Legendary star

Chapter 631 Intense Division Finals
On May 2005, 5, just one day after the tiebreaker between the Pistons and the Heat, the Western Conference Finals between the Suns and the Spurs had begun. In this division of Mike D'Antoni and Gregg Popovich In the apprenticeship battle, the teacher was slightly better than the apprentice. In the end, the Spurs defeated the Suns 21 to 121 in the away game and won the first victory in the series.

The first game between the Spurs and the Suns was eye-catching. Based on defense, the Spurs, who averaged second in the league in scoring opponents per game, changed their normal behavior after meeting the Suns, who averaged the most points per game in the league. Instead of playing positional warfare and defense that he is good at, he played small-ball tactics with the Suns and played against each other. The Suns obviously did not expect that the Spurs would use their shortcomings to gain their strengths, so after the opening, the Suns fell into a trap. After a short period of confusion, the Spurs seized the opportunity to be stunned by a wave. Although the Suns also successfully counterattacked in the third quarter and once reversed the situation on the field, when the game entered the fourth quarter , Standing up from the Spurs' bench, a man named Brent Barry made 5 of 5 shots and 3 of 3 three-pointers in a very short period of time, making the previous efforts of the Suns team all in vain.

Although Amare Stoudemire made 21 of 13 shots and scored the highest 41 points of the two teams, although Steve Nash also scored 13 points while sending out 29 assists. 1 point scored 30+10 data, but in front of 4 Spurs scoring 20+, Mike D'Antoni still had nothing to do, especially when the Suns' third leader Sean Marion was blown away by Tim Duncan , the audience made 6 of 1 shots and only scored 3 points. Mike D'Antoni could only watch helplessly as the Spurs defeated him in his best way in his own territory.

On May 5, after a lapse of one day, the Eastern Conference finals between the Pacers and Pistons also kicked off. Normally, the Pacers swept the Wizards in the semifinals and had more rest time to adjust themselves, while the Pistons and the Pistons The Heat's tiebreaker was only two days away from this game. After the consecutive battles, physical strength will inevitably become the main reason for the Pistons.

But in today's game, the state of the two sides is exactly the opposite. Instead, the Pacers are more like the team that has just finished the tiebreaker and has not rested. The audience only made 25 of 8 shots. The overall shooting percentage was less than 17%, and the three-pointers were only 3 of [-]. It would be a miracle if the Pacers could win this game.

For the Pistons, although the highest scorer Chauncey Billups scored only 14 points, six of the Pistons scored in double figures, especially Ben Wallace. With 6 rebounds and as many as 11 blocked shots, Big Ben showed the world his dominance on the defensive end in today's game.

90 to 83, in the first game of the series, the Pistons gave the Pacers a blow in the away game. Not only did they take the lead in the best-of-seven series, they also won the home court advantage in the entire series and were eliminated in the next game After leaving the Heat, the Pistons are now on the verge of going under the gram again.

The Pacers lost at home, and still lost the first game of the series. This is a very happy thing for the media who are waiting to see the jokes of the Pacers, so after the first game of the series, The media, led by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, began to gloat and bad-mouth the Pacers and Meng Xu, especially the New York Times, and even published a headline like "Mr. Missed three shots at the last minute, which helped the Pistons beat the Pacers' behavior.

It’s just that these media haven’t been happy for a long time, and the slapstick came. On May 5, the Pacers ushered in their second matchup with the Pistons at home. The two home games cannot be lost anyway.Perhaps stimulated by the ridicule of the New York Times, Meng Xu showed a strong desire to attack at the beginning of the game. In the first quarter, he made 24 of 9 shots, 6 of 3 three-pointers, and 3 of 2 free throws. , scored 4 points in a single quarter.

The Pacers, who established a 12-point advantage in the first quarter, did not give the Pistons any hope of a comeback, and finally defeated the Pistons with a score of 98 to 83. After scoring 11 points, 25 rebounds and 7 blocks in the previous game After the wonderful data, Ben Wallace scored 7 points, 15 rebounds, and 5 blocked shots again today.And Meng Xu, who performed poorly in the previous game, scored a game-high 48 points in this game, and also scored 11 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 steals, and 3 blocks. Compared with Ben Wallace, Meng Xu's dominance on the defensive end today is not inferior.

After keeping a home court and moving the big score to 1 to 1, the Pacers team set off for Detroit, where the Pacers were waiting for one of the most difficult away games in the NBA, the Palace of Auburn Hills. The Pacers eventually swept the Pistons to advance, but this season's Pistons are not what they used to be. From the previous two games, it can be seen that the Pistons are different from previous seasons. Compared with the Pistons swept by the Pacers In two seasons, the Pistons' progress this season is undoubtedly huge.

On May 5th, at the Palace Arena in Auburn Hills, the third game of the Eastern Conference finals was the same as the previous two games. Today's game is another very intense game. After two games of "testing" each other , Larry Brown and Rick Carlisle did not dare to slack off in the slightest, so the third game of the series between the two sides entered a fierce state from the beginning of the game. Not only was the game extremely fierce and anxious, the players of both sides The atmosphere between them is getting more and more heated, because no one wants to lose this extremely crucial game.

For Meng Xu and the Pacers, today's game is undoubtedly the most difficult game in the history of playing against the Pistons. The extremely slow pace of the game, the suffocating defense, the sound of hammering iron, and the end of the four quarters , the score of the two sides turned out to be 64. The scores of the two teams were added together. It was not as high as the Suns scored in a single game in the away game against the Spurs yesterday. In the hard battle of overtime, they defeated the Spurs 133 to 129. While winning an away game, they also avoided the difficult situation of falling behind 0 to 3. 0 to 3 and 1 to 2 are completely different situations.

After the Spurs and the Suns decided the winner through overtime, the third game of the Pacers and Pistons series also entered overtime by coincidence. The overtime of the Pistons was completely one-sided. Meng Xu, who only hit 21 goals in 7 shots in the first four quarters, made 6 of 5 shots, 3 of 2 three-pointers and 4 of free throws after entering the overtime. 3. Scored all the Pacers' points in overtime. Finally, under Meng Xu's sudden runaway, the Pacers defeated the Pistons 79-71, leading the Pistons 2-1.

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