blogombal Chapter 22: The situation between the East and West alliances is in chaos; the battle for Little Hea
Chapter 22: The situation between the East and West alliances is in chaos; the battle for Little Hea
However, despite his thoughts, Li Xingchen wouldn't be so bored as to try something reckless as to hold back his attacks for the entire match. If he did that, the coach probably wouldn't let him play the whole game.
He was more concerned with how to maximize the system's benefits for him.
Judging from the situation in the playoffs, if he has little time left in the game and is still far from the target score, the system will give him some extra tips on how to score quickly, helping him to achieve his goal of controlling the score in a very short time.
If he can achieve it on his own, the system will not provide him with any additional assistance.
This is good, it's almost like giving him a safety net – even if he plays poorly for most of the game, he can quickly make up for the scoring gap in the final moments.
It's important to know that points scored in the final moments of a game are often the most crucial. It's not uncommon for star players to sleep through the entire game, only to make a few key shots in the final moments and pull themselves out of the meeting room.
As for whether the score control restrictions might cause Li Xingchen to miss out on better results, he felt that this was unlikely to happen.
In these two games, when he scored relatively high in the first half, he was worried that he might not have enough "scoring quota" in the second half and would perform poorly or continue to miss shots.
As it turns out, he was overthinking it. In fact, at his current level, this is about the best he can achieve. After all, once his offense gets going, the opponent's defensive intensity will also increase. Consistently scoring is not an easy task. Fortunately, as long as he can draw enough defense for his teammates, he can still demonstrate his influence on the offensive end.
He thought that if one day his scoring ability improved to a higher level, his "scoring quota" should also increase in various tasks, and it was unlikely that he would be limited in his performance by the "quota".
After the game, post-game interviews, and activities concluded, Li Xingchen returned to the hotel with his teammates to rest. They would spend one last night in Salt Lake City before heading back to the Warriors' home arena, San Francisco, the following day.
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Because the team lost, Li Xingchen didn't pay much attention to the comments from fans and the media after the game.
Aside from following the team's regular training and tactical learning, he spent the two days between games mostly immersed in his own shooting practice.
In fact, he spent even more time doing extra training on his own, because during the breaks in the series, the team basically didn't arrange any unified high-intensity training; everything was mainly focused on tactical review and maintaining form.
勇士队首轮的第二场比赛是在5月26日晚上进行的，而回到主场的G3时间则是在5月29日的晚上，中间依旧有完整的两天休息时间。
On the morning of May 27, he returned to San Francisco with the team. That afternoon, after feeling that his physical condition had returned to its peak, he called his trainer and continued his shooting practice at the home arena.
During his time away from home, his progress was slow due to limitations in venue and time, which frustrated him greatly.
Now, I can finally start training hard.
In one afternoon and one evening, his overall task progress advanced by about 15%, reaching about 65%.
His ideal goal is to complete this training task and get the corresponding reward before the third game starts, which will also allow him to make another breakthrough. So he trained very hard during the two days between games.
On May 28, besides participating in the team's unified tactical training and video review, he still spent most of his time doing extra training on his own. Fortunately, his current training mainly focuses on shooting, which does not take a big toll on his physical fitness. At his current age, such intense extra training will not affect his performance on the court; otherwise, it would be counterproductive.
Even so, after a whole day, his task progress had only advanced by 20%, reaching 85%. Especially in the latter half of the training, his task progress slowed down significantly. The reason was that he had already completed some of the relatively simple training items ahead of time, and the remaining items were the more difficult ones. In addition, the repetitive training was indeed tedious and boring. Even with the reminders and encouragement of the task progress bar, Li Xingchen felt that it was difficult to continue.
Finally, the day arrived: May 29th, the day of Game 3.
After the team's pre-game shooting practice in the afternoon, his progress on the task barely exceeded 90%, and it seems that his hopes of completing the task and getting the reward before Game 3 have been dashed.
Li Xingchen had a vague premonition that their match that night might end in a narrow defeat.
He didn't know where his premonition came from, but his recent premonitions had always been very accurate, which made him feel very worried.
As a member of the Warriors, he certainly hopes the team can go as far as possible in the playoffs. Even disregarding emotional factors, rationally speaking, the further the team goes, the more opportunities he will have to perform.
However, for players of his caliber, maintaining their scoring and defensive performance on the court may be even more important than the team's wins and losses.
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The third game of the first-round series between the Golden State Warriors and the Utah Jazz, played at the Golden State Warriors' home court, is a highly anticipated match.
Because when this game started, the third games of the other seven series in the league had already ended, and some of the series had even ended completely, leaving only this last group that hadn't played yet, and they were currently tied.
In the Eastern Conference, the Philadelphia 76ers, who are ranked first in the East, have a commanding 3-0 lead over the Washington Wizards in the series, essentially securing their first-round victory.
The Brooklyn Nets, the second seed in the Eastern Conference, boast a "Big Three" of Durant, Harden, and Irving this season and are aiming for the championship. They currently lead the young Boston Celtics by a large margin of 2-1.
The Milwaukee Bucks, the third seed in the Eastern Conference, had just won Game 4 of their series earlier that day, sweeping the Miami Heat 4-0 and avenging their upset loss to the Heat last year.
The New York Knicks, fourth in the East, are trailing the Atlanta Hawks, fifth in the East, 1-2 in the series. They are the only team in the upper half of the East to be down by a large margin after the first three games.
It was also in this series that Hawks star Trae Young played exceptionally well, contributing a double-double of 30+10 in the first game, plus a buzzer-beating floater, becoming the silencer on the road, so much so that he was later dubbed "Mayor of New York City" by fans, and creating the famous scene of countless fans chanting "Fuck Young".
As for the Western Conference, none of the matches saw one-sided scorelines.
The Phoenix Suns, currently second in the Western Conference, are trailing the Los Angeles Lakers, seventh in the West, 1-2. This is not surprising, given that the Lakers are the defending champions and have a legendary superstar like LeBron James.
The Denver Nuggets, who are third in the Western Conference, also just finished their game earlier today, and the series is currently tied 2-2 with the Portland Trail Blazers.
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Clippers, who are fourth in the West, are trailing the Dallas Mavericks, who are fifth in the West, by a large margin of 1-2. The performance of the new generation star Doncic in the playoffs is no less than that of Trae Young in the East, and the two have temporarily become the "two best players of the new generation" in the eyes of fans.
Now, only this last series remains in the first round, and the third game hasn't even started yet.
That is tonight, the Western Conference-leading Utah Jazz and the Western Conference-eighth Golden State Warriors will be locked in a crucial Game 5 battle!