438. Don't make it to the finals, don't go back to Charlotte
After a few battles, the smoke of the playoffs finally dissipated temporarily.
A few happy and a few sad, the final list of the top four finally appeared in the field of vision of fans, and the most exciting moment came, after the 14 finals, followed by the East and West finals. Then, it is the finals of the Central Plains!
The Suns were the bottom three in the league last season, and this season just because of the introduction of Nash, the team's record soared, all the way to 60 wins in the regular season, and went far enough in the playoffs to advance to the Western Conference finals.
The Spurs' strength has been expected by fans for a long time, since Duncan arrived in San Antonio in '97 and David Murphy. With Robinson forming the Texas Twin Towers, fans won't be surprised if the team wins the championship any season. Duncan is taciturn, but he is the best foundation to build a team with him at its core, and it's incredible to be able to build a team that will remain competitive for 15 seasons!
The success of the Heat was also a surprise surprise to Pat. Riley lived up to his reputation as a god operator, and it was a remarkable feat to extradite O'Neill to Miami on the East Coast. However, if it weren't for the Sharks, if Huaben and the Pistons had a stalemate earlier, maybe it would not be O'Neal but Huaben who went to Miami to match Wade.
No one doubted Riley's abilities, and even more so Wabeben. The 2010 Big Three that shocked the world is still fresh in his memory, in fact, when he first arrived in Charlotte. Riley once tried to make a move to the Bobcats, trading O'Neal + Wade for a Wade + any garbage contract. Jordan finally made a not-so-silly decision in the trade, which was to firmly keep Huaben.
It turns out that if Huaben had really been let go, no matter how famous Jordan was in his playing days, he would have been saddled with the notoriety of a fool for the rest of his life:
Huaben is a fierce player in NBA history, and he is completely on his own. Brought the New Army Bobcats to the Eastern Conference Finals!
The Bobcats could make it to the Eastern Conference Finals in their first season, something that no fan dared to imagine at the start of the season, including those of the daring Charlotte fans. In everyone's opinion, this team is lucky not to win next year's top pick. If you think a little bigger, this team can get a taste of the playoffs. That's even more surprising.
But when the time came to April 25, fans looked back on the season and showed stunned expressions one by one: the NBA's history books will record that in 2004, the NBA completed its fourth expansion plan, and the Charlotte Bobcats entered the league. Wallace, just that season, reached the Eastern Conference Finals with the third-place finish in the East during the regular season. And their footsteps have not stopped
"If you don't make it to the finals, you won't go back to Charlotte!" Standing in the middle of the locker room, Wabbon roared, "Brothers, stand up. Look me in the eye, my dear brothers! ”
"We're rookies, we're rookies, almost none of us have played in the Eastern Conference Finals, everybody thought we'd be eliminated in the first round of the playoffs, but where are we standing now? Alonzo. Tell me, Mourning! ”
"The Miami Heat's locker room. On the steps to the championship! Mourning roared.
Hua Ben gave him a thumbs up and nodded heavily: "Well said, I like your latter sentence, yes, we are standing on the steps to the championship, provided that we win this series, we must eliminate the Miamins!" Andre. Iguodala, Tony. Aaron, Kevin. Martin, Chris. Duhon, tell me if you're scared?! ”
"No, we've been waiting for a long time!" Iguodala shouted. …,
Hua Ben nodded again and looked at the others: "Wang Zhizhi, David. West, Chris. Anderson, Memet. Oku, Joseph. Padding, Gerald. Wallace, Jason. Kapono, Eddie. House, Zaza. Pachulia, are you nervous?! ”
"No, can't wait to slaughter Miami!" A crowd yelled.
Hua Ben took a step forward, his left hand clenched into a fist and his arm held high, his right hand pressed to his heart. Seeing this, everyone stood up in the same position, raised their left arms together, and leaned their fists together.
"The rest of the time is the game of the brave, cowards cowards worm guinea fowl get out of the way! Brothers, since you have chosen to raise your fists, then we swear with our dignity that here, in Miami, we will fight for Charlotte with blood and sweat for glory never before seen in history. From today onwards, we may break our tendons, we may sweat, we may be miserable, but we will never return to our hometown until we win the final victory! Hua Ben roared like a lion king.
"If you don't succeed, you won't return home!" Everyone shouted with all their might, Jordan looked at his group of fighters proudly, he was glad for himself, if this team entered the league ten seasons early, I don't know if he could get his second triple championship.
"My bulls are going to tremble over this, so I have no reason to doubt that there is no one in the league who can stop them." Jordan wrote in his autobiography that after writing this sentence, he hesitated for a moment and added, "Exactly, I have no reason to doubt that anyone in the league can stop Ben. Wallace's footsteps forward. Some people say that the players who appeared with me in the nineties are sad, I would say that those who live in the twenty-first century are even more sad! ”
The Bobcats players rushed onto the field with murderous spirits, and the American Airlines arena resounded with a huge boo that can only be seen by a hurricane through the valley, but no one cared, and the players stood on the court intently, their eyes cold and iron-blooded, looking at the slowly rising American flag.
Directly across from the Bobcats, a strong man in the No. 32 jersey looked at Huaben with a hideous face. O'Neal has waited too long for this day, and since being defeated by the Pistons led by Warburn in the Finals this time last year, O'Neal has dreamed of meeting him again in the cold playoff arena, and he wants to kill him with his own hands and tell fans across the country that the Big Shark is the most dominant guy among active players!
"You look excited, Shaq?" Wade smiled calmly.
O'Neill glanced back at the little brother and snorted, "Dwight, there's no need to hide it, I guess you're more excited than me, right?" Quite a few words, don't you want to beat the man in the No. 1 jersey and prove to the league that you're the star they should be championing? We have a common goal, let's go on a killing spree today, and I promise you'll be proud of what you've done today years from now! ”
Wade still maintained an elegant smile and nodded slightly, "I can't ask for it, man." ”
O'Neill took a deep look at Wade, he knew how proud and ruthless this guy who always looked like a good boy was, and he had always been confident, and he sometimes shuddered at this young guy, and occasionally he would think, in two seasons, when he was old, would he still be able to hold this little tyrant down? At that time, this guy was not a little guy anymore.
From the beginning of the divisional finals, the atmosphere of war was strong. As the host, the leader of the Heat team did not come to entertain the Bobcats players at all, and the latter did not go to the pier to worship, and the two sides coincidentally expressed their attitude in the same way: You will come and take my head.
The Heat's lineup is, center: Shaq. O'Neal, power forward: Haslem, a rookie in the '03 generation but getting better and better, small forward: Rasu. Butler, playmaker: Gary. Payton, Shooting Guard: Dwight. Wade. …,
'Chizun Xin' Jordan changed the formation again, center: Huaben, power forward: Memet. Oku, small forward: Andre. Iguodala, playmaking guard: Pattin, shooting guard: Toney. Alan.
Wajben and O'Neal stood on either side of the halfway line, and before the start of the game, the two most dominant men in the league looked at each other coldly, then raised their right hands at the same time, stretched out their palms and slapped them fiercely.
"I welcome you on behalf of Miami Hell." O'Neill smiled cruelly, "I wonder if our welcome is a little late?" ”
Hua Ben sneered: "This is hell? Then we Charlotte are purgatory! We, on the other hand, are the Purgatory Expeditionary Force, and I hope you'll be smiling so much after nine days. "The first four games took nine days to play.
The referee of this game was an acquaintance, the big bald Crawford, who emphasized the rules of the game, then put the whistle to his mouth, and with a flick of his wrist, he stepped back.
The basketball flew straight into the air, and O'Neal quickly lowered his weight downward, and then stomped on the floor with both feet and took to the air. Before him, Hua Ben had already roared and raised his arms to the sky. One of them has a fast bounce speed, the other has a long arm span, and finally the basketball begins to fall, and the two big hands hit the ball almost at the same time.
"Mine!" Two identical words were shouted out of two different mouths, and the two swarthy arms were muscles at the same time, and in the end, no one could take advantage, and the two of them just fell down with the basketball.
Crawford was dumbfounded, it was the first time in his career that he had been in this situation, and the fans cheered, they knew it was a great game today.
Finally Crawford re-served, and this time Wahben bounced up faster, and as soon as O'Neal jumped, he had already flicked the ball to Pattin.
Patin didn't rush forward when he got the ball, but took two steps back to stabilize the team's rhythm, and when his teammates were all in the frontcourt, he ran forward with a smile. At this time, Wade stretched out his arms and pressed forward.
It stands to reason that Payton should be the opposite of Pattin, but Van Gundy knew on his knees what the consequences would be, and the aging Mr. Glove would be struck by the British sports car, so the burden of restraining Padding fell on Wade's shoulders.
In the face of Wade's pressing defence, Patin did not go hard from the front, but cruissed the ball cunningly on the perimeter.
Hua Ben ran into the penalty area, O'Neill moved his fat body and pounced on him, seeing this, Hua Ben smiled slightly, turned around and ran out. O'Neill hesitated for a moment and didn't follow, and similarly, if he was out of the box, he would be sprang into a sieve by Huaben.
Haslem was in hot pursuit, while Butler was on the sidelines preparing the bag. (To be continued......) ……,