basketball never sleeps

Chapter 35 One Year Anniversary

"The playoffs are not a place for brats like you to run wild. You should go back and practice again."

"You can't even defend your home court. Don't you understand? This is no longer the era of the Pistons."

"The glory of Detroit is a thing of the past!"

James's devilish whisper echoed in Starkey's or Mo Wen's ears.

The Quicken Loans Arena was filled with roars, and countless fans were standing up waiting for the final countdown of the game.

With 9 seconds left, the Pistons are 89:91 Cavaliers, still two points behind.

"You talk too much, LeBron."

"Honor is jealous of success, but success thinks it is honor. LeBron, have you ever succeeded?"

The basketball shuttled back and forth on his crotch, and the numbers on the clock were still beating. Mo Wen's heart felt extremely calm, and the fatigue on his body seemed to dissipate at this moment.

"5"······"4"······"3"······

The sound of counting down came from Mo Wen's mouth. James in front of him opened his eyes wide and his body tensed like a lion ambushing its prey.

In an instant, Mo Wen's figure swayed like an old man who was about to get drunk at the door of the hotel.

Following Mo Wen's frivolous footsteps, James finally couldn't help but take the initiative.

"Ha~"

A chuckle passed to James' left ear, along with the force coming from his left arm.

Surprised and suspicious, James turned around and pounced on his empty left hand regardless of his own safety.

But the figure he expected did not appear. The serious imbalance of his center of gravity made his powerful core muscles unable to do anything, and he fell over in a moment of confrontation.

"2"······"1"···

Mo Wen, who stepped back from the three-point line, pushed out the basketball in his hand.

drop----

Swish——

The transitional white light came on, and Quicken Loans Arena resumed its hustle and bustle. His body, which had already reached its limit, and even his throat smelled of blood, was once again full of energy.

The 2:1 on the big screen above the court told him that his efforts in the previous game were not in vain.

Fortunately, he doesn't look like Starkey.

In this copy of the series, which was originally completely defeated in history, he only needs to win three games to be judged as a winner.

But in the last game, he was very convulsed and needed to gamble his life at the last moment. If he wanted to win two more games, he would be the real chosen one.

That's right, this is a [difficult copy].

A copy of the Pistons vs. Cavaliers in the 2008-09 playoffs.

At this time, the Pistons have changed after five years of changes. Ben left and is now on the opposite side of the Cavaliers. Billups swapped teams with Iverson this season, and then Iverson lost his relationship with the Pistons.

Discord between the management team and a back injury led him to withdraw from the playoffs.

The head player of this Pistons is none other than Mo Wen's "Prince Base" Liu Starkey Chan, the famous NBA player who can't help himself.

At first glance, the Pistons' current lineup isn't too bad, with Hamilton, Prince, Rasheed, and McDyess.

But after experiencing the first two games, Mo Wen knew that he could no longer trust these guys like he trusted them in reality.

Rasheed's "high-spirited and bright" career started immediately in the contract year. Prince scored 10 points in 100 minutes in 3 games to win the trust of the head coach. McDyess became the main point for the Pistons inside by purely hooking eight blue-collar workers. Hamilton is

I can still run, but after 5 years my shooting has not improved but has actually deteriorated.

The girders and load-bearing walls of the foundation laid by Carlisle in the past have been removed, leaving only a pile of ruins.

With such a lineup to compete against James who is at his peak, the most important thing to highlight is participation.

Sure enough, in the next two games, Mo Wen couldn't fight with all his strength. The only thing that made Mo Wen feel lucky was that he didn't have to face James on both offense and defense in this copy.

Otherwise, he probably wouldn’t even have any sense of experience or participation.

"It's a pity. If I had known earlier, I would have taken more care of You Zhan in the previous games. That's really CS."

After waking up, Mo Wen shook his head and put the unhappiness in the copy behind him.

Today is a very memorable day. Of course, this commemorative significance is not because today is the Pistons' first playoff game of the season, but because it is the first anniversary of when he got the Gold Finger.

April 18, 2003, he will never forget this day because he lost sleep from that day on.

He can't count how many games he has experienced in 365 days. Calculating 5 games a day, he has experienced at least more than 1,800 games. Now his various attributes have grown from an undrafted level to the current level.

User: Mo Wen ***Age: 20 years old

Height: 198cm ***Weight: 101Kg ***Armspan: 210

[Body attributes]

Upper body strength: 66(80); Lower body strength: 66(80); Coordination: 79(86)

Explosive power: 68 (80); straight line speed: 67 (69); lateral agility: 71 (75)

Physical strength: 71 (80); recovery: 70 (72); injury resistance: 71 (77)

[Offensive attributes]

Dunks: 64 (65); Layups: 79 (80)

Close shot: 74 (76); mid-range shot: 77 (80); free throw: 82 (82)

Long-range shot: 65 (65); Three-point shot: 72 (73); Super long-range shot: 50 (65)

Breakthroughs: 69 (70); Post-ups: 66 (66); Movements without the ball: 78 (78)

Ball handling: 74 (74); Passing: 77 (77); Vision: 78 (79)

[Defensive attribute]

Defensive rebounds: 70 (71); Offensive rebounds: 65 (65)

Interior defense: 65 (65); Outside defense: 80 (82)

Blocks: 67 (67); Interference: 82 (85)

Steals: 85 (88); Pass Insights: 81 (83)

Single defense: 80 (80); Assisted defense: 70 (70)

【Badge Column】

"Defensive Shock", "Circus Three" and "Ten Cents"

"Ballless Pest", "Strong Throwing Master", "Resilience Master", "Moving Fortress" (see below for the introduction of new badges)

How many times had Mo Wen looked at this panel and felt like it was swelling.

Fortunately, those high-difficulty dungeons always make Mo Wen come back to his senses. Now he doesn't even have a win rate of more than half of the [normal dungeon], and he has only passed the [difficult dungeon] twice, which is still far behind.

"The playoffs, I hope it won't be too boring."

Mo Wen wanted to pretend to be a young man and open the window to face the rising sun, but the cold air hitting his face still made him realize what reality was.

No, it would be better to lie down again.

In the afternoon, after Larry Brown led the team to conduct two rounds of tactical drills, he nervously took the players on the roster to the video room to watch and analyze the Bucks' past games.

As far as the schedule in the Eastern Conference is concerned, it is not very friendly to the Pistons. The Bucks they faced in the first round were a loser, and they will only face the Nets, who swept the Pistons last year, in the second round. If they can break through the second round

Entering the Eastern Conference Finals, they will face the Pacers, who have the league's highest regular season winning percentage.

Although the Pistons' outstanding performance during the period before the end of the regular season won the optimistic attention of many experts and media, the Pistons also launched a championship slogan.

The first game between the Lakers and Rockets last night served as a wake-up call to the so-called strong teams present.

The playoffs and the regular season are not the same thing.

The Lakers, one of the Big Four, were loaned out to win the championship from the beginning of the season. Once they entered the playoffs, they were ready to push everything. However, they almost overturned in the first game of the playoffs.

The two teams fought hard until the last 20 seconds. If O'Neal hadn't made a tip-in and the Rockets' Jim missed the final three-pointer, the bubble that had been inflated for a year would have been burst in the first game.

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"Pest Without the Ball": Improve players' breakthrough ability and harassment ability when they don't have the ball

"Strong Shot Master": Slightly reduces the impact of side defenders

"Master of Strain": Jump shots or passes from the blue are less likely to miss.

"Mobile Fortress": When defending, players are more efficient at forcing opponents out of the paint.

(End of chapter)