Chapter 59: Fairness

However, there is a saying?

"The house leak happened to be rainy!"

The Indiana Pacers in '03-04 had a record that even Miller had not achieved in his heyday - 61-21, and they were the top regular season this year and the best record in their franchise history. www.biquge.info This is the closest team to balance offense and defense in the league this season, and many basketball experts say they are optimistic that they will become an emerging force in the NBA in recent years.

In second place is the Minnesota Timberwolves, who are not alone, Garnett, who is not alone, has exploded into a strong battle, with a record of 58 wins and 24 losses. This year is also the best opportunity for the "Wolf King" to get since he entered the NBA. At the same time, the "Wolf King" also won his only regular season MVP trophy this year!

After the retirement of the "Admiral", Duncan, who led the team alone, did not insult the reputation of "the most powerful forward in history", 57-25, in the strong West, the Spurs are still strong, and they even overtook the great Lakers!

Fourth place in the league isn't a bad result, but it's a different story for the Lakers with F4, but they're still the top contenders for the championship. The record is 56-26.

With a 55-27 record, the Sabres held up the King's roof in the days without Webb, and the fact that this result means he did a good job.

With 43 wins, "Melon" took Denver to the playoffs in his rookie season.

The rest are the Pistons who gathered the Five Tigers, the eternal playoff team Mavericks, the talented Grizzlies, Yao Ming's Rockets, the declining Celtics, the Nets of the troika, the Knicks when the lone wolf was not alone, the Bucks with good luck, the Heat under the control of God Operator, and the Hornets led by the poisonous "beard" at this time.

According to the record, the Spurs' first-round opponent will be the Memphis Grizzlies.

There are only three days between the end of the regular season and the start of the playoffs, and all the teams that make the playoffs do the same thing during these three days, training and dealing with the media.

Chamberlain, who finally escaped from the media, entered the training hall with the exhaustion of a night without sleep. It was still early before the training session, but the teammates had arrived.

Chamberlain and Willis, who knew him best, got into a group, though now the old fellow could no longer bring him experience.

Wait until Popovich arrives at the arena to interrupt them. Seeing that the players began to sweat, Popovich did not ask them to warm up, and directly arranged a tactical drill for intra-team confrontation.

Main team: Duncan, Parker, Bowen, Turkoglou, Nesterovich.

Subs: Ginobili, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Horry, Devin Brown, Jason Hart.

There are often practice games, and it doesn't make a difference because it gets to the playoffs, and there are no jumpers at the beginning, and the ball is given to the bench.

Hart is a very third-rate point guard, and his passing can only be regarded as mediocre, and if it weren't for the emergence of "small-ball tactics", his poor defense would definitely not be used as a substitute by Popovich.

The ball quickly passed to Ginobili who was about to go.

Ginobili is not selfish when he gets the ball, and the essence of small-ball tactics is passing, dismantling, and running. Oxlade-Chamberlain took Nesterovic out of the post and then used an acceleration counterrun to catch Ginobili's pass with open hands.

Although he didn't rest all night and cherished the opportunity very much, Chamberlain concentrated all his attention as soon as he got on the court, but this time he didn't observe whether his teammates were vacant as usual, because Nesterovic didn't seem to be very active, and Chamberlain entered the empty interior line with one step and dunked successfully.

"Rashou, pay attention to defense, defense!"

Popovich, who saw Chamberlain score so easily, reminded Nesterovic loudly on the sidelines. Popovich is so tough, even in training matches!

Although it is a little unkind, I have to admit that it is this kind of strictness that makes Spurs.

Originally, the relationship between Chamberlain and the main center was not very good because of the position, but this time Chamberlain easily played into an attack, and because of Popovich's reprimand, Nesterovic began to ask for the ball toughly when attacking. It was an indifferent training game, and Duncan didn't care about it and gave him the ball.

The loss of a legendary skill made Chamberlain's heart fluctuate, and there was no longer any cautiousness, Chamberlain, who just wanted to play happily, wanted to dunk on his head when he saw the Slovenian receiving the ball, this is an attack with no technical content, at the moment when Nesterovic raised his hand, Chamberlain predicted his movements, and a big hat was covered on the ball that had not yet had time to make a quick shot.

The capped Slovenian had just fallen from the sky and did not wait for Chamberlain to gain a foothold, pushing Chamberlain to the ground before everyone could react.

Chamberlain, who was already unhappy, quickly got up and punched Nesterovich in the face, and then was pulled by Horry, who reacted.

Chamberlain didn't like to fight, and he didn't want to get into trouble with anyone, but he faced the cold and warmth of reality by himself early on, and Chamberlain knew that sometimes he had to be tough

At this time, Popovich also reacted, terminated the training match, issued a ban, and only announced the disbandment after receiving assurances from the players.

The conflict came suddenly, and the process was very short, and this was the Spurs' playoff civil unrest.

When we are still weak, fairness will be far away from us. Oxlade-Chamberlain was suspended after refusing to apologize, although he was also in the team's 12-man playoff squad, while Nesterovic was only fined within the team.

Chamberlain himself did not know. The fight completely cut off Chamberlain's last chance of staying with the Spurs. Between him and Nesterovich, Oxlade-Chamberlain knew exactly who would be the eliminator, and in fact the punishment within the team said it all!

Fate seems to have made the choice in Chamberlain's place.

Is this the end? Chamberlain looked at the boundless sky and was stunned.

Chamberlain was sure that he would not be nostalgic for such a career, but he did not want to fail like this!

"Can't I change myself after all?"

With such doubts, the first playoff game of Chamberlain's life arrived.

On April 18, the flames of the NBA playoffs were lit, and Chamberlain sat quietly on the Spurs' bench. Time seems to have gone back to when he first joined the Alliance, and he was still a water cooler administrator.