39. King of rebounds
Chamberlain, who seemed to possess the crazy god, ruled the third quarter, but it was not the offensive end. On the offensive end, he mainly relied on dunks, but his consciousness was very good. Old Nelson asked him to organize in the inside, and he could always use his broad vision to hand the ball to the people in the open.
After the tactic failed, Van Gundy could only send Howard on the field again in anger, so the two ends met again. In order to limit Chamberlain, he also sent Howard his assistant and bodyguard, Adona Foyer.
Among Chinese fans, Foyer is not very famous, but for the Warriors, this person has special significance, especially in this game. Because at the beginning of this season, Foyer was abandoned by the team.
Fowyer, nicknamed "Uncle Fu", is a classmate of Duncan. He was also selected in the 1997 draft and ranked very high. He was selected by the Golden State Warriors in the first round, and then played for the team for ten years. However, due to the large contract and the Warriors' fast offensive and defensive system, he was bought out by the Warriors this summer and then joined the Orlando Magic.
Adona Foyer's NBA career is definitely not a big shot, but it is also remarkable. Although he is just a coolie center on the court, he has always been very leader off the court. After the Magic signed him, he directly asked him to be the team's locker room leader. This man has a pair of steel and iron bones and has extremely strong defense, but due to his age, he moves very slowly.
In fact, if possible, Old Nelson really doesn't want to give up Uncle Fu. This veteran has been healthy. He played 82 games last season and his performance is not very good. He has 9.4 minutes per game to contribute 1.9 points and 2.5 rebounds, and his best blocks can only be 0.6. But watching Uncle Fu run hard and defend hard in every game, and occasionally one or two tomahawk-like dunks, Old Nelson really can't complain about him.
But the alliance is a business. Although Old Nelson has a strong voice in the Warriors, he is not the final word for everything. After all, Mulin is the general manager.
For Mr. Fu, the Warriors players have a different feeling. When Foyer and Richardson left in the summer, Jackson and others still can't let go of the team. If it weren't for Chamberlain who was very tempted to them, they would definitely cause some trouble in the team.
In the fourth quarter, Foyer made a debut, and the score was 88:90. In the third quarter, the Warriors scored a 10-point difference, which was already extremely incredible.
Seeing that Fuyer, Jackson and others were in the enemy camp, they still went up to say hello enthusiastically: "Mr. Fu, happy birthday, I'm sorry that I couldn't give you a birthday gift."
Not long ago, Foyer had just finished his 33rd birthday. The veteran had a vague plan to retire. His main task in the Magic is not to play on the court, but to be Howard's sparring and locker room leader.
Fower laughed heroically, and he patted Jackson on the shoulder and said, "Seeing that you bastards can still jump or jump, it is the best gift for me!"
Before the game started, Jackson introduced Foyer and Chamberlain. Chamberlain was also curious about this veteran, because compared to other players in the league, Foyer is somewhat legendary. Unlike most NBA players who either gambling or pick up girls in their spare time, Foyer likes to write poetry in his spare time, is a political activist, and writes book reviews for the famous magazine "HOOP-Magazine".
He established a "Democracy Society" in 2001, a non-partisan student organization dedicated to eliminating the indifference of political and ideological in American universities. He is more pro-China and believes that the United States and China, the two world powers, should have a closer relationship and jointly shoulder the responsibility of leading the world forward.
In 2005, Foyer established the Kerosene Lamp Foundation, dedicated to serving the poor children,
There are rumors that Foyle may be selected for the World Sports Humanitarian Honor List. Before him, there were only 8 NBA players selected, which is amazing.
Both sides greeted him, and the game started again. The ball belonged to the Warriors. Ellis, who returned again, formed the Warriors' outside line. The latter had excellent long-range shot ability. At the beginning, he received an assist from Jackson to hit a long shot at the bottom corner three-point line.
Nelson Jr. was a little anxious. Seeing that his teammates had no good chance, he forced his beating Belinelli to jump shot from the left wing serving area.
The basketball flew out again and again. Howard, Foyer and Chamberlain gathered in the inside to fight. Foyer was experienced and did not fight for rebounds, but stuck Jackson and pushed Chamberlain with his arm, destroying his best time to jump and let Howard grab the frontcourt rebound.
After successfully getting the ball, Howard didn't recognize the situation in front of him, grabbed the ball and then jumped up and made a dunk.
Now that Foyer was powerless and no one was disturbed, Chamberlain finally had a good chance to jump. He faced Howard. The latter jumped and shouted angrily, then flew up. Facing the ball that the monster grabbed between their hands, his right hand was five fingers and pressed it fiercely on the basketball, and he slapped the ball away from the monster's hands!
"Bang!" With a loud bang, Howard grabbed the ring with both hands, but unfortunately the ball was covered, otherwise he could have performed a violent heavy slap with both hands.
Compared to Mr. Fu, who was slow to move, Jackson was much faster. He reached out and grabbed the ball into his arms, found Ellis and threw it on.
Ellis dribbled the ball and rushed to the frontcourt. The Magic's defense was fast enough. When he saw that there was no chance, he could only stop. Everyone thought he wanted to organize the offense, including Brian Cook, who was defending him, relaxed his defense. Seeing this, Ellis shortened and entered the penalty area of the frontcourt like a fish. He easily made a throw and hit the board and scored two points.
In this way, the Warriors widened the score difference.
In fact, it makes sense for the Warriors to give up Uncle Fu. Van Gundy replaced Uncle Fu in order to help Howard block Chamberlain and pinch his performance on both offense and defense. However, Uncle Fu's appearance slowed down the team's rhythm, and Nelson Jr. is a guy who cannot control the rhythm. Such magic attacks are fast and slow, and the rhythm is messy.
The Warriors are still as fast as ever, with three-pointers, emergency stop jump shots, alley relays, fast break dunks. The team created by Old Nelson can always play efficient games in the fourth quarter, and this game is no exception.
Entering the last ten minutes of the finals, the Warriors became more and more crazy. Jackson was not ruthless in the face of his big brother Foyer, and gave him a big hat while the latter turned around and jumped. The Warriors broke out again, and Barnes made a layup and caused Howard to foul, making two free throws.
Barnes missed the second free throw, Chamberlain grabbed the offensive rebound, knocked Howard away, and made a two-hand dunk in front of him.
The Warriors scored an 8-0 offensive climax at the beginning. The Magic players were anxious, and the more anxious they became, the more chaotic they became. Nelson Jr. began to act recklessly. He forced Belinelli. Barnes seized the opportunity to double-team him and successfully steal him. The Warriors successfully attacked the ring again, forcing Van Gundy to call a timeout.
After the timeout, Howard implemented Van Gundy's tactics and asked his teammates to pull himself away to play Chamberlain in the inside. He took a sluggish step, turned around and walked around Chamberlain, cut into the penalty area and shot it with a fake shot. He tricked Chamberlain, who was chasing, raised his hand and planned to play the board at the basket. As a result, Chamberlain pulled him down simply.
"My free throw is bad, I don't believe you can get better." Chamberlain smiled proudly, "By the way, I only have four fouls now, and there are two more chances, which means I can pull you twice more!"
Howard stood on the free throw line with a dark face, without any suspense, and both of his balls were lost.
Chamberlain received a rebound again, looked at Howard jokingly and said, "Mr. Rebounding King, I have won 20 rebounds now, where are you?"
Before the start of this season, Howard made a bold statement in front of the media, saying that he was the rebounding champion and the best defensive player this season. However, he has performed well so far since the start of the game. He has scored 15 and 17 rebounds in the first two games respectively, and there are also many games. There are 14 so far, but it is far worse than Chamberlain.
The two of them would like to thank the two teams for their previous bad shooting tactics, allowing them to grab so many rebounds.
Ellis made another mid-range shot. The Magic's defensive inaction in the first half of today made him feel. Once this scoring machine has a feel, it will be terrible. At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Ellis did not miss a single shot, but he still hit this time.
In the subsequent attack, Lewis finally gave the Magic a shot. He made a jump shot from a long distance within the three-point line. This score stimulated the Magic players. They saw hope of chasing points and attacked again. Jackson missed the hook at the basket, Howard grabbed the rebound, Magic fast break, Nelson Jr. made a three-step layup and scored two points.
However, their good luck ended here. Looking back, Ellis broke through and passed the ball to Chamberlain, assisting the latter with a one-handed dunk. After that, the Magic were eager to chase the points, but the more they played, they became more and more messy, and two mistakes made one after another, destroying the team's victory with his own hands.
At the end of the game, the Warriors defeated their opponents away with 122:105. Howard's face was gloomy. Of course, the team's three-game losing streak was not good, but he didn't show off. After the game, he hugged Chamberlain and said in his ear: "Rookie, see you next game, I will deal with you in Oakland!"
Chamberlain laughed and said, "I got 22 rebounds and 15 points, what about you?"
Howard looked ugly, muttered "shit" and turned around. He only scored 12 points and 16 rebounds in this game, both lower than Chamberlain. What's worse was that Chamberlain cut six blocks, one of which was face-to-face to cover him, and he had only three blocks.
Judging from the data, the No. 1 pick of a genius Howard lost to Chamberlain, which made Orlando fans unacceptable.
The highest rebounder today was of course Chamberlain, and Ellis scored the most. He made 17 of 32 shots and scored 42 points with a high shooting percentage of more than 50%, breaking his scoring record. As soon as the game ended, the people of the Warriors screamed and asked him to treat him.
Ellis looked proud, as if he had become Kobe. He kept promising to eat, drink, and go to the bar to pick up girls, saying that he must make his teammates happy.
Chamberlain was surrounded by reporters under the court, and one reporter asked: "Why can you get so many rebounds? Can you share it with us?"
Chamberlain said affectionately: "I want to thank my teammates and my opponent here..."
Then, as all the players were looking forward to him, he changed his tone and said: "Thanks to their shit-like shooting, which produced so many rebounds, which gave me the opportunity to enter the rebounding king."
Chapter completed!