Chapter 212 [It's Not Arrogant, It's All Illusion]

The other series in the West was the Spurs vs. Kings, where the two teams eliminated the Trail Blazers and Suns with a total score of 3-1 in the first round.

The Spurs eliminated the Kings 4-1 cleanly, and unfortunately, their second-leading scorer, Derrick Anderson, a starting point guard who averaged 15.5 points per game, ended his playoff journey early due to injury and had to challenge the Lakers with a remnant.

is also a team with the core of the interior, and the Spurs twin towers are slightly better than the Kings' Webb and Divac combinations.

The key to the victory or defeat of the two sides is the starting No. 1 position, the famous "white chocolate" Jason Williams against the Spurs' low-key role player Antonio Daniels, and the game is at a disadvantage.

Williams won't play without showing, averaging 8.8 points, 2.3 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game in the playoffs, shooting 42.6% from the field.

Williams can only live in the highlights, and he can't fight hard battles. As much as fans love him, the Kings owner has given a death order that he must be traded away in the summer.

Since the schedule of the Eastern and Western finals cannot be too different, the Spurs and Lakers will have to wait for the four teams in the East together.

Two games were played on May 18, and both series in the East were tied 3-3 and entered a brutal tie-break.

In this Raptors Vince Carter slashed 39 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists, Iverson made only 6 of 24 shots, 1 of 7 three-pointers, and 7 of 9 free throws, scoring 20 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists.

In the fifth and second games, Iverson broke out, scoring 52 points, 7 assists and 4 steals, 54 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists.

In the past few days, a group of Aimi on the Internet called Guo Xu and asked him to take a good look at what the real core is, Guo Xu did not respond, and on the 18th, this group of people was silent.

Iverson is a very inconsistent scorer, and it is easy to hit his fans in the face, he scored 50+ in this game, and he may hit 20 irons in the next game. Iverson played in 71 games during the regular season, shooting less than 40 percent from the field in 29 and just seven shooting above 50 percent.

On the 19th, the first game of the Lakers VS Spurs started at the Staples Center.

The Spurs have been starting Daniels, a big man with 193CM, in the playoffs, and the Lakers have also adjusted the lineup, with Fisher and OK starting together, and Guo Xu coming off the bench to be the sixth man.

The two sides engaged in a defensive battle in the first quarter, Fisher defended Daniels very successfully, Kobe Bryant also easily defended the veteran Terry Burt, and the Spurs scored no one except for the twin towers.

With Popovich replaced Avery Johnson in the final three minutes, the Spurs needed someone to break through with the ball. Jackson also immediately replaced Kobe Bryant and replaced Guo Xu.

Guo Xu quickly held the ball and single-handedly turned the "little general" into a "pawn", and now Johnson is stunned when he sees him.

The Lakers led 29-17 in the first quarter.

In the second quarter, Guo Xu and Kobe Bryant played together with substitutes, and the other three were Bowen, George, and Horry. The Lakers accelerated the pace of offensive and defensive transitions, and counterattacked at every opportunity, and soon the Spurs bench collapsed, and the difference widened to more than 20 points.

The Spurs' strongest team couldn't beat the Lakers in the regular season, and now it's even more useless, and Popovich can only reuse Daniels, who gives people a glimpse of what a "pass-first" point guard is, and he doesn't shoot when he is given unlimited shots.

In the second half, the difference between the two sides continued to widen, and the Lakers led by 28 points in the third quarter and entered garbage time.

Popovich was at a loss on the sidelines and could not defend against the Lakers' offense. The Spurs' twin towers defend the restricted area, and the mobility of playing together is too poor. Duncan's single defense against O'Neal was already very difficult, Kobe Bryant and Guo Xu broke through with blocking and dismantling, and the misplaced Robinson was an opportunity, attracting the assistant defense and assisting his teammates.

At 113-86 in the final game, the Lakers beat the Spurs to get off to a good start in the Western Conference finals.

"Zen Master" Phil Jackson smiled from ear to ear as he shook Popovich's hand, and he thought he was in luck.

Guo Xu came to the door by himself, the Lakers signed an All-Star with a base salary, and he won the game without doing anything while sitting on the sidelines, and the best coach award was also in hand. Popovich jumped up and down on the sidelines, yelling after a timeout, and the fart was useless.

There is no way to do it, the Spurs twin towers can limit O'Neal's singles, but it is impossible to prevent Guo Xu and Kobe Bryant from the outside.

Guo Xu pressed Johnson and Daniels to the floor and rubbed them, and scored 26 points and 6 assists in 27 minutes; Bryant had 35 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists in 35 minutes.

After the first game, experts predicted that the Spurs would be swept by the Lakers, and no team could prevent the Lakers from winning the championship.

If the Western team can't beat the Lakers, the Eastern team can't even think about it. The Eastern Conference playoffs are very intense, and the stars are scoring because there are too few scoring points, the lineup is not strong, and the ball is concentrated on the stars.

The key reason why the 76ers can achieve 56 wins this year is not strength, but that there are too many weak teams in the East, and they are all rotten except for the top eight. They play four games a season against many bad teams, and they are still the team that is highly praised by the league.

Another team that was favored, the Heat, Mourning, and Hardaway lost 50 wins and ranked third in the East, which can be seen.

The Pacers made the playoffs with just 40 wins, finished 11th in the West with 40 wins, and the Rockets were locked out of the playoffs with 45 wins.

On the 20th, the Bucks defeated the Hornets with difficulty under the leadership of the "three musketeers" Junzi Jian, Big Dog, and ET Aliens, and won the tie-break to advance to the Eastern Finals.

Just looking at the number of stars, the Bucks are the strongest in the East, but unfortunately their interior line is all blue-collar, none of them can score, and their defense is not very good. And their squad depth is not enough, the difference between the strength of the starters and the bench is huge, and the scoring mainly depends on four people.

The Bucks are a team that can't grow, the league will never praise them, who let the team build in Milwaukee?

Sam Cassel suffered a big loss in this regard, playing All-Star numbers for the Bucks for many consecutive seasons, but never being selected as an Eastern Conference All-Star until he was traded to the Timberwolves......

In the other game, the 76ers and the Raptors fought more fiercely, and the two sides fought until the last minute to decide the winner.

The 76ers led by six points and didn't score a point in the last three minutes, and the Raptors had a chance to overtake, but Vince Carter's final whistle-blowing shot missed, and the Raptors lost by one point 87-88.

The series was a classic with high ratings, with few players scoring 50+ in the playoffs, while Iverson and Carter scored 50+ three times in total, putting together what may be the best star scoring performance in NBA history.

Carter scored 50 points, 6 rebounds, 7 assists and 4 blocks in the third game, but unfortunately he was invisible in the final quarter of the tie-break, 1 of 3 shots, 2 of 2 free throws, and only got 4 points and 5 assists.

In Guo Xu's previous life, this was the best series of Carter's life.

As a super popular star, Carter has not even made it to the Finals, and he has not even entered the Eastern Conference Finals as a core player, but has only made an Eastern Conference Finals in 10 years with the Magic. He has been on six teams, each of which has been competitive, giving people the illusion that "Carter has made it to the Finals" or even "Carter has won the championship".

Unfortunately, this is really all delusion. ()

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