Chapter 709 709. The Crushing Potential!
The last best defensive lineup announced.
For a while, Kidd, Kobe, Artest, Kirirenko, Bowen, Ben Wallace and Duncan were selected.
Like the best team, Ben Wallace was placed in the forward position and Duncan was placed in the center position.
Among them, Artest, Kirilenko and Bowen have the same vote. Stu Jackson specifically explained this situation. Three people have same votes, and four people have been selected as strikers in the first defense. This is the first time since the establishment of the best defensive lineup.
The second team was selected by Billups, Liu Xiu, Garnett, Kwame Brown and Camby.
Selected as the second defense!
This was a real surprise for Liu Xiu!
He never thought about this. He felt that Prince and Wade were better at defensively than him. He only got one vote in the votes of the best defensive player voted by the media, and both of them were in the top ten.
The best defensive team selected by the coaches, he didn't expect that he was selected!
Listening to his teammates' congratulations, he thought to himself that his defense may be better than he thinks, and his defense on the court is higher than he thinks!
Compared to Liu Xiu's calmness, Kwamei-Brown burst into tears and called his mother and younger brothers and sisters in tears.
Finally, he sent a message to Jordan, and Randolph saw the content next to him - I'm selected as the second defense, the warden is much better than you!
After Liu Xiu learned from Randolph the content of the text message Kwame Brown sent to Jordan, he cursed on the spot.
But he immediately smiled and offended Boss Qiao. When Boss Qiao really becomes the boss, he warden said that he would consider the Bobcats. This Jordan is definitely more enthusiastic than Cuban chasing Jordan Jordan...
Two best teams, two best defensive teams, plus MVP, best coach, and best sixth man. As the media advocated after the Trail Blazers won 70 wins, the Trail Blazers became the biggest winner in the regular season!
If you don't win 70, it may be very different, because 69 wins cannot open a qualitative gap with the Pistons with 67 wins, but 70 wins are different, 70 wins and 69 wins are two completely different teams in people's opinion.
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At 7:56 pm, relying on Artest's 20 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks, Jermaine O'Neal's 15 points, 9 rebounds, Tianzun's 13 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 blocks, Mobley's 12 points, 3 assists...
The Pacers beat the Cavaliers 79-61 and won the tiebreaker!
James scored 14 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists tonight, and was scolded by Barkley, the commentator who broadcast the game, because the Cavaliers had a total of 9 assists tonight.
The Pacers defeated the Cavaliers 4-3 and met with the Pistons in the second round. All the first round of the playoffs this season ended.
After 4 minutes, at 8 pm, the second round of relay began, and the game between the Trail Blazers and the Clippers at home started.
Liu Xiu copied the "Flying Squirrel" of the Little Flying Squirrel and the "unstoppable" of the Mageti.
‘Flying Squirrel’, counterattack speed +3, combined with the bonus of ‘Not-to-do’ when attacking the frame with strength +3, layup +3, and bounce +3. Every time Liu Xiu plays the Clippers, as long as he copys these two people, it will be a great pleasure to rush.
After the game started, the Trail Blazers were obviously slow to heat up, and the Clippers, who had just finished their lower score, were very excited and full of energy. They played 31-22 in the first quarter.
The Clippers took the lead in the away game, leading the Trail Blazers by 9 points to enter the second quarter.
In the second quarter, the Trail Blazers responded and returned the Clippers a 31-21-year-old. At the end of the half, he overtook the Clippers by 53-52 by 1 point, earning back his face.
But the game was not as smooth as the Trail Blazers players imagined. This response in the second quarter failed to defeat the Clippers.
In the third quarter, Kassel scored 8 points and 4 assists in a single quarter, leading the team to score a single quarter of 26-23. After the third quarter, he led the team to overtake the Trail Blazers by 78-76 by 2 points!
Liu Xiu had a headache when fighting against Kassel.
Liu Xiu felt that Kassel was not on the same line as the others, and his pace was so slow, but he suddenly shot a cold arrow and suddenly shot the ball, and it was extremely fast. He could guess what Kassel wanted to do, but he just couldn't stop it.
However, although the Clippers are strong, they are still a little bit short of it - superstars.
It can be offensive, like Kobe, or defense, like Garnett, the Clippers don't have it.
And the Trail Blazers have it!
Liu Xiu relied on a high-level single in the last quarter, scored counterattacks and received the ball and shot the ball in the running position... made 5 of 11 shots in a single quarter, including 1 of 3 three-pointers, plus 2 of 2 free throws soared 13 points and 3 assists, leading the team to score 23 points in a single quarter.
In this quarter, the Trail Blazers mainly play defense, fighting with the Clippers, limiting the Clippers' scoring to 16 points!
In the last 4 minutes of the game, the Clippers scored 2 points with only free throws, and watched Liu Xiu score again and again to overtake the score, widening the gap.
In the end, relying on Liu Xiu's 31 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists and 4 steals, Randolph's 15 points, 13 rebounds, Ray Allen's 19 points, 3 assists, Kwame Brown's 8 points, 7 rebounds and 3 blocks, and the extrajudicial madman's 10 points and 6 rebounds... The Trail Blazers defeated the Clippers 99-94 and won their first victory in the second round of this year!
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"The two teams in Los Angeles are one and may be our opponent."
This sentence was said in an interview after defeating the Clippers and winning the first victory in the series. He didn't expect it to become popular!
ESPN actually made a program on this topic and found a group of experts to discuss it...
ESPN, which has always enjoyed Black Lakers and Black Kobe, has a very high opinion of Kobe this time.
They put data, build models, and speculate that if the Lakers were not Kobe, their strength would probably be the same as the Timberwolves, Hornets, Bobcats, and Knicks; and the overall strength of the Clippers is enough to become the basic team of a championship team, and Kobe is expected to become a historically-level team with a strength of more than 65 wins like the Trail Blazers and Pistons.
Once this speculation was made, not everyone really recognized it, but it was controversial.
At this time, the Clippers fans rarely stood together with Lakers fans...
Not widely recognized or not recognized, it has become popular!
Seeing this development, Liu Xiu had to sigh that ESPN is still good at doing the job.
After a day's rest time, at 8 pm on May 8, the Trail Blazers ushered in the second game of the series with the Clippers at home.
After the G1 game, the Trail Blazers confirmed the strength and strength of the Clippers.
The Clippers' strength lies in the point guard's ability to control the field, Mageti's impact, and Brand's low-post back-attack.
Kassel's field control ability cannot be solved, mainly because his brain is good.
But they can deal with Mageti's impact and Brand's back attack! And they are good at dealing with it!
With the experience of G1, the Trail Blazers played very smoothly. After 2 hours and 25 minutes of the game, led by Liu Xiu's 21 points, 11 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals, the Trail Blazers steadily defeated the Clippers 98-87, and the score was 2-0!
Chapter completed!