Game 6 between the Rockets and the Warriors, the visiting Rockets trailed by 20 points in the fourth quarter.

At 9:12, 77-97, the Rockets had yet to score in the final quarter. Their dream of ending the series away seems to be a long way off. Maybe it's time to disarm and surrender and reserve your strength for the robbery.

But Coach Mike D'Antoni gave an order and replaced Yang Yiming and Chris Paul, who were both hidden in the first three quarters.

20 points difference, crazy gambling.

1/

Paul. When he stepped on the floor of the Oracle Arena, Yang Yiming couldn't help but look at the man beside him. He is really not tall, his head is just over Yang Yiming's shoulders, compared to the handsome gentleman when he was young, Paul now has a beard, as if he is moving closer to the gangsterism of the entire Rocket team. Paul was already sweating on his face, and he had just warmed up on the spinning bike on the sidelines, but no one knew the true intention of his move: the recovery time for a muscle strain should be about two weeks, and it was only a day later, did Paul want to force his way out? Even if it's closed, it's a big gamble on your career.

He is "only" 33 years old, and there must be a chance in the future.

He has just broken through the ceiling of the Western Conference this year, and with these helpers around him, coupled with the magical operation of general manager Morey, after a summer, who knows what will happen next season?

Look at LeBron James, who is the same age as him, isn't he still making waves in the East and is unstoppable.

Paul's true intentions can only be read through the eyes of his eyes. With Nina's hypnosis treatment for Paul, his injury is supposed to have recovered ahead of everyone's expectations, but Yang Yiming is not sure whether he can really fight, and only when he sees Paul's eyes does he settle down.

This is the familiar Paul.

Sao paulo. His eyes were resolute, without the slightest flicker, and he had no hesitation about the opportunity in front of him, which was not an opportunity, and he didn't plan to wait any longer!

Paul took off his warm-up suit, ripped off his sweatpants and threw them off the sideline. He straightened his jersey again, tucked it into his pants and pulled his injured right leg back. After stretching, waiting for the technical table to signal, Paul appears! He held his head high and walked in front of Yang Yiming, looking like his back was a few points taller. He didn't look back, looking unusually resolute and withdrawn, out of step with the atmosphere of the whole stadium. Paul shouted for the ball, and after winning the ball, he hit a three-pointer and the ball hollowed into the net. After the goal, he turned and ran, directing his teammates to defend and settle down, as if he was just doing something he was supposed to do.

Paul's back, seen by Yang Yiming, who was standing behind the flanks, was actually a little trance-like.

It's like a person.

2/

"We never dare to expect a bigger stage, but we don't stop all the time, in order to look forward to the day we can hope for."

Yu Xiaochun and Meritis organized a mobilization meeting for all Rocket players, and in the third stage, the invited speaker was neither a celebrity of the Rockets nor a hero from all walks of life, but Yu Xiaochun's ex-girlfriend Tang Wen.

She stood on the stage, thin and small, facing a group of behemoths who were several times taller and stronger than him, but her tone of voice was extraordinarily steady. But it seems that there is a dark power in her body, which not only quieted down all the rocket players at that time, but also made Yang Yiming think of that scene in this fierce battle on the court, on a stage where male hormones are stirring.

"A bigger stage." Tang Wen said, "Some people are destined to be born for the biggest stage. ”

"For example, you, each of you, were probably born to be the pride of the sky. No matter where you come from, you must have felt that indescribable sense of destiny when you were growing up. You've come from varsity leaders, small-town stars, state-wide formations, national spotlights, NCAA, NBA. This is the fate you feel: you know that you have the strength and talent to conquer the world, you will leave the cramped city where you were born, and when the time comes, the stage of the widest world will open for you, and flowers and applause will wait for you at the end of the light. As if innate, as if predestined, as if it were a matter of course..."

"But I'm going to say today that the vast majority of people in this world are not as lucky as you."

"Just like me, and him..."Tang Wen pointed to Yu Xiaochun who was hiding on the side with an expressionless face, and gently continued her speech: "The vast majority of people in the world, they actually have another kind of fate. A kind of blank fate that 'the world I live in is all, what is the bigger stage'. Believe me, this is the norm for all living beings: no talent and strength, no pre-written future, and naturally no too much hope. The word ordinary is enough to sum it up. That's right, unlike you, we're just ordinary people who don't panic. ”

"But until ordinary people meet the person who gives him hope..."Tang Wen looked at Yu Xiaochun, but quickly retracted, "Before I left my hometown at the age of eighteen—I came from a town in northern China that you had never heard of before, and even gave you a name that you couldn't find much information in a search engine—I thought that place was my whole world." School is only a short time away, and eventually I will come back there and do a job that one of my relatives is already doing. At that time, I didn't know anything about the NBA, and I didn't have any concept of basketball. I don't know where on the world map the cities those teams represent, and I don't know if each team will have a wide variety of players..."

"It's even more impossible to know that there will be someone in the world who is as 'characteristic' as you look." Tang Wen covered her mouth and smiled, and at the end of her eyes was Sam Cassel, who introduced the Rockets' championship experience in the previous session. The latter's strange appearance is recognized as rare, and when he first joined the alliance in his early twenties, he got an "alien". Everyone laughed when they heard Tang Wen make fun of Kassel.

"The more he described that new world to me, the more he was drawn to it, the more he was drawn into it—"

But what attracted me the most was not that there was such a strange world outside of my cognition, but that he had the passion and courage to embrace this world: he was nothing more than an ordinary person, but he definitely had an extraordinary soul; It was as if it was his destiny to enter that world: not by talent and strength, but by pure faith and passion. ”

"Of course, you all know his story later..."Tang Wen looked at Yu Xiaochun for the third time when she spoke, she said: "He ignited my hope and made me believe that there is such a wonderful world outside the ordinary." A bigger stage. So I am determined to say goodbye to the past and embrace this stage. By all means, I'm staying now..."

Tang Wen swallowed the second half of these words. Only Yu Xiaochun, the person in the banquet, knew that she informed Yu Xiaochun of the good news of her marriage some time ago, and by marrying an American, she could be regarded as achieving her goal of staying in the United States.

But of course, what Tang Wen is ready to say is the inspirational part:

"This process, this dream from basketball, is the hope that ordinary people give to ordinary people. But the greatest, ultimate hope-" Tang Wen's eyes swept over each rocket team member in turn, and then she struggled to control the excitement in her voice and said, "You can only give it to us!" Outside of that bigger stage, places that we ordinary people can't imagine in our lives, there may be an even more splendid ultimate stage. That stage, you can only take us there, and you can do it for ordinary people to see, where is our limit. Any little achievement you have on a bigger stage is a great encouragement to us ordinary people! It's like that ordinary person with enthusiasm, who brought me here today! ”

"So, please!"

Tang Wen finished her last sentence and bowed deeply to all the audience on the stage. Then she didn't look back—there seemed to be shining tears in the corners of her eyes, but Yang Yiming didn't have time to see clearly—she turned around and strode out of the room.

It's the resolute and lonely back.

Bigger, ultimate stage.

Yang Yiming remembered.