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Chapter 261 This Guy and That Guy

"We are the champions. Although we lost two games in this round of the series, we started a bad start and caused many fans to look down on us, but I want to say that there is nothing wrong with it. We survived in the end. There are a total of 7 games and four wins, and no one knows the final result before the four wins. What the fans need to do is to be patient, and what our players need to do is to maintain fighting spirit."

After the game, Warcraft undoubtedly became the upstart in Orlando. Although he has been Orlando's darling since he entered the league and entered the Magic team, and the team has been upgrading the lineup around him, but this time, he is the most successful of a season.

"All of us are confident and ready. I know that our next opponent is the Rockets. They have two almost invincible China, and our first game will be an away game. The fans will definitely boo us as hard as they can, but what I want to say is that we are ready for everything."

Turkoglu said in an interview, "We will be ready to play seven games. The outside world is not optimistic about us. In the record of the regular season, we were indeed double-killed by the Rockets, but so what Woolen cloth?"

The Turkish agent first complimented the opponent, lowered his posture a bit, and then changed the subject and said, "This is the playoffs. The playoffs and the regular season are completely different levels of competition. Don't think about the Rockets in the playoffs." He defeated us easily. As for the outsiders who bad-mouthed us, let him go. In the game against the Celtics, who knows that we will have the last laugh, but the result is that we won, so I want to use the game The results speak for themselves.”

The reporter who interviewed Turkoglu was speechless for a while, thinking that you yourself said that you want to see the result of the game, so isn't the whole lot of it in front of you all nonsense?

But these reporters can also see that the victory against the Celtics has given the Magic a lot of confidence, and they have indeed defeated each other in one or two games by relying on their strength, but in the sixth game Garnett was accidentally injured, and all members of the Magic chose not to talk about it, which is very interesting.

They also know something in their hearts. If the old wolf king is not injured, they will not have the chance of the seventh game. Rather than relying on their own efforts to reach the finals as they said, it is better to say that relying on themselves How lucky to get a ticket to the finals.
"The schedule is not good for us. The Rockets have rested for 5 days and are still waiting for us in Houston. Our teammates have just finished seven hard games. If they don't get a rest the next day, they have to take a chartered flight to Houston to participate in the competition. Contest."

It's just that compared to the players' self-confidence, as a coach, Van Gundy suddenly seemed to wake up, and put forward a less optimistic point of view in advance.

"I don't know what I can say, and this can't be an excuse for us to lose, but what I want to express is that the schedule is too bad for us. Many of our players are playing with injuries, and compared to the Houstonians, they are ready to go and welcome us in the most energetic state."

However, what the reporter didn't know was that Van Gundy raised this point in advance not because he had thought of any solution to this problem, but because he had learned to be smart and excused himself in advance, that's all.

In the series against the Celtics, the chubby and slightly bald coach didn't learn from Reeves, but was forced by the pressure of public opinion on him, and his way of throwing the blame became more and more clever. Up to now, from the first game of losing the game to the players, to the players after the loss, and finally to the coach's blame before the game, it can be said that Van Gundy has thrown the blame The novice who took the blame slowly evolved into a master who dumped the blame, and his morality became more and more pure and innocent, and some fans even believed that the loss was not really his coach's fault, but other players.

But what I have to say is that although other coaches despise his approach, he is really smart, because no matter in terms of hard power or physical strength, this year's Magic is really not the opponent of the Rockets. In the first game, the all-out Rockets led the Magic by 10 points in the first quarter, 20 points in the second quarter, and 30 points at the end of the third quarter. The fourth quarter completely became garbage time, even if Van Gundy Still persistently put his main players on top, wanting to fight for the last time, but Adelman didn't give the opponent this face at all, replaced all the substitute players on the field, and announced in advance that the game was over.

In the end, the embarrassing thing is that even if all the Magic members play as the main force, facing the Rockets with all the substitutes, they still can't take advantage of the scene. It took 7 minutes to close the point difference from 30 points to 20 points. David Lee, if David Lee hadn't been injured by Bynum, the absolute main force of the Magic seems to be unable to beat the Rockets' substitute?

The final score was fixed at 124 to 101. The Rockets' super high offensive power made the Magic's proud defense unable to parry. After the game, the Magic players hugged the Rockets players hastily, as if they were running away. After leaving the Dragonborn Cave Arena, the locker room of the visiting team was also closed. They refused any post-match locker room interviews from reporters.

"No, this game didn't make me feel very difficult. I only played for 30 minutes, went up and sweated and then came down. If it weren't for the hot atmosphere of the home fans, I thought I was not playing in the finals but A regular season."

The locker room of the Rockets is full of reporters. Those who win always have these benefits. Of course, the position surrounded by the most reporters is the new core of the Rockets this season. They scored 17 points, 13 rebounds, 14 assists and 5 in this game. Chinchilla with one block and one steal, as he himself said, he scored a triple-double in only 1 minutes, and if he played longer and his teammates and opponents cooperated better, he would have a chance to hit the total The gold-rich quadruple-double in the finals, it is conceivable whether his personal ability is too bad, or the Magic team is too good, this question is difficult for people to understand.

"I feel that Turkoglu is a good player who is playing against me. He always makes me want and want on the defensive end, but he always makes mistakes on the offensive end, and he dare not take on the heavy responsibility of the team's offense? Today he How many shots did you take? It seems that there are not more than 5 shots, right?"

Totoro continues his viper talent. At the beginning of the series, he always likes to comment on other teams, grabbing one or two weaknesses of the opponent and then start to spray non-stop, but at the end of the series, he is like He seems to be a different person, so low-key that he has no friends, and when he asks questions about the opponent's players, he praises him vigorously, as if he has a place for any player no matter how trashy he is. These two extremes Personality makes the media confused sometimes, thinking that this guy might have a split personality, right?

However, in the eyes of those coaches who are good at psychological warfare, Totoro is not schizophrenic, but a performance that is very good at psychological warfare. It can make the players criticized by him less confident, and it can also affect the tacit understanding and trust of the whole team on the court. When the overall situation is settled, he will stop in time, making the outside world think that he is not really arrogant Firstly, it can increase the favorability of rational and neutral fans, and secondly, it can win the favorability of players, referees and even high-level league officials, and lay a solid foundation for their own appeal in the league in the future. I have to say that this It is what every coach wants their core players to have, but they will never be able to teach them the charisma of personality, and Totoro is undoubtedly born very good at this.

But then again, no matter how good he is off the court, he needs to be supported by his good performance on the court. Totoro's dominance on the court is understandable. Take today as an example, he is completely defensive On the defensive end, he not only used oppressive defense to limit Turkoglu to only 7 shots, allowing him to score only 4 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists. , he even defended the entire front line and back line of the Magic by himself. His 5 blocks are very illustrative. Wherever the ball moved, his men were there, and only one of the five blocked shots was on the Turkish agent, the other two blocked Redick's shot from outside the three-point line, and two blocked the drive. Nelson, who was about to make a mid-range shot after Calderon, can be said that the Totoro not only lost Turkoglu, who was facing him, but also made other guards out of order.

On the offensive end, today's Totoro didn't make many shots, but it was more about connecting the entire team together. He kept playing the ball to Yao Ming, allowing the little giant to single-handed Warcraft to turn around and make jump shots. Howard There is nothing to do about this trick. Nearly 14 of Totoro’s 9 assists were obtained by Dayao. The latter also scored 32 points in this game, a new high in the finals. As for himself, he tried his best Going to grab the frontcourt rebounds, forming a three-high with the Rockets' original two big insiders, and almost rounding up the Magic's backcourt rebounds. How can he blow up the Magic at these points alone? The other role players of the Rockets are contributing piecemeal output, what reason is there for the Magic not to return home in a big defeat?

"The Magic played very tenaciously. We can't be careless. It can be seen that even when they were [-] points behind in the fourth quarter, they still did not give up their fighting spirit. This alone must make us vigilant."

At the post-match press conference, Adelman only brought Yao Ming, who performed best, to attend. Today, the little giant played against the league's top center and scored a super double-double of 32 points and 15 rebounds in front of Warcraft. Sitting in front of the TV, Reeves felt a burst of envy and hatred. If their team had a super penalty zone killer like Yao who could limit Howard, only four games would be enough for the Eastern Conference Finals, and they could play one more game. Even if he loses.

Yao Ming, as always, showed the traditional Chinese virtue of modesty. Unlike Totoro, who suppresses first and then raises, the little giant always praises his opponent first after the game whether he loses or wins.

"Then what do you think is the key to your victory in this game?"

A reporter from TN.T asked, and the little giant thought for a long time before answering with his own unique Yao style humor.

"The rebounds in the front and back courts, the shooting percentage, and the number of reasonable shots are the biggest reasons for our victory over the Magic. Today, our outside shooting percentage is not high. We only made 15 of 5 three-pointers. It is abnormal for the Rockets, but we are very smart. When we feel bad, we did not choose persistent outside attempts, but found other ways to win. This is very important for us. Of course, the most important thing is , I don’t think there is much difference between us and the Magic. The only difference is that we have [this guy] in our team, but there is no [that guy] in the Magic. This is the most important thing for us to win against the Magic. s reason."

The little giant humorously answered this question with this guy and that guy. He didn't name the specific person, but he believed that anyone with a little brain would know which guy the little giant was talking about.

"Then let me ask, why [this guy] who performed so well in this game didn't show up at the press conference. Is there something wrong with him? I remember seeing him in the locker room just now."

A reporter from China asked, of course he used Mandarin, which made Da Yao, who was sitting on the interview platform, very happy.

“[This guy] said he had a very important date after the game, so he asked for a leave of absence in advance. This is all about supporting the Houston Rockets. Are you going to complain about him after the game?”

Dayao revealed the secret with a smile on his face, and the reporters in the audience immediately exclaimed, and silently took out their mobile phones from their pockets to edit text messages, and some anxious ones even directly took out their mobile phones and called at the press conference , They all have only one purpose, and that is to inform their colleagues who are waiting outside to find the whereabouts of Totoro immediately and capture it. This is a super big news material.

At present, the number of girlfriends of Totoro is unknown to outsiders, but they believe that Totoro definitely has more than one girlfriend, although he only brought Ivy to watch the game on the team's bench , but he did not personally admit that this is his official girlfriend, and not long ago in a high-end French restaurant in Los Angeles, Totoro also seemed to be photographed taking a black-haired girl to meet the other's parents, so now the outside world is Totoro's emotional life is very rich and expresses his concern.

(End of this chapter)