I’m Really Playing Basketball

Because of his son Jordan's outstanding performance in the Jazz, Joe, as the culprit who once sent the Jazz into the abyss, is now an out-and-out Jazz fan.

This is really not a joke. In the past few years, Boss Joe has watched the Jazz games the most besides the Bobcats games.

Even with the Bulls, Joe couldn't watch more than a few games a season.

Many times, fate is so wonderful.

Who would have thought that more than ten years later, Jordan would become a Jazz fan?

Will Jordan's son give it all for the Jazz?

Boss Joe is now full of hope, expecting that his Bobcats and DeAndre Jordan's Jazz can meet in the finals together, which will definitely lead to an epic story.

To be honest, Chen Xiao actually hopes to meet Xiao Chen in the NBA Finals one day.

However, Xiao Chen is only 8 years old now. If he really waits until then, Chen Xiao will probably be 40 years old. Is this standby time too long?

It can only be said that meeting Xiao Chen in the NBA finals one day in the future is indeed very attractive to Chen Xiao. After all, everyone has this desire.

However, these are things for the future. The most important thing now is to deal with the Pacers' playoffs.

The Pacers performed very well this season. Last season, due to the conflict between the Pacers' leading player Beasley and the leading player Juan Wagner, the Pacers' performance last season was a mess. Beasley himself also lost the best rookie and the best player. Griffin's chance to compete.

In this regard, Larry Bird, the real boss behind the Pacers, will naturally not allow the team's chaos to continue, so after sending Wagner to Houston in exchange for Houston's leading guard Jay Williams this season, the Pacers' The results took off.

In fact, the Pacers have no shortage of talent. The team's Beasley and Kevin Love are both very talented players.

What the Pacers actually lack is an experienced leader. There is no doubt that although they are both Chen Xiao's opponents in the NCAA, Wagner and Williams are close in strength, and even Wagner may be a little stronger in personal talent. After all, Kobe and Allen A combination of Ferson, but in terms of leading the team, Williams is indeed more suitable to lead young people.

After Williams came to the Pacers this season, Love and Beasley performed very well under his guidance. Beasley's scoring average this season increased from less than 20 points per game last season. 23 points. The one who has made greater progress is actually Love. Last season, due to the boss dispute between Wagner and Beasley, Love didn’t even have the ball in his hands. Even Beasley’s ball rights were limited. Love was in Who is the onion before Wagner?

But this season, Love got a little more than 14 shot opportunities with the Pacers, and the number of shots increased by 50%. And he also lived up to the trust given to him by Williams and the Pacers, shooting 47% this season. rate and 42% three-point shooting rate, averaging 20 points and 14 rebounds per game.

In addition to Williams, who also averaged 20 points and 9 assists this season, the Pacers actually have three players averaging more than 20 points per game this season. Otherwise, the Pacers would be difficult to defeat in such a fiercely competitive Eastern Conference. The Magic and Nets made it to the playoffs. After all, this season, the Pacers also had a record of 48 wins, almost 50 wins.

This is not easy in the East.

It can only be said that the Pacers are indeed not weak. Jay Williams, Kevin Love, and Mike Beasley have three All-Star players with Gortat, Francisco Garcia, and Jarrett Jack. With three former Bobcat important role players traded from the Bobcats, this is a very combative team.

Of course, the Pacers are very capable of reaching the playoffs in the Eastern Conference. This is not luck, but strength. However, compared with the Bobcats, the Pacers' strength is certainly several dimensions behind.

G1 of the playoffs between the Bobcats and the Pacers is on April 16, the first game since the start of the NBA playoffs. In other words, the playoffs between the Bobcats and the Pacers is the opening of this year's NBA playoffs.

Although it is easy for the Bobcats to defeat the Pacers, for Chen Xiao and the Bobcats, the Pacers are really not an ordinary team. This team is still somewhat special to Chen Xiao and the Bobcats.

For example, Beasley, the leader of the Pacers, is Chen Xiao's younger brother and half-disciple. Seeing that the younger brother he has led for so many years is now standing in front of him in the playoffs, although he has not played in the playoffs or the finals. He was so excited when he met his son Xiao Chen, but Chen Xiao was definitely touched in his heart.

There is also the leader of the Pacers, Jay Williams. After so many years, this leader of the Pacers has changed from the handsome young boy in college who was considered a handsome black boy to a burly and muscular boy. A greasy middle-aged man, the butcher's knife of time is extremely obvious on his body.

After all, Jay Williams is thirty years old this year. For an athlete, he is not as good as middle-aged, or he has entered the end of his career.

Thinking back to when he and Jay Williams lived and died in the NCAA, and now, he and Jay have become one of the best friends. I have to say that this is also the greatness of time.

It can only be said that the car accident he had at that time, which was lucky for him, had a great impact on him. After all, two lives were lost. Morey, the former vice president of Kaizi, and his junior student both died because of this car accident. Lost their lives, and died miserably.

However, the two deceased people who raised Williams can rest assured that their wives, daughters, and girlfriends are living happily with Williams.

For their sake, Williams converted to Mormonism.

There are a lot of messy religions here in the United States, but Mormonism is relatively formal.

Although the most famous system of Mormonism has been abolished, everyone in the United States knows that this system still exists. Although it is not legal, in a society where votes determine everything, when people here can use their votes When deciding on your future, it is important to learn to turn a blind eye.

Therefore, even though Williams is a Pacers player, he has already made his home in southern Utah. As for why southern Utah, it is because southern Utah borders Colorado and Arizona.

Because the laws of each state in the United States are different, these FLDS (one F, multiple Q) families live in locations bordering several states, which is equivalent to a "three-no-no" area, and if something goes wrong, they will run to another state.

Therefore, Jay Williams usually persuades Chen Xiao and Luo Ge to convert to the Mormon Church of Latter-day Saints, and often uses the church’s leader Warren Jeffs as an example. , has more than 80 wives and more than 500 children. Chen Xiao was shocked when he learned this anecdote or the inside story.

But it’s normal to think about it. After all, the more wives and children you have, the better you can go to a higher level of heaven. With this teaching, it’s not surprising that such a god-man comes out.

Of course, although Chen Xiao was very moved by Jay Williams' persuasion, he still reluctantly refused in the end.

For him, it was still too shocking. After all, Chen Xiao had always thought that he was a relatively simple man.

Of course, although Chen Xiao refused, he knew that Jay Williams was having fun.

In addition to Beasley and Jay Williams, two people who are very close to Chen Xiao, the Pacers also have three former Bobcats comrades in Garcia, Jack and Gortat, although the three have now left the Bobcats. , but the relationship between everyone is still very good.

Therefore, the playoffs between the Bobcats and the Pacers are also called a contest between the Bobcats' first and second teams by many American media and experts.

The final result was, of course, very easy to guess. Without any effort, the Bobcats eliminated the Pacers with a score of 4-0 in the first round.

Although the Pacers are good, Beasley and Love, the two core players of this team, are playing in the playoffs for the first time. Even if they maintain their regular season combat effectiveness, they cannot beat the Bobcats, let alone them. In the playoffs, the strength will be compromised.

In this series, the Bobcats beat the Pacers by at least 15 points in every game, and the fourth quarters of all four games were garbage time.

In his first playoff trip, Beasley averaged 21 points per game and shot 41% from the field, while Love averaged 12 points and 12 rebounds per game and shot 37% from the field. Jay Williams is still the Pacers' most stable player, averaging 16 points per game but shooting 45% from the field.

It can be said that the Bobcats played the Pacers in the first round, which was definitely the easiest group of these matches in the Eastern Conference.

In fact, the other three groups, the Bucks beat the Celtics, the Heat beat the Bulls, and the Cavaliers beat the Raptors, were not that easy.

For example, take this series between the Bucks and the Celtics. The Celtics can match up with the Bucks' five small players, Rubio, Gerald Green, Gay, Adam Morrison, and Noah. Ah...

In this series, the Celtics have caused a lot of trouble for the Bucks, especially the Celtics' leading player, Larry Bird Jr., and Roy's most respected opponent, Adam Morrison.

This is the first time he has led the team to the playoffs. Over the years, he has been protected by the Celtics like porcelain in the regular season. This time in the playoffs, he led the Celtics to play A performance that shocked Boston and the world.

In this series, he faced Durant, the favorite for the NBA regular season MVP. Many people said that he would be crushed by Durant.

After all, no matter in terms of technology, body, athletic ability, or talent, he is better than Durant. But in the end, this little Larry Bird used his weird offensive rhythm and excellent comprehensive offensive skills to beat Durant. The fight was very embarrassing.

It's kind of like the all-time invincible Durant meets the Spurs' human squirming essence, Kyle Anderson.

Of course, Morrison is definitely an enhanced version of Anderson, taking his offense and rhythm to almost the extreme.

Because Durant's center of gravity is relatively high, he is very bad at dealing with this kind of rhythm when defending, because it is difficult to control the twisting of his tall body.

This is also painful for Chen Xiao. In the previous finals, Chen Xiao was often beaten by Kevin Durant with a rhythm. Durant was taller than Chen Xiao and was even more demanding.

It can be said that this time Durant faced off against Morrison, it really felt a bit like Chen Xiao playing against the boss in the finals.

Of course, Morrison is definitely not as strong as Durant, and the Celtics are not as strong as the Bucks. Therefore, Morrison and the Celtics can only create trouble for Durant and the Bucks, and finally After hard work, they were eliminated by the Bucks 1-4.

In addition to the Bucks and Bobcats, the Heat, who are third in the Eastern Conference, also defeated the Bulls 4-1 in the first round to advance. The Bulls led by Deron have been very strong in recent years, just because there are a group of stronger teams above them. They didn't get the record they deserved, but it's not easy for any team to beat the Bulls.

As for the most watched game between the Cavaliers and Raptors in the first round, the two teams played until the tiebreaker. Really, the strength of the two opponents in this series was too close.

As for the most watched showdown between Oden and the future NBA center of Milicic's home, Milicic certainly won. Milicic is already a 99% combination of Nowitzki + Garnett. , and as a combination of Duncan + O'Neal, Oden may not even have 60%.

In front of Milicic, Oden still looked very immature.

The reason why this series reached a tiebreaker was entirely because of Xiao Zhan.

In the end, in the tiebreaker, James led the Cavaliers to defeat the Raptors with his super performance of 16 of 29, 2 of 4 three-pointers, 7 of 9 free throws, 47 points, 15 rebounds and 5 assists.

In this series, Xiao Zhan averaged 35 points, 11 rebounds, 4 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.5 blocks per game.

This was the first time that Xiao Zhan led the Cavaliers to the second round after leaving Chen Xiao. At the moment when he led the team to the final advancement, Xiao Zhan covered his face and cried in the 'GOD and King Arena'.

After so many years, after Chen Xiao left, he changed his style of play, gave up the ball, and transformed into a terminator. He no longer scored the points that his teammates could get, but took on the difficult points. Over the years, he has been extremely lucky, but at this moment, he finally felt that he had broken through the shackles.

Now Xiao Zhan doesn't have so many assists, but he makes people even more scared!

This is Chen Xiao's most intuitive feeling.

The singles James, as a terminator, is more scary than the all-around James who makes luck at the top of the key.

"A player of S was born."

Chen Xiao also felt the sense of danger conveyed by Xiao Zhan with Kobe and Wade.

Obviously, Xiao Zhan has broken through himself, and Chen Xiao is also sincerely happy for Xiao Zhan.

I have to say that the Raptors are really a good opponent, but Xiao Zhan has indeed cultivated a group of good teammates.

Conley, Oden, Danny Green, Wesley Matthews, they are all powerful at critical moments in the playoffs.

Even though Oden was defeated by Milicic, Oden also blocked Milicic. On the Raptors side, no one could hinder James like Oden. Josh Smith could block that lucky little guy. Zhan, but can't stop this aggressive Xiao Zhan.

The Cavaliers finally defeated the Raptors 4-3 under the leadership of James, which can be considered a small upset. After all, the Raptors have always been the better team in the Eastern Conference in previous seasons.

In the Western Conference, in addition to the Spurs, Lakers, and Timberwolves successfully advancing, a very surprising thing also happened.

First round matchup between Clippers and Mavericks.

When many people thought Nowitzki would suffer in the playoffs again, the Dallas Mavericks finally defeated the Clippers with a score of 4-2.

At the same time, in this series, Nowitzki changed from the previous season's embarrassment of being blocked by smaller players and being unable to attack. He played very well offensively, averaging 28 points per game. In fact, these scores and statistics are even more terrifying. It's still the content of the game.

After the series ended, Xiaopao called Chen Xiao with an impatient and trembling voice and said: "That guy, I feel like he has never been missed at the critical moment. Chen, I see your shadow in him! "

"..."

Chen Xiao knew, Xiaopao, that he had seen a god, and it was the kind of god who would definitely appear at a critical moment.

2011, playoffs, Nowitzki...

"Xiao Zhan, now there is Nowitzki, plus the previous boss Ke, Dayao, Wade..."

This is really a year full of gods!