596 Enthusiasm Auckland (seeking support)
Howard sat in the locker room of Oracle Center Arena, stepping on the floor with his feet naked, staring at the smooth floor in a daze.
The atmosphere in the locker room was dead, the players did not communicate with each other, and no one told jokes. The funnyest Howard became the one with the lowest mood at this time. In sharp contrast, there was the crazy arena, and the fans' sharp cheers even passed through several walls and entered the ears of the Magic players.
Without going out to see, Howards also know what the Warriors fans are. They are waiting for victory and waiting for glory that has not appeared in decades.
Today's game is the fourth game in the finals. The Warriors have won three consecutive games. If they win again today, the season can be declared over, the Magic will be eliminated and the Warriors will win the championship.
Although Howard has a child-tempered temper, he is not a coward who is willing to admit defeat. He knows that the situation is hopeless and they can no longer win the championship. It doesn’t matter if there is no championship. What he hopes is to win one or two games and never be swept.
But can they win today? Howard sadly discovered that he didn't have this confidence. At this moment, the scene of the last game appeared in his mind again.
After coming to Auckland, the Magic players experienced the hardships they had never experienced. It was all their first time playing in the finals. No one in this team had entered the finals before. They had heard that the fans in the finals were very crazy, but they did not expect that the small town in Auckland would be as crazy as this.
On the way from the airport to the hotel, they were first surrounded by fans, and then the police who opened the road took them around the city and finally arrived at the hotel. As a result, the hotel refused to let their buses enter the parking lot. In fact, the bus belongs to the Warriors. Each team has a bus to pick up and drop off their opponents and their players, but now it is the Magic.
The bus was so dirty that the hotel refused to say justice. The players had no choice but to walk into the hotel with their luggage. As a result, after entering the hotel, their door card was invalid. Van Gundy was furious. The hotel foreman checked awkwardly and found that the door card was not magnetic at all. So the players had to wait in the corridor and the waiter went down to recharge them.
This magnetic charge lasted half an hour, because the fans who intercepted the Magic Team on the road followed the hotel. These people kept making trouble in the hall. They did not slap or smash, but occupied all the positions of the front desk and the service desk, and kept making trouble. They asked questions and occupied these positions, so that the waiters who were preparing to recharge could not enter the front desk.
The furious little Nelson came down to ask, but the fans found it, so these people went to chase him. Little Nelson didn't know what was going on, but more than a dozen young men covered in tattoos ran towards him with a weird cry. They were so scared that they didn't even dare to sit on the elevator and ran up the stairs. Later, Van Gundy called the police again and cooperated with the hotel security to disperse the fans, and the players charged the magnetic card.
If you think that the Magic players are finally liberated, you're a big mistake.
The Magic team booked a total of 18 rooms, and there were more than 20 empty rooms on that floor, but all of them were booked by Warriors fans. As soon as the Magic players were lying on the bed and wanted to take a break, the deafening BAPBIp and heavy metal music came next door. Van Gundy's complaint was fruitless. The hotel lobby manager came up to negotiate with these fans, but the fans refused to turn the volume down and refused to change rooms, just to torture the Magic players.
At night, when the Magic players were almost going to bed, the phone rang out loud and they had to pull out the phone line, but from time to time someone came up to knock on the door. The Magic team had to arrange for bodyguards to be on duty in the corridor, and the players were almost tortured crazy.
The next morning, someone came up to deliver breakfast early. Several people were wearing McDonald's uniforms and put a portion of nutritious breakfast at the door of the room. The bodyguards saw that these people were so polite that they did not cause trouble, so they didn't care. As a result, the Magic suffered the most tragic Waterloo here.
These people are all pretended by fans. The breakfast they brought was problematic. Of course, they would not poison it, but they would still dare to get some aphrodisiacs and laxatives.
Courtney, who was getting up early, became the first person to be caught. He opened the door and saw that there was breakfast outside, so he took it back to eat it. So, throughout the day, he spent almost pulling out his large intestine. The strong young man turned pale until the end, and he looked pale, as if he had applied a layer of flour.
After the veterans went out, these people became more experienced. When Batty saw these breakfasts, he first asked Saker, the deputy general manager of the Magic team. After learning that they had not ordered food from outside and this was not the breakfast delivered by the hotel, he carefully collected it. Nelson was too hungry and ate a fried chicken leg. As a result, five minutes later, the guy under his crotch began to become hard, and it took four hours to get hard...
By the time the third game started on the night of the 9th, the Magic players were no longer adults. Van Gundy called the NHA headquarters to complain. He personally complained to Stern, but it was useless. This happens every year in the finals. The league is actually happy to see scenes where hardcore fans torture players. This is also a major highlight of the finals. Otherwise, what else is the meaning of ordinary people?
The game finally started, and the starting lineup sent by the Magic changed slightly. Courtney Lee became a substitute, and the starting shooting guard was replaced by Reddick. There was no way. Courtney, the unlucky child, was weak in his legs. If he faced Iverson today, he would be sieve.
In fact, the Magic have a better candidate to defend Iverson, that is his old enemy, Tyrone Lu. Yes, the Lakers defender Tyrone Lu, who was famous for his defensive answers in the 201st Finals. In the middle of the season, the Magic made a deal from the Bucks and used shooting guard Bogans and a cash compensation to exchange him. Of course, this is not because the Magic are so prescient and foresee that they will meet the Warriors in the finals, but that Nelson Jr. was injured at that time and they needed to strengthen the No. 1 position.
Tyrone-Lu did not get much chance to play when he came to the Magic, but was frozen in the playoffs and could not even make it into the roster of the two. In the finals, even if Iverson performed so well in the first two games, Van Gundy did not let him play against Iverson. It cannot be said that Van Gundy was stupid or stubborn.
First of all, Taylor Lu was 2 years old this year. For a defender, his physical fitness in this age group was already very poor. He was no longer the young man who could run, jump and disturb Iverson eight years ago; secondly, Nelson was the same height as Iverson, and his speed was faster than Tyron Lu. In addition, his strength was strong. If he could not even defend Iverson, how could Tyron Lu be able to defend? Finally, and most importantly, Tyron Lu could neither complete the attack himself nor organize the attack. Once he came on the court, the Magic No. 1 position would be abandoned.
Today, due to Courtney's diarrhea, Tyrone-Lu finally came out of the frozen roster and may have a chance to play.
Back at home, the Warriors were even more vigorous. This game was seen as a more suspenseless event. Many betting companies did not directly give the odds of the Warriors' failure. Everyone knows that this is impossible.
At the beginning of the game, the Warriors frequently attacked. Chamberlain and Iverson cooperated, the latter broke through and passed the ball, the former dunked in the air, and followed Billups to steal Redick's pass again. Iverson broke through and stopped quickly and accurately sent the ball into the ring. At the beginning, the Warriors scored a 60 start and gave the Magic a warning.
But what everyone didn't expect was that the Magic Team is not vulnerable today, their feel is hot and hot
Redick took the ball and shot after running, and used a shot to help the Magic start the first record. Then Tekoglu broke through and made a mid-range shot. But the Warriors were obviously more excited. After all, this was their home court. Iverson made consecutive breakthroughs and jump shots, giving fans a class of emergency stop jump shots. Under his leadership, the Warriors scored an offensive climax of l14.
Seeing that the Magic were about to repeat the same mistake, they were defeated in the first quarter. At this time, Redick and Nelson Jr. made three-pointers in a row, and their shooting percentage was very high. With 7 minutes and 46 seconds left in the first quarter, they tied the score to 13-13.
Then, Billups passed the ball with Chamberlain, who hit Howard with his back and hit the basket. The Warriors took the lead again. Ten seconds later, Lewis scored with a running basket. However, the Warriors, who returned to the door of their home, had a strong offensive in this game, and soon scored another small climax of B2, forcing the Magic to suspend the game.
The timeout returned, and the Magic frequently exerted their strength from the outside. Redick, Tkoglu and Nelson Jr. each made one shot and scored 6 points in a row. At the end of the first quarter, the Magic were only 2 points behind the Warriors 28-3, which was much better than their performance in the first two games.
This result is surprising. The NHA is indeed where the miracle is happening. The Warriors can slaughter the Magic away. Fans think that they should be more vigorous when they return to the Devil's home court. Many experts even agree that the Warriors can beat 30.
This result made the fans very dissatisfied. At the beginning of the second quarter, the fans shouted: "Stop playing anymore, don't let go, win the championship as fast as possible."
These words made the magic so angry that we burst into tears. We are also the champions of the Eastern Conference. We are still behind now. Do we have no ability to fight?
Facts have proved that today's Magic has this ability. Although Lewis' jump shot was blocked by Chamberlain at the beginning, West, who came on as a substitute, made a backward shot and helped the Warriors widen the score difference. But then, Nelson Jr. broke through and made a foul and made both free throws, and Tkoglu's step back jump shot also made a precise hit, and the two sides quickly fell into a stalemate again.
Then the Magic seized this opportunity and shot from the outside. Nelson Jr.'s layup also caused Chamberlain to foul, and he kept sticking to the score. Even though the Warriors strengthened their defense, the Magic still felt hot. With 6 minutes and 18 seconds left in the quarter, Pitrus' breakthrough layup helped the Magic overtake the score. This was the first time they took the lead in the finals.
However, Curry's three-point long shot made the lead change again. It seems that the league does not want to see the Warriors win with such an absolute advantage. They want to create some difficulties, so even if this is the Warriors' home court, the whistle rarely favors the away team magic.
In the next attack, West's breakthrough was almost intercepted, and he subconsciously kicked the ball. This was originally an violation at most, because West's kicking action was not intentional. He encountered it during the breakthrough and running, but the referee gave him a technical foul on the kicking football.
The fans of the audience booed in anger. West opened his arms helplessly and laughed. He kept shaking his head at the referee. As a result, the referee showed no mercy and immediately gave him another technical foul and sent him out of the arena.
Chapter completed!