Chapter 504 The Western Conference Finals Begins!

Cleveland, Win Arena.

"Challenge him?" O'Neal, who had just finished training, saw this interview and had a constipated expression on his face.

He admitted that Lin Dong was indeed very strong, but to be honest, he had never been convinced.

Why are you convinced?

When I was defeated by this guy in the Lakers, it was because I couldn't deal with that idiot Kobe Bryant. It was because the two had already lost their tacit understanding and were no longer as strong as the OK combination during the three consecutive championships.

When he was defeated by that guy in the Wizards, it was because Tracy McGrady was too good at bragging and blaming his teammates.

After coming to the Cavaliers, although they lost in the regular season this season, that was because the Cavaliers did not have a stable defensive No. 3 position at that time, and LeBron had not yet grown up.

But look at it now!

Cavaliers 4:0 Bucks, 112:89, 118:88, 121:92, 108:79.

If four easy wins are not enough to explain the problem, LeBron's triple-double average of 13.5 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists in four games, and even 2.5 steals and 2.3 blocks per game, is enough to explain the problem.

This means that LeBron has improved on the defensive end, and it also means that he has made concessions on the distribution of the team's ball rights!

In order to defeat Lin Dong, in order to break the myth of the Sonics being undefeated, this guy is finally willing to assist me!

Who else can defeat such a knight? That Lin Dong will soon pay the price for his arrogance. No matter how strong he is, he can't win against everyone!

"This guy is so arrogant!" O'Neal said with a laugh: "The Lakers may not be able to pass the test, but they still let people challenge him! This is the smoke bomb released by the SuperSonics, and it is what Lin Dong wants to give him. Put some psychological pressure on your opponents and ignore him!”

"His little tricks can only scare rookies. I have been waiting for this opportunity for three years! Those guys must not fall to the Lakers. Then in the finals, I will let them understand what is true." Real defense!" Artest said through gritted teeth. Whenever he saw the name Lin Dong, he couldn't help but want to get angry. Who knows how he got here nearly three years after leaving the Wizards!

Kidd frowned and looked at the two guys. O'Neal did it purely because of arrogance, while Artest did it purely because of hatred. In fact, they were both unstable factors in the Cavaliers.

If it were before the start of the playoffs, based on these two points, Kidd might have thought that the Cavaliers were hopeless, but LeBron's return gave him an unusual feeling.

This guy's temperament is completely different from before he went to Japan.

Ordinary people may only be able to see a kind of confidence hidden under his calmness, but in Kidd's eyes, what is hidden under this guy's cold appearance is more than just calmness and confidence.

He really has a trump card...

Kidd believes that it will be a trump card that is not weaker than Lin Dong, but the premise is that this guy cannot have blind knowledge like O'Neal and Artest.

He didn't bother to pay attention to the two guys who were enjoying themselves, and turned to look at LeBron, who was discussing the team training with Wade just now. This was also one of the most obvious changes after his return, as if he really put his heart and soul into it. focused on basketball.

"Hey, man!" Kidd greeted, smiled at LeBron and asked, "What do you think?"

"What's going on?" LeBron was startled.

"You don't watch the news?" O'Neal chirped: "That guy Lin Dong said at the press conference that we are all standing at the foot of the mountain, but he is standing at the top of the mountain, let us challenge him! Hahaha, this guy is better than he was back then. Jordan is still crazy!”

"That's because he has the qualifications to be crazy." LeBron also laughed and interrupted O'Neal without hesitation: "We are indeed standing at the foot of the mountain."

O'Neal was startled, and the chattering laughter in the arena suddenly dissipated and became quiet.

Isn’t this style wrong? Didn't LeBron say before the game that he would definitely beat Lin Dong? Doesn't this guy have a trump card? Why are you still so cowardly?

"But as long as it is a mountain, it can be climbed over, even if it is the Himalayas?" LeBron said with a smile: "Fortunately, Lin Dong did not say that he is the sky, otherwise if you want to climb to the sky... it would be so difficult to go to the moon. We Maybe it really can’t be done.”

Everyone thought about it for two seconds before finally coming back to their senses.

"Hahahaha!" Everyone laughed.

Regardless of those who don't understand and think LeBron is connoting Lin Dong, such as O'Neal, Artest and others, just mock that arrogant guy like this!

Regardless of whether he understood it or not, he knew that LeBron was acknowledging the strength of Lin Dong, like Kidd: Yes, Lin Dong is very strong, but after all, he is only a human being and not a real god. As long as he is a human being, You can surpass and conquer him!

Everyone got the answer they wanted, and the stadium was full of laughter.

LeBron is smiling too.

He knows more and more how to coordinate this team, and he also knows more and more how to make the whole team take him as the leader without knowing it.

I'm not talking nonsense.

If you just try to use the combination of Sakuragi Hanamichi + Chandler inside to support Lin Dong, then it will be a non-existent problem for the Cavaliers. The Cavaliers are not the Grizzlies... or even the Lakers!

It may be difficult for the Lakers to face the rise of the SuperSonics inside, because they have Nash's defensive vulnerability and Yao Ming's slow movement inside, so they will have a headache.

But for the Cavaliers, he and O'Neal are enough to suppress all the offensives of the Sonics inside, and they can even spare some strength to cooperate with Wade to double-team Lin Dong.

As for the 3-point point on the outside, Artest and Kidd will handle it.

However, LeBron can see that Lin Dong still has a trump card, and such an inside match is just a smoke bomb for the Sonics.

This is definitely not the upper limit of the Sonics' strength, let alone Lin Dong's upper limit.

Frankly speaking, LeBron also hopes that the Sonics can win.

First, he needs an opportunity to step on Lin Dong to get to the top, and secondly...

Whether Kobe or Yao Ming, or Nash, Odom, or even Zen Master Phil Jackson, etc., these are not a bunch of soft persimmons. Even if they lose to the Sonics in the end, they will never be directly broken by Sakuragi Hanamichi like the Grizzlies.

They will have a way to balance Sakuragi Hanamichi.

Although he also has a trump card, if the Lakers can crack the Sonics' trick first and force out the Sonics' other trump cards... who would mind that his advantage is a little bigger?

This year is the day for him to reach the top!

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Compared to the 4:0 of ​​the Sonics and the Cavaliers, the Lakers' first round match against the Phoenix Suns was also smooth sailing.

There is no way, the gap in strength.

Historically, the Suns in the 2005 season were actually very strong. Nash led the Suns to officially establish the name of run-and-gun in this season, and also won the title of Son of the Wind. Stoudemire was so tired of eating cakes.

It's a pity that Nash is now in the Lakers. Although the Suns this season also played run-and-gun under the leadership of head coach D'Antoni, without Nash's master-level organization and control, the Suns naturally lost their historical bravery and were easily swept out by the Lakers 4:0, and the whole process looked extremely easy...

If the performances of the Lakers, Cavaliers and Sonics in the regular season were still ups and downs, which made people doubt, then this first round of the playoffs after the start of the playoffs will eliminate all doubts.

Strong is strong. The Spurs in the West are already trembling. Although according to the schedule, they are almost certain to enter the Western Conference Finals, but they played 4:2 against the Los Angeles Clippers in the first round, which makes them far inferior to those three teams in terms of paper strength and reputation.

Facing the Lakers and Supersonics who are now performing extremely strongly, the winner of any team is obviously not something the Spurs can compete with.

So many people have already regarded the Western Conference semifinals as the final Western Conference Finals.

—— Western Conference semifinals, Supersonics VS Lakers G1, highly anticipated, the most exciting round of the series this season, see you at God Arena on May 13!

—— Lin Dong, who is unsolvable and needs double-teaming, Sakuragi Hanamichi, who needs the absolute core main force to focus on, the Supersonics even have 3 outside 3-point points, who can defend such a team?

—— Facing the rising inside line of the Supersonics, what countermeasures does the Lakers have?

The voice that said Sakuragi Hanamichi was just lucky has now completely quieted down, and the four big double-doubles are enough to explain the problem.

After Lin Dong's domineering declaration, all those voices saying that the Sonics would lose and the Lakers and Cavaliers had many advantages seemed to have evaporated overnight.

There is no way, you say he is domineering and rude, but he has enough record to support it.

He won three consecutive championships, and he defeated the Cavaliers and Lakers every time. What's the problem with saying you are here to challenge me? Aren't you?

You say he is right, but it seems to be a bit too much to boost others' ambitions and destroy your own prestige.

And the silence of these people made the Sonics fans suddenly lose their opponents on the Internet, so they all quieted down.

In the calm before the Internet sky, all fans were waiting quietly.

Maybe they were waiting for Lin Dong to be slapped in the face, or maybe they were waiting to verify his words... But no matter what, the voices were quiet, so quiet that the league and the media were a little "scared".

Is this the heat being turned down by Lin Dong's words?

The ratings have also plummeted in the past few days. The last game of the first round, the Eastern Conference Pistons vs. the Pacers, was a Game 7, but the ratings were only less than 30 million.

This... Isn't this going to be a failure?

Although everyone can guess that this is because the game has nothing to do with the three teams, they can guess that this is more like a calm before the storm.

But the data is real, and it always makes people feel uneasy.

May 13, God Arena...

Friday is a busy day for Americans, but Friday night is free, which is more or less a shot in the arm for the media who are under heavy ratings tasks.

The backstage of the TV station has been nervously watching the ratings, fearing that there will be any accidents, but the result...

There are no accidents, no shocks, only surprises!

As early as 7 o'clock in the evening, when ABC TV finished broadcasting hockey, it was almost time for people to finish dinner, and the backstage data began to soar.

7 million...14 million...17 million...25 million...34 million...40 million!

It was not until about 8 o'clock in the evening that Doris and Buckley appeared in the live broadcast room. When the live broadcast officially started, the audience rating of ABC backstage had reached an astonishing 40 million, and it was still rising crazily!

You know, this is just ABC TV. TNT has tens of millions of viewers, and some sports websites on the Internet have tens of millions of paid live broadcasts. So, 60 million people in the United States have watched this exciting game live.

This is only the warm-up time half an hour before the game. The Sonics' lengthy opening introduction has just begun, and even the Sonics players have not yet appeared!

What kind of influence is this? Is this going to hit the 80 million viewership mark?

Even Stern didn't dare to think that basketball could get such crazy attention in the United States, even reaching the NFL level.

Just when the league and the media were excited about the current data and predicted that today's final ratings might reach 80 million, the Sonics' lengthy opening introduction finally reached its climax.

——The king from Lakeside High School, the basketball god from the top of the mysterious Eastern Ridge!

The host on the scene had already said various introductions to Lin Dong countless times at the home court of the Supersonics, but the title of "God of Basketball on the Ridge" was mentioned for the first time.

This was not only Lin Dong's self-proclaimed name, but also the recognition from all the fans of the Seattle Supersonics!

——OH!

The extremely quiet God Arena suddenly responded at this moment, and everyone roared in excitement.

——Three consecutive scoring champions! Three consecutive first-teams! Three consecutive first-team defenses!

——OH! OH! OH!

Not only the God Arena, but also the hundreds of millions of fans sitting in front of the TV in the distant Dragon Country shouted wildly at this moment.

During the Olympics last year, Lin Dong was attacked by a group of domestic fans because of a woman's matter, and even led the domestic public opinion rhythm for a time. However, it was not until Lin Dong terminated his contract with Nike that it was finally revealed that those were all water armies hired by Nike to deliberately lead the rhythm.

This not only untied the knot between Lin Dong and domestic fans, but also 1450 and some bribed public intellectuals were attacked by domestic fans. At the beginning of the year, a vigorous "Lin Aiding Movement" was set off on the domestic Internet.

The Dragon people are simple and kind in their bones, especially when they feel guilty and think that they have been misled and framed a real hero...

To vindicate the hero, not afraid of overcorrection! It is the most instinctive reaction of every Dragon person.

At this moment, Dragon is Lin Dong's absolute backing. Even the Lakers with Yao Ming have to rank far behind Lin Dong and the Supersonics now.

Today, Dragon is full of Sonics fans!

Not only Dragon.

Not to mention Japan, the whole country is a die-hard Sonics fan, and almost all of Asia is a Sonics supporter.

Even in faraway Europe, because of the Mobis team, because of the countless rookie stars who admire Lin Dong, and because of the disgust of being dominated by American basketball for too long, almost all the people who watch NBA in Europe are fans of the Supersonics!

The ratings in Longguo exceed 120 million, Japan 30 million, Europe 50 million...

At this moment, there are even more than 200 million fans around the world, following the rhythm of the host at the God Arena, and responding with "OH! OH! OH!"!

——Two DPOYs, three consecutive FMVPs!

When the two most awesome honors came out of the host's mouth.

Whether it was the fans at the scene, Longguo fans, or even fans in Asia, Europe, and the world, they all boiled.

Without waiting for the host to finish the last name, everyone at this moment frantically called the name that was undisputed in their minds.

There was no way, when that man said the words "Please challenge me in the United States", he was destined to be an undisputed true legend in the hearts of basketball fans all over the world.

What others say doesn't count, only what he says counts!

This is a kind of domineering attitude that only a true king has the courage to say!

——Lin! Lin! Lin!

——Lin Dong! Lin Dong! Lin Dong!