One Thousand Three Hundred and Thirty-Nine. We Are Destined to Be Different

Not only the players of the two teams were excited, but also the Spurs fans at the scene were excited.

Except for the OK Dynasty, from 1999 to 2007, they won the championship in every odd year, but in the 2007-2008 season, Duncan began to decline, did not win the championship in 2009, and was swept by the old rival Suns in 2010.

Finally, they rose in the 2010-2011 season, but were bloodbathed by the Mavericks that year. At that time, they lacked small forwards and centers. They played the best record in team history in the regular season, but obviously could not go far in the playoffs; last season, because there was no suitable center, they were defeated by the bitter Kobe in the second round.

It has been four years, four years without entering the Western Conference Finals. This is really unacceptable for Spurs fans! They could not imagine that the team could not enter the Western Conference Finals for four consecutive years with Duncan, a superstar of the era who locked the first power forward in history after playing for six years. It would be better to disband.

This year, another odd year, this year they are no longer afraid of those top teams, beating the Grizzlies, the Lakers, and the Heat... As long as the opponent does not explode to an unacceptable level, they have a stable strength advantage.

Although Sun Ce scored 65 points in the last game of the regular season, even so, the Spurs have maintained a competitive state with the Grizzlies for a long time.

In other words, as long as both sides play normally or perform well, the Spurs have a strength advantage against any opponent!

Looking at Tim Duncan, the godfather who leads the fashion trend in the NBA, since Duncan stepped into the forefront of fashion, he who was once selected into the first team when he entered the NBA is back!

Before the game, the players of the two teams had a good exchange again. The Neil and draft picks exchanged for Gay played a significant role in the Grizzlies' ability to win the championship last season.

In terms of transaction value, the Grizzlies suffered a loss by getting three first-round draft picks and a backup point guard, but it solved the possibility of infighting caused by the Grizzlies' potential small forward playing time competition, and also strengthened the backup point guard.

Except that Sun Ce would explode once or twice every year against them and make them lose face, the other things are still okay between the two teams.

After all, one side represents the "veteran group", even though the Spurs are the fourth youngest team in the league this year, and the other side represents the "strongest team of the new generation", even though the Grizzlies are ranked ninth in the league... Nash alone raised the average age of the Grizzlies by more than 1 year...

The Spurs players and fans are extremely reluctant to lose to the young team, but for the Spurs players and fans, the most acceptable opponent to lose is the young team, at least not to the team of veterans.

As for Nash... Although the official statement of the Grizzlies said that they are the team of Randolph, Nash, and Gasol, everyone thinks that the Grizzlies are Sun Ce's team.

So the Spurs fans have such a tangled mentality. Of course, they are very eager for their team to reach the top again, which is really a miracle!

Sun Ce and Duncan stared at each other awkwardly at the technical table for a minute, then turned around and looked behind his own bench. He was so scared that he said, "Why are there so many dead nobles?" Yi Jianlian next to him almost exploded!

He finally came to a stadium full of nobles and looked very normal, but someone scolded him, and it was his teammate, who won the NBA championship, the World Championship, and the Olympic bronze medal with him!

Sun Ce looked at the charming fans in the ATT Arena. This is a place close to the US border, a place for cultural exchange between North and South America in the southwestern United States, the seventh most populous city in the United States, and the city with the most ethnic groups in North and South America...

Is Duncan going to expand the noble group to all ethnic groups in the world?

It's terrible!

This evil devil must be defeated!

...

After greeting, the players of both teams returned to the bench to make the final preparations before the game.

The Grizzlies advanced a few days earlier than the Spurs, and they prepared for the game with the Spurs as their imaginary enemy from the beginning.

After losing to the Spurs in the first game of the regular season, they prepared for the Spurs as their strongest opponent.

All the preparations that could be made were done. In the final preparation time before the game, Coach Hollins did not say much, as if he wanted to boost morale, but he was at a loss for words... He used to be a bohemian and unrestrained head coach, but now Sun Ce has made him "stable"... In fact, he really doesn't know how to boost morale.

Originally, he was pointing to Nash or Battier, the two treasures of the team, but Nash pushed Sun Ce and Battier didn't say anything.

Sun Ce was helpless, Randolph was a live treasure, the two locker room leaders didn't speak, Aaron Gray retired, so he had to come.

"I'm just the third player in the team!"

I really want to say this, but Sun Ce thinks it's important to boost the morale of teammates at this time. They have worked hard to prepare for the game, but in the four regular season games, they are not dominant overall. Even if Randolph gets back to form, he can only compete in regular time at most, and if he doesn't explode, they won't have a critical moment to play.

Sun Ce organized his words, which was very skillful, but Coach Hollins felt very uneasy when he saw Sun Ce thinking.

Once, Coach Hollins wanted to train Sun Ce to be a leader, but found that Sun Ce's suicidal personality made him more suitable to be the third player...

However, this time, Coach Hollins was overly worried. Unlike the Clippers who played against the Clippers with emotion in the first round, although Sun Ce did not like the Spurs, he respected the other team's players and their strength, and had deep fears. and a strong desire to defeat the opponent.

After Sun Ce organized his speech, he said: "In four years, we have reached the second round for the fourth time. Maybe for some unlucky players, reaching the second round is already their pursuit throughout their careers. .

But we are different!

This has nothing to do with the expectations of the fans or the strength of the opponent... Nothing else affects us. We are here just to win.

When we come together, we are already different from others.

We already won the championship last year, and many people stayed. I know that there are still some of us who are immersed in the wonderful feeling that we are already champions. Perhaps, some people's dreams have been fulfilled and they have already won the world championship. .

This is normal. Many players just want to win a championship throughout their lives, and they may have been pursuing it for a long time, but still can't get it.

However, we are not them. When you and I, and you, and you... all of us gathered here, what we pursue will never be just a championship.

Perhaps we are not destined to be ordinary from birth.

Tonight’s opponent is the strongest opponent we have encountered in the regular season, and is our strongest opponent to win the championship. In this case, we have only one choice——

Defeat them. "