Zhiba NBA

Chapter 159 (150) The Fury of Revenge

On May 2005, 5, the Rockets went to San Antonio, Texas, to challenge their old rivals, the Spurs.The players were all prepared for the battle as if they were facing a big enemy, but the staff seemed refreshed and excited.It is estimated that the Chinese food night at Yao Restaurant the day before was very pleasant.

Tomjanovich and Curry arranged tactics, but McGrady didn't listen to a word.He was sweating in his hands, and the blood vessels all over his body seemed to be tense, as if he was about to explode.

Is it nervous?He asked himself: probably excited?He had waited too long for this day. On May 2, 5 years ago, he was injured by Bowen and missed a key game, resulting in the team being eliminated. This thorn has been stuck in the deepest part of McGrady's heart.

But at this time, he was no longer a boy who was easily swayed by emotion. At the beginning, McGrady was not eager to attack. After a few rounds, he broke through and entered the restricted area for the first time, and still passed back to Bosh behind him, who succeeded in jumping.

The Spurs handed the ball to center Nazr Mohammad. Nesterovic missed several games late in the regular season with a sprained ankle, but substitute Mohammad seized the opportunity to replace him in the starting lineup.Not enough this time he didn't handle the ball properly, Jefferson cut the ball.

McGrady finally made a shot. He ran in front of the crowd for the first time, and received a pass from Jefferson for an easy layup.The Rockets started with a 10:4 advantage.

The Spurs' most creative "Demon Sword" Ginobili faced McGrady on the offensive end, and Bowen, the best individual defender, defended McGrady on the defensive end.This is almost the most difficult combination in the league to deal with. Bowen saw that McGrady scored 2 points by relying on fast break for a long time. Not only was he complacent, he thought McGrady was afraid of himself.

But McGrady was totally right, he suddenly started to steal the pass that Bowen wanted to hand to Ginobili, and he succeeded in another fast break layup.

"Hey, are you a bitch? You only dare to run in front of me to score?" Bowen spouted trash, trying to provoke McGrady.But McGrady just stared at him coldly, and didn't answer him.

Bowen's trash talk was in vain, and he could only settle down to play in resentment.The two sides entered the mode of inside players slashing. Yao Ming and Duncan scored consecutively and hit the opponent's defense.However, due to the solid defense of both sides, the scoring efficiency is not high.With only 3 and a half minutes left in the first quarter, the score was still very low at 14:10.

Ginobili's demon knife was finally out of its sheath. He suddenly threw a long pass from beyond the three-point line. The ball flew out like a cannonball, and directly found Muhammad under the basket.The latter gets the ball for an easy layup.

"Yao, pay full attention. Even a small flaw will be discovered by the Argentine. He has a strong insight." McGrady reminded Yao Ming, then turned to Billups and said: "Chauncey, give me more balls next!"

Both Yao Ming and Billups nodded.They saw a McGrady with a fighting spirit and a responsible leader.

After taking a tentative step with the ball, McGrady took a step and then turned around and pulled back to force a jumper. Bowen couldn't react enough and was unable to block the shot. The ball scored 17:12!

"This ball is hard enough!" Yuan Fei secretly wiped his sweat.After all, Bowen is a long-established defensive champion, he can force McGrady to come up with difficult shots at the bottom of the box.Can Tracy McGrady hit these difficult shots consistently?

Duncan singled Bosh and made a basket shot.

McGrady got the ball again and forced Bowen, and changed hands behind the back after an emergency stop during the breakthrough.Bowen's center of gravity is on the hips and he is retreating to defend. This sudden stop made him move his center of gravity forward. When he saw McGrady changing hands, he was anxious, and he lost his balance left and right and tripped himself to the ground.McGrady switched to a left-handed shot and hit 19:14.He glanced coldly at Bowen who fell to the ground, but said nothing.

The Spurs made a mistake and another pass was intercepted by McGrady.Fortunately, this time, the fast retreat was not easily succeeded by the fast break, but McGrady dribbled to the frontcourt and directly pulled up to shoot. This is giving up the offensive rebound, but he is confident that he can make a shot!

The ball is firmly hit!
Popovich immediately called a timeout, and yelled at Bowen.Bowen was very aggrieved. Except for the offensive and defensive transition, McGrady's scoring was a high shot that no one could defend against. I am afraid that no one can do it.But Popovich's authority in the Spurs cannot be questioned. He can only express his correct attitude and try his best to defend.

When he returned to the court, Bowen jumped with anger.McGrady sat off the court and took a rest. The Rockets replaced Reed, which really made him feel angry.

After all, the Spurs are old and hot, and Arenas hit two consecutive three-pointers to narrow the point difference to 2 points.Bowen also gradually calmed down. Anyway, McGrady will still play, and there are plenty of opportunities to teach him a lesson.But as soon as the second quarter started, he realized that he might be the one being educated this time.

McGrady's hands were so hot, he took out the eighteen weapons in his arsenal as if he had planned for a long time, and slashed points on Bowen's head one by one, as if deliberately insulting him.First, he hit a jumper with a pull-up against Bowen, then he hit a jumper with a back turn, and then he made a breakthrough with a stride and a change of direction.

Bowen became more and more impatient, and his movements became bigger and bigger. Finally, McGrady hit the ball just after he took off. The moment the referee whistled, McGrady twisted his body in the air and threw the ball with one hand, and it still went in!
The Spurs were quiet at home, and very few fans even began to applaud McGrady's wonderful goal.There is also a penalty for Madagascar, 2+1!The voice of MVP suddenly sounded from the sidelines.

When the opponent feels that he can beat the Spurs smoothly, it is often the time when another MVP Duncan starts to show off. He suddenly exploded and jumped high to complete a dunk across Bosh!The home fans were rekindled by this buckle and rejoiced.

This time the ball was given to the outside line, Turkoglu shot a little hastily, his movement was slightly deformed, he missed the shot, and Duncan grabbed the rebound.

Arenas had just received the ball and was casually turning around to dribble when Tracy McGrady suddenly appeared beside him and broke the ball with his hand.Arenas pounced too hard while chasing the ball and fell to the ground.McGrady has an open front, and only Duncan is guarding the basket.

"Slam dunk!" The Rockets' bench has already cheered.

McGrady held the ball with one arm, leaped up with big strides, and held the ball behind his head with his elbow bent, obviously in the posture of slam dunk.Duncan also raised his arms in a gesture to stop his opponent.

With a "bang", McGrady fell to the ground.The referee blew the whistle, and the Rockets rushed up immediately, surrounding Bowen.It was this dirty guy again, he followed McGrady, seeing that he could no longer interfere with the dunk, he simply grabbed the jersey and pulled McGrady down.

Seeing that the tension between the two sides was about to turn into a gang fight, McGrady got up and stopped his teammates immediately.

"This is a criminal, 2 free throws and 1 throw, we made a profit!" He said with a smile.

Yuan Fei nodded repeatedly.McGrady has matured, and his revenge is not low-level opportunism or crookedness like Bowen, but defeating opponents on the court.

Even Popovich couldn't stand the disciple's ugliness anymore, and replaced Bowen with a wave of his hand.But then he tried to use Manu Ginobili, Barry and Brown to defend against McGrady, but none of them achieved any results.McGrady scored 10 points on 8 of 20 shots in a single quarter, plus the scoring in the first quarter, he scored a full 30 points in the first half.

(End of this chapter)