With the Timberwolves and Kings playing one more game, the Rockets have been given a break, and it's rare to have a chance to recuperate during a long season. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, on the 19th of training, Tang Shuai still let the players end the training an hour early, and he led most of the players to Da Meng's home to watch the 7th game between the Timberwolves and the Kings. Due to the two strong rivals Spurs and Lakers out one after another, the Rockets players were quite relaxed, and they repeatedly applauded the wonderful scenes during the viewing process.

With Webb's buzzer-beating three-pointer missed, their opponent in the Western Conference Finals was finally determined to be the Timberwolves. Yuanfei and Maddie have already started to discuss the next match, and several players are still sighing about the key offense and defense in the final two rounds.

Tang Shuai cleared his throat and asked everyone to get together to discuss. "Boys, now that the opponent is decided, let's talk about what they think of the Timberwolves."

"I'll talk about it first." Wallace glanced at Big Dream and then at Maddie, and seeing that they didn't speak, he preemptively said, "From my personal point of view, Garnett is more difficult to deal with than Webb." He's far taller and has a far longer reach than me, and I think maybe I'm better suited as a small forward in this series. ”

Tang Shuai nodded to him as if encouragingly, took out a small notebook and wrote down Wallace's opinion.

"I told Cassel that I wanted to meet in the playoffs. I really didn't expect it to be the Western Conference Finals. Billups smiled, "Cassel is very powerful, and the sword is not old. This season, he's even better than Payton. ”

"Their centre-forward is still relatively weak, so there's nothing to say." Yao Ming was still modest. But Da Meng didn't give in at all, pointed to Yao Ming's nose and said, "Yao, if you can't abuse Olovo Kandi and Johnson, don't say to the outside world that I taught you how to play under the basket!" ”

"Yes, yes." Yao Ming promised again and again, and he also had special respect for the superstars of his predecessors.

"Most of the time I'm playing against Sprewell, and I'm confident I'll beat him." Maddie said lazily.

"Spreville has been inconsistent lately, with good and bad times. In the seven games he played against the Kings, he scored a maximum of 34 points and a minimum of 5 points. The average is around 20 points per game. Wolves rely heavily on him for offensive and defensive transitions, and he has two brushes for fast play. But even so, his offensive efficiency is not up to the league average, which shows that he is still a little more iron. In addition, the ability to make fouls is also poor. Yuan Fei said: "But this year, the Wolves have improved more on the defensive end. Compared to last season, their 105.9 and 106.1 points per 100 rounds were basically unchanged, but the points conceded per 100 rounds rose from 103.8 in the middle to 99.7 in the top. ”

"They've really built a defensive system with Garnett as a superman at their core, and our No. 4 position is precisely the weakness, and even the old Malone was eating us in the last series. It must not be easy to meet Garnett, who is at his peak. Tang Shuai analyzed, "So I expect that this series will let Wang play a dozen more, and he is the person with the most ability to take Garnetra out of the three-second zone." As long as Garnett leaves the interior, Yao can destroy their center at will. In the past two days, we have concentrated on practicing this kind of tactics of internal and external coordination. ”

"If we win this series, what do you think of the next Finals opponents?" Yao Ming asked suddenly.

"Walkers? They are strong, but we are not afraid of them either. Maddie laughed: "They defend greatly, but they don't have a super scorer. ”

"Hey, Tracy, did you ignore the pistons?" Far away.

"I feel that the gap between the Pistons and the Pacers is still quite big." "I always thought the Pacers would be against the Finals. They also have the second-highest record in the league, behind us. ”

"I think the Pistons have a little bit more chance of winning." Yuanfei expressed a different point of view. At this time, he couldn't cry or laugh in his heart, when Maddie led the Magic to lead the Pistons 3-1 in the first round of the playoffs in the 03 year, Maddie released a bold statement that "I have considered the opponent in the next round", and was eliminated by the Pistons in three consecutive games. It seems that Maddie's contempt and prejudice against the Pistons continues into this life.

"Jason, I'll ask you a question." Bosh leaned over and whispered: "I found that you use 100 rounds to score and lose points when you compare offense and defense, but ordinary fans generally look at the average points per game and lose points, right?" What's the difference? ”

"There are two differences, one is the rhythm gap; The second is the gap in overtime. Yuanfei opened his notebook and began to flip through the statistics again, "This season, we also played 82 games, and our team, which is the fastest, averaged 94.2 rounds per game and played 8 more rounds than the slowest Trail Blazers averaged 86.2 rounds per game, while the Raptors, who averaged the most time per game, played 48.73 minutes more than the Mavericks with the least time of 48.3 minutes, playing almost half a minute more, because the former played more overtime." Such a comparison of averages is certainly unfair, and a reasonable comparison is measured by the points scored and lost in 100 rounds. ”

"I see, I've gained knowledge again!" Bosh looked like a good student.

“...... Chris, you like basketball theory so much, I guess there is no problem in staying on the team as an assistant coach after retiring. ”

On the other side, the Rockets players had a heated discussion, and everyone thought that there was a lot of pressure on the No. 4 position. In the first round, he could easily fight against the Brazilian, but in the second round, he was under a lot of pressure against the old Malone. The next thing to usher in is the superstar Garnett who is in his prime, and it is really difficult to defend in the fourth position.

"Don't forget that even if we cross the Timberwolves, we still have to face Jermaine in the Finals. O'Neal's walker or have Rashid. Wallace's Pistons, they're all famous power forwards in the league. Tang Shuai said: "But our weakness is precisely here, and now we have to fight against the opponent's strength, so we can only fight with all our might." ”

"The current league is the era of big forwards, after the aging of the older generation of big forwards such as Rodman Barkley, Duncan, Garnett, Nowitzki, Webber, O'Neal Jr., Wallace, Malone, plus the young and growing Gasol and Stoudemire, the high-quality power forwards in the past five years have almost covered 5 percent of the outstanding power forwards in the entire NBA history." Yuan Fei smiled: "After all, we have avoided Duncan, Nowitzki, and Webb, and there is no bad luck." ”

"Avoiding Spurs, I think it's bad luck." Maddie pouted, "I still want to avenge the revenge against the Spurs last year!" ”

The crowd burst into laughter again.

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On May 21, the Toyota Center ushered in the first game of the Western Conference Finals. The Minnesota Timberwolves are on a murderous expedition, vowing to tear up the Rockets and reach the Finals. Wolves started Garnett, Kassel, Sprewell, Hassel and Johnson.

The Rockets have an advantage in the regular season record and each other, and they have the advantage of their home field, which can be described as confident. Maddy, who has returned from injury, also started the game, joining Yao Ming, Billups, Turkoglu and Wang Zhizhi. The rocket unleashed a rare odd formation.