Before the game, no one expected that the 76ers would suffer a heavy defeat in the first game of the Eastern Conference semifinals, although they faced the Pistons, the first in the East, but now the main lineup of the 76ers is still the team when they won the championship, no matter how they look like a team that can lose by 21 points, but the game is over, and the fans who support them can only reluctantly accept this fact.

O'Brien was in a bad mood after the game, and he just made a casual remark at the press conference and left the room early, leaving Brown alone to accept the praise from the media. Similar to him, the 76ers casually dismissed reporters in the locker room who wanted to dig up some news from them, hurriedly took a shower, packed up their things and left the Auburn Hills Palace arena.

In this game, the 76ers' proud offense was completely unplayable, and they were helpless in the face of the Pistons' iron wall. O'Brien wasn't a master tactician like Popovich or Zen Master, and with a group of talented players there, it was hard for him to figure out how to solve the problem. To him, the pistons are like hedgehogs, and it's hard to get their hands on them no matter what.

If he had the slightest hope that the 76ers would advance to the Eastern Conference Finals, now he knows that this is nothing more than his unrealistic fantasy. Although he has a two-time championship team in his hands, he has not been able to make the most of their strength, as evidenced by a heavy defeat of more than 20 points in the first game.

In desperation, O'Brien can only pin his hopes on Iverson, and he hopes that this small man can repeat the state of single-handedly leading the 76ers into a strong team. However, if Brown and Chang Wei know what he thinks, then nine times out of ten, they will laugh off their big teeth, and the overall strength of the Pistons is there, and Iverson will definitely not be able to turn the sky upside down.

After a two-day break, the Eastern Conference semifinals were rekindled, and the 76ers players were holding back their strength to pull back a game on the road, so if they could hold their home court, they might not be able to counterattack the Pistons and enter the Eastern Conference Finals.

However, they soon realized that they were naïve, not to mention anything else, now that they were on the home court of the Pistons, even if they wanted to release water, they didn't release it right now. What's more, the Pistons not only didn't let out the water, but played more ferociously than the first game, because they sacrificed the full-court pressing that they were very good at from the first second of the game.

If you want to say that there is any technical content of full-court pressing, it is a bit too much, this kind of defense mainly depends on the cooperation of the players, whether they are keeping an eye on their opponents step by step. Then it's time to grab and grab, the bag is sandwiched, and if you find that you can't do anything, you can immediately return to the correct defensive position to prevent the opponent from seizing the opportunity to play a quick attack, and it's basically over.

However, the average team rarely sacrifices such a big killer at the beginning of the game, mainly because of physical strength, so the full-court pressing of other teams can almost always come in handy at critical moments. But the Pistons are different, their physical fitness can be said to be the best in the league, and it is not a big deal for them to play full-court pressing at the beginning of the first quarter, especially after strengthening the bench lineup, they have more confidence to do so, anyway, there are still people who can make up for it after they are tired!

This time, the opening full-court pressure was actually instructed by Brown, and he didn't know what kind of adjustments the 76ers would make, but it was right to strike first. And the full-court pressing can directly disrupt the opponent's rhythm of the game, and if it lasts longer, it is normal to destroy the opponent's fighting spirit, so the Pistons gave the 76ers a disadvantage in this game.

In the face of high-intensity full-court pressing, the 76ers players did not react at all, and the Pistons played a 9-0 start, if it wasn't for Reed and Iverson teaming up to take the ball through the halfcourt, and then Dyrem Porter barely scored the ball under the basket, they would have been stretched to double digits by the opponent before the first score. Still, their breaking of the scoring drought didn't make the Pistons players feel like they were super aggressive on the defensive end.

O'Brien had to call a timeout less than five minutes into the game, both to interrupt the Pistons' momentum and to give the players a good time. But even if he doesn't call a timeout, Brown will do it, and the four-plus minute full-court press is good, but it is also a huge test of the players' fitness.

Fortunately, he has a good hand and can take turns to get the substitutes up to replace the starters and give them a few more minutes of rest on the bench. For about two-thirds of the first quarter, the Pistons pressed the court several times almost every minute, which forced the 76ers players to tremble in every offensive round, for fear of being counterattacked for mistakes.

That's right, Brown didn't deliberately ask the players to press down the pace of the game in this game, and if there is an opportunity to counterattack quickly, it must be seized. Under the defense of the Pistons, the 76ers only scored 24 points in this quarter, although the shooting percentage was passable, but there were already 5 turnovers, and the Pistons seized the opportunity to score 10 more points, and the gap between the two sides was exactly 10 points.

During the break, most of the 76ers players sat in their positions and were out of breath, and it was really not a human thing to do for long periods of nervous tension. In contrast, the Pistons players are in much better shape, their physical strength is already better than that of their opponents, and they are relatively active side when the court is pressing, and the physical energy consumed is a tie at best.

There wasn't a long break between quarters, and O'Brien wanted his players to rest again, but time didn't wait. Seeing the tired look of the 76ers players, Brown smiled slightly, put the Pistons' full bench lineup, and now it is to take advantage of your illness to kill you, with the strength of the Pistons bench bandits, it is not a big problem to further open the score.

It's just that the poor 76ers players were hit by Wade and others as soon as they got on the court, their physical strength was consumed faster, and they were almost all invisible on the defensive end. O'Brien looked at the main forces around him who had not yet eased up, and couldn't help but sigh, now is not a good time to make substitutions, so he can only watch the Pistons further expand the score, and I don't know how they assembled such a lineup.

The change of pace is easy for the current Pistons, who have already used this trick to take out a lot of teams, and the 76ers are obviously the latest victims, Chang Wei secretly thought to himself: Maybe their management has regretted it, right?