Champion Creed
Chapter 841 - 841 281 This is a script other teams cannot resist asking for monthly votes!_2

841: 281: This is a script other teams cannot resist (asking for monthly votes!)_2 841: 281: This is a script other teams cannot resist (asking for monthly votes!)_2 A simple sentence made everyone feel the tension, whether it was Kobe mocking Roger for wasting time on a 40-win team, or Roger asking how many rings the Lakers have won, it was all adding fuel to the finals fire.

No one knows how intense this fire will burn.

But it is certain that other teams will be reduced to ashes by this blaze.

After Game 3, the media was not particularly shocked by Roger’s 56 points in a single quarter.

Since 1997, when he first scored 50 points in a playoff game against Jordan’s Knicks, Roger occasionally puts up extravagant numbers in the playoffs.

What truly surprised the media was another matter: Vince Carter would use the team owner’s private plane to fly back to North Carolina for his graduation ceremony before Game 4 of the series and return to Toronto just five hours before the game to immediately join the match.

All of Toronto was blown away, the life-and-death battle to save the last bit of pride, and Carter chose to attend some damn graduation ceremony?

For most ordinary people, a university graduation ceremony is indeed meaningful.

But for Vince Carter, ever since he was selected by the Raptors in 1998, he has practically attended his graduation ceremony.

He is already a professional player, taking home millions of US Dollars annually from the Raptors.

While it’s understandable that he wants to fulfill his mother’s wish to obtain a bachelor’s degree, does ceremonial matters really need to invade game time?

Especially facing a life-and-death battle!

Despite the opposing voices, Carter resolutely returned to his alma mater.

But when Carter came back from North Carolina, everything changed.

He could no longer earn the support of Toronto.

Teammates were grumbling, and the hot-tempered Charles Oakley publicly cursed in the locker room: “You bastard who quit the game early, this is the Eastern Conference semifinals, not the first round of a best-of-five series!

Do you think we’ve already lost!?

What mentality are you using to approach this game?”

Fans also made a 180-degree shift in their attitude towards Carter.

At the end of Game 3, everyone still regarded Vince Carter as a hero.

But today, when Carter stepped onto the court again, he saw many unfriendly banners towards him, saw many people swearing at him.

However, so far things have not gotten out of hand, all of this can still be compensated with victory.

Michael Jordan invites a female private instructor to play golf with him five hours before a game and no one says anything about it, because people know he can handle the upcoming game.

Alright, that is unless his opponent is Roger.

Yet Vince Carter happened to submit a poor performance after attending the graduation ceremony.

In Game 4 of the series, the life-and-death battle, Carter was like in a daze all game long, just 6 out of 18 shots, with a shooting percentage of only 33%.

Although he still managed a decent 20 points from shooting 9 out of 8 free throws, the team lost by a solid 23 points.

“The continuous long travels made Vince exhausted, today he was just like a car out of fuel on the court,” commented Steve Jones.

In stark contrast to Carter was Antonio Davis, whose mid-range shots seemed blessed by gods today, scoring 11 out of 15.

This guy whom the media dubbed “the worst All-Star player in history”, on the contrary, played like a man on the decisive night.

At the end of the game, the Canadian Airlines Centre erupted with boos.

And Carter knew, those boos were not meant for the Hawks.

The Toronto fans were all thinking, if Carter hadn’t attended some damn graduation ceremony, along with Antonio Davis’s 15 of 11, could the Raptors have won a game?

The more assumptions like these surfaced, the louder the boos became on the scene.

In addition to caring about winning or losing, fans hope to see attitude.

The previous three games have already shown everyone that the Raptors’ hard power is inferior to the Hawks, but even so, fans still hope to see Raptors players go all out.

Fighting tirelessly, never avoiding, this is also one of the charms of competitive sports.

No fan dislikes seeing such courage in an athlete.

No fan likes seeing a player who runs back and forth while losing.

So just thinking about Carter’s poor performance due to the travel from the graduation ceremony made Toronto fans very angry.

Right after the last game, Carter just thought he could die for Toronto.

Yet he changed his mind in just three days.

Carter being booed wildly by his fans resonated strongly with Pippen, it touched him deeply.

Because he has experienced dedicating everything to a team multiple times, only to be shelved by the team and fans.

This season, if not for Roger’s words “My love, my blood”, Pippen probably would have settled in Washington.

Pippen walked to Roger’s side, smiled sarcastically: “See Roger, this is reality.

Vince is lucky he isn’t in the free United States, otherwise, he might find his house burnt by fans like Reggie Miller one day when he comes home.”

Roger watched Carter retreating amidst boos and Pippen’s complaints, quietly shrugged: “This is the essence of competitive sports, Scott, this is a place of survival based on victory.

When you get old, when you start losing, you will be hated by those who used to love you.

So we can only win, racing to death on this path.”

After saying that, Roger left the court, preparing for the next round of the showdown.