Chapter 225: I Just Don't Want to Hurt Him
Well, this doesn't seem to be the first time Totoro has smashed a rebound, and the referee who officiated this game was also very helpless, although he let the game indirectly stop for 15 minutes, but you can't give him a foul because the quality of the rebound is not up to par, right? My Neighbor Totoro has been whistled for inexplicable technical fouls countless times in the playoffs, and now honestly, the referees who officiate the Rockets game are really having a hard time.
The most negative example is the referee who broke the score record of the Totoro playoffs, it is said that the unlucky guy was shot on a road in Philadelphia one day after being searched by human flesh, although the person who fired the shot did not hit him with poor marksmanship, and the person who fired the shot was finally arrested by the US imperialist police, but you can imagine how serious the impact of this news was on the referee.
And according to the prisoner's confession, he himself is not a resident of Philadelphia, but flew all the way from Houston to Philadelphia to find the referee on duty to take revenge, Totoro may not have the most fans now, but his fans are definitely the craziest among NBA stars, like why there is a student female fan and her father who ran away from home because of an argument about who is the first person in the league to speak out, and the strange thing of fighting with the star's fan group in the bar is not uncommon among the Totoro fan group, which may have something to do with his violent style of play, It may also have something to do with the fact that he often causes trouble on the court, after all, the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, and he himself is not a good role model.
It is precisely because of these lessons from the past that now referees are generally not very good at blowing Totoro's black whistle, and other players do not dare to have trouble with Totoro, first of all, they themselves can't beat each other, and there is a fear of being hit by extreme fans, NBA players have been attacked off the court is not small, Pierce was stabbed 13 times in a row, and now he can still play alive is purely his luck.
Another of the best examples is Ginobili and his Spurs teammates, generally speaking, being humiliated on the court is so humiliated that a normal man can't accept it, even if he doesn't fight, he can't avoid going up and pushing a few times, and venting a few insults, but in reality, Ginobili is standing in place with a dead face that has been flown over his head, while his teammates are embarrassed to stand in place and don't know what to do.
Popovich shook his head slightly, and immediately used up another one of his remaining timeouts in order to replace the Argentine demon knife.
If he were to be humiliated like this by a young player, his career would be almost over, and the young Ginobili might be able to come out of the haze, but at least he would not be able to play in this game.
At 107:98, there was no big wave after the whole game, Totoro fulfilled his promise, defended and played for his teammates in the first three quarters, and slashed 17 points in the last quarter like the god of war, making the game enter garbage time.
After the game, no one went back to pay attention to the results of the game, and all the newspaper reporters used their magic skills after the whistle in order to find Totoro for interviews and get first-hand news materials.
and came back after being banned for two games, everyone has a hunch that Totoro will do something earth-shattering, but who knows that he will make such a big move, this is about to break the sky, all in all, this time they can report, there are too many news materials that can be mined, whether they can be promoted and raised to the peak of life depends on such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
And the first thing basketball fans around the world do is to go to ESPN to watch the world-destroying dunk, from Totoro starting the leap to smashing the rebound, this short 6 seconds of fast dunk is played by them in a loop side by side, and even the video is interpreted word by word, frame by frame, this kind of dunk can only appear once in a lifetime, and some fans even believe that in this world, in addition to Totoro, there will be no player in the game to replicate this miracle in a hundred years.
"Brother, don't interview us, hurry up and go home and search for the video, My Neighbor Totoro's dunk is too domineering, I have a hunch that the click rate has exceeded 30 million now."
As soon as the game ended, a reporter said that he was looking for Totoro, but the person concerned left the scene like the wind after shaking hands with several Spurs players after the game, not giving the reporters a chance at all.
Unable to catch Totoro, the reporters wanted to catch a few other Rockets players to ask about the situation, but those people also ran to the players' tunnel without giving the reporters any chance as if they had burned their butts.
At the press conference, the long-awaited sufferers finally waited for their creditors, and Totoro wore a casual red shirt and followed head coach Adelman and the little giant to the news station.
"What do you say about the insulting gestures made to Ginobili during the match? What kind of mentality did you have to complete this dunk? ”
Of course, not every reporter is excited about My Neighbor Totoro's dunk of the century, and Spurs fans and reporters are now eager to eat Totoro alive.
Speaking of the history of the Spurs, it is also miserable, speaking of the Spurs team, since Duncan moved in, they are definitely not a weak team, and they have been seen almost every game in the playoffs, and when it comes to the characteristics of this team, everyone will first think of their impregnable defense.
But it is such a team known for its defense, and many feats in history are based on their background, from Fisher's 0.3-second kill, but Kobe's 1v5 picturesque pull-up, to Maddy's 35.13-point comeback, and finally Totoro's epic dunk.
"I don't say anything, please pay attention to your statement, I didn't think of insulting him at all, if you ask such ambiguous questions again, I reserve the right to sue you and your newspaper."
My Neighbor Totoro replied righteously that he didn't act flustered at all, in fact, as soon as the game was over, Totoro hid in the locker room, in order to give himself a little more time to think about facing the Spurs reporter's hair and questioning, and without thinking too much, now he has prepared a set of impeccable rhetoric.
The brown-haired beautiful reporter was suddenly frightened by Totoro, who was a real person, and if she was really serious with herself, her newspaper would have no choice but to fire her.
"If you had to ask me what I was thinking before the dunk, I would be thinking about how to keep Ginobili from getting hurt, and yes, that's what I mean."
Seeing that the other party had been shocked by himself, a smile appeared on the corner of Totoro's mouth and continued to explain.
"I'm a player with a lot of explosiveness and impact, like a little emperor on the Cavaliers, as long as I start, there are usually few people except interior players who can stop me, and maybe even if they foul, they can't pull me down."
My Neighbor Totoro's words are a bit of a pretending element in it, if others say it, it is estimated that the audience would have been booed at this time, but in view of the fact that Totoro has deducted so many league insiders, there are countless players who have deducted and flipped away, so when he said this, others did not want to refute it, but nodded and approved his words.
"So when Ginobili was in front of me, I knew what he was trying to do, he wanted to make my offensive fouls, and I admired his courage and professionalism, and I admired him as a player, and when I was in high school, I loved watching him play, so the moment I was about to hit him, I wasn't thinking about dunking him, I was thinking about how not to hurt him."
My Neighbor Totoro's sincere speech stunned all the American reporters in the audience, although everyone knew that he was talking nonsense and that he was excusing himself, but they couldn't refute what he said.
Ginobili just didn't hear Totoro in the locker room now, otherwise the Argentine would have scolded Totoro for being shameless, and he still claimed to be his fan? How thick-skinned is he to say this?
"Then since you're afraid of hurting people, why don't you hold the ball and stop or choose to make a stop-and-go jumper?"
Other reporters tried to refute him from another angle, but as soon as he said this, his fellow reporters, including Totoro, looked at him with idiotic eyes.
Brother, basketball is not a charity game, especially in the playoffs where life and death are not the ball, who cares if you will get hurt? Who would pass up a chance for a fast-break layup just because an opponent might be injured? Or is it when the Rockets are behind, and Totoro now weighs 255 pounds, and the kinetic energy is absolutely destructive to rush up at his speed, isn't it necessary to force an emergency stop at this time to avoid his own knees? It's like you see which 100-meter sprint athlete doesn't run a little further forward and slow down after reaching the finish line?
"So the only thing I could do at that time was to jump up and avoid him, and if this dunk made him feel humiliated, I can apologize to him here, but I really had good intentions when I started."
My Neighbor Totoro ignored the idiotic question and continued to talk about it himself, and he really apologized, which surprised the reporters and made the Spurs fans feel a little better.
However, what they didn't know was that what Totoro really wanted to say was not an apology, but wanted to ask those reporters, "Where did you insult people with this dunk?" Is it insulting to step over someone's head? This isn't essentially a slam dunk yet? Being able to fly over a person in addition to showing that he jumped high enough can only mean that the person is too short, and all the so-called insults are brought on by others, so wouldn't it be good for him to get out of the way at that time? Don't you want to have a wave of offensive fouls? This can only show that the skills are not as good as people", but Yao Ming and Adelman told My Neighbor Totoro before attending the press conference, that is, he must let him pick up good words, not to stimulate the conflict between the two teams, and Totoro also occasionally relented, otherwise it is still a question whether the Rocket's bus can drive safely to the hotel.
But what is meaningless is that Totoro's dunk made his name explode around the world again, and there are very few wonderful goals that can be bid on a series, and Totoro's dunk undoubtedly did it, even if the Rockets really lost the series, Totoro is proud enough with this goal, and the god moment of 35 seconds and 13 minutes, this is a goal that can blow up to his fans for a lifetime.
James sat in the away team's locker room, looking at Totoro's world-destroying dunk on the iPad in his hand with a complicated expression, and he felt very uncomfortable.
In terms of physical fitness, he asked himself if he would not lose to Totoro, but he just didn't have the opportunity to complete this kind of luck-breaking pinnacle.
The reason why the death buckle is so difficult, the bounce ability to exceed 100 is just a prerequisite for hard conditions, in addition to this, you have to find a player with a height of about 2 meters, and finally the opponent has to stand unstable and fail to react, otherwise the opponent will not be able to complete the death buckle whether they pull you down or dodge.
The gorilla has been famous for a long time, and his explosiveness is the top in history, and he is even more powerful than Totoro, and it is precisely because he has been famous for too long that few people in the league dare to go head-to-head with him, which also makes James have few chances to dunk.
Generally as soon as they rush up, the people on the inside are so scared that they run out, and they dunk the empty basket for themselves, or three or four strong men together, and work together to turn themselves over and not let them dunk, Totoro can dunk such a basket now because he has just entered the league for a short time, and everyone knows him well enough, otherwise how can Totoro frequently cut his hands and dunk people?
And because he and he are both players in the small forward position, the topic of who is the strongest small forward in the league has been slowly discussed, who dared to say this when he was in his prime, he is the basketball emperor of the next ten years, since he is the strongest player in basketball in all positions, then he is naturally the most powerful one among the small forwards, but now the era of his rule has not yet begun but he is facing the crisis of changing the dynasty, and the speed of Totoro's rise is too fast.
Half a year ago, others were still using himself as his template, but who knew that half a year later, he was no longer qualified to be a template for Totoro, not to mention, that little guy was about to be on an equal footing with himself, how could James accept such a big change in status?
So in the next game, the little emperor kept charging suicidally into the magic inside line like a chicken blood, in order to dunk a few more baskets, but when he saw James and Howard crashing together again and again, and the two fell down in the restricted area at the same time again and again, Totoro laughed miserably in front of the TV in the hotel.
This stupid hat, I don't look at who he is dunking, who he is going to dunk, he can dunk this basket first because Ginobili is thin, but he took advantage of the moment when the other party wanted to make his own offensive foul and countered him, and he didn't react between the lightning and flint, but James actually wanted to forcibly imitate himself to deduct the two-time best defensive player, Howard, the monster at the peak of the Magic team? I'm afraid I'm losing my mind!