Chapter 341 The Orlando Swan of Penny! Sweep Magic!
Chapter 341 The Orlando Swan of Penny! Sweep Magic!
Before the end of the first half, the Celtics once again played a wave of offensive frenzy. By the end of the half, they had led by 27 points with 64:37. In this game, the Magic still did not give any resistance.
This made the fans at the Magic's home grounds very dissatisfied.
Before half-time, a large number of fans sent deafening boos to their home team. In the playoffs, the home fans turned their backs, which is an extremely rare scene in the entire NBA.
Fans do not think the team can win the Celtics, most of the fans still have self-awareness.
The reason why he is angry is because his team is too unsatisfactory. The 76ers in the first round once broke out a stubborn resistance in a desperate situation, causing some trouble for the Celtics, but their own What about the team and the star?
No, no resistance at all.
Now the leading star of the Magic team has high expectations from fans, and even Anfernee Hardaway, who did not hesitate to let O'Neal leave the team for him, only made 1 of 5 shots in the first half and scored "490" 4 points, 2 rebounds and 4 assists.
A leading star, only 5 shots at halftime in this kind of game.
This makes the fans really unacceptable. If you don't even have the courage to shoot and save the team, how can we cheer for you and cheer for you?
The boos from the fans made the magic team's morale even lower, and it also made the players' faces look extremely ugly. The entire team, only the old coach Chuck Daly, still looked normal and was not affected. After all, the old man is also a ruthless character who has led the Dream Team, and he has seen all the scenes.
Back in the second half, the Magic continued the game that was more like a torment for them. Hardaway once again took the ball to the frontcourt. Facing Sprewell's defense, Hardaway called a screen, but Grant just mentioned it. Coming up, Hardaway found that there was actually Lin Long who rushed out from the inside with Grant.
Hardaway gritted his teeth, and before the screen was formed, he made a cross pass to Armstrong on the other side, but it was a pity that Billups was already on the side. Killed in the stab, the ape arm is light and comfortable, cut off the pass, and then immediately sprinted towards the frontcourt.
In the face of an unguarded basket, Billups didn't make a layup by himself, but had eyes behind his head.
Lin Long behind him has already followed up quickly, and winning the basketball is a double-arm dunk that glides far away.
At this time, none of the Magic players had run past the half court, and none of them had the intention of returning to the defense to fight.
They had obviously given up on the game completely, giving up winning.
Larry Bird nodded off the field, he knew it was almost there, at most 3 minutes, he would replace all the main players, he would not let the main players for this kind of game that is completely determined. Take the risk of injury.
At the home of the Magic, there were boos from the sky again. Obviously, the boos were not given to the Celtics, but to their home team players who didn't try their best to disappoint.
There was no expression on Hardaway's face. Years of injury had long since smoothed out his temper, especially last year's All-Star forced his comeback, which caused his left knee to be injured again, which almost made him completely desperate. Almost immediately retired.
After a whole summer of recuperation, although he has finally recovered from the regular season this year and played in 81 games throughout the season, both fans and Hardaway know that he is no longer in the top ten of the league. star too.
After a few more rounds, the difference between the two sides was completely widened to more than 30 points, Bird stopped chasing, and with a big wave, all the main players went off to rest, declaring that the game had entered garbage time.
On the Magic team's side, although their main force remained on the court, even in the face of the Celtics' water cooler lineup, they still failed to show any style. Obviously, these guys have completely given up and don't want to. To extend the series.
In the first half of the third quarter, Hardaway again failed to make 1 shot, only 1 rebound and 1 assist. His perfunctory and negativity made all Orlando fans take notice.
Gradually, the boos in the arena were no longer untargeted and indiscriminate attacks, and more and more people vented their disappointment and dissatisfaction on Hardaway.
And Orlando fans, who have always been known for their lip-smacking, used what they thought would hurt Hardaway the most to express their anger.
"Give us Shaq!
"Give us Shaq!
"Give us Shaq!"
Yes, they started chanting O'Neal's name!
The story of O'Neal and Hardaway is now well known.
In order not to make Hardaway feel that he is not the team leader, the management blatantly told O'Neal "We can't give you too much because 'Pence' will be unhappy."359
The Orlando Sentinel even opened two polls: Hardaway and O'Neal who deserve the max salary, and whether O'Neal deserves the max salary.
At that time, it was these two votes and the management's words that completely broke O'Neal's heart, and that made this behemoth travel westward and land in Los Angeles.
But the Orlando management and fans at the time, and even Hardaway himself, did not realize what they had done, or even the opposite. In everyone's mind, there was only one thought.
That clunky fat man is gone, our genius 'Penny' can give full play to his talent and lead us to win the championship!
The story after that is that Hardaway suffered from injuries again and again, and then whenever the team's record fell, fans would shout Hardaway's name, expecting him to come out and save the team....
The theory of the fans is always the same. After all, Hardaway is the only star of the team. For him, Orlando even let O'Neal go.
The young Hardaway always forcibly returned again and again, and then suffered injuries again.
In the end, it has only been three short seasons since the Sharks left.
Hardaway has fallen from nine days to a mortal, and has fallen into a vicious cycle of injury, recuperation, forced comeback, re-injury, and re-recovery.
The Orlando fans, who have always had no feelings and no sense of shame, never thought that it was because of their excessive demands and moral kidnapping that Hardaway had fallen into the current situation. They just felt that Hardaway was a waste and let O'Neal go for him. , is an error.
The entire Magic management team is garbage.
The boos from the Orlando fans made Hardaway and Hardaway not deal with it very much. Lin Long, who was so relaxed, couldn't help frowning. Of course, he knew what happened between Hardaway and the Magic. Hardaway became like this today. The culprits are the fans and the media.
As a result, now that the wall is down and everyone is pushing, the first ones to do it are these fans.
Lin Long shook his head, deserving these Orlando fans without a championship!
Pick up the chopsticks and say it's delicious, put down the chopsticks and scold the mother.
I scolded the cook when I was full.
Of course, Orlando's management is not much better, not giving O'Neal a max salary is simply unbelievable.
But thinking about the reluctance to let Duncan's family be the team plane a few years later, Duncan directly decided to stay in San Antonio.
Almost 10 years later, he was unwilling to give Turkoglu tens of millions of annual salary to directly let the team's important contributor to the finals go in vain. .
It can only be said that such management is really not worthy of winning the championship!
3.3 But none of this has anything to do with Lin Long, he stretched his limbs comfortably, waiting for the end of the game.
Lin Long was never a nosy guy.
But when the game entered the fourth quarter, after the Magic also replaced their main lineup, the scolding of the fans not only did not weaken, but became more and more violent.
From Hardaway to Armstrong, from Nick Anderson to Holmes Grant.
Everyone was not spared, not only themselves, but even their family members and friends were all subjected to no brief abuse.
In the end, the Orlando fans who still felt unsatisfied turned their guns on the meritorious coach Chuck Daly. The 65-year-old coach's mother, grandmother and great-grandmother could not escape the poison and were scolded by the fans. .
The chief designer of the Bad Boys Corps, who had won two championships, had suffered such an insult, his face turned pale with anger, and his whole body was trembling non-stop.
When the game was over, the old coach stood up directly, without shaking hands or greetings, he turned his head and entered the player tunnel.
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