(One hundred and sixty) the holy city on birthday night
Maddie's magical performance not only shocked her opponents, but also shocked the world. Pen Fun Cabinet www.biquge.info know that in the last 20 years, there have only been seven times in the last 20 years when a player can score 55 points in a single game in the playoffs, including one each for Iverson and Barkley, and five times for Jordan alone. Maddy's 57 points per game can rank second, behind Jordan's record of 63 points against the Celtics in 1986.
The media used all kinds of praise for this, and the fan circle exploded, and now the vast majority of fans, except for the Spurs die-hard fans, are on the side of the Rockets.
Even Wang Yuanfei was deeply shocked. In his previous life, Maddy's playoff scoring record in his entire career was only 46 points, and he only scored 40 points once during his time with the Rockets. Now it's okay, and directly refreshed the personal record to 57, which is estimated to be unbreakable. Yuanfei knew that Maddie's talent was higher than that shown in his previous life, but he didn't expect it to be so high. Just a few months ago, he was still thinking about selling Maddie, and a few months later, Maddie not only turned back and changed his mind, but also took a step forward to elevate himself to an unprecedented position.
The columnists of the well-known media CBS Sports were probably conquered by Maddie, and they seriously discussed Maddie's historical position. Most believe that even if Maddie retires soon, he will be enough to become one of the top 50 superstars of all time. There is even an expert who believes that Maddie can make it into the top thirty. This comment caused an uproar as soon as it came out, knowing that Maddie had just turned 26 years old.
"Maddie Bireggie. Miller is better? Oh, I wouldn't think so. Although Maddie has an MVP and a championship, he was not born in the same era as Michael. You know, it's hard to win a championship and an MVP under Michael. Barkley said in an interview. These words are not selfish, he won the MVP in 1993 against Olajuwon and Jordan in his career, and he also lost to the Bulls in the finals. The subtext is that if it weren't for Jordan, Barkley might have had a couple of championship rings and several MVP trophies.
But Maddie didn't mind these outside comments at all, and the current Rockets team was fully engaged in the game. On May 24th, the second game of the Western Conference Finals will be fought again!
Even little Zhuge Popovich didn't expect that the rocket would actually put aside Yao Mai and use Billups as the main point of attack. Don't look at the strong and strong general Arenas, in fact, the defense is quite weak, and Nashbi can be described as fifty steps and a hundred steps. Billups hit a series of jumpers and scored 10 points in the first quarter, making the Spurs miserable.
In the second quarter, the Spurs stepped up their defense, and the Rockets players were collectively inaccurate. Maddie rotated normally to rest after shooting 2 balls, and the burden of offense fell on Yao Ming himself. Although he also scored 10 points in a single quarter on 4-of-7 shooting, and also assisted Reed to shoot 2 three-pointers, it was really a drop in the bucket. The Spurs scored 13 points in the quarter and took a 51-59 lead.
At this critical moment, Maddie from the last game is back. He first pulled back two points with a pull-up jump shot in the opening game, then blocked Ginobili's shot, and assisted Yao Ming to make a basket, Arenas missed the shot and grabbed the rebound, dribbling directly to the front court with a three-point shot through the cloud to stop the opponent.
"Do you still want to be killed by Maddie alone?" Popovich is not angry. All the Spurs players immediately resigned themselves and said that they would definitely guard against Maddie.
But determination is good, whether you can do it is another matter.
The tactical literacy of the Spurs players is really not blown, and they immediately played a wave of beautiful defense, and the other players of the Rockets saw that they had no chance or handed it to Maddie, this time even Ginobili stepped forward to wrap it, Maddie took two people to forcibly break through to the side of a mid-range throw, and the ball went in!
"It's so hard?" Yuan Feile is happy, and he can enter even if he fights so unreasonably.
Duncan punches Bosh 45 degrees and hits the board.
This time, Maddie received the ball in the bottom corner, and a feint shot shook Bowen to block, and he immediately lowered his center of gravity and dribbled over. Duncan was being pulled a little outside by Yao Ming, and immediately ran back and jumped up to block. Unexpectedly, Maddie stopped in the air, and Duncan flew directly out of the bottom line in front of Maddie. In an instant, Duncan's mind flashed through the last game when he was hit by Maddie's difficult air pull on the rebound, do you want to do it again?
But this time Maddie's jump was not so sufficient, and after dodging Duncan in the air, he also began to fall. But he was very calm, raised his hand with heavy shoulders, and threw the ball to the basket in the landing, and immediately jumped up again to use his better speed to prepare for the basket. But I grabbed a short, because I threw it away before...... Hit!
This goal knocked out the morale of the Spurs. We worked hard for half a day to score a few points, and you can keep scoring points when you come up like this? Who can play with you?
In this quarter, Maddy scored 15 points on 6-of-7 shooting, and the Rockets led by 7 points on a big counterattack.
At this time, it was time for the Spurs' hero to step up, and after a few minutes of playing in the final quarter, Arenas became agitated, decisively put down the tactical system, turned on the unreasonable scoring mode, and hit consecutive jump shots. Maddie's hand began to cool down, and he missed two shots, narrowing the gap to 3 points.
But the MVP of the Rockets is not only a scoring champion, but also a defensive lock. Maddie took the initiative to switch defense to Arenas, and a block and a steal directly stunned the general, which completely sentenced the Spurs to death.
Although the Spurs continued to score in the following games, each of them was expressionless and could not see any fighting spirit to win.
111:103, relying on the 79 points scored by CTM, the Rockets continued to work hard to link the Holy City.
Just as the players were cheering and celebrating the victory, they saw Yuanfei waving, and several staff members pushed a small cart over, and a large box on the cart was very abrupt. Yuanfei beckoned everyone to gather in front of the car and suddenly lifted the lid of the box.
"Cake?" Bosh exclaimed first: "This is the prize to celebrate our win? ”
"Stupid, it's t_mac's birthday!" Billups glared at Bosh as he shook his hand, and the latter immediately shut up.
"This kind of creamy food should not be consumed too much by professional athletes. But today is a good day, let's make an exception and eat some. Yuan Fei said: "We have a Chinese proverb called 'double happiness comes to the door', and this is the case today. It's the birthday of our leader, McGrady, and we're winning again! After 6 races, we took home the championship trophy! ”
"Good!" Everyone laughed.
"Please tell me a word in Chinese: Happy birthday to Maddie!"
"The pig sells the bottom monk day quickly!" The crowd said in unison.
“happybirthday!”
Amid the laughter of the crowd, Maddie, the leader of the Rockets, lit 26 candles and spent his happiest birthday in 26 years. He secretly made a wish to spend his entire career on this team. (To be continued.) )