Chapter 592: The Raptors' lineup
Immediately the places in the semi-finals of the East and West sides came out.
On the Western side, the Lakers finally eliminated the Los Angeles Clippers 4:3.
Originally, the Clippers had come close in terms of injury problems in the past two seasons.
But in the past two years, the Lakers have risen again......
The Spurs finally had shortcomings in the lineup, allowing the Warriors to be eliminated 4-2.
None of this came as a surprise, as the Spurs have changed a lot of players this year.
It is not easy to make it to the second round of the Western Conference playoffs.
If it weren't for Popovich's good use of soldiers, it would have been a problem whether they would have made the playoffs.
The most surprising thing for netizens is the game on the eastern side!
The Philadelphia 76ers were at the bottom of the league last season, and now they have beaten this season's favorites the Heat and the resilient Milwaukee Bucks.
directly got the place to enter the Eastern Conference finals and compete with the Raptors for this season's Eastern Conference championship!
Many fans still haven't reacted to what the hell is going on.
It felt like a dream.
Shouldn't it be that the Miami Heat and the Toronto Raptors finally meet in the Eastern Conference finals and stage a singing and crying semifinals at the level of Mars hitting the Earth?
What happened to the 76ers who finally advanced to this point?
Was it swept straight by the Raptors?
On the Eastern side, there are not many teams that can compete with the Raptors.
But the Heat definitely have the capital to fight with the Raptors.
Although in terms of one-on-one flexibility of players, the Heat team is slightly inferior.
But in terms of confrontation, they have players like Whiteside and Winslow on the front line, and Adebayo is also very strong in confrontation!
Defender Wade's experience and speed and other abilities are not something that Lowry or Jeremy Lin can defend if they want to!
But none of that is possible now because they were eliminated by the 76ers.
The problems encountered by the Bucks and the Spurs are similar, with shortcomings in the overall roster.
There is a problem with the lineup, it is difficult to play a result, and at the critical moment, the opponent's top star and your second team of ordinary blue-collar players are paired up, and the result of the game is already out.
The Spurs and Warriors in the West had the same results in the second round in the East, with the Bucks and 76ers having the same results.
They were all eliminated by their opponents 2:4.
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After James went to the West 8, the battle between Curry and LeBron of the Warriors was staged in advance!
Either team has a good chance of making it to the finals.
Coach Wharton is very well prepared this season, in order to deal with the problem of encountering the Warriors in the playoffs, the Lakers concentrated on three-point shooting in the last 30 games of the regular season!
It can be said that the Lakers' three-point ability in the main lineup is relatively good, and the players on the bench are practicing three-point shooting day and night!
The Warriors' defense under the basket is now strong. Therefore, there are almost no obvious shortcomings of the two teams.
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Like the Heat and the Bucks, this time two days before the game, Coach Brown called the players on vacation to the locker room.
Began to analyze the Toronto Raptors players one by one.
First of all, many of the players on the scene have already thought of it.
That's former Spurs forward Leonard.
This player is very comprehensive in terms of ability on the court, with rebounding, passing, scoring, confrontation, both offensive and defensive and basically not arguing with the referee about right and wrong.
He has a strong ability to break through and has an excellent sense of the field.
His departure from the Spurs is indeed a big loss for the Spurs.
After the victory over the Milwaukee Bucks, Brown took the lead, and after the data assistant coach printed the materials, they were handed over to every player as soon as possible.
Even the three players who basically can't be uploaded in the playoffs, as well as the two young players in the training camp who haven't been fired yet, also have a copy!
This is mainly just in case, everyone has a comprehensive playoff player and team profile, as well as the opposing coaching staff.
If the players already have this information, why did Brown call them over?
It's a bit like an intensive revision before an exam...... The manager brings his players and repeats the problems they will face.
And in Brown's words, there may be content that does not appear in the "review materials".
These are basically the coaching experience of the perennial game, and there is also a summary of the down-to-earth coping strategies given by the assistant coaching team.
The second player is Ibaka, who is very defensive and athletic!
The impact is also great on the offensive side of the field!
Now the team is a bit saturated in a lot of positions! The main player and second squad are very strong!
With Ibaka's presence, the likelihood that the Philadelphia 76ers want to score under the basket will drop a lot!
And then there's Siakam, which has stood out this year.
The striker could partner Leonard on the field.
It's not strong in terms of physical confrontation, but the statistics in rebounding and scoring are getting better and better this season!
Lowry, who is exceptionally strong and has excellent three-point ability, has become more consistent this season!
And then there's VanVleet and Danny Green, two shooting guards! The two can be each other's substitutes, and Lowry's position can also be replaced by Jeremy Lin!
Mark's arrival has also added a strong basketball defense to the team!
Unlike previous years, Mark's technical abilities are now more and more comprehensive!
He currently plays as a backup center here in Toronto, but he was an absolute mainstay center when he was in Memphis!
One of the ideas that came to the Raptors was that he wanted to lift the O'Brien Cup with his teammates in the Finals!
On the other hand, the Philadelphia 76ers do not have an advantage in terms of confrontation ability, but one of the advantages of the 76ers is scoring!
In terms of scoring, many players have improved their three points a lot!
In the final stretch of the regular season, Brown felt that it was too late for the players to practice their matchups anyway.
Then after a certain confrontation training, the main event is to practice three-point shooting!
For the first game, the whole team flew to the city of Toronto, where the temperature fluctuated greatly.
When the players arrived, they checked into the hotel and the team limited their daily travel time for the sake of the players' health.
Now the players on the Philadelphia 76ers side are not in the mood to go out and play, except for training with the team, which is a simple walk around the hotel, and then go back to the hotel to rest.
In the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals, the players on the Raptors' side looked at the Philadelphia 76ers on the opposite side with vigilance.
In response to such an opponent, Coach Casey also developed a more interesting tactical play.
That is, isn't the Philadelphia 76ers particularly capable of chasing points in the late stages of this season? Then don't give them a chance to chase points!
Directly defeat the opponent in the early stage, and do not hesitate to let the main players play on the field all the time!
Anyway, the Raptors' lineup is also very strong, and it's a big deal to go up to the second team, and the players in the second team are no different from the first team.
Soon the starters from both sides came to the court tonight, and on the Raptors' side, it was Mark, Leonard, Siakam, Jeremy Lin and Green!
On the Philadelphia side, Embiid, Booker, Kuzma, Li Feng and McConnell!
For head coach Brown, in the early game, it would be enough to draw with the Raptors!
The opponent is very confrontational, but not too scared.
In the late stages, the two teams became more or less the same. Because the opponent's defense is not very strong all the time.
Leonard also has a break, and the time when the opponent's main team goes down to rest is an opportunity for the 76ers!
The game starts and Gasol Jr. gets the basketball first! Then immediately pass the ball to Leonard.
The latter rushed to the front court and directly pulled out a jumper and hit a three-point shot!
There are no superfluous moves, and I don't talk nonsense with you, Xiaoka is such a player on the field.
Before all the players from Philadelphia could come over, the round was over.
For the players on the floor for the Philadelphia 76ers, the pressure is enormous.
The Raptors are not a team like the Heat and the Bucks, where there will always be problems of one kind or another in the game.
Although the whole team is not very good at cooperating now, the players in this team have a strong desire to attack!
Their desire for a championship is just as strong!
As long as Philadelphia is a little careless, it will not be easy for the other party to chase once the rhythm is up.
Because the Raptors are a defense-oriented team, it would be embarrassing if their spears couldn't beat the opponent's shield.
Li Feng directly received the serve from his teammates, and then entangled with Jeremy Lin in the backcourt!
Many years have passed. Jeremy Lin finally came to this arena with the team!
At this time, he is almost fighting with the players here in Philadelphia in all aspects!
Li Feng didn't get rid of Jemilin for a while!
The basketball flew to McConnell, and Li Feng directly accelerated over to get the basketball back and handed McConnell a color.
Lin and Danny Green thought that Li Feng was going to break up immediately! But they immediately realized that they were wrong, and Li Feng attracted the Raptors to wrap up and pass the ball back.
At this time, McConnell had just stood in the bottom corner, and he immediately shot back with a three-pointer after taking the basketball!
Jeremy Lin held the ball across half the court, and then jumped in front of Li Feng to hit a three-point shot, but fortunately, Mark jumped up in time to make up for the deduction and get points!
5:3! The camera was shown to Lowry and Ibaka, and their expressions were extraordinarily calm.
They were all there watching the game with blank faces. Then Kuzma received a pass from Li Feng, but was stopped by Siakam!
Booker took Kuzma's pass, immediately hit the basket and was finally slapped by the kawaii blood cap!
Mark runs out to save the ball, and eventually the basketball is saved, but Gasol Jr. falls off the court.
Leonard got the ball and ended the half, and then hit a three-pointer!
McConnell's pass was cut off by Siakam, and then Jamilin took the basketball in the half court and threw the ball straight into the air!
Danny Green immediately went over to catch the ball and scored points!
10:3! Coach Brown decisively asked for the first timeout of the game!
The Philadelphia 76ers were a little confused. The opponent's rhythm came together, and the emotions of the players on the scene became nervous.
Then mistakes began to occur, and Coach Brown immediately replaced Li Feng with Bayless when he thought of this.
The experienced Bayless should be able to stabilize the situation on the spot, and Li Feng will be put in the back to try to win this first game!
The current state of the Raptors makes people feel a little uneasy!
Later, after seeing the other team's replacement players, Brown's heart sank.
Lowry replaced Jamilin on the field, and Bayless was stopped at the start of the game!
After being cut off from the basketball, Lowry immediately ran outside the three-point line with the ball and jumped up to make a three-pointer!
Then Saric served, and the basketball went directly to Leonard......
Saric immediately rushes over, but Nicka dodges his defense in the air and hits the basketball board!
The Raptors fans at the scene at 15:3 were boiling at this time!
At this time, Coach Brown, who was on the sidelines, had a more serious face, and he didn't open the situation at the beginning of the game, and was scored by the opponent like this.
It seems that today's game is a bit more auspicious, and Bayless is also fighting with Lowry in the backcourt at this time!
The two of them seemed to be about to fight.
In the end, Kuzma came over to clear Bayless, so that he would not be prevented by the small steel cannon from coming out with an 8-second violation.
Kuzma, who got the ball, quickly rushed to the frontcourt! The battle with Siakam is also over soon!
Directly stagger the position with the defender and get up to hit a long-range 2-point shot!
Leonard didn't say a word and rushed to the front, neither Saric nor Kuzma could prevent him.
In the end, the small card scored three points again! 18:5! At this time, in the first quarter of the Eastern Conference finals, the Raptors are about to collapse the 76ers......
Bayless went straight to his pants this time.
On the pitch at this time, Kuzma became the heart of the team.
Li Feng: "Kuzmaddo passes to Embiid and McConnell!" ”
The pants nodded immediately after hearing it, Li Feng didn't want to let Kuzma fight with the opponent like this at the beginning!
Sure enough, the players on the Raptors' side immediately noticed Kuzma's strength and began to defend him strictly!
Embiid got the basketball this time, and in front of Mark, he dunked and scored!
Then Lowry's 2-pointer hit the line easily!
At the beginning of today's game, the Raptors' offensive efficiency was surprisingly high......
At this time, the players on the Philadelphia 76ers side basically had a blank in their minds. How to play this game?
The other party didn't let them mean anything at all!
Fight with their players from Philadelphia at the beginning! There are also players like Leonard, who are almost inexplicable!
When playing against the Bucks, Antetokounmpo was still more impulsive.
But the Raptors seem to be crushing their Philadelphia 76ers in terms of strength......
This time the Raptors didn't score, and the 76ers players on the floor, who were their opponents, finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Kuzma then dodged Siakam, but immediately ushered in Leonard's defense and passed the ball decisively!
McConnell received Kuzma's pass and quickly got up and scored three points into the net!
Casey felt that he was not satisfied with the start and asked for a timeout.
In today's game, the Toronto Raptors treated the Philadelphia 76ers with a light intensity.
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