The 2004 eastern final was called Dead Marshes. The two deadly teams of the piston and the Pacers played the game with less than 150 points, which tortured the audience to death. However, you should not think that only the audience are uncomfortable, and the players playing on the court are also disgusted by themselves. Tinsley even joked with the father of basketball: “Naismith, if we play basketball like this, we have to lift the coffin.”
In this environment, the sixth game is especially important. Just looking at the data, this is not like a Division final at all. It may be like some junior high school students’ competitions or other Amateurish League. The two teams added up to 75 votes in the first half, with a total of 60 points, both of which set the lowest record in the history of the playoffs.
The excessive consumption of the series makes the players not necessarily have a 100% hit rate in the last empty basket-besides, these two teams will not let you have such an opportunity.
Iron War
There are still three and a half minutes in the third quarter, and the two teams are still half dead. The score is just like the one section and a half of the current game, 46-38, with the Pacers leading. As usual, the tone of this game will be set slowly, and the series seems to have to win and lose by grabbing seven at the home court of Pacers.
But Hamilton didn’t think so. In this slow seesaw battle full of oppression, he slowly woke up.
Hamilton made two goals in the foul penalty, Hamilton suddenly scored Williamson jump shot, Hamilton’s signature 18-foot shot… Yes!
In this interlaced game, Richard Hamilton scored 4 points and 2 assists, and a wave of 8-1 chased the score to only 1 point.
This reminded the walkers of some bad memories. At home two days ago, it was the mask man who scored 12 points at the end of the second quarter and the beginning of the third quarter, breaking the balance situation. After that, the pacers never caught up with the piston again.
King of middle distance
Run away, cast…
Looking at the statistics of Hamilton’s 8 shots in Miller’s face, Carlisle said that everything would change. No, he switched to Metta World Peace to defend Hamilton, focusing on strangling the culprit who played their dirty faces.
Fight-like confrontation
But at the end of the third quarter, it seems that there is something wrong with it.
Indeed, at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Hamilton showed his strength as a weapon. A weight of 185 pounds (83 kilograms) means that he suffers less self-consumption than Metta World Peace when he travels through the shuttle, and he gradually gains the upper hand of this opponent, at the same time, it also led Billups in the previous 8 shots 0.
Physical advantage reflects
In the last five minutes, the two teams with 59 square meters entered the final competition, and just at this time, the irrationality of Metta World Peace made the Pacers fold for a while first. He was hit in the abdomen by hamilton during the process of defending hamilton’s ball-free running-the referee did not say.
Ordinary players will settle accounts after autumn when they want revenge, at least in the next round, but this is obviously not the style of Metta World Peace. Seeing the next confrontation, he greeted pig’s feet to Hamilton’s face.
Bang! Hamilton crashed and blood splashed on the spot.
Toot! Walker No. 23 committed a malicious foul, and the piston received two penalties and one throw.
Metta World Peace unhappy
This malicious foul became the turning point of the game. Among Hamilton’s two penalties, Rashid Wallace succeeded. While the piston took the first lead in the game, it immediately opened to 4 points.
This shock also aroused Hamilton’s killer instinct. He understood that the best response was not in private but on the court. The more this time, the more angry he was.
After the piston failed three times in a row, Hamilton grabbed the Walker’s throat with one shot. He used his best cover to slip the bottom line, then receive the ball turned into the back and threw away the Metta World Peace, and immediately stopped shooting. Under this defensive strength, the 4-point difference at 1 minute 15 seconds is almost a point difference that makes people breathless.
Miller benzun couldn’t resist Hamilton, and he also ate turtle Metta World Peace. What about Kobe, the top stalker in the league in the finals?
In the finals, Hamilton’s 40% hit rate of 21+5+4+4.6 mistakes seemed not so good, but actually it was Hamilton’s crazy running that almost dragged Kobe’s physical strength down, in another way, Kobe was “protected” and the long arm of Prince made Peter Pan suffer from the enemy.
Although Hamilton didn’t throw in, Kobe almost threw up after him.
Here we can mention Hamilton’s role in the team. Many people think that he is just a Terminator in the defensive team of the piston, which is actually far more than that. For the piston who attaches importance to hand-to-hand combat, Hamilton in running is the one who makes movement. It is because of his endless off the ball that the defense line and the arrangement of relieve a garrison of the other side are all disrupted to make the situation alive (many years later, the library will completely enlarge this effect, it becomes “Library has Gravity”).
The piston is indeed the style of “defending and defending, attacking and watching”, but like this team-type team, if there is no chance to move and interspersed to create more parts and play less, then the lack of personal ability at each point will appear instantly. Just like a lake of clear water, there is no flow, no waves. It seems that the wind is calm, but over time it is a dead water. Hamilton in running is the stone that triggers ripples. Since then, the clear water of this lake has fluctuated, thus accumulating small flows, BE TOLERANT TO DIVERSITY, forming rivers and seas, and running water does not rot.
1-4 pull-away tactics, few people have played like this now
It can be seen afterwards that Hamilton is generally the most stable one in the journey of the Eastern finals of the piston these years. Billups would face Hughes and snow to eat, Prince would encounter James being watched to death, Rashid would be made by the Cavaliers and referees impetuous refused to shoot, only Hamilton could see the efficiency. The only special round is to encounter the great God Bowen who has no balls.
In fact, it is the relatively stable attack point of the piston.
Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that it is Hamilton who is running that has injected vitality into the attacking end. Only when Detroit’s Iron-Blooded Legion is able to find a chance to survive the opponent. The picture of the Gap saw the gap saw the gap saw the gap saw the gap pin, and finally won the championship.
Kobe said frankly: “He is the last person I want to defend against in my life. He will always be running. You have no idea what he will do next second. If you don’t want to be dragged down, don’t run with him. But if so, you will be scolded to death by the coach.”
However, Hamilton’s empty dialogue dropped everyone by glasses: “I won the championship of NCAA and NBA at the same time, and Kobe will never get it!”
Few people know that Hamilton under the mask is such a crazy side.
On Valentine’s Day in 1978, Richard Hamilton was born in cotsville, Pennsylvania. Unlike most black stars, his family was complete. His father was a long-distance runner and his mother was a sprinter, this shows his advantages in sports: no matter you are engaged in any sports, you will never be wrong if you have the DNA of running blocks and good physical strength. Compared with his mother’s explosive power, Hamilton may inherit more endurance talent from his father Richard (father and son have the same name), and also inherit the nickname of his father rip.
Even though the gene was excellent, Hamilton never lowered his demands on himself. The rusty basketball hoop, incomplete backboard and iron chain woven basketable nets next to his community could prove it to him. When talking about my childhood, Hamilton said, “my childhood idol was Reggie Miller. Not because he is the strongest, but because he runs the most frequently.”
Excellent genes, suitable templates and hard training make Richard Hamilton very famous in the local area. After the guidance of the Hicks coach, his physical fitness and running have been cultivated to the extreme of his peers. Hamilton had no reason not to believe that he was the best basketball player among his local peers-in fact, there would be no difference until Kobe Bryant appeared.
1996 McDonald’s All-Star, and Kobe (and Stephen Jackson, Little O’Neal, Tim Thomas, etc.)
In the autumn of 1992, Kobe moved to admoore, Pennsylvania, and slowly ruled the high school students in this area. Before long, the news reached cotsville, 50 kilometers away, and entered Hamilton’s ears. “I have always heard that he is the strongest in the local area, but we really didn’t see each other before 1994,” Bryant said.
More coincidentally, the two met for the first time not as opposites, but as teammates. In the summer vacation of 1994, coach Lions held a 3V3 tournament in Pennsylvania. Hamilton and Kobe met for the first time to form a team and became roommates. These two teams, of course, there is no suspense in the outcome of the match.
Kobe recalled: “It was so fun at that time that we all enjoyed our time together. Richard and I beat each other up every time.” Hamilton gave him a praise: “We kept talking about the competition in the hotel. I will always tell Kobe that I will come to the training for one-on-one, or I will have no chance to cure you. Then we sprayed each other all the way, ‘You must not beat me ‘.”
So who is strong?
Kobe and Hamilton in high school
The coaches of both sides also want to know. In February, 95, under the influence of the two, there was a friendly match between the Raul merrine High School where Kobe was and the cotsville High School in Hamilton. The match did not disappoint anyone present, from the two teams to overtime, cotsville was 2 points ahead and had the chance to kill the match-but they didn’t catch it. It’s Raul Merrion’s turn. Kobe met the two men and threw a 40-foot shot to kill the opponent. His score also exceeded Hamilton by 35-32.
Fight again a month later, in the semi-final of the high school division, raul merrine 72-65 cotsville, kobe 26-22 hamilton; Fight again a year later, three minutes later, cotsville was 6 points ahead, and then kobe turned over… Equal to three high school competitions, Hamilton was defeated by Kobe.
Even so, Hamilton has never slacked off and polished his skills all the time. He has always had a mentality of pursuing and challenging Kobe, but from acquaintance to acquaintance, all he could experience was the gap between Kobe and Kobe. Even when he led Connecticut to the NCAA championship and got MOP in 99, his opponent did not have Kobe-he went to play professional three years ago. Peter Pan chose a completely different path and has entered the NBA and won the championship after the Hamilton rookie.
1999NCAA knockout game Hamilton field 20 +
After experiencing Kobe’s cover, it was Jordan’s nest that waited for Hamilton. Hamilton has grown into a scorer with an average of 18 points for two seasons in his career, and he unexpectedly welcomed a super teammate, 38-year-old Michael Jordan.
It is the dream of every Jordan fan to train and fight side by side with Jordan. However, it can be said that distance produces beauty. Jordan in the eyes of idols and jordan in the eyes of teammates are completely different species. Especially the wizard Jordan.
A year ago, Hamilton called working with Jordan “the greatest experience in history” and talked about the ball-Free Skills and various movements he promoted when he was a teammate with Jordan. To be fair, that’s right. Jordan is indeed a good teacher, and Hamilton has been whispering about this for two or ten years.
Jordan, Hamilton
But he did tell some stories.
When Hamilton flatted Michael and hoped to get the spokesman of Jordan Team, Michael said: my Team never calls non-All-Star players-with the formula of “The God of basketball rubbish = urging teammates to make progress”, this thing is completely Hamilton’s weakness is original sin.
What about Hamilton?
Hamilton was beaten violently by Alan Houston at the beginning of his career. He finally found a match in which his hands were hot in the first half and he cut 27 points. He planned to make persistent efforts to complain in the second half. At the end of the midfield, Jordan told him: Good job, boy, you have a great first half. In the second half, you can rest assured to give it to brother!
Everyone will grow old, and GOAT is no exception. As the season went on, the state of player Jordan and the team’s Wizards inevitably declined, making President Jordan restless. There was always someone who had to bear the responsibility of “The team of the God of basketball did not enter the playoffs”. So on the first anniversary of “911”, Hamilton was thrown to the piston in exchange for North Carolina junior brother Stackhouse.
The reason is: rip defense is not good.
Indeed, hamilton’s defense was not so strong at that time, but how many elements of the deal were due to his defense, not to mention the reasons why joe kicked people were always varied. For example, he wanted to play casually with his players before his comeback, but he was shot by the water dispenser players. You said that this young man named proffet, if you Yan shot Mr. Qiao, you still spit rubbish words with others; If you spit rubbish words, you just forget it, you also said “you can’t let this old knee defend me”. It is not natural to lose your job.
In the face of the deal, Hamilton didn’t recover for a while, because Jordan also told Hamilton that he would be the cornerstone of team building before he planned to return. Hamilton later said only two words about this matter, and became the only person who dared to speak out to Jordan in those two years: A. Jordan is spoiled and does not know what a team is; B. He is your teammate, yes, but don’t forget, he is still your boss.
This was Hamilton’s only crazy talk before putting on the mask. After wearing the mask, the story became normalized. Do you think Hamilton is an honest man? That’s a big mistake. Hamilton is not only deceptive in his position.
The mask made people remember him and blurred him.
Before 2004, Hamilton was not a facetted man-pillar force. At first, he didn’t wear a mask to be cool or anything, just because his nose had been broken three times. The doctor said, “you must wear a mask if you want to play a game, during the recovery period, every cartilage will be repaired if it is broken again.” He had to do it. After winning the championship, Hamilton felt that the mask could bring luck to himself and kept carrying it.
The mask became his symbol.
Slowly, the mask became Hamilton’s unique label. Dr. Jerry McHale, the father of the sports mask, specially designed his personal limit. “I like masks,” Hamilton said, “it almost became a part of my body. For those who don’t often watch the game, it will be easier for them to remember me because the mask is really conspicuous.”
That covered Hamilton’s original face.
Personal limit
Masks always give people a mysterious, cold and rational feeling, which is always a little vague, just like glass windows after rain, separated by a layer of fog. But it has to be said that this person may have been launched through mode of play. Hamilton’s game style is reasonable. Diligent running, solid basic skills and stable performance have always been his labels. In that series of East decisive journey, he can get 20 points in 28 of 35 games, which is hard evidence.
However, Hamilton is definitely not a “Dok Bua Kao”. Compared with other traditional sub-guards, he may be the one with the most explosive temper.
Do you know when the Auburn mountain palace incident began to change its flavor? It was from his elbow to tingsley that the referee did not act (then Big Ben turned over the opponent of empty cut).
Hamilton elbow tingsley
In the subsequent chaos, rip did not play a good role, and some brain fever operations showed all the sharpness on him. From 2007 to Hamilton’s retirement, he suffered 66 technical fouls, which may be second only to some major technical fouls. Walkers are famous, and his idol Reggie Miller commented like this: “He is like a little Miller, with many skills like mine, including pulling and pulling on defense and little tricks.”
Another Miller (Andre) also complained publicly that Hamilton liked to have long nails on purpose. Every time he confronted Hamilton, his body would be covered with blood marks by his nails.
Has been challenging Saint of war
So, what kind of person is Hamilton under the mask?
We may never know.
His main scoring method is indeed no ball and shooting, but his ability of waiting for the ball in the same place is not outstanding. What he prefers is the quick shot running and the point shot after moving one step;
Run around eight characters and add a little ball to attack
He claimed to be a shooter, but the average number of three points in the game was the highest, but it was his free throw. In the years when the piston peaked, he could be fined less than 5 in the regular season, you can get less than six penalties per game in the playoffs.
Maybe we should call him to break up?
Brush 8 free throws at half time
A few years later, Hamilton met Jordan’s condition that “all-star can only wear my shoes” at that time through hard work, and Jordan also let him wear AJ. At this time, Hamilton completely lost his complaints, because he knew that he would not have won the championship if Jordan had not traded to Detroit and met a group of teammates who were tightly matched with him, there will be no later status.
But the only thing we can confirm is that Hamilton is a person who knows what he wants to do.
Think about it, the general young people and Jordan’s team must want Jordan to teach some backward jump shots and break through the buckles, while what Hamilton learned is really useful to the team, skills that form fetters with one’s own talent.
As for his talent? Legend has it that walking a dog can really become a man who “walks a dog” and spits a dog.
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