Chapter 350: The Second Round vs. Magic
Originally, the Magic vs. the Heat, these two teams are not in the same concept at all, how strong is the Magic? Third in the East and third in the league! And what about the Heat? Ranked only sixth, it looked like the Magic had a pretty easy time taking the Heat before the game.
But the end of the game was not as easy as imagined, because there was a person in the Heat who would say 'no', this person's full name is Dwyane Tyrone Wade, on the home court of the Magic, the first two games, the Magic won easily, and in the third game, Wade broke out, even with Beasley and O'Neal Jr., a [***] battle, won a game at home to fight for their own face, people thought that their game also ended 4-1, Wade said no again!
In the fourth game, it was still the home court of the Heat, and Wade scored 42 points alone, helping the Heat overtake the score at the last moment.
2 points apart, beat the magic again at home, lose is lose, no matter how many points you lose! Ten points are also losses, and one point is also losses. The Magic's lack of strength from the outside in the final quarter also became the most important point of their defeat to the Heat.
However, the overall level of the Magic is still much stronger than the Heat, they are not the Mavericks, the Heat is not the Warriors, after returning to their home court in the third game, the Magic played very well, with a 55.4% shooting rate in the whole game, so that the Magic easily won the battle of Tianwang Mountain, taking advantage of this momentum, in the sixth game, they easily won the game, and also advanced to the second round of the playoffs, they will challenge the Pacers head-on, but they also gave the Pacers time to rest in the past few days, The Pacers finished the game on the 27th, and by the time the league scheduled the game again, it was May 4th! With seven days of rest, especially when the first game was on their home court, the Pacers were very comfortable.
After playing the Bulls, the head coach of the Pacers, Jim O'Brien, generously gave the players three days off.
Training began three days later, and during those three days, the rest of the league's regular season awards were awarded.
There is no doubt that James became the first winner this year, and Zhang Kong became the second winner!
MVP award, because it was voted before Zhang Kong hit a quadruple-double, so James successfully sat on the MVP throne in a row.
Zhang Kong is in second place, but there are many media workers who show that they regret it now, they know that Zhang Kong will play a quadruple-double in the playoffs, this MVP can't be James' thing anyway, of course, he missed the MVP, Zhang Kong's heart is also a little unhappy, but this thing doesn't seem to be of high value to him, so he gave a little survival point, Zhang Kong said that there was no pressure.
Although he is very short of survival points now, he really doesn't care much about a little survival point! He cares about other awards.
The league's most improved player award, of course, is Zhang Kong's, from last season's only blocking, to this season's four doubles, if Zhang Kong is not the fastest offensive player, it is really unreasonable! And below Zhang Kong, is the Rockets' Xiaobu, Aaron Brooks, although he is much higher than the others, but compared to Zhang Kong, it is far behind.
At the same time, Zhang Kong, as the No. 1 vote, entered the league's No. 1 defensive team and the league's No. 1 team at the same time.
In the voting for the best defensive team, Zhang Kong led the way alone, and he got more votes than the second place Dwight Howard and the third place LeBron James combined, in addition to Zhang Kong, James and Howard, the remaining two spots were taken away by Kobe Bryant and the Bobcats' Cat Gerard Wallace, so that the first defensive lineup is:
Center Dwight Howard, forward LeBron James, forward Gerald Wallace, guard Kobe Bryant, guard Zhang Kong, the All-Defensive Team selection was voted on by thirty head coaches of NBA teams.
They are asked to pick a first team and a second team by position, but they pick their team's players, and the player who gets the first team vote gets two points, and the player who gets the second team vote gets one point! The result of the vote was 58 points (except for Jim O'Brien, all 29 people cast their first-team votes).
The second defensive lineup is not the Pacers, the second defensive lineup is won by Duncan, Wade, Josh Smith, Lecho and the Thunder's Saab Sephorosa, and the Pacers' other backcourt defensive stalwart Dundee Jones is only eighth.
In addition to the first and second defensive lineups, the league's first, second, and third lineups were also released on this day.
The first team is led by this year's defensive king Zhang Kong, James can only be ranked behind him, this year's new scoring champion Durant has taken three steps, he has never been selected for the best team of the season, he jumped to 87 first votes to enter the first team, and the rest of the people are still relatively old faces, there is nothing new, and Zhang Kong's selection definitely has a representative surname.
In the 2009-10 season, the first team of the league's best team, the center is still Dwight Howard, and now Howard is definitely the league's first center, and the forward position is LeBron James and Kevin Durant, there is nothing strange about this, the guard position, is Zhang Kong and Kobe, the only difference with the first defensive lineup is that Gerald Wallace was replaced by Kevin Durant, Zhang Kong with 610 votes (full score), He deserves to be the No. 1 player in this year's league first-team rankings.
The second is James and Howard, both with 608 votes, the third is Kobe Bryant, 604 votes, and finally Durant has 510 votes.
And the leader of the Pacers, Danny Granger, is on the second team in the league, squeezing into the second team with Nash, Deco Nowitzki, Deron Williams and Carmelo Anthony, and the third team has nothing to do with the Pacers.
Duncan, Gasol, Bogut, Joe Johnson, Brandon Roy, these five are squeezed into the league's third team.
And these awards also brought Zhang Kong a total of two surname-based rewards, a league lineup and a team, and an alliance defensive lineup team!
In an instant, Zhang Kong's name once again shined in the whole world, Tom Jace also happily called Zhang Kong two days ago, Zhang Kong1, after a week of rushing production, the newly made 50,000 pairs of sneakers were sold out in less than three days on the shelves, and the launch in the Chinese market also achieved quite good results in an instant, and countless fans bought it.
The workmanship is not worse than the sneakers of Nike, Adi and other big factories, and at the same time they are sold cheaply, only more than 200 yuan, almost all students can afford to buy them, plus it is still a new round of endorsements made by the national idol Zhang Kong, tens of thousands of pairs of sneakers in the Chinese market were sold out almost in one afternoon, and some of the proceeds of these sneakers are going to enter Zhang Kong's wallet.
Originally, Tom Jace also wanted to send some people to be a support, and then buy some sneakers to come back to fill the façade, which is the oil layer on the real water, and those big factories do this, so it usually looks like the water is quite heavy, and the sneakers sell quite a lot.
In fact, there are a lot of oil layers on it, and Tom Jace was originally going to let his people be used as oil layers.
But this group of people, eating bad things, diarrhea, went half an hour late, and when they got there, Zhang Kong's Kong 1 generation had been sold out, this oil layer had no meaning of existence at all, and the shoes Zhang Kong sold were now all water, and there was no oil at all.
Of course, Zhang Kong and Tom Jace both understand that this is just a short outbreak period after the sneakers are just launched, and after this period of time passes, Zhang Kong's Kong1 generation will not sell so well, but even so, Joanna also calculated for Zhang Kong, not counting the market in Europe, the markets in China and the United States alone are enough for Zhang Kong to make money, at least hundreds of thousands of pairs can be sold in the United States, and in China, selling millions of pairs is trivial, if it sells well, it may sell tens of millions!
There are a total of 1.3 billion people in China, young people account for 30% of them, about 400 million people, according to half to half, 200 million boys, of which at least 20 million or so people have the ability to buy basketball shoes for 200 yuan, of course, there are at least millions of basketball fans among these people, these people are almost all Zhang Kong's fans now, Zhang Kong's Kong1 generation is on the shelves, they naturally want to buy, although this shoe looks weird, but it is cheap and easy to wear and it is also Zhang Kong's endorsement, These three together are enough for them to pay for themselves, according to Zhang Kong's own 20% equity earned by a pair of shoes, just the income of Kong1 generation basketball shoes, Joanna calculated for Zhang Kong, about to collect more than 10 million US dollars, which is Zhang Kong, who likes money, just heard this number, his head also buzzed, the money is so easy to earn, it really surprised him.
And after knowing the use of this money, he is even more passionate in the magic game!
With the arrival of May 4th, the first playoff game between Zhang Kong's Pacers and the Magic team officially began.
At eight o'clock in the evening, with the referee's whistle, the first game of the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs between the Pacers and the Magic officially began!
The Magic's lineup today has not changed, center Dwight Howard, like Zhang Kong, was selected to the league's first team and the league's first defensive team at the same time, Rashad Lewis plays power forward, Matt Barnes plays small forward, Vince Carter plays point guard, Jemir Nelson plays point guard, such a lineup, the Magic has been playing for a whole season!
On the Pacers' side, center Roy Hibbert, although he can't carry Howard, his height is at least a problem.
Power forward Al Jefferson, he comes to play Lewis, as long as he guards the opponent's three-point, Lewis is just an ornament.
Small forward Danny Granger, the opponent sent Matt Barnes, a defensive master, to deal with him, which is not very easy to play.
Shooting guard Dundee Jones is dedicated to guarding Carter, and point guard is empty, and he's going to deal with Nelson today.
(To be continued)