Chapter 153: A Record of Not Big, Not Small
At halftime, Gasol, known as the "soft egg as soft as noodles" in the future, danced with his eyebrows, his mouth chattered non-stop, endlessly elaborated on what happened in the few rounds when Bosh and him were in power, and reluctantly said that his movements were not handsome enough, his posture was not graceful enough, and he was obviously pretending to be forked. And it's a fork that gets bigger and bigger, and it beats a player of the same level, which is enough for him to blow for a lifetime, which will become another brilliant deed in his life.
On the other side, Bosh licked the wound and was depressed, Sam said the situation in the first half, pointed out the strengths and weaknesses of everyone, summarized the gains and losses in the first half, and encouraged everyone's morale. He pulled Bosh aside and encouraged, "Chris! You seem to be in a depressed mood. ”
"I'm fine! Sam. ”
"Of course! Everything looks good about you, but I still have to tell you that great people in history have always encountered such and such things, but they are great because they are stronger and fearless. ”
"I know!" Bosh answered truthfully, it's one thing to know, it's another thing to do it, and many potential stars can't break this hurdle, so they can only be role players, and they will never become stars.
"It's not enough, you need to try to accept the facts and then make changes. That's the biggest difference between a genius and a "genius", Chris! Think about it! Think about it. That's all Sam said, and it's nonsense.
"Alright! I'll seriously consider it. ”
"Nope! You need to make a change, here. Sam held his chest and said that the mindset needed to change.
"Thank you! Sam, I'll do it. ”
Superstars on the basketball court need not only physical talent, but also skills, and most importantly, mentality and ball intelligence, these two seemingly inconspicuous things, often overlooked, are actually the most important. How many muscular sticks, jumping masters, and finally being out of the crowd in the NBA, and how many players with good skills and excellent bodies have been reduced to supporting roles, there are too many! Too many to count.
If all four have players and are still leftovers, then it can only be a matter of injury and luck, and no one is to blame. Bosh has everything, it's a matter of maturity, it's up to him, whether he can get out of this psychological shadow.
At the beginning of the second half, the Raptors were still fully suppressed, and Bosh showed no signs of recovery. The Raptors went from leading by four points to trailing by five points to end the third quarter, and the fourth-quarter bench players came up to save a bit of face and tie the score.
It's time for the decisive battle at the top of the Forbidden City again, and the starting five tigers are on the field again. The real Armageddon begins.
The Raptors attacked, Kyle took a deep breath, blocked with Bosh, stepped forward, and returned the ball to Bosh when he was blocked. But the boss was clearly in deep grief, Bosh missed a mid-range jumper, and Gasol took the rebound.
Stoudemire had the ball, and he was decent today, not letting Kyle down too much and not having the slightest advantage. He gave the ball to Gasol very well, and it was the same old way, arching Bosh forward, Peterson went to help defend, Gasol showed his axial role, and distributed the ball accurately to Bachel, and the president got up and down, and hit three points!
Kyle is now completely desperate for Bosh, advancing with the ball and looking at the basket from afar, a little far away. Suddenly accelerating forward, the Grizzlies contracted sharply under the basket, and Kyle, the same two teammates who had a chance, chose to give Peterson instead of Bosh. Peterson also fought for a three-point shot.
Attacking and defending in different places, Gasol did the axis, while rushing in, he stretched out his fingers to install forks, and directed his teammates to run, obviously, he didn't take Bosh seriously. Peterson came over to help defend, Gasol instantly gave the ball to the "president", and Battier returned one three-pointer. Battier has been nicknamed "President" for a long time, this guy had a presidential dream when he was a child, he was a team leader at Duke University, he had excellent public speaking talents, and was regarded by the head coach and teammates as a very charismatic person for the president.
Back Jalen singled Eddie Jones, broke through the pull-up jump shot, Jalen singled today and shot repeatedly, and the hand style was very smooth.
Gasol still held the ball at a 45-degree angle, broke through Bosh, and had no ability to resist, Jamal had to come up to help defend, Gasol split the ball Eddie Jones, and then divided the unattended Mike Miller, who also slipped to the bottom for a layup!
Sam shook his head, he was also disappointed in Bosh, it seemed that he was of little use to Bosh's ideological education. Bosh, as the boss of the team, has become a burden on the field, a complete burden, which looks really ridiculous, and the arrow figure who conquered the city actually dragged his thighs in the back. Sam could only call a timeout, he needed to respond, or the game would be lost.
"Chris! I feel like you need to rest. ”
"Yes! Mr! Bosh actually nodded yes, obviously willing to be a turtle grandson.
This was a big surprise to Sam, and the average team boss would obviously be angry when he heard such words, feeling that he was being despised and would be lost! Will be angry! Will roar! Sam thought about taking a step to comfort him, but Bosh didn't react, and walked quietly to the bench and sat down, without dissatisfaction or emotion, and it seemed that he really needed to be quiet and sort out his thoughts.
Barnes was trusted by Sam again at a crucial moment and the game continued to get underway.
Mike squinted at Barnes on the court, with a serious expression. He knew that at the last moment of the game between the Raptors and the Suns not long ago, Sam actually made a shocking substitution, and the final ending turned people's glasses into pieces, and the Raptors' substitution worked wonders, and that person was Barnes! Now Sam is attacking again, which makes Mike feel relatable, and he doesn't feel very good. But he didn't react because he believed Mike Miller could handle it.
Now the lineups of the two sides are different, the Raptors center is Jamal, power forward Barnes, small forward Peterson, the scoring guard is still the outstanding Jalen, and Kyle is in charge. The Grizzlies are Gasol at center, Mike Miller at power forward, who is also only 203 centimeters tall, small forward Battier, scoring guard Eddie Jones, and point guard Stoudemire.
Kyle sped off possession and Stoudemire pressed closely. Today's confrontation with Kyle, so that "little flying squirrel" has a feeling of his old age, he remembered the first few years in the league in the Raptors, passionate, full of confidence, but miserably discriminated against, now looking back, can only be the past like smoke. But he saw his own shadow in Kyle, full of vigor and spirit, and determined and determined to lead the team to glory. Stoudemire sneered, the little one would walk the path he walked? Or is it resolutely rising? He chose the latter because he still had that unspeakable affection for the Raptors, and he wanted Kyle to do what he didn't do.
Kyle didn't know that Stoudemire had high hopes for him, and probably wouldn't have any reaction if he knew, he was much taller than "Little Squirrel", how could he be compared! As for leading the team to glory? Hehe! Kyle doesn't think he's that great right now, he's just a rookie who plays with his stats, and it would be even more perfect if he won by the way. Without data, maybe it will be dumped by Toronto tomorrow, and as for brilliance, that's what supergiants should do.
So what Kyle has to do now is to desperately farm the data, prove himself, and avoid the bad luck of trading. With the help of blocking and dismantling to rush in, return to Jamal, and then push under the basket card position, Jamal did not shoot in the middle and long distance, Kyle relied on the fat body, super stable lower plate, good strength, stuck a good position in front of Gasol, took off the rebound, took a step back, shook Gasol who was pressed by Kyle to grab the board, the cat took a step forward, threw a small shot, and from the gap, the ball flew into the basket.
Kyle's textbook demonstration tells people that it's not scary to be short, it's scary that you won't get stuck, and it's scary that basketball doesn't fly to you.
Then the two sides picked up speed, hitting iron and fouling continuously, and the scene was very intense. Barnes, for example, can roll the floor three times for a ball, which is really hard enough. Sam secretly praised it, with a two-year final salary, he got a role player who was capable and willing to do dirty work, and picked it up! Over there, Mike also secretly praised Barnes, why didn't he find such a dusty gem in the free market in the first place! What a mistake!
The Grizzlies' current tactics are Gasol as the axis, or sudden or shot or pass, and others revolve around this gear, a bit similar to the positioning of Smith's role during the St. Joseph's time, but Gasol is obviously so far away from Smith around the world. Gasol can rush, shoot, have strength and speed, and the confrontation is not as weak as other white people, he is the initiation point of the offense, if it is paired with an offensive endpoint to tear apart the absolute advantage of the opponent's defense, it is equivalent to Kyle's role positioning in St. Joseph, the Grizzlies can immediately become a top-level team, which has been verified in later generations, Kobe Bryant is the one who takes advantage of Gasol the most. Smith can only throw and pass, and he can't do anything else, and the threat is a few notches lower.
The Raptors' current tactics on the court are to pull the empty basket for Kyle to break through and attract the bag, which is a very simple and concise trick, but it is often unsolvable, unless you rotate the defense to the point of being impeccable, such as the Spurs against the Raptors tomorrow. Kyle bursts into the penalty area, the player who marks the defense must be out of position, you shrink the defense alone and don't use it, Kyle will be hard, and most of them can score. If two people shrink, or the big man who blocks the pick-and-roll follows up on the defense, then Kyle's strategy must be to return the ball and pass, and the opportunity is out! Even if it is blind, it can also kill the other party. What's more, the four members of the Raptors team except for Jamal have good three-pointers, even if Jamal is still very accurate in the middle distance, how to break it?
It's very simple, a team with a good rotation defense or misplaced defense can break it, two people chase and block Kyle, the other three defenders stand at a consistent distance, and one person can make up two players in time. Kyle splits the ball out of that position, the nearest defense, if the ball is re-divided, another defender quickly fills up, and so on. At this time, it causes dislocation, testing individual defensive ability and co-defense ability, and the formation is absolutely scattered but not chaotic. There are not many people in the league who can do this, the San Antonio Spurs are one, the Delut Pistons are another, and the former Pacers are another, but unfortunately they have fallen apart, and the others are toddlers in Handan. Obviously, the Grizzlies don't have such a tacit and sophisticated defensive system.
In the final two minutes, 93-95, the Grizzlies led by two points, and the game had entered the scorching stage. Who lives and who dies? Nothing is known. The coaches on both sides endlessly instructed and everyone listened carefully, even if the character's water cooler came up to make a show, only Uncle Bosh sat on the bench and stood still, calmly. Sam didn't pay any attention to it, the most people were injured by the ravage.
The crowd got into the groove too, and as long as Kyle had the ball, the boos didn't stop.
Kyle still lowered his head and rushed after blocking and dismantling, Gasol retreated to follow up, Kyle changed direction and changed direction again, after wiping the big man, the old man Eddie Jones in front guarded under the basket, Kyle did not hesitate at all, riding a horse and shooting arrows, Uncle Jones finally loosened a little, sideways to give way, he didn't want to be ridden, how embarrassing! He is thirty-four years old, he can't jump high, he doesn't hit it, and Kyle rushes up to look very scary, which scares the old guy, he doesn't want to be buried on this ball for a lifetime, and he is repeatedly observed by the guys of later generations, how sad it is!
Kyle jumped too fast, the distance was a little far, and the dunk was a bit reluctant, Kyle adhered to the mentality of guarding against twisting to the waist and protecting himself, so the posture of the flying dunk was changed to a low-handed layup in the air. Kyle felt bad the moment the ball flew out. Really! Gasol appears out of thin air, and he gives Kyle a pegboard on the other side. The ball fell back to Kyle, who had just landed, and Kyle didn't care much, and flew straight to the basket after getting the ball.
This time Eddie Jones, the old man, did not choose to avoid it, maybe Gasol gave him courage, maybe Kyle was indeed too short, maybe he didn't fly high enough on the spot, and Kyle's expression was not hideous enough. He resolutely stepped forward and jumped to block it, Kyle took off, collided with him in the air, and saw that his palm was about to seal the ball, Uncle Jones was excited, who said that I was old? Isn't this supernova going to crawl on my knees and shiver?
But his face, flushed with excitement, soon turned into a red, oily, and purple color. After Kyle collided with Jones in the air, his strength stagnated, and when he was about to be covered, Kyle bent his legs and forcibly stopped the downward trend, and then the hand holding the ball changed direction a little bit, missed Jones's big hand, and went straight to the basket.
What the audience saw was Kyle beautifully breaking through Gasol and then flying to the basket, Gasol turned back and chased after him, and when Kyle made a move, he also flew and pounced, a standard pegboard was bumped, and Kyle was covered in a daze. The audience was energetic, the adults grinned, stretched out their hands to high-five, and some young fans were even more excessive, actually dancing samba and twisting their hips and waving their hands. More viewers shouted the slogan "* Dead Kyle", and then joined together, and the whistling never stopped.
Then the ball was picked up again, and he tried to dunk again, this time two steps away Eddie Jones took off with a lunge, a chain cap? The sound of the audience reached its peak. But Kyle was in the air and put the ball in the basket with one hand. Kyle has the power of the basket and knocks Jones, who has no roots in the air, into the air. The scene is a bit violent, Kyle separating Jones and knocking him alive, lying on the floor moaning in pain, not knowing whether to play dead or what. At this point, the audience's voices stopped abruptly, the remaining smiles on their faces froze, and the earth-shattering sound completely disappeared, looking as if they were scared silly.
Kyle landed without a roar, and walked back quietly, just opening his arms horizontally and hooking his palms when he returned to the middle line, the meaning was obvious, hey! This is a naked provocation, provoking all the fans at the scene. The referee on duty immediately gave Kyle a technical foul.
The quiet FedEx Arena exploded in an instant, standing up one by one, dancing and doing all kinds of movements, greeting Kyle's family by the way, all kinds of insults greeted Kyle like throwing knives, and shouting at Kyle's garbage. Can't play and smash Kyle.
Sam called a twenty-second timeout to stabilize the audience's mood and, incidentally, Kyle's mood. In fact, Kyle didn't take it seriously at all, he just took advantage of the situation when he did that, and the audience's abuse of him was just barking as a dog, and the unexpected gain made him very indignant.
After returning, Kyle smacks the audience in the face with a practical action.
Dribble to the three-point line and shoot directly at Stoudemire, referred to as a facial shot! Enter!
Gasol flies the ball to Jones who plays dead, Jones mid-distance iron! Kyle grabbed the rebound again under the basket and didn't make any stops, turning around and hitting a layup.
Gasol singled Jamal, Kyle struck from behind, slapped Gasol's ball away as he was dribbling and paced, and then galloped away to complete an aerial relay with Barnes.
Last countdown, Batilbo three points, iron! Kyle fished under the basket and got the rebound, got up again, rushed to the basket, met the siege, Kyle divided the ball to the bottom corner of the ambush Jalen, today he was in good shape and sent another assist to Kyle.
So far! There was no suspense in the game, and Kyle's data flew up in the last moments. Scold me? That's how serious the consequences are.
When he returned to the locker room after the game, assistant coach Tyrek congratulated Kyle, he broke a record that is not too big or small, but it can make everyone excited, the youngest triple-double record, in the long history of the NBA, it is indeed not big, but it is definitely not small. The previous record was LeBron James, who had a triple-double in his second season of his career, and in January '05, at the age of 20 years and 20 days, LeBron scored 27 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists against the Trail Blazers. Kyle, on the other hand, is only 19 years and 200 days old today. On top of that, Kyle was the fastest rookie player to get a triple-double, with only five games.
The final score was 112-105, and the Raptors defeated the Grizzlies on the road and reaped a hard-fought victory. Kyle scored 25 points, 10 rebounds, 12 assists and 4 steals on 8-of-18 shooting, superstar stats, Bosh slashed 10 points and 3 rebounds on 3-of-13 shooting, and was abused by Gasol. Jamal had 15 points and nine rebounds and Peterson had 12 points. And the best guy was Jalen Rose, who scored 31 points on 13-of-18 shooting, and finally exploded. Although Barnes's statistics are not obvious, only 7 points and 2 rebounds, his defense and active defense against Mike Miller in the end are definitely worthy of recognition.
Gasol of the Grizzlies slashed a quasi-triple-double of 35 points, 17 rebounds and 8 assists, beating Bosh unconscious. Mike Miller disappointed, scoring just eight points. Stoudemire had 12 points and 5 assists, qualified, but he was too short, and the fact that he was defending the black hole still can't be changed. Battier 11 points and Eddie Jones 10. (To be continued.) )