Chapter 55: The second round of the strong and weak

The Magic team won 97-88 in the end, although the current Magic team is extremely ugly, but this kind of real oppressive defense is very popular in the playoffs, because after exerting such physical strength, you will get at least two days of rest, so that there will be a lot of rest time for veterans and newcomers.

After the Wizards defeated the Hornets, they have been divided into two groups to train, one group is Gong Feng, Kwamei, Wang Zhizhi, Hamilton, Gerrard group, Jordan, Leitner and other veterans in a group, just practicing their own system, not deliberately to practice anything for the game, the current Wizards team occupies an absolute advantage, unless the Hornets make the right changes, otherwise this status quo will not change.

Jordan's group is constantly practicing the current style of the Magic team, Jordan has become Mark Jackson, constantly tempering the newcomers of the Wizards, and as for Kidd's Nets, Jordan has no good way to imitate.

A team dominated by point guards, point guards will fully control their team's style, and rhythm, can fight positionally, can play counterattacks, maybe the team does not score the most points, not the most rebounds, but the style of the guard is the style of the team, once the guard leaves, the team will quickly collapse, or switch most of the players, thus completely reorganizing.

Now Kidd's style is the style of the Nets, so Jordan has no way to imitate Kidd, thinking of Jordan here, he glanced at Gong Feng, and couldn't help but think: "This rookie has more say in Kidd's style, right?" ”

However, seeing Kidd's powerful face, Jordan smiled, if the Nets didn't make changes and didn't completely limit Mark, Jordan didn't think Kidd could break through this round, and Maddie didn't use all his strength.

Of course, this kind of thinking is also the great god has.

In the second game with the Hornets, the Hornets made some changes, first of all, Wesley or Davis received the ball at a 45-degree angle, Davis and Lynch gave the person who stood at a 45-degree angle, enough space to break through, PJ Brown responded on the inside, and Campbell stuck to Kwame fiercely to prevent the defense.

This is just to have the effect of letting Wesley face the bow peak alone and break through the shot, or Davis alone against Jordan and break through the ball to gain the initiative of the main force.

At the beginning, the Wizards were really disrupted by the tactics of the Hornets, and Gong Feng had no way to deal with this kind of talent to play for a while.

Five minutes later, Collins was forced to call a long timeout as Bow Peak was choked by Wesley's breakaway.

"How? You know how different it is from the regular season, right? Collins didn't have the slightest idea of taking care of Gong Feng, and spoke like a prophet: "As long as you find a weakness in the playoffs, it will be infinitely magnified by the enemy, you are now the weakness of our Wizards, what do you say I should do?" ”

Looking at Gong Feng's speechless appearance, Collins shook his head and continued very seriously: "Don't think about anyone to help you, or replace you, the Hornets don't have many tactics to use right now, this is their few tactical options, and all players will desperately look for weaknesses in you." ”

"I know you've been guarding against his breakthrough when you're defending him, but you still can't keep up with him, right? It's a lot simpler, just give him a route to break through...... See what I mean? ”

Gong Feng rolled his eyes and nodded with a smile, Collins looked at this Gong Feng and smiled with satisfaction, "Lettner, as an old man, your cap hasn't been reflected yet, right?" Now everyone has forgotten what you were back then! ”

"Don't worry, I'm not old yet, it's too easy to deal with a short defender, it was just Kwame who performed too well before, and I didn't have a chance to perform, and now the opponent will relax their defense against me? I'll tell them in my own way what a mistake it was. Lightner replied very calmly, as if he didn't feel how difficult it was at all.

"Excellent! Kwamei, I hope your involvement can play a role, since you already have the capital to be a star, it's good to add chips for this, even a superstar can't have a very stable performance in every game, and you must learn to draw the attention of the other party, this is the only way for you to become a superstar, the ancient saying of Huaguo, virtual and real, real and virtual, I hope you will study hard, this game, since the other party's attention is focused on you, you can do a good job of pulling for your teammates! ”

"Yes, Coach. I understand! When Kwamei heard this, his expression was solemn, and he replied very seriously.

And Jordan glanced at Collins unexpectedly at this time, such words were unspeakable to Collins in the past, it seems that the experience of the Wizards in the past year has improved greatly not only the players, but also Collins...... I really want to see how these two play psychology collide together.

After the Wizards on the court, there have been obvious changes, in just 4 back and forth, the veteran of the Wizards Leitner has added 3 blocks and a rebound, and at the end of the first quarter, the Wizards actually played a wave of 15-4 small high copying out, overtaking the score.

Collins looked at Leitner like this and nodded with satisfaction, this is the effect that the Wizards want, Leitner has rested enough, and he should play well in the semifinals, the average playing time in the regular season is only 20 minutes per game, and now all the effects have been shown, Collins is very satisfied with this.

The Hornets were not prepared for Leitner's outburst at all, and Gong Feng even more insidiously made a breakthrough path, and Wesley, who was not a top change of direction breakthrough, had no way to open the situation for a while in the face of such a Gong Feng, and finally evolved into a scene where Davis singled Jordan.

But when Jordan focused all his attention on defense and only used it as a passing or shooting fulcrum in the offense, Davis didn't average a triple-double in the first round.

The current Wizards bench is much stronger than the Hornets, and Collins has now become a coach who trusts the rookies. Lew could have been used as a regular scorer off the bench for 15 minutes of playing time.

The Wizards, who performed like this, won another game on their home court and had half a foot in the arena of the Eastern Conference Finals.

The second round of the playoffs in the West has also been clearly distinguished, the Kings won the Mavericks in the first game, even in this game, Nowitzki and Nash both scored 20+, although the Kings' two main scorers only cut double 20+, but the Kings' three main players got 36 rebounds, more than the entire Mavericks combined.

In the second game, the Mavericks did not give up, and broke through their limits in this game, Nash cut 30+8 data, and the shooting rate was as high as 65 percent, Nowitzki shot 7 of 15, 2 of 2 two-pointers, and under the leadership of these two people, the Mavericks won the game with difficulty.

However, anyone with a discerning eye can already see that the current Mavericks have played to their limits, but the lack of interior defense, especially the scramble for rebounds, the Mavericks are in an absolute weakness, and this game may become the only game won by the Mavericks...... Unless Nash, Nowitzki broke out again.

In the Western Conference semifinals, the battle between the Spurs and the Lakers was the most unexpected for everyone......

Popovich, who has done everything, still can't stop his team's decline. Even in the first game, Popovich used all his strength, even if Duncan scored 26 points and 21 rebounds in the first game, even if all the players tried their best to limit the Lakers from scoring their 90th points, even if because of the age of the main players, the whole court rotated 9 people, but still couldn't resist the Lakers' rotation offense.

When everyone sees this series, they know what the Spurs' full force is like, and when Robinson doesn't come back, the Spurs, who play hardest, can't stop the Lakers.

You have to know that Duncan's playing time is 45 minutes, and what about O'Neal? It's only 35 minutes, and so there are still 3 minutes of garbage time at the end, and this year's Spurs are coming to the end of their own.