Chapter 338: Tragic Heroes and Low-key Superstars
The Heat lost again, this time at home. The Heat fans, who have always been demanding, can no longer hold back their gentlemanly demeanor, and they are all scolding for a while. As the main player of the team, Maddie bore the brunt of the irrationality after the game, and the defense at key moments was taken out by the media fans for a meeting.
The conference representatives gathered on major websites and forums, the meeting materials were full and detailed, the team cancer, and the appearance of soft eggs were several major crimes, and Maddie dared to say a word at this time to be sprayed into the rhythm of mental retardation. The fan media can praise you to the sky and make you a superstar, but they can also throw you to the ground and make you spurned by everyone.
At this time, the Heat official broke a shocking news.
Team guard Tracy McGrady suffered a back injury, and the team's medical team made a decision to reimburse him for the season.
A team spokesperson then revealed that Maddie had an old injury with a history of injury. If the surgery was not carried out in time at that time, it would even jeopardize his career and force him to retire early.
It didn't take long for Hu Qingniu to get the news. However, he is not happy in his heart, he respects his opponent and wants to meet the strongest opponent. Fierce competition is the essence of sports competitions, the most exciting.
The two most commonly used scoring methods in Maddie's game, the dry pull-out jump shot has great loss on the back, relying on the breakthrough of the first step of speed requires bending, and there is also a certain amount of wear and tear on the back, plus Maddie's congenital spinal protrusion, this injury is almost inevitable, it is just early and late.
Although Maddie came to Hu Qingniu, she never had time for long-term treatment, which led to the tragedy.
The fans and media opened Maddie's conference and opened Maddy's conference, and they would not be soft if Maddie was blackened into carbon, but it was really like this, Maddie was directly injured and reimbursed for the season, and they were at a loss.
During this special period, Maddie refused all media interviews, believing that nothing made him feel more bitter than not being able to play in the last playoff game, and the end of a season's hard work.
In an interview, Riley gave encouragement to his disciples.
"The injury is very bitter, but Maddie is a true fighter and he never gives up. The summer recovery period will soon be over and he will be stronger and better next season. ”
In this era, there is no Twitter, and Hu Qingniu can't @maddie on the Internet, so he can only go over by phone. On the phone, in addition to expressing condolences, Hu Qingniu also strongly recommended Maddie to come to Hu Qingniu Medical Studio for treatment.
With the loss of Maddy, the Heat sat at home with a 0-3 series score on their backs to welcome the mighty Bobcats.
The result was predictable, with a big lead in the series and the overall situation had been decided, in order to avoid injuries, the Bobcats did not give confrontation intensity throughout the whole process, did not put defensive pressure, and just accompanied the attack. Carter scored a playoff high of 55 points, but it didn't make sense because the Heat still lost 120-146.
The Bobcats team with full firepower played with 12 people on the court, emphasizing space and rhythm, 8 people scored double-doubles, Wade, Dazhi, O'Neal, 3 people 20+, and scored 81 points together, so this game was already spent in the fourth quarter, and Carter couldn't recover this gap no matter how strong and efficient the offense was.
The Bobcats passed the Heat smoothly, and the outcome was predictable, and the score seemed to be too easy to win, but in fact, except for the last game of Maddy's injury, the first three games of the two sides still played back and forth. The Heat, with a neat lineup, can indeed burst out with one of the best offensive prowess in the league.
The Eastern Conference Finals were a refreshing 4-0, while the Western Conference Finals were much more tangled.
In the first three games, the Rockets led 2:1, and the fourth game was particularly important for the Spurs.
Don't look at the playoffs The game is a 7-game system, everyone plays one game at a time, but the psychological advantage of 1:3 really works, and often the team with poor tenacity goes fishing directly with a score of 1:4.
Old man Bobo has always been a stubborn old man on the surface, but he really knows how to be flexible when he does things. In response to Yao Ming's big kill in the low post in the previous game, he made a major change that no one expected - let Duncan and center Mohammed wrap Yao Ming.
Duncan is the undisputed superstar of the NBA, and it's a bit of a surprise to have him and a role player in the middle of the game.
Instead, Barkley, Jordan, and even Rodman are absolutely unwilling to do this, and they see it as an insult to their own strength to encircle each other with others.
But what makes Duncan special is that he gladly accepted it without arguing for himself. It's not just a show of professionalism, Duncan doesn't care about the fame, he just cares about winning, a real contender.
Popovich prepared not a big meal for Yao Ming in this game, but a set meal. The bag clip is just an appetizer cold dish, and the follow-up main dish is to go around the front defense, targeted low-post delay, and the small guard comes up to dig the ball and make fouls.
The reason why Popovich dared to use half of the team to deal with Da Yao was because he saw through that this Rockets team relied on Yao Ming to play. Once Yao Ming is restricted, even Hardaway, the other core of the dual core, will not be able to set off a storm. Those who get the inside line win the world, in this era, it is a simple and effective truth.
Yao Ming really played very hard throughout the game, with Muhammad as a meat shield in the back, and Duncan in front of the Great Demon King to interfere with the ball, this defensive treatment shark has not tried. At that time, the shark was just going head-to-head with Duncan, and the two blew each other up.
Now Yao Ming's defense is better, and it is difficult for Duncan to get anything cheap from opponents who are more than ten centimeters taller than him and are still fast. So limiting Yao Ming's offense is the only way out.
Yao Ming's physical condition has been much stronger after last season's recuperation in Hu Qingniu, but he can't help the two of them fighting.
In the second half, Yao Ming was out of strength, repeatedly panting in the backcourt, watching his teammates play 4 and 5. The collapse of the Rockets began, Yao Ming barely shot 6 of 12 in the first half, and the efficiency plummeted in the second half, shooting 2 of 9, and the free throws also began to deform, missing a few.
But Van Gundy insisted on not replacing Yao Ming, not that he couldn't see it, but that the Rockets really couldn't leave Yao Ming. But even if Yao Ming barely stayed on the court, he didn't do anything, after all, it took a lot of effort to catch the ball.
Without Yao Ming's containment on the inside, the Rockets in the second half shot 10 of 36 from the outside, and the shooting rate fell to the Mariana Trench.
The game was naturally lost, but fortunately, the Spurs also affected their own offense in order to invest in defense, and the efficiency was not high.
The final score was 89:80 and the Spurs won. Duncan only took 5 shots in the whole game and scored 8 points, but contributed 18 rebounds and 5 blocks, and Yao Ming ate 3.
When the superstar of the year of playing, the big boss of the team can do no ball and do the dirty work, and Duncan is also unique.
Bobo's old man's strategy has caused heated discussions, and he asks who other superstars in the league can do this. You let Jordan and the Sharks go to the trap, or you don't give the ball, it's definitely going to make a big deal.
Even the current Hu Qingniu can't command the sharks to reduce their shots to fight Wade, which is tantamount to the outbreak of a war.