Chapter 226 [Abnormal Performance, Playoff Experience Matters!] 】

Hayes believed that there was a god in this world. What is God's purpose in regenerating His soul? Is it to get the Grammys by plagiarizing the music of later generations, or to make money by buying stocks? These things are only self-interested and do not help others.

Legendary prophets often appear because of disasters.

Hayes is now an American, and I wonder if these things are some kind of dog and nosy? He himself doesn't think so. On the contrary, after fusing the memories of the two, he felt that he should do something more. Hayes values life, not to mention tens of thousands of people, even if he knows that a person is going to die, he wants to save it. At the very least, he's going to give a kind reminder.

Valuing life is not the thought of a saint, but a human instinct, and it is the benevolence and morality preached by the sages. In a material society, people's disregard for life is actually a manifestation of moral degradation.

The Wenchuan earthquake killed 10,000 people. If you know that this will happen but do nothing, then people are no different from animals.

Hayes wasn't going to come forward and make a shocking prediction, he had a plan in mind that was both simple and potentially successful, and he had already begun to implement it.

Hayes' biggest advantage right now is money! Money talks. During his injury absence, Hayes spent money to set up a website called "2008noahsark" (2008 post-80s Shaolin abbot network commentators, these people's task is very simple, use proxy IP addresses, log in to major Chinese forums to post in Chinese!).

Hayes experimented with inconsequential posts, mainly to familiarize the online commentators he found with how to post and where to go. On the site, Mr. Hayes asked the online commentators who signed up for Mr. Hayes, who were almost all Americans, to post prepared posts on Chinese sites and take screenshots to prove they had posted them. As long as you post 100 posts a day, you can get paid 50 US dollars. When the website was first established, no one believed that posting could make money. But then a few poor American students had nothing to do and gave it a try. As a result, Hayes paid their bank account $50 a day.

As soon as these students received the money, they immediately told their friends the news, and spread it to ten, ten, ten, hundred. In just a few days, Hayes's website has registered thousands of members. Realizing that enough people were enough, Hayes closed the registration.

On April 22, Hayes posted a new announcement on his website. There is only one sentence in the task post - "Experts said: On May 12, there will be an 8-magnitude earthquake in Wenchuan, and relevant people should evacuate as soon as possible!" ”

Most Americans don't like to use their brains, they all directly take the words to be sent and copy and paste, as for what is written in Chinese, not many people care, just make money.

The method that Hayes came up with was to create public opinion by posting to make people more vigilant. When people encounter bad things, they often have the idea of "I'd rather believe what I have than what I don't". For example, when I received a nonsense text message on my mobile phone like "If this post is not forwarded to 10 friends, the whole family will be unlucky for a year", many people will be stupid enough to forward it to others. It was as if that message had been sent to him by God. As long as the post spreads, there will definitely be some people who leave the disaster area just to be on the safe side. It's much better to save some people than to do nothing.

The deadline for posting is May 11, and Hayes is paying thousands of online commentators a total of millions of dollars, which he thinks is worth it, and doing so will give him peace of mind to play the playoffs!

After dinner, Hayes left home to report to Time Warner Arena. Today, the Bobcats will make their playoff debut at home against the Toronto Raptors!

The Raptors' 13-man playoff roster is:

Centre-forwards: Okafor, Nesterovic, Brezek.

Power forwards: Bosh, Gabajosa, Marcio Basten.

Small forwards: Capono, Joey Graham, Petrus.

Defenders: TJ Ford, Anthony Parker, Brooks, Delfino, Juan Dixon.

TJ Ford missed 30 games this season due to injury, and during that time the Raptors could only use Brooks as the starting point guard, which caused the record to drop to seventh place and meet the Bobcats.

When Hayes arrived in the locker room, he found the atmosphere somewhat oppressive. The players had serious expressions, and even Landry, who usually loves hip-hop, did not speak.

"Chuck, you're here." Gerald Wallace smiled wryly.

"What's going on, why do you have this expression?" Hayes asked.

"As soon as Jordan left, he came to do ideological work for everyone, saying that everyone must let go of the game and provide you with enough help on the offensive end. He said this, which seemed to make everyone's psychological pressure even greater. Wallace said helplessly.

"All relaxed. Don't be nervous! Strength is the most important thing, and our strength is much stronger than the Raptors! Hayes said loudly, cheering on the players.

"I'll go to the bathroom." Landry said, running to the bathroom.

"Didn't you just go a few minutes ago? Why don't you go and see if you have diabetes? Azubuk shouted at Landry.

Hayes: "......"

In the visiting locker room, Raptors head coach Sam Mitchell said: "The Bobcats played well in the regular season, but that doesn't mean they can play well in the playoffs. The main reason is their lack of experience! With the exception of a few players who the Rockets have turned over, everyone else is a first-time playoff rookie. The Bobcats have played in the playoffs as a regular player and only one Hayes, and that's our advantage. Last year, we lost six games to the Nets with the advantage of strength, one is inexperience, and the other is poor interior defense. With Emeka [Okafor] this season, we are stronger than last season. There's a good chance we're going to knock out the bobcats! ”

Listening to the head coach's words, the spirit of the Raptors players was inspired.

"Michael (Petrus), if Hayes gets the ball on the outside, you have to defend closely, don't let him get a shot easily, if Hayes goes inside, Emeka defends and the weak-side players are covered. Chris (Bosh) has to watch out for it. In this game, we put Biedlings to shoot, and his attack is the weakest on the court. The offense is still the same old tactic, with Chris and TJ blocking and pick-and-roll. Bobcat has always been hard to prevent dismantling! Michael, Anthony (Parker) on the perimeter waiting for an opportunity to shoot. Emeka is in charge of rebounding and trying for a second offense. ”

Before the start of the game, Bobcats head coach D'Antoni also emphasized tactics, mainly defensively. "The Raptors have a lot of attack. Ford's speed is very fast, and his cooperation with Bosh is a bit similar to Garnett and Iverson, Bosh's shooting ability in the high post is not inferior to Garnett, and the ability to attack with the ball is also very strong. In addition to the two of them, Capono, Anthony Parker, and Petrus are all accurate three-pointers, and they need to focus on defending their perimeter. Chuck was on top of Okafor on the inside today, and Andris (Biedrins) followed him when he was on the pick-and-roll. Brace oneself. We've got to win the Raptors today! ”

"Okay." The players didn't respond very loudly.

Hayes found his teammates too nervous. The only people who have played the playoffs here as the main players here are Hayes and Kurt Thomas. Thomas is just a blue-collar fringe man, and experience doesn't make much of a difference. Other substitutes with playoff experience are Weaver, Azubuke, Calderon. Everyone else is a newcomer to the playoffs for the first time. As the Raptors head coach said, this is the Bobcats' biggest weakness.

Regardless of the atmosphere of the game or the intensity of the confrontation, the playoffs are a notch higher than the regular season. And the team that participates in the playoffs for the first time will not play well because they have no experience and cannot resist the pressure of this kind of competition. Therefore, to test whether a team is a real strong team and whether a star is a qualified leader, you have to look at the playoffs.

Players with playoff experience are easy to adjust their psychology and will not panic when they are in danger. The rookie has a time difference not because of the technique, but because of the lack of experience, which leads to poor psychological adjustment and affects the state.

To use the simplest analogy. The relationship between the regular season and the playoffs is like the final exam and college entrance examination for high school students. The former only needs to pass, and the latter sprints for a higher pursuit, and if you don't pass the test, you'll be finished. Who wouldn't want to be at the top? After a year of hard work just to win the championship, of course you have to work hard. The playoffs are a real battleground, and it's either you die or I die.

The Bobcats were the first to play the playoffs. So many experts are not optimistic about their prospects.

The first quarter of the game was one-sided, but it was the Raptors who led the Bobcats 34-22, which made the home fans tremble.

Anthony Parker, who shot 43.8 percent from three-point range in the regular season, hit two three-pointers in the first quarter, and Bosh also hit three jumpers in the high post, and the Bobcats were blinded in the opening game. The only depressed person for the Raptors is Okafor, who hates being targeted by Hayes the most, who averaged 11.3 points and 10.1 rebounds per game this season to get a double-double, but against Hayes, he is completely at a disadvantage. Okafor didn't score a point in the first quarter, grabbed three rebounds, and Hayes dominated the interior with eight points and seven rebounds.

Calderón turned off the fire again in the face of his old club. He scored 3 points on 1-of-4 shooting. Azubuke scored 3 points on 1-of-5 shooting. The Bobcats role players are collectively out of sorts.

In the second quarter, the Bobcats bench players used the frontcourt pressing tactics that had been hidden in the regular season as soon as they came out, but the Raptors' Brooks used his speed to break through in a row and break the Bobcats' frontcourt pressing. Brooks is very popular with the Raptors right now, and the Bobcats executives are a little regretful about sending him away. His 100-meter speed reached 10.25 seconds, a speed that could break the record at the Asian Games. Felton was also fast, but he couldn't keep up with Brooks because his opponent would cover.

D'Antoni's face was a little ugly. He didn't expect the Bobcats to fight the Raptors so hard. The Raptors showed that their strength was not weak, mainly because they overwhelmed the Bobcats from the outside. The Bobcats were miserable from the outside, shooting 2-of-9 from three-point range.

"It's a game about the inside. With Kurt [Thomas] on the pitch, the newcomers need to adjust their mentality, and I think it doesn't matter if you lose one or two, as long as you can advance. The important thing is to accumulate playoff experience, and if we play like this with the Raptors, we will be in danger of meeting the Magic in the second round. Van Gundy whispered beside D'Antoni.

Gortat, who came off the bench, played just three minutes before making two mistakes. Felton also hit back-to-back basketballs. However, Barnes' defense was relatively good, blocking several offenses from the Raptors' bench players.

The Bobcats are asking for a timeout, they're changing tactics!

(To be continued)