Chapter 140: Entering the Eastern Showdown
On the plane back, the whole Heat team was very high.
Wade even sang directly: "What is the ceiling, I am more than fireworks, I don't need a parachute in 10,000-meter high school!" ”
Before coming to New Jersey, after coming to New Jersey, he was in two states.
He really didn't expect him to find the right position in New Jersey and play strongly!
After scoring 19 points in the first game on the road, Wade scored 17 points in the second game in less than 15 minutes. On top of that, against Kidd, he made three consecutive rounds of successful breakaways, two shots, one successful scoring, and one foul on Kidd.
"Bald Kidd" was Wade's bitter master in the first two games of the series!
Playing like this in the face of him now is enough for Wade to burst out with more self-confidence.
All the previous setbacks are now in vain!
If the Nets were right in front of him right now, he would definitely shout without hesitation: "You guys go up together, I'm going to pick ten, pick ten!" ”
Like him, the mentality has changed dramatically in the past two days, as well as the entire Miami fans!
When they left home after playing the first two games of the series, most Heat fans thought the Heat's season would end in New Jersey. I really can't see a little bit of the future......
But as a result, the Heat team found the "right answer" on the road, and was stunned to re-equalize the score with two big wins.
Although the "Battle of Tianwang Mountain" will be fought next, the initiative has returned to the side of the Heat.
The enthusiasm of the Heat fans is also back at this moment!
This......
Just two wins can make such a big change in attitude for these fans.
That's the group of fans!
They will be disappointed and frustrated, but once they get a taste of the sweetness, they will immediately rekindle their enthusiasm even more!
For the fans, this process is also a kind of enjoyment!
But fans are different from fans.
Some fans hear good news all the time, and some fans are like Heat fans, who hear good news and bad news the next.
But there is also the most desperate "fan group", they always hear bad news, no matter how much they have expectations, they are still disappointed again and again......
Of course, if you really want to say it, this is actually not the most desperate, when the players they support think that they have done their best, and they are still glared at by these players, that is the real incomprehension!
Soon, the whole team of the Heat also saw the change in the attitude of the Heat fans.
At Miami International Airport at 3 o'clock in the morning, there was an endless stream of Heat fans who spontaneously came to pick up the airport.
It's a big city with millions of people, but it's not common to have an NBA atmosphere like this!
The fans are pure and impure.
The eternal truth is;
The better the grades, the more support you will receive!
Even Odom couldn't help but say to Woody next to him when he listened to these mountains and tsunamis: "This is the most rewarding moment since I entered the NBA!" ”
Not really!
When he was with the Clippers, he was almost scolded to death by the few Clippers fans!
Where can you enjoy such cheers......
At this moment, he is like a Miami hero!
The biggest cheers were definitely Woody's. - The fans who came spontaneously at the scene were also holding the most posters!
In both away games, Woody's data is at the "supergiant" level!
And in the first two home losses of the Heat, his stats were also the only consolation for the Miamins.
At least Woody's play wasn't too ugly!
The future is promising!
That's what Heat fans thought at the time, but they really didn't expect that this "future" would come too soon.
From Miami to New Jersey, this future is coming, and Woody's data directly crosses the level to the top layer!
These cheers satisfied Woody's "star disease" to the greatest extent.
Every now and then, he feels like this is the best time for him to play basketball!
He couldn't quit such cheers......
The Miami man's pick-up made the atmosphere even more hot within the Heat.
The next afternoon, which was supposed to be Stan Van Gundy's vacation to cancel training, Woody, Wade and others took the lead, and everyone gathered at the American Airlines Arena to prepare for the "Battle of Tianwang Mountain".
At the same time, the other 3 groups of matchups have also completed several matches one after another.
In the other semifinals in the East, the Pistons and Pacers played four games on their heels.
The score was also 2-2 draw!
However, unlike the 2-2 group of the Heat and the Nets, this group of matchups is obviously more intense.
They didn't go from a 0-2 to a 2-2 draw like the Heat and the Nets, but from a 1-1 draw to a 2-2 draw!
After 4 games, the two sides have not seen a winning streak.
If you win one game here, then you must win back the next one!
And the score is not like theirs, the Heat won the Nets by an average of more than a dozen points per game in the two games on the road.
After four games, the biggest score difference is only 6 points, and the smallest is only 1 point!
Rick Carlisle takes his retrained Pacers "Legion" against his old club. Every game on both sides can be said to be a clash of wills.
The intensity of that confrontation is simply amazing!
Most of the media believes that this is a level of confrontation at the level of the finals.
Rao is that most of the media think that this round of the series between these two teams will be a fierce battle, and they will also think that it will be so fierce!
On the Western side, the Timberwolves and Kings have just finished three games.
The Timberwolves are temporarily leading the Kings 2-1!
As a rookie, the Timberwolves still have a big advantage, which is most intuitively reflected in Kevin Garnett.
He had the upper hand against Chris Webb, who is also a "big four", and it was directly reflected in the course of the game.
Take the just-concluded third game as an example, at the beginning of 5 minutes and 45 seconds in the third quarter of the game, Kevin Garnett continued to shoot and pass, as well as the defensive end went hand in hand, and got 6 points, 3 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal and 1 block in less than 5 minutes, directly leading the team to play a wave of 10-2 "scoring tide", which laid the victory of the game.
"Obviously, how long Chris Webb can stalemate with Kevin Garnett will be key in the first few rounds of this series!" That's Barkley's verdict on the series after Game 3.
The outside world basically maintains this view.
The last group of Lakers and Spurs was also a 2-1 battle.
The Lakers are leading for the time being!
In terms of the whole process, the Spurs' style of play is no different from last year.
Last year, it was Tim Duncan who dragged the Spurs to the Finals and won the championship.
This year, he is still relying on both offensive and defensive ends, and he is constantly outputting it, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is "Stone Buddha vs. F4".
That's how it is......
Whoever dares to say that Popovich has never been ruthless with his players is really talking nonsense with his eyes open.
Last year, thanks to Tim Duncan's heroic play, they defeated the Lakers in the second round of the playoffs.
But unlike last year, this Lakers team is really strong.
From the start of the new season, the atmosphere in their dressing room was terrible, but it really didn't affect their win at all!
But it can't be helped, Shaq O'Neal, Kobe, Malone, and "Glove" Gary Payton...... Who watched this lineup and who wasn't confused?
Even if this is Karl Malone, who suffered a serious injury at the end of the season, it can still play a limiting role......
The Spurs' current situation is actually similar to that of the Kings, it depends on how long Tim Duncan can last!
Speaking of which, before the start of the four-group matchup in the semi-finals of the East and West, the media expected the intensity of the other three groups.
Every team has a "top player" of the year, and it would be strange if this game was not exciting!
And the matchup between the Nets and the Heat, in the eyes of these media, will be the only one that is not so fierce.
In their opinion, the Nets will use their rich experience to teach the Heat a lesson!
No matter from which point of view, the Heat can pass the first round, which is really a "complete merit", and they can prepare for next year and next season with peace of mind.
In fact, the first two sets of the series were exactly as the media expected, completely one-sided.
Unexpectedly, it was also at this time that the show was staged!
The Heat just changed the lineup, and then they rebounded strongly, and began to press the Nets' head and beat them up.
The big score is 2 to 2!
The "Battle of Tianwang Mountain" was staged on the home court of the Heat!
What's worse is that the Nets seem to have run out of tricks on their side, and they have all begun to fight for willpower, and the key is that they have lost!
By the end of Game 4 of the series, the balance of victory had tipped in the Heat's favor.
So much so that before the start of the fifth game of the series, Bill Wharton predicted the course of the game and said: "If the whole game had not been so intense, I wouldn't have been surprised!" ”
This echoes Kenny Smith on the other side, who said, "I think the Heat will win tonight's game with ease!" ”
In the playoffs, if you are not afraid of problems with the team, you are afraid that there will be problems with the team, and you can't solve them!
And in this kind of game where even the shooting hot zone will be studied and targeted, if there is a problem that cannot be solved, then it will only be infinitely magnified by the opposite side, and thus easily destroyed.
In many series, at the beginning, the two teams will play fiercely, but in the next few games, one of the teams will suddenly play more and more freely, and the reason is that they have found a way for the opponent to solve!
The Nets can't solve Wade on the Heat's bench, which is fatal enough!
Especially after they saw that the Nets didn't have any obvious changes tonight, they also strengthened this view.
The score was really pulled apart very quickly......
After winning two games in a row on the road, on the night of returning to Miami, all members of the Heat team, who were inspired by the enthusiasm of the Heat fans, spontaneously "worked overtime" to adjust their state was very good. From the very beginning, it was in the state.
Even if there is suppression in the momentum, the state is still so good!
This left the Nets in a passive position at the start.
Less than 3 minutes into the first quarter, the Heat played a "scoring tide", which startled the crowd of shouts.
The climax of those cheers was when Wade was released from the bench.
I have long heard that Wade who came out of the bench is fierce and unstoppable.
They've been waiting to see!
See you at this moment......
It's really "better to see than to hear"!
Wade tonight felt a little "riding a thousand", but in a minute or two, he staged a "1 dozen N" scene two or three times.
The Nets' side is also weird!
Obviously, in the first two games, on this field, they defended Wade as easily as restricting a child. Why is it so hard to restrain this guy now!
At this moment, the Nets seem to be wearing thousands of pounds of clothes on their bodies, and they are still walking in the desert.
It's really a feeling of being struggling.
The heavy burden of thousands of pounds was on their shoulders, and the last "straw" that crushed them occurred at 3:56 in the third quarter, when Woody received the ball in the high post, calmly shot the middle distance, and hit the ball steadily.
From this ball, Woody actually hit 3 mid-range shots in a row!
Directly to the Nets gang of stunned......
No, how can you prevent this!
The margin has stabilized at around 15 points.
This "Battle of Kings Mountain" was really as Kenny Smith and Bill Wharton predicted, and the winner was decided early.
In fact, for them, in addition to the Heat's exceptionally strong team, there are also problems that the Nets have that cannot be solved.
There is another reason......
The Nets have shown in previous playoff games that once they have problems, they will be weak one after another.
It's like they were easily swept in the finals.
They have some tenacity, but not much!
In this situation of getting weaker and weaker, their combat effectiveness will continue to shrink......
As the final whistle blew, Woody shook his finger as all the fans watched.
At this moment, the American Airlines arena exploded completely......
After the big score of 3-2, no media is optimistic about the Nets at this time. Because it can also be seen from their post-game expressions that they were defeated by the Heat.
Game 6 of the series continued with the move to New Jersey.
Coming to this venue again, unlike the atmosphere you saw when you first came to this arena for the first time in this series, all the New Jerseys who were in the room tonight had a noticeable depression on their faces.
Without any surprises, the Heat, who beat the Nets three times in a row, won the game, with a big score of 4-2, and eliminated the New Jersey Nets!
The team, which made it to the finals two years in a row, ended up in the second round of the playoffs this year.
Bill Wharton looked at this team with regret, and he knew full well that what awaited this team was a big turnover......
However, day by day, dynasty changes, this is the NBA!
No matter how strong the strong are, they will always be overturned by the strong new talents!
The Heat are in the Eastern Conference Finals!
(End of chapter)