Chapter five hundred and seventy first unforeseen circumstances
The Cavaliers swallowed two expected defeats at home for the Pacers.
Although the Pacers have a 2-0 lead, they have to really set the tone for the series trend and win a away game.
Only by winning away games can they get match points.
If they can't get match points away, they have to go back to home to play Tianwangshan, which will be even more nervous.
While the Pacers defeated the Cavaliers twice, they maintained their home advantage, but the Western Conference finals showed different excitement.
In the first two games of the Western Conference Finals, the Spurs pioneer won, but in the second game, Yao's 26 points allowed the Red team to lead the Spurs most of the time.
As they were about to steal the Spurs' home advantage, Tony Parker's breakthrough collided with Yao Guo, causing him to retreat.
In the second half of the fourth quarter, Duncan stood up, just as he has done for the Spurs over the past ten years, with solid basic skills, stable finishing ability and passing ability that can control the system.
After the giants of the Red Team fell, the Spurs turned defeat into victory without any damage.
Popovich praised Duncan's performance: "Tim doesn't say much on the court. He's just a good guy who wants to improve his skills. In my opinion, he doesn't have a specific moment that makes people exclaim 'wow'. When you first see him trying his best in training, seeing his physical talent, his size, his big hands, his strength, the next thing you need to see how hard he will work to improve himself. When we get him in the draft, we don't know how great the tradition he will bring, just like we don't know Manu will become the Manu now. He is very good at observing and learning, and no matter which coach trains him, he accepts it all."
Duncan's courage allowed the Spurs to keep their home court.
The Red Team is not so lucky. A giant like Yao Gui is not injured, and there is no small matter if it is injured.
Xie Hou immediately called Yao Guan after hearing about this. He was waiting for the examination results in the hospital.
"It doesn't feel good." Yao Yun said that his injury was only one sentence, which was more of a regret for the game.
The Red Team is at a critical point of the season, and every game is very important with the Spurs' division final. His injury has caused the Red Team to lose the pillar of the penalty area, and Duncan's big explosion is also related to this.
The Red Team has three stars in the internal and external lines.
Yao, along with McGrady, Byron Davis, and the wings, there are also men with physical talent like Josh Smith. The team's instant combat power and chemistry are all at the best at this time. Yao Ming's injury retreat not only made the Red team lose an All-Star center who averaged 208 per game, but also made their penalty area lose a reliable barrier.
Xie Hou and him had an hour's phone call.
He has had injuries, but he is lucky than Yao Yun. He has never suffered injuries at such a critical moment.
Therefore, he couldn't help enlighten young people like Yao Yun later. He often used the embarrassing incident of his debut in the NBA with 0 points.
He has never had the experience of losing key games due to injury.
He could only say those words that Yao Yu had calloused his ears when he heard them.
The next day, the examination result came out, and the left ankle was accidentally broken. It seemed that it was a knee injury, but the knee was just a small problem. The real problem was that Yao Yu's huge body did not protect himself after it landed. The already relatively brittle left ankle was broken after it was hit.
Those who are familiar with Yao Gui must know that his left ankle is the most fragile part of his body.
As early as ten years ago, when he represented the Shanghai Youth Team in the Guangdong Invitational Tournament, he was stepped on by a man named Ouyang Jinggui. At that time, Yao Yong was only 17 years old and was just a child. He was tall but weak. As a rare youth team player of the age of real youth team, he usually had to face "peers" who were three, four or five years older than him. Moreover, Yao Yong was too outstanding, and the Shanghai team trained him to skip grades since he was a child.
When he was 15, he played at the age of 17, and when he was 19, he participated in the U22 World Youth Championship.
Not to mention the matters in the World Youth Championship, just talk about China. When he was 17 years old, he was not facing a group of young young men who had just grown up at the age of 19. But a group of adults who were nominally only 19 years old, but only they knew how old they were.
Although Ouyang Jinggui's kick was the direct cause of Yao Xu's fracture, it was difficult to avoid in such an environment.
Children who beat adults will have a high chance of injury unless they have precocious physiques like Luka Doncic and Xie Hou.
Yao Yun has been in the NBA for five years, and this is the first time he has suffered serious injuries.
A fractured left ankle directly announced his season reimbursement.
For the remaining games, he had to sit in a wheelchair and watch his teammates continue to fight.
For him, it was painful.
For Chinese fans, this is infuriating.
Jeff Van Gundy's employment aroused condemnation from the Chinese people, and everyone believed that this vampire-looking Mediterranean did not cherish Yao Zhu at all.
"Baozi Fan, get out of here!"
"If Yao Guo had to play 42 minutes in every game to win, I could also be the head coach of the popular team!"
"Well, Xiao Fan doesn't want Yao Xu to be injured. Who can tell me this is accurate?"
Almost every five related comments criticize Van Gundy for employing people.
Whether his employer is reasonable, it is enough to just look at the bench of the Red Team. In addition to Yao, the Red Team's centers also include Mutombo and Jack Chakalidis.
The Georgians are useless. Not to mention that Mutombo is a four-time DPOY, but his defense is not bad.
Even when he is in full physical fitness, Mutombo is still more effective in protecting the basket than Yao Zhu.
Although Yao Yun averaged 20 points per game, the Red Team currently has no shortage of offensive points. McGrady and Davis both scored 30 points and 40 points when they entered the state.
Van Gundy was criticized for asking for his own fault. He overdrawn Yao during the playoffs.
However, the fans are right. If you are injured, you can't blame the coaches. Some people won't get hurt no matter how they play, and some people can get hurt even if they play preseason. There is no place to make sense for this kind of thing.
The news of Yao Xu's confirmation of a fracture in his left ankle made Xie Hou sad. They didn't have long been a teammate, so they calculated it twice.
04 Athens and Hiroshima, Japan last year.
Just so happen, these two experiences can be regarded as the golden years in their lives.
They fought together to make the Chinese team the Olympic champion and World Championship champion, and together they turned the history of the Chinese team over a new page - almost certainly a glorious chapter for those who have never come.
The experience of the national team has led them to form a deep friendship. Once a big man like Yao Gui is injured, it will be like an open Pandora's box.
This is his first time in the NBA, but it is by no means the last time.
Xie Hou talked with him for an hour last night, and after confirming his injury in the morning, he talked with him for another hour.
"You should be glad that if we make it to the finals, you will have good fruits!" Yao Gui recovered well, and he still had time to joke with Xie Hou.
Xie Hou is the kind of person who will instinctively retort when encountering aggressive remarks.
"You really dare to say that with your speed, Lao Wang and I can beat you so hard that you can't find your way home." Xie Hou replied quickly.
Yao Yun was silent for a while, "You may be right, but I really want to know what it feels like to play in the NBA Finals."
"It's no different from what you're fighting now. It's bigger, more attention. If you mess up, more people will scold you, that's all." This is Xie Hou's personal experience.
Yao Yun was calm, but Xie Hou could vaguely hear his unwillingness to the status quo from his tone.
Anyone who encounters such a thing will be unwilling to accept it.
If he loses the division finals with dignity, that's fine, he's not as good as others. Now he's out of force majeure before he finishes his game. Next, he has to witness the team continue to fight with the Spurs without him.
If anyone wants to do such a thing, I can't get over the hurdle in my heart.
In the afternoon, Xie Hou and his teammates trained as usual.
Tomorrow they will fly to Cleveland to play two away games in a row. If it goes well, they will win one of them. If it goes very well, they will win tickets to the finals away.
Kirilianko still doesn't play with the team, and he is deeply distressed.
Back injury is like an emotionally unstable little girl. She feels much better today, but it’s not great to wake up.
Whenever Kirilenko got up the next day and found that his back seemed to be hurting more, he knew that he could no longer be his favorite horse riding position.
On the morning of May 27, the Pacers set off for the away game.
Cleveland has two games waiting for them to play.
When the plane landed, the reporters who took a good position in advance first surrounded Claire. They wanted to know the most whether Kirilenko would make a comeback.
Knowing that Kirirenko didn't hit, Claire still put out a smoke bomb: "If Andre feels good, he will come back tonight; if he feels bad, I will let him continue to rest."
Xie Hou regrets this group of reporters with no IQ online. Why don’t they open their eyes to see the surrounding situation? If Kirirenko is there, he will be able to play. If he doesn’t come to the away game, then it will naturally be impossible to play.
Then, the reporters saw him.
They actually asked if Yao Yun's injury would have any impact on him, because he played more minutes in the Western Conference Finals than Yao Yun.
"On the battlefield, bullets will bypass those who are not afraid of death." Xie Hou meant that as long as he did not think about the injury, he would not be injured.
Afterwards, the reporters repeatedly asked him about Kirilenko's recent situation.
Xie Hou was tired of answering these questions, so he turned over and said coldly: "You can ask him yourself."
The reporters waited for Kirilenko to appear until the last person walked off the plane, and they realized they had been deceived.
Chapter completed!