The Knicks led the Pacers 3-0 to get the match point, and no one would believe that the Indiana had a chance to turn the game around, and the Pacers, who finally made the playoffs again after four years, were afraid to be swept out. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info This reminds many fans of the famous Auburn Palace incident, and if it weren't for that accident, the Pacers might have rushed to the Finals or even won the championship in the following years.

After the first three games of the first round, there are dark horses and hanging horses in the league, and the poor Spurs have become the most likely tragic role to be blacked eight, who would have thought that the Spurs, who had been in the league's first position for half a season in the regular season, came to the playoffs that they are best at, and they will be greeted by a script facing the black eight? However, except for the Spurs, there were no surprises in the other strong teams, with the Heat, Mavericks, Thunder and Knicks all playing 3-0, and these four teams may be the most likely teams to win the championship.

Western Conference First Round Score - Spurs (1) vs (2) Grizzlies; Mavericks (3) vs (0) Rockets; Lakers (2) vs (1) Hornets; Thunder (3) vs (0) Nuggets.

Eastern Conference First Round Score - Heat (3) vs (0) Bucks; Magic (1) vs (2) Bulls; Knicks (3) vs (0) Pacers; Celtics (2) vs (1) Hawks.

The New York Times reported the next day: Hugo was undoubtedly the most eye-catching Knicks player in the first round of the playoffs against the Pacers, averaging 24 points, 6.6 rebounds, 9.6 assists and 3.6 steals per game, averaging eight free throw lines per game. But Hugo's play wasn't flawless: his 33.3 percent three-point shooting percentage was much lower than in the regular season, and his four turnovers per game were the highest of any starting point guard on any team.

But even if Hugo doesn't play well, the rest of the Knicks can make up for the would-be MVP's slump, such as Hugo's sluggish performance from the end of the first quarter to the third quarter last night, but the Knicks have always maintained an alternate lead of less than 5 points with the Pacers.

Iguodala and Gallinari are undoubtedly representatives of the Knicks' many "supporting roles", and their performances last night were very stable, with the former's breakthrough and the latter's long-range projection both being a stable source of output for the Knicks. In the fourth quarter, the Knicks, under the leadership of Wu Huang, a three-point rain completely pushed the Pacers into suspense, and the two of them played an important role in it, one can share the defensive pressure for Hugo, and the other can open up space for Hugo, which can be called a right-hand man.

With 16 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists, this is not Iguodala's best game in the first round of the year, in the three meetings with the Pacers, Iguodala averaged 18 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists per game, and can hit 2 three-pointers, he is one of the most consistent players for the Knicks. At the same time, he had to defend Danny Granger every night, and in Game 3, Granger scored 16 points in the first half, but was completely contained in the next two quarters, scoring only four points in the third and fourth quarters combined.

The New York Times report is obviously different from other media outlets, they are very subjective about the performance of the Knicks players, and they don't look at it from the perspective of an onlooker, such as ignoring that Iguodala's shooting percentage is not good, Gallinari's shooting percentage is just normal performance, and they get good shooting opportunities in the game, the truth is that they can play a little more efficiently.

Before the start of the fourth game of the first round, Maddie, who failed to launch a military campaign in the regular season and was snubbed by the team, gave an exclusive interview to an American radio station, during which the host asked Maddie which team he thought would win the championship? Maddie didn't hesitate to shout out the Lakers.

Maddie had this to say in response to a question: "The Lakers will win the championship!" The Knicks may be able to make it to the Finals, but they don't have the ability to wrestle with the Lakers, and looking at last year's Celtics, the Knicks weren't good enough. They lead the league in the regular season, but it's not so easy in the playoffs, with the road being their weakness and not doing well against some of the best teams. I still have to say that the Knicks are a good team, but they're not ready to go any further. ”

Maddy's words upset Knicks fans, who have said little good about them since he left New York.

But there is a reason for this, Maddie was not happy here at all last season, and Wu Huang may have forgotten that he also once excluded others, which is not a small friction.

A lot of people can be dismissive of the Knicks, but at Indianapolis, Pacers fans don't have much hope for themselves.

In terms of the team, no matter how bad the performance is, as long as there is a balloon star like Wu Huang to press the lineup, and there is the golden sign of the Knicks, tickets and advertisements should not be sold. However, in the past few days, the Pacers have been telling everyone through the media that tickets are still available and can be purchased.

It wouldn't be surprising if that happened six months ago, but now it's in the playoffs. Tomorrow the Pacers will host the New York Knicks led by Wu Huang, but why are fans so unconvinced? Is it because the U.S. is experiencing an economic winter, or is it something else?

"If you were to put a 100-man test of the current Pacers," said the host of a local sports talk show in Polis, "I'm sure 75 percent of the Pacers fans would think, 'We're hopeless, let's get the game over quickly, we're running out of patience, let's rebuild the team, the Pacers are already in their age.'" In short, there is little hope for this Pacers, who are actually quite young. ”

So now, in addition to the bad sale of tickets, other items of the team are also difficult to sell, and even Granger's jersey is facing the embarrassment of not being able to sell, and Polis fans are more fond of items related to Kobe, James, Wu Huang, etc.

Clearly, Pacers fans are in an awkward position, with only three teams in the league having created the Black Eight Miracle in 25 years, and only 16 teams have lost their opponents after losing the first two games of the series.

"It's really hard for the Pacers to beat the Knicks in the next last game," said one of the Pacers' loyal fans, "We've beaten the Knicks at home before, but now it's different, and now they have superstars like Hugo, Stoudemire, they're the richest team in the league, and it's harder for the Pacers to beat that team." ”

Previously, in the Pacers fan forum, there were overly biased fans who suggested that Polis should form an anti-Pacers group, arguing that "the Pacers' performance this year has been disappointing, Granger has not had the potential and ability to be the cornerstone of the team, and now it's time for the team to choose the cornerstone again." If the Knicks swept the Pacers in the first round, it would be helping the Pacers speed up the rebuild. Maybe it's just a rhetoric that fans hate but it's not hard to see that the Pacers' home fans seem to have lost their enthusiasm and are especially disappointed with Granger's poor performance.

On April 23, just before the start of the fourth game between the Knicks and the Pacers, the Timberwolves held a press conference to officially announce that the team's number one star Kevin Love was the winner of the NBA's Most Improved Player Award this season.

Of the 116 journalists who took part in the vote, 55 voted for Lefou, who received a total of 290 votes. In second place is Derrick Rose, the Bulls' leading guard, who should have won this award, but the Bulls' record in the second half of the season fluctuated too much, and Rose's personal data also slipped from 24+5+7 to 22+4+6, and in the end, only 34 reporters regarded him as the first option, with a total score of 228 points. Trail Blazers forward Aldridge is third with a total of 145 points.

"Winning the Most Improved Player award at this point in my career means a lot of things." Love attended the Timberwolves' press conference. "I have to thank the fans for their support throughout the season, they have been pouring passion into my two consecutive double-doubles and making me feel honored."

In his third season in the league, Love averaged 20.2 points and 15.2 rebounds in 73 games while shooting 47 percent from the field and 41.7 percent from three-point range. Love's 15.2 rebounds per game made him the most rebounding player in a single season since Ben Wallace in 2002-03 (15.4), and he was the Timberwolves' second league rebounding champion since Garnett in 2003-05.

Wu Huang is a little anxious at the moment, the league has announced three more heavyweight awards, but still has not announced the final ownership of MVP, although everyone thinks that the final trophy of this weight belongs to him, but as long as the league is not decided, he is not a real MVP.

Of all the NBA season honors, the Most Valuable Player (MVP) is undoubtedly the one with the highest gold content. Prior to this season, the "youngest MVP" belonged to Wes Unseld, who was elected MVP in the 1968-69 season at the age of 23 years and 9 days.

How old is Emperor Wu now? Born in December 1989, he is technically less than 22 years old, and as long as the league hands him the MVP trophy this season, a new record will be born, and the youngest MVP in the NBA will drop to 21 years old.

And it's not just the youngest record, judging from Wu Huang's starting momentum, there is great hope for breaking Abdul-Jabbar's record of 6 MVPs in the future.

That's right, regardless of the durability of his career or personal achievements, Abdul-Jabbar has a place in the ranks of all-time bigwigs, as the league's all-time scoring champion, Abdul-Jabbar's MVP honors can also be described as a basket, since he got his first MVP in 1971, Abdul-Jabbar has been out of control, and he has won a total of 6 MVPs in his career, even Jordan, Russell, Chamberlain and other gods can only rank behind him in the number of this field.

But no matter how good Abdul-Jabbar is, he can't stand a junior who won the scoring title and MVP at the age of 21 to challenge, if Wu Huang successfully wins the MVP this year, I'm afraid that from now on, he will be out of control.

"It's the fourth game, you say...... Will the league announce the MVP winners before this game? In the locker room before the game, Wu Huang couldn't help but ask about his teammates, implying that today is the last game of the first round of the Knicks, and they are about to sweep the Pacers.

At this time, not only Wu Huang thought that they would sweep the opponent, but Knicks coach D'Antoni also showed the fire of underestimating the enemy before the game, this time when motivating the players, he wrote a "13" on the tactical board, and then asked the players "What is this"?

The Knicks players replied "13", and D'Antoni used "13" to tell the Knicks that they were 13 games away from the championship.

Well, while it's a great way to motivate players, "13" isn't an auspicious number in the West.

In Game 4, although the Pacers were never able to dominate the score, the Knicks led by more than 20 points at the most in the first half. However, the Knicks repeated the same mistake again in the second half, and the Pacers once chased the difference to only 2 points, which scared the mustache into a cold sweat!

"This game was a verdict against us and it taught us a lot of things." Speaking to reporters after the game, D'Antoni said with a lick of his face.

Wu Huang felt that D'Antoni should be glad that this game was not overturned, otherwise he, as a manager, would have become the best negative teaching material to teach people not to pretend to be 13 casually.

D'Antoni took the initiative to take the responsibility for the team's almost overturned after the game, and the almost loss today does have a lot to do with him, although the Knicks players are a little underestimated and play a little loose on the court, but the morale of the Pacers players who are behind 0:3 is even lower, and there is almost no power to fight back in the entire first half, and the Knicks are really squandering to take a big lead.

Then, tragedy almost happened......

D'Antoni believes that the Knicks have no suspense about taking the Pacers, and at the beginning of the second half, he replaced most of the main players in an attempt to get more bench players on the court to experience the atmosphere of the playoffs. But it was clear that this was disrupting the rhythm of the game.

'It's my responsibility for this to happen,' said D'Antoni, "and the frequent rotation of substitutes probably disrupted our rhythm and I don't think I'll use the substitutions so much in the future, no." ”

In the first half of the game, the Knicks shot as high as 60%, and in the first quarter they created a terrifying performance with a shooting rate of 70%, the extremely relaxed Knicks + the Pacers with extremely low morale, this should have been a perfect crushing game.

Wu Huang was a little frightened after the game, he said: "If the lead of 24 points can be overturned, I think we can delete the game collectively!" ”

At the end of the game, Wu Huang showed his leadership temperament. When the Pacers chased the deficit to just 2 points, he first hit a 2-point shot from the ground, then broke through the point to assist Gallinari to hit a 3-pointer, and then made two fouls to help the team seal the victory.

D'Antoni mentioned after the game that Wu Huang had taken the initiative to ask for early play in the fourth quarter of the game, and when asked by reporters why Wu Huang played early, he said, "I hope they don't be too arrogant, we want to stifle the Pacers' counterattack momentum in the cradle." (To be continued.) )