Sometimes, a crash is a split-second thing.

Before Yu Fei destroyed the Wallace brothers, the Bucks had already taken a big lead, but the game was still very long, and Pistons fans did not feel the despair of being about to lose.

After that goal, they started to feel that way.

Especially when I saw that my home team's offense was so constipated, and the Bucks were playing like a cloud.

Their mindset is shifting to "it can lose" – "it's going to lose".

The more the Bucks played, the more relaxed they became, because the lead was so big and the players didn't have pressure to shoot, so everyone started to play at their true level, and a few people like Martin had super-level performances.

At halftime, 38-61, the Pistons trailed by 23 points at home.

"Our defense failed." Speaking to the midfielder, Larry Brown said, "I don't feel like we're playing at home, we're limited defensively by the referee, that's what I'm trying to say. ”

George Carr's face was filled with the joy of revenge.

Although the game is not over yet, with the offensive ability of the Pistons, it is tantamount to a fool's dream to fill the 23-point gap.

This is determined by the Pistons' team attributes.

They can't fall behind by a big score, otherwise they won't be able to catch up.

You can't get too many points against the opponent, because that means the defensive system is broken.

Tonight, these two taboos happened at the same time, and a turnaround of the piston was only theoretically possible.

After the brawl at the palace in Auburn Hills, Carl had already cut ties with Brown, and the two were now enemies.

Moreover, Carl's antipathy for Brown may still be above Phil Jackson's magic stick.

Phil has nine crowns in his hand, although he is a CJB who hugs MJ and OK's thighs, but he is still much stronger than his senior brother.

What Carl hates most is that Brown preaches all day long about what is the right basketball and what is evil basketball, as if the Bucks' success is a failure of the game of basketball and everyone should boycott them.

On the surface, this negates the Bucks' basketball style, but in fact, it is a satire of Carl's success with crooked ways.

This kind of battle of ideas itself is incompatible, before Carl still remembered the friendship of the same family, and did not tear his face with him, but after the Auburn Hills palace brawl, it was not easy for Dean Smith to persuade him.

Carl didn't believe what happened that night didn't have Brown behind it.

"What's going on? Why can't even Mr. Naismith, who will smile in heaven when he sees an orthodox basketball, beat 'carnival basketball'? There must be something wrong with this. Karl quipped through ABC's halftime interview, "If this were orthodox basketball, my players and I would rather play carnival basketball for the rest of our lives!" ”

The ABC reporter seemed to have known that Carl would react like this, and continued to ask as if nothing had happened: "You guys have some feuds with Detroit, how much does that motivate you?" ”

Carl liked the question.

Because he also thinks that their performance tonight is closely related to "that night".

They have reasons why they can't lose.

"I think that's why we're here tonight!" "Everything you do, there's going to be a result." For us, many of the things that happened that night, there had to be a result. It's important to us. ”

Coming to the dressing room, Karl continued to cheer up the players.

Yu Fei sat calmly on the side, watching the score intently.

"So much ahead, what's there to see?" Leitner asked.

Yu Fei half-jokingly: "I found that we scored too many points in the first half, and it is difficult to repeat the score of that night in the fourth quarter." ”

That night, reappear...

Lightner's expression changed slightly: "Tell me you're not serious. ”

Yu Fei said: "That game wasn't over, was it? ”

Leitner felt it was crazy and reproduced the score of that night in the tie-break...... What is this? Jokes? Shouldn't the tie-break battle be a life-and-death battle where you should steal the fun if you win?

What's the matter, it's still on this?

Moreover, if you continue to play in this situation, you may soon usher in garbage time, and whether you can play that score depends on whether the Pistons cooperate or not.

Lightner was clearly overwhelmed.

It doesn't take the Pistons to do this, as long as they control the pace of the game.

In the second half, Yu Fei did not attack as quickly as in the first half, and patiently controlled the pace of the game.

The Pistons have taken an infinite change of defense, and no matter who gives Yu the flying block and pick-and-roll, whether that person has the ability to shoot or not, they will not be trapped.

In this way, there is only one way left for the Bucks' offense, and that is heads-up.

The Bucks certainly aren't going to be in a heads-up situation unilaterally.

Since the Pistons do this, they only need to strengthen the frequency of flank strikes to ensure that Billups calls for pick-and-roll and Hamilton calls for cover are replaced by guards, and they can force the Pistons into an infinite one-on-one dilemma.

The result of non-stop singles is a sharp drop in hit percentage.

The Pistons also had a complete defensive system to limit singles, which made the Bucks' inexplicable offense in the first half ineffective.

The Bucks, who averaged 30 points per quarter in the first half, scored just 19 points in the third quarter.

On the contrary, the Pistons are more comfortable in this kind of ugly game.

They scored 21 points in the quarter.

59 to 80

The Pistons' chasing effect was "remarkable", and they successfully narrowed the gap between the two teams by 2 points in the first quarter.

"Alright, Fry, it's almost time for you to start scoring." Carl knows everything, but he doesn't break it, "It's still difficult to score 20 points in seven minutes." ”

Yu Fei smiled lightly: "In terms of offense, you shouldn't worry about me, you should worry about whether damn Detroit can score 18 points in seven minutes." ”

Carl thought to himself, yes, the Pistons' offensive ability is more worrisome than them.

Then, the fourth quarter began.

From the start, the Bucks came up with a completely different pace of play than in the third quarter.

One meter outside the three-point line...

At this location, at this distance, the Detroiters already have PTSD.

Prince pounced like crazy, but the Bucks didn't even get in place, and such an aggressive forward defense was a flaw for the attacker.

Yu Fei changed direction and shook over, and just beside Princeton, he rose up and scored another three-pointer.

59 to 83

The piston is connected inside and outside, and Big Ben eats cake.

61 to 83

Yu Fei made another outside shot and missed.

But the long rebounds brought by the three-point shot made the Wallace brothers sigh, and the Bucks, who were more familiar with it, won the offensive rebound.

The ball returned to Yu Fei's hand, and he threw it to Barry on the side, walking to the side and waiting for the moment.

Leitner ran to the high post to block and Barry was switched and passed the ball directly.

Leitner was not in a hurry to get the ball, and gave Yu Fei a hand on the spot.

Yu Fei caught the ball and forcibly pulled it up directly behind Leitner.

This kind of unreasonable, illogical, and not the right choice at all, which Larry Brown called an absurd choice, has reappeared.

And this time, he threw it again!

Seeing Brown, whose face was like pig's liver, Yu Fei couldn't help but spread his hands, "Oh, the evil way basketball has scored again, what should I do?" ”

Brown's so-called price did not appear, and the retribution of the Pistons and the fruits of the Auburn Hills palace brawl were ripe.

The Bucks kept shooting three-pointers, and the shooting rate was not high, except for Yu Fei, no one's accuracy was close to forty percent.

But even such an accurate head has a higher hit rate than the Pistons' positional battles.

Seeing that the Pistons couldn't score, Yu Fei commanded his teammates to strengthen the inside point defense, and from time to time gave the opponent an empty three-point opportunity.

Prince was accurate with an open three-pointer tonight.

He was a ray of light for the Pistons in the fourth quarter, the only player who gave hope to anyone.

This also makes Larry Brown even more embarrassed.

Three-point shooting is just the worst option for him on the offensive end.

But in the fourth quarter, the Pistons relied on three-point shooting to support it.

Then, the game went into the final six minutes.

Billups hits an iron jumper.

Yu Fei pushes back and scores.

75 to 97

The Bucks took the initiative to expand their defense and forced the Pistons to score.

Yu Fei looked like a serious basket protector under the basket, and the Pistons seemed to be afraid of his momentum and did not dare to enter the restricted area.

Hamilton burst halfway down the road and made a jumper.

"Bang!"

There are 5 minutes and 34 seconds left in the race.

Doug Rivers was the only one who found the score and game time to be very similar to "Brawl Night": "As long as the Bucks score another three points and the Pistons score another two, it gets interesting. ”

Yu Fei misses a three-point attempt from the outside.

The Pistons' fast break rushed halfway and stopped.

This made Yu Fei and his teammates grit their teeth, why can't these idiots who have been completely brainwashed by Brown be reckless?

Prince hit the middle of the pitch and hit the iron as well.

The rebound was taken by Big Ben.

Big Ben's rough offensive skills made it impossible for him to finish the offense against the Bucks' surface defense.

As the game entered the final five minutes, Horry did the most controversial thing of the day — he jumped hard, grabbed the rebound with one hand, and then added it to his own basket in the air.

"Mistaken......... Is it??? ”

Because Horry's action just now didn't look like a mistake at all, as if he had put it in on purpose.

Horry met the opponent's surprised expression and said indifferently: "That's enough." ”

"Frye !!"

Horry tossed the ball to Yu Fei with 5 minutes and 11 seconds left on the game time.

Yu Fei pushed at full speed, pushed through Prince who was trying to defend him like a train, and once again smashed into the inside, this time, only Ben Wallace inside.

Big Ben made up his mind to stop Yu Fei, and the two had a strong physical confrontation in the air, which was a contact that was bound to be whistled for a foul. Yu Fei finally relied on his height to pick up the basket on Big Ben's head.

The basketball flew onto the rebound and bounced heavily into the basket.

"Beep beep !!!!!!"

The referee was afraid of another clash, and the whistle sounded bitterly.

Yu Fei was held by his teammates behind him and did not fall to the ground, while Big Ben flew under the basket.

He glared at Yu Fei angrily: "Did you do it on purpose?!! ”

"If you can find out that we did it on purpose, it means that you are not hopelessly stupid." Yu Fei looked at him mockingly, "Of course, if you fight a little bit, Robert may not have to do that, so you can only blame yourself for this matter." ”

Yu Fei added a penalty to score.

The race returned to where it had ended that night.

In the final five minutes, the Bucks led the Pistons 100-77.

However, the Pistons are no longer able to fight, and all they are left with unvented anger and humiliated self-esteem and broken souls.

In the end, the Bucks defeated the Pistons 114-86 on the road and advanced to the Eastern Conference finals with a score of 4-3.

Not only did they complete their revenge, but they also humiliated their opponents on the road in controversial fashion, which brought them unlimited controversy, and the effects were lasting and destined to be remembered, as was the case with every Pistons fan who watched this game.

Such a shame is destined for them to never forget.

Post-match interview

"I've already said that it's a Detroit cause, and I'm so proud of my guys." - George Carr on the controversy surrounding the game.

"I just want to go back to that night and play the five minutes we didn't play, what's wrong with that?" —Robert Horry explaining his actions of filling his own basket.

"This is what Detroit deserves." -- Christian Leitner's response to accusations that the Bucks lack athleticism.

"They're the Nazis on the basketball court! They twisted the game of basketball with a horrible game, no sportsmanship and no athlete pride, it was a disgusting game and I will never forgive every Bucks player who participated in this game! —Larry Brown frantically blamed the Bucks for what they did after the game.

"I don't have much to say about the loss, but it saddens me to lose to a bunch of unsportsmanlike people." - Chauncey Billups on the match.

"There's a reason that guy doesn't get along with MJ, Shaq, and everybody." Richard Hamilton hinted that the mastermind was Yu Fei.

Yu Fei played 48 minutes, scoring 48 points, 13 rebounds, 8 assists, 2 steals and 4 blocks.

At the end of the game, ABC and ESPN wanted to do a live interview with him.

But he panted and said, "I don't know what to say, I'm feeling it very deeply now." ”

Then, he left.

Back in the dressing room, everyone was celebrating, cheering for the revenge, and even if they won three in a row, they probably couldn't have been happier.

After resting, Yu Fei went to the media interview room.

There is a plethora of media outlets that have prepared countless questions for him.

"How does it feel to be in the Eastern Conference Finals again?"

"It doesn't feel anything, I'm used to it."

"You've been criticized by a lot for directing the team to select Kevin Martin, did you feel pleased with his performance tonight?"

"Well, I'm glad I had him."

"Do you have the confidence to make it to the finals and win three in a row?"

"That's our goal and I'll do my best."

"Was Robert Horry's fourth-quarter layup intentional?"

"I hope he did it on purpose." Yu Fei smiled, "But I think it's unintentional." ”

"What do you think of the Pistons accusing you of a lack of sportsmanship?"

"Sportsmanship, we have it, but it depends on who our opponents are." "Detroit doesn't deserve sportsmanship because what we're doing here doesn't have sportsmanship in the first place," Yu said. ”

"What do you think of this series?"

"It's not me, it's us." "We want to win the series, but it's not just for ourselves. It's for Ray Allen, for Latril Sprewell, for the people who can't stand here, we're going to win the series, and I'm glad we did. ”

(End of chapter)