1186. Losing suspense
Slaughtering the Pacers by 43 points, the Hawks players didn't have the feeling of revenge, and the Hawks didn't feel that excited about winning.
It was supposed to win, but I lost the last game, don't look at the players who don't have much negative emotions, but they are very unhappy in their hearts, and today I finally vented this breath.
For the other championship teams, I don't know whether they are relieved or regretful.
The Pacers are about to finish playing, and judging from the confused expressions of the Pacers sitting on the bench in the fourth quarter, the Pacers have exploded.
Today's game Pacers players were much more serious and confident than in the previous game, and as a result, the game was not fought back from the start.
The difference in strength between the 39-winning team and the 73-winning team is vividly reflected.
Originally, there was a tendency to ease the waiting house between the three major stars, but now it has collapsed even worse.
Winning can resolve a lot of contradictions, but being slaughtered by 43 points...... The big three stars are dissatisfied with their teammates again.
Who would have thought that two years ago, in the 03-04 season, it was still this core lineup, and the Pacers played the second record in the league, but now they are facing a situation of disintegration......
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On the morning of April 24th, Liu Mang slept and got up, and there was a lot of noise in the locker room for a long time last night, and he was not so tired after the game, but he was even more tired after the game.
But as soon as I woke up, I felt that there was something on the quilt, and when I looked at it, it was a little Lori who felt that I could see a little grown up with the naked eye every once in a while, and she was sleeping on his quilt.
Liu Mang remembered, as if when he was asleep, someone told him to get up and run, but after taking revenge on the walkers, his mood relaxed, and he was interviewed last night, his teammates celebrated, and he played the activities of the band group for a while, and the game ended at 10 o'clock, and he didn't get back home until two o'clock in the morning, and he didn't get up in the morning.
"Dinah, Dina ......" Liu Mang pushed Little Lori.
Little Lori let out a "hmm", pushed Liu Mang's arm away, turned over and continued to sleep.
Liu Mang saw a bubble on Little Lori's nose......
Liu Mang was speechless, and carefully crawled out of the quilt and covered the little Lori with a quilt to avoid catching a cold.
Liu Mang looked at the time, it was more than seven o'clock, today Saturday, Xiao Lori didn't have class, Liu Mang didn't care about her, washed up, put on a coat, and went downstairs for breakfast.
Afternoon flight to Indianapolis.
By the time the first game of the series between the Hawks and Pacers ended, the series matchup, which had the largest disparity in history, became the most interesting game in the first round of this year's playoffs.
But after the second game, not many people paid attention to this round of the series.
The Pacers are too unsustainable, and if they say they wilt, they wilt.
Other teams have also stopped hoping for the Pacers and are focused on their own games.
The Eagles have two days off after Game 2 and the next two games are on the 26th and 28th, playing away from home and playing Game 5 at home on May 1.
After looking at the schedule, Liu Mang felt that the United States imperialism was not humane to NBA players at all, it was obviously the May Day created by the United States imperialism and France, but the Americans did not have Labor Day, but there was a Labor Day in September.
Labor Day in September...... Liu Mang didn't know what this festival had to do with him, he was originally a holiday at that time.
chatting with my mother, eating breakfast, accompanying Alexia to tease her daughter in the morning, and being forced to change the diaper for the baby every day, the little Lori got up at ten o'clock, and was reprimanded by Levia, and then Liu Mang accompanied the miserable little Lori to play games together.
After lunch, Liu Mang took the luggage prepared by Levia and went to the airport to meet his teammates.
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When the Hawks arrived in Indianapolis, they rented a stadium at Indiana University for training and preparation for the next two games.
The playoffs for the other 14 teams in the league are also in full swing.
On the Lakers' side, playing the Nuggets is very easy, singles, the Nuggets can't beat, team tactics, Anthony doesn't have the kind of master of control like Billups and Kidd, give him Iverson at most 50 wins in the regular season, and he can't pass the first round of the playoffs.
Lakers easily 2-0.
On the Jazz side, we were lucky enough to make the playoffs, but we could only feel the playoffs and so on.
In terms of crushing, although the Spurs do not have the vigorous posture of the Hawks, they are stable!
The Eagles have the buff of Liu Mang's heart of the strong, and Liu Mang usually plays for 24 minutes in a row in the first half, so he can be stable and abuse, but the buff of the heart of the strong has a side effect, Liu Mang's teammates are easy to be proud of, look down on the opponent, and have a strong purpose in the regular season, in order to win 73, this situation is okay, but in the first round of the playoffs, there is no pressure, so he is arrogant.
But the Spurs don't get arrogant, they know very well that they are prone to upsets, so they play hard, except in the case of the 2011 Grizzlies, who have the strength of the division finals but voluntarily lose at the end of the season and fall to eighth in the West, the Spurs are stable in the playoffs.
Boozer got a feel for what it was like to be in the playoffs in the West, and then he was abused again.
The Spurs beat the Jazz 86-71 to tie the score 2-0.
The Mavericks played supersonic on their side, and there was not much suspense, the Mavericks were too restrained in supersound, 109 to 101, although the supersonic shot was very accurate, but it was not accurate for a while, and it was blown up by the Mavericks.
Nowitzki's performance in this year's playoffs exploded, with 38 points in the first game and 29 points and 20 rebounds in the second game.
However, in the series between the Suns and the Clippers, unexpectedly, the Clippers actually went down, 98-88, and pulled the big score into a 1-1 draw!
The peak captain scored 40 points in the second game, and Elton Brand, who played the playoffs for the first time, went berserk, scoring a total of 69 points and 30 rebounds in the two games, blowing up the Suns' interior line.
On the Eastern side, in the series between the 76ers and the Cavaliers, Iverson went on a rampage in the second game, slashing 51 points, 7 assists and 5 steals, leading the 76ers to win on the road and tie the score 1-1.
Iverson's performance was amazing, but when Liu Mang saw the news, he didn't feel much surprised, in the original time and space, Iverson in the 07-08 season, at the age of 33, still averaged 26.4 points, 7.1 assists, 3 rebounds and 2 steals per game, although it was not as long as Kobe Bryant and James's peak, but compared to Wade, Carter, and Maddy, Iverson's ability to maintain his condition was much better.
Regular season MVPs are still a little different from ordinary superstars.
After the Heat team won the first game, they did not relax, they were killed by the Bulls last year, the lack of depth of the Heat lineup is a problem, and the arrogance and disdain of the Bulls are also a very important reason, and the head coach's factor is also very large, but this year the Heat team is playing with a revenge attitude, and the second game is also clean and clean with a score difference of 93-81, 12 points to get two consecutive wins.
On the Nets' side, as the sixth in the East, they went down again, 91-77, and knocked the Pistons down for two consecutive games.
Billups was taught by Kidd again, and in the second game, Billups was 1 of 10 and only scored 5 points and 5 assists, and the Pistons reached the playoffs this year, and the offense completely collapsed, and was killed by Kidd, who had 9 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists.
Kidd is the first star in NBA history to score a triple-double......
The state of the players is like that, and there is nothing to be done with Coach Philip Saunders, this group of players fought hard last year to get 63 wins, and after being abused in the playoffs, their hearts have been scattered......
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On April 26, the Hawks, who had been preparing for more than a day in Indianapolis, challenged the Pacers away.
Every time I come here this year, Liu Mang feels weird.
At 6:10 p.m., the players of both teams entered the playoffs, which were not broadcast live.
After Liu Mang entered the stadium, he didn't hear much booing, because a third of the fans at the scene were Eagles fans who grabbed tickets.
Generally speaking, there is usually no possibility of being grabbed by opposing fans in the playoffs more than 10% of the tickets, and the only possible scenario is that the Lakers and Clippers meet in the playoffs, even if it is the Knicks' playoffs, only after being abused by the opponent, the fans turn against them.
And this time, many Hawks fans don't have to grab it, because the Pacers didn't even sell out of playoff tickets in advance!
Liu Mang also saw some fans wearing Pacers No. 31 Reggie Miller, holding signs that read "You can't do anything without the Finisher."
It's been a year since Reggie Miller retired, and Pacers fans are still so obsessed with Reggie Miller, which surprised Liu Mang, and Reggie Miller was disgusted in New York in direct proportion to his popularity in Indianapolis!
One person, one city for 18 years has made Reggie Miller's fame in Indianapolis almost the same as Stockton's fame in Salt Lake City for 19 years!
Liu Mang regretted that Reggie Miller rejected his invitation in the summer, and sent Korver to almost never get Reggie Miller to join, which is indeed a pity.
The atmosphere at the scene corresponded to the atmosphere of a backwater on the Pacers' side.
According to the intelligence and some news received by the Hawks, the Pacers had an intra-team conflict on the preparation day back in Indianapolis, and the specific situation was not announced by the Pacers, but obviously, the stability that the Pacers brought to the playoffs and winning the first game collapsed again, and it was not a collapse, it should be said that it returned to their original normal situation.
The Pacers regular season was like this, none of the three stars could get used to it, they just made the playoffs, they decided to play a good game, won the first game, and suppressed the contradictions.
But after being abused for 43 points in the second game, the contradiction was ignited again.
This time, the Eagles didn't look a little underestimated, and after the game started, it was Maddie who went crazy!