Chapter 764: Records and Records, and the President and Presidents
34 wins in a row!
An unprecedented record!
The NBA's longest winning streak was born!
The crowds filled the basketball arena, the Heat fans left the court in disappointment, and the Miami finally became the backdrop of history, watching the Hawks step into the altar.
"Congratulations, Kraft!"
"Thank you! for making this all more meaningful, D. Wade. ”
"If we have a chance to meet in the playoffs, I will definitely take revenge!"
"Then we'll see you next season, and to be honest, I'm more looking forward to that ultimate version of the Heat. ”
"'He' didn't say he would come, but have you decided to come to Miami?
"I'm not stupid, be careful not to usurp the boss's position. ”
"Like you did with Joe?"
With that, the two looked at each other and smiled, high-fived and hugged again.
The bull was once again surrounded by reporters, while the owner of the American Airlines Center in Miami quietly withdrew, waiting for his own nirvana and revenge.
Despite being interviewed by a number of media outlets at the tournament, tonight's press conference was held as scheduled as there were more media waiting to get first-hand information.
Heat head coach Spoelstra came out first, and he said in a playful tone: "Who am I, where am I, what am I supposed to do?"
Well, I know it's not my time, so you guys hurry up and ask questions, and after answering them, I can give up the place to the protagonists as soon as possible!"
Losing is losing, but there are really few media outlets that are ready to spray the Heat and Spoelstra to death, after all, the strength of the Hawks has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it is the norm for the Heat to be unstoppable, and it is a miracle to block it.
The Filipino's honesty and self-deprecation won the favor of the reporters, and in order to avoid embarrassment, after this burst of good-natured laughter, a reporter immediately asked: "The heat team once took the initiative on the court, and even had a chance to overtake the score, what do you think made the team fail to complete the counterattack against the Eagles." ”
"The gap between us is all-encompassing, the collapse of the last quarter is just a true reflection of the strength of both sides, it doesn't make sense to explain too much, that's the gap," Spostela said. ”
When asked about the Heat's goals for this season, Spoelstra said without hesitation: "Strive to win, secure a playoff spot, strive for a higher regular season qualification, and try to attack the second round of the playoffs, only by continuing to work hard can you be as strong as the current Hawks in the future." ”
The Heat head coach quickly wrapped up his remarks, and it was the Hawks' turn to speak next.
The staff at the press conference did not immediately arrange for the Eagles spokesperson to enter the venue, but moved more than a dozen more chairs to the speaking area, and the number of chairs even exceeded the two sides of the table.
Later, the Hawks attended the press conference with 12 men and Mike Woodson.
This seems to be the first time in the history of the NBA, coupled with the unprecedented 34 consecutive wins, the on-site reporter actually had a short embarrassing time after a crazy flash, such a scene is also rare.
Fortunately, the embarrassment was then over, and the ESPN reporter was the first to ask: "I want to ask Coach Woodson, what is the secret of your 34-game winning streak to the Eagles?"
Mike Woodson pretended to be ruthless: "Train them hard, don't give them a good face every day, and text or call them from time to time after training to prevent these bastards from going to nightclubs, and finally, I ...... They have set it ...... the air."
Speaking of this, the reporters on the scene laughed again.
Woodson then continued: "The secret is that there is no such thing in this world, we win game by game. It's nice to break the record, but we're just continuing to believe in the process, and the result is just incidental. ”
Later, TNT's reporter asked Eagles leader Ruan Er Niu: "Kraft, why have you been able to lead this team to create miracles again and again in the past three seasons?"
Ruan Erniu smiled: "Is it me who leads this team? No, it's my teammates, my team has made me."
There are a lot of people who say that my success is due to the overall strength of the Eagles, congratulations to them for getting it right, and I'm happy to be hugging my teammates and coaching staff.
If I had to give us a reason for what we've achieved so far, I can only say that I'm extremely honored to be able to create great results with a group of great people, everyone here is an MVP, and I'm just the luckiest one. ”
Don't look at Erniu's many honors in hand, but no matter how many honors there are before, they are personal, no matter how you brag about it, when it comes to historical-level team honors, Ruan Erniu's mind is still very clear, and he puts the greatest credit on his teammates.
However, modesty is modesty, when people turn over this history many years later, there is only one team leader with the Atlanta Hawks winning 34 consecutive victories, and he is - Nguyen ~ 2 ~ Niu!
In the press conference that followed, while it was impossible to give every Hawks player a chance to speak, many of the role players present on the floor may have only had the opportunity to attend the postgame press conference once in their careers.
At the end of the press conference, the Hawks reaffirmed the importance of the championship, unanimously saying that the 34-game winning streak is over and that they will put their best energy into preparing for the playoffs.
That's what they say, and that's what they do.
Two days later, the Hawks continued their road trip with a 109-120 loss to the New York Knicks, ending their winning streak and putting the current NBA's longest winning streak at 34.
Throughout the game, the Hawks didn't show 100% strength to deal with the game, and even the Knicks themselves won a little inexplicably.
A team with 21 wins and 41 losses easily won the top team in the league with 61 wins and 1 loss, and suppressed the opponent throughout the game, and did not even leave a chance for Atlanta to overtake, which is really unexpected.
The Knicks won a game to be proud of but didn't make much sense, while the Hawks regained the opportunity to travel light at the cost of giving up a game that was the icing on the brilliant.
No team can win all 82 games along the way, and for the Hawks, the loss came at the right time, as evidenced by Woodson's in-form Erniu and Embarrassing Son in the second half of the final quarter.
The Eagles have finally lost!
This not only means that the Eagles themselves can have a more relaxed mentality, but it is also a good opportunity for fans around the world to relax.
Especially for North American audiences, the annual NCAA March Madness is in full swing, but the NCAA basketball game has not received the attention it used to be, and now the all-American audience can finally turn their attention back to the future of the United States.
This year's NCAA is also full of talent.
First of all, he is naturally the biggest favorite for the top show, a point guard from the University of Kentucky, John Wall, who is 6 feet 4 inches tall, deserves his position in the jhon-all (transliteration + paraphrase), his physical condition is extremely good, and with such an excellent template as Driss Ross in front, the team with the top pick will never miss him.
And behind the wall, there are Evan Turner, Wesley Johnson, DeMarcus Cousins, Hassan Whiteside, Donatas Motaiyunas, Al Farouk Aminu and other good seedlings.
On the plane to the next away game, Er Niu said to his teammate Sun Yue while holding the latest "Sports Illustrated": "I don't know how awesome the 10th rookie is, but these names do make the fans of the Celestial Empire refreshed." ”
Sun Yue hurriedly asked, "What do you say?"
Erniu pointed to the NCAA basketball special and said: "The champion is a big hit, I won't say more, look at the next ones, Cousins, isn't it a cousin when translated? And this Whiteside, isn't it called Baibian when translated? Of course, none of the above are this cow! I didn't misread or misspell it, right? M-o-n-r-o-e, isn't it meant to be called Monroe?"
Sun Yue pointed to the tall and rough man in the pictorial and said, "Anyway, his name is not Marilyn, I don't think China will definitely translate it according to the surname Monroe, right?"
Idle, the two Celestial Dynasty people on the plane more than once worried about the rookie's name translation problem, Erniu couldn't help it, directly connected to the mobile phone IFI, and sent screenshots and questions to the reporter Wang Meng in Atlanta through hatsApp.
Soon, Wang Meng's answer came to Erniu's mobile phone, and the result was like this: "Hey! It's not easy, just call him Greg Monroe!"
The man is called Monroe, the woman is called Monroe, and the Chinese is really broad and profound!
This is of course just a small episode in the busy schedule, as the Eagles arrive at their next stop, Washington, D.C., where they will play a game against the Washington Wizards, who have long been torn apart by themselves.
The Eagles thought it was a game that was nine out of ten, but in fact it was ...... And it is.
Take a look at the starting five Tigers sent by the Wizards: Mike Miller, Javier McGee, Andre Blecher, Al Thornton, Randy Foye.
Let the point guard Foye play point guard, and then let Al Thorton, the No. 4 position, play the No. 2 position, and let Mike Miller, a guy with the height of a center, play the No. 3 position, fortunately, Bletcher and McGee are still in their own positions, but this lineup is so strange that it is indeed beyond the brains of ordinary people.
Woodson was also stunned for a while when he saw the opponent's starting list, and repeatedly asked the staff before he was sure that there was no problem with the information in his hand.
I don't know how long Philip Saunders can stay in the Wizards head coach position, anyway, his lineup really broke a group of fans and spectators.
Could it be that he watched N episodes of "Slam Dunk" last night, so Sanders instantly made up a small and terrifying lineup in his mind and put it into practice.
But Randy Foye is not Kenji Fujima after all, and the guy who is not good enough and wants to be the protagonist often dies miserably.
Sure enough, in the first quarter of the game, the Hawks took advantage of their speed to open up a double-digit point difference.
Since then, although the Wizards have set off counterattacks many times, and have tried to organize offenses and reverse the game many times, the difference in strength between the two sides is indeed obvious.
Even if Nick Young on the bench hit many difficult shots like a hero, it still couldn't change the trend of the game after all.
At 135:99, the Eagles did not give any face to the capital team, and the referee of the United States can give whistles to his favorite teams and players, but he rarely gives face to the capital team because of patriotic plots.
After a carnage, the Eagles came out of the shadow of the loss they had just lost.
They continue to dominate the league with a 62-2 record and hold multiple NBA records.
For example, the fastest team records for 20 wins, 30 wins, 40 wins, 50 wins, and 60 wins.
If they continue at this pace, they will continue to break the record for the fastest 70-win NBA game held by themselves.
While those records aren't as impressive as the 27-game winning streak and the all-time longest 34-game winning streak, the Atlanta Hawks are on their way to glory.
After the game against the Wizards, the Hawks did not immediately return to Atlanta for their home game against the Pistons in three days.
The reason is simple, as the champions of the 08-09 season, they will be invited by the president of the United States to the White House for an audience.
It's not easy to come to Washington, so why do you have to take a photo with the owner of the White House?
In fact, this special reward for championship teams began 50 years ago, when the sports-loving President Nixon first invited the sports champion team to the White House, and every year after that, members of the four major sports champion teams in the United States can enter the White House to be received by the president.
This is not the first time that the Hawks have been invited to the White House, of course, the last time they were received was the former president's comrade toilet, and the current president of the United States is already Comrade Guanhai.
In the reception hall of the White House, a few crystal chandeliers are enough to make the entire hall splendour.
The furnishings in the hall have a strong sense of history. The hall was flooded with many guests, fan representatives, and parliamentarians who participated in the meeting.
Writers and photojournalists huddle on either side, trying not to obstruct any view as much as possible.
They even reminded each other not to touch the curtains on either side, even if it was crowded, so one joked: "This curtain is probably older than any of us." ”
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the members of the team first appeared on the podium, and they stood in three rows in turn, Ruan Erniu and Yu Yusen stood in the center of the first row of the team.
With a burst of applause and cheers, President O'Guanhai, Hawks general manager Billy Knight, and head coach Mike Woodson officially took the stage.
In his subsequent speech, Ao Guanhai spoke eloquently, he was full of praise for the success of the Hawks in recent years, and spoke highly of the team's revolutionary changes in basketball.
But Oguanhyde's speech was also full of humor, such as, "The Hawks have only been good for a few years, and I may not have been born before the last championship", such as "Why is Kraft Nguyen keen on stealing the job of a defender, Bibby and Dragic should complain to the league hierarchy", and then "Joe Johnson's expression has not changed for thousands of years, and he is as cold as a killer".
In the end, O'Guanhai did not forget his identity as a Bulls fan, and congratulated the Hawks on breaking the Bulls' regular season win record last year (72 wins in a single season).
He finally said, "Even though I haven't played basketball for a long time, I still know a little bit about basketball." I know it's a great group of young people who support each other and represent their city, and their excellence and greatness represent the entire NBA. ”
The head coach Woodson, who was teased by Ao Guanhai for a long time, did not forget to "counterattack" in the subsequent speech, he said: "After all, the president of the United States is not a lifelong system, given that the president Mr. Ao Guanhai knows basketball very well, so when he becomes a 'free agent' (the end of the presidential term), you can consider coming to play for our Hawks." ”
In the end, Nguyen Er Niu, as the representative of the team, gave the president an Eagles jersey with the name of Ao Guanhai with the jersey number "44", because Ao Guanhai is the 44th president of the United States.
In general, as a basketball fan, Ao Guanhai performed well, and the Eagles players did not lose their manners on important occasions, so in a burst of applause and laughter from river crabs, the presidential meeting ended successfully.
The Eagles flew back to Atlanta that day, and after a few adjustments, they host Detroit.
Rodney Staggie, the crown prince who was sent away by Pistons general manager Joe Dumas and single-handedly corrected, is out with an injury, and the Pistons have become a team with no desire at the moment.
In other words, this is a team that has not been thoroughly arranged, and they don't seem to want to give up the glory of the Motor City yesterday, but the reality is that they can't make the playoffs, and they can only go to the top pick.
I don't know if Joe Dumas gave the order in time, anyway, judging from the course of the game, the Pistons really didn't regard the Hawks, a team that has risen above their heads, as an opponent that must be defeated.
The Detroiters, who trailed by nearly 20 points in the first quarter, had no intention of fighting, and it was another tragic massacre.
At 97:135, the Hawks beat the Detroit Pistons for the second time this season, and the Autobots still have two games to play against the Hawks, but whether they want to fly back to Cybertron or stay on Earth for maintenance is really unpredictable.
The impact of this game is not limited to this, except for the Hawks to win another regular season game, the biggest hot spot in this game is that Ruan Erniu opened the third quarter and only took 9 rebounds in this game.
This is nothing, tigers have napping times, let alone individuals.
What is really surprising is that Ruan Erniu's streak of two doubles has finally stopped!
I have to make a special note here that the NBA's technical statistics, the regular season, the playoffs and the finals are calculated separately, so Ruan Erniu in the 07-08 season, 08-09 season, until this game, his double-double record has never been broken!
That's impossible!
More than two seasons in a row?
Truth be told, there was a huge uproar when Erniu broke Garnett's 32 consecutive double-doubles in his rookie season and the 50-game double-double record held by Moses Malone at the time.
But on the one hand, there are too many data, and on the other hand, the invisible discrimination of the media in the United States has never been broken, so this great record has been ignored intentionally or unintentionally.
In fact, on Niu Mi's website, Twitter and Weibo, there has never been less statistics about Erniu's magical records.
228 consecutive double-doubles, not counting the official NBA's record of 50 consecutive double-doubles, even if the legendary Chamberlain is brought out, this time it will be suppressed.
You know, there are two legends about Chamberlain's two consecutive pairs: 220 and 227.
Now it's good, whether it's true or not, whether it's included in the official statistics or not, Ruan Erniu has become the unique one in history.
There are still a dozen games to play in the 09-10 season, but the MVP seems to be long gone.