You are the pearl, Mo Mengchen

Chapter 1109 Extra Story: Continuous Flow
Long time no see, everyone.

I finished the "Me and the Pistons" series in 2010, ten chapters in total, and even though my writing wasn't great and I was bombarded by a lot of Chicago Fat Boys fans-guys, your taste needs to be improved-previous For a while, I launched a poll on the Internet. If the number of people who want me to continue serializing exceeds 100 million, I will write more.

I am amazed by your enthusiasm that more than 100 million people support me to continue writing.

Ok.

It's 2015, you should know what happened before, and I'll tell you a little more.

Just start in 2008 and I'll tell you what happened to the Pistons from 2008-2013.Why not say the last two years of "Dor.Mo"?Because there are countless commentators and writers who have told the story of those two years better than I have, and you all know it by heart, I won't say much more.

Why only tell the story of "2008-2013"?

Ha, you think I don't know you bastards just want to know about the Pistons during that time!

Alright, now let's get started.

At Papa's request, I will refer to him as "Dor.Mo" in the following articles.Why did he ask for this?Because since my article was published, countless fans have called him daddy, do you bastards think anyone can call him daddy?Please call him "Dor.Mo" in awe.Only those of us who have been trained by him can call him Daddy.

Next we officially begin.

Dor.Mo's retirement was as sudden as Grant's injury before the 2006-2007 season.

No one was prepared, just as no one expected in the summer of 1995 that he would dominate the league for the next 12 years.

In the 2006-2007 season, we proved that the younger generation can take the lead, so Dor.Mo left with peace of mind.

We created the myth of nine consecutive championships, one more than the Celtics half a century ago.

In the new season, all of us are aiming for ten consecutive championships.

It's not just for honor, it's about proving yourself again.

This time, not only was Dor. Mo no longer the best player on the team, he retired, Grant became the sixth man, and we started with Brandon, me, Manu, Gerrard and Fat Boy.

The imprints belonging to the old pistons are gone.

That year, we went all out.

70 wins in the regular season, second only to the Pistons in 2003 and 2007 and the Bulls in 1996. Fatty and I were selected to the first team at the same time. Grant was selected to the third team as the sixth man and was elected the sixth man of the year.

During the playoffs, we went all out and crushed all opponents. No team could last six games in front of us.

The unprecedented ten consecutive championships were achieved in a shocking way.

It was probably because we used too much force that year, and in the next year, we suffered injuries.

I had repeated glute injuries, Fat Boy had knee problems, and Gerrard's high-impact style of play meant that his body was constantly in trouble.

Within two months, a wave of injuries hit us.

Due to many injuries in the main lineup, Grant returned to the starting lineup, Da Jia started 50 regular season games, and we waited until the playoffs to return one after another, but the chemical reaction was completely rotten.

The media has predicted many times how the dynasty will collapse.

They didn't expect that we, who were still full of dominance the previous year, were knocked down by injuries in the next year, and fell in front of the Pacers after entering the semifinals.However, despite defeating us in the semifinals, he met the desperate KK Lakers and paid tribute to Jonathan Bender, who was one step closer to becoming the Elgin Baylor of this generation.

The Pistons, undefeated for ten years, fell to the altar. On the night of the loss, our locker room collapsed. Everyone was crying and wanted to die.

Only my mother remained calm.

He went to the press conference alone, answered questions graciously, and left.

The world breathed a sigh of relief, thinking we were going to win until the league fell apart.

In the 2009-2010 season, we changed the system again.

Running and gunning is a thing of the past, Princeton is no longer novelty, and the triangle offense helped us and this year's championship-winning Lakers (who also played the triangle offense) dominate the league for five years.

We started to change to a system called "Dynamic Offensive", because we have an enviable youthful vitality, and it is time to vigorously tap the potential of the team.

Under the new system, everyone has to make changes.

In order to integrate into the system, I reduced a lot of low-post offenses, increased off-the-ball running, and focused more on rotational offensive push speed; Fat Boy lost weight, his physique puts too much pressure on his knees, and he has heart disease risks. These two hidden dangers have an impact He was once depressed, but if Dor.Mo was still there, he might cheer up faster.

The pain of the new system cost us the Eastern Conference Finals in the playoffs that year.The Philadelphia 76ers, who embraced Paul Pierce and Ray Allen, plus a never-old Tim Duncan, beat us for the first time in a decade.It is a pity that they were also cursed. In the final against the KK Lakers who were determined to defend their title, they still lost in seven bloody battles.

It looks like Tim Duncan has a head start with Jonathan Bender in the battle over who is this generation's Elgin Baylor.Yes, he looks more pathetic than Jonathan, one of the five best players in the world since entering the league in 1997, but he has been unable to make it.However, I still have to vote for Bender, he is the Baylor of this generation, TD is too boring.

Back to the topic, for two consecutive years, we failed to break out of the East.

In the summer of 2010, two major events happened.

Darko Milicic joined the Lakers as a free agent, and Kevin Garnett formed the most athletic twin towers in the league.

The departure of the Serb was a landmark event for the escape of the 2003 rookies.

After that, LeBron, Dwyane and Chris Bosh gathered in Miami and became an emerging force in the East.

And me?I signed a new below-market deal with the Pistons.I want to give the team room to sign people.

As a result, we didn't sign anyone. Instead, we lost an old man and a few Mesozoic players with unlimited potential.

The front office screwed up the Kyle Lowry trade for an unusable player, and we couldn't keep Paul (Millsap) with a max salary.

Veteran Luis M. Lore, who joined the Pistons with Dor.Mo, chose to retire.

Louis, who has been in the team for 15 years, a witness of the Pistons dynasty, is in the same class as Dor.Mo, and was an interesting person who said "I am versatile and can play in any position" during the trial training.He is a veteran, but he has no airs. If you think he is easy to bully, you are wrong. He once angrily scolded Grant and others on the court.I have a lot of respect for him, and his role in the dressing room cannot be ignored.

With his departure, our locker room is without a familiar face, and at the same time, the Empire Axis will be promoted to another retired jersey.

Although Louis is just an ordinary, or mediocre player.

He dedicated his entire career to the Pistons, but his role, or his statistics, were not good.

In 15 years and two full-time seasons, he didn't get injured very much. The reason why he couldn't make up the full-time season was because the competition for the Pistons was too fierce and he couldn't play.He always said that without Dor.Mo, he would have gone overseas to work hard, and his strength is not enough to stay in the NBA.But he stayed on for 2 years.

When he left, he was honored with a retired jersey and championship rings on both hands.

Also in the summer of this year, the 38-year-old Grant signed a three-year contract extension with the team.

His signing was a relief to everyone, including Wei.

He is 38 years old and is no longer a top player in the league, but as long as he is around, Pistons supporters and players will feel at ease.

It seems that not only he stayed, but also Dor.Mo.

This phenomenon is very strange, but not difficult to understand.

When it comes to Michael Jordan, you can't skip Scott Pippen.

What makes Dor.Mo and Grant different from MJ and Scott is that everyone knows that MJ made Scott, but we can't tell whether Dor.Mo made Grant or Grant made Dor.Mo .

MJ has a lot of legends that can bypass Scott, and to introduce Dor. Mo or Grant, you can't bypass the other.

I'm going to talk about Grant and Dor.Mo again.

Unfortunately, I didn't join the Pistons until 2003, and I only worked with Dor.Mo for four short years.Four years is enough time for me to get to know Dor.Mo, he is a strict and ruthless person in most cases, if you have something that displeases him, it will be worse than the actual situation. ten times.

If you let him down, great, you can't expect any good looks from him for the next month.

We call him "Daddy", not just a nickname, but because he really taught everyone on the team like a strict father.

If Grant made a mistake, he would be taught and scolded more severely, and Dor.Mo would talk to him for days because of a trivial matter.

Grant always had a smiling face, but he was often irritated by Dor.Mo. They often accused each other, giving people a feeling of infighting.

When their quarrel is over, they suddenly make up again.

Honestly, I admire Grant.

If it were me, I don't think I could stand it.

Not only does he have to deal with Dor.Mo, but he has to help out when Dor.Mo offends us. Without him, I don't know what the Pistons would be like.

The role of some people cannot be reflected by statistics and honors.

So every one of us is happy for Grant's contract renewal, great, mom stays!
In the 2010-2011 season, we returned to the track of hitting the championship.

The Chicago Fat Boy ushered in the peak of his career.

His average time is strictly limited to 30 minutes, unless it is an intense game.

但他还是打满82场常规赛，场均23分11篮板4助攻和3次封盖。

He was selected for one team and one defense.

Won the block leader, Defensive Player of the Year, and regular season MVP.

In Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals, when I felt bad, he led the team to replicate the black [-] minutes that the Pistons played against the Kings.

In those 5 minutes, he can jump to the three-point line to block the Heat's shooter, go back to the basket to protect the rebound, and defend the penalty area like Optimus Prime, allowing LeBron to score 9 points in a single game and complete two goals in half a minute. blocks, 40s, pass breakups - 18 points, 7 rebounds, 7 assists and [-] blocks in a single game.He shredded the Heat and made Chris Bosh look like an oversexualized piece of shit.

Well, I'm throwing up after writing this - but he's just that good, I can't ignore the facts.

His strength continued until the third game of the finals. Just as we were about to win the third game and control the match point 3-0, the time bomb in the fat boy's knee exploded untimely.

He suffered a torn ACL and left the game with tears in his eyes, we know how unwilling he is.

Fatty's injury took our mind off the game and we lost Games [-] and [-].

Before Game [-], he came to the locker room in a wheelchair to motivate us.

Before entering the field, I offered to give Fatty a high five, I don't know why I did it, I even said to him, "We will win the game." (I probably said "We will win it for you game", I must have been out of my mind)
Although I think about it afterwards, I feel sick and want to throw up, but you know, we are like two sides, positive and negative. Everyone knows that we are not in the right temper, but we support and encourage each other in the face of honor, which makes the whole team full of energy.

At that moment, I knew we were ready to be champions again.

I had a triple-double, and Grant's 24 points in the half and 36 in the game brought the Empire Axis fans back to that great era.

That era with Dor.Mo.

The big victory in the fifth game allowed us to win the championship in the sixth game.

Grant scored 30+ in two consecutive games and averaged 23 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists in six games in the Finals.It can be said that he was the key to our victory in the fifth and sixth games. If the fat boy is not injured, the FMVP belongs to him. Once he is injured, the title of FMVP will be controversial.

The league eventually awarded the Finals MVP title to Grant.

I am not sad that I missed the highest honor. I applauded vigorously until my palms became numb. I am sincerely happy for my mother, she deserves it!
At the age of 39, Grant became the oldest Finals MVP in history.

"For me, the trophy just falls into my hands, and the honor belongs to the young people behind me." My mother said to the audience, "Please give them the loudest voice, the Pistons can't win the championship with a 39-year-old man. "

The 39-year-old mother is still very personable.

What makes more sense to us, or rather to the fans, is that as of today, Grant has 11 rings, as many as the immortal Bill Russell.

Next, the league shut down.

As you know, I maintained a good state during the suspension season, but the fat boy was reimbursed for the new season due to the injury that fell in the finals. Grant is 40 years old. Although Brandon is back, Dor.Mo reminds him that he has the most Playing 60 regular season games, even if you enter the playoffs, you must strictly control your playing time.

There are many reasons why we don't have a defending champion, and I don't want to make excuses.

The fact is, we lost to the Heat.

In the summer of 2012, Da Jia retired.I think he's an older man who was born in the wrong era.

With a full size of 210 cm, a wingspan of more than 230 cm, and a soft mid-range feel-if he plays in the small ball era, he will be a perfect insider.I wouldn't say he's the best big man, but he's perfect enough.Great size, great athleticism, soft touch, he's perfect.

In the star-studded Pistons, Da Jia has never been the focus of people's eyes, but everyone knows that he took on the Sharks at his peak in the tiebreaker of the finals in his rookie season.

He is a witness to the battle of "Gor.Mo" coming.

He watched Dor.Mo become Gor.Mo with his own eyes.

This year, he retired with 9 rings and his unique No. 20.

Next is the 2012-2013 season. Before I knew it, I was 29 years old and Fat Boy was 30 years old.

When Dor. Mo and Grant were 29 and 30 years old, they had created dynasties, and we were obviously far behind.

In the summer of 2012, the veterans of the Piston Dynasty returned one after another.

Brad Miller is back with Rashard Lewis and Michael Reed looking to retire as a "glorious Piston."

After recruiting in the offseason, we formed a roster that reminded fans of that year.

The upcoming new season has a more important meaning: It will be Grant Hill's last dance.

When Dor.Mo retired, he took the championship with him.

Grant's retirement year, we hope to give him the same glory.

Invincible belief cast our new season.

In the 2012-2013 season, we had the league's first record of 69 wins.

Throughout the season, I only missed one game, averaged 1 points, 28 rebounds and 8 assists, and was lucky to be elected MVP.

During the Eastern Civil War, the only challenge came from Miami.

We fought seven bloody battles, and we fought to the death to decide the winner—of course it was us!

In the tiebreaker, we narrowly beat the Heat by 4 points, and the 41-year-old Grant contributed a valuable three-pointer.

That three-pointer was not only critical, but also ridiculous.

When LeBron was struggling with mid-range and long-range shots, my shot overwhelmed him.The Heat were chasing me and missed Grant at the critical moment.

At that moment, the figure of Dor.Mo appeared in my mind, and I thought, if it was him, he would not insist on going his own way.

So I pass the ball.

"It's fucking 2013, why do teams feel that Grant Hill's open threes are not a threat?" Vinier Johnson's screams will become a lingering nightmare for Miami.

Goodbye, LeBron!
We successfully defeated the Heat and rushed towards our 15th championship in 12 years at full speed.

The Heat are the biggest challenge, defeating them, the finals went smoothly.

4 to 1, the Pistons won the championship smoothly.

The moment the game ended, the moment we won the No. 12 championships, the moment Grant became the player with the most championships in history-the moment his career ended, my mother burst into tears.

Although I was the FMVP in the finals, my mother was the protagonist of the night.

The scene was dedicated to him with 10 minutes of cheering and screaming. At least tens of thousands of fans asked him to play for another year. Countless middle-aged people shouted his name. Detroit's love for him surpassed everything.

Dor.Mo is high above, like a god.

Opponents fear him, teammates fear him, and fans worship him like a god. There is an indescribable sense of distance between the two sides.

When he left, the fans were reluctant and didn't believe it, but they didn't show such emotion.

Compared with Dor.Mo, Grant is a player who can't feel the distance.

It took a long time for Grant to calm down. He stood on the stage and said his parting speech: "Your cheers let me know that I deserve it all."

The cheers continued for several minutes.

"If I can, I want to play for another ten years." I will never forget my mother's words, "But I am very old, 41 years old, after that annoying guy jumped out of the car, I became the oldest on the team Player. I don't want to retire anyway, but there is no dance in the world that lasts, and I have to quit at an appropriate time."

"This season is my finish line, I've been lucky enough to win a championship with some great, great guys, and I'm going to be able to play in the Finals and win my 12th ring, it doesn't get any better than that. It's about time."

"Thank you all, I will never forget the little things of 18 years."

Our hearts go out to Grant and we mourn his passing.

He has always been taking care of the people in the team like a parent.

When Dor.Mo was still there, there was a saying in the Pistons: Dad spurs everyone, and mom takes care of everyone.

6 years ago, Dad thought he didn't need to whip us anymore because we were grown up.

After 6 years, my mother can continue to take care of us, but he is too old to accompany us, so let him go.

I think that's the difference between the two of them.

Dor.Mo's sternness and harshness inspired us to move forward, and it was inevitable that we would be wounded all over by him.When we got stronger, he started to age, and he didn't want to accept the fact that he was getting old. He would not be a substitute like Grant, so he jumped off the car early.

Grant cared about everyone on the team, Dor.Mo hurt us, he healed the wounds.When Dor.Mo left, he was also old, he took the initiative to retreat to the second line, no regrets, even though he was the tenth member of the team, he was still respected and loved by everyone.He played until he was 41, and you know not many guys can play until 41.He chose to leave, not because of boredom or anything else, but because of powerlessness.

He was such a special man that it took me so many words to finish this chapter.

The above is the story from 2008 to 2013. In a few days, I will share my story with you.

That will be the final chapter of Me and the Pistons, see you later.

(End of this chapter)