NBA: Magic Johnson opens the season, crowned MOP

Because the Spurs advanced early, the other three rounds of the Eastern and Western Conference semifinals were scheduled on the same day.

The series jointly broadcast by ESPN and TNT will also end on this day - this is something that outside fans did not expect!

At 3:10 pm on May 16, the Heat and the Bulls' Game 5 started first.

An hour later, when James and Wade were sitting on the bench in their training suits, they were already bored and played the"bottle standing" game with their teammates.

Only Thrombonroon was left alone to"fight" on the court - don't ask why Bosh didn't leave the court at this time. If you were a star who had been selected as an All-Star nine times, and you only got 11 points, 6 rebounds and 2 blocks in the playoffs... you would also choose to stay on the court to brush up your data when you were leading by a big score of 109:82!

(Bosh: Damn, the data and honors have been taken by those two guys, is it too much for me to brush up some rebounds in garbage time?) At

5:10 pm that day, the Heat's Big Three"jubilantly" attended the post-match press conference at home, officially announcing that the Heat had advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals for three consecutive years.

The star player LeBron made some remarks at the press conference which excited the Miami fans:

"Just like the first round against Milwaukee, our entire team hopes to share the joy of winning and advancing with the fans at home!"

James, wearing sunglasses in front of the camera, stood up with a serious face and officially announced to the microphone:

"I hope that the Eastern Conference Finals, and even the finals, will also be held at the American Airlines Center!"

Wow - the Miami fans who watched the Heat games in front of the TV in thousands of households were boiling with excitement...

What is the king

's demeanor? What is the confidence from the"Emperor of Basketball"?

What is the big yellow and eight...

No... Anyway, that's what it means.

He can say that the"unexpected" loss is to share the joy of promotion with the fans at home...

I can only say that he is worthy of being the"Media Basketball Emperor" of the new century!

Presumably, the little emperor has already had a plan for the next Eastern Conference Finals against the Indiana Pacers, right?

It should be before the league introduces new rules You helped the team advance 4:0, right?

That's right. Forty minutes after the news of the Heat sweeping the Chicago Bulls came out, at the Indiana Pacers' home stadium, Bankers Life Fieldhouse, the New York Knicks, who came from afar, lost to the more comprehensive Pacers 86:94.

The total score was 2:4, and they were eliminated!

The Big Five contributed 76 points, with George scoring 25 points alone. Hibbert was assigned to attack the Knicks' weak inside line and grabbed 18 rebounds...

On the Knicks side, Anguaquan The highest 31 points in the game could not save the team. Boxing champion Chandler struggled against two quasi-All-Stars, Hibbert and West, in the penalty area and got a double-double of 12+13. At the same time, he blocked 7 shots on the defensive end, which also broke his personal single-game block record in the playoffs.

In fact, the biggest factor in the Knicks' loss in this game was the team's bench. The Pacers were led by the"No. 1 James fan" who has gradually entered the peak of his career. At the critical moment at the beginning of the fourth quarter, he led the bench to beat the Knicks 14:3.

The Knicks had led by eight points in the third quarter. The point advantage was gone, and what did JR Smith, who was voted second in the"Sixth Man of the Year" in the regular season, do at this time?

Let's enjoy the"highlight Jordan"'s"wisdom-destroying" operation:

Hibbert nailed his layup on the board when he was one-on-three, was called for a traveling violation when he jumped at the free throw line, missed a three-pointer on defense, and was intercepted by his junior when he passed the ball behind his back and turned it into a fast break...

Uh... I can only say that it's hard to comment!

The Pacers beat him 14:3, and Angua, who had less than two minutes of rest on the sidelines, hurriedly changed his clothes and went on the court.

""Michael Jordan" should take at least two-thirds of the blame.

It's pitiful to say that Guagua is also pitiful. Although he played poorly in a few games in this year's playoffs, overall, it was definitely the best individual performance in the first two rounds!

(Angua: Nonsense, if you were surrounded by a group of"underdogs" who can't even play as substitutes and whose salaries are not commensurate with their virtues, you would also have to break your sickle...

) If you look closely, the performance of the Knicks' players in the playoffs this year, except for boxing champion Chandler who averaged 11+11, which was relatively stable, there was also the"nervous knife" who averaged 12.

2 points, 4.

4 rebounds, 2 assists, and a shooting percentage of 35.

8%.

"JR、Felton with 11+8+3, Shumpert with 9+6+1...

and lying off the court was the"little bully" Stoudemire, who was paid 20 million US dollars, the highest salary on the team, and played only 18 games in the whole season!

Who else would lead this team and not be defeated in the first round?

It was me... With an"ultra-high" shooting percentage of 40.6% per game, I led this team to second place in the Eastern Conference and into the second round of the playoffs.

(In fact, in the playoffs that year, the biggest problem for the Knicks was that Gua was too sticky to the ball, and he and JR formed a singles duo at critical moments. Of course, Mike Woodson's inability to control these"arrogant soldiers" was also one aspect.)

Now that the situation in the East is clear, the two teams facing each other in the Western Conference Finals are also"freshly prepared.""——

After the Spurs swept Golden State to advance to the Western Conference Finals, the Grizzlies beat the Thunder by 14 points at home. The two bears worked together to officially end Durant's playoff journey.

This game (G6) didn't have any special highlights. Even after watching the whole game, you didn't know when the Thunder started to"collapse" by a large margin... The

Grizzlies under Hollins' system have achieved the ultimate defense.

In the two rounds of the series, they played against all the so-called"overwhelming talents""、"The young army of"beasts rampant"...

Fans who have watched the game can feel that the Grizzlies are extremely"smart" and perfect on the defensive end - in the first round against the Clippers, Randolph, who is not good at defense, was alone on the Clippers' scoring leader, allowing Gasol to free up his hands to assist in defense and sweep the restricted area!

Using the new DPOY's sweeping deterrence in the restricted area, the connection between the Clippers' starting three ends, or to put it more directly, let Paul fall into the quagmire of singles, so that the so-called"City of Alley-Oops" wasted half of the skills of the two giants, Jordan and Griffin...

and When Paul was isolated and helpless, he had to face Conley and Tony Allen, two of the best defensive Grizzlies outside players.

Not only was Paul inefficient, but the fact that he was prevented from turning the ball over 3.

4 times per game in the series showed how successful the Grizzlies' defense was!

In the second round, they played against the Thunder, a team with more talent than the Clippers. Although they were missing Westbrook, the second-in-command, the Thunder still caused a lot of trouble for the Grizzlies in the first two games of the series...

But, it was only two games!

Hollins quickly found the"loopholes" in Brooks' tactical system."——

Too dependent on Durant's indiscriminate singles ability!

This makes the other players of the Thunder"accustomed" to using the containment created by Durant on the court to play...

So in the third game, people can keenly perceive the changes in the Grizzlies' defense -

Tony Allen, the best defense in the team and the most reliable"shield" of the Grizzlies' outside line, defends Durant alone!

Then the rest of the Grizzlies players"targeted the Thunder"!

What is"targeted"?

It means that when Ibaka, Perkins, Martin and other Thunder players who basically have no ability to attack independently stand on the court, the Grizzlies have to send two people to surround him...

Of course, this is an exaggeration. To be more specific, the Grizzlies' wing defense has developed to the point where they can defend two or even more players who get the ball in a short period of time. So in the entire series, except for G5 at home, where Durant"descended from heaven" and scored 39 points to lead the team to a difficult win, the Thunder's score in each game did not even exceed 100...

What is this concept?

The Thunder achieved the second-best record in the Western Conference with 61 wins and 21 losses in the regular season this season, and the average total score of 106.1 points per game surpassed the Golden State Warriors led by the"Splash Brothers" to top the league's regular season average score list!

Since entering the playoffs, after losing the team's second-in-command Westbrook, an important scorer with an average of 23 points per game, the Thunder averaged 108.7 points per game against the Rockets in the first round.

Uh... Do you think that without Westbrook, the Thunder played better?

No, not really.

Because they also allowed the Rockets to get an average of 102.7 points per game, which is five points higher than the Rockets' regular season average of 97.8 points per game, and Harden played an eye-catching data of 26+7+5 per game... In the six playoff games against the Grizzlies in the second round, except for Durant who averaged 27+8+4 with an average shooting rate of 43.9%, the rest of the players did not even have an average score of more than 15 points per game.

The second scoring point in the team was Kevin Martin, a"crooked" shooter who averaged 13.9 points per game.

Sophomore Reggie Jackson did have a highlight stat of 12+6+5...

But apart from these three people, there was no fourth player in the Thunder team who scored in double digits.

In the last four games after Hollins"saw through" the core of the tactics, the team's average total score even dropped sharply to 86.3 points...

Tsk tsk!

After this wave, it is estimated that Xiaoshuai will never again dislike his second brother's"hot-headed" problem...

Du Xiaoshuai said: Woo woo woo, in the whole Oklahoma City, only my second brother Turtle who has been snatching shots from me can help me!

I swear, I must treat Turtle well in the future, and I will never use a small account to lead the rhythm of"Turtle" on Twitter again.

Turtle and I will dedicate our entire career"loyalty" to the fans of Oklahoma City!

(Du's inner OS: Bring one, two, three to Oklahoma City………Six or seven championships! )

Just like that, Xiao Shuai returned to Oklahoma City with the news of his defeat to visit his injured second brother, Turtle, and planned to join hands with his second brother to make a big move next season!

To get back all the"anger" he suffered from the Rockets and Grizzlies this season...

Although I don't know if dear Turtle will be able to return next season...

May God bless Turtle!

Amen!