"Amazing, the Spurs' table in this year's playoffs is really strong, the Nuggets, who made the Western Conference playoffs storm last season, actually didn't have any power to fight back in front of them, and they were swept away after three games, this team is a lot stronger than in the regular season, whether it is interior defense or perimeter shooting."

"Yes, after all, during the regular season, this team has not completed the rebuilding success, and now, they have completed the rebuilding success, if the Rockets are the team that made the most profits in the Barkley trade, then the Spurs are the team that made the second most profit in the deal, this team originally had some problems on the outside, but with the arrival of Ceballos and others, there is no problem with the outside of this team, and it has even become an outside team!"

"That's right, it's the same lineup of one big and four small, and even the same core center play, but in this round of the series, the Spurs have suppressed the Nuggets almost from the inside out, which is really incredible, just like the series between the Lakers and the Warriors, the Spurs almost completely restrained the Nuggets, the Nuggets' choice last summer was really bad, all the strong teams in the entire West have strengthened the team, only the Nuggets have not changed, and now they have finally been punished!"

"Well, the Nuggets are being punished now, that's for sure, but with the strength of the Western Conference this season, even if the Nuggets were able to make a difference last summer, it's hard to say whether they will be able to do well this season. After all, even the SuperSonics are only fifth this season, so the sixth place in the West is already good for this team, but the opponent is a little too strong."

1995 even on the evening of May 2. McNichols Sports Center in Denver, the home of the Nuggets, although because of the Lakers and Warriors' Western first round on the same day, this game between the Nuggets and the Spurs is quite low in attention, but because the previous record of the Spurs and the Nuggets is 2-0, this game is already the so-called battle of life and death, so for this game. In terms of attention, it's actually pretty good.

And when this playoff game is over, when the Nuggets return to their home court, they still lose to the Spurs and are eliminated by the Spurs. At this time, the American reporters on the sidelines were almost in an uproar at this time, just like the round between the Lakers and the Warriors, this round of the game was also considered to be close in strength before the game, and it should be a fierce fight. But that's how it will end up.

It's just that compared with the Lakers and Warriors' series, the Lakers and Warriors suppressed the Warriors' team by Lin Han alone, and this series was the Spurs' team that suppressed the Nuggets, but no matter what, these two rounds of the series were a big defeat!

Therefore, after getting such a result, when the first pair of the series in the second round of the Western Conference was produced, almost all the reporters and experts on the scene were looking forward to the matchup between the Lakers and the Spurs. Whether it's the Lakers or the Spurs, these two teams are definitely the two big opponents this season, although in the regular season the Lakers led the Spurs by a big score of 4-2. The Lakers won four of the six regular-season games.

But everyone knows that in the post-regular season moments, the Spurs did not try their best at all, and in the two meetings with the Lakers after the regular season, David Robinson did not play at all, which does not have any reference value. If you have to compare, the two teams are actually tied 2-2. In terms of strength, it is absolutely close, and in the four games that the two teams played without any reservations in the regular season, the Spurs actually still have a slight advantage, and the Lakers almost lost one of the games by virtue of Lin Han's reversal, of course, Lin Han's reversal of more than 90 points is also a victory, but will Lin Han continue to play more than 90 points in the playoffs? I'm afraid it's going to be difficult, and in this case, it's understandable that the Spurs would think so.

Of course, in any case, the Lakers and Spurs finally met in the second round of the playoffs, which is much more fierce than the Lakers and Warriors and the Spurs and Nuggets, so the day after the game on May 2, that is, on May 3, the entire league was almost caught in the promotion of the Lakers and Spurs at this time, and the entire league was also talking about the Lakers and Spurs at this time.

Moreover, not to mention these fans and media experts after the first round of the Lakers and Spurs, the department focused on these two teams, even the Lakers themselves, after finishing the game with the Warriors, got their team's next round is the Spurs, and the Spurs swept the Nuggets without any difficulty, the Lakers were actually quite surprised.

"The Spurs are really strong"

Early in the morning of May 3, 1995, after the Los Angeles Lakers players and coaches watched the video clips of the Spurs' three games in the playoffs this season in the team's video editing room, almost all Lakers players had this idea in their hearts for a while.

Originally, in the eyes of the Lakers players, the Nuggets, who could cause some trouble for the Spurs even if they couldn't win against the Spurs, really couldn't be swept by the Spurs so easily, so after the game ended last night, after getting the news that the Spurs swept the Nuggets, the Lakers were a little incredible, including Lin Han himself.

And now, after watching the game clips of these three games, neither Lin Han nor anyone else has any doubts about the Spurs' sweep of the Nuggets.

The Spurs are indeed stronger than the Nuggets, and the Nuggets have no power to fight back because of their strength in the entire series, after all, the Nuggets can't always rely on Mutombo to superses, last season Mutombo was treated unfairly on the star and he was eager to become famous, so the fighting spirit of the whole person was quite terrible, and in the end, the Nuggets' leading player did complete a big counterattack. After the playoffs, his popularity was even slightly higher than that of Mourning.

And now, the Nuggets and Mutombo are still hoping that they can win. But that belief in winning is definitely inferior to last season, and with the fact that everyone already knows Mutombo very well, it is naturally more difficult for the Nuggets player to be supernatural.

Therefore, in this round of the series, in the case of Mutombofa's super god and Fa defeating David Robinson, it is not surprising that the Nuggets, whose overall strength is at a disadvantage from the inside to the outside, can have such an ending. It's just that for the Lakers, they don't want to accept it psychologically.

After all, compared to the Nuggets. Although the Nuggets also have some restraint on the Lakers, it is naturally impossible to compare with the Spurs.

It's just clear that now that the final result is out, for the Lakers players. I don't want to accept such an outcome, but I have to accept it.

But fortunately, the Lakers also know that they want to pick a soft persimmon to play the Nuggets in the second round, and such a chance is quite slim, so the Lakers still have enough psychological endurance psychologically.

And after sweeping the Warriors 3-0, the Lakers also have enough time to prepare for this series, although the relative Spurs have enough preparation time for the Lakers.

So, compared to some of the other matchups in the first round of the league. Both the Lakers and the Spurs should be considered quite lucky.

You know, in the two Eastern Conference games played on the same day as the Spurs and Lakers, neither the Bulls nor the Knicks or the Hornets and Bucks were able to separate the winners and losers in the three games. The Bulls were bitten by the Knicks when they came to the Knicks in the third game, and the Bucks and Hornets played from 1-1 to 2-1 from the first playoff game.

It is precisely because of this that the other four first-round matches played on May 3 are quite eye-catching, in these four matches. The teams that have won two in a row in the first two games are the Magic and the Rockets, and the Rockets and Suns are facing each other in this round. It can basically be decided that the Rockets can win, the Suns who lost Barkley have almost no chance of beating the Rockets, and whether the Magic can win the Cavaliers on the road is somewhat uncertain, after all, since the Bulls will be bitten by the Knicks, their old rival in the East, why can't the Magic be bitten by the Cavaliers, their own bitter home team in the East?

You know, although the East is behind the West in the regular season this season, in the fierce process of the playoffs, the East side is more intense, not to mention the other two Eastern matchups, let's just say that the Bulls and the Knicks and the Magic and the Cavaliers are the two rounds of disparity in strength, and there is almost no garbage time in any game, which is quite intense compared with the difference between the strong team and the weak team in the West that is tens of points at every turn.

In fact, in these four games on May 3, the Rockets did easily defeat the Suns and became the third Western team to enter the second round this season, and the Magic team was indeed slightly blocked by the Cavaliers, losing to the Cavaliers 96-102 away. O'Neal seems to have relapsed into a bit of a relapse, and the team lost in Cleveland in the end.

In addition to the two games between the Rockets and the Magic, the other two games, the Pacers, the third in the East, lost to the Hawks 89-93 away, and the score between the two sides became 1-2, and they were finally overtaken by the Hawks, and they were also pushed to the cliff by the Hawks, and the Jazz and the SuperSonics were the same, the Jazz, who was the first to win one game in the playoffs with home court advantage, was won two games in a row by the SuperSonics in the next game. And this is also the Jazz, the fourth team in the West, actually lost its home court advantage!

The Pacers, who are third in the East, and the Jazz, who are fourth in the West, have lost their home-court advantage at this time and have been given the match point by the other party, and one foot has been pushed under the cliff, and these two pairs of matchups are also fierce two matchups in the first round of this year, and the suspense is also big!

It's not just journalists and fans who think it's true. On May 4, 1995, in the first round of this year's playoffs, the Bulls, the first team in the East, were on the road to the Knicks. In the fourth game between the two sides, the New York Knicks did not adapt to the Bulls' away game in the last game, coupled with their sudden change of play, the team's head coach Nelson Sr.'s set was completely abandoned by the team, and the team's assistant coach Van Gundy Jr. took over the team and completed the team's tactical return, relying on the previous league's No. 1 defense to pit the Bulls.

Although the Knicks were able to use their hard strength on the defensive end to pit the unprepared Bulls, a team like the Bulls is not a young rookie team. The Knicks were able to pit the Bulls once, and Van Gundy Jr. was able to pit Phil Jackson. But to pit the Bulls twice, it was almost impossible, and the final result was exactly that, in the fourth game of the two sides. Although the Bulls are still playing on the road, the Bulls, who have been prepared for a long time, defeated the New York Knicks 95-86 on the road, and after beating the New York Knicks, the Chicago Bulls became the fourth team to enter the second round of the playoffs this season.

After the Bulls confirmed their promotion, the other game on May 4 between the Bucks and Hornets became the first matchup to reach the tie-break in all matchups this season, in this game, the two sides played 2-2 in the first four games, and the final result needs to be decided by the fifth game.

Compared with other matchups, the first round of this year's playoffs is probably the matchup between the Hornets and the Bucks. Because neither team has superstar players, the Hornets' Mourning and Larry Johnson are star players, and the Bucks' David Robinson and Weinbeck are also star players. This is true, it's just that although these four are all star players, except for Mourning, a future superstar and a current quasi-superstar, the other three are not so high-level. Add to that the city where the two teams are located, so to speak. The duel between these two teams is the first round without a sense of zài, but it is such a two teams that have no sense of zài, and finally they will go all the way from 1 to 1 to the current 2 to 2, you know, in the eyes of many people, this round of the series, the Hornets still have a great advantage, but who let the Hornets die by themselves, they are playing infighting, and the team's advantage is gone, and they are finally dragged into the fifth by the other party.

The Hornets and the Bucks finally entered the battle for the five, and then on May 5th, after the Bulls took the lead in the East, the Magic, as the second in the East, also defeated their bitter home Cavaliers on the road and became the second team in the East to advance to the second round of the East. The strength of the players is actually not much worse than last season, but on the Cavaliers' side, because of the retirement of Larry Nance, because of Mark Price's large number of injuries in the regular season, although the team's playing style is a problem, but the strength of the players has declined, in this case, it is almost impossible for them to push the Magic team into a desperate situation like last season, plus O'Neal Although he is still up and down because of his youth, this guy is indeed a lot stronger than last season, in this case, Winning a game at home against the Magic and not being swept by the Magic in shame is already quite rare.

Therefore, after the Magic eliminated the Cavaliers away from home, even the home fans of the Cavaliers did not have any dissatisfaction with the team at the end of the game, and even after the game between the two sides, the Cavaliers fans on the scene stood up and applauded and cheered for their home team players, which is completely different from the Warriors fans booing their own players, after all, the fans are not stupid, their players are not desperate, they know, the Cavaliers can win the Magic team, this is actually desperate!

Of course, after the Magic team advanced to the second round, the other two games on the same day were really caught in huge anxiety, and the Pacers, who were cornered in the third place in the East, after the team fell behind 1-2, it was an away game in the fourth game, so to speak, this team was really kicked off the cliff by the Hawks, and in such a situation, Reggie Miller, the Pacers master player who likes to play with a heartbeat, played a heartbeat in the fourth game between the two sides, The playoffs on this side of the East don't matter what the rankings of the two sides are. The scores were pretty close, and that would have been quite good for Reggie Miller, if it had been last season. Last season's Reggie Miller, who was not shortened by the league's three-point line, if he encountered such a situation this season, the first three games would not have been the Hawks' 2-1 lead over the Pacers, with Reggie Miller's key ball ability, in such an anxious matchup, it is possible that the Pacers will lead the Hawks 2-1, just like the two teams last season's matchup, the key ball is without Wilkins. How could the Hawks be Reggie Miller's opponent, even with Wilkins. The Hawks can't play the Pacers with key shots.

However, that was only before, and this season, the Pacers are relatively miserable. It was originally in their opinion that they should be able to easily win the series in the face of the Hawks, but they were finally forced to this kind of course by the Hawks, but fortunately, in the fourth game, Reggie Miller, who has been a little anxious in the playoffs, finally broke out once, and in the last thirty seconds of this game, Reggie Miller completed three of the three-pointers and scored nine points in one fell swoop. In the end, the Eagles were killed, and the victory and defeat of the two sides were dragged to the fifth game, and the lost home advantage was also regained.

Of course. The Pacers and the Hawks are now in a quagmire of cut-throat battles, and on the other side, the Jazz, who are fourth in the West, and the SuperSonics, who are fifth in the West, are similar.

For this round of matchup between the Jazz and the SuperSonics, Lin Han is quite concerned, because the strength of these two teams is very close, and the matchup between the two teams in the first three games, although because of Jazz fans. The Jazz didn't have that much home-court advantage, losing one of their first three home games. The score also became 1-2, and the supersonic won the match point, but in the fourth game, the Jazz, who had a slight advantage in strength, still relied on Malone's outbreak to complete the supersonic counterattack, and the score of the two sides also came to 2-2.

If the matchup between these two teams is just like this, Lin Han won't feel anything, the key is that in this game between the Jazz and the SuperSonics, a major event happened that almost shocked the entire league!

As one of the league's best physical players, Karl Malone, the leading player of the Jazz team, who has never received any major injuries in his career, had less than five minutes left in this game, when he was forced to break through to the basket in the face of Kemp's defense, because there were too many players under the basket, his right foot stepped on the foot of his teammate PJ Brown, Lin Han has not suffered such an injury, in the game with the Rockets in the regular season, Lin Han's ankle was sprained, but Malone obviously added Yan Zhan this time, and his ankle was almost ninety degrees deformed!

And when he saw this scene, Lin Han almost subconsciously felt that the Jazz team was about to end this game, and I was afraid that they would be eliminated by the SuperSonics 3-1, although the Jazz team was leading at that time in this game, but if Malone played the game, then the Jazz team, which was originally slightly superior, would be directly at a disadvantage, even if the score was slightly superior, what could it be?!

I'm afraid that when Malone was injured and went off the court, not only Lin Han thought so, but most of the fans in the league and reporters and experts who followed this game thought so, and the Jazz's playoffs this year were over.

It's just that what Lin Han never expected was that Ma Long, a traitor with a very low status in Lin Han's heart, actually refused to enter the wardrobe for treatment after leaving the game, just like when Lin Han was injured in the face of the Rockets, this guy actually appeared on the game again after accepting the tight bandages from his teammates on the sidelines!

You know, with the extremely bad relationship between the Jazz players and fans now, Malone has no need to risk the risk of career damage to fight this game, because for the current Jazz fans, even if the Jazz beat the SuperSonics to enter the second round, they will not get the support of these Jazz fans, unless they can win the championship, but this is almost impossible.

It's just that to Lin Han's surprise, Malone not only gritted his teeth and went on the court, but also scored 8 out of 10 points in the last three minutes of the Jazz team, scoring a high 44 points in the game.

And when the game is over. Watching Malone being helped off the court by Stockton and Steve Smith because of pain and hideous faces, Lin Han was really shocked.

Although Lin Han has never been very interested in Ma Long, Ma Long's performance in the Jazz this season can indeed be called conscientious. Because he was the champion last season, in order to eliminate the influence of Lin Han this season, Malone is quite hard, playing almost every game in the regular season, and what is worse is that in order to maintain the fourth advantage in the West after the regular season, he is a superstar player who works hard in the West. Payton and Kemp also worked hard, but these two guys were young anyway. Able to withstand it, but what about Malone? Although his physical fitness is quite good, he is not young after all, and the departure of Lin Han this season makes him strongly want to prove his overdraft. When the Jazz came to the playoffs, Malone was really on the verge of physical exhaustion.

The reason why Malone was injured in this game is not because PJ Brown's feet are below, if Malone is physically fit enough, he will not have anything to do even if he steps on PJ Brown's feet, because he has the ability to stand, the reason why he was injured at this time is because he didn't have the strength to stand up, and his legs were weak!

So. Although Lin Han was quite unhappy with Ma Long, Lin Han was quite surprised in his heart that this guy was able to overdraft and still not give up and win the game after completion.

And it's not just Lin Han who was surprised. After the end of this game, the extremely tense range within the Jazz team suddenly seemed to calm down after the end of this game!

Of course, while Malone's injury shocked the entire league, it was just an episode of the playoffs.

On May 6, 1995, the league's first tie-break game was staged, and the Hornets, who were fourth in the East, hosted the Bucks, who were fifth in the East. Although it is a battle for the top five, both teams have quite limited tactical literacy. The game was not very intense or exciting, especially on the Bucks' side, the two young leading players of this team did not have enough preparation and experience, and this is also the end of the battle of the Bucks, and the Hornets completed the stunner against the Bucks in the case of continuous infighting, 112-85, the Hornets finally became the third team in the East to enter the second round!

On May 7, 1995, after the Hornets and the Bucks were a not very good-looking battle for the top five, the entire league almost set its eyes on the Pacers and the Hawks, as well as the Jazz and the SuperSonics. The tactical literacy of these four teams is definitely among the best in the league, and with the fact that the four teams are experienced enough in terms of players, it can be said that these two games have been determined to be two extremely tragic games before the game starts.

On May 7th, the first two tie-break games started with the game between the Pacers and the Hawks, and these two teams have a good understanding of both sides after four games in the first four games, so the game was quite anxious from the beginning, just like the situation of the first four games of the two teams, this game played half time, and almost all the viewers had already thought of the lore, even as the TV viewers of this game, At half-time, Lin Han thought that this game was likely to be another game with a stunner, because the scores of both sides in this game were almost staggered.

Neither side can press the other down, and in this case, it is strange that there is no key ball!

And in fact, when the game came to an end, it was indeed as many people thought, the two teams had been anxious from the beginning of the game to the end of the game, and in the end, Reggie Miller completed the final kill for the first time in the playoffs this season, with 1 second left in the game, the two sides played 86-85, Reggie Miller almost directly received the ball and then completed a long-distance three-point shot at a distance of more than one step outside the three-point line!

It was Reggie Miller's first playoff kill of the season, and it was a crucial 'series killing'!

However, after Reggie Miller's stunner, he watched the Pacers star player on TV who roared into the sky. Lin Han actually has some complicated feelings in his heart, and Lin Han can feel what Reggie Miller's grievances are like this season.

"I hope this guy can vent all the grievances of this season"

Later, Lin Han also thought a little reluctantly, hoping that his friend could find his own rhythm of the game in the second round.

And after the end of this extremely shocking game between the Pacers and the Hawks. Immediately followed by the finale of the first round of this season's playoffs, before this game, many people were speculating whether Malone would play, and when Malone limped with a thick bandage on his right ankle in this game, the entire Jazz's home delta center was in an uproar for a while.

Originally, in the first two home games, as long as the Jazz players came out, they would enjoy the scene of boosing, but this game did not appear again, and the Jazz fans who had been booing their teams recently. At this time, looking at Malone with an expression on his face, these fans were actually a little unsure whether they were going to boo Malone or Stockton.

And to see this scene. Lin Han was also a little stunned, it was obvious that although the Jazz fans were very dissatisfied with the team, these people were not cold-blooded animals. Although they had previously shouted the title of "Salt Lake City is Salt Lake City by Salt Lake City People" because they were a little irritated, it was impossible to say that they had no feelings for the two leading players of the Jazz team, and they had supported this team or these two people for almost ten years before Lin Han came to the team.

Malone was able to fight for this series at the risk of his career being affected, proving that the Jazz team's leading player has feelings for the team even if he has a very poor relationship with his fans, and similarly, Jazz fans can still boo in the face of such a Malone in such a scene. Then it's really cold-blooded.

Therefore, for a while, the game was quite strange at the beginning, and even the supersonic players on the scene were extremely surprised when they felt such a scene.

Of course. Jazz fans gave up their plans to boo Malone and the Jazz, but it is also difficult to make them put down their shelves and cheer for Malone and the team immediately.

Obviously, in the face of such a situation. Ma Long did not receive any effect, and his face was quite cold from the beginning. Obviously, the leading player of the Jazz team did not think about using his desperate efforts to ease the relationship between himself and the fans, since he did not think of easing the relationship with Guò's behavior, then he naturally will not be disappointed because the fans are a little cold at this time.

It's just that when this game started, when Malone was still desperate on the court with his injured leg, even though the leading player of the Jazz team didn't think about getting anything from the fans, as a spectator of this game, Lin Han could clearly feel that the Jazz fans on the scene were quite conflicted at this time.

Especially when this game reached the second half, it was obvious that Malone who did not play closed after the second half, the injury of his right foot was aggravated, and almost every Jazz pause was not for tactical arrangement, but to fix Ma Long's bandage again, in this case, let alone the fans on the scene, even Lin Han, the audience who had a very bad relationship with Ma Long, had some sympathy in his heart at this time.

Because he can very well understand what Ma Long's pain is like at this time, Lin Han was injured in his right ankle in the game with the Rockets, and Ma Long has lasted almost the whole game from the last game to this game, you know, Ma Long is an inside line with a weight dà, and he has suffered a serious injury!

Therefore, when this game came to the fourth quarter, when the Jazz fans who had been 'cold-blooded' for three quarters finally sent long-lost applause and sparse cheers to Malone on the court, who could only walk the game, and with the retirement of time, the applause and cheers became more and more, even Lin Han had no resentment against Malone at this time.

Regardless of Ma Long's character and strength, and no matter what Lin Han's feelings for Ma Long are at this time, there is no doubt that Ma Long's comeback to this team is definitely worthy of becoming the leader of this team.

When Malone could only stand up and play, the result of this game was self-evident, the Jazz team had completely lost the chance to win halfway through the fourth quarter, but Lin Han in front of the TV could feel the cheers and applause of the Jazz fans at this time was getting louder and louder.

Although the cheers of the Delta Center did not return to the time when Lin Han was there last season, Lin Han knew very well that after this game, the Jazz team may really slowly get rid of his influence, although getting rid of the influence does not mean that Jazz fans will forget about Lin Han.

In the 1993 season, the Jazz were eliminated by the SuperSonics in the first round, and in the 1995 season, the Jazz were also eliminated by the SuperSonics in the first round, as if it was a reincarnation, but it was not a real reincarnation.

Therefore, when the game was over, looking at the Jazz players and coaching staff who were bowing and apologizing to the Jazz fans around them on the TV, as well as the applause and cheers from the Jazz fans on the sidelines, Lin Han seemed to feel a little relieved in his heart.

"Bastard, now I approve of you, I hope your toughness and dedication can be maintained forever"

Finally, when Lin Han looked at the Jazz player on the TV who was supported by his teammates with some complicated eyes, he muttered this sentence to himself, and turned off the TV. To be continued