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The Rockets beat the Spurs to enter the second round. Wang Feng was a little unexpected. After all, the Rockets this season were full of disasters. Many main players were injured in the regular season, including one of the core glider Drake. sler.

In his impression, although Drexler has returned from the playoffs, his state has obviously declined significantly compared to before the injury. In the playoffs, he averaged only 16.6 points, 7.8 rebounds and 5 assists per game, and his shooting percentage was 41%. .

You must know that when the Rockets won the second championship, Drexler averaged 20.5 points, 7 rebounds and 5.5 assists in the playoffs, and his shooting percentage was as high as 48%.

Such a declining level of Drexler is no longer the courage of the past, and it also allowed the Rockets to return to the period when Olajuwon led the team with a single core.

But it was such a Rockets team that eliminated the Spurs.

For Wang Feng, this is a good thing.

Although Olajuwon is stronger than David Robinson, it is much easier for Wang Feng's Warriors to face the Rockets than the Spurs.

In the future, many people say that if the big dream at his peak comes to the small ball era, he will definitely be able to win more personal honors and championships, because his style of play is very suitable for fast-paced small ball tactics .

But in fact, among the four major centers, the most suitable style of play in the small ball era is obviously David Robinson.

As a big center forward, the Admiral has the same nimble footwork as Dameng, and it is not a problem to gallop all over the court.

But there are still differences in the playing styles of the two. Olajuwon's dreamy footwork is gorgeous and efficient, but it is also a type of positional warfare. It requires the center to be positioned inside for one-on-one singles. In a sense It will still slow down the team's offensive rhythm.

David Robinson was different.

Although he is one of the four major centers, David Robinson's style of play is the least like a center.

In terms of inside footwork alone, Robinson is definitely the worst of the four major centers. Of course, this is only a comparison among the four centers. Looking at the league, his inside footwork is definitely top-notch.

What David Robinson is really good at is breaking through the frame with the ball, tentative jumpers, and fast break dunks.

If you ignore his position and height, you can say that David Robinson is a striker who is not good at shooting.

Such a player who has both offense and defense, has the size of a center forward, but has the speed comparable to a defender, is definitely a bug in the small ball era.

This point can be seen in the regular season, when the Warriors repeatedly lost to the Spurs.

The Warriors team led by Wang Feng is currently playing a variant version of the small ball tactics. The offensive rhythm is very fast. In the fast transition, they rely on Wang Feng's personal ability to score by himself or pass the ball to assist open teammates to score.

In the 90s when the overall offensive rhythm was slow, the Warriors combined with Wang Feng's super personal offensive ability to play small ball tactics like a fish in water. This is also the reason why the team can win 60 wins in the regular season.

But when they faced the Spurs, the offense was often blocked, or to put it bluntly, David Robinson's mobility comparable to a guard made the Warriors' fast break rhythm impossible.

His defensive area is so large that many times the ball passed by Wang Feng to his teammates will be interfered by his defense and cause it to miss the basket. In the end, it can only evolve into Wang Feng himself facing the Spurs. Play singles or stop and wait for the players on both sides to take their positions before attacking in positional warfare.

This is not a problem for the Rockets.

Olajuwon can bully David Robinson at will at the basket, but when facing the running Warriors, he will also appear a little powerless.

At his peak, Olajuwon was not much slower than David Robinson in terms of speed, and he was also extremely terrifying on the defensive end.

But now Dameng is 34 years old, and his physical function and physical strength have declined. Although his dream footsteps are becoming more and more perfect at the basket, facing a team that focuses on small-ball tactics like the Warriors, what he can do is very good. The place is only on the offensive end.

What's more, the Rockets also have Drexler, who is not recovering from his injury. In Wang Feng's opinion, it is easier to deal with than the Spurs.

Wang Feng is very grateful to the Rockets for helping them get rid of a strong opponent, but in the next game, he still has to do his best to eliminate the opponent and reach the Western Conference Finals!
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With the end of the first round of the playoffs, the matchup of the second round of the conference semifinals has been determined. The two games in the West are the Supersonics vs. the Jazz and the Warriors vs. the Rockets.

In the East, there are Bulls vs Knicks, Magic vs Eagles.

Before the start of the second round, as usual, the league first announced the selection of the best team of the season.

Without any suspense, Wang Feng averaged 38.7 points, 11.2 rebounds and 10.8 assists per game. Coupled with the fact that the Warriors jumped from the bottom of last season to second in the Western Conference and the record of 60 wins in the regular season, Wang Feng successfully ranked in the best team ranks.

Together with Wang Feng, Jordan, Hardaway, Malone and Robinson were also selected for the first team.

Pippen, who was originally supposed to be selected for the first team this season in history, was directly squeezed from the first team to the second team by Wang Feng. Olajuwon, Hill, Payton and Stockton are also on the second team list with him.

As for the five players in the best three teams are Mitch Richmond, Reggie Miller, Sean Kemp, Barkley and O'Neal.

O'Neal's situation is similar to that of Wang Feng last season. Although his average of 26.6 points and 11 rebounds per game is not worse than that of Robinson and Olajuwon in the first and second teams, the Magic also achieved 60 wins, which is better than the Spurs and Rockets. Both are better.

However, O'Neal was also troubled by injuries this season. He only played 52 games in the regular season.

The announcement of the best team every year will cause some controversy.

This time is no exception.

Payton's second team and Kemp's third team in the league's second-ranked Supersonics are obviously no better than the Bulls' first-and-second team and the Magic's first-and-third team in terms of honor.

What makes Warriors fans feel uncomfortable is that the above three 60-win teams have two players selected to the best team. When it is the turn of the Warriors with the same 60 wins, why is Wang Feng alone?

Among other things, Garnett's average of 18+8 per game is also very good. Based on his contribution to the team's defensive end, he can be selected for the third team or something.

Of course, this kind of personal views and wishes of fans will naturally not be taken seriously, they are just chatter after dinner.

Although the Warriors only had one player selected to the best team, two players were selected to the best defensive team, namely Wang Feng, who was selected to the first team, and guard Blaylock, who was selected to the second team.

I have to lament Wang Feng's strength. It's nothing more than a triple-double average of 38.7 points on the offensive end. He also plays an extremely important role on the defensive end.

The Warriors' small-ball style is more like the future 73-win Warriors.

Garnett undertakes a job similar to Green's on the defensive end. He guards the inside and is responsible for assisting defense at any time. Although limited by his physique, he will suffer from some heavy insides, but his advantage lies in his flexibility and excellent assist defense effect. .

Wang Feng and Blaylock are a bit like the defensive core of the Warriors' perimeter. One is Thompson and the other is Iguodala.

When encountering some teams with excellent perimeter players, Wang Feng and Blaylock will respectively mark the opponent's outstanding perimeter players, and the effect is outstanding.

Such a defensive tactical arrangement led Wang Feng and Blaylock to rank second and third in the league's steal list respectively. At the same time, Wang Feng averaged 2.5 steals and 1.2 blocks per game.

In addition to Wang Feng, those old friends who were selected for the defensive team were Jordan, Rodman, Gary Payton and David Robinson.

In contrast, the defensive second team players are more role players. Except for Olajuwon and the unlucky Pippen who scored twice and was squeezed out of the defensive first team by Wang Feng, the remaining three players, Blaylock , Blaylock, Horace Grant and Bobby Fiers can only be regarded as the team's starting main force, and they are not yet at the level of stars.

After all, compared to the best team, the best defensive team is an award that belongs to blue-collar players, and many times it is not even counted by stars in their personal career honors.

In the same way, even the best defensive player dpoy is also a blue-collar award. It is good to have it, but it will not affect the historical status of the star in the slightest.

The most typical case is Tim Duncan, the future legendary superstar of the Spurs. Duncan has never won the best defensive player in his entire career, but whenever he mentions an inside defensive player, Duncan will definitely be brought up to talk about it, and the evaluation is not at all. Will be lower than four-time Defensive Player of the Year Ben Wallace.

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The season awards have been announced, and the real season awards will be decided after the end of the second round and before the start of the Eastern and Western finals. Therefore, after a heated discussion, the fans still turned their attention back to the next more intense competition. In the playoffs.

The Warriors vs. Rockets game is naturally not as popular as the 72-win invincible Bulls vs. the defending champion Knicks in the East, but it also attracted a lot of attention. Most of them wanted to see what the Warriors led by Wang Feng's single-core team would be like. How far can people eat melons.

When Wang Feng first joined the Warriors last summer in an interview, he made it clear that he had only one goal when he came to the Warriors, and that was to lead the team to win the championship.

At that time, many people laughed at Wang Feng's overreaching, trying to lead a team that was at the bottom of the league last season and traded All-Star guard Tim Hardaway almost for nothing to compete for the championship.

If it is not like grandstanding to gain attention, then there is something wrong with the brain.

But more than half a year has passed, and now the Warriors are the second-ranked team in the Western Conference in the regular season, and they have successfully passed the first round and stood on the stage of the conference semifinals.

Many people want to know whether Wang Feng can fulfill his promise. If he can really lead such a Warriors team to win the championship, he will surpass Jordan and become the strongest in the league without any suspense. It was not until Pippen's arrival that he was able to win the championship with a single core. He won the first championship trophy in his career and established a three-peat dynasty.

In fact, even if the Warriors were eliminated in the next game against the Rockets, no one would make fun of Wang Feng. After all, being able to lead such a rebuilt team to the present is really terrifying.

If Wang Feng is lucky enough to lead the Warriors to defeat the Rockets and reach the Western Conference Finals, I am afraid that all the sports media will praise Wang Feng to the sky.

As for the Warriors winning the Western Conference Championship and meeting the Bulls in the finals... This possibility is even unthinkable to many Warriors fans.

On May 5, the first game of the second round of the playoffs began, and the Warriors sat at home to meet the Rockets' challenge.

The Warriors' starting roster remains the same, while the Rockets' starters are Kenny Smith, Drexler, Chucky Brown, Robert Horry and the big dream Olajuwon.

在替补席上，火箭队还有常规赛期间场均14.5分3篮板4.6助攻的萨姆.卡塞尔与场均11分3篮板3助攻的马里奥.埃利，整体实力看上去还算不错。

The eye-catching lineup even the Warriors' on-site commentary sweated for the team, frankly saying that this will be a difficult battle.

However, halfway through the game's commentary, he was surprised to find that this game seemed... not as difficult as he imagined?

At 31:28 of the first quarter, the two teams played back and forth. At 29:16 of the second quarter, the style of painting changed suddenly.

The score difference between the two teams at halftime has been 16 points, and the Rockets are behind.

In the third quarter of the game, at 28:25, the point difference was further widened, with a point difference of 19 points.

By the fourth quarter of the game, the Warriors were fully fired, and scored 30 points in a single quarter, scoring 118 points in the game. On the other hand, the Rockets only scored 20 points in the fourth quarter, scoring 89 points in the game, losing 29 points to the Warriors. point.

Such a huge point difference made the Warriors fans at home unexpected.

The championship in 94, the Rockets who also successfully reached the finals last season and were finally defeated by the Knicks are definitely one of the favorite teams in the playoffs. How could they be slaughtered by the Warriors?
But the facts are in sight.

Wang Feng scored 27 points, 8 rebounds and 12 assists. The early arrival of garbage time once again affected his personal data.

Six of the Warriors team scored in double figures, and their efficiency values ​​are also remarkable.

反观火箭队这边，全队最高的得分来自于奥拉朱旺14投7中的18分9篮板3助攻。

Then came Drexler's 15 points.

It's just that the latter's 15 points were not easy at all. Under Wang Feng's defense, the glider, whose state had been fluctuating due to his initial recovery from injuries, made 20 of 7 shots and 5 of 1 three-pointers. Not a single free throw.

The overall offense of the Rockets is very bad. The Warriors' style of play against the Rockets is to arrange Garnett, who is extremely mobile, to assist in double-teaming once Olajuwon wants the ball inside.

This is why Olajuwon took 14 shots in the entire game.

Dameng has comprehensive skills, outstanding personal abilities, and his footsteps are unique in the league. He can even suppress the other four centers. However, he is not completely invincible. He also has a weakness, that is, his ability to break double teams is weak.

Note that the weak double-team breaking ability here is only weaker than that of the four major centers.

After all, Olajuwon is not a center with heavy weight and strong resistance. He cannot forcibly break open the player who double-teamed him to score a dunk like O'Neill. When the opponent has two players double-teaming him, the space conditions inside are not bad. Because of his big dream footsteps, when Olajuwon encounters double-teaming, he is more inclined to pass the ball to teammates who are open outside than the less efficient 1v2 storming the basket.