The Rockets were able to defeat the Spurs to enter the second round, which Wang Feng didn't expect a little, after all, this season's Rockets are also a lot of disasters, and many main players were injured in the regular season, including one of the core gliders Drexler.

In his impression, although Drexler has returned to the playoffs, his state has obviously declined significantly from before the injury, averaging only 16.6 points, 7.8 rebounds and 5 assists per game in the playoffs, shooting 41% from the field.

You must know that when the Rockets won the second championship, Drexler averaged 20.5 points, 7 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game in the playoffs, and his shooting rate was as high as 48%.

Drexler, who has declined at such a level, is no longer the courage of the year, and it also allows the Rockets to return to the period when Olajuwon led the team single-core.

But it was such a Rockets team that eliminated the Spurs.

For Wang Feng, this is a good thing.

Although Olajuwon is better than David. Robinson is stronger, but Wang's Warriors will have an easier time facing the Rockets than they will face the Spurs.

In the future, many people say that if the big dream of the peak comes to the small-ball era, he will definitely be like a fish in water and get more personal honors and championships, because his playing style is very suitable for the fast-paced small-ball tactics.

But in fact, among the four centers, the most suitable for the style of play in the small-ball era is obviously David. Robinson.

is also a big center, and the admiral has the same flexible steps as Big Dream, and it is not a problem to run around the field.

But there is still a difference in the playing style of the two, Olajuwon's dream feet are gorgeous and efficient, but it is also a kind of positional warfare, which requires the center to settle into the interior to play one-on-one, which in a sense will still slow down the team's offensive rhythm.

David Robinson is different.

Although he is one of the four centers, David . Robinson's style of play is the least center-like.

In terms of interior footwork alone, Robinson is definitely the worst of the four centers, of course, this is just a comparison among the four centers, looking at the league, his interior footwork is definitely at the top level.

What David Robinson is really good at is breaking through the frame with the ball, tentative step jumpers, and fast break dunks.

If you ignore his position and height, says David. Robinson is a forward who is not good at shooting, and he is perfectly fine.

Such a player who has both offense and defense, has the size of a center, and is as fast as a defender, is definitely a bug in the small-ball era.

This can be seen in the regular season, when the Warriors repeatedly lost to the Spurs.

The Warriors team led by Wang Feng is currently playing even a variant of small-ball tactics, with a very fast offensive tempo, relying on Wang Feng's personal ability to score by himself or pass to assist empty teammates to score in rapid transitions.

In the 90s, when the overall offensive rhythm was slow, the Warriors combined Wang Feng's super individual offensive ability to play small-ball tactics a bit like a fish in water, which is why the team can win 60 wins in the regular season.

But when they faced the Spurs, the offense was often blocked, or to put it simply, David. Robinson's guard-like mobility kept the Warriors' fast-break pace from playing.

His defensive area is so large that many times the ball passed by Wang Feng to his teammates will be interfered with by his defense and cause it to deviate from the basket, and in the end it can only evolve into Wang Feng himself facing the Spurs with multiple people and forcing a single or stopping to wait for the players on both sides to settle down before attacking in positional warfare.

That's not a problem on the Rockets' side.

Olajuwon can bully David at will under the basket. Robinson, but when it comes to the Warriors running up, he can also look a little overwhelmed.

Olajuwon, at his peak, was no better than David in terms of speed. Robinson is too slow and is also extremely terrifying on the defensive end.

But now the big dream is also 34 years old, physical function and physical strength have declined, although the dream footsteps of attacking under the basket are becoming more and more perfect, but in the face of the Warriors, a team based on small-ball tactics, the only place to play is the offensive end.

Moreover, the Rockets also have a Drexler who is not good with injuries, which is easier to deal with than the Spurs in Wang Feng's opinion.

Wang Feng is very grateful to the Rockets for helping them get rid of a strong opponent, but in the next game, he still has to do his best to eliminate the opponent and reach the Western Finals!

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With the first round of the playoffs over, the matchup for the second round of the divisional semifinals has been decided, and the two games on the Western side are the SuperSonics vs. Jazz and the Warriors vs. Rockets.

On the East side, it's the Bulls vs. the Knicks, and the Magic vs. the Hawks.

Before the start of the second round, the league traditionally announced the selection of the Team of the Season.

Without any suspense, Wang Feng's average of 38.7 points, 11.2 rebounds and 10.8 assists per game, coupled with the Warriors' jump from the bottom of last season to the second place in the West and the 60-win record in the regular season, Wang Feng successfully ranked among the best teams.

Along with Wang Feng, Jordan, Hardaway, Malone and Robinson were selected for the lineup.

Pippen, who was supposed to be selected for the first team this season, was squeezed directly from the first team to the second team by Wang Feng, and he was also on the second team list with Olajuwon, Hill, Payton and Stockton.

As for the five players in the best three team, it is Mitch. Richmond, Reggie. Miller, Sean. Kemp, Barkley & O'Neill.

O'Neal's situation is similar to last season's Wang Feng, although the average of 26.6 points and 11 rebounds per game is no worse than that of Robinson and Olajuwon in the first and second teams, and the Magic team also has a 60-win record, which is better than the Spurs and Rockets.

However, O'Neal was also plagued by injuries this season, playing only 52 games in the regular season, so the selection of the All-Star team was affected and he was only relegated to three teams.

Every year the announcement of the best team causes some controversy.

This time is no exception.

On the supersonic side of the league's second-place supersonic, Payton has two and three camps, which is obviously not as good as the Bulls' one-and-two and Magic's one-and-three.

Warriors fans are unhappy that the above three 60+ winning teams have two players selected for the best team, and it is the turn of the Warriors who also have 60+ wins, why is Wang Feng alone?

Not to mention anything else, Garnett's average of 18+8 per game is also very good, and based on his contribution to the team's defensive end, it is okay to be selected for a three-team or something.

Of course, this kind of fan's personal views and wishes will naturally not be taken seriously, and it is just an after-dinner conversation.

Although the Warriors only had one person selected for the All-NBA team, two of them were selected for the All-Defensive Team, namely Wang Feng, who was selected for the first team, and Blayrock, a guard who was selected for the second team.

I have to sigh at Wang Feng's strength, the offensive end played 38.7 points + triple-double average data per game, he also played an extremely important role on the defensive end.

The Warriors' small-ball style of play is more similar to that of the future Warriors with 73 wins.

Garnett is responsible for a job similar to Green's on the defensive end, guarding the interior and being responsible for assisting the defense at any time, although limited by his physique, he will suffer from some heavy interior lines, but he is better in mobility and flexibility, and the help defense effect is excellent.

Wang Feng and Blayrock are a bit like the Warriors' perimeter defensive core, one is Thompson and the other is Iguodala.

When encountering some teams with excellent outside players, Wang Feng and Blaylock will respectively mark the opponent's outstanding outside players, and the effect is outstanding.

Such a defensive tactical arrangement has led to Wang Feng and Blaylock ranking second or third in the league's steal list respectively, and Wang Feng has 1.2 blocks in addition to averaging 2.5 steals per game.

In addition to Wang Feng, those old friends who were selected for the defensive team, Jordan, Rodman, and Gary. Peyton & David. Robinson.

In contrast, the players in the second defensive team are a little bit more role players, except for Olajuwon and Pippen, who scored twice and was squeezed off the defense by Wang Feng again, the remaining three players Blaylock, Blaylock, Hores. Grant & Bobby. Fils can only be regarded as the team's starting mainstay, and he is not up to the level of a star.

After all, the best defensive team is an award for blue-collar players compared to the best team, and many times it is not even counted as a career honor by the star.

In the same way, even the best defensive player DPOY is also a blue-collar award, and it is good that there is no and does not affect the historical status of the star in the slightest.

The most typical case is the future legend of the Spurs, Tim. Duncan, Duncan has never won the Defensive Player of the Year in his entire career, but when it comes to interior defensive players, Duncan will definitely be brought up and talked about, and the evaluation will not be better than that of the four-time Defensive Player of the Year. Wallace low.

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The season's awards have been announced, and the real season awards will not be decided until the second round is over and before the East-West finals begin, so fans have turned their attention back to the more intense playoffs that lie ahead.

The Warriors vs Rockets game is naturally not as high as the 72-win Invincible Bulls vs defending champion Knicks in the East, but it has also attracted a lot of attention, the most of which is to see how far the Warriors led by Wang Feng can go.

Wang Feng made it clear in an interview when he first joined the Warriors last summer that he came to the Warriors with only one goal, that is, to lead the team to win the championship.

At that time, many people ridiculed Wang Feng's incompetence, in a vain attempt to lead a team that finished at the bottom of the league last season and also added All-Star guard Tim. Hardaway's near-free trade away team is competing for the championship.

If it's not like grandstanding to get attention, then there is something really wrong with the brain.

But more than half a year has passed, and now the Warriors are the second-best team in the West in the regular season, and they have successfully passed the first round and stood on the stage of the division semifinals.

Many people want to know whether Wang Feng can fulfill his promise, if he can really lead such a Warriors team to win the championship, he will surpass Jordan to become the strongest in the league without any suspense, after all, even Qiao Gang failed to win the championship single-core, until Pippen's arrival, he won the first championship trophy in his career and established a three-consecutive championship dynasty.

In fact, even if the Warriors are eliminated in the next game with the Rockets, no one will make fun of Wang Feng, after all, it is really terrible to be able to lead such a rebuilt team to fight until now.

If Wang Feng can lead the Warriors to defeat the Rockets and reach the Western Conference finals, I am afraid that all the sports media will praise Wang Feng.

As for the Warriors winning the Western Conference championship and meeting the Bulls in the Finals...... This possibility is something that even many Warriors fans would not dare to imagine.

On May 4, the first game of the second round of the playoffs began, and the Warriors sat at home to meet the challenge of the Rockets.

The starting lineup on the Warriors' side is the same, while the Rockets' starting lineup is Kenny. Smith, Drexler, Chakey. Brown, Robert. Horry as well as Big Dream Olajuwon.

On the bench, the Rockets also have Sam Cassell, who averaged 14.5 points, 3 rebounds and 4.6 assists per game during the regular season, and Mario Elie, who averaged 11 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists per game.

The eyeing lineup and even the Warriors' on-site commentary made the team sweat, admitting that it will be a tough battle.

However, halfway through the commentary of this game, he was stunned to find that this game seemed to be ...... Not as tough as you think?

At 31:28 in the first quarter, the two teams played back and forth, and at 29:16 in the second quarter, the style of painting changed abruptly.

The halftime score difference between the two teams was already 16 points, and it was the Rockets who fell behind.

In the third quarter of the game, at 28:25, the difference was further widened, and the difference was 19 points.

In the fourth quarter of the game, the Warriors were full of firepower, scoring 30 points in a single quarter, with 118 points in the game, while the Rockets only scored 20 points in the fourth quarter, scoring 89 points and losing to the Warriors by 29 points.

Such a huge difference in points made the fans at the Warriors' home court unexpected.

The Rockets, who won the championship in '94 and successfully reached the finals last season and were finally defeated by the Knicks, are definitely one of the favorites in the playoffs.

But the facts are right in front of you.

Wang Feng had 27 points, 8 rebounds and 12 assists, and the early arrival of garbage time once again affected his personal data.

All six of the Warriors scored in double figures, and their efficiency values were also remarkable.

On the Rockets' side, the team's highest score came from Olajuwon's 18 points, 9 rebounds and 3 assists on 7-of-14 shooting.

Then there was Drexler's 15 points.

It's just that the latter's 15 points are not easy at all, under Wang Feng's defense, the glider, which has been up and down due to the initial recovery from injury, shot 7 of 20 from the field, 1 of 5 three-pointers, and didn't even make a free throw.

The Rockets' overall offense is terrible, and the Warriors' style of play against the Rockets is to arrange the highly mobile Garnett to assist in the package once Olajuwon asks for the ball inside.

That's why Olajuwon made 14 shots in the whole game.

Da Meng's skills are comprehensive, his personal ability is outstanding, and his dream feet are unique in the league, and he can even suppress the other four centers, but he is not completely invincible, and he also has a weakness, that is, the ability to break the bag is weak.

Note that the weaker ability to break the bag here is only weaker than the inside of the four centers.

After all, Olajuwon does not belong to the type of center with big weight and strong confrontation, and he can't force the player who packs him to dunk and score like O'Neal, and when the opponent has two players to wrap him, the space conditions on the inside are not inferior to his big dream footsteps, so when Olajuwon encounters a bag, he is more inclined to pass the ball to his teammates who are in the open position outside than the less efficient 1-on-2 strong basket.