Healthy basketball, starting from eating the old Lakers F4

Chapter 182 Jordan’s Law, no team wants to meet us next season!

Facing the tight defense of Double Wallace, Duan scored 40+ triple-doubles in three quarters, leading the team to overcome doubts from the outside world and help the Bulls win G4 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals.

After such an explosive performance, the North American basketball world was completely shocked by Duan's exaggerated performance.

The day after the Bulls and Pistons played G4, basically all sports-related media were reporting on the situation of G4 between the Bulls and Pistons.

Originally, most basketball commentators predicted that the Pistons would advance to the Eastern Conference finals, but now there has been a huge reversal, and they all believe that the Bulls will advance to the Eastern Conference finals.

TNT TV, "Inside the NBA" program.

The iron triangle of Ernie Johnson, Kenny Smith, and Charles Barkley sat down in the studio early.

"Kenny, Charles, who do you think will win this series between the Chicago Bulls and the Detroit Pistons?"

Host Ernie Johnson made some opening remarks and immediately turned the topic over to Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley for discussion.

Barkley answered first: "Without a doubt, the Chicago Bulls!
I have said before that Duan is a well-deserved regular season MVP!

Regardless of Duan's regular season MVP vote rate, he was only slightly ahead of Steve Nash.

But to say that Du En's true strength is definitely far superior to other competitors. Du En is undoubtedly the best player this season!
In the playoffs, Duan's statistics, game performance, and leadership far exceeded those in the regular season.

This is enough to show that Duen can perform better in the regular season! "

Kenny Smith nodded and took over: "Yes, Charles, you are right.

However, I don’t think the Detroit Pistons will lose to the Chicago Bulls!

No matter how strong Du En is, there is only one person. Even Michael Jordan cannot lead the team to the Eastern Conference Finals in his second season as a rookie.

I don't deny that Duan's strength exceeded all of our expectations, and he appeared in front of us in an incredible way.

I thought that after Duane left the Los Angeles Lakers, his performance would not suddenly become so good.

We have all been NBA players, and we all know that it is not easy for even an All-Star player to become the boss of a team.

If Duane wants to gain a foothold with the Chicago Bulls, he will inevitably receive the defensive treatment that a team boss deserves.

All the defensive heroes in the league will try their best to tell Du En: 'Rookie, you are not strong enough to be the boss of the Chicago Bulls! '

However, Duane, like Larry Bird during his rookie period, quickly told everyone with practical actions: 'Please find someone else to guard me! '

Like last night, Duane beat the best defense in the league.

However, I still have to say that Duane can't beat the Detroit Pistons by himself.

We all know that their head coach, Larry Brown, is a great coach.

In the next game, the Detroit Pistons will definitely use the Jordan Rules and they will definitely guard Duane.

Not that I'm disparaging the Chicago Bulls players, but without Duane, the Chicago Bulls would still be a lottery team.

I don't think the Pistons can seize the opportunity to defeat the Detroit Pistons again if they guard Duan. "

“I still insist that Duane can lead the team to defeat the Detroit Pistons.

Duane has proven that he can beat Ben Wallace and Rasheed Wallace in the post.

Duane scored 45 points in only three quarters. No one in the Detroit Pistons could stop Duane from scoring! "

Buckley supported Duan and argued hard.

Kenny Smith gave an example: "Charles, do you remember the 1986 playoffs?

It was in the first round of the playoffs that year that the Chicago Bulls faced the Boston Celtics!
Michael Jordan is undoubtedly the best player in the series!

He scored 49 points in the first game, 63 points in the second game, but in the third game, he only scored 19 points!
No matter how good Michael Jordan performs, he can't win the game, even one!
What is the difference between today's Chicago Bulls and the one around Michael Jordan?
Michael Jordan met the championship team, and now Duan is facing last year's Eastern Conference champion! "

Kenny Smith compared Jordan to Duane, which is more convincing.

Many people may not know that in the first three years of Jordan's rookie career, he was in the playoffs every year and got out of the first round every year.

Among them, they encountered the Celtics twice, were taught by Larry Bird, and were swept out twice.

The most explosive thing is that the forcing king Larry Bird personally admitted that God is playing in jersey No. 23 tonight!
From this point on, Jordan gradually got the nickname Black Jesus.

This is like the demigod of the ninja world, Sanshouyu Hanzo, who recognized the newly-debuted prostitutes and gave them the title of Sannin, making them famous in the ninja world and gradually becoming the "Legendary Sannin".

After all, Jordan, who couldn't even get past the first round when he debuted, could easily give people the impression that Jordan was just a data brush just by winning the scoring title in the regular season.

Jordan also relies on his fighting spirit to refuse to admit defeat and his strength that gets stronger as he fights.

If he loses to the Celtics, he will fight back from the Celtics. If he loses to the Pistons, he will step on the Pistons and ascend to the throne. He will become the god of basketball step by step.

Jordan's journey to the top of the league took several years and was not achieved overnight.

As strong as Jordan, no matter how many scoring champions he won as a rookie, if no teammates stepped forward to share the offensive pressure, he would still be beaten to death by the Celtics.

Jordan clearly has the ability to score 63 points in a single game in the playoffs, but why was he limited to only 19 points in the next game?

This is naturally because one person cannot defeat five people.

The Celtics at that time not only had Larry Bird but also Kevin McHale, Dennis Johnson, Danny Ainge, Robert Parish, and even Bill Walton sitting on the bench. .

No matter how strong Jordan was, it was obviously impossible for him to defeat five of them and score all the points when facing such a tough guy.

Before the game started, Larry Bird also bet his career, telling reporters and teammates: "If Jordan scores 20 points, I will retire immediately and become a truck driver."

Why does Larry Bird dare to be so pretentious?Naturally, it was because the Celtics were the best defensive team in the league at the time.

And currently, who is the best defensive team in the league?

Detroit Pistons!
Once the Pistons adopt the attitude that the game can be lost and Duen must die, it may be a little difficult for Duen to score more than 20 points.

Duen has no problem with one-on-one in the low post. In one-on-two, he can also use fake moves and footsteps, and use the threat of sudden throws and passes to defeat them one by one.

However, if the Pistons use a forward group with agile feet and abundant physical strength to strangle Duan, then Duan will be like Olajuwon when he met the SuperSonics forward group, and his condition will immediately drop several levels.

It is definitely impossible to defend against a super giant alone, but it can be restricted by a group of people.

If the Pistons limit Duan's scoring at all costs, maybe the Pistons can defend the Bulls by guarding Duan and win the game.

Starting from Barkley himself, in the next game, it will definitely be Duan, the team leader, who will lead the team by scoring in singles and continue to create miracles. He will single-handedly turn the tide and defeat the Pistons to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals.

Kenny Smith has worked with Olajuwon for many years and knows that Olajuwon alone cannot win the championship. He must rely on the strength of the team to win better.

Therefore, the problem with the Bulls can be seen at a glance.

Today's bulls are relatively puffy, and the only one who is truly powerful is Duen, the leader.

Once Du En is restrained, he becomes a big-headed baby with slender limbs. He has an intelligent brain, but cannot control his weak limbs to do physical work or technical work.

Time flies to April 5, at the United Center in Chicago.

Because they had just won G4 two days ago, the Chicago fans at the scene must have full confidence in Duane and the Bulls players.

However, once the game started, the Pistons' defensive strategy became very obvious.

Duan was flanked by Prince and Hamilton after halftime, even though he didn't have the ball, he was flanked!
Larry Brown's attitude is very clear, Duane must die!

The Pistons restricted Duen's performance tonight by attacking Duen's body in advance.

As long as the Bulls' home whistle isn't too obvious tonight, the Pistons won't be able to let Duan score easily.

Of course, the Pistons' defensive arrangement has advantages and disadvantages.

In addition to Billups defending the ball holder, the double Wallace in the low post must be prepared to defend two and three in the entire court.

In the first quarter, the Bulls' offensive opportunity came from Andres Nocioni.

Due to the restrictions of forward defense and off-ball double-teaming, it is difficult for Duan to catch the ball.

It is basically impossible to get the ball in the low post. If you want to get it, you can only get the ball in the high post and use the pick-and-roll to hit the inside.

Otherwise, he plays without the ball and relies on off-ball screens to catch the ball and immediately take action to attack and score.

Duane hopes to use his ability without the ball to help the Bulls score, but the Bulls do not have a very good passer.

When Ben Gordon forced Duan to pass in the first quarter, he made two pass errors. At the same time, because Ben Gordon was tightly guarded by Billups, his scoring efficiency was not high.

Scott Skiles also had to replace Ben Gordon early and bring on serious point guard Chris Duhon.

Of course, Chris Duhon is only a first-year rookie and a second-round pick. No matter his personal strength or ability to withstand pressure, he cannot resist Billups.Therefore, the Pistons use this kind of defense to force the Bulls to hand the ball over to players on the wings and inside.

Andres Nocioni got a lot of open three-point opportunities, but Ben would save it from the inside every time.

After all, Andres Nocioni has not completely mastered the NBA's three-point line, and his three-point ability is not stable.

When Andres Nocioni became more and more iron due to intensified physical confrontation and increased physical exertion, he even had shots blocked by Big Ben.

Andres Nocioni will inevitably become less confident and start looking for Duane's position after getting the ball.

Even if Duan gets the ball, he will immediately be treated like Kobe. He must pass or throw the ball immediately under the attack of three people.

As the team leader, Duan cannot pass the ball every time when the Bulls are behind.

However, Duan has changed from Olajuwon in the last game to Kobe in this game, and the situation of the game is naturally becoming more and more unfavorable to the Bulls.

Even though the fans at the scene continued to put pressure on the Pistons who came from afar, the effect was still minimal.

On the Pistons side, Billups, who only needs to defend and play in isolation, has also begun to show his quasi-star level strength and his big heart.

Billups shot more and more accurately and soon defeated Chris Duhon.

The Bulls replaced Ben Gordon again, but they just replaced a defensive hole, a human sandbag.

When Billups showed the same form as he did against Payton last year, Duane knew that this game was basically gone.

Of course, Du En did not choose to give up the game.

Since the offensive end cannot be opened, we can only strengthen the defense and take the initiative to defend Billups.

But Rasheed Wallace and Hamilton also stood up immediately and beat the Bulls to pieces inside and outside.

91 to 73, the Bulls were unable to score 20 points in a single quarter when defended by the Pistons.

To be honest, Duan played poorly tonight, making 19 of 8 shots, 3 of 1 three-pointers, 7 of 5 free throws, and scored 22 points, 11 rebounds, and 4 assists.

Duane's shooting percentage is not high, but his true shooting percentage is over 50%.

The problem is that in order to allow Duan to take the ball and attack, the Bulls also made a lot of mistakes in passing.

The Bulls usually only make about 10 turnovers, but they had as many as 18 in this game.

The extra seven or eight turnovers, not counting the points converted by opportunities, are basically worth six or seven points just converted into ball possession.

After this battle, the Bulls can also summarize many problems.

In the next game, the Pistons return to play at home and will definitely defend Duen more closely.

If the Bulls cannot reduce passing errors and adopt a more reliable method to pass the ball to Duan, then the result of losing is basically doomed.

The Pistons used unlimited double-teaming to limit Duan's offense.

If the Bulls want to win, it is necessary for others to step up and score.

Unfortunately, once the problem is found, it is not that easy to solve it immediately.

After losing in Game 5, Scott Scales and his assistant coaching team worked hard all night to figure out a way. Their hair was bald, and in the end they could only show Dunn the video of the Bulls during the Jordan era.

It was also the Bulls playing the Pistons. The Pistons' defensive intensity was even greater than it is today.

But even so, Jordan can still fight his way out of a physical fight.

So it's not impossible for Dunn to follow Jordan's method to solve the problem according to the script!At least that's what people like Scott Scales think.

After Duane received the video, he quickly pointed out some problems, saying that he needed a shaft that could handle the ball to share the pressure of holding the ball with him, just like Pippen next to Jordan.

Du En knew very well that even the peak Diaw could not replace Pippen's role. Today's rookie Diaw can only be treated as a dead horse and give it a try.

In addition to Diaw, Ben Gordon and Andres Nocioni also need to stay on the court to give him space.

After all, it was Prince and Hamilton who were double-teaming Duane. Only if the Bulls shooters were able to shoot away, Duane could completely regain his freedom.

Obviously, Duane, who has hundreds of years of game experience, already knows how to deal with the Pistons.

However, Duane still somewhat overestimated the Bulls' current configuration.

When Du En is in the front and drives everyone's enthusiasm with offense, the Bulls youth team dare to fight and fight hard.

However, Du En was strangled to death, the Bulls players on the field were leaderless, and their personal strength was indeed limited, so they had no confidence to play.

In addition, as the series progressed to G6, the Pistons took the lead in gaining match point, and this game was played at the Palace Arena in Auburn Hills, which was also very important.

After G6 started, the Pistons played at home and their morale was high.

The Bulls couldn't withstand the pressure, and there were no teammates around Duan who could really shoulder the heavy responsibility.

In the end, it was another crushing game, 76 to 99. The Bulls were defeated by the Pistons by 23 points. In fact, by the third quarter, there was no suspense in the game.

In the fourth quarter, Duen only played 4 minutes. He couldn't reverse the score difference, so he left the game early.

Of course, the only good news is that Duen scored 4 points in these 8 minutes.

After the game, Doan made 27 of 12 shots, 7 of 2 three-pointers, and 7 of 6 free throws, scoring 32 points.

For the final game of the season, from a statistical point of view, Duan played pretty well.

Overall, Doon averaged 6 points in 35.5 games in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

This is a unique performance among this year's East and West semifinals.

As strong as Kobe, he also had a hard time in the conference semifinals. He also needed to rely on a lot of shots to win, but his average score still did not exceed 30 points per game.

Duane was able to lead the Chicago Bulls, a lottery team last season, to six games against last season's Eastern Conference champion Detroit Pistons. This is undoubtedly a skill.

“Duane, you played great, don’t get frustrated because the playoffs are over.

You are a young team and you are improving all the time.

I believe that the Eastern Conference next season will become more interesting because of you. "

Maybe it’s because we had a few chats in last year’s finals.

Although Duane and Billups haven't talked much this season, at this time, Billups, as a close acquaintance, took the initiative to come to Duen and give him a few words of encouragement.

After this series, Duan is more aware that if he wants to compete for the championship next season, he must have an All-Star point guard or point guard.

Therefore, players like Billups, who are in their prime and are cheap but not expensive, have more ideas to recruit.

However, there was no way to talk about this kind of thing in public. As the loser, Dunn had no intention of staying at the Palace Arena of Auburn Hills.

After hugging each other goodbye with the other Pistons players, they quickly returned to the locker room.

"Brothers, in the history of our franchise, the Detroit Pistons have stopped us time and time again!
However, our seniors did not get depressed because of this, but stood up again and again!

By learning from their failures and by defeating the Detroit Pistons, they became stronger until they were unbeatable!
Tonight, we lost to the Detroit Pistons!
But I promise you all, we will definitely be back here next year!

If we want to regain the highest throne, we must step on the corpses of the Detroit Pistons again!
Our goal is not the Eastern Conference championship!
We have to win that damn championship as the Chicago Bulls again! "

After losing the game, Du En should have shut up.

However, sometimes grief and anger can be turned into motivation.

It will be difficult for Duane's personal strength to improve over the next summer, but the Bulls can become stronger through other players and evolve into a real championship team.

Duan also used his loss to the Pistons just tonight to set a goal for everyone to beat next season.

"Boss, I believe in you, we will make a comeback!"

"Boss, I promise you that I will practice hard during the off-season to further improve my strength."

"Boss, I also promise you that I will not hold you back anymore! I will become stronger next season and I will definitely help you!"

Duane established a hostile goal, and other Bulls players immediately started to share the same hatred.

And because in the round of the series that just ended, Du En played so explosively, and others did play worse. At this time, it is inevitable to feel some self-blame.

For Duen, it is naturally a good thing for his teammates to be responsible.

So he continued to encourage: "I believe in you! We will definitely make a comeback! I believe that no team will want to encounter us next season!"

(End of this chapter)