Chapter 112: Winning at Youth
Wade belongs to the character of a jackal, once he sees blood, even if he knows that the road ahead is a cliff, he will not hesitate to pounce on it.
He played too hard, which also led to his injuries at a young age, and it is also the reason why he is called the most dazzling existence of the 03 golden generation.
Around 2007, the reddest star of the 2003 Golden Generation was not Little Emperor LeBron or Melon Anthony, but Flash Wade, who won the FMVP.
However, everyone knows that Wade's peak was bought by him with his self-mutilating body, and now it is his limit, and his competitive level will begin to decline as he gets older. LeBron or Anthony is different, the former has a monster body and is not bad, while the latter is used to finishing the offense with shots, which has little physical loss.
So in this season, Wade is the reddest star of the 03 golden generation, LeBron is the most brilliant star in the future, although Anthony will not be as popular as the two, but he will maintain an excellent level of competition for a long time and will not become a superstar, but a long-term All-Star is certain.
Under the leadership of Wade, the Heat began to kill the Warriors after mastering the advantage, but O'Neal was extremely excited today as if he had been drugged, as if he had returned to his youth, and Chamberlain actually felt powerless in one-on-one defense for the first time.
One inside and one outside, O'Neal and Wade completed the full-court connection, and the Warriors' defense was torn apart, but it was beaten 34:20 in the first quarter, giving people a 14-point lead in a single quarter, of which O'Neal scored 12 points in 12 minutes, and Wade also scored 12 points.
In the second quarter, the Heat's offense was still ferocious, Chamberlain focused all his energy on O'Neal, and in the second quarter, he simply ignored Wade and tossed O'Neal vigorously, which was a political task given to him by the old Nelson, making him desperate to complete.
As a result, on the defensive end, Chamberlain desperately blocked O'Neal, and on the offensive end, he desperately stuck in a position, and never let go of the opportunity to attack.
The pressure brought motivation, and the team's big deficit made Chamberlain subconsciously take on the task of leading the team on the counterattack, he was no longer limited to scoring in the penalty area, but then hit the ball in the middle distance, which made Pat Riley's heart sink off the field, has this monster finally begun to grow?
Chamberlain's heavy artillery hit on the outside made O'Neill have to pay attention, and the fat shark had no chance to continue to stay in the penalty area to rest, and was led out of the outside by Chamberlain, following him around, tired and dizzy.
However, Wade's hand broke out today, O'Neal's help on the inside created a lot of opportunities for him, and he attacked without dead ends on the court, whether it was Jackson or Barnes who came off the bench, these strong individual defensive generals were rotated by him.
At the end of the first half, the Heat extended their advantage further, and the score was 48-68, and the Warriors trailed by 20 points.
Wade and O'Neal did not rest throughout the first half and were on the court for a full twenty-four minutes. Among them, Wade scored 28 points, O'Neal scored 20 points, and the two combined to score 48 of the 68 points, which is really ferocious.
In addition, Wade had four steals and O'Neal had four blocks, two of which went to Chamberlain.
Chamberlain wasn't bad, making him the team's top scorer on 8-of-14 shooting, adding two free throws to 18 points and 11 rebounds, although his sharpest frontcourt rebounds in the past didn't do well today, with only two on the books.
O'Neal's ****** is so fierce that he can always easily jam Chamberlain, and even if he can't grab the rebound, that won't give Chamberlain a chance to touch the rebound. The Warriors relied on Chamberlain alone to grab rebounds, and the Heat never counted on O'Neal, which was Haslem's job.
In this way, Haslem was happy, he played 20 minutes in the first half, grabbed or picked up two more rebounds than Chamberlain.
Staying in the locker room at halftime, Chamberlain felt tired like never before, he was too tired to fight with O'Neill, that guy was so fat, so fast, so flexible, it was just born specifically to toss people.
Trailing by a large score, it was the first time since the start of the season that the opponent was led so much at halftime, and the Warriors players were a little frustrated, but the old Nelson was still that calm and relaxed, and he was the last to walk into the locker room and laugh slowly when he saw the silent players.
Chamberlain wiped his sweat vigorously, his whole body was sweating like a spring, and the towel could wring out water.
"Tired, Z?" Old Nelson asked leisurely.
Chamberlain rolled his eyes and said angrily, "What do you say? I'm about to be tormented by that dead fat man! O'Neill was the same height as him, seven feet one, but he weighed a full 325 pounds, much fatter than Chamberlain, and it took more effort to fight against him than Chamberlain had ever done.
Old Nelson said with a smile: "Then you should be happy, and you should be more relaxed." ”
Chamberlain thought that the old man was crazy about losing too many points, otherwise how could he say such a heartbroken thing? As a result, Nelson Sr. waved his hand to signal him not to worry, and continued to listen to him: "You're only 18 years old, not yet 19 years old, Z, you're the youngest guy on the court, you know what I mean?" Your physical strength may not be the best, but what about O'Neill, who recovers the fastest? Can anyone tell me how old I am this year? ”
“35? Or 36? He's an old guy anyway. Little Nelson picked up Daddy's words in time.
"How long can a thirty-six-year-old guy play on the court?" Old Nelson stood up straight and looked around, "Anyway, when I was thirty-six years old, I had to run twice to pee at night, believe me, the big shark has no strength, and in the second half, his threat is negligible!" ”
Chamberlain was stunned, it seemed that this was indeed the case.
The mobile phone in the cabinet suddenly rang, and the tune was imposing, it was a song that was very popular on the Internet, "Soviet March", which was the voice of Blizzard's new game "Red Alert 3". Chamberlain immediately became scrambled with the sound, which was the ringtone of his mobile phone.
NBA players' cell phones are kept in lockers and never brought onto the court.
Chamberlain took out his mobile phone and saw that it was an unfamiliar mobile phone number, he was too lazy to answer it, so he hung up directly, wanting to continue to listen to the encouragement of old Nelson. He suffered an unprecedented setback for O'Neill in the first half and now he desperately needs to be comforted, and don't forget, he is not yet 19 years old.
After taking the mobile phone, the ringtone rang again, Chamberlain wanted to turn off the phone directly, but old Nelson was very tolerant of him, and smiled kindly: "You go and answer the phone." ”
Chamberlain answered the phone with a sigh and said angrily, "Who are you?" It's better to have something important, otherwise Lao Tzu will definitely make you regret calling and harassing me at this time. ”
There was a brief silence in the earpiece, and then a crisp and quiet voice rang, like a string of bells striking in the sea breeze: "Harassing you? Are you Chamberlain? Mr. Z? I'm Taylor Swift, hello. ”
Taylor Swift? Chamberlain shuddered, this turned out to be a call from the little diva to him? Is there any mistake, how can the other party have his mobile phone number and call him? You must know that there is no intersection between the two.
Although the tone was polite, Chamberlain could still hear the hidden gnashing of teeth, it is estimated that he hung up the phone before and made the little diva depressed, for the little diva who is now worth a crazy rise, she has always been the only one who hangs up other people's calls, how can she be hung up?
In fact, Taylor really didn't care about this, what made her angry was the words she said: "You know everything that has happened on the Internet in the past few days, right? I know you may not care, because you're a player, but these things affect me a lot, I'm a singer, I need to be ethical, you know? ”
Chamberlain really doesn't understand, what does it mean that you are a singer and need to be ethical, and if Lao Tzu is an athlete, don't you need discipline? What the is this logic.
Taylor deserves to eat with his mouth, and after opening his mouth, his small mouth is like a machine gun, and he keeps pouting, so that Chamberlain has no chance to interject: "Mr. Z, I hope that those nonsense things on the Internet can disappear soon, and this requires your cooperation." And your cooperation is to do nothing, you know? No matter what the reporter asks, don't care, don't answer, I believe that in a week at most, this matter will pass, thank you. ”
Chamberlain asked, "You called about this?" Is it over? ”
Taylor was obviously a little shocked by his reaction, so he subconsciously said, "Yes." ”
Chamberlain nodded and said, "Okay, I promised to help you, and then that's it, I'm very busy here, hang up." ”
"Keep laying out the tactics, boss." Chamberlain hung up the phone and said to old Nelson, and Jackson asked curiously, "Who called you just now?" ”
Chamberlain shrugged his shoulders and said nonchalantly, "It's Taylor Swift." ”
Ellis laughed, "You really like to brag." ”
On the other side of the phone, Taylor Swift, who was wearing a pink nightdress, had a confused expression on her face, she blinked innocently and said in confusion in the mirror: "That guy just hung up the phone?" He's busy there? Shit, isn't Sister Taylor busy?! ”
Old Nelson obviously didn't want to lose this game, after all, tomorrow is Christmas Eve, the day after tomorrow is Christmas, and he is happy with a victory over Christmas, so after appeasing Chamberlain, he began to slowly deploy tactics, Chamberlain is still there, Pietrus and Azubuuk, who have only played for a few minutes before, also played, trying their best to grab points, taking advantage of the absence of the sharks, to grab points with all their might.
Indeed, as the old coach said, O'Neal was more tired than Chamberlain, and he was better on the court, and he couldn't stand up after returning to the locker room to lie down, so when the Heat coach asked him if he would continue to play in the second half, he decisively said that he needed to rest.
The dual-core was wasted, O'Neal rested but Wade couldn't rest, so the injured Flash appeared again with his teammates.
Seeing O'Neal grinning on the bench, Chamberlain was happy, and after he came on the court, he deliberately ran to the Heat's bench and jumped and jumped, and provoked O'Neal: "Daddy Shaq, what are you doing here?" Do you sit down and watch Uncle Z teach your teammates a lesson on the field? Aren't you awesome? Come on, keep playing, our war has just begun. ”