Chapter 282: This Guy and That Guy
"We are the champions, even though we lost two games in this series, got off to a bad start, and caused a lot of fans to not look favorably on us, but I want to say that none of that is wrong, we got through in the end, the NBA playoffs are a best-of-seven series, and no one knows what the final outcome will be until we get four wins, what the fans need to do is be patient, and what we players need to do is keep the fighting spirit."
After the game, Warcraft has undoubtedly become Orlando's new upstart, although he has been the darling of Orlando since he entered the league and entered this Magic team, and the team has been upgrading the roster around him, but this time, it was his most successful season.
"We're all confident and ready, and I know our next opponent, the Rockets, is going to be tough, they have two almost invincible China, and our first game is going to be away from home, so the fans over there will do everything they can to boo us, but I would say we're ready for it."
Turkoglu said in an interview, "We're going to be ready to play a full seven, and the outside world is not looking forward to us, and we did get beaten by the Rockets in the regular season, but so what? ”
The Turkish agent first complimented the opponent, lowered his posture a little, and then changed his tone and said, "This is the playoffs, the playoffs and the regular season are completely different level games, in the playoffs the Rockets don't want to beat us easily, as for the outside world's words that sing us down, let him go, in the game against the Celtics, who knows that we will have the last laugh in the end, but the result is that we won, so I want to use the results of the game to explain everything." ”
The reporter who interviewed Tekoglu was speechless for a while, and said in his heart that you yourself said that you want to see the result of the game, so isn't it all nonsense in front of you?
However, these reporters also saw that the victory with the Celtics gave the Magic team a lot of confidence, and they did win one or two games against each other by virtue of their strength, but in the sixth game, Garnett was unexpectedly injured, and all members of the Magic team chose to keep silent, which is very interesting.
They also have points in their hearts, if the old wolf king is not injured, they will not have a chance to play the seventh game, not so much as they said that they reached the finals with their own efforts, but rather by their luck to pick up a ticket to the finals.........
"The schedule is not good for us, the Rockets have been resting for five days and are still waiting for us in Houston, and our teammates have just finished seven hard games, and if they don't get rest the next day, they have to take a charter flight to Houston to play."
It's just that compared to the confidence of the players, Van Gundy, as a coach, suddenly seemed to wake up and put forward a not-so-optimistic point of view in advance.
"I don't know what I can say, and that's not an excuse for us to lose, but what I want to say is that the schedule is really bad for us, and we have a lot of players playing with injuries, and compared to the Houstonians, they're ready to come in the best spirits for us."
However, what the reporter didn't know was that Van Gundy put forward this point of view in advance not to think of any solution to this problem, but that he had learned to be smart and he was exculpating himself in advance, nothing more.
In the series with the Green Shirts, the chubby and slightly bald coach did not learn from Reeves, but was forced by the pressure of public opinion to him, but the technique of throwing the pot is becoming more and more clever, from the first loss to the players openly, to the back after the loss of the secret dump, and finally before the fight to his own coach's pot, the big Van Gundy can be said to have slowly evolved from a novice to a dumping master, and the Tao is becoming more and more pure. It even made some fans a little convinced that the loss was really not his coach's pot, but the same as other players.
But I have to say that although his approach is disdainful of other coaches, he is really smart, because whether in terms of hard power or physical strength, this year's Magic is really not the opponent of the Rockets, in the first game of the finals, the all-out Rockets led the Magic by 10 points in the first quarter, 20 points in the second quarter, and 30 points at the end of the third quarter. But Adelman didn't give the other side this face at all, and replaced all the substitutes on the field, announcing in advance that the game was over.
In the end, the embarrassment is that even if the Magic are all the main players playing, the Rockets who are all substitutes can't take advantage of the scene, and it took seven minutes of struggle to close the difference from 30 points to 20 points, you must know that the Rockets bench has given you a David Lee, if David Lee hadn't been injured by Bynum, the absolute main force of the Magic team seems to be unable to beat the Rockets' bench?
The final score was fixed at 124-101, the Rockets' super high offensive power made the Magic's proud defense unable to parry, after the game, the Magic players were hastily hugged by the Rockets, and then left the Dragonborn Cave Arena as if fleeing, and the visiting team's locker room was also closed, and they refused any reporter's post-game locker room interview.
"No, it didn't make me feel tough, I only played 30 minutes and I went up and sweated and came down, and if it wasn't for the excitement of the home fans, I would have thought I was playing a regular season game instead of a finals."
The locker room on the Rockets side is full of reporters, and the winners always have these treatments, of course, the position around the most reporters is the new core of the Rockets this season, Totoro who scored 17 points, 13 rebounds, 14 assists, 5 blocks and 1 steal in this game, just like he said, he only took 30 minutes to hit a triple-double, and if he plays a little longer, teammates and opponents cooperate a little more, he has a chance to impact the finals with a gold explosion of four doubles, it is conceivable that his personal ability is too rebellious, Or is the Magic team too hungry, this question is difficult to understand.
"I feel like Tekoglou is a good player on the opposite side of the game, he always makes me want on the defensive end, he always makes mistakes on the offensive end, and he doesn't dare to take on the team's attacking responsibilities? How many shots did he take today? Doesn't seem like there are more than 5 of them? ”
My Neighbor Totoro continues his viper talent, he always likes to judge other teams at the beginning of the series, grabbing one or two of the opponent's weaknesses and starting to spray randomly, and at the end of the series, he is like a different person, low-key to the point that he has no friends, and when he encounters a question about the opposing player, he praises it vigorously, as if no matter how garbage the player is in his mouth, these two extreme personalities make the media sometimes scratch their heads, and the heart says that this guy can't be a split personality, right?
However, in the eyes of those coaches who are good at psychological warfare, Totoro is not schizophrenia, but a manifestation of being very good at psychological warfare. Second, he can win the goodwill of players, referees and even the league's top management, and lay a solid foundation for his appeal in the league in the future, I have to say that this is what every coach wants his core players to have, but can never teach them personality charm, and Totoro is undoubtedly born very good at this.
But then again, no matter who can talk off the court, he also needs his good performance on the court to support, Totoro's dominance on the court is also understandable, take today, he completely dominated the Magic team on both the defensive end and the offensive end, on the defensive end, he not only used the pressing defense to limit Tekoglu only 7 shots, so that he only scored 4 points, 3 boards and 4 assists in the dismal data of the whole game, he also guarded the entire front line and guard line of the Magic alone, His 5 blocks are very telling, with his perverted sideways footwork and defensive awareness, Totoro almost did where the ball was transferred in the 30 minutes he played, his people appeared, only one of these five blocks was to cover the Turkish agent, the other two blocked Redick who was outside the three-point line, and two blocked Nelson who was about to shoot after breaking through Calderon, it can be said that Totoro not only made Tekoglu who was opposite him lost, but also made other players on the guard line abnormal.
On the offensive end, Totoro didn't shoot much today, but more of it connected the whole team together, he kept making balls to Yao Ming, so that the little giant frequently singled the monster and turned over and jumped to make a jumper, and Howard was helpless about this move, Chinchilla's 14 assists were nearly 9 times on Da Yao, who also scored a new high score of 32 points in the finals in this game, as for himself, he tried his best to grab the rebounds in the front court, and the Rockets' original two big inside lines formed three highs, Almost wrapped up the Magic's backcourt rebounding, let me ask him to blow up the Magic at these points alone, and the Rockets' other role players are contributing piecemeal, what reason does the Magic have to go home without defeat?
"The Magic played very tenacious, we can't be careless, and you can see that even after trailing by 30 points in the fourth quarter, they still didn't give up their fighting spirit, and that alone has to be a wake-up call."
At the post-game press conference, Adelman only brought the best Yao Ming to attend, today the little giant played against the league's No. 1 center, and cut down a super double-double of 32 points and 15 rebounds in front of the monster, which made Reaves, who could only sit in front of the TV, a wave of envy and hatred, if they had a super penalty area killer like Yao in their team to limit Howard, the East Final only needed four games to be enough, and he would lose if he could play one more game.
Yao Ming, as always, showed the traditional modest virtue of the Chinese, unlike Totoro's first suppression and then promotion, the little giant will always praise his opponent after the game, whether he loses or wins.
"What do you think is the key to your victory in this match?"
The reporter asked, and the little giant replied with his own unique Yao-style humor after thinking about it for a long time.
"The rebounds in the front and back courts, the shooting percentage, and the number of reasonable shots, I think the biggest reason for our victory over the Magic, today our outside shooting rate is not high, only 5 of 15 three-point shots, which is abnormal for our Rockets, but we are very smart, we did not choose to persistent outside attempts when we were not good, but found other ways to win, which is very important for us, of course, the most important thing is that I don't think we have too much gap with the Magic, The only difference is that we have [this guy] in the team, and there is no [that guy] in the magic array, which is the most important reason why we can win the magic. ”
The little giant humorously answered this question with this guy and that guy, he didn't name and say who the specific person was, but I believe that as long as it is a little brainy, it will know which guy the little giant is talking about.
"Then let me ask, why [this guy] who did well in this game didn't show up at the press conference, is there something wrong with him? I remember seeing him in the dressing room just now. ”
A reporter from China asked, of course he was in Mandarin, which made Yao Le, who was sitting on the podium, uncomfortable.
"[This guy] said he had a very important date after the game, so he took a leave of absence beforehand, and here are all notes for supporting the Houston Rockets, you shouldn't complain about him after the game, right?"
Da Yao said the secret with a smile, and the reporters in the audience immediately exclaimed, and silently took out their mobile phones from their pockets to edit text messages, and some of them were anxious and even took out their mobile phones directly to call at the press conference, they all had only one purpose, that is, to notify their colleagues who were waiting outside to find Totoro's whereabouts and capture them, this is a super big news material.
At present, how many girlfriends Totoro has, no one outside knows, but they believe that Totoro definitely has more than one girlfriend, although he only brought out Ivy to appear on the team bench alone to watch the game, but he did not personally admit that this is his official girlfriend, and not long ago in a high-end French restaurant in Los Angeles, Totoro also seemed to be photographed taking a black-haired girl to meet the other party's parents, so now the outside world is very concerned about how rich Totoro's love life is.