Legendary star

Chapter 351 The Beginning of the Playoffs

"Okay, guys, it's time for us to play next, and kick the New Yorkers' ass hard." In the home team locker room of the Bankers Life Arena, after Larry Bird arranged the tactical arrangement for the game, All the Pacers players in the locker room stood up in an instant. It seemed that they couldn't wait to play. Seeing this, Larry Bird directly opened the door of the locker room and lifted himself up. Fist, playoffs, here we come.

"Sweep them." Jermaine O'Neill, who was standing in the front position, also raised his right arm and shouted slogans with excitement.The wild words of Meng Xu and Larry Bird at the post-match press conference became the headlines of almost all newspaper sports sections yesterday. The main player of the Pacers, Jermaine O'Neal's goal is the same as theirs, that is to sweep the Knicks, reach the finals, and win the championship.

"Sweep them."

"Sweep them."

Meng Xu, who was standing in the back of the locker room, saw his teammates in front of him shouting slogans in unison with high morale, and then turned his gaze to where Larry Bird was at the door. Their eyes met, and Meng Xu turned towards Larry Bird. De nodded.

"Friends from the audience, I'm Michaels, and welcome to the 0102 season NBA playoffs brought to you by Irwin and I. The live broadcast of the Pacers vs. Knicks at home. The players of the two teams have now started Out of the tunnel, the exciting game is about to begin."

After experiencing the eighth place in the Eastern Conference last season and being eliminated in the first round, when the Pacers once again entered the playoffs with the No. show.In the last 3 seasons when Larry Bird coached the Pacers, the Pacers reached the Eastern Conference Finals for 3 consecutive years and reached the Finals for the first time in history, creating the most glorious history of the Pacers in the NBA.Therefore, fans of the Pacers now also hope that this Pacers can achieve greater glory, and even win the first NBA championship in the history of the Pacers.

When the Pacers players began to walk out of the player tunnel, the entire Bankers Life Arena fell into a frenzy in an instant. The fans in the audience shouted the names of every player in uniform, and waited until Meng Xu was the last one to appear on the field. At that time, the atmosphere on the scene reached its peak, and the uniform shouts of MVP continued to echo in the Bankers Life Arena.

"What a crazy group of fans." Seeing the cheering fans at the Bankers Life Arena, Magic Johnson also sighed with a smile.Indiana has always been a place with a very good basketball atmosphere. Coupled with the excellent record of the Pacers in the past few seasons, the Pacers' home attendance rate has always remained at the forefront of all teams in the league. Even in the 9900 season, the Pacers The former also created a record of 41 regular season games sold out.Although the attendance rate of the Pacers this season is not as good as that of the 9900 season, with the recovery of the team's record, in the second half of the regular season of this season, the Pacers' home games once again appeared hard to find a ticket.

"Hey, what should I do?" Jeff Van Gundy, who had already stood on the sidelines ahead of time, watched the high-moralized Pacers up and down, and his mind was blank at the moment. The gap between the Knicks and the Pacers was very obvious. But before the game started, Knicks owner James Dowland had already given Van Gundy a death order to beat the Pacers.After Meng Xu and Larry Bird boasted that they would sweep the Knicks, and were already thinking about the next round, James Dowland didn't know if his brain was twitching, and he also instructed himself yesterday that he had to solve the walk within 3 games. Or, fortunately, this cheating guy did not publicly say it in the media, otherwise the Knicks would definitely become the biggest laughing stock of this season, and solve the Pacers in 3 games?With the current strength and state of the Knicks, it is a blessing to avoid being swept.

I don’t know why, Van Gundy, who was sober, thought of his teacher Pat Riley. In the 9899 season, Van Gundy led the Knicks and defeated Pat Riley’s Heat with the eighth in the Eastern Conference. After reaching the finals all the way , Van Gundy thought that his coaching level had surpassed his teacher, but the facts told Van Gundy that as the group of players selected by Pat Riley when he coached the Knicks gradually left the team, the Knicks' performance improved every year. It got worse and worse, and Van Gundy couldn't do anything about it.

"Perhaps, these are the last few games I've been coaching the Knicks." Xiao Dolan kept cleaning the imprint of Pat Riley's era, just wanting to build a Knicks as beautiful as the Lakers, but limited by his own ability Limitations, Van Gundy can't create a beautiful offense at all, and now the Knicks are becoming more and more like a four-faced team. Van Gundy is good at defense, but there are not many players on the Knicks that meet his tactical requirements. The boss wants to attack, but Van Gundy The Knicks under his command couldn't play a beautiful offense.

"Meng, today's game is destined to be a difficult game, but I still want to tell you that we will not give up." Alan Houston, who is a modest gentleman and has a good personal relationship with Meng Xu, in his heart, In fact, he didn't want to get involved in the war of words between Xiao Daolan and Meng Xu, but as the head player of the Knicks, Alan Houston still made clear his position in front of Meng Xu.

"Alan, I won't show mercy." Based on Meng Xu's understanding of Alan Houston, although he appears to be a calm and even casual person on the surface, in his heart, Alan Houston is also a person who will not admit defeat. tough guy.

The grievances between the Knicks and the Pacers, needless to say, this round of the series is already the seventh time the two teams have met in the playoffs in the past dozen seasons, and every glory of the Knicks is stepped on The remains of the Pacers, and the most glorious moment of the Pacers, were also realized after killing the Knicks.

"Hmph, this game, even if I risk my life, I will stop you." When the starting players of the two teams started warming up, Latrell Sprewell stared at Meng Xu in the distance, secretly I swear in my heart that in the locker room, head coach Jeff Van Gundy told Latrell Sprewell that the key to the Knicks' victory lies in the defense of Meng Xu. If Meng Xu can be restrained, and The connection between him and his teammates, then the Knicks have hope of winning, so Jeff Van Gundy hopes that Sprewell can concentrate 120% of his energy in this game to defend Meng Xu and limit him. Houston will also cooperate with Sprewell to double-team Meng Xu.

Since Meng Xu entered the league, every time he met the Knicks, he would score a high score or make a big news, so Latrell Sprewell, who was playing against Meng Xu, would become the background board every time.In this year's regular season, Latrell Sprewell, who was so annoyed by Meng Xuyan's SHE, even had the idea of ​​abolishing Meng Xu, but was KO'd by Meng Xu.

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(End of this chapter)