Chapter 242: Hindsight

On May 11, the Knicks finally pulled one back at home with Wu Huang's second-half outburst.

Wu Huang had a sluggish first half, shooting only 2-of-10 and scoring only 6 points and 2 rebounds. But in the second half, Wu Huang suddenly broke out, scoring 28 points and 8 assists in two quarters, especially in the last three minutes of the final quarter, scoring 11 points on 5-of-5 shooting, helping the Knicks drag the series to Orlando.

Magic coach Stan Van Gundy said after the game: "Losing Game 4 is not worth it, but the series is still going on, Dwight is coming back, and the Magic won't have the same defeat at home." ”

In Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, Howard was suspended for one game for elbowing Wu Huang, which was considered by the media to be the main reason for the Magic's away loss.

Speaking to the media at the hotel, Howard said the team needs better interior defense to win: "We have to play our own game, which is to overshadow the opponent, we can't get lost in the rhythm and style of the opponent, we have to let them go back and forth under the basket, and I won't let them score under the basket easily in the next game." ”

These words of Warcraft made Gortat feel very uncomfortable, and it was as if the team lost because he started in place of Howard.

The Pole scored 16 points, 12 rebounds and 3 blocks today, and he was not much worse than Howard in terms of statistics, so he had some confidence and said after the game: "I don't think it was the team's poor interior defense that caused the loss of the game, we were 13 points behind in the third game, but in the end we also turned the score around." Hugo was insane today, helping his team to victory in the final three minutes. We'll work harder next time. It's like the third war. ”

Gortat repeatedly emphasized the Magic's comeback in Game 3. These words fell into Howard's ears. It made the monster very unhappy again, and he felt that Gortat said this as if it was because he was out of the game in the third game that the team came back from defeat to win.

The two centers of the Magic team don't look at each other very well on weekdays, Gortat is indeed better than Howard in some aspects, and Warcraft has always been unhappy with the media's injustice for Gortat's playing time, but the latter is even more dissatisfied with the treatment of his ability but always unable to get playing time.

If a team has too much talent in the same position, such a contradiction will occur, if the model of a young + a veteran is okay. I am afraid that the conflict is two young and strong young men. "Young" means vigorous, and they definitely don't think that they are worse than the other party, and they will not give in.

The situation is almost irreconcilable, and the team can only trade one of them before the conflict is completely escalated, and it is better to trade this player for a player in a weak position on the team.

Wu Huang looked very calm after the game, and his tone of voice was relatively flat, and he said calmly: "There will be no change in the finished game, many fans feel sorry for our third game, they think the total score should be 2:2." But neither 2:2 nor 1:3 is the point. After we eliminated the magic, it was difficult to win the final championship. We still have a lot of shortcomings, and we still need time to learn and correct mistakes. In the next game, we won't care too much about winning or losing, what we have to do is to sum up today's shortcomings and not make the same mistakes again. ”

The reporters felt that Wu Huang's expression and tone seemed to be different from usual, and these words were flickering, as if he was satirizing magic in a roundabout way, and the "after eliminating magic" was really underwhelming, many Orlando reporters felt awkward when they heard these words, especially Wu Huang's slow way of speaking and expression, which made people want to go up and beat him twice.

He was then asked about the team's summer recruitment, and the Knicks had plenty of room to compete for superstars such as James, Wade, and Bosh in the summer.

Emperor Wu took a sip of water and said slowly and leisurely again: "If I see 10 people, this kind of thing will happen 10 times. Whether it's an adult or a child, they ask me questions like this. But I'm not James, I'm not Wade, I'm not Bosh, so instead of asking me, you should just ask their agent. By the way, don't you know that the three of them are the same agent? ”

His words still sound very awkward, and he still flickering, this kind of secretive way of speaking is really unimpressive.

Wu Huang, who was in an atypical state today, seemingly unintentionally put the bottle of water he had drunk in front of his mustache, and then took the other party's unopened bottle of mineral water, and at the same time answered the reporter's last question: "The reason for winning tonight is very simple, the pure and dedicated attitude shown by our team has become very solid in the last four days, I think it is the product of our energy, urgency and concentration. Sometimes, all you have to do is shut yourself off, turn off your phone, TV, and newspapers, put off the evening party, and focus all your attention on the game. ”

After this post-match press conference, some reporters found that Wu Huang had no substantive answers at all except for a lot of nonsense, and he seemed to have taken away two bottles of mineral water, is this considered stealing?

The league released the exact time of the fifth game between the Knicks and the Magic after the game, and the playoffs entered the second round after the schedule was more compact than the first round, and there was still only one day of rest between the fourth and fifth games, and they were going to Orlando on the night of the 13th to play the fifth game of the battle against the Magic.

Prior to this, on May 12, the first four games of the second round of the league were all over, and the two groups of battles in the Western Conference all swept the opponent with a score of 4:0, the Spurs and Jazz were both sent back to their hometowns, and the Lakers and Suns showed absolute dominance.

It is worth mentioning that this is the second time Duncan has been swept in his career, the last time was in the Western Conference Finals in 2001, when the Spurs were swept 4-0 by the Lakers.

Many people know that the Suns and Spurs have met four times in the last six years and are a pair of sworn enemies in the playoffs. But if you talk about history, the relationship between Nash and Duncan lasted longer, played each other more times, and Duncan's several championships, Nash became a stepping stone under his feet.

Nash was a rookie in 1996 and went from the Suns to the Mavericks and back again. Duncan was the No. 1 pick in 1997 and has remained with the Spurs since joining the league. But it was exactly what that sentence was. Nash has a thousand plans. Duncan had old ideas. Whether it is Nash when he was in the Suns or Nash when he was in the Mavericks, or Nash who returned to the Suns and won consecutive MVPs, he couldn't get around Duncan until the end of today's game.

In Nash's 14-year career, he has made the playoffs 11 times, and Duncan has reached the playoffs 12 times in his 13-year career. But among those 11 and 12 times. Duncan and Nash have played each other as many as 7 times, which means that Duncan has only 5 times he has not met Nash. Of these 7 encounters, the first 6 were all Nash's feathers in front of Duncan, and only now this time can Nash be regarded as a real revenge.

New York fans are more focused on Stoudemire's performance, with the Bully scoring 20+ points in three of his four games against Duncan and a team-high 29 points in the fourth, all of which he has gained the upper hand against Duncan in three of those four games.

Some fans may feel that Xiao Si's statistics are not so unrebellious, with 23 points, 23 points, 7 points, and 29 points in four games, and the rebounding and blocking statistics are not particularly eye-catching. But if you think about who he's up to. Maybe it won't be that way.

When Wu Huang played against the old, weak and sick Eagles point guard in the first round, he once scored 40+ in three consecutive games. But it was precisely because the opponent was too weak that many media outlets disdained his performance afterwards and did not give him much of a high evaluation. In this round against the Magic, Wu Huang faced Nielsen, and his average data per game dropped to 14+7 before the fourth game, which is no longer enough to meet the standard of an All-Star.

But fortunately, Wu Huang played an outburst in the fourth game, and his average data in the second round rose to 19.3 points, 4.3 rebounds and 7.8 assists. Such data can be called an all-star, but there is still some distance from the performance of the superstar, unless his first round results are also counted, Wu Huang's average data per game can break through 24+8, at this time, if you look at the data alone, he can barely be regarded as a superstar.

The Western Conference played happily enough, and the opponent of the division finals was decided early, the Lakers and the Suns are also a pair of old enemies, Kobe Bryant's highest playoff score was obtained by the Suns, but even if the gods exploded in that game, the Lakers still lost the game in the end, and were finally eliminated by the Suns again.

If the Spurs are the bitter master of the Suns, then the Suns are the bitter master of the Lakers. Since the rise of the Suns in '04, the two teams have met twice in the playoffs, and in the end it was the Suns who defeated the Lakers. This is the third time the two teams have met in seven years, and the Lakers are challenging the Suns again with the status of defending champions, and this time the chances of winning are the Purple Lakers.

There is a lot of ink in the Eastern Division, the Cavaliers and Celtics have made it clear that they will not give up until the seventh game, and the two teams will never be separated from each other if they don't fight until they are exhausted, you win one and I win one, who can fight out of the encirclement in the end, the battle of Tianwang Mountain and the final seventh game may become a watershed.

The series between the Knicks and the Magic, the suspense is also not too big, the Magic with four match points in hand lost an away from home while Howard was suspended, this loss is expected, they still have three match points in their hands, and the chance of the Knicks turning the tables is only about 1%, or the result of rounding.

Western Conference - Los Angeles Lakers (4) VS (0) Utah Jazz; Phoenix Suns (4) vs (0) San Antonio Spurs.

Eastern Conference - Cleveland Cavaliers (2) vs. (2) Boston Celtics; Orlando Magic (3) VS (1) New York Knicks.

Wu Huang came to his company for a meeting on the first day of his trip to Orlando, mainly to listen to the company's senior management, during this time there are many similar video sites on the market, but so far, Panda Video is still in a monopoly position.

In February of this year, China had its first parody website, and even the interface of the website was copied in half. But after spending the first week of freshness, now this website is almost a ghost station, even if a female anchor accidentally dews during the live broadcast, it is difficult to compete with the artists under Wu Huang.

This is an inevitable result, in the live chat room of these artists, there are always people who disagree with each other, how can you compete with the 1080P HD infantry when you show a few points over there?

These live streaming sites that have sprung up like mushrooms can't compete with Panda Video at all. Except for the lack of sincerity and the naked intention to circle money. The bigger problem is that these sites have too little content to offer. can only survive on some vulgar content.

Whether this kind of video site can succeed,The most important thing is whether the content is rich or not,Emma Roberts cheated more than half a year ago to sign ninety percent of the world's professional players at the price of cabbage,These people are at least three to five years long-term contract,After the establishment of other websites, the most embarrassing thing is that there is no anchor available,Many websites even bring some strippers-dancers and prostitutes-girls to perfunctory,This naturally can't have an impact on panda video。

And those newcomers who want to become anchors, nine out of ten will also choose Panda Video with the most paying users to broadcast live. Not many people will go to those websites that can't even get a good page to test the waters, and in the end, eighty percent of them don't even get paid.

The Internet industry has always had a characteristic, that is, winner takes all.

This is because the Internet is not limited by geography, unless the national level is blocked, otherwise it will make you choose the first website and the second, third or fourth website The cost is the same, so since the cost is the same, of course, choose to go to the first website, why go to the second or third website?

In this way, the industry pioneers have an absolute advantage. It's like searching for something, and I usually go to Google or Baidu. There are a whole bunch of other search sites that you can't even think of, or even hear of. I don't want to use it, because everyone wants to use the best.

It's easy to make a website now, but it's even more difficult to run one. It may only take a few computer science students to make a website, but just knowing how to make a website will not operate, and the website will become an ornament. The difficulty of operating a website is dozens or even hundreds of times that of making a website, which requires the integration of human resources, the construction of huge marketing channels, the integration of the industrial chain, the operation of capital, the construction of the internal structure and system of the enterprise, the establishment of corporate culture, the intricate interests of the decision-making level and the executive layer, and so on, this series of problems can not be solved by ordinary people.

Wu Huang, the hand-off shopkeeper, relied on Emma Roberts to make the website through the difficulties and grow and improve logically. This 18-year-old Lori is like she has traveled back in time, she is very familiar with managing the website, and she can give solutions to any problems she encounters immediately, as if she has encountered the same problem many times.

Some media in the United States even compared Little Radish with Bill Gates, Google's two founders Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Panda Video has already established a series of perfect industry rules and unrivaled huge advantages by taking advantage of its own pioneers, which can make other competitors unable to impact them for at least three years, even if Internet predators like Google intervene, they can only serve as food delivery in front of the snowballing growth of Panda Video, just like YouTube at the beginning.

This meeting is not about those who are not worth mentioning, as long as there are no major mistakes in the decision-making of the site's top management, let alone three years, even five or even ten years, no one will challenge them.

Some Internet predators have also discovered this problem, so they plan to take a more direct approach, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Sony have all recently announced that they want to buy Maohu Video, and the four companies have offered only a slightly lower acquisition amount than YouTube four years ago.

The news is naturally true, and playing and watching gameplay is becoming a global phenomenon. Panda Video enables tens of millions of users to watch hundreds of millions of minutes of gameplay videos every month. Surprisingly, this video site has been around for less than a year.

Since Panda Video set up a dedicated computer center in China in April, their website has had 20 million highly active registered users in May, and the paid members have just exceeded 1 million in May, which is not inferior to YouTube back then.

"Do you want to sell?" Wu Huang asked in Emma Roberts's office that he, the boss, was not here for a meeting at all, but more like an observer, and he had only spoken less than five sentences during the meeting just now.

"Not for sale!" Emma Roberts expressed her resoluteness in just two words, this website is her brainchild, and there are other things that even she can't explain. Anyway, I won't sell it if I give no amount of money. Even if you trade Google and Microsoft for it. She doesn't change.

Wu Huang smiled: "You can call the shots about these things, and I will ask Brandon to transfer the 20% of the dry shares, you shouldn't only have the right to dividends." At the beginning of the establishment of Panda Video, Xiao Radish got 20% of the dry shares, but she only had the right to dividends, and the shares could not be transferred, and the time limit was 20 years.

To be honest, he didn't expect that this original ticket-based website would grow to this point in just one year. Now that Emma Roberts' dry shares have been converted into formal shares, he has no loss, and the former's shares are still 20%, but the 20-year period has been removed.

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The next morning, Wu Huang and the team left for Orlando. His back injury has been healed, this is the first time in his career that he has suffered a more serious injury, but he still did not let him rest even a game, this ability to resist the injury is only stronger than the original James.

Wu Huang secretly regretted on the plane, yesterday in the office, he almost ate the little radish shreds. At that time, he even took off half of his pants, and was almost scared into impotence by Taylor Swift, who suddenly came to the company to look for little carrots. It also scared Emma Roberts away.

"The next time you do something like this, you must choose to go to my sister's house." Emperor Wu was a little afraid to take little Roberts home, and it was very likely that he would be broken by the East Palace or the West Palace.

Wu Huang thought of this, and Taylor Swift's voice rang in his ears again, but this time it made him have a physiological reaction. He now has a more perverted hobby, he likes to listen to Taylor Swift's songs with headphones and bang with me in a male and female position!

The Knicks' plane arrived in Orlando at noon, and the game was scheduled for 8:30 p.m., again in the United States, because the entire league was playing this game tonight.

"It's a good feeling, it's kind of like playing in the finals, the eyes of the whole world are on you alone, and I want to go to the finals right now." Wu Huang talked and laughed with the media before the game, and today he is not as arrogant as before, but he is not as calm as he did in the last game.

As soon as the Knicks entered the court, Wu Huang saw Howard's free throw at the free throw line missed, this guy's shooting level is really worrying, I really don't know how to practice.

D'Antoni and Woodson have roughly figured out Howard's offensive routines in these games, he doesn't have Scola's turning movements that can stun opponents, nor does he have the dream steps of big dreams, he only has five or six commonly used offensive routines. However, in addition to the mid-range shot, Howard also has the center skills that Howard should have, and he can still do the basic interior movements such as left and right shaking, left and right hooks, and turning back, that is, he is stiffer when he casts, and the general blue-collar interior can keep up with his movements.

But here's the awesome, Howard's real killer move is explosive movement and reverse movement in all directions, you keep up with his first sway or turn, but Howard can immediately make a reverse turn with a speed that nine out of nine percent of the inside line can't do, and this terrifying turn speed and movement speed makes the defender either fly off the line by surprise or be left far behind.

David Lee was often turned by Howard, or he lost his vantage point by surprise and was squeezed into a deep area, and then he could no longer stop this monster.

The Knicks set up a lot of traps in some of Howard's habitual breakaway zones today, and Woodson asked Frye, who had the nimble foot, to try to make up for them when Howard was on a solo ball, and to make him an offensive foul when he had the chance.

Howard's turning action and breakthrough after slapping the ball are ridiculously fast, but the flaw is that it is difficult to control his body, and it is easy to be unable to control it and knock down the opponent and be fouled, so Garnett, Duncan, and other big forwards with a perfect combination of agility and awareness can often rely on the predicted position to make the monster very aggrieved, last year's Gasol, and the Pistons' roar Tianzun in the past two years often dealt with Howard in this way.

Wu Huang and Howard did not communicate before the game, that elbow made them have no possibility of reconciliation, Wu Huang will definitely retaliate back as long as he has the opportunity, he will not show mercy.

After the start of the game, Lewis and Petrus each hit a three-pointer from the outside, and the Magic are also a team that relies on three-point shots to hit opponents, if the Knicks have someone who can defend Howard alone, the outside line composed of Wu Huang, Iguodala and Green will definitely halve the Magic's output outside the three-point line, and their lineup only needs a high-quality blue-collar to restrain the Magic to a large extent.

Wu Huang and Iguodala also showed strong firepower. The two teamed up to tie the score at 6. And Petrus became the wonder soldier of the Magic team. Face rookie Green. He didn't rush and hit three shots in a row to help the Magic take the lead.

Howard's form was reflected in the rebounding today, and in the first half of the first quarter, he grabbed two frontcourt rebounds and made a rebound, but neither the athletic nor the positional battle contributed much.

At the first official timeout, the Magic led 15-11.

Carter took over the game in the second half of the first quarter, and he used a steady mid-range shot to show a succession of accurate shooting skills at the Amway Center.

At the end of the first quarter. The Magic led the Knicks 28-22.

The trap that the Knicks prepared for Howard didn't have much effect, and Howard rarely took the initiative to attack in this game, or he couldn't catch basketball. In the first quarter, except for two rebounds in the front court, the monster only had one strong attack in the low post, and the embarrassing thing was that this ball had not been thrown.

In the first quarter, the Knicks players made more mistakes, a total of 7 turnovers, Wu Huang's 10 points and Iguodala's 8 points accounted for most of the Knicks' scores, David Lee and Harrington did not play, and several face frame breakthroughs did not succeed in scoring. The Magic were very careful to guard against them today, and it is true that there is no difference between having Howard under the basket and not having Howard.

There was no urine test for Harrington in the last league. On the contrary, Wu Huang was spot-checked, who made him suddenly go crazy in the second half, this situation is likely to be something in the midfield, he has been spot-checked by the league this season The number of urine tests is the most in the team, a total of 7 times, and it is the second time in the playoffs.

The league's latest standard for 2009 is for all players to have at least four random drug tests per season and two random drug tests in the offseason. However, there is a big gap between the scope of drug testing and that of the Olympic Committee, and slightly new banned drugs such as HGH are not in the scope of testing, and there is only a urine test without a blood test.

The NBA's drug ban policy is a 20-game ban for the first time an anomaly, a 45-game ban for the second time, and a permanent expulsion from the league for the third time.

Harrington's grass is very different from taking banned drugs, and the punishment is not so great, usually a ban or two games is enough, because that thing has a good or bad impact on the player, at least the shooting will be affected, and it is easier to make mistakes, after all, basketball is a sport that pays attention to skill, and it is not a good thing to be too excited.

While drug banning is not as prevalent in the NBA as it is in other games, the number of PEDs used by players is much higher than expected. For long seasons, frequent games and training, doping can help a player's performance, and many players don't mind trying it for the sake of multimillion-dollar contracts.

There have always been many dark sides in this league, and sometimes the team's coaching staff will even default to the players taking some banned drugs, and there are not a few people who will do anything to win in order to win, and it has little to do with the coaching staff if the players are caught, let alone some players who gamble for big contracts.

Harrington kicked off the second quarter with a strong dunk, and the Magic generals were not to be outdone, and immediately launched a wave of 8:2 offensive climax, instantly widening the difference to 36:24.

Wu Huang had to play again after only two minutes of rest, and made a layup on his first offense after returning to the court to help the Knicks break the scoring drought. At the same time, the Knicks also ramped up their defensive intensity, forcing the Magic to go unscored in the next three minutes or so without shooting a single point from Howard's free throws.

On the contrary, the Knicks played smoothly, Wu Huang had a good hand today, scored four points in a row and then assisted David Lee to hit a shot, and after Harrington burst to the basket and caused Howard to foul for the second time and hit both free throws, the Knicks pulled the score to 36:41 at 5:25 in the second quarter.

With 4:30 left in the quarter, JJ Redick's three-pointer helped the Magic alleviate the crisis, and led by Nelson and Carter, the Magic used Howard's containment to play a 7-0 offensive surge. But then things took a turn for the Magic, and they started to make mistakes, and the Knicks went into halftime with a five-point deficit of 48-53.

Wu Huang had 20 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists in the first half, Iguodala had 12 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists, Harrington had 7 points and 3 rebounds, and David Lee had 6 points and 5 rebounds; For the Magic, Carter had 13 points, five rebounds and four assists, Petrus had 12 points and three rebounds, Nelson had 10 points and three assists, and Howard had eight points and five rebounds.

Since Game 3, the Knicks have no longer been as embarrassed against the Magic as they were in the first two games, at least they have been able to do it back and forth on the court. The Magic tried to pull away a few times today, but each time they were counterattacked under the leadership of Wu Huang and Iguodala to narrow the gap.

Howard was a bit of an embarrassment today, and while he didn't fall into the Knicks' trap, the opponent's anticipatory defense largely affected his catch. The Knicks didn't give the Magic perimeter a comfortable pass today, and they didn't give Howard a comfortable catch.

At this time, Nelson's passing ability was exposed, his ability to hold the ball and impact the basket is good, but his organizational ability is worrying, mainly reflected in the lack of clarity in thinking, and his passing skills are not up to the average level of the league's starting point guards, so he plays the role of an organizer to sort out the team, such a task is obviously not suitable for him, Nelson's best positioning is the same as Xiao Mo of the Cavaliers, playing an attacker who does not need to worry too much about the star forward with organizational ability.

D'Antoni only realized what he had done wrong at this time, they should have dealt with Nelson a long time ago, without Turkoglou's Magic, the biggest loss is the lack of a clear-headed outside playmaker, Carter is stronger in attack, but he can't replace this characteristic of the Turks.

Wu Huang would rather let Nelson shoot today to prevent him from breaking through and cutting off the passing route, and Iguodala did the same against Carter, so that it would be difficult for Warcraft to receive the ball on the inside, and even if he received the basketball, he ran to an awkward position, and the threat was greatly reduced.

But the most painful thing is that Wu Huang's defense was summarized by watching the video by himself, and D'Antoni didn't tell his core to defend like this at all. (To be continued.) )