Silently Writing
Chapter 588 The Finals: One Must Die!
Then...
May 26th, AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami, accompanied by the official start of Su Feng and Duncan's 62nd career match-up (including regular season games)...
Regrettably...
In this reunion after a year apart...
Su Feng's lifelong rival, Duncan, failed to fight Su Feng to the last moment, as people had predicted before the game.
On the court, only three minutes into the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals between the two teams...
Duncan, who played with an injury, was substituted by Celtics coach Miller-Karl.
Before being replaced by the coach...
Duncan kneeling on one knee at AmericanAirlines Arena, holding his knee, made countless Celtics fans in front of the TV feel a chill in their hearts.
Unwilling?
Of course, unwilling.
Because whether it's victory or defeat...
Duncan didn't want to miss any of his contests with Su Feng.
However, with the constant waves of pain coming from his right knee...
Even a man as strong as Duncan was almost forced to tears by this piercing pain.
At the moment when he knelt on one knee on the floor of AmericanAirlines Arena...
Not many people knew...
Duncan's sad expression at the time was not because he couldn't bear the pain.
It was just...
Because he knew he couldn't continue to fight for the Celtics in this year's playoffs.
An adult's breakdown often happens in an instant.
AmericanAirlines Arena, when being helped off the court by the team doctor...
Because Duncan's head was covered with a towel, fans at the scene and in front of the TV couldn't see the expression on Duncan's face through close-up shots.
However, inside the player tunnel...
When this usually unsmiling man, who rarely makes radical moves, swung his right fist at the fire cabinets set up on both sides of the player tunnel and shattered the glass cabinet with one punch...
Even through the TV screen, fans watching the game could feel the unwillingness in Duncan's heart.
TNT TV station, Barkley said with emotion after seeing this scene: "In competitive sports, injuries are undoubtedly the biggest enemy of all players.
If I were Tim, I think I would feel as bad as he does."
"Temporary departure is only for a better return next time.
Although I don't know if Tim can return to the stage in the next series...
But I believe that as 'Basketball God' Shufen's lifelong rival, he will return to this land of miracles in better condition."
Smith said after sighing aside.
In the Celtics' locker room, after a simple examination of Duncan, just as the team doctor was about to tell Duncan their preliminary examination results, Duncan shook his hand at them.
"Please, don't tell me that damn result.
At least, before the MRI...
Please coax me."
Although Duncan also knew that his behavior was very childish...
But...
The Celtics' team doctors were broken by the big boy with a trace of clarity in his eyes at this moment...
Tim...
Even like this...
Are you still fantasizing about returning to the court and fighting side by side with your teammates?
"No, you don't think we can easily take this Celtics team without Tim, do you?"
On the court, after the game was interrupted for several minutes due to Duncan's sudden situation...
Looking at these teammates with expressions of impatience to open the champagne in advance, Su Feng said with dissatisfaction.
"All cheer me up!
This t
But in fact, many of the nearly 3,000 three-pointers Ray Allen made in his career were also contested shots.
And because if this G2 game is lost, the Celtics will be on the verge of life and death.
So tonight...
Ray Allen knew...
He must seize his only opportunity.
On the court, Ray Allen hit 5 three-pointers for the Celtics in the first half alone.
Tilting shots.
Slanting shots.
Shooting with someone on him a meter and a half away from the three-point line.
If you want to ask what Su Feng's personal feelings were about defending Ray Allen in this G2 game...
Then it's probably the feeling that future Thunder players can only watch Clay blow them up...
AmericanAirlines Arena, at the end of the half, the Celtics, playing away, unexpectedly led 59 to 50.
In the Heat's locker room, at this moment when the Heat players' pressure increased, Su Feng's experience also played a crucial role.
Su Feng knew very well that the reason why the Heat were behind in the first half of the game...
In addition to the Celtics' change of formation, the main reason was that the Heat themselves were playing too tightly.
Therefore, unlike the G1 game where he put pressure on his teammates by getting angry...
During the intermission, Su Feng took the initiative to take on the task of relieving the pressure of every Heat player this night.
At this time...
Watching Su Feng, who was coaxing his teammates one by one, O'Neal gradually realized why the Lakers always lost to the Raptors before.
After the intermission, on the court, the game continued.
In the third quarter, the Heat's lineup on the court was composed of "the deep-sea behemoth who punches Chamberlain and kicks Jabbar", "as long as I give you two more years, Pippen is also worthy of carrying your shoes", "McGrady? Can McGrady compare with him?", "Believe me, as long as you can get the championship ring, Ervin Johnson is a der in front of you"... these four heavenly kings plus Su Feng.
And the Celtics here...
Even if Ray Allen can be awesome and Parker can show off no matter what...
As their physical strength declines, how can they stop the Heat's counterattack with this "luxury" lineup that Su Feng described, enough to conquer any era?
On the sidelines, after the Heat overtook the score in the third quarter, Riley, looking back at Spoelstra, shook his head and said: "Did you see that? This is why I said before that after having Su, even if you coach, this Heat can win the championship."
Hearing this, after nodding...
Although his mentor's words were not very harmful...
But Spoelstra felt extremely insulting.
In the end, after resisting the Celtics' wave after wave of counterattacks, the Heat successfully won another city on the evening of the 28th.
At the end of the game, the full-game score for the two teams was 104 to 113.
Su Feng, who exerted his strength in the second half, made 11 of 22 shots, and scored a total of 41 points, 7 rebounds, 9 assists, 3 steals, and 1 block, including free throws and three-pointers.
Parker, who scored 29 points this night, and Ray Allen, who shot 7 three-pointers and scored 28 points including free throws, were turned into empty cuts.
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May 31st and June 2nd...
The two teams' games moved to Boston.
It's just regrettable...
This Celtics team still failed to create a miracle after all.
On the 31st, before the Celtics, who had already stepped into the edge of life and death, had time to resist, and Su Feng had time to react, Ginobili took away the Celtics with his performance of scoring 23 points in the second quarter alone.
On the evening of the 2nd, as the on-site timer went to zero...
Looking at the score of 124 to 107 on the scoreboard...
Even if the young Parker and Ray Allen and others who played until their kidneys were exhausted had more unwillingness...
They can only turn it into motivation to practice in the next summer.
A big score of 4 to 0.
In three consecutive series, the Heat completed the sweep.
On the court, after the Heat players successively put on the hats symbolizing the Eastern Conference championship, and the veteran Mourning cut the Celtics' North Shore Garden Arena's basket...
Su Feng knew...
Now is the time to go to the Finals and have a showdown with the Dallas Mavericks next door.
West.
Just the day before the Heat eliminated the Celtics, the Mavericks, who were defeated by the Warriors last year, successfully completed their revenge against the Warriors under the leadership of John Davis this year.
Also a big score of 4 to 0.
Also three consecutive series sweeps.
Midsummer season, the pinnacle of basketball.
Online, to quote a comment from a netizen named "Quietly Writing"...
This year, what is gratifying is...
Davis and Su Feng, this pair of mentors and apprentices, finally have to die one this time.
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