Zhiba NBA

Chapter 161 (160) Holy City on Birthday Night
McGrady's magical performance not only shocked the opponent, but also shocked the whole world.You must know that in the past 20 years, there have been only 55 times before a player can score 7 points in a single game in the playoffs, including Iverson and Barkley once each, and Jordan alone 5 times.And McGrady's 57 points in a single game can be ranked second, second only to Jordan's 1986-point record when he scored against the Celtics in 63.

The media used all kinds of compliments on this, and the fan circle exploded. Now, except for the diehard fans of the Spurs, the vast majority of fans are on the side of the Rockets.

Even Wang Yuanfei was deeply shocked.In the previous life, McGrady's scoring record in the playoffs throughout his career was only 46 points, and he only scored 40 points once while playing for the Rockets.Now it's all right, I directly refreshed my personal record to 57, which is probably unbreakable.Yuan Fei knew that Mai Di's talent was higher than what he showed in his previous life, but he didn't expect it to be so high.Just a few months ago, he was still thinking about selling McGrady. A few months later, McGrady not only turned his prodigal son back and changed his mind, but also went one step further to elevate himself to an unprecedented position.

The columnists of the well-known media CBS Sports were probably conquered by McGrady, and they seriously discussed McGrady's historical status.Most believe that even if McGrady retires immediately, he is enough to become the top 26 superstars in history.There is even an expert who thinks McGrady can enter the top [-].As soon as this comment came out, it caused an uproar. You must know that McGrady is just about to turn [-] years old.

"McGrady is better than Reggie Miller? Oh, I don't think so. Although McGrady has an MVP and a championship, he was not born in the same era as Michael. You must know that it is very difficult to win the championship and MVP under Michael's rule." Barkley said in an interview.These words are not selfless. In his career, he beat Olajuwon and Jordan to win the MVP in 1993, and lost to the Bulls in the finals.The subtext is probably that without Jordan, I, Barkley, might have several championship rings and several MVP trophies.

But McGrady didn't mind these external comments at all. The current Rockets have devoted themselves to the game. On May 5, the second game of the Western Conference Finals will be played again!
Even Zhuge Popovich didn't expect that the Rockets would abandon Yao Mai and use Billups as the main attack point.Although the general Arenas is strong and strong, in fact, the defense is quite weak, and Nash can be compared with Nash.Billups hit consecutive jumpers and scored 10 points in the half quarter, making the Spurs miserable.

In the second quarter, the situation changed suddenly, the Spurs strengthened their defense, and the Rockets were collectively inaccurate.After McGrady made 2 shots, he took a normal rotation and rested, and the burden of offense fell on Yao Ming himself.Although he scored 7 points in a single quarter on 4 of 10 shots and assisted Reed to make 2 three-pointers, it was really a drop in the bucket.The Spurs won by 13 points in this quarter, but led by 51:59.

At this critical moment, McGrady from the previous game is back.He first pulled back two points with an emergency stop jumper, then blocked Manu Ginobili's shot, and then assisted Yao Ming to get to the basket. After Arenas missed the shot, he grabbed the rebound and dribbled directly to the frontcourt with a cloud-piercing three-pointer to stop the opponent.

"Do you still want to be killed by McGrady alone?" Popovich was not angry.All the Spurs players immediately became submissive, expressing that they must guard McGrady.

But determination is good, whether it can be achieved is another matter.

The tactical quality of the Spurs players is really not bragging, and they immediately played a wave of beautiful defense. The other Rockets players saw that they had no chance, so they handed it over to McGrady. This time even Ginobili stepped forward to double-team.
"So difficult?" Yuan Fei was amused, and he could still make it through playing so unreasonably.

Duncan forced Bosh to hit the board with a 45-degree hit.

This time McGrady received the ball from the bottom corner, a fake shot made Bowen block the shot, and he immediately lowered his center of gravity and dribbled over.Duncan was being pulled to the outside position by Yao Ming, and immediately ran back and jumped up to block the shot.Unexpectedly, when McGrady stopped in the air, Duncan flew out of the baseline directly in front of McGrady.For a moment, Duncan's mind flashed the scene of McGrady's difficult layup in the air in the last game. Do you want to do it again?
But this time McGrady's take-off was not so sufficient. After avoiding Duncan in the air, he also began to fall.But he was very calm, with heavy shoulders and raised hands, he actually threw the ball to the basket when he landed, and immediately jumped up again to use his better bounce speed to prepare for a tip-up.But I took a chance, because I just threw it before and hit it!

This shot knocked out the morale of the Spurs.We worked hard for a long time before we scored a few points. You can keep scoring with all your throws like this?Who else can play with you?
In this quarter, McGrady scored 7 points on 6 of 15 shots, and the Rockets led by 7 points after a big counterattack.

At this time, the hero of the Spurs should stand up. After playing for a few minutes in the last quarter, Arenas became anxious. He decisively put down his tactical system and started the unreasonable scoring mode, hitting consecutive jump shots.McGrady's touch began to cool down, and he missed two shots, and the point difference was narrowed to 3 points.

But the Rockets' MVP is not only a scoring leader, but also a defensive lock.Tracy McGrady took the initiative to switch defenses against Arenas, one block and one steal, and directly stunned the general, which completely sentenced the Spurs to death.

Although the Spurs continued to score in the following games, each of them was expressionless, showing no fighting spirit to win.

At 111:103, relying on the 79 points scored by CTM, the Rockets made persistent efforts to defeat the Holy City.

Just as the players were cheering and celebrating the victory, they saw Yuan Fei beckoning, and several staff members came over pushing a small trolley, and a large box on the cart was very abrupt.Yuan Fei called everyone to gather in front of the car, and suddenly lifted the lid of the box.

"Cake?" Bosh exclaimed first: "Is this a prize to celebrate our victory?"

"Stupid, today is T_Mac's birthday!" Billups put on airs and glared at Bosh, who immediately shut up.

"Professional athletes shouldn't consume too much of this kind of creamy food. But today is a good day, let's make an exception and eat some." Yuan Fei said: "We have a Chinese proverb called 'double happiness', and today is exactly the case. Our leader McGrady's birthday, and we won again! After 6 games, we will take home the championship trophy!"

"Good!" Everyone laughed.

"Please tell me a sentence in Chinese: Happy birthday to Maddie!"

"The pig sells the bottom of the monk's day, hurry up!" Everyone said in different ways.

"Happy birthday!"

In the laughter of the crowd, Rockets leader McGrady lit 26 candles and spent his happiest birthday in 26 years.He secretly made a wish, hoping to spend his entire career on this team.

(End of this chapter)