Mountain Peak System: a Path to NBA

Chapter 839 839: Epilogue: Seven Years · 1_3

Last season, Curry, who had been widely questioned, made it to the NBA All-Second Team.JR Smith was chosen as the Sixth Man of the Year.

Butler, who replaced Wallace as the team's starting small forward in the second half of the regular season, won the Most Improved Player award.

May 20th.

With an extremely high level of determination, the Warriors faced off against the Lakers in the first game of the Western Conference Finals at the Great Qin Center.

On the night of the game, Qin Yue led the team to defeat the Lakers with a personal scoring show of 55 points.

After the game, Qin Yue joked, "Now, I can finally sleep well."

This season, Qin Yue never forgot the loss the Warriors suffered against the Lakers at the Great Qin Center during the regular season.

However, having won two games at home, the Warriors encountered trouble after the series moved to the Staples Center.

Because Curry unexpectedly sprained his ankle in the third game of the Western Conference Finals, the Warriors' offense was noticeably affected.

Moreover, at the Staples Center, the Lakers received a similar off-court advantage as the Knicks last season.

For this reason, the anxious Curry once contemplated playing with painkillers.

But Qin Yue and Ma Long refused Curry's request to play injured before the start of the Celestial King Mountain game.

"Stephen's ankle sprain is not serious, and we can't afford to risk worsening his injury for one game."

Back at the San Francisco Daqin Center.

In Curry's absence, Qin Yue, revered by fans as the God of Basketball, did not disappoint the 20,000 Warriors fans present.

Attacking inside forcefully.

Shooting boldly from outside.

In the fourth quarter, as Qin Yue scored his 60th point of the game, Shaquille O'Neal on TNT TV couldn't help but exclaim, "Although the Lakers have pushed the Warriors to the brink, God has pulled his team back."

After winning the fifth game, Qin Yue and the Warriors once again withstood a challenge in the sixth game.

That night, with a free throw comparison of 18 to 44, the Warriors' perimeter shooters overcame their disadvantage at the line with an incredible shooting percentage of 38 out of 21 from beyond the arc.

After the game, faced with the Warriors' astonishing 55% three-point shooting in the game, Lakers head coach Mike Brown said with a near-desperate tone, "Their threes are as precise as intercontinental ballistic missiles, and in this game, we can only take our hats off to their performance."

Ultimately, the Warriors won 4-2 to secure a place in the Finals for the fifth consecutive year.

On the other side, the previously highly-favored Knicks were unexpectedly stopped short of the Finals by the Heat, losing 3-4.

However, after reviewing the Knicks and Heat series from an outsider's perspective, Qin Yue concluded that the Knicks' elimination was entirely self-inflicted.

Whether it was James Harden, who became invisible starting from the fourth game.

Or Dwight Howard, whose mindset completely collapsed since last year's Finals.

In Qin Yue's view, if such a Knicks team had made it to the Finals...

That would have been a violation of the objective laws of basketball.

June 8th.

The first game of the 13/14 NBA Finals officially commenced at the San Francisco Daqin Center.

Returning from injury, Curry vented all his accumulated frustration on the court.

Throughout the game, Curry scored 36 points, 4 rebounds, and 6 assists, with 19 shots, 12 makes, including 8 of 12 from the three-point line and 4 of 4 from the free-throw line.

Additionally, Curry made many contributions that couldn't be quantified by traditional statistics.

During the game, with Curry's presence, Qin Yue not only repeatedly shattered the Heat head coach Eric Spoelstra's carefully arranged zone defense but also found numerous scoring opportunities for his teammates through his incredible passing.

Final score, 100 to 128.

That night, the 28-point difference between the teams made the Heat seem like a soft target.

Though in the subsequent second game of the Finals, the Heat players, through more aggressive defense and hustle, managed to keep the game suspenseful going into the fourth quarter.

But the offensive surge initiated by Qin Yue and Curry in the final moments of the game poured cold water over every Heat player's head.

"We can't always perform like we did in the first game of the Finals."

Post-game, Danny Green said during an interview, "But this is the magic power of Stephen and 'Great Qin,' especially when they explode on the court simultaneously; we can beat any opponent."

After a pause, Green added, "In every offense, they always manage to read the opponent's defense accurately and lead us to execute precise and deadly strikes on the court. In my view, Stephen and 'Great Qin' are undoubtedly the highest basketball IQ duo in the history of the sport."

Yet, even with Qin Yue and Curry in the lineup, the Warriors may still have moments of collectively poor performance.

For example, the third game at the Miami American Airlines Arena.

On a night when both Wade and Anthony received whistle favors, the Warriors completely collapsed as a team and couldn't find any scapegoat post-game.

Because...

Based on the game, every person on the Warriors team bore inescapable responsibility for the loss.

Fortunately, this kind of collapse was proven to be just an anomaly in the remaining games.

In the fourth and fifth games of the Finals, the swiftly rebounding Warriors swept the Heat and won the championship with a 4-1 score for five consecutive years.

And after winning his seventh NBA Finals MVP award in his career, in terms of personal accolades, Qin Yue deservedly surpassed Jordan.

On TNT TV, Barkley said, "I bet, even if the Messiah will still express his everlasting respect for Michael Jordan afterward, deep down, he's thinking, 'How does someone like Michael Jordan deserve to be compared with me?'"

Great Qin Center.

During the award ceremony, the host conveyed Barkley's words to Qin Yue.

And to this, although Qin Yue just laughed and said, "Charles, that fool."

But at that moment...

From Qin Yue's expression, Barkley undoubtedly read the GOAT's true thoughts...

"He can never fool me," Barkley said, "because in today's NBA, no one understands him better than I do."

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PS: Epilogue One Coming! Continuing to thank all the reader godfathers on my knees!