The result of the first Western Conference Finals was clearly beyond most people’s expectations.
Even those who firmly believed the Lakers could hold their first ho ga didn’t expect the Lakers to win so easily.
After all, the Jazz Team played really well in the first two rounds, both completing a major upset with a huge 4-1 advantage. The dia and fans believed this team had the spirit of the ’99 Knicks Team’, all steel-blooded teams with a style suitable for playoffs, and their performance in the past two seasons’ playoffs has always been good, reaching the Western Conference Finals in the season before last...
It was completely unexpected that it would be a one-sided massacre! The Lakers crushed the Jazz Team in the first ga, leading to their collapse in three quarters!
No wonder Zhang San, who knew the Double Killers could collapse and disband under the Old Iron Smith’s pressure, and that Sloan would retire due to the chain reaction, felt nothing was amiss.
In Arica, the excitent of the Western Conference Finals was clearly higher than the East Final, the Lakers, Jazz Team, the black eight heroic journey, Sloan, Zen Master... these highlights drew out quite a number of old fans from the 90s, and Kobe, Garnett are currently players with skyrocketing popularity in the U.S., while Deron is also a popular presence among the new generation of star players. No matter the topic level or viewership rating, G1 was excellent, ranking second in all the series G1 played this year, only surpassed by the ’96ers clash between the Lakers and Nuggets Team.
anwhile, it’s a different scene dostically; after the Bobcats narrowly passed the Hawks team in the series, the dia and most fans focused their attention on the Eastern Conference Finals.
On the night the Bobcats advanced to the East Final, even Court TV spent several seconds reporting Zhang Yang and Yao Ming’s playoff encounter.
Bad Boy VS Little Giant, even the high dostic popularity of the Old Iron Smith couldn’t earn too much column space at this ti.
Check this out, the Lakers G1’s thrashing of the Jazz Team stayed on the headline of the largest basketball portal site, Eye Sports, for less than two hours before being pulled down.
This was because by noon Beijing ti, following the live broadcast of the Lakers and Jazz Team ga by Court TV, the program imdiately following was — the docuntary ’Bad Boy and Little Giant et in the East Final’, and Eye Sports uploaded the video first thing after it finished airing on TV.
This ’docuntary’ was actually just so related content clipped out from each’s individual docuntary materials.
An insider from Court Sports TV revealed that in the TV station building, there was a room specially used to store the docuntary materials of the two, with Zhang Yang having nearly 700 large-capacity discs over four years, and Yao Ming’s collection having even more, starting in ’99, through ten years, reaching nearly 2,000 discs, that one room can’t fit that many boxes anymore, the TV station is already planning to separate their docuntary materials into two independent rooms.
Last year a docuntary was edited, but the two didn’t et. This year, it was re-edited after the Bobcats advanced on the East Final, Court Sports TV pre-announced the screening ti of the docuntary by noon on that day, major portal sites scrambled to purchase the rights, eager to tap into the traffic of Zhang Yang and Yao Ming’s face-off...
The ti ca to 8:40 AM Beijing ti, May 26, and 7:40 PM Eastern U.S. ti, May 25. At Charlotte’s Tuhang Stadium, the visiting Chicago Bulls entered.
The ga hadn’t officially started yet, it was just a pre-ga entry ceremony, and Court Sports TV’s NBA ga live broadcast viewership has broken records and surpassed last year’s finals that had the highest viewership ever!
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Bringing the focus back to the ga site.
Zhang Yang looked at Yao Ming, who was the last to walk out from the player tunnel opposite him, his already excited emotion further intensified!
Last night he did envy the Old Iron Smith’s luck of having a Western Conference Finals opponent being the new Double Killers, judging from this year’s playoffs performances by various Western teams, aside from the Spurs, the best opponent to engage with the Lakers would be the Jazz Team, and the Old Iron Smith perfectly countered these two teams.
But once Yao Ming ca into his sight, all other opponents, at this mont, beca unimportant.
In his mind, any opponent, in the presence of this opponent in his eyes, loses brilliance!
The Jazz Team should go be the Old Iron Smith’s punching bag, while Zhang San aid at battling the Little Giant!
After the entry ceremony, people on both sides hurried through the pleasantries, allowing the Court TV caras to catch it all. After tonight’s ga, both teams may not cooperate as well for the following matches.
Zhang Yang’s entourage also showed their faces, DeRozan with a cool deanor, Harden trying to hog the spotlight but getting pushed aside, his parents shyly said a quick hello and ran off, and Little Biao Biao and Little Wukong with Zhang San standing at the center spot.
When it was ti for Zhang Yang and Yao Ming to jointly be interviewed and answer questions, the reporter asked about their feelings on finally facing each other in the playoffs, Yao Ming, experienced in responding to the dia, had not much left to say.
Starting from that early morning two days ago, he was chased by major dostic dia asking these questions, and everything he could say, he already said.
Now it was up to Zhang San...
Zhang Yang seriously said: "From the mont I first stepped onto the basketball court, facing off against Big Yao brother is the scene of my dreams. Every encounter with you is a dream co true."
Approaching the ga, upon hearing these words, Yao Ming still felt a surge of emotion.
That’s Zhang San for you! See, such well-spoken words!
This ti, the Little Giant beca sowhat immature, and instinctively asked: "What does your dream scenario look like when facing off against ?"
Zhang San imdiately responded: "Shout ’One slash, two halves with the magical sword’ then fly up and slam the ball into the basket over your head."
Little Giant: I really want to slap my big mouth shut! Well, I need to laugh, keep it public-friendly.
The pre-ga session took around 10 minutes, and as Zhang Yang returned to the bench, there were only a few minutes left before the starters stepped on the court. Luckily, Carlisle is experienced in handling ’Chinese Derbies’, having gone through pre-ga briefings once the warm-up ended, now only key points needed emphasis.
Minutes later, the referee notified both teams’ starters to take the court.
When Zhang Yang stepped onto the court, he took a deep breath to calm his excitent; fighting spirit can be high, the play can be wild, but the mind must remain cool.
Tonight, the Bobcats switched back to their regular starting lineup: Felton, Zhang Yang, Pietrus, Millsap, Okafor.
The opponents continued with their post-All-Star weekend starter lineup: Hinrich, Sefolosha, Luol Deng, Tyrus Thomas, Yao Ming.
Zhang Yang approached the top of the three-point arc, looking at the three on the opposite periter, although still the sa three people, after more than a month’s gap from last eting on the court, the feeling was different.
This is the effect of winning awards, after Sefolosha and Luol Deng made it to the All-Defensive Team, the class automatically rises! An outer starting lineup composed of 3 Second-Team defensive bosses!
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