On the 22nd, the Bobcats finally sat at home to welcome the challenge of the Milwaukee Bucks, the fifth-place team in the East.

Hu Qingniu, who has been feeling that everything is not going well recently, has been hit hard again, and the Bucks, who thought they could easily defeat, showed their ability to survive and cooperate as soon as they met.

Excellent coordination and desperate shooting percentage allowed the Bucks to easily walk away with Game 1 victory.

In this game, Wade did not play well, and only scored 16 points and 5 rebounds in the first playoffs. Dazhi was also unsatisfactory, scoring 13 points on 3-of-11 shooting. The Bucks let Reed, who is 1.98, limit Wade to 1.93 meters. and let the experienced veteran player Kukoc go to close Dazhi. It turned out to be a good result, and it was obvious that both of them were being guarded against very well.

Fortunately, Sabonis, the pillar of the interior line, got 18 points and 15 rebounds, and the Bucks could not compete with the Bobcats in the restricted area, otherwise the Bobcats would have lost by more than 20 points in this game.

The bobcats were struggling to limit the opposing team's several pitchers, Michael Reed, Van Horn, Kukoc. These players all lose to tall and large pitchers, the Bobcats are not fast on the front line, and Wharton Jr. is quick to react and can judge the action in advance, but the real speed is not fast. Wallace, a fast-paced small forward, was suspended, and even if the series reached Game 7, he couldn't get out.

The loss of the game made the Bobcats, who were already in negative news, even worse, and ESPN, which Hu Qingniu hadn't cared about for a long time, jumped out again, and most of their news was intentionally or unintentionally aimed at the Bobcats, or from the opposite perspective of the Bobcats.

Even the Bobcats have some dissenting opinions, with many players believing that Wallace's internal ban is too harsh. Of course, they didn't say it to Hu Qingniu in a big way, they all talked about it behind their backs.

It doesn't matter if you lose in the regular season, the playoff spots are still there, but if you lose in the playoffs, especially on a young team like the Bobcats, the players have not experienced the playoffs. A painful defeat can make many players doubt themselves.

Hu Qingniu has no good way to deal with this, and the players' confidence needs to win to grow. Hu Qingniu only needs to care about the inner thoughts of a few main players. At least Sabonis couldn't have any ideas, and Wade and Dazhi wouldn't be too concerned about it.

Hu Qingniu assigned training tasks as usual, reminding everyone to look ahead, and the Bucks' shooting could not maintain such a high shooting percentage all the time. Otherwise, they wouldn't be called the Bucks, but the Golden State Warriors in '17.

Of course, the initiative of victory cannot all depend on the opponent's hand, and in response to the loss in the first game, Hu Qingniu adjusted his defensive strategy. Hu Qingniu proposed a defensive strategy similar to Thibodeau's, but modified it according to the characteristics of the Bobcats.

In the second game, Hu Qingniu decided to prevent the shot and not to break through, and at the same time pinched the ball carrier, forcing him to the bottom corner and making a mistake.

Let Wade play more on the offensive end, and it is important to contain Reed and not let him have too much energy on the offensive end. Reed was the head of the Bucks shooting team, and he was the happiest shot in the last game, with six three-pointers in a single game.

There is also a lot of playing inside, Dazhi also has to play inside, and the Bucks are not tall enough. 2.08m'95 Joe Smith stepped into the center position, and he was ravaged by Sabonis in the last game.

In this game, Hu Qingniu wanted the players to play inside, just to seize the loophole to play. At the beginning, Hu Qingniu didn't have this kind of thought, he thought that the team could play as usual, so that he could exercise more. Grasping other people's weaknesses, this round of the series is easy, but when you encounter a strong team that can't grasp your weaknesses, you may not be able to play your own style of play at that time. I don't have any weaknesses to catch, but I can't play.

But now that you lose the first game, you have to be careful in the second game, don't overturn in the gutter, everything is based on winning a few games first.

Before the second game, Hu Qingniu told Wade many times to have a normal heart, and in the last game, Wade and Dazhi did not play well because they were too nervous in the first game of the playoffs. Although Dazhi is not the first game, it feels completely different to play in the playoffs as a main player and a fringe player.

In the first quarter of the game, the Bobcats were still habitually slow to heat up, and the rhythm was also very slow, which was explained by Hu Qingniu, and the Bucks could not be allowed to run, and the Bobcats' defensive holes would increase when they ran, and the opponent would have more three-point opportunities.

Defensively, the Bobcats did well, with Reid and Kukoc, the first shooters who went crazy, adding up to just one three-pointer. Reed's strategy of pinching the ball carrier is very embarrassing, he is the boss of the team, yes, he is also a sharpshooter, yes, but he is a little lame with the ball. In the face of pinching, he couldn't dribble and dodge every time, and many passes were dangerous and almost missed.

If Reid weren't tall enough and had a wide field of vision, he would probably have missed the ball more than three times. Also in trouble are the Bucks' interior players. Neither Kukoc nor Van Horn could withstand Dazhi's forced back play, and this time in the face of two pitcher-type power forwards, Dazhi rarely had a physical advantage.

Until halftime, neither side scored much, with the Bucks scoring 41 points and the Bobcats 45 points. In terms of offensive efficiency, Wade is still playing iron, and Reed is playing more. If it was compared to the performance of the iron master in this game, Reed won the championship, shooting 1 of 9 in the half. But compared to the number of goals, Wade still won by a narrow margin, Wade shot 2 of 8 in the half.

But in the third quarter, the situation changed abruptly, and Reed suddenly found his touch and threw three or four in a row. The Milwaukee shooting team was really terrible, and the Bucks went from a five-point deficit to a five-point lead at the end of the third quarter.

The shooting team is this terrible, and the feeling of pulling it up and sealing it on the face can't be suppressed. However, it was extremely unstable, and at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Hu Qingniu called three timeouts in a row to fragment the rhythm of the game. As soon as Reed came on the field, he was really affected and began to strike iron.

With 24 seconds to go, the Bobcats took the lead and held a three-point lead. The Bucks had no rebounding guarantee after shooting directly and directly lost the opportunity to win the game. The Bobcats won the game with a thrilling score of 89:86, another low score.

Reed became the sinner of the Bucks' loss, scoring 19 points on just 8-of-28 shooting. It's not at all like being called the most underrated star after the last win, the league's top scorer or something. Others used the details of the game to prove that Reid is a stronger star than Wade. All this discussion ended with this Waterloo.

Reed is actually an All-Star fringe star, but the difference is that he is a shooter, so he can only help the team in shooting, so his ceiling is very high, very small, he can hit every shot, the efficiency is sky-high, the floor is very low, as long as he starts to miss, he can't contribute to the team, or even a burden.