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Chapter 466 Jordan's speech (Second more! Ask for a monthly pass!)

Go to the next city first, and the fans will happily eat melons in the forum after the game.

"Shaq's free throws are spot on!"

"I suspect you are O'Neill's trumpet!"

"The big shark doesn't bother to use such a method! I'm just telling the truth!"

"Then this is really a big 'truth'!"

"Stop arguing, let me tell you something, this game gave me the feeling that Shaq is really a bit old."

"Yes, although he dunked a few beautiful dunks on the court, but his performance has been suppressed by Yao."

"But then again, Yao is the MVP of this year's regular season! Shaq is already 34 years old, so this kind of performance is normal for both parties!"

"That's right, Yao Hang beat Howard, hammered Da Ben, and suppressed Shaq. He is already the new No. [-] center in the league!"

"I also agree. Shaq will give way, hand over, and pass on after this season. No matter what kind of statement, the inside will be Yao's world in the future!"

"I think the game is very exciting. Whether the Wizards lose or lose is tactical. Carlisle's shark-slashing tactic is a bit anxious."

"This is the real key point. Although Carlisle has outstanding ability, his experience is not enough. I hope he can adjust well in the next game."

"Blindly guessing that the Wizards came back to win a game and tied 1-1."

"By the way, do you still remember the buddy who said that the warrior Heiba ​​eats shit? Where is he?"

"No, you don't think he can really eat shit, do you?"

"But that account is abolished. Let's guess the score. I also think it will be 1 to 1."

"You all guess 1 to 1, then I guess 2 to 0, anyway, there is no loss if you lose."

"2-0 is absolutely impossible. The strengths of the two teams are too close. If this is 2-0, and then go to the Lakers home court later, the Wizards will have no chance to play."

"What if?"

"Absolutely nothing happens!"

……

In Oakland, Durant, who just finished his workout, was reading reviews on his new phone.

Ask where Durant's cell phone came from, it was given by Adi's people!

Durant's draft market is optimistic, and naturally it has become a hot item for major sneaker manufacturers.

Adidas, Nike, and AJ are all reaching out to him.

Adi has Sun Hao's relationship, so he is naturally closer to Durant, and it is not a problem to give him a new mobile phone.

Looking at these comments, Durant suddenly became interested in the original comments.

Opening a trumpet to post comments is like wearing a mask and walking on the street, no one will recognize it, it seems very good.

It is better to act than to be moved. Thinking of this, he has picked up his mobile phone and registered a new account, and then expressed his views on the forum:
"The Lakers Championship!"

……

After two days of rest, the fans' discussion has not stopped, and the second game of the finals continues in Washington.

It is worth noting that the Wizards' training has been closed for the past two days.

Obviously, the pressure of losing Game [-] on the Wizards was enormous.

Because if they lose in the second game, they will have one foot off the cliff, and there is even a certain probability that they will be swept away.

Nobody knew what the Wizards were planning until Game [-] officially kicked off.

Then the fans discovered that Carlisle actually... didn't make much adjustments.

He still asked McGrady to defend Sun Hao at the beginning.

Of course, he has also changed, the biggest change is to further increase Hamilton's tactical status.

Although Hamilton only scored 16 points in the first game, he made 9 of 6 shots and was very efficient.

It's not surprising that Carlisle made such an adjustment, and it did have a good effect.

And in the second game, Carlisle, who made the Wizards fall into a passive shark-slashing tactic, didn't work anymore.

Obviously, this tactic looks simple, but there are only a few people in the league who can really play it well, old Nelson and Popovich.

He gave up directly with this hand and was also very decisive.

The direct result of these two adjustments was that the Wizards and the Lakers had a stalemate in the second game to the final decisive moment.

At this time, the fight is the real key ball ability.

In the end, with Sun Hao's key three-pointer and assist O'Neal's hit at the basket, and McGrady's counter-lore failure.

The Lakers were slightly better in the key ball competition, and finally defeated the Wizards with a thrilling 107-105.

And after winning this game, to the surprise of almost everyone, the Lakers won the Wizards two home games in a row, rewriting the big score to 2-0!

Suddenly, the wind direction in the forum changed drastically.

"The Lakers Championship!"

"Lakers championship! Sun FMVP!"

"Who else?!"

"It's gone. The Wizards have lost both home games. The next three games will be played in Los Angeles. The Wizards will take the lead!"

"Haha, as expected, the truth is in the hands of a few people. Let me make another prediction. The Wizards will win at most one game, and the Lakers will win the championship 4-1!"

"There should be no objections now, either 4 to 1 or 4 to 0, the Lakers will not let the game go back to Washington!"

"I think this season's problem is too big. Why do we use 232 alone in the finals? Isn't it the same as 22111 in the divisional competition?"

"Who knows? Maybe they just want to give the team with the worst record a chance!"

"Hey! It's a pity to lose both games! Sure enough, T-mac is still much worse than Sun!"

"The top five shooting guards, the MVP Grand Slam, do you think it was all given by friendship?"

"Furthermore, Carlisle's tactics have also been adjusted. Maybe the Wizards' only comeback point is Yao?"

"Yao is also difficult. Although Shaq is not as strong as before, he is a big shark after all. It is impossible to be blown up, so..."

"The Lakers Championship!"

……

Regarding the competition system of the finals, there is actually a little-known history in the middle.

In fact, at the very beginning, the competition system of the competition was the 22111 competition system as mentioned in the comments.

This is the same as the league you found on Baidu, which has a 232 competition system from the very beginning, and it is all nonsense.

In fact, after the NBA started the 7-game 4-win system in the finals, the 22111 game system lasted for nearly 40 years.

It was not until 1985 that a competition system reform request proposed by Celtics chairman Auerbach was passed by the league before it was changed to a 232 competition system.

There is no conspiracy theory or the like in it. The reason for this proposal is purely because of traffic problems.

In the last century, most of the traffic was still buses, and the divisional playoffs were okay. No matter how you ran, you were still in the half of North America.

But inter-regional competition is a real exhaustion for players.

Because if the next three games are 111, you may have to rush from the westernmost point in North America to the easternmost point in two days.

Most of the time is spent in the car, and the training must not keep up, and the competitive state will naturally not improve.

So the league quickly adopted Auerbach's proposal at that time, and it has been used until now.

However, as the fans said in the comments, such a competition system is actually beneficial to this year's Lakers.

On the second day after the second game, the Lakers players returned to Los Angeles with a beautiful mood to prepare for the next three home games.

But for the Wizards, the situation they are facing now is unprecedented.

Between the second and third games, including the three-day rest period on the game day, they did not rush to Los Angeles on the first day, but practiced daily in Washington.

The morale of the team was extremely low during training.

Yao Ming tried to get the players together to boost morale, but that didn't do much in the end.

This is also completely normal. The big score is 0 to 2 behind, and they have to play 3 consecutive away games.

To use the meme that will be popular in the future: smart people are already thinking about how to spend the offseason.

Carlisle didn't say anything, and disappeared from the gym for a while during the second half of practice.

When he returned to the training ground, a familiar figure appeared with him.

Michael. That's right, it's me Jordan again.

Jordan wasn't called to the arena by Carlisle on purpose.

He happened to be in the arena today to discuss the team's upcoming games with general manager Grunfield.

After Carlisle heard the news, he went to chat with him for a while, and then invited him to the training hall.

The Wizards players were very excited, but they didn't say they were so excited that they wanted to take a photo together.

After all, as the small boss of the Wizards, as Jordan said in the first interview of the finals, he will often come to the game to guide the players.

Even, he will have exchanges with some players.

So the reaction of these players is also reasonable.

Of course, they saw that Jordan had to gather quickly.

"Rick told me he wanted me to come and say something to you to boost morale.

I didn't want to come, because I usually have to prepare speeches for speeches, and it is very difficult for me to speak without a script. "

After Carlisle signaled everyone to stand up, Jordan squeezed a smile and looked at the players.

Jordan's words drew a burst of laughter from the Wizards.

Although Jordan likes to pretend, he is quite humorous when he really wants to give a speech.

For details, please refer to his Hall of Fame speech.

"But I'm already here."

When Jordan said this, his smile stopped.

The players of the Wizards also focused their attention on Jordan.

Jordan's speech is not something you can hear if you want to.

"I know a lot of people out there are pretending I've only been in the NBA for six years."

Jordan's first sentence caused the corners of some players' mouths to rise.

This sentence, in fact, was a well-known stalk even in the era in which Sun Hao lived.

"But I'm not, until I got my first championship, I was a loser.

So you know by now that the basketball gods didn't start out winning all the time. "

What Jordan said next made the Wizards players inexplicably a little excited.

Michael I'm pretending to be Jordan all the time, saying something like that is really something they haven't seen.

When a person who loves to pretend no longer pretends to be aggressive, then his next words must be unusual.

"I didn't start off as a T-mac genius, I was pretty average as a kid.

I'm not tall enough, let alone like Yao, I may not even be as tall as an ordinary guard.

I'm not fast enough, not many people even think I can play professional basketball.

But I did it, I finally did it, entered North Carolina, entered the NBA, won the championship, 6 championships.

I can do it because I was competitive from a very young age.

I competed with my brother from the beginning, every place, although most of the time I lost.

But I kept doing it, and I went to high school to compete with my sister, even though she started late and graduated earlier than me.

But I still keep competing, because I know that once you stop, your dreams and what you want will gradually go away from you. "

Jordan's speech was very contagious, not only the Wizards, but even Carlisle listened carefully.

He felt that inviting Jordan today might be an unexpected opportunity for the Wizards.

"This is my story, the story I have never shared with anyone, and the reason I tell you today, I just want to tell you,

No matter where you are, no matter how many times you have failed before, you should never give up hope.

Because when you give up hope, you give up on yourself.

And once you persevere, God will see one day, and the door of success will open to you. "

As soon as Jordan finished speaking, Uncle Mu took the lead in applauding.

Jordan smiled and looked at Uncle Mu. The young man who had been sprayed with "Welcome to the NBA" by him was now a real veteran.

The rest of the Wizards also applauded.

This passage of Jordan's speech is very exciting. If a book is to be written in the future, this passage can be included in the selection.

If the Wizards can finally reverse and win the championship, then the legend of this period will be even stronger.

Of course, it's a bit early to talk about those.

What can be clearly felt is that the morale of the Wizards has obviously picked up after Jordan's speech.

And Jordan showed off his own humor after the speech.

"T-mac, you know when they asked me who was stronger, you or Sun, I didn't answer, because you know that Sun has helped me, I can't speak badly about him in public, so you understand."

That made Maddie laugh.

While this may sound like an attempt to encourage McGrady, who doesn't like a good word?

After Jordan left, Carlisle also said something.

His words are not as sensational and exaggerated as Jordan's, but what he said is very real.

"Charles Barkley said 'don't replace me, there's a lot of rest after I die', I just want to say that we'll have a lot of rest this summer and it's far from the time to 'get off'.

You are the team with the best record in the regular season, you are the Eastern Conference champions, you only lost 2 points in the second game, you are not weak.

As long as you play a little bit better than now, you can win by just a little bit.

It doesn't matter whether it's away or home, it's the same, treat the next game as the last, we can win this championship! "

Carlisle's words seemed to add fuel to the fire, directly lighting up the emotions of the Wizards players.

I saw the excited fighting spirit in Yao Ming's eyes, and saw McGrady open his blurred sleepy eyes again.

Carlisle could feel that this Wizards team would never lose so easily, never!
(End of this chapter)