rpbooks Chapter 421
Chapter 421
Chapter 421
The Blazers have always left the deepest impression on people with their sharp offense and selfless team spirit, but their defense is also very strong.Facing a team like the Thunder, they can keep their opponents below 90 points. There are very few teams in the league who are confident in doing so.
The most frightening thing is that they have Matthews and Ye Feng on the outside. Both Camby and Oden, who came off the bench, are good at protecting the frame. Together, they created a good atmosphere and drove the teammates. Contribute on the defensive end together.
Originally, Felton and Aldridge were not considered good defensive players, but their physical fitness is not bad, and defense is just a matter of attitude.As long as you are willing to defend, you can do well no matter what. After all, there are no weak players who can join the NBA.Driven by Ye Feng and the others, their defensive ability has been greatly improved. Felton defended Lawson in the first round of the playoffs, and Aldridge defended Ibaka in the just-concluded third game. example of.
Although the Thunder are very strong and have excellent athletic ability, Ye Feng and Matthews are masters who can fight for more than 40 minutes on the court. Although Camby is old, Oden's performance after his injury is very convincing. If If it wasn't for protecting him, McMillan wanted him to start.
But even so, McMillan still made Camby a false starter, that is to say, let Camby start but don't need to play other starters for as long.Originally, it should be reasonable to replace the substitute in the second half of the first quarter, but McMillan planned to replace Oden just after halfway through the first quarter and let him guard the basket.Correspondingly, he also increased Roy's playing time. In his opinion, it is time for these two generals to play a role.
Oden's performance has gradually been recognized by people in the circle. Although some people still compare him with Durant, the second place in the same year, many people have begun to praise him for regaining his previous dominance in the college arena.Indeed, Durant is still very good, but Oden has hit a double-double in every game and has sent at least two blocks. Everyone believes that if there is no original injury, he would have been the top center in the league. .
Ye Feng, as the team's offensive organizer, also likes to play pick-and-roll with Oden. Although Oden's mid-range shot can only be regarded as average, his pick-and-roll roll is very threatening. The Thunder's starting center is the former Celtics. The starting center, Perkins, is an inside tank-type center with almost no bounce and average autonomous offensive ability. For the Thunder, his only role is to block the advance route of the assaulters and prevent them from directly attacking the basket.
But this also means that his movement speed is very slow, whether it is Oden or Ye Feng can easily deal with him, although Matthews can not reach the level of bypassing Perkins to attack the basket, but he is an emergency stop jumper Good player, if you don't go head-to-head with Perkins, you can use a jumper to solve the problem.
Thanks to the tough defense of the Trail Blazers team, they won two games in a row after winning the third game, and easily defeated the Thunder 4-1 to advance to the Western Conference Finals.However, the other set of duels has not yet been decided. In fact, this is not bad, at least there can be more rest time, isn't it?
The Trail Blazers' easy 4-1 victory was beyond many people's expectations, and the Thunder scored less than 90 points in four of the five games, and two games were less than 108.3 points. The strength of the Blazers' defense can be seen.You must know that the Thunder only scored less than 90 points in two games during the entire regular season, averaging [-] points per game, let alone scoring less than [-] points in a single game.But the Blazers did this, which is undoubtedly surprising.
The Spurs are fighting fiercely with the Grizzlies.For the Spurs' aging core lineup, encountering a team like the Grizzlies is really a headache for them. The Grizzlies' style of play is very old-school, and they still use the inside as the core.The inside combination of Gasol and Randolph actually didn't suffer much against Duncan, especially Randolph, who played well in the Trail Blazers at the beginning of the 21st century, was still young, coupled with the powerful small forward cover Yi and Oden's alumni Conley, the Spurs are indeed difficult to deal with.
For the Grizzlies team, the Spurs don't want to fight defensively. This is in the hands of the Grizzlies.The league hates this round of the series. After all, few fans are willing to watch such a style of game. There is no way to guarantee the ratings, and even the tickets cannot be sold.Memphis is relatively better. San Antonio is a small ball market, and the seats in the arena are barely filled. This is still in the case of the Spurs sending out a lot of tickets.
So when the Trail Blazers defeated the Thunder to advance first, the Spurs were still fighting hard with the Grizzlies, and the battle of Tianwangshan was about to begin.Ye Feng has been paying attention to this matchup. In his opinion, although the Spurs have a higher chance of winning, even if they can advance, they still have to shed a layer of skin. This is undoubtedly good news for the Blazers.Coupled with the fact that the Trail Blazers got enough rest time, the probability of promotion must be higher than that of the tired Spurs.
The two groups of semifinals in the Eastern Conference were also at a stalemate. The Bulls could only draw the battle against the veteran Celtics.Although the Bulls' lineup is very aggressive, their experience is far behind that of the Celtics. If the Celtics were still the same Celtics as they were a few years ago, the Bulls would have been bitten. There are no more.It is precisely because the Celtics' Big Three are getting old that the Bulls have the opportunity to compete with them.
The Heat should have been able to go all the way, but they encountered stubborn resistance from the Pacers.Although it seems that they are already leading 3 to 1, it is not easy for the Heat to win these three games. They only won by 10 points in total. This is not their proper performance at all.What is surprising is that James' performance in these few games is also very average. Under the defense of Granger and George, James is also a little helpless.
Of course, no one believed that the Heat would lose this round of the series. Their whole team was suffocating to seek revenge from the Blazers, but the strength of the Pacers' resistance was beyond their expectations.And there are many stars in the Heat. Without James, Wade and Bosh, the Pacers' defense cannot be comprehensive.
Now the Trail Blazers have become the first team to advance to the division finals. They just need to wait for the good show while undergoing recovery training. The intensity of the second round of this year's playoffs is indeed very high, but the Thunder has become the most tragic That's all.
(End of this chapter)