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The new season is coming.

This year's Philadelphia 76ers is the first time that Allen Iverson has made it to the playoffs in his career, and this is also the first appearance of the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA playoffs in the Iverson era.

And this debut was indeed good. Iverson's first playoff appearance eliminated the post-O'Neal era Orlando Magic and advanced to the second round.

This year's Iverson is indeed stronger, but if you want to say why the 76ers can make the playoffs this year, the primary credit should be given to the newly appointed coach Larry Brown!

Larry Brown creatively let Allen Iverson, who is only 1.8 meters tall, play the second position, and let Eric Snow, who is better at defense, play the first position.

Such a move greatly released Iverson's scoring instinct, allowing the Philadelphia 76ers, a team with only Iverson as a scoring point, to win consecutive games in the playoffs.

In the first round against the Magic, except for the second game where Iverson was double-teamed and scored only 13 points, he scored 30 points, 33 points, 10 steals, and 37 points in the other three games, leading the team to eliminate the Orlando Magic 3:1.

The last person who delivered such a crazy performance in his first playoff appearance was Han Yi last season!

And this time, the two scoring maniacs, the Georgetown University twins who became more and more courageous in the playoffs, finally met in the playoffs!

Starting lineups of both teams:

Philadelphia 76ers:

PG: Eric Snow, SG: Allen Iverson, SF: George Lynch, PF: Theo Ratliff, C: Matt Geiger.

Boston Celtics:

PG: Joe Dumars, SG: Dell Curry, SF: Tracy McGrady, PF: Han Yi, C: Ben Wallace.

The current Philadelphia 76ers are actually following the future 76ers team of one offense and four defenses. Although Iverson is said to be bad at defense, his defense at the No. 1 position is not bad at all. As for the other four, you can see "defense" written all over their profiles with just a search.

Especially Matt Geiger, before Han Yi entered the league, he was known as the only man on the earth who could make O'Neal tremble!

The reason is that this white strong man broke O'Neal's thumb with an iron sand palm in the 1995 preseason, and he had to go home to recover for a month and a half before he could play again.

This shortened season of 1998-1999 was the highlight of Matt Geiger's offense. Perhaps because the 76ers really didn't have players who could digest the inside offense, they let this guy who was labeled as a blue-collar player and averaged 9 points per game in his career take on a lot of inside offense, and the result was unexpectedly good.

After the first round of the series, Matt Geiger averaged 17 points with a hit rate of 48%. Of course, the hit rate of 48 is not high for the inside, but in the harsh scoring environment of the 76ers, such a hit rate is completely acceptable.

After all, the hit rate of the core Allen Iverson is only 41%!

He is also an authentic Philadelphia blacksmith! And he is the one with the largest iron production in the league!

At the start of the jump ball, there was no surprise. Han Yi easily jumped over Matt Geiger!

Joe Dumars, as usual, was not in a hurry to find Han Yi at the beginning, but fed other players.

The playoffs are not like the regular season. For the Celtics, if other role players besides Han Yi can score at the beginning of this playoff game, then this game will be a winning game!

So, just after halftime, McGrady was given a chance to play alone!

McGrady's three-pointer is also very bad now. At the beginning, the 76ers played very open because they were afraid of the Celtics' space points. Only Matt Geiger was guarding the basket. He simply rushed in with the big white bear in the inside!

In the current NBA, more and more white inside players have been labeled as soft eggs, but Matt Geiger is not one of them. He is burly, lacks defensive skills, and is more than fierce!

McGrady's inside confrontation did not take any advantage of Matt Geiger. After the physical confrontation, the moment the basketball was shot, his hand strength was small, and the basketball finally went out of the basket!

Matt Geiger received the rebound, and the Philadelphia 76ers launched an attack!

For the Philadelphia 76ers, the idea was not so complicated. As soon as Eric Snow dribbled across half court, his mind was filled with

Only one sentence is left:

Find Iverson, find Iverson, find Iverson, I must say this three times!

After Iverson got the ball, there were no teammates or defenders in front of him, and only the basket was in his eyes!

With a "whoosh" sound, he turned into a shadow and flashed to the heart of the Celtics. Facing layers of defenders, he threw himself into the air and then looked for the basket!

With a flick of the wrist!

The ball went in and the man flew!

2:0!

The Philadelphia 76ers took the lead!

However, although it was his share, Iverson got up and scolded the referee:

"Are you blind? Foul, foul, can't you see it?"

The referee said that I was not only blind but also deaf, otherwise I would definitely give you a technical foul.

To say whether Iverson was fouled just now, it was indeed fouled, but can it be ignored?

In this era, it is completely feasible not to blow the foul, it all depends on the mood of the referee.

However, the white referee was already annoyed by a bad boy like Iverson. Iverson was as popular among the people as he was in the league!

Obviously, a small superstar with super strength and good looks should be the darling of the league's star-making, but this guy went against the league's rules and regulations everywhere, completely rebellious against the NBA's current pursuit of money and making the NBA a gentleman's sport that white gentlemen love to watch.

Not calling a foul on him was because he was small, and he wanted to take advantage of us calling a foul?

Compared with Iverson, Han Yi's skin color is also not pleasing, but at least he is not as outrageous as Iverson, and his strength is obviously stronger!

When Iverson's complaints were not over, Han Yi had already completed a powerful one-handed slam dunk in a fast break!

2:2!

Facing Han Yi, Iverson thought of everything that happened in college. He witnessed how Han Yi went from a basketball idiot who could only block shots to a basketball devil!

How he and himself faced the crazy enemies that came like a tide in the NCAA arena!

How he led his team to win the highest honor of the NCAA alone after entering the NBA!

How he was so close to himself in the NBA draft, but finally took off the 76ers cap he had already put on and parted ways!

Everything that had happened was in the past, and only the reality of each serving their own master remained!

In the past, Iverson could safely leave his back to Han Yi for success, but today, if he wants to reach the top, Han Yi has become the insurmountable mountain!

"Han Yi!"

Iverson vowed: "I will definitely beat you!"

But this is not a 1V1 duel!

Han Yi never thought about fighting Iverson one-on-one:

"Adults should not be as stupid as children. Why fight one-on-one when you can fight in a group?"