Chapter 427: Fanning the Wind and Lighting Fire!
The biggest attraction of this Finals is the matchup between Wu Huang and Durant, who are not only the two major competitors in the regular season MVP, but also the top two stars in the league, as well as the leaders in their respective positions. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Gasol thought before the game that the match against Durant would stimulate Wu Huang, because the opponent was too weak and would distract him.
But Durant said, "I'm not on the same page with Hugo, so we're not going to be the subject of the Finals, what I need is a team win." He also said that to avoid being bothered by the topic again, he no longer reads newspapers and does not go on Twitter.
Wu Huang also sent a tweet on his mobile phone two hours before the game, and attached a photo of his pre-game warm-up, obviously the Holy Sect Master is not under much pressure, and 60e fans also licked their knees, "Sure enough, I'm used to seeing big scenes, it's different!" ”
Today, there are still many reporters mentioning that Emperor Wu ridiculed Wei Shao's mother, and in the past two days, many people think that he has even sprayed his wife, and he really has no gentlemanly demeanor, and his character is very problematic.
Emperor Wu was blunt about this: "I generally don't like to bully women, but some are exceptions. I don't think women can be easily forgiven when they make mistakes, even from a feminist standpoint. As for the phrase 'good men don't fight women', I think it's usually used by men to pretend to be 13. If you're talking about this kind of gentleman, don't count me in. ”
"Our strategy?" Wu Huang was very relaxed at the pre-game press conference, and when asked how the Knicks plan to deal with the Thunder today, he replied unexpectedly: "It's actually very simple, we are going to cut the Thunder with one knife, and you will see how to do it in a while." ”
The New York media breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this, and they were afraid that as soon as the Holy Sect Master was happy, he would leak out his own tactics, and even if he had an advantage, he couldn't be so bad. Fortunately, Emperor Wu's words are ambiguous, and the ghost knows what his "one-size-fits-all" is?
Wu Huang is happy today, because yesterday Supercelloy made the headlines of Time Magazine, and this week the company officially surpassed EA as the highest-grossing game publisher in the App Store, and only with two games: "Cartoon Farm" and "Clash of Clans".
Supercelloy was founded in 2010 and suffered a business crisis in less than half a year, only to tide over the difficulties with the help of Wu Huang's venture capital, when Wu Huang owned 25% of the company's shares, and then bought some shares in the following two years, and now he controls 38% of the company's shares, and can make a tender offer at any time.
Wu Huang suddenly has no shortage of money this year, and even has spare money to invest in online games like LOL and Xiaomi and Chinese mobile phone manufacturers, because he invested in several mobile game companies that were not favored at the time two years ago, and now it is time to collect returns.
The speed of development of the emerging market of mobile games, as well as the explosion of the industry since the end of last year, have overwhelmed the predators of the traditional game industry.
In recent years, with the rapid development of science and technology in the field of mobile phones, in just a few years, the "mobile phone" has undergone earth-shaking changes, so the current mobile game is no longer a Tetris, snake and other young games, the group of game companies established two or three years ago, from the end of last year have begun to show an explosive profit, a mobile game that was not originally optimistic, but now it can make an annual profit of hundreds of millions of dollars, or even more.
Wu Huang obviously picked up three hens that lay golden eggs, the new market and new cake of mobile games, from the initial stage, it was beyond people's imagination, and there were not many people sharing it at this time, so it caused the three companies invested by Wu Huang, each of which was more profitable than his live broadcast website that was still struggling to make ends meet.
At the moment, Wu Huang, who was counting how much money he could get in the second quarter, didn't know that his pre-game "one-size-fits-all" remarks made the young Coach Brooks suspicious, and he was constantly thinking about "What exactly do the Knicks want to cut?" ”
The Thunder team is indeed very empty to the Knicks from top to bottom, Wu Huang's words can make the opposing head coach so serious, in the final analysis, they still lack confidence, which is also the sequelae left by losing too much.
Madison Garden's entrance ceremony today has changed again, after the New York Golden Dragon was surrounded by blazing flames in the Eastern Conference Finals, and these special effects were naturally alluded to their opponents, the Heat. Today, these fire effects have turned into thunder and lightning, which also means that they have encountered new challenges and troubles on the way to the championship.
The Knicks' five starters: Wu Huang, Iguodala, Battier, David West, Gasol.
The Thunder's five starters: Westbrook, Sephorosa, Durant, Ibaka, Perkins.
"Well, the first game of the 11-12 season Finals is about to begin, we can take a look at Hugo's statistics before the game, the Holy Master has contributed 29.5 points, 6.6 rebounds, 8.1 assists and 3.4 steals per game to the team in a total of 12 games in the three-round series, such data makes the Knicks never have to worry about their offensive firepower, and Hugo's MVP is well deserved." Barkley licked Wu Huang before the game began.
"This is Hugo's sixth Finals, he has won four of his previous five games, and if he can win four more Finals this year, it will be more than many stars in a lifetime." O'Neal said this somewhat contradictory sentence and explained, "This kind of statistic sounds a bit ridiculous, but how to measure a player's status in a player of our level is not based on how many playoff games you play, but who in you would use this kind of thing as a playoff excuse to boast about?" The answer, of course, is no. Because what we care about is how many finals you've played, at least at the level of the division finals. And Michael Jordan and "Magic" Johnson, the two superstars, have only won 24 Finals games in their entire NBA career, so winning six championships can surpass them. ”
Barkley will be unhappy to see this dead fat man again, and he knows that he doesn't have a championship, so isn't it sincere to disgust him?
Chris Paul will be equally sad and angry in front of the TV, as soon as he turns on the TV, he hears this kind of words in front of his sister and friends, and his heart is disgusting and wants to vomit! If according to the fat man's statement, he hasn't even played in the division finals now, is he going to commit suicide in shame and apologize?
Kenny Smith, who was sandwiched between the two, commented: "Although the Knicks don't have the title of Big Three or something, I think they are actually an F4 lineup, although only Hugo and Gasol are real All-Star players among the four stars on the team, but David West and Iguodala are also low-key players with star strength, so it's not too much of a problem to call them F4." But there is also a big difference between these four people, Gasol is stable and occasionally sluggish, Iguodala is stable and occasionally erupts, David West is as stable as ever, and the last hugo is stable and can break out as he wants, we know how rare his 29+6+8+3 data is, and it can be said unceremoniously that hugo's performance is historic. ”
At this moment, Wu Huang is wearing his pair of commotion headphones that can only be heard, in fact, what he uses to listen to songs outside is Taylor Swift's custom earbuds, and at home he uses speakers, this pair of sao bag headphones are completely used to install 13 before the game, I believe that the people who buy this thing are also used to show off in front of the girl, how can anyone really use it to listen to songs.
"Hey, you're doing a good job, but somebody has to clean you up, and it seems like I'm the best person to do this." Wu Huang still did not forget to provoke these opponents of his age before jumping the ball.
"Stupid monkey!" Wei Shao blurted out without thinking about it, during this time, he was made angry by Emperor Wu, and even his mother was ridiculed a few days ago, which would naturally blush when he saw the enemy, and he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with this sentence at all.
"That's not the way to defeat me, you should know that I don't bother to scold people, that's too low-level." Emperor Wu shook his head with disdain, and then teased: "I remember that your mother once said that my tutoring was not good, but I think this sentence should be given to you, and I don't think you will be able to defeat me in your life." ”
"Fuck off, you scumbag, I don't want to talk nonsense with you!" Wei Shao's mentality was about to explode, originally he thought that he could withstand all kinds of provocations from Emperor Wu, and tried not to respond to his words before the game. But I didn't expect that when I took a picture of it today, the anger in my heart was like a volcanic eruption, and I couldn't suppress it at all, and the depression before daring to love made him explode more seriously in the game!
Wu Huang naturally won't really fight against Westbrook, his goal has been achieved, and he came here before the game to confirm whether this guy has been dizzy by him? Now it seems that even if he still has his senses, his mentality must have been affected a lot, and his advantage will be great today.
In fact, recall, Emperor Wu was able to suppress Westbrook for such a long time, which is not unrelated to his provocation and trash talk, if he really goes to fight Wei Shao with a hard anus, then it is really not easy for him to take advantage. So if you want to make sure that you win, you can only engage in some off-the-field tricks, such as selling some psychological tactics and tricks that are very dirty in the eyes of black players, anyway, Wu Huang himself doesn't think there's anything wrong with doing this, the mentality is yours and not mine, and being influenced by me can only mean that you are mentally retarded! At least I didn't swear, and I didn't scold when I was greeted with swearing, so I'm already a very gentleman!
So the conclusion is that those fans who always hack him must be jealous that there are six girls to cheer him on today!
The pressure on ASUS Wu Huang is not small, and there were only four girls who came to steal the spotlight last year.
Of course, this "just" is a bit underwhelming.
This year, Chloe Jr. and Agary, who is getting sexier, also came to Madison Garden to watch the game, and if he didn't have a strong heart, it is estimated that he would have been overwhelmed by the huge support.
"Damn, I haven't seen any scenes, just because you little bastards still want to fight me?" Wu Huang returned to his half, bent down to look at the ugly Westbrook and Durant opposite, and had already converted the pressure into combat effectiveness and self-confidence in his heart, this neurotic mentality is the main reason why he can achieve today's success, and he can overcome the pressure even greater, so what else can't be done?
Gasol failed to jump the ball after the opening, and the Thunder launched their first attack, only to see Wei Shao receive the basketball under the collective boos of the fans, and his eyes immediately looked at the enemy who had a lifelong hatred with him for killing his father and taking his wife.
Of course, this is just a description, used as a metaphor for how far the hostile relationship between the two has reached.
To put it bluntly, if Wei Shao had the opportunity to shoot at Emperor Wu without being discovered, he would definitely not hesitate to aim at Emperor Wu's head and pull the trigger.
But in fact, although Emperor Wu went up to provoke Wei Shao whenever he was free, he didn't have any deep hatred with the other party in his heart, and he did the same with other enemies, such as James or something......
In the entire playoffs this year, Durant's shooting rate of more than 50% made him second only to Wu Huang's offensive killer, if there is anyone who can compare with Wu Huang in the playoffs this year, it is only Durant. Although James' shooting rate is also more than 50%, a large part of his shooting position is at close range, only Durant's range is no less than Wu Huang, and half of the offense of these two is completed in the middle and long range, so this is a duel between two super shooters. Therefore, for this super scorer, the Knicks' defensive tactics against Durant are "blocking in front and chasing in the back", in short, it is to prioritize Durant's off-ball movement and always have someone around him.
After the start of the first quarter, Durant will always have a defender next to him, and another Knicks player will judge his running position in advance to intercept, so Durant not only missed none of his first two shots, but also blocked by a Knicks player, although he then relied on a layup to hit, but Durant only shot 1 of 4 after the opening, 25%.
Wu Huang's side is much smoother, the Thunder's defense against him is also one person to follow the defense, one person to block the defense, whenever he breaks through horizontally, the Thunder's outside line is responsible for assisting Wei Shao to defend, and when he breaks through to the basket, this task of assisting the defense is handed over to the inside Ibaka.
But the biggest problem here is that Wei Shao is too impulsive, he was deceived by Wu Huang with a feint as soon as he came up, and failed to buy time for his teammates to assist in defense, and as a result, Wu Huang directly hit the shot. Then two minutes later, Wu Huang took advantage of the mistake of Westbrook's defensive position too far forward, and directly broke through to complete 2+1, and created a foul on Ibaka, the defensive core of the Thunder's interior line.
"Is 'one size fits all' trying to limit Durant and Westbrook with all its might?" Brooks, who watched the game on the sidelines, felt that he had guessed the Knicks' defensive calculations, which is the choice of many teams against the Thunder, Perkins and Sephorosa's offensive ability belongs to a very bad kind, although Ibaka occasionally plays well, but the stability is not high, and the offensive output of the Thunder mainly relies on the play of three less.
Durant and Wei Shao are playing a little impatient today, which can be seen from the continuous miss of the two shots, and the Durant in 4 shots and 1 echoes Wei Shao's 3 shots and 0 shots, the Knicks' defense against these two people is a chain of layers of blocking, and the reason for such a significant effect is mainly that the first line of defense is strong enough, Battier and Wu Huang can always let these two people use all their strength when breaking through the first layer of defense, and then against the follow-up defense and co-defense, the two are naturally powerless.
This is a gap in experience and awareness, and it is also related to the mentality, Wu Huang and Battier do not have the idea of guarding against these two in their hearts, they just try to make trouble for the opponent in the first line of defense, they believe that the teammates behind them can help them complete the final defensive task, and this relaxed mentality allows the two to make the most accurate judgment, and many times directly prevent it.
The negative example here is Wei Shao, when he defended Wu Huang, he had the mentality that he must stop the opponent, which made him make wrong judgments several times.
To put it simply, the Knicks play more like a whole than the Thunder, whether on the offensive end or on the defensive end, they are more likely than opponents to use "mutual cooperation" to complete offensive and defensive tasks, which is obviously more skilled than the Thunder, who are more inclined to individual ability.
Wu Huang played very calmly today, and he was also very relaxed, he dared to make moves, every dribbling action was so chic in the eyes of the fans, so freehand, as long as he saw his ease and relaxation on the court, and then saw Westbrook who was on the opposite side with a tense expression and body, I believe that the high and low have already scored, if the mentality and body can not relax, then how to play their own skills? How to make the right judgment?
Dangling, kicking, changing direction, changing hands and pulling back...... Wu Huang's dribbling no longer has a complete set of technical movements, he is completely playing at will according to Westbrook's reaction, and slowly has a taste of play, because the fans feel that he has a chance to break through directly this time, but he has to pull back and flirt again, and the action is beginning to become more and more presumptuous, more and more profligate.
"Bag Clip!" Brooks, the coach of the Thunder team, couldn't stand it from the sidelines, shouting that the players went up and killed that acrobatic bastard!
Ibaka wanted to rush up early in the morning, but his body had just rushed out and the basketball was already flying by his side...... Wu Huang actually saw the time of his strength, and deliberately found a time to make him the most painful to pass the ball, at this moment Ibaka watched the basketball fly past him, but one foot just off the ground he was no longer able to change direction to intercept at the first time, and when he adjusted his body, Gasol had already received the basketball on the inside, and Wu Huang found this time difference to make Ibaka want to vomit blood.
Today, the Knicks' two interior players are using a positional strategy on both offensive and defensive ends, Gasol will not take the initiative to play against Perkins, he hates to fight with this kind of blue-collar team, so Gasol's opponent is Ibaka at the No. 4 position. When it comes to his teammates in this national team, Gasol is naturally very familiar with him, Ibaka is him, and his brother's substitute, so don't look at this year's Ibaka even has the ability to compete with Howard and Chandler for the best defensive player, but Gasol is not afraid of this guy at all, and can even be completely hard against Ibaka.
This ball Wu Huang passed skillfully, Gasol quickly observed the position of the opponent and his teammates after receiving the ball, and after dribbling a step to the basket, it was another clever ground pass, assisting David West to complete the dunk under the basket!
"See, you're far behind!"
"Countryman, go back to your hometown!" ”
"Russell, don't be discouraged, know that your mother said you can beat hugo!"
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To be honest, this goal has nothing to do with Westbrook, it can only be said that Wu Huang and Gasol have played well, but the New York fans on the scene gave all the ridicule to Wei Shao, and the most annoying thing is the content of their ridicule, I believe that Wei Shao will definitely have an urge to learn from Artest to go up and beat these fans!
"They're so bad!" Wu Huang was laughing secretly in his heart, unaware that these fans had learned from him, and now the Knicks fans and his fans were full of sassy words from him, and New York fans were even recognized as the most under-beaten fan group in the league.
The score was 14:4, the Knicks took a big lead after the start of the game, and the thunderous offense shown by the Thunder team in the Western Conference Finals could not be played at all today under the Knicks' smart and tacit defense.
Van Gundy kept praising the Knicks' defensive formation on the commentary bench, and the adjectives he used most often were "smart" and "tacit".
The Knicks did show an amazing tacit understanding on defense today, and they are indeed very smart, and it can be seen that they have put a lot of effort into how to defend the speed and explosiveness of the Thunder players, and the Knicks' defense has been making Durant and Wei Shao's breakthrough fall into the embarrassment of the front and back attack, so that the two leading stars of the Thunder team can't find their offensive rhythm at all, and every shot gives people a very awkward and reluctant feeling, I believe they themselves feel very uncomfortable, otherwise there would not be such a low shooting rate.
With 3:05 left in the first quarter, Wu Huang finally opened his bow outside the three-point line and hit his first three-pointer of the day, which was also the second three-pointer that the Knicks hit in a single quarter, and the other was shot by Battier. It can also be seen that the Knicks' offensive point today is obviously not on the outside, they have only 4 three-point shots so far, and most of the outside players are to kill the inside to complete the offense or pass, and the Knicks are mainly attacking their interior today.
This is also normal, the Knicks are more than one step higher than the Thunder in terms of interior strength, although Perkins is big enough and has excellent defense in the low post, but the Knicks' two starting interior lines, as well as the main interior substitute Monroe, are all players who are good at mid-range shooting, they can completely pull out and fly kites, and no matter how fast Ibaka moves, it is impossible to block the Knicks' two interior lines.
Perkins was replaced less than halfway through the first quarter, and then the cunning Knicks started to play low again, Gasol quickly bullied Ibaka with his body, only to see his sister-in-law rarely squeeze into the box with her body like a center, and then hook up to complete the goal.
Although the Knicks' two interior players have a long range, they are also players who can attack with the ball in the low post and in the restricted area, and this kind of comprehensiveness makes the Thunder overwhelmed. At the same time, in terms of outside offense and defense, the Knicks also took the initiative, the combination of Wu Huang, Iguodala and Battier was full of tacit understanding on the defensive end, Westbrook and Durant still can't find the state, even if Harden plays early, the Knicks also make it impossible for Sanshao to find a chance to shoot through the oppressive defense of the interior line.
Ibaka got a lot of opportunities in the second half of the first quarter, but his hand was obviously average, especially Gasol knew him very well, and he could always return to his defensive position in time after pressing up, opening his long arms to prevent Ibaka from having too comfortable shooting opportunities, which made the latter's already inconsistent mid-range shot even more difficult to hit.
The only outstanding performance for the Thunder was Harden, who was on the Finals stage for the first time, and Harden's role was still the same, as the team's sixth man, which meant he needed to wait patiently on the bench a little longer. However, Brooks seemed to understand his feelings, and sent his favorite disciple less than five minutes into the game, when the score was 10-2 for the Knicks, the game had been played for almost five minutes, the Thunder's offense was not good, the team needed to score, and Harden was a master of this mess.
At the end of the first quarter, Harden hit a three-pointer and assisted Durant to hit a long-range shot for two points. But Harden can get limited opportunities, Iguodala's defense is not so easy to break through, in fact, Harden only got 3 shots after playing, although the shooting percentage is high, but the lethality is not high.
At the end of the first quarter, the Knicks led the Thunder by 11 points at 31:20, and Wu Huang's final three-point whistle failed to hit, otherwise the Thunder team was likely to be defeated by the Knicks in the first quarter.
Wu Huang scored 8 points in a single quarter, although 8 points is not much, but he also had 2 assists, and at the same time, Westbrook only handed over a report card of 1 of 5 shots, and once again completed the crushing situation.
In the second quarter, several of the Knicks' main players rested off the court, Harden and Gallinari competed during this time, the bearded man kept his hot hand until the second quarter, but Gallinari's hand was a little cold, and after two consecutive misses, the Knicks began to focus on Monroe and David West on the inside.
D'Antoni replaced David West and Iguodala early in the first quarter, and the defense was that Gallinari was unreliable in the second quarter rotation, so they could still have a lot of backup scoring points to use, and both of them were much more reliable than Gallinari.
Iguodala did a good job on the outside, although it was Sephorosa who defended him who performed well this season, but the first brother does not take scoring as the first goal, compared to scoring directly, he prefers to break through and help his teammates score, so Sefrosa's defense is somewhat embarrassing to Iguodala!
Brooks saw that the Thunder team could not rely on rotation time to catch up with the difference, so he could only change to the main lineup first, and Durant was reintroduced after only two minutes of rest. However, Wei Shao was still left on the bench, and Brooks was obviously not very satisfied with his performance today, because he couldn't have any impact on Wu Huang's ball holding defensively, and he couldn't prevent the breakthrough, and his offense couldn't play, which was obviously about to start the cancer mode again.
At this moment, Westbrook's head is really hot, his characteristic is that he doesn't care about it when his head is hot, he only knows that he is rampage, and he only has opponents and baskets in his eyes, Durant doesn't want to receive basketball at this time, let alone other teammates, at this moment, Wei Shao will not think of passing the ball if he is surrounded by three or four people, but his style of play is equivalent to announcing the death sentence of the Thunder team, and the Knicks are waiting for Wei Shao to play like this.
But Wei Shao didn't play, the Knicks' target became Harden, when he played blocking and dismantling with the Thunder interior players, the Knicks players would do whatever it took to contain him, not let him break through, and not let him shoot, as a result, Harden in the first half of the second quarter missed all three shots, and failed to connect with Durant again, the poor little schoolbag was completely separated by the Knicks' defense, but the basketball could never be passed in the first place. The Thunder's off-ball running tactics, which were repeatedly praised by Kobe Bryant, can no longer be as effective today as they did against the Lakers and Spurs with the Knicks' excellent defense.
"The Knicks have a mobility that the Spurs don't have, and their footwork can make it difficult for Durant to receive basketballs, whether on the outside or inside, which can cut the connection between the Thunder core and the whole team." Jeff Van Gundy analyzed that he doesn't think the Knicks' defense is better than the Spurs, but the Knicks players have faster steps and better personal awareness of helping to defend, D'Antoni didn't use Tony Allen much today, he mainly used the trio of Wu Huang, Iguodala and Battier, because these three do a better job in helping defense, but Tony Allen is a player who is better at single defense, and he is more suitable for dealing with the Heat.
In a defense in the middle of the second quarter, Durant ran from right to left empty-handed, and his defender changed from Batile to Gasol and from Gasol to Iguodala along the way, and he just didn't catch the basketball anyway.
The Knicks' defense is a bit like a zone defense, but it's more about the players' own awareness in the rotation. Durant ran down this lap and didn't have a chance to catch the ball, and the offensive time was almost halfway there. At this time, Durant was also upright, and he actually ran from left to right again, running an empty lap again. But this time he ran all the way, and the result was that he was touched by the Knicks' three defenders one by one, but there was still no chance to catch the ball, but there were less than ten seconds left in the offensive time this time.
Harden stood on the outside line and stared at Durant, he couldn't find a passing opportunity after running down these two laps, at this time he was a little distracted, Wu Huang had already lost Westbrook and pounced on him, forming a trap with Battier who switched defenses, forcing Harden to make a pass error in a panic, the basketball was directly cut off by Iguodala, and the Knicks scored two more points through a skillful counterattack.
The score is 44:27, the Knicks led by 17 points with 5 minutes and 30 seconds left in the second quarter, and the Thunder, which is known for its offense, only scored a pitiful 27 points in two and a half quarters today under the defense that the Knicks are not the best at, which is a score that the Thunder team has been able to score in less than a quarter in the past.
"Honestly, it's a miracle that you're still up there, I thought I'd never see you again." After Wu Huang scored a layup, this time he began to defend Westbrook from the front court, and casually continued to use his trash talk to hit this guy who had been sitting off the court for half a quarter.
Westbrook's head began to heat up again, before he was pressed by the coach to watch most of the game, of course he knew that this was his performance in the first quarter that made the coach very dissatisfied, he had calmed down after thinking about the pain, but now he was provoked by Wu Huangyi, the fire in his heart began to rise again, and his head began to heat up again.
Wu Huang knows very well that these players who are prone to brain fever are definitely not so easy to get rid of this defect, and he even feels that Wei Shao's weakness may not change for the rest of his life, although this guy's performance in the regular season and the first round of the playoffs is getting better and better, but that's because the opponent's strength is not strong enough, as long as he encounters a really strong opponent, he may still become the opponent's breakthrough.
Therefore, Wu Huang's series is to keep igniting Wei Shao's head, and strive to keep him in this state of brain fever forever.
Anyway, fanning the flames has always been his forte. (To be continued.) )