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The Bobcats and the Hawks faced off in Ga 1, kicking off the second round.
On the 9th, the next day, two series started: Bulls vs. Cavaliers, and Lakers vs. Nuggets.
The dia that gathered in Charlotte mostly left early this morning. By the ti Zhang Yang arrived at Tuhang Stadium near noon, there were significantly fewer caras inside and outside the stadium compared to the last rest day, which was the day before yesterday.
This was expected. In the series between the Bobcats and the Hawks, the biggest highlight was the pre-ga award ceremony of Ga 1. After that, although the series still had plenty of attention thanks to Zhang San, it didn’t attract mainstream dia teams for coverage as Ga 1 did; a follow-up team was sufficient.
Yao Ming vs. Jas, Kobe vs. Iverson, the Cinderella team, in terms of topics, each of these matches outshone the Bobcats vs. Hawks series.
However, when Zhang Yang woke up this morning and browsed the forums, he found that last night’s post-ga buzz was actually not low.
They staged an exciting seesaw battle, launched a coback, and eventually countered the overcor...
After the ga, a bunch of "’63 Hawks old fans" expressed their regret that the Hawks ultimately failed to complete the coback.
The rhetoric of these people felt very familiar to Zhang Yang... Clearly, this was the sa group that, during the first round, was hyping the Heat’s potential upset, making Wade fans feel as if the whole world was supporting them!
This ti, their cosplay seed much more professional, not because their ’skills’ had improved, but because...
When they had hyped the Heat’s upset before, only Wade’s fans, followers playing along, and the occasional fan found such praise amusingly awkward.
But this ti, lanting the Hawks’ failure to counterattack in the first ga did look sowhat convincing. Even the casual fans who favored neither team felt sorry for the Hawks, while being equally shocked by Zhang San’s critical 8 points.
It’s still a matter of strength. The Heat were the weakest among all playoff teams, but the Hawks genuinely had championship potential. Their three major stars on the periter could all handle tough battles, Horford was quickly maturing, and the role players weren’t bad, though the head coach was sowhat lacking. During the years following Jordan’s second retirent, reaching the finals wouldn’t have been difficult for them.
It’s just that Zhang Yang felt that these "’63 Hawks old fans" would be crying their eyes out in the bathroom this ti. Their cosplay was far more professional than before, yet the effect was worse! It put more pressure on the Bobcats and did less to boost the Hawks’ confidence compared to the first round’s awkward hype.
Because the fans’ post-ga focus and the hottest topic were about a few of Zhang San’s trash-talking comnts...
Not the ones he said in the end like "not one of you can fight" or "hope they can bring more fun." Those were initially quite popular but mainly excited the Bobcats’ fans for just a mont.
What truly caught fire was what he said to Pierce after a miracle shot 2 1 against Joe Johnson — "Luck doesn’t favor fools."
He had heard Pierce say he was "too lucky" and thought of this line to provoke Pierce, and it worked. He didn’t rember much of what happened next, but he didn’t expect this comnt to carry post-ga buzz.
Out of curiosity, he checked through the most-replied posts from last night to this morning...
Initially, fans were simply teasing Pierce for taking the comnt personally, foolishly going one-on-four, and putting on the "fool" label himself.
Then, a debate about whether "clutch shots" rely more on skill or luck suddenly erupted.
Zhang Yang didn’t see the point in arguing about this, yet the debate raged on until morning... and the "luck faction" was prevailing!
Fans of Zhang San, Kobe, Carter, Ray Allen, Ginobili, Anthony... all skilled in clutch situations, couldn’t out-argue the "luck faction."
That group seed to have their own "basketball logic," and every "argunt" fit within their logic, countering anything said with "argunts" you’d never expect.
Even fans suggesting "clutch shots are fundantally based on skill, combined with luck" got rebutted by the "pure luck faction," citing "the argunt" that Wade had barely made threes this season but still hit a three-point buzzer-beater... Zhang San felt for Big Cheek, as he couldn’t even fish in peace.
The topic extended further, sparking a new morning topic — a star player’s historical status, achievents, and their relationship with luck.
Baylor, Double Killers, Barkley, Ewing, Miller... despite being retired for so many years, were dragged into the discussion, mocked for being foolishly unlucky.
Simultaneously, others said Russell’s 11 championships resulted from good luck during an era with barely over ten teams, Magic Bird had lucky strong teammates, Jordan had luck because Larry Bird declined early due to injury, the Shaq-Duncan combination was lucky after Jordan’s retirent... Even Zhang San’s 06-07 championship was dissected as having nurous lucky points and labeled the championship with the most "luck factor."
Zhang Yang felt a bit annoyed seeing this at first, as it essentially denied the team’s efforts in that postseason, but there was no way to refute it.
Thinking calmly, he guessed the person behind this extended topic aid to diminish the influence of the "championship" in fans’ minds, boost the influence of stats, and when soone wins a championship, hype it back up or combine it with data to create sothing new... and that’s it. "No title equals Kobe," "one title surpasses Duncan and Shaq," "two titles surpass Magic and Bird," "three titles are historically unbeatable"? Anyone who controls the dia narrative can do it, right?
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