Although Yu Fei opened the champagne for the semifinals in advance, this will not change anything.

In Game 4 of the series, the Philadelphia 76ers were heroically held on for three quarters before being taken away by the Bucks' 5-out lineup.

111 to 97

4 to 0

Once again, the Philadelphia 76ers fell in front of the Bucks.

For a team that has decided to send away the core of the team and rebuild by the trade deadline, stopping at the semifinals is not a failure.

Their real question is where the future holds.

If you continue to have Allen Iverson at the core, that's the ceiling for the team.

But if Iverson was to sell it at a low price, they would be a hundred unwilling.

Before the off-season, Iverson said to Fei: "Win another championship, you have a good chance." ”

"If I win, I'll give you last year's ring." Yu Fei said jokingly.

Iverson said conceitedly: "No, I'll win one sooner or later." ”

Seeing that Iverson's mouth was still so hard, Yu Fei was relieved.

Now they need to set their sights on the other set of Eastern Conference semifinals.

The disgusting-looking Pistons and the Pacers, known as the Bucks killer.

Speaking of which, these two teams can be regarded as having a lot of bad fate.

It was the Pistons who swept the Pacers in the first round last year, leading directly to Isaiah Thomas's departure. However, the Pistons, who did the bad thing, were soon sanctioned by the Nets in the semifinals — and they were swept as well.

Rick Carlisle was also sacked because Pistons executives felt that although he managed the team well, he couldn't control the morale of the team and couldn't communicate effectively with the players. Then, Larry Brown arrived, building on Carlisle's already well-laid foundation, and the Pistons were reborn.

Now, Carlisle is like an ex who has found a new love and comes back to provoke his old love - I'm better off than you.

And, he emphasized, "I am a person who always learns from life. Overall, I'm not very different from a year ago. ”

Meaning, I'm still me, but I've led the Pacers to a better record than the Pacers, and you were wrong to let me go for last year's loss, and it's time for you to pay the price.

The Pistons-Pacers matchup is a bit like the Knicks vs. the Heat in the late '90s.

It's all an extreme product of the same basketball philosophy.

It's just that the Pistons have gone further in this regard – probably the furthest ever.

In this series, the two sides fought hard for six games, and the Pacers scored within 70 points in 3 games and 80 points in 2 games.

In particular, in Game 6 of the finalizing series, the Pistons "slashed" 69 points and limited the Pacers to 65 points.

As a traverser, Yu Fei had never seen such an ugly game.

Both teams shot 36 to 32 percent from the field, with 20 to 18 fouls, 13 to 12 turnovers and 15 to 15 free throws.

There are few fouls, relatively low turnovers, few free throws, and terrifying intensity.

The Pacers were dragged into their own field by the Pistons and then suffocated under this frenzied high-pressure confrontation defense.

"Hey, we don't care. As long as we win, people can make fun of us, they can talk about how ugly the game is. Who cares? We just want to win. ”

When the outside world accuses the Pistons of having an ugly style of play, it is simply turning back the clock on history, Chauncey Billups said.

After watching this set of semifinals, even if he has not experienced it himself, Yu Fei knows that the current Pistons are a notch stronger than before the trade deadline.

The Pistons' starting line itself was flawed, and with Milicic dropped, Oku and others couldn't meet Larry Brown's needs.

Then, at the trade deadline, they dismantled the rotation in exchange for Rasheed Wallace, a star power forward with an erratic temper who was like a long-lost brother to the Pistons' starting four, allowing them to be promoted to another level in an instant.

22 May 2004

Today is the opening day of the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals.

Although the bloody battle between the Lakers and the Spurs in the West has attracted enough attention, the upcoming battle between the Bucks and the Pistons is also the focus of attention.

"Doug, do you think the Bucks will be eliminated before advancing to the Finals like the Spurs?"

In ESPN's live broadcast room, the narrator asked his partner Doug Rivers with a smile on his face.

"That's an interesting question!" "I think the Spurs were destroyed internally, and Tony Parker was the number one surprise for San Antonio last year, but this year it was a stumbling block for them to fall in the semifinals. And in Milwaukee, Michael Reed could have played such a role, but the Bucks traded him before he got worse. I think the teams that are better at preventing things before they happen will win in the end. ”

"So you think the Bucks are going to make it to the Finals."

Rivers laughed, "Everybody wants to see Frye and Shaq meet in the Finals. ”

Yu Fei and Ray Allen came to the center circle, the Pistons, and it was the Billups and Wallace brothers who came to greet them.

"Where's my dear Rip?" Yu Fei asked.

Rashid Wallace asked aloud, "What, aren't we qualified to shake your hand?!! ”

"It wouldn't be bad if I didn't beat your out, and shake hands?" Yu Fei scolded with a smile, "Get out, I have nothing to say to you!" ”

Rashid looked at it as if he had less to deal with Yu Fei, and there was a tendency to blow up his hair after two sentences.

Billups and the others are already immune to flying, and even if they say hello after the fight, the rest of the problems will be solved on the court.

Ray Allen glanced at Yu Fei.

This guy is a bastard himself, but he wants to pull himself along.

He's not the kind of guy who his opponent's face before the fight even starts.

But Yu Fei has already said all the bad things, and it is not appropriate for him to be a good person again.

"Don't call me next time you do something like this." Ray Allen said.

"What are you shy about?"

After the warm-up, the Bucks' starters came on.

Since the Bucks failed to play with the Pistons after the trade deadline, Call's strength against the Pistons is also unknown, and he can only rely on the Pistons' previous games to judge.

Rasheed Wallace's improvement to the Pistons was immediate, but the Pistons' style of play essentially hasn't changed.

They are still in an iron bucket system, they still have to let go of the restrictions on outside shooting, and they still have to block the space inside the three-point line to press one-on-one singles, and this style of play is precisely restrained by Yu Fei.

Therefore, the life and death of the Bucks in this series lies in the fly.

If he plays well, the Bucks will be able to advance to the Finals for the second year in a row, and if they don't play well, they won't end up much better than the Pacers.

In order to cooperate with Yu Fei, Karl put Robert Horry to replace Anthony Mason as the starting No. 4 starter.

As for the fifth position, Dan Gazuric is in the position.

The Pistons won the opening jump shot.

Billups came to the front of the court slowly, waited for his teammates to settle down, but did not play tactics, and passed the ball to Hamilton on one side of the line, and Hamilton then gave Big Ben a lob.

It's almost a fixed play for the pistons.

Give Big Ben a little sweetness at the beginning.,Regardless of whether you score or not.,The first cannon has to be a big book.,After the fight, you will obediently defend your brothers.。

Big Ben missed after hitting the shot, Yu Fei took off the rebound, but saw that the Pistons were on the side, and they were heavy on Fei from the beginning.

Larry Brown has learned his previous lesson and no longer treats Yu Fei as a point guard.

Therefore, the person who came to oppose Yu Fei became Tyshawn Prince.

Prince has long hands and feet, and his athleticism is a key part of the Pistons' bucket formation.

The more the opponent respects himself on the defensive end, the more Yu Feiyue has to step on the opponent's respect under his feet.

Yu Fei didn't play a fast break, slowly dribbled through the half court under Prince's marking, and then made a gesture for his teammates to pull away.

As soon as the ISO instructions came out, the teammates knew what to do.

Because of his reach, Prince has probably the largest defensive range in the league (at the No. 3 position) when his hands are outstretched, so he can rely on his reach and rule convenience to threaten the ball even if he breaks through.

To deal with this kind of person, you must rely on a sense of rhythm and skill.

Yu Fei's center of gravity was lowered, the ball crossed back and forth under his crotch like a flea, and Prince's defense also lost its spirituality at this moment, and he could not capture the attacker's intentions.

Suddenly, Yu Fei took a step to the right to open up most of the defensive position and closed the ball for a jumper.

When Prince reacted, Yu Fei had already jumped into the air.

"Huh!"

Breaking down Prince's defense in the first round was also a big shock to the Pistons' morale, and they knew how good Prince's defense was.

When Prince was a rookie, he was called in the famous "I'm already thinking about the next round" series, and he didn't shoot 30% from the field for Maddie in the key game. This year, under Brown's reuse, he locked Stephen Marbury and then Ron Artest to less than 30% shooting in the first and second rounds.

The Pistons have a kind of super confidence in the fact that Prince will be able to complete the task with the blessing of the bucket formation.

Who would have thought that Yu Fei would slap his face when he came up.

The side effect of the aggressive power on the defensive end is that the Pistons themselves will have problems on offense.

At the beginning, Big Ben was blinded to one, and then he covered Hamilton to create offensive space for Mask Man.

But the Bucks' defense wasn't bad either, with Sprewell squeezing through the cover and Horry to flank Hamilton.

Hamilton scrambled the ball to Rasheed Wallace.

Rashid misses jumper.

Yu Fei grabbed the rebound again, shook off Billups, who tried to foul him tactically, and accelerated forward.

Prince chased at full speed, and in terms of defense, this person can be regarded as a hexagonal warrior, with arm span, speed, physical fitness, single defense, assistant defense, change defense, and pursuit defense.

It's just that this doesn't mean he's invulnerable, he has an obvious problem - weight.

PRINS IS 206 CM TALL, BUT WEIGHS LESS THAN 100KG (212 POUNDS/96KG), WHICH IS TOO WEAK IN FRONT OF YU FEI, WHO CURRENTLY WEIGHS NEARLY 109KG.

Yu Fei knocked Prince to the ground during the counterattack, collected the ball and jumped up, completing a tension-filled tomahawk slam directly on Prince's head.

“！ #￥！ @#￥%”

Yu Fei provocatively pulled off the basket, didn't even look at Prince, and threw a contemptuous look at Larry Brown: "Change someone to defend, he can't!" ”

(End of chapter)