During halftime, the Rockets players asked Zhang Zhiyuan what was wrong one by one.
Zhang Zhiyuan continued to remain calm and silent, which once made everyone in the Rockets panic.
Finally, after having enough trouble, Zhang Zhiyuan grinned and asked everyone if he pretended to be cool and if he could go to Hollywood and win an Oscar.
"..."
Rockets generals.
After a short rest, the second half of the game started.
Zhang Zhiyuan continued to maintain the image of facial paralysis, and the Spurs players were inexplicably panicked when they saw this.
Their fear is not unreasonable.
As soon as Zhang Zhiyuan came on the court, he ran around, caught the ball, made a breakthrough jumper, and hit the ball.
45 to 67, Spurs vs Zhang Zhiyuan 45 to 42.
After the hit, Zhang Zhiyuan returned to defense without saying a word.
The Spurs players felt an invisible sense of oppression.
The Spurs attacked, and Parker carefully controlled the ball and advanced. When he saw that Zhang Zhiyuan did not come to press him, he was slightly relieved.
Then he carefully organized on the outside and passed the ball to Duncan.
Zhang Zhiyuan ran to help double-team, Duncan passed the ball to Ginobili, and Zhang Zhiyuan ran back to block Ginobili's breakthrough.
In desperation, Ginobili could only shoot a long two-pointer.
The ball didn't go in.
The offense and defense switched, and Zhang Zhiyuan was severely guarded.
But he was fearless and still took action forcefully.
Although they missed, it was not a big problem and the Rockets were still far ahead.
After successfully defending the next round, the Spurs launched an attack non-stop.
It's a pity that Zhang Zhiyuan showed unusual enthusiasm on the defensive end, and spared no effort to double-team his teammates to help defend and supplement defense.
For a time, the Spurs didn't have any good shooting opportunities.
In the end, Finley reluctantly took the shot and missed the ball.
During the transition between offense and defense, Zhang Zhiyuan broke through with the ball and was surrounded by three people.
I saw him score the ball and throw it back to Alston. Alston quickly passed it to Yao Ming, and Yao Ming scored from the basket.
Zhang Zhiyuan did not get any statistics on this goal, but his role cannot be ignored and even played a key role.
It was he who disrupted the Spurs' defense and made the Spurs disorganized.
After making a great contribution, Zhang Zhiyuan returned to defense expressionlessly.
The Spurs attacked, Zhang Zhiyuan ran to help defend the inside, Duncan passed the ball to the outside, Zhang Zhiyuan had no time to return to defense, and Ginobili missed a three-pointer and hit it.
This was Zhang Zhiyuan's mistake.
But Zhang Zhiyuan's face remained expressionless, without a trace of annoyance, as if he had not lost three points.
During the transition between offense and defense, Zhang Zhiyuan took a shot two steps away from the three-point line and missed.
The Spurs players stared at Zhang Zhiyuan carefully, trying to see changes in this guy's face.
Unfortunately not.
For some reason, the Spurs players felt a little flustered by this.
The Spurs' offense failed to score, and Zhang Zhiyuan continued to shoot three-pointers.
Got in this time.
48 to 72, the Spurs were already 24 points behind. The Spurs vs. Zhang Zhiyuan was 48 to 45, and the point difference was only 3 points.
Zhang Zhiyuan stopped beeping, the Spurs people were even more in no mood to beep, and the game went on dully.
The Spurs attacked and Duncan threw in two points.
The Rockets counterattacked, but Zhang Zhiyuan chose to pass the ball.
He did not deliberately pursue the achievement of "outperforming the opponent's team in scoring", he just wanted to win.
Battier made a mid-range shot.
Popovich sighed secretly off the court. He thought Zhang Zhiyuan would take more shots and wanted to take advantage of this.
Facts have proved that Zhang Zhiyuan and Kobe are still somewhat different.
The Spurs counterattacked, Ginobili was locked up, and their offense was in trouble.
After going around and around, Parker made a small throw after breaking through, but failed to score.
"The Spurs are already losing this game. Everyone, get ready for the tiebreaker."
Buckley said.
The Spurs are now 24 points behind. What's even more terrible is that the Spurs don't have any explosive players. What's even more terrible is that Zhang Zhiyuan somehow took the wrong medicine and became extremely active on the defensive end.
"Please, Zhang, please talk some trash or make something happen, otherwise I won't even know what to say."
Smith said.
This is also the voice of many fans.
Although Zhang Zhiyuan is cool as he is now, they prefer Zhang Zhiyuan's previous jobs that made people laugh.
"We can only talk about his data, 45 points, Schett, has it become so easy to score now?"
Barkley complained.
In his era, those who could score 30 points in the playoffs were all superstars. The number of 40 points was rare in a year, and it took ten years to reach 50 points.
And now, Zhang Zhiyuan has won 50 twice.
But looking at the Western Conference Finals, Zhang Zhiyuan's data is already better than Jordan's first playoff game.
"If he can maintain this state, he will definitely surpass Jordan in the future."
Smith said.
These words were unbearable to some fans, who could not accept the fact that God had been surpassed.
They suddenly began to turn towards the Spurs, hoping that the Spurs could win and strangle Zhang Zhiyuan in the cradle.
On the court, the game continues.
The two sides went back and forth, the Rockets continued to have the advantage, and the point difference between the two teams was slowly widening.
Not only that, Zhang Zhiyuan's personal score and the Spurs' team score are shrinking.
In the eighth minute, Zhang Zhiyuan hit a three-pointer.
Individual score, 53.
Spurs scored 52.
The score between the two teams was 52 to 83, with the Spurs trailing by 31 points.
Then Popovich called a timeout, replaced all the main players, and gave up the game.
If you continue to fight, you will only be humiliating yourself.
Zhang Zhiyuan was also replaced and clocked out early.
After winning the game early, the main players of the Rockets were all beaming and very happy.
Only Zhang Zhiyuan still looks paralyzed.
Alston and others were also convinced that he could still pretend in such an atmosphere.
The substitutes of the two teams came on to engage in rookie pecking, one after another, which was very ugly.
The fans at the scene directly shouted Zhang Zhiyuan's name and nickname, calling on Van Gundy to replace Zhang Zhiyuan. They wanted to see Zhang Zhiyuan score high points and break records.
It's a pity that Van Gundy did not satisfy them.
"He has completely conquered this arena and this city."
Smith said.
"This offseason is exciting. Which team do you think Zhang will go to next season?"
Buckley asked.
Although the Rockets have not won the championship yet, he believes that Zhang Zhiyuan will definitely stay in the league. The league will never allow a player with unlimited potential to quit casually.
"I don't know, it's definitely not the Spurs anyway."
Smith laughed.
While they were chatting, the game was over.
82 to 106, the Spurs finally lost by 26 points. This is because the main players of the two teams played early, otherwise they may break the record for the largest point difference in the conference finals.
The team didn't break the record, but Zhang Zhiyuan broke his own record.
In the Western Conference Finals players' single-quarter scoring list, he has now occupied the top three.
53,52,50.
Excluding the first two games of the Western Conference Finals, he averaged 46 points per game. Including the first two games, he averaged 36 points per game.
The average points per game in the entire playoffs was only 25.3, and the average was lowered when playing against the Warriors.
At the end of the game, Smith asked Barkley: "Charles, which team do you think can win the tiebreaker now?"
"Rocket."
Buckley changed his mind. Zhang Zhiyuan's outburst shocked him and he no longer dared to question Zhang Zhiyuan.
"But the Spurs have home field advantage."
Smith said.
"Fuck the home field advantage. When you encounter such a perverted opponent, any advantage is bullshit."
Buckley said disdainfully.
Home field advantage only makes sense when the match is evenly matched.
With the gap between the two teams today, even the Spurs with six players may not be able to win.
At the post-game press conference, only Popovich and Duncan attended the Spurs.
Parker and Ginobili both excused themselves by not feeling well.
They lost so miserably that they didn't know how to face reporters' questions and ridicules.
"Greg, before the game started, did you think this would be the outcome?"
the reporter asked.
"Of course not. I'm not bored enough to imagine that the team will lose miserably."
Popovich complained.
"What do you think caused the team's disastrous defeat?"
the reporter asked.
"Because we didn't play well and our opponent played well."
Popovich said nonsense.
"After suffering a disastrous defeat, are you still confident about the next game? Are you worried that Zhang will continue to explode?"
the reporter asked.
"Worry, I will definitely be too worried to sleep tonight."
Popovich seemed to be speaking out of anger, but also seemed to be telling the truth.
It seems reasonable to suffer from insomnia when encountering such an opponent.
"Tim, you were blocked by Zhang many times during the game. That's why. You are obviously much taller than him."
the reporter asked.
"Because there are no rules in the league that don't allow short guys to block big guys."
Duncan said.
The reporters were stunned when they heard this. They didn't expect that Duncan could still be in the mood to joke after losing so miserably.
"Zhang said that the more others despise him, the better he will fight. Do you believe it?"
the reporter asked.
"I can't wait to sew the mouths of Thomson, Maxon and others."
Duncan said.
"Do you still have confidence in the tiebreaker?"
"Everything is possible and I will try my best."
Duncan.
...
After the Spurs, Van Gundy, Zhang Zhiyuan and Yao Ming attended the press conference.
"Zhang, what's wrong with you? Why did you suddenly turn into a poker face?"
the reporter asked curiously.
"This is my strongest form."
Zhang Zhiyuan's face was expressionless and he answered mechanically.
"Really?"
The reporter didn’t quite believe it. This was not an anime, so how could it have a form?
"Of course it's fake."
Zhang Zhiyuan grinned and continued: "How about it, my acting skills are not bad. I'm not bragging to you. If I don't play basketball and enter Hollywood, there will be no Sean Penn (2004 Best Actor) and Jamie Foxx (2005) in the Oscars.
What happened to the best actor of the year) and them?"
"...."
reporter.
Even if they were beaten to death, they never expected that Zhang Zhiyuan would be so bored.
However, considering Zhang Zhiyuan's age, it doesn't seem strange that he has a childlike mind.
"So do you have any plans to make movies in the future?"
a reporter asked.
Fans are tired of always asking basketball questions. If you can ask some gossip about Zhang Zhiyuan, fans may be more interested.
"Of course, I like to play the most."
Zhang Zhiyuan said.
"Which actress would you most like to partner with?"
Reporters continue to look for trouble and create scandals.
"Anne Hathaway, Scarlett Johansson, etc., too many to count."
Zhang Zhiyuan said.
"Where's Nina Dobrev?"
the reporter asked.
"who?"
Zhang Zhiyuan has no impression of this name.
"The one who just kissed you on the court."
the reporter said.
"She is also an actress?"
Zhang Zhiyuan.
"Zhang, are you confident that you can win the tiebreaker?"
A reporter couldn't stand it any longer and interrupted with a question about basketball.
"You're so boring."
Zhang Zhiyuan complained that he had said a hundred times that he could win the championship, but a group of idiots asked him every day whether he was confident.
Everyone laughed when they heard this.
A basketball press conference eventually turned into a gossip session with Zhang Zhiyuan.
This relaxed mentality of not taking the tiebreaker seriously actually indirectly told the media that he was full of confidence in the tiebreaker.
After the game, Thomson, Maxon, Jimmy and others fired up.
Rockets fans @ them one after another, or leave messages of thanks on their accounts.
Said that without their contempt, Zhang Zhiyuan would not have been able to explode into his strongest form.
This kind of ridicule caused them to lose face and authority.
Before the game, they kept saying that the Spurs would definitely win, but they never expected that the Spurs would not only lose, but lose so miserably.
Their analysis has become a huge joke.
Their professionalism has also been ruthlessly ridiculed.
Not only that, they also severely offended Spurs fans.
In desperation, Thomson and Maxon changed their words one after another, saying that they had been wrong for a while, and expressed their optimism that the Rockets would advance.
Then Zhang Zhiyuan@them.
[No, please don’t milk me, it’s poisonous.]
Other Rockets fans followed suit, begging them not to give up.
Not to be outdone, Spurs fans warned them not to support the Spurs again.
For a time, Thomson and Maxon's poisonous milk became a joke.
After two days of rest, on May 31, the Rockets and Spurs played a tiebreaker in San Antonio.
Before the game started, everyone from the Cavaliers gathered together to watch the live broadcast.
James said nothing and seemed to be in a bad mood.
He is worried.
Whether it's the Spurs or the Rockets, he feels like the Cavaliers are no match.
He also said before that he hoped to join Zhang Zhiyuan in the finals, but after the Rockets and Spurs played G6, he did not make similar remarks again.
It feels terrible to invite Zhang Zhiyuan to join us in the finals, and then get beaten up by the Rockets.
