Chapter 213: No Way Back
39 points, 10 rebounds, 5 assists! This is the data handed over by Sun Xiaotian in the third battle. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
scored 11 points in a row at the last moment to help the team take away the game in waves, and no one expected the ending of this script, no one could have imagined.
"I'm used to him playing like this, that's his style, don't be fooled by his rookie status, you just have to remember that this is only his first year, and he will continue to refresh people's three views in the future." O'Neill proudly praised Sun Xiaotian after the game.
"That's it! Come on! Shaq, I know you're rooting for him, he was really good today, but I'm sure ......" Barkley was about to say that, and O'Neal immediately interrupted him.
"Do you want to bet?"
"Do you know what I'm going to say?"
"You'd say the Spurs are going to win the championship! Isn't it? O'Neill choked Barkley.
"OK, what's the bet?"
"Yao Ming, you definitely don't want to look back, then we'll bet naked!"
"This gamble is quite your character, but I'll fight it!" Barkley is on the same page as O'Neal.
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At the press conference.
The reporters' eyes were all on Sun Xiaotian and Thibodeau.
Question time, they have a lot of questions they want to ask and of course they won't let go of such an opportunity.
Sun Xiaotian was originally the new favorite of the media, but today's battle was extraordinarily big, which really shocked Sun Xiaotian. Of course, to become the darling of the media, the more topics about him the better, especially in this playoffs, there are more and more things worth caring about about him, and you must dig deeper.
The first reporter from Chicago was a native who asked a question with a chant of "Chicago! Chicago! Woo!! ”
This move also made Sun Xiaotian laugh.
"Yes, in the last minute of this game, you scored 11 points in a row, and you scored 39 points in the whole game. What's more, you also completed the lore, did you arrange it yourself? ”
"Lore? Forget it! It wasn't a kill, I just hit the ball and to be honest I didn't care how much time I had left, but I thought it was great to be able to hit that goal. I would also say that that goal was the result of a team effort, with Jimmy's down-and-down save, Joakin's off-ball screen, which shows that we're a team and we're playing team basketball. Sun Xiaotian replied.
"Some people say you're playing too lonely, what do you think?" The second question is a bit sharper.
"Alone! Please don't say that, what he did was incredible. Thibodeau was deeply concerned and hurriedly answered.
"Michael's first playoff game was the lowest of all his playoff scores, but he also scored more than 29 points and took more than 20 shots per game, but I don't think that was a unique performance, it was a tactical requirement, a responsibility. I can't compare to Michael, but I'll be on par with him. Sun Xiaotian's answer was applauded.
"Sun, today at home, you got the win, the score is 2-1, how do you think the remaining games will go, can you win us?" A reporter from the Holy City asked Sun Xiaotian.
"I don't know! It's only been three games, which doesn't mean anything. Besides, I have a lot of respect for Spurs, it's one of the teams I like so much, you're a champion, of course I'm eager to beat you, and of course it's a tough process. "Sun Xiaotian is very polite.
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The Bulls have always been treated as dark horses, and the Bulls players are quite disgusted by this perception.
"We are actually not respected, I don't think the dark horse is a positive word, we can reach the finals because of our strength, our opponents in the playoffs are stronger than one another, and the team that has been able to eliminate the defending champion can still be considered a dark horse?"
is regarded as a dark horse, and the topic of discussion is always related to "whether the next game can be beaten back to its original shape".
While there has been a lot of praise for the Bulls' performance in the playoffs, there are still a few media outlets that look at the Bulls with tinted glasses.
"They don't qualify for the title because they're a forgotten team and their masks will be ripped off when everyone starts to take it seriously." This is a quote from the media in New York after the elimination of the New York Knicks.
Even after the Bulls eliminated the Heat, this media still came up with this sentence to talk about things.
"We don't think about what the media says about us, we only care about the finals. I ask my players to stay away from social media, focus on every game and not think too much about anything outside of the game. Thibodeau said.
Unlike all the media that was full of news about the Bulls and Sun Xiaotian, the Spurs were unusually low-key. It was as if they were not in the same parallel universe as the rest of the population, and they were barely heard from in the media.
Of course, that's what the Spurs have always done.
Although, in the third game, the three of them combined to score 60 points, but the team repeatedly failed to score in the final moments, resulting in the burial of the good game.
Duncan, a key link among the three, obviously felt that he couldn't keep up with his pace in the last few minutes of the game, and he was a little powerless. Although people love to call him "No. 21 Rookie", I have to admit that he is indeed old.
Sun Xiaotian once broke through the inside line and used cover to jam defenders behind him. Duncan, who quickly made up the defense, appeared in front of Sun Xiaotian in time, but Sun Xiaotian just accelerated and took advantage of the time difference to go directly to the basket, and Duncan actually stumbled and fell to the ground, which made people feel distressed when they looked at it.
Before the start of the third game, Thibodeau told everyone to speed up, one of the purposes of which was to drag Duncan down and make Duncan a weak link in the retreat link, and in fact the Bulls did it.
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The fourth game between the two sides was played two days later, and the Spurs, who were committed to reversing the decline, led the Bulls by 21 points in the first half, and the situation changed suddenly in the third quarter, led by Ruhr Deng in the second half of the quarter, and the Spurs were even surpassed by 1 point at the end of the third quarter.
The Bulls went 40-19 in the third quarter, causing Popovich to go on a thunderous outburst, and he also received a technical foul during the process.
Then the Spurs launched a crazy comeback in the fourth quarter, perhaps due to the eagerness to win, resulting in a series of mistakes, not only did they not take the lead, but the Bulls seized the opportunity and played a decent counterattack. During this period, Sun Xiaotian played a vital role, he scored 9 points and 4 assists alone in the fourth quarter, and cut down 19 points and 9 assists in the whole game, leading the Bulls to win 94-91 again, rewriting the score to 3-1.
This score surprised everyone, including Sun Xiaotian, who said after the game, "Unbelievable!" ”
After the game, all the media was talking about "what the hell happened to the Spurs?" ”
However, this answer Popovich and all the Spurs players were thinking, they felt that in the battle with the Bulls, all of them were dismantled by the opponent, and they had no power to fight back.
The Spurs have no way back! (To be continued.) )