Basketball Legend: When Pride Still Matters-Chapter 475 - 327: Beyond Time
Chapter 475: Chapter 327: Beyond Time
“Milwaukee Sentinel” excitedly headlines its front page the next day with “Two Games to Go!” covering the second battle of the Bucks-Mavericks finals.
And indeed, the manner in which the Bucks won seemed fair and square.
The home-standing Bucks shot only two more free throws than the Mavericks.
However, whether or not there is bias in officiating is often a subjective matter.
For instance, if the people of Dallas feel that you, the referee, have screwed them over tonight, then you have indeed screwed them over.
And of course, the related media will provide some “evidence.”
The Mavericks shot fewer than 20 three-pointers last night, whereas the Bucks shot more than 40. How could your free throws still outnumber ours by two?
How on earth did a scrawny bag of bones like Kevin Martin get 10 free throws?
Conclusion: Whistle Power hasn’t disappeared, it’s just shifted from Big Fei to Martin.
Some of the more extreme Dallas media even claimed, “We’ve all seen Frye’s field goal percentage in the second game, which clearly shows us his true level of offense when he doesn’t receive special treatment.”
“Yet, the special treatment still exists. Kevin Martin is the one chosen by the League!”
When the Bucks arrived on the road, Yu Fei refuted the “special treatment” argument.
“I think some people need to understand the difference between home-court advantage and special treatment,” Yu Fei said, “Of course, maybe for the people of Dallas, they should be looked after on the road just like last year in Houston.”
Yu Fei couldn’t recall this recent example of countering the Mavericks until he received a text message from Yao Ming.
After Yu Fei finished speaking, the media in Dallas began to vigorously defend their team, energetically refuting the notion that they advanced to the second round last year because of special treatment.
They spoke with great conviction, seemingly persuasive, but the Bucks just wanted some peace before the game started.
The third game in Dallas, the Bucks were bent on winning.
If they could win this game, a 3-0 lead would put the Mavericks in dire straits.
That evening, Yu Fei could sense the referees being cautious.
The officials clearly felt the pressure from the outside, hesitating to call fouls against the Mavericks.
Yet even so, Cuban was scrutinizing the referees like a jailer examining prisoners.
He knew exactly who called a good whistle and who called a bad one.
If a referee made a bad call, he would go at them like a mad dog.
Yu Fei really didn’t understand the point of this.
Would they really change after being verbally abused at the venue?
If you were a referee, and you intended to call a fair game, but a team owner constantly watched your every move, ready to curse your family over any discrepancy, would you still be able to maintain fairness in your calls?
Some things changed quietly.
Kevin Martin was the one who caught on to the shift in the referees’ calls, which prompted him to drive more aggressively to the basket.
Yu Fei could only feel that Martin was extraordinary tonight; his determination to challenge the defense of the Western Conference’s second-best center seemed unshakeable.
Who gave him such courage? Of course, it was the referees.
Martin, who earned only three free throws in the first half, shot 14 in the second half, hitting 15 of 17 attempts for the game, scoring the second-highest on the team with 30 points, 4 rebounds, and 3 assists.
Under the blessing of Whistle Power level nine, Kevin Martin became Yu Fei’s greatest ally.
The Mavericks’ frontcourt gradually faced foul trouble in the fourth quarter, exposing Nowitzki’s defensive shortcomings, and under a ferocious attack from the Bucks, the Mavericks collapsed.
109 to 100
The despair came so suddenly that Cuban didn’t know how to collect his thoughts to criticize the referees’ parents after the game ended.
0 to 3?
How could anyone bear this?
After the game, it was a rerun of a series of old questions.
The Bucks internally agreed on a unified front, refusing to engage with the Dallas side’s comments about special treatment from the referees.
Only Kwame Brown entered the no-return zone, going on a tirade against the Mavericks.
Keep in mind, he spent three of his rookie four years in D.C., with the last one in Dallas.
At that time, the Mavericks went to great lengths to find someone who could clean up after Nowitzki. Ultimately, Brown lost out to Dampier, enabling the Mavericks to let go of matching his contract last summer, and Brown was able to join the Bucks.
“I am the real Eastern Conference’s second-best center, as for whether someone is truly the second-best in the West, I’m not sure,” Brown shot back at Dampier.
“Do you know why I’m closer to the championship than Dallas’s very own bigwigs? Because in Dallas, I was told to clean up after our best player, but in Milwaukee, our best player never needs me to do that,” Brown pointed out the difference between Big Fei and Dirk.
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“You keep saying we get special treatment, but is there another possibility? Maybe the referees just don’t like you guys, maybe they just hate Mark Cuban, after all, our boss isn’t like an untamed dog barking wildly in our home court,”
Brown’s interview that night was explosive. He made many headline-worthy statements, effectively cutting off any possibility of returning to Dallas.
But in the NBA, anything is possible.
Just like DeAndre Jordan once abandoned Dallas, only to end up playing there after all.
The fourth game was entirely scripted.
Fans thought the Bucks would sweep the Mavericks and lift the championship trophy.
But the League told you: no, they won’t.
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