Chapter 354: Opponent in the Final
When Wu Huang walked off the court, all the fans stood up and gave the "Holy Sect Master" the greatest applause and cheers they could release!
The Knicks are finally back on the Finals stage after 12 years, and all that comes with this is that they are holding their heads high at the moment, like a king of chickens who have returned from winning the "chicken bite" competition, and the Knicks players next to him are like a dozen hens with the king of chickens, waiting for their king to come and inspect once a day. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Today, Wu Huang once again came up with an MVP performance, but the performance of a group of hens of the Knicks is not bad, Radmanovich's several plays are the key to the Knicks being able to bite the score when they fall behind in the first three quarters, although Xiao Si did not play a dazzling performance like Wu Huang, but his data is really not bad, although the score is not very concentrated, but it is very continuous, it is this continuous output that keeps the Knicks from suffering an embarrassing scoring drought like the Heat.
The final score was 102:90, Wu Huang scored 13 points, 10 rebounds, 23 assists and 4 steals, not only got the third triple-double in this year's playoffs, but also got the triple-double data for the second consecutive game.
Getting a triple-double in two consecutive games in the playoffs is a rare occurrence in history, but there are still some. But if Wu Huang can get another triple-double in the next Finals, a triple-double performance in three consecutive games can be regarded as a real milestone record, and there are only a handful of players in the entire NBA history who have completed this kind of miraculous performance.
The rest of the Knicks also played well, with Smalls scoring a team-high 23 points and 11 rebounds, O'Neal 12 points and 6 rebounds, Radmanovic 15 points, Iguodala 15 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists, Tony Allen 9 points, Gallinari 7 points, Monroe 4 points and 3 rebounds, and Reggie Evans 4 points and 11 rebounds.
Wu Huang and the Heat players touched each other's palms in disgust after the game, and usually everyone wanted to hug each other after the game, so now this polite way of quickly touching hands is no longer polite.
But Wu Huang doesn't care if the other party hates him, the loser can like the opponent in his heart, and if he can be liked by the opponent, then you must have staged Infernal Affairs in the game.
Knicks fans didn't leave after the game, because Wu Huang quickly got back on the court with a new jersey and thanked the fans for their support. This is a part that the Knicks have prepared in advance, and Wu Huang asked Trevor Moretz, who just graduated from New York University, to write a speech to him, which is nothing more than thanking the fans for their support for a season, telling about the team's hard work this season and the determination to make the finals!
The UA company was so happy at the moment that Wu Huang not only changed a new jersey when he spoke, but also changed a pair of new sneakers they had prepared in advance - this pair was a special version of the finals that they specially prepared, although it was just a change of color on the basis of the second-generation sneakers, but this pair of sneakers is of great significance to the fans of UA and Wu Huang, after all, this is the first time that Wu Huang and UA company's shoes have entered the finals.
Most of the broadcast stations around the world didn't pull the camera back to the studio after the game, so there was a picture in the close-up that made Wu Huang more painful, in addition to getting a close-up of his harem, there were also four handsome guys and a Lori who also got a close-up.
The director who is responsible for cutting the camera obviously knows Wu Huang's deeds very well, and these four handsome guys also have a background, they are all Wu Huang's neighbors and hair young, and now they are all one of the team members around Wu Huang, at least in the outside world.
Boss Brandon Moretz is the most familiar one for Wu Huang fans, he is Wu Huang's agent, first obtained a doctorate in economics from Princeton University and a bachelor of law from New York University, he is the most important member of Wu Huang's behind-the-scenes team.
The second elder, Trevor Moretz, who has just graduated from New York University with a bachelor's degree in economics, is ready to join Wu Huang's behind-the-scenes team to share the pressure on his brother.
The third colin, Moretz, left before finishing college, and now serves as Wu Huang's bodyguard, he is also one of the most hated people by Wu Huang's fans, because this guy with a paralyzed face has a very bad attitude towards fans who want to rub oil, and any actress fan who wants to get close to Wu Huang will be pushed away by him.
The fourth Ethan Moretz, this is the most serious woman in the Moretz family, at first glance it is the kind of, now he is Wu Huang's royal stylist, full of all kinds of styling, but he has made great contributions to Wu Huang's global image promotion, Wu Huang was previously rated as the most fashionable athlete in 2010 by various media The title of his image design is inseparable.
The next day, the media rushed to report the 17-point reversal game, the Knicks achieved a super reversal in the final quarter with 102:90 in the fifth game of the Eastern Conference Finals, of course, the performance at that time belonged to Wu Huang, a superstar, his extremely dominant aura detonated the whole court, and completed such a vigorous super reversal attack wave with less than 10 minutes left in the game trailing by 17 points.
However, just when everyone was praising Wu Huang, many people forgot about the characters who best paved the way for the Knicks' comeback, such as their bench wonder Radmanovic, O'Neal who contributed key goals several times, Reggie Evans who fought for rebounds, Iguodala who has always made steady contributions on both offensive and defensive ends, and Tony Allen, who is full of passion, etc. The Knicks have all contributed to the game, and even Gallinari and Monroe, who didn't play well today, have played similarly well in the previous games.
Radmanovic made 5-of-8 three-pointers in this game, and he kept the Knicks' three-point line from being paralyzed by the aberrations of Gallinari's super shooter, and largely made up for Gallinari's position.
The Serb's brightest moment of the game came in the first half, when he scored 12 points on 4-of-6 three-point shooting, and when the Knicks were in a serious scoring drought in the first half, Radmanovic did not hesitate to be the team's leading scorer.
In addition to Radmanovic, Toni Allen was also one of the heroes of the Knicks' victory, although he is a notoriously brain-hot player, but his passion is his greatest characteristic, and his performance can ignite the fighting spirit of the whole team, which played a key role in the Knicks' final comeback, so his 9-point stats on 3-of-8 shooting in the game may not look pretty, but he is the Knicks' most reliable attacker and defensive knife on the bench, and he also grabbed 3 steals in only 24 minutesHis sharpness on the defensive end can be seen.
Reggie Evans showed off his top rebounding sense, and many wondered how many rebounds he could grab if this guy could play an average of 30 minutes per game.
There's no answer to that question because he couldn't have gotten that much playing time, but at least today he grabbed 11 rebounds in 20 minutes of playing time, five of which were frontcourt rebounds. Perhaps a comparison with such a statistic shows Evans' aggressiveness in rebounding, with the Knicks having only 10 offensive rebounds in total, half of which Evans alone.
Jeff Van Gundy commented on the game: In the fourth quarter, the Heat seemed to have collectively lost their souls, the offensive and defensive ends fell into chaos at the critical moment, the whole team was in a state of inhibition and rigidity, Wade's layup was a little incredible, and James's two back hits made him a laughing stock, and his poor performance in the fourth quarter will undoubtedly reduce his historical status a lot, and the giants of the Heat cannot stand up, which is naturally the end of the collapse.
In fact, even fans can see that the key to the Heat's loss is that no one can stand up at a critical moment, their psychology is not right, and their state is not right, such a game cannot be played, and the Heat's run-in is obviously not as expected before the game.
Van Gundy thinks the Heat have lost in their own mentality, they are under too much pressure, and the pressure can be a good thing against opponents who are not as strong as themselves, but the chemistry between the Big Three is clearly not enough to deal with when facing a team that is not inferior to him or is stronger than him.
On the other hand, Hugo's historical status will be greatly improved, and leading a big bad team like the Knicks to the Finals in the second season is enough to make a name for itself. If the Knicks can go one step further in the Finals and win the Cup for the third time in history, then Hugo's historical status will even surpass Ewing's importance to the Knicks, and he himself will officially enter the ranks of the top 20 superstars in NBA history.
Van Gundy's evaluation of Wu Huang is already very high, and the New York media has not shy away from portraying Wu Huang as the strongest player in the league.
They have their own reasons for saying this, anyway, now that the Lakers and Miami are out, there are indeed no superstars who can compete with Wu Huang, Nowitzki and Durant are still a grade worse than these three in the eyes of the media, even if the performance of the Germans this year is not inferior to Wu Huang, but the media is not optimistic that Mavericks and Nowitzki can win the championship.
Some people are happy and some people are worried, and the local media in Miami also criticized James's performance in the fifth game, although James's data for the whole game is not bad, and it can even be said that he played the most aggressive game in the series, and the 40-point data of the whole game cannot be said that he is not doing his best, but the weakness of the final quarter still makes people feel that he is always unreliable at critical moments.
This game may be to show his determination to play, James's offense at the beginning of the game was extremely hot, his first 4 shots all hit, including layups, three-point and pull-up shots and many other means were tried together, James scored 25 points in the first half, which made people sigh that James wants to turn the away away into the home, which is the rhythm of the anti-away.
James' stellar performance continued into the third quarter, scoring 35 points after the third quarter, and the big lead made Heat fans addicted, and it seemed that this game would be the turning point of the entire series.
But tragedy came again after the start of the final quarter, and James, who performed exceptionally well in the first three quarters, fell into a sluggish shooting situation again in the following time, and missed consecutive shots later, which immediately reminded people of his poor state in the final quarter that he had been criticized, although James's scoring statistics in the fourth quarter were not bad.
The Knicks' counterattack started in the 10th minute of the fourth quarter, although the Heat played a 6:0 attack wave at the beginning of the fourth quarter to widen the difference to 17 points, but then it was overturned by the Knicks' vigorous 22:0 super attack wave, which was the first time in history that a team played such an attack wave, and the Heat didn't score a point in seven minutes, and finally only scored a pitiful 12 points in the fourth quarter.
The Miami media criticized after the game that although the Heat were able to score after this tragic attack wave, it was Wade, not James, who led the team to the assault. It can be said that if there is no "Flash", then the Heat may not be able to score double-digit points in the fourth quarter, and even if Wade's performance in the whole game is not outstanding, he is obviously more of a leader than James.
If James' performance on the offensive end of the game was acceptable, then his most obvious flaw was that he made too many mistakes, with as many as five turnovers in the game, many of which could have been avoided and should never have been.
James's most criticized nature was in the fourth quarter in the face of Wu Huang's defense was completely helpless, he got a total of five misplaced single Wu Huang opportunities in the fourth quarter, in the case of absolute height advantage, James had two direct back to lean in, but he was blown an offensive foul on Wu Huang's chest directly in a backward impact, and once he couldn't even turn around, and was almost forced to make a dribble mistake and was finally forced to pass. In the other three face frame attacks, one broke through and missed a layup, one missed a shot, and one was forced to pass, but none of them successfully scored against Wu Huang.
"The Holy Sect Master should be the best defensive player!" After the game, Wu Huang's fans shouted wildly, and Wu Huang's performance became another weapon for them to show superiority, and by the way, Wu Huang pulled back a lot of black fans in major forums.
But in any case, James' Cavaliers era has always been broken in the playoffs, whether it was reaching the Finals in 2007 or being eliminated early as the top of the regular season in 2009 and 2010, and this year's Eastern Conference Finals may be more experienced, "Little Emperor" may not be a championship-level playoff leader.
Charles Barkley said of James after the game: "The final should be the perfect opportunity for a superstar to show his dominance of the game, because it is the biggest stage, but James has not been able to break through from the East despite having two star teammates, Wade and Bosh, and it has proved that he may not be the most suitable boss in this team.
This is the era of "the winner is king", and the media is naturally praising Emperor Wu and belittling James at this time, who told him to lose, otherwise the situation of the two will be reversed.
On the other hand, the Mavericks and Thunder in the West started their fifth game in this kind of report praising the Knicks and Wu Huang, and the poor two teams were completely ignored, in front of the powerful Knicks, no matter who advances, they are not favored by the public, and at the same time, the global support is not a heavyweight.
However, the media can ignore the Mavericks and the Thunder, but the Knicks can't follow and ignore their opponents, the conclusion of "the heat must die" has always been very effective, and the more scientific explanation for this is that the favored side will be too high in mentality with the influence of the media, so once you find that it is not the case in the game, the opponent is not so weak, and you are not so strong, it is likely to be pushed all the way under great pressure. After all, the more optimistic you are, the more pressure you are carrying, and pressure is not something to be good at.
But on the other hand, those teams that are not favored can travel lightly, once they find that the opponent is not so strong, or they are not so weak, self-confidence comes together, and it is very likely to push the opponent all the way down.
Although the mentality of the Knicks players has inevitably risen a lot after advancing to the finals, there is Wu Huang, who is particularly arrogant when he is weak or evenly balanced, but once he has the upper hand, he is modest, and the team's mentality is destined not to float too much.
Wu Huang's characteristics are also praised by many people in the industry, many people think that his arrogance is a kind of psychological warfare, in fact, I have not seen a few times Wu Huang will lose the game because of the "wave" when he is in power, even if he will take the opportunity to brush up on the data, but this scale is getting better and better, which is also difficult for many players with high ball quotient to do.
The Knicks watched the Mavericks vs Thunder battle together on the second day, and today the Mavericks are likely to eliminate the Thunder, and the Knicks' opponent in the Finals will be the Dallas, who have not been favored.
The most conspicuous of the Mavericks is of course Nowitzki, whose signature offense has always been a mid-range dribble, followed by a back-to-back jumper that leans on top of an opposing player, and then turns back. In one-on-one singles, Dirk's move is almost incomprehensible, as he has a 7-foot center-level height and the nimble footwork of a guard, and when he shoots backwards, it is impossible for a single defense to cover him.
The Thunder were embarrassed by Nowitzki's move in their first two games, and later when they defended Nowitzki's signature offense, they no longer set up an ambush player at the bottom of the basket to wait for Nowitzki to break through and try to get an offensive foul, but quickly pounced on the perimeter players next to him when he was about to turn his back, trying to interfere with the block on the side.
The Thunder are so defensive because they can't be blocked when they are facing Nowitzki, so he is very calm when he shoots, but if he kills one person from the side, it can constitute enough interference.
In an offensive attack in the fourth quarter, Nowitzki singled out Ibaka, and Harden next to him rushed to interfere when he was turning, which caused Nowitzki's shot to miss. This kind of anti-guest defense is obviously more aggressive and has the effect of preventing problems before they happen.
D'Antoni said he has learned that if they play against the Mavericks, they can try to defend Nowitzki like this, and they happen to be players on the perimeter who are good at footwork and good at defense, and they are good at using this kind of bag defense.
In this game, even Wu Huang can see that the Thunder is very meticulous when studying Nowitzki's offensive footsteps, and when he can dribble with the ball, he often puts his inside hand on his waist, and then keeps his body slightly away, so that if Nowitzki shoots, he can immediately pounce on it and interfere. And the biggest advantage of this action is that it can contain Nowitzki's breakthrough, because with the spatial distance of the body, the inside line can still react when he breaks through, so that he will not be thrown away by the opponent all at once. And the defensive benefit of this kind is that it can reduce physical contact in the first place and prevent Nowitzki from causing fouls, after all, 24 of his 48 points in the first game were scored at the free-throw line.
Good at making fouls, the golden rooster is independent and unsolvable, the mid-to-long range shooting is deadly, has the ability to break through with the ball, and is not soft on key balls, these are the valuable information that the Thunder has collected for the Knicks.
Nowitzki's footwork habit of the Thunder was clearly working, and with 3:40 left in the fourth quarter, Nowitzki wanted to dribble straight to the right when facing Nick Collisson, but Collison was able to reflect the German's dribble because he only kept his hands on Dirk's body to keep his distance. So when Nowitzki dribbled too high, he slapped the ball a little, and then the whole person fell to the ground and pounced on the ball and successfully broke it.
The Thunder's lineup includes power forward Serge Ibaka's excellent defensive ability, but despite his excellent blocking ability, he is severely inexperienced in the game, which leads to Nowitzki's many feints that can easily shake him off and cause fouls, which is one of the reasons why Nowitzki used free throws to score points in the first game.
So in the last two games of the game, the Thunder have more often sent a "cunning" defensive veteran like Collisson, although he has not contributed much in terms of blocking, but he can judge Nowitzki's offensive intentions very well and play the best effect. Sometimes the defense of veterans can only be faced with the experience of veterans, which has the effect of fighting poison with poison.
D'Antoni thought of Collins who had not played much in the playoffs at this time, and they also had a similar old guy on the team, Collins was also a veteran who was good at defending from behind, and the defense was relatively safe, using him to defend Nowitzki's breakthrough, and then letting the three players on the outside help defend the bag, which may be the best way for the Knicks to deal with Nowitzki.
As for O'Neal, it should be useless in this round of the series, Chandler is a tall inside line that will go around the front, with long arms and flexible feet, although he can't withstand O'Neal, but it is enough for O'Neal to have no chance to shoot after receiving the ball, this old shark is basically useless in the face of the Mavericks' inside line, and letting him play more will become a breakthrough for the opponent.
Xiao Si is the main offense, Monroe is inexperienced, O'Neal is too old and slow, Evans is not tall enough, Turiaf has poor defensive skills, and only Collins can complete the task of defending Nowitzki's breakthrough, and it is not easy for the Knicks to deal with the Mavericks' interior line!
When D'Antoni watched the game, half of his mind was on how to deal with Nowitzki, and the Thunder on live TV had tried everything they could to adjust Nowitzki's defense today, but the well-rounded and experienced Nowitzki had a way to find flaws in the Thunder's defense.
In the first half, Nowitzki only made 5 shots, but he hit 4 times, and the Thunder made Nowitzki's every shot more difficult, and Nowitzki's offensive efficiency was also improving, scoring 13 points in the limited number of shots in the half, which was amazingly efficient.
Nowitzki struggled to connect the ball in the second half and spent the third quarter playing defensive games with the Thunder. The Thunder forced Nowitzki to the interior to go hand-to-hand, and Nowitzki faced the challenge to play hard. 8 minutes and 45 seconds before the end of the game, Nowitzki took advantage of his height advantage on the inside to score the ball, and after scoring the ball, Nowitzki looked back at the Thunder's defenders, and provoked the Thunder players with words in his mouth. In Nowitzki's career, it's rare to see him play so bloody.
Wu Huang's attention is on Durant, today's Durant has the style of James, both of them performed well in the first half, but the more they played in the second half, the more they had no sense of existence, and I don't know if it was a physical problem.
Wu Huang's super recovery ability determines that he can continue to play with a little respite in the fourth quarter, but even a guy like James with a super thick blood bar will still be dumb in the fourth quarter if he catches up with a bad physical condition, and Durant's small body is obviously not like the kind of person with particularly rich physical reserves or particularly strong resilience, but Wei Shao has a little talent in blood bar, and this guy is also a tireless pervert.
Durant was criticized for hitting a shot with 4:30 left in the game to give the Thunder a four-point lead, but the Thunder core never scored again. Even when Meno and Westbrook wanted to attack the ball many times in the final moments, Durant didn't attack with the ball like a real leader. His penultimate shot was with 2:08 left, and the last shot was a gambling three-point shot with 10 seconds left, during which Durant didn't make a single shot when the Thunder desperately needed to score, and even Westbrook made two turnovers on his own offense, and he didn't participate in that offense.
Although Durant has always been thought to be the boss of this team, as it stands, he couldn't hold back in the final moments of the game, even his teammates Maynor and Westbrook, and gave up key balls, which has to make people question whether he really has the domineering energy of a true superstar.
In the final minute of the game, the Mavericks were still trailing by two points at 92-94. But on the defensive end, after Nowitzki successfully steals Westbrook's ball, the Mavericks switch from defense to offense, Nowitzki shoots from outside the three-point line, although the ball is out of the basket, but the Mavericks are very lucky, because "Master Wei" made a mistake for the second time, and "Jet" Terry successfully stealed. Nowitzki then took his second shot from outside the three-point line after receiving an assist from Marion, and the ball landed safely in the basket.
This three-point shot was the only three-point shot that Nowitzki hit in the whole game, but the German's three-point shot appeared at the most critical moment, with this three-pointer, Nowitzki not only helped the Mavericks overtake the score to 95:94, but also helped the Mavericks successfully reverse the passive situation and turn the tables again!
Durant can't hold down the scene, Wei Shao frequently makes mistakes and is hot-headed - the Thunder has a lot of problems, these two points are undoubtedly the most deadly, every time at a critical moment, the Thunder have a variety of mistakes after a single fight because of the ambiguity of the ball, this is a team that has not really determined who is the core, even if their talent exceeds that of their opponents, but they are always overturned at critical moments in the final quarter, which is enough to explain the problem. (To be continued.) )