James, who entered the playoffs for the first time, actually scored the Pistons 3:1 in the series, getting the match point one step earlier than the Pistons!

Even if the Pistons don't have Larry Brown, they are still the lineup that won the championship the year before last! In the face of the Pistons Five Tigers who could compete with the Lakers' "Big Five" for the championship back then, it is surprising that the 22-year-old James can play like this!

Sun Zhuo couldn't help but think of the words he had just sent to Popovich, life is really unpredictable, not long ago, the Cavaliers were still worried about whether they could pass the first round.

"I heard that Ben Wallace has terminated the new contract negotiations with the Pistons, and hinted to the team that he is leaving, he is the best defensive player in the league, there should be some problems within the Detroit Pistons team, otherwise, they would not be beaten like this by LeBron James's Cavaliers." Dwight Howard watched the game with Sun Zhuo, and when he saw Sun Zhuo's surprised appearance, he also expressed his opinion.

Sun Zhuo also retracted his surprise and said slowly: "There is indeed a problem within the Detroit Pistons, when they were about to end the regular season, I already felt that they did not have the sharp sharpness at the beginning of the season, but this cannot deny LeBron's excellence, and he can face the Pistons to get a 40+ triple-double, which is not something that any star can do, this guy seems to really want to enter the Eastern Conference Finals, but I don't know, who does he want to fight with, me, or D-ADE?" ”

Sun Zhuo has long felt that there are some signs of disorder in the Pistons, as a reborn person, he also knows that Ben Wallace will not renew his contract with the Pistons, but will switch to the Chicago Bulls, because according to the league's salary cap system, the Pistons can offer Wallace a four-year $50 million contract at most, and Wallace, as the best defensive player in the league, is naturally unwilling to take only these.

In the previous life, the bull offered $60 million for 4 years, which was a huge temptation for everyone.

"Ben Wallace's family is poor, his mother has more than a dozen children, and he has never received a high salary before, so he chose to leave the Pistons, there is nothing to say." Sun Zhuo muttered to himself.

"You also think Ben Wallace will leave? That's right, otherwise he wouldn't have played like this at such a critical time in the playoffs, I just don't know where he would go, it's better to go to the West. Howard said lightly.

"Are you scared of running into him in the playoffs?" Sun Zhuo asked with a smile.

Howard smirked, "How could I be afraid of him?" I'm the one who won against Shaq! So far, haha. ”

Sun Zhuo smiled and said, "No matter which team he goes to, I guess he won't win the DPOY anymore, and you will take over as the league's best defensive player in the future, and start working hard next season." ”

Sun Zhuo remembers that although Big Ben took a high salary to go to the Bulls, he no longer had the glory of the past, he never won the best defensive player again, nor was he selected as an All-Star, and the Pistons also survived for two years and were forced to rebuild, which was a lose-lose decision.

“DPOY？” Howard didn't expect Sun Zhuo to set such a goal for him, Howard smiled modestly: "I'm still young, don't worry, and it's the same if I get it in two years." ”

Sun Zhuo told him very seriously: "I advise you to start working hard in the next two years, because in a few years, not only will others want to rob you, but I may also have to rob you." ”

"You?" Howard was stunned for a moment, how could Sun Zhuo, a person who focuses on offense, also be interested in defense?

Sun Zhuo is not joking, he is now in everyone's eyes, a player who focuses on offensive scoring, average defense, only occasionally makes people shine, and there is still a distance from the top defensive players.

This is because Sun Zhuo's current defensive ability is still very weak, and when he has more special training cards in the next two years, he will definitely use it on defense, and after his defensive ability is enhanced, Sun Zhuo will inevitably compete for the award of best defensive player.

"Ding Ding ......"

At this time, Sun Zhuo's Nokia mobile phone rang with a text message ringtone, Sun Zhuo thought that Popovich had just seen the text message reply today, and when he picked up the phone, he saw that it was LeBron James, who had just won the third game!

"Could it be you?" James asked in a text message.

"Huh." Sun Zhuo looked at the text message and chuckled.

"Whose text message?" Seeing Sun Zhuo's expression, Howard couldn't help but ask curiously.

"A man full of self-confidence." Sun Zhuo replied with a smile, his eyes still fixed on the phone screen, and began to type and reply.

James's sentence "Will it be you" is obviously asking, next when the Cavaliers kill the Pistons, will they meet Sun Zhuo or Wade in the Eastern Conference Finals?

Sun Zhuo quickly replied: "It must be me, but it may not be you." ”

James is also too confident, and when he gets the match point, he feels that he can enter the finals, and if he has this attitude, then the Pistons will teach him to be a man in the next two games.

……

On May 17, the Magic and Heat returned to the Magic's home court for the fifth battle of Tianwang Mountain.

In a series, the battle of Tianwang Mountain can be said to be the most important game in the entire series, and it is also a key battle to determine the outcome of the series.

"Shaq, how do you understand what the coach said?" In pre-game practice, Wade walked up to O'Neal with the ball.

"Which one?" O'Neill asked nonchalantly.

"When he was encircling and suppressing Sun, he tried to defend every time he didn't have time to think about what to do next." Wade repeated what Pat Riley had said earlier to O'Neal.

O'Neill thought for a while and said: "In the face of two defenses, Sun will not easily choose to pass, once he decides to pass the ball, he must have an idea of who to pass to, Pat Riley just wants us to make Sun uncomfortable, so that when he passes, it is best to be trapped physically and mentally." Today we're going to come up with the strongest defense against Sun, and hopefully he's not Kobe. ”

O'Neal has also been very serious these days, and he may have been lazy and frolicking in the regular season, but now in the battle of Tianwang Mountain in the playoffs, O'Neal knows that he has a great responsibility, and his desire to win the game at this time is no less than Jordan Kobe.

"It's rare to hear you praise Kobe." Wade smiled unconsciously, today the Heat will encircle and suppress Sun Zhuo's defense, and will often be two-on-one or three-on-one or even four-on-one, if Sun Zhuo still wants to win on his own, then it will test Sun Zhuo's one-to-many ability, one-to-many, in the league, Kobe Bryant is the strongest, even if Sun Zhuo has scored 81 points, in O'Neal's heart, Sun Zhuo is not as good as Kobe.

O'Neal smiled faintly: "Although Kobe Bryant is very annoying, his ability to play a team alone is indeed a little stronger, I guess Sun will not be as alone as Kobe, the key to today's game is in the hands of the rest of the Magic." ”

"You have to be careful with Dwight Howard." Wade reminded that outside of Sun Zhuo, Howard was the point that worried Wade the most.

"I'll squash him." O'Neill looked fierce.

The game started quickly, and James, who didn't play today, was also watching the game from Detroit, and he knew who won the game could be his next opponent.

At the beginning of the game, Sun Zhuo made a blocking and dismantling cooperation with Howard at the three-point line, and wanted Howard to help block one, but he didn't expect that suddenly, the Heat and others all pounced on Sun Zhuo.

Sun Zhuo was startled and hurriedly retreated, wanting to quickly divide the ball and let his teammates play more and less, but he didn't expect the opposite side to react quickly, Sun Zhuo didn't pass the ball, but wanted to use his speed to take advantage of the chaos of the Heat's defensive formation and break in to score a goal.

Sun Zhuo dribbled the ball to the left side, and with Howard's blocking, he quickly got rid of Anthony Walker, and then hit the inside, and the Heat instantly had two people to wrap Sun Zhuo, and at this time, Anthony Walker, who had been eliminated, was still bothering Sun Zhuo.

I saw Walker "snap" on Sun Zhuo's right arm behind Sun Zhuo, because Sun Zhuo was in the crowd, the referee's attention was also on Sun Zhuo and the defenders in front of him, and he didn't notice Walker's hidden action and didn't blow the foul.

And Anthony Walker is a very powerful guy, being beaten like this, Sun Zhuo's actions and mentality were completely affected, and he completely forgot whether to continue to attack or divide the ball, and hurriedly threw a throw, but he didn't shoot, the Heat got the rebound and quickly counterattacked, Sun Zhuo pointed his left hand at the right arm and complained to the referee while returning to defense: "Someone has fouled, you should see it!" ”

Just at the beginning, Sun Zhuo didn't want to argue about these, Coach Hill looked at him coldly on the sidelines, and didn't say anything, if it was the future Coach Steve Cole, he would yell at the referee at this time.

It was the Heat's turn to attack, the ball was in O'Neal's hands, O'Neal hit Howard with his back inside, O'Neal held the ball and didn't move, and no one stepped forward to wrap it.

After waiting for a full three seconds, O'Neal suddenly turned around and passed Howard to the basket, but he leaned back and put the ball into the basket with one hand, and Howard hindered O'Neal's movement and was whistled for a foul!

With this goal, O'Neill seems to be rejuvenated.

"O'Neill can really pretend to be old." Sun Zhuo said secretly, you will never see this kind of speed and combat effectiveness just now in the regular season, and you will not be able to see the strongest O'Neill until the most critical time.

Next, it was O'Neal's turn to make free throws, and O'Neal walked to the free throw line, which was quite reassuring to Magic fans, and there were bursts of boos at the scene, and O'Neal was not regarded as a "former Magic player" at all.

O'Neal's stepfather, Philip Harrison, also came to the scene, and when O'Neal made a free throw, the camera also gave Philip the shot, and Philip looked serious and seemed to be more nervous than O'Neal.

Even if it was just the first free throw at the beginning of the game, O'Neal was extremely cautious, and it took a long time to throw the ball out, and luckily, this time it went in.

After the goal, it was the Magic's turn to attack again, Sun Zhuo took the initiative to dribble the ball through the half, and the start of the fifth game was very important, so he wanted to firmly control the rhythm of the game.

However, less than two seconds after halftime, the Heat saw Sun Zhuo continue to dribble by himself, and even before Sun Zhuo started to attack, two defenders forced Sun Zhuo on the right side.

Sun Zhuo was very fast, and he wanted to see if it was possible to break through these two people at once, but he didn't expect these two people to start faster, and he pounced directly on Sun Zhuo's ball to steal.

Sun Zhuo was instantly besieged by the two and hurriedly stopped the ball, while Walker was very fierce today and still did not stop snatching the basketball.

Sun Zhuo was besieged by the two and became a little flustered, so he had to hastily divide the ball, but was stealed by Wade and deducted it violently!

The Heat targeted Sun Zhuo like this from the beginning, which made the fans on the scene also break out in a cold sweat.

"The Heat's defense of Sun today is so fierce, it's just an encirclement defense!"

"When it comes to such a crucial game, they have to do it, but fortunately, apart from Sun, other players are also worthy of dependence."

Coach Hill also sighed: "Today's Heat's bag defense is really powerful, not only to block Sun's offense, but also to interfere with his emotions and affect his state when he divides the ball." If Sun hadn't planned to fight with their team alone, then only Dwight Howard would be able to save Sun now. ”

Since Dwight Howard is expected to be a great center like O'Neal, then in this series, he must show his power under the basket, age is not an excuse, if the age of the two of them is reversed, it is 21-year-old O'Neal against 34-year-old Howard, I believe everyone will agree that Howard will be blown up by young O'Neal.

"If Dwight Howard can eat O'Neal alone and then attract the bag, whether Sun is a shooter alone, whether he shoots himself, holds back a man, or runs to the basket without the ball to score with Dwight, the game will be very easy." Coach Hill quickly got the team to change tactics and switch to Howard.

Howard suddenly became so important, and the whole person became more nervous, he tried to single O'Neal one, and forcibly hit O'Neal with his body, but he couldn't stand it at all, and finally was rewarded with a hat by O'Neal.

After that, I didn't fight so hard anymore, and carefully played a hook hand, but I still couldn't score.

Several attacks were fruitless, and Howard's face was already showing a look of cowardice.

"Want to win me over with someone else? You're overestimating the strength of your squad. Except for Sun, all of them are a group of kids who haven't played in the playoffs, so let's challenge me after two more years! "Pat Riley has run out of patience to continue playing with the Magic, and he can't wait to solve the Magic.

In the case that the Magic offense is completely restricted, the Heat keeps invading the Magic's basket, Wade can still go back and forth under the Magic basket unimpeded, although Howard is strong defensively, but he is very passive, because if he wants to save and block Wade, no one will look at O'Neal, once Howard is contained by O'Neal, the rest of the Heat can easily score a few throws.

The Magic couldn't score from close range to the basket and could only rely on long-range shots, while the Heat kept using the inside high shooting percentage to score to open up the gap.

"It seems that my opponent in the final is Dwyane Wade, Sun, the content of your text message should be said the other way around!" LeBron James saw that the Heat had the advantage and had already decided that the Heat could take the king mountain.