Chapter 453: The Most Embarrassing MVP
Just when the players were all entangled and running out, Tang Shuai suddenly turned around, ran to the basket coldly, and stretched his hand into the air.
Pierce followed up and threw the ball to the basket.
Tang Shuai directly squeezed away Iguodala who was following him and jumped up.
The NBA's timing is calculated from the time the player receives the ball, so the watch will not go until Tang Shuai receives the ball.
Tang Shuai jumped high and headed his hand towards the ball point that Pierce flailed, and the bounce after the elevation fully ensured that he had the ability to complete this action.
But the moment he jumped, Draymond Green, who was behind him, also jumped up.
Tang Shuai stretched out his hand to point the ball in the air, and at this moment, he felt a strong force coming from under him, and Green forcibly collided with him in the air.
The referee didn't blow the whistle, and in this final moment, unless there was a very malicious foul, it would certainly not have been blown.
He shook his body and used his strength to withstand Green's interference, his palm pointing towards the basketball.
At the moment of his penalty, Green's movement reached its peak, and his center of gravity in the air was lost, and he fell directly to the side.
The referee still didn't blow the whistle.
"Toot!"
Just then, the final whistle blew.
After the basketball was clicked by Tang Shuai, it changed its original flight trajectory, like playing a side ball, and flew towards the basket under the attention of everyone on the scene.
The eyes of the audience burst into bursts of light, and their mouths opened and they were about to shout in the next second.
"Bang!"
The basketball hit the edge of the hoop, spun around the hoop, and then rolled straight in!
Countdown the lore!
After completing the quasi-lore and Curry completing the quasi-pressure whistle lore that was almost against the sky, Tang Shuai completed the lore in the countdown stage!
The audience at the scene exploded violently, and everyone raised their hands violently, and a burst of hysterical cheers came out from their mouths, which had long been ready to go.
Jordan Jr. and Brewer rushed to Tang Shuai as soon as possible, followed by Pierce, Jeff Green, and then his teammates on the bench, all rushing towards the court.
"We won, we won!" Some viewers couldn't control their emotions and cried out directly.
“we.will~will.rock.you!”
I don't know where to start, but the familiar melody once again resounded over the Staples Center, and the audience cried and sang at the same time.
After Tang Shuai hit this killer shot, the Clippers have a 3-1 lead over the defending champions! Who would have thought that the Clippers, who lacked major generals, and the Clippers, who lacked two cores, would actually play the series into the current situation, which is definitely the most incredible and shocking thing in the NBA this year!
Tang Shuai's emotions were also a little out of control, listening to the singing that resounded throughout the audience, his eyes were uncontrollably red, and he held back his tears and hugged his teammates one by one.
On the LED screen at the scene, Tang Shuai's countdown ball was constantly played, and the singing on the scene covered wave after wave.
“we.will.rock.you!” Tang Shuai suddenly stretched out his hand and raised it into the air and yelled into the sky.
Streamers erupted from the sky, and the entire arena was plunged into a boil.
This is a moment of glory for the Clippers and Clippers fans!
The fans' celebrations lasted more than ten minutes before they ended, and judging by their reluctant expressions to leave the stadium, it seemed that it was not enough.
At the press conference after the game, Tang Shuai and Jordan Jr. attended with head coach Kassel.
Kassel's mood is quite excited, his first year as head coach has pushed the defending champion with 73 wins into a desperate situation of 1-3, not to mention winning or losing the series, this alone has already made him famous in the league.
After feeling better, I also talked and laughed in the face of reporters' questions.
After the reporter finished the interview with Kassel, he then focused on Tang Shuai.
Tang Shuai's performance in this game slipped compared to the previous game, and he finally contributed 43 points on 17-of-37 shooting, but two consecutive stunners in the final minute made everyone remember him.
"Don, your performance is incredible, scoring 40+ points in four consecutive games in the playoffs, and hitting the final shot in the countdown stage, and you are a rookie, this is the first time in the history of the NBA, I just asked out of curiosity, aren't you nervous in the game, or stage fright?"
"Yes, of course, I'm just a rookie." Tang Shuai smiled and said.
Tang Shuai's answer made the reporters at the scene laugh.
"But I think the desire to win is obviously higher than the nervousness, so the nervousness, stage fright and whatever." Tang Shuai said with a smile.
The reporter nodded with satisfaction while remembering, and when Tang Shuai finished answering, he then asked: "At the time of the final lore, I noticed that you and Draymond had a violent physical confrontation in the air, did that affect your lore?" ”
Listening to the reporter talk about Green's problem, Tang Shuai jokingly said: "I thought I would win a penalty, but as you can see, I just hit that shot." ”
Tang Shuai's humor once again caused the reporters to laugh, Tang Shuai obviously minded the foul ball, but compared to the straightforwardness between them, the way he expressed his dissatisfaction at this time was obviously a lot more tactful.
'It was a very tight contest and even though it was a home game, the visitors seemed to enjoy more of the whistle, especially in the final moments of the game, do you think that was the reason for the last minute anxiety of the game?' The next reporter was more direct and asked directly.
Tang Shuai glanced at the reporter, and then said, "Hey, my friend, you will let me be fined by the alliance like this." ”
"But that's a good question." Just when the reporter was stunned, Tang Shuai then took over and said, "Before that, I want to praise Stephen, he is an incredible guy, that ultra-long three-point shot is absolutely historic, but like you said, I think the referee may have missed something, you must know that DeAndre (referring to Jordan Jr.) was tripped by Draymond in the previous round, and the aerial confrontation between me and Draymond at the last moment, which was quite a dangerous action, and the referee was to protect the players, not condone some fouls." ”
Tang Shuai finally chose to speak out, and was also prepared to be fined, as he said, if some foul actions are repeatedly connived, then maybe at some point in the game someone will really be injured, compared to the tens of thousands of dollars in fines, he is more inclined to hope to protect his teammates through these words.
"After this game, the team has a 3-1 lead and holds three match points, and now the Thunder are also unexpectedly ahead of the Spurs, who do you think is the next round of opponents?" The reporter then asked.
"Hey, man, we're still in the series, and I haven't forgotten that we were the last team to go 3-1 and get eliminated." Tang Shuai said bluntly, he was also reminding himself and his teammates, "So it's too early for the next round, and our attention is all on the next game now." ”
On May 11, U.S. time, the league announced the 2015~2016 regular season MVP selection.
Curry received all 131 first-place votes and became the first unanimous regular season MVP in NBA history, an honor that Jordan, the "God of Basketball", never had.
All Curry's performance this season, the first player in NBA history to score 30 points while playing less than 35 minutes per game, and the NBA made 402 three-pointers in a single season.
However, what is a little embarrassing is that the day the league announced the MVP vote happened to be the day after the Warriors lost to the Clippers, falling behind 1-3, and Curry was obviously not in much mood to accept the award.
And for the Clippers, if they can finally eliminate the team that created 73 wins and has a unanimous regular MVP on the team, it is obviously a different thing, and in the old saying, for any player on the Clippers, it is definitely a thing to brag about for a lifetime.
The 3-1 lead is good, but Tang Shuai is not optimistic at all, and the words he said at the press conference are partly for encouragement, and partly for his true feelings.
After the last game, he used up all the single consumption packs, and from the next game, he will no longer have any "hanging" opportunities, and judging from the performance of the past few games, without the single consumption pack, he obviously cannot beat the Warriors on his own.
On May 12, U.S. time, the Clippers flew to Golden State to challenge the Warriors again, and with three match points in hand, winning any of them would win the series.
In pre-game training, the Warriors' players were unprecedentedly low-key, and even Kerr did not answer a word to reporters' questions, which shows how much psychological pressure they are undertaking.
Unlike the previous four games, the scoring was not concentrated on Tang Shuai alone, but for the first time, he played more points, thanks to the team's 60% shooting rate, they led by double-digit points on the road.
However, Tang Shuai's worries are not unfounded, and the Clippers cannot maintain such a big lead all the time.
The players of the Clippers played quite hard, but the shooting percentage inevitably declined, and the score was caught up and overtaken little by little, but at the end of the third quarter, they relied on hard work to maintain the difference at 4 points, and the game was completely playable.
But the game changed after entering the fourth quarter, and Kerr sent all the main players on the court at the beginning of the fourth quarter, which was completely desperate.
In fact, he was also forced to get a desperate situation, and if he didn't fight at this time, then they would have time to rest next.
This desperate style of play has worked wonders, although Tang Shuai has repeatedly stepped up to hit key shots, but without a single consumption pack, his ability is not enough to fight against the entire Warriors.
98-86, both sides set their lowest scores since the matchup, but the Warriors won the game by strength. (To be continued.) )