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Chapter 139 Does anyone want to bet on this? ( words updated per day, begging for monthly subscriptions!)
"Bryan, how can you say something like that after a game?"

Compared with the disastrous loss to the Warriors in the first game of the finals
As one of the "Four Horsemen", Rich Paul knows better than anyone how bad an impact James's post-game nonsense will have on him.

Unlike Randy Mims and Maverick Carter, Paul already had his own career long before he met James.

He was running a lucrative retro jersey company at the time.

In fact, even if he hadn't met James, with his shrewd mind and unique vision, he could easily live a life of luxury.

And before Qin Yue traveled through time, he also clung to the lap of the famous British singer Adele Adkins.

From decisively giving up his business to follow James closely, to becoming the famous "Rich Paul", and then becoming Adele's husband
Rich Paul's life, which seems to be a cheat, is enough to prove how important it is to make good choices in one's life.

James has always valued Paul.

Because not only does he support me loyally, but he is also the one who understands me the best.

And now, with Paul's reminder, James also reacted.
No matter what the reason was at the time, that nonsense had already caused a very bad impact among the people.

Cleveland is a city of failure.

Cleveland's sports history is a tragic history in which others are laughing while Cleveland is the only one crying.

It's not that Cavaliers fans can't accept failure.

It’s not like Cavs fans are incapable of experiencing a tough loss.

But James said "there are still three games".
In a sense, this has already announced the knight's surrender.

It's like World War II, everyone knew that France was powerless to resist the German steel torrent.

But even if you can't win, you can't surrender so quickly, right?

You know, the Pavlov Building in World War II even lasted longer than the French.

Paul knew that James's "three more games" would not only disappoint all his supporters, but also make people think that .
James has completely lost the confidence to continue the great competition with Qin Yue.

"What do you think I should do now?"

James turned his gaze to Paul with a frown.

In response, after three seconds of silence, Paul said: "The Warriors are much stronger than the Cavaliers, Brown, as long as they don't perform poorly, this round of the finals will be a foregone conclusion."

James said with a frustrated look on his face: "Rich, I know everything you said."

How could James not know how big the gap is between the Cavaliers and the Warriors?

If before the finals, James had imagined that he could be as good as he was against the Pistons.
In the first game of the finals, facing the Warriors' airtight interior defense, and Artest who always drove himself into the restricted area guarded by Qin Yue and Brown.
James' mood can only be described as "nothing is more sorrowful than a dead heart."

The Warriors restrained the Cavaliers in almost all aspects.

The Warriors' lineup framework restrains this chosen one in all aspects.

"Brown, what I mean is that if we can't save the defeat, at least we have to use a great defeat to prove that you still have the potential and confidence to compete with the Messiah!"

Just when James was about to become autistic, Paul said this.

Hearing this, James frowned and said, "Rich, how can I do this?"

Paul, who also had a basketball dream before meeting James, was not the kind of person who knew nothing about basketball.

Therefore, after a pause, Paul said: "The Warriors' defense is mainly focused on the inside, Brown, you can definitely increase your mid-range and three-point shots in the next game."

James lacked confidence and said, "But my shooting has never been stable enough."

Paul laughed and said, "That's not important, Brown. Just like people don't care about Kobe Bryant's shooting percentage, they only care about the high points he scored in the game.

As long as you can finish your shots, you have a chance to score big in this Finals."

James thought for a moment and said, "You mean, let me take more outside shots to get better scoring data?"

Paul shook his head and said, "Not only that, but also rebounds and assists. Brown, as long as you tell your teammates and coaches that you need more backcourt rebounds to launch fast breaks.
Believe me, that piece of bread that always listens to you will definitely help you design a backcourt rebounding strategy like the Warriors. "

James suddenly realized: "This is not difficult, but assists"

Paul said: "You can make your teammates who receive your pass in the game shoot more resolutely! And don't the Cavaliers need such a resolute shot now?
Brown, it doesn't matter if you can't get 10 assists every night. As long as the assists data can show your comprehensiveness, as long as your technical statistics are not much worse than the Messiah.
Then people will think that this is just a finals where the Cavaliers lost but you didn’t lose! ”

Paul's advice rekindled James' fighting spirit.

James is never easily defeated.

Maybe he'll despair after the loss.

But after despair
In order to return to the center of the basketball world, he will definitely try every possible means and take action to achieve it.

then
With renewed fighting spirit and a strong desire to return to the spotlight, two days later, James and his teammates welcomed the second finals at Oracle Arena.

In the first quarter, James took half of the shots for the Cavaliers. Although he only made 11 of 3 shots, these unreasonable shots, together with free throws, did allow James to score double-digit points.

In addition, James also exchanged three turnovers for three valuable assists, and grabbed five rebounds with the careful assistance of Big Z, Gooden and Varejao.

In the second quarter, James returned to the game after only four minutes of rest.

In this quarter, James finally found the feeling of firing from the outside through his previous "pad knife". He made 7 of 4 shots in the quarter, including 4 of 2 three-pointers.

However, at the end of the first half, the score was 47 to 71.

The Warriors still made the finals no longer suspenseful in just one and a half.

However, James did not give up, or it could be said that the advice from Rich Paul finally made him understand how to continue to compete with Qin Yue under such circumstances.

In the second half of the game, James' rebounds quickly reached double digits.

Although he had to make a lot of inefficient shooting attempts on the court due to the impact of his physical decline, he attacked for half of the fourth quarter, which had already entered garbage time, on the grounds of "never giving up".
全场比赛，31投12中，其中三分球8投3中，罚球14罚8中的詹姆斯，的确交出了一份35分14篮板8助攻2抢断9失误的漂亮成绩单。

Moreover, James's fierce attack in the final quarter also prevented the Cavaliers from losing too embarrassingly in the second game.

The final score was 94 to 125.

After the game, James explained the nonsense he said after the first game: "People misunderstood what I meant. You know, I am a player who never chooses to give up. My fighting spirit on the court has guided me all the way to where I am today.

I have always looked up to Michael Jordan and Allen Iverson as role models, and I know I am still a long way from being a great player, but I am sure I have the potential.”

According to James' explanation, the "three games left" after the first game was described by him as a slip of the tongue due to being too sad about the loss.

For fans who have always been tolerant, James' statement was widely recognized.

Qin Yue knew very well that there must be help from those big shots behind this.

After all, James' technical statistics in Game 2 were really good.

哪怕与自己仅用三节便斩获的42分18篮板14助攻2封盖2抢断相比也只能用“旗鼓相当”来形容。

According to the "232" schedule of the finals, the next round of the finals will move to Cleveland.

Having learned from last year's experience, Artest only brought four days' worth of luggage this time. "Don't make me take that damned regular flight again!"

Barnes, who brought six suitcases with him, was puzzled and asked, "Why do I have to take a regular flight if I bring extra luggage?"

As for Barnes's question.
Soon, the Warriors team committee headed by Qin Yue let Barnes go through an unpleasant ordinary flight experience and understand why Artest only dared to bring four days of luggage.

"Matt, why are you so unconfident about our ability to sweep the game 4-0 away from home?"

Moreover, after the team reunited in Cleveland, Qin Yue immediately gave Barnes a "homework", requiring him to write a self-review of more than 500 words tomorrow morning and make a public self-review at the team's first training session.

"Players who are not confident don't deserve to wear Warriors jerseys, Matt." Afterwards, Brown smiled, patting Barnes on the shoulder.

Seeing this, Barnes said aggrievedly: "I didn't believe we could win the championship by sweeping away from home. I just asked one more question out of curiosity."

Brown shook his head and said, "But you did bring a lot more luggage, more than any of us."

Barnes defended himself: "This is my first time playing in the finals in my career. I just don't know which outfit to choose to attend such an important occasion."

Brown nodded and said, "I understand you, brother, but team rules are team rules. You should write a self-criticism as soon as possible!"

Barnes said depressedly: "How can I write a 500-word review?"

Brown smiled and said, "Go find Mike (Dunleavy). As long as you can make him feel your sincerity, I believe he will be happy to help you."

The next day, Barnes, who had spent a full $2000 to escape the disaster, didn't know that Dunleavy Jr. had only wanted to charge him $1000 as a writing fee.

However, since the middleman Brown also wanted to make some money, Dunleavy Jr. could only double Barnes's money with tears in his eyes.

A day later, Game 3 of the Finals kicked off at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland.

The series of defeats has completely destroyed Cleveland's confidence in continuing to compete with the Warriors in this round of the finals.

But on the night of the game, the entire Quicken Loans Arena was still full, telling the world.
They are already used to failure, and they are willing to fail along with the Cavaliers who made it to the finals.

James, who returned to Cleveland with the Cavaliers, practiced a lot of shooting before Game 3.

In addition, based on Rich Paul's suggestion, James also took the initiative to find Mike Brown before the game, hoping that the other party would strictly implement the double-team tactics against Qin Yue in the game.

"Brown, the Messiah is 6 feet 11 inches tall and extremely flexible. If they don't double-team only when necessary, it will definitely help them play a more fluid offense."

Brown, who had used double-team tactics against Qin Yue as early as Qin Yue's rookie season, said to James.

But James said: "Mike, I think we should still give it a try. Have you completely given up on this round of the finals?"

Since the situation opened up, James found that as long as he took the lead in seizing the moral high ground, no one on the Cavaliers would dare to disagree with his suggestions.

After all, whether it is more unreasonable outside shots, or teammates must help him position on the court so that he can grab rebounds and launch fast breaks, or they must resolutely shoot after receiving his pass.
James can justify his use of the system by saying that it is for the good of the team and to find a glimmer of possibility in the impossible to defeat the Warriors.

If you want to refute.
All James needs to do is put the hat called "Have you given up?" on your head, and you have to cooperate with him.

then
Unable to refute the weak bread of His Majesty the King, facing the unquestionable look of His Majesty the King, after some calm thinking, he could only choose to compromise and make concessions.

"Brown, maybe the double team will allow Messiah to get more assists on the court, but in this league, people have always cared more about points than assists.

As long as your scoring data can eventually surpass the Messiah, your supporters will definitely think that the Messiah can only beat you because he is on an extremely strong team. "

There is no doubt that Rich Paul, who always only considers James and only looks at problems from James' perspective, is right.

Because in later generations, no matter how people questioned it, James proved it with the long list of records he left in the NBA and the great project called "411".

As long as the player's statistics look good, failure can become great.

As long as a star leaves enough records, there will be experts and reporters to defend him.

Since basketball is a team sport, losing to a stronger team is only natural.

But when Paul wholeheartedly gave advice to James, he obviously forgot that James was not the only one in the world.

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When the third game of the finals officially began, Qin Yue, who was trapped in a double-team at the beginning, thought that the Cavaliers just wanted to try whether the double-team tactic could change their fate.

Seeing this, Qin Yue did not hesitate and decisively passed the ball to Artest who was in an open position at the time, and accepted the assist with a smile.

However, as the game progressed
As the knights' attacks became more and more resolute, Qin Yue gradually realized that something was wrong.

Although the first quarter was over, Qin Yue, who was double-teamed every time he had the ball, had already made 9 assists.

But the knight's crazy pincer attack tactic, which was intended to silence him, made his resentment, which had almost been driven away,
It surged into my chest again.

In fact, when the second game ended, Qin Yue had already realized that James was playing a game with him: "You take the victory, and I take the data."

In this regard, Qin Yue can fully understand his good brother.

After all, competitive sports are cruel.

In the face of the Warriors' absolute overwhelming advantage, no matter what James does, it is difficult to shake the Warriors' on-court advantage.

So, since James just wants his statistics to look better, why not do the same for Qin Yue, whose statistics are even better than his?

The third battle
When the Cavaliers were desperate on the court and wanted to silence themselves at all costs, Qin Yue always felt that
Do the Cavaliers think that the double-team tactic will prevent them from scoring?

Have they forgotten how they broke the double-team tactic on Christmas Eve in their rookie season?

Qin Yue didn't know why the knight was so desperate to silence him.

But the defensive strategy implemented by the Cavaliers this night has already made Qin Yue feel offended.

Because this strategy, which is just to silence him, is completely different from restricting him in order to win the game.

Qin Yue never liked being questioned.

If the Cavaliers thought that they could not score points by doing this, and if the Cavaliers thought that they would rather lose more miserably than target themselves,
Then Qin Yue just wanted to say that this round of finals is not just this one.

In the second half, when Qin Yue was double-teamed again, he easily got his 26th assist of the game.
仅在前三节便为勇士砍下12分17篮板26助攻2封盖1抢断的他，其胸腔中的那股怨气，已然再次达到了顶点。

The final score was 135 to 90.

Under Qin Yue's organization and coordination, as many as seven Warriors players scored in double digits in this game.

This should have been a night of celebration.

Because when Qin Yue got his 26th assist in the game, he had officially surpassed John Stockton and became the player with the most assists in a single game in NBA playoff history.

Moreover, since Qin Yue's 26 assists in a single game were created on the stage of the finals, the new record he set is destined to be more valuable.

But in the locker room after the game, the Warriors players, who were leading 3-0 and had three match points, all felt Qin Yue's visible anger.

"Next game, I want to fire without limits."

"Unlike the previous unlimited fire, this time I need all of your help."

"If any of you disagree, it's best to tell me in advance."

disagree?
How could the Warriors players, who were fed comfortably by Qin Yue's sweet and delicious big cakes in the third game of the finals, not agree?

At this moment, looking at Qin Yue, Baron Davis smiled and said, "As long as you want, we can accompany you to destroy the world at any time."

Then, everyone expressed their support for Qin Yue.

The only one who chose to remain silent was Artest.

But when everyone turned their eyes to him, Artest said: "Don't look at me, I'm just wondering how many points this crazy guy will score in Game 4."

After a pause, Artest added: "Anyone want to bet on this?"

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