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592: The Price of Youth

"Link's triple-double in the finals creates Grizzlies' history!"

"The four players scored 91 points together. What made the Grizzlies' small lineup successful?"

"The law of winning by 4+ rebounds was cracked by Link, and Anderson is no longer magical!"

"Can the Heat still stand 2-1 in the series?"

The day after the series ended, the whole world was filled with praise about the Grizzlies.

4 players scored 91 points, Link scored 30 points in the finals... These results are indeed very dazzling.

Of course, what people talk about the most is the grudge between Link and Wade.

After the game, Link's lip whisper toward Wade was interpreted by the media. In Miami, no one dared to say to Wade, "This is not your territory,"

Link was the first to dare to do this. The key is that he really walked out of the court alive after doing this.

Wade is helpless. If you say that he played like the first game, there is still room for refutation. He can also say, "I will make that little guy look good in the next game."

But the key point is that Wade's performance in the last game was not bad, with 25 points, 10 assists, 4 rebounds, 2 blocks and 1 steal in the whole game, and 45.5% shooting percentage from 10 of 22 shots.

With Wade's current health, he may not be sure to guarantee that he can do better than the previous game.

If you are riding on your neck and shit, you can't fight back. Anyone will feel uncomfortable.

When the finals just arrived in Miami, the Heat fans were very excited. But now, everyone is scared.

In the last game, the Heat lost so much while James and Wade performed well, which inevitably makes people wonder whether the Heat still have the power to fight.

When the Grizzlies also switched to a small lineup, the Heat didn't seem to have any way to resist.

If, just if, the Heat lose again in the next game... Then, the Grizzlies will get the match point and the total score of the series will become 3-1!

In the history of the NBA Finals, no team has been able to reverse the game while falling behind 1-3!

Therefore, the Heat cannot lose money. In the next game, they can only win.

The three giants Wade, James and Bosh were undoubtedly pushed to the forefront.

But many people ignored the important player who saved the Heat from the fire and fire in the last game - Ray Allen.

Since Ray Allen transferred to the Heat, he has rarely been disturbed by the media. After all, those three guys have attracted almost all the spotlight on him. He is either a giant in Miami, or a conscientious substitute, and he is not even a sixth man.

Here, he has no damn locker room conflicts to deal with, and no embarrassing questions to answer.

What he has to do is to do his own training, play his own game, and make the three-pointers he should make.

So he did the same.

At 8:15 in the morning, Ray Allen arrived at the training ground on time and started warming up. It is hard to imagine that a veteran who is almost 40 years old will come to the training hall 45 minutes in advance every day to prepare for training.

But in this regard, Ray Allen is almost never late. Even, not even a minute.

Stretch, run, shoot, and when most of the Heat's talent arrived at the court, Ray Allen's jersey was already soaked in sweat.

Wade and James are studying how to deal with the Grizzlies' small lineup. One-on-one defense is the only way, because Link's passing ability is too strong.

The consequence of double-teaming Link was yesterday's 30 points and 12 assists.

And what about Ray Allen? He only had to think about how to shoot three-pointers. This thing he had been doing all his life but was still trying to excel.

It was like in the 2001 Eastern Conference Finals, the Bucks encountered 76ers, and the MVP and scoring champion Allen Iverson at that time. At that time, the Bucks ace point guard Sam Kassel told Ray Allen, "Don't consider other things, you're only responsible for shooting!"

So, Ray Allen scored 31 points in the first game, 38 points in the second game, and scored 9 three-pointers in a single game that broke the NBA finals record in the sixth game, scoring 41 points to drag the game into tiebreak. When he was only responsible for shooting, he was so scary.

Yesterday, he, who was only responsible for shooting, also scored 21 points at the age of 38, and saved the Heat several times?

After training until 11:30 noon, Ray Allen started taking a nap, but the thunder couldn't move. He got up at 1:00 pm and started lunch at 2:30 pm. It was chicken and rice that remained unchanged for thousands of years. He ate this almost every day.

At 3:30 pm, Ray Allen participated in training on time. At 5 o'clock, Ray Allen went for physical therapy. According to the convention, the Heat players left him a bed on the far right of the physiotherapy room.

In fact, the bed in the physiotherapy room is the same as the empty space on the bus, and does not indicate which bed belongs to whom. Whoever comes first has the right to choose.

However, Ray Allen was so stubborn that he hoped that every day he would remain unchanged.

When he was on a plane, he didn't like others to sit in his fixed seats. When he was in Seattle, he would get angry that someone had occupied the parking space he was used to.

When he was having physical therapy, he didn't like his bed changing position.

After physical therapy, Wade and James will say goodbye to Ray Allen. Ray Allen will stay and practice a set of shots in the best physical condition to see how his shooting percentage is.

We won't leave the stadium until 7 o'clock. We will shoot for a minute, and we will never shoot for an extra minute.

Spoelstra once joked, "His unshakable schedule will probably continue until the end of the world."

Ray Allen's former teammate Pierce once joked, "If I do the same thing every day, I'll commit suicide."

But Ray Allen was happy with it.

When people were discussing how Wade would respond to Link and how James would defend his MVP status, no one cared about Ray Allen.

But Ray Allen clearly remembers every three-pointer he scored in the last game, and every time he pulled the Heat back, he was kicked by Link.

His mind was full of the fourth game of the series, and he was thinking about how to win.

38-year-old Ray Allen is unwilling to admit defeat.

A day later, the fourth game of the key series of the American Airlines Center Arena officially started.

In this game, Ray Allen was directly mentioned to the starting position. He still performed well, but he was still not the protagonist of the game.

The protagonist is Wade, who steals Iguodala for two consecutive rounds and falls to the ground to save the ball. The protagonist is James, who fights Link to the defensive end and doesn't look like a superstar at all.

The protagonist is the young one who is believed to be about to step on the bodies of James and Wade to start an era of No. 0.

Where is Ray Allen? He is only responsible for shooting.

The two sides played very anxiously today. If there were some unexpected changes in the first three games, then today, there was no secret between the two sides.

The Heat have been guarded against the Grizzlies' small lineup, and no longer allowed four players to score 91 points. The Grizzlies have also gone from unfamiliar to familiar with the Heat, and have responded freely, and have not allowed Wade to go wild again.

In the last 15 seconds of the game, Link missed a key free throw.

He wanted to win too much. He knew that as long as he could turn the score into 3-1, the Grizzlies would almost touch the championship trophy with one hand.

He can fulfill that dream and fulfill that promise to Upshaw. He can wear a No. 0 jersey and hold the highest honor of the basketball world over his head. He can lead the Grizzlies to the first championship trophy in team history and start a golden age!

So, Link felt huge pressure on the first time when he was free throw. He only hit one of the free throws. The score became 95 to 97, and the Grizzlies were only 2 points ahead.

"Fuck, damn!" After losing the free throw, Link waved his fist unwillingly, and he actually lost such a critical ball! The most important thing is that he left the Heat 15 seconds!

"This is the price of youth, this is the path Link must take. However, the 2-point difference is still dangerous for the Heat!"

Mike Bryn also felt sorry, but then he thought, Link was only in the third grade. It was already amazing that he could do this.

Who did not make any mistakes? Jordan, who entered the league in 1984, played the Finals for the first time in 1991. Kobe, who was rookie season, had four consecutive three-way appearances at critical moments in the playoffs. To be honest, the young Thunder and Durant were also beaten up by the Heat last season.

Link is already the best-doing young man among them. Missing a free throw doesn't seem serious.

The Heat called for a timeout and arranged the last attack. For some reason, Ray Allen remembered the 2001 Eastern Conference Finals and the 76ers who celebrated their victory in advance in the tiebreak battle.

At that time, when he was young, he missed and watched Iverson reach the finals and achieved Iverson's glory. At that time, he was like Link now, and it seemed perfect, but he would always make mistakes.

Ray Allen couldn't help asking himself, if he did it again now, would he make mistakes like Link and himself in 2001?

Before Lei Alan could answer himself, the pause time was over.
Chapter completed!
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