Chapter 49, Coach Larry Brown is worth it in this life
The night before the Finals, Stern frowned in his office, helplessly looking at the ratings in front of him, 11.5% (lowest)/20.5% (highest), compared with the Spurs Nets battle that lost suspense early last year, both the ratings and the number of viewers have almost doubled this year.
But this year's Finals are really ugly, and compared to the Lakers' Pistons' average rating of 20% in '88, this is still far from it.
Stern doesn't like the Pistons, but the Lakers of the "Big Four" are not his cup of tea, and superstar huddles will destroy the ecology of the NBA, which he does not advocate, so after weighing the rights and disadvantages, he chose not to bother.
The league's long-planned "no handcheck" rule is ready to be introduced next season, and I think the Pistons, a group of blue-collar workers, will not be so torturous after being slashed like that.
Stern closed his eyes and entered fantasy time.
At the same time, Mo Wen opened his eyes in the dungeon.
His luck was quite good, and he picked a [Hell Copy] tonight, which turned out to be a Finals copy of the Pistons 04-05.
After that regret that he didn't hammer this old man, he was a bit hasty when he met Larry Brown in a later dungeon, not to mention that it was a pity not to collect information about this old man's ability to resist blows.
He wanted to teach the old man a lesson in reality, but he didn't want to exchange it with him, so that the old man would be free from the torment of old age, and at the same time, he would lose if he thought about what he was in.
When there is still 1 minute left in each dungeon game, Mo Wen will take the initiative to find Larry Brown to hug him to test the old man's anti-thrashing ability and anti-squeezing ability.
NPCs have no memory, so Mo Wen tried 7 times, and he became more and more precise in his strength.
"Coach, are you okay Coach?"
Mo Wen, who assumed the identity of Hamilton, called "affectionately" to Larry Brown.
"Stop fighting, don't fight, let me catch my breath, I can't breathe! Hauh..."
Letting go of Larry Brown, Mo Wen, who looked at him still panting, smiled heartily.
"Coach, it's great that you're not dead!"
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On June 15, the finals G5, the home court of the Pistons boiled over.
81-year-old Pistons owner Bill Davis came to the sidelines, and he was "on display" at Auburn Hills Palace with two trophies, not the O'Brien Cup before the Pistons, but the championship trophies won at his WNBA and NHL (Hockey League) clubs.
As long as they win the NBA championship again, Detroit will become the unprecedented "treble" of sports leagues in the history of the United States.
The Los Angeles fans in front of the TV are sour, but it's hard to say anything, if it's compared to the NBA championship trophy, the entire league will be able to straighten the back in front of the Lakers by Celtic, but compared to the championships of other leagues won in the same year, Los Angeles's best result is the NBA and WNBA championships.
And more than 200 kilometers away, Cleveland fans were even more in tears when they saw this scene, Cleveland has held a record of 107 seasons in the four major leagues of the ugly country's sports world, and has not won a championship for 37 consecutive years.
Detroit may have to take 3 a year, what the devil is this.
Pistons legend Isaiah and Ranbir were both invited to TNT's studio, and TNT was said to have hired Magician and Skyhook, but both of them hung up before they could finish their calls.
Playing the championship banner played by the Pistons at home, and the various cheering cards held up by the fans on the sidelines to celebrate the Pistons' triple crown, Mo Wen has a sense of half-open champagne.
Istanbul night hasn't happened yet, and the sports world doesn't have that many scruples at the moment.
Although I know that this will definitely stimulate the Lakers players, but most of the Lakers players, including most of the Lakers players, do not believe that the Lakers can still win this year's Finals, and after the Finals G4, the Lakers have entered a state of "reprieve from death".
In the case of Ma Long's confirmed absence from the factory game, the Zen master also tried to encourage the players with low morale, but the quiet away locker room Zen master couldn't help but stop the chicken soup at the end.
After the start of the competition, it showed what it means to be vigorous, then decline, and exhaustion.
In the first quarter, the Lakers could barely match the easy-hearted Pistons, who were 25-24 Lakers.
In the second quarter, except for Kobe Bryant, who was still fighting, everyone else did not have much vitality left at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, O'Neal fought 4 games in front, his physical reserves declined greatly, coupled with the impact of mentality, he only handed over 1 of 3 shots in 9 minutes in the second quarter, 1 of 4 free throws, 3 points and 0 rebounds.
The Pistons easily won by 10 points in the face of the Lakers, who had a faint tendency to swing, and in the case of low defensive intensity, every player of the Pistons had a chance to score, Rashid 7 points, Hamilton 6 points, Billups 4 points, Oku 6 points, Prince 3 points, Big Ben 3 points, Mo Wen came off the bench for 8 minutes, scored 4 points and 2 assists, and did not score much, but the victory was easy to play.
At halftime, it was cold and scary in the away locker room, the Zen master didn't want to say anything, and the Lakers' players didn't have any ideas.
O'Neal doesn't want to think about the championship anymore, he is more concerned about his own arrangements for next season at the moment, and the Lakers management and owner have made it clear that they don't want to renew his contract early.
And Kobe Bryant didn't dare to bite his jersey in the other corner, just in the finals G3, he was still thinking about how to compete with O'Neal for FMVP, thinking about how to use O'Neal's involvement to help him get more points, who would have thought that after G4, everything would change.
"A united whole can always defeat a group of stragglers, and we became a group of stragglers at an inopportune time." The veteran Fox shook his head in the locker room and whispered that he was ready to announce his retirement after this game, fed up with the farce of the Lakers' internal tearing team.
In the third quarter, the situation was completely one-sided, and the Lakers were so bad that the Pistons fans were too lazy to boo them, except for O'Neal and Kobe, the Lakers didn't even score in this quarter, and the Pistons once led the Lakers by 27 points.
After Mo Wen came off the bench, he held the ball outside the three-point line, and Devin George couldn't even come up to defend in the first place.
The whole team of the Lakers gave them the feeling of a girl who had lost the light in her eyes, lying there and saying, "Do it yourself, hurry up." ”
In the fourth quarter, for the sake of face, Kobe Bryant and O'Neal played for half a quarter to chase the difference to within 20, and then the two teams replaced the substitute players, counting the seconds and waiting for the game to end.
Mo Wen came on the court and brushed his score to 16 points and happily sat back on the bench.
When the whistle blew for the game, the Pistons rushed onto the court with a roar and hugging.
Mo Wen, on the other hand, ran in front of Larry Brown with Milicic.
"Thank you, Coach Larry."
Mo Wen hugged Larry Brown before he could react, and then slapped him the back.
Milicic then arrived and circled the back to give Larry Brown a front and back pinch, left and right for men.
"Put... Put... Uh, ahem. ”
Larry Brown's squeezed eyes were about to bulge, but Mo Wenyou's shoulders were against his neck, making him unable to speak. And his arms that were held by Mo Wen made him want to push Mo Wen away.
Herb Brown, who was blocked by Milicic next to him, was directly stunned, not that these two children have a bad relationship with Larry, why are they hugging so tightly now.
Sure enough, victory is the magic weapon of the coach's stable position.
Mo Wen and Milicic walked in the direction of the Pistons players on the court with Larry Brown on their feet, and the Pistons players are now excited to hug each other, and it will not be a pity to see Larry Brown coming.
"Wait... etc... Stop··· Stop... ”
Big Ben, who was most valued by Larry Brown, gave him the deepest hug at this moment, and this undrafted man never dreamed that he would also become a champion one day, and his gratitude for Brown can be imagined.
"Uh... Hmmm... Help... ”
Larry Brown, who has been gasping for breath since just now, was almost sent away by Big Ben's hug.
Fortunately, it was the empathetic Mo Wen who rescued Larry Brown from Big Ben's embrace.
Before Larry Brown could catch his breath, he felt like his body was being laid down.
Mo Wen hugged his head, Milicic lifted Larry Brown's legs, Colis held up Larry Brown's ass with a very eyed look, and Oku and Mike James seemed to understand what and also lifted Larry Brown's upper and lower bodies.
The stupid Big Ben didn't think much about it, and came over, and a few of the Pistons' starters seemed to understand something, but they hesitated and followed, playing for a season, who hasn't had any personal hatred with Brown.
"Long live Coach Larry Brown!"
In Mo Wen's chanting, Larry Brown was thrown into the air by a group of players.
"Hooray!"
"Hooray!"
Larry Brown, who was just a little sober, felt a wave of dizziness, but his eyes had already been slapped out by Mo Wen when he hugged just now, and he could only look at the scene flying up and down around him in a daze.
The Zen master who was waiting for the handshake stared at the scene in front of him dumbfounded, and for a moment he suddenly felt that the Lakers' players were actually quite cute.
"How nice, Larry Brown is such a good coach who is loved by the fans."
A reporter next to him recorded the scene with his camera.
"It's not the first time I've seen players like a coach so much, and I don't know who said that Larry Brown has a tense relationship with the players, it's all rumors!"
"Coach Larry Brown is worth it in this life!"
After flying in the sky three or four times, Larry Brown, who had come back to his senses, finally called out, and Mo Wen and Milicic looked at each other.
The two had a tacit understanding and stuck their elbows on the outstretched arms of the players on either side of them.
Although it seemed that everyone wanted to catch the old handsome, except for Big Ben's arm blocking Larry Brown's head, the others couldn't even slow down Larry Brown's whereabouts.
peng——
There was a muffled sound from the Pistons' court.
The Pistons players, who realized that they seemed to have done something wrong, hurriedly distanced themselves and focused on owner Davidson after looking around.
Looking at Larry Brown, who was moaning on the ground, Davidson, who had wanted to go on the field to celebrate, swallowed.
"Well, I still have some things, I won't bother, you continue."