On May 21, 2005, just one day after the Pistons and Heat's tiebreaker, the Western Conference Finals between the Suns and Spurs had begun, and the Spurs won the first game of the series 121-114 on the road.

The first game between the Spurs and the Suns was eye-catching, based on defense, the Spurs, who were second in the league in limiting opponents to score per game, after meeting the Suns, who scored first per game in the league, they changed their normal behavior and gave up the positional warfare and defense they were good at, and instead played small-ball tactics with the Suns to fight against each other, and the Suns obviously did not expect the Spurs to be as long as they were, so after the opening, the Suns fell into a short period of confusion, and they were directly blinded by the Spurs who seized the opportunity to beat a wave. Although the Suns also successfully fought back in the third quarter and turned the tide on the court for a while, when the game entered the fourth quarter, a man named Brent Barry stood up from the Spurs' bench and shot 5 of 5 and 3 of 3 three-pointers in a very short period of time, making all the previous efforts of the Suns team go to waste.

Although Amare Stoudemire scored a team-high 41 points on 13-of-21 shooting, and Steve Nash scored 29 points while delivering 13 assists, only 1 point away from 30+10 data, but in front of the Spurs' 4 players scoring 20+, Mike D'Antoni still had nothing to do, especially when the Suns' three-man Sean Marion was beaten by Tim Duncan, shooting 1 of 6 from the field and scoring only 3 points. Mike D'Antoni could only watch as the Spurs beat him in the way he did best.

On May 22, a day later, the Eastern Conference finals between the Pacers and the Pistons also kicked off, normally speaking, the Pacers who swept the Wizards in the semifinals have more rest time to adjust themselves, and the Pistons and the Heat's tie-break battle, only two days have passed since this game, after the continuous battle, physical strength will inevitably become the main reason that plagues the Pistons.

But in today's game, the state of the two sides is just the opposite, the Pacers are more like the team that has just finished the tie-break and has not rested, the whole team feels cold, as the leading player, Meng Xu, is only 8 of 25 shots in the whole game, in the overall shooting rate is less than 40%, and the three-point shot is only 3 of 17 shots, if the Pacers can win this game, it will be a miracle.

For the Pistons, although Chauncey Billups, the highest scorer, only scored 14 points, but the Pistons had six players score in double figures, especially Ben Wallace, who scored 11 points, grabbed 25 rebounds, and delivered as many as 7 blocks.

90-83, the first game of the series, the Pistons gave the Pacers a blow on the road, not only taking the lead in the best-of-seven series, but also winning home-court advantage throughout the series.

The Pacers lost at home, and they lost the first game of the series, which is a very happy thing for the media who are waiting to see the Pacers' jokes, so after the first game of the series, the media led by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times began to gloat about the Pacers and Meng Xu, especially the New York Times, and even played the title "Mr. Key is not critical" to ridicule Meng Xu's three missed shots at the last moment of the game. Thus helping the Pistons kill the Pacers' behavior.

It's just that these media haven't been happy for long, and the slap in the face is coming, on May 24, the Pacers ushered in the second game against the Pistons at home, and for the Pacers, who have already lost one home, the second home court can't lose again anyway. Perhaps stimulated by the ridicule of the New York Times, Meng Xu showed a strong desire to attack at the beginning of the game, shooting 6 of 9 in the first quarter, 2 of 3 3-pointers, and 4 of 4 free throws, scoring 18 points in a single quarter.

The Pacers, who established a 12-point advantage in the first quarter, did not give the Pistons any hope of a comeback, and finally defeated the Pistons with a score of 98-83, following the strange data of 11 points, 25 rebounds, and 7 blocks in the last game, Ben Wallace got 7 points, 15 rebounds, and 5 blocks again today. And Meng Xu, who did not perform well in the last game, scored a game-high 48 points in this game, and also scored 11 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 steals, and 3 blocks.

After keeping a home court and moving the score to 1-1, the Pacers team set off for Detroit, where the Pacers were waiting for the Pacers, one of the most difficult away games in the NBA, Auburn Hills Palace Arena, although two consecutive Pacers finally swept the Pistons to advance, but this season's Pistons are not what they used to be, from the previous two games, you can see that the Pistons are different from previous seasons, compared to the two seasons swept by the Pacers, the Pistons' progress in this season is undoubtedly very huge.

On May 27th, Auburn Hills Palace Arena, the third game of the Eastern Conference Finals, like the previous two games, today's game was a very fierce game, after two games of mutual "testing", Larry Brown and Rick Carlisle did not dare to slack off at all, so the third game of the series between the two sides, from the beginning of the game into a white-hot state, not only the game was extremely fierce and anxious, the atmosphere between the players on both sides is getting hotter and hotter, Because no one wants to lose this crucial game.

Today's game is undoubtedly the most difficult game in the history of the Pistons for Meng Xu and the Pacers, the extremely slow pace of the game, the suffocating defense, the sound of clanging iron, the fourth quarter of the game, the score of the two sides turned out to be 64 draws, the scores of the two teams combined, there is no single game high score of the Suns in the game against the Spurs yesterday, in the third game of yesterday's Western Conference Finals, the Suns who fought away won 133-129 over the Spurs after a hard overtime battle, While winning an away game, he also avoided falling into the difficult situation of falling behind 0-3, 0-3 and 1-2 are completely different situations.

After the Spurs and the Suns split the winners and losers through overtime, the third game of the Pacers and Pistons series also entered overtime very coincidentally, but unlike the exciting and anxious overtime of the Suns and the Suns, the overtime between the Pacers and the Pistons was completely one-sided, Meng Xu, who only hit 7 of 21 shots in the first four quarters of the game, shot 5 of 6 shots, 2 of 3 three-pointers, and 3 of 4 free throws after entering overtime, covering all the Pacers' scores in overtime, and finally under Meng Xu's sudden outburst, The visiting Pacers outscored the Pistons 79-71 to take a 2-1 lead.