Legendary star

Chapter 554 The Prosperity of the Four Power Forwards
"The situation for the Spurs looks very bad!"

On May 2004, 5, the Pacers defeated the Nets 12-97 in an away game, thus sweeping the Nets with a total score of 72-4 and becoming the first team to advance to the conference finals.However, after the game, the Pacers did not leave the locker room. Instead, they stayed with Meng Xu to watch another divisional semifinal match in which the Spurs played at home against the Timberwolves.

Since the game between the Spurs and the Timberwolves started an hour later than the game between the Pacers and the Nets, when the game on the Pacers side was over and everyone had showered and changed their clothes, the first game of the game over there Quarter four has just begun.It's just that the current situation on the court is already very unfavorable to the Spurs. The team is 12 points behind, but the Spurs can't see the slightest hope of overtaking the score. Even the possibility of approaching the score is very slim. The fourth quarter opened 3 minutes , No one can score on the Spurs side except Tim Duncan, but the Timberwolves are blooming more.

"Tim's teammates are really bad." James Posey, who had a good relationship with Duncan, shook his head and sighed repeatedly while watching the picture being played on the TV.As Meng Xu's closest friend in the Pacers, James Posey naturally knows that Meng Xu very much hopes to bring the Pacers and Duncan's Spurs to join forces in the Finals one day, but seeing that the Pacers will have three consecutive They reached the finals last season, but the Spurs still can't pass the Western Conference semifinals.

Duncan's strength is naturally needless to say. Anyone who watched the Spurs and Timberwolves game knows that Duncan's strength is stronger than Kevin Garnett. When facing Duncan, he can only stay away from the basket and not fight Duncan head-to-head at the basket.But compared to Kevin Garnett, Duncan's teammates are really bad. Tony Parker in the 3rd year, Manu Ginobili in the 2nd year, Bruce Bowen with almost no offensive ability, even parallel imports The main center Rasu Nesterovic, who can beat the No. [-] pick Michael Olowokandi, is the current main lineup of the Spurs.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Duncan is now leading four pits. In the first three games of the series against the Timberwolves, Duncan averaged 44 minutes per game, and averaged 27 points, 156 rebounds, and 5 assists per game. 4 blocked shots, but the Spurs fell behind 1-2 to the Timberwolves.This is the case again in today's critical fourth game. Except for Duncan, no one on the Spurs team scored in double figures, and the opposite Timberwolves, Kevin Garnett, Latrell Sprewell, Wally Szczerbiak, Sam Cassell, Michael Olowokandi, the starting five all scored in double figures, and the Spurs would be damned if they won in this situation.

"Don't watch it, don't watch it, pack up your things and go back to the hotel, go to bed early." Watching the TV, Duncan turned back to Kevin Garnett and narrowed the score to 10 with a back-up jumper. However, Wally Szczerbiak used a 3-pointer to widen the point difference to 13 points. Meng Xu couldn't stand it any longer. In the final, after sighing heavily, Meng Xu got up and left the locker room directly.

When the Pacers left New Jersey and returned to Indianapolis, it was already the afternoon of May 5, and the last two games of the conference semifinals, the Heat against the Pistons and the Mavericks against the Kings, will also be played tonight Compared with other games, Meng Xu is naturally very concerned about the Heat's away game against the Pistons.

After defeating the Nets to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals, the Pacers' eyes are also focused on the Heat and Pistons. After all, the Pacers' opponents in the Eastern Conference Finals will be born from these two teams.

"It seems that our opponent in the Eastern Conference Finals should be the Pistons. It's a pity that we can't meet that big fat guy in the Eastern Conference Finals." In the villa, Meng Xu's parents and He Hui's parents were playing mahjong, while Meng Xu and He Hui were sitting on the sofa in front of the TV, watching the fourth game of the series between the Pistons and the Heat. Both parents are there, so Meng Xu and He Hui are very honest now. Although they are sitting on the same sofa, there is an obvious distance between them.

The Heat, already behind 1 to 2, almost played themselves to the extreme in this game, especially Shaquille O'Neal, facing the Pistons' double Wallace combination, scored 34 points and 21 rebounds in three quarters.But the reason for the Spurs' loss to the Timberwolves is exactly the same. In the suffocating defense of the Pistons, the rest of the Heat players were unable to provide effective support for O'Neal in the fourth quarter, and it is certain that O'Neal alone fought alone. There's no way to beat the Pistons.

In the end, the game ended with the Pistons defeating the Heat at home. The Pistons, who have already won the match point, are likely to be the opponents of the Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals. Watching the figure of O'Neal leaving the field on the TV, Meng Xu A little bit helpless, but also a little bit fortunate.

You must know that as early as in the All-Star Game, O'Neal, who was jointly robbed of the All-Star MVP by Meng Xu, Tracy McGrady, Iverson, Carter and others, had already issued a gauntlet to Meng Xu and others. Once, especially for Meng Xu's Pacers, O'Neal pointed at Meng Xu and claimed that he wanted to blow up the Pacers in the playoffs and step on the Pacers' corpses to return to the championship. The Pistons can't pass this level, presumably O'Neill must be extremely angry at this time.

During the Los Angeles All-Star Weekend in the 03-04 season, O'Neal, who returned to the Staples Center, was in front of all the Eastern All-Stars in the locker room before the start of the game, boldly leading them to beat the Western All-Stars, And crowned the All-Star MVP in front of all the people of Los Angeles, so as to teach those who betrayed him a lesson.However, Meng Xu and others, who had already discussed in advance to support McGrady to win the MVP, did not give O'Neill face very much. In the end, he missed the MVP and missed a chance for revenge. O'Neill was naturally extremely angry. , Iverson, Jermaine O'Neal, Meng Xu and others, like Kobe, are all classified as enemies, but now it's okay, the Pacers will not encounter the Heat in the playoffs, presumably Jayme Yin-O'Neill and others must have been very happy after hearing the news.

The game between the Mavericks and the Kings after the game between the Heat and the Pistons was a bit unexpected. Compared with the Pacers who had advanced first, and the Timberwolves and Pistons who had already won the match point, as the Mavericks who were number one in the West, After winning two home games in a row and taking a 2-0 lead, they lost two games in a row in Sacramento and were stubbornly tied by the Kings.Chris Webber, who is currently at the bottom of the four power forwards and is about to be surpassed by Jermaine O'Neal, was like a godsend in the series against the Mavericks. He averaged 28 points, 12 rebounds, and 6.5 points in four games. In this game tonight, he scored 37 points, 16 rebounds, and 11 assists in a large triple-double, leading the Kings to a 117-106 victory over the Mavericks.

This season is undoubtedly the prosperity of the four power forwards, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, Dirk Nowitzki, Chris Webber, the team they led not only swept the top four in the Western Conference, In the playoffs, their respective opponents were eliminated in the division finals. Therefore, in this case, a lot of media jumped out to build momentum for them, and even declared that after the end of the era of the four major centers, the league's The basket, from now on will enter the era of the dominance of the four power forwards.

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