I’m Really Playing Basketball

The Bobcats successfully obtained the No. 1 pick in the 2008 NBA draft, which served as a foil for the ongoing Eastern and Western Conference semifinals between the Heat, Raptors, Lakers and Spurs.

After the Bobcats won the No. 1 pick, Chen Xiao's good friends all sent congratulatory text messages and phone calls to Chen Xiao.

Although it is said that Jerry West helped Chen Xiao and the Bobcats get the No. 1 pick.

In any case, after acquiring the No. 1 pick from the Grizzlies, the Bobcats now have five first-round picks, and three of them are super high picks, the No. 1 pick, the fifth pick, and the sixth pick. Two and one is 15.

Obviously, this is an almost perfect result. For Jordan, who loves gambling and drawing cards, he is very, very excited now. The day after Chen Xiao completed the "card drawing", Jordan announced the Bobcats' draft training The camp is open and we sincerely invite all talents from across the United States to attend.

I have to say that the Bobcats are really attractive now. With Jordan as the head coach and a team boss like Chen Xiao, the team itself has so many draft picks at all stages. Basically, every player Everyone has the opportunity to stay with the Bobcats.

If you can't compete with Rose for the top pick, you can compete for the fifth and sixth picks. If you can't compete for the fifth and sixth picks, you can compete for the 15th pick. If not, the Bobcats themselves still have a late first-round pick to pursue.

Of course, for the Bobcats, it is impossible for them to keep so many draft picks to select rookies.

Although the Bobcats did not win the championship this season, it is obvious that the Bobcats' goal is the championship, not even a simple championship, but a dynasty!

In this case, the Bobcats will naturally not fill their team with rookie players again.

It takes at least two to three years for a rookie player to grow up, even if he is a chosen one like Durant.

Therefore, Jordan told Chen Xiao that the Bobcats' five picks this year, except for Rose, can be traded.

If Rose does not show strong enough immediate ability in the trial training, Rose can be traded.

Although Jordan loves to draw cards, the training camp must have players he likes.

If there are players that Jordan likes, and there are more such players, the Bobcats can also keep more draft picks in their hands.

In short, this training camp has the final say.

As for Jordan's arrangement for the team, Chen Xiao didn't have any opinion.

Having worked with Jordan for three seasons, Chen Xiao has great trust in Jordan's general manager ability.

Regardless of the operation of the team or the vision of the draft, Jordan is top-notch, even better than his self-contained system.

In the 2005 draft, Jordan and he each chose one. Jordan chose Granger, and he chose Bynum. Three years have passed, and now Bynum has opened up a gap with Granger, and the gap It's getting bigger.

With Bynum now like this, Chen Xiao was actually a little bit shocked.

It turns out that he has so many experience cards, there is no way to convert a player's potential into ability.

Not everyone in this world is a hard worker like Luo Ge.

Therefore, for a young player, potential is not the most important, and immediate ability is not even the most important. The most important thing is whether the young man has a strong heart.

As for whether a player has a strong heart, he is not as good as Jordan, and far worse.

So, when your team has a general manager like Jordan, even if you have a system, you can lie flat.

Therefore, after the Bobcats training camp opened, Chen Xiao, in addition to his daily visits to the training camp to inspect rookie players, spent most of his time watching TV and paying attention to the conference finals between the Heat and Raptors, Lakers and Spurs.

The Heat and Raptors in the Eastern Conference finals did not escape the predictions of the media and experts before the start of the game.

The Raptors may be the strongest team in the Eastern Conference this season, but they were too exhausted in the conference semifinals against the Bobcats, while the Heat easily defeated the Nets 4-1 to advance to the Eastern Conference finals.

The Raptors fought all the way from the regular season to the Eastern Conference Finals, and this was despite the fact that the Eastern Conference was generally a strong team. Therefore, after reaching the Eastern Conference Finals, although the Raptors players were lucky enough not to suffer any injuries, their general physical strength deteriorated. some problems.

Especially Raptors shooting guard LaGabel, who was a godsend in the Bobcats game.

In the series with the Bobcats, Lagabell shot over 50% from the field and over 50% from the three-point range. He averaged 3.4 three-pointers per game and hit 7 three-pointers in a single game. The series averaged 19 points per game, and the average playing time per game was also a terrifying 43 minutes.

It can be said that in this series against the Bobcats, Lagabell played like an All-Star, and even most All-Stars couldn't play so well.

Using Nash's breakthrough to attract Chen Xiao's defense, and then shooting cold arrows from outside, even Chen Xiao couldn't do anything. After Chen Xiao moved to the power forward position, Laga Bell didn't care whether he was facing off against Battier or Granger. They are all super fierce, it's really like being beaten with chicken blood.

Obviously, in this series with the Bobcats, Lagabel's performance was extremely abnormal, and his performance far exceeded his strength.

And the consumption of Lagabel must be unimaginable.

After all, playing against players like Chen Xiao, Battier, and Granger, and performing such a terrifying performance, the consumption is even incalculable.

In this series with the Bobcats, Lagabell's decline was not apparent.

But when it came to this series with the Heat, Laga Bell was a little depressed.

In the entire series with the Heat, Laga Bell averaged 6.5 points per game. If he was just an ordinary role player, this data would actually be pretty good. After all, he is mainly defensive.

However, is Laga Bell an ordinary role player?

No, he has offensive duties.

In Nelson's team, there are no pure defensive players at all, every player has offensive tasks.

In this series, Lagabell shot 43% from the field and only 30% from three-point range. Even at the end of the game, Lagabell became the point where Carlisle made the Heat let go.

This is on offense, but on the defensive end, he can't withstand Wade, which is very fatal.

Because Laga Bell is the only Raptors player who can stand up to Wade.

When he couldn't hold up Wade, the Raptors suffered.

Yao Ming is the nemesis of Ou and Milicic, and Laga Bell cannot withstand Wade. How do you want the Raptors to play?

In the end, the Raptors, the strongest team in the Eastern Conference, failed to bring the series back to their home court at 2-4 and lost the series.

Anyone who has watched this series can feel that although the big score is 4 to 2, the Heat actually won very easily.

The Heat are even trying to make ends meet in this series.

Because the Western Conference is very fierce, the Heat don't want to end the conference finals quickly. Although there are advantages to taking more rest, there are also disadvantages.

What's more, the Heat don't actually need that much rest.

The Western Conference Finals between the Spurs and Lakers is also a series that Chen Xiao pays close attention to.

In this series, the two teams played really excitingly.

In the Western Conference semifinals, the Spurs and Lakers defeated the Mavericks and Suns respectively to enter the finals.

The two semifinals were also very tough, and neither the Mavericks nor the Suns were weak teams.

Especially the Suns, with O'Neal, Rasheed and Stoudemire sitting inside the basket, shrinking the defense and playing positional warfare, and even almost pushed the Lakers to a desperate situation.

The Lakers are known as the strongest team in the league, but this team has weaknesses.

First, this team's three-point shooting is not that strong.

Secondly, this team's internal offensive ability is not that strong.

Again, this team cannot play too fast a run and gun attack, because the triangle offense is a positional offense system.

So, what can you do when O'Neal, Stoudemire and Rasheed are sitting at the basket?

They can only fight for three-pointers, and use their own triangle offense to fight hard against the Suns.

I have to say that it really makes sense for the Suns to restrain the Lakers in previous seasons.

If it weren't for Kobe's improved strength, the Lakers would be in danger in this series.

When Kobe didn't advance, he played triangle offense and extreme singles, and his average field goal percentage was 45%. This is good, but this efficiency is not enough. In this series, Kobe's singles field goal percentage reached 48%!

In this season's playoffs, Kobe's form is indeed very good. His post-up shooting percentage and Roy's shooting percentage at the basket are the highest in the league, exceeding 60%.

And this is also the key to the Lakers defeating the Suns.

Without Kobe's efficiency, the Lakers would not have been able to reach G7. If they hadn't reached G7, O'Neal and Rasheed would not have collapsed due to physical strength.

In short, the power of playing against the Suns, Gasol, Artest, and Baron Davis is minimized, and there is not much room for use.

The whole series really depends on Kobe's hard play.

Kobe averaged 31 shots per game throughout the series, averaged 15 field goal percentages per game, and averaged 37 points, 9 rebounds and 6 assists per game.

In this series, Kobe played really, really hard.

Because the inside is locked, most of Kobe's shots are very far, and opponents are not afraid of him breaking through, so the defense against him is really tight. This also makes Kobe's every offense ridiculed by Chris Webber as being able to enter the five-point range. The level of good golf.

It is precisely because of the Sun's blockade of the penalty area that Kobe averaged 8.7 three-pointers per game in this series.

Everyone should know that Ke Boss is actually not that reliable in three-pointers.

It can only be said that O'Neal and the Suns fought too hard in this series.

If it weren't for the amazing physical strength of the boss of the department, he might have been scrapped long ago.

In this series, with so few free throws by the boss, he averaged 37 points per game, which is scary for normal people to think about.

It can only be said that O'Neill really doesn't want Boss Ke to win easily even if he dies.

This is a bit similar to the Bobcats pulling the Raptors back.

It's just that Chen Xiao and Nash have no grievances, Chen Xiao is practicing the professionalism of the game.

And O'Neal...

Of course, he is also practicing professionalism, but everyone knows that Ao Pang is not that energetic at ordinary times, but when he faced the boss of Shangke, his professionalism was simply overwhelming. Such a big man, it was ridiculous that he was still playing hard and cooperative in the game. Damn, how many years has it been?

But anyway, Boss Ke led the Lakers to the Western Conference Finals with his super strength and physical strength.

And it is precisely because Kobe Bryant fought so hard in the Western Conference semifinals that the Lakers and Spurs played in the Western Conference finals extremely interestingly.

What an interesting method?

That is the boss of the crazy 'Kerry' in the semifinals, and the crazy undercover in the Western Conference finals.

Artest, Gasol and Odom went crazy in the semifinals, and Kyrie went crazy in the Western Conference finals.

It is actually not surprising that such a situation occurs.

The Spurs were originally a very difficult opponent for Kobe Bryant. Historically, Kobe Bryant was the Spurs killer, but in this time and space, the Spurs are really Kobe's nemesis.

Because two of the best players in the entire league who are facing off against Kobe Bryant are in the Spurs, Ron Howard and Arenas.

It's not easy to beat the Spurs when Colbert is full of health, let alone now that he is almost at the end of his health?

On the other side, although Artest is useless against the Suns, it is really useful against the Spurs.

The Suns don't have a super outside scorer and don't need Artest's defense. The Suns' outside strengths, Quentin Richardson and Wade Barbosa Jr., one is a running flow and the other is a burst flow. What Artest is good at.

But guarding an opponent like Ron Howard who uses rhythm, IQ, basketball intelligence, height and wingspan to play, all of them are in Artest's favor.

Gasol and Gasol are in a similar situation. Although they can't attack hard at the basket, the Spurs' inside combination of Howard and Diaw are too short. They can shoot, they have the tonnage advantage, and they can also grab rebounds under the basket. Although they The two may not be able to steal one of Howard, but at least they will not be so passive. They can also use their own characteristics against the Spurs and not make the Lakers players seem to have disappeared.

Kobe mainly defends Arenas, and he also has to play Ron Howard on the offensive end. This is really difficult for Kobe.

There's nothing we can do about it.

The same goes for Ron Howard. The defense has to guard against Kobe and the offense has to beat Artest. Even if his physical condition is better than Kobe, it will still be difficult.

Therefore, this series between the Lakers and the Spurs is really interesting. Kobe and Ron Howard, the two team bosses, are struggling on the offensive end. The two teams are stealing the show from other players, such as Diaw from the Spurs. Bowen, Howard, Lakers' big and small Gasol, Artest and so on.

As for the player who stole the show the most in this series, there is no doubt that it must be the Spurs power forward, Diaw!

This season is Diaw's first time in the NBA playing in the playoffs as the team's main core.

And he played really well in this playoffs!

In the last round of the Spurs' win over the Mavericks, Diaw averaged 18 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists on 53% shooting, which was the key to the Spurs' victory over the Mavericks.

In this series with the Lakers, Diaw's performance, which he believed in, was even more incredible.

Throughout the series, because Ron Howard's offense was blocked, Arenas encountered Kobe's tenacious blockage, and Diaw later became the core of the team's offense.

Yes, he used to be a playmaker, but in this series he has become an offensive core.

And what’s even more interesting is that he did quite well, I should say super well!

He averaged 19 shots per game, 9.9 hits per game, and a field goal percentage of over 52%. He averaged 24.5 points, 8.6 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks per game.

This is simply a living super power forward!

Under the terrifying defensive intensity of the Spurs and Lakers series, Diaw is the only player who can average 20 points per game and a 50% shooting percentage.

He is the leading scorer in this series and has the highest shooting percentage among players with more than 20 points.

It can only be said that this player who was born as Chen Xiao's younger brother is not only terrifying in all-round, but also terrifyingly smart. On the offensive end, he used Howard to contain the Lakers inside and ran and cut like crazy. Let's put it this way, when Diaw was defending Gasol Height is a disadvantage, but when attacking, his height and flexibility become advantages.

And he, this series took advantage of that perfectly.

In this series, Lakers fans are always disappointed to see Diaw inexplicably go to the basket for a layup, or a second offense layup.

I have to say that Diaw was really excited to play in this year's playoffs.

In history, when Diaw was with the Suns, he played the main offense in the playoffs for the first time. He faced the Lakers in the playoffs and the Mavericks, the strongest team at the time, and averaged close to 20 points per game in the entire 20 games of the playoffs. 19 points, shooting rate as high as 53%, and nearly 7 rebounds and 5 assists.

When he performed this way in the history of the Suns, it was 2006, and now, it is 2008.

Dior, who has been dormant beside Chen Xiao for so many years, is no worse than in history.

Chen Xiao knows Diaw's strength very well. This guy has a very special rhythm and is very strong. The biggest factor that affects his performance is not his strength, but his mentality. He is a player with a bit of a salty mentality. Somewhat lazy.

Obviously, Diaw was very excited to play the main offense in the playoffs for the first time.

At the same time, Popovich's trust in him also made him very excited.

And he also gave Popovich an almost perfect series, if you count the previous two series.

Diaw has performed flawlessly for three series.

So far, after playing in the playoffs with the Lakers, in 20 games this playoffs, he has averaged 19 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists per game, shooting 52% from the field and 43% from the three-point range. He is actually the Spurs' most stable player. Can you believe this?

So far, the Spurs' playoff MVP is not the boss Ron Howard, nor the second player Arenas, nor the third player Howard, but Diaw, the new guy to the team.

There used to be debates about who was the winner in the swap between Scola and Diaw.

When the Spurs finally eliminated the Lakers 4-3 and entered the Finals, everyone was exclaiming at Popovich's discerning eye.

During Scola's years with the Spurs, no series reached the level of Diaw's three series. The stability is not at the same level, and the big heart is not at the same level.

For a time, what Popovich said before: "The wonder boy is surrounded by treasures!" once again became the focus of the entire NBA.

No matter what, after the Eastern and Western Conference finals, the finals matchup is announced, another showdown between the Spurs and the Heat!

Howard is gearing up.

Yao Ming, on the other hand, frowned a little and sighed in his heart. He didn't want to play with the Spurs because...

Yao Ming looked at Wade next to him.

Wade, on the other hand, looked as usual.

"Yao, maybe this is fate, but I don't care about this."

A calm and calm look.