Basketball: Starting from the Rodman template

Chapter 140: Reaching the Eastern Conference Finals
On the plane back, the entire Heat team was very excited.

Wade even sang directly: "What is the ceiling? I am brighter than fireworks. I don't need a parachute in Ten Thousand Meters High School!"

Before coming to New Jersey, and after coming to New Jersey, he was in two different states.

He really didn't expect that he would find the right position in New Jersey and perform strongly!
After scoring 19 points in the first away game, Wade scored 17 points in the second game in less than 15 minutes.The most important thing is that when facing Kidd, he completed successful breakthroughs in three consecutive rounds. He made two shots, successfully scored once, and also caused Kidd to foul once.

"Bald Kidd" was Wade's sufferer in the first two games of the series!

Now facing him with such a performance is enough for Wade to burst out with more confidence.

All the previous setbacks are now gone!
If the Nets were in front of him now, he would definitely shout without hesitation: "You guys come up together, I'm going to fight ten, fight ten!"

Like him, the mentality of all Miami fans has undergone a huge change in the past two days!

After playing the first two games of the series and leaving home, most Heat fans thought the Heat's season would end in New Jersey.I really can’t see any future...

But in the end, the Heat generals found the "right answer" on the road, and they evened the score again with two big wins.

Although there is still a "Battle of Tianwang Mountain" next, the initiative has returned to the Heat.

The enthusiasm of Heat fans is also back at this moment!

What...

It only took two wins to make such a big change in the attitude of these fans.

This is the group of fans!
They will be disappointed and frustrated, but once they taste the sweetness, they will immediately rekindle their enthusiasm!
For fans, this process is also a kind of enjoyment!
But fans are also different from football fans.

Some fans always hear good news, and some fans, like Heat fans, hear good news sometimes and bad news sometimes.

But there is also the most desperate "fan group". What they hear is always bad news. No matter how much expectations they have, they are still disappointed again and again...

Of course, if you really want to say it, this is not the most desperate. When the players they support think that they have tried their best and are still glared at by these players for their limited ability, then that is the real solution!

Soon everyone on the Heat team also saw the change in the attitude of Heat fans.

At 3 o'clock in the morning at Miami International Airport, there was an endless stream of Heat fans who spontaneously came to pick up the plane.

This is a big city with millions of people, but such an NBA atmosphere is uncommon!
Fans are both pure and impure.

The eternal truth is;
The better your grades, the more support you will receive!
Even Odom couldn't help but say to Woody next to him when he heard these roaring mountains and tsunami: "This is the most fulfilling moment for me since I entered the NBA!"

you do not say!

When he was with the Clippers, he was almost scolded to death by the few fans of the Clippers!
Where can I enjoy such cheers...

At this moment, he was like a hero in Miami!
The biggest cheers were definitely from Woody. ——The fans who spontaneously came to the scene and held the most posters were his!

In the two away games, Woody's statistics were both "super giant" level!

In the first two games where the Heat lost at home, his data was also the only solace for the Miamians.

At least Woody's performance wasn't too ugly!

The future is expected!

That's what Heat fans thought at the time, but they really didn't expect that this "future" would come too quickly.

From Miami to New Jersey, the future is here. Woody's data directly crosses the level and reaches the top level!
These cheers satisfy Woody's "star disease" to the greatest extent.

Every time at this time, he feels that this is the most enjoyable time for him to play basketball!
He couldn't stop cheering like this...

The Miami pick-up made the atmosphere in the Heat even more heated.

The next afternoon, it was supposed to be Stan Van Gundy's holiday when he canceled training. Under the leadership of Woody, Wade and others, everyone gathered at the American Airlines Arena to prepare for the "Battle of Kings Mountain".

At the same time, the other three groups of duels also completed several games.

In the other group of semifinals in the Eastern Conference, the Pistons and Pacers played 4 games immediately.

The score is also 2 to 2!
However, unlike the 2-2 set between the Heat and the Nets, this set of duels was obviously more intense.

他们不像热火队还有篮网队这样，从0-2到2-2平，而是从1-1平到2-2平！
After 4 games, the two sides have not had a winning streak.

If you win one game here, you must win the next game!
And the score is not like theirs. In the two away games, the Heat beat the Nets by an average of more than ten points per game.

After they played four games, the largest score difference was only 6 points, and the smallest was only 1 point!
Rick Carlisle brought his re-trained Pacers "legion" to face his old team.Every game between the two sides can be said to be a confrontation of wills.

The intensity of the confrontation is simply incredible!

Most media believe that this is a level of confrontation at the finals level.

Even though most of the media thought that this series between the two teams would be a fierce battle, they also thought that it would be so intense!

In the West, the Timberwolves and Kings just finished three games.

The Timberwolves temporarily lead the Kings 2-1!
As a rookie, the Timberwolves still have a huge advantage, most intuitively reflected in Kevin Garnett.

He had the upper hand in the confrontation with Chris Webber, who was also one of the "four major forwards", and it was intuitively reflected in the game.

Take the just-concluded third game as an example. Starting at 5 minutes and 45 seconds of the third quarter of the game, Kevin Garnett made consecutive shots and passes, and the defensive end went hand in hand. He scored in less than 5 minutes. With 6 points, 3 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal and 1 block, he directly led the team in a 10-2 "scoring wave", which sealed the victory of the game.

"Obviously, how long Chris Webber can maintain a stalemate with Kevin Garnett will be the key to which round this series will go!" This is Barkley's view of this series after the third game. Judgment of the game.

The outside world basically maintains this view.

The final battle between the Lakers and the Spurs was also a big score of 2-1.

The Lakers are temporarily ahead!
As far as the entire process is concerned, the Spurs' style of play is no different from last year.

Last year, it was Tim Duncan who dragged the Spurs to the Finals and won the final championship.

This year, he is still relied on on both ends of the offense and defense, and he is constantly outputting. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is "Stone Buddha vs. F4".

That's the situation...

Anyone who dares to say that Popovich has never been harsh to his players is really telling lies with open eyes.Last year, thanks to Tim Duncan's heroics, they defeated the Lakers in the second round of the playoffs.

But what's different from last year is that this Lakers team is really strong.

From the beginning of the new season, the atmosphere in their locker room has been very bad, but it really doesn't affect their winning at all!

But there's nothing we can do about it. Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, Malone and "Glove" Gary Payton... Who is not confused after seeing this lineup?
Even if this is Karl Malone who suffered a serious injury at the end of the season, it can still have a limiting effect...

The current situation of the Spurs is actually similar to that of the Kings. It just depends on how long Tim Duncan can last!
Speaking of which, before the four groups of the Eastern and Western Conference semifinals started, the media had anticipated the intensity of the other three groups.

Every team has its "top players" in their prime years. It would be weird if this game wasn't exciting!

In the eyes of these media, the duel between the Nets and the Heat will be the only one that is not so fierce.

In their opinion, the Nets will use their rich experience to teach these young guys from the Heat a lesson!
No matter from which perspective, if the Heat can pass the first round, it is really a "complete success" and they can prepare for next year and the next season with peace of mind.

In fact, the first two sets of matchups in the series were as completely one-sided as the media expected.

Unexpectedly, at this time, the show started to happen!
The Heat just made a change of formation, and they rebounded strongly and started to beat the Nets on the head.

Big score 2 to 2!

The "Battle of Tianwang Mountain" is staged at the Heat's home court!

What's worse is that the Nets seem to have run out of tricks. They all started to use their willpower. The key is, they lost!
By the end of the fourth game of the series, the balance of victory had tilted towards the Heat.

So much so that before the start of the fifth game of the series, Bill Walton said when predicting the course of this game: "If the entire process of this game is not so intense, I will not be so surprised!"

This coincides with Kenny Smith on the other side, who said: "I think the Heat will win tonight's game easily!"

In the playoffs, we are not afraid that the team will have problems, but we are afraid that the team will have problems that cannot be solved!

And in this kind of game where even the shooting hot spots are studied and targeted, if there is a problem that cannot be solved, the problem will only be infinitely amplified by the opponent and easily destroyed.

In many series, at the beginning, the two teams will play very fiercely, but in the next few games, one of them will suddenly become more comfortable playing. The reason is that they have found a vitality that their opponent cannot solve. !
The Nets can't solve Wade on the Heat's bench, which is fatal!
Especially after they saw that the Nets did not have any obvious changes tonight, they became more convinced of this view.

The score really opened up very quickly...

After winning two games in a row on the road, and on the night they returned to Miami, all members of the Heat team, inspired by the enthusiasm of the Heat fans, spontaneously "worked overtime" to adjust to a very good state.Got into the zone right from the start.

It doesn’t matter if the momentum is suppressed, the condition is still so good!
This caused the Nets to fall into a passive position at the beginning.

Less than 3 minutes into the first quarter, the Heat started a "scoring surge", which shocked the audience into cheering.

The climax of these cheers was when Wade was released from the bench.

I have long heard that Wade came out of the bench with a fierce momentum and was unstoppable.

They guys have been waiting to see it!

See you at this moment...

It’s true that “seeing is worth hearing a hundred times”!
Tonight, Wade felt a bit like "one ride against a thousand", but in just one or two minutes, he staged a "2 against n" scene two or three times.

The Nets are also doing something weird here!

Obviously in the first two games, on this field, they defended Wade as easily as restricting a child.Why is it so difficult to restrict this guy now?

At this moment, the Nets seem to be wearing a thousand pounds of clothes and walking in the desert.

It really feels like I'm struggling.

A heavy burden was placed on their shoulders, and the last straw occurred at 3 minutes and 56 seconds of the third quarter. Woody received the ball from a high position, calmly took a mid-range shot, and hit the ball steadily.

Starting from this ball, Woody actually hit 3 consecutive mid-range shots!
It just confused the Nets...

No, how can we prevent this!

The score difference has completely stabilized at around 15 points.

This "Battle of Heavenly King Mountain" was just as Kenny Smith and Bill Walton expected, with the winner decided early.

In fact, for them, in addition to the fact that the Heat are exceptionally strong, there are also problems that the Nets have that cannot be solved.

One more reason...

The Nets have shown in previous playoffs that once they encounter problems, they will continue to be weak.

Just like they were easily swept in the finals.

They have some toughness, but not much really!
As they become more and more depressed as they fight, their combat effectiveness will continue to shrink...

The final whistle sounded, and Woody wagged his finger under the gaze of all the fans.

At this moment, the American Airlines Arena completely exploded...

After the big score of 3-2, no media is optimistic about the Nets anymore.Because it can be seen from their expressions after the game that they were defeated by the Heat.

Game 6 of the series continues with New Jersey.

Coming to this venue again, the atmosphere is different from the first time I came to this venue in this series. There is obvious low pressure on the faces of all New Jerseyans here tonight.

There was no surprise. The Heat, which beat the Nets three consecutive games, won this game with a big score of 4-2, thus eliminating the New Jersey Nets!

This team, which has reached the finals for two consecutive years, finally fell in the second round of the playoffs this year.

Bill Walton looked at this team with regret. He knew very well that what awaited this team would be a major shakeup...

However, the sun is declining, dynasties change, this is the NBA!

No matter how powerful you are, you will always be overthrown by a powerful newcomer!
The Heat are in the Eastern Conference Finals!

(End of this chapter)