In the 1999 playoffs, the Philadelphia 76ers defeated the Orlando Magic 4:1 in the first round, Iverson contributed an average of 28.5 points and 6.0 assists per game, and Eric Snow averaged 13.0 points per game is already the second highest score on the team in addition to Iverson. In the second round against a strong opponent like the Pacers, one Iverson is not enough, the team needs other players to step up, head coach Larry Brown also knows this, he gave the rest of the team more shots, in the first game Iverson scored 35 points on 13-of-26 shooting, Matt Garrell scored 16 points and 11 rebounds on 6-of-9 shooting, Snow scored 10 points on 4-of-13 shooting, 10 assists on substitute Larry Hughes scored 10 points on 5-of-11 shooting, But the final victory belonged to the Pacers, with Miller scoring 18 points lightly, and Jalen Rose, who came off the bench, exploded all over the court, scoring 27 points on 9-of-16 shooting! The 76ers lost by three points.

3 points, not too much, no less, even if the 76ers players can hit one more goal in the game, I am afraid it can change the final result, it is like a threshold, so that the 76ers can not step, the second game, the 76ers lost to the Pacers with a 3-point disadvantage again 82:85, Iverson did not perform well, scoring 23 points on 7-of-28 shooting, and Matt Geiger scored 18 points and 11 rebounds on 6-of-17 shooting. The Pacers Miller scored 17 points again, and the last big outburst changed from Jalen Rose to Rick Schmitz, who scored 25 points on 12-of-23 shooting, and Mark Jackson dished out 14 assists and only had two turnovers.

Both games were narrowly lost to the opponent, which shows that the 76ers are actually capable of defeating the Pacers, at least the fans at the time thought so, but the ideal is plump, the reality is skinny, the third game, Iverson 33 shots 13 of 32 points, the Pacers' side of Reggie Miller, who had been holding back, finally shot, 14 shots 9 of 29 points, personal efficiency is almost twice that of Iverson, 76ers 86:97 lost three games in a row.

In the fourth game, it was still that damn 3-point, the 76ers were like a curse, 86:89 again lost to the Pacers by a narrow three-point disadvantage, 76ers Iverson scored 25 points on 11-of-23 shooting, Matt Geiger scored 23 points on 10-of-16 shooting, and Pacers Miller once again played the role of a needle in the sea, he shot 8-of-17 from the field, delivered 23 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists, and Chris Mullin scored 16 points on 5-of-9 shooting, Mark Jackson once again scored a double-double of 14 points and 13 assists, and the 76ers were swept by the Pacers 0:4. In addition to Iverson's average of 28.8 points per game, Matt Geiger averaged 17 points per game, and Eric Snow averaged 11.8 points per game and was the only three players on the team to score double-doubles, but these three players were not very efficient except for Geiger, especially Iverson, who averaged 28.8 shots per game but could only hit 11 of them, with a shooting rate of 38.3%, With an average of 6.3 three-point attempts but only 1.3 shots, Iverson's sluggish performance on the offensive end makes it natural for the team to lose.

The team's problems in the playoffs can be seen by anyone, and the team's manager is no exception, so they have maintained the original lineup while bringing in a heavyweight player, who is known as the "European Jordan" Tony Kukoc.

Kukoc is a Croatian, he became famous when he was in Europe, he has got everything that a basketball player can get in Europe, and then moved to the NBA, was recruited by the Bulls, and became an indispensable force for the team when Jordan was in the second Bulls dynasty, with an average of 10+4+4 data per season, after Jordan retired, Pippen left the Rockets, Rodman moved to the Los Angeles Lakers, and Kukoc became the leader of the team, At his peak, he averaged 18 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists per game, Rao is like this, the Bulls who entered the rebuilding period still traded Kukoc to the Philadelphia 76ers, Kukoc was born a boss, and he played more vigorously, this guy attaches great importance to his "external beauty", and his life motto is "the head can be broken, the blood can flow, and the hairstyle can not be messed up!" "You have to brush your hair from time to time in the game to be able to continue to fight, and this wayward once famously said when he played with the Bulls in the early days,

"I don't want to go back home and the fans say to me, hey, you helped your team win the championship and then I actually only play two minutes a game......"

Alas, look at others, and then look at yourself, it's really a slap in the face......

For Philadelphia, Kukoc's arrival has greatly enhanced the strength of Philadelphia's books, but in fact, Kukoc's performance in the 76ers for a year and a half is not satisfactory, because of the coexistence of injuries and Iverson's style of play makes Kukoc a little lost himself, this season the 76ers won a full 49 games, and entered the playoffs with the fourth record in the East. Led by Iverson with 40 points, the 76ers defeated the Charlotte Hornets 92-82, although the team won, but the problems exposed were still the same as last season, except for Iverson, the other players on the team scored no more than 10 points. In the second game, the Hornets hit a critical hit, and the team's shooting percentage reached 53.3%! The Philadelphia 76ers were a full ten percentage points less than the Hornets, Coleman had 29 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists on 10-of-15 shooting, Elden Campbell had 20 points and 14 rebounds on 10-of-16 shooting, while 76ers Eric Snow had 19 points and 13 assists on 7-of-10 shooting, Theo Ratliff had 15 points and 7 rebounds on 6-of-8 shooting, Kukoc played the level of the Bulls dynasty in this game, coming off the bench for 30 minutes and scoring 20 points and 6 rebounds on 8-of-15 shooting. But the key was Iverson, who scored just 13 points on 5-of-21 shooting, and Iverson's performance on the offensive end was a barometer of whether the team could win, and the 76ers lost 98-108 in this game.

In the third game, Iverson's performance was still unsatisfactory, scoring 24 points on only 9 of 27 shots, but the Hornets did not seize this rare opportunity, and the team's shooting percentage was also miserable, Eddie Jones shot 5 of 18, David Wesley shot 5 of 14, Coleman shot 3 of 8, and Anthony Mason Jr. shot 0 of 7, and the 76ers won the game with difficulty when Iverson did not perform well.

In the fourth game, Iverson scored 26 points on 10-of-23 shooting, and his performance was still not adjusted to the best level, but his teammates gave Iverson a lot of help in this game, Aaron McGee scored 25 points and 11 assists on 9-of-15 shooting, Matt Garrell scored 17 points and 10 rebounds on 7-of-10 shooting, and the 76ers defeated the Charlotte Hornets 105-99 to advance to the second round for two consecutive years, and standing in front of the 76ers is still the Indiana Pacers who sent them home to fish last year!

Compared with last season, this season's Pacers lineup is basically unchanged, Reggie Miller, Jalen Rose, Rick Schmitz, Mark Jackson, Chris Mullin, Travis Best, and last year's small dragon Austin Crohill has been more heavily used this year, last year's 76ers did not win one game in four games, can the 76ers, who have significantly strengthened this year, cross the mountain of the Pacers?

In the first game, the 76ers' players were obviously under huge psychological pressure, and they were beaten 15:34 at the beginning of the first quarter, but as the game deepened, the 76ers' players gradually found their senses, Iverson continued to kill the Walkers inside to score points to stabilize the army's heart, while the Pacers' Miller and Jalen Rose were like gods, all kinds of unreasonable shots, all kinds of ecstatic postures can be entered, "brush brush brush", the 76ers' basket is as wide as the sea, In the end, the 76ers lost to the Pacers twin stars in this game, Reggie Miller shot 11 of 18, including 7 three-pointers, and scored 40 points in the game, while Jalen Rose also scored 40 points on 16-of-23 shooting! Iverson scored 28 points on 10-of-20 shooting, but had just two assists and four turnovers, Dillon Hill had 20 points and eight rebounds on 8-of-13 shooting, Aaron McGee scored 10 points, and no one scored in double figures.

In the second game, the 76ers lost another game 97:103, and the rest of the 76ers performed well in this game, Ratliff scored 15 points and 5 rebounds, Dillon Hill scored 15 points and 8 rebounds on 5-of-9 shooting, Matt Gerrell scored 14 points and 7 rebounds, and Aaron McGee contributed 13 points and 6 assists, all of whom shot more than 50% from the field, but Iverson did not perform well, scoring 28 points and 10 assists on 9-of-25 shooting from the field. Iverson is the 76ers' barometer, and such a poor performance naturally can't bring the team a victory, with Pacers Jalen Rose scoring 30 points, Reggie Miller scoring 19 points, and Crohill off the bench scoring 20 points on 6-of-9 shooting.

For the 76ers, the previous two away defeats are also reasonable, and returning to Philadelphia to defend their home court can fight with the Pacers again, but unfortunately, although the 76ers' Aaron McGee (20 points), Ratliff (13 points, 8 rebounds, 3 blocks) and Dillon Hill (10 points and 14 rebounds) have a good performance, Iverson once again played a less efficient game, scoring 29 points on 9-of-21 shooting, and shooting 42.9% from the field, but that's all, Not enough to lead the team to victory, the 76ers lost three games in a row 89-97, trailed 0-3, and until now, the NBA has not been able to have a team that can win four games in a row after losing in the playoffs.

In the fourth game, the 76ers played worse than the previous three games, Iverson scored 19 points on 26 shooting only 7 of the game, led by Iverson, the shooting rate of the whole team was only 38.5%, but the Pacers' play was not much better, the 76ers successfully pulled the Pacers to the same level as it, and then used their rich experience to defeat the opponent, just kidding, this game 76ers 92:90 pulled back a city, and it was the rebounding that determined the trend of the game, The rebounding ratio between the 76ers and the Pacers is 53:37 total rebounds, 20:9 rebounds in the front court, and 33:28 in the back court.

In the fifth game, Iverson scored 37 points on 12-of-29 shooting, and his consecutive breakthroughs in the game caused huge damage, scoring a total of 12 free throws in the game, Iverson hit 11 of them, Ratliff contributed 26 points, 9 rebounds and 4 blocks on 10-of-16 shooting, McGee and Dillon Hill both got a double-double, the former had 13 points and 10 rebounds, the latter had 12 points and 10 rebounds, and Kukoc, who came off the bench, finally played a role, scoring 13 points on 6-of-10 shooting, and the 76ers had 107The rebounds were once again the deciding factor in the game, with the 76ers grabbing 11 more rebounds than the Pacers in the game.

The big score is 2:3, if the sixth game is won, the 76ers who dragged into the tiebreaker will obviously have a psychological advantage, but there is no if in the basketball game.

The sixth game between the two sides was the last game of the whole series, the Philadelphia 76ers were eliminated by the Pacers in the playoffs for the second year in a row, in the last game, Reggie Miller scored 25 points, Jalen Rose scored 21 points, Rick Schmitz scored 18 points and 9 rebounds, Mark Jackson scored 12 points, 11 assists and 6 rebounds, and the 76ers team had 6 players scoring in double figures, the highest Aaron McGee scored 19 points on 6-of-16 shooting, and Iverson scored 18 points on 7-of-20 shooting, The 76ers shot less than 40% from the field overall, the assist ratio was 15:25, a full 10 fewer opponents, and the rebounds that had been dominant in the previous two games were five fewer in this game, and the final score was 90:106.

It is mentioned that after the Pacers defeated the 76ers, they defeated the New York Knicks 4-2 in the Eastern Conference Finals, and finally met the Lakers in the finals, losing 2-4, and in six games, O'Neal averaged 38.0 points, 16.7 rebounds, 2.3 assists, 1.0 steals, and 2.7 blocks per game and was elected FMVP.

Although the Philadelphia 76ers were defeated by the Pacers in the playoffs for two consecutive years, there is no doubt that this team is climbing to a new peak step by step, Iverson has become the leader and soul of the team after several years of growth, he uses his own unique charm to lead the new basketball culture of Philadelphia, tenacity, hard work, never admit defeat! This is Iverson, this is the Philadelphia 76ers at that time! The accumulation of this culture finally reached its peak next season!