Chapter 518 Eastern Conference Semifinals

After five days of waiting, the Pistons finally welcomed the Eastern Conference semifinals opponent Washington Wizards, who just eliminated the Celtics led by Paul Pierce with a big score of 4:2. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Paul Pearce's Celtics lost six games against the Wizards, his second playoff loss this year, and he is not young now, he can't wait, if he can't win a championship in a few years, then he may not be crowned for life.

And the situation on the Wizards' side is not optimistic, their opponent is the powerful Pistons, this year's Pistons set off an offensive revolution storm, Coach Larry Brown made the Pistons form a strong defensive system, and Osborne let the Pistons form a new offensive system, these two systems are parallel and interact, so the Pistons' strong offensive firepower and defensive strength is a headache for any team.

The Wizards only had to play against the Pistons who had a week's rest after only two days of rest, which was clearly the absolute advantage of the Pistons, but the uncertainty of the playoffs was great and anything could happen.

The first game of the second round was still played at the Palace Arena in Auburn Hills, home of the Pistons, who fielded their league-sweeping lineup of death.

The Washington Wizards fielded their strongest lineup, center Brandon Haywood, power forward Antoine Jamison, small forward Larry Hughes, scoring guard Jarred Jeffries, and point guard Gilbert Arenas.

Gilbert Arenas likes a challenge, he's in great shape, and it's clear from the warm-up that he's excited today, not at all intimidated by the strength of the Pistons, and he's not being hit by fatigue, he's recovering well.

Osborne felt that Gilbert Arenas was inspirational enough and worked very hard, but he was unlucky, his peak was too short, his scoring was explosive, his scoring methods were varied, and he was also the main point guard, so his advantage was even more obvious.

After the opening ceremony, the game officially began, at the beginning of the first quarter of the game, Gilbert Arenas took the lead, dominated the crowd, directly used a cross-step dribble past Chauncey Billups, and scored a 2+1 against Ben Wallace's defense, and then he stole Chauncey Billups' pass to Richard Hamilton, and scored a quick break. He scored five points in less than two minutes into the opening period.

The reason why he is so strong is that he knows that if he can't take the lead on the Pistons' home court, then the Wizards will look passive in the next games.

Osborne saw that Gilbert Arenas was so positive, he had to respond, otherwise the Pistons would be embarrassed, he motioned to Chauncey Billups to pass the basketball to him, Chaunci Billups was very careful this time, Osborne received the basketball smoothly, Osborne received the basketball and was also very tough and direct three-point shot, the Wizards players who defended him had no choice but to watch Osborne's three-point hole go through the basket.

Osborne's current form is also very good, even if there are no games, he is very diligent and will never fall behind in training, so his form has always been good.

Gilbert Arenas likes big scenes, and his desire to perform is very strong, whenever there is an opportunity to pretend. Forced, he will definitely spare no effort to pretend.

Osborne also likes to pretend, after all, life is like a drama all depends on acting skills, he must ensure that he has enough scenes, for players who play basketball, the more points they score, the more opportunities they will naturally have, so Gilbert Arenas has a deep obsession with scoring.

In the first quarter of the game, Gilbert Arenas performed very positively, his three-point shot scored 2, and then Larry Hughes and Antoine Jamison also broke out to score 8 points in a row, playing a wave of 11:5 small climax, helping the Wizards lead the Pistons by 5 points at 18:13, and then the two sides attacked a tug-of-war, Osborne threw a three-pointer, Gilbert Arenas also returned a three-pointer, Richard Hamilton threw a mid-range shot, Antoine Jamison also threw a mid-range shot, anyway, the two teams were stagnant, In the end, it was Osborne who scored a three-pointer to announce the end of the quarter, and at the end of the first quarter, the Wizards actually suppressed the Pistons, leading the Pistons by two points at 31:29.

The offensive state of the two teams is in full swing, and the Pistons' defense is no longer effective, Gilbert Arenas scored 16 points and 4 assists in the first quarter, and Osborne only scored 14 points, as soon as the first quarter ended, Larry Brown called the players to his side and began to arrange tactics, he asked the players to defend well, limit Antoine Jamison, Gilbert Arenas's play, and the Pistons players also said that there was no problem.

Back in the second quarter, Osborne first made a three-pointer to kick off the Pistons' counterattack, and then Richard Hamilton stole Larry Hughes to assist Chauncey Billups for an easy layup, and then Gilbert Arenas missed the shot, the Pistons seized the opportunity to make a three-pointer from Richard Hamilton again, and the Pistons also played a wave of 8:0 small climax, helping the Pistons to overtake the score and lead by 6 points, at which time the Wizards head coach finally couldn't resist and called a timeout.

Because the current game situation is completely controlled by the Pistons, if you don't call a timeout, the Pistons will go crazy for a while, and the head coach of the Wizards team also requires the players to play tactics and not rely on their individual ability to do it, this sentence is actually about Gilbert Arenas, because he is the offensive starting point of the Wizards, if he blindly does it, then the Wizards' offense will not be smooth.

After the pause, the Wizards' offense still did not improve significantly, because in addition to the Wizards' poor offensive touch, the Pistons' defensive level improved was also a reason, and then Osborne and Richard Hamilton made two more three-pointers, and the Wizards only Gilbert Arenas stepped up and made a three-pointer to stabilize the situation, so that Gilbert Arenas assisted Larry Hughes to also shoot a three-pointer, so that the Wizards finally broke the scoring drought and began to narrow the score gap.

At the end of the second quarter, the Pistons led the Wizards by three points at 62:59, Osbourne hit 8 of 15 shots in the half, including 6 three-pointers, and scored 22 points, while Wizards star Gilbert Arenas hit 10 of 18 shots, hit 5 three-pointers, and had 25 points and 5 assists. (To be continued.) )