Basketball can be divided into two rules, NBA and FIBA, two worlds,
The NBA can also change from the "giant era" once dominated by centers to the "small ball era" where everyone has one hand and three points per capita and runs all over the field.
But one thing is common in any era and under any rule:
Basketball moves aimed at hurting people will be resisted everywhere.
Last year, Alphabet Brother led the Bucks to lift the championship trophy. However, compared to the previous championships who received long live the mountains and the coming of the nations, he and the bucks received much more sneering than praise and blessings.
Without him, the kick against Irving in the fourth game of the Eastern Conference semifinals completely ruined their passers-by.
Now there is no point in discussing whether that one-legged brother is deliberate, and no one can change the result of that series, let alone deprive them of the championship.
Justice is in the hearts of the people, a team, a superstar, how to win the championship, may be more important than how many championships he can win.
2020-21 should have been the year when Alphabet Brother evolved from a superstar to a league façade and a national idol.
He has a talent rarely found in the entire history of the NBA. Height, speed, strength, and explosiveness are highly integrated.
He is the most perfect player in this small-ball era, as the number five he can complete the infinite dislocation, truly from one to five, from the inside to the outside.
He comes from a Nigerian refugee family in Greece, and his success is the best embodiment of the so-called "American Dream."
He stuck to the Bucks for eight years, and after experiencing growth, failure and doubt, he finally won the ultimate championship by his own struggle.
But that kick changed everything.
Although today's players are popular to "hold the group", it is necessary to win the championship early. But in fact, they know better than anyone that they have reached the top as the boss and joined hands with several other superstars to reach the podium, which is completely different.
Bryant won a triple crown before he was 24 years old, but he was afraid that others would think the championship was won by sharks. So while practicing hard, he seized power, and finally the "ok combination" collapsed, and he won two more championships:
"Now I have one more than Shaq."
LeBron was also not satisfied after winning two crowns in Miami, because the long trip did deeply hurt his hometown of Cleveland. So in 2014, he returned to the Cavaliers, and finally won 73 victories against the Warriors 1-3 two years later:
“Cleveland，This Is For You!”
Durant also knows that his two championships of 2016-17 + fmvp "double yolk eggs" still can't block the mouth of the sunspots, let alone soothe his sensitive heart. So he came to the Brooklyn Nets, where he was the absolute number one, and there was no longer the huge shadow of Curry behind him, nor the dream green shouting in his ear:
"Before you came, we were champions."
Therefore, the 2021 championship is actually far from enough for the alphabet brother and the Bucks.
They need a season of dignity, with impeccable performance and strength, to prove to everyone,
"Without stepping on the foot, we can win the championship."
However, their performance this season is really shaking.
As of Jan. 24, the regular season was 30-19 in the Fourth Place in the East. But this year's NBA is really too chaotic, the First Heat in the East is 30 wins and 17 losses, and the sixth 76ers also have 27 wins and 19 losses, and the top spot has changed almost every day.
Considering that the Bucks' championship center Lopez has only played one game in the new season, the alphabet has also been truncated for 10 games because of the triggering of the epidemic management regulations, and the three major Kongs such as Middleton, Holliday and Portis have missed 35 games in total, it seems excusable to play like this.
But outside of the record, the demeanor they showed was too much in line with the status of the defending champions.
On January 9, Alphabet Brother was in a game against the Hornets, and when he grabbed a rebound, he elbowed the opponent Plumley in the head, and the blood flowed on the spot.
If you still think that this is the same as last season against Irving, it is the Bucks' style of play and the inadvertent mistake of the alphabet brother. Then the recent foul of Grayson Allen on Caruso in the team directly pushed the Bucks and Allen to the cusp.
Grayson Allen, who was already "infamous" before he entered the NBA.
He spent four years at Duke University and was the team captain and number one defensive champion. But his fierce defense and fierce almost brutal moves made him the number one villain in the college basketball world at that time. People thought he had psychological problems at one point, and even thought he didn't deserve to land in the NBA.
The "NCAA's Bruce Bowen" was selected by the Utah Jazz with the 21st pick in 2018 and performed mediocrely. His talent and technical abilities are mediocre at the higher levels, and professional games simply cannot allow his moves that may hurt people.
He was sent to the Grizzlies at the end of his rookie season on a trade for Conley and gradually gained a foothold in the young-man team.
Last season, Allen played 38 of 50 starts and contributed 39.3% from 10.6 points and three-point range, making him a competent 3D in the league.
In the offseason this year, he was traded to defending champion Bucks to replace P.J. Tucker, who left the Heat, and was offered a 2-year, 20-million-dollar contract extension.
Imagine Tucker's "veneer dance" with Durant in the playoffs last year, and you know what role the Bucks want Allen to play in the team this season.
He started 40 games this season and contributed 11.8 points from long-range shooting of 39.1%, which is definitely a good "3D" pacesetter.
But the devil in his heart, which was suppressed by the Jazz and Grizzlies after entering the NBA, was released in the Bucks.
In the 94-90 win over the Bulls on Jan. 22, when he intercepted Caruso in the air, he used a move that was enough in the NBA four decades ago to cause a riot in the whole field, and overturned the Bulls' bench leader.
Because of this heavy injury, Caruso also suffered a direct fracture of his right wrist and was absent for at least 6-8 weeks.
If it's just such a foul, then a procedural apology after the game may soon be forgotten.
After all, it is inevitable that there will be a momentary fever on the sports field, coupled with Aaron's own "previous crime", most people will think that he is just another mistake.
But it is very much the media that captured that after making this wasted Caruso action, Arun actually laughed secretly on the sidelines, and could not hide his pride.
What's even more outrageous is that the Bucks official pushed after Caruso's injury for 6-8 weeks, the first time to use Arun's video to say hello to everyone, angry Bull official pushed below to comment,
"Are you serious about this?"
Before it was over, on January 24, after the NBA official added another suspension to Allen's vicious move, the Bucks officially issued a statement again:
"We disagree with the ban decision. We support Grayson and look forward to his rejoining the team against the Knicks. ”
The attitude is very clear, we play like this, you officially punish it, we don't understand, we don't accept it.
Champions should have the demeanor of champions, not to use winning as an excuse to indulge and shield the bad behavior of players.
But it seems that the Bucks have reaped the sweetness of last year's success, fame? demeanor? Where is the real money of the championship, as long as the final championship is won, who will investigate how they killed one opponent after another after many years?
This summer, they released the fierce P.J. Tucker in favor of the younger and fiercer Grayson Allen, which in itself shows an attitude:
"In order to win in the end, we don't care about reputation at all"
Historically, there have been, but not many, teams that have done anything to win the championship. Naturally, the most famous is the Detroit Pistons of the eighties.
Throughout the 1980s, the Magician and Larry Bird lost seven of those titles, and of the remaining three, one was the 76ers who went hand in hand with "Dr. J." Owen and Moses Malone, and the Detroit "Bad Boy Army" led by the Smiley Assassin Isaiah Thomas in 1989-90.
It was a "True Evil Alliance" that could go straight to the streets and fight.
The sinister assassin who hides the knife in the laughter is the brain and leader of the team,
Rodman, Rick Mahon, Edwards are gold medalists.
The mild-mannered Dumas was a military master,
Center Lambier is the cold-blooded "killer" who takes the lead in the penalty area.
Throughout the eighties, they were almost suppressed by Hu Kai and Shuangxiong. But in the 1988-89 season, with the aging of Tiangou and the injury of Bird, this murderous "bad boy army" gradually reached the center of the stage.
They used suffocating defense and fierceness that made opponents timid before they fought, and they killed the three league signs of Bird (injured), Jordan and Magician along the way. Turned the NBA game into a gangster fire, and they are the most ruthless gangs in it.
They are almost obsessed with almost brutal confrontation, constantly provoking and attacking opponents on the field, and once they show weakness and irritability in front of them, they are like bloodthirsty sharks smelling blood, constantly stimulating the bottom line of your heart.
They have the toughest and most efficient defense in the league, close to the tactical execution of the army, top singles players like the Assassins and Aguel, and "microwave oven" bench killers like Pooh Vinnie Johnson.
They do not care about the views of the outside world at all, and hold the attitude of being the enemy of the whole world to warm up and gain unprecedented cohesion and combat effectiveness.
Without absolute strength and a strong psychology, it is absolutely impossible to retreat in front of them.
They are best known for their 1988-90 "three-time rejection of Jordan," in which they killed young Michael Jordan three times in a row in the Eastern Conference playoffs.
4-1, 4-2, 4-3, although every year has improved, but three consecutive defeats to the same opponent, once so that the competitive jordan also began to doubt themselves.
In the seventh game of the 1990 Eastern Conference Finals, after being eliminated by the Pistons for the third time. Jordan walks out of Auburn Hill Palace when he meets Pistons general manager Jack McLoskey.
Jordan: "Sir, can we win you all once?" ”
McCloskey: "Michael, your time is coming, soon. ”
Later, we all know that in the 1991 Eastern Final, Jordan not only took revenge on them 4-0, but also completely swept them into the garbage heap of history.
It wasn't just Jordan who got stronger that year, Pippen and Grant grew, and the Bulls improved.
Rather, the entire league could not stand the Pistons' ferocious and almost vicious play. The introduction of "malicious fouls" allows Lambier and McMahon to no longer be unscrupulous in slapping opponents who have broken into the box.
The referees also almost all put on microscopes and watched the every move of this group of "hooligans from Detroit".
They truly became public enemies of the NBA, not just opponents of the other 26 teams.
After being avenged by Jordan in 1991, the once desperate "bad boy army" soon fell apart.
In the 1991–92 season, he was 48-34 and was eliminated by the Knicks in the first round of the playoffs.
The following year 40 wins and 42 losses for the first time in a decade without a playoff,
In the 1993–94 season, with 20 wins and 62 losses, the Assassins retired directly after a ruptured Achilles tendon.
They became the falling dogs in the league, not only did their opponents hate and hate them, but even they themselves looked down on themselves.
It wasn't until they chose grant Hill, the personable and known as "Jordan's successor", in 1994 that they gradually changed the public's opinion.
In fact, the Pistons themselves also realize that even if the strength is strong, the record is outstanding, and the championship is fruitful, it also needs grace on the field and the recognition of the outside world.
The Pistons, who won the championship in 2004, are known as the "bad boys ii", they are also defensively prominent and tough, but whether it is the big ben on the inside or the outside line Billups, Hamilton, Prince, or Williamson and Lynch Hunt on the bench, they are rarely labeled as "dirty".
The most outrageous is the "roaring god" Rashid Wallace, who loves to eat the tricks, but what this benevolent brother is best at is actually chattering about the referee.
But I am afraid that even the Detroit Pistons themselves did not expect that in the past thirty years, there are still teams holding the mentality of "nothing but the championship" to compete in the NBA and compete for the championship.
The heavenly path cycle, the retribution is not happy, there is always a day when they plant their heads.
As Jordan said in front of the media after he first eliminated the Pistons:
"Demons win occasionally, but they can never conquer the world!"