After the first round of the playoffs, the Southwest Division and the Texas Top 3 are undoubtedly the most showy, even if the Grizzlies are eliminated by the Rockets, there are four teams in the Southwest Division that have made the playoffs, and three teams have entered the division finals, this strong strength makes other regions can only extend their thumbs to express their admiration. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Brother Yao, congratulations, I said a long time ago that you have the strength to kill the Grizzly Bears, and I am still optimistic about you in the next round of Thunder." Wu Huang called Yao Ming after the game.

"You're tm and me!" Yao Ming felt that this bastard must have bad intentions, and this time he wittily retorted: "Where, I think you also have a good chance to sweep the Pacers, no one can stop you from defending your title this season." ”

"Damn, so ruthless?" Wu Huang felt that he was a little milky, but Yao Ming was gone.

While these two idiots were hurting each other, the league had already released the schedule for the divisional semifinals at flying speed, and the matchups of each team appeared on the official website just one hour after the Rockets eliminated the Grizzlies.

NBA 2011-2012 Playoffs First Round Results:

Western Conference - Spurs (4) vs (0) Nuggets; Thunder (4) vs (0) Lakers; Grizzlies (3) vs (4) Rockets; Clippers (3) vs (4) Mavericks.

Eastern Conference - Knicks (4) vs. (0) 76ers; Bulls (4) vs (2) Magic; Heat (4) vs (2) Celtics; Pacers (4) vs (2) Hawks.

NBA 2011-2012 Playoffs Second Round Matchups:

Western Conference - Spurs (0) vs (0) Mavericks; Thunder (0) vs (0) Rockets

Eastern Conference - Knicks (0) vs. (0) Pacers; Bulls (0) vs Heat (0)

Knicks Semifinals Schedule:

May 11, New York Knicks vs. Indiana Pacers - Madison Square Garden, PM, 20:30.

April 13, New York Knicks vs. Indiana Pacers - Madison Square Garden, PM, 20:30.

May 15, New York Knicks vs. Indiana Pacers - Bankers Living Arena, PM, 21:00.

May 17, New York Knicks vs. Indiana Pacers - Bankers Life Arena, PM, 21:00.

May 19, New York Knicks vs. Indiana Pacers - Madison Square Garden, TBD.

May 21, New York Knicks vs. Indiana Pacers - Bankers Living Arena, TBD.

May 23, New York Knicks vs. Indiana Pacers - Madison Square Garden, TBD.

In the second round of the playoffs, the NBA finally did not engage in back-to-back cheat schedules, but there was only a one-day interval between each game, and such a schedule was still much tighter than before. Traditionally, there will be a two-day gap between the two teams when they exchange home and away games, but this season there may not be more than a day between the finals.

The Heat quickly expressed their displeasure, citing that they played six games before they advanced, and the Knicks eliminated the 76ers in four games, but the schedule arranged by the league put the Knicks' game time behind the Heat, and the Miamis were about to start the game on the 10th, but the Knicks could rest for an extra day, so this is a multiple-choice question: Excuse me, is this too much of a favorite? Can it be a little more eccentric?

"I think their accusations are unreasonable, and we would have preferred to play on the 10th because as we all know, it's not a good thing to have too much rest, and if the league really favors us, then we should be put in the 10th." Emperor Wu's words are completely cheap and obedient, he will not be low-key from now on, and he will never let go of the opportunity to provoke the heat.

The Heat don't know if they were angry with Wu Huang, and in the opening game of the second round of the playoffs, they were beaten in the head by the Bulls who lost their troops as soon as they came up! Noah and Boozer, two guys with different shortcomings, can't see at all that one of them is not good at defense and the other is not good at offense when facing the Heat's interior line, which makes Heat fans feel very embarrassed.

Boozer was the strongest one outside of the NBA's four big forwards at his peak, and he was on an equal footing with Gasol and Bosh at that time, and even with his performance in the playoffs, he could have a higher status than the core of a weak team like Bosh.

But the Heat's No. 4 or 5 positions are too weak, although Bosh gained weight in the summer, but his skeleton is there, and it is impossible to really turn into an interior line that is good at confrontation, no matter how much weight he gains, he is still an interior line based on flexibility and mid-range shooting, which makes it difficult for Bosh to defend against Noah or Boozer.

Wu Huang naturally watched this game, and the Heat still chose to use Bosh to defend Noado, who is also a less prominent interior lineman, plus Noah is not good at offense, so that Bosh can retain some physical strength for the offensive end, especially when Wade's playoff performance is sluggish, Spoelstra believes that Bosh's offensive firepower is very important to the Heat.

But today, Bosh's offense played like a horse, Boozer was completely untargeted, and the Bulls' invisible three had a very high presence today, almost single-handedly overturning all of the Heat's interior lines. However, Wade, who has been performing poorly, began to recover in the semifinals, contributing 32 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists in the game, and James also had 28 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists.

However, under Noah's restrictions today, Bosh only scored 9 points and 5 rebounds in the whole game, and turned into a pseudo-giant again. JR Smith continued his pit play in the playoffs all the way, scoring only 8 points on 2-of-7 three-point shooting, once again proving that the "nerve knife" who performed well in the regular season was unreliable in the playoffs.

The only core of the Bulls team today is Anthony, the big guard continues his efficient performance, his pair of big strikers are too suitable for Thibodeau's positional battle system, although the most shining of the Bulls this season is the breakthrough and change to the invincible Rose, but once it comes to the real key point of the game, the Bulls will still give the ball to Anthony who is the most sure in the two ribs, the horn position, and the wing.

Today, the Heat are more passionate on the court, just looking at James and Wade constantly charging and counterattacking, it is indeed the Heat side that has the advantage on the court.

But the Bulls' defensive formation has been maintained very well, and the Heat's large number of fast breaks and counterattacks are actually thunder and rain, and they have never been able to break through the Chicagoans' defense, and they have always been interfered with by Noah and other Bulls players near the restricted area, and have not been able to play a wave.

In terms of post-game statistics, Anthony and Boozer scored more efficiently than James and Wade, and the new signing Hamilton also played an embarrassing performance for J.R. Smith, and finally the Bulls at home relied on stronger execution, stronger interior strength, and a more balanced lineup to defeat the Heat by five points.

The Knicks were happy with the result, and now it seems that the Bulls can still cause a lot of trouble for the Heat, and if they can finally eliminate the Heat, the Knicks can accept this result. This Bulls without Ross is completely unable to parry Wu Huang's offense, and the Knicks' interior strength is not comparable to the Heat, and there is no pressure at all to play the Bulls Knicks, which can be seen from the two losses of the Bulls to the Knicks after losing Rose in the regular season, if you want to beat the Knicks, then it is absolutely impossible to have an excellent point guard.

The Western Conference Spurs and Mavericks game also followed, but Wu Huang didn't pay much attention, Jeremy Lin did not return in the first game, and the Mavericks were beaten off to a good start by the old Spurs on the road.

But the Spurs don't have any advantage against the Mavericks, both of which are mostly veterans, fighting for tactical execution and experience, so their respective shortcomings have been covered up to a certain extent. The Mavericks are no less experienced than the Spurs, losing the first game is more of an away disadvantage. However, the Dallas kept the score tight throughout the game, and if it weren't for Chandler's excessive fouls and not enough playing time, the Spurs might not have been able to win against the Mavericks, who had an advantage in the interior lineup.

"The last thing the Spurs want to touch is the Mavericks, right?" Wu Huang also muttered secretly in his heart, the Spurs can still play slow and fast in the face of the Thunder, and in terms of experience, they can pit the young Thunder again, and they can restrain the opponent in some aspects. But against the Mavericks, it was really a headache, especially Jeremy Lin and Chandler, the two young points made the Spurs look older, although they also have a good young player Leonard, but they are still at a disadvantage in the interior competition, and these two teams are too familiar.

On May 11, the New York Times reported ahead of the game:

Why do some teams defend well and others are poor? What exactly is the role of each player in the defensive system? To answer these questions, you will feel like you are in a black box and you don't know where to start, because it is really difficult to answer.

"Defending" is much harder than most people think, even if the players receive the hottest and best coaching at the moment; Even after reading countless books on defense and watching countless videotapes, it's hard for coaches to say they have mastered the true meaning of defense.

To illustrate how difficult defense can be, let's take a look at how the San Antonio Spurs played against the Dallas Mavericks, which will tell you how much movement the Spurs players will have, how many split-second decisions they will make, and how much calculation and ingenuity they will have in just one offensive round...... In the same way, the opposite Mavericks players also have to do this, this is the game of defense, the data does not reflect the tragedy and excitement of this game, but it is the key to the victory or defeat of the playoffs, and it is also the best reflection of the player ceiling.

A player's body is undoubtedly the foundation of all defense and offense, and physical talent is as important as a diploma. But in the playoffs, you need more than that, every team will have hundreds of tactics that can change with different players, different moves, different games, and even a sudden surprise, so the brain is just as important at this time.

In yesterday's game between the Chicago Bulls and the Miami Heat, you can see that defense is not a static term, it will change with each round of offense, it is full of court wisdom, a player's ball quotient, it is easy to tell at this time, you just need to see if he makes mistakes, or how many mistakes he makes.

Whether it is the Heat or the Pacers, or the Spurs and Mavericks, they are all very good defensive teams, but their defensive tactics are completely different, and they all choose defensive strategies according to the different player configurations of their teams. However, they must have two things in common -

1. They all have excellent defensive genes.

2. There is at least one thing that does it better than the other 29.

Let's start with the defensive genes: our defending champions should know that their biggest strength is speed and agility, but not strength. Therefore, the Knicks will adopt the strategy of forcing the opponent to make mistakes, will adopt more co-defense and small-area cooperation, the Knicks often put pressure on the opponent's passing line, and often play more people locally, relying on their speed and agility to force the opponent to make mistakes or complete steals.

The Knicks' defense is based on the speed and agility of Hugo, Iguodala, Gasol, Battier, and Tony Allen, but doing so means they can easily empty parts of the area and cause disaster for the team when a Knicks player misjudges and causes a loss of points, so we have to avoid opponents taking advantage of this hidden danger to seek a win.

If there's one thing we've done best, it's to help defend.

That's right, the Knicks' help defense is on all teams, and if you mean the entire half-court, it's probably not a big deal.

But the Knicks' ability to coordinate with each other is unique in the league, because this defensive style does not rely on the tactical system, it is completely a reflection of the ability and awareness of the players to cooperate with each other, and we have a lot of the smartest guys in the league, so we can do this better than the Spurs, Celtics and other teams.

Here you can see how Gasol covers the move, it is said that the Spaniard is one of the best power forwards in this era, but this strategy does not only refer to when there is the ball, Gasol's better part is the movement without the ball, whether it is offensive or defensive, the Knicks can use Gasol's height, speed and agility to occupy a huge advantage.

In some shots, it can often be seen that when the power forward opposite Gasol goes up to cover, Gasol will usually aggressively move forward to block the dribbler and prevent him from passing the ball to the baseline or into the box. This is a particularly classic defensive cover tactic - obstacle reduction, which is the way in which fans often see inside players stretching their arms to put obstacles on the opponent's pick-and-roll ball carrier, and then using their teammates' fills to quickly return to their original positions.

Gasol's agility allows the Knicks to effectively implement their obstacle reduction tactics, and his longer-than-average arms and quick movement can help him effectively block opponents' passing lanes, causing turnovers or steals. Compared to other centers or power forwards in the league, Gasol can make more mistakes when defending screens.

In addition, the Knicks' defense is good at blocking the opponent's passing lanes, aggressively defending the opponent's ball carrier, forcing the opponent to not have the time to read the defense on the court, which is not easy for ordinary fans to observe. So, although many people still think Gasol is soft and the Knicks players are not strong enough, they still made it to the top eight defensive teams in the league this season. It can be seen that they won the trade bet, and they used their awareness and personal defensive ability to find a different way to defend than the NBA, and they used their height, speed, agility and awareness to force the opponent to make mistakes and put pressure on the opponent when shooting.

"Is our defense so good?" After reading the New York Times report during the day, D'Antoni laughed at himself in his heart.

"Of course there is, but it's all my credit." Woodson thought to himself, an ambitious gaze shot into his little glasses. Although his offense is very scummy, he thinks that in the playoffs is to fight defense, so let him coach this team, then he will definitely more than double the time of defensive training, and he will completely reverse the current training ratio.

However, Woodson is destined not to have this opportunity, Wu Huang will never let his team go from one extreme to the other, and there is no difference between defending and attacking.

Before the Knicks' game, they received the news that Thunder guard James Harden had won the 2011-2012 NBA Sixth Man of the Year award, which made Gallinari, who was a hopeful contender, a little depressed.

James Harden, the most important member of the Thunder's bench, is averaging 16.8 points, 4.1 rebounds and 3.1 assists in 31.4 minutes per game this season, shooting 49.1% from the field, all of which are career highs. With his help, the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Young Guards, finished second in the West in the regular season this season, entered the playoffs as the Northwest Division champion, and are now ready to start the second round of the playoffs.

In the Thunder's game against the Suns on April 18, James Harden scored a career-high 40 points in 36 minutes. In the first round of the playoffs, the Thunder swept the Lakers with a total score of 4-0 in the first round, and Harden was able to contribute an average of 21.5 points per game in these four games, which added a lot of points to his final Best Sixth Man award.

The NBA's Sixth Man of the Year award was voted on by 117 sports journalists and TV commentators from the United States and Canada, and Harden scored a total of 363 points, which is not a lot of points. Gallinari is second with 264 points, the gap between the two is not big, the Italian lost in personal data, this season he only averaged 14.6 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.1 assists per game, the three main statistics are lower than Harden across the board, and the shooting percentage is only 45.5%, which is why he failed to get more votes, otherwise Gallinari with much more exposure than Harden is enough to offset part of the gap between the two statistics.

", where's my MVP trophy?" The second round of the playoffs has begun, but Wu Huang still hasn't seen his MVP trophy for a long time, which makes him a little unhappy, he thought he could get the trophy at home today, and he was even ready for the acceptance speech.

The not-so-happy Wu Huang only chatted with Paul George a few times during the appearance, mainly to encourage this bastard, because this guy is also one of his fans, and usually licks him during interviews. But Wu Huang didn't expect the two to meet in the playoffs so soon, although he never thought that this guy could threaten him now and in the future.

His small training camp was held last summer and Paul George was also invited, but at that time, George seemed to have no sense of existence in front of a group of young talents such as Irving and Cousins, he belonged to the less talented existence of these young talents, only the physical fitness was quite good, but the ball sense and technique were very ordinary, and Wu Huang even felt that he was not as talented as Gallinari.

But after a summer, Paul George will improve faster than many of his more promising talents, and if he hadn't been reused in the second half of the regular season, he would have snatched Ryan Anderson's Most Improved Player award.

However, even so, in the eyes of Wu Huang, Paul George is still at the same level as Gallinari, and perhaps his defensive potential is higher, which may make Paul George a star with Pippen as a model in the future, but it should be difficult to reach this level with his talent alone.

Wu Huang still doesn't know that all legendary superstars have a problem of not being able to see people accurately, because they always use themselves as a reference, and they always think that they can easily do things, how can these stupid people just not do well? And he looks down on those so-called late-blooming players, Wu Huang has always thought that players who can't average 20+ per game in the first season, or 8+ assists and 10+ rebounds are scum, so he called his junior Kyrie Irving to brush 20+ in his rookie season.

But he didn't want to think that this kind of guidance without regard for the actual situation was completely misleading people's children, and it was also due to Owen's high talent, and it would be a Kwame Brown tragedy to be messed with by him like this. But even though there are already many voices criticizing Irving for playing too alone, he only cares about brushing his own data, and has not helped the Cavaliers to improve at all, which is caused by the pressure exerted by Wu Huang.

"You should be stepping up your dribbling and shooting, I'm going to continue to run training camps in the summer, are you interested?" Before the start of the game, Wu Huang said to Paul George in the tone of a leading big brother, in fact, he just wanted to find some high-level sparring partners, and these people were his free coolies to practice.

"Of course I'm interested, without last summer's training, I wouldn't be at the level I am now." Paul George hurriedly nodded in agreement, he didn't think there was anything wrong with Emperor Wu's tone.

To be honest, Paul George was very touched by the fact that Emperor Wu invited him to train with him last year, because with the data and performance of his first season, he was indeed the lowest status and strength in the training camp at that time, and it could even be said that he was not qualified to train with Cousins, Owen and others. (To be continued.) )