I’m Really Playing Basketball

"Rashid, if you can't control Chen's offense and defeat Chen's defense, we will be in very danger in this series."

"Rashid, tell me, can you still control Chen in this series? Use all methods."

After the Pistons lost the second game at home, Larry Brown couldn't wait to find Rasheed Wallace. Anyone who wasn't stupid could clearly hear what Larry Brown meant.

Try all means, what means?

This is equivalent to making it clear, okay!

so……

"Rashid, from the previous two games, I found that Wonder Boy has a habit of bending his legs like Jordan when he takes a backward shot. This allows him to stay in the air and move better, but it also makes him lose weight when he lands. When I was playing, I didn’t have such strong observation and adjustment abilities. I think when you were guarding the Magic Boy who was leaning back, you could go a little further forward and your right foot could go a little further in.”

"..."

Looking at Larry Brown who was giving him instructions at this time, Rasheed Wallace's face was still very dark. Maybe it was because of his black color, so even though Rasheed's face was dark, Larry Brown didn't pay much attention. I just thought that Rasheed Wallace was having the same headache as him about defending Chen Xiao.

Although only two games were played in this series, Larry Brown has made it very clear that he really cannot solve the problems raised by Chen Xiao.

In the end, he felt that it would be more practical to solve the problem.

Just like he did when he eliminated Wade in the last round.

Rasheed Wallace listened to Larry Brown's words last time, and he regrets it now.

What Larry Brown said to him at the time was: "Rashid, I found another small flaw in Wade's layup. He is habitually arrogant and careless in the latter part of the layup. You are fighting him hard." When it comes, you can use the 'hand (elbow)' slightly later."

Rasheed Wallace really didn't think at the time that Larry Brown was going to do something bad.

In addition, Larry Brown is recognized as the defensive master in the league, and he is the number one master, so Rashid respects Larry Brown's defensive insights very much.

So, he executed it.

But he didn't know it until after it was executed.

Damn it!

He actually tricked Wade!

Coupled with Wonder Boy's interpretation and the brutal beating by Wonder Boy in two games in this series, his reputation in the NBA is now bad.

Rashid, who he wanted to be strong all his life, came out to hang out, wasn't he just looking for a name? !

Now, damn, you actually want me to be black!

Although there are no black words in Larry Brown's words from beginning to end, the vigilant Rasheed Wallace only needs to use his brain a little to know that you did not say this to let me step on the Wonder Boy. Do you mean? !

In these two games, I was already suppressed by Wonder Boy. If I were to step on Wonder Boy again, this would make me become the "sinister villain"!

I, Rasheed, am not the Bowen of your apprentice Popovich!

Your apprentices, Popovich and Bowen, have quit this season. How the hell do you want me to do such a shameful thing? !

"Rashid, do you understand what I mean?"

In the Pistons' head coach's office, Larry Brown looked at Rasheed Wallace calmly and said.

Looking at Larry Brown who was full of majesty at this time, Rasheed Wallace's face was extremely ugly and his heart was extremely angry. However, thinking of Larry Brown's prestige in the Pistons and the league, Rasheed Wallace still did not put it aside in the end. I get it! ’ Say it.

He just nodded slightly and said, "Understood."

Watching Rasheed Wallace leave his office, Larry Brown was very satisfied.

Larry Brown doesn't know now that Rasheed Wallace is resisting him in his heart.

A person whose hands are stained with blood and who has handed in a petition is worthy of trust.

So, after Larry Brown was done with Rasheed Wallace, he looked at his assistant Mike Woodson next to him.

"Mike, do you think there is anything we can do to face the Wonder Boy?"

At the end of the G2 game, to be honest, the Pistons were really desperate.

Chen Xiao can defend the Pistons' offensive core Rasheed Wallace in the paint.

On the offensive end, as an inside post, he can pull out for singles or play singles under the basket.

Especially when pulled out for singles, the entire Pistons, except Rasheed, did not perform well defensively.

The Pistons have tried to use Prince to defend Chen Xiao as they did in the regular season. The effectiveness of Prince's defense against Chen Xiao in the regular season cannot be said to be bad or good. Chen Xiao can always score 30+ 50% of the time against Prince.

For a player who averaged 49% shooting and 35 points per game in a season, this defensive effect is indeed average.

Prince has long hands and legs, but his strength is far behind Chen Xiao. In addition, Chen Xiao's own hands are longer than Prince's, so Chen Xiao is not really afraid of Prince's defense.

If there is no problem with Rasheed Wallace's offense and there is no problem with the Pistons' offense, in fact, the Pistons are not afraid of Chen Xiao playing Prince alone.

However, whoever caused Rasheed's offense to have problems and the Pistons' offense also had problems, this will be difficult to deal with.

Therefore, although the Pistons had problems both offensively and defensively in the first two games, in the final analysis it was the offense that had problems.

Something is terribly wrong with Rasheed's offense.

"Mr. Larry, I think Rasheed's offense needs to be more adventurous, and our offense also needs to be more adventurous. The Pistons' players are capable of offense, especially three-pointers."

After Mike Woodson finished speaking, Larry Brown's face darkened.

Offense, three-pointers, this is definitely the last thing he wants to do.

The Pistons are a defensive team, but because they can't defeat their opponents on defense, they have to gamble on offense with their opponents. This is a denial of his defensive master.

Doesn't this mean that his defense is not as good as Carlisle?

Seeing Larry Brown's face getting more and more ugly, Woodson quickly continued: "Mr. Larry, this is just my personal suggestion. I think Mr. Larry must have a better way."

After Woodson said this, the look on Larry Brown's face improved slightly.

Seeing Larry Brown like this, Woodson was secretly relieved.

He almost got into trouble with Larry Brown.

After the first two games of this series, not only Chen Xiao's strength at the power forward position has been greatly recognized.

Likewise, Carlisle's coaching ability has also been greatly recognized.

It is really incredible to lead the Cavaliers to such a transcendent level with a group of young people in just one season.

So now, many people outside are saying that Pistons general manager Joe Dumars is really blind, so he gave up Carlisle and chose Larry Brown.

Although Larry Brown is highly respected, it is obvious that his coaching ability has deteriorated.

In terms of coaching ability, Carlisle, a rising coaching genius, is the better one.

Anyway, according to these media, Carlisle has now completely destroyed Larry Brown.

Although such reports are exaggerated, for Larry Brown, who has always wanted to prove himself, it is tantamount to killing someone.

Thinking of this, Woodson was secretly in disbelief.

He knows Larry Brown's strength.

Unexpectedly, such a strong head coach with a perfect team that has completed reconstruction would be forced to this extent by Wonder Boy and Carlisle.

In this series, both the wonder boys Chen Xiao and Carlisle far exceeded his imagination.

On May 8, 2004, just as Cleveland fans welcomed Chen Xiao back to Cleveland like a hero, the league announced the NBA's secondary awards on this day.

First of all, the league announced the NBA Sportsmanship Award. This award is used to commend the NBA players with the most "sportsmanship." Sportsmanship mainly includes moral behavior, fair play and integrity on the field. Last season, this award was awarded to Chen Xiao, this season’s winner is Ray Allen.

In fact, these secondary awards are very useless to NBA players.

Just like Chen Xiao, there are a bunch of awards in China such as the 'Tencent Slam Dunk King' and 'The Most Beautiful Waist Award'. Do you think it is useful?

That is really useful and proves your popularity.

But do you think it is really useful?

That is really not true. There is no best week yet.

But, for Chen Xiao, this is not the case.

An award represents a C-level potential card.

In these secondary awards announced by the NBA this year, Chen Xiao won the Kennedy Citizen Award and the Best Teammate Award.

The Kennedy Citizen Award is designed to recognize players, coaches or other staff who have "outstanding services and contributions to society." For this award, Chen Xiao has made a lot of charity news in the past year, such as funding Garfield High School in Seattle Last year, Chen Xiao funded more than 20 schools that are very friendly to Chinese Americans and people of color, and the total amount of funding exceeded more than 2 million US dollars.

This also made Chen Xiao one of the players who spent the most on charity events in the NBA last year.

Well, I spent two million US dollars to acquire a C-level potential card. Do you think this is a loss or not?

The Best Teammate Award is awarded to the ideal teammate who is considered to "play selflessly and be dedicated to the team" during the game. This award was established for the first time last year, and the winner was Kidd.

This year, there is almost no suspense, Chen Xiao became the winner of this award.

This award is voted by NBA players, and the candidates are recommended by the NBA Legends Team. There are 6 candidates in each of the Eastern and Western divisions, a total of 12 people. Chen Xiao defeated Duncan of the Magic by a very huge advantage to win the award. this award.

I heard that Chen Xiao received the first-place vote from 90% of the league's point guards.

As for why point guards are so eager to partner with Chen Xiao, then you have to ask the assist king in Xiao Zhan's hand.

After receiving two NBA secondary awards, Chen Xiao received two more C-level potential cards.

Without thinking, Chen Xiao added these two C-level potential cards to the defensive rebounding attribute, which raised Chen Xiao's defensive rebounding attribute from 70 to 80.

The backcourt rebounding attribute of 80 is definitely top-notch among guards.

But in the paint, he should be considered second-rate, not that strong, but not that bad either.

The Cavaliers came back from the road with two consecutive wins, which gave the Cavaliers a warm welcome from the entire city in Cleveland.

Anyone who isn't stupid knows that winning two games on the road basically means the Cavaliers advance.

The Cavaliers are basically guaranteed to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals.

Eastern Conference Finals!

There is no such glorious moment in the history of the Cavaliers!

Even Gloria, who had been preparing to cause trouble, has now become very honest.

Although she is very dissatisfied with James' role in the Cavaliers, but, that is an opportunity in the Eastern Conference Finals, that is an opportunity in the Finals!

If the Cavaliers can enter the finals, then his son LeBron James will have the opportunity to compete for the FMVP, one of the highest honors in the NBA!

As long as he is crowned FMVP, with his son's attention and reputation in the American bodybuilding industry, he will be invincible. It is not a dream to surpass Jordan with one crown!

This is no joke!

So this time after Chen Xiao and the Cavaliers returned to Cleveland, Xiao Zhan suddenly discovered that his mother didn't seem to invite Chen Xiao to his home anymore.

And this also made Xiao Zhan breathe a sigh of relief.

Now Xiao Zhan is concentrating on preparing for the game against the Magic or the 76ers, in crazy training.

After the 2-0 Pistons away game, the Cavaliers were full of confidence from top to bottom.

Cavaliers head coach Carlisle said: "Our journey is far from over." It has become a goal recognized by the Cavaliers team.

"Why can't the NBA have a Kaiserslautern Miracle!"

No one in the Cavaliers team shouted that slogan, but now that the Miracle of Kaiserslautern has been shouted, it is basically Sima Zhao's heart, and everyone on the road knows it.

Of course, it is well known within the Cavaliers that everyone is Sima Zhao's heart.

But outside the Cavaliers, no one knows that the Cavaliers now have such big ambitions.

On May 9, 2004, the Cleveland Cavaliers faced the Pistons at home.

The Cavaliers, who have won two consecutive games in the playoffs, are bound to win this game at home. Only by winning this game can the Cavaliers' Kaiserslautern plan be implemented smoothly.

In this game, the Pistons still had nothing to do against the Cavaliers' strongest defensive lineup.

The lineup of Chandler, Chen Xiao, Darius Miles, Korver and James is really so strong in terms of help defense that it has no friends.

In this lineup, everyone can run and everyone can guard except Korver.

This is simply fatal to a team like the Pistons that has no strong points of attack.

And the Pistons' strongest offensive point, Rashid, couldn't beat Chen Xiao in front of Chen Xiao, which made the Pistons' already weak offense even worse.

Of course, the Pistons' offense was hopeless against the Cavaliers' defense. Carlisle, with the most suitable defensive lineup and his familiarity with the Pistons, simply beat the Pistons' offense beyond control.

But, to be honest, it is not easy for the Cavaliers' offense to beat the Pistons.

Although Rashid couldn't attack Chen Xiao, Rashid's defense was indeed very good.

In addition, in this game, the entire Pistons team was ordered by Larry Brown to defeat the Cavaliers in this game, so everyone was extremely crazy when defending.

In this game, Larry Brown ultimately did not fully adopt Woodson's strategy of betting on offense and insisted on a defensive duel with the Cavaliers.

With Larry Brown's chicken blood, the Pistons' defense was really outstanding in this game.

But structural problems cannot be solved by attitude.

If you don't bet on offense, don't speed up, don't waste shots, and just defend, you can't score on offense. No matter how tough your opponent is, they will always be able to score.

So in this game, the Pistons players worked hard throughout the game, but at the end of the game they still lost the game 72-80.

In this game, Chen Xiao was still the player with the most points in the game. He made 7 of 17 shots, 3 of 8 three-pointers, and 6 of 8 free throws. He scored 23 points and also grabbed 12 rebounds, 7 assists, and 4 assists. Comprehensive data of steals and 3 blocks.

In this game, the Pistons suppressed the offensive pace extremely slowly, and at the same time the intensity of the confrontation was extremely strong. It can be seen that the Pistons have shown their strongest defensive state in this game.

But in the end, in this defensive battle, the Pistons finally lost.

After the game, Larry Brown was very unwilling.

"It's not that my defense is not as good as Carlisle. It's not that my defense lost the game. It's because the Pistons don't have a scorer like the Wonder Boy!"

In Larry Brown's view, if Carlisle were to bring the same offensive lineup as his Pistons, Carlisle's Cavaliers wouldn't even be able to score 70 points in front of his Pistons' defense!

There is actually some truth in saying this.

The Cavaliers' defense may not be better than the Pistons' defense.

However, if Carlisle knew what Larry Brown was thinking, he would definitely disdain it.

"If I were to lead the same Pistons team, I could not lose to you defensively and at the same time, I could do better offensively than you!"

Carlisle is such a confident person.

Of course, what also made Larry Brown very unhappy about this game was that Rasheed Wallace, who he had high hopes for before the game, did not attack Chen Xiao in this game!

So after the game, facing Rasheed Wallace coming off the court, Larry Brown used his death stare.

However, in the face of a death stare like Larry Brown, Rasheed Wallace remained unmoved.

Rasheed Wallace played extremely seriously in this game. Although his offensive performance was still very poor in the whole game, he only scored 14 points on 5-of-16 shooting, but he had 11 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals and 3 blocks.

If you don't consider the offense, his and Chen Xiao's defensive performance in this game was a bit 50-50.

To be honest, although Rashid's performance in this game surprised Chen Xiao.

That’s not to say Rasheed’s numbers and defensive performance.

In fact, after playing the first two games, Chen Xiao knew Rashid's strength. If he didn't have good enough peripheral shooting ability, it would be extremely difficult to beat Rashid.

This also made Chen Xiao finally understand why Rasheed Wallace was unable to conquer even the four power forwards.

This guy is really comprehensive on the defensive end!

Chen Xiao has never underestimated Rashid's defensive strength. He knew it well before and even invited him to the Cavaliers.

What surprised Chen Xiao in this game was that Rasheed Wallace, the bad guy, didn't try to hack him!

To be honest, if they lose this game, the Pistons will be desperate.

According to Chen Xiao's prediction, it makes no sense that Rasheed Wallace did not hack him in this game.

If we don't criticize him, there is no point in criticizing him.

0 to 3, this is not 1 to 3.

"Xiao Chen, are you okay?"

"Xiao Zhan, Rasheed Wallace did not insult me ​​in this game."

After Chen Xiao finished speaking, James was stunned for a moment, and then quickly understood what Chen Xiao meant.

"Xiao Chen, you mean that the person behind the Pistons' attack on Wade was not Rasheed Wallace, but someone else?"

clever!

Xiao Zhan is Xiao Zhan, and he can get it right.

Moreover, almost at the same time, Chen Xiao and James looked at the back of the figure who was leaving the field angrily not far away.

Larry Brown!

If the mastermind behind this is Larry Brown, how can this be revenged?

Chen Xiao and James frowned at the same time.

But soon, Xiao Zhan patted his head and said to Xiao Chen next to him: "Xiao Chen, continue to implement our Kaiserslautern plan. In the end, we will have a chance to take revenge."

Seeing the witty look in Xiao Zhan's eyes, Chen Xiao was stunned for a moment, then suddenly thought of something, and then a smile appeared on his face.

Maybe the plan will work!

But at this time, what the two of them didn't know was that at this time, in the ward of a private hospital in New York, watching the Cavaliers who had already beaten the Pistons 3-0 on TV, Wade and Yao Ming really didn't know what to say for a while.

To be honest, they really didn't expect the Cavaliers to get to this point.

When Chen Xiao said that he would avenge him in this game, Wade really had no hope.

Because in Wade's mind, Chen Xiao is very strong and the Cavaliers are just average.

When did the Heat meet the Cavaliers and it wasn't a defeat?

This is true. In the entire league, the Cavaliers are most afraid of the Heat.

In Wade's mind, the Cavaliers have always been a pretty average team.

Just like Jordan watching a rookie.

You are so bad, how can you avenge me?

However, he really didn't expect that after the previous three games, such a strong Pistons would fall behind 0-3.

I have to say that the Heat's restraint on the Cavaliers was too severe, and Wade and Yao Ming's filter on the Cavaliers was too severe.

In fact, the Cavaliers are not weak.

Chandler's current defense is definitely among the best in the league. The defense of Darius Miles and James is also among the best among young people. In addition, Chen Xiao's offensive and defensive versatility in the interior is also top-notch.

Let's put it this way, this year's Cavaliers are definitely better than the 2001 76ers.

And it's much better, especially now that the Cavaliers are still improving!

"Maybe the Pistons really released a terrifying behemoth!"

Just when many people thought that the Cavaliers were about to sweep the Pistons and take the lead in entering the conference finals.

On May 11 and May 13, 2004, the Cavaliers lost the two games 78-84 and 85-89.

In these two games, the Cavaliers' rotation players played a little too much playing time.

Especially Matt Barnes, who even started in these two games.

"The Cavaliers want to use the Pistons' defense to hone their young players!"

Anyone who is not a fool can see why the Cavaliers lost these two games.

The piston has become a grindstone!

How could Larry Brown tolerate this?

"You asked for this!"

On the other side, Rasheed Wallace, who sent Woodson away, had an expression on his face like an angry beast.

Hey Hey Hey……

You guys are just kidding me!

Am I, Rashid, really that easy to bully? !

ps: Second update, please vote for me and subscribe! ! !