When pride still matters

Chapter 179 Untrustworthy, Untrustworthy

The Bucks and Spurs gradually turned from mere contenders into enemies.

Because the Spurs are dissatisfied with the MVP selection results, and after every game, the winner's speech after the game has the intention of making up for it.

This makes both sides increasingly hostile to each other.

This bad faith peaked in Game [-] of the Finals.

The Bucks fired from the outside, and the Spurs played from all fronts, especially inside.

Unlike the previous three games, this was a close contest.

The Bucks and Spurs both showed their own characteristics, and the game was still deadlocked until the first half of the fourth quarter.

Then, Yu Fei broke through and dunked, causing Stephen Jackson's sixth foul, causing him to leave the field.

Changes ensued, and Popovich replaced Jackson with Manu Ginobili, a rookie from Argentina.

Ginobili...

This is the first time Yu Fei has competed with his opponent on the court since the start of the finals.

Because Ginobili was a substitute for the Spurs, and his previous performance was quite satisfactory, with highlights but not many, suddenly he was given a heavy responsibility.

When Ginobili blocked a shot against the Rockets in the 2017 semifinals with a big bald head, Yu Fei, who had not yet traveled through time, was only 12 years old. He heard his father who was rich in Rockets complex complain that Harden was "soft" and praised Ji. Nobili is a "demon", but he just thinks this person is awesome.

As for how powerful it was, he couldn't tell because he was too young at the time.

Moreover, it didn't take long for Ginobili to retire. For Fei, this was a former star who had left an impression on him but was not deep enough.

Now, he has a head of hair and a green face, and his whole body is filled with the unique confidence of a young man.

What does he bring to the Spurs?

Three-pointers, ghost passes, drawing fouls.

Especially fouling, this is based on Ginobili ignoring the Bucks' perimeter defense and breaking through as he pleases.

It's hard to imagine that a white defender could break through a defense as easily as Ginobili.

Ray Allen was surprisingly blown away by Ginobili's breakthrough, and then Mason was ejected with a few key fouls.

Especially for the sixth foul, Mason was furious and cursed loudly at the referee. As a result, another technical foul was brought to the team, and the game completely turned against the Spurs.

Although there was no garbage time, the Spurs maintained a lead of more than 5 points before the end.

In the end, 101 to 95, the Spurs defended their second home game, equalizing the score and bringing the series back to the starting point.

Duncan still performed outstandingly, with 22 points, 16 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 blocks.

Since the start of the finals, Duncan has scored at least 20 points, 16 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 blocks in every game. This kind of performance can be said to be omnipotent.

However, Ginobili was the key player tonight.

"I know he can do some special things." Popovich said, "It's just that not all special things are good. What we have to do is try to avoid bad things from happening."

Subsequently, reporters inevitably asked the Spurs what they thought of Fei's "prophecy."

It's the so-called prophecy of "get match points in the away game, win the championship at home".

"I hope that young man won't be too aggressive."

Popovich didn't seem to take Yu Fei's words seriously.

"Look at Tim's performance, this is the performance that can help the team win the championship. It took him many years to get to this point. I don't expect Frye to understand this. He is too young and everything he gets is too It’s easier.”

Popovich said to reporters like a superior wise man: "Believe me, only failure will make you better. This is the lesson TD will teach him."

Of course Popovich's words will reach Yu Fei's ears.

This is what the fourth estate is for.

When Yu Fei heard Popovich say that Duncan was going to teach him lessons, he smiled contemptuously: "Coach Popovich is too ignorant."

"Fry, what do you mean?"

Yu Fei said calmly: "You know, I can't be taught."

On the other side, George Karl also spoke for Yu Fei: "Everything is going according to plan. We will win the fifth game and then return home to win the championship, just like Frye said."

The next day, Carr was yelling at Ray Allen because he got beat by Ginobili.

"It was an accident!" Ray Allen emphasized, "It just happened to me."

Karl scolded: "I don't want to hear what you say about accidents or not. I just want you to respond like a man. In the next game, we have to go home with the match point. If we don't do it, , then it’s all your fucking fault!”

Hearing this, Ray Allen's chest heaved with anger. Why was it all his fault?Did he play the game alone?
"I think the person most responsible for last night was not Ray-ray, but the old guy."

There is only one person who can say "old guy" in the Bucks, and he specifically refers to Anthony Mason.

Mason, who was enjoying listening to Karl's angry remarks about Ray Allen, suddenly turned grim, "I'm facing the strongest player. Do you have a conscience when you say this?" Yu Fei put aside this fact and said, "Your last few fouls were really stupid. Moreover, if it was just a foul, you actually wanted to make a scene on the court even after you were ejected. As a result, we were called for an extra technical foul. You still said that this was not your fault?"

Mason blushed when he was asked. He really wanted to shout back, "Are you fucking right?", but he couldn't say it. Yu Fei did nothing wrong. Last night he had another game with 30 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists. cut.

Since Yu Fei was right, whose fault could it be?

Mason did not believe that he was the most responsible person, so he looked at Ray Allen, as if he had found an outlet: "In the end, this is all Ray's fault!!!"

Ray Allen had an expression on his face like "Why the hell did it get involved with me again?"

"If you hadn't been broken through by that Argentinian every time, would I have to help you cover up? If I didn't cover up, would I foul? If I didn't foul, how could the referee target me? The referee didn't target me, I How could you get a technical foul? It's all your fucking fault!"

So is Ray Allen the origin of all evil in the world before Benzema?

Yu Fei looked at the team leader with regret: "It seems like this is really the case."

Ray Allen turned red-faced and turned away angrily to practice.

It was the right thing for him to do.

There is no point in dwelling on a result that cannot be changed. We have to divide the pot and wait until we lose in the finals. Now is not the time.

Yu Fei also left to find Sprewell for a bullfight.

Mason goes to the gym to pump iron.

Karl targeted Michael Reed among the players watching the show on the sidelines and said, "Michael, do you have anything to say?"

"None of my business," Reed said.

"Indeed, you didn't perform much last night and didn't play much." Carl paused and said, "But don't you feel angry? In some cases, you are a better shooter than Ray, why can't you get More playing time?”

Reid looked at his head coach seriously.

"Because you are not eager enough." Karl walked to him and whispered, "Lei is indecisive and cannot be used in any way. You have to encourage yourself."

One day later, the NBA Finals ushered in the much-anticipated Battle of Tianwang Mountain.

The Bucks and Spurs were an uninspiring Finals matchup.

Let’s not talk about the Spurs, they have always been ratings poison.Just like the artistic films in the NBA, they are popular but not popular.

The stag belongs to the enclosure type and is very popular in a specific area, but outsiders have filters and are not good for their senses.

Then, Yu Fei's performance in the finals shattered people's traditional filter that the Bucks' games were crude and ugly.

Everyone who watched the Bucks game was amazed. Yu Fei's style of play was elegant, novel and imaginative. His tactics were not as rigid as the Spurs', and looked extremely smooth.

Starting from the first game of the finals, the ratings of each game have increased by 100 million people.

"The league office was planning to eliminate the handoff rule altogether in order to increase the offensive weight, but Frye's performance seems to have changed that trend."

"Yes, Frye and the Bucks proved that making or not making a shot is not the main factor in determining the enjoyment of the game. Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird all played in the era of more intense shots, but their The enjoyment of the game is obvious to all.”

Commentators from ABC, TNT and ESPN discussed whether the recently-hyped "total ban on defensive players from taking action" would make the game better.

The view of most commentators is that the laws of the ancestors are immutable.

Yu Fei provided them with solid arguments.

Only one person held a contrary opinion.

That is Bill Walton, who has repeatedly made surprising points: "The ban on hands is not to make Frye better, but to allow players who are not as good as Frye to play entertaining offense. From a business point of view, banning Getting started is the general trend.”

If this issue is brought to Yu Fei, he will strongly support the league's ban on defensive ends.

Because as long as the defensive end can get started, extreme defensive measures can indeed have the effect of limiting his performance.

But once he was banned, Yu Fei felt that his seal was about to be released, and his performance would definitely be better than that of the actors in the "Abstinence of Abstinence" series.

During the warm-up before the game and the opening greetings, Yu Fei continued to tease Parker, "Tony, can you perform well tonight? Don't embarrass our 2001 players. If we continue like this, Coach Popovich will really use Jason... Kidd optimized you away."

Popovich is not afraid of Yu Fei's "prophecy", nor is he afraid that he will average 30 points per game under Bowen's defense, but he does worry that Parker will be disrupted by Yu Fei's trash talk.

"Don't listen to his nonsense!" Popovich roared. "Play your game!"

Parker bit his lip and said nothing.

"Indeed, what I said is nonsense. You must have no interest in Jason Kidd. The hundreds of articles out there about Jason coming to San Antonio are all baseless rumors. They are all false!"

Everyone standing on the field knew that was true.

However, in order to stabilize Parker, even if it was true, it is false now.

Not trustworthy, not trustworthy.

PS: The specific reason for the "mathematical formulas" that have appeared in the past few days is unknown, but it can be easily solved, just replace them all.

(End of this chapter)