"The biggest difference between the playoffs and the regular season is the level of dedication.

You know the importance of the game, and your opponent knows the importance of the game.

They will do everything in their power to defend you, attack you, invade you, and then you will get into a lot of trouble.

When it comes to the playoffs, it's often only superstars who can play as usual in the regular season.

And in order to win and make sure you qualify for the next round, you have to stay focused at all times. ”

On April 17, at the Philips Center, before the Bulls and Hawks G1 play, Doon was on the sidelines constantly pointing out Evans, Curry, Harden and Ibaka.

It didn't take long for the two teams to officially start their debut.

Among the Bulls' four rookies, Evans, who is the more combative, plays with Dwan.

In the first playoff game, Evans did play more restrained.

Fortunately, Doon didn't expect him to be in good shape, stand up and score, and just do a simple single defense.

After all, the Bulls are the defending champions, and they are still handy at playing the Hawks, who have little playoff experience.

"Tyrek keep your weight down and try not to let Joe Johnson break through you.

You're very physical, you're going to be able to defend against it.

When the time comes, Joe Johnson will choose to shoot, and he is confident in his shot.

Once Joe Johnson is up and running, you should use your left hand on his waist and your right hand to block his shot.

Be careful not to reach out and not to grab Joe Johnson's foothold.

As long as you defend normally, the referee will not award you for violating the cylinder. ”

Doon passed on his defensive experience to Evans and helped him grow as soon as possible.

Evans studied very seriously, but the scale of defensive aggression was a little poor, and most of the time the defense was too clean, and after a few words from Doon, he would make some more dangerous moves.

However, as long as nothing happens, the on-site referee will turn a blind eye.

After all, the body is perfectly normal defensively in the playoffs.

For the league, increasing the defensive intensity can also make the game more exciting and intense, which can increase the viewership.

Of course, like the Pistons Five Tigers and the Twin Towers Spurs, they blindly emphasize defense, and the two sides can't play each other's iron games, basketball is still a scoring game after all.

In general, there are not many ways to make money in the NBA at this stage, and everything is on par with the ratings.

The playoffs are usually rated twice or three times as much as the regular season, and if the playoff game is judged on the same scale as the regular season, a game that should have ended in two hours will be extended to four hours.

The crowd couldn't stand a four-hour game and three hours were spent on free throws.

I also can't stand a two-hour race, and an hour and a half are spent hitting irons and switchbacks.

Therefore, the league needs to have a star who can open up the playoffs, ensure offensive efficiency, and support ratings.

And tough defense can also accurately divide the offensive level of the star into three, six, nine and so on.

In turn, blue-collar players can be divided into several notches by stars who are good at attacking, and top blue-collar players can even become stars by defending.

Just like the martial arts world, they are usually masters and heroes of the famous town, and when they meet Huashan Sword and Martial Arts Conference, they can distinguish who is the first in the world, who is the top master, who is the first-class, second-rate, and even third-rate goods.

The Hawks are a civilian team, and even if the big singles Joe has good singles ability, the star is still limited.

If it weren't for the training of Evans, Doon would have gone up and pressed singles Joe down a long time ago.

However, the Hawks still have a lot of players who can score, so if the Bulls want to win this series with the loss of Garnett, Doane's help defense is very important.

Because the Hawks don't have players who are in contract years, and Doon doesn't have the mentality of using the tricks of a contract year to make people move, Doon needs to work a little more on defense.

However, the Bulls' own offense is not bad, and the Hawks' defense is not systematic, relying more on the enthusiasm of the players themselves to defend.

Under the leadership of Doon's 32 points, 8 rebounds, 12 assists, 3 steals and 5 blocks, the Bulls still easily won the first round of the playoffs G1 with 101-90.

One thing to say, there is no shortage of teams like the Eagles in the league.

Pick up lotto shows for a few years in a row, and it just so happens that these lotto shows have a certain amount of talent, and then raise them to form a civilian team, rush into the playoffs once or twice with rookie bonuses, and then they don't have it.

Usually a team like this can reach the division finals is already remarkable.

After all, the NBA is a business league, and teams still need to invest a lot of money if they want to produce results.

Just like the knights, the investment in the past few years has been very expensive.

Even if the Bulls are cultivating their own rookies, in order to be able to win the championship, they have to spend money.

In the past two years, the Bulls have paid a lot of luxury taxes, and they have indeed won a lot of championships. It was really unable to make ends meet, and it couldn't hold on, so the team chose to rebuild.

And the so-called winning culture, the heritage of the wealthy, is built by the luxury tax year after year.

The performance of the Bulls' management in recent years, although they will trade the rookies they have developed, have not treated their own players badly in terms of contracts.

Even Garnett's pay cut is reasonable.

Therefore, the Bulls players have no worries about playing the playoffs.

In particular, several rookies have grown very fast under Doon's words and deeds.

Evans quickly played decently, not only on the offensive end, but also on the defensive end.

Curry and Harden still need to adapt because of the defensive end, but the offensive end can also seize opportunities from time to time and perform on the court.

In the blink of an eye, more than a week passed, and the Bulls took the lead in this round of the series, advancing the score to 3-2.

In fact, if it weren't for the opportunity to sharpen the rookie debut, the Bulls would have advanced to the Eastern Conference semifinals long ago.

It is precisely because the goal of the team this season is to rebuild, it is to practice, and it is necessary to consider arranging a certain amount of playing time for the rookies.

At the same time, the team did not want to attack the championship again, and Ben Gordon and Josh Smith had no intention of going all out, but rather avoided injury and preserved their strength.

Therefore, the Bulls' path to the playoffs was not so smooth.

Of course, back in Chicago, back in Union Center, everything is different.

On April 30, the Bulls, under the leadership of Doon, went all out to defeat the Hawks again, and finally advanced to the Eastern Conference semifinals with a score of 4-2.

It is worth mentioning that the next opponent of the Bulls has not yet ended the battle, and it is not known who is coming.

This is mainly because the Cavaliers played against the Bucks were too nervous, Jennings has obviously hit the rookie wall, but in the playoffs, he can rely on his hand to explode from time to time.

In addition, Michael Reed, Stackhouse, Carlos Delfino, Luke Ridno, and Eisen Ilyasova all have some three-point ability.

This season, as long as the Bucks shoot three-point shots, they can play anyone with five or five.

This made the knights, who were originally afraid of the bull and wanted to preserve their strength, suffer several dumb losses.

There were two games, that is, in the fourth quarter, the main force of the Cavaliers played for a while, and then the Bucks suddenly made unreasonable three-point rain, turned the tables against the wind, and then couldn't chase it back.

However, the Cavaliers are, after all, the team with 60 wins in the East.

At the same time, the Bucks also injured their champion Xiubo dog in the regular season.

It is also because of the absence of the main center, the Bucks are naturally at a disadvantage.

Coupled with the defensive intensity of the playoffs, the Bucks couldn't have been good all the time, so in the end, it was the Cavaliers who won the tiebreaker.

In this way, the Bulls and Cavaliers met again in the playoffs...... (End of chapter)