Chapter 37: Iverson
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"Iverson never won a championship, and his basketball was a mistake."
"That's the answer."
It seemed to have become a media feast, with people lashing out at the Nuggets, Iverson and his love-hate basketball.
"As many people love Iverson, there are as many people as they hate him."
This sentence may be the most accurate portrayal of Iverson's entire career.
In the eyes of those who hate him, his dazzling dribbling is as flashy as juggling, his unpredictable dribbling is like a blue plum, and his nimble step-back jumper is described as selfishness with only basketball and no teammates.....
All of this, nothing has changed, except time.
From the time he became the shortest champion in history, from the time he landed in Philadelphia, and from the time he came to Denver.
People have been arguing about him for a long time, from him becoming the top pick, becoming the scoring champion, substituting Philadelphia for the playoffs, reaching the Finals, and crossing Tyronn. Lou......
Iverson's life is a story of a man who learns from all sorts of mistakes and matures, and whose success is built again and again in the game with unimaginable fate.
However, this time he disappointed people again, this is a man who grew up in thorns and setbacks, never gave up, and will not compromise in the face of fate.
The pressure from all sides, and the sarcasm that would accompany him no matter what, had made Iverson accustomed to it, and these were not enough to crush his fighting spirit, but would make his fighting spirit even higher!
Faced with this, Iverson pursed his lips and silently tied his shoelaces.
He's playing again!
Time seems to have returned to 2001, the magnificent finals.....
Iverson breaks, Iverson jumpers, Iverson steals, Iverson passes......
In the tribulus bush, Iverson once again created a legendary moment, he scored 47 points and dished out four assists in Game 4 of the first round of the playoffs, almost single-handedly leveling the overall score to a 2-2 draw.
The prophecy changed from the Spurs to 4:0 to 4:1, and now to 4:2. Before Game 5 began, there was still no belief that the Nuggets would go further.
It was Iverson again, who stepped up when the Spurs threw another chain and Anthony was locked.
He scored 26 points on 23 first-half shots, hitting 11 of them and making four free throws, and stubbornly helped the Nuggets back to the visiting locker room with a three-point lead.
Although the Spurs fell behind at home in this game, they actually played well, Parker and Duncan showed their best side, and the bench backcourt combination of Finley and Ginobili was even more pitfalling, otherwise in the face of the explosive Iverson, the Spurs could not have only fallen behind by three points.
So after returning to the locker room, Popovich has no plans to adjust the lineup.
But in the second minute of the second half, Popovich hurriedly called a timeout because Anthony was back.
For Anthony, Shi Lei is a stranger, the two have never been in position before, and no team will have the leisure to do technical analysis of a fringe player. But Anthony is different, his technical characteristics have long been part of the necessary subjects in other teams, and even many fans know his skills very well.
One side knows everything about the opponent and the other knows nothing about the opponent, and strategically, this is not equal at all.
However, this is also part of the game of a leading player, they will always face some strangers from time to time, how to adjust their condition, has become the key to whether they can be great.
Any adjustment will take time, and Shi Lei is indeed more suitable for defending Anthony in many ways, and it took all Anthony three games to finally let his energy rush through that small embankment.
After the breakthrough, he stepped back and made a jumper, and Shi Lei's not too outstanding lateral movement ability could not interfere with Anthony's shooting well. Seemingly left and right switching jump shots, Shi Lei's poor game experience has no way to judge Anthony's shot.
And also.....
In fact, after every difficulty has passed, people will find that the ways to deal with them are actually endless.
Anthony did it, and Shi Lei no longer threatened him.
Popovich's adjustments didn't help the team, and they faced a Nuggets who broke through the cage.
The Nuggets' insane scoring in the third quarter almost made the fourth quarter of the game garbage time.
The Nuggets won a crucial game, but that didn't shut up the media, but they stopped commenting on how Iverson and Anthony were, and they comfortably changed their perspective and criticized the Spurs as an expert.
Visitors are never wrong, their mouths can always make everything seem very simple, everything is as easy as talking.
"Disappointing Spurs!"
"Duncan is not dominant!"
"Tony. Parker's path to destruction!"
"He scored 11 points in five games, and Popovich took him to the playoffs." This is Shi Lei, who is talking about.
"The wrong choice, Udri and Shi made the Spurs lose the chance to fight for the championship."
Not only the media, but also the fans raised their voices of concern, and the bookmaker even adjusted the Spurs' odds to win the championship overnight, allowing them to fall from first place to seventh place.
All the pressure came to the Spurs' side, and disaster seemed to loom over San Antonio, who had to step up as the team's head coach and deal with the media and fans.
"Thiem's quality doesn't need to be proven, and we're in the playoffs every year, we're one of the championship contenders every year, isn't that the best indication of Thiem's dominance?"
'I don't think we're going to be the first team to be eliminated, it's more of a joke, as a journalist you should have the expertise to go back and look at our record, we've had enough difficulties but we've never been out in the first round in 10 years.'
"Oh, you don't know how great that lad is, you can go interview some Mr. Cameron and let him tell you why his shots are so often out of sight."
"No, no, no, I'm sure Udri will adjust himself, he's a smart guy, he's just not familiar with the playoff style of play, you can't ask a first-year rookie to act like a star, I'm still going to give him a chance to adjust, I believe him, that's it."
ps: This chapter is considered private, I'm a fan of Iverson myself.
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