Super All-around Point Guard

It has been 20 years since Miller's moment, but to this day, it is still often mentioned by many fans. He scored 8 points in 8.9 seconds. The only one that can compare with it is Tracy McGrady's 13 points in 35 seconds.

The reason why Xie Chen predicted in advance that he would meet the Pacers and Reggie Miller on this day was because when he was playing Rockets, he met Tracy McGrady on the day when the gods came to earth. Then, Xie Chen prevented McGrady's moment from happening in the Legend Challenge. .

Today, he will be a bad guy again and prevent the miracle from happening.

However, this does not mean that he can have a chance to stop this kind of thing if he wants to. The miracle performed at the critical moment comes from the premise that the score is close to being in suspense. If the Knicks lead the legendary Pacers by a big score in the fourth quarter, Or if the legendary Pacers lead Xie Chen and the others by a big score, there won't be a "Miller moment" happening.

Reggie Miller is a legendary opponent that Xie Chen is looking forward to. His ability at critical moments and three-point shooting ability make Xie Chen want to compare with him, especially his three-point shooting ability. Many people are asking, what exactly is Reggie Miller? Jimmy Miller's three-pointers are better than those of Curry and Xie Chen. They belong to different generations and have no chance to compete. Today, Xie Chen has this opportunity.

The Indiana Pacers in the 1990s were "Team Reggie Miller," just like the Spurs in the early 1980s were nicknamed "Team George Gervin," and the 76ers in the late 1970s were nicknamed "Team Dr. J." If you don't watch the game, you It's hard to understand how much influence a guy who averages 20 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists per game and has made the league's third team three times in his career can have on this team.

Reggie Miller, who Xie Chen met, was 30 years old and seemed to be in very good condition. He had been looking at Xie Chen sideways before the game. After the game started, Reggie Miller scored two three-pointers by running without the ball. Xie Chen didn't respond. He was tired of surprising his opponent from the beginning, so he played slowly. It wasn't too late to let his opponent know how powerful he was in the middle of the fight.

Xie Chen personally defended Reggie Miller, who was 5 centimeters taller than him. Although Reggie Miller occasionally scored, Miller still felt very uncomfortable with Xie Chen's defense, even though Xie Chen didn't make any small moves, even because of worry He didn't even try his best to defend when he committed a foul.

Reggie Miller spat trash talk at Xie Chen: "Boy, you can't guard me. I don't even need to jump to shoot in front of you."

Xie Chen responded: "Have you danced before? Then you are really old. You jumped so short. I really don't like bullying the elderly."

"What? You called me an old man?" Reggie Miller was very angry. In fact, he could see Xie Chen's defensive attitude towards him from the beginning. It seemed that he was really a bit humble, which made Reggie Miller feel very unacceptable. Bear.

Then, although Miller did not see the strength of Xie Chen's three-pointers, he saw Xie Chen's speed when breaking through, his fadeaway jumper like Jordan, and the violent dunk like Carter that he had never seen before.

"This guy's talent is really incredible. This game is hard to beat!" Reggie Miller became melancholy.

After knowing how powerful Xie Chen was, Miller began to become more serious. He knew that he had to stand up and respond to Xie Chen.

Reggie Miller started running wildly without the ball, and Xie Chen was happy to keep chasing Reggie Miller. He saw Miller tirelessly looking for shooting opportunities, and he admired it very much.

Reggie Miller's legs were deformed when he was a child. He didn't learn to walk until he was 11 years old. Like Forrest Gump, he had orthotic braces on his legs when he was a child. This congenital deficiency led to his late start in basketball.

Moreover, Miller is very thin and is weaker than most defenders in terms of strength. He cannot take advantage of bouncing and confrontation. Moreover, his size also means that he cannot dribble and is too easy to steal. His dribbling is also average.

Since his talent is so ordinary, how could Reggie Miller be selected by the Pacers? Welsh, the president of the Pacers at the time, said three things: a tall guard, a high shot, and never give up.

People need to be self-aware, and Miller is such a person. He knows that he does not have the dribbling ability of Iverson, the ability to dunk and layup like Jordan, nor the ability to overpower others. Therefore, his The style of play is even simpler. Miller has no extra moves after catching the ball, and his talent is not as good as yours, but I can beat you by running non-stop.

So, you should be able to understand why Reggie Miller said something like "This ball is for you XX", right?

Reggie Miller pushed Xie Chen's arms away, used the reaction force to retreat to the bottom corner, and then succeeded in another jump shot. After this shot, Reggie Miller went crazy. He began to attack Xie Chen who was guarding him even more arrogantly. He started talking trash and became arrogant. His expression and posture seemed to say, so what if you have talent? So what if you're fast and dunk? You haven’t been defeated by me yet!

Miller has always had this mentality.

Seeing that the whole audience was excited and that Reggie Miller seemed to be a different person, Xie Chen felt that it was time to let Reggie Miller know who the real three-point master was.

"You actually used the rebound force of pushing me to accelerate back to the corner and shoot a three-pointer. Reggie Miller, you are so good." Xie Chen smiled and did not respond to Reggie Miller with words. He wanted a three-pointer to respond!

Slowly holding the ball through half the court, and then, one step away from the three-point line, Xie Chen took a shot directly. Xie Chen was not as serious about shooting three-pointers as others. He could take the shot anywhere. There was no way, that was it. Willful, if it weren't for the fact that Curry already has a good reputation as Kuritian.

Bang, the three-pointer was struck.

"Uh." Xie Chen didn't expect that he missed the first ball, which caused many spectators to laugh at him. They all asked whether No. 0 was stupid for taking action in such a hurry? Reggie Miller also laughed, but Xie Chen didn't take it seriously. No matter how good Curry's three-pointer was, it was not 100%. It was nothing strange to miss one.

Then, in the next attack, Curry was no longer so willful. Instead of playing long-range three-pointers, he just shot from the three-point line. Using dribbling and speed, Xie Chen got rid of his opponent and gained space to shoot. In an instant, Taking a three-point shot, Reggie Miller exclaimed that the shot was so fast, and then he saw the basketball go straight to the basket!

The basketball circled the rim twice and came out again!

"Damn it, I didn't get in again!" Xie Chen was a little depressed. It can only be said that it was bad luck. The ball almost went in. Xie Chen still maintained very good patience.

After another two minutes, Xie Chen got an opportunity to shoot a three-pointer from the bottom corner! A three-pointer from the open position, from the corner! what does that mean? Is it 100% sure that I will get in? To be modest, let's say 90%. In short, there is no reason why this goal should not be scored.

Xie Chen happily threw the ball, and then saw the basketball quickly boom to the other side.

Missed again! How could he be so unlucky? ! Xie Chen felt that even if he shot 20 shots like this, he wouldn't necessarily miss one. Why was he so unlucky today, hitting the ball one after another?

Or is it that the Knicks are leading now, and the system is afraid that the Knicks will lead too much and eventually fail to meet the conditions for Miller's moment, so it deliberately lowers Xie Chen's shooting percentage?

This sounds a bit absurd, but regardless of whether it is true or not, Xie Chen is a little unhappy anyway. Reggie Miller just came over to talk trash to Xie Chen again. After hearing Miller's previous ridicule, Xie Chen could feel It doesn't matter, that's because he thought he would respond with action soon. Now, the response is a response, but the ridicule is even stronger.

"You can't make a shot when no one is guarding you. How did you get into the NBA? Hahaha." Reggie Miller laughed heartily.

Xie Chen was a little unhappy: "You won't really deliberately maintain the score so that Reggie Miller can finally have a chance to perform Miller's moment to kill us, right? Well, whether it is true or not, you have the ability to prevent me from making the shot, but you If you can’t stop me, I won’t make a shot! I won’t let Reggie Miller have his Miller moment, I’m too lazy to stop it! Today, in this game, I’m going to be the losing side, I’m going to have my own moment !”

Xie Chen changed his mind. He originally wanted to stop Miller's moment like he stopped McGrady last time, but now, he wants to deliberately fall behind the score and be the one who performs a miracle at the last moment!

"Since this day is destined to be a miracle, why can't it be me?" Xie Chen thought to himself.

Xie Chen began to intend for the Knicks to become the chasing side. However, things did not go as Xie Chen expected. Once the Pacers saw the hope of winning, they grabbed it and quickly expanded the score. Xie Chen really When he wanted to chase, he realized how difficult it was. He could score quickly, but he could no longer prevent his opponent from scoring.

"I have seen the sunshine of victory. I will never lose to you. You can't even think of overtaking the score!" Reggie Miller looked at Xie Chen's face and said these words seriously. Xie Chen felt that Reggie Miller and The tenacity in his teammates reminded him of Reggie Miller's entire career.

The group of guys in Indiana who have become veterans reached the Eastern Conference Finals five times in seven years. In the last year, the oldest year, they reached the Finals. Reggie Miller scored 58 three-pointers in the playoffs that year. ball.

Xie Chen began to ask himself, is there someone as tenacious and determined to never give up as Reggie Miller? The reason why Miller's moment exists is because he never gave up the game. Even if there was a slight chance, he would fight for it.

"I want to defeat them!" Xie Chen clenched his fists again. Now he had completely different feelings than when he said he would defeat them before the game.

Now that the team is 15 points behind, Xie Chen needs to keep attacking and scoring, and he needs to defend every next ball from the Pacers, so that he can have a chance to play his own moment.

It was easy to score, but not so simple to defend. He was not very familiar with these opponents, and it took him a long time to figure out how to stop their attacks.

Finally, under Xie Chen's sudden crazy performance and two consecutive steals and dunks, the Knicks caught up to only 6 points behind with 18.7 seconds before the end.

This is a desperate moment, but also an exciting moment.

Desperately, it was almost impossible to recover 6 points in 18 seconds, but what made Xie Chen excited was that he knew it was possible.

A miracle will eventually take place, just like this day in history, except that the teams on both sides have fallen behind. It is no longer the Pacers with Miller who are lagging behind, but the Knicks with Xie Chen.

Xie Chen wants to be the one who performs miracles.

Xie Chen clearly remembers the location of each ball in Miller's moment, so he will copy Miller's moment next. Now the legendary Pacers have no worries about their opponents overtaking, because Xie Chen has not proven that his three-pointers are effective before. How brilliant.

The time started to jump. The Knicks sent an inbounds ball. The first ball of Miller's moment was shot at a 45-degree angle on the left wing. Xie Chen also appeared in this position. Like Miller back then, Xie Chen got rid of the defender. , after receiving the ball, take action instantly. The beginning of a miracle is always the most important. If the first ball is not scored, nothing magical will happen.

Miller stared blankly at the basketball shooting towards the basket in a high arc, thinking that it would definitely not go in. However, this time the three-pointer hit the net accurately!

"Damn it!" Reggie Miller yelled, but he was still not worried, because now they still led by three points, and with 16 seconds left in the game, victory was still in their hands.

The atmosphere at the scene became particularly tense. Even the legendary Pacers coach Larry Brown looked serious, not to mention the players on the field.

"The next goal is the most important goal in Miller's moment!" Xie Chen did not relax at all after scoring the goal, because he knew that the most difficult goal in Miller's moment was coming!

After scoring the first three-point goal, you have to stop the opponent's serve. Then, let alone the second, it is already difficult to stop the opponent's serve. Now that I think about it, I am a bit too confident!

The five players of the legendary Pacers were in a panic. They wanted to throw the ball out quickly. Xie Chen shouted to his teammates: "Stop them! Get in front of them!"

The legendary pacer must not be allowed to serve successfully!

Reggie Miller suddenly rushed forward to catch the ball, and Xie Chen chased after him. The two were entangled. The player who served saw that the two were entangled very tightly and was afraid that the ball would be stolen, so he hesitated and did not dare to pass the ball for a moment. Spread the word.

Then, legendary Pacers coach Larry Brown was heard shouting from the sidelines: "Pass the ball out!"

There was no time. The legendary Pacers had to pass the ball. Reggie Miller was so anxious that he could no longer care about anything else. He suddenly gave Xie Chen a hidden elbow, hit him in the stomach, and then tried to use this The method is to get rid of Xie Chen and go to catch the ball.

This reminded Xie Chen!

When it comes to Yin people's little tricks, Xie Chen is no worse than Reggie Miller. Let me give you a taste of Karl Malone's power first!

Xie Chen quickly responded with Karl Malone's fighting ability. The thin Reggie Miller just made a move to get the ball and was instantly knocked to the ground by Xie Chen!

The referee didn't blow the whistle!

The Pacers' ball has already been served, and Xie Chen, like Reggie Miller in "Miller Moment", received the pass from the opponent.

Next, is the most important ball. If Miller's moment is more classic than McGrady's moment, it is the next ball.