Mountain Peak System: a Path to NBA-Chapter 561 - 186: Thanos James Arrives, The Ultimate Showdown! (Begging for Subscriptions and Monthly Tickets!)_2
For example, Brown, who has gradually found the joy of a four-step layup on the training ground.
"This rule is tailor-made for me!"
After utilizing the new version of the dribbling and traveling rules to score several times under Qin Yue’s defense, Brown exclaimed with delight, "If even you can’t stop me, who in this league can stop me from scoring next season?"
Even though, during practice with Brown, Qin Yue did not put in his full defensive effort.
But Qin Yue admitted...
Under the new rules, even if you don’t have outstanding fundamentals...
As long as you can grasp the essence of the four-step layup and the new dribbling rules, you can easily score on the court with just your physical talent.
Simply put, this is a rule change that will greatly reduce the gap in fundamentals between players and provide a huge boost to offensive players, including James, who prefer to overpower the defense with their physicality.
Undoubtedly, the new rules have brought a shocking impact to Qin Yue internally.
Because in the long run, why would the league’s new generation of players bother to arduously hone their fundamentals?
As long as you have a historically great body, theoretically speaking, you could crash your way through the NBA.
Qin Yue doesn’t want to imply that the NBA decided to change the rules to help James, who is already second to none, contend against him.
However, regardless of the league’s motives for deciding to change the rules...
The biggest beneficiary is certainly James.
Because under the new rules, Young James will visibly leap through his long growth phase and directly step into the peak of his career.
What about honing skills?
Even if James’s fundamentals remain the same after twenty years, as long as he maintains his physical fitness, he will always be Thanos James!
...
Qin Yue was still immersed in the shock brought to him by the ESPN-revealed rule changes.
Meanwhile, the Lakers, returning to the Staples Center with a match point, eliminated the Supersonic with a 4-2 series score, successfully meeting the Warriors in this year’s Western Conference Finals.
This season, having enjoyed the child labor contract benefits of Lowry and Little Gasol, the Lakers’ strength in the bench players was undoubtedly the key to their successful passage past the Supersonic.
On this night, when Kobe inevitably cooled down to defend Ray Allen...
As Curry’s top competitor for this year’s Sixth Man of the Year award, Monta Ellis scored a total of 28 points, 4 rebounds, and 4 assists for the Lakers in the sixth game, demonstrating what true die-hard Kobe Fans means.
Additionally, Odom, who came off the bench for Battier, also performed excellently in this game, accumulating 17 points, 7 rebounds, and 5 assists during the rotation phase.
"I think the bench players stepping up proves that we are an excellent team."
Kobe said in a post-game interview, "We are ready to defend our title and we won’t see the Warriors, who won 75 games in the regular season, as unbeatable competitors. We will only see them as an enemy we must sweep away on our road to a title defense."
Although such a metaphor is not appropriate.
Winning championships can indeed be addictive.
Last year, Kobe led the Lakers to a revival and seized his fourth career championship, and he is more eager than ever to lead the Lakers to claim another title.
Especially given that the Western Conference opponent is also led by Qin Yue’s Warriors.
Kobe longs to deliver a blow to the high-and-mighty Warriors in the upcoming Western Conference Finals and, with strength, show Qin Yue who the defending champion of this season truly is.
Moreover, looking at the championship window period...
This summer, Lowry may have to be released, and next summer, the Lakers must consider whether to renew Little Gasol or trade Odom...
It has quietly made Kobe realize that this Western Conference Finals might be his only championship opportunity in the next two to three years.
After all...
Kobe, who fully participated in the Dallas incident, knows better than anyone else what changes the league will undergo with the implementation of the new collective bargaining agreement and the luxury tax.
Yes, even big teams like the Lakers will be intimidated by the luxury tax.
Therefore, if he cannot lead the strong Lakers team to defend their title this year...
In Kobe’s eyes, he might miss out on his career’s fifth championship and would not know when or where the Lakers could once again put together the current lineup capable of contending with the Warriors.
This is a Western Conference Finals that Kobe has already determined is a must-win, even before the game begins.
And over at the Warriors...
Knowing that this summer’s free agent market will be unprecedentedly lively, Qin Yue also cannot say if a missed opportunity this year means there will be another next year.
This is not Qin Yue’s lack of confidence in his strength.
But under the new dribbling and traveling rules, with many perimeter stars benefiting from this, if indeed a few super teams emerge this summer, the current leading advantage the Warriors have could vanish.
Basketball, in the end, is a sport about who scores more.
Qin Yue knows well that if those stars who benefit from the new rules start to team up, the so-called future will become highly unpredictable.
Moreover, leading the Warriors to a 75-win regular season...
To avoid being nailed on the pillar of shame by his own hands...
In Qin Yue’s view, the Warriors have only one path to choose this year: winning the championship.
... 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂
May 18, 2010.
