Chapter 209: Jordan's Law

Roy single-handedly defeated the entire Pistons! He literally beat five Pistons players on his own!

Shocked, everyone at the Auburn Hills Palace Stadium could no longer suppress their inner emotions, Abby stood up, Porzingis raised his hands in the air, and the fans opened their mouths wide, it was an indescribable picture.

After witnessing Roy's 22-point performance in a row, everyone couldn't calm down. This is a real 22 points in a row, Roy has not even missed a shot or a free throw, such a performance can really be compared to Jordan.

It was not only the fans at the scene, not only the fans in the United States, but also the thousands of fans in China, every basketball fan who watched this game was probably shocked by Roy's amazing scoring ability.

In the past 5 minutes and 50 seconds, he has not performed like a rookie at all, he is the embodiment of the god of basketball.

Bryn's voice trembled a little.

"If you're a veteran Pistons fan, you must remember who was the last super shooting guard who could make a big splash on the Pistons' home court? I can help you recall, yes, he was the basketball god Michael Jordan, who scored a staggering 61 points on March 4, 1987, on the Pistons' home court (not at the time at Auburn Hills Palace Stadium). ”

The game that Brin is talking about is the earth-shattering scoring battle between Jordan and the Pistons on March 4, 1987. Jordan was only 24 years old that year, and he was at the peak of his physical function. Facing the Detroit Pistons, the league's best defense, Jordan did his best, he hit the restricted area again and again, rushed to the bottom of the basket again and again, or layup, or dunk, or shot, he was fearless, even if he faced Bill Lambir, the league's most ferocious center, and the "bad boy army" he led.

Under Jordan's near-frantic onslaught, the Detroit Pistons' steel defense was shattered. Jordan scored a team-high 61 points for the Chicago Bulls and led the team to a historic victory at Pontiac Silver Dome Stadium, where Jordan's victory poured cold water on the proud Pistons fans and he was crowned league scoring champion for the first time with an average of 35.0 points per game at the end of the season.

Michael Jordan won on his own, but his story with the Pistons has only just begun. After suffering a crushing defeat, Pistons head coach Chuck Daley learned from the pain and summed it up deeply. Eventually, he and his "Detroit Bad Boys" developed an unconventional defensive tactic that would influence generations to come—the "Jordan's Rule."

The so-called "Jordan's Rule", simply put, is to use various conventional methods and unconventional means to defend Jordan, which can be within the scope of the rules, or can be used in any way. If you really can't defend Jordan, you can "let Jordan score" and defend the other four players instead, so that even if Jordan scores more and the other four players score low, the Bulls will still lose.

The core of the "Jordan's Rule" is: if you dare to come, I will dare to fight. In the ensuing encounters, Isaiah Thomas's eye-poke, Joe Dumas's tripping, Dennis Rodman's (who was still on the Pistons) takedown, and Bill Ranbir's choke-lock became lethal weapons against Jordan.

Relying on the "Jordan Rule", the Detroit Pistons eliminated the Chicago Bulls in the playoffs for the next three years, delaying Jordan's canonization for three years.

The "Jordan's Rule" is undoubtedly the best tactic against superstars.

Stan Van Gundy may not be Chuck Daly, but he learned it well under Pat Riley, another master of the "Jordan's Law".

Using the "Jordan's Rule" is a helpless move for Van Gundy, of course he doesn't recognize Roy as a superstar, but he must admit that Roy's terrifying play on the court touched his sensitive nerves.

This is Auburn Hills Palace, the home of a generation of powerful Pistons, the Pistons have won championships here, fought in groups, went to heaven and gone to hell, how can they let a rookie be so domineering and have no one in their sights.

Big Van Gundy's tactics were resolute and decisive, suppressing Roy and suppressing Roy's offense by all conventional and unconventional means.

When the game restarted, Roy noticed that the Pistons players were on fire in their eyes.

From this moment on, this game is no longer normal, Drummond's blocking almost made Vujacic hang up, and Iss Smith's layup directly raised the knee, and the game instantly became extremely rough, which is also the way the Pistons have survived for so many years - chaos.

Roy is also a master of chaos, and he is holding back his strength to win this game, of course, he will not mind this mess, but he did not expect the Pistons to be even more chaotic than he imagined.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Roy got possession of the ball for the first time, and he beat Pope to the basket in exchange for a near-falling foul.

O, the audience screamed, Abby covered her mouth and stood up, and the Knicks bench was full of emotion.

The referee did not give a malicious foul, and Drummond, who fouled, did not think otherwise, did his expression at this time feel a little like Ranbier possessed?

The referee's whistle set the tone for the chaos. The takedown just now was just the beginning, the more tragic hand-to-hand combat was still to come, the rough style of the ball gradually escalated, and the game became fragmented. But the Pistons were having fun, they were completely open, and thanks to Roy, the Pistons players were completely enraged.

Roy hit the basket again, and Morris didn't hesitate to foul a head-to-head beater.

The whistle blew and Roy sat down on the ground.

"Hey, stinky boy, you don't want to score on my head!" Morris's roar represents the determination of the Pistons on the court, you can get into the box, but you don't want to score easily, the box is the home of the Pistons, and they don't allow anyone to come and go in their homes.

The Pistons are determined to make Roy suffer.

But Roy, who was also enraged, didn't believe in this evil, he was determined to challenge the Pistons' interior, breaking through again and again, colliding again and again, fouling again and again, and free throws again and again, the game completely lost its continuity, and the Knicks' offense became more and more chaotic.

Whistle, free throw, whistle again, free throw again.

The field is full of scenes of body collisions and people flipping on their backs, blocking, hard bursts, backs, and grabbing positions, and almost every offense and defense is full of physical collisions between the two sides. Everyone's thighs are against their thighs, their arms are on their arms, their elbows are flying all over the sky, their knees are on all sides, their buttocks, their knees, their elbows, and their shoulders, so they can be used to fight for territory.

In this environment, the blue-collar Pistons from Motor City are playing like a fish in water, and for the elegant New York Knicks, it may be a disaster.

Roy also felt the pressure in this kind of hand-to-hand combat with hard-bridled horses, and although he relied on free throws to score a lot of points, his physical strength was rapidly draining. As the game deepened, he was no longer able to give full play to his full ability one hundred percent, and the "Ball King System" showed that his physical strength had fallen to the red zone, and the original comprehensive ability of 76 was now discounted by 8, only a pitiful 60.

Without physical strength, there is no basis for completing all technical movements.

Roy was exhausted by the repeated attrition of the opponent's wheel battle, his shooting percentage dropped dramatically, and the team's lead was eroded.

Roy finally understood Hornacek's intentions in making a bet with him.

No one can dictate the game on their own, and even Michael Jordan needs to have Scott Pippen and Dennis Rodman by his side.

Blindly being stubborn will only bring disaster to yourself and the team.

With less than 2 minutes left in the game, Roy chose to go off, he no longer had the stamina to continue, and he conceded defeat. At this time, the Knicks were already trailing by a full 12 points at 94:106.

Although Roy scored a career high of 50 points, although his fans were full of praise for his performance, he knew that he lost this battle, he lost to the ideal, and he lost to reality, the NBA is not a high school championship, and his opponents are not those secondary two teenagers, for the sake of victory, for the team, and for himself, he must say goodbye to the "cancer" Roy......