Chapter 229: Fulfilling the Bet
After the game started, the Pistons indeed focused on Wade's defense. Wade mustered up the courage to attack the Pistons' defense line at the beginning of the game, but his body was sick after all, and after a few fights, he became a little weak.
The impact force is naturally insufficient, but this cannot make the Pistons take it lightly, because in the previous few games, O'Neal did not play a strong role under the restraint of the two Wallaces. Someone has used Sharks to write a commemorative article, saying that O'Neal is not the big shark that is dominating the basket.
Although O'Neal's performance was resolute after this article was released, it was still not as threatening as Wade, so they attached great importance to Wade. Even if they were in a bad state for a while, they did not dare to relax, so they let Hamilton defend "White Chocolate" Williams and Billups defended Wade.
Although Hamilton has an advantage in height, he is at a disadvantage in strength. Billups is two centimeters lower than Wade's height, but his strength is very strong, but he is not too disadvantageous in comparison. In this way, it means that the Pistons' backcourt has changed positions while defending.
Wade is a player with a very unique type and distinctive characteristics. He is only 1.93 meters tall, but he weighs more than 210 pounds. Compared with Hamilton, he will know that he is two meters tall, but he weighs less than 20 pounds, which is nearly 20 pounds. These 20 pounds are basically muscles.
According to normal circumstances, he is a bit high in his height and a bit low in his shooting guard. According to ordinary people's standards, it is just in an embarrassing position, which is why he was not selected until the fifth pick.
But from another perspective, those who are taller than him are faster than him, and those who are faster than him are not stronger than him. His type just makes people unable to defend. On the other hand, this is his strength. When Wade first entered the league, he relied on his step faster than others to break through layups and scored a layup, winning himself the reputation of "The Flash".
However, his shooting is not good enough, especially shooting outside the three-point line, which basically has no accurate headlines. An outside player has no outside shooting ability, and his height makes people even more unfavorable for his future.
But Wade kept making up for his shortcomings, just like he did at Marquette University, and at the same time, his defense was excellent. He could defend at any position on the back line, which was easy for him to be in both positions.
Although his passing vision is not top-notch, he has a good enough breakthrough and pass-through ability and is enough to play his role in the point guard position. His super-class scoring ability allows him to become the team's number one scorer.
This is what Wade is difficult to deal with. In the past three seasons, his average score has been rising. Since last season, he averaged 24 points per game, while he averaged 24 points per game. This performance far exceeds Tongji has made O'Neal willing to say the words of support. Of course, compared to James and Anthony in the same class, Wade seems mature and he has shown enough respect for O'Neal.
Wade failed to make a layup again, and he clearly realized that it was really not easy to play with his weak body. The more he did this, the more he admired the man who was looking at the city. He was able to hang his retired jerseys over the visiting team's court. He was still inferior to him after all.
At this time, Jason Williams quietly walked to him and conveyed the coach's arrangements to him. Wade immediately woke up. It seemed that the coach had made preparations. He immediately switched his role and began to concentrate on providing firepower and cover for Williams.
Jason Williams made good use of Hamilton's defense weakness. He was sixteen centimeters shorter than Hamilton, and his flexibility and pace were naturally much higher. Soon the Pistons discovered that although Billups had better restricted Wade, it allowed Jason Williams to open it.
At this time, Sanders still did not realize that it was designed by Pat Riley early in the morning, but thought that it was a problem caused by his own defensive shift. He let the two of them change back, but after resting, Wade showed his strength again and successfully broke through twice in a row, Billups and Hamilton changed back.
The consequence of frequent defensive changes was that neither of them could defend themselves. By the end of the first half, Wade scored twelve points, Jason Williams scored 18 points, the Heat led the Pistons by as many as nine points, and the Pistons' five main players played the entire first half, without a minute of rest.
It’s better for others to say that Rashid Wallace is the worst physically among the five people, and he has been a little unable to stand it anymore. However, at first, O’Neal stayed on the court and waited for O’Neal to rest. The coach arranged for them to score while O’Neal was away, but in the end they didn’t score many points, but they were so tired.
In the second half, as the Heat's new force returned to the field, the main force on the Pistons had to go off the court to rest. The gap not only did not narrow, but continued to widen. After only three minutes of rest, Sanders replaced the main force again, but in just a while, the gap was widened to 14 points.
Sanders wanted Ben Wallace to foul in advance when he could not stop O'Neal from attacking. O'Neal had already made zero five free throws in the previous game. It seemed that his free throw was not very good today, and he was rejected by Ben Wallace. Ben Wallace thought that doing so was an insult to him. Sanders stared at him for a long time, and saw that he still held his head up and did not respect his dignity as a head coach, so he just sat on the bench and started to enter Cao's camp without saying a word.
The player does not implement the head coach's decision. There is no way for a team to reverse the current adverse situation. Although other players do not so explicitly disobey Sanders' command, they do not follow Sanders' command completely. In this case, even if Sanders has a thousand tricks, what's the use of it, let alone he has no tricks.
In the whole fourth quarter, Sanders did not issue a command order, which was a timeout, and the assistant coach called for the players. The players still played according to their own habits and tactics on the court, and ignored Sanders at all. But in this way, the Pistons still narrowed the gap in the scores, but at the end, Wade suddenly returned to courage, scored six points in a row at the critical moment, and once again expanded the gap in the scores to more than double digits.
At this time, the Pistons players no longer had any intention of winning. The 3-2 score, the failure of this game meant the end of the season, which meant that they had from the extremely energetic Pistons that swept the league at the beginning of the season, and in the end, they didn't even enter the finals and ended the game in a hurry. All the Pistons teams left Miami without stopping.
At this time, the general manager of the Pistons, Chaudhmas, has begun to think about how to operate next season. How could he, as a player, not understand everything that happened in the second half of this game? According to the general handling method, at this time, either replace the coach to comfort the players or replace the player who does not obey the command in order to keep the coach, but Chaudhmas wants to replace both in his heart.
Although Sanders is very good, he really lacks personal charm. He can't command players and does not obey commands. Although there is only one Ben Wallace, the other players are also slanderous and cannot replace all the players. As for Ben Wallace, his contract has expired. In the early negotiations, Ben Wallace completely ignored the current situation of the team and defended the requirement of a six-year contract with an annual salary of more than 10 million yuan. If he really gives a contract such as a player who is not able to attack, is less than 6 feet and nine inches tall and is nearly 32 years old, he will be laughed to death, and his reputation will be lost for this contract for a lifetime.
The professional quality of Ben Wallace's inappropriate contract negotiations made Choudumas very dissatisfied, so he had already made the decision to give up Ben Wallace in his heart. As for whether other players should be cleaned up, let's take a look at the development of the offseason.
The Pistons' sad departure just set off the Heat's joy and excitement. Being able to enter the finals means that one hand has touched the golden O'Brien Cup. Although the 90-and-a-half-way tournament is not the time to be excited at this time, the fans can't care so much. At this time, the American Airlines Center Arena was full of joy. After the trophy ceremony for the Eastern Championship was completed, the fans were still unwilling to leave and were still celebrating there frantically. Pat Riley sat there with a smile on his face and looked at the group of players under his hands, his heart full of accomplishment.
At this time, in the media interview, news that Wade suffered from flu in this game was revealed, and he was also treated during the halftime break. When the fans were moved by Wade's spirit of playing with injuries, many people in the industry couldn't help but turn their attention to this man called the "God's Operation".
At this time, the Spurs also received this news. Although only the coaching staff stayed together to watch the game, the players were doing their own things they liked. Duncan and Tony Parker were playing games, but they were at their respective homes. Ginobili and Oberto were watching a football game of the Argentina national team together. Stephen was still sweating on the training ground, but they all got the news soon.
After confirming his finals opponent, Duncan began to call his teammates one by one, telling them that it was time to fulfill the bet and let everyone go to a bar to gather. In this way, most of the main players of the Spurs came to this bar called "Midsummer Night".
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