May 10th, the day when the Bulls and Pistons G2 are about to start.

After a night's sleep, Doon woke up not refreshed, but looked extremely tired.

"Trouble!"

Dwan rubbed his hair and stayed on the bed for a moment before he got up slowly, ready to have breakfast first, and then find a chance to rest and make up for the mental deficit.

It can only be said that the schedule is too urgent, and Dune's mentality is a little anxious.

After obtaining the Olajuwon template, Doon gained a lot of game experience in the evening, as before, but he didn't rest well.

There is actually nothing wrong with the body, but the mental burden is a bit big.

For this reason, Doon can only adjust himself, using meditation and napping to try to find the state of the game before the big battle starts in the evening.

Perhaps too tired, Doon accidentally overslept during a nap, so he also delayed some of the time that was supposed to be used to warm up.

The rest of the Bulls' youth team was also concerned when they saw that Doon was more than an hour late for the warm-up and didn't seem to be in good shape.

However, by the time the evening's game officially began, Doon found that the game was not as bad as he thought.

The Pistons' defensive focus in the early stage is still on Doon, while Ben Gordon and Andres Nocioni have good outside shots.

Even in the first quarter, Doon only shot 2 of 5 and 1 of 3 from three-point range, and only got 5 points, 1 rebound and 3 assists.

The Bulls still relied on the efforts of the whole team to lead the Pistons by 3 points.

After the start of the second quarter of the game, Doon also warmed up in the first quarter and finally slowly regained some form.

He shot 3-of-7 from the field, 2-of-2 from the free-throw line, and had 8 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists.

Unfortunately, as time went on, Ben Gordon and Andres Nocioni's outside shooting percentage and consistency began to decline.

In order to compensate for the firepower of the outside projection, Scott Skels had to use the dead horse as a live horse doctor, sending rotation fringe player Joan Barry to the court to give it a try.

Luck was good, and he hit a three-pointer to help the Bulls stabilize the score.

It is worth mentioning that Dio, who also came on as a substitute, as a setter on the field, had a very good effect on the occasion.

On the Bulls' side, in addition to Doane being able to give assists to his teammates, Dio got 2 assists in the second quarter.

In fact, in addition to direct assists, Dior also contributed two indirect assists, but that's not something the stats can show.

And Doon's role is that even if he didn't play well in the first half, the Pistons still focused on guarding Doane, which gave other teammates more offensive opportunities.

49-53, after the first half, the Bulls still maintained the lead, but the advantage was very small.

Even compared to the previous game, the advantage is not so obvious.

But the problem is that if the Pistons are strong in the third quarter, the Bulls may not be able to withstand it.

In order to be able to hold on to this home victory, Doon can only exert his strength in advance.

And the Pistons also adjusted their defensive approach to Doane a little because Doon only scored 13 points in the first half, but handed out 5 assists.

The Pistons no longer frequently pinch Doane in the elbow area, but choose to shrink the basket, forcing Doane to finish more with inefficient mid-range shots.

The Pistons bet that Doane didn't have a touch tonight and couldn't have stabilized the score in the second half with just shooting.

Seeing this, Doon was in the middle of it, and he didn't say anything to the Pistons, and shot the ball when he had it.

"Don't worry, Doon's shot won't kill the game!"

When Doon threw two mid-ranges in a row, Larry Brown on the sidelines remained calm.

Indeed, Doon has just gotten the Olajuwon template, and the mid-range shooting attributes have not been further improved, and under the Pistons' heavy physical contact, the mid-range shooting is not so stable.

However, with the Pistons relaxing their mid-range defense, it is not difficult to shoot more than 50% of the shots and bite the score.

In the first half of the third quarter, Doon shot 4-of-7 from mid-range range and provided two assists to his teammates to help the Bulls consolidate their advantage.

And the Pistons' own offense is actually not very strong, and in the case of no way to break the game by offense, the Pistons can only re-limit Doon, the Bulls boss, with defense.

No, it was the Pistons' bag that found the key to winning tonight for Doon.

Doon didn't expect that a mid-range shot under the bag would actually get two free throw opportunities.

The sudden adjustment of the penalty scale made Doon realize that this could be the league's official regular season MVP bonus.

Although the regular season MVP was chosen by media reporters, if the NBA official does not agree, Doon will definitely not be able to get it.

Now that he has won the regular season MVP, it proves that he has been officially recognized by the league.

Therefore, it is impossible for the league officials to slap themselves in the face and watch the players who just won the regular season MVP lose in the next game.

The on-site referees and league officials saw that Doon played mediocre in the first half, so they also had the idea of giving Doon some superstar whistles.

Doon mainly made a jump shot at the beginning of the third quarter, on the one hand, the Pistons' tactical arrangement was to let Doon shoot, and on the other hand, it was also to save strength, so that he could hit hard at the critical moment in the fourth quarter.

However, now in the third quarter, he realized that the scale of the penalty was different tonight, and the referee's blowing penalty was in his favor.

Then, there is no need for Doon to make a strong outside jumper like a soft egg.

Doon has a breakthrough and can do damage without having to take a few more steps to the basket.

What's more, as long as Doon fouls Daben in advance, he can easily kill through the Pistons' restricted area.

"Fake, isn't he afraid of me?"

Big Ben was also a little nervous when he saw Doon get into the three-point line with the help of a pick-and-roll and go straight for him.

This is not the first time that Big Ben has played against Doon tonight, and he knows that defending Doon must stand on the defensive line in advance, must defend Doon's shots, and block Doon's impact on the penalty area!

At the same time, because of Doon's excellent playmaking and passing ability, it is also necessary to pay attention to whether Doon wants to feed his teammates on the inside, or break through to his teammates on the outside and let them shoot open three-pointers.

Because Doon's sudden shooting and passing combined with too much threat, Big Ben's defense Doon needs to play a twelve-point attention.

It's just that Daben expected Doon to break through, shoot, and pass, but he didn't expect Doon to make fouls.

I saw Doon stop in front of Big Ben to worship the Buddha, because Doon's middle distance in the third quarter was a little accurate, and Big Ben subconsciously blocked it in advance.

Whoever thinks that Doon is deliberately making a foul, if it is G1, the referee may not blow it, but tonight, in this third quarter, the referee will inevitably give Doon a few thin faces.

Beep beep beep –

Doon missed his shot after a physical confrontation, but got another chance to get to the free throw line.

In two consecutive rounds, relying on the score of one point at a time, Doon scored 4 points efficiently.

And Ben, who had already accumulated three fouls in the first half, also accumulated his fourth foul.

Larry Brown didn't realize it at first.

But less than two minutes later, Big Ben was fouled by Doon.

When the Pistons assistant coaches learned of this, they also had to stand up and remind Larry Brown that something was wrong!

With more than 3 minutes left in the third quarter, Big Ben was beaten down by Doon for accumulating five fouls.

In fact, the difference between the two sides is not large, and the Bulls only relied on the superstar whistle to extend the advantage to 7 points.

But as soon as Big Ben was gone, the situation changed dramatically.

Big Ben was a DPOY before he met Larry Brown, and Larry Brown built the Pistons' defensive system around Big Ben, which undoubtedly greatly increased Big Ben's overall defensive influence on the Pistons.

Now that the core of the Pistons' defense is down, the Pistons' defense will naturally have problems.

In particular, Doon's offense was originally one of the best in the current alliance.

After losing Big Ben, although Doon was sweating profusely and took the initiative to pant on the wing on the defensive end, but in the Bulls' offensive round, Doon still got tired of killing the basket with the help of blocking and dismantling.

The penalty area guarded by Roaring Tianzun and Antonio McDies obviously couldn't limit Doon's breakthrough.

Two points, two points, and then two plus one!

Doon kills the Pistons' inside!

Larry Brown and Big Ben on the sidelines turned blue when they saw this!

Before the end of the third quarter, only two minutes after Big Ben left the game, the margin widened from single digits to double digits.

"Won't Doon get tired?"

"He hits like this, does he still have the strength in the fourth quarter?"

"You can't play like this in the fourth quarter, right?"

The Pistons players and members of the coaching staff, the more they watched, the more thrilling they became, and then slowly became numb.

By the end of the third quarter, 67-80, the Bulls had suddenly built a 13-point lead.

And as the biggest contributor to the Bulls maintaining the lead in the third quarter and expanding the advantage - Doane.

also relied on shooting, breakthroughs and explosive penalties to break his personal playoff single-quarter scoring record for the first time.

In total, Doon shot 8-of-12 from the field and 7-of-7 from the free-throw line in the third quarter, scoring 23 points!

Although it was a bit opportunistic, Doon's 23 points in a single quarter of the playoffs was still explosive.

You must know that the single-quarter scoring record in the playoffs at the beginning of this year was 29 points for Floyd, 27 points for Barkley, 26 points for Iverson, 25 points for the Smiling Assassins, and 24 points for Jordan.

Doon relied on the regular season MVP bonus to directly drop to the sixth place in the playoffs in a single quarter score.

It can be said that with Doon's explosive individual scoring performance in this quarter, he has consolidated his position as the MVP of the regular season, making this honor even more worthy of its name.

Of course, tonight's match is destined to be a highlight of Doon's career.

Relying on a 13-point lead in the first three quarters, Doane took the initiative to lower the pace of the game in the fourth quarter and led the Bulls youth army to play steadily.

With the help of chopping tactics, the Pistons' offensive ability was greatly weakened.

In the fourth quarter, Doon scored 10 points again on 5-of-12 shooting in a single quarter, and although the score was not much, he also kept the home victory.

88-94, the Bulls won the Eastern Conference semifinals G2 by 6 points.

And Doon also relied on a supernatural performance of 18 of 36 shots, 1 of 3 three-point shots, 9 of 9 free throws, and a supernatural performance of 46 points, setting a new personal playoff scoring record.

(End of chapter)