"Shaq, you're one championship away from being like Michael and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar!

You are my brother, you are honored, and I am happier than you.

I want to help you win the sixth championship of your career, and I want to see the day you become the top three or even the number one in history.

The series is still going on, and I'm going to fight for it all in the next battle! ”

Hearing Wade suddenly talk about the championship, O'Neal, who was still giggling in the locker room, was stunned.

"What's going on, Dwyane? Usually it's me PUA you, but now how can I change you to cpu me? When did your mind open up? ”

O'Neill wondered why Wade would suddenly say that.

As an old Jianghu, O'Neill naturally knows what Wade meant by what he just said.

was 2-0 by the Bulls, and if he O'Neal didn't exert his strength, he would be swept out of the house by the Bulls.

In the past, in this situation, the core duo of the Heat, Wade and O'Neal, should naturally cooperate sincerely and do their best.

However, when it came to the 73-win Bulls led by Doon, O'Neal simply didn't have the idea and determination to go all out.

Admittedly, if he can have one more championship at the end of his peak, even if it is the second championship, O'Neal wants it very much.

The problem is, this second champion is too difficult to win!

In the East alone, I encountered a 73-win team like the Bulls, who were aggressive, murderous, and went all out, betting everything to win the championship.

With their current strength, the Heat wants to pass the Bulls and reach the finals, and they have to shed their skin if they don't die!

Besides, when it comes to the finals, there may be some historical champion team that will emerge!

O'Neill came back from a trip to the west, knowing the strength of the western team, the western team is getting stronger and stronger year by year this year, and I really don't know what monsters the western region will raise Gu this year!

O'Neal was already very satisfied with winning the fifth crown last year, and if he hadn't been traded by the Lakers, he would have held his breath in his heart, and O'Neal wouldn't even care if he won the fifth championship.

After all, Magic Irvin Johnson, the first person in the history of the Lakers, is currently in the top three in history, and only has five championships.

O'Neill, relying on what he has achieved so far, is already in the top five in history.

Jordan, Abdul-Jabbar, Magic, Russell, O'Neal, these five people have at least five championships, and the latecomers don't have five championships, so don't touch the porcelain.

Even without last year's championship, four championships put O'Neal in the top 10 all-time.

It is precisely for this reason that O'Neill, whose historical position is as stable as Mount Tai, is not at all worried about being forgotten by the fans.

Now that there are both historical accolades and big contracts, the only real thing to consider for O'Neill at this stage is the family life side.

Of course, physical health is also very important, and if the money is not spent, it will be a tragedy.

In order to avoid risks, O'Neal is naturally not willing to play too hard against the fierce playoff game.

In short, Wade took the lead in the charge, and if he could win, he would contribute, and if he couldn't win, he would protect himself, which was O'Neal's way of survival.

Who knows that now Wade finds that he can't lead the Heat to win on his own strength, and there is no way to defeat the Bulls, who are strong and have championship credentials.

In this case, the only way to tap the potential inward and enhance the Heat's hopes of winning the championship is to stimulate O'Neal's strength.

After realizing this, Wade expressed his thoughts to O'Neal in his heart.

It's a pity that O'Neill, as an old Jianghu, will not be fooled at all.

"Brother, I see what you mean.

But don't forget, you're the boss of the team!

If you can't fight like a strong man, we can't win with Shaq alone.

But don't worry too much, Shaq will help you when it comes to winning the championship.

After all, we are brothers! Shaq will give everything for his brother! ”

Wade is still the same Wade, and after being inspired by O'Neal, he suddenly swept away the haze in his heart and came back to life full of blood.

"Don't worry, Shaq, I won't let you down! Let's win the Eastern Conference Finals, make it to the Finals again, and win that damn championship! ”

Looking at the ambitious and ambitious Wade, O'Neill nodded in response with suspicion.

"Dwyan, this guy can't really take me to a championship, right?"

As soon as he thought that the opponent in the Eastern Conference Finals was the Bulls led by Doane, O'Neal no longer had any suspicions.

"Shaq is not a child, how can he be so naïve?

However, if Dwyanne is really good enough, then Shaq might as well play harder.

If they do win the championship, who would want to give up? ”

For the next battle, O'Neill naturally had more ideas.

Time is fast forward to May 27, American Airlines Arena in Miami.

The Heat, who returned to their home court, were not affected by the second consecutive defeat on the road, and after the game opened, Wade also went all out as soon as possible according to the previous agreement with O'Neal.

Normally, playing at home because of the familiar environment and the support of the fans, the game will indeed be in better shape.

Therefore, the Bulls didn't care too much about Wade's brave performance.

It's just that he continues to use the strategy of Roel Deng to lead the attrition and Doon to help defend to limit Wade.

It's just that O'Neal also began to exert his strength in the first quarter, which made Doon and others have to pay attention.

After all, O'Neal received the ball in the low post and singled, and there was basically no way to limit it on the Bulls' side.

Even in the first two games, O'Neal scored more than 20 points per game, but the shooting rate was as high as six or seven percent.

For a high-intensity game like the Eastern Conference Finals, this scoring efficiency is terrifying.

If it weren't for O'Neal's overweight body and limited physical strength, he couldn't digest more balls, and the Bulls might have been knocked down by O'Neal's constant interior offense.

"Josh, keep an eye on Shaq, don't let him catch the ball easily.

Tyson, give me a hard shack and don't make him too comfortable.

Positioning, grabbing rebounds, as long as you have a chance to play against Shaq, don't be stingy with your physical strength.

As for the rest, I'll take care of it! ”

After discovering that the situation was not right, Doon naturally immediately ordered Tyson Chandler and Josh Smith to do something, let them flank and consume O'Neal, limit O'Neal's scoring, and affect O'Neal's performance on the court.

At the same time, Doon also said that he would help defend against Haslem.

In this way, Doon has undoubtedly more to do on the defensive end.

However, it wasn't just Wade and O'Neal who started tonight, Antoine Walker also played well.

Moreover, Antoine Walker uncharacteristically did not blindly stay on the outside to shoot, but continued to kill the basket after receiving the ball.

Because Wade is also very good at playing without the ball, and Doon needs to pay attention to Haslem who is released in addition to helping Wade.

In this case, Antoine Walker kept holding the ball and attacking the penalty area, and Doon's defensive energy was naturally distracted a lot.

With the help of this style of play, the Heat scored a lot of points through continuous sudden cooperation.

Of course, the main thing is that the Bulls choose to wear down O'Neal on the defensive end.

I'd rather let other players score than let O'Neal score.

There must be gains and losses, and in order to win, the bull had to suffer this dumb loss first.

Fortunately, the consumption of bulls is not without effect.

O'Neal played seven or eight minutes in the first minute, and tonight he only played more than six minutes before leaving early.

O'Neal has scored 8 points in the first quarter, and according to this trend, it is normal for O'Neal to play 30+ tonight.

In order to ensure that O'Neal has the physical strength to score the remaining twenty-odd points, Big Van Gundy naturally agreed to O'Neal to go down early.

And when O'Neal was gone, the Bulls' defensive resources were finally abundant.

At the same time, Ben Gordon, Andres Nocioni, Dio, Kukoc and others rotated on the court, which also provided a lot of firepower and vitality to the Bulls.

In the second half of the first quarter, the Bulls adopted a run-and-bomb style to further consume the physical strength of the Heat's main players.

Wade, who was sweaty, couldn't hold on to the full quarter either, and in the last two minutes of the first quarter, the Heat relied on White Chocolate and James Posey to hold on.

The Bulls relied on Doane to attract defense, scored simple goals in a row, and played a 9-2 small climax at the end of the first quarter to overtake the score in one fell swoop.

Seeing that the scorer was fixed at 29-27, Wade, who had just finished the break, in addition to quickly wiping off the sweat on his face, could only take a few sips of water while he was still resting off the court to replenish the lost water.

When the game started again in the second quarter, Wade did not play like in the previous two games, waiting for the bench players to be unable to withstand it.

This time, Wade took the initiative to ask for orders to lead the team with O'Neal in an effort to reverse the score.

It's just that Doon, like the previous two games, returned to the court after a short five-minute break between the breaks.

The beginning of the second quarter is often the point in time for Doon's outburst, and tonight was no exception.

It is said that Doon didn't shoot much in the first quarter, and Doon was just a space point to attract defense at the end of the first quarter.

In the second quarter, Doon held the ball in the high post as soon as he came up.

Although the Heat still resolutely pinched Doon, Doon used the block and shot a few three-pointers as soon as he came up to try his touch.

With the help of blocking and dismantling to shoot three points, the big deal is a one-on-one strong shot!

In the playoffs, when the star of the house encounters a one-on-one singles situation, it can only be said that there is a lot of room for shooting!

And because of Doon's height, even if Wade switched defenses and pounced in front of Doon, the shooting interference caused was not great.

As a result, the Bulls relied on Doon's three-pointer on 3-of-5 shooting at the beginning of the second quarter to open the gap again.

However, Doon is not an iron man, and he had to go off the second quarter after playing half of the quarter.

The Bulls have lost Doon to lead the team, and their offensive performance has dropped a lot.

At the same time, without Doon to assist in defense, then Wade and O'Neal's blocking and dismantling cooperation will be too strong!

Within a few minutes of Doane's down, the Heat relied on continuous basket attacks and free throws to turn defeat into victory and reverse the score.

In this case, the Bulls can only speed up the consumption of O'Neal first, wait for O'Neal to go down to rest, and then resume the normal rhythm of the game.

The Heat players are actually very clear about this.

If they can't take advantage of Doon's absence to build up their advantage, then when Doon returns, the Heat will fall into a disadvantageous situation again.

In other words, Wade is really fighting tonight, in order to win this game, Wade doesn't treat himself as a person, and constantly rushes to the inside line with a bag of explosives.

Wade seemed to block out the pain, and even if he bumped into it, it was just a heavy fall on the floor after a confrontation in the air.

Relying on Wade's falls again and again, although he also had the help of the home whistle, he did rely on two points and one point to slowly establish the advantage.

49-55, with two minutes left in the second quarter, Wade had already led the team to a six-point lead.

And all of this was fought out by Wade by relying on the spirit of not dying.

As an opponent, Doon was also quite touched when he saw this situation.

"I'm sorry, Dwyan, I have a reason to win!"

In order to make up for the previous backward point difference as soon as possible, Doon did not float on the outside to shoot, but directly rushed to the inside after blocking and dismantling in the high position.

It was Wade's most used skill tonight, and now it was shining in Doon's hands.

Doon has long legs, a large stride, and the Heat's main team played too long in the second quarter, and the physical exertion caused the lateral speed to decrease.

It was with this that Doon took advantage of this to get to the penalty area very easily.

When the Heat's interior defense comes out, Doon doesn't play false, and goes directly to the body, either making fouls or playing two plus one.

Doon was full of aggression, but the referee seemed to be in possession tonight.

Doon, who returned to the court at the end of the second quarter, did not receive the same penalty preference as he used to, and even the two-and-one after a physical confrontation was whistled as an offensive foul.

It is precisely because of this that this time Doon did not erase the difference in one fell swoop, but only scored 3 points.

The referees pulled a favor, which made the Bulls players angry, and the Heat players took advantage of the distraction of the Bulls players' defense and scored two goals with a transition offense.

By the end of the second quarter, the score was 52-59, and the Heat had accumulated a seven-point lead in the first half.

By the third quarter, bias in the penalty was already there.

However, the overall offensive state of the Heat has also shown symptoms of decline due to excessive consumption in the first half.

In a way, if it weren't for the referee's help, Wade and O'Nealdo made some free throws, otherwise the Bulls would have had a good chance of coming back in the third quarter.

However, just when the difference in points widened to more than 10 points and the game situation became clearer and clearer, Wade showed symptoms of broken feet in the process of performing a lost step and changing direction to dodge.

"Dwyan, are you alright?"

Although they are opponents, they are still good brothers, and Doon stepped forward to care about Wade's injury.

Wade said it was okay and tried to stomp his foot after being pulled up by his teammates, trying to temporarily numb the discomfort in his legs.

However, it seems that the injury is not light, as soon as the forefoot lands, Wade stumbles, and at the same time, his facial features are also distorted to one piece, which is obviously very sour.

Seeing that Wade couldn't stand steadily, the Heat team doctors and staff could only come up and help Wade back to the locker room.

Wade is the boss of the Heat and the key to the Heat's win.

In the third quarter of G3 of the Eastern Conference Finals, Wade went off the court due to injury, and the Heat were panicked, so they naturally couldn't withstand the offensive of the Bulls' counterattack.

In the event of such an accidental injury to the star of the house, the on-site referee no longer chooses to control the field.

Obviously, tonight's situation is more like the league is helping the Heat, wanting to sell more tickets and boost some ratings.

After realizing that the Heat were not saved, the penalty scale of the two sides was leveled again.

However, what people didn't expect was that before the fourth quarter started, Wade returned to the sidelines.

Seeing Wade's return, the morale of the Heat players naturally lifted up all of a sudden.

After the on-the-spot referee confirmed the situation with the emissary sent by the league officials, the Bulls were treated unfairly in the fourth quarter.

But it doesn't matter, because Wade's injury is real.

Wade, who returned to the court, didn't dare to rely on his body like he did in the previous three quarters, and relied on explosiveness to burst to the basket.

Wade has no threat of strong bursts, and his own basket is unstable, and the return of the king this time has not had much effect in addition to stabilizing the morale of the army.

It is also because Wade is injured, and the only threats left by the Heat are O'Neal, White Chocolate and Antoine Walker.

In this kind of goal-oriented situation, it is not so difficult for the Bulls to limit the Heat's scoring.

Doon personally defended Antoine Walker, while Byron Davis also said he could defend White Chocolate to death.

The rest of O'Neal was caught on the inside, and due to physical factors, he went down to rest after playing more than four minutes in the fourth quarter.

The Bulls relied on defense and gradually narrowed the gap until there were more than 4 minutes left in the fourth quarter, and finally overtook the score again.

However, James Posey stepped up again in crunch time, helping Haslem score with a three-pointer and an offensive rebound to help the Heat re-establish their advantage.

As O'Neill was almost out of rest, Van Gundy sent O'Neill back on the pitch to try to hold on to tonight's home win.

In fact, O'Neal's performance after coming on the court was relatively average, but who gave the Heat the protection of the home whistle?

In the next two minutes or so, instead of narrowing the score, the Bulls widened the gap to five or six points, and it took two or three rounds to catch up.

However, the Bulls, led by Doon, did not give up on the game.

When Ben Gordon hit a three-pointer, the Bulls blew the horn for a counterattack.

Since you can't get a normal whistle when you hit the basket, and you may even be whistled for an offensive foul, it's better to float outside and shoot a shot!

In the last minute or so, the Bulls continued to attack the outside line for three points, which was the feeling of betting.

The Heat tried to keep the game down, but they couldn't.

With the last 17 seconds, after Doon made a crucial three-pointer to take a one-point lead, the Heat was a bit broken by Doon.

Because the Heat have no one to shoot with Wade injured.

In the end, it was Wade who took the lead, but failed to kill the game.

With 6.5 seconds left in the game, the Bulls made a long pass to the frontcourt in an attempt to drain the game time.

The Heat had to get possession back with a tactical foul on Bulls backup center Mickey Moore with 4.3 seconds left on the game clock.

And Mickey Moore didn't seem to withstand the pressure, hitting the first free throw iron, and failed to help the Bulls win the game with free throws.

"Relax, we believe in you."

Doon stepped forward to applaud Mickey Moore, in fact, Doon wanted to say that the next goal would continue to be missed.

In the last 4 seconds, scrambling for rebounds can almost consume time.

However, Doon feared that if he said that, Mickey Moore would be unlucky and happened to score the ball.

At that time, if the Heat relied on the last 4 seconds to shoot a three-point shot, the situation would be very bad.

For this reason, Doon still chooses to believe that Mickey Moore can perfectly achieve what Doon wants at a normal level.

Sure enough, Mickey Moore didn't let Doon down, as the rebound hit the back edge of the basket and then fell off the right side of the basket.

Because the Heat have three people under the basket, the Heat naturally occupy the advantage of grabbing rebounds.

And O'Neal may be in a hurry to avoid grabbing rebounds and wasting the little game time left, so he slapped the ball to the outside so that his teammates could better get the ball and call a timeout.

But no, Doon didn't participate in the rebounding process as an outside player.

Seeing that the basketball was not far away, Doon immediately stepped forward to scramble.

It's just that Wade got the ball first.

Fearing that the action would be too big and being judged a foul, the Heat would instead use free throws to kill the game, so Doon just stepped forward to bluff and try to run out of game time.

However, I don't know if Wade was sweating too much on his hands, or if he was scared by Doon, Wade actually skated, and the basketball just fell into Doon's hands.

After Doon got the ball, Wade rushed to remedy it and fouled Doon.

Doon was also a little stunned when he saw this, and this kind of good thing?

Doon scored 39 points tonight, one point short of 40.

You must know that many stars who have scoring champions have only a handful of 40+ games in the playoffs.

For this kind of opportunity to brush up on the record and brush the data to execute the free throw, Doon naturally will not miss it.

Doon slapped the ball, softened the muscles in his arm, and threw the ball steadily.

Brush –

The first goal is in!

Doon looked at the race timer, and there were 1.2 seconds left in the race time!

"It's over!"

Before taking the second penalty, Doon said with a smile.

Doon wasn't ready to make a second free throw, and even if he scored three points from the Bulls, he would still be invincible.

However, there is still a certain risk in playing overtime.

In order to be able to make tonight's game come to an end, Doon chose to deliberately concede this goal.

"Why is the arc of this ball so low?"

"Oh no, Doon on purpose, rebounding!"

"There's no time, grab the rebound!"

Before Doon's second free throw, few people on the court realized that Doon was deliberately missing the ball, and interestingly bounced the ball to the outside with the help of the front of the basket.

Duang

The basketball flew to the outside, and Doon stepped forward to borrow the ball, then turned and left.

However, at this time, Dudu Dudu-

The referee's whistle blows!

"Who fouled?"

Everyone present had a huge question in their hearts.

However, the referee on the baseline immediately signaled that someone had advanced to the line, and Doon made a second free throw.

The Bulls players wanted to curse when they heard this, but they were worried about getting a technical foul, so they had to return to the position they had just played.

Doon also signaled to his teammates to stay calm and make a new free throw.

When Doon repeated his old trick, smashed the basket with a low-arc ball again, and then stepped forward to catch the ball, everyone on the scene understood that Doon really had the ability to control the free throws in and out, and the approximate location where the free throws popped out of the frame.

The three referees on the scene were also numb when they saw Doon staged such operations one after another.

"Dwan, that's terrible, isn't it?"

"It's not for nothing that a foreign player can be MVP for the second time."

"Forget it, we tried our best......"

As the game time ran out at the last second, the Bulls managed to win the Eastern Conference Finals G3!

Considering the factor of Wade's feet, it can be said that the door to the finals is basically open to the Bulls!

(End of chapter)