NBA: Start by torturing Jordan and add points to upgrade

"Five-second violation with back to the basket!"

The referee made a decision that is extremely rare on the basketball court.

This is a new rule that the NBA suddenly implemented in the early 21st century.

The regulations state that when an offensive player is in his own frontcourt, below the free throw line extended, he may not dribble with his back or sideways to the basket for more than 5 seconds.

Some people say that this rule is aimed at Barkley, because this fat guy's endless back-to-the-basket shots on the basketball court affect the viewing experience of the game.

But if you have carefully studied this rule, you will know: this has nothing to do with Barkley!
Barkley retired happily after winning the championship in 98, but this rule was announced during the offseason in 2002.

No matter how powerful Barkley is, it is not so powerful that the league needs to make rules to restrict him four years after his retirement.

Those who know more about the NBA and the origin of this rule believe that this rule is used to limit the unstoppable one-on-one play of O'Neal, the giant under the basket.

Strictly speaking, this idea is actually correct. At least in the original time and space, it makes sense, because everyone knows that the league introduced this rule to target those post-up players.

The player who is best at post-up play and has the strongest low-post ability in the league is O'Neal. When the rule was introduced, O'Neal was creating the OK dynasty with Kobe and was at the peak of his career. It was normal and reasonable for the league to introduce a rule to restrict him.

Of course, the league has never said, and it is impossible to say, who this rule is aimed at or restricts, as that involves the principle of fairness.

The underlying reason why the league set this rule is actually quite simple: post-ups don’t look good.

How can a post-up single play be as good as the forwards and guards dribbling and flying around?
What they are fighting for is the league's ratings and market share.

But that is a story for another time and space.

In this time and space, O'Neal has not won even a single championship, and the OK combination has failed in the finals many times. Considering the Los Angeles market and the popularity of those two guys, Stern was being kind by not introducing rules to help them win the championship.

limit?

Just think about it and you will know that it is absolutely impossible!

There are many different opinions in another time and space about why this five-second rule was created and who it was intended to restrict, but there has never been a real conclusion.

But in this time and space, everyone has a very clear answer.

In order to restrict Lin Tian.

In other words, to make that bastard Lin Tian fight more beautifully!
At least in the league's view, Lin Tian has at least 200 ways to score or help his teammates score, but when facing the opponent's short and thin No. 1 player, he always chooses to post up, and that is the kind of post-up that requires the least technical skills and relies purely on physical strength.

That's not very entertaining at all!

Which fan buys a ticket just to see you, Mr. Lin, arch your butt, then turn around and hit the rebound or jump shot to get 2 points under the basket!
What makes the fans and the league even more sad is that Lin Tian obviously has the league's top post-up skills!
He can definitely make his technical back-to-the-basket play his signature and business card, just like Jordan and Kobe.

Turn the post-up attack into an art form and let everyone get hooked on it.

But Lin Tian doesn’t!
He obviously has the plating skills of a Michelin three-star chef, but he insists on making dishes just like those in a big food stall.

It makes people feel desperate.

Therefore, in order to make Lin Tian play better and to prevent other popular backcourt players in the league from following Lin Tian's example and using the same style of play, the league chose to introduce new rules to restrict these guys who like to steal chickens.

NBA is a show!

The league will not come up with any special rules to restrict anyone. The league will only implement some new rules to make the game more interesting and exciting.

Well, at least that's what Stern said.

As for what he was thinking?
Anyway, Lin Tian guessed that the most likely answer was: Get your butt up! Go show off your dribbling and breakthrough skills in the high position!

To be honest, although this rule was released a long time ago, there are almost no players who really take it seriously and study it, and there are also very few referees who really keep this rule in mind and blow the whistle from time to time to annoy the players.

The so-called 5-second rule is inherently vague and arbitrary.

What is the area below the extended free throw line? Isn't that up to the referee to decide?
Does the five seconds start from the moment you turn your back to the basket, or from the moment you start dribbling the ball?

In short, referees rarely call this violation, and the league has never been too lazy to catch it.

The players know this very well and will consciously avoid it. They won't go out of their way to challenge the referee's bottom line.

But in this round, Lin Tian just took up the challenge. He received the ball with 22 seconds left in the offensive time and started to advance with his back. When the referee blew the whistle, there were less than 7 seconds left in the offensive time.

15 seconds!
It took Lin Tian exactly 15 seconds to stick his butt into Paul's mouth.

I almost killed him.

As for how many times he hit Paul in the so-called "area below the extended free throw line" and whether there were 5 seconds, the referee himself was actually not sure.

But the referee was very sure: he was still a human being and he had to have humanity.

Anyone with a human heart cannot stand by and watch this kind of bullying on the field go on so unscrupulously!
Paul was almost killed!
If the whistle doesn't blow again, Lin Tian will probably dribble for the full 24 seconds, and then take a random shot at the last second. It doesn't matter whether it goes in or not. The main thing is to make Paul feel happy.

Not to mention the referee, in fact, the fans at the scene and the fans in front of the TV, well, everyone who watched the game could feel Lin Tian’s purpose in this round.

It’s just that the Knicks fans would only cheer for this, while the referee could transform into Captain Dragonfly and appear in time to say: I can’t stand this scene, and then stop the game!

Lin Tian didn't care about the whistle. He shrugged his shoulders and passed the ball to Paul. He looked at him and said, "Do you think we can get out of this misery with one more half quarter of the game?"

"I will make this 50-minute match the nightmare of your life! I will make this 50-minute match the nightmare that will haunt your sleep forever!"

"The nightmare is not about to end, it's just beginning, Chris! We'll see!"

Paul felt extremely aggrieved and helpless about Lin Tian's determination to beat him to death.

No, brother, I surrender!
I give in. I admit that I will never be your opponent. I'm already thinking about next NBA season, and you still want to beat me to death?
A famous gambling master in your China once said: If you surrender, you lose half!
Why didn't you listen to this person? Why didn't you take his advice?
Why didn't you surrender and lose half of your money? Instead, you just doubled it as soon as you saw that I surrendered?

Who did I offend?

Lin Tian ignored Paul's roar.

In my place, Master Lin, there is no such thing as surrendering and losing half. The only way is to surrender and continue to fight to the death!
Anyway, if you, Paul, insist on being tough, I, Mr. Lin, respect you as a man. Although I intend to beat you to death, I will at least give you some face.

Now... hehe, I just like to beat the weak ones!

Must be bullied to death!

"This is too much! I'm in pretty good shape tonight! Do you really think you can bully me?" Seeing that Lin Tian was determined to bully him to death, Paul became completely furious. Who isn't a child of destiny? Who doesn't have a temper?
If you don't show me mercy, I will also use my strength!
So, Paul, who had made four consecutive shots and scored points in the first half of the fourth quarter, roared and signaled all players to move away from him.

You, Lin Tian, ​​are very good, but I'm in great shape tonight. Can it be true that I can't hit you at all?
Absolutely impossible!
With a heart full of anger, Paul faced Lin Tian with the ball, dribbling between his legs continuously, looking for flaws in Lin Tian's defense.

Then he seized the opportunity and suddenly accelerated!
He forced his way to the outside of the 3-second zone against Lin Tian, ​​then suddenly jumped up and made a lob shot like an expert.

"Shh!"

With a crisp sound, Paul finally regained some face in front of Lin Tian and made a difficult 2-pointer!
“Come again, bastard! Come again!” Paul clenched his hands and yelled at Lin Tian, ​​“Let’s see who is the coward between the two of us! Do you really think that you are the best in history and can cover the sky with one hand?”

"Yes! That's what I thought!" Lin Tian was not afraid of Paul's provocation at all. He got the basketball as soon as possible, then turned around and confronted Paul again.

"Bang!" This time, Paul almost vomited bile.

"If you want me to respect you, don't hide this time." Lin Tian looked at Paul and said arrogantly: "If you don't have the guts, I will also give you a chance to retreat to your own half of the court to defend."

"Come on! Do you think I'm afraid of you?" Paul was so angry that he slapped the floor and opened his arms, looking ready to continue to fight Lin Tian head-on.

"If you're brave! Watch this!" Lin Tian grinned and suddenly launched an attack towards Paul!

Then two voices came out almost at the same time.

"Snapped!"

"Whoosh!"

The first sound was the sound of Paul falling heavily to the ground! This guy fell directly to the ground in a very embarrassing manner, sprawled out on his back.

But Lin Tian didn't touch him at all! Lin Tian didn't even have any physical contact with him!
This time, Lin Tian had no choice but to continue using his body to attack Paul.

Instead, he made a big change of direction and passed directly by Paul. The second sound was the sound of breaking through the air when Lin Tian broke through!

This guy saw through Paul's plan to fake a fall, so he didn't bother with him at all and rushed straight past him. Paul, out of inertia of thinking, thought that Lin Tian would definitely crash into him, and coupled with his subconscious fear of Lin Tian, ​​he was unwilling to have too much physical contact with him.

So his anti-gravity fall seemed quite fake.

He fell straight to the floor as if he had been hit by an invisible rhino.

Of course the referee would ignore this kind of fake fall, and Lin Tian completely ignored Paul and rushed all the way to the frontcourt. In the team's 5-on-4 situation, he chose to face Richardson who was rushing over to defend and made a long 3-point shot!
"Shh!"

After a crisp sound, Lin Tian made a 3-pointer from 2 steps outside the 3-point line! The team continued to widen the score!

"Want to compete with me? Huh? Want to compete with me? What gives you the right? Even if you live another lifetime, don't even think you can be more cunning than me!" After scoring the goal, Lin Tian immediately turned around to look at Paul who had just stood up and was about to return to his own half to receive the ball, and taunted him.

After being teased by Lin Tian repeatedly, Paul's mood at the moment can be said to be extremely bad.

All the psychological preparation he had made for himself in the third quarter was now thrown out of the window.

The good news is that Paul is really no longer afraid of Lin Tian, ​​and he wants to continue to compete with Lin Tian.

But the bad news is that Paul only has Lin Tian in his mind now.

This talented defender is about to start fighting for his dignity.

He is eager for revenge!
So this time, he rushed very hard!
After getting the ball, he immediately came to the frontcourt. Facing Lin Tian's defense, this guy first retreated and prayed to shake Lin Tian. After noticing that Lin Tian was not fooled, Paul was very alert. He did not continue to force the attack, but signaled his teammates to come forward to cover him.

The game has reached the most critical moment, Paul must hit the ball and help the team catch their breath.

So he called Aldridge, and he suddenly accelerated, wanting to rush into the inside!
Lin Tian didn’t come forward!
Paul was delighted. He felt that this time Lin Tian was finally shaken off by him and blocked by his teammates. At last, he completely passed him. At the same time, he suddenly accelerated and was ready to attack!

"Snapped!"

But then, Paul's heart sank.

Because he felt a huge impact, a figure appeared on his path and then collided heavily with him.

Paul fell to the ground, and the figure fell down as well.

Lin Tian!

At this time, it must be Lin Tian!

Once again, he predicted Paul's choice in advance. He saw Paul's breakthrough route, then flashed in front of Paul and collided head-on with him!
A perfect, textbook dribble-like charge!

The timing was perfect, the footwork was crystal clear, and the angle was impeccable!
There is no need for any hesitation in making a call, and no need to question the result. The referee doesn't even need to watch the video once to be sure.

It's just dribbling the ball and hitting someone!

Lin Tian, ​​who was lying on the floor, stretched out his hands and was pulled up by Stoudemire and Anthony. He stood in front of Paul, looking down at Paul who had just been pulled up by his teammates, and chuckled, "Are you trying to compete with me?"

"Still fighting? I'm afraid you'll die without even knowing how you died!"

In response to Lin Tian's repeated provocations, Paul once again chose to remain silent.

In these two consecutive rounds, both were offensive fouls, but the results were very different. Paul once again realized how exaggerated the insurmountable gap between him and Lin Tian was.

No match at all!

It was after this round that Paul completely lost the courage and idea to resist, and did not launch any effective counterattack. The Warriors fell behind more and more, and finally with 2 minutes left in the game, the Warriors made the first substitution.

After the team fell behind by 20 points again, they took the initiative to replace all the main players to prevent the players from being further destroyed by the Knicks players on the court.

Old Nelson also waved his hand and only let his main players play one more round on the court. He also replaced them with a pure rotation lineup, indicating that tonight was over.

The last 2 minutes of the game were completed quickly thanks to the efforts of the water cooler players on both sides.

118: 139!

In the first game of the new season, the Knicks scored a very high score, close to 140 points, easily getting off to a good start and providing a perfect ending to the team's championship flag-raising night.

That night, Lin Tian played for a total of only 3 minutes in the fourth quarter, which was enough to kill the game. He also only played for 6 minutes in the second quarter.

He didn't even play 30 minutes tonight!

Of course, one of the reasons was that the team was leading by too much in the second half so he didn't need to play too long, but the more important reason was that the Warriors were behind for almost the entire game and didn't cause too much trouble to the Knicks, so Lin Tian didn't need to be on the court all the time for the team to maintain its lead.

但哪怕上场时间还不到30分钟，林天还是轰下了全场最高的33分14助攻7篮板的数据，其中光是第二节的6分钟，他就拿到了18分！
In addition to the extremely perfect data, Lin Tian also has an incredibly high hit rate tonight. His hit rate tonight is over 80%!

Paul was really beaten so hard that he ran away in panic!

In addition to Lin Tian, ​​Stoudemire and Anthony combined to score 52 points tonight, still the second and third highest scorers on the team.

On the Warriors side, Aldridge played the best game of his career. His points and rebounds both set career highs, and he got an oversized double-double of 36 points and 17 rebounds.

In addition, his small statistics such as number of shots, number of hits, playing time, number of offensive rebounds, etc. are also career highs.

This second pick last year, after leaving the "rookie graveyard", demonstrated his talent and energy at the fastest speed and time.

Although Paul was completely beaten and taught a lesson by Lin Tian and made 5 turnovers, he still relied on a series of consecutive scores at the beginning of the fourth quarter to get a nice stat of 22 points and 12 assists.

Although the Warriors lost tonight, the inside and outside stars Paul and Aldridge have already demonstrated their potential to lead the team to become one of the league's top powers in at least the next 3-5 years and to lead the team to compete for the championship as the core.

The Knicks won the game and had a perfect night.

The Warriors have shown the energy and potential of their new dual core, and they are destined to become a top force in the league in the next few years.

Both sides have a bright future! (End of this chapter)