"Bang!"

Zhou Quan broke through with the ball and knocked down Mark Jackson.

"Tick!"

In the crucial fourth quarter, the referee blew him for a dribbling hit.

"Shet!"

Chuck Daly yelled, "Damn, it's the best ball-handling breakaway, the defender has no position at all, he's still moving. ”

He had a bad feeling that this was the home game, and it was very demoralizing to be whistled for an offensive foul at such a critical moment.

"Tick!"

Three minutes later, with the Pistons already trailing by five points, a rebound by John Cely was blown away.

"That's a good ball, a good ball, see? What do you want to do? ”

Chuck Daley yelled angrily and yelled at the official record desk.

In the 8th minute of the final quarter, the Pistons still trailed by 5 points.

Ringer Wilson shook his head and said: "The Pistons' rebounds are still not good, they have grabbed 11 less, which is the difference between 11 shots, one in and one out, which is the difference between 22 shots." ”

Robert Giddah sighed: "If it weren't for the Knicks' offensive inefficiency, the Pistons would have been taken down a long time ago."

The Pistons didn't play as strong defense today as they did in the last game and lost their advantage on the defensive end. Fortunately, Iron Fist and the Assassins were well organized, and they made the team's offense very efficient to bite the score. ”

Ringer Wilson shook his head and said: "Actually, the Pistons' defense is still good today, but it is not reflected in the data, which can be seen from the shooting percentage of Ewing and the Knicks as a team, they are ten percentage points less, this data can fully reflect the strength of the Pistons' defense." ”

"That's true." Robert Giddah nodded hurriedly.

In the end, the Pistons still couldn't get back in this game, 89:93, losing the G2 game by 4 points, and the Knicks played 1-1.

Zhou Quan played 35 minutes, shooting 7 of 17, with a shooting rate of only 41.2%, which dragged down the overall offensive efficiency of the whole team, and got 18 points, 5 rebounds, 11 assists, 2 steals, 2 turnovers and 2 fouls on 4 of 5 free throws.

The Assassins scored 15 points, shot 50 percent from the field, and dished out six assists as they rebounded in form.

Joe Dumas was the team's leading scorer, scoring 21 points and shooting 47 percent from the field.

In the whole game, he grabbed 37 rebounds, compared to 49 for the Knicks.

'It's better than playing, with only 29 in the game and 17 defeats, so today there was an improvement.' Back in the locker room, Zhou Quan smiled bitterly.

Chuck Daley summed up the game and said with an ugly face: "Today I lost in rebounds, steals and block turnovers, and the offensive efficiency is 10 percentage points higher than that of the Knicks."

Unfortunately, the difference in the number of shots is too big, we only have 70 shots, the Knicks have 90 shots, a full 20 shots, the Knicks only have a 38.5% shooting rate, these 20 shots, also hit 7.7 more shots, 15 more points. ”

Rodman grabbed seven rebounds today and played just 25 minutes, which is about the same number as he was last time.

At this time, he also helplessly covered his face with a towel, the reason for the injury was not that he didn't work hard, but he always felt ashamed of his teammates.

Chuck Daly added: "There were some problems with the scale in the second half, but it was part of the game and we have to learn to get used to it.

Next, we will have two away games. We've got to win at least one of these two games, otherwise we're going to be knocked out by the Knicks on the road, and that's not what you're hoping for. ”

"I don't accept the result of being eliminated in the first round."

The Assassin Thomas was the first to show his attitude, and his form has picked up today and his self-confidence has returned.

Zhou Quan also said: "They can win on our home stadium, and we certainly have the ability to win on theirs. ”

Speaking of which, he looked at Rodman, this guy is so important, without his rebounds, it would be really difficult for the team to win against the Knicks.

In the regular season, the Knicks averaged 44.8 rebounds per game, fourth in the East, the Pistons were 44.3, sixth in the East, and the Knicks were only 0.5 more than the Pistons, but now that Rodman is injured, the huge rebounding gap can directly kill the Pistons.

He knows Rodman's injury won't get better that quickly, but as long as the big bugs can grab 10 to 12 rebounds per game, the Pistons have a chance.

Grabbing a few more rebounds will allow the Knicks to grab a few fewer rebounds, one in and one out, and the gap is also very large.

For example, in this game, if Rodman grabs 10, the whole team will have 40, and the Knicks will have 46, only 6 short.

And this can narrow the huge gap in the number of shots between the two sides, the Pistons have to have 6 more shots, the Knicks have to have 6 less, one in and one out is 12 shots, with the situation of this game, the Pistons only need three more rebounds, it really won't necessarily lose, if it can be five more, there is hope of winning.

After Chuck Daley summed up, Zhou Quan asked assistant coach Musk to get his data.

After the G1 game was averaged, the scores, rebounds, and assists met the task requirements, and the shooting percentage and true shooting percentage were barely reached, only the assist-to-turnover ratio was a little worse, and it was necessary to continue to reduce turnovers.

It's easy for him to make mistakes when he gets into the pile, but if he doesn't kill in, his offensive efficiency will be very poor, which is a choice to take care of one or the other, which is very embarrassing.

At this time, Musk said: "The other three games have been over, the Green team beat the Pacers twice and got the match point, the Suns did the same, got the match point from the Spurs, and the Warriors pulled one back and tied with the SuperSonics." ”

"Larry Bird was the same as he played, and he didn't play." Another assist, Relo Wilt, said.

The assassin smiled: "The strength of the green team is still very strong, and the big bird is not there, so it can easily handle the Pacers." ”

When Zhou Quan walked into the bathroom with a towel, he said: "If you don't play in the playoffs, Big Bird will definitely retire." ”

"He's not less injured than I am." The assassin sighed.

"Isaiah, hopefully you'll be in the same shape as you were today in the next game." Jo Dumas said.

"I will." Isaiah spoke with confidence.

The next day, the media commented on last night's four games.

The Green team and the Suns, who won the match point, were of course well received, and the SuperSonics, who tied with the Warriors, were also well received, because they were weak against strong, and only the Pistons were criticized.

"The third in the East played the sixth in the East, and they were forced to draw at home, the chances of the Pistons advancing in the first round have dropped significantly, the probability of advancing to the Eastern Conference finals is almost zero, and the probability of winning the championship is zero, ESPN should immediately adjust the Pistons' championship probability data." Miami Daily News.

The opinion of this media was immediately recognized by the mainstream media.

Of course, the mainstream media refers to the New York media, but ESPN didn't adjust it right away, sticking to the original data.

"Mr. Zhou Quan, your car has been shipped from the United States, and it will arrive at Shenzheng ...... in 15 days" This morning, Citibank contacted Zhou Quan.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the piston arrived in New York, settled into the hotel at half past four, and then held a press conference at the request of the media.

"Coach Daley, the media thinks the chances of the Pistons advancing in the first round are below 30%, what do you think?" A reporter from the New York Times asked.

Daley said coldly: "Does the media mean the New York Times?" We in the Detroit media don't think so, and we think we're going to beat the Knicks and advance to the second round. ”

"With your rebounding ability, do you think it's possible?" The reporter said with disdain.

Daley sneered and said: "Look at the first two games, how many rebounds did you have ahead of us, but the result, 1 to 1, I really don't know where your confidence came from?" Does Patrick have less than forty percent of the shots? ”

"You?" The reporter's face darkened with anger.

All the New York media shared the same hatred and went on to ask questions that embarrassed the Pistons.

Zhou Quan is, of course, the focus of the New York media, and what acts of violence, what Detroit murderers, have all been turned over.

It was almost six o'clock, everyone had dinner, it was already seven o'clock, and after washing, they gathered together in Jo Dumas's room to watch the game.

After discussion, it was decided to tune in to watch the Bulls vs. Heat game.

Michael Jordan has become the league's signature star after winning the championship, and the attraction is great, including NBA players like them.

Even Zhou Quan, although he has a great contradiction with Jordan, he has to convince that guy's strength.

After watching the half, the Bulls had a lead of 23 points with a score of 64:41.

Not only is Jordan in good shape, Pippen is also in very good shape tonight, and the offensive efficiency is even higher than Jordan's, with a shooting rate of more than 60%, and he scored 16 points, 3 assists, 2 rebounds and 2 steals in the half.

"Without Pippen, Jordan didn't want to beat us last year." The Assassin suddenly said with some reluctance.

"What did Pippen do last year?" Zhou Quan asked.

The assassin thought for a moment and said: "I was very impressed, I remember that it seemed to be 22 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals and 2 blocks, and Jordan's performance in that Eastern Conference final was slightly better than Pippen." ”

Zhou Quan felt that even if Jordan didn't have Pippen by his side last year, there would be other people, and the Pistons might not be swept, but it was almost impossible to win against the Bulls.

But of course he wouldn't fight the Assassins, there was no need for that.

The game ended an hour later, and in the end, the Bulls scored 120 points and beat the Heat by 30 points.

Jordan shot 12-of-23 from the field, shooting 52.2 percent from the field and 9-of-10 from the free-throw line, scoring 33 points.

Pippen shot 10-of-15 from the field for 66.7 percent and scored 30 points on 10-of-12 free throws.

Zhou Quan was surprised to find that the two of them didn't shoot a single three-pointer combined, and they kept breaking through the whole process, and some shots killed the Heat, and then kept hitting the restricted area to make kills, so that the Heat didn't dare to defend in the end.

In addition, Jordan's rebounding ability is really strong, and he actually grabbed 13 rebounds, which is the rebounding king of the Bulls.

He recalled that in the G1 game, Jordan should have grabbed 11 rebounds, which is also the most for the Bulls.

"This guy is averaging 12 rebounds per game? The team is short of rebounds right now, and Jordan can grab so many rebounds with a single shooting guard, and it looks like I'm going to have to tap into my rebounding potential. ”

He couldn't help but secretly decide to invest more in rebounders.

However, his prediction ability is not good now, his rebounding ability is average, and he can grab an average of five per game, which is also the result of hard work.

……

On the morning of the 27th, Zhou Quan completed 300 stop-up jump shots at the hotel, and then completed another 300 shots at Madison Square Garden in the afternoon, completing the last round of training, improving his shooting skills to level 94 and his stop-up jump shot to level 88.

By this time, he had completed eight pull-up jump shots.

"Got a mission?"

At this moment, the system screen automatically unfolded in front of his eyes, and he was very excited.

"Please complete thirty hours of ball control training, ball sense +1, ball control +1, breakthrough +1, this task can be completed once."

"Ask the host to complete 3,000 pull-up jumpshots, +1 pull-up jumper, this task can be completed 3 times in a row."

"Ask the host to complete 3,000 throws, +1 throws, this task can be completed 5 times in a row."

"Ask the host to complete 3,000 spin jumpers, +1 turnaround jumpers, and this task can be completed 15 times."

"Ask the host to complete 3,000 step-back jumpshots, +1 step-back jumper, and this task can be completed 5 times."

"Ask the host to complete 3,000 hooks, hook hand boost +1, this quest can be completed 25 times."

……

"The host completes three of the above shooting training tasks, and the basic shooting skills are +1 and the offense is +1. Complete six of them, +2 for shooting and +2 for offense. All completed, shooting basics +3, offense +6, stamina +1. ”

He looked a little confused, there were too many tasks, more than a dozen, so the shooting technology had tasks, and so many tasks were issued at one time, is the system cramping?

But it's a good thing to have tasks, training tasks are also tasks, and the system doesn't issue these tasks, so he still has to train these techniques.

The only difference is that he is still unsure who is faster between the improvement of self-training and the improvement of the system after completing the task.

However, in comparison, the playoff task rewards issued by the system are not very good, and the three-to-two first-round promotion is only one skill point, which is not as good as the training task, it seems that the system hopes that he will improve his skill level through training, at least for now.

These dozen training tasks, except for ball control training, are all shooting training, and the number of consecutive completions is to limit the improvement limit of the technique to level 91 or 92.

Of course, there are exceptions, such as layups, which are now level 90, and can be promoted to level 95 in five times.

He estimates that this should be the limit of the current technical level of physical fitness, and if you want to improve your technical level, you need to make your quality stronger.

In addition, the training of the stop-up jump shot was issued three more times, and it was still a round of 3,000 times, but only the stop-and-go jump shot was improved, and the basic shooting skills were no longer improved.

This is the same as his previous guess, it seems that it should indeed be a forced upgrade of one level every three thousand.

He is ready to make a training plan for these tasks and train in the offseason.

But there are too many tasks to definitely not be carried out all, and some skills need to be selectively improved first.

……

At seven o'clock in the evening, the star-studded Madison Square Garden was already packed.

There are a large number of Hollywood stars and supermodels on the sidelines, as well as a large number of wealthy business celebrities, and some sports stars in other fields.

The No. 1 Knicks fan, Spike Lee, was standing on the sidelines, watching the cheerleaders dance.

In the away team's locker room, Zhou Quan looked at the TV, and saw a lot of brightly dressed stars from TNT's live footage, and couldn't help but think of Catherine.

If Catherine doesn't go well. Maybe he will choose to go back to the UK to develop again, and then he can only break up again.

At half past seven, the two sides announced their starting lineups.

Pistons: John Sely, Dennis Rodman, Orlando Ulrich, Joe Dumas, Zhou Quan

Knicks: Ewing, Charles Oakley, McDaniel, Gerard Wilkins, Mark Jackson

On the TNT commentary bench, Robert Gilda said: "For the Knicks, this game must be won, and if they lose the first home court, they will let the Pistons get the match point, which is a very demoralizing result." ”

Ringer Wilson smiled: "The Pistons don't want to lose, they can still reach the Eastern Conference finals last year, if they can't even pass the first round this year, it means that this team is really finished." ”

"How?"

Robert Giddah asked cooperatively.

Ringer Wilson said: "Everyone knows that the Pistons are indeed rebuilding and have found a new core, but we know that the Pistons' main lineup has not changed, Joe Dumas is still averaging 20 All-Star level per game, and the Assassins have increased the thickness of the bench after entering the bench lineup, although there is one less Rambir, but this team should be stronger than last season's lineup on paper."

I mean, the squad is stronger than last year, but if you can't even advance in the first round, will it be a failure to rebuild with Iron Fist at its core? ”

"But he's a rookie."

Robert Giddah said.

Ringer Wilson smiled: "No, no, he's the rookie of the year, and his performance in the first two games of the playoffs is also amazing, averaging 22 points, 6.5 rebounds, 10.5 assists and 3.5 steals per game, is this a rookie's playoff stats?"

No, it's an All-Star stat, so we can't just deny him because he's a rookie. ”

"Ringer, you're right." Robert Giddah nodded.

Ringer Wilson added: "Iron Fist alone can offset the decline of Ranbier and the Assassins, which is why I think the Pistons' roster is stronger than last season."

But if he can't lead the team to the finals, I'd think it's his failure, and the failure of the Pistons' rebuild. ”

Robert Gidda had been echoing his partner's statement, but then retorted: "But Ringer, you can't think that Iron Fist alone can offset the declining strength of Ranbir and the Assassins just because of the data, or even more."

In fact, Ranbill's deterrent power under the basket is very large, without him, anyone dares to impact the Pistons' basket, which is a big loss for the Pistons, and you don't count this loss. ”

Ringwell smiled: "That's right, but counting this, I think the Iron Fist can also offset the declining strength of Ranbir and the Assassins, after all, he has played 20+10 stats." ”

Robert Giddah retorted again: "You can't ignore the drop in strength caused by injuries to Rodman and the Assassins, and looking at their performance in the first two games, can you ignore the impact of this decline on the team?" No, you can't, the Pistons grabbed a total of 29 fewer rebounds than the Knicks in two games.

I would say that if they play a little better, Rodman can grab twelve or thirteen rebounds, the Assassins can average 10 points per game, and as long as he can shoot 40 percent, the Knicks have lost two straight games and the Pistons have got the match point.

So, Ringer, I'm sorry, I don't agree with you, I think Tekken's first two games are comparable to Magic's performance in the playoffs in his rookie season for a rookie, yes, the one in which he won the FMVP. ”

……

(End of chapter)