Chapter 519: Advance to the Eastern Conference Semifinals
The original eleven-point difference was directly chased back to only two points by Maddie in just half a minute!
This is not the end, Richard was thinking about taking advantage of the dead ball opportunity to replace Gerrard, but before the dead ball appeared, Maddie made a direct steal again, and turned around and scored another three points!
What's even more lethal is that after this three-point shot, the referee also blew a defensive foul.
Walk to the free throw line, "swish", free throw hit!
In a short period of time, Maddie hit four three-pointers in a row, and then made a free throw to score 13 points!
Richard is about to vomit blood, good guy, this is really Maddie's moment, 35 seconds and 13 minutes!
Richard doesn't know exactly how long these goals took, but it certainly didn't take more than a minute.
The Maddie moment that happened to the Spurs is now being recreated in Richard's Pistons.
This game may also be the fate of the Magic, God is looking after Maddie, otherwise, how could such a miraculous thing happen.
Richard originally wanted to replace all the team's main players on the court in the last offensive and defensive round, but this idea was quickly dispelled.
Because he Richard can't afford to lose this man......
Changed the starting lineup early, looking like he was in control, but he was directly beaten by Maddie and replaced as a starter, which is really a bit embarrassing.
Moreover, even if this game is lost, Richard is not unacceptable......
The Magic will definitely not be able to turn the sky, and now Richard is already on guard, and it will definitely not be possible to give Maddie this opportunity in the next game.
This game is the home of the Magic again, so it can be regarded as a small gift for Maddie......
With Maddie's magical performance, I'm afraid that this short time of less than a minute will definitely go down in history.
But if this game is lost, the magic of this Maddie moment will be greatly reduced.
So Richard also has the idea of showing Maddie's face, and it won't affect the Pistons' promotion anyway.
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"Doot toot!" With the referee's whistle, the game ended, and the last round of the two sides did not score, the score was fixed at 112:110, and the home team Magic narrowly beat the Pistons by two points.
What Richard is most curious about at the moment is how long it took Maddie to cut thirteen points in a row just now.
Isn't it like normal history, it took thirty-five seconds?
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Soon, the technical statistics desk on the sidelines gave the answer!
35 seconds and 13 minutes!
"It's 35 seconds and 13 minutes, good guy, the bad luck of the Spurs has shifted to Lao Tzu......" Richard thought speechlessly.
This time there was a Maddie moment, and against the Spurs in the future, it seems that it will be difficult to have another Maddie moment.
It's equivalent to saying that this basin is going to be buckled on Richard's head all the time......
When it comes to Maddie's moment in the future, the first thing that fans may think of is "Wow, this is a ...... on the head of the Pistons led by Richard"
It's like under normal circumstances, when fans mention Maddie moments, the first thing they think of is Popovich, the Spurs......
After the game, Richard walked on the court and congratulated Maddie, in fact, he could witness the birth of this miracle with his own eyes, and Richard felt that it was really not unjust to lose the game.
35.13 minutes, playoffs, reversal to win the game, this feat can be said to be a miracle of miracles.
Although it was used as a background board, Richard was a little unhappy, but there should still be congratulations.
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"Coach, coach!"
"I'm going to West Lafayette!"
"I should be qualified for West Lafayette now, right?"
Maddie pounced on him, looking as if she was about to jump on Richard......
Richard hurriedly dodged, good guy, if he is knocked down by Maddie, he doesn't have to play in the next playoff schedule, and he should go to the hospital to recuperate.
Hearing Maddie's loud roar, Richard was actually a little puzzled in his heart.
Although Maddie played under Richard before, she never entered the West Lafayette Gang......
Originally, Richard wondered, Maddie might not look down on this kind of small group? That's why I haven't mentioned it......
But now it seems that Maddie is not disdainful, and may also want to make such a request to Richard after proving himself.
"Okay, Tracy, I know, you don't have to be so happy, you know that you won it is me, can you take care of my feelings!"
"I'll leave the gold medal matter to you when I play next season!"
"Congratulations, young man, for becoming one of our West Lafayettes!" Richard patted Maddie on the shoulder and smiled.
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In the post-game press conference, what can Richard do, he can only catch Maddy and praise Maddie like Popovich who encountered Maddy's moment......
"When you have a player like Maddie in the opposition lineup, you can't take it lightly."
"Because when you take it lightly, Maddie will definitely make you pay a terrible price!"
"Maddie tonight has proven himself to be one of the top scorers in the league!"
"Tonight's 35.13 minutes will also be a great story in the history of the entire NBA, and I Richard am honored to be a part of this great story......"
Richard said with a wry smile.
It's an honor to be a part of the story, and Richard said it was so against his will that if he was asked to choose a hundred times, he would certainly not want to be a part of it......
Because it's really not a glorious thing.
Richard's praise made the whole press conference lively, and everyone who heard Richard praise his own team was rarely heard from him praising other people's players......
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Early the next morning, the entire basketball circle was boiling, and Maddie's miracle of 35 seconds and 13 minutes directly caused a sensation in the United States.
In the eyes of many fans, Maddie is a complete hero, and he won Richard's iron horse by himself.
Many old American fools have been saying that Richard is a Mongolian iron horseman, who came to invade the NBA......
There are really a lot of anti-intellectual fools like this in the territory of Lao Mei.
In fact, many people in the United States are not highly educated, after all, they are engaged in happy education, and they are happy, but they have not learned anything.
Anti-intellectual, to the ground, it is said that there is a good market in the United States......
What's even more exaggerated is that there is an old beautiful stupid woman who severely condemned China during the 911 incident.
"China is 12 hours ahead of us, why didn't they remind us that 911 was going to happen......"
In '99, when Richard was still on the Trail Blazers, when he heard this, he was almost stupid enough by this woman to vomit blood.
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From this point of view, test-oriented education or cramming education is actually not without benefits, at least it can eliminate many stupid people with negative IQs......
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Maddie is undoubtedly a hero now, a hero who fought against Richard's brutal rule, at least that's what fans here in the East think.
They even pinned their hopes on Maddy to keep up the work and try to take out the Pistons in the next schedule and send Richard and the Pistons to fishing......
Obviously, the people who can generate this kind of thinking are probably the product of the happy education system.
In the fourth game of the playoffs, Richard was quite cautious this time.
Maddie will not play and will not retreat......
It doesn't matter how many points you are behind, as long as Maddie is still on the court, Richard will not change the pure bench lineup.
As a result, the Magic lost by 32 points this time and were bloodied by the Pistons on their home court.
A Maddie moment is magical enough, it is impossible to appear one after another, and Maddie's performance tonight can only be said to be mediocre, and in the end he only got 23 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists, and it was not as crazy as the last game.
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The big score between the two sides is already 3:1, and the Pistons have already got the match point for this round of the series.
Next up in G5 is their home field, and as long as they hold on to this home court, they will successfully advance to the Eastern Conference semifinals.
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G5 also has nothing to say, Richard still implements the principle of Maddie not playing and resolutely not retreating, and finally won the Magic at home with a 13-point difference and eliminated the Magic directly.
After this round of the series, in terms of data, it is undoubtedly Maddie's best, and the Pistons can't find players on their side, which can be comparable to Maddie in terms of data.
The main reason is that Yao Ming and others don't have much time to play in this round of the series, while Maddie is in Magic, which is an absolute pillar, playing almost all the time of every game.
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Before the Pistons played Game 5, there were actually two teams that had advanced.
The Trail Blazers swept the opponent Suns with a score of 4-0 and successfully advanced to the Western Conference semifinals.
The Philadelphia 76ers, who ranked third in the East, unexpectedly swept the New Orleans Hornets, who were sixth in the East, and advanced to the Eastern Conference semifinals.
No one could have predicted this outcome......
The first team to advance in the East is not the Detroit Pistons, but the Philadelphia 76ers, who are already weak.
Since Uncle Mu left, the Philadelphia 76ers have indeed shown signs of weakness, staying in the East, although they have been able to enter the top half of the Eastern Conference playoffs, but they have no chance of getting to the finals.
Now that he has suddenly swept the Hornets to advance, it is naturally something that people did not expect.
Originally, fans thought that the Nets were the only opponent of the Pistons in the East, but now it seems that whether the Nets can pass the 76ers is still a matter of two words.