb people like Duncan, who have little commercial value, they will naturally suffer big losses.
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As for so many important awards in the alliance, the media will participate in the selection, and Richard naturally knows the reason.
The league needs to use the media to expand their influence, which is why the league will force players or coaches to participate in some press conferences, if not, they will be punished...
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Two days later, the first round of the playoffs for the Lakers and Clippers G4 started.
In the first three playoff games, Kobe averaged only 21 points per game. This may be the lowest scoring round in the playoffs after he joined the Lakers.
But the more so, the more the Lakers feel terrible, the Lakers' offensive efficiency becomes higher.
In fact, if Kobe is like the last season's playoffs against the Mavericks, all kinds of crazy singles, then the Clippers these three playoffs, may not be able to win one game.
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The game on the field has already begun, the Clippers are really desperate, and the Lakers will be defensively crazy regardless of their physical fitness.
Especially at the point of Leonard, it seems that the machine is overclocked. In the past, it just prevented Kobe from shooting. Now even Kobe’s pass is not allowed. The whole person is like an octopus, as if it was directly attached to Kobe’s. Average body.
The Lakers may also have a big score of 3:0, plus the previous three games were relatively easy to win, so this game is a bit lax. After the opening, the Clippers directly played a big advantage.
Leonard's defensive intensity revealed tonight has already made live fans reach a jaw-dropping level. They knew that Leonard's defense is good before, but they have never seen this kind of Leonard.
From the beginning to the present, Leonard is not at Kobe's side all the time, crazily restricting Kobe's receiving, shooting and passing...
This kind of crazy defense, Bryant is directly defended with some anger rising, if not the opponent is Richard Clippers, I am afraid that he has already soared.
He hasn't enjoyed this level of perimeter defense for years.
In an interview with the media before, Bryant said publicly that the best player in the league to defend against him was Tony Allen, and Leonard’s defense now made Kobe realize that the expressionless defense in front of him, It must be much stronger than Tony Allen.
It is not to say that the current Leonard's defensive awareness is stronger than Tony Allen, mainly because Leonard's physical condition is too much than the Tony Allen.
Tony Allen is actually only 193 cm tall, and his wingspan is not very good, but Leonard is not. His height and wingspan, combined with terrifying hands, are simply born for defense.
It may be that some of Leonard's defenses lost their senses, and Kobe increased his shots.
"Boy, I will shoot here next."
"You can't stop me at all! I will blow you into scum in this game." Bryant looked at Leonard provocatively.
Leonard was still expressionless, even without looking at Kobe, and followed his teammates into the offensive round.
Kobe was a little bit dumbfounded, what kind of rookie he was facing.
There was no breath of living in Leonard's body. Even if he was so provocative, Leonard was completely deaf and ignored Kobe as air.
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In the next offensive round, Thompson ran out of the open and hit a three-pointer directly, pulling the points further apart.
In the offensive round of the Lakers, Bryant did not foresee, he controlled the ball to go to the designated position.
His high-level back-to-back singles skills are a must. This is Kobe's top-notch stunt for more than a decade, and he used them directly at Leonard.
Leonard did not go to the top of Kobe's back, but stepped back one step at a time, keeping a space where he could jump and block at any time.
It is unwise to stand up against the opponent unless they have absolute height and strength advantages for defensive back-to-back singles, because this will give the opponent leaning on himself to lean back.
Of course, the bigger reason is that it is easy to be fouled by opponents.
Leonard has played against Kobe many times this season. He has already figured out Kobe's routine and summed up the best way to defend Kobe.
Looking at the violation of the law for five seconds, Kobe also reached his most confident shot, and suddenly turned back and shot.
Leonard had already waited for this opportunity, just like a rigorously programmed robot, even if he jumped and reached out his hand.
"Poof..." A subtle voice reached Kobe's ear, and he puckered in his heart, knowing that he had finished the attack this time.
Sure enough, Kobe Bryant's shot came directly to Sannon, and fell into the hands of Monroe under the basket.
The fans at the scene took a breath. The only explanation for the ball was that Leonard blocked Kobe's shot and changed Kobe's shot.
Otherwise, even if Kobe often hits iron, he will not be biased to this point.
What surprised these fans was that the referee's whistle sounded at this time.
"Buddu!" The referee signaled Leonard to defend the foul.
There are still some Clippers fans on the scene, although the number is definitely not as many as the Lakers fans...
It is also embarrassing to say, this game is the home of the Clippers, but the number of home team fans is not as much as the visiting team fans.
These home team fans booed at the moment, because in their view the ball was a bit unclean and a defensive foul was a bit inexplicable.
And those Lakers fans are also not embarrassed to speak at this moment, this ball really does not have the possibility of blowing fouls, extremely clean defense, even a little suspected fouls.
Even Kobe was stunned for a moment. As a party, he knew clearly that Leonard didn't even touch his own hair...
If there is any suspected foul, then Kobe will not be annoyed just now, he may go directly to the referee to demand a penalty.
Now that the referee is blowing Kobe's expectations, Kobe will definitely not be stupid enough to tell the referee that Leonard didn't foul...
After Leonard was blown into an inexplicable foul, the whole person was stunned, but he did not go to the referee for theory.
Fans who often watch Leonard games can easily notice that Leonard is not the kind of player who likes to find a referee for a penalty. Even if he is blown with some unreasonable whistle, he is expressionless...
Richard stood at the side of the court and yelled at the referee, but after thinking about it, it is not a wise thing to yell at the referee now.
Kobe Bryant has already received two free throws. If he makes another technical foul, the situation will be quite detrimental to the Clippers.
Richard now understands Popovich a little bit, why he is called the roaring Tianzun in the coaching profession...
Because Spurs players are very boring, they rarely go to the referee for a whistle. If Popovich does not put pressure on the referee, the Spurs will not be able to hit the ball.
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Kobe Bryant made two free throws, but they still lag behind in the next game. With the Clippers serving up and down, the two sides have maintained a very close difference of about 10.
In the second half of the game, the Lakers strengthened the offensive and defensive intensity, but ultimately failed to smooth the difference.
Sun Yue directly demonstrated in the second half, hitting a terrible hit rate of 8 in 10, including 4 of 3 points and 5 of 4 points. He scored 21 points in the half game and directly scored the passion of the Clippers fans on the spot.
Although Sun Yue was playing off the bench this season and was not selected for the All-Star game, his performance on the bench was quite impressive.
The current Sun Yue can be said to be the Clippers' chief substitute point guard plus the chief substitute point guard, and even the addition of the chief substitute small forward is not impossible.
His playing time is no less than Klay Thompson, the data is less than last season, but it is also a statistic average of 17+4+5.
Not surprisingly, the honor of the best sixth man of the season will definitely be won by Sun Yue.
In Richard's opinion, the current Sun Yue is a bit of the meaning of the reeds of the super sixth man of the Clippers...
With Sun Yue's strong outbreak and Leonard's crazy defense, the Clippers finally kept them at home, avoiding the embarrassment of being shaved by the Lakers.
Richard was already satisfied with winning this game.
He is the owner of the Clippers, and he is not working for others, so there is no need to be pretentious to say something to express the determination to advance.
Promote? It's as difficult as going to the sky to win a game right now. Richard this season feels like a successful season.
In the following G5, the Clippers lost the game at the Lakers' home, and since then their journey this season has been completely over.
The regular season awards in the second round of the playoffs, the Clippers unexpectedly received a lot of honor.
First, Richard won the COY honor for the sixth time in his career...
Last season's penultimate Western Conference last season, this season has improved to the seventh record in the Western Conference, and Richard has not won this honor for some years, so this time he was once again named the coach of the year.
If Richard does not get this honor, other people will be even less qualified to take it...
Six times, the desperate six times COY, at least in the number of COY awards ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Richard Dezhen can be said to be unprecedented, there will be no comers behind.
No coach will ever surpass Richard in the number of COY awards.
Richard actually didn't expect that he could get a COY again, but since he got it, he certainly couldn't be too much.
Unsurprisingly, Sun Yue won the honor of being the best sixth man of the season and directly opened Sun Yuele.
Prior to this, Sun Yue said that he had many championships on hand, but after all, it was a team honor. In terms of personal honor, he didn't have one...
Not even the most humble individual honors such as rookie rosters or Zhou Best.
Now suddenly got the honor of the best sixth person, directly driving Sun Yuele crazy.
Not only Sun Yuele is crazy, but even domestic media and fans are also crazy.
Looking forward to so many years, it was finally won an honor by the domestic backcourt, it is really not easy.
All four of the Clippers entered the team this year, and they were all selected for the best rookie lineup. Among them, Leonard and Thompson were selected for the rookie for a while, and Thomas and Chandler were selected for the second team.
This is not beyond Richard's expectations. Under normal circumstances, these people are actually the rookie rookies. Now when they arrive at the Clippers, they get more playing time and undergo more rigorous training. The data is more than normal. The promotion, it is strange not to be selected for the rookie lineup.
Of course, the thing that pleased Richard the most was not that he got COY, nor Sun Yue who unexpectedly won the sixth man, but Leonard was selected as the best defensive second team this year!
Not only is it the best defensive lineup, but it is only a second team, but this is definitely a remarkable achievement for a newcomer.
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