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There is nothing new about the Eastern Conference matchups, with the top-ranked Boston Celtics playing against the eighth-ranked Atlanta Hawks; the second-ranked Detroit Pistons against the Philadelphia [-]ers; the third-ranked Orlando The Magic play the Toronto Raptors; the fourth-ranked Cleveland Cavaliers play the Washington Wizards.Welcome to reading [Thanks for supporting the novel] -xiaoshuoyd-

This is the third consecutive season that the Washington Wizards have met the Cleveland Cavaliers in the playoffs. I don’t know if it’s a deliberate arrangement by the league. Why did this pair of enemies meet each other for several consecutive seasons? , If it is a coincidence, it is really a coincidence.

From [-] to [-], LeBron James led the team into the playoffs for the first time. They met the Washington Wizards, which could be said to be menacing at the time. The rookie Cavaliers are paying attention.

The strength of the Cavaliers was a bit weak, but with the vague support of the league, all four-step layups and walking lore appeared. Although the Wizards protested endlessly, they could not change the result of the game, and were finally defeated by the Cavaliers. Three to two lead.

At the last moment of the sixth game, LeBron James walked up to the general Arenas who was about to make free throws, and said: "If these two free throws don't make, you know who will kill you." "General" Arenas missed two free throws, and the Cavaliers won the final victory.

In the second year, that is, in the [-]-[-] season, the two sides met again, but this time the Cavaliers had become the second in the Eastern Conference, while the Washington Wizards fell to the seventh position. With Ledu injured and unable to play, the Wizards were swept by the Cavaliers [-]-[-].

The two sides unexpectedly met again this season, which makes no one lament the wonder of fate, perhaps there is also the big hand behind the fate, the duel between the two sides is also considered to be the best matchup in the entire Eastern Conference playoffs. Intense and most exciting.

After the regular season officially ended, the league announced the list of candidates for several awards, because it is impossible for all players to participate in the selection of some awards. In the individual awards, except for the most valuable player and the best coach, there is no shortlist. Everything else is available.

The Sonics' roster is as follows:

Sixth Man of the Year: Damien Wilkins

Best Defensive Player: Stephen

Rookie of the Year: Kevin Durant

Most Improved Player: Stephen, Coupard

It is quite surprising that Stephen was selected as the best defensive player and the most improved player, especially the most improved player, which is usually awarded to those players who were unknown last season and suddenly broke out this season, just like Coupard, Stephen Last season wasn't anything but obscurity. [ ]

However, his improvement this season is quite obvious, especially his scoring average, which can be regarded as meeting the requirements of this award, but it is too embarrassing to think that a superstar like him should also be awarded the Most Improved Player.

Whether Stephen can win these two awards is still very controversial. If he can win the best defensive player, he will be another outsider to win this award after Ron Artest. The Sonics are another player to win this award after Gary Payton, and another player to win this award as a shooting guard after Michael Jordan. \\ \\

And if Kevin Durant can get the best rookie, he will also become the first player in the history of the supersonic team to win the best rookie. The most improved player, if Stephen can get it, will be the second since Dale Ellis.

As for other players, the possibility of winning the award is not great. For example, Wilkins' best sixth man will face strong competition from Manu Ginobili, Barbosa, Jason Terry and others. Lessimo is very likely to get the best coach, but his strong opponent is Boston Celtics head coach Doc Rivers.

Doc Rivers' coaching performance is better than Carlesimo's. The Boston Celtics rank first in the league this season, and the Sonics rank second. But excluding lineup factors, Carlesimo's record is more convincing Some, now the media is already intriguing, whether Rivers is more cheap because of the lineup, or Carlesimo is more because of people.

In addition to announcing the list of candidates for the major awards, the league also announced the players who won the individual statistics. Because the influence of the number of appearances must be excluded, if they miss more than [-] games, they will not be able to participate in the selection, so the final result is .

The scoring leader was undisputed by Steven, the rebounding leader was taken by Dwight Howard, who won the award with an average of 2 total rebounds per game, and the assists leader went to the star of the upstart New Orleans Hornets Handed by Chris Paul, he averaged [-] assists per game, one higher than No. [-] and nearly one assists leader Steve Nash, and he also ranked second in steals.

Stephen won the steals title again, and Marcus Camby won the blocks title for the third time. He and Dwight Howard are also Stephen's most powerful opponents in the battle for the best defensive player.

With three days of rest between the last game of the regular season and the first game of the playoffs, the Seattle SuperSonics have home court advantage (according to their record, as long as they are not in the finals against the Boston Celtics team, the Sonics have always had home court advantage), so they just need to sit back and wait for the arrival of the Phoenix Suns. [ ]

During these three days, the team held many activities to celebrate the team entering the playoffs again after two seasons.

As the Supersonics have been rising all the way in the late regular season, fans naturally have greater expectations for the team. Coupled with a series of activities organized by the team, many fans chose to enter the stadium to watch the game to support the team. Starting from the regular season, ticket prices for the playoffs have risen by 15.00%.

The activities held by the team did not affect the team's preparations. They had such a motion before, but they were rejected by Carlesimo. Even if the players were only allowed to participate in the 15-minute event, Carlesimo could not accept it. .

For the Phoenix Suns opponent, the coaching staff did not expect it at first. They first thought of playing against the Houston Rockets or Denver Nuggets. The Phoenix Suns were only ranked third, but who knew they would end up facing the Suns .

But facing the Suns is not a bad thing. The reason why these teams are ranked behind is that they do have various problems. The offense of the Houston Rockets, the defense of the Phoenix Suns and the defense of the Denver Nuggets unstable.

Among these three teams, the Houston Rockets are the last thing the Sonics want to face. As for the Denver Nuggets or the Phoenix Suns, the difference is not very big. The Suns were in better shape at the beginning of the season, and the Nuggets The state of the team is relatively average, but at the end of the season, the Nuggets gradually entered the playoff state, but the Suns declined a bit.

So playing against the Phoenix Suns is indeed a relatively good result, although it is a relatively unexpected result. In the pre-match analysis, the coaching staff headed by Carlesimo frequently encouraged the players and told them that the Suns are the best. A relatively easy player to deal with, as long as we work hard, we can definitely win it no problem.

Therefore, there is a relaxed atmosphere throughout the team. The main reason for the coaching staff to do this is to consider that the main force of the team is mainly young players who are inexperienced, and young players usually need encouragement rather than punishment.

In fact, it is said that there is a lack of experience in the playoffs, and it is indeed lacking, but Stephen is not lacking. He has already experienced two finals, and Robert Horry's experience is not to mention. Others played more playoffs.

And Kurt Thomas has rarely missed the playoffs in his career so far. Although he has not played too many games, Wilcox and Szczerbiak can be regarded as people who have been tested in the playoffs, so there is a lack of playoffs. The problem of game experience is not particularly serious for the Sonics.

It’s just that the coaching staff was thinking a little too seriously, and their encouragement was not without effect. When the Supersonics played the first game against the Suns, the Supersonics quickly let everyone know with their frenzied offensive Come to why they were able to get the first place in the Western Conference this season.

In the first quarter, the Supersonics beat the Suns 36 to 29. Although the Suns were behind, the gap was not obvious, but the Suns, who have always been good at offense, lost to the Supersonics in terms of offensive power. The strength of the Sonic team.

In the second quarter, the Suns were still thinking about launching an offensive after O'Neal left the court, but they were knocked unconscious by Stephen's head-on blow. Stephen scored 3 points in a row in 39 minutes, turning the Suns' offensive into Nothing, beat the Suns 26 to 75 in a single quarter, and at the end of the first half, led the Suns 55 to [-] by as much as [-] points.

Many people who watched this game admit that this is not a playoff game, to be precise, it is not a close playoff game, although the Suns briefly pulled the point difference back to [-] in the third quarter However, as Stephen returned to the court again, he quickly launched a wave of offensive to widen the point difference.

When Stephen scored his personal No.40 eight points, the Suns officially gave up the game. At this time, the point difference had reached 25 points, and there were less than 3 minutes left in the game.

In the end, the score between the two sides was fixed at 120 to [-]. The Suns lost to the Supersonics by a big margin. Although the result of the game was not unexpected, the Suns lost so many points. The offensively feared Suns?

First in a division and eighth in a season, even the Suns didn't expect to easily regain home court advantage, but they didn't expect to lose so badly either.

Since there was still a game here, they didn't leave and stayed here. Seeing the fans in Seattle singing and dancing along the way, celebrating their first victory in the playoffs, all the players of the Suns felt very uncomfortable. In the past few seasons, they have always had home court advantage, but they did not expect that they would not even have home court advantage this season.

On the second day after the Sonics won their first victory, the league announced the results of the vote for the best coach. The entire North American 120 sports program TV commentators and sports reporters participated in the voting, and Carlesimo got 42 first place. votes, 31 second-place votes and seventeen third-place votes, for a total of 320 points.

The head coach of the Boston Celtics, Doc Rivers, got 45 first-place votes, 22 second-place votes and 21 third-place votes, for a total of 310 two points. Carlesimo scored only eight points. The advantage narrowly beat Doc Rivers to get the award.

This is also the first time he has won the best honor of representing the coach in more than 20 years. After receiving the news, Stephen immediately called Carlesimo to express his congratulations. At this time, Carlesimo was already crying on the phone. Before deciding to come to the Sonics, he never thought that he would have the opportunity to win the best coach award.

Many head coaches congratulated Carlesimo, and even Doc Rivers graciously sent his blessings to Carlesimo, although many people felt that Carlesimo hadn’t played well this season. How important it is, if there is no performance like Stephen, let alone get the first place in the Western Conference, even the playoffs may not be able to score.

This is also the first time in the history of the Supersonics that a head coach has won this award. The success of a team represents all the success, just like the success of the Celtics has led many teams in the league to hire the Celtics. Players or staff are the same, the Lakers and Spurs are the same.

Carlesimo will get the best coach trophy named after "Cardinal" Auerbach, but this award will not be given to him now.

Probably Carlesimo made a good start for the Sonics. Before the second game against the Suns, the league announced the candidate for the best defensive player again. 110 nine reporters, editors and commentators participated Voting, the rules are the same as the best coach, five points for the first vote, three points for the second vote, and one point for the third vote.

In the end, Stephen won the award with 520 two points. He received a total of 2 first-place votes, three second-place votes and three third-place votes, while No.170 Dwight Howard only won 3 No.92 Lob James only scored [-] points.

Stephen was overjoyed to receive this award. Compared with inside players, outside players rarely get this award. At the same time, it also represents the recognition of Stephen's defensive ability. The data played a big role in the selection. Dwight Although Howard has a great rebounding advantage, he is not much ahead of Stephen in blocks, and far behind Stephen in steals.

At this time, it was Stephen who received the congratulations. For a whole day, his relatives, friends he knew before, players in the league who were more compatible with him, team or league staff, his confidante, endorsements, etc. Representatives of manufacturers and domestic officials, countless people called or sent text messages to congratulate Stephen on winning this award.

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