Chapter 110: A Crisis of Confidence in the Alliance
Adam Shaw made a good calculation, using the referee's secret operation to save the Heat from the line of life and death, on the one hand, delaying the pace of the Pacers towards victory, on the other hand, it also made the number of games more, plus the two teams in the Eastern Conference Finals have been feuding as early as two years ago, so the highlights are more abundant. This also makes the league's income more lucrative as the number of games increases.
Satisfied with the final result of the game, Xiao Hua nodded with satisfaction while watching Ye Xuan's interview video at the press conference, and secretly praised Ye Xuan and the Pacers in his heart for being good and more sensible, thinking that he could ask the referee to take care of them in the regular season in the future. Unbeknownst to him, under the deliberate instigation of well-intentioned people, there have been rumors that are particularly unfavorable to the alliance and Xiao Hua himself.
Xiao Hua was woken up by a call from his assistant early the next morning, and the news from the other end of the phone suddenly made Xiao Hua's face sink. It turned out that a series of edited game highlights began to circulate on the Internet, and the highlights collected were all misjudgments, missed judgments, or ambiguous fouls from yesterday's Eastern Conference Finals.
Originally, if you just watched the complete game video, or from the final result of the game, the referee's small movements would not be so obvious, but after the editing of people with a heart, all the people who watched this video felt that there was a problem with the referee of this game.
After the video, the author also left a large paragraph of his own words to explain that the league is not as clean as everyone thinks, and then analyzes why the league used these black tricks to interfere with the final result of this game. Let everyone see that there is indeed some truth.
All of a sudden, the NBA's official Twitter, Facebook and even China's official Weibo were besieged by angry fans, with comments full of dissatisfaction with the league's approach, and some even blaming the newly appointed Adam Shaw.
Xiao Hua wanted to say that he used to use this kind of trick when Stern was there, and he was just copying the cat and the tiger, but he could only think about it, after all, it was not only himself who was questioned now, but the credibility of the real alliance was questioned.
So Adam Shaw was heartbroken, and directly announced that the league would thoroughly investigate the matter, and directly announced that the league would set up a special investigation team to investigate what kind of deal was behind this game. Although anyone with a discerning eye knows that this is nothing more than the league's pretense.
However, in this way, there are still a large number of people who eat melons who choose to believe the official statement, and instead began to spread some rumors that the referee collects black money, or the referee participates in gambling.
Seeing that his response was starting to work, Xiao Hua, who had been busy with these things all morning, just breathed a sigh of relief, and then received a call from his assistant telling him that the Pacers had appealed for multiple misdecisions made yesterday, asking for the cancellation of technical fouls including David West and coach Frank Vogel, and also asked the league to investigate all three referees on duty.
Xiao Hua finally understood this, although the Pacers interviewed after the game yesterday, including the player's private social account, did not mention even a single sentence about the referee's question about yesterday's game, but this does not mean that they have accepted this established fact, even if the Pacers know that there is no way to change the result of the game, but they still choose to use the appeal to express their dissatisfaction to the league.
On the one hand, it can be said that it has saved enough face for the league, after all, it did not directly question the referee in the public media at the beginning, which also made it much easier for the league to deal with online speech questions afterwards, but on the other hand, it is also equivalent to sending a warning to the league, telling the league that they are not the kind of people who go against the grain, and if they encounter this kind of targeted punishment in the future, the Pacers may turn their faces directly.
Of course, Ye Xuan also knew everything that was going on the Internet, because the original source of the edited video was not a Chinese website, although the analysis and other things in it were all in English, but only experienced Chinese media could handle this matter perfectly if such an accurate and targeted video was made in one night.
Although it did not cause any substantial damage to the Alliance, in this era of fragile trust, if the Alliance continues to use such dirty methods to harm its own interests in the future, it will definitely be able to give the Alliance a strong response. And after such a farce, the league will definitely not dare to make any small moves in the next game. That way, the Pacers can at least have a level playing field for the rest of the game.
Lying on the bed in the hotel, Ye Xuan sent a tweet of "Goal - 3:1" on his Twitter, while cleaning up his personal hygiene, and then preparing to go to the gym downstairs to exercise a little.
When I came to the gym, I saw that several of my teammates were chatting while exercising.
"Hey, look who this is, our assistant coach Ye Xuan is here." As soon as Stephenson saw Ye Xuan coming, he teased.
Ye Xuan walked over to meet everyone, and said, "Oh, Lance, don't be kidding, I just said what I thought of, and it worked very well, didn't it?" The league's decision was ultimately questioned, and none of our players were punished by the league for questioning the referee. ”
David West on the side couldn't help but praise Ye Xuan, "Ye, you know, after receiving that inexplicable technical foul yesterday, I was ready to spray directly in the post-game press interview, but in the locker room, you and Coach Frank's plan is indeed more effective, although I have been holding this breath and I didn't sleep well all night yesterday, but now I feel very happy to see them scrambled because of this matter." ”
"Yes, in this way, we at least have a fair chance to compete in the next game, and we can also play with all our strength to deal with tomorrow's game, you also saw how cheap that group of Miami reporters were yesterday, and frantically guided us to say something to question the referee, fortunately, Ye told us in advance, otherwise we would probably lose before the battle." Pickled pepper also answered at this time.
After that, the group of people chatted in the fitness room for a while, while ridiculing Ye Xuan's tone of speech yesterday, and at the same time reassuringly complaining loudly to his teammates about the disgusting judgment of the referee in yesterday's game, which was quite lively for a while.