Chapter 196: Flattening You
The little giant still has a little misunderstanding of what Totoro said about one-on-five, he thought that the trainer was well-trained, so that he could fight the opposite five by himself, the little giant couldn't imagine that what Totoro said was actually fighting five girls in bed alone, otherwise at this time, Yao Ming would say that he would knock a head on the other party's head and teach the other party a lesson.
The team flew en masse to the City of Roses, and as soon as the plane arrived at the airport, the Rockets found themselves surrounded by a crowd of reporters and fans waiting around the departure hall.
"Sorry excuse me, can I ask you how you feel about your second home defeat?"
"I'm a reporter for the Portland Times, and the Trail Blazers players and coaching staff have said they're going to hold on to their home two games, what do you think about that?"
"If you accidentally go out of the series, how will you prepare for the rest of the summer?"
'Did you make any changes to the starting line-up tonight? What's your tactical plan for tonight? ”
"Are there any hidden dangers in the little giant and [Mr. President]? Facing the Trail Blazers' new All-Star Aldridge and the resurrected Oden, will the Rockets' interior line be able to hold their beast impact? ”
As soon as you walk in the door, countless magnesium lights and long guns and short guns are stretched out in front of the Rockets players through layers of strong security guards, the citizens of Portland still love basketball very much, and they also like their parent team very much, although these problems sound nothing on the surface, but in fact they are not lacking in malice towards the Rockets.
It's just that Totoro thinks that the heads of those reporters may be a little difficult to use, 90 out of 100 questions are basically nonsense, and the only meaningful questions are the exits that only people with people who have entered the water in their heads will ask, like what tonight's arrangement, rotation changes, tactical arrangements, who would be stupid enough to tell you all the arrangements of their team before the game? Even if it really tells you, aren't you afraid that it's false information?
Compared with those brain-dead reporters, Portland's fans are even more brain-dead, and the airport is full of slogans such as "Houstonians get out of Portland", "Saint Seiya Roy will tear you to pieces", "You will be taken by us here to match points", and unlike the dark and hard faces around him, Totoro was about to laugh when he saw it.
Although the Trail Blazers are very strong, they can get surprisingly good results in the regular season, and they do have enough talented players on their team, but the problem is that the playoffs are a completely different place from the regular season.
No matter how strong you are, basketball is also a sport that is done under the constraints of rules, and there are three referees guarding the whole game at all times, what do the rules mean? That means that experienced people will play better and more reasonably than inexperienced people in the framework of bondage.
The Trail Blazers' overall immediate combat power is not as strong as the Rockets, and the team's participation experience is not as good as the Rockets' team, they may be able to compete for the championship with their current roster, but that will be at least three or four years later, and it must be Roy Oden who is not reimbursed, Aldridge grows according to the original historical trajectory, and Fernandez Bathum can also play the bench bandits.
But speaking of which, Totoro had to think of the news he heard on the plane this morning about Oden's comeback in this game, which surprised him, because according to the development of parallel history, poor Oden never played again after being injured in this playoff round with the Rockets, and it was time to appear in the CBA a few years later when he returned.
There have been a lot of butterfly reactions in his own crossing to his current position, and basically all of them are positive butterfly effects, Oden Maddie and Yao Ming are not injured is just a microcosm, in the future, maybe those league stars will get rid of the tragedy of being destroyed by the disease, and when the time comes, maybe Roy will not be reimbursed, Ross will not be reimbursed, OJ Mayo will not be reimbursed, Rudy Gay will not be reimbursed, Chris Paul will not be seriously injured, Totoro has always felt like an invisible big hand is manipulating all this, making the NBA game more difficult suddenly, So that you can not dominate the NBA so easily.
Think about it, when these guys become superstars, with James, Wade, Anthony, Kobe, Gasol, Nowitzki, and rising stars such as Curry, Leonard, Butler, Harden, Westbrook, Durant, Embiid, Love, what kind of league will this league become? With two or three All-Stars in each team and no absolute underdog in the league, it is naturally more difficult for Totoro to replicate Jordan's miracle to rule the league than in parallel history.
My neighbor totoro himself suspects that it is the mysterious existence that controls his soul to cross the trouble, it may be the existence of the gods or the devil, although there is already a bit of feudal superstition in it, and my neighbor totoro is also a complete atheist who only believes in his own hands before the crossing, but he has even encountered such a nonsense thing as crossing, what else is there that he is not good to believe in those cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods?
It's just that Totoro is not afraid of this situation, for him, these are opportunities and challenges, the stronger the enemy, the more pleasure he will have when he overcomes, otherwise if everyone sees that he is afraid, he will disarm and surrender before the game starts, and those basketball players who have lost competition will have no taste to play, and if he can stand out in this star-studded era and become the new basketball emperor, the god of basketball, the achievements he can achieve will eventually surpass the old man Qiao in front, The more opponents there are, the stronger and stronger they are, the more they show the greatness of his success, and Totoro wants this effect.
"I'm not afraid to tell you the truth, we Rockets won't make any changes in the roster rotation today, and our tactical thinking is very simple, which is to face the Trail Blazers one size fits all, I saw the fans at the airport, and I know how much they love their team, but none of these emotional factors will prevent me from stepping into the Rose Garden Arena tonight."
My Neighbor Totoro held a chin at the pre-game press conference, looking listless, but the words that came out of his mouth were flat and thunderous, and the reporters in the audience and Yao Ming and Adelman, who were also present next to him, grew their mouths and couldn't come back to their senses for a long time.
"Hahahaha, I just like this kid's character, he should have played in the 90s, I promise he will have a lot of appetite for us."
Today is T,NT is responsible for broadcasting the third playoff game between the Rockets and the Trail Blazers,Because it's a playoffs,Almost every game of all the participating teams is contracted by the three major American TV stations,,It is said that Charles Barkley, who likes Totoro very much, has been dissatisfied with this matter and is ready to run to ABS to be a commentator with his ass。
"Look at the stunned expressions on the faces of Yao and Adelman, I dare to say that they definitely didn't let Totoro say such hateful words before the game, this was completely his own temporary idea, old man, dissatisfied with you, if it weren't for the fact that I knew his draft time and age, I couldn't imagine that he was actually a rookie who just joined the NBA in the first year of this year, he seems to have played a lot of playoff games, look at his leisurely attitude, in contrast, I think Aldridge, who has been in the league for three years, is a rookie. ”
'Yes, he always has a sense of fearlessness, and maybe he thinks he's capable of doing everything he promised to the fans in front of the TV before the game.
Kenny Smith responded on the side, to be honest, this historical shooter who has traces of famous three-point shooting in history does not like Chinese, if it was placed in the past, he would still say a few good words about Totoro, because at that time Totoro was a nobody, and his own little praise did not help him, but now it is different, seeing that the other party has achieved fame, Kenny Smith really does not want to tell any of his advantages to the fans in front of the TV, but he has no way to have to say.
First, the advantages shown by Totoro are too obvious, the physical fitness is super-first-class, the shooting is super-first-class, and the defensive awareness is also super-first-class, these don't need to be said, but also the fans' eyes can see the place, in fact, the fans are attracted by the Chinchilla's simple and rough and elegant style of play, if this kind of advantages under the nose are not to say, but to pick the thorn of the chinchilla, I'm afraid that his own anchor position will not be able to do it for long.
The second point, Totoro now has too many fans, although the global popularity is not as good as Kobe James, but it is not much worse than the two, which can be judged from their sales of jerseys and shoes in the world every month so far, 1/5 of the world's population, the entire East Asian region is almost the base camp of Totoro, and recently even the Indian Asan, who are not very good with China, have begun to pay attention to Totoro's game, and there are many well-known "beasts" in their country who posted that Totoro's ancestral home actually has Indian ancestry, Born to an Indian father and an East Asian woman.........
These brain-dead remarks naturally make Chinese fans laugh, but it is an undeniable fact that Totoro has a lot of fans, and most of them are young young people aged about 10-35, these people have strong purchasing power, fans have a strong life expectancy and are not small-tempered, experienced anchors and commentators know that they are willing to offend those older fans and will not offend those young fans, because older people are much more rational than younger people, and many crazy things are done by impulsive young people, Kenny Smith didn't want to be beaten up with his headband over after going out for a few gaffes.
The Rockets' press conference ended in My Neighbor Totoro's one-man show, and then a more interesting scene happened, when the Portland Trail Blazers, who were the home team, came to the scene, those reporters naturally told the core and head coach of the team about Totoro's wild words, wanting to stimulate their momentum and listen to their strong response, but they were destined to be disappointed, in the face of Totoro and even the entire Rockets' aggressiveness, Roy, who was known as the only core of the Rose Garden, actually didn't say a word, Auden, who has always been as arrogant as Totoro, and no one likes to point fingers, looked around at him, and Aldridge, who usually doesn't like to talk, was even more silent, they were different from the fans outside, they knew how they won the last game.
The Rockets are behind if they want to fall behind, and they want to overtake themselves, they are like a soft beauty tied to a pillar by a big man, they can't resist if they want to, the second victory is a humiliating victory for them, and it is precisely because of the big victory in the second game that they completely lost the desire to fight with the Rockets in this round of the series.
The starting center used by the Trail Blazers is not Oden, McMillan has also planned for the team's next season, compared with the playoff experience, they think that Oden's physical health is more important, he is ready to let the classmate, who just graduated from the first year this year, take the bench to the court to experience the playoff atmosphere in the bench time, as for whether he can win is no longer in his own consideration, purely depends on the mood of the other side.
So Yao Ming and Battier, who had rested for nearly four days, had sufficient physical strength and played very well, and the little giant accidentally threw a 7-of-7 in the first quarter, and Battier also hit two bottom corner three-pointers, and the two-man team scored 22 points in the first quarter, which was no less than the old driver who made a big splash at Staples Arena last time.
In the second quarter, Yao Ming went off the court to rest, but Totoro continued to play, in the first quarter, in addition to passing, he was an open shot, and he didn't even make much effort to defend, and now he finally realized the benefit of having a bullish teammate, that is, he can play soy sauce infinitely.
So when the little giant was not there, the Trail Blazers didn't take advantage of the situation to play a small climax as the home fans hoped, and Totoro began to tell them in the second quarter with a riding dunk, a big hat and an accurate three-pointer that the script of the previous game was a 100-day spring dream for them that they only did once in a lifetime.
Aldridge began to lose his fighting spirit like in the first game, and after pulling out a little outside to ensure that he scored four points in a quarter, he began to have no desire, Saint Seiya Roy no longer began to play with life-threatening breakthroughs, and Oden was even more frightened when he saw Totoro who was still alive on the field when he came on the bench, almost as soon as Totoro came in, he took the initiative to get out of the way, and that consciousness made people have nothing to say.
Just halftime, the original 40,000 people in the Rose Garden Arena have been empty and half of them are missing, they don't love their team, and they don't cherish the tickets they bought for dozens of dollars, but just after halftime, they fell behind by 23 points, how can the team play with others?