In the 2003 playoffs, the Magic faced the Pistons in the first round.

The Magic in the bottom half of the league unexpectedly led the Pistons in the top half of the game 3-1 in the first four games.

Maddie played very well in the first four games, scoring 43, 46, 29 and 27 points in regular games.

With superior attack power, the Pistons, who are ranked first in the East, are in a desperate situation.

That season, for the first time in the first round of the playoffs, it went from best-of-five to best-of-seven.

If you follow the rules of last season, the Magic have succeeded in black eight.

After the fourth race, reporters interviewed Maddie, who said, "It feels good to get in the second round." ”

Later, it was rumored by some people every day, saying that "I'm thinking about the opponent in the next round." ”

Or "If last year, I was already thinking about the next round of opponents." ”

No matter how it was transmitted, Maddie's pretending words undoubtedly stimulated the entire Pistons team.

The Pistons players were furious and rallied for the rest of the game.

Pistons coach Carlisle asked rookie Prince to defend Maddy.

The Pistons, who returned to Auburn Hills in Game 5, 98-67, used extreme defense to suppress the Magic's score below 70 points.

Wallace grabbed 21 rebounds and Maddy scored just 18 points on 8-of-20 shooting.

The sixth game back in Orlando was supposed to be the best chance for the Magic to eliminate the Pistons Black Eight.

Maddie scored 37 points desperately, but Billups scored 40 points.

Wallace had 17 rebounds and five blocks, and the Pistons tied the score.

In this case, if you go back to Detroit to grab seven, the Magic will have no chance.

The momentum of the series has fully returned to the Pistons.

Maddie scored just 21 points on 7-of-24 shooting in the final game.

Billups scored 37 points, Wallace had 5 big hats, and beat the Magic in a tie-break.

After falling behind 1:3, he completed a super reversal and advanced to the next round.

Maddie has also been ridiculed because of the slap in the face of the post-game interview.

Even people like Min Congda, who have not been in contact with basketball for a long time, vaguely remember this famous saying.

Since there are excellent examples given by his predecessors, how can Min Congda not learn and apply them well?

"Hey, why didn't I think of that? Too stupid, too stupid! After the first game, Kerr said in an interview, "I'm going to play the Spurs," and I complained about Kerr's big mouth. In fact, this is obviously a good way to anger the Spurs, Duncan, Popovich, and make the Spurs united! ”

"At that time, after the first game, if I had participated in the post-game interview and took the initiative to say those things, it would have been better, maybe the Spurs would have won the second game! Really, there is still a lack of experience in swinging, the water in this NBA is too deep, too deep. ”

Min Congda also engaged in profound self-criticism.

He felt more and more that the waters of the NBA were really deep and muddy.

It's not that easy to lose!

The blind confidence I had when I first took on the task has long since disappeared.

He decided to put himself in an empty cup mentality.

Start learning again and get serious!

April 23, the day of the third game between the Clippers and Spurs.

In the afternoon, both teams arrived at the Stamp Center for a warm-up.

Riccelle organised a pre-match press conference.

Because I talked to various media in Los Angeles in advance, there were a lot of reporters who came to this press conference.

Min Congda was once the darling of the media, and his various statements were bold and out of line, which often brought a strong public opinion effect.

The last time there was a press conference with so many people, Min Congda remembers the fight between Clippers players in the summer of '09.

At the time, he suffered a big loss, thinking that supporting players to fight would make the Clippers' reputation plummet.

Who knows, the United States is not a normal country, and in order to fight against racial discrimination, the problem of violence is not worth mentioning.

Min Congda accidentally became a fighter against racial discrimination, which confused him.

Later, seeing that his participation in the interview was easy to increase the popularity of the Clippers, Min Congda did not accept interviews much.

Hide if you can, dodge if you can, let the coach and Riccelle deal with the media.

His image in the media suddenly became mysterious.

Now, after two seasons of training, Min Congda is sure that he will not become a wronged leader again!

Before the interview, he apologized to the female reporter in San Antonio who had been violently detained by him.

"I'm sorry that I beat up your reporter when your team was beaten by the Clippers, it's shameful, and I'm very, very sorry."

After Min Congda finished speaking, the reporters all laughed, this is an apology, this is showing off.

You see, the ball won, and the servants were beaten, and finally fined some money, how arrogant.

Later, a reporter asked Min Congda why the team obviously won the game, but he left the stadium angrily and committed such an "atrocity"?

Everyone else is like this when they lose, how can they lose their temper when they win?

Min Congda said: "Uh... I think it's very irresponsible to decide your emotions based only on the outcome of a game. It's like educating children, do you just look at the results to decide whether to praise or criticize? Obviously not, it depends more on the process. Now that I've decided to let the Clippers play the Spurs in eighth place, I'm sure of the outcome, and I'm more concerned about the process. ”

"I wasn't happy with the Clippers' second game, it was too tough, too many mistakes were made, and I didn't play the way I wanted. If it weren't for the fact that the opponent made more mistakes and was in worse form, we would probably have lost the second game. How can you be satisfied with a key goal for a lore? It was just luck and I can't accept that I base my victory on luck. ”

"So, Mr. Smart is angry, and the consequences are somewhat serious."

After listening to Min Congda's explanation, the reporters were stunned.

But they soon got excited again, and sure enough, it still smelled like that!

His remarks have always been so special, unlike today's NBA insiders, who are always the same set of official words, reversed, and are all useless, mediocre nonsense.

Clearly, Min Congda's contempt for Spurs overflowed.

Another reporter asked: "So how many games do you think the Clippers will advance to the next round?" ”

Min Congda smiled slightly and said, "When I was in San Antonio, I met a Chinese friend, and we made an appointment that when we returned to San Antonio for the next game, we would go crab fishing together on the outskirts of the Holy City. But at this point I want to say to this friend that I'm probably going to miss the contract because the series shouldn't be back in San Antonio. ”

"It's arrogant to say that, but I have to admit that we're already thinking about our opponents in the next round."

After saying that, Min Congda thought to himself, what Maddie didn't say, leave it to me.

(End of chapter)