NBA: Start by torturing Jordan and add points to upgrade

In this game, Lin Tian definitely tried his best, and he was also the only Knicks player in the entire Knicks team who could leave the TD Garden with his head held high.

That night, Lin Tian scored a personal playoff high of 51 points, 14 rebounds and 7 assists throughout the game. He scored 25 points in the fourth quarter alone, including 17 consecutive points in the last few minutes, which almost pulled the team out of the abyss of losing.

But unfortunately, in the last three attacks, Lin Tian was blocked once and missed two shots. He missed three consecutive attacks, which made all his previous efforts go to waste. The Knicks lost this crucial battle.

They have been pushed to the edge of the cliff by the Celtics. Even though they still have two home games in the last three games, everyone has generally begun to look down on the Knicks.

After all, their opponent was the powerful Celtics, and they were in a desperate situation under such circumstances.

More importantly, although the Knicks lost two of the three games with a small score difference and they had the possibility of winning, anyone who knows a little about basketball can see that the rhythm of these four games was all in the hands of the Celtics, and they completely controlled the series!

This is also the reason why everyone is really optimistic about the Celtics.

If you, the Knicks, can't play offense, how can you beat the Celtics?

"We don't want to go back to the Garden for this series." After Game 4, Pierce grinned and said proudly, "We decided to beat them in the next game! We don't like traveling, and we don't like running back and forth."

"In the next game, we will end the series and we will completely wipe out the New Yorkers! We won't give them any chances, and we won't give them any idea of ​​extending the series!"

Marbury also looked like he had already won the game, and said proudly: "I'm not afraid of Lin! Not at all! I know he once dominated the league, but he never dominated me. His era is over! The day after tomorrow, we will end the series!"

"As for Lin, he can give Michael a call and ask him how he felt when his hegemony was ended. I believe Michael can give him rich experience of failure!"

Rivers now felt that he had reached the pinnacle of his life. In his past coaching career, he was always reversed, overthrown, and beaten by others, but this time, he felt that he could finally hold his head high: "We will win! I have absolute confidence! In the next game, we will end the series!"

When Rivers said this, he actually had the intention of risking his life to survive. He wanted to push his players a little harder, and he had already thought about how to hold a meeting with the players when he returned.

"You've already made the big talk. If you don't want to become the laughing stock of the league, win the next game no matter what! Otherwise, you know who will become the laughing stock of everyone."

Well, let me put it this way! My team will definitely be able to burst out 120% of its strength in the next game and completely blow up those New Yorkers!

What is a psychological guru?
Do you really think that my uncle Rivers didn't learn anything when he sat behind the coaching seats of various teams?

This is what it means to accumulate strength and then release it!
Look at me making a comeback this year, first defeating the Knicks, then destroying the Pistons, and then sweeping the Lakers, dominating the league!

When the entire Celtics team was feeling a little overwhelmed by their victory, there was still one person on the team who was sober.

Duncan said: "I know there is a saying in China that the longer the night, the more dreams there are. We know that the longer the series is, the more dangerous we will be. Therefore, we will not think that we are leading 3:1. We will treat the next game as if we are behind 1:3 and play the next game as a win or go home game!"

"Only in this way can we have a greater hope of winning! Only if we go all out and don't underestimate our opponents can we win!"

"This is Lin, this is the Knicks, this is the most powerful offensive team in the league. They may have a climax at any time, then mess up the game and defeat us."

"In the first four games, we had the initiative and controlled the tempo of the game, but we didn't win by many points. In two of the three games, the suspense was maintained until the end. If the Van Nistelrooy team's offense was a little better and they made two more three-pointers, they might be leading us 3:3 now."

"Even today, Lin's last 17 points almost made a comeback! If I hadn't been lucky enough to block his layup, if we hadn't been lucky enough that his two 3-pointers that were usually a sure thing didn't go in, they would definitely have won this game."

"The next game, or the next three games, will definitely be more difficult! I won't relax at all, nor will I be arrogant at all. For me, the series has just begun! The current situation is that at most we are leading by 5 points after the first quarter!"

In the entire team, only Duncan remained calm and humble, and he was the only one who was not carried away by victory.

But unfortunately, he is just one person, or he could make his teammates listen to him during internal meetings and put aside his arrogance.

But he can't control the media and the fans.

For the media and fans, there is no meaning or need to discuss Duncan's humble and steady remarks. Compared with discussing and reporting Duncan's words, they prefer to bring out those controversial remarks and events.

So, in just one night, the topic that fans across the United States were discussing became "The Celtics are confident of winning and believe they have 100% chance of advancing."

As the incident spread wildly, before the Knicks had time to discuss or hold a meeting to analyze it, Lin Tian’s phone was flooded with calls.

"Are you a waste? If you are a waste, just retire and stop embarrassing yourself." As the person who was pointed out by Marbury, Jordan was furious and about to explode.

Who the hell do you think you are, Marbury? Do you have the qualifications to make fun of me, Jordan?

If Payton said something like this, Jordan would at most have a quarrel with Payton for fun, but he wouldn't be really angry.

But you, Marbury, said that? Sorry, my team will beat you to death when we play against you Celtics next season!

This is what Jordan thought and said.

He made Lin Tian surrender directly, and then his Bobcats avenged Lin Tian the next season.

"Michael, listen to my advice. The water is too deep here and you can't control it! Your crappy team wants to teach the Celtics a lesson? Can you beat North Carolina? Leave the revenge to me! After the next game, I will let him know how stupid his words were, and how close they are to hell."

After he cursed at Jordan for saying Marbury was nothing, Kobe called.

"You're going to lose to the Celtics? What kind of crappy team are you? Trash!"

"Lin, if you lose to those losers from the Celtics, don't ever say you know me! I can't afford to lose face like this." Magic's call came about 10 minutes later than Kobe's, but the gist of the content was almost the same.

Then another person who understood the situation called Lin Tian, ​​Bird.

"Lin, don't be too harsh. I have deep feelings for my home team." Bird, who has worked with Lin Tian for 7 years, knows Lin Tian's character and abilities too well. If the entire Celtics team's post-match speech was the same as Duncan's, then it is unknown how this series would have turned out.

But after this bunch of idiots criticized Lin Tian and the Knicks, Bird felt that this series was over.

Bird had never read Romance of the Three Kingdoms, so he didn't know how to describe or compare this feeling, but if he asked Lin Tian, ​​Lin Tian could explain it to him.

Jiang Wei: Old General, do you know Jiang Boyue of Tianshui?
Zhao Yun: In Tianshui there is Bo Yue, who has superb spear skills and unparalleled resourcefulness.

Hande: Old man, come and meet your Grandpa Han!
Yun was furious! Han De died with a household registration book.

That's about it.

The current situation is that Lin is furious!
As for how many Celtics had to die?
None of them would die, but after this series of games, they would probably tremble when they saw Lin Tian. Lin Tian has this confidence!
For example, during the team meeting the night before, when the players were speaking one by one, Lin Tian only said one sentence.

"Give me the ball. I want to see how those Celtics idiots send us home and prevent the series from returning to Boston!"

For example, during the final interview before the game the next day, Lin Tian said to the reporters arrogantly, "The only reason we didn't book flights and hotels to Detroit in advance is that they haven't decided the winner with New Jersey yet."

"But we had already booked flights and hotels to and from Boston. I even booked the flights for them, which was quite thoughtful of them."

"After Game 7, the plane ticket from New York to Boston is a gift to the losers, and a gift from the winners to the weaklings and self-righteous idiots."

"So, you think you can definitely win this game?"

"This game?" Lin Tian looked at the reporter who asked the question, and said as if he was answering a question like 1+1=?: "We can definitely win this series!"

"Have you found a secret to defeating the Celtics, or have you found a way to deal with their pressure defense and iron formation?"

"No, there is no need for any secrets." Lin Tian shook his head decisively and said, "You don't need any secrets to beat them, just fight them normally."

"But if we play normally, you'll be behind 1:3."

"1:3 is not 4:3." Lin Tian shrugged and said, "Let's wait and see for the remaining three games."

Lin Tian's arrogance and disregard for others was like pouring another bucket of hot oil on the head of the Celtics, who were confident of winning.

They were angrier, but also more excited.

"This game will be very difficult." Rivers stood in the middle of everyone, looking at his players, raised his arms and said, "But no matter how difficult it is, we will definitely win! We will win!"

"Must win!"

"Restore the glory of our Boston!"

"Restore the glory!"

"Okay, let's go out on the court and break Lin's legend and his so-called undefeated myth!"

"kill!"

Accompanied by waves of passionate roars and absolute confidence, the Celtics players ambitiously walked out of the visiting team's locker room and headed towards Madison Square Garden.

At the same time, in the home locker room of the Knicks, the situation at this moment was completely opposite to that of the Celtics. They did not have any passionate roars or bold words to show their status. Instead, it was extremely quiet, and there was a faint atmosphere of solemnity in the locker room.

"Let's go." Lin Tian glanced at the time and stood up first: "Kill them!"

The fifth game is about to begin!
"It's time to test the Knicks' ability and mentality in the face of adversity." Barkley's voice came again: "Will this game be their last game of the season? Can they survive?"

"Can the Celtics end the suspense and prevent the series from being extended? Even if the next game is at TD Garden, I think no Bostonian wants this series to be extended. They must be eager to end this round of games. But there is actually some very bad news for Bostonians."

"Just now, the league announced this year's first team and MVP. This is the last suspense of this regular season." Kenny continued, "For reasons and reasons that I can't understand at all, for reasons that ordinary people can't even figure out who knows what."

"Lin is only ranked second in the MVP rankings! He didn't get the MVP this year!"

"The MVP went to Steve Nash from the Phoenix Suns, whose stats were not as good as Lin's."

"Even though I have absolute respect for Steve, even though I consider Steve my brother, and I think Steve is the model for all mediocre players, and maybe even one of the smartest players alive, I don't understand why those stupid reporters voted for him for MVP."

"In terms of statistics, Steve is completely suppressed by Lin. His assists per game and total assists in a single season are both the highest in NBA history! He led the Knicks from a lottery team all the way to second in the Eastern Conference!"

"In the direct confrontation with the Suns, Lin not only won both games, but also crushed Steve's statistics."

"The only thing that Lin doesn't have an advantage over is the team rankings. The Suns are first in the West, and the Knicks are second in the East. But I think that such a small difference in wins cannot make up for the huge gap in the basic data between the two!"

"Let me put it this way: the personal data of the two people is not even in the same league! When the data difference is so huge, the difference in wins in a few games is really not worth mentioning."

Barkley also said: "The only explanation is aesthetic fatigue, just like Michael didn't win three consecutive MVPs. His performance was the best, his team was the best, and his statistics were the most gorgeous, but Michael didn't win the MVP because reporters were tired of voting for him."

"There is only one reason why Lin did not win the award this year. Reporters are tired of voting for Lin. They are aesthetically fatigued. They think that even if Lin played the best performance in history, it would only be so-so."

"The standards are different. They didn't use the same standards to select and vote. They were not fair at all! If Lin hadn't won so many MVPs, I would definitely think this was racial discrimination and bullying."

"But now, I think this will irritate Lin, and this, along with the Celtics players' crazy words, will irritate Lin!"

"By the way, it's worth mentioning that Lin eventually finished second in the MVP. The third on the MVP list was Kobe, who won his first scoring title in his career this year. But the bad thing is that Kobe had the first and second MVP guards in front of him."

"He only made the NBA's second team. I think Patrick must be very familiar with this scene. He was fourth in the MVP rankings that year, but he didn't make the best team because the top three MVPs were all centers!"

"In addition to Lin and Steve, the first team also includes Shaquille O'Neal, Tim Duncan and Tracy McGrady, who lost his scoring title."

"McGrady lost the scoring title, but because he played the 3rd position, he was included in the first team. This is the first first team of his career."

"In addition to Kobe, the second team also includes LeBron James, Garnett, Nowitzki, and Yao Ming."

"The third team is Ben Wallace, Amar'e Stoudemire, Shawn Marion, Dwyane Wade, and Allen Iverson."

"Except for the final suspense of this NBA season, the rest of the awards were actually released in the interval between the first and second rounds."

"Ben became the best defensive player and led the All-Defensive Team. The remaining four were Lin, Duncan, Garnett, and Larry Hughes."

"The All-Defensive Second Team is Kobe, Billups, Kirilenko, Artest and Marcus Camby."

"The best rookie was won by Okafor of the Bobcats, and he was selected to the first team of the rookie of the year along with Dwight Howard, Andre Iguodala, Luol Deng and Ben Gordon."

"The Rookie of the Year Second Team is Josh Childress, Al Jefferson, Josh Smith, Jameer Nelson and Nenad Krstic." (End of this chapter)