Chapter 905 Sorry, I'm an Undercover Agent!
After the first game of the finals between the Seattle SuperSonics and the Miami Heat, the Miami Heat's championship situation took a sharp turn for the worse.
Although many people are explaining James' first undercover game, saying that James just wanted to lose a game and go undercover for a game out of friendship with Yes and couldn't bear Yes being swept in the finals, after this game, James and the Heat must have won four games in a row and eliminated the Seattle SuperSonics 4-1.
There is no problem with the logic of this statement and explanation, and James did it.
But it is obvious that James did not discuss with the team when he did such a thing.
It can be seen from the fact that James and Wade almost fought after the game that Wade and the entire Heat team did not support James' self-willed approach.
You said you don't want to sweep Yes, so don't sweep Yes. Have you asked your teammates how they feel?
There is no doubt that the Heat's strength is naturally above the SuperSonics, but James' self-willed behavior destroyed the team's unity.
There are even rumors after the game that Heat head coach Spoelstra convened a meeting overnight to discuss the solution to James's matter except James.
Judging from the rumors, it is obvious that James has been excluded from the core circle of the Heat.
This is a huge hidden danger!
There are precedents for internal strife in the finals. In the 2004 finals, the Lakers and the Pistons, the Lakers were also aggressive before the start, but after the internal strife, they were almost beaten by the civilian Pistons.
In addition to Yes, the Supersonics are also a recognized civilian team, more civilian than the Pistons at the time.
But the Supersonics are the defending champions after all, a team that broke out from the West. Under normal circumstances, the Supersonics cannot beat the Heat, but there is absolutely no problem in beating the Heat who are fighting internally.
At this time, the odds of the bookmaker are the most realistic.
Before the finals started, James and Wade ranked first and second in the odds of the Finals MVP.
After the first game of the finals, the odds of the Finals MVP were Yes first, Durant second, Wade third, and James even ranked behind Rondo!
In the first game, Rondo's 3-for-12 shots, 9 points, 11 rebounds and 7 assists were much better than James' 12 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists in the first game.
Not to mention the third place in the winning team, even in his own team, James' MVP odds are no longer third.
Wade scored 44 points in the first game of the finals, and he deserved to be the first in the Heat. In addition to Wade, Chandler scored 10 points, 20 rebounds and 4 blocks in the first game, and Ben Gordon scored 20 points, 6 assists and 5 rebounds.
From the data, Wade, Chandler and Ben Gordon's data are all excellent. If we follow the normal logic, the Sonics and the Heat have a half-win rate in the finals, then according to the data, Wade's finals MVP ranking is controversial with Durant and Yes, and Chandler and Ben Gordon's odds must be ahead of Rondo.
But the reality is that Rondo's finals MVP odds are already ahead of Chandler and Ben Gordon, which means that the bookmakers are no longer optimistic about the Heat winning the championship.
Even after the first game of the finals, many extreme coconut fans had already voted for James' Finals MVP on the NBA's official website.
This year's Finals MVP judges have a total of eleven, one of which is an online vote, which is decided based on the voting results of the NBA's official website.
It's quite funny that after the first round, the first place in the online vote was not Yes, Durant, or Wade, but James!
In the first finals between the Supersonics and the Heat,
James is indeed one of the biggest contributors to the Supersonics in the eyes of many coconut fans.
Even now, most people in the world believe that if James is not undercover, the Supersonics will not be able to beat the Heat.
So there is nothing wrong with the fact that the Supersonics can beat the Heat and James is the biggest contributor.
"If the Seattle Supersonics win the finals this year, I will use my influence to call on all coconut fans to vote for James for the Finals MVP!"
Even the first coconut fan on the Internet, not the fifteenth but the second, has made a direct statement.
Obviously, the public opinion and behavior of coconut fans are deliberately creating internal disputes in the Heat.
The intention is obvious.
But if the Heat had no disputes, it would not have given the Sonics fans such an opportunity.
Spoelstra has been working very hard these days to get the Heat players to accept his theory. The team needs James' contribution and help. The more everyone knows that James is an undercover agent, the more they should give James warmth and let him return to everyone.
He was anxious to hold a meeting with the Heat players without James mainly to clarify his views.
It was not to exclude James.
In fact, he told James in advance about the meeting with other Heat players and the content.
James can understand it.
James can certainly understand it. He is not an undercover agent. He is really not an undercover agent, but after Yes's operation, his identity has been confirmed.
Even if he doesn't admit it, he has confirmed it.
This is the most critical thing.
Because he doesn't admit it, the Heat players have doubts about him. You have been an undercover agent like this, but you still don't admit it and don't apologize. How can we believe you?
But he was not an undercover agent in the first place, why should he apologize? !
Admit something he didn't do?
If he really admitted that he was an undercover, then he would be responsible for the failure of the Cavaliers last season and the failure of the Dream Team 8 in the Olympics last year!
How could he admit such a thing!
So, this is simply unsolvable.
This also makes Spoelstra's work very difficult.
In the meeting yesterday, Wade and the Heat players directly said that they should forgive James and bring James back. It is not impossible. James first admitted that he was an undercover and then apologized. Otherwise, no one would dare to hand over the back to this person who is not sure whether his surname is Jiang or Wang.
This reason is very, very legitimate, so legitimate that Spoelstra can't refute it.
And James, of course, must not admit it. If he admits it, it will be a stain on his entire career.
The very professional image he created for himself will be gone!
It doesn't matter if he is misunderstood now. After winning one, two, three, or even four, five, six, or seven championships in the future, he can still whitewash himself. If he admits it this time, it will really be completely whitewashed. No matter how many championships he wins, there will be stains!
It can be said that the current danger inside the Heat is really not as calm as the media reports.
Spoelstra's headache is now exploding.
Originally appointed by his teacher Pat Riley as the head coach of the Heat, he was ready to be a puppet and a dog on the sidelines.
Damn, he really didn't expect that the Heat's Big Five would play so complicated in the end!
Spoelstra still believes that as long as the Heat are united and don't lose, they can win four games in a row and kill the Supersonics even if they are 0-3 behind.
Just like the Supersonics often do.
But the key is unity!
The Heat players and James must truly achieve unity!
Otherwise, they will lose the first game, the second game, and even the third and fourth games!
Now the other Heat players led by James and Wade are in a stalemate.
One side must give in first, but at this time, no one will give in first.
In the past, Wade would lobby other Heat players to give in first.
But now, even Wade and James are in a stalemate.
This is a dead end!
On June 6, 2009, the team returned to KeyArena to challenge the Seattle SuperSonics, who were in high spirits, in this dead cycle of bad atmosphere.
For this game, Spoelstra did not have much hope. The atmosphere of the Heat team was worse than the last game, and everyone seemed to be holding back a lot of anger.
In this case, even if the team is stronger, it is not so easy to beat the SuperSonics.
In fact, Spoelstra's premonition was correct.
Although the Heat were not very united in this game, everyone's fighting spirit was very strong.
Whether it was James, Wade or other Heat players, they were all very motivated.
But a team that is not united, cannot cooperate, has barriers between each other, and cannot trust each other will be useless even if they fight hard.
The second game between the Heat and the SuperSonics was almost the same as the first game.
In the first quarter, the Heat scored 34 points in a single quarter with Wade and Chris Bosh in good condition. The Supersonics is a team with excellent defense. It is not surprising that Wade scored 10 points in a single quarter with 4 of 7 shots against Rondo. The key is that even Chris Bosh scored 9 points in the first quarter against Millsap.
It can be said that the Heat's Big Five, except for James, Wade, Ben Gordon, Chandler and Chris Bosh were very qualified in these two games. Wade, Ben Gordon and Chandler broke out in the last game, and Wade and Chris Bosh broke out in the first quarter of this game.
But!
It's useless for someone in the team to break out. The key is that the team can't have an undercover!
In the first quarter, the Heat scored 34 points with Wade and Chris Bosh in good condition.
But the Supersonics scored 40 points!
In the first quarter, Wade and Ben Gordon, who were full of fighting spirit and played almost with fire, made Yes shoot 10 free throws in the whole quarter. Under the double-team of Wade and Ben Gordon, Yes's hit rate was not very high, 2 out of 6, but Wade and other Heat players were unbalanced and sent 10 free throws in a single quarter, which was fatal. Originally, Yes's hit rate was 33.3 in the first quarter, but because he made 10 of 10 free throws, he had a true hit rate of more than 70%!
And what about Durant, who was still facing James?
James worked hard in this game!
But after the first quarter, Durant's hit rate was 5 out of 7, and he scored 13 points in a single quarter!
Durant's hit rate against James was higher than Wade's hit rate against Rondo!
There is no doubt that James was still an undercover in the first quarter!
After the first quarter, Spoelstra sighed.
And James was stunned!
In the first quarter of this game, he really tried very hard to defend. He didn't underestimate the enemy at all and really tried his best!
But what is Durant's hit rate? !
Durant is not the fake enhanced version of McGrady, he is the real enhanced version of McGrady!
James is now very sure that the Durant who made him suspect that he was an undercover in the last game was not the enhanced version of McGrady that he was defended by him. This guy is the real enhanced version of McGrady!
However, what makes James miserable is that he knows Durant's strength, but the other players in the Heat still don't know Durant's strength and still think he is an undercover!
If Durant is really an enhanced version of McGrady.
Then the combination of Yes + Durant...
No!
Can't drag it on!
Absolutely can't be angry anymore!
What even if we are 0-3 behind, we can catch up as long as we make an effort, this is impossible!
The whole world underestimates Durant's strength!
The whole world underestimates Yes's ability to train players!
Yes really broke the limit of a mediocre player who has nothing to do and trained him into an enhanced version of McGrady!
After the first quarter, James, who discovered the true strength of Durant and the Supersonics, was cold all over!
What made him even colder was that the other players on the Heat didn't notice these at all.
Still think that it was because of his undercover that Durant exploded!
According to the current situation, he, LeBron James, will die with the Heat!
In the second quarter, Spoelstra comforted Wade, who was a little unbalanced, and Wade did not defend Yes as hard as in the first quarter.
In the whole second quarter, under the crazy double-teaming of Wade and Ben Gordon, Yes did not take a single shot, and the Sonics' offense was completely dependent on Durant.
With Durant by his side, Yes can rest assured not to take a shot when his touch and opportunity are not very good.
Although Ibaka is also a great pot, his offensive level is indeed not enough after receiving the ball.
At least not as strong as Durant. Durant faced James' seemingly fierce defense, but he still scored 13 points in 5 of 10 shots in the second quarter.
With Yes's bad touch in the second quarter, the Sonics only lost 3 points in the second quarter with a score of 27 to 30.
"Durant is the stabilizer of the team!"
For this stronger Durant than usual in the finals, Yes is very, very satisfied.
If it wasn't Durant, but Ibaka, when he couldn't score and Milicic was in trouble, the Supersonics would definitely collapse!
But Durant can always help the team keep the score!
Durant's scoring explosiveness may not be that strong, but his characteristic of being able to hit about half of the shots no matter who defends him is that he is the kind of player who can guarantee the team's bottom line in every game!
Durant scored 26 points again in the first half. When the Supersonics and the Heat ended the first half with a score of 67 to 64, the expressions on the faces of every Heat player were very ugly.
Spoelstra and James saw the emotions of the Heat players now.
Spoelstra was helpless.
James was in pain. He was not an undercover agent. Only he knew this in the world!
Durant was very strong, at least he was very strong in offense. This was also the truth that only he knew!
The painful truth that made people want to go crazy!
In order to stabilize the emotions of the Heat players, Spoelstra did not dare to let James defend Durant in the third quarter. Although the experiment in the last game was not very good, Spoelstra could only put James in front of Yes again and double-team Yes with Wade, and Durant was once again handed over to Ben Gordon.
The final result was...
The Miami Heat collapsed again!
And the way they collapsed was exactly the same!
James played a pull-up in front of Yes, and in turn, Yes played a three-pointer against James and Wade.
"The Heat will lose this game!"
Barkley was very excited, and Kenny Smith next to him was confused.
"Spoelstra is in pain now?"
"No matter where you put James, it's wrong. I now doubt very much that if James defends Rondo, will Rondo also explode?!"
Amid the cheers of the Sonics fans, Barkley was very, very excited.
The two teams played very fiercely in the first half, and the Heat was indeed the weaker team.
At the most dangerous moment of the Sonics in the second quarter, the entire team was only Durant scoring steadily.
Fortunately!
The Sonics have James!
If James hadn't been undercover, the Heat would have probably won both games!
"Generally speaking, Spoelstra shouldn't put James in front of Yes. If he put James in front of Durant, at least the Heat could still hold on to the score, but if he put James in front of Yes, Yes could make the Heat collapse directly!"
35 to 24!
In the third quarter, Yes made 5 of 10 shots, 4 of 8 three-pointers, and 18 points in a single quarter to completely take the game away.
In the end, the Heat, who played away, also lost in G2 of the finals.
132 to 113!
The Heat lost again by 19 points away from home!
In this game, Durant made 17 of 29 shots, scored 40+ in a single game again, 26 points in the first half and 18 points in the second half, 44 points, 13 rebounds and 6 assists in the whole game. The key is that in addition to these offensive data, there are also 5 blocks and 3 steals. There is no doubt that under James' defense, Durant played the best game of his career.
Durant really played very happily in this game. Not only in this game, but also in the last game, Durant played very happily. In these two games, James hardly had much offense, and even if he did, it was Yes's offense.
Durant can put all his energy and energy on the offensive end and assist defense. Single defense does not consume energy. All his energy is on offense and assist defense. It's so cool!
It's completely different from the treatment of being chased and beaten by Nowitzki and Kobe in the previous two series!
In this game, Durant played the most representative game of his career.
On the other side, Yes's data in this game was 11 of 21 shots, 43 points, 13 assists and 10 rebounds in the whole game. Yes scored 15 points with 2 of 6 shots in the first half, and 28 points with 9 of 15 shots in the second half, just staggered with Durant.
And the embarrassing thing is that in the first half, it was James who defended Durant, and in the second half, it was James who defended Yes...
So at the end of the game, the entire Heat team really left the court with a dark face.
Spoelstra, who returned to the locker room, was very uncomfortable. The Heat players now seemed to be on top of a powder keg, which could be ignited at any time.
At this moment, in the eyes of Spoelstra and all the Heat players in the locker room, James walked to the middle of the locker room with a depressed look on his face...
LeBron?
James?
Angry, confused, disgusted, puzzled...
A pair of eyes with various emotions made James feel very uncomfortable.
But!
He knew that he couldn't delay any longer, and the Heat absolutely couldn't delay any longer!
"I'm sorry, everyone, I'm really sorry, I'm an undercover, I'm the champion who doesn't want to be an MVP, and I'm the undercover who defended an ordinary All-Star into an enhanced version of McGrady."
He's not an undercover...
But, is it meaningful whether he is an undercover or not?
Now, he just wants to win, he just wants Yes to die!
James said this calmly, and the atmosphere in the entire Heat locker room was audible.
And Spoelstra, who was still upset just now, almost shouted out excitedly.
James apologized!
James finally apologized for his undercover!
The Heat's championship is back again!
Spoelstra was very excited, and Wade on the side was also very excited.
LeBron is finally going to draw a line with Yes!
LeBron, if you had admitted that you were an undercover agent earlier and apologized like this earlier, I would never have treated you like that the day before yesterday!
Looking at the excited, indifferent, or relieved eyes of everyone around him.
James felt very heavy and sad...
However, as long as Yes can die, everything is worth it!
James clenched his fists tightly.
"Yes, LeBron just admitted in the locker room that he is an undercover agent, the one who is not an MVP champion, the one who defended Durant into an enhanced version of McGrady!"
Huh? !
Wang Han was very excited, but Yes frowned.
James finally let it go completely.
The game is going to be difficult...