Chapter Two Hundred and Nine: April

As March came to a close, the 76ers inexplicably lost to the Wizards by one game.

Wall was still very strong in that game, but the rest of the Wizards team was in great shape, including Jan Vesely, a swingman rookie from Czechoslovakia, who grabbed 15 rebounds in the game, leaving a deep impression on Tang Wenlong, who looked at his stature like a rebounding strengthened Kirilenko.

In the second half of the year, the CBA finals are in full swing, because of last year's shutdown incident, so that the CBA, which has attracted many star foreign aid, is also on fire, and the first time to attack the finals is a big city like Beijing, so this year's CBA ratings have become the highest in recent years.

Cai Liang, a sports reporter based in Philadelphia, China, also mentioned the topic of CBA when he interviewed Tang Wenlong.

"Have you ever followed CBA games in your spare time? Can you have a prediction for this year's CBA Finals? ”

Tang Wenlong nodded, of course he said yes, but in fact, where did he watch the CBA, if it wasn't for the reporter mentioning the duel between Beijing and Guangdong, he wouldn't have known about it at all.

So after thinking for a while, he said slowly, "There are more national players in the Guangdong team, and the Beijing team has super foreign aid like Marbury. ”

In fact, he opened his eyes and said nonsense, he felt in his heart that Guangdong would definitely win, because there are so many national team players in Guangdong, several of whom he knew when he played the Asian Championships, Tang Wenlong's impression that if he can enter the national team, he must have been selected, and it must be the best, just like if the players of the dream team form a team, it must be stronger than the players who have not entered the dream team.

As a result, by March 30, the Beijing team narrowly defeated Guangdong by 3 points 124-121. For the first time in the team's history, they lifted the championship trophy.

Meanwhile, the NCAA is in a heated phase, with the elite quarterfinals deciding the final four teams, Kentucky, Louisville, Kansas and Ohio State.

In the round of 16, Syracuse lost to Ohio State University, missing Fab Melo. The gap in rebounds was too big, and Ohio State University's Jared Sulig scored 13 points and 15 rebounds in the game, and no one could limit him on the inside of Syracuse.

However, such a player, who did not make it to the top 60 in the draft rankings, one is due to fame, and the other is too slow to act, and scouts don't think it will be suitable for today's increasingly fast-paced NBA, after all, the NBA is a 24-second turn-based system. Unlike the NCAA, which can have 35 seconds.

At the start of April, the fatigue of the NBA's intensive schedule reached its peak, and Iguodala suffered a bruised finger bone and needed to rest for a week towards the end of the season.

This made the entire 76ers management nervous, and Iguodala is a well-known iron man who has hardly missed a game in his career so far. So the management pulled Tang Wenlong to do a physical examination all over his body, tested Tang Wenlong's muscle vitality and physical fatigue, and offered him as a national treasure. I'm afraid that he will also get injured because of the accumulated fatigue.

The test showed that Tang Wenlong's physical condition was as good as that of a calf. There are almost no injured muscles throughout the body, as monitored at the beginning of the season.

"Maybe it's because most of my offense ends in shots?" Tang Wenlong shrugged his shoulders, and it seemed that he had a tendency to become a new generation of iron man.

On April 1, the 76ers played the Hawks at home.

The Hawks fielded starting lineups like Jeff Teague, Hinrich, Joe Johnson, Josh Smith, Zaza Pachuria, and the likes of Al Horford were reimbursed early for the season, and the Hawks just won against the Magic last season. Without Horford this season, it is estimated that he will play soy sauce again.

The 76ers are suffering from minor injuries, with Lowry, David West, Iguodala, and Hawes all on the injury list, and Collins can't find anyone who can be a suitable starter among the remaining players. After thinking about it, I still think of rookie Jimmy Butler as a replacement for Iguodala. Put it in the starting position.

In the end, Tang Wenlong scored 36 points on 13-of-23 shooting, leading the 76ers to win the Hawks 99-91.

In the shortened season, in order to make up 66 games in the regular season, the start time of the entire playoffs has been moved back a lot, and the time for athletes to rest and recuperate has been shortened.

No. 2, the 76ers challenged the Heat back-to-back away from home, which was also the last meeting between the two teams this season, after 2-0 and the 76ers were in the lead.

The heat was full of enthusiasm in this game, and the Miami audience was also enthusiastic, and they had to beat the 76ers once.

Facts have proved that the brave will win when they meet on a narrow road, and the 76 people, who lack troops and major generals, are obviously more restrained in the face of the heat that has almost broken out with 200 percent combat strength.

The biggest attraction is the matchup between James and Tang Wenlong, the 28-year-old James has reduced his outside shots this season, strengthened his offense in the low post, and the shooting percentage has created a career-high 53 percent, and the three-point shooting rate is also a career high, reaching 36 percent.

Tang Wenlong has risen strongly this season, after the game in March, he averaged 29.9 points per game, although the shooting percentage is not as good as James, but it is still far behind the league average, especially his three-point shooting rate, which is 41.4 percent, which is already a recognized outside killer in the league.

Without Iguodala's escort, Tang Wenlong directly faced James in the game.

And it turns out that James, like Anthony, has no way to prevent it, and can only try to limit the opponent.

In order not to be swept by the 76ers this season, James did his best, contributing 33 points, 12 rebounds and 8 assists on 12-of-19 shooting, while Tang Wenlong only made 8 of 22 shots, although he also scored 31 points, his personal efficiency was obviously inferior to James.

The final result of the game became a matter of course, and the 76ers lost to the Heat 87-101.

After the game, the media in the United States was excited, James not only had the advantage in personal data in this game, but also won the final victory, which was simply a typical James game.

Although Tang Wenlong is popular, he is still a foreigner in the final analysis.

As a result, a large number of arguments appeared on the Internet that proved that Tang Wenlong was inferior to James, and that the position of the first person in the James League was still unbreakable.

On the 3rd, the NBA took a day off to make way for the NCAA Finals matchup.

The eyes of basketball fans across the United States and around the world are focused on this game, will Kentucky win, or will the University of Kansas come out stronger? (To be continued.) )