I Don’t Want to be the Boss

52 wins! They are a 52-win team, and they only made it to the playoffs by playing against them.

Eighth in the West... What a desperate ranking.

But what can Irving do? Even if it is a fiasco, he also wants to play in the playoffs, if not playoffs, not worse.

Just when Owen had a feeling of self-pity, the knock on the door rang.

Owen immediately got up, adjusted his emotions, and returned to being a leader.

He likes this state and likes to show his strong side in front of others.

Open the door, the team is dedicated to serve him.

"Kerry, are you ready? The press conference is about to begin."

"I know Dandy, wait a minute, I change clothes."

Irving took out the formal suit that he had prepared from the suitcase and went to the bathroom to change his clothes. Together with the team staff, he went to the hotel's largest meeting room, where they will hold a pre-season press conference.

On the 16th, they fortunately entered the playoffs with the advantage of playing against the Trail Blazers. The originally planned press conference was held in Memphis yesterday, but it was postponed to today because of the airport.

Arriving in the meeting room, Irving looked at the reporters in a large meeting room that could accommodate more than 200 people. It felt really exaggerated!

Originally, he and Anthony Davis were very popular, and now the Grizzlies this season has been hot from the beginning of the regular season and has been hot from the beginning to the current popular team this season. The scene was within Owen's expectations...a fart! He still feels too exaggerated. Just now his staff said that this is a media group after screening. At least the media with a population of 10 million people in the region are eligible to come in. The camera is still unified. Each media can only have one Reporters.

This is just the first round! Although he only played in the first round of Irving, the difference between the first round of last year and the first round of this year is too far away!

Coming to the seat and doing well, the team's head coach Kidd and inside core Anthony Davis have already come to the scene first. The reporters also asked some questions. Irving came, and the reporters focused their attention on Irving.

The Pelicans press officer began to choose the media for questions, and the interview began.

"The series with the Grizzlies will start tomorrow. Do you have any expectations for this series?"

Owen was upset about this question. What did he expect?

"No expectations, just the opponent is the Grizzlies."

"How much do you think you want to beat the Grizzlies?"

"We need about 6 games to solve the Grizzlies."

"Can you win?"

"Of course, if we can't win, why should I play in the playoffs."

Irving replied, the live media thought he had heard it wrong and asked him if he had any hope of defeating the Grizzlies. He directly answered that he would beat the Grizzlies in 6 games. Is this attitude not enough for the Grizzlies?

However, I have to say that Owen's answer has won many people's appreciation.

It's just that Owen is confident, let alone others, even the people of his own team are scared!

...

At the end of the interview, the reporters did not get any breaking news from Kidd and Anthony Davis, but they got it easily from Irving.

On the way to lunch with Kidd and Owen, Anthony Davis hesitated for a long time, and finally couldn't help but ask: "Can we win, that's the lord."

"..."

Irving felt that Anthony Davis was not on the same channel as him.

But this makes Owen less able to say what he thinks or thinks, otherwise it will be too faceless.

"We will definitely win, right, Jason." Irving said towards Kidd.

Kidd also found Anthony Davis naive and nodded helplessly.

Kidd is very helpless, of course he understands why Irving said that, just like when they met the Lakers in the finals in the 01-02 season, he said so.

But the players now are very different from their players at that time.

Faced with the Grizzlies, Kidd feels more pressure than he faced the Lakers as a player. After all, his Nets team is still much stronger than the current Pelicans.

Also, the Grizzlies have been playing according to their Grizzlies for two or three years, which means that Irving has a strong mentality. When he changes his personality, Kidd is really worried about his loss of confidence, but Irving and Kidd are not worried.

It's just that Kidd didn't expect that he could have such a point guard under his hands. It was obviously a new generation of players who entered the fourth season of the NBA, but in such an era, there can still be old-school players like Irving, which is rare!

All point guards throughout the West were bleak under Sun Ce's rule, and even Paul didn't want to play in the West. Only Curry and James could compete with Sun Ce in the point guard position.

However, even under such circumstances, Irving still showed the difference between himself and others, different from Curry's crazy self-confidence, different from James's stable and powerful, and different from Sun Ce's ambition that could not hide the sharp edge...

Owen is low-key and calm most of the time, but has the pride he deserves.

When the Western point guard position was shrouded in the horror rule of Sun Ce, James, and Curry, the top point guards of Parker and Lillard were almost forgotten, but Irving did not. People still mentioned him often because He is such a competitor who can still shine brilliantly in such a bad environment!

One of the things that Kidd appreciates Irving most is the "ritual sense" that Irving has and most of the young players have lost.

Owen wants to be a good teammate. What he does is not to please anyone, but to make himself stronger by crazy and hard training, and then try to use strength to attract those strong players.

This reminded Kidd of himself at the beginning of the century, and he did the same.

But this time, although Kidd still appreciates the pride revealed in Owen's bones, but in 6 games to eliminate the Grizzlies, Kidd can only silence for his top pick combination.

Their Pelicans are not without a battle, but if they are facing the Grizzlies in rage... Kidd's emotions are not desperate now, really only helpless.

...

"Oh."

Looking at the video footage of Owen's interview, Klay Thompson rarely showed a rude expression.

As the son of former champion Michael Thompson, Klay Thompson lived a prosperous life. Although he was also mixed with the black people who lived at the bottom of the age, there are some differences in nature. He has always shown a very educated side.

It can be seen that when Irving replied that he would beat their Grizzlies in 6 games, Klay Thompson was very upset. Sun Ce and Paul George didn't feel anything, but Klay Thompson was really upset!

There is no reason for him, the same player.

This is the simplest and most unreasonable but a natural hostile relationship that everyone agrees on.

In the afternoon training, Klay Thompson was very serious and worked hard to strengthen the defense against the change of direction under the guidance of old Hardaway.

Coach Hollins looks at the current Klay Thompson and thinks about his impression of the son of his old teammate... This change is also huge! It seems that as long as there is a relationship with Sun Ce, there will be a huge change, good or bad, it is not easy to say, but when the strength is insufficient, the tradition of being arrogant and developing, bullying the weak after being powerful...

As for the Pelicans who want to beat their Grizzlies, all the playoff teams want to win, otherwise there is no such thing as a black eight.

Therefore, the opponent said that they wanted to beat them. The Grizzlies, besides Clay Thompson, who had extra hostility towards the players of the same period, felt normal.

The Grizzlies have no higher goals for the first round, they only have the idea of ​​sweeping the opponent!

Moreover, they can not prepare much. They won against the Pelicans in the regular season. Although they almost lost to the Pelicans, they all won, and it was not that there was not enough preparation time. Defeating each other with hard power and on the spot.

Therefore, it is really hard to say what will happen in the 7-game 4-win game.

Partition first, not necessarily easy to eliminate partition eighth.

Originally playing against the Pelicans, their Grizzlies players looked down on them. It was Paul George's sweeping declaration that made the players value it.

But if you lose one or two games, will it make the players doubt their strength... This is not easy to say, coach Hollins thinks it is impossible, and their confidence is unlikely to lose one or two because of the playoffs. The field will be affected, but! With little probability, Coach Hollins also wants to avoid it.

You have to be careful and careful. His cautious attitude makes the Grizzlies overall alert from top to bottom.

And coach Hollins' team coordination, overall planning, control of player status and rotation of the lineup... etc. ability~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Although the on-the-spot response depends on Sun Ce, people have been vomiting countless times. He was jokingly called "ask the lord in case of indecision," but what he excels in is enough for him to assume the title of famous coach.

It is said that a talented player meets a suitable coach to have the opportunity to show his talent, and may exceed the talent, and vice versa!

Coach Hollins met Sun Ce, focusing on strengthening what he is good at, and all that he is not good at is handed to assistants and players. Although there is no progress in on-the-spot tactical response, the area where he is good is already the top in the league!

...

At 4 pm, the Grizzlies have finished their preparations for the Pelicans. Tomorrow, there will be only a simple personal training to find the state and a team training to review the running position. A total of 80 minutes, the next step is to take a good rest and raise Accumulate.

Starting the playoffs with a record of 75 wins, this is very strange to Sun Ce and others. Perhaps, in the history of the NBA, only Jordan’s 72-win season and James’ 70-win season have similar mentality, but in essence, Their Grizzlies are more stressed!