When the suspense of the Finals was over, Paul stood on the field staring lonely ahead, and no one knew what Paul was thinking at this time. At the end of the game, Paul walked briskly back into the locker room, his head not turned back, and the background sound was a huge cheer from the whole of Milwaukee.
Milwaukee spent fifty years waiting for a championship, while Chris Paul waited 16 years to finally get so close to the championship for the first time, but when all the dust settled, it was so far away.
When Paul reached the Finals with 41 points in the sixth game of the Western Conference Finals, people placed unlimited expectations on him, and when the Finals led 2-0, this expectation reached its peak, Paul should always break the curse of fate this time, right?
But then came disappointment, one disappointment after another. In the fourth game, Paul scored 5 of 13 and scored only 10 points while making five turnovers. Holliday clung to Paul's body like a tarsal gangrene, making Paul very uncomfortable all the time.
In six Finals, Paul averaged 21.8 points, 2.7 rebounds and 8.2 assists per game, shooting 55 percent from the field and 52.2 percent from three-point range. But the data does not reflect Paul's limitations on the field, and when Booker is off the field, Paul leads the team for most of the time to lose points.
The 36-year-old Paul wanted to fight again, but he was 36 years old. No one can be young forever, but there are always people who are young. Opposite the energetic alphabet brother, Standing next to him, there is always someone who is young.
This is the fourth time Paul has been overturned after taking a 2-0 lead, and since 2008 against the Spurs, Paul has begun his unbearable history of being overturned. Career playoffs were overturned six times, four 2-0, one 3-2 and one 3-1.
The reasons or excuses for being overturned have also been used by Paul, the reasons for injuries, his poor play, the incompetence of the coach, as if the time and place and Paul are always missing a little. And this time it was overturned, and Paul was probably really old.
Many said it was Paul's last chance, with a 2-0 lead just two wins away from the championship. But you can never predict what's going to happen in the future, just as you can't predict how solar energy will come before the season starts.
Rather than "biggest losers," I'd rather call the overall runners-up the second best team. Paul once again proved his leadership and determination, he did what he could control to the extreme, and what was left uncontrollable was probably what we often call fate.
If Saric wasn't injured, the Suns wouldn't be so stretched inside, and of course the Bucks on the opposite side would have reimbursed Divonchenzo. No one has been able to get away with it this season, and the sun has come to the top of the day.
We often say that life is not as good as it should be, and this phrase has been used in Paul countless times. The second half of this sentence is "Always think about one or two, don't think about eight or nine, and do everything as you wish."
In yesterday's post-match interview, when asked how Paul feels now, Paul said: "For me, it means going back to work now. If we don't lose, we just fail, and I won't choose to retire. ”
Paul's body is wrapped in too many ifs, if there is no injury, if he and Kobe Bryant team up, if the referee this time is not Foster... But Paul never wanted these things to turn back, and in his creed, there were no ifs, only now.
All Paul wanted to do now, and all he could do, was to get back on the path of the title race. No one knows what the end of the road will be, but there will always be someone on the journey.
"Before I die, I must win the championship"