"Don’t ntion it, this is what old teammates should do."
During the turmoil in Cleveland, the Pacers also experienced a wave of shocks.
Three-point shots are like that, extrely unstable!
Fluctuations in player performance can easily affect the quality and intensity of team tactics.
Rick Carlisle, as a "Champion Coach," aid to win this year’s finals and defend the title, naturally wouldn’t selectively give up on so three-point tactics when the team’s performance was inconsistent.
This wouldn’t be beneficial for the Pacers’ playoff campaign.
He’d rather accept two losses in exchange for the team to adjust more quickly.
This way, the Pacers would have more experience in self-adjustnt the next ti they faced fluctuations in three-point shooting.
Then there were so minor injuries.
This was bound to happen around January as the season progressed.
Teams with bad luck might even face their core players getting injured and being out for the season at this ti.
There were not a few teams that suffered similar blows in January in past seasons.
Houston was the "unlucky one" this season.
In mid-January, Su Wan and the Pacers ca to Space City, where Yao Ming’s presence was no longer found on the streets; even the "Yao Restaurant" near the arena had closed down, just like any superstar who left their ho team, it seed as if Yao Ming had never been in Houston.
The only thing that could evoke that mory was Bynum, dressed in Rockets red.
As the biggest chip in the trade for Yao Ming, Bynum was also pinned with high hopes by the Rockets, and he proved himself worthy. In November of the new season, he averaged 15 points and 8 rebounds; unfortunately, the good tis didn’t last, and in mid-December, he suffered a season-ending knee injury, becoming a spectator at the edge of the court.
All the heavy lifting for the Rockets fell on McGrady’s shoulders.
It was as if he was back with the Magic Team.
If you asked him what the difference was between then and now...
Back then, he was more enduring, but now...
Clearly, he couldn’t take the strain!
As the sole leader of the team, McGrady had no choice but to shoot like crazy, as he had done with the Magic Team. One or two gas was fine, but after a month of such performances, he was starting to feel it.
In the ga before the one against the Pacers, his chronic back injury acted up, and after leaving the court in pain, he didn’t return.
After the ga, the Rockets’ managent updated the latest on his injury:
Tracy McGrady would be absent from the gas for the next two weeks, with his return date pending.
This ant that for the next half-month, the Rockets would be without their standard-bearer.
And at this very mont, they encountered the Pacers...
It was a brutal one-sided massacre.
Su Wan scored 42 points, leading the Pacers to a 30-point thrashing of the Rockets.
With this victory, they began their "5-ga road trip."
Before leaving, Su Wan took a stab at the Houston dia: "This fits the current state of Houston, a city that doesn’t respect Huaxia players should be this rotten, and it’s best if it stays rotten forever!"
Naturally, the Houston dia fought back.
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But Su Wan was already waiting for their retaliation: "Clearly Houston reporters aren’t required to buy tickets to the gas, otherwise they definitely wouldn’t have such an attitude!"
In the battle between the Rockets and Pacers, Houston People filled up to 70% of the entire stadium seats, around 10,000 people, but by the end of the ga, that 70% was emptied, with a vast number of fans leaving before the third quarter even ended.
Even though they had missed "T-Mac monts" because of this, they still did it.
Which showed just how disappointed they were with this team!
Two days later, an even bigger blow ca to Houston:
The Lakers arrived!
This was Yao Ming’s first return to Houston since being traded.
What he didn’t expect was that the fans in the arena booed him.
An enraged Yao Ming ended the ga with 30 points and 9 rebounds after three quarters.
If his physical fitness hadn’t run out, and the ga hadn’t already been decided, he would have definitely continued to play in the fourth quarter, aiming to break his career-high score for a single ga that night.
to 80.
That was the final score.
Even though he didn’t achieve his personal highest score for a single ga, such a 28-point victory was enough to make the Houston dia and the Houston People feel uncomfortable.—Is there anything more painful than seeing your ex doing better than you?
Moreover, the gap between this season’s Rockets and the Lakers wasn’t just a little bit, but a whole universe apart.
After McGrady also suffered an injury, tanking beca an inevitable trend for the Rockets.
And the Lakers?
Even the Mavericks, dubbed by many dia as "historically strongest," were only leading them by a slim margin of 3 wins.
Without doubt, the Lakers were the top contenders for the NBA championship this season.
This kind of blow was like your ex-girlfriend who earns a month’s salary of 2000 getting off a Ferrari, accidentally dropping her limited edition handbag, and you picking it up and returning it to her, only for her to disdainfully wave her hand: "Don’t want it!"
Worse than doing well is not being able to climb the social ladder!
And the Lakers’ montum, after January 28th, reached a new peak.
On that day, they defeated the defending champion Pacers with a score of 108 to 100, by an 8-point margin!
Kobe scored 35 points in that ga, Yao Ming contributed 24 points and 13 rebounds, and Odom also played brilliantly with 15 points, 7 rebounds, and 7 assists.
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