The Boston Celtics and Cavaliers played very fast, only after three games the Celtics eliminated the Cavaliers, in all the first round of the game, only the Grizzlies and Celtics two teams in the first round of the second round with a sweep, the Grizzlies' opponent is the Pacers led by Larry Bird, this team is still trying to find its own interior fulcrum compared to last season, from the current point of view, although this team has Rose, Reggie Miller and Joe Johnson on the outside, But these titans are somewhat completely restrained when they meet the Grizzlies, Rose is entangled by Artest very much, Joe Johnson, a former Wake Forest player nicknamed Carter Jr., is also a little completely lost his style when he meets the real Carter, although Reggie Miller can still contribute an average of 20 points per game in this round of the series, but his contribution alone is completely insufficient, and because the team has no inside containment point, the shooter's shooting rate is not very high, It can be said that in this series, the Pacers were completely restrained by the Grizzlies. It can even be said that this round of matchups is more different than the match between the Celtics and the Cavaliers, because the Grizzlies game was played the day before the Celtics, so the Celtics are also the second team after the Grizzlies to advance.

Unlike the Grizzlies and the Celtics' sweep, the Celtics' next opponent, the Washington Wizards, had a somewhat tortuous path to qualification, and this team faced the Philadelphia 76ers, and Nash met his old rival Iverson, a matchup that was basically a continuation of last year's Finals. And the styles of the two teams in this game are also completely opposite, and the 76ers are a complete defensive team. The Wizards, on the other hand, are a complete offensive team, and in this case, it is basically whichever team can control the general trend on the court and play its own rhythm will win. In this case, both teams can be said to want to take the game under their control.

So the key to this round of the series is Nash and Iverson, who can control the game and lead the team to advance, D'Antoni and Larry Brown are also very clear about this, so this round of the series can be said that the two teams are the No. 1 position of the opponent from the beginning, the 76ers are pinching Nash, and the Wizards are pinching Iverson.

It's just that D'Antoni and the Wizards are a little helpless, but in the end of the game, they found that even if they pinch Iverson, there is no way to change the rhythm of this team. Because the team's tempo is not controlled by any one player at all, the 76ers play defensive tactics, and on the offensive end they are simply giving the ball to Iverson. It doesn't matter whether Iverson comes by himself when he comes one-on-one or passes in the face of the bag, it doesn't matter what the rhythm of the game is, even if the Wizards choke Iverson, this guy can also achieve the tactical goal of the 76ers, anyway, the offensive requirements of this team are not very high, but after Nash was choked by the 76ers, the Wizards' offense is a little less fluent, to put it bluntly, the Wizards are attack-based run-and-bomb tactics, and for this team, they do not have high requirements for defense. Just like the 76ers don't have high requirements for offense, but they are very demanding on offense, if Nash doesn't have room to play, then the whole Wizards will suffer.

So this round of the series seems to have adopted the same strategy on both sides, but in the end the game fell into the trap arranged by Larry Brown, because the scores in the first two games of this round of the series were extremely low, and the offense on both sides did not play well, which is also inevitable, both teams are pinching the opponent's offensive core or organizational core, in this case, it is a miracle that the offense of the two teams can be opened, and in such a very low score situation, it is naturally more beneficial to the 76ers, who were originally defense-oriented. So in the first two away games, the 76ers led 2-0, for a best-of-five game, being able to play 2-0 away from home basically represents promotion, and what makes the Wizards even more tragic is that the team's boss Jordan actually almost fought with the 76ers' defender Lagabel in the first two games of this round of the series. The reason for this is that Lagabel used an unconventional defensive weapon 'Throat Lock' when defending. …,

For Jordan, since his comeback, although many young players want to beat him to find a sense of existence, these young players also have great respect for him, and he really hasn't met such a 'wonderful' young player, after all, the rules of the league have changed a lot compared to before, and the style of play has become more and more civilized, which also makes this kind of comparison for the first time after the comeback. The original style of defense is also very uncomfortable, and when Jordan adapts to it, he also regains the hatred he used to have when he met the Pistons, which makes these two people on the court extremely gunpowder, and even Wizards fans are basically worried that these two people will be all sent out every game, and it is not cost-effective to change one Jordan for one Ragabel. And Jordan is also because he has adapted to that more 'gentle' style of play this season, and when he first encountered this more 'retro' defense, he did not find his rhythm on the offensive end, which is also a major reason why the Wizards fell behind 0-2 at home in this series.

It can be said that in the first two games, the scheming Larry Brown pulled D'Antoni and the Wizards into a rhythm of his own, and then used his experience to beat the third-ranked team in the East.

Although Larry Brown's strategy is very successful, this is an unconventional tactic after all, just like Zhuang Fei used pressing when he encountered the Cavaliers, although the Cavaliers' head coach Lucas has been trapped in Zhuang Fei's pressing tactics and can't get out, but Wizards head coach D'Antoni is not Lucas, although his experience is not as good as Larry Brown, but he also found the rhythm of the game that belongs to the Wizards after these two games.

After all, there is a gap between the two teams in terms of strength, especially in terms of the depth of the squad and the individual ability of the players, although Larry Brown is stronger than D'Antoni in many aspects, but the final round of the series ended with 2-2 dragging the game into a tie-break, and the Wizards also responded to a wave of 2-0 on the two home courts of the 76ers. In the end, in the tie-break, the Wizards also defeated the 76ers on their home court to complete a shocking comeback, and the 2-0 lead on the road was overturned in a five-game game. It's a miracle indeed.

Of course, in the first round of the game, because of the gap in rankings and the gap in strength, there are few games like the Wizards and the 76ers who played with such ups and downs. Even the fourth Pistons in the East and the fifth Heat are two games that are very close to each other, and the Pistons are one of the fastest improving teams this year, but this team is not a real powerhouse, the style of play of this Eastern powerhouse is completely the style of play of the fish belly team, and the style of play of the team's boss Starkerhouse is very personal, which makes it difficult for this team's style of play to form a real tactical system at all. So the rookie coach of this team, Rick Carlisle, simply abandoned those team tactics and systems, let this team completely embark on a different path, and finally completely transformed this team into a singles team, although it is said to be a singles team. However, the team showed good competitiveness in the regular season, which led Carlisle to finally endorse this idea.

It's just that what hurts the rookie coach is that the tactics that were obviously very good in the regular season are not like that at all in the playoffs, this singles team finally lost with a score of 1-3 in the face of the Heat, and the average shooting rate of the Pistons in four games in this round of the series is only 35%, which can be completely illustrated, you must know that this team shot more than 45% in the regular season, and it fell directly by 10 percentage points in the playoffs. The Heat also told this team that the NBA's playoffs and the regular season are completely different stages, and it is difficult to achieve results in the current NBA if you want to rely entirely on the singles of stars, not to mention that among the Pistons' stars, whether it is Starkerhouse or Raheem or Stoudemire Squirrel, is not the kind of player who has no solution in the absolute sense. In this case, it is not surprising that the Pistons will suffer a crushing defeat from the Heat. …,

The fourth and fifth scores in the East are very crisp, and in the West, the Spurs in the fourth place in the West also defeated Nowitzki and Finley and the Mavericks led by white chocolate 3-1, but unlike the Pistons and the Heat, basically every game of these four games has reached the final decisive moment, it can be said that it is basically the last ball or two balls to decide the outcome of the whole game, the game is extremely stale, and there were three kills in four games, What's even more bizarre is that all three of these killings were done by Spurs players. Two of them were former Celtics player Eric Williams, the new most improved player was like a rebirth after coming to the Spurs, and the two layups in the playoffs through Finley made Mavericks fans desperate, and also made the old Nelson very helpless, this Mavericks offense is gorgeous but the defense is really too secondary, especially the defense in the restricted area, except for Eric Williams, Spurs boss Duncan staged a top-arc three-point shot in front of 20,000 Mavericks fans in the fourth and final game of the series, the big man rarely uses three-point shooting skills in the league, and he will not shoot more than 10 times in a season, and his three-point shooting skills are not very good, but in the top of the arc, especially on the line parallel to the free throw line, the power forward's three-point shooting rate has been very good, and he used this stunt to play the entire defense of the Timberwolves at that time a few years ago.

It can be said that in the fourth and fifth matchup in the West, the Mavericks are not losing in terms of strength, there is no problem with this Maverick in terms of strength, this team is completely lost in the details, and the team is very poor in terms of details, and the three kills are the best portrayal, if this team wants to go further, it must work a little more on the details.

The game between the Spurs and the Mavericks played a very strange game, and every game was played to the decisive goal, but the third king in the West and the sixth warrior in the West are completely opposite, although the king will lose the standard in the face of Zhuang Fei, but this team is absolutely outstanding in terms of strength, especially in the face of the Warriors who are also very strong in offense and poor in defense, this game is completely offensive and ended with the complete defeat of the Warriors, 0-3, and the last Warriors basically lost without any resistance, The Warriors lost by a total of 80 points in the three games, an average of 27 points per game, which can be described as a one-sided slaughter.

Like the game between the Warriors and the Kings, the Timberwolves, the second in the West, and the Trail Blazers, the seventh in the West, are also a one-sided matchup in the score, and the Timberwolves also eliminated the Trail Blazers 3-0, but the three games in this round are not as bloody as the Kings and the Warriors in terms of score, and the Trail Blazers are often small defeats, and the Timberwolves do not have the absolute domineering spirit that can win any team by more than 10 points when Zhuang Fei was there, and this team under Van Gundy does not look like it dares to be 'atmospheric' and has no 'style'.

In addition to these three matchups in the West, another Lakers and Jazz matchup is definitely the most exciting matchup in this series, the Lakers are first in the West, and the Jazz are eighth in the West, but for many people they even believe that this matchup can have a Black Eight miracle, before Phil Jackson came, this Jazz was basically the nemesis of the Lakers, and the Jazz's blocking and dismantling was the sworn enemy of Fat Ao. It can be said that for a long time in the past, the Jazz's performance against the Lakers was able to make many people have confidence in this aging team.

In fact, even the Lakers fans themselves are very worried about this opponent, especially after the team lost to the Jazz in the first game of their own home, but the final result also proves that the Lakers fans' worries are not necessary, the current Lakers are no longer led by the silver fox Harris, and the current Jazz is not the Jazz of the peak era, and now this aging team has no way to kill the Lakers just by blocking and dismantling.

Although this round of matchups is very twists and turns, but the final score is that the Lakers eliminated the Utah Jazz 3-2, and the victory in this game also made Ao Fat and the Lakers let go of a knot, once upon a time the Utah Jazz was the most terrifying boulder in the hearts of the Lakers, maybe after letting go of this knot, this team can be stronger.

On May 5, 2002, the Boston Celtics officially hosted their second-round opponent, the Washington Wizards, at home. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )