warrior godfather

Chapter 513 Warriors Can Really Turn Over
Chicago, *** Tower.

In one of the luxurious apartments, Rose was lying lazily on the sofa in the living room, quietly watching the TV in front of him.

This apartment was purchased by Ross for US$280 million last year. With his financial resources, he was enough to buy a top mansion, but he didn't do that. Instead, he bought a luxury apartment. The purpose is not to be disturbed, and The apartment is not too far from the United Center, allowing him to get plenty of rest before games.

But now he doesn't need to rest. After losing the Eastern Conference finals, he has been resting until today.

At this time, the Warriors and G2 of the Finals were playing on the TV screen in front of him. The game had reached 10 minutes and 12 seconds into the second quarter, and the score was 35:30. The Warriors led the Heat by 5 points.

The two teams stayed on the field in a rotation lineup. Compared with the fierce offense and defense of the starting lineup, the intensity was much lower. Rose no longer concentrated on watching the game as he did in the first quarter.

His eyes swept across the familiar Heat players on the screen, and there was still a faint throbbing pain deep in his heart.

It was these people who kept him out of the finals for three consecutive years.

Two years ago, Rose became the youngest MVP in NBA history, and led his team to the Eastern Conference Finals that season, and lost seven games against the thriving Big Three Heat.

Although he didn't make it to the finals, Rose was still full of ambitions, thinking that this would be the beginning of his brilliant career.

But what no one thought was that that year seemed to be his peak. Since then, he has never touched the MVP trophy again, and the team has also stagnated. It has fallen in the Eastern Conference Finals for three consecutive years. in front of the same opponent.

Even the Bulls' performance is still regressing. This year, they lost the No. [-] spot in the Eastern Conference in the regular season.

This can't help but make Bulls fans think of the Bulls' eternal totem, "God of Basketball" Michael Jordan.

After Jordan entered the league, he quickly became a superstar. In the fourth year of his career, he won the MVP + scoring champion + DPOY + best first team + best first defense + steals champion + AMVP in a single season.

But the Bulls still lost to the Pistons in the second round of the Eastern Conference, and Jordan was once again eliminated in the playoffs.

Since then, Jordan has fallen in front of the Pistons for two consecutive years and has never been able to reach the finals.

But everyone knows the story later. Jordan crossed the Pistons in the 1990-1991 season, and since then he has ruled the world and dominated the NBA in the 90s.

Could it be... Ross also wants to follow Jordan's script?
This is a saying that gradually spread among Bulls fans after the Bulls lost to the Heat. Rose also became famous at a young age and is the youngest MVP in NBA history. This is an achievement that Jordan failed to achieve.

The Bulls have also been eliminated by the Heat for three consecutive years. From the perspective of Bulls fans, they don’t need to worry. Rose will eventually wait for Pippen who belongs to him. champion.

The fans are very optimistic about the future of the Bulls, but Rose himself is not optimistic.

He has always been a proud and very confident person, otherwise he would not have released bold words to compete for the MVP, let alone reject James' request to come to the Bulls to form a super team with him.

But since he has become the boss of the Bulls, he has to shoulder the responsibility of the boss.

Rose wants to become the best player in the league and take the Bulls back to their former glory with his own hands, instead of welcoming the arrival of another superstar and handing the team into his hands, praying that he can lead the Bulls to win the championship .

His character, his dignity, made him never do that.

Rose's childhood happened to be when the Bulls ruled the league. Although he was young at the time, he still clearly remembers the trembling grand occasion when the United Center's "Sirius" sounded.

As a Chicago native, Rose dreamed of playing for the Bulls since he was a child and becoming a new legend of this great team.

Now, he has done half of it. Under his leadership, the Bulls have returned to the ranks of the Eastern Powers, and have reached the Eastern Conference Finals for three consecutive years. No one dares to underestimate the Bulls. The United Center has once again bathed in light.

An MVP trophy also made Rose's jersey destined to float over the United Center, alongside Jerry Sloan, Bob Love, Michael Jordan, and Scottie Pippen.

Yes, in the history of the Bulls, only four jerseys have been retired.

In fact, before Jordan joined the Bulls, the Bulls were just one of the many teams in the league with weak strength and pale history. It was Jordan who made the Bulls one of the greatest teams in the world.

Even after Jordan retired for many years, the Bulls are one of the teams with the most fans in the league and have one of the best ball markets in the United States. All of this is thanks to Jordan.

Rose also wanted to create a dynasty belonging to the Bulls like Jordan did, but gradually, he lost this idea.

The reality has smoothed Rose's edges and corners. Although he failed to break out of the East in the first few years of his career, Rose knows that he is far from Jordan's strength.

Jordan fell in front of the Pistons because he had no helpers. Give him Pippen and he can dominate the league.

This is not that Jordan needs Pippen, this is Pippen's luck, Jordan just needs a helper, as long as he is given a second master, the Bulls are unstoppable.

And Rose has many helpers around him, Boozer, Luol Deng, Noah, Gibson, Hamilton... The Bulls have a lot of good players and have the top defense in the league.

In this case, the Bulls still lost to the Heat for three consecutive years, which can only show that the Bulls are indeed not as good as the Heat, even if there were two of them, the Bulls took the lead in winning the match point of the series.

In these three matches against the Heat, Rose often felt powerless. The Heat's defense was very targeted at him. As long as he rushed in, the Heat would definitely flank him, force him to take the ball, and use all means to prevent him from hitting the basket. frame.

After playing so many games with the Heat, Rose also got used to the Heat's defensive strategy. He began to practice three-pointers hard, and wanted to punish the Heat for his contempt for shooting.

He was infinitely close to success, but in the end he failed.

He was able to shoot efficient three-pointers in some games, but in more games, he hit more irons and had to bite the bullet and break through to the inside of the Heat knowing that he would be pinched.

Then what greeted him were the teammates who were cut off, taken off, and given the ball to the open space, in exchange for the crisp sound of iron hitting.

Rose couldn't understand why the Bulls' offense always had a sense of stagnation.

Obviously, when defending, the Bulls' tactical execution is clear and decisive. Thibodeau has arranged everything in an orderly manner, but when attacking, he only has a few options such as singles with the ball, pick-and-roll breakthroughs, and three-pointers.

The burden of the Bulls on the offensive end seems to be all on him alone.

Rose doesn't want to play this kind of basketball. Although the concentration of the ball allows him to always play very dazzling statistics, compared with the statistics, he is more eager to win, and he wants to go to the finals stage and participate in the O'Brien Cup competition. scramble.

But he never got what he wanted.

At the same time, his friend realized his long-cherished wish. The Warriors defeated the Heat in the Finals, and Curry helped Rose kill the enemy.

Seeing Curry lift the championship trophy, Rose was very envious, which also aroused his competitive spirit. He didn't want to be left behind by his friends. He won the MVP earlier than Curry, but Curry won the championship earlier than him. The champion is still better than Curry.

However, failure came again.

This time, Rose has to take a good look at why the Warriors can win the Heat, but the Bulls always lose.

Is it because he is not as good as Curry, or because the Bulls have gone astray?
He believes that this round of the series will give him a satisfactory answer.

……

When Rose recalled the past, the game between the Warriors and the Heat was going on in an orderly manner.

Unlike G1, the Heat have an advantage in the transition.

Butler continued to travel at the wrong peak, but Spoelstra began to kill the main force. After James finished the first quarter, he took a 2-minute rest before going into battle.

The Heat's Big Three were all present, and the point difference was quickly smoothed out. The Heat also overtook the score and established a leading advantage.

The only way for the Warriors to deal with it is to squeeze the main players, especially Curry's playing time.

But Zhang Yu did not do this. Facing the offensive launched by the Heat in advance, he stood still and waited until 7 minutes into the second quarter before sending Curry back to the court.

At this time, the Warriors have trailed the Heat by 42 points 46:4.

The Warriors encountered a lot of trouble in the transitional offense. They only scored 8 points and were hit by the Heat with a 16:8 offensive climax.

After Curry returned to the court, the Warriors did not stop the decline.

The Heat are still the same as G1, resolutely pinching Curry, and achieved very significant results.

In the last game, other Warriors players resolutely responded to the Heat's emptying. The Warriors team blossomed more and lived up to Curry's sacrifice.

But today is different. Curry is still able to distribute the ball in time in a tight pinch. Whether it is directly looking for an open space on the weak side, or Green responds and then deals with it, there is no big problem.

But the end of the Warriors was in trouble. Clay felt cold. He made 4 of 1 shots in the first quarter and only scored 3 points. After returning to the court in the second quarter, he made 5 of 1 shots and still only scored 3 points. He made 9 of 2 shots and only scored 6 points, wasting a lot of open opportunities.

At the beginning, the Heat didn't dare to relax too much on Clay. After all, he just scored 20+ in the last game, and the strong shot against Wade at the last moment killed the game.

However, as Clay continued to miss, the Heat became bolder in venting him, and Clay still couldn't make a wide open shot. The Heat could accumulate troops on the strong side without any worries, which caused a lot of trouble for the Warriors' offense. Several mistakes were made successfully, and it became a defensive counterattack.

After the first half, the Warriors trailed the Heat by 57 points 67:10. The score was similar to G1, but the process was completely different.

The Heat took the lead in G1 at halftime, relying on James' superb performance. This time, it was because of the Warriors' own offensive problems.

James' state returned to normal in G2, and his performance in the first half was quite satisfactory, with 13 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists, not very dazzling, and did not hold back the team.

Rose looked at the scores of the two teams in the first half, shook his head slightly, and murmured:
"It's 10 points behind again. The last game was overturned by all the soldiers. Can it be over this time? Is the Heat really that strong?"

With full of doubts, Rose waited for a while, and the second half of the game began.

And Rose quickly got the answer, the Warriors can really turn over.

After the start of the second half, Zhang Yu made adjustments, replacing Danny Green and Clay.

At first, the Heat didn't take this substitution seriously.

Clay is a well-known super shooter, with a shooting percentage above 40% in all three seasons of his career, and his shooting ability is extremely powerful.And Danny Green is just a relatively good 3D player. He came from an undrafted background, has mediocre talent, and is far less famous than Clay.

But the Heat forgot that Danny Green's three-point shooting percentage in the past two seasons was also above 40%.

Although his output is not as good as Clay, and the difficulty of shooting is far less than Clay, but given him a chance, he can really make shots, especially when Curry attracts defense.

After Danny Green came on the court, the Heat continued to flank Curry, vacating him like they emptied Klay.

Danny Green was unceremonious. First he received a pass from Curry and made a three-pointer, and then he received a pass from Green and made a three-pointer. The Warriors quickly approached the score.

However, Spoelstra still does not believe in evil, that is, to short Danny Green, or in other words, in order to maintain the defensive pressure on Curry, Spoelstra had to short Danny Green.

Danny Green did not miss this good opportunity. He made 4 three-pointers in the third quarter and scored 12 points, which not only helped the Warriors catch up with the score, but also achieved a go-ahead.

This time, the Heat no longer dared to let him go, and their defensive rotation also had problems, and there was a loophole in the flanking of Curry.

Curry's offensive environment in the fourth quarter improved a lot. He scored 10 points in a single quarter and led the Warriors to a 104:98 victory over the Heat, leading by 2:0.

Throughout the fourth quarter, Zhang Yu firmly pressed Clay on the bench, and Danny Green played almost the entire second half. He replaced Clay, which was also the biggest turning point of the game.

After the game, Rose looked at Danny Green, who was hugging excitedly with his teammates, and sighed softly:
"The Warriors have so many shooters..."

He envied Curry very much that there were so many shooters who opened up space around Curry. Clay was not sure, and there was another one.

He is even more envious of Curry having a coach like Zhang Yu, who makes substitutions so decisively and trusts a substitute player so much.

What Rose doesn't know is that in Zhang Yu's previous life, Danny Green shot 55% of his three-pointers in this finals, averaging 3.9 three-pointers per game and scoring 14 points. He scored 26 three-pointers in seven games, setting a new record for the number of three-pointers made in the finals.

Zhang Yu was deeply impressed by Danny Green's highlight moments, and it is precisely because of this that he dared to use Danny Green boldly.

Although Danny Green has been playing as a substitute for the Warriors for the past four seasons, his strength during the same period is definitely not as good as when he started with the Spurs, but his shooting has become better, and he has a high degree of confidence in open three-pointers.

But Ross didn't know the whole story. What he saw was that Zhang Yu made decisive adjustments, made the correct substitutions, and reversed the decline in one fell swoop.

If Thibodeau encountered this situation, what would he do?

After thinking about it for a while, Rose got the answer.

Thibodeau will never make substitutions, he will only continue to increase the playing time of the main force, and constantly emphasize the importance of defense. As for offense, he will only say "give the ball to Rose".

Rose took a deep breath and slowly sat up straight from the sofa.

After watching the game, he thought he might have found the reason why the Warriors won the Heat and the Bulls lost the Heat.

Ross took out his mobile phone, found a number, and called out. After the call was connected, he said softly:

"Jia, I have something I want to discuss with you..."

(End of this chapter)