Meixi Arena.

Bell, finally enduring the peak of his stamina, made a three-pointer to stop the bleeding for the Suns.

However, it came back to being time for Qin Yue and Brown's performance.

The former missed a jump shot, the latter tapped down the rebound, Qin Yue followed up, and scored off the backboard.

"The league really shouldn't compensate him with the Best Defensive Player award, but rather establish a separate Best Mismatch Award for him."

In Los Angeles, Jerry West, who was watching this year's Western Conference Finals with Lakers general manager Kupchek, sharply commented.

Hearing this, watching West's face that showed admiration, surprise, and sometimes disgust tonight, Kupchek asked: "Do you think the Warriors will win the championship this year, Jerry?"

"I don't know."

After a pause, West added: "But the Suns shouldn't be their match."

Agreeing with West's perspective, Kupchek said: "Jerry, what do you think of this player Qin Yue."

"Your Chinese pronunciation is not bad, even more professional than the DJ at the Warriors' home court."

Kupchek said: "As expected, I knew it... even though you've never liked Asians, your curiosity would certainly drive you to follow the Warriors' games."

After revealing a smile as warm as a spring breeze, Jerry West said: "I don't like Asians for personal reasons, but for basketball reasons, I will always be curious about him."

Of course, Jerry West would pay attention to Qin Yue.

After all, since retiring, it's also the motivation that keeps him going for a few more years.

Every day, he brings skepticism and curiosity to appreciate these young players and hopes for the emergence of that kind of genius who can change history—this is Jerry West's biggest hobby since retirement.

"His jump shot is still not stable... although his incredible coordination always allows him to find different shooting angles on the court."

"His physique and athletic ability give him outstanding capital, but at the same time... it makes every power attempt on the court far exceed outside stars like Michael and Kobe."

"In total, he still has many shortcomings, do you want to hear more?"

At this moment, looking at the deep eyes of West, Kupchek wanted to say that he knew all these shortcomings of Qin Yue, but before he could speak, West waved his hand to interrupt him.

Because the television screen had returned to the Warriors' offensive turn.

On the court, Qin Yue, after completing a hand-off pass with Davis, was initially blocked by Marion, then switched to posting up and after pressing Marion's defense near the three-second zone, used an imaginatively creative behind-the-head pass to find Brown.

The Suns' restricted area... in this instant became the stage for Qin Yue and Brown, allowing the duo to rampage at will.

"What a fantastic play."

Suppressing the nauseating feeling in his chest, West commented in the next second.

Taking a deep breath, West immediately turned his gaze to Kupchek, saying: "I've already talked about his strengths, the league should establish a separate Best Mismatch Award for him."

Best Mismatch Award.

In fact, after watching the Warriors' first two playoff rounds, in West's eyes, the disruption Qin Yue causes through mismatches far exceeds his defensive contributions for the Warriors.

Even though, whether in the regular season or playoffs, Qin Yue is a help defense master averaging over 3 blocks per game, and since entering the playoffs, spends every night fully committed on both offense and defense...

But as West said, due to Qin Yue's physique, the energy consumption in attacking aggressively far exceeds that of outside stars, so Qin Yue inevitably needs to make choices.

That is, to invest more energy on offense or to devote more focus on defense.

Artest's joining only alleviated this problem, but still failed to solve it fundamentally.

Because Qin Yue cannot score thirty or forty points every night while also transforming into an unbreakable defensive barrier like Duncan or Garnett.

If he really could do that, then the NBA should directly hand the championship trophy to Oakland.

In West's view, Qin Yue's so-called explosive creativity originates from the crushing damage he causes to opposing defenses through his mismatch advantage.

In the first round of the playoffs, the Mavericks players felt like they hadn't exerted themselves fully before the game was over.

And in the Western Conference Semifinals, the Spurs used a defensive strategy similar to "one-on-four linking" to confirm this point.

Since Duncan's superstar whistle made him the only Spurs player who could apply intensity to Qin Yue, the Spurs could only have Duncan execute and complete the "mark" in "one-on-four linking."

West greatly admired the courage of the Spurs and Duncan, but the result was, in the third and fourth games, Qin Yue scored 38 and 40 points for the Warriors respectively.

In West's eyes, the reason for this result is that Duncan couldn't form a meaningful matchup with Qin Yue.

Qin Yue's outside offensive means made it difficult for traditional power forwards to confront him, but his physique and interior prowess made it challenging for typical small forwards to restrict him in the low post.

In simple terms... since entering the playoffs, every night Qin Yue has used his strengths to attack the opponent's weaknesses, effectively bringing victory after victory for the Warriors.

The third and fourth games won by the Spurs by outscoring were not because their "one-on-four linking" stopped Qin Yue—they just won by limiting the Warriors' outside shots and relying on more accurate shooting.

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