I’m Really Playing Basketball

A year later, the Spurs and Heat met again in the Finals.

Many people are surprised by this, but many people are not surprised.

Surprisingly, the strongest player in the Eastern Conference this season should be the Raptors, while the strongest player in the Western Conference should be the Lakers.

Not surprisingly, in the past few seasons, the Heat have been the strongest team in the Eastern Conference, while the Spurs have been the strongest team in the Western Conference.

In terms of personnel and tactics, these two teams have a better understanding and maturity than other teams.

The three core players of the Heat, Yao Ming, Wade and Bosh, have played together for five seasons, and Yao Ming and Wade have even played together for six seasons.

The situation with the Spurs on the other side is similar. At this point, both the Raptors and Lakers are lacking.

The Raptors are okay, the players are very understanding, the team's head coach Nelson didn't do anything, but the Bobcats fought too hard, and some players on the team were too restrained.

As for the Lakers, there are really some problems with the tacit understanding. The Lakers have been playing a triangle offense with Kobe as the core, but this time in the Western Conference Finals, because of Kobe’s consumption in the Western Conference semifinals, the triangle offense did not run so smoothly. , the team's offense needs to find new methods, and this is difficult to find.

Is Baron Davis the main attacker? Artest's main attack? Or Gasol? Or Odom?

To be honest, any one of them is possible, as long as Phil Jackson has formulated strategies and routines before, because these people are not weak in strength.

However, Phil Jackson has never made such a strategy clear.

It should be said that there was a strategy before Artest came, and Baron Davis after Kobe.

But Artest came after the Christmas game, and he never participated in the team's training camp at the beginning of the season. Coupled with his own arrogance, he is indeed convinced of Kobe, but for people other than Kobe, then... …

So in this series between the Spurs and the Lakers, Baron Davis actually struggled, especially the better Artest performed, the more he wanted to prove himself. However, the Spurs are indeed a super defensive player. The team is extremely unfriendly, especially to outside players.

Bowen, Ron Howard, Arenas, even Arenas, who had the worst defensive evaluation before, is now very good defensively, okay? After several years under Popovich, Popovich put him on the hair dryer, Ali Nas' defensive improvement is indeed quite large, and just like Baron Davis can withstand the characteristics of small cannons, Arenas can also withstand the characteristics of Baron Davis.

Therefore, after this series between the Spurs and the Lakers, it can be clearly felt that the strengths of the two teams are very close, but the tactical qualities of the two teams are not at the same level. The Lakers want to play their full potential in the targeted environment of the playoffs. The strength needs to be adjusted for a season.

The Lakers were eliminated by the Spurs in the Western Conference Finals. Kobe must have been very uncomfortable. Chen Xiao also called immediately to express his condolences.

As a fan and friend of Brother Ke, Chen Xiao knows very well how passionate Brother Ke is about winning double MVPs this season.

This is not only a qualitative improvement in the historical status of his career, but also related to the number one player in the league.

As long as Brother Ke wins the FMVP this season and has the power of double MVPs, he will definitely be the first player in the league.

Now, it's hard to say.

It has to be said that sometimes the more you want something, the harder it is to get it.

The finals between the Spurs and the Heat will start on June 5. Because the Heat and the Spurs are both popular teams in the NBA, this finals still attracts a lot of attention.

As for Chen Xiao, while paying attention to the Bobcat training camp and the finals, Chen Xiao also received a group of Chinese men's basketball teams in Charlotte.

Because this year is the Olympic year, the Chinese men's basketball team gathered early, but Chen Xiao and Yao Ming were specially approved to report to the team after July 15 because they were going to play in the playoffs.

At that time, Chen Xiao and Yao Ming will lead the Chinese team to play the most important pre-Olympic match, the Diamond Cup, one of the three major international men's basketball cups. The Chinese team is the defending champion of the Diamond Cup. The Chinese men's basketball team wants to copy the women's volleyball team The miracle of winning five consecutive World Series, this Diamond Cup is also very important.

After all, the Chinese team has won the 2004 Diamond Cup, the Olympic Games, and the 2006 World Championships, three consecutive championships.

It would be perfect if they could defend the Diamond Cup and the Olympics on home soil this year, achieve five consecutive world championships, and equal the miracle of the women's volleyball team's five consecutive championships.

Before the Diamond Cup, the Chinese team will have two long-distance training sessions, training in the United States from the end of May to early June, training in Europe from mid to late June, and returning to China in July to adapt to the venue for a warm-up match.

This time the Chinese team came to Charlotte, invited by Jordan to play three warm-up games with the rookies from the Bobcats training camp.

Originally, according to the plan, the Chinese team would go directly to Memphis to play N games with the joint team organized by the University of Memphis.

Obviously, the quality of the game against the NCAA champion University of Memphis United is definitely not as good as the game against the Charlotte Bobcats training camp team. After all, Rose, the head star of the University of Memphis, is here in Charlotte.

On May 28, 2008, the first game between the Chinese team and the Charlotte Rookie United, the game attracted a lot of attention, not only the Charlotte United had many hot rookies in 2008 , and more importantly, the Chinese team has a long-awaited 2008 rookie, Chen Jianghua!

Because of the outstanding performance of the Chinese team in recent years, many players of the Chinese team have a high reputation, just like many players in Argentina and Spain in history, Chinese fans are like a few treasures.

In this time and space, the Chinese team is almost as good as Argentina and Spain combined.

Under such circumstances, except for Chen Xiao and Dayao, the rest of the Chinese team basically reaped the dividends of the Chinese team.

The player who earns the most dividends from the national team is definitely Chen Jianghua.

Because his age just matches the peak period of the Chinese team.

When the Arab League participated in the draft, the Chinese team was not yet at its peak, and the attention was not that high.

Because of the local Olympic Games and three consecutive championships in international competitions, the Chinese team in 2008 can be said to be the most watched team in history. Under such circumstances, Chen Jianghua participated in the draft, and he was in the previous Chinese team He performed so well in international competitions and is only 19 years old. More importantly, his speed and technical talents are also outstanding to the naked eye.

As one of Chen Xiao's little brothers and Chen Xiao's favorite follower, Chen Xiao's training of Hua Tsai is definitely indispensable.

Andy's ball-handling ability and defensive steal ability became famous in the 2006 World Championships.

Therefore, in 2006, the then 17-year-old Hua Tsai was already on the radar of NBA scouts, who were looking forward to him participating in the NBA draft.

And now, Chen Jianghua has finally arrived in the United States.

Although his draft prediction is the lottery, not as high as Rose and the others, but this kind of attractiveness that is still half-hidden, definitely makes him more expected than Rose and the others.

After all, Rose's adaptation to American basketball has been proven by the NCAA.

Chen Jianghua's adaptation to American basketball is still unknown.

Many people say that if Chen Jianghua performs well in the Chinese team's training camp in the United States, his draft stock will skyrocket.

In this game between the Chinese team and the Charlotte Rookie United, Chen Xiao did not play. The Chinese team's starting lineup for this game was Chen Jianghua, Liu Wei, Wang Shipeng, Ah Lian, and Ba Ge.

The starters of the Rookie United are Rose, OJ Mayo, Eric Gordon, Love and Brook Lopez.

For Chen Xiao not representing the Chinese team in this game, Ross and Mayo both showed very regretful expressions on their faces.

As a rookie, who wouldn't want to compete with the first player in the league?

Rose really wanted to fight Chen Xiao.

Mayo, on the other hand, hoped to get back his pride and the chance to be the number one pick from Chen Xiao.

However, although Chen Xiao didn't make an appearance in this game, the assistant coach who also acted as the agent of the Chinese team was by the side to cheer for his teammates.

Although the outcome of this game is not important, as the current No. 1 team in FIBA, although it is not the main force, is it a bit embarrassing to lose to an NBA rookie team?

However, it was obvious that Chen Xiao's cheering and cheering had limited effects. In the first match between the two teams, the Chinese team lost 80 to 95.

Under FIBA's rules, this loss is indeed considered a big one.

As for Chen Jianghua, who received the most attention in this match, his performance was hard to say, let's say it was bad, not bad, but let's say it was not very good.

"His speed is very fast, very fast, and his ball control is also very good, but his passing is average, there are too many passing mistakes, and the stability of his shooting needs to be improved."

"Compared to Rose, he is like a half-finished product, and even compared to Westbrook, he has a lot of shortcomings."

This is Chen Jianghua's first appearance in the American basketball world, the first impression.

Obviously, Chen Jianghua scored 12 points, 5 assists and 3 steals in 4 of 16 in this game, but was blown away by Rose on the opposite side.

Chen Xiao sees all of this. Xiao Chen's strength is actually pretty good, but compared to Ross...

He was really helpless.

After all, Chen Xiao knew exactly what level of player Rose was.

Let's put it this way, even in the entire NBA, there are not so many point guards whose system evaluation is better than Rose's now.

To be honest, Chen Xiao was surprised before that his younger brother Beasley lost to Rose in the NCAA finals, but now he is not surprised at all.

"Hua Tsai, losing to Rose is not shabby at all, he is not an ordinary rookie."

After the game, Chen Jianghua was very depressed, but when he heard Chen Xiao's comfort, Chen Jianghua looked at Chen Xiao curiously, while Chen Xiao continued: "In the whole United States, there are not many 19-year-olds who are targeted by Ross like this. Players can perform better than you. Although your performance in this game was not that good, it was not bad. Facing Rose’s pressing, although you didn’t score many points or assists, you didn’t make many mistakes.”

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Regarding Chen Xiao's comfort, Hua Zai was a little unsure whether Brother Xiao was serious or making fun of him.

As long as you don't make too many mistakes in front of Rose, does your performance count as good?

What level of strength does this guy have before he is so boasted by Brother Chen?

Hua Zai looked curiously at the slightly mature and silent black boy not far away.

Is this person so strong?

In fact, Andy didn't know that ten years later, his performance in this game would be worshiped by many people.

Just like the game between Hu Ge and Kobe Bryant in history.

Under the obviously targeted pressure of Rose and Westbrook, Andy only made 4 turnovers in the game, and three of them were pass errors. This is indeed quite amazing, especially at that time when Rose and Westbrook were both famous. after.

Andy didn't know whether Chen Xiao was comforting him or making fun of him.

The next day, when he saw that his draft prediction had not dropped, he knew that it was really not a shame to be beaten by Rose and Westbrook.

Because, these two people are all in the top five in the draft predictions!

In this way, Hua Tsai slowly saw away the fact that he was not as good as Rose and Westbrook.

The Chinese team also continued to be abused by the rookie team in Charlotte.

Well, it's pretty miserable.

"Are all rookies in the NBA this strong?"

The entire Chinese team's head coach, Faye Wong, has some doubts about life.

"Not every session is so strong, this year's situation is quite special."

Chen Xiao explained on the side.

If his younger brother Beasley also participates in the draft, then the strength of this year's rookies...

Tsk tsk, let's put it this way, maybe they can make the playoffs in the East.

Under Chen Xiao's system, the overall combat power of this year's rookies can be said to be one of the strongest, stronger than in 2007, directly catching up to 2003 and 2002 where he was.

If Beasley also participates in the election, there is no doubt that 2008 can be compared to 2003 and 2002.

Without him, Dayao, Brother Wang, and Xiaozhu as the main force, being abused by them is actually not a shame.

Of course, Faye Wong's guidance is not systematic, so she doesn't feel like Chen Xiao does. In fact, Faye Wong's guidance feels quite embarrassing.

Because after three consecutive losses, some domestic media are already complaining that the Chinese team, without Chen Xiao and Yao Ming, is not even as good as a group of rookies on the US team, let alone compared with the Dream Team.

The Chinese team is completely the 'Chen Yao team'!

Well, it's reasonable and convincing.

Even Director Wang wanted to personally give a thumbs up.

Although Chen Xiao did not join the Chinese team's training camp in the United States this time, he went to Memphis with the national team. At the same time, he also followed the finals between the Heat and Spurs with the national team. After all, both teams There are Chinese players.

In the end, in this much-anticipated NBA Finals, the Heat once again defeated the Spurs 4-2 and won the 2008 championship.

The Heat's center Yao Ming averaged 28.2 points, 11.2 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 2.5 blocks per game. Yao Ming shot 65% in the entire series and once again won the Finals FMVP.

In this series, facing the upgraded version of Howard, facing Howard who has a strong voice as the first center this season, Yao Ming once again showed the world his dominance over Howard.

In addition to Yao Ming, Wade made 9 of 22 in this series and 11 of 13 free throws. He averaged 29 points, 6 rebounds, 8 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks per game. good.

But the tactical core of this series is indeed Yao Ming.

However, even so, in the finals FMVP voting, Yao Ming got 6 votes and Wade got 4 votes, which is already very close.

On the other side, the two leading players of the Spurs, Rogo averaged 22 points, 5 rebounds and 6.3 assists in this series, leading the Spurs in scoring, but Rogo took less than 15 shots in the entire series.

Scoring 22 points in 15 shots, it seems that Rogo’s shooting rate is very high. In fact, Rogo’s shooting rate in this series is only 43%, which is very low for a player like Rogo who has a 50% shooting rate in the regular season. .

The reason why Rogo can have such efficiency is mainly due to free throws, and this is the problem.

When Luo Ge finds that he is facing a strong defense, he will become very cautious in shooting and will give priority to fouls, but the problem comes, Luo Ge's fouls are to use his hands and feet to shoot and control the ball The good point is to point out that others make fouls. Unless you encounter a fool, how many fouls can you make in a game?

In this finals, Rogo averaged 8 free throws per game, which is already very good.

And this directly limits Rogo's scoring ceiling. Just like Hamilton back then, Carlisle really hopes that Hamilton will take 20 or even 30 shots in a game.

Popovich also has this idea now.

Gong, don't think that your 43% shooting rate is not high, and Wade's shooting rate is only 41%!

For the Spurs and Heat, it is impossible for outside players to achieve a high shooting percentage. Both teams have extremely strong outside defense.

In this case, don't be afraid of low hit rate, attack!

If Luo Ge doesn't attack, then Arenas and others can only attack, and Arenas's shooting rate in this series is even worse.

And that's why the Spurs lost the Finals again.

It's just that, although Popovich regretted it, he didn't blame his favorite player Rogo, because he knew that expecting Rogo to take 20 or 30 shots in a game is not as good as expecting Howard to beat Yao Ming.

Popovich was not wrong. Luo Ge is indeed not the kind of person who is suitable for the main attack.

Because after entering college, Luo Ge didn't have that kind of steel heart.

The hit rate is low, which is uncomfortable for people like Luo Ge who have psychological mysophobia or obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Chen Xiao, as Luo Ge's friend, knows that if Luo Ge's shooting percentage is less than 50% in a game, he will suffer for a whole night.

Let him be like Ke Boss or Qiao Boss or Chen Xiao, even if he hits 20 irons, he will throw the 21st time, this is really not good.

"It seems that this is the limit of our team, and now we need someone to help us break the limit!"

Lost the Finals against the Heat for the second time.

Lost the first head coaching battle with Carlisle for the second time.

Popovich is naturally uncomfortable.

But at the same time, Popovich finally strengthened his determination.

The determination to make a choice!