Chapter 9 The Chinese are on the field
But in any case, Chen Feng's one shot decided the outcome of the game, and the Spurs also had an absolute advantage in the series.
Of course, if the Spurs want to sweep the opponent so easily, it is impossible, and the Thunder are a team that has always had its own characteristics.
Sure enough, in Game 3, Kevin Durant and Westbrook and the woke James Harden teamed up to score 73 points and pull back a game in the series.
That's not all, in the next game, although GDP played well, it couldn't stop Kevin Durant from hitting consecutive shots in the zuihou moment, scoring 8 points, and finally being tied by the opponent, this is the Thunder, a group of talented and demonic players.
As long as you give them a chance to get up the momentum, then it's hard to hold them down, especially with an older team like the Spurs.
That is to say, in the crucial fifth game, that is, the battle of Tianwang Mountain, the Spurs have to suppress the more arrogant arrogance of the Thunder team, and the Thunder will have to make persistent efforts to rush to the finals in one fell swoop with the momentum of the winning streak, and they have good news.
In the fourth game, Ginobili sprained his knee when he went to the basket, although the injury was not serious, but the fifth game was obviously unplayable, that is, the confrontation between the new and old triumvirates between the two sides, the Thunder already had an advantage on paper.
And the Chinese kid Chen, who played well in the front court of the series, sent 4 of 1 and 3 of 0 in the third and fourth games, which helped the team almost zero, so the Thunder team believes that as long as they work hard, they can officially enter the finals.
And on the Spurs' plane to Oklahoma, Popovich was talking to Chen Feng!
"Chen, do you think we're going to lose?"
Although Chen Feng felt that the prospects of the team were not optimistic, now was the time to cheer himself up, and it was the coach's question, of course, he couldn't say it.
"Of course not, we will win!" Chen Feng is "categorical".
Popovich was silent for a moment, then suddenly said: "You're lying!" ”
Chen Feng: "......! ”
Popovich was silent for about two minutes, then said, "Chen, are you afraid?" ”
What the? I'm scared?
“NO! NO! Chief, how could I be afraid! You know, I've started with nothing, how could I be afraid! Chen Feng retorted vigorously.
"No, if you're not scared, then how can you try to avoid physical confrontation on the field? You know, Steve Nash isn't as physically fit as you, but you can win the regular season MVP two years in a row, and I don't ask you to hit that high, but after Manu's injury, don't you think you should do something? ”
Chen Feng was silent!
I am...... Are you scared?
Yes, if it weren't for the fear, I always avoided physical confrontation, and after the confrontation I couldn't put the ball in the basket?
It's because after having this system, I always thought that I would practice it in the future, so now I just want to stay in the NBA, right?
No matter how hard I work off the court, but on the court, I have indeed lost the solipsistic heart I used to have, and if I have physical confrontation, I don't dare to shoot or defend?
The two fell silent, but Popovich smiled: "This little guy is still good!" ”
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"Hi everyone, I'm Charles Barkley, this is my old partner Kenny Smith, Kenny, who do you think will win this game?"
"Well, well! I know you're digging a hole for me, and God knows what the Thunder or Spurs fans will do to me after I give their opinion, but I still have to say that the Spurs don't have Manu and their second team won't be the Thunder's opponent! ”
Saying this, Kenny Smith paused, and then asked thoughtfully, "Charles, what do you think will happen to Chen of the Spurs?" His shot is truly wonderful! ”
Speaking of Chen Feng, Charles pouted disdainfully: "I have to say, he is not suitable for this man's sport, there is no confrontation, this guy definitely doesn't know what it feels like to dunk!" ”
Kenny Smith smiled and stopped talking, but introduced the starting lineups of both sides, this Charles always likes to be fooled, haha!
"That's it! The Spurs' starting lineup has changed, Boris Dior has replaced DeJuan Blair, the others are Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Danny Green, Leonard, and nothing has changed on the Thunder's side, Russell, Kevin, Seflosa, Serge Ibaka, Kendrick Perkins! ”
"The game starts, and the Thunder get the right to attack first!"
Coach Brooks seems to have found the Spurs' dead end, and he pulled the rhythm very fast as soon as he came up, while Parker and Duncan on the Spurs' side pressed the rhythm to the death, and the two sides played evenly matched.
But some more discerning fans have seen that the main lineups of the two sides can still be comparable, but if they enter the second team, then who will resist James Harden?
Once the Thunder pull the pace of the game up, who on the Spurs can keep the pace of the game down? In this way, if the two sides enter the second lineup, the Spurs will fall into absolute passivity.
Everyone is waiting for that moment to come!
With five minutes left in the game, to everyone's surprise, Popovich made the first substitution, Leonard down, Chen Feng up, Duncan down, and Split on.
The Spurs first made two substitutions, which is also why Popovich has long considered Haode, and his roster is not deep enough, so he can only rely on frequent substitutions to let Duncan and Parker rotate with the bench lineup.
Hope that kid can surprise me!
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Chen Feng played again, but this time he received much more "better" treatment than the previous two times in the Thunder, the audience booed, and their pride James Harden seemed to be humiliated by this yellow-skinned kid.
So the overwhelming boos rushed towards Chen Feng and passed!
If you weren't one of the players, you'd never appreciate how terrifying that overwhelming boos were, everyone screaming at their own throats, and the whole arena felt like a loud roar, with deafening cries buzzing in your ears.
A stream of enthusiasm suddenly rushed to his head, and Chen Feng suddenly found that he liked this feeling, and he fell in love with this kind of competition with thousands of empty alleys. Men should be in this kind of loud and bang bang for the rest of their lives.
I sing to myself in the sky to the moon, and I am flying for whom!
Parker looked at Chen Feng with a calm face, thinking that Chen Feng was frightened by the boos, and said, "Chen, cheer up...... You have to know that only strength is the most convincing thing in this shijie, pluck up your spirits and use performance to make them cheer! Let them see how good you really are, you know, I'll pass you the ball. ”
Chen Feng looked at the core of the team a little gratefully, and said sincerely: "Xiexie you, Tony." ”
Tony Parker smiled slightly, did not answer, everyone came from the rookie, his rookie era was even worse than Chen Feng, and he was scolded almost every day.
Only Leonard, who was on the court, looked at Parker's encouragement of Chen Feng and frowned unknowingly.
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Domestic media also began to broadcast the Spurs game live, however, netizens waited for most of the quarter, and there was still no news of Chen Feng playing.
"What's going on?" There have been hundreds of such feelings: "Is that Chen Feng really just a water cooler keeper signed by the Spurs?" However, a water dispenser caretaker with an annual salary of nearly one million is too extravagant, right? ”
Everyone is a little disappointed, I heard that this guy has been very popular recently, it doesn't seem to be very good, he is afraid of physical confrontation, his playing time in the first two games has dropped to the freezing point, and it seems that this game is the same......
Some netizens have already left the live broadcast room, and then scolded and said that they were deceived about their feelings, and Chinese basketball can only allow Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian, two masters, to hold up a piece of the sky.
They didn't want to think about it, Chen Feng was a substitute after all, how could he play as soon as he came up?
At this time, a piece of news suddenly detonated the atmosphere: there were five minutes left in the first quarter, and Chinese player Chen Feng stepped on the court!
Boils! Jubilation!
When they all thought that Chen Feng, a guy whose name had not changed, should not be given a chance to play after the other party found his weakness, Chen Feng stepped on the court.
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Looking at the guys on the court who were waiting for the substitution to end, and listening to the voices of the audience who were a little stunned and then burst into huge boos, a feeling of being separated from the world came to his heart, and he himself thought that he might not be able to play, after all, he was not qualified to participate in this level of competition.
Chen Feng was bathed in the light above his head, he didn't pay attention to too many other people's attitudes, he remembered that sentence, only strength is the most convincing thing.
Durant looked at the teenager who stepped on the court, fresh clothes and angry horses, dancing lightly, Chen Feng, who was not yet twenty years old, had a kind of vitality, and an indescribable faint dusty temperament.
Durant didn't care too much, he was like a proud swan, and he didn't want to have too much intersection with these rookies at the bottom.
"Hey, look, that Chinese is on the field." Miller saw Chen Feng on the court and said happily.
He didn't speak from the beginning, he has been observing Chen Feng, as a super pitcher, he naturally likes Chen Feng's dusty shooting posture, and the shooting rate is really not low.