I’m Really Playing Basketball

   Chapter 284 Revenge begins!

  After the Cavaliers lost two consecutive games in G4 and G5, the inside of the Cavaliers was quite relaxed.

  After the team took a 3-0 lead, the next step was to focus on cultivating the team's young players. This is Carlisle's established team strategy.

  The Cavaliers have six young players this season: Chen Xiao, James, Crawford, Chandler, Darius Miles and Diop.

  There are four rookies Barnes, Dior, Korver, and Mo.

It is basically difficult for Dior and Xiao Mo to form combat effectiveness this season, because the two physical confrontation exercises have not yet been completed, and the standard of the regular season may not be reached, let alone the playoffs, even the Eastern Conference finals, and the finals. Such a game.

  But Korver and Barnes are different players.

  The two were actually very mature when they were in college.

  What the two lack is not the ability to confront, but the experience of confrontation.

  So after playing the Nets game and playing the strongest team in history, Korver's strength soared in a straight line.

  After all, Chen Xiao used the system to evaluate his strength before choosing them.

  Because his 80 ability was not enough experience before, he could only show 70 or even 65 most of the time.

  Now, his 80 ability can finally show 80.

   Doesn’t this go straight up?

  In the game against the Pistons, the Cavaliers focused on training Barnes.

  Barnes didn't get less time in the regular season. After this season, he played a lot of time.

  But like the previous five playoff games, each game has 30 minutes of playing time, which is still very rare.

  Especially in the first two starting games, Barnes played more than 36 minutes in both games.

  I have to say that what Matt Barnes'hidden' is really deep.

  Before the team did not show up, but after these five games were reused, Carlisle discovered that the team's small forward is so useful.

  A little bit of everything, maybe not not so strong, but offensive, defensive, passing, shooting, breakthrough, everything is possible.

  Especially his defense.

  This season, Barnes, like other Cavaliers players, also learned defense from Chen Xiao.

  Chen Xiao used to think that the Cavaliers who learned to defend from him, except for Xiao Zhan, have made the most progress, Chandler is the most improved player.

  After all, his teaching is quite a test of the players’ IQ and ball quotient.

   Players with high IQ and quotient can make rapid progress only under the teaching of experience cards.

  A player with extremely high double quotient like Luo Ge is simply tailor-made for the teaching of Chen Xiao.

  And for students like Darius Miles, then...

  Chen Xiao did not think that Barnes is a ‘bad student’ like Darius Miles before, but he did not think that Barnes is a good student like James and Chandler.

  In Chen Xiao's mind, Barnes has always been a relatively ordinary existence, neither top-notch nor backward.

   But in this series of matches against the Pistons, Barnes not only changed Carlisle’s view, but also changed Chen Xiao’s view.

"Even if he is the weakest major player in history, he is still the major player. In the fourth year, he can average 13.5 points, 6.2 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.1 steals per game in the NCAA, shooting 49.5% from the field and shooting three-pointers. 41.7% of Little Pippen."

  The assistant coach of the Cavaliers, Mike Brown, looked at the data of Matt Barnes in these five games and smiled and said to the team coach Carlisle next to him.

  The performance of Barnes on the bench and in the starting lineup in the past five games is simply a surprise for the Cavaliers.

  After being practiced by Chen Xiao for a season, he has become a very good defense. Let’s not say that he has averaged 1.5 steals per game in the past five games. The key is not the steal data, but his defense is very tough.

  More importantly, his offense!

To be honest, in the position of small forward, if it is purely to defend, the Cavaliers have such players. Dalius Miles, the little wolf king, must have a very strong defense, but the problem is that he No shooting ability.

  But Barnes is different. He has offense and defense. The defense may not be as strong as Darius Miles, but he is much better than Korver.

  His offense may not be as strong as Korver, but it is much better than Darius Miles.

  It can be said that Barnes is a very important middle choice for the Cavaliers.

and……

   "Rick, look at this data. At the critical moment when the points difference between the two teams was within five points, Matt's three-point shooting percentage increased by 15%!"

   Mike Brown was very excited, and Carlisle smiled and nodded slightly.

   "He is a player with a big heart."

  A player who has a big heart, knows everything, is good at defensively, and is very tough.

  This is definitely a treasure. It is not important that his talent is not that strong. The Cavaliers have enough talented players.

  Using the failure of two games to make such an excellent role player better familiar with the playoffs and familiar with the strongest match, it is too great value.

  Barnes is used, it is definitely a strategic weapon belonging to the knight!

  At this time, Barnes, who was being taught by Chen Xiao, absolutely did not know that his position in the head of the head coach suddenly climbed to such a situation.

  In short, the Cavaliers are a very young team.

  This made Carlisle wish he could play 100 more games before the Eastern Conference finals.

  But Carlisle also knew that this is basically impossible.

  This round of the Cavaliers and Pistons series must end in the sixth game.

  One more game, there will be big variables in the tie-break.

  At the beginning, Jordan was in the Bulls, letting off his opponents and playing more games. He never played the seventh game, most of which ended in the sixth game.

  Even Jordan knows that in the tiebreaker, everything will be different.

  The sixth game between the Cavaliers and the Pistons was played on May 15, still at the Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit.

  Before the start of the sixth game between the Cavaliers and the Pistons, the two semi-finals of the Western Conference have all been divided.

  The Kings were the fastest team to advance in the conference semifinals. Under the leadership of Peja and Chris Webb, the Kings easily defeated the five-star Mavericks led by Nowitzki 4-1.

  The five-star Mavericks were out in the second round, which completely failed Cuban’s Galaxy battleship plan.

In this round of the series, Synowitzki’s performance is very good, averaging 26.6 points, 11.8 rebounds, 1.4 assists, 1.4 steals, and 2.6 blocks, shooting 45%, 47% three-pointers. It can be said that he played an offensive and defensive superstar. Top performance.

But although the Mavericks have many stars, if the Mavericks' defense can only rely on Nowitzki who plays center, it may be okay to play other teams, but it will definitely not work to play a super offensive team like the Kings. .

By the way, the king’s head, Chris Webber, has obviously not rebounded as much as before after returning from a serious injury. So after coming back, Webber’s shooting percentage has dropped a lot. His strength is definitely not as good as his peak, but his technical ability is still there. In terms of strength, it seems that the peak is 80% up.

Eighty percent of Weber is matched with the peak of Peja, plus Divac, Christie, Bibby, Gerald Wallace, Turk Glu, Brad Miller, Travisdina and other Titans , It’s easy to play the Mavericks now let Nowitzki play center.

In another Western Conference Finals, the Minnesota Timberwolves defeated the Los Angeles Lakers led by Kobe and Kidd 4-2.

  The Los Angeles Lakers led by the Ke and Ke bosses are one of the teams with the smallest offensive space in the league this season. It can be said that the offensive space of the Lakers basically depends on the shots of Kobe and Boozer.

  The Timberwolves on the opposite side are one of the best teams to deal with teams like the Lakers. Garnett is the best player in the league in defense. The Timberwolves' three-line team is good at playing against teams like the Lakers.

  It can be said that the Timberwolves playing the Lakers are similar to the Nets playing the Lakers this season.

  Even the Timberwolves are more advantageous to play against the Lakers because of Garnett.

  Playing in the Nets, Boozer can still play somehow.

  Fighting Timberwolves, Boozer is not easy to play.

  Of course, the Nets and the Timberwolves have similar defensive methods, but the Nets’ offense is much stronger than the Timberwolves.

  So, the Timberwolves' advantage in playing the Lakers is definitely not as great as the Nets' advantage in playing the Lakers.

   Therefore, in this series, relying on Kobe's very strong two god-level performances, the Lakers defeated the Timberwolves, one of the strongest teams in the Western Conference this year.

   In these two games, the leader of the division made 16 of 29, 3 of 4 three-pointers, 11 of 11 free throws, and scored 46 points.

  The other game was 17 of 36, 5 of 10 three-pointers, 6 of 8 free throws, and 45 points.

  In the whole series, the boss of Ke has averaged 36 points per game in these six games, and the shooting rate is as high as 46.5%, which is quite outstanding.

  Although in the finals last year, the Ke boss averaged more than 40 points per game, but the shooting percentage was horrible. The reason for scoring so many points was mainly due to the Lakers' shooting and grab tactics and the Crazy shots of the Ke boss.

   So, to say that Ke boss played the best round of the series in his career, it was the series with the Timberwolves.

  It’s just a pity that although they played the best round of their career, the Lakers eventually lost the series because of the team’s style.

  Although two super-giant stars like Ke boss and Ke boss can only lead the Lakers to the second round, this result is definitely very ordinary.

  But, because of O'Neal and the Nets, the Los Angeles Lakers did not receive much criticism from the American media.

  With the Nets bottoming out this season, it is difficult for a superstar to get more criticism in the playoffs.

  Although in the public opinion in the United States, the bosses of science and technology have not received much criticism.

  However, the bosses of Ke and Ji still have quite high demands on themselves.

  Chen Xiao knows that these two bosses are not satisfied with their performance this season.

  However, whether it is satisfied or dissatisfied, the series is over.

  The results have been different from the conference finals in the Western Conference.

The   Eastern side is quite entangled.

  This entanglement is certainly not the Cavaliers and the Pistons.

  If the Cavaliers wish, the Cavaliers can also finish this series earlier.

   Mainly Magic and 76ers.

  After the first six games between the Magic and the 76ers, the two sides have reached 3 to 3, and this round of the series has directly entered the tie-break.

Although the 76ers are the sixth team in the Eastern Conference, everyone knows the reason why this team is sixth in the Eastern Conference. It is not that they are not strong, but that Iverson is basically engaged in self-cultivation games during the regular season.

  In the playoffs, the strength of the 76ers is simply soaring. Many people say that the 76ers this season are much better than the 76ers in 2001.

  Whether it is a starter or a substitute, the team's offense and defense are both stronger.

  Do you think that the team that can sweep the Cavaliers 4-0 in the regular season is a general?

  The Heat, Magic and 76ers can sweep the Cavaliers like this this season.

   Among them, the heat that swept the Cavaliers the worst was the Heat, followed by the 76ers, and again by the Magic.

  Why is the Magic the best of the three teams, but the one that swept the Cavaliers was not so brutal?

  The main reason is the inside defense.

  The Magic's inside defense is Duncan. Although Duncan is strong, he can't lock the inside out by himself, so that Xiao Zhan can't break through.

  The 76ers and the Heat, the inside combination of Mutombo and Kenny Thomas and the inside combination of Yao Ming and Chris Bosh, the inside combination of Yao Ming and Chris Bosh, are true for Xiao Zhan, it is almost the same as a deadly existence.

Playing so hard against the 76ers in this series is indeed something that the Magic did not expect. However, the better thing for the Magic is that they have home court advantage in the tiebreaker, and Duncan played this round of the series. It's better than the previous round, but it's just so-so.

  According to Xiao Zhan’s evaluation...

  "I feel that Duncan, like us, is also deliberately training young players Tony Parker and Ginobili."

  This may indeed be the case. Ginobili is a substitute, and the changes in the data are not obvious. Parker, obviously, he is in the playoffs, whether it is playing time or the number of shots are constantly rising.

  Of course, the Magic's training for Parker is not as fierce as the Cavaliers' training for Korver and Barnes.

  In fact, Xiao Zhan’s guess is correct, and the Magic originally wanted to close in the sixth game, just like when they played the Raptors.

  It’s just that no one thought that in Game 6, the 76ers’ small forward Glen Robinson suddenly broke out!

  This was really caught off guard by the magic.

  I have to say that there are risks in the release of water, and the implementation needs to be cautious.

  The player Glenn Robinson has always been a player that Chen Xiao could not understand.

  When he was at the Magic last season, he thought that Glenn Robinson was the number one small forward in the NBA.

  When he is normal, it is really strong. According to Richard Jefferson, it is a pity that he does not have a few games in a year.

  It can only be said that the Magic were unlucky, and the game that was about to close was when Glenn Robinson was sober.

  In short, the situation should have been clear, because some of the Magic missed the front, and the situation in the entire East was a bit confusing.

  Because of the Magic’s lessons learned, Chen Xiao and the Cavaliers certainly don’t want the Cavaliers and the Magic to stumble in the sixth game.

  Chen Xiao and Xiaozhan, as well as Carlisle and Cavaliers players are all prepared for difficulties.

  After the Pistons' two previous victories, this game is bound to go all out.

   If you are not careful, it is very possible to be forced into a rather awkward position like the Magic.

  Although due to the fact that the game is overwhelming, coupled with the fact that the head coach is too familiar with each other, the Cavaliers have a huge advantage.

  On May 15, 2004, the Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit was still full of seats.

  Although the current situation of the Pistons is already at stake.

  But the victory of the first two games allowed the team to pull the total score from 0 to 3 to 2 to 3, which still gave the Pistons fans a lot of unrealistic expectations.

  Originally, when the game started in G1, the Pistons fans on the scene looked at the Cavaliers and Chen Xiao with the same mentality as the panda.

  The Nets are the strongest team in history, the savior of the NBA this season, and the first big gift package for the NBA playoffs. Isn’t this as rare as the panda?

   But now, the Pistons fans on the scene no longer have any such mentality.

  In the crazy wave of Pistons fans, after the Pistons and Cavaliers played, the starting players of both sides appeared on the court.

  The Pistons starter, center Big Ben, power forward Rasheed Wallace, small forward Prince, shooting guard Hamilton, point guard Billups.

   Cavaliers’ starting lineups, center Chandler, power forward Chen Xiao, small forward Matt Barnes, shooting guard Korver, point guard James.

  Compared with the previous two games, Korver has once again returned to the starting position.

  In the previous two games, Darius Miles and Barnes played the second and third positions of the Cavaliers.

  This really improved the Cavaliers’ defense a lot, but the offense was a little short of space, which allowed the Pistons to get back two games.

  Although the Cavaliers have the pressure to win this game, they did not go to the combination of Darius Miles and Korver, but to the combination of Barnes and Korver.

  It is not only Carlisle who thinks this combination is more suitable to hit the piston, but also because of the need for inspection.

  However, for many viewers on the sidelines and in front of the TV...

   "Carlisle is so bold!"

  Indeed, in such a game, I dare to experiment with the lineup, continue to train young people, and bring the two young people cultivated at the same time.

  This is not bold. What is bold?

   are obviously defensive coaches, Carlisle and Larry Brown are completely different.

  Carlisle is not aggressive like a defensive coach.

  And Larry Brown is conservative and knows that he is a defensive defensive coach who can no longer defend.

  At this point, just look at the current situation of Mike James and Okur in the Pistons.

Mike James played more than 30 minutes per game in the Celtics. How good he played. After the Celtics sent him to the Pistons almost for free, he is now averaging less than 9 minutes per game in the playoffs. Averaged less than 3 points per game, sitting on the bench every game, the look on Mike James's face is very ugly.

  At the beginning, when he was in the Celtics, playing Xiao Mo was the same as playing puppies. Now he is in the Pistons, and his time and data on the team are not as good as Xiao Mo in the Cavaliers. Is this balanced?

  As for Okur...

  He is even worse.

  He was a player promoted by Carlisle last season. He was in the Pistons last season and in the playoffs. As a rookie backup center, he can average nearly 20 minutes of playing time in the playoffs. But this season...

  In the playoffs, his average playing time was less than 11 minutes per game, which can be described as a premature death.

why is it like this?

  Of course it’s because Larry Brown thinks Okur has no defensive ability.

  Oku can't show Larry Brown a face like Mike James.

  But do you think he will feel better now?

  On the bench on the sidelines, every time he sees Barnes and Korver being reused under Carlisle, it reminds him of his last season.

  If he is still under Carlisle this season, he may have taken off. He feels that his strength has grown a lot this season.

  After all, before Rashid arrived in the regular season, when he played a lot of time, his performance was very good.

   But after Rashid came, he was directly discarded by Larry Brown like a rag.

In fact, in history, many people have remembered Larry Brown’s persecution of Milicic, whom Carlisle preferred. In fact, Okur was persecuted by Larry Brown very much, but Okur and the Pistons have been persecuted for two years. The contract, after the contract, ran away immediately, without looking back.

  Larry Brown is too unfriendly to non-defending players and too unfriendly to substitute players.

  In the Pistons, the Five Tigers averaged 35 minutes per game in the playoffs. Big Ben, Billups, and Hamilton even played 40 minutes. What does this mean?

  This means that the Pistons substitutes have no playing time at all.

  The Pistons scored the most from the bench, and only a mere less than 5 points. From this we can see to what extent Larry Brown is so rough as the Pistons.

  Fight with his apprentice Popovich and Duncan.

   Looking at the Pistons, the faces of all the bitter bench players who were made by Larry Brown swept across the face, which is completely different from the hopeful Cavaliers bench.

  The camera returned to the court from the bench, Chandler jumped the ball successfully and the Cavaliers attacked first.

Under Rashid Wallace’s defensive and close defense against receiving the ball, Chen Xiao made a cross-screening with James to pass the ball hand-in-hand. After Chen Xiao replaced his defensive player with Billups, He didn't put on a tank cap like Xiao Zhan did.

   but clang!

  Purely using the strength and physique of the inside, he hit Billups' body and knocked Billups back almost two steps.

  I have to say that Billups's strength and confrontation are really strong. The general point guards of the league basically flew in the face of Chen Xiao's impact.

  But Billups did not fly.

At the same time, the Pistons’ defense is also really good, especially Rashid. In Chen Xiao’s slight gap, Rashid pushed James away and came to Chen Xiao to make up for Billups’ gap. Give Chen Xiao an open shot.

   However, after the first five games, Chen Xiao, who is already very familiar with the Pistons, never thought that he could get a chance.

  So he hit the basketball in his hand to James, who was pushed away by Rasheed Wallace.

  This time, James, who was already vacant in front, received a pass from Chen Xiao and took a tank cap and went inside to kill!

  Big Ben’s defense is quite powerful, perhaps the best defensive center player in the NBA right now, but facing the inside of the Pistons that was emptied by Chen Xiaola, James's tank-like breakthrough still made the Pistons' defense pressure very heavy.

  Except for Hamilton, who was standing next to Korver, Billups, who was knocked away by Chen Xiao before, and Prince who was standing in front of Barnes, were all taken back.

   Then, Xiao Zhan unselfishly did not watch people pass the ball, and hit the ball beyond the three-point line in the hand of Barnes who was empty.

  Bang!

  The sound of basketball hitting the rim made Larry Brown on the sideline palpitation.

  Such an offensive opportunity...

  When will the Pistons give their opponents such an offensive opportunity in the opening game!

  That is, Barnes did not make a shot!

   However, after another thought, maybe God abandoned his two sons and stood on my side in this game?

  Larry Brown thought fortunately in his heart.

  Just fast!

  Bang!

  After passing the ball to Butters and still going to the basket, James flew in the air and stole the offensive rebound from Prince's hands when Chandler got stuck in the big ben!

  Prince, who had a one-on-one fight with Xiao Zhan in the air, his eyes were dull.

  That incredible impact and jumping ability!

  Obviously his position is dominant!

   Obviously he came first!

  Obviously the ball has reached his hand!

   But he was snatched by James in the air!

   James, who snatched Prince’s backcourt rebound, dunked with folded hands in the air and scored the Cavaliers’ first two points in this game!

  2 to 0!

  The wound after the separation of Big Ben and Rasheed Wallace continues to expand!

  This time the Pistons lost a rebound, anyone with a discerning eye can see that without Rasheed, the Pistons could not win the Cavaliers.

  In the past, Miles on the Cavaliers on the court, the other Pistons can shrink less, there is no such problem.

  But in this game, the Cavaliers played Barnes. Barnes was able to shoot three pointers, and the Pistons did not dare to shrink so much.

  Space will come out!

"sharp!"

  This time the offense, the Cavaliers scored James, but many NBA professionals in front of the TV watched Chen Xiao and Carlisle talking about it.

  "Wonder Boy's short-distance ability and coping ability are too strong!"

   "And Carlisle is too familiar with the Pistons!"

  "The evolution of the Cavaliers in this game can be 100% successful!"

  The opening of the Cavaliers game ~www.NovelMTL.com~ is very murderous.

   Even if Barnes hits that three-pointer, the damage to the Pistons and Larry Brown may not be as big as James's supplementary smash.

   Three-pointer, missed, this depends on fate, depends on the sky, Larry Brown may not really care.

  But this time James’ supplementary deduction is not fate or heaven, but a real loophole!

  And there is no way to fix the loopholes!

  So that, after the first attack of this game, Larry Brown clearly felt that if this game is played normally, the Pistons will not have any chance!

  As soon as the game started, Chen Xiao, James and Carlisle let Larry Brown give up the fantasy of winning normally.

  So, Larry Brown on the sidelines no longer hesitates.

  On the court, Chen Xiao and James are high-five in the air with a smile while looking at each other.

   "Vengeance, you can begin!"

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