I’m Really Playing Basketball - Chapter 922 I'm really playing basketball! (end)

After the Eastern Conference finals, he announced that he would retire after the season finals.

Chen Xiao's remarks can't be described by a single stone in the entire NBA, in the entire sports world, and even in the public opinion of the entire world.

For fans, for most of the media, it was really too sudden.

Because a player like Chen Xiao, even if he wants to retire, he has to do it in the same way as when Jordan retired, that is, to hold a parade across the United States.

But Chen Xiao didn't plan to hold a national parade at all, but just announced his departure.

Regarding Chen Xiao's choice, during TNT's studio battle, Chris Webber said: "For God, the so-called parade is an insult to him, even Jordan, I think if I can, He will also choose to turn around and leave when he is at his peak. This is the most dignified way to leave. I am very reluctant to leave God, but I support his choice. The finals are the best stage, whether it is coming Going to the NBA or leaving the NBA is the best stage!"

Chris Webber's words are a bit of a pun. As a rookie, Xiao Chen can play in the finals in his rookie season. This is the best way to come to the NBA.

And Chen Xiao played the finals in the last game of his career, which is also the best way to say goodbye.

Soon, Chris Webber's speech was recognized by most people.

Indeed, for Chen Xiao, this is indeed the best way to leave.

Moreover, as the incident fermented, more and more inside information of Chen Xiao's announcement of his retirement came out.

For example, regarding the timing of Chen Xiao’s announcement of retirement, the whole world knows that Chen Xiao actually planned to retire, but many stakeholders do not want Chen Xiao to retire. Chen Xiao reached an unofficial verbal agreement.

That is, when Chen Xiao returns to the Nets, as long as he can lead the Nets to the championship, they will not persuade Chen Xiao any more.

According to the thinking of these people, it will take at least three years for Chen Xiao to win the championship with the Nets, right?

In the NBA, if Chen Xiao really wants to play until he is 43 or 44 years old, then it is indeed possible.

I just didn't expect that in the first season of the Nets, Chen Xiao directly led the team to the finals.

As for directly announcing retirement after entering the finals, this is indeed not in line with everyone's tacit understanding, but these people do not think there is any problem.

Chen Xiao has won all the 11 finals before his career.

For the 12th time in this career, can I still fail?

Although the Lakers are very strong, Chen Xiao is indeed qualified to announce his decision in advance with such confidence.

Therefore, after Chen Xiao's retirement conditions were revealed, although most people thought it was okay for Chen Xiao to say this, he should not lose in this finals, but Chen Xiao's idol and good friend, the boss, would not think so.

The boss of Ke said with a smile in an interview: "I will keep God for everyone."

Of course, it's a joke, the boss also knows that the finals with the Nets is indeed very difficult.

Chen Xiao is an experienced monster player. If such a player still possesses extremely powerful strength, it would be really dangerous to put him on a stage like the finals.

Although the Lakers have the strongest defense in the entire league, in fact, everyone says that the Nets are strong offense, but their defense is also very strong.

Chen Xiao, Ingram, Jimmy Butler, Bruce Brown, Xiao Xiao Chen.

This is the Nets' starter. These five starters are actually offensive and defensive players.

Including Chen Xiao, after Chen Xiao got old, the problem with his defense was his help defense, not his single defense. In fact, his single defense was still the top in the entire league, especially the standing one-on-one defense.

In the playoffs last season, Jokic even singled against Chen Xiao under the basket, but he couldn't push Chen Xiao. Who are you going to reason with?

Now, among the big centers in the entire league, after Milicic retired, only Oden was left.

However, if the Lakers want to take advantage of the loopholes in the Nets’ help defense, they will have to return to the Nets’ starting five players who are all offensive and defensive.

Ingram, Jimmy Butler, Bruce Brown, Xiao Chen, can all move, can fill up, can run.

And these four people are all players about 2 meters.

Except for Bruce Brown, other players are above 2.01 meters. In fact, the height of the Nets' lineup is not short.

It can be said that this Nets is definitely a team composed of five players around 2 meters who are all-around offensive and defensive.

At the time, Pat Railey also organized a team like this in the Nets, but Pat Railey's Nets headed by Carter was actually not as strong as this one.

Because the Five Front Nets lacked a tactical core like Chen Xiao, or an axis!

The Nets that year had five forwards: Carter, Marion, Joe Johnson, Richard Jefferson and Brother Martin. This lineup was very strong, and they were also five players who integrated offense and defense. Not up to standard.

Even if Carter's organizational skills are slightly stronger, he can't be the axis of the team.

As for the Net that Chen Xiao brought, both Chen Xiao and Xiao Xiao Chen could become the team's playmaker. Therefore, the Net's chemical reaction was stronger than the five-forward that Pat Lily brought before. The Nets are not a little bit stronger in chemistry.

So, before the Finals, many pundits said that the Lakers were the only team in the entire league that could stop the Nets offense.

This is indeed confidence in the Lakers, but for Kobe Bryant, the coach of the Lakers, such confidence is actually a bit of high regard for their Lakers.

If the Lakers' starting center is Jokic, the Lakers' defense may not be able to keep up with the Nets.

If the Lakers' starter replaces Jokic, then Lowe, Siakam, Leonard, Paul George and Wade Jr., this lineup is to play five forwards with the Nets.

The Lakers' five fronts actually seem to be very strong, but if the Lakers really play five fronts, it will have the same problem as Pat Laley's Nets back then, that is, strong or strong, but the chemical reaction will not be so good. Excellent, but less organized and integrated.

But no matter what, the Nets are standing here now. Of course, the Lakers hope to beat Chen Xiao and the Nets.

On June 1, 2023, the first game of the finals between the Nets and the Lakers will be played at Staples in Los Angeles.

Because Chen Xiao announced his retirement before the start of the finals, although this game was an away game for the Nets, the Staples scene and off-court can be described as a huge crowd of Chen Xiao fans.

After all, Golden State is also from California. Chen Xiao has played in California for 10 years. Not only in Golden State, but even in Los Angeles, there are Chen Xiao fans everywhere.

What's more, after Chen Xiao's retirement announcement, fans of Chen Xiao across the United States are rushing to Los Angeles or New Jersey.

Therefore, although it is a home game, the Lakers players feel like they are surrounded by fans of the Nets and Chen Xiao in their own home.

So much so that TNT's commentator Mai Zi said with a smile: "Tonight's Hollywood actresses are all God's colors."

Yes, even the Hollywood actresses who used to be crazy about the Lakers on the sidelines, wore Chen Xiao's jerseys, the Nets' black jerseys, the Cavaliers' dark red jerseys, the Warriors' jerseys in this game. Gold jerseys, blue Bobcats jerseys, even Marquette's gold jerseys were worn.

Even during the game, when Chen Xiao assisted or scored in the game, many excited Hollywood actresses on the scene wiped away tears while being excited.

Everyone looks like everyone is an old Chen Xiao fan for decades.

For the influx of so many defecting fans at Staples in this game, Kobe was actually very helpless.

No way, Chen Xiao's hand is really powerful.

After all, this finals is the last series of Chen Xiao's career. Chen Xiao will not have a parade with Jordan in his career. Fans who want to watch Chen Xiao play can only watch this finals.

Even as far as he knows, many senior Lakers fans are wearing Chen Xiao's jerseys at the scene.

Not to mention others, just his son Kobe, who was wearing Chen Xiao's Nets No. 7 jersey at the game.

Even his son is like this, what else can he and the Lakers do?

The Lakers are there every year, and Chen Xiao, after this finals, really can't see it.

Therefore, this finals, the weather, the location, and the people, are actually all on the Nets side.

However, Kobe is not a coach who can't do anything. In fact, in terms of coaching style, Kobe and Jordan are very similar. They are both very good at playing psychological warfare and good at gambling.

In the Bobcats, when Jordan played the Nets, he preemptively killed Pat Raily and his five forwards.

And this time in G1 of the finals, experts and fans feel that the Lakers will not change in G1, and even if they want to change, they have to go to G2.

But what is surprising is that this game Kobe changed directly in G1.

The team's starting center Jokic came off the bench, and Wade Jr. was mentioned in the starting position.

I have to say that Kobe and the Lakers really caught the Nets by surprise.

In fact, Kidd did not focus on the Lakers in this game to follow the five forwards.

Although Kidd has such an arrangement, most of them are aimed at the Lakers' Jokic lineup.

So after the first quarter, the Nets, who had the right time and place for the away game, were actually 6 points behind 26-32.

To be fair, for two extremely powerful teams like the Lakers and the Nets, it is still a lot to be behind by 6 points in the first quarter.

And more importantly, Jokic will magnify an advantage like the Lakers in the rotation.

The starting lineup is ahead, and Jokic will also have the upper hand on the backup Lakers. This is a matter that affects the whole body.

Therefore, many experts said at the end of the first quarter that the Lakers are likely to win their home court by surprise.

In the face of such an unfavorable situation, Kidd was not panicking, but he did not intend to give up the victory of this game.

Therefore, in G1 of the finals, Kidd let Chen Xiao play the whole game for 48 minutes.

Although in the end, the Nets were not able to pull the game back, the final score was 119 to 123, and the Nets lost 4 points, but Chen Xiao, who played 48 minutes in this game, really put the Lakers and the Boss Ke broke out in a cold sweat.

When the Nets players didn't play well against the offense because they didn't adapt to the Lakers' five forwards, Chen Xiao made 16 of 38 shots, 8 of 20 three-pointers, and 12 of 12 free throws. The game scored 52 points, 12 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals and 1 block.

As far as Chen Xiao's attack in this game is concerned, he is a 41-year-old player. Seriously, do you believe it?

On the stage of the finals, facing the single defense of Siakam, Leonard, Lowe, Paul George and other strong defensive players, and playing such data, can it not be scary?

Although Chen Xiao's hit rate in this game is indeed not very high, only about 42%, which is almost a cliff-like drop compared to his regular season hit rate of nearly 60%.

This also shows that the Lakers' defense is indeed very effective for Chen Xiao. In the case of being able to defend Chen Xiao's teammates, let Chen Xiao play one-on-one with his own defensive strength, and Chen Xiao's hit rate may not necessarily be there. So good.

But, the point is, Chen Xiao can really attack!

Even if the hit rate is not that high, a player who can attack like this can still kill people.

In particular, the Nets' defense is also very strong, and the Lakers' singles hit rate in this game may not actually be that high.

It can be foreseen that in the future finals, the offense of the two teams may not be easy to play. In this case, the organization is stronger, and the Nets who have Chen Xiao's single-point and stronger team have an advantage.

After all, the Nets can't be so **** the field.

Therefore, after G1, although the Lakers won, the boss was still very cautious and careful: "We didn't win the series, we need to fight game by game, I think everyone who has watched the game is I can understand the difficulties the Lakers are in right now."

Yes, everyone can see the difficulty of the Lakers.

On June 4, 2023, the finals G2 between the Nets and the Lakers will continue, and in this game, everyone felt the desperation of the Lakers.

This is a very strong defensive battle.

Neither team hit 40 percent from the field.

The Lakers shot 37 percent, while the Nets shot 39 percent.

In this game, the difference between the two teams is actually the 2% shooting percentage.

In this game, the Lakers' Leonard scored 8 of 20. In such a defensive battle, the efficiency is actually quite acceptable, exceeding the average of the two teams, and also scored a team-high 28 points.

Compared with Siakam, who is 6 of 18, Paul George, who is 6 of 17, and Jokic, who is 4 of 12, they are much stronger.

Even compared to the Nets' 6-for-17 Ingram, 6-for-16 Xiao Chen, and 12-for 3 Jimmy Butler is much better.

However, when everyone's shooting rate is less than 40%, Leonard scored 28 points on 8 of 20, 40% shooting, which is very eye-catching.

On the Nets side, Chen Xiao made 13 of 27, 4 of 12 three-pointers, 8 of 8 free throws, and scored 38 points even more dazzlingly.

In this game, Chen Xiao's efficiency still did not reach his average level, but he was more stable than Leonard.

In this game, it was precisely because he was the most consistent player of the two teams that the Nets defeated the Lakers 116-110 on the road.

And the G2 of this finals also reminded the Lakers up and down once again of the Western Conference finals between the Lakers and the Warriors last season.

Yes, the Lakers can indeed cause great defensive damage and passiveness to Chen Xiao.

However, the Lakers have no way to prevent Chen Xiao from playing one-on-one, and Chen Xiao playing one-on-one is indeed strong, no matter if the defender is Leonard, Siakam, Paul George and Lowe, or Wade Jr. , Chen Xiao's offense is still the most stable player in the entire league.

In fact, these five starters of the Lakers have the highest defensive level in the entire league.

Even a young player Wade Jr. is also Chen Xiao's apprentice. Although his athletic talent is not as great as his father's, Wade Jr.'s height, wingspan and defensive skills are not a problem. He is the best defensive player among young players in the league. Good one too.

In this case, the Lakers really have no choice. They can't double-team Chen Xiao. In the face of the Nets, which is stronger than the Warriors in attack, to double-team Chen Xiao, it is really courting death.

The current Lakers, it is not time to find death.

On June 7, 2023, G3 of the Lakers and Nets came to New Jersey to continue the fight.

In this game, although the Lakers played away from home, the team's star offensive state was very good.

For example, Leonard scored 10 of 19 points and scored 30 points in the game. For example, Siakam scored 8 of 16 points with 20 points, and Paul George hit 7 three-pointers in this game, with 22 points in the game. In 12, the audience scored 38 points.

Even the substitute Jokic scored 10 of 16, 25 points against Chen Xiao's tarsus-like defense in this game.

Let's just put it this way, in this away game, the Lakers put most of their energy on the offensive end, fighting for defense, and for attacking stability. If you can't fight, Chen Xiao, then selectively focus your energy on offense, and the effect is the same. very good.

However, what made the Lakers desperate was that in this game, Chen Xiao made 16 of 32 shots, 8 of 16 three-pointers, and 11 of 11 free throws. He scored 51 points again in the whole game.

Would you say how efficient Chen Xiao was in this game?

In fact, it's not that high, but the output is really high. With ordinary efficiency, high output, this is the stability of the attack!

Some players make 20 shots and can have a 50% hit rate, but if they make 30 shots, they may not be able to.

And Chen Xiao, whether it is 20 shots, 30 shots, or 40 shots, can maintain such stability.

With Chen Xiao's stability at the bottom, the Lakers' defense was a little slack in this game. Jimmy Butler, Ingram, Xiao Chen, Beasley and others also played well in offense.

In the end, the Lakers still lost 128-134 on the road with such an offensive offensive performance.

The Lakers still didn't lose a lot, but they did lose the game anyway.

So after the G3 attempt, Kobe didn't dare to try more offense, and he still played defense quite well.

In G4 on June 9, the Lakers were fortunate to pull back a game.

Why do you say lucky?

Because under the defensive intensity of this game, it stands to reason that Leonard and Jokic cannot play such an efficiency in this game.

In this game, Leonard shot 14 of 22 and scored 40 points, while Jokic also scored 10 of 12 and scored 24 points.

You know, in this game, Siakam was 6 of 18, Paul George was 4 of 16, Jimmy Butler was 8 of 22, and Ingram was 5 of 16.

Even Chen Xiao's hit rate in this game was only 12 of 30.

It can be said that in this game, Leonard and Jokic, Ingram and Jimmy Butler and Chen Xiao who defended them had no problems, but in this game they were able to make shots.

This is the super giant, and the super giant has such strength.

Therefore, this game was able to beat the Nets 112-107 on the road, and finally tied the big score to 2-2, which is indeed a very lucky thing.

To be honest, this finals, in fact, the luck of the Lakers is still possible.

Currently playing four games, the Lakers often have star outbreaks, while the Nets stars, in such a high-intensity game, there are almost no players who break out.

However, on the other hand, even so, the big score is only 2 to 2.

For someone who has been in the NBA for nearly 30 years, Kobe never thought luck would always be on his side.

On June 12th, in G5 of the finals, in the last game, Leonard went 10 of 26. Although the Nets' hit rate was not high, Chen Xiao's hit rate was only 12 of 32. 6 of 17 three-pointers, 8 of 8 free throws, just 38 points on 32 shots.

But it's also better than Leonard's 28 points on 26 shots.

In fact, in terms of the points scored in a single shot, Leonard and Chen Xiao are similar in this game, but the problem is still the problem of production.

The efficiency of Chen Xiao and Leonard in this game is already the best star player in the two teams, but Chen Xiao can always be slightly more productive and efficient than Leonard.

In the end, it was reflected in the score that the Nets defeated the Lakers 108-105.

The difference is still not big.

It can only be said that from the audience's point of view, this final is really exciting.

The two teams played almost to the end in every game, and the level of excitement and intensity was extremely rare in the entire history of the finals.

However, in the end, the Nets and Chen Xiao still won the Tianwang Mountain and won the match point of the championship 3-2.

When the G5 game ended, Kobe lost his mind. His sixth sense told him that he was as strong as Chen Xiao and as experienced as Chen Xiao. The Nets would never give the Lakers a chance to bring the finals back to the Lakers. .

Like the Nets and the Heat in the Eastern Conference semifinals and the Bucks in the Eastern Conference finals.

Although the Lakers and Nets played more intensely.

But the big score in the finals this time is probably still 4 to 2.

Facts have proved that Kobe's conjecture is not wrong.

Although the entire Lakers team did not give up in G6 of the finals, the whole game, Leonard, Paul George, Jokic and Siakam, all four stars scored 20+, even four of them were 25+, and The Lakers also shot 48% in the whole game, and the Lakers have once again exploded.

But this game, the Netball star who never broke out in this finals, finally broke out.

Jimmy Butler made 8 of 14, 4 of 8 three-pointers, 10 of 10 free throws, and scored 30 points.

Ingram made 9 of 15, 3 of 6 three-pointers, and 3 of 5 free throws, scoring 24 points in the game.

Xiao Xiaochen made 6 of 16, 3 of 10 three-pointers, 6 of 6 free throws, and scored 21 points in the game.

Beasley, who came off the bench, made 7 of 14 and 6 of 7 free throws, scoring 20 points in the game.

As for Chen Xiao, in this game, when his teammates attacked very well, he made 14 shots in the whole game, 7 of 14, 4 of 8 three-pointers, and 2 of 2 free throws. He scored 20 points, but in addition, Chen Xiao had 20 rebounds, 14 assists, 2 steals and 3 blocks in this game.

In this match, Chen Xiao was flying as an assistant.

In the end, the Nets with 5 players scoring 20 points in the whole game, under the leadership of Chen Xiao, defeated the Lakers with 4 players scoring 25+ points, and the final score was 128 to 123.

In fact, the score is still very close.

However, the final winner is the Nets!

"After a lapse of 20 years, a full 20 years, the Nets once again won the NBA championship!"

"20 years, 20 years old, congratulations to Chen Xiao and his son, this is the first championship that belongs to a father and son player in NBA history!"

"21 years, 12 finals, 12 championships, a champion when he comes, and a champion when he leaves, let's congratulate God, he has completed the greatest personal legend in NBA history!"

When the game was over, Maizi and Chris Webber next to him were insane.

The fans on the sidelines, the audience in front of the TV, and the fans on the Internet were excited, moved, and cried. The whole world resounded with Chen Xiao's name.

At this time, as the No. 7 of the Nets at the center of the world stage, he was neither excited nor bitter. He just raised his right hand and smiled with his teammates, with the fans on the scene, and with the audience next to him. UU reading www.uukanshu. com

All this seems so normal.

21 years of career, 12 NBA championship trophies, 12 NBA championship MVPs, 6 NBA regular season MVPs, 21 first team, and best defensive player, best rookie, first defense, scoring champion, Assist king, triple double king, etc. countless honors.

Looking at the smile on his face, the calm smile, I don't know how many people are admiring him at this time.

His 21 years in the NBA can actually make him even more arrogant when he leaves.

But he didn't do that because, at this time, there were his opponents on the court.

"This is the God of our basketball world, this is his basketball, this is his influence, he not only achieved the highest strength of basketball, and pointed out the ceiling of basketball strength for all players, at the same time, he also made basketball for all basketball players. A second place, a perfect player, a perfect opponent.

What is a player who really loves basketball and who really plays basketball with his heart! "

I have always felt that I have no other achievements in my life.

You may think that I am very good, 12 championships, more than 50,000 points, if you really know me, I think you will think that I am not good enough, if it is you, maybe you have my chance can do better.

So, for me, the biggest achievement in my life is not these statistics or these honors, but from a basketball layman, who has seriously played basketball for a lifetime, and completely fell in love with basketball.

I'm really playing basketball!