Chapter 98 The Rocket that Always Disappoints
When the Bobcats defeated the Cavaliers 4-1, three games of the East and West eight playoff series had ended.
In addition to the Bobcats, the Celtics and the Lakers swept their opponents.
Immediately afterwards, the Raptors were also fucked by the Magic in the total score of 4 to 1.
In order of order, the 76ers, the Nuggets, Cavaliers and Raptors were eliminated one after another.
But the really interesting thing is that since the Heat who has not entered the playoffs, to the Nuggets, Cavaliers, Raptors, and the four representatives of the 203 Platinum generation, Wade, Melon, Lebang and Bosh, they have all been eliminated.
“03 Platinum Generation? 03 disappointing generation!”
No Brick reporter mentioned this, and Li Ke noticed this because the Raptors and the Nuggets were more or less related to the Bobcats.
Even though he got Okafor from the Bobcats trade, the Raptors still hadn't been able to do magic. Of course, this is not surprising. Just think of the magic games Okafor played against the Bobcats. They can't stop the rampage of the monsters. He is no different from those ordinary centers.
The same is true for the Nuggets. The four-sided deal replaced Lao Ai with Ate, saving the defense, but still failed to save their playoffs.
The four games with the Lakers were very intense. With Ate, they had very limited restrictions on Kobe, but the problem was that they could not handle their sister-in-law.
Sister-in-law, who averaged 24.5 points, 9 rebounds, 5.5 assists and 2.8 blocks in four games, dominated the penalty area composed of Kenyon Martin, Camby and Nene.
In these two games, plus a Lebang who was defeated by himself, Li Ke clearly realized that this year's playoffs, the 203 Platinum Generation is over.
Apart from Li Ke, only the 03 generation itself is able to realize this.
Guagua, who lost the game first, called Wade, who had already started vacationing. Then the news came that the Cavaliers were killed by the Bobcats. Guagua called another phone call and contacted Lebang, saying something like "You should go on vacation as early as possible."
But he was right, because there was an Olympic Games in August, and the four of James and Guapo didn't have much time to spend on vacation.
As a result, Lebang rejected Guagua: "Vacation? Merlot, I was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs. Can you continue to do this?"
"But the season is over, what else can you do without vacationing?"
"train!"
Wei Gua and the other cursed Lebang to show off, but shouted: "This pussy can't be made alone."
With the last out Bosh appeared in Houston at the same time.
"I really didn't expect that we would get together after just one round of the playoffs."
"No, to be precise, the round has not been finished."
"This season is a failure."
What further stimulated the four players was the first round of the playoffs where the winners and losses were successively decided.
The Hornets killed the Mavericks, and Chris released a Facebook post to show them celebrating the victory.
"Cp3 guy has entered the second round..."
"I declare that he is no longer our good brother."
"From the beginning, he was not. He was our younger brother. Don't forget that he was from 2005, and we were from 2003."
"Wait, we were all from 2003? All the so-called Platinum Generation's first round of the playoffs were eliminated!"
"Fortunately, no media found this, otherwise we would be ridiculed by the crowd."
The Spurs also defeated the Suns 4-1. Although the Running Team did not exchange for an old shark's slut, selling Sean Marion to a Jason Richardson was also a weakening for the Suns.
Of course, the biggest weakness was to send Cott Thomas away to save money at the beginning of the season.
In the playoffs last season, Cott Thomas could still slightly limit Duncan. This season, Sir could only watch Duncan, who was showing off his hands innocently.
The last first round of the playoffs in the East was the Pistons vs. Wizards. The two teams played in the sixth game. In the end, the Pistons defeated the Wizards with a total score of 4-2.
The second round of the Eastern Conference matchup was all released, with Bobcats vs Celtics, Pistons vs Magic, in the words of Bill Simmons: "The intensity of the Eastern Conference playoffs has finally kept up."
Yes, yes, the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs are almost one-sided and unsurprisingly abused.
But in the second round, it is really hard to say who wins and loses in this game.
The final first round of the playoffs in the West was the Rockets vs. Jazz.
What is slightly different from history is that Yao Yao played in this playoffs.
But whether Yao Yao or not does not affect the Rockets' disappointment.
It's exactly the same as history. As soon as the series started, the Rockets lost two home games first. They had a difficult away game and narrowly won one game, and then gave another game immediately.
In the four games, they were directly beaten 1-3. In this playoffs, even the hard-core Rockets fans couldn't stand it anymore.
The fifth battle returned to Zhang, and the desperate situation won the battle, and the sixth battle collapsed directly.
With a total score of 2-4, the Rockets have once again played the first round.
...
Charlotte, Li Ke just received the notice—
"Sheldon, be prepared. Before the second round of the playoffs starts, the league will present you with the best rookie trophy and the team will hold a press conference for you."
Li Ke's first reaction was whether this trophy was still double.
"Like the All-Star Rookie Tournament, two trophies?"
The press officer who notified Li Ke nodded: "That's right, you one, kd one."
"I'll know it when I step on the horse!"
Although on the surface, Li Ke was a little dissatisfied with this result, and he would feel unhappy when sharing the honor again and again.
But weighing the pros and cons, Li Ke knew that he would benefit from such a result in the future, and now he would not suffer any losses.
Obviously, the league has been playing tricks on the matter of Best Rookie.
They followed Li Ke and Xiao Du's idea of winning the NCAA semi-finals MOP together. When they arrived at NBA, they continued to closely connect Li Ke and Xiao Du, two good friends from college.
From sharing the MVP trophy of the All-Star Weekend, to the two of them almost won the Rookie of the Month this season, to sharing the honor of Best Rookie now.
And the statistics performance of the rookie season that is not much different.
The rookie season between Li Ke and Xiao Du can almost be said to be a mirror copy of the east and west. It cannot be said to be exactly the same, it can only be said to be no different.
Therefore, it is inevitable that whenever Xiao Du is mentioned in the future, people will think of Li Ke. When Li Ke is mentioned, they will also think of Xiao Du.
He and Xiao Du will become a pair of very classic opponents, a bit like Big Bird and Magician, and in some ways, they are even more legendary than Big Bird and Magician.
If Lebang is the next Jordan designated by David Stern, then Li Ke and Xiao Du are the next Big Bird and Magician respectively, and the corresponding support will naturally not be less.
If you think about it carefully, when Xiao Du in his previous life got the nickname of King Jin Lun's Punishment, it was still David Stern when he was in office, and it was not Adam Xiao Hua's slutty operation.
This also reflects from the side that Xiao Du is actually popular.
Li Ke has become a very classic opponent of Xiao Du, and of course he will be praised.
"The ball has to be put on the agenda!"
If you want to be promoted by the league, the prerequisite is your ball holding and your breakthrough!
Therefore, Li Ke, who still has no ball attacking so far, is not even qualified to be popular. It is urgent to improve his ball attacking ability. On the other hand, this thing is unhurried.
Because of the worry, Lao Ai's friendship cannot be allowed, Guagua's hostility value immediately exceeded 80.
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Just as Li Ke was about to win the Best Rookie Trophy, David Falke told Li Ke: "The Rockets are out, now you are the only Chinese player in the playoffs."
It seems that David Falke is very happy.
Li Ke shook his head, of course he knew why David Falke was happy.
In the playoffs, the Rockets were getting worse again. No matter how patient the domestic fans were, they could not tolerate the Rockets torture fans like torture kings every year. The little patience that started from Yao Yao's value has been exhausted.
Li Ke's sudden appearance provides this group of domestic fans with another choice.
Especially in the first round of the playoffs, the Bobcats abused the Cavaliers hard, and Li Ke was also defending Lebang had no temper at all. This made domestic fans feel: it turned out that it felt so good to win the playoffs!
The Rockets next door, which disappointed again, just look at them and make people disgusting.
The Rockets are disgusting. Yao Yao must be affected by this and has lost fans wildly. Isn’t it Li Ke who is the one who benefits?
After thinking about it, Li Ke took out his cell phone, opened the SMS box, edited for a while, and sent a text message he had repeatedly considered.
"I have been training. I just saw the news. Brother Yao, come on, I failed this year and I will come back next year."
Although Li Ke’s original intention was to comfort, Yao Yao obviously did not reply to Li Ke’s text message.
In his ears, David Falke also gave Li Ke advice: "Sheldon, I think we should give it a push. This is a good opportunity for you to rule the basketball fan circle across the ocean!"
Li Ke thought for a while and made a decision: "Call Tyron and let the country take action."
To be honest, Li Ke’s approach is a bit dark.
But he has another consideration. He wants to save Yaoyao strictly speaking, only one season of his career is left.
Yao Yao is not the kind of person who can easily believe others. Li Ke advised Yao Yao not to hang himself on the Rockets' crooked tree, but Yao Yao firmly believes that he has bound to the Rockets and is unwilling to leave and dare not leave.
Therefore, verbal comfort and persuasion can no longer prevent Yao from going to destruction.
It would be better to burn the boats: let Yao feel the crisis of being destroyed first.
Think about it, when Li Ke's team relied on better playoff results, he stepped on the domestic fan market and made Yao Yao lose his fans and make himself more fans.
Yao Yao lost countless fans, and the commercial value that Yao's team valued the most has rapidly shrunk. In this case, will Yao Yao still lock the Rockets, the bamboo raft that is about to sink?
No, obviously not!
Chapter completed!