Chapter 90: If it were the home field, I would be a little more likely to do so!
When the Miami media reported on the incident, they linked it to the fact that Nike helped Michael Jordan pay the fine so that he could wear red and black Nike shoes on the court.
The campaign was a great success.
Woody is more closely bound to the "finger wagging action".
In the city of Miami, there were a lot of posters of Woody shaking his fingers overnight.
Adidas noticed this trend and immediately sent a representative to contact Woody, wanting to launch some products as soon as possible to deepen the impression of the outside world.
The best way is naturally to come up with a signature shoe, but just after the busy Maddie signature shoes, and the designer team who are going to design the "Christmas War" signature shoes for Maddie, the plan for Woody's new shoes is tentatively set for January next year, even if they can temporarily put aside the design of Maddie's "Christmas War" signature shoes and immediately devote themselves to the design of Woody's first signature shoes, which is not something that can be completed in a week or two.
Woody also didn't want his career's first signature shoe to be too shoddy.
The well-informed "magician" Johnson put forward a suggestion: "Otherwise, first design a small sneaker ornament like Velcro, which is equivalent to just designing a small logo, which can not only shorten the time, but also ensure the quality of the finished product!" ”
The proposal was endorsed by Woody and praised by the Adidas team.
On November 3, the first road of the new season for the Heat arrived.
They will travel to Milwaukee to take on the Bucks.
Last season, the Bucks sent away Ray Allen, bought out Gary Payton's contract in the summer, and then sent "Big Dog" Robinson away, officially declaring the end of the era of the "Bucks Three Musketeers".
The addition of Michael Reed, along with Ford, who was drafted with the eighth pick in the first round this year, makes up the Bucks' guard line, winning both games so far this season.
It seems that the road to reconstruction has been remarkably smooth.
There are also a lot of Milwaukees here tonight.
At least 8 percent of the attendance.
In addition to the attendance brought by the two consecutive wins at the beginning of the new season, there are also a small number of people who are running for Woody.
The owner of the Heat team said that he was willing to pay a fine for Woody's "shaking his fingers", which cost a lot of money to watch, 20,000 5 at a time!
They only need to spend a few dozen dollars to see 25,000 "finger shakes" once, can this not be seen?
As for why they are sure that they can see such a picture......
Take a look at the average number of blocks per game in the first two games of the new season!
That's an average of 4 times per game!
As far as the Bucks' gang of killers looks, they are going to be hatted at first glance!
Bucks players: Is it polite to you? Whose home is this? Who are you fans of?
"Man, take it easy, you'll be able to!"
Eddie Jones specifically bumped punches with Wade before he came on the court.
Wade just nodded stiffly, then took a deep breath, looking more stressed.
Jones shook his head helplessly.
He was in a room with Wade, and when he woke up in the morning, he found this guy running back sweaty, and he looked like he had just finished training.
The hype from the Heat owner, coupled with Woody's consistent output in the last game, put him under even more pressure.
"Hey, man, don't be too stressed, it's normal to finish with the 6th pick in the first round even if it's not as good as the 5th pick in the first round......" Wade shouted jokingly as he took a shower, meant to tease.
Unexpectedly, the door of the bathroom opened with a "boom", which frightened him into a chrysanthemum, and subconsciously moved half a step to the side of the bed.
"That's not your average first-round No. 6 pick, it's a first-round No. 6 pick that Pat Riley traded for!"
The implication:
Pat Rilido thinks about me!
Can I be stress-free?
Jones swallowed his throat and didn't hold back a word for a long time.
There is such a rumor circulating in Miami:
Wade is mildly retarded!
At first, Jones didn't believe it, but now, he can only say one thing: rumors have never been groundless. There is indeed a reason why such rumors come out.
Pat Riley is too ruthless!
Don't let go of the mentally retarded!
Sensing this, he also cared a little more about Wade.
It's too much, Wade's meniscus is still a big hidden danger, he is really afraid that Wade will practice too hard and hurt himself.
It's just that he found that his comfort always seems to be counterproductive, let's just talk about this game, and I don't know if it was what he said to Wade before the game, this guy's desire to attack with the ball is particularly strong.
This kid!
If you don't have a brain, forget it, you're still born rebellious!
Bucks head coach Terry Porter noticed the situation very timely and shrunk the entire interior to a very small size.
Wade's first two offenses ended with layups.
Fortunately, the Bucks' interior line is Keith Van Horn and Joe Smith.
Van Horn was the "second generation of Bird" who was blown "godlike" by the "Cardinal", but unfortunately Popovich was not fooled, he did not choose the second "Bird", but the first Duncan.
Aside from the "Bird II" label imposed on Van Horne by the "Cardinals", he did not waste the 2nd pick in the first round in 97, and contributed an average of 19.9 points and 6.6 rebounds per game as soon as he entered the league, which is one of the few "high batteries" in this era, but also because of the pitcher attributes, the ability to grab rebounds is not very strong.
95 champion Joe Smith just debuted and played the name of the champion, but unfortunately he had no brains and ran into an agent with cerebral palsy, which led to him falling into the "Yin and Yang Contract Case", and his career took a turn, no team is willing to take him as the core, personal self-confidence and football skills are affected in the continuous transfer, and now he is a second-rate interior player in the league, and his style attributes are biased towards "jack-of-all-trades", which belongs to "a little bit of everything, but there is no master".
These two people guard the inside of the Bucks, let's put it this way......
I'm here to give Woody a rebound!
Wade missed two consecutive shots, and Woody grabbed rebounds, a dunk, and an indirect assist to help Jones complete a 3-point goal.
As soon as the personal data opened, it came to 2 points and 2 rebounds.
Wade was even more anxious.
However, the score was tight, and the Bucks were 4-5, only one point behind.
The Bucks' style of play can be seen in their first two games, relying primarily on offense on the offensive end.
If you can play a more fierce offensive than the opponent, you win, and if you can't play, you lose.
The first two games relied on the pace of TJ Ford, and they tore the opponent's direction well, with Michael Reed and Van Horn on the outside line "turretting", plus Mason on the wing cutting to the inside to make a strong kill.
In the first and second games of the new season, they can score an average of 100 points per game!
Scoring firepower can rank in the top 4 of the league's 29 teams.
Of course, their average points per game is terrible enough, 98.5 points per game, and the difference between the two wins is actually 1 goal, the opponent has one more goal, or the Bucks score one less goal, then the Bucks' current record will be completely rewritten.
Why else is it that tonight's attendance is partly due to Woody!
Their hard power is not up to the standard of a real strong team.
Stan Van Gundy wasn't in a hurry to change formations, but just roared at Wade from the sidelines, telling him to sober up and not get caught up in too much one-on-one and brute play.
The score continued to be anxious, and the difference of one point between the two teams lasted for most of the quarter.
The turning point came at 7:34 of the first quarter, when Michael Reed made a beautiful off-ball running feint on the wing to shake Jones off the ground and throw it up, only for Woody to come out and slap his shot away, causing a low cry from the audience.
They didn't want to cheer for Woody out of their own accord.
They also waited until they heard this small whisper before they realized that they had just called out.
This block really showed Woody's physical explosiveness to the fullest, and the Bucks' home director couldn't help but replay the block ball.
The eyes of some Bucks fans lit up.
This is a Milwaukee who came specifically for Woody.
After waiting for a long time, is that moment finally coming?
They all looked at Woody, and the big screen on the scene also gave Woody a close-up, but unfortunately, Woody just felt pity and slapped his hand, turned his head and went to stand in a defensive position, and had no intention of shaking his finger at Michael Reed.
These Bucks fans kept looking at Woody unwillingly, until the referee signaled for a throw-in, and finally gave up completely, and their eyes dimmed.
They suddenly felt that the tickets were bought for nothing!
If Woody doesn't shake his finger, what's the point of them coming here?
The Bucks fans who came specifically for Woody were very "blue and thin", but the Heat side was ignited by Woody's defensive hat, and Stan Van Gundy pulled Gerard Wallace in time under Spoelstra's reminder.
The Heat played what they do best with defensive counterplay.
Before the first quarter of the starter was about to change off the court, the Heat played a wave of 8-1 "scoring tide", and at the end of the first quarter, the Heat's lead also came to 8 points.
Woody scored eight points in the first quarter and Wallace, who played halfway through the first quarter, scored five points, and the two of them caused a lot of problems for the Bucks' forward line with their open cuts on the wing.
But this is not something that can be solved by blindly compressing the inner line space.
Jones had a good outside shooting tonight, hitting two three-pointers in the first quarter alone.
The Bucks couldn't afford to limit Wade by narrowing their defensive formation.
Wade, who was a little aggrieved in the first half of the first quarter, gradually found his feeling in the second half of the first quarter, and as soon as the second quarter came up, he completely exploded, eating Ford in all kinds of ways, as if he was crushed by Davis all the way in the last game.
No, Ford is still going to be a little worse!
With his height and his thin physique, he was destined to be a breakthrough on the defensive end.
This brings us to Aaron Iverson again.
With the same size, Allen Iverson doesn't have that much of a problem on the confrontation end, and his more problem is his bad defensive habits, and he likes "gambling" steals too much.
Risks and opportunities coexist.
And Ford didn't even have a chance to reach out and "gamble".
Wade can easily break down his defense with explosiveness and strength.
Stan Van Gundy continued to activate Wallace in the second quarter, and the Heat's defense began to focus on complementing each other.
This is mainly aimed at the Bucks, who do not have a strong ball handler, and force the opponent to make faster passes or faster shots through various complementary zone defenses.
With Ford restricted, the Bucks, who had no stable breakout, gradually disorganized on the offensive end.
In the first six minutes of the second quarter alone, they had four turnovers due to passing coordination.
Terry Porter called two timeouts in two minutes, but he still couldn't stop the Bucks' chaotic decline.
At this time, he had too few cards in his hand, and the problem of the team's single tactics was exposed, and the Bucks management was too anxious to send away three core players in one go, resulting in the team not having long-term main experience players except for Michael Reed.
Including Reed, he actually sat in the starting No. 2 position after Ray Allen left.
It takes time to get used to even being a starter, let alone taking on the responsibility of being the boss of the team!
There were no ups and downs in this game, and the Heat relied on defensive counterattacks to successfully defeat the Bucks and take their second win of the season.
Woody added 20 points in this game.
He finished with 21 points on 9-of-15 shooting, 3-of-5 from the free-throw line, and grabbed a career-high 14 rebounds.
In the face of Van Horn and the "95-year-old champion" who had no mentality, Woody followed the "wolf into the sheepfold", turned all kinds of rivers and seas, and easily grabbed 5 frontcourt rebounds.
It's just that the number of caps is a bit small, only 2 caps.
After covering Michael Reed, Woody gave Mason, the "dunk king" in '01, a big hat.
However, after this block, Woody still did not shake his finger, once again disappointing the Bucks fans at the scene.
In addition, Woody has a whopping four assists.
As long as the Heat's defensive counter-attacks are frequent, it will be easier for him to get assists than usual.
After watching this game, Stan Van Gundy was sure that the main way of playing for the Heat in the new season is this set of "anti-counter" tactics!
On the defensive end, looking at Woody and Wallace's various defensive supplements, he felt that the "regional pseudo-joint defense" was more suitable for the Heat team in the new season than single defense......
I don't know if it's to show that his idea is correct.
In the Heat's next away game, they still won the final victory with "defensive counterattack", and they won 3-1 in the first four games of the new season.
Woody was affected by back-to-back road and NBA schedules in this game, which he hadn't experienced in high school, shooting just 45 percent from the field on 5-of-11 shooting.
Fortunately, he was still the same as before, stabilizing his defensive fundamentals, taking 11 rebounds and 3 blocks.
The reporters asked a question after the game: "Mitch has promised to pay a fine for your finger wager, why haven't you done it since the opener?" ”
"It's still a technical foul, it's a situation where the opponent is going to make a profit, and the last two games are not in Miami, so if it's at home, I'm a little bit more likely to do that," Woody said. ”
The first update.
(End of chapter)