Basketball starts with breathing

In the Eastern Conference finals, the Bulls failed to sweep the Pistons and lost the third game on the road.

Ben Wallace, Prince and Billups broke out in the third game. Not only did they defend like Tietong, but even Ben Wallace scored 20+ points.

When Big Ben can score 20 points, it's hard for the Pistons not to win.

After winning this game, the Pistons seemed to be blocked, and they were beaten by the Bulls, with a total score of 1-4.

In Lu Yu's previous life, the Pistons were the championship this season. Although their strength has declined without Hamilton, their tactical system still exists. The kind of play that kills people and does not pay for their lives is still a headache and disgusting for all teams in the league. tactics.

The Pistons faced the Pacers in the Eastern Conference finals.

The Pacers, with Artest as the core, didn't even make the playoffs this season.

But the Pacers in the Eastern Conference decisive battle with the Pistons, the two teams played a total of six games.

The highest scoring game by a single team was 85 points.

More than 60 points are commonplace.

You can see how disgusting the Pistons' defense is.

If it wasn't the Bulls, but any other Eastern Conference team, the Pistons would have a chance to win, but they're dealing with the 78-win Bulls, and they're already snickering if they can win the next game.

After winning the Bulls, many experts said that the Pistons' play style was the nemesis of the Bulls.

As long as you can limit the score of the Bulls and let your team score higher than the Bulls, isn't this nonsense, even a fool knows that's the case.

These basketball experts shut up as the Bulls made two consecutive sentences.

While the Pistons can limit the Bulls' scoring, it's too hard to get more points than the Bulls.

It's not that the Pistons' defense is not good enough, it's all to blame for Lu Yu's pervertedness. Even Ben Wallace's defense is a little difficult for his offense in the interior.

This is Lu Yu, this is obviously Olajulu!

The Western Conference playoffs are relatively close in strength, with only one sweep in the first round.

The Grizzlies were swept by the Spurs. Pau Gasol has made rapid progress. He is currently a fairly good power forward in the league. He averaged 17.7 points, 7.7 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game in the regular season. He has the ability to finish in the middle and is organized. Passing skills.

But compared to the basic skills Duncan is still a lot worse, not to mention the gap between the role players and the Spurs role players, it is understandable to be swept away.

The most eye-catching first-round match between the Lakers and the Warriors, in which Yao Ming and Shaquille O'Neal and the soaring points battle between Kobe and Arenas are even more interesting.

Just like the comparison between Gasol and Duncan, Yao Ming met O'Neal and played very hard.

In the end, the Warriors lost the game 4-1.

Many basketball experts criticized Yao Ming for being too thin to stop O'Neal's impact. If Yao Ming gained weight, maybe the Warriors would have a chance to win the game.

Arenas was unconvinced, and stood up to defend Yao Ming: "Could it be that we can meet the Lakers every year in the playoffs? O'Neal is over 30 this year, and he still has a few years to reach his peak. Except for O'Neal, I don't believe any center can beat Yao Ming." Even better, changing the style of play for Shaquille O'Neal, in my opinion, is a stupid act."

After maintaining Yao Ming, Arenas secretly sent a text message to Lu Yu: "I said as you said, remember to bring me to training this summer."

In fact, it's not all Yao Ming's fault for the loss. You must know that the Lakers have four kings, and none of them are easy to defend.

In the second round, the Spurs and the Lakers ran into an old foe.

This time it was the Spurs' turn to lose.

The Spurs can no longer continue the performance of the Lakers in the Western Conference finals last season. It can only be said that the performance of the Lakers is too strong, changing the mediocrity of the regular season.

Of course, this mediocrity is relative to the bulls.

Even a team as tyrannical as the Spurs only won two games and was eventually kicked out by the Lakers 4-2.

The worst in the first round of the Western Conference was the Mavericks.

They originally thought they would be able to pass all the way, but they died before they got out of the division, and they lost to the Kings in the first round.

The five starters on the field are all masters who can only attack and not defend.

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It is worth mentioning that the salary cap of the league this year is $4384 million, while the total salary of the Mavericks this season is as high as more than 7900 million.

As far as reinforcement is concerned, the Mavericks are obviously stronger than the Lakers and the Timberwolves. Although the Lakers form an F4, Payton and Malone are almost at retirement age, and the Timberwolves are not much different. The "madman" and "alien" ' are over 33 years old.

Walker and Jamison are in their prime, and both of them had a high-profile performance last season. Walker averaged 20.1 points, 7.2 rebounds, 4.8 assists and 1.5 steals per game, while Jamison scored 51 points in two consecutive games.

Like many teams with major changes, the Mavericks have gone through a painful run-in this season, with a record of only 27 wins and 15 losses in the first 12 games.

Nelson's strategy of letting Nowitzki play the center helped the team play a good performance on the offensive end, but at that time, most teams had a black and hard insider at the center position, which made the driver very difficult on the defensive end. , the team's overall defense ranked lower in the league.

The Mavericks ended the regular season with a record of 52 wins and 30 losses. Compared with the previous season's 60 wins, the Mavericks finally ranked fifth in the Western Conference. This made them lose their home field advantage in the first round of the playoffs and buried the ground for a first round exit. Foreshadowing.

In terms of lineup, the problems of internal and external imbalances and offense and defense imbalances are more and more obvious than before. Their average points per game are second in the league, only lower than the Bulls, but their defense ranks 26th in the league.

The only bright spot is Wang Zhizhi.

The Mavericks faced the Kings in the first round. The seven-game confrontation between the two teams in the Western Conference semifinals the previous season seemed like yesterday. When they met again, the Mavericks were already a completely different team.

The Kings are also strong on offense and weak on defense, ranking third in the league in offensive efficiency and 3st in defense, but in the playoffs, the Kings' performance on the defensive end was impressive.
In addition to Nowitzki, the other positions of the Kings have the upper hand on both ends of the offense and defense.

Especially at No. 1, Bibby almost blew up Nash. He averaged 23.6 points per game, ten points more than Nash.In addition to the driver, the five-star Nash scored the highest with 13.6 points, and Walker averaged only 9.8 points per game.

By the way, Wang Zhizhi ranks third in the team in scoring, averaging 13.2 points per game. You must know that his playing time is not even half of Walker's.

The old rivals met, but the showdown turned out to be a one-sided situation. In the end, the Kings eliminated the Mavericks 4-1.

Followed by the Kings and the Timberwolves played 7 games.

At this time, KG, who was playing reasonable basketball, was taken by a treacherous bald point guard and a cunning old driver shooting guard.

Cassell, the only reason Sanders signed him was because he was reasonable.

And have playoff experience.

The reason for signing madman Spéreville aside from his cheapness...and his key balls.

And he's constantly proving that being an All-Star depends on his ability.

In the first round, the Timberwolves met the Nuggets, and the rookie Melo was hanged for the first time in the playoffs when he met the old fritters. Coupled with Cassell’s organization, KG’s occasional superstar singles performance, the first round played well. smooth water.

In the second round, they met the Kings. At that time, the Kings had Webber, and Webber was the only oddball who could compete with KG in the inside line.

Certainly drew the ire of others, such as Sprewell.

In the case of Cassell being sent off, he won consecutive mid-range shots and rebounds.

After that, there was KG's superstar performance, constantly grabbing rebounds, breaking through the classic scene of Webber's dunk, and making three-pointers between two people, omnipotent, and directly taking away the king.

Eh... Actually, it wasn't that easy. They played seven games in total, and they didn't decide the winner until the end.

Anyway, in the end, the Timberwolves and the Lakers join forces in the Western Conference finals.

Lakers!
After a season of stealth, it finally showed its fangs in the playoffs, and it was too late for other teams to react.

The OK combination once led the Lakers to three consecutive championships, and now there are two seasoned veterans Karl Malone and Gary Payton to join. The Timberwolves’ lineup is far less luxurious than the Lakers, and they lost 2 to 4 in the end. Come on, miss the finals.

尽管输掉了比赛，但是加内特的表现很出色，他场均砍下23.7分13.5个篮板4.5次助攻1.2次抢断1.2次盖帽，投篮命中率为46.3%。

The Timberwolves' second leader, Sprewell, averaged 20.8 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists and 1.5 steals per game, and shot 40.7% from the field. Although the scoring efficiency was lower, he performed well as the second leader.

It can only be said that the skills are inferior to people.

The Lakers seem to have a very luxurious lineup. In fact, Malone and Payton have long been out of the discussion of the giants. Their performance in the Western Finals is very mediocre.

马龙40岁，场均贡献12分9.3个篮板4.7次助攻1.2次抢断，投篮命中率为44.8%。

佩顿35岁，场均贡献9分3.2个篮板5.8次助攻0.7次抢断0.2次盖帽，投篮命中率为41.5%。

Malone and Payton no longer have the ability to change the game, but Kobe and O'Neal are both at their peak. Although there is a rift between them, the power of the OK combination is not as strong as before, but it still leaves the Timberwolves helpless.

In fact, it's not just between Kobe and O'Neal, but also the bloody story between Kobe and Malone.

The young Kobe Bryant has already formed a relationship with the postman.In 1998, the 19-year-old Bryant was named to the NBA All-Star Game for the first time.On the highly anticipated NBA stage, the direct dialogue between Kobe and Michael Jordan at that time made the young Kobe extremely excited.
When Karl Malone, who was 15 years older than him, took the initiative to do the pick-and-roll for him, the young and frivolous Kobe threw out such a sentence: "Put away your damn pick-and-roll, I want to go with Jordan alone. pick."

At that time, Kobe was just a young man who could not become the team's starter, and Malone, the postman at the time, had been selected to the All-Star team 11 times.

The result of this sentence was to annoy Malone on the spot, and he stopped playing. At that time, Malone only played 17 minutes and got 4 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists.Obviously, Malone was really angry this time, and he hated this hairy boy.

But who would have thought that Malone joined the Lakers in the last season of his career.

Fengshui turns in turns, ten years in Hedong and ten years in Hexi.

He wants to end his NBA career with a championship trophy holding OK's thigh.

As a result, who would have thought that this year's Kobe Bryant already had the idea of ​​​​competing for the boss.

This is not the most terrible, the most terrible thing is that Malone, an old slut, actually coveted Kobe's wife Vanessa.

Malone off the field is completely different from the style on the field, and his private life is quite chaotic.

18-year-old Malone once had his 13-year-old girlfriend give birth to him.

Kobe's wife Vanessa has a good relationship with Malone's wife, Kaye.

Once, Vanessa took her daughter to a Lakers game, and when she found out that Kaye and her son were not at the Staples Center, Vanessa called Kaye.And Kaye told Vanessa that he was not feeling well, and the child was led by Malone in the front row to watch the ball.

And Kay also gave Vanessa Malone's phone number and asked her to ask Malone to take the child to sit with their mother and daughter, so that Vanessa could help take care of the child.

At that time, Malone was also very excited. After all, Vanessa's appearance was also very good. At that time, Malone couldn't help teasing Vanessa.

Malone said: "You want to come to me so much, are you interested in me? Come on, give me a hug."

Vanessa couldn't take it anymore. She said, "You can be my father at your age. I'm Kay's friend, please respect me."

After she said this, Malone still didn't give up the meaning of flirting with her.

Then Vanessa wanted to change the subject and said, "Why are you wearing a pair of jeans and a hat?"

And Malone said, "I'm chasing a Mexican pussy right now."

Because Vanessa is from Mexico.

At halftime, Malone brought the child over, hugged Vanessa forcibly and left.

Afterwards, Malone admitted that he was a little gaffe.

He saw that Vanessa's face was a little unhappy at the time, so he hugged Vanessa and asked her to help take care of his child, and then left on his own.

And Malone also insisted that Vanessa took the initiative to hug him.

Besides saying that cowboy chasing a Mexican girl, he never said any other overly frivolous words.

After this incident, Kobe's wife Vanessa told Kobe and Kaye about it. Kobe was so angry at the time that he immediately called Malone. The content of the call was probably: Damn pervert, stay away from my wife Further.

It is precisely because of this incident that the relationship between the two people is like water and fire.

But even so, the Timberwolves still lost, lost to their carelessness, and to their underestimated enemy. They didn't expect that they had already assembled the Big Three, but they still couldn't resist the strong attack of the OK combination.

The Lakers and Bulls finally meet in the Finals.

And the Lakers, who have kept a low profile for a season, the mysterious veil has also been revealed little by little with the advancement of the playoffs, even Zen master Phil Jackson did not know,
Can the Lakers win?