Chapter 788

Leonard is only a new player in the 13th place, on the edge of the Lotto show, and he is not an all-around player. The only one who can get a shot is the defensive strength.

Generally speaking, no team will take a purely defensive player as its absolute core

So Leonard never thought he would be the number one general under Richard

Among the new players in the same league, clay Thompson is higher than him. Although the defense is not as good as him, the offensive firepower is better than him

Among the other players, there are players like Horford who have entered the league as a talent show.

In Leonard's view, the two men may have a better chance than themselves to become Richard's most valued player.

But now Richard told him that he would be the absolute leader of the team. This great trust made Leonard feel moved by the death of his confidant.

He is a man who is not good at words. I'm afraid that Sun Yue, a smooth talker, is already crying in Richard's lap

"Thank you, coach."

"I will try!" Leonard said firmly to Richard.

Richard nodded, "go ahead, train well. This year's off-season, you live in Los Angeles and train well for me. If there's no place to live, live in my house. I'll let Kobe bring you to train together."

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Richard took a long breath after Leonard left.

He likes little card very much. Richard is a kind of philanthropic fan in the past. He likes many teams, including the Spurs.

In his years with the Spurs, Richard liked him so much that even if he had a conflict with the Spurs, Richard didn't give up his love for him.

In his opinion, nobody is responsible for the dirty things between Xiao Ka and the Spurs, but Xiao Ka's uncle is to blame.

Think of a 16-year-old child without a father, when uncle came out to replace the role of father, little card itself is not that kind of very independent children, naturally will be greatly influenced by uncle.

In this case, Xiao Ka is more like a puppet, like a robot controlled by his uncle

In addition to blame uncle, Jordan also had to carry a little pot.

(Jordan: MMP?! What's the matter with me...)

Kaka was a Jordan signing at the Spurs, which fans may not believe. His contract for shoes is only $500000 a year

Even if it expires later, the other side only provides a four-year contract of 20 million US dollars to the card, which is really a bit low to embarrassment.

Jordan Brand is not a charity either. There must be a reason why it gives such an awkward contract quotation.

The reason is simply that the Spurs players' commodity value is low

It's no exaggeration to say that the team with the lowest business value in the league is the Spurs.

One is because the Spurs market is small, and the other is because the holy city media is not good, so they gain their own influence, and then they seldom boast about their players.

For example, Duncan, the greatest player in the history of spurs, has never won a DPOY in his career. The League owes Duncan at least three dopys.

In all kinds of historical rankings, James can be selected into the top five by the media, but when did Duncan's name appear in the top five?

Isn't Duncan better than James?

The two played 16 times in the finals, and Duncan won 11 times. More than half of the five times lost were due to age.

From this point of view, this kind of ranking has no rationality at all. It is the media that ranks according to their own preferences.

The players with high popularity and good media relations can rank in the rankings. As for Duncan, who has little business value, he will suffer a lot.

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As for the fact that so many important awards of the League will be selected by the media, Richard naturally knows why.

The League needs to rely on the media to expand their influence, which is why the League forces players or coaches to attend some press conferences, otherwise they will be punished

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Two days later, the Lakers and Clippers started their first round of the playoffs with G4.

In the first three playoffs, Kobe scored only 21 points per game, which may be the lowest average playoff round since he joined the Lakers.

But the more so, the more terrible the Lakers feel, the more efficient the Lakers become.

In fact, if Kobe Bryant, like last season's playoffs against Mavericks, all kinds of crazy singles, then clipper's three playoffs, may not be a win.

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The game has already begun. The Clippers are really desperate. They don't care about their physical strength and defend the Lakers.

Leonard, in particular, seems to be an over frequency machine. Before that, he just didn't let Kobe out. Now, even Kobe's passing is not allowed. The whole person is like an octopus, as if it's directly attached to Kobe.The Lakers may also hold a big 3-0 score, plus the previous three games are relatively easy to win, so this game is a little slack, the result after the opening, the Clippers directly played a big advantage.

The intensity of Leonard's defense tonight has made the fans at the scene astonished. They knew Leonard's defense was good, but they had never seen Leonard.

From the beginning to now, Leonard has been around Kobe Bryant all the time, limiting Kobe's receiving, shooting and passing

This kind of crazy defense, Kobe Bryant was directly defended some anger, if not the opponent is Richard's clipper, I'm afraid he's mad at the moment.

He has not enjoyed this kind of outside defense for many years.

In an interview with the media, Bryant said publicly that Tony Allen is the best player in the League to defend him. But now Leonard's defense makes Kobe realize that the expressionless defense in front of him must be much better than Tony Allen's.

It's not to say that Leonard's defensive awareness is better than Tony Allen's, mainly because Leonard's physical condition is too much more than Tony Allen's.

Tony Allen's height is only 193 cm, and his arm span is not so good. Leonard's height and arm span, as well as his fearsome big hands, are born for defense.

Maybe it was Leonard who lost his mind. Kobe Bryant then increased his shots.

"Boy, I'll do it here next."

"You can't prevent me at all! I'll knock you to pieces in this game Kobe looked at Leonard and said defiantly.

Leonard was still expressionless, didn't even look at Kobe Bryant, and followed his teammates into the offensive round.

Kobe Bryant is a little confused, what kind of new player he is facing.

In Leonard's body, there is no breath of living people. Even if he is so provocative, Leonard is totally deaf and takes Kobe Bryant as the air.

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In the next attack round, Thompson ran out of space, hit three points directly, and further widened the difference.

In the Lakers' offensive round, Kobe Bryant didn't break his promise and kept the ball to the designated position.

His high back single technique is excellent. It's Kobe Bryant's unique skill in the vertical and horizontal League for more than ten years. Now it's directly used by Leonard.

Leonard didn't go to the top of Kobe's back, but step by step, always maintaining the space to take off at any time.

It's unwise to stand up to the opponent unless it has absolute height and strength advantage, because it will give the opponent to lean on himself.

Of course, the bigger reason is that it's easy to be fouled by opponents.

Leonard has played Kobe Bryant many times this season. He has figured out Kobe's routine and summed up the best way to defend Kobe.

It's going to be five seconds for him to turn his back. Kobe Bryant is also the most confident shooting point. He suddenly turns around and throws back.

Leonard had been waiting for the moment, like a well programmed robot, to leap and reach out.

"Poof..." The subtle voice came to Kobe's ears, and his heart thumped, knowing that his attack was over.

Sure enough, Kobe's shot came straight to the hands of Monroe.

The fans gasped. There was only one explanation for the ball. That was that Leonard blocked Kobe's shot and changed Kobe's shot trajectory.

Otherwise, even if Kobe often plays iron, he won't get to this point.

What surprised the fans even more was that the referee's whistle sounded at this time.

"Doodle doodle!" The referee beckoned Leonard to defend the foul.

There are still some clippers fans on the scene, although the number is certainly not as many as the Lakers fans

It's also embarrassing to say that this game is the home of clippers, but the number of fans of the home team is not as large as that of the visiting team.

The home team fans booed at the moment because they thought the ball was a little bit clean and it was a little strange to blow a defensive foul.

And those Lakers fans are not good at talking at the moment. There is no possibility of foul play in this ball. They are extremely clean and clean in defense. There is no suspicion of foul at all.

Even Kobe Bryant was stunned for a while. As a client, he knew clearly that Leonard didn't even touch his own hair

If there is any suspicion of foul, Kobe Bryant will not be upset just now. He may go directly to the referee for punishment.

Now the referee blew out of Kobe's expectation, Kobe will not be stupid enough to tell the referee that Leonard didn't foul

After Leonard was blown an inexplicable foul, the whole person, although stupefied for a while, did not go to the referee for theory.It's easy for fans who often watch Leonard's games to notice that Leonard is not the kind of player who likes to look for referees to punish. Even if he is blown a few unreasonable whistles, he is also expressionless

Richard stood on the sidelines of the court and shouted at the referee deliberately, but after thinking about it, it's really not a wise thing to shout at the referee now.

Kobe has already got two free throws, and if he makes another technical foul, it will be very bad for the Clippers.

Now Richard understands Popovich a little. Why is he called the roar of the coaching world

Because the Spurs players are very stuffy, rarely go to the referee for whistle, if Popovich does not pressure the referee, the Spurs can not play this ball.

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Kobe Bryant made two free throws, but they are still behind in the next game, in the Clippers up and down the service situation, the two sides have maintained a very difference.

In the second half of the game, the Lakers strengthened the intensity of attack and defense, but in the end, they failed to even the difference.

In the second half of the game, Sun Yue made a direct attack and hit 8 out of 10, including 4 out of 3:5. In the half-time game, he scored 21 points, which made the Clippers fans on the scene furious.

Although Sun Yue played as a substitute this season and was not selected as an all star, his performance on the bench was quite impressive.

At present, Sun Yue can be said to be the chief backup point guard of clipper plus the chief backup point guard, or even the chief backup small forward.

His playing time is no less than that of clay Thompson. In terms of data, it's less than last season, but it's also an average of 17 + 4 + 5 per game.

Without accident, Sun Yue will surely win the honor of the sixth man of the season.

In Richard's view, Sun Yue at the moment has a little meaning of the super sixth reed of the future clipper

With Sun Yue's strong outburst and Leonard's crazy defense, the Clippers managed to keep their home court and avoid the embarrassment of being shaved by the Lakers.

Richard is satisfied to win this game.

He's the owner of the clipper, not a part-time worker, so there's no need to put on a pretense to express his determination to advance.

Promotion? It's hard to win. This season Richard feels like a successful one.

In the next G5, clippers lost at home to the Lakers, and their journey this season is over.

In the second round of the playoffs, the Clippers won a lot of awards unexpectedly.

First of all, Richard got the honor of coy for the sixth time in his career

Last season, clippers ranked third from the bottom in the West. This season, the Clippers ranked seventh in the West. And Richard has not won this honor for some years, so this time, he won the coach of the year again.

If Richard doesn't get the honor, other people are not qualified to take it

Six times, six times of coy that make people despairing. At least in the number of coy awards, Richard is really unprecedented, and there will be no one else.

In the future, no coach will surpass Richard in the number of coy awards.

Richard didn't expect that he could get a coy again, but since he did, he couldn't have too many.

Sun Yue can't be surprised to get the honor of the sixth best player of the season, which directly makes Sun Yue happy.

Before that, although Sun Yue had many championship titles on hand, they were all team honors. In terms of personal honors, he didn't have any

Even rookie lineup or Zhou's best, the most humble personal honor.

Now he suddenly gets the honor of the best sixth person, which drives sun Yuele crazy.

Not only Sun Yue is crazy, but also the domestic media and fans are crazy.

Looking forward to so many years, it is not easy to get an honor by the domestic backcourt.

All four of clipper's team members this year have been selected into the best rookie lineup, among which Leonard and Thompson have been selected for a while, while little Thomas and Chandler have been selected into the second team.

This didn't come out of Richard's expectation. Under normal circumstances, these people are all rookie lineups. Now it's clippers who have more playing time and more rigorous training. Compared with the data under normal circumstances, they have improved. It's strange that they don't make rookie lineups.

Of course, the most pleasing thing for Richard is not that he got coy, nor that Sun Yue unexpectedly got the sixth man, but that Leonard was selected as the best defensive second team this year!

Although it's just the best defensive team, it's only the second team, but it's definitely a great achievement for a new player.