God of NBA point guards

Chapter 202 Cadillac's Endorsement
On the 4th, the Pistons returned to Detroit and waited for the second round.

On this day, needless to say, the media in Detroit, the media in other cities still praised the performance of the Pistons. After all, they were the first to complete the promotion, and it was a sweep.

Zhou Quan's performance as a team leader, as well as his personal performance, no matter how harsh the media is, no matter how much the media opposes him, they have nowhere to say anything about his performance.

Leading the team, sweeping, and not giving the opponent any chance, this is a record that is absolutely not subject to any criticism.

Personal performance, although he did not average a double-double per game, but the data of 32+7+9+4, plus 55% field goal percentage, 66% true shooting percentage, more than 4% free throw percentage, assists and turnovers More than [-], they are all data that are absolutely not to be blamed.

Regarding his performance in the first round, if the media criticizes him again, he will be sprayed to death by the fans.

Of course, Zhou Quan knew very well that once his performance declined in the second round, the media that praised him now would immediately make trouble.

Support you today, earn a wave of sales, trample you to death tomorrow, and earn another wave. This is the media.

Think about what Jordan has been sprayed by the US media this season. He is a Chinese, how can there be an exception?
This is his current mental preparation, his performance will definitely fluctuate, not to mention when facing Jordan, how can he still perform like the first round?
So the media will definitely attack. If he is not mentally prepared enough, it will affect his performance, let him enter a vicious circle, and eventually affect the second round of the series.

That night, Jordan made 28 of 16 shots, shot 57.1%, scored 39 points, and led the Bulls to defeat the Eagles. The Bulls became the second team to complete a sweep and advance.

乔丹系列赛场均35.7分钟，场均26投13.7中，命中率52.6%，三分球4.3投2中，命中率高达46.2%，5.7罚5中，命中率88.2%，轰下34.3分6.7篮板4.3助攻1.7抢断1.7盖帽1.3失误4犯规的数据。

皮蓬的表现就远逊于乔丹，场均15.3分4篮板5.3助攻2抢断3.3失误，命中率只有43.2%。

In the words of the commentator Bill Walton, Jordan's performance is still great without full play, and his personal performance determines the team's victory or defeat.

After watching the game, Zhou Quan saw an opportunity.

Jordan's performance is indeed great, but this year is not last year. This year he is much stronger and has narrowed the distance with Jordan. The Bulls' offense is too dependent on Jordan. If Jordan's offense can be limited, then the Pistons will have a chance.

However, from the Bulls, he also thought of the Pistons.

In the first round of the series, he also averaged 32 points per game, Sekali averaged 18 points, Joe Dumas 23.5 points, and Ulrich 13 points. This is still a lot of offense focused on Sekali and Joe Dumas The result of this.

In other words, the Pistons' first-round series is somewhat similar to that of the Bulls. He took on the most offensive tasks, so the Bulls will definitely see this, and they will definitely have the same idea as he did just now. Can take down the piston.

And he is not Jordan. Jordan does not control the ball. Everyone in the Bulls can pass the ball. He controls the ball. Once he is restricted by Jordan, not only his offense, but also the organization will be affected. The bigger it is, the more serious the consequences will probably be.

"Have to discuss this issue with the coaching staff."

The Bulls swept to advance, but the Knicks missed the match point in the away game and tied the Nets [-]-[-].

In the West, the Jazz beat the Supersonics at home, 80:90, [-] to [-], and won the match point. They may upset the third-ranked Supersonics in the West.

In addition, the Suns, who have lost two games in a row at home and may be black eights, beat the Lakers and saved a match point.

What surprised Zhou Quan was that the other statistics of the two teams were similar in this game, and the Suns won by one point, a three-pointer.

The Lakers made 14 of 5 three-pointers and a shooting percentage of 35.7%, which is not too low. However, the Suns made 12 of 6 three-pointers and finally won 107:102 by 5 points in the away game.

Dan Marley made 4 of 2 shots, Danny Ainge made 4 of 3 shots, but Barkley, the core, didn't make a three-pointer in the first two games. This time he shot a three-pointer like crazy, but he made 4 of 1 shots. Fortunately, the first two games The defeated sinner will atone for his sins and not let the team be swept out.

On the second day, May 5th, the team did not arrange training, rested at home in the morning, and went to play golf with his girlfriend in the afternoon to relax.

While playing, I ran into several executives from automobile companies.

For example, Lovis Edward, the chief administrative officer of Cadillac I met last time, and two executives from Chevrolet and Buick.

"Iron Fist, if you can kill the Bulls this time, I'll give you a Cadillac endorsement contract." While playing, Edward Lovis suddenly said.

Zhou Quan was startled, and said with a smile: "Lovis, do you think my temperament fits Cadillac?"

"of course."

Lowes Edward said with a smile: "If you can participate in professional golf tournaments during the offseason and perform well, this endorsement contract will be even bigger."

"It's a word."

This is of course a great thing. No matter whether it succeeds or not, it means that he has entered the sight of a world-class brand. Zhou Quan is very happy.

Tonight, the first round continued.

The Cavaliers eliminated the green team [-]-[-] and advanced to the second round.

Mosaic lost the second away game, tying the Clippers [-]-[-].

The Trail Blazers, who also reached the finals last year, lost their second away game and were eliminated by the Spurs with a score of [-] to [-].

"This series disappoints me very much. We need to change." After the game, the glider, who made 15 of 6 shots, told the media very disappointedly.

Zhou Quan paid attention to the stats of the glider in the first round. He averaged 19 points per game and shot 41.9% from the field. His performance was a bit worse than his. Not only was his offense insufficient, but his efficiency could be called inefficient, which was similar to his last season. Can't compare to Jordan either.

The Trail Blazers had five players scoring 10+ points, and Terry Porter averaged 16.5 points per game. It can be said that in the Trail Blazers, the glider did not play the core offensive level, and did not have the determination and vigor of Jordan, which is why he thinks that the glider is not as good as Jordan. One of the important reasons for this, it is no wonder that he lost to Jordan in the Finals last year.

In his opinion, the glider was inferior to Joe Dumars.

If the Assassin said that the Trail Blazers had the opportunity to dig a glider for rebuilding, he would not agree to it. If it came to take up space, he could only serve as a substitute for Joe Dumars, which was not worthwhile at all.

At this time, it was the morning in China, and the sports department of the capital CCTV was holding a meeting.

It had already been decided, because the results of the All-Star live broadcast last time were good, CCTV plans to continue to broadcast the finals live, anyway, it is free, as long as the effect is good, no one will refuse.

But now that Zhou Quan has entered the playoffs and entered the second round with a sweep, and will face the Bulls in the second round, CCTV has more ideas. They are considering whether to broadcast the next round of the series .

"The Bulls are the most popular. Michael Jordan is also the biggest star in the NBA, but that was without Zhou Quan. Zhou Quan is one of us. I think the first round of the series should be broadcast live. Now we are playing the Bulls in the second round. , it must be broadcast, I suggest contacting the NBA immediately."

"Will the NBA ask us for money? If we want money, I don't know how much it will cost. Where can we get so much foreign exchange?"

"It's possible."

"Let's get in touch first."

Everyone was chattering, and Minister Ma Li also thought about it repeatedly, thinking that the second round of the Pistons and Bulls should be broadcast live.

As for whether the league will continue to be free, he thinks there is no problem this year. Mr. Stern, the president, will not be so short-sighted. CCTV just chose to broadcast the All-Star live broadcast. Now that the number of live broadcasts is increased, the NBA should be willing to continue to be free.

At least, for this fishing, you have to make more nests, right?

At this time, David Stern was waiting for a call from CCTV.

The Pistons and the Bulls met in the second round. Because of Zhou Quan's relationship, he thought it was an opportunity, and CCTV would probably choose to broadcast the series live.

On the 6th, the series continued.

This morning, the NBA received a call from CCTV. David Stern was very happy to hear that CCTV would broadcast the second round of the Bulls-Pistons series. He had long been looking forward to this call from CCTV.

"It's free. If CCTV is willing to broadcast all the upcoming series, including the finals, we can provide free satellite signal resources."

After receiving the reply from the NBA, the sports department was very happy and immediately started to set up a commentary team and a camera team to go to the United States, including Sun Zhenping and Zhang Lili.

And this time, it's not the previous recording, it's a real-time live broadcast, so I don't plan to do any front-line interview + rear commentary, just go to the front-line commentary directly, and set up a commentary booth on the spot.

This is because CCTV can't find enough professional NBA commentators. It would be better to have one less link, and the effect will be better.

After Zhang Lili received the news in Los Angeles, he jumped up for joy. He immediately found the beer company to resign and was ready to devote himself to basketball-related affairs.

Now that CCTV is going to broadcast the second round of the playoffs live, it is very likely that the regular season will be broadcast live next season, so he has to make preparations first.

For this live broadcast alone, a lot of data must be collected, from the Pistons to the Bulls, and even the Knicks and Cavaliers. with him.

"Xiao Zhou, good news..."

Then he contacted Zhou Quan and told him the good news.

"Really?"

Of course Zhou Quan was very happy, and he very much hoped that more Chinese could see his game.

That night, the Knicks beat the Nets and advanced by a big score of [-]-[-].

In this way, all the first-round series in the Eastern Conference have been played, and the second-round matchup is also out. The Bulls will play against the Pistons, and the Knicks will play against the Cavaliers. The former has home court advantage.

The second round of the Bulls and Pistons will start with No. 9, and the Knicks and Cavaliers will be No. 10.

In the West, the Jazz lost and tied the Supersonics [-]-[-].

In addition, the Suns won another game and won two consecutive away games, which also equalized the big score and stood on the same level as the Lakers again.

After the big tie, Barkley was even moved to tears after the game.

Tonight, he made 21 of 13 shots, a 61.9% shooting percentage, scored 28 points, and was the only player on the team who scored 20+ points.

On the 7th, the Pistons resumed in-team training and had a tactical meeting in the morning.

Zhou Quan raised some of his doubts. When he was restricted by Jordan, how would the team organize and play the offense.

Similarly, he also pointed out that the Bulls' possession of the ball is very even. Even if he marks Jordan to death, there is no way to really limit the Bulls' offense, not to mention that it is impossible for him to mark Jordan to death. No one can mark that guy to death.

In response to his problem, the whole team discussed and put forward some suggestions and ideas.

On the defensive end, Chuck Daly decided to work on the Bulls' passing, which meant cutting off or delaying the ball movement of the triangle offense.

This is the question that Zhou Quan just raised. The Bulls have very even possession of the ball, so as long as the Bulls are restricted from passing the ball, their offense can be restricted.

But this requires that everyone on the field must stare at their own people, which is quite difficult, at least Ulrich can't stare at Pippen.

However, a method has been proposed. Whether it can be implemented on the court is a matter for the players, and the coaching staff has no way to replace the players in the game.

On the offensive end, Chuck Daly also came up with his solution to the problem raised by Zhou Quan, which is to let him take the ball and go in.

In the four regular season games, the Bulls won two games first, and the Bulls lost in the next two games. However, Chuck Daly grasped a weakness of the Bulls' game change, that is, although the Bulls did not need a point guard, they increased their height. But the increase in height will inevitably reduce the speed, and this is Zhou Quan's opportunity.

The Bulls also have no defensive champions inside. Grant and Carter White defended very hard, but neither of them can be called champions. This is a point that can be used.

……

The Bulls and the Pistons have been rivals for many years. Zhou Quan replaced the smiling assassin, and Jordan is an irresolvable rival. At the same time, this series is the first to start. Jordan is not only the signature player of the league, but also the target of the media. So the attention is very high.

Even the remaining two groups in the first round of G5 have little media attention, and the media has shifted their attention to this series.

On this day, some stars also made various comments on the series between the Bulls and the Pistons.

Unwilling to be lonely, the ancient behemoth Zhang Dashuai was interviewed by the media. When talking about this series, he said:

"In terms of strength on paper, the two teams are about the same, neither has serious injuries, and the coaches are also championship coaches, so the factor that affects the final result of the series is the team leader.

And this, I am very optimistic about Michael Jordan, I believe in his leadership ability, I believe in his ability to stand up at critical moments. proved itself in it.

The same point, I am not very optimistic about Iron Fist, he has not really proved his ability to lead the team, and the ability to stand up at critical moments, he has never proved that he has the ability to dominate a close game.

In last year's Eastern Conference finals, not only did he fail to prove himself, but he failed, which is why I don't trust him very much. "

(End of this chapter)