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Chapter 160 Regular Season MVP, Eastern Conference Finals against the Heat (4000, please subscribe)

"4 to 0, another sweep, the Pistons are still fierce and extraordinary this season."

"But the Eastern Conference finals are still a lot of suspense.

Now the Heat's record is also very good. They played against the 75ers in the first round of the playoffs and took away their opponents 4-1.

Facing the Pacers in the second round, they never expected to be able to sweep and win.

The Pacers in recent seasons are not a weak team. The Heat's ability to sweep the Pacers is enough to show that the Heat are in good shape and are expected to hit the championship! "

The playoffs in the Eastern Conference this year are relatively fast, and the two teams in the Eastern Conference Finals have already stood out.

It is not surprising that the Pistons swept the Wizards to get close to the Eastern Conference Finals, they were the defending champions.

As the Pistons adapt to the Princeton system and give full play to the roles of Huo Song, Marbury, Big Ben, Hamilton and others, the Pistons are the team with the best chance of winning the championship this season.

However, the Heat can beat the Pacers, or sweep and defeat, which makes people feel outrageous.

The Heat are ridiculously strong.

Today's Pacers have never experienced the Palace of Auburn Hills battle with the Pistons.

The Pacers have no suspensions or injuries.

The team configuration is quite good. With Carlisle's coaching in the past few years, the team has become more and more team-based and has more and more tactical execution capabilities.

It's just that Reggie Miller has gradually changed from the team's starter to the sixth man, and now he has become an ordinary rotation player.

However, the growth of O'Neal and Artest is also visible to the naked eye.

The Pacers are definitely not a weak team, but one of the strong teams with the qualifications to compete for the championship.

But such a powerful Pacer was treated like garbage by the Heat, and was swept away by the wind and cleaned up in twos and twos.

The Heat are in such a good state, but it also surprised the Pistons up and down.

"Wade has entered the peak period ahead of time, and the peak O'Neal is back?" Huo Song hasn't watched the Heat's game video yet, so he doesn't know.

What Huo Song knew was that he had just won the honors of the regular season MVP and the scoring champion. In addition, he was also the first-team center of the best team and the second-team center of the best defensive team.

But soon, Huo Song learned about the current situation of the Heat through the meeting in the video room.

Now O'Neal is really in good condition. Even if he suffered a small injury in the playoffs, he can still score an average of 30+10 per game.

O'Neal maintained his health during the regular season, and he did not relax at all in the playoffs.

As if it was because of being traded by the Lakers, O'Neal was obviously holding his breath at this time, wanting to prove it to the Lakers and Kobe.

He could have a fourth championship elsewhere.

As for Wade, although with the help of O'Neal's inside defense, he played smoothly.

After all, O'Neal has worked with Hardaway and Kobe for many years, and knows how to cooperate with young and energetic outside guys.

Now Wade can't threaten O'Neal's team status, so O'Neal is happy to help Wade, and even personally advise Wade on what to do.

In addition, the Heat also have two Joneses, Eddie Jones and Damon Jones. Maybe they are not at their peak now, but at least they are still starters above the NBA level.

The Heat have O'Neal on the inside, Wade on the outside and two Joneses. As long as they play smoothly, anyone may be blown up by the Heat in twos and threes, and then crushed to win.

Through game video research, the Pistons also have some understanding of the Heat today.

But the Eastern Conference finals are coming soon, and the Pistons don't have time to make targeted arrangements. They can only play what they are good at and come head-to-head with the Heat.

If you really want to adjust, you should also adjust in the next few games.

Especially in unfavorable situations.

Now the Pistons still have an advantage, so if they really need to adjust, let the Heat come first.

On May 5, the Pistons and the Heat played in G23 in the Eastern Conference Finals.

Before the start of the game, Big Ben took the initiative to warn everyone in the team: "Shaquille O'Neal must be cheating, we can't be fooled by him.

We played against him in the finals last year, and we must remember Shaquille O'Neal who was so threatening.

He is the ruler of the alliance, even if he is really injured, he cannot be underestimated.

We must show our full attitude, take him seriously, and play this game seriously.

We still have to win the Eastern Conference finals and the championship, we can't lose! "

Although Huo Song has won the regular season MVP and scoring champion, Huo Song has not challenged Daben's position in the team.

In name, Big Ben is still the boss of the Pistons.

Before the start of the Eastern Conference finals, Daben said this to other teammates, and everyone would naturally listen carefully, and then play up a little bit of vigilance.

As Big Ben said, even if O'Neal is really injured, he is still the ruler of the league.

A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. As long as O'Neal can play, he is still O'Neal.

The game started quickly, and the Pistons started with Huo Song, Da Ben, Prince, Hamilton and Marbury.

The Heat are O'Neal, Udonis Haslem, Eddie Jones, Damon Jones and Wade.

At the beginning of the game, Huo Song failed to jump the ball, and O'Neal helped the Heat jump to get the ball.

Although O'Neal was injured, he did perform well in the jump ball stage.

The Heat must also know that O'Neal's injury should not be a serious problem, so the team chose to hand it over to O'Neal for the first offense.

O'Neal grabbed a good position at the basket. In order to share Huo Song's defensive pressure and maintain offensive firepower, Daben took the initiative to get stuck behind O'Neal to defend.

Prince stared at the two Joneses from the outside, so Hamilton ran over to cooperate with Big Ben to pinch O'Neal back and forth.

However, O'Neal still received the ball, and because of his height advantage, hitting the big book was tantamount to a misplacement, so he turned around and shot without hesitation.

What is Alliance No.1?
O'Neal turned around and hooked, Huo Song had just shot out from the basket, and O'Neal had already hooked the ball into the basket.

With O'Neal's shot this time, the score on the court became 2-0. With the help of O'Neal, the Heat came out on top.

Looking back, the Pistons attacked, Marbury broke through with the ball, and Wade defended very seriously, but Marbury's physical fitness was better than Wade's.

Wade's single defense was average, and he failed to get stuck in Marbury's position, and was rushed by Marbury.

Marbury rushed to the basket and made a sudden stop.

Haslem stepped forward to block, and Marbury immediately hit the ground to pass the ball.

Huo Song suddenly cut outside and came half a step outside the three-second zone near the baseline to catch the ball.

Immediately afterwards, Huo Song shot a jumper, and before Eddie Jones flew over, the ball had already fallen into the basket.

"Little Shanzhao, I've already missed this ball. Don't you dunk it? You're becoming more and more like a softie, really!" O'Neill suddenly spammed Huo Song with trash talk.

Trash talking is part of the game.

As a center forward, Huo Song got rid of the defender just now, but chose to finish with a close shot. He is indeed a bit of a softie.

But Huo Song knew very well that he must save some strength to beat O'Neill.

It was difficult for Ben to defend O'Neal. Now that the Pistons don't have Rasheed Wallace to do the dirty work, once O'Neal breaks out, Huo Song must go up to resist O'Neal's attack and give Ben some breathing room.

In this way, Huo Song didn't need to waste too much energy on the offensive end.

In particular, this round of the series will not be so easy.

Huo Song must prepare for a protracted war in advance.

Having said that, the first offense of the two teams was completed by the center.

The efficiency is not bad, but then, outside players also start to participate.

In a game, most of the inside scoring is the majority, but if there is no outside scoring, the team's offensive space will be very bad.

The overall height of the Pistons is slightly higher than that of the Heat. Heat power forward Haslem is just a short blue-collar, who has no advantage against Huo Song, and lacks game experience against Da Ben.

As for the perimeter, the Pistons all have a matchup height advantage.

Only O'Neal's point is the highest point on the field.

In short, if the Heat can't make outside shots, the Pistons will shrink their defense and play zone defense tactics, and the Heat will suffer a lot.

At any rate, the Pistons have Hamilton on the outside. Although Marbury is better at scoring inside, as a two-time All-Star, his shooting level is also there.

Not to mention, in this year's playoffs, Huo Song averaged 1.5 three-pointers per game.

Huo Song's corner three-pointer cannot be ignored.

The Pistons are more comfortable in space than the Heat, and the Pistons' defense is much better than the Heat.

If the Heat want to beat the more advantageous Pistons, outside scoring is a must.

Only when the outside shot is opened, Wade has room to break into the inside, score, or create an offensive opportunity for O'Neal.

Ever since, the Heat began to try a few outside shots to see how the two Joneses felt.

The Pistons seized the opportunity to defend and counterattack and made several transitions, with a good chance of success.

At the same time, Huo Song was not obsessed with attacking inside.

The Pistons' strategy was initiated by Marbury, and Huo Song was responsible for support and termination.

All in all, the Pistons still had the upper hand in the first quarter of the trial.

Although O'Neal did not miss the first three offenses in the first quarter, he was even able to succeed in the case of double-teaming, and then hooked and dunked at the basket.

But after playing most of the first quarter, the situation on the field is still that the Heat are temporarily behind the Pistons 14 to 21.

The main reason for this is not that the Heat's outside line is relatively strong, but that the Heat's defense against the Pistons' outside line was very unsuccessful.

Hamilton and Marbury each hit a three-pointer in the first quarter.

Hamilton also scored two mid-range shots.

Wade couldn't defend Marbury's breakthrough, and he couldn't defend Damon Jones if he replaced him.

On the Heat's side, there were three three-pointers in the first quarter, but none of them hit.

They scored two in the middle distance, but the whole team scored two in the middle distance after playing for half a quarter, and there were some claims.

Besides, Wade, the Heat's regular season scoring leader, is obviously out of shape today.

It's not that Wade hasn't played against the Pistons in the regular season, so logically he should have gotten used to it.

But in today's Eastern Conference finals, it was the first time in the playoffs that the Pistons had such a tight defense. For a while, Wade couldn't feel the offensive feeling, and he played like a headless chicken.

Wade knows he can't shoot, so he basically chooses to drive to the basket.

However, after several dashes to the basket, Wade was either blocked by Huo Song or blocked by Da Ben.

Once, he was almost covered by Marbury who followed.

As the game progressed, until the first quarter was over, Wade made 7 shots and hit [-] goals.

It is worth mentioning that in the previous two rounds of the playoffs, Wade still had a bit of a whistle when he burst into the paint.

But today, when I met Daben’s help defense, Wade had some physical confrontation with Daben when he made a layup. Wade missed a difficult layup and fell to the ground. bother.

It can only be said that the league officials have no intention of balancing the two sides in advance before the outcome is decided.

After all, the Heat are also very strong this season.

The referee's intervention in the game will only make the game more ugly, not make the game more exciting.

22 to 31, after the first quarter, the Pistons have taken a 9-point lead.

After a short break, the two teams unanimously chose to play the main force, and it was still the main force of both sides that appeared in the second quarter.

Huo Song only took 5 shots in the first quarter and scored 8 points. The scoring efficiency is quite good.

In the second quarter, Huo Song was ready to make a big deal, with full firepower.

O'Neal didn't have many offenses in the first quarter, but he had a lot of competition with Big Ben in the paint.

Huo Song took the initiative to attack in the second quarter, using the offense to consume O'Neal.

Huo Song knew that the biggest problem for the Heat was physical fitness and injuries.

Any team in the league can enter, only the Heat cannot enter.

Because the Heat has the fortune teller Riley, no matter what star arrives in the Heat, they will be forced to train.

O'Neal suddenly became sluggish after two seasons with the Heat, which was a bit like being crippled.

And Wade's short peak is mostly due to this reason.

Don't you see, James ran to the Heat to play basketball with his brothers, and he was almost crippled by practice.

Therefore, Huo Song had to take advantage of O'Neal's injury to hit O'Neal's weakness.

Before you sprayed me as a soft egg?Alright, then I'll beat you up and see if you can stand it!
Huo Song has never forgotten his back hitting feeling from hitting a tree.

In the second quarter, as Huo Song had been head-to-head with O'Neal inside, the Pistons' offense stagnated a little.

When the Heat reacted, they knew how to defend.

And Huo Song's back-to-back attack on O'Neill also felt a little bit like a small hit to a big one.

Go directly to O'Neill, O'Neill's big thick legs, big fat belly, how can Huo Song push it away.

Huo Song spent a lot of time with O'Neal, and finally solved everything with his feet and shooting.

It's normal for a singles offense to not have a high shooting percentage.

However, what Huo Song did was very effective.

The Pistons' perimeter defensive efficiency remains the same, and O'Neal didn't ask for much offense because of the increased pressure on interior defense.

The Heat had no choice but to concentrate the ball in Wade's hands.

Wade slowly found the feeling, breaking into the inside can avoid being blocked, but the shooting rate at the basket is not particularly high, at most in the early [-]s.

After the second quarter, Huo Song and Wade both scored 20 points.

For the Heat, O'Neal also scored in double figures.

But looking at the score, 49 to 63, the Pistons actually played some advantages in the second quarter, although not many points were opened.

"The Pistons' defense is much better than that of the Heat, and the Pistons clearly have the initiative!"

"I think the biggest advantage of the Pistons is that you are stronger and I am younger than you, and you are younger and I am more experienced than you."

The Pistons and Heat in the Eastern Conference Finals are all young players carrying the team forward.

However, Huo Song, as an inside player, restrained O'Neal, the Heat's biggest card, and could still make stable contributions on the offensive end.

Wade has to pay tuition because of his youth.

The Heat used a lot of shots to give Wade the feeling of facing the Pistons' iron barrel defense.

And the Heat haven't realized that the touch of outside shooters is not good. Now that they haven't touched the ball for a while, their hands are even colder.

The next halftime break will also make the Heat's outside feel worse.

On the other hand, the Pistons have no such worries, because even in the third quarter, Huo Song can still output crazily at the basket.

Huo Song won the scoring title this season by averaging 35.4 points per game in the regular season.

(End of this chapter)