The Pacers scored 11 wins and 2 losses in 13 games. In the 26 games after the All-Star, the Pacers lost only 4 of them, and they played the best result in the league.
Before that, the Pacers had been a team struggling on the threshold of the playoffs. In the east, where the overall strength is weak, the Pacers are still struggling on the edge of the playoffs. After the All-Star Game, the Pacers seemed to be completely transformed, and they seemed to have changed their blood. With amazing results, they secured the fifth position in the East.
If this Pacer can keep this record from the beginning of the season, they will definitely become one of the best teams in the league.
The pedestrian’s brand-new appearance after the star weekend is entirely due to the rise of a man from the bench. This man has been widely known through the media in the past two months, and his story is known as the most classic American dream.
"He is the protagonist of the novelist’s works."
"I’m afraid this task can only appear in the pen of Hollywood editors!"
The road to the rise of Li Cheng and the Pacers is amazing to everyone. As early as a few years ago, there was a typical figure in this alliance-Gilbert Arenas.
Tonight, in Washington, the two novelists’ protagonist tasks will collide at the Vanze Center in Washington.
Arenas entered the nba in 2001-02, when he was selected by Golden State Warriors in the second round.
This is a person who has not been favored by coaches since high school. In the first year of high school, his coach told him, "You will never enter the university to play."
Perhaps it is from this sentence! Arenas began a crazy training. Every day at dawn, he will fight with all kinds of people on the street basketball court.
Then he transferred to another high school, and Arenas, whose skills soared, became the most dazzling existence in the high school league. He can contribute 29.8 points per game. But even the data like him is still not optimistic by anyone. At this time. Another expert said, "You may be able to barely become a substitute player in the college league and appear at the end of the bench, but your playing time will remain at’ 0′ for a long time."
Arenas, who was lucky enough to catch the last bus of the college league, used the number "0" as his jersey number to satirize the experts who said he couldn’t get a minute’s playing time.
This "No.0" quickly became the starting guard of the University of Arizona and led the team to the finals of the ncaa championship. In his sophomore year, Arenas decided to participate in the nba draft to enter the nba.
However, there is still doubt waiting for him. Bricklayers think that his height is not enough to play shooting guard, and he can’t successfully transform into a point guard after entering the nba. Finally, he was selected by Golden State Warriors in the second round.
After entering the Warriors, Arenas threatened, "I will get the starting position before the end of this season."
And then he did it. He successfully got the starting position at the end of his first nba season. Then in the second year, he started every game and scored 18 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists.
When he became the fastest-growing player in the nba that year, he said, "I like people to doubt me, so I can throw these doubts back in their faces."
In fact, the experiences of Arenas and Li Cheng are not quite the same. Li Cheng didn’t have a report card from beginning to end, and everything about him was blown out by the reporters in China. And Arenas used facts to fight back at those who doubted him again and again. In the end, he successfully fought back at those people on the peak stage of basketball, leaving those so-called experts speechless.
Arenas’ life is very crazy. It has been like this since his childhood.
He vowed to be a great star when he saw his father working crazily just to support him when he was a child. In the face of people’s doubts again and again, he always throws those doubts back to those people’s faces with practical actions.
After he became famous, he still had to face some doubts. In the all-star voting. Arenas has always been neglected by fans. He gave himself a nickname-"East Side Assassin", and he wanted to kill the fans’ hearts with his performance.
This is a flexible appearance, but has a boiling paranoid heart. It’s like the tiger tattoo on his chest and abdomen. In adversity, like a tiger. Have the power to tear everything apart.
Li Cheng is quite familiar with the experience of Arenas. After he entered the nba as a second-round show. He has been aiming at Gilbert Arenas, and he wants to be a player like Arenas.
Maybe it’s appreciate each other between two people! When Sung Jae Lee Fanze Center first met Arenas, both of them couldn’t help looking at each other.
"Actually, you are luckier than me." Arenas spoke first.
"But your ranking is much higher than mine." Li Cheng said.
"At least you had a wonderful childhood. You never experienced so many doubts, and before you entered the nba, you never showed your talent, and you never faced those doubts." Arenas said: "You don’t know, when you do well enough, people jump out and question you. It feels really bad."
"But you are not very good now? You have become the top player in the league. "
"Maybe!" Arenas nodded.
Arenas seemed to be thinking about something, so Li Chengchong waved to him and went to warm up. Arenas, who stayed where he was, was lost in thought when he watched Li Cheng walk to the stadium.
"I am already the best player, and what is my next goal? What should I do next when there is no doubt and no doubt? "
Now arenas has lost his motivation, and he is not obsessed with basketball. When he was a child, he played basketball to stay away from gunfire and drugs, just because all his friends were playing. Later, he was fighting back against coaches and bricklayers who questioned him, but now?
Arenas sighed and walked slowly to a basketball that fell to the ground.
The warm-up time passed quickly, and Li Cheng was waiting for the start of the game with his teammates in the locker room.
This "second-round show war", which is widely concerned by the media and fans, will soon begin. For this game, Li Cheng is more confident. First of all, although he has not received any additional experience awards since these eight games, he has successfully risen to level 23 by virtue of his experience in these games.
He rose two levels and got a total of six attribute points. He put his energy to 35 points and distributed the remaining four points to strength and explosiveness respectively. Although there is only a 6-point increase in attributes, he is more powerful than before.
For this game, Li Cheng made full preparations, and O ‘Brien took a fancy to this game.
This season’s regular season is drawing to a close, and everyone is actively preparing for the playoffs. Now the Pacers have almost secured the fifth position in the East, but now O ‘Brien has derived some new ideas from the final ranking of the season.
Now the Pacers are only one game away from the fourth Cavaliers, and there are still three games this season. Wouldn’t it be a wonderful thing to surpass the Cavaliers at the last moment, rank fourth in the East and have home court advantage in the first round of playoffs?
Therefore, whether it is for the training of the team or for the fourth place in the East, the team’s remaining three games cannot be missed.
The Pacers’ next opponents, except the wizards of this game, are the 76 ers and the Knicks.
Teams like the Knicks are basically "sending heads", and after Philadelphia sent Allen Iverson away, the strength of the 76 ers has also declined. So it’s hopeful that the Pacers will win all the games next, but first they need to win the Wizards in Washington.
Compared with the Wizards, there is only one win between them and the 76ers, so they also want to win more games at the end of the season to keep their seventh place. After all, the eighth place will face Celtic in the first round. In the face of the Super Big Three, everyone has a timid feeling and wants to avoid them.
Moreover, the good news media also labeled this competition as "the contest of super second-round show". This is a game that both sides want to win, and it is a game in which both sides are fully prepared. So this game started from the first minute after the referee blew the game, and it fell into a very fierce competition.
"At the end of the season, everyone is saving their strength to prepare for the playoffs. Such fierce games are really rare!"
"It is really rare, but for fans, the more such games, the better."
"I have to say that the Pacers are really the conscience of the industry! Their games are very exciting, especially at the end of the season, they are very hard in every game! "
"They can not spell! They don’t want to touch the Celtics and Pistons, so they can only rush forward, and the magic lineup is more restrained. This is not the opponent they are willing to meet. In the end, only when they meet the Cavaliers is their hopeful opponent. And now the Pacers are only one win away from the Cavaliers, and they have to fight for home court advantage. "
"The Pacers’ enterprising spirit is worth learning from many nba teams."
"Like … Miami?"
"Ha ha! I didn’t say that. "
The local commentator in Washington said that the game did not ridicule the shameless Miami, but when it comes to Miami this season, it really makes many people resentful. Of course, you have to admire the courage of Pat Riley.
"Look at this ball!" The commentator, who was joking in a relaxed atmosphere, suddenly changed his tone and speed. (To be continued. . )
Chapter DiYiSiJiu "agent 0" to "the son of a miracle"
Li Cheng ran out of the open space and Tinsley passed the ball directly with one hand, which is already the most practical and simple routine for the pacers. But this time, there are some problems with the walker’s routine.
On Tinsley’s passing route to Li Cheng, Arenas suddenly broke out. His palm changed the running route of basketball, and what happened next was very simple.
Arenas caught up with the basketball and controlled it, then he dribbled it to the basket of the pacers and scored two points with one hand.
For the goal like Arenas, almost all coaches in the league can only express helplessness. This guy’s judgment on the opponent’s passing route is very accurate, and his explosive power and speed are first-class in this league. It can be said that this is almost the biggest contribution that Arenas can make on the defensive end.
Tinsley waved at Li Cheng, indicating that it was his own fault.
"It’s okay, Jamal. You can give me the ball directly later, and I’ll play him alone." Li Cheng waved and said.
Tinsley nodded, indicating that he knew.
This time the Pacers attacked, Tinsley delivered the ball to Li Cheng directly after passing the half court.
If Li Cheng really didn’t dare to play solo with the ball before he rose to level 20, he didn’t dare to use the routine of dribbling for a short time and then turning around directly. You know, Arenas is called "the nemesis of mediocre ball control" by the media, which means that he starts very quickly when he steals the ball and has a very high success rate.
Now, Li Cheng has learned to be "dazzled" and is no longer among the "mediocre ball controllers".
Arenas has been staring at Li Cheng, who is always ready to break the ball. However, Li Cheng will never give him this chance. He is not only on guard against Arenas’ interception. He also deliberately leaked the rhythm flaw to attract Arenas to come forward and steal the ball.