Norwegian Wood

ft, Pat Riley也太无聊了吧. 活塞犯规奥尼尔还情有可原, 他们比分落后, 你热队故意犯规本华莱士干什么? 领先8分, 认认真真打好防守就是了, 何必干这种迫不得已的事情呢? 太无聊了吧…

相比西部决赛, 东部决赛真tmd难看.

连着两场西部的半决赛都打了加时. 但比较起来, 强弱分明啊.

小牛vs马刺, 火星撞地球, 小牛那帮子后卫真能突, 第四节的时候连着三次, 三个不同的人, Harris, Daniels, Jason Terry, 突破上蓝得分并且被犯规, 打三分. Terry到最后真准, 马刺这次悬了.

太阳vs快船, 常规时间结束的时候, 两个队各有一次愚蠢的失误:

30来秒, 平分. 快船暂停后, 后场发球, Cassel接界外球后, 一脸笑容漫步进入前场, 哨响, 8秒违例. 我见过的比赛最后时刻的最奇怪失误.

3.3秒, 平分. 太阳Tim Thomas抢到前场篮板, 竟然像取得比赛胜利似的, 将球抛向前场. ft, 3.3秒啊, 足够多的时间叫个暂停再组织一次进攻, 别人fisher0.4秒都能进个球啊. 我见过的比赛最后时刻的最sb失误.

Round 1, Eastern wrap up
Detroit 4-1 Milwaukee

“A team like Detroit, you can’t have spurts of seven, eight minutes not playing well because they’re using those mistakes; they’re using them for break points. “  –Toni Kukoc, Milwaukee forward, who won three championships with the Chicago Bulls

“You think you’re playing well, then you look at the score and you’re like, ‘We’re down 15.’ That’s the sign of playing a good team. At times, we just have mental lapses. Most teams do, but good teams really don’t. That’s the difference.”  –Mo Williams, Milwaukee guard.

如果雄鹿希望给自己的失败寻找些原因的话, 头一条, 就是他们的对手是底特律活塞. 活塞阵容拥有四名全明星, 事实上NBA只是不想让活塞创造历史而没有将Prince选为全明星的; 任何队伍在对阵活塞时, 至少有三个位置很难找到能对位防守的人选: Billups, Prince, Rasheed Wallace; 另两个位置上一个是Reggie Miller的衣钵传人, 一个是最佳防守球员; 活塞战绩全联盟第一, 在过去两年内都闯入了最后的总决赛, 并在前年夺得了总冠军. 雄鹿后卫T.J.Ford说:”我们所能做的是尽可能多的限制他们的长处.” 很遗憾, 那就意味着你得限制篮球的每一项: 进攻, 防守, 篮板, 助攻, 三分… 因为这只活塞队没有短处.

我觉得今年这只活塞最大的优点就是对比赛的控制力. 除了第3场稍有放松之外, 其他4场比赛, 雄鹿一点机会都没有, 从始至终, 活塞都牢牢的把握着比赛的节奏, playing Detroit Basketball. 比赛中经常出现这样的场面: 雄鹿落后十几分, 千辛万苦追成个位数, 接着两分钟, 活塞一个小高潮, 分差重回两位数. 能够赢一场, 雄鹿应该心满意足了.

Miami 4-2 Chicago

本来应该是一边倒的比赛, 但公牛一帮无名小卒硬是将比赛带到了第6场, 逼着O’neal使出了真功夫. 头两场波澜不惊, 热队主场连胜两场. 没想到回到公牛主场后风云突变, 公牛的一帮子后卫忽然就有了准星, 而且他们找到了对付O’neal的办法: 后卫突破后就找着O’neal撞, 逼着裁判吹防守犯规. 虽然这招有点黑, 很多时候看得出来O’neal都在往后躲了, 无奈鲨鱼体积实在太大了, 公牛一帮子小个后卫撞上去就跟鸡蛋撞石头似的, 很多进攻犯规在O’neal身上看来怎么看怎么像防守阻挡. O’neal打出了职业生涯最差的和第二差的季后赛.

第五场回到迈阿密, 第二节Wade屁股受伤; 公牛拥有一切有利的因素, 然而他们的外线突然就哑了火, 一瘸一拐的Wade回到场上, 帮助热队艰难拿下主场. (插一句, Wade的带伤表演, 很涨印象分). 第六场, the return of shaq, 30分, 20篮板, 无数次空中接力. 热队继续前进, 半决赛对阵网队, 湖人三连冠时总决赛的重演, 只是Kobe变成了Wade, K-mart变成了Carter.

New Jersey 4-2 Indiana

就看了一场比赛, 没什么印象. 唯一记得的是当Cliff Robinson上场时, espn评论员Steve Kerr问了个问题: 哪位球员参加了最多的季后赛而一枚戒指都没有. 榜上有名者: Gary Payton, Cliff Robinson, Karl Malone, John Stockton. 唉, MJ毁人不倦啊…

Cleveland 4-2 Washington

检验真正篮球球迷的系列.

如果你觉得这个系列很精彩, 3场一分决胜的比赛, well, 你需要看看去年活塞或者马刺的比赛. 这个系列的比赛缺乏篮球一个很重要的环节.

友情提示: 篮球就两个部分, 一个是进攻, 一个是…

如果你觉得这个系列很烂, 恭喜你, 你至少有两个知音: Barkley and Kenny. 这两人在tnt的赛后评论时笑得阳光灿烂, 扯谈说这轮季后赛关键时刻的防守和全明星比赛的防守有得一拼.

Kobe的赛后答记者问:

Q: You’ve been involved in a lot tight-finish games, do you remeber any like this?
A: No. I was telling the guys earlier, when we in the lockroom, I’ve been in a lot playoff battles, but I have never had one quite like this, you know, with back against the wall, seeming out of it, we just battled back and gained this W. We talked about that we matured ten or fifteen years today. We did a lot of grow-up in this game.

Q: Kobe, is that like twelve shining moments in one moment?
A: (laughing), you know, it’s a heart-fall game, and I am sure they are gonna play the shot over and over, but the thing people must understand is that shot won’t even be possible if it wasn’t Smush Parker’s great play, defensively. I mean, that guy struggled all night, and he stood up and made a huge defensive play, and Luke Walton made a defensive play. Devean Geroge coming off the bench made big shots. Lamar basically put us on his back and carried us all the way to the end of this game, and I just shot a 15-foot. Give credits to these guys that how well they played today.

Q: Kobe, would you decribe what’s going through your mind from the tip-off to the final seconds?
A: I knew Luke gonna control the tip, and I was going through my calculation and looked at the clock, and kind played the moment over my head. Before I got the ball, I was just thinking about how much time I need to operate. Once I got it, I just took my time, and got the look I wanted.

Q: Kobe, have you gotten the chance yet to take a look at your shot?
A: Yes, I’ve seen it. It was playing in the lockroom. We had the chance to look at it. (some training coach’s name) was in there and looked at it with me; and he said I can’t remember how many times I was seeing you took that shot in the summer in the practice. Abviously, I’ve taken that shot over and over and over again, so just follow the routine of it.

Q: What about the lay-up at the end of regulation?
A: (laughing) The lay-up is a bit tough than the shot actually, because those shots are typically the hardest ones to make. I saw, I think it’s Boris Diaw coming to help. You know, from the corner of my eye, I saw he’s coming to block the shot, so I knew I had to put a little bit arc of the ball, (in order to) get over his finger tips.

Q: The shot at the end of regulation, you talked about you were measuring the time. For the last shot in the overtime, how much of the time you got?
A: Well, I’ve been a lot of situations where in that type of scenario I failed, trying to get to basket and doing too much. So I called back some of my past experiences, and learned that once I got the ball, I just need to survey the floor, not rush it. I looked at the clock and knew I had enough time. So I had to catch and turn and look and see what’s going on, where the defense is flowing, and then take it from there.

Q: Kobe, on the game-winning shot, is that the most emotional you felt after the game-winning shot in your career?
A: Oh yes, just becasue the difference is in the past, people expected us to win these games. So hitting those shots was almost like a relief. The difference today is nobody expected us to do anything against this team. Being the playoffs, like I just said, we are such a young team, for them to be a part of it, for us to be a part of it, that just really made it speacial.

Q: So you said this is the biggest shot you ever hit?
A: It was the most fun shot I have ever hit, definitely. You know, it’s just because it’s us. You know what I mean. Us, as a union, enjoy the moment together, with the entire city of LA. It’s fun.

Q: Do you like this new version of Kobe Bryant where you differ yourself a lot?
A: I love it. It’s more fun. It’s more exciting, to see, you know, Lamar, like I said, Lamar just put us on his back. It’s him who carried us and got us to that point. He was making all those plays; he was in the post and passing out of the double-team. You know, guys stepped up and hit big shots. Sasha stepped up and made big shots. It’s more exciting, seeing smiles in their faces, how much they enjoy the game. Kwame Brown also stepped up. It’s fun, man.

Q: Are you gonna continue…
A: Why not? I hope so. Seriously, it’s fun, this is fun. The game is so much more fun to play in this way. You know, just so much more enjoyable, so much more exciting. We just had a bless.

Q: Then why didn’t you play like this in the regular season?
A: It’s a revolution. Phil and I both knew that during the cause of whole season, there were times I had to score a lot. So we understood the flow of the game, and he knew they are ready and he came to me and said, this is the type of strategy we are gonna use in these series. He’s right and we are playing extremely well.

Q: What did you say to Smush after you took the shot at the end of regulation?
A: It was all him. This is you. This is you being the warrior. He came out here and had a tough shooting night, but you hanging there. And I just want him know how much I appreciate that, how much we appreciate that. Without him hanging in there and not quit and made that big play, that gives us an opportunity to extend the game. So I just wanted to let him how much that meant to me.

Q: Can you compare this to those years when people thought that you should win and did win? Do you think this is the most enjoyable playoff experience?
A: It was fun right on the top. We are just so young and we are just excited to be here and just play. It’s just a different feeling all together. From everybody expected us to win a championship to nobody expected us to be in the playoffs, to, you know, Phoenix expected to sweep us.

Q: When was the specific time do you think when all the players started to understand the triangle offense?
A: I think if you looked through the end of the regular season, that’s when we really started to know how’s the flow of the game working. That’s when things started to come together a little bit.

Q: Kobe, how does this compare to Robert Horry in the Sacramento series?
A: It’s different. You know, people expected us to win that series. Everybody were walking around and said you guys are really suck, you underachieve. He hit that shot and it’s such a relief. Thanks for digging us out. Tonight’s shot is just pure excitement.

Q: Is this more fun than winning title was?
A: What? This is a big step for us on a journey towards, you know, trying to get to championship level. This is very important game for us, like I said, we really grow up today.