Chapter 69: Trust from Corinth
When Collins walked to the locker room together, Collins gave Gong Feng a hard blow to the back of the head after no reporter saw it, and said hatefully: "You bastard boy, do you really want you to be capable?" You can say this kind of thing, what, do you want to single-handedly take on the whole Magic team in the next game? ”
"Coach, treat me like this, aren't you afraid that I will be stupid in the next game?" Rubbing the back of his head, Gong Feng replied with grinned teeth.
"Hah! It's okay to be silly! Save every day for you to worry! Boy, I warn you, I don't want to hear anything about this round before the game, or I'll ban you! I do what I say. ”
"Coach, don't worry! I won't let the outside world disturb me, I'll do my job! "I don't know how many people envy the state that Gong Feng enjoys, anyway, Kwamei must be very envious in his heart.
"Excellent! Remember, you also have this ban, including all the players on the field and all members of the coaching staff! ”
"Yes!" Everyone replied very seriously.
"After returning to the hotel today, I will gather in the hall, and any personal matters you have will postpone for me, from now on, from this moment on, all the Wizards will train behind closed doors, and all the Wizards will prepare for the game the day after tomorrow, and all the personnel belonging to the Wizards team will refuse all forms of interviews, I will refuse to give any of you a holiday, and tomorrow at nine o'clock, I will have a meeting in the hotel lobby together, and I will be on time. Simmons, you're going to be there too! ”
Hearing that he could also participate, especially the coach named someone to participate was immediately stunned, he immediately stood up quickly in a suit, and replied very quickly: "Yes!" Instructor! ”
Just sitting on the sidelines, hearing the Nesby arranged by Collins, Boye's face quickly changed, and then Boye sighed, but quickly returned to normal, but Nesby's face became extremely gray, as if he had no energy.
No one wants to comfort these two, and they don't know how! Even if they played very well in the regular season and got good statistics in a few games, but now that they are in the playoffs, the Wizards' first requirement for marginal players who want to play, or players who can play, is definitely not to score, but to come up with attitude defense.
Everyone present had their own thoughts, and after they were about to pack up and leave, Gong Feng found Collins alone and said a word.
"Coach, in the next game, can Houston's defense be handed over to me!"
Collins was walking in the tunnel on the way to the bus, and he was stunned when he heard this, this was the first time Collins heard that Gong Feng wanted to defend someone, instead of shifting the target of his own defense to someone else.
"Are you sure?" didn't refuse at the first time, but looked at Gong Feng's eyes and asked very seriously.
"Fifty percent sure! This series is coming into this rhythm, and I'm 50% sure I can do it. ”
"Is it only fifty percent?" Collins asked, frowning.
"Coach! Five is a lot, and in the first quarter, our goal is to defend Maddie, not Houston, and as long as Maddie can limit or limit some aspect of him, Houston is their second point of attack......"
"My defense can reduce Houston's shooting percentage by 50%, and we have achieved our goal, and I believe that no one on the current Wizards team dares to try to do that!"
"You're saying you can reduce Houston's current shooting percentage by 50%?" Collins looked at Bow Peak with some surprise,
"Of course...... Coach, you don't think I'm 50% sure that I'm completely restricting Houston, right? ”
Collins coughed when he heard this, and only said after half a sound: "Boy, now is not the time to joke!" ”
"Coach! This trick of mine is only useful in one game, maybe someone will find out my mystery in the next game, and it won't work in the next game, this is a big killer feature for me against the Magic team, and there are some surprise effects in it! ”
"That's why you boasted about Haikou and said it was fifty percent?"
"Hey, hey! It's just taking advantage of something! ”
"Why don't you use it in this game?"
"Maybe it's used when the gap is about 5 points, and maybe it's used when Maddie's feel isn't so hot...... One hit kills are all about the effect, but the process is extremely hard. ”
"Excellent! You kid already has an unscrupulous posture for victory, and even if you are mature, I will believe you once! ”
"Coach! You can't do that in front of everyone, Houston is being taken by surprise when defending Houston, but it's not Houston's strength that's the case, it's best if all the players don't change! ”
"I know, no one in the Wizards will know except me, and I'm going to arrange it before the game...... Jordan won't know either! ”
Gong Feng didn't continue to say anything, but just knocked his right chest three times with his right hand...... Gong Feng's trust in Collins was extremely touching!
Collins smiled at the sight of such a bow peak and was very satisfied.
How is it possible to do this without absolute confidence in yourself?
The next day, May 26, 2002, was the focus of the Lakers vs. Kings.
Yesterday about the Wizards, the Magic's hot topic did not affect the Lakers and the King's war of words, this is also a game that the Lakers must not lose, once they lose this game, they come to Sacramento with a score of 3-1, and the Lakers basically lose the possibility of winning this round of games.
The Kings also know the importance of this game!
Winning this game is basically equivalent to winning the championship!
This sentence is enough to explain the mentality of the Kings players at the beginning of this game.
When this focus battle is over, no one can imagine, or even figure out the mood of the Kings players at that time, in this game, the Kings can be said to have put a lot of effort into defense, O'Neal, Kobe Bryant's score is normal, but there is no big explosion, it can only be regarded as an ordinary score, and the scores of other players are limited to less than 10 points, except for one person.
Robert? Hori.
(It's a demon!) I believe that friends who have just watched the NBA in recent years have rarely heard his name. In other words, a digression here. Born in the draft after 90 years, he didn't play with the Bulls, but at the end of his career, he was able to wear seven championship rings in his hand, and he got it as an absolute workhorse, and the main rotation player, for which he was the only one. )
(Twice for the Rockets, three for the Lakers, twice for the Spurs!) )
This night's game does not belong to O'Neal, it does not belong to Kobe, it belongs to Horry alone.
At the end of the game, Horry had 18 points, 14 rebounds and five assists, and in the final second, he beat the Kings with a three-point attempt. The true hit rate is as high as 97 percent. 8 hits. (Data source: STAT-NBA)
(Horry's game against the Kings, the scene is the most similar to the game where Ray Allen beat the Spurs, even more legendary than Ray Allen's game, the Kings also failed to grab backcourt rebounds twice, and Horry just happened to be standing outside the three-point line and happened to pick up this rebound, not Ray Allen who passed the ball to like Bosh!) )
After watching this game, Gong Feng sighed and smiled silently, the Kings' luck is really bad, but for the Wizards, these two teams are the best to play seven games......
"It's best if a few main players are injured and can't play!" This is what Gong Feng said in his heart after watching the game at that time, of course, if you ask him if he has thought about this question, Gong Feng will definitely refute you with righteous words!
Great games must have great opponents.
The malaise of your opponents does not prove your greatness!
After watching such an intense and historic game, the emotions of the audience have been adjusted to a high place, and the corresponding Eastern Conference Finals have entered the eyes of these people, especially the situation of the Magic and the Wizards, especially when the situation of the Kings and Lakers is extremely similar before the start of the fourth game.
But will the Magic be able to tie the game like the Lakers?