Chapter 757: A Different Parallel Import
The second game between the Boston Celtics and the Hawks almost brought everyone to the gap between the two teams, in fact, in the first game, after the Boston Celtics completed the overtake of the Hawks in the third quarter, the team was never able to turn the situation around the game with the Celtics' lead, and in fact, this basically made all the experts or fans in the United States set a nature for this team, that is, the series of the fourth team in the East is over.
In fact, in the East, except for the Boston Celtics, Grizzlies and Wizards, the other teams are all in another grade, and in the other grade, the Heat is half a step higher, as for others such as the Hawks, the Pacers and the Bulls or the Cavaliers are not much different, and even in this small difference, the Cavaliers are the best, and the Hawks are slightly worse, And this fourth place in the East actually has a win rate only one or two games higher than the other Eastern teams in the second half of the East, and this is because the Cavaliers finally let Hardaway rest in the second half because of Hardaway's physical strength, which led to the Hawks having an opportunity, and it is precisely because of this that it is understandable that this team is not the opponent of the Celtics from the No. 1 to the No. 5 position.
And the tactics of this team basically rely on James and Rashid's blocking or James's breakthrough points, and for Zhuang Fei, he has enough ways to choke these two extremely simple tactics of this team, for other teams, it is difficult to do in the face of James's breakthrough points, and it is also difficult to do in the face of James and Rashid's blocking and dismantling, but for Zhuang Fei, he only needs to let Maddie let James take a step, and then directly mark people, as for Rashid, He really hasn't proven that he can get rid of Xiao Ao's sweeping follow-up. In this case, the team was basically completely choked by Boston in Game 2.
At least this team did not show the tactical ability that a team should have in the second game, and it was completely after being choked by the Celtics that the whole team began to play crazy singles, whether it was the team's two leading players James and Rasheed Wallace or the team's role player Sula started crazy singles, and what makes people speechless is that even if it is a single, this team can get these three hands. Others don't even have the basic offensive ability to hold the ball, which is also extremely surprising to Zhuang Fei, such a team is basically out of the current NBA's lowest configuration, even if this team has Rasheed Wallace and James, two extremely powerful players, in fact, it is a very surprising thing for Zhuang Fei to be able to reach the playoffs.
However, thinking about the weakness of these teams in the East now, such as the Knicks, Magic, 76ers and other teams, Zhuang Fei can also understand. Of course, regardless of the Hawks' record in the regular season, in the playoffs. In addition to their relatively active defense and hard work, this team has no threat at all on the offensive end, maybe this team has some threats when they play the Heat, after all, no one can choke Wallace and James in the Heat, but in the Celtics. There are really not a few players like this, so in this second game between the Boston Celtics and the Hawks, the four star players of the Boston Celtics, who held their breath in the last game, broke out extremely crazy in this game.
Even the team's boss Maddie asked Zhuang Fei to deal with James personally for the first time after the Carter incident, and this was also recognized by Zhuang Fei. At present, although James is already a first-line star in the league, it is just like the gap between Maddie and Carter at the beginning. No, it should be said that the gap between James and Maddy is much larger now than the gap between Maddie and Carter at the beginning, and the gap is still all-round, whether it is offensive or defensive, in this case, this team can score more than 80 points in this game It is also because it all became garbage time in the fourth quarter, and the Hawks role players shot good three-point shots, so that this team scored 80 points in the end.
You know, at the end of the third quarter, the Boston Celtics led the Hawks 84-58, and the Hawks' leading player scored 19 points on 6-of-27 shooting and 5-of-8 free throws under Zhuang Fei's one-step strategy throughout the game, and this 19 points is also the Hawks' lowest score in the playoffs this season, as for the Hawks' other core player, Rasheed Wallace, scored 24 points on 9-of-19, It can be said that James, a player who won the championship in the Grizzlies, is more trustworthy in this game, which is inevitable, in the history of the NBA, there are not many players who can be trusted by the team in the first year of his rookie season, although James is talented and has good strength, but he is not a person like Magic Johnson who won the Finals MVP in his rookie season away center.
It's good for him to be able to lead the team to the second round, Carter's first year was only the first round, and Duncan's first year was only the second round, so after the failure of this game, although the new Hawks player was very disappointed, Maddie comforted his junior after the game, if you look at Carter James's apprenticeship, he is still James's uncle, and in fact, for this duel with James, Maddie really vented to James the 'grudge' that he was defeated by Carter, otherwise he would not have shot 25 times in three quarters in this one-on-one duel with James, and he finally scored 40 points in 15 of 25 in front of James' very frizzy defense, you know, Maddy's average number of shots per game in the regular season was only 18.5, it can be said that this game is a game for the Celtics to get rid of the past, and it is also a game to start again, and such a victory also makes the Celtics' departure seem very smooth.
Of course, for the Celtics, this game with the Hawks is a game to get rid of the burden of the referee and start again, and for the Lakers on the other side of the league, this season is also a game for the Lakers to start again, and in the second round the Lakers faced the Raptors, who they lost three times in the regular season, in this case, this Laker can be said to be considered by many experts to be their biggest opponent in the playoffs this year, and in fact, in the second round, it looks like three games, The Lakers' current 1-2 deficit situation is also more acceptable, although now that the Lakers are 1-2 behind, no one will think that the Lakers will eventually lose, but there is no doubt that when the Raptors are in their prime, it is not easy for this team to beat the Raptors.
Of course, perhaps the better news for the Lakers is that not long ago, in the league's selection of the league's best general manager, the Lakers' general manager Kupchak defeated all the best general managers of the year to win the trophy, and this is also the most suspenseful trophy this year, after all, for Lakers fans or for the entire NBA fans, When the Lakers miraculously put Malone and Payton and Fan Maniac into one team and paired it with teams like Fat and Kobe and Szebiak, there was no suspense about this year's best general manager, and of course, the same unsuspenseful trophies as the best general manager are extremely rare this year.
This year, whether it is MVP, Rookie of the Year, or Head Coach of the Year, the controversy is slow. And again, another controversial award is the Best Defensive Player trophy, this year, it is almost certain that the best defensive player will be between the Grizzlies' Ben Wallace, Carter and the Raptors' Kwame Brown, and the best defensive player award is the media's award, which is different from the best defensive team, which is the coach's choice.
In this case, the awards selected by the media will naturally not look more at their full performance on the court or at a very deep level, they will choose more to see whose performance is more sensational, Ben Wallace, the defender of the best defensive player, for him, his defense is very solid, and this year is the same, so he is the least likely of the three, if all the players do not have a sensational performance, maybe Ben Wallace can successfully defend the title, But this year there are exactly two players who have caused a stir on the defensive end.
For example, Ben Wallace's teammate Carter, the league's No. 1 player played the No. 4 position in his first year, and played Bird's same offensive stats. Similarly, his defensive data is 2.0 steals and 1.5 blocks per game, the first steal in all interior lines, which is an extremely terrifying data, the only players in the league who can do more than 1.5 steals and defensive data are Duncan and Garnett, for Carter, he already has a trophy for the best defensive player, so he personally does not take this trophy very seriously, but although he himself does not look at 2 very seriously, but for many media he is the best choice, coupled with his reputation as the first person in the league, it can be said that he is in the lead in this year's selection of the best defensive player, and the other candidate is Kwame Brown, just because he's the league's rebounding leader this season and the center who has beaten Fat three times.
In the final result, it was a little surprising that Kwame Brown finally defeated Carter by a very narrow margin to win the best defensive player, it can be said that this person who was known as a parallel champion in Zhuang Fei's later life, and in the evaluation of the dynasty system, the defense was rated as an interior with A+ potential and took a different path.
In the selection of the best defensive team, the Celtics finally made the best team, Jackson and Kobe, Garnett, Carter Duncan are the first defensive team, and Kidd, Bowen, Maddie Xiaoao and Mourning are the second defensive team. (To be continued.) )