Seven Hundred and Eighty-Five: The Future Is Coming Too Fast

When the Warriors officially announced that they had signed Steve Kerr as head coach for five years, $25 million, people didn't actually feel particularly strong.

Now, everyone is immersed in the fierce confrontation of the division finals, who has the heart to manage a team that was eliminated early.

No one other than Warriors fans would care who the Warriors replaced as head coach. It doesn't matter if they switch Cole or Van Gundy.

But Link frowned when he saw the news. He is the only one in the world who knows that a new era is coming.

Steve Kerr's joining the Warriors is a sign and a turning point in the entire NBA history.

Before that, Steve Kerr wasn't great, and the Golden State Warriors weren't a big player in the league. Although most teams in the league are trying to change, the play style is still between the traditional and the new.

But things will change when Kerr joins the Warriors. In the future, this league will undergo earth-shaking changes from the game style to the pattern.

The boundaries between the future and the present are so blurred.

Link shook his head and did not continue to think about those messy things.

Right now, what he wants to consider is not the future and the future, but the San Antonio Spurs.

The Spurs did put up a tough resistance after the game moved to San Antonio a few days ago. Like they did in the 2007-08 season, they regained their rhythm at home.

On May 25, in Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals, the Spurs finally pulled one back with a score of 107-102, turning the total score of the series into 2-1.

And this became the first time the Grizzlies lost a month after the playoffs began.

At the same time, gdp finally got their 111th win in the playoffs, becoming the three-way team with the most wins in the playoffs in NBA history.

But after the game, Popovich was not as happy as people thought. Because the victory in this game came too late.

In Popovich's plan, the Spurs should have taken the win two games earlier. But it's too late to win this victory after the series has already reached San Antonio.

In this game, Tony Parker suddenly broke out at the last moment when his hit rate fell below 30 in the first three quarters.

He even hit a difficult step-back three-pointer on Link's head.

Relying on Parker's magical scoring performance at the last moment, the Spurs got away with it.

But aside from the few minutes when Parker broke out in the final period, the Spurs were suppressed the entire game, just as they were in previous games.

Popovich is very clear that he can't expect Parker to explode every day, just like he can't expect Green to explode every day.

This time they won with Parker's explosion, so what about the next one? What about the next one?

There will always be times when the Spurs can't break out, and at that time, the Spurs are often powerless against the Grizzlies.

Worse yet, now the Grizzlies just need one more win to get match point! So, this victory for the Spurs is too late.

Popovich, who won the game, was particularly disturbed, let alone Link who lost the game.

Although the Grizzlies are still leading 2-1 on aggregate, Link still doesn't feel safe enough. So, he didn't have the heart to think about the impact Cole might have. Now, Link only has the Spurs in his heart.

Sure enough, in the fourth game of the series, Popovich's most worrying thing still came.

At the center of the att, the Spurs lost the magic halo of the first two games. The Spurs' offense collapsed under the Grizzlies' fast, infinite switching system.

In a situation like this, Spurs have neither the magical Danny Green nor the "French sports car" that suddenly awakens in the last few minutes.

Tony Parker only scored 14 points today, Kawhi Leonard 10 points, "Stone Buddha" Duncan only scored 9 points, Danny Green scored the fewest among the starters, and he only scored 3 points today. "Coffee Master" Diao, who came off the bench, had 14 points and 10 rebounds, Corey Joseph had 11 points, and Manu Ginobili had 5 points.

Team offense and individual offense, the Spurs both overturned today. This led to the Spurs trailing the Grizzlies by as much as 27 points, and in the middle of the fourth quarter, they removed all the main force early.

If it was just the Spurs' personal offense, they wouldn't have been beaten so badly.

The key is that in addition to the poor performance of the Spurs themselves today, Link also showed his best offensive performance since the Western Conference finals!

The loss of the last game reminded Link that this Spurs were the 2014 NBA champions in the original history. As long as they are given a chance, they can turn the tide.

So in the fourth game, Link played extremely seriously, and his desire to score was higher than in the first three games.

Although Leonard defended very hard, Link still used his comprehensive offensive skills to score points.

Leonard was able to prevent James from killing in the original history. But for Link, this move has no effect.

Link is a top-level existence in the league whether he is shooting or rushing. As a result, Leonard won't take much advantage on the defensive end.

This quasi-fvp wants to be completely famous in the league, it is estimated that it will be a while later than in the original history.

In the end, Link scored 40 points, 10 assists, 5 rebounds and as many as 5 steals in the whole game! This is the second time that Link has scored 40+ points in the playoffs this year after playing against the Clippers in the Western Conference semifinals on May 8.

Although not the earth-shattering 40-point triple-double like last time, this data is still exaggerated enough. At the same time, this is also the fourth time in Link's career that he has scored 40+ points in the playoffs.

For comparison, Kobe, a scoring monster, has scored 40+ points in the playoffs 13 times so far in his career. According to the average rate of one game per season, it is not difficult for Link to surpass Kobe.

In garbage time, the Spurs recovered a lot of points. But in the end, the Grizzlies won the crucial fourth game 105-92.

At first glance, the 13-point difference does not seem particularly exaggerated. But in fact, the Spurs chased for a long time before narrowing the difference to 13 points.

It can be seen that this game is not suspenseful.

3 to 1, the San Antonio Spurs have basically missed the finals. The postseason journey for this aging team is coming to an end.

Popovich now faces reporters with less frustration than before.

This is not because he found a way to deal with the Grizzlies, but because he lost all numbness!

He has thoroughly recognized the gap between the Spurs and the Grizzlies.

"Of course we're not giving up, but it's been a tough series. I don't think the Grizzlies will ever face opponents, even in the Finals."

Popovich smiled helplessly, thinking that he and the Spurs are capable of competing for the championship this year. If the Spurs face the Heat or Pacers right now, Popovich thinks they can win.

But unfortunately, they happened to run into perhaps one of the most powerful teams in NBA history.

Duncan silently looked at Link on the field and shook his head secretly.

He still remembers that he once said the words "the future is yours" to Link after a game many years ago.

But he never imagined at the time that the future would come so quickly

Maybe it's not that the future is coming too fast, but that I am getting old too fast.

Duncan didn't think much, he silently walked back to the tunnel.

Next, throw all these worries to the Heat and Pacers.

The era of gdp has officially ended! That 111th victory was their final reward and consolation.