The Heat are second with 57 wins, James is averaging 26.3 points, 7.7 rebounds and 7 assists per game, Wade is averaging 25.6 points, 6.4 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game, and Bosh is averaging 19.1 points, 8.3 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game;

The Celtics are third in the East with 56 wins;

The Magic are fourth with 52 wins;

The Pacers, Hawks, Knicks and Digital Man are ranked 5~8 respectively.

Because of the Pacers' early rise to Boozer, the first-round matchup on the Eastern Conference side has changed very much from the history known to Xu Yong.

The Magic's opponent in the first round changed from the Hawks to the Pacers, and the Hawks' opponent became the Celtics.

As for the Heat, they will meet the Knicks in the first round and the Banana Boat Brothers will meet in advance, which will be the most watched round in the East.

The Bulls faced the Digital Humans a season early.

Historically, in the next season because of Rose's injury, the digital man completed another black eight.

It's time to introduce this team of digital humans.

They missed the playoffs last season and are back in the playoffs this season under new head coach Doug Collins.

Collins is a digital celebrity, the champion in 1973, a three-time All-Star in his career, and led the team to the Finals with "Dr. J" Irving in 1977, but unfortunately failed to win the championship, and then suffered a serious injury, and only played more than 400 games before retiring hastimately.

He's a team basketball coach, and this season, Brand, the team's highest-scoring player, averaged just 15 points per game, but six players on the team scored in double figures.

Although the team's record is not particularly outstanding, the 76ers' lineup is not weak.

Starting outside Jrue Holiday Gayodi Meeks, forward Iguodala and "Old Captain" Brand, center Spencer Hawes.

On the bench, there are also Louis Williams, Evan Turner, Thaddeus Young, Nocioni, Maris Speights and other strong players.

It's a young, impactful team, in a sense similar to last season's Bulls.

As in previous years, before the playoffs officially began, the league announced the first awards of the season, Best Sixth Man, Most Improved and Best Coach.

The Most Improved Award went to the Timberwolves' Lefou, who averaged 20.2 points, 15.2 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game this season, averaging 3 three-point attempts per game and shooting 41.7% from three-point range.

As a 2.03m insider, this stat is crazy enough.

The Sixth Man of the Year went to Harden of the Thunder.

History has deviated here, and Harden has improved himself faster and won this honor earlier.

On social media, some fans posted a video of the game between Arizonada State University and UCLA three years ago, with Love Love, Harden, Xu Yong, and Westbrook, which made people watch with relish.

The best coach was given to Thibodeau, who was at the peak of his debut, without any suspense.

Although the Bulls were already the team that completed the Black Eight last season, the Bulls also brought in a series of strong players such as Yao Ming in the summer.

But the Bulls were able to play today's stats, and Thibodeau really contributed to it.

The first is the establishment of a tactical system, creating the Bulls' one-big-four-small defensive counter-attacking play, and then the use and protection of veterans, which did not allow the Bulls to have the kind of injury problems that ESPN predicted.

After the award was announced, after the Bulls' training session ended that day, when Thibodeau came to the locker room, the players suddenly shouted and picked up mineral water bottles and gave Thibodeau a mineral water bath to express their affirmation and support for the team's head coach.

Thibodeau also accepted it all with a smile on his face, and it was a blessing for him to be able to coach such a quality team when he first became a head coach.

"I hope you'll be able to use champagne in June." After drying his face, he also said a rather imposing word to his teammates.

These words instantly drew a burst of cheers in the locker room.

Xu Yong also laughed at this time, but he didn't expect to look at Thibodeau, who usually only focuses on basketball, and has a sullen side.

After the "celebration" was over, Xu Yong returned to the training hall that night to practice shooting.

When he was almost done, he noticed that Thibodeau had come in, and it looked like he should have been busy in the office before.

The two of them were used to such a scene, and after sitting down, they chatted without a word.

Talking about it, it is naturally the first round of the game against digital people.

"I played against Jrue Holiday when I was in college, and he was very good on the outside." Xu Yong said.

He was talking about the sophomore year, when UCLA's overall strength was no longer as good as that of Arizonada State University, but Holiday still limited Harden's play, and although Rose's strength was stronger than Harden's, his play would also be limited.

This means that he will likely have to take on more attacking duties during the game.

"They still have Iguodala." Thibodeau continued.

Xu Yong nodded, although the game has not started yet, the tone of this round of defensive battles in the series can be seen.

"That Hawes, he doesn't shoot much, but he has a three-point range." Xu Yong then reminded.

A center like Hawes, who has the ability to shoot from the outside, is also the type to restrain Yao Ming.

Thibodeau nodded, and although it was the first to play eighth, this round of the series will not be as easy as it seems.

The Bulls need to be ready for a tough fight.

……

Two days later, the playoffs will officially begin, with both divisional first and fourth games playing.

In the East, the game between the Bulls and the Digital Man started first.

The United Center was packed up tonight, and the enthusiasm of the fans was at an all-time high.

Although it was only the first round, it couldn't stand the expectations of Chicago fans, and this was the first time Jordan saw the dawn of the championship after that, how could he not be excited.

Miami, waterfront private mansion.

James was alone in his custom-made king's chair, ready to watch the game.

Because of the Arroyo incident, he is now very dissatisfied with the management and coaching staff, so he doesn't care about any first-round picks now, he just stares at the Bulls.

To put it bluntly, it's hard for the Heat to lose against other teams right now, but it's also hard to win against the Bulls.

He has to take every possible angle to win.

The warm-up of the United Center ended, and the opening ceremony began, and the starters of both sides were also released one after another.

On the side of the Digital People, Holiday is Miles away from Meecks and Iguodala is Bland and Hawes.

On the Bulls' side, Rose, Xu Yong, Artest, O'Neal Jr., Yao Ming.

Both sides use regular starting lineups.

Amid the cheers of the fans, Yao Ming turned the ball back to the half court and officially kicked off the game.

The Bulls opened with Rose and Yao Ming's pick-and-roll, but as Xu Yong expected, Holiday had strong defensive ability and did not eat pick-and-roll.

Yao Ming finally pulled to the free throw line and pulled the basket to let Rose rush directly.

Rose changed direction and didn't slow down to break to the basket, but Holiday contracted early to shoot to defend the break, and Rose's final pull-up throw failed to score.

Offense and defense transitioned, and the digital ball was hoisted to the basket to hit Brand.

However, the Bulls have already dealt with it, and the person who defended Brand was Yao Ming.

This is also Thibodeau's response to Seo Yong's suggestion of Hawes's outside shooting ability.

If it is replaced by Brand, who is at his peak, this match is similar to Yao Ming's previous situation in the Rockets' defense of Boozer.

However, at this time, Brand was 32 years old, and his form declined rapidly, and he had already changed from an All-Star power forward to an ordinary starter.

He tried to hit one, but Yao Ming's shot finally popped out of the frame, and the rebound was protected by O'Neal Jr.

The Bulls got the rebounds, but they couldn't play the defensive counter-attacks they excelled at.

Because the digital human side has retreated for the first time.

It was similar to Xu Yongxibodu when he communicated two days ago, and the two teams were fighting a big defensive battle.

The game lasted five minutes, the score was 4-6, and every score on the court was very difficult.

In Miami, James smiled happily after seeing the scene.

The starter on the digital man field, Holiday on the outside is the defensive gate, Meeks's defense is also online, plus Iguodala, a sweeping defender, plus Hawes, who is 2.16 meters under the basket, this is also a standard defensive net.

He was tortured so badly by the Bulls' iron net before, and now he also let the Bulls have a good taste of it.

And the digital man's style of play, even if he can't win the Bulls, it can also make the Bulls take off a layer of skin.

When the Bulls come to the Heat after they are consumed, the Heat's chances will naturally increase.

In the offensive round of the Bulls, Xu Yong stretched out his hand to Rose and took the initiative to move to the strong side high post.

Now that the Bulls can't open the situation, it's time to find a breakthrough from his position.

In fact, when communicating with Thibodeau before, there was one thing he didn't mention, that is, the starting issue of digital people.

If the number man removes Meeks and uses Thaddeus Young as the starter, the positional battle is really not easy to play.

However, the number man did not choose to do that, not because Collins had a problem with his coaching ability, but because of the offensive space of positional warfare.

Holiday and Iguodala are both inconsistent outside shooting, so if the equally inconsistent Young starts, the Bulls can put a 2-3 defensive digital man without playing.

This is actually why Thibodeau values Allen, but after playing in the regular lineup, he can't use Allen as a starter, and even excludes him from the rotation for a while.

As basketball continues to evolve, the space for positional battles is becoming more and more important.

Speaking of now, although Meeks' defense is online, his barefoot height is only in his early 1.9 meters, and there is a big gap between him and Xu Yong.

Therefore, this set of counterpoints on the field is the best breakthrough.

Rose fed the ball to Xu Yong, and then tacitly took the person to the weak side, leaving Xu Yong with space for singles.

The digital man's side reacted fairly quickly, and Brand had already put his own defense of O'Neal Jr. to pinch over.

However, Xu Yong's movements were faster, and he forced Meeks to sink his center of gravity with a left-turn feint, and turned right to quickly pull away from Meeks and lean back.

Meeks was already at an absolute disadvantage in height, and after being pressed this time, he had to defend himself against leaning back, and he had no chance at all, so he could only reach out on the spot to symbolically defend.

"Huh!"

Xu Yong showed his shooting stability, and his backward shot hit steadily.

Different from the previous physical confrontations between the two sides, Xu Yong's goal is highlighted by a relaxed freehand, and the style of painting has changed abruptly.

But that's the benefit of mastering the turn-back technique, which is the deadliest offensive weapon in high-confrontation games.

Digital Man head coach Collins was beaten straight from the bench.

He's been worried about that, and even Brand's help defense is something he made before the game.

But Xu Yong's choice was too decisive, and the decisiveness didn't leave time for the digital people to assist in defense, and the decisiveness was as if he had been ready to fight like that a long time ago.

In Miami, James clenched the armrest of the soft chair in anger.

This damn Xu Yong, what method did he use, and he turned around and leaned back with such a hand in less than a season.

Obviously he ......

Others may not know that as a fan of Jordan, how could he not have practiced this trick.

But eight years later, he was stunned that he hadn't practiced.

It's really more popular than people!

Digital Man's offense, Holiday made a burst to Hawes.

Hawes met Rose's defense from mid-range, and his mid-range shot was still iron.

The defense of this digital team is first-class, but it failed to play a first-class record, because of the offense, which highlights an inefficiency.

So they can only hope for defense.

At Collins' signal, Iguodala switched to Xu Yong.

Xu Yong was also very simple, directly chose the face frame, and then let Artest sink to a low position.

Once the ball was fed, Meeks had no choice but to foul early.

Compared with Xu Yong, he is more difficult to defend against Artest.

Seeing this, Collins had no choice but to turn around and call Thaddeus Young up.

Young came on to replace Meeks.

Collins' choice at this time is no problem, anyway, the positional warfare offense has already rotted like this, and it will be recognized if it is a little worse, but if the defense is successful, there is a chance to play a defensive counterattack.

And this idea is also correct, and the battle with the Bull with Yao Ming is a slow death, but there is still a chance to fight a defensive counterattack.

The Bulls' frontcourt ball, Xu Yong continued to receive the ball.

He directly stretched out his hand and motioned for Yao Ming to pull the block to the high position.

Yao Ming's block and dismantling hung people, and Xu Yong took the opportunity of blocking and dismantling to directly pull out the jump shot from the middle distance.

"Huh!"

The crisp sound of entering the net came out, and Xu Yong's dry pull-out jumper hit again.

This is actually the difference between Xu Yong and Rose, although Rose practiced shooting in the offseason, his killer move is still a breakthrough.

encountering this kind of iron net, the effect of him and James is actually not too much.

But Xu Yong's words are based on mid- and long-distance shooting.

As long as it feels good, such an iron net can still be easily broken.

Otherwise, if you look at three-pointers and dunks in the regular season, you have to kill people from mid-range in the playoffs.

Miami, James didn't hold back, and directly threw a punch on his hand.

It's obviously an iron net, how can he be so vulnerable in front of Xu Yong?!

Xu Yong: Isn't that simple? Block it and vote it, and if you vote it, you will have it!

James: You're really Michael Xu, aren't you?

What to say? I hope the CBA can be reformed a little, we can't always plan the economy, we want a market economy to be thorough, right?

(End of chapter)