"How much money did you spend to get him to write such a conscientious report?" Taylor Swift first threw a copy of the New York Times to Wu Huang, and then without a trace, pressed the paparazzi's secretly photographed report of "the Knicks' whole team prostitutes" below. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"I'd like to know that too, but there's another one I can explain right away." Emperor Wu cursed in his heart and said: "You know that I have always had a habit of cleanliness, and I deliberately broadcast the party live last night, and I had already checked out and left before 12 o'clock, and the follow-up content of the above report was completely fabricated, and thousands of people testified to this." "Wu Huang didn't lie, he only played until 12 o'clock last night, and then left with his girlfriend under the pretext.

At that time, the Knicks players who were almost drunk were still coaxing and asking who his girlfriend was, but Wu Huang glared at him and made a few little guys dare not coax again.

Just kidding, he won't reveal this kind of thing, the reason why he said this is just to find an excuse to leave early. In the United States, this is very effective, and it is easier to ask the boss for leave as soon as the reason of spending time with the family is present.

"Do you still have a witness?" Taylor Swift is starting to find fault again, because Emperor Wu didn't come to her bed after leaving last night, and I don't know which **** bed to run.

"There's a lot of cat hair on your bed, I think you should keep that stinky cat away from here." Wu Huang hurriedly changed the topic, and the white folded ear cat that he threw to the side of the bed raised its fat round head and barked at him a few times, obviously protesting.

"It's a lot better than you. Hey? How can you have a few short cat hairs in your hair, I'm a folded ear. Taylor Swift reached out and plucked a few human hairs on Emperor Wu's head.

"It hurts me!" Wu Huang screamed, these few cat hairs made him a little cornered, but he didn't spend the night in Christine's bed last night, she was filming outside these days, and Wu Huang climbed into Little Hermione's bed. As for the cat hair on the head, it is easy to explain, two girls live in an apartment, no matter which bed must have the hair of the little one.

At the moment, the same desperate situation as Wu Huang is the Magic, these guys are also pushed to the edge of the cliff, and any loss will bring their season to an end.

In the first five games of the first round, Howard was able to do whatever he wanted under the basket, averaging 32.2 points per game and shooting 66 percent, the most of any player in the playoffs.

The Magic's problem right now is that Howard's teammates haven't stepped up, especially the perimeter players, with Nelson, Turkoglou and Redick all shooting below 35 percent. The Magic, who rely heavily on three-point shooting, shot just over 20 percent from the three-point line, a new low in the NBA playoffs, and it was difficult for the Magic not to lose in this situation.

In the sixth game, Howard no longer called for wind and rain, he only shot 2 shots, only scored 7 points and 8 rebounds, and had 4 turnovers, and his performance was sluggish throughout the game, basically no different from a waster.

Many people can see that Howard is really tired today, Howard, who has fought for five games, needs a respite, but his teammates didn't fight for him, and the rest of the Magic is not very reliable on the court, and it was very difficult to play today.

The Bulls' performance is actually not very good, Rose and Anthony are not high in shooting percentage, but their ability to win free throws is much better than that of the Magic, these two alone fought for the Magic to make 25 free throws, but the Magic players did not have such ability, they made less than 20 free throws in the whole game, including Howard's poor shooting rate of 3 of 10.

The victory and defeat were almost lost in suspense in the first half, but the Bulls, who led by a large score, were still not soft, and the main lineup played until 7 minutes and 30 seconds left in the fourth quarter, when Korver hit a three-point shot, the Bulls completed a wave of 9:0 attack and achieved a 27-point advantage with 95:68, the Magic had to choose to give up, taking the lead in withdrawing all the main forces, and then the cautious Thibodeau replaced his main lineup.

"Our opponent is the Bulls." The Knicks players were not very surprised or worried when they saw their semi-final opponents, the Bulls showed some worse strength in the first round than the Hawks who had been eliminated, and there was a big gap between the Heat and the Celtics, and their seemingly luxurious roster actually had many flaws and problems that were difficult to solve.

"Let's start watching the tape!" Wu Huang also breathed a sigh of relief, but not because the opponent was a bull, but because he felt that it was actually quite troublesome to be idle, especially the stinky girls always smelled whether he had perfume on him like a puppy, or he couldn't wait to take a magnifying glass to check whether he had other cat hair on his body, and sometimes even the text message had to be secretly checked.

Not to mention, Wu Huang was really found by her, once because the ambiguous text message sent to him by Little Radish didn't have time to delete it, and once it was Christine's short message, but when he was almost scared to pee, the stinky girls didn't take any further action, so that he was a little afraid to go over there now.

On April 28, the first round of the playoffs ended early this year, and no team played the seventh game, and all the matches ended in six games.

The most unlucky of this is of course the Spurs, under the leadership of the god-like Randolph, the Grizzlies, a team that has never been rich, broke n records in team history in a row, and finally eliminated the Spurs with a score of 4:2, staging another ** counterattack.

It was the Spurs' third first-round exit in 14 years, the last being in 2008-09. But the difference is that this year's Spurs are full of old age, and only the back of a dynasty remains.

Sports media around the world are engaging in sensational dramas such as "veteran withering" at the moment, which feels like a dead mother, and all readers see for a while is an exclamation point!

The Spurs were given enough topics by the media to continue until the second round, and for a while all the sadness and exclamation were used on the Spurs, but the Spurs must hope that no one will mention their sadness.

The league was very efficient, and the next day it quickly announced the bracket for the divisional finals -

Western Conference Finals vs. Grizzlies vs. Thunder; Lakers vs Mavericks

Eastern Conference Finals vs. Knicks vs. Bulls; Heat vs Celtics

The next round of the NBA playoffs is usually scheduled based on the results of the previous round. That is, if all teams are swept 4-0 in the first round, then the second round will start early. Therefore, this season's divisional semi-finals will be a little earlier, and the first match will start on May 1.

Knicks Eastern Conference Semifinals Schedule -

May 1, New York Knicks vs. Chicago Bulls - Madison Square Garden, PM, 19:30.

May 3, New York Knicks vs. Chicago Bulls - Madison Square Garden, PM, 20:00.

May 6, New York Knicks vs. Chicago Bulls - Union Center Arena, PM, 22:00.

May 8, New York Knicks vs. Chicago Bulls - United Center Arena, PM, 21:30.

May 11, New York Knicks vs. Chicago Bulls - Madison Square Garden, TBD.

May 13, New York Knicks vs. Chicago Bulls - United Center Arena, TBD.

May 15, New York Knicks vs. Chicago Bulls - Madison Square Garden, TBD.

The New York media still thinks that the Knicks will play the Magic better, because they were eliminated by the Magic in the semifinals last season, the Knicks have been calm and painful this summer, and they have always regarded the Magic as an imaginary enemy, and they have largely aimed at the soft underbelly of the Magic team in terms of recruitment, such as O'Neal, Collins and Reggie and other interior lines are all prepared to deal with the beast of Howard.

But I didn't expect the Magic team to plummet in the new season, and now this lineup that restrained the Magic is useless, and against the Bulls' interior lineup, O'Neal and others are not dominant, but a little restrained by the opponent.

ESPN believes that the Knicks' overall strength is not much better than that of the Pacers after the absence of Smalls, and the reason why they can sweep the opponent is precisely because the lineup is compatible. O'Neill played against Hibbert, who was not very flexible, and used what little heat he had left. But on the other hand, Hibbert, who could have posed a certain threat to the Knicks' breakthrough, was very embarrassed, and he was sat to death by O'Neal before he could play an effect in every game. So being restrained on the inside is the key to the Pacers being swept away.

However, it is different against the Bulls, although O'Neal's strength advantage is still there, but Noah's movement speed is far faster than Hibbert, although Boozer's movement speed is relatively slow, but it is still much better than O'Neal, so the old shark can no longer have an excellent performance in the first round, if Xiao Si is still unable to play, the Knicks' interior line will be blown up without suspense!

Once he recovers and returns, the Knicks will have the advantage, otherwise the Knicks' interior will be blown up, and they are likely to repeat the mistake of last year's disadvantage due to the disadvantage of the interior.

"I'm feeling good right now, and if I had a sixth or seventh game in the first round, I'd be back." In an interview on April 30, Xiao Si said, "I have been off for almost three weeks, and my knee is no longer painful, in fact, during the playoffs, I have participated in the team's ball training, and my body is fine now." ”

Wu Huang also feels that Xiao Si's knee is not much of a problem for the time being, playing with an injury is nothing in the NBA, most stars cannot be intact in the playoffs, Garnett and Duncan's physical condition may not be as good as Xiao Si, but there are fewer hidden dangers in people's bodies, and Xiao Si has a lot of hidden dangers in his knees, which is a bit like Yao Ming, once the old injury recurs, there will be big problems.

On the same day, the league announced a new award, and Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni was named Coach of the Year 10-11, the second time he has won the honor.

The attribution of this award has long been expected, and the suspense of "Coach of the Year" has never been much, and it is generally awarded to the coach with the best record of the season, unless you can bring a big bad team that only won a dozen games last season to 55+ wins, at this time even if it is not the first record to steal this honor. However, there is no such coach this year, so D'Antoni has no opponent.

It's worth mentioning that Bulls head coach Thibodeau is third in this nomination, and if it weren't for the Bulls' poor record in the second half of the season, he could have snatched the best coach honor from D'Antoni.

Speaking of the Bulls, they also came to New York on the 30th, and the two cores of the team expressed their confidence in beating the Knicks and defeating Wu Huang. Then, they heard a strange question from a New York reporter: "Hugo wants to ask us for the next letter, and he wants to compete with the Bulls' core to see who is more efficient in scoring, and who can win the game while getting better statistics." But there is a question, he wants to know who his opponent is first? ”

Anthony and Rose both had ugly faces, such a blatant provocation would not have been seen in the regular season, but it was nothing in the playoffs.

The New York media are very united this year, and they don't know how much they want to see the Knicks reach the Eastern Conference Finals again, so this kind of provocation is already relatively light, and if they play against the Suns in the Finals, they will definitely ask green hat questions to influence Nash.

"He's not up against someone, and we're not alone, and we're not interested in messing around with him." Anthony was still a little more mature and reacted before Rose.

"That's right, we're a unit, and if he likes individual heroism, let him play by himself." Ross also quickly added.

The New York media laughed, as long as you look at the tone and look of these two people rushing to answer, you can know that these guys still haven't dealt with internal problems, and the contradictions between the two are only temporarily buried, as long as the Bulls lose on the road, these contradictions are likely to be vented like a volcanic eruption after fermentation.

From this point of view, the Knicks' two home courts must be grasped, as long as the home court advantage is used to score 2:0, it is a matter of eight or nine to eliminate the Bulls to advance. But the Bulls must not be allowed to walk away in New York, or there will be variables.

"They must not be given a chance! Don't even want to take one of the two home games! Wu Huang also thinks the same way, so in the past two days of preparation, he will occasionally say some morale-boosting words, but the main thing is to emphasize the importance of the first two games, hoping that his teammates can go all out and play hard to defend the two home games.

Although this will increase the pressure on the team, Wu Huang is confident that he can resist the pressure, and when he is the leader, there is no reason why his teammates can't keep up.

Besides, what's there to be afraid of when the pressure is high, everyone can carry it together, they don't have such strength, what is a little pressure?

"I hope people don't always say, 'Let's kill the bulls while they don't get together,' because that's the idea of the weak." In the last tactical class, Wu Huang finally made a pre-war mobilization, "Everyone must remember that we are the strongest, we are the first in the alliance, and we must have the confidence to defeat any opponent!" So don't say it's a bull that hasn't run in, even if it's a bull that has completely run in, what can we do? If the Knicks want to win the championship, does it depend on whether the opponent has a good run-in? I think it's good for the fans to talk about it, and we should regret not being able to beat the strongest opponent, because the stronger the opponent, the stronger we are! ”

The effect of Wu Huang's mobilization is still okay, and these words made some Knicks players feel a little ashamed, because there are indeed many people who have heard the remarks of the media and fans, and they also feel that they should take advantage of the bull's illness to kill the bull! Of course, it's not wrong to think so, but if you think too much, you will unconsciously put yourself in a weak position, but forget that even if you are a full Bulls, can't they beat it?

If the Knicks players have always carried this kind of tricky thinking, once the Bulls show their courage and tenacity on the road, the Knicks players are likely to not be able to accept this contrast for a while, just like the Spurs were counterattacked when they encountered the impact of the Grizzlies, and the Knicks were in danger at that time.

The Knicks should have the confidence to beat any team, no matter how strong the opponent is, even against the 72-win Bulls.

But self-confidence alone is not enough, the Knicks also need to know where the opponent's strengths are and how to crack them.

The Knicks' coaching staff has analyzed this, in the first round of the playoffs, the Bulls faced the Magic team who are good at shooting three-pointers, and they limited the Magic's three-point shooting rate to 26.2%, and the Magic only hit 37 of 141 three-pointers in 6 games, so the Bulls are the best three-point defense team among the current playoff teams.

Unfortunately, the Knicks are a team that needs three-pointers to kill people, and the three-point shot is one of the Knicks' main offensive tools, and it is predictable that the Bulls will continue to deal with the Knicks the same way they did against the Magic in the first round.

The Bulls' offense is different, they were a team that relied on breakthroughs to create opportunities before Anthony's arrival, they liked to play small areas and high and low posts, and they were also good at cutting off the ball, which allowed Noah's ability to play and Rose's breakthrough ability to show to the fullest. And long-range shooting is not the Bulls' main offensive method, which requires a higher interior defense. In fact, Howard is more restrained by the Bulls, but the other players of the Magic team do not play a big role on the defensive end.

The Bulls' style of play hasn't changed much since Anthony joined, they are still a team that plays inside, the difference is that the Bulls are now more reliant on Noah to act as an axis in the high post, which is Thibodeau's way of improving the incompatibility between Rose and Anthony, Noah is used by him as Duncan and Gasol, and he wants to use this hub to connect Rose and Anthony.

So now Noah has become a link that the Knicks need to focus on, in the last series, the Bulls center can send an average of 4.5 assists per game, which is not something that the average interior can play, Thibodeau has fully exerted Noah's ability to respond, and the Knicks must block this relay if they want to beat the Bulls.

"Noah has a good set of passing in the high post, but his active offensive ability is insufficient, which is the difference between him and Gasol and Duncan, and what he can do in the high post is nothing more than move the ball to the wings, and the only thing he can do is inconsistent mid-range shooting." D'Antoni has studied Noan very thoroughly, "He can't attack with the ball on his own, so we have to find a way to let him attack with the ball more and then surround him from both sides and cut off his passing routes. "D'Antoni values Noah very much, and he is not afraid of how much of a threat it will be for Noah to attack with the ball, even if he is allowed to break through with the ball in the high post, as long as he is not allowed to go blue, the Knicks are not afraid that he can play like Xiaos.

Some fans may find it dangerous to do so, as it could easily make Noah really blue and get him a lot of points. And that's true, and this kind of loose defense will definitely give the players who are empty to get good stats, but overall it will still do more good than bad, because it is much more cost-effective to let Noah score than to let Rose and Anthony score.

Noah's ability to handle the ball is not good, which means that even if he starts two steps with the ball in the high post, the Knicks players will most of the time have time to rush to the restricted area to do the final defense. At this time, the game is a matter of efficiency, if Noah can hit consecutive shots, then the Knicks will naturally have to change their plans, and they don't have only one battle plan available. But if Noah isn't efficient enough, the Knicks can safely make a fuss about him until the Bulls make a change.

The playoffs are all about which team has changed more, so in fact, it comes back to their respective lineups. Whichever side has more depth and more capable players, there will naturally be more changes and ways to deal with it when they come to the field, and the chance of winning in the end will be greater than that of the opponent. (To be continued.) )