On April 19, 2004, the first round of the playoffs was played in the West. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In Minnesota, the Rockets suffered their second road loss, losing again to the Timberwolves 98-97.

Yao Min and Garnett failed to be the protagonists in this game, and the person who really decided the direction of the game was "Madman" Sprewell, a crazy and terrifying form player who played a surprising performance in this game.

Sprewell played 36 minutes and scored 31 points, hitting 11 of 17 shots in the game, including seven of eight three-pointers.

Yao Min, who performed well in the last game, encountered the Timberwolves' tight package in this game, and the Rockets lacked enough lethal players on the outside to create space for Yao Min to play alone, and the Timberwolves played their strong mobility and rapid defensive rotation, leaving the victory firmly in Minnesota.

In Los Angeles, the Lakers also easily defeated the Grizzlies 98-79, O'Neal clocked out after the third quarter, scored 28 points and 15 rebounds, and completely blew up Gasol on both offensive and defensive ends, and the Grizzlies still have to hone in a few years if they want to make gains in the playoffs.

The Mavericks' second home game will be held on April 20th, and the team's players are in good condition, after all, it is at home, it is more convenient to do anything, and seriously, the fans in Dallas are quite crazy, which Liu Han has not seen before when he was with the Lakers, on game days, Dallas loyal fans will even come to the court several hours in advance to wait for the game to start, and the Mavericks fans will send earth-shattering boos to the away Nuggets during the game, Although Liu Han has seen 100,000 people booing together when playing football in Europe before, it was an empty occasion after all, and when more than 19,000 people collectively booed in the American Airlines Center Arena, anyone who controlled the ball couldn't help but weaken.

On April 20, there will be a total of three playoff matchups on this day, including two in the East and only one between the Mavericks and Nuggets in the West.

In the two games in the East, the Pacers, who were without Artest, still won 103-90 against the Celtics.

Artest chose to rest because of a finger contusion, without his defense, Pierce finally played, he alone shouldered the team's offensive responsibility, in the absence of strong support, Pierce like a dynamite bag bombing the bunker repeatedly hit the Pacers' interior line, he hit 7 of 18 shots in the game, the shooting rate is still not high, but he has 16 free throws, Pierce hit 13 of 16 free throws.

But even so, the Pacers still won comfortably because their bench players were much better than the opposing team, the Celtics bench players only scored 11 points in the game, while the Pacers came off the bench to score 43 points, which alone made the Celtics lose too much to the Pacers.

In the other game in the East, the Nets beat the Knicks 99-81 at home again, and the two teams across the river are now in a different position than before.

Nets since Jason? After Kidd controlled the ball, the team played more reasonably, and Kobe Bryant began to mature after the "Eagle County" incident, he no longer forced shots, but more in the low post.

On the Knicks' side, Marbury is fighting alone.

If you love someone, then send him to New York, if you hate someone, then send him to New York, now Marbury is almost in this state, when he came to New York with great ambition, he found that it is not so beautiful, everyone lives with a mask, the impetuosity of the city also affects the players of the team, Marbury wants to show his ability, but he is doing more and more wrong, and now even some fans are beginning to have opinions about him.

The Eastern Conference has a slightly lower rating in this year's playoffs than the Western Conference in comparison, after all, some of the teams that defend the playoffs are not doing very well, while the teams that don't have a big market have achieved good results with their defense.

The Mavericks' game against the Nuggets is still played at the American Airlines Center arena in the White Ocean Gang, and when the Nuggets players come here, they will unconsciously feel a little different, especially some young people.

After a big loss in the last game, the Nuggets also summed up after returning to the hotel, but they have been fighting for the eighth place in the West in the final moments of the playoffs, so they have not systematically studied the playoff tactics at all, so it is very hasty to make changes now.

Nuggets head coach Bruderick hopes that the team can do a good job of outside defense, especially to cut off Liu Han's connection with others, but his players don't particularly like defense, and among the Nuggets' outside defenders, there is probably only point guard Andre? Miller is a player who is willing to take the initiative to defend, and everyone else is actually a master of attacking and defending weak.

As in the previous game, the Mavericks are still man-to-man defense, Liu Han, Josh Howard and Odom are all good at one-on-one defense, and Nowitzki and Jamison, who have been trained by Olajuwon, also have their own experience in interior defense.

Therefore, after doing a good job of defending the foundation, the Mavericks still maintained their efficient and fast characteristics in the offense, relying on the advantage of the home court, the Mavericks used a wave of three-point rain to extinguish the Nuggets' only remaining desire to win.

However, compared with the previous game, Anthony's state has finally recovered, and he began to try to rely on his weight and strength to sit and play inside, which has played a big role to a certain extent, Liu Han has also repeatedly supplemented Anthony so that the Mavericks' defense does not have too many problems, but the Nuggets are just like that, Camby only thinks about grabbing rebounds, ** will only attack in the low post, and the Nuggets have no way to organize a layered offense, so the Mavericks' defense is very good.

The final result of the game made Mavericks fans very satisfied, 115-92, the Mavericks won both home games easily, Liu Han played a triple-double in this game, this is his 58th triple-double this season, such an achievement is very rare even in the period when the gods ruled the league.

In addition to Liu Han's 27 points, Nowitzki and Odomi also scored more than 20 points, and the Mavericks scored double-doubles for all six players, and the many offensive points made the Nuggets unguardable.