Chapter 274: Figures of Speech

Although this year's NBA playoffs are much less intense than in previous years, the sense of topic is full of much, from referees to players, almost when the tip of the media and the keyboard have not stopped, the major media pages are full of important news, and those fans who really love the team or a star are confused, so that the neutral melon-eating fans outside shout excitingly, and say that this year's league drama is on stage, and things that have not happened in the past few years will break out this year, and they just want to say that your circle is really messy.

"What do you think of the series between the Magic and the Celtics, and do you also think that if it weren't for the refereeing factor, the Celtics would have beaten the Magic to advance to the Finals?"

Even at the pre-game press conference of the Lakers and the Rockets, someone specifically took out this problem and threw it to Kobe, which made the boss very angry.

Who is this damn with whom, the two teams in the Eastern Conference have a half-dime relationship with me? And now that the Lakers are facing the embarrassment of being eliminated at any time, is he asking himself this question to be sure he is mocking? Volute raised his eyes and looked at the female reporter's clothes, with the Houston Times logo on her chest, two cartoon chinchilla earrings on her ears, and a string of cartoon chinchilla bracelets on her wrists, and knew that this thing must have come to see her appearance! Damn Houston!

"You shouldn't ask me that, you should ask the Rockets, they're more likely to make it to the Finals than we see from the outside, and you should let them wait and see who their next opponent is!"

Kobe Bryant said coldly and closed his eyes and went to meditate, no matter how many reporters asked questions by name, the boss pretended not to hear, anyway, he has this qualification now, ordinary reporter Peter Pan didn't pay attention to it at all, those reporters were helpless, so they had to throw the question to the Zen master and sister-in-law sitting next to him.

"What? We can't go to the seventh game, it's our do-or-die match, and I can't afford to lose this game. ”

My Neighbor Totoro gave a clear answer to the question of whether he would go to Los Angeles to play Game 7 in an interview with reporters, but what he said is also true, the support that a home court in the playoffs brings to the team is incomparable, otherwise everyone would not have squeezed their heads to compete for a good spot in the regular season, didn't you see the Rockets capsize on the Lakers' home court? The explanation given by the last three referees was to give the Lakers a little "home-court advantage", which also made Totoro drunk.

"I don't want to go back to Stamps Arena to play, because a little bit of [home advantage] is going to let us send off five players, and we're reimbursing one player for the season, and if we have a little bit of home advantage, I'm afraid we won't be able to make up five starts."

My Neighbor Totoro then complained, and the reporters in the audience laughed, he used exaggerated rhetorical techniques to amuse the reporters of the entire press conference, but judging from the facts, it is not a problem for the team to get together five who can play, and then take 10,000 steps back and say, even if the players in the player list are injured, the Rockets can also use injury exceptions to temporarily sign some free agents back, there are not too many Americans in this world who can play, it is a matter of playing and not beating.

"Okay, I think we'll stop the referee discussion, now I'm going to focus on the rest of the game." My Neighbor Totoro also saw that he had almost achieved his expected goal and said to the reporters in the audience that this topic should not continue, and that it is a knowledge that every person in society needs to master when he sees it, and everyone makes mistakes.

And always frying cold rice and hot fry will always give people a feeling of looking down on you, some fans will think that you are a very small person, and this kind of serious powder loss Totoro will not do.

The sixth game between the Rockets and the Lakers began, the players hugged each other before the game, in fact, judging from the historical records of the two teams, the Rockets and the Lakers have neither a relationship nor a feud, they just met on the stage of the Western Conference finals this year, everyone tried their best to win the game, but the losing side will not have too much hatred for which side to win, Kobe Bryant also said in the early days that he was very optimistic about Totoro, bluntly said that he was his successor, but with the rapid growth of Totoro's influence threatened himself, Now the boss has long forgotten what he said before.

The referee of this blowing game is Bennett Salvatore, and the Lakers fans in front of the TV suddenly felt their chrysanthemums tighten when they saw this old man, and then scolded the league for not raising Bilian for dog food, and actually played a balance for himself at this time.

Unlike the referee who was heavily inclined to the Lakers in the last game, Bennett Salvatore is an authentic Houstonian, in more than 1,300 law enforcement games, he blew the Rockets' winning rate as high as 85%, as long as he blew the Rockets basically won the game, put this referee with such a serious Houston plot into the Western Conference final life and death, and after the black ball turmoil in the last game, to say that the referee did not deliberately find a balance, Lakers fans were the first to jump out and say unconvinced.

But there is a saying, there are really few things that players and coaches on the court can control, and since the league deliberately wants to find a balance, then there is nothing you can do, and Bennett Salvatore is a veteran actor...... No, it should be said that he is an experienced referee, and he has taught those young referees a lesson with his actions, how to blow the black whistle of the home stadium without leaving a trace.

First of all, he took away the double standard that other referees have been putting on Da Yao, and gave Yao Ming a normal NBA player's whistle environment, others are like pulling Da Yao's jersey behind his back, pinching Da Yao's buttocks, and pulling Da Yao's arm will be blown foul, Yao Ming stood on the free throw line 12 times in the first quarter and hit 11 free throws, and fans who don't know still think that the Zen master is dizzy and is using the tactic of cutting Yao, but the Zen master said that he didn't let the player do it today.

Give the free throws that should be given to Yao Ming, and the Lakers players have nothing to complain about, because they have been taking advantage of it, and now the referee is just taking this advantage and putting everything at a fair level, if you are not convinced, I can show you the video, if you are not convinced, you can complain about me? I don't have any problems with such a blow, right?

Yao Ming almost destroyed the Lakers' interior line with free throws, which also made those Yao Hei speechless, Yao Ming has not played a few playoff games to prove himself because of injuries before, and he has been sprayed by Yao Hei, spraying this is not good, that is not good, this is soft, that is soft, as if the air in foreign countries is sweet, and the moon in foreign countries is always rounder than China.

But really when Yao Ming can put the burden on his shoulders, he really becomes the second leader and gets enough rest time to ensure physical strength, the destructive power of the little giant in the playoffs is extraordinary, the Lakers have the deepest experience, once the little shark is against Yao Ming, it will be exploded again and again, without exception, and once Gasol is replaced to defend Yao Ming, the effect is indeed a little better than Bynum, but Gasol's ability to assist in defense on the defensive end is completely gone, and not only that, The huge physical consumption makes the sister-in-law's strategy on the offensive end also powerless, and the rockets who are all soldiers sacrifice a big Yao and others can stand up, but the Lakers completely collapsed when they replaced a sister-in-law, what is the difference between their lineup and the lineup that couldn't even enter the playoffs in previous years?

But after the first game, Kobe Bryant scored 17 points on 7 shots in the first quarter with a 100% shooting rate, including 2 of 2 free throws and 3 of 3 three-pointers, and at the same time also scored 3 assists to help the Lakers bite the Rockets 26-28 in the first quarter.

In stark contrast to the volute and the little giant, today Totoro seems to have lost all his skill packs, and he has no feeling, shooting 0 of 5 in the opening game, only relying on the free throws to cut 4 points, which did not even score a layup, and he said before the game that he would not play the seventh game The momentum of swallowing mountains and rivers is quite different, this situation is rare, and the manager of Totoro has never had this situation in the first season, but this is also the anomaly of Totoro that gives the Lakers a chance to breathe, otherwise the little giant is in this state today, and the Lakers will spend it again.

At the beginning of the second quarter of the game, Totoro continued to be put on the court by Adelman, this time Totoro learned to be obedient, and he was not obsessed with offense if he didn't feel good today, but used himself as bait to attract a lot of defensive opportunities from the Lakers, and instead created offensive opportunities for other teammates.

My Neighbor Totoro's move worked, the Rockets took the opportunity to play a wave of 12-5 attacks to open the score, Phil Jackson was also very entangled off the court, the Zen master had already seen that the Rockets were not allowed to allow others to be accurate today, but the question was whether he could make up his mind to shift all his defensive attention to other Rockets.

If it seems to people who don't know how to play, what is so difficult about this determination? Whoever feels good will focus on guarding against whom, isn't it a matter of course? But that's also based on the angle that they don't have backache when they stand and talk, and if they have to wait until they have to bear the pressure of losing the game, it is estimated that these people are more cautious than Zen masters.

After all, Totoro is a friend who has won two single-game 60+ and 38-point records in a single quarter in the playoffs, his offensive explosiveness is historic, and today he feels cold, from a part of the perspective is his own reason, but it cannot be denied that this is not the effect of his own defensive tactics, if you let go of the defense of Totoro now, this little guy suddenly opens, it will be a devastating blow to the Lakers.

Phil Jackson couldn't make up his mind for a long time, Totoro still accumulated physical strength on the court, and he didn't participate in the offense at all, he put all his energy on defense, and the supergiant players not only attacked, but also helped the team in other aspects, especially for Totoro, a player who can play five positions, it would be a nightmare for any team.

In later generations, there were many heroes such as the Warrior Dynasty, the Splash Brothers, the Knights Elderly Army, the Thunder Triumvirate, etc., but Totoro himself felt that they just didn't meet him, otherwise there would be nothing to do with them at all, so it is not that there is no basis for words, but Totoro feels that with his own ability, he is enough to penetrate them at both offensive and defensive ends.

You can think of Totoro as a letter brother who strengthens in all aspects, height, speed and Greek monsters are on par, but the weight is 15 pounds heavier, this capital can allow Totoro to defend the opponent's big center and Brother Alphabet can't, Totoro's high agility can make him more able to bend down to defend the opponent's point guard than Brother Alphabet, in the vertical jump and horizontal jump, Totoro also has more advantages than Greek monsters, not to mention the three-point, mid-range, dribbling these techniques, Brother Alphabet may be the only place where he has surpassed Totoro is his big palms.

Of course, the reason for making this comparison,I want to explain that Brother Alphabet has been praised by fans as an anti-human alien as soon as it comes out.,You can imagine the degree of metamorphosis of Totoro at this time.,The template of the Greek monster into the league is guaranteed to be the Rockets' Totoro.,And Totoro now seems to show all the highest heights he can reach in the future.,What's even more surprising to fans is that Totoro still has the possibility of improving.,This makes some American deadly anthropological scientists cry out incredible, Claiming that Totoro's body is God's favorite that is rare to see once in a hundred years.

Lakers players are even more fucked, they obviously feel that they are fighting aliens in basketball, many teams are proud of the big to small, small and big tactics are not a problem in front of Totoro, once again Bynum and Kobe Bryant blocked and formed a dislocation, Totoro on the back of the little shark was stunned to cover Bynum twice, the annoyed little shark wanted to elbow Totoro was dodged by the other party with extraordinary reaction speed, and he paid for a malicious foul and was elbowed by Totoro backhand, There was also a time when Vujacic relied on his short stature and flexibility to force Totoro but was forced to break the ball by the opponent, and the Totoro who got serious about defending in these rounds made the Lakers suffer.

43-55, the Lakers trailed by 12 points at halftime, this is still in the case of the boss and Gasol turning the tide, Kobe and his sister-in-law only had 1 minute break in the first half of the game, seeing that the game was about to take and was sent to save the court by the Zen master, Kobe and Gasol can be said to have played their best in this game, but the Lakers are still at a disadvantage in the first half, and Totoro today is almost the sum of Kobe and his sister-in-law, On the defensive end, he can make the Lakers go to at least two fewer attackers with his perverted footsteps, and on the offensive end, he can make the Lakers go at least two less defenders with his strong magnetism, and according to the words of a reasonable master, this offense and defense can make the Lakers lose at least four players. Isn't that exactly twice as effective as Kobe Bryant and Gasol?