Chapter 612: The stubborn Kobe Bryant and the West Duel

Seattle became the first team to advance to the divisional semifinals after beating the Suns 4-0 at home.

The Boston Celtics, who are first in the East, and the Magic, who are fourth in the East, were the first matchups in the second round, but now that the two teams are tied 3-2, the Boston Celtics have won the fifth crucial battle of Kings Mountain.

In the fifth crucial game, the Boston Celtics substitute forward Glen Davis staged a last-minute stunner to help the Celtics complete the comeback.

Although the Celtics won the all-important battle of Tianwang Mountain, the suspense of this round of the series is still very large.

Game 5 is the home of the Boston Celtics, and having been forced to such a point on their home court, it's hard to say that the Celtics will be able to finish the series in Game 6 or Game 7.

In last year's playoffs, the Boston Celtics and Magic were the opponents who met in the first round.

In last year's playoffs, the Boston Celtics defeated the Magic without bloodshed when they encountered the Magic.

At that time, the immature little monster Howard was really like a little baby in front of Garnett and the Celtics, and he could play whatever he wanted.

But this season, the playoffs met again, and Howard, the little monster who had brushed confidence on the Raptors, now seems to have been reborn.

In the game against the Raptors, Howard averaged 25+20 data per game.

And when it comes to the game with the Celtics, the data of Warcraft Howard is not so amazing, but the average data per game is still 20+20!

In the fifth game between the Boston Celtics and the Magic, the Boston Celtics, who were the Big Three, ended up using the Shark Hacking tactic against Howard.

Celtics head coach Doug Rivers really didn't have anything to do with the athletic monster before he used the shark-slashing tactics against Howard.

Last year, Doug Reaves and Garnett took advantage of Howard's youth to overshadow Howard in the playoffs.

But this season, in fact, in the regular season, the Boston Celtics can't stand up to Howard.

Howard has improved so much this season, his strength has increased so much, and his athleticism has not decreased.

It's terrifying!

Such a center, unless the strength and height are all above him, and the speed has to keep up with him, it is really uncomfortable to play such a center.

The Celtics are being quite uncomfortable with Howard right now,

Perkins is a little slow and a little short, Garnett is not short, but his strength is a little worse, and he often needs to be transferred out by Odom.

It can be said that the Celtics were a little embarrassed by the vengeful Howard in this series.

A beast like a battering ram on the offensive end, a monster like a ubiquitous net on the defensive end, such two guys in one guy made Celtics head coach Doug Reaves let out such an emotion.

"In the NBA right now, if there's one player who can trade Yes alone, then it's probably Howard, I've never seen such an incredible center, he can do anything."

Howard, the all-powerful little monster, has put the fourth-place Magic in the East and the Celtics first-place in the East into a scorching series.

On the other hand, the Wizards, who are second in the East, and the Pistons, who are third in the East, are also quite anxious in this series.

The Wizards led by Arenas and the Pistons led by Iverson are similar in a sense.

Arenas and Iverson are the kind of players I can kill.

The Wizards and Pistons are also the kind of teams that make it matter if you play well this season, regardless of whether you are the Celtics or the Rockets or the Suns.

The iron flower produced by these two teams colliding together is quite magical.

However, although the Wizards and Pistons are the same type of team, they are all teams that play with a certain player.

But obviously, in terms of subdivision, the two teams are a little different.

In terms of the overall style of the team, the Wizards are an offensive team, but Arenas, the boss who needs the Wizards to play with, is a player who can play both offense and defense.

And what about pistons?

The Pistons as a whole are certainly a defensive team, but Iverson, the boss who needs the Pistons to play with, is a thorough offensive player.

And that's what's interesting about this series.

The Wizards and Pistons were also playoff opponents last season, so it can be said that they are old rivals, and Arenas was even considered the direct culprit for breaking up the Pistons last season.

The two teams are also quite familiar.

Last season, the Wizards and Pistons were two teams that were clear offensively and defensively, and the two teams were competing for the rhythm of the game.

Whoever can get the rhythm of the game wins.

The fast pace of the game is offensive, and the odds can win.

The game is slow-paced, defensive, and the Pistons can win.

But this year, with Iverson, the Pistons are a little different.

The theme of this year's playoffs, the Wizards and Pistons, is still the rhythm of rushing games.

But the result of the game after grabbing the rhythm is different.

Even if the Wizards grab the offensive rhythm, because they have Sun Yue and the opponent has Iverson, they may not be able to win.

And if the Pistons steal the defensive rhythm, but because the Pistons no longer have Billups, coupled with the strengthening of the Wizards' outside defense by Arenas and Sun Yue, it will not be easy for the Pistons to beat the Wizards in the defensive rhythm.

In the end, these two teams played five games before they knew that it turned out that who of the two teams could win the game not only needed to grab the rhythm, but also to grab the luck.

If the rhythm can be artificially controlled to grab, then luck or feel is really something that cannot be seen or touched.

How strong would Arenas and Iverson be if they knew how they felt at every moment?

It's a pity that neither of them knows.

So in this round of the series between the Wizards and the Pistons, under the guidance of God, the Wizards temporarily led the Pistons 3-2.

The two semi-finals in the East were very intense, and the four teams were very tight.

On the West side, in addition to Yess easily swept the Suns with supersonic speed, the other group of matchups, the Lakers and Rockets, is also quite intense.

The Lakers are fifth in the West this year, and in the regular season, the Lakers are actually the least present of the six teams in the top six in the West.

In this year's top six in the West, the Suns are the most present in the early stage, the superSonics and Rockets in the middle stage, and the Nuggets and Spurs in the later stage.

The Lakers, who have strong players such as Kobe Bryant and Kidd, really gave people the feeling of finishing fifth in the West in this year's regular season.

This is the feeling that the Lakers gave everyone in the regular season, but in the playoffs, the Lakers changed the feeling of not having a sense of presence before, and the sense of presence suddenly became explosive.

In the first round, he took out the Spurs led by Bowen, the strongest defensive player in history.

The Spurs' leading interior lineman, Tim Duncan, was crushed by the Lakers' starting power forward Randolph and almost lost his reputation.

Originally, with Bowen's perfect integration in the sprint stage, the Spurs, whose strength was recognized as rising to the level of the Rockets and Suns, were eliminated by the Lakers in this way.

4 to 2, not a fierce score like 4 to 3.

Even judging from the series between the Lakers and the Spurs, if it weren't for Bowen's suppression and destruction of the Lakers' triangle offense, the Lakers might have been able to beat the Spurs 4-1 or even 4-0.

No kidding, the Lakers showed such strength in this series against the Spurs.

The strongest Spurs is Duncan, but Duncan was suppressed by Randolph, the Lakers' three-in-command, what else do the Spurs have to compete with the Lakers?

After this series ended, Spurs head coach Popovich conceded both.

"Thank you to Bruce for earning us the last dignity, we should have been swept by the Lakers, Bruce snatched two games for us, this season is unfortunately out in the first round, we are sorry for the San Antonio fans and Bruce."

In this round of the series between the Lakers and the Spurs, the Lakers have shown a very strong and incredible performance.

If it weren't for the superSonics and Nuggets' series being too bizarre, the Lakers would be the absolute protagonists of the first round of this year's playoffs.

Who would have thought that the NBA's No. 1 brush rotten tofu could brush Duncan in the playoffs?

Who would have thought that Kidd, the NBA's No. 1 cancer, could find his right place with the Lakers?

And after brutally sending the Spurs away, the Lakers also showed great fighting power in the face of the Rockets, who are now recognized as the strongest team in the league.

The first game was defeated by the Rockets on their home court.

Game 3 returned to the home court and beat the Rockets again.

The first four games were tied 2-2, but the first game was won by the Lakers.

And in the two games in which the Lakers defeated the Rockets, anyone who really watched the game would feel that it was definitely not luck for the Lakers to beat the Rockets.

There really is a very big reason why the Lakers beat the Rockets.

As for what is this big reason?

Or Randolph!

When the Lakers were playing against the Spurs, the Spurs had the strongest outside defender in the history of the league, standing to defend Bowen, who was the best in the world, and Kobe Bryant was playing very embarrassed, and the triangle offense couldn't be used.

Standing still and playing Bowen?

After playing with the Spurs, as long as the thought of the single that was entangled with Bowen in place, Kobe Bryant panicked.

And what about rockets?

The Rockets don't have a defensive player as strong as Bowen on the perimeter, but the Rockets have a bunch of slightly worse perimeter defenders on the perimeter, Artest, Maddy, Bowen, and Ariza off the bench.

Therefore, although Kobe Bryant can play a triangle offense again when he is with the Rocket, Kobe's efficiency and performance are actually not too magical, and the Rockets have too many points worthy of him.

But Randolph, another player of the Lakers, the Rockets are really not right.

The Rockets' power forward this season has been former Elvis Presley Gerald Wallace.

Gerard Wallace 2m 01,98 kg.

Randolph 2m 06,118 kg.

Is this an order of magnitude?

And what made the rocket a headache was that Yao Ming couldn't get Randolph when he changed the past.

Yao Ming has lost weight this season and increased his speed and movement.

But even so, Yao Ming can't suppress Bynum and then help defend Randolph, because Randolph can shoot in addition to hard chisels, and he also has a pass inside the ball!

Unless Yao Ming is reversed against Randolph and Gerard Wallace is placed in front of Bynum.

Gerard Wallace 2m 01,98 kg.

Bynum 2m 13,128kg.

Gerard Wallace was in front of Bynum and could have been even worse.

If the No. 4 position is not on Bynum, who is on it?

Scola?

Hayes?

Or Landry or Mutombo?

The Rockets are the team with the strongest roster depth this season.

But they never imagined that one day they would feel that their No. 4 position was so inadequate.

However, the Rockets don't have to feel too sorry for themselves, think about the Spurs have Duncan, the No. 1 forward in history, wasn't he also hammered by the Lakers' big black bear?

In this year's playoffs, being hammered by this big black bear is really nothing.

Of course, the No. 4 position of the rocket was hammered by Randolph, the big black bear, but it can still stubbornly bite the big score, and I have to say that the hard power of this rocket is really strong.

This series between the Rockets and Lakers is a defensive battle.

The strongest thing for the Lakers is that the Rockets can't withstand Randolph.

And what about the rockets?

There are three players who can play unlimited singles, Yao Ming and Maddy Roy.

On the Lakers' side, Kobe Bryant's unlimited singles Artest and Ariza and Roy Maddy, while on the Rockets' side, Maddy Roy Artest's unlimited singles Kobe.

The Lakers' starters have the defensive hole of Turkglou, which gives the Rockets the opportunity to constantly change people in the offense and take turns to play Kobe.

If Kobe Bryant faced Bowen in the last round, he was embarrassed.

This round Kobe Bryant faced the Rockets, it was really miserable, too miserable, and too tired!

Kobe Bryant is the most ironclad iron man in the NBA except Yes, but he is such an iron man, and he feels like he is tired after every game.

Randolph smashes the Rocket's fourth position.

Yao Ming can also beat the Lakers' Bynum.

Is it the Rockets' No. 4 position or the Lakers' Bynum?

The answer, of course, is that the Rocket's No. 4 position is miserable.

But Randolph's playing the Rockets' No. 4 position was so miserable that it was just a chance to win, and the basis of the Lakers' victory was that Kobe Bryant withstood the Rockets at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, and obviously deliberately engaged in his tactics.

To put it simply, Randolph is the Lakers' glamorous ceiling, while Kobe Bryant is the unnoticed team base and floor this round.

As for the rocket, the basis of the rocket is Yao Ming, and the upper limit of the rocket is ......

"It's so strong!"

"The rocket's bench is too strong!"

In Yeth Seattle's villa, Wang Han was very excited.

Because of the most critical battle between the Rockets and the Lakers, the Rockets once again defeated the Lakers with their bench advantage.

3 to 2!

The Rockets got the match point.

"Yes, do you really want to beat the Lakers in the West?"

"I wanted to play the strongest, and the Lakers were the strongest team at that time."

Ye Si said lightly.

Kobe Bryant can withstand the Rockets' wolves, Randolph can wreak havoc on the Rockets' No. 4 position, and the Lakers did look stronger at that time.

But now......

In this game, the Lakers not only lost on the bench, Kobe Bryant was facing the attrition of Artest, Maddy and Roy Ariza, etc., and finally couldn't stand up to it in Game 5......

Looking at the viper-like eyes on TV, Ye Si felt some sympathy.

That look is still so stubborn.

Two days later, the Houston Rockets defeated the Lakers again in Los Angeles and eventually eliminated the Lakers by a score of 4-2.

On the other side of the East, the Celtics and Wizards also defeated the Magic and Pistons with a score of 4-2 as if they were getting better.

So far, the teams in the finals of the East and West have all been produced.

Boston Celtics vs. Wizards.

Houston Rockets vs. Seattle SuperSonics.