Chapter 355: Stirring Up Trouble
Both the Knicks and Mavericks eliminated the Heat and Thunder with the same score of 4:1, but the promotion process was different. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 The Knicks were beaten by the league's toughest giant system in the game against the Heat, but the initiative of the game has always been in their own hands. The Mavericks have staged reversals in many games with the Thunder, reflecting the team's resilience, but the process has been at a disadvantage also shows that this team is afraid of the impact of young teams, and the Thunder lost at critical moments and could not grasp the opportunity, which in the eyes of the media and professional media people is the lack of key scoring ability of Durant and Wei Shao. But Wu Huang is different, there is no need to doubt his key ball ability, and the overall impact of the Knicks is stronger than the Thunder, if the Mavericks still want to play a good reversal like the Thunder, most people are not optimistic.
According to ESPN, the Mavericks have scored more than 100 points in only seven games in the playoffs, but they have a six-one record in those seven games, and the one they lost was also a last-minute loss to the Thunder by just six points. The Knicks, on the other hand, have scored in triple figures in 10 games, and they have won 10 of those 10 games, which shows that the Knicks are more powerful than the Mavericks.
In the lineup competition between the two sides, although the Mavericks have some advantages on the interior due to the balanced configuration, Chandler does not have the ability to take the initiative to score, and Nowitzki is not good enough on defense, so the gap between the two teams is not large. If Smalls plays his own impact, then it is likely to offset Nowitzki's contribution on the offensive end, after all, before coming to the Knicks, Smalls's status was even higher than Nowitzki.
Some media believe that in the Finals, perhaps the Mavericks will use Chandler to misposition to defend Smalls, thereby limiting the power of the Knicks' interior offense. And although Xiao Si is also a flexible and impactful power forward, he may not be very useful in defending Nowitzki's shooting.
The advantage of the Knicks is still on the outside, Iguodala, Gallinari, and Tony Allen obviously have a certain advantage over Marion and Stevenson of the Mavericks, and the gap is not ordinarily large, after all, the hacker is not the geek who can play all four positions five years ago.
Of course, in addition to the showdown between Jr. and Nowitzki's No. 4 position, the most watched matchup in this finals is still the point guard matchup. Whether it is from the regular season or the playoffs, Wu Huang is far ahead of Kidd, although the old monster has reached a perfect point in the distribution of the ball and the planning of the passing route of the Mavericks, but when defending Wu Huang, an opponent who is more spiritual than Westbrook, he will obviously be in absolute passivity.
Kidd actually showed his weakness when he was against Wei Shao, fortunately, Wei Shao, who had a tendon, persevered in repeatedly charging into the Mavericks' internal defensive trap, but even this Wei Shao also played a more embarrassing statistic for the Mavericks, if it weren't for the suppression of experience and IQ, coupled with some luck elements that made them repeatedly make Wei Shao's mistakes at critical moments, I am afraid that it would be the Thunder who is now facing off against the Knicks.
The Knicks really want to play the finals with the Thunder, Wu Huang said that he has the best experience in dealing with Wei Shao, this stupid hat has never won against himself, this psychological suppression is enough to make Wei Shao completely blinded on the big stage, in short, Wu Huang has too many means to bully the upright Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
The benches of the two teams are comparable, with the Mavericks having excellent guards like Terry and Barria on the bench, and Haywood on the inside is also quite good compared to the Knicks' center. The Knicks also have practical interior players such as Monroe, Evans, Turiaf, and Collins on the bench, and Tony Allen and Danny Green are no less than the Mavericks' guards.
To sum up, when the Mavericks and Knicks meet in the Finals, it must be a collision of offense and defense. The Knicks still have a certain advantage overall, as long as Smalls plays the same performance as Nowitzki, the Knicks also have a terrifying Wu Huang who can make the Mavericks have no one to compete with, which will greatly affect the outcome of the game between the two teams. What's more important is that the substitutes who have repeatedly contributed to the Mavericks do not have an advantage in the competition, which will bring a lot of pressure to the Mavericks' main lineup, and they must find a way to limit one of Wu Huang and Xiao Si, once these two people all play their own level, then the Mavericks have little chance of winning.
The Knicks' goal this year was not to win the championship, but now that they are only four wins away from reaching the Finals, the New Yorkers, who are now in high form, will not be polite. While the Mavericks' Nowitzki has repeatedly proven his ability in key moments in the playoffs, in terms of strength and form, the Knicks have a better chance of winning the championship.
The New Yorkers, who are now expected to win the championship for the first time in 37 years, are no longer modest, and ESPN's expert panel has once again predicted that the Knicks will win the championship, but they expect at least six games to be decided.
As soon as the prediction of the ESPN expert group came out, it was instantly complained by the New York fans and Wu Huang's fans, and the official website was full of messages and curses for these experts to take back Chrysostom, because these guys' predictions about the Mavericks so far are "all failures", every time these bastards are not optimistic about the Mavericks before the start of the series, and then every time they are crazy to be slapped in the face by the Dallasians!
Now New York fans have felt a wave of malice, and Chinese fans have felt a mysterious force from the West, because most of the media, including Yahoo Sports, which has always been unfriendly to Wu Huang, said that they are optimistic about the Knicks winning the championship, which is not good!
"Shall we go back?" Chinese fans said that they should fight back, such as saying more things like "The Mavericks are invincible and the first in the universe, Nowitzki is brutal and brutal Xiao Si with 100 shots, and Kidd beats Wu Huang with an average of three doubles per game".
But Wu Huang said early on that he didn't like his fans to milk and milk, which is a manifestation of no self-confidence, and it is also the mentality of a weakling, and if he wants to support him, he will shout openly, "China must be strong, and the Knicks must win", what dare not be said.
The league announced the schedule for the Finals on the 26th, which doesn't look very good for the Mavericks, as they just finished playing the Thunder on the 25th, and the Finals will start on the 28th, with only two full days of rest in between, which is obviously not very friendly to a group of veterans.
May 28, New York Knicks vs. Dallas Mavericks - Madison Square Garden, PM, 22:30.
May 30, New York Knicks vs. Dallas Mavericks - Madison Square Garden, PM, 22:30.
June 2, New York Knicks vs. Dallas Mavericks - American Airlines Center Arena, PM, 23:00.
June 4, New York Knicks vs. Dallas Mavericks - American Airlines Center Arena, PM, 23:00.
June 7, New York Knicks vs. Dallas Mavericks - Madison Square Garden, PM, 22:30.
June 9, New York Knicks vs. Dallas Mavericks - American Airlines Center Arena, PM, 23:00.
June 12, New York Knicks vs. Dallas Mavericks - Madison Square Garden, PM, 22:30.
The schedule of this finals is more attentive to Asian fans, basically around 12 noon in China time, and Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia are also at noon, so it is not difficult for fans to watch the game.
In recent years, the NBA game time has been given priority to Asia, followed by the European arrangement, the general highlight games are arranged between 10 and 11 o'clock in the evening, so that the European region is four, five or six o'clock in the morning, and the Asian region is noon, and both sides can watch the game more normally. And the American fans have a slight pain in the egg, but they are also used to watching the game at night. In the end, this arrangement turned out to be more attentive to fans in Asia, which can also see how much the NBA cares about Asian viewership in recent years.
The Mavericks haven't left Dallas yet, but Terry, who has always been fond of making surprising statements, fired again, saying, "I can assure you that we're going to win." I believe in my team. I know we can win this game here and bring it all back to Dallas. The Knicks' offense isn't the strongest I've seen in this year's playoffs, and as long as we can score 100 points, they can't win. If we end up winning, I'm going to get a denim championship tattoo. As soon as the schedule was announced, Terry made a public announcement.
Jason Terry is somewhat similar to Wu Huang in some ways, both of them like to release some wild words before the game, but the difference is that no matter how arrogant Wu Huang's words are, the media doesn't think he is talking big, either psychological warfare, or he can really do what he says, and Terry's wild words are a bit of a brain-dead, the fundamental reason is still the double gap between the two in appearance and strength, so as soon as Terry's words were exposed, they immediately attracted countless ridicule from fans and the media.
But there are also many people who support Terry, and when the Mavericks left for New York on the 26th, the famous American welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather tweeted, he wrote: "Hugo is indeed a good player, but the people from all walks of life are so hard to promote him because he is Asian. I watched the Eastern Conference Finals, and he obviously got too much care from the referees, and James and other black players contributed the same way every night but didn't get the same accolades. As soon as this tweet was sent, it immediately caused a thousand waves.
Terry's words before Wu Huang was too lazy to deal with him, he didn't want to fight with such a small character, but Mayweather's words made him have to fight back, and he hit back on Twitter on the same day: "Mayweather knows how to manipulate the media and the public, and he knows that the media will definitely spread what he says, just like he wipes his ass with dollars to show off his wealth." ”
Mayweather's brain-dead actions have made him a spurned news hotspot for everyone, and if he's for it, he's done it. But this isn't the first time Mayweather has made such a foolish move, as in September 2010, he attacked Filipino-American welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao in racist terms.
Wu Huang is very witty at the moment, he is worried that no one will scold him, and there will be a black stupid hat automatically sent to the door, and soon he said in an interview at the training gym: "Seriously, I have seen this situation a lot, some people are complaining about racial discrimination, but they think it is very cool to attack Asians, and they have fun doing it, I have experienced this since I was a child." When I was in the fifth or sixth grade of elementary school, there were a lot of people on the court who were constantly targeting me, provoking me with vicious nicknames, such as 'you go back to China' or something like that, and I was very angry and sad, and I really wanted to beat them up. ”
Emperor Wu is very bad, what he likes to do most is to provoke contradictions between blacks and whites, and the contradictions between black and white races have become more intensified in recent years with the raising of the banner of opposition to "racial discrimination", and the only role of the Virgins is to give bad people a chance.
In today's United States, it is reasonable and blatant for blacks to exclude whites and discriminate against Asians, but whites and Asians who disagree with the words and deeds of blacks will immediately be besieged in all directions, and countless virgin who have come out of nowhere will rush up to condemn them like defending their parents.
This is a bit like China at the moment, countless people only know how to oppress hawkers against the chengguan, but they don't know that the hatefulness of the petty traders and hawkers is even worse, most people just blindly think that these vendors are weak, and the chengguan who enforces the law must be bad people.
At this time, if Americans make fun of politicians, if they hang the dolls of white politicians, then nothing will happen, and casual scolding belongs to freedom of speech; But if it is the puppet of a black politician of the ****** generation, the big hats of racism and racism will immediately be buttoned up.
This is the United States, on the one hand, white people are silent, Asian Americans are discriminated against in all aspects, on the other hand, all walks of life continue to segregate blacks, verbally but even more indiscriminately, and the black community has become more and more unscrupulous, always treating themselves as weaklings to win the sympathy of the mainstream media, but on the one hand, they are more aggrieved and discriminatory against Asians than whites.
In fact, all the poor people in the United States, and even the poor people in the world, most of them can be attributed to being lazy, neither want to be educated, nor do they want to sell their physical strength, let alone use their brains, then you are not poor and who is poor.
Wu Huang made a small start here, and the American media quickly followed up, this kind of racial topic starting from Asian racism has too many news points to cut into, and the white controlled media can jump to a third party at this time to say all the things they usually want to say but dare not say, and blacks are naturally the most tragic party at the moment, because they will definitely become the villains in the end.
After Wu Huang saw that the media began to condemn the behavior of some black people, he immediately knew that he would definitely be taken more care of by the referees in the finals, because most of the referees were also white, and they actually hated these black players from the bottom of their hearts, and the league could not do without stars like him if it wanted to develop in Asia, and it was impossible for him not to be taken care of by all kinds of factors.
The Knicks players were also a little embarrassed at this time, because most of them were also black, and eighty percent of them had done this kind of discrimination against Asians before, but in front of Wu Huang, a cautious tyrant, they naturally didn't dare to show it. And Wu Huang, in order not to create too much estrangement between himself and these teammates, did not mention how black people are, he just described his experience of being discriminated against, and the news that the media cut in and then extended from it has nothing to do with him.
The media quickly fermented all kinds of topics about "racial discrimination" before the game, but I don't know if it was because such topics were too sensitive, and no one from the two teams spoke before the game after that, and the two sides completely settled down to prepare for the first finals match on the 28th.
The day before the game, the New York Times gave a brief introduction to the Dallas Mavericks, who joined the NBA in the 1980-81 season, and in their 31-year history, the Mavericks have had many chances to get close to a championship, but they have all been missed for a variety of reasons. Especially in the 2006 Finals, when he was leading 2:0, he was reversed by the Heat in four consecutive games, which became an eternal pain in the hearts of Dallas.
The Mavericks' first approach to a championship in the 21st century was in the 2002-03 season, when the Mavericks entered the harvest season as the Big Three of Finley, Nowitzki and Nash matured, and the Mavericks finished with a 60-22 regular season record and a 14-game winning streak in the opening game. Nash has grown into one of the league's top point guards this season, and Nowitzki has succeeded Finley as the team's leader. In the playoffs, the Mavericks made it all the way to the Western Conference finals, but in the face of the more spicy Spurs, the Mavericks still lost 2:4.
Then came the 2005-06 season: the Mavericks had another 60-22 regular-season record, and Nowitzki was the team's leading scorer in 60 games this season. Johnson, the young general who was the coach of the Mavericks at the time, won the NBA Best Coach Award. In the playoffs, the Mavericks broke through from the fiercely competitive West, especially in the Western Conference finals, where they narrowly defeated the old enemy Spurs 4-3 in seven games, making the Mavericks the biggest favorites for the championship. However, in the good situation of leading 2:0 in the finals, the Heat miraculously won four games in a row to complete the reversal, and also achieved Wade's MVP.
Finally, the 2006-07 season: Nowitzki was poised to lead the Mavericks to a comeback after losing in the Finals the previous year, and they finished the season with the best team record in franchise history at 67-15, leading the league. However, what everyone didn't expect was that in the first round of the playoffs, in the face of the Warriors led by the former mentor Nelson Sr., the Mavericks never found a way to crack the defense. Nowitzki scored just eight points on 2-of-13 shooting in Game 6, leading to the Mavericks finally losing 2-4 to the third time in NBA history.
It was from this time that the Mavericks were no longer favored, and Nowitzki went from a Hall of Fame player at the same level as Duncan to an All-Star player at the same level as Gasol, and his historical status plummeted. And after Gasol won two consecutive championships, he was not even as high as the Spaniard, and the label of "soft egg" was stuck on his body.
Now the resolute Germans and the tenacious Mavericks have finally recovered after four seasons, and this year they have gathered veterans like Kidd and Marion who have a deep grudge against the championship, plus Nowitzki and Terry and other guys who are also willing to retire after playing for the championship, the same characteristic of these people is that they are all considered by the media that this will be the last chance for them to hit the championship in their careers, maybe this is why they can fight their last breath every time they face the Thunder, because they really only have this one chance, How could you not fight hard to impact that ring.
"We can't underestimate their championship hearts, everyone has seen how resolute they are in the key game against the Thunder, they are more hungry for the championship than us, and they are more willing to give everything than us, so we must not be careless, no matter how fearless they are, they can't change the gap in fitness and athleticism, that's our advantage, but if we get carried away after taking the lead, then it's killing ourselves!" When Wu Huang followed the team's bus to the game site on the day of the game, he once again emphasized the issue of not taking the enemy lightly.
After Wu Huang sneaked out of Xiao Radish Shred's apartment this morning, he always had a bad feeling in his heart, not because the game of CS that he played with his sister before going to bed last night was overturned in the second half after 13:2 in the first half, but the Mavericks played too tough in the playoffs this year, this style of play is exactly what the Knicks are most afraid of, once their hand feels drops in a certain period of time, the Mavericks may overtake the score in one breath, just like they have overturned the Thunder several times to defeat them.
"Boss, don't worry, you've told us countless times in the past few days, and we promise that we won't be careless after taking the lead." Gallinari's grinning expression is not like listening to Wu Huang's words, the reason why he has been uneasy is because there are too few veterans in the team, there are too many young players like Gallinari, Xiao Si and O'Neal are not strictly stable players, and the main players in the team who can stabilize their mentality seem to be only Iguodala and the somewhat old Green and Monroe, so it is difficult for this group not to wave when the game is smooth, and a wave is easy to be overturned by a team like the Mavericks.
"If you know, it's good." Wu Huang knew that he couldn't say it anymore, and he wondered why he became so nervous after coming to the finals, and he didn't do it when he played the Heat before, but this time he obviously had a big advantage in beating the Mavericks, but he felt a little "panicked" in his heart, which is also strange enough?! (To be continued.) )