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Chapter 193 The only way to choose is to become a god or to be infamous forever

It's over, it's all over.

As Qin Yue personally broke the Lakers players' will to resist, the fourth game, which would affect the trend of the series, ended with the Warriors capturing the Staples Center.

Final score, 128 to 110.

Post-game interview session.

Warriors head coach Mike Malone couldn't wait to show off to the world the achievements Qin Yue made that night.

"He scored 61 points, 20 rebounds, 14 assists, 5 blocks and 2 steals for us. What an amazing statistic!" Malone said proudly. "In the history of the NBA, no one has ever achieved '60+20+10' in a game, but in my opinion, these statistics still cannot reflect his value in the game!"

After a pause, Malone added: "His offense, his defense, and his mental will. Believe me, the data will only tell you what kind of game the Messiah played, but only we know how he is leading us forward!"

"If the Messiah's 60+20+10 still can't convince you that he has surpassed Michael Jordan, then I can only say that Michael Jordan should be thankful that the Messiah was born ten years later." Kwame Brown said bluntly, "If Michael and the Messiah were in the same era, I have no doubt that Michael would have ended up like Kobe tonight."

"To be honest, this may be the easiest playoff journey I have ever experienced," said two-time MVP Steve Nash. "61 points, 20 rebounds, 14 assists? I have to go back and try in 2K to see if I can get such technical statistics."

Although at the Staples Center, Qin Yue always does something surprising.

But compared with the past, Qin Yue's "60+" triple-double for the Warriors in the fourth game of this year's Western Conference Finals is special in both significance and value.

The entire North American sports world was in an uproar after this game.

Qin Yue, who returned from injury, once again proved to the world that he is the best player of the current era.

He led the Warriors to defeat the defending champion Lakers at home with gorgeous technical statistics.

With a big lead of 3-1, no one would doubt that they would step over the Lakers' corpse to reach this year's finals.

Lakers head coach Phil Jackson said helplessly after the game: "You saw it too. Kobe played his most perfect game in the past two years. He scored 48 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists for us. But even so, we still couldn't stop them. This only shows that they deserved the victory of this game more than us."

If time could go back
If Jackson could go back in time, he would definitely tell Jordan, who was still being bullied by the Pistons at the time, why the Pistons could only prevent him from scoring on the court by beating him to death.

Because after personally experiencing the fourth game of the Western Conference Finals, Jackson finally understood what Chuck Daly felt back then.

When gods are standing opposite - mortals are destined to be insignificant. No matter what resistance mortals try to make, gods will use unheard-of ways to tell mortals what the difference is between gods and mortals.

For example, Qin Yue's one-on-five windmill dunk completely destroyed the Lakers' fighting spirit.

This dunk, which is considered the best goal of Qin Yue's career so far, was still shaking Jackson's weathered heart until after the game.

Kobe did not give an interview after Game 4.

LeBron James, who witnessed with his own eyes how Qin Yue destroyed the Lakers, became more determined to make that important decision this summer.

Qin Yue has already ascended the throne of God.

James knows very well that he needs stronger teammates and a team that is not afraid of super luxury taxes to participate in the next competition.

Unfortunately, no matter how much Cavaliers owner Daniel Gilbert is willing to spend on the Cavaliers, Cleveland can't bring all of this to James.

Therefore, James must enter the free agent market to find a team that can compete with Qin Yue.

Perhaps, leaving Cleveland would cause James to lose his roots.

But if he doesn't choose to leave Cleveland, James knows that he will most likely lose everything.

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A day later, the fifth game of the Western Conference Finals between the Lakers and the Warriors returned to Oracle Arena.

Kobe and the Lakers players, unwilling to be eliminated, put up a tenacious resistance in Oakland.

Due to poor hand feel
This is probably Qin Yue's worst performance in personal offense since entering the playoffs.

Compared to the previous games where I was defended to death by my teammates
In the fifth game, seeing that Qin Yue missed every shot, the Lakers immediately adopted a highly targeted retreat defense and inside double-teaming strategy to limit Qin Yue's personal offense.

This made Qin Yue almost become "Antetokounmpo encountering anti-alphabet armor" in the game.

However, since it was close, it also meant that Qin Yue finally broke the deadlock for the Warriors with his command tower attributes.

On the court, facing the Lakers' always frantic defense, Qin Yue, who was not stupid enough to choose to continue fighting with the basket like Kobe in his youth, frequently used his attraction to the Lakers' defense to create a large number of open shooting opportunities for his teammates.

回到甲骨文球馆的斯蒂芬-库里因此成为了最大受益人，全场15投9中，其中三分球9投6中，罚球12罚12中，总计砍下了36分4篮板2助攻。

In this life, Curry is simply the son of the goddess of luck.

Because when Qin Yue was following the "Qin Yue Law" to complete the charge for the Warriors, those referees who had always had a good relationship with Qin Yue would always feel guilty for not blowing the whistle for Qin Yue.
Curry has officially become the exclusive substitute referee designated by the referee for Qin Yue in the game.

Of course, in addition to Curry's outstanding performance, during the lineup rotation phase, the aging Nash also taught the young Ellis a lesson with his stable scoring and control of the game situation.

Led by Nash, the Warriors' bench scored 20 points more than the Lakers in this game.

The final score was 116 to 134.

The Warriors put an end to this year's Western Conference Finals with a stunning scoring performance at home.

They eliminated the Los Angeles Lakers with a score of 4 to 1 and returned to the finals after two years.

The Lakers players, who had just tasted the championship last year, had to accept their fate of being eliminated that night no matter how unwilling they were.

Kobe felt he had done his best in this year's Western Conference Finals.

In order to win, he joined the team when he couldn't beat them, and since the third game he has been constantly trying to find ways to increase his influence on the court.

However.
Even someone as strong as Kobe could not bridge the gap in talent between him and Qin Yue.

It is true that Kobe, who has transformed into a ball-holding core, can fill up the technical statistics every night, but as Mike Malone said, the data cannot fully reflect Qin Yue's actual value in the game.

For example, the most intuitive defense.

The Warriors can build a complete defensive system around Qin Yue at any time.

But what about the Lakers?

Due to the model advantages of inside players, they are naturally more suitable to play the role of a team's defensive core than outside players. Therefore, no matter how hard Kobe defends on the court, his deterrent power on the defensive end cannot be compared with Qin Yue.

In the long history of the NBA, the only team that built a defensive system with outside players as the core of defense and won the championship was the Chicago Bulls.

However, even the Bulls back then could not build a defensive system with Jordan alone.

No matter how strong Jordan's one-on-one defense is, he can't single-handedly support the entire team's defense like Hakeem Olajuwon of the same period.

Qin Yue's past life and the future life of many Bulls players are rushing to criticize the documentary "The Last Dance" for a reason.

Pippen himself was quoted as saying, "Since Michael Jordan is so good, he must have had at least three or four championship rings before we were teammates, right?"

Unfortunately.

Before meeting teammates like Pippen, Jordan had zero championship rings.

So no matter how hard the old GOAT talked, he couldn't refute Pippen on this matter.

"Congratulations." After the fifth game, Gasol, a fan of Qin Yue, said with tears in his eyes, "This year's championship can only belong to you. I will cheer for you in front of the TV!"

Qin Yue accepted the blessing from Gasol and comforted him, "The future is yours, Mark."

Gasol clenched his fist immediately and said: "Next season I will definitely prove myself."

After a pause, looking at Brown who happened to pass by behind Qin Yue, Gasol added: "I will never let those scoundrels make people mistakenly believe that anyone can be the second center in the West."

"What does he mean?" After Gasol Jr. turned and left, Brown, feeling greatly humiliated, said to Qin Yue.

Seeing this, Qin Yue quickly comforted Brown.

However, Brown, who still felt unsatisfied, raised three fingers and said, "I'm about to win my third championship ring. When Shaq retires, I will be the center with the most championships in the NBA! So, these damn young centers must learn to respect me! I need respect! Respect! Respect!"

Hearing this, Qin Yue, who knew that he could only change the subject to calm Brown down, said with a smile: "There will be a party later, will you attend?"

"Participate, you must participate!"

In this round of the Western Conference Finals, Brown, who failed to gain respect from Gasol, successfully regained his place at the party on the night of advancing to the finals.

After relaxing, Qin Yue immediately turned his attention to the east.

Compared to the Warriors who got their ticket to the finals in just five games
As the top favorite in the Eastern Conference this year except for the already eliminated Cavaliers, the Celtics and Bobcats' Eastern Conference Finals were fierce.

As early as the previous semifinals, the Celtics led by Alvin Gentry faced a strong challenge from the Magic.

The stalemate lasted until the decisive battle, when the Celtics broke the balance of this semi-final with the comeback of Paul Pierce who accidentally sprained his ankle in the game.

Just like the Qin Yue story, Pierce, who chose to play despite his injury, not only greatly inspired the entire Celtics team, but also, on the court, Pierce, who could only play with one leg, also scored key goals for the Celtics several times.

The tenacity Pierce showed in this decisive battle was in stark contrast to Dwight Howard, who had the opportunity to change the fate of the Magic through free throws.

On the court, Howard stepped up to the free throw line with a smile on his face at the decisive moment and missed six consecutive free throws.

After the game, the Orlando media, unable to tolerate it any longer, immediately launched a massive verbal attack on Howard.

The Orlando media couldn't understand why Howard, who had ruined the team's hopes of victory, could smile like a winner.

From the perspective of Orlando, it is not that they cannot accept defeat.

But when Howard missed many free throws but still managed to keep smiling, the Orlando people's defense collectively broke down.

"Dwight has no sense of shame at all! Can such an irresponsible player really lead us to win a championship?"

"We all know Dwight is not good at free throws, but after missing key free throws repeatedly, how can he still smile so happily?"

"I've had enough! Trade Dwight now! He's just a giant baby who will never grow up!"

After the fifth game against the Celtics, Howard was criticized by the media and his own fans and became autistic.

In the subsequent sixth game, the Celtics easily defeated the Magic led by the heartbroken Howard, and met the Bobcats, who surprisingly defeated the Cavaliers and then the Hawks, in the Eastern Conference Finals.

The Bobcats' promotion journey this year is full of legends.

In the first round of the playoffs, they defeated the underdogs and became the first team in NBA history to stage an unexpected upset after the first round of the playoffs was changed to a best-of-seven system.

Then facing their old rival, the Hawks, the Bobcats, who were in high spirits, not only defeated their opponent in one fell swoop, but also successfully created the best result since the establishment of the team.

Although before the Eastern Conference Finals began, the vast majority of experts and fans were more optimistic about the Celtics.

But when the Bobcats, who had defeated the Celtics for two consecutive rounds, came to the Eastern Conference Finals, this team that was firmly united by Artest unexpectedly tied the Celtics 2-2 after the first four games.

The only drawback is that as the owner of this team, Jordan is used by Artest as a negative example to motivate the entire team almost every night.

"We are not playing for that cold-blooded capitalist!" Artest said, "We are fighting for ourselves and for the fans of Charlotte!"

"We have reached the Eastern Conference Finals! With just one more step, we will be able to reach the Finals!"

"We must use our actions to tell that capitalist why we deserve such high salaries!"

With the huge morale boost, the sharpness displayed by this young Bobcats on the court is amazing.

In the decisive battle with the Celtics, they once forced the Celtics into overtime.

If Pierce hadn't hit the winning shot for the Celtics under heavy pressure before the end of the game, the Bobcats almost performed a miracle again at the TD Garden.

However, just when everyone thought that this Eastern Conference Finals would end with the Celtics winning.
In Game 6, the Bobcats scored a controversial buzzer-beater from a long distance at the Time Warner Arena by Brandon Roy.

The controversy of this long-range three-pointer lies in the fact that when Roy received the ball, the timer obviously started counting down after a while.

Moreover, judging from the subsequent video playback, it was impossible for Roy to complete the shot so calmly from the position where he received the ball with only 0.8 seconds left in regular time.

However, when the basketball flew across the night sky and finally fell into the net, since neither the referee nor the visiting team players noticed anything wrong with this long three-point buzzer-beater at the first time,
So this round of the Eastern Conference Finals, where each team takes the stage, can only be decided through the most brutal Game 7.

Will the Bobcats go all the way and make it to the Finals?

As a spectator, Qin Yue doesn't care whether Shanmao can go all the way to the end.

But with the Bobcats' disruption in the Eastern Conference this year, Qin Yue once again felt God's favor on him.

Because the troublemaker Bobcats not only unexpectedly disrupted the Eastern Conference, but also successfully dragged the Celtics, whose overall strength is not inferior to the Warriors, into a fierce battle.

Qin Yue knew very well that even if the Celtics could win in the seventh game, their physical fitness would inevitably be affected.

This
This will undoubtedly give the Warriors, who advance to the finals early, an invisible advantage before the finals.

5 month 30 day.

Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals was held as scheduled at the TD Garden.

The Bobcats, whose success and failure were both due to Artest, suffered a bolt from the blue shortly after the start of the game when Artest gave Al Horford a head-shaking elbow.

Dick Bavetta, the referee in charge of the game, did not hesitate and directly expelled Artest from the court for a second-degree flagrant foul.

Although Artest repeatedly stated afterwards that his elbow was purely an accident.

But it was precisely because of this that the Bobcats were thrown into disarray, and it completely put an end to their legendary playoff journey this year.

After the game, many media and fans expressed regret and sorrow for the Bobcats' defeat in the seventh game.

After all, in the previous six games, the aggressive Bobcats have shown people the possibility of performing a miracle in this year's Eastern Conference Finals.

Qin Yue knew that no matter how Artest argued, he would definitely regret being expelled this time.

just now
Compared to caring about Artest and the Bobcats who lost in the Game 7.
Qin Yue is more concerned about the Celtics who will challenge him in the finals.

Indeed, under the tenacious resistance of the Bobcats, the Warriors are on the side of both time and place in this round of finals that is about to begin.

But Qin Yue, who never opens champagne at halftime, has no intention of underestimating this Celtics team.

Only one round left in the series
The Warriors, who win 75 games in the regular season, can successfully end this season that belongs only to them.

But before completing this last step, the Warriors still cannot be blindly optimistic and complacently think that they are already the champions of this season.

Because in the NBA, only when you become the champion and everything is settled can you enjoy the flowers and praise as a winner.

"The runner-up is always the biggest loser!"

Before the finals began, Qin Yue was seen giving a speech to the team, "And the runner-up with 75 wins is the loser among losers!"

"Everyone, we only have one option: winning the championship! Otherwise, all of us are doomed to become a laughing stock and be infamous forever!"

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PS: Another short and weak update.

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