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Also against civilian teams, the Eagles are indeed harder to beat than the 76ers.

On May 5, after the start of G2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals between the Bulls and the Hawks, Duane locked Joe in singles, but Jeff Teague soon stepped forward.

Although Jeff Teague is a ball lord, he is very obsessed with dribbling.

He often dribbles the ball for more than 20 seconds. In the end, he has no chance to make a move and then passes the blame to his teammates. He is nicknamed the Dribbling Mamba by fans.

However, his basic skills of passing and controlling are really good.

The Bulls' starting point guard is Curry, who is not known for his defense and his lateral speed is not very fast.

Against the same rookie point guard Jeff Teague, it was easy to get passed by Jeff Teague's sudden stop and start change of rhythm dribbling after two moves.

Joe has the ability to catch and shoot in isolation. After Duan tried to help defend Jeff Teague, and then after Joe caught the ball and made a three-pointer in isolation, he reduced the number of assist defenses and focused more on Joe in isolation.

After Curry was beaten several times by Jeff Teague, the Bulls replaced Bradley, who was more defensive, but still failed to restrict Jeff Teague from running around dribbling the ball.

The Hawks rely on teammates to constantly provide screens, creating some opportunities to use the screens to shoot open shots, or mismatch pick-and-rolls to beat big shots, or big shots to beat small shots.

The main players of the Eagles are relatively young and are not afraid to compete with the Bulls in fighting spirit and physical strength.

Therefore, by the end of the first quarter, the Bulls did not take any lead, but fell behind by 2 points.

However, in the second quarter, the Hawks should have arranged for Crawford to lead the second team to widen the gap, but Duan did not follow the rules of the game and traveled at a staggered time.

The Eagles' forward resources are actually pretty good, but as early as the first quarter, Duan took the initiative to hold the ball, attracting the Eagles' forward players to come over and attack.

In order to limit Duane's scoring, Eagles head coach Larry Drew tried his best to put elite players in the starting lineup.

But when it comes to the rotation of the second team, the defensive capabilities of the Eagles' substitute strikers are obviously not as good as those of the starters, and they cannot rely on constantly flanking Duen, who is holding the ball, to limit Duen's scoring.

Under the attack of Damien Wilkins, Pep Sai, Edon Thomas and others, Doan continued to make strong shots.

Relying on his personal ability, he hit 7 of 4 shots at the beginning of the second quarter, including two three-pointers.

In this year's playoffs, as long as our defense is not too bad, the team can probably shoot more than 45% from the field and almost win.

Duan can still score at such a high efficiency despite a lot of double-teams and physical confrontations, which really makes the Hawks feel very tricky.

Eagles head coach Larry Drew had to send singles Joe, Marvin Williams, Horford and others back to the court in advance to strengthen the defense against Duan and weaken Duan's influence on the court.

However, the Hawks have many people who can play, and so do the Bulls.

Duan was flanked and couldn't get the ball, or sometimes he was forced to play the ball immediately once he got the ball.

When this happened, Evans in the starting lineup and Harden who came on the bench burst into laughter.

Although Evans' shooting is unstable, he is good at breaking through.

Whenever Evans breaks through with the ball, as long as Duan makes a timely counter-run to attract the defense, the Eagles have to send someone to pay attention to Duan.

Milicic has also mastered the mid-range and knows when to give up the basket.

It was precisely by relying on Duan and Milicic to attract the defense that Evans took advantage of the very comfortable offensive space to score the ball into the basket again and again.

When Harden comes on the court, it's a different style. He only needs to play a few simple pick-and-rolls to get shooting opportunities, or pass the ball to Milicic or Whiteside.

The number of simple balls is often the key to a team's victory. Players who can make simple balls can often help the team become better.

Although Harden himself is prone to stretch his hips in the playoffs, his specific tactics and passing ability allow him to steadily create some simple ball opportunities for his teammates.

Although Harden is not yet at the level of a tiebreaker with the Warriors today, he can still do it without holding the team back and do what he often does in the regular season.

As for the outstanding performance of Evans, Harden and others, the Hawks did not have many adjustments and countermeasures.

Obviously, the Hawks did not carefully study the video of the Bulls and 76ers game and learn some lessons from it.

If you want to defeat the Bulls, it is indeed right to restrict Duan, but the Bulls rookies who are still growing are also a force that cannot be ignored.

At the end of the third quarter, the score reached 71 to 82, and the Bulls established an 11-point lead.

It is worth mentioning that the Bulls blossomed more, with four players scoring in double figures.

However, Duan, who scored the most points, only scored 18 points.

The remaining three players who scored in double figures were Evans with 15 points, Milicic with 13 points, and Curry with 11 points.

Curry didn't play much time in the first three quarters, but who told him to shoot three-pointers too accurately?

As long as he can score three three-pointers, he is one step away from scoring in double figures.

The Bulls have made a lot of breakthroughs. Many times, when the breakthrough route is blocked, they have to break out. Curry also relied on his teammates' breakthroughs to attract the defense and get an open three-point opportunity. Then he made 4 of 3 three-pointers and made a three-pointer in almost every quarter.

In addition, he easily scored two points with an air cut and layup.

It can only be said that the magic ball can indeed make scoring more efficient and make the game simpler.

In a sense, the Bulls were the first to understand the decline of big centers.

At the same time, at the critical moment in the fourth quarter to determine the outcome, Duen once again stood up to stabilize the morale of the army.

The situation at the beginning of the fourth quarter was similar to that at the beginning of the second quarter. Duan relied on strong singles to score six points in a row.

This made the game last just over two minutes, and the Eagles had to send their main players back to the court early.

In singles, Joe also wants to score strongly like Duan and help the team break the deadlock.

However, in the face of Du En's strict defense, Joe is not Jordan after all in singles, and there is still no way to defeat Du En with shooting.

93 to 108, the Bulls relied on Duan to score 13 points in the fourth quarter and securely won the G1 victory.

Judging from the fact that Duan needs 31 points to lead the team to win tonight, it is indeed more difficult to beat the Hawks than the 76ers.

In the blink of an eye, time came to May 5, and the Eastern Conference semifinals started again at the United Center.

The Hawks know that Duan is insufficient in defense and have also noticed the scoring ability of other Bulls rookies.

Therefore, they strengthened their defense against other Bulls players, and tried to cut off Duan's contact with other teammates as much as possible, allowing Duan to fall into a singles trap.

When Duan saw the Eagles adjust their defensive strategy, he fully met their expectations.

As early as the first quarter, Duan made 11 of 7 shots, 5 of 3 three-pointers, and 2 of 2 free throws, scoring a crazy 19 points.

Although it is a bit of a pity that he failed to score 20+ points in a single quarter.

But in the eyes of the eagle, it is a horror game and requires several breaths of cold air!

How come defending Duen alone is like letting Duen shoot at will?

In fact, the Eagles head coach called two timeouts in the first quarter and used different people to defend Duane.

But no matter who came in, they were all singled out by Du En without distinction.

However, after this situation occurred, the Eagles were also stubborn and did not readjust their defensive strategy and sent people to double-team Du En.

The on-site commentator saw that the Hawks called several timeouts, but they only adjusted people and did not change the defensive strategy. They also started to joke: "After taking a look at Duan's data, I thought tonight was the All-Star Game."

"The same was true for Michael back then. Before he was beaten up by Michael, people didn't know how strong Michael was and what a bastard he was. He would kick your butts!"

What happened next was as everyone expected. Because the Hawks didn't pay enough attention to Duen, Duen, who was full of firepower, scored 46 points in three quarters and then got off work early.

By the time the Bulls relied on their pure rookie lineup, after the fourth quarter, the Bulls still maintained a 13-point lead.

86 to 99, Duan alone scored nearly half of the Bulls' points.

Of course, before Duen left the field after the third quarter, Duen scored almost 60% of the team's points.

This seems even more explosive.

But then the Bulls and the rest will leave for Atlanta, and Dunn's performance at the Bulls' home court has come to an end.

Fortunately, less than a week later, the Bulls returned to the United Center with a record of 1 win and 1 loss.

The series score is 3-1. Rivers is not the head coach of the Bulls. As the head coach of the team, Duan is also very valuable and will not be easily overturned by a civilian team like the Hawks.

In order to cope with the challenges they may face in the next Eastern Conference finals, the Bulls continued to train as they did against the 76ers in the first round.

However, even Jeremy Lin in the third lineup played very hard and performed very well.

This made the plan to accumulate more experience in the playoffs declare bankruptcy in advance.

On May 5, with the cheers of the fans at the United Center, the Bulls celebrated the team's return to the Eastern Conference Finals with a 10-4 gentleman sweep.

Many so-called stars have led the team for more than ten years and have never touched the floor of the conference finals.

However, Duan, with different teammates, led the current Bulls to reach the Eastern Conference Finals for six consecutive years.

It's a pity that the record of four consecutive Eastern Conference championships was interrupted last year. (End of chapter)