Chapter 516: The Lonely Ship
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The suspense of the game disappeared bit by bit. After halfway through the fourth quarter, Wei Xia had been sitting on the bench for a long time.
Kobe was sitting off the court with him.
After the third quarter, the Lakers' victory was unstoppable. It was a foregone conclusion to win game3 and push the Spurs to the edge of the cliff.
"It's not over yet, cheer me up!" Kobe, who was sitting below, shouting endlessly, hoping that the Lakers' substitute lineup would expand its lead.
Since 1999, the Lakers and the Spurs have been the kind of old enemy who will kill each other.
The Spurs swept the Lakers in the suspension season, and Iverson was swept by the Lakers again in the season. In 2003, the Spurs' dream of destroying the Lakers' four consecutive championships made the transfer of power between O'Kans a smooth transition. In 2004, Duncan hit one of the most critical goals in his playoff career, but ended up being the 0.4-second arrow from Derek Fisher. After that, the grudges between the Lakers and the Spurs stopped accumulating, O'Neal was traded, and the Lakers fell from the championship to an ordinary team until Wei Xia joined the Lakers in the second year that he had regained the strength to challenge the Spurs.
In the 2007 Western Conference Finals, the Lakers were resolved by the Spurs in five games, once again giving the opponent avenged the blood feud in 2004.
Have you noticed it? Every time the Lakers and Spurs fight in the playoffs, the winning side will often win the final championship.
You give me a knife and I give you a sword, and both sides formed a strange turn-based game.
After tonight, the Lakers lead the Spurs 3-0 and will soon repay the opponent's revenge of a single arrow last year.
It is precisely this nearly ten years of grudges that have allowed Kobe to ask his teammates to do their best while winning.
Wei Xia was just sitting, not as excited as Kobe.
He knew he wouldn't play again, so he should relax. However, he didn't get even a second of relaxation, winning the Spurs was just the finale tonight.
The final program is also the most important program. He will go to the interview room at the end of the game, face the media around the world, speak out his words and express his attitude.
He knew that doing so would push him completely to the opposite of Merika, but for him, only in this way can things be decided.
He has had enough to be criticized and has had enough to be ridden by a male dog like a bitch in heat. He wants to end all the noise. Before the finals come, he wants the turmoil outside the field - no one thinks the Spurs have a chance, right?
The Spurs have many questions, and their biggest question is why the Lakers and themselves have changed so much in just one year.
Did the Lakers become stronger or did they become weaker?
The defending champion a year ago was led by the Lakers 3-0 (immediately) a year later by them.
They lost Odom and got Gasol. Is Gasol that strong? His arrival only made the Lakers' lineup more reasonable, and the inside has the capital to compete with other giants from now on.
The Spurs cannot understand.
Tony Parker was blocked, Ginobili suddenly became sluggish, and his overall aging - Horry, Finley, Barry and others are experienced veterans, but their aging speed makes them unable to rely solely on experience to teach young people.
Teams that intend to compete for the championship must have veterans.
The veteran's experience and aura can set the downside when the team is dizzy.
The problem with the Spurs is that there are too many old men, too many that can make the entire team rusty.
111 to 82
By 29 points, the Spurs lost to the Lakers.
The score was 3-0, their hopes and dreams passed by the wind, and their goal to defend their title was ruthlessly shattered by the iron hooves of the Purple and Gold Legion.
As soon as the game ended, Wei Xia stood up and walked towards the player channel.
Before the reporter at the scene could ask questions, his figure had disappeared from the Att Center.
All that is left for the stadium is the data statistics on the big screen.
10 of 16 shots, 24 points, 8 rebounds, 6 assists, 3 steals, and 3 blocks, comprehensive and efficient data.
The top scoring, rebounding and assisting data shows his influence, while the 33 steals and blocks show that he is a dominant defender.
"Young people are terrible. I have always had little patience with young players because they are often immature, arrogant, selfish, and do not know how to consider the team. They often need to learn some serious lessons before they can grow up - but wish is not the kind of young people we often see." Popovich gave all his praise to Wei Xia. "He is like players like Kobe, with a switch in his body that only he can touch. Whenever he encounters a critical game, he will press that switch and then play a shocking performance."
"Mature Kobe is terrible," Duncan added. "At the same time, there is a fast-progressing wish behind him, which is even more terrifying than Kobe himself."
The Spurs' home commentator made a judgment that was like a curse and a prophetic one: "The combination of 'w/mish', coupled with Paul Gasol and other Lakers players, will rule the West for five years. No, if wish maintains the current progress, in Kobe's style, he can continue his peak period to the same length as Kareem, and combined with Los Angeles' urban influence, they can continue to strengthen during the offseason. I can't imagine what the future of this team will be like. Maybe the next era will be named after them, just like the 'show Lakes in the 1980s."
The Lakers have received a lot of praise, and Wei Xia is particularly popular.
The storm he caused on the field did not seem to affect the fairness of professional evaluations of him.
While everyone was praising him, he returned to the locker room alone, took a quick shower, changed into clean clothes, and was waiting to attend the press conference with Zen Master and Kobe.
He closed his eyes and just waited.
Wei Xia thought seriously, why did I do all this?
Prove that I am very dialectical? Prove that I am very rebellious? Prove that I am a US traitor who has eaten the United States but is looking for China? Prove that they are wrong, and I am right? Prove that everyone, how brave am I?
No, if he thinks that, he is wrong.
His eyelids were trembling, and his thoughts were rushing further away.
His determination seemed to sail on an invisible sea in a boat, and the sails rose and fell, which was the answer he had once been unable to believe.
Almost everyone is telling him that being smarter can keep these messy things away from him.
But no one has ever told him why he should be smarter? No one has ever asked him what this matter means to him.
The complexity of human hearts is infinite, and no one can guess it.
Wei Xia only knew clearly why he lived, why he persisted, and why he fought. He would never succumb to the oppression of public opinion, never bowed to the dark hearts of the people, and never bent down for political correctness. That was how he survived.
His sails could fall, his boat could leak, his spirit could be attacked, his personality could be insulted, but his beliefs would become stronger day by day.
If he did not persist, he would no longer be himself, and he would die, just like the millions of people who had lost themselves, and lived like a soulless puppet.
Wei Xia saw his road, a spacious road that could not accommodate everyone.
On the left of the road was the dark heart, on the right of the desire for sin, behind him was filled with kneeling people, and he decided to go to the end.
The end of this road must be a beautiful scenery.
He is no longer confused, that is the meaning of life. Its true face is so ugly, but he still needs to do his best to survive.
"Wish, are you ready?"
Phil Jackson asked.
Wei Xia saw the locker room door that had been opened, which was exactly where hope was.
"It's OK at any time." He stood up.
Kobe is by his side. Although their relationship is very close, they have received different educations since childhood and know different worlds. On this path, the other party will not stand by his side.
However, that's good.
Wei Xia walked in front and was the first to leave the locker room.
At the end of the long corridor was the visiting room. He walked faster and faster, as if he was in a hurry to meet his relatives he hadn't seen for many years.
"He seems to be very excited," Kobe said unexpectedly.
Phil Jackson looked straight at Weisha's back: "Don't be too surprised no matter what happens tonight."
"What else can happen?" Until now, Kobe still regarded what he was about to face as an ordinary press conference.
He didn't know how much struggle and struggle Wei Xia was going through, because like Wei Xia before, he had always been indifferent to these sensitive events. Since the Eagle County incident, he has hired a complete professional public relations team to ensure that his image will not be damaged.
Once they encounter sensitive questions, they will tell Kobe how to answer them to avoid greater controversy.
But Wei Xia did not.
So he would make such a big fuss, but after today, any American can see clearly what he is doing.
Then, no one will have expectations for his political tendencies. His label will be killed and his attributes will be fixed. From then on, any reporter will try to make him jump into the minefield, which will be in vain.
Chapter completed!