Chapter 334: Peyton's Career Reimbursement!
May 13, 2006, the Heat's home stadium, American Airlines Arena.
The stadium was a sea of white, everyone was dressed uniformly, and they showed a stronger momentum than the Magic fans, because they were the defending champions, and the previous two series, playing at the Magic's home court, were the semifinals, but when he arrived here, Sun Zhuo felt like he was playing in the finals.
βFLASH! FLASH!β
βSHAQ! SHAQ!β
The audience at the scene was shouting the names of their stars, Sun Zhuo was in the American Airlines Arena, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "It's really like the atmosphere of the Mavericks coming here to play the finals in the previous life, the Heat was supposed to be the champion of this season, but since they met me, I have to change history and stop them!" β
Relying on one's own ability to write a history that is different from the previous life is a very rewarding thing. Since Sun Zhuo's rebirth, the championships of these two seasons are all different from those in the previous life.
The '04 championship was supposed to be the Detroit Pistons, but it turned out to be the Los Angeles Lakers.
The '05 championship was supposed to be the San Antonio Spurs, but it turned out to be the Miami Heat.
Sun Zhuo hopes that this year's championship will no longer be the Miami Heat, but the Orlando Magic!
The whole Magic team appeared on the field in a blue away jersey, Sun Zhuo didn't like the Magic away jersey very much, and always felt that it looked a little board after the revision, which was not as good as the blue dark star in the Maddie period.
"It's really unlucky, boss, you see who's coming to watch the game." While warming up before the game, Dwight Howard suddenly walked over with a depressed face.
Sun Zhuo looked at where Howard was pointing and found that Ron Artest had actually come to the home court of the Heat and sat in the first row.
"This bastard even dared to come to the scene!" Sun Zhuo thought that yesterday's incident was caused by Artest, and when he saw Artest, he was immediately angry.
Howard was also depressed: "He comes to you every season when he gets to the playoffs, last season when you played the Spurs with the Lakers, he went to the Spurs' home court, and you ended up injured and missed, and you also lost the series, this time he came again, I always think it's not a good sign." β
Artest is indeed a bit unlucky, although Artest kissed the donkey's ass in the playoffs last season, but in the end, Sun Zhuo's team also lost the series, Sun Zhuo was also injured, Artest can be regarded as getting what he wanted, and this year he can no longer watch himself be eliminated.
Sun Zhuo said: "Don't worry, we won't lose, and I won't be fine." β
Last season, Sun Zhuo had to accept the result of being injured because all the challenge cards were used up, and this time, even if Artest was really bad enough to affect Sun Zhuo's injury, it would not affect this round of the series.
Given how bold Artest was yesterday, Sun Zhuo had to go over and talk to him.
"Look, Sun is coming this way, he looks so fierce!" The audience in the rows behind Artest became excited.
Seeing Sun Zhuo take the initiative to walk towards him, Artest also stood up with a smile and said, "That's right, I'm here again, are you ready to be eliminated again?" β
Sun Zhuo looked serious and asked, "Didn't your friend come?" β
"Friends?" Artest was a little puzzled, he came to Miami alone, what friend was he referring to?
After thinking about it for a while, Artest realized that Sun Zhuo was talking about the friend who led him to the donkey last year, right? Sun Zhuo still wants him to kiss the donkey's ass?!
"This bastard ......" Artest cursed in his heart, and then laughed: "Hehe, I won't bet with you this time, you can't win the championship anyway, I just show up every time you play away, waiting for you to be eliminated." After you're out, don't forget our promise. β
Sun Zhuo looked at Artest's smug expression, guessing that Artest had completely won after testing his strength yesterday, Sun Zhuo said: "Don't worry, I can't wait to beat you, it should be more than just the two of us fighting, there will be E players involved, right?" You, and your partner, I'm not welcome! β
"Hehe, so am I!" Artest is just as tough.
Sun Zhuo said a few words and turned around and returned to the field, his heart was still full of anger, "This guy is still so reasonable, he doesn't feel guilty at all!" It's a pity that my current opponent is not him, and I want to vent all my current anger on the Heat! I'm sorry, everyone in the Heat, if anyone is bullied by me later, don't blame me, blame Artest! β
At the beginning of the game, Sun Zhuo released the monstrous anger in his heart from the first goal!
In the first attack, Sun Zhuo used a change of direction to the left to instantly receive a back dribble, the ball came to the right hand again, and then the right hand quickly broke through, passed Anthony Walker, and directly entered the penalty area, jumping towards O'Neal!
Backbite!
O'Neill was caught off guard, a little flustered by Sun Zhuo's attack, and chose to foul and stop.
Gary Payton, who was on the bench as a substitute, was a little dissatisfied with O'Neal's approach: "Why did Shaq foul, just wait for him to come in and cap him, can Sun still complete the dunk under the confrontation with O'Neal?" Shaq was too flustered. β
Mo Ning also nodded and said: "In the last game, Sun scored a lot of 2+1, and Shaq didn't want him to score another 3 points, so he stopped it in advance." β
"Hehe, do you know why Sun played so many times 2+1 in the last game? Because you're so light, he's not that strong at all, and if you defend him a little harder, I guarantee he can only score from free throws. Gary Payton thought he knew Sun Zhuo's strength value, and his words were very disdainful.
Not long after he finished speaking, Sun Zhuo once again forced a foul on Haslem and threw the ball into the basket to play a 2+1!
"Damn it!" Gary Payton was very irritated when he saw it, and was very dissatisfied with Haslem's defense, Payton was annoyed that he didn't have Haslem's height, and if he was allowed to defend the penalty area, Sun Zhuo would definitely not score so easily.
In just a few minutes, Sun Zhuo scored nearly 10 points, and everyone could see that Sun Zhuo was not in an ordinary state today.
"Sun looks angry today, is it because Ron Artest is here? Why is this guy coming to our Heat's home court? Pat Riley glanced at Artest, who, like Popovich last year, did not welcome Artest's arrival.
On the court, Wade and O'Neal were also wondering about the issue.
"Shaq, Sun looks like something happened, that's not how he usually plays." Wade has known Sun Zhuo for two years, he knows Sun Zhuo very well, today is only the third game of the series, and it was a 1:1 draw before, it stands to reason that Sun Zhuo has no reason to fight so hard today.
O'Neal also saw that Sun Zhuo was a little different today: "I can also see that something should have happened outside the basketball court, but unfortunately we are playing the playoffs with him now, and there is no way to know what is going on in his life." β
Today's Sun Zhuo is terrible, because in Sun Zhuo's eyes, the culprit who frightened Emma is sitting there in a grand manner, and he wants to vent for Emma and prevent Artest from seeing the joke.
The five people of the Heat are also a little afraid of Sun Zhuo, Sun Zhuo's own ability is unfathomable, and now he is as ruthless as a killer, no matter who plays against Sun Zhuo, he is a little timid.
On the court, Sun Zhuo completed another steal and quickly launched a fast attack, Walker chased fast enough this time, but followed the basket and did not jump.
"Forget it, Sun is so fierce today, such a ball, I will jump up and block it, and I will only give him 2+1." Anthony Walker thought as he watched Sun Zhuo dunk the ball into the basket.
"What is Anthony Walker doing! Why not stop him! Gary Payton off the court was completely angry, he saw that his teammates were all afraid of Sun Zhuo, such a ball was given away in vain, and he didn't dare to defend it!
"Coach, let me play! Sun shouldn't have made us so afraid! Gary Payton stood up and asked Pat Riley to play.
The Heat finally waited for the opportunity to come to the home court, but this game has been played from the beginning to the present, the Heat has been very passive, Sun Zhuo's outburst was a little too sudden, which caught the Heat players a little off guard, and Riley felt that he should also let an old player with excellent defense like "Glove" come on the court to stabilize the situation on the court.
"Okay." Pat Riley agreed to Gary Payton, swapping him on the court and replacing Williams.
After coming on the court, Gary Payton showed a disdainful fierce look, "A bunch of soft eggs, look at how I defend him!" β
Gary Payton is only 1.93 meters and weighs 180 pounds, and he can't compare with Sun Zhuo in terms of body shape, and Peyton thinks that when he uses his full strength, his strength is still very strong, he wants his teammates to see that even a player of his own size can completely stop Sun Zhuo, and their teammates who are taller and heavier than Sun Zhuo should be even more aware of their strength and don't be afraid of Sun Zhuo anymore!
"Sun, I'm going to expose your true colors, stop pretending to be Superman." Gary Payton's words were silently said in his heart, because Payton and Sun Zhuo were teammates in the Lakers before, and if it weren't for Sun Zhuo's play, Payton would not have won the championship in the Lakers.
Peyton and Sun Zhuo are not opposed, so it is not easy to get the opportunity to fight Sun Zhuo directly, but since Sun Zhuo's speed has increased to S+, his steal ability has also been greatly enhanced, and soon, Sun Zhuo completed the steal again!
"He was broken twice by Sun alone in a single quarter, his speed is too fast, and he has a higher height and arm length than Dwyane, which is really troublesome." Pat Riley believes that Sun Zhuo's steals will greatly change the situation on the court, because Sun Zhuo, like Wade, is a person who can directly convert into scoring after a steal.
"Very good, let's see how I defend you this time!" Gary Payton saw Sun Zhuo's fast attack, and he hurriedly ran over, he didn't know that his run was the last run on the NBA court......
Peyton followed closely to Sun Zhuo's right, Sun Zhuo was already red-eyed at the moment, and he didn't even think about who was following him, no matter who it was, he would unceremoniously hit the ball in.
Payton followed Sun Zhuo all the way to the basket, still wrapped around him, reaching out from time to time to interfere, Sun Zhuo realized that there might be physical contact with this offense, so he used a European step.
After the European step, his physical confrontation will be greatly increased, whether it is a defender or a center, it will be difficult to stop Sun Zhuo!
Sou!
Sun Zhuo jumped up after stepping back, raised his right arm and went straight to the basket to dunk!
At the same time, Gary Payton also jumps to stop!
"Gary Payton also jumped, don't be scored 2+1 by Sun!"
Due to Gary Payton's size strength, everyone didn't think that Payton could stop Sun Zhuo, and would only be beaten by Sun Zhuo to 2+1.
Payton is not as tall as Sun Zhuo, it is very difficult to block Sun Zhuo's dunk, he didn't think about blocking, he just ran to force the foul, just like O'Neal put Sun Zhuo down in the first game, he also had to drag Sun Zhuo down!
Payton's strong bar Sun Zhuo, a bit like the old fish Fisher in the Thunder period in his previous life, Fisher strong bar heavy tank James, the guard dares to stop the two-meter-three-meter tank forward, which does require courage, but sometimes it also comes at a price.
"Come down for me!" After Gary Payton jumped up, he grabbed Sun Zhuo's right arm with both hands and wanted to dunk it, ready to forcibly pull Sun Zhuo down, but!
"How is that possible!" Gary Payton used all his strength, but he couldn't pull it!
"Not good!" failed to pull Sun Zhuo down at the first time, and Peyton already had a bad premonition.
I saw that Sun Zhuo's right leg knee had reached Peyton's body, and the green tendons of his right arm were bursting up, and when the whole person was bearing Peyton's weight, he exerted all his strength and threw his right arm towards the basket violently!
Bang!!!
The ball didn't know how to be smashed into the basket, and after Sun Zhuo landed, he also stumbled a few steps to the left and almost fell, which was the strongest European step dunk he experienced in physical confrontation.
And Gary Payton, the whole person had already flown out and slammed into the column of the basketball hoop base, and the miserable screams and crashing sounds were shocking at the same time.
"Ahh Peyton is 38 years old, and even a young man can't withstand such a heavy blow, let alone an "old man" like him?
The scene was silent, O'Neal, Wade and all the Heat players caught up, they saw that Payton had blood on the corner of his mouth, and his back hurt and couldn't touch it, knowing that this not only meant that Payton was reimbursed this season, but also that his entire career was reimbursed.
"At 38 years old, there's no chance he'll be back on the field." Pat Riley stood from a distance and watched all this, his gaze softening slightly.
Sun Zhuo didn't know that Gary Payton was yesterday's mastermind, plus the two were teammates before, seeing his former teammates seriously injured like this, Sun Zhuo felt very sorry in his heart, and before Payton was carried away, he took the initiative to step forward and talk to Payton: "GARY, I DIDN'T MEAN TO, DON'T BE TOO SAD, MAYBE YOU CAN CONTINUE TO PLAY." β
Sun Zhuo thought that if he lost this time, he would use the repeat card to challenge again, and when the time came, Peyton would not be injured, and Peyton would be safe and sound, just like Sun Zhuo did to Karl Malone at the beginning.
Peyton lay on the stretcher and looked at Sun Zhuo, there were countless words in his mouth that he wanted to say, but in the end he didn't say a word, closed his eyes, and was carried away in despair.