The Lakers swept the Pelicans 4-0 cleanly in the second round, and the process was not much harder than sweeping the Thunder.

The Pelicans coaches racked their brains and couldn't think of a way to limit Durant and Guo Xu's performance. The Lakers' defensive end had ways to limit the Pelicans' three All-Stars, just keep a person in check.

Lakers coach Tyrone Lu and female assistant coach Becky Harmon once again showed their abilities. They are not pure puppet coaches and can occasionally come up with some suitable good ideas.

The same man-to-man defense tactics can work with a little change. The coaching staff asked Adams to defend Anthony Davis and Horford to defend Cousins, which reduced the efficiency of the two.

Davis is a power forward who likes to attack at low posts. He takes a large proportion of shots near the basket and hardly shoots three-pointers. Adams can withstand him and ensures that he interferes with shooting in front of him. As long as Adams keeps his shooting percentage at around 50%, it is considered as completing the task, and below 50% is a surprise.

Cousins ​​is nominally a center forward, but in fact he likes to pull out the face frame and shoot at mid- and long distances. In the regular season, he averaged 5.6 three-point shots, hit 2.1 goals, and hit a shooting percentage of 37.5%. His three-point shots and hits hits hits have hit career highs.

When Cousins ​​gets the ball from the outside, Horford is more mobile and can go out to interfere. When Cousins ​​hits the basket, Adams and Horford will retreat and double-team together, release Davis' shot from the pull-out, and stabilize the defense in the penalty area.

If the Pelicans mainly attack the penalty area, Durant will also shrink, and three big men will defend the penalty area together, forcing the Pelicans to pull out the inside and take more shots in the inefficient area.

With a successful defensive strategy and the suppression of outside stars, the Pelicans have almost no chance of winning unless the Lakers players collectively miss the outside shooting.

The Warriors eliminated the Spurs 4-1 and met the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals.

There were many people who supported the Warriors last year. This year, they became a villain because of Pachulia and Green, and were rejected by many fans. Some people even saw Stephen Curry, saying that Curry always spit out his braces and held them in his mouth, which was quite disgusting.

The second round of the East has not yet been decided, and the game was very fierce. Both series were 3-2, with the Bucks and the 76ers leading respectively. Experts predict that there are two more tiebreaks in the East, and the four teams are close in strength, and none of them have absolute advantages.

The two Western leaders have gained a lot of rest time, and Guo Xu is at home to coax his children to play and cannot go out, and he feels very bored.

Usually at this time, all the regular season awards should be announced, but this year Xiao Hua adjusted the awards time. After the draft, a regular season awards ceremony will be held on June 27.

Xiao Hua's original intention was probably to think that the regular season MVP should not be awarded in a hurry during the playoffs in May, and should be more elegant, just like the Oscars. He wanted to "bleach" the sports league, which is a black man, to get it embraced by the middle class and sports fans all over the world.

He wanted to prove to people with a big show that black players don't just say Shet, Fark. They can also be elegant, and they can be accepted by more elites.

Unfortunately, the belated justice is not justice, and the belated award is not award. Because fans all know what the winning stars perform in the playoffs, they saw the finale and could not regard the losers as strong people.

The previous process was like making a summary for the regular season, and the winning players could use this to boost the morale of the whole team. Now? After the MVP of the Finals was announced, the biggest winner of the season was clear at a glance. Who cares about who performed the best in the regular season two and a half months ago?

At that time, everyone started to pay attention to the draft, and then signed during the offseason, waiting to watch the summer league. Xiao Hua looked very mysterious. "Please pay attention, please look back at the regular season awards. We have major awards to be announced!"

Guo Xu's thoughts are very similar to Stephen Zhou in "God of Cookery". The NBA's award ceremony was like a witch-wire Buddhist garment carved in tofu in front of him. This vegetarian dish has rich ingredients, delicate knife skills, and outstanding shapes. Even the most difficult to carve tofu can be carved very exquisitely.

"How long has it been?"

"I've been sculpting for a day."

"Then you are really diya, it smells smelly. Did you smell it?"

The brainless Xiao Hua didn't realize how bad the award ceremony he was, nor did he consider what the award presenter would be at that time. The stars who were eliminated in the playoffs were probably too lazy to attend this haunted award ceremony.

Only when the results are unknown and the playoffs are still in progress can the players express their winning speeches with great enthusiasm when receiving the award.

For example, in Parallel World, Kobe won the regular season MVP in 2008, and made an exclamation. However, the finals were fucked by the Celtics led by Pierce. The game was obviously a little more exciting. The media would post news that Pierce defeated the best player with an injury and got the FMVP, which was exciting!

According to Xiao Hua's approach, the legendary topic that could have appeared disappeared. Xiao Hua would not ask the opinions of the players, fans, and media. He thought his ideas were the most awesome.

Before the start of the Western Conference Finals, the reporter interviewed players on both sides. The Warriors players did not have any confidence in eliminating the Lakers. Their goal was to defeat the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals, prevent them from winning the season, and create a historical record that would never be broken.

As long as they win one game, the Warriors can also leave their name in history, at least they have beaten the strongest team led by the strongest NBA star this season.

During the break, the Warriors coaching staff carefully studied every detail of the Lakers' tactics and tried to find out their weaknesses. The players worked hard to train and strive to meet the Western Conference Finals in the best condition.

The two series in the East were later decided.

The 76ers eliminated the Wizards 4-2.

Kemba Walker and John Wall have a shooting percentage of less than 40% and their performance is poor. When the media reported the game, they compared them with Guo Xu, thinking that these point guards are not like stars.

The reason for the Wizards' loss was that they missed the outside line. In the series, Bill's three-point shooting percentage was only 28.7%, which was not as good as Wall. Kevin Love's three-point shooting percentage was reliable, with a whopping 45%, and he averaged 2.8 goals per game.

However, since Love is an inside player, his overall shooting percentage is only 43.6%. Nurkic, who mainly scored two points, said another group of fans after the Wizards were eliminated, saying that "Love is an undercover agent". Love said that everything will go this summer, and he has enough.

The Sixers' best performance is center Jokic, who is like a big point guard pulling out to play pick-and-roll and organize attacks. His shooting is very stable and he can occasionally score three-pointers.

DeAndrew Jordan is caught in the shooting, and no one thinks he is a star center. Last season, he was a blue-collar worker who suppressed real stars and only knew how to grab rebounds.

The Bucks eliminated the Raptors 4-3.

Lillard made 10 of 23 draws in tiebreaks, 4 of 13 three-pointers, 7 of 7 free throws, and scored 31 points and 4 assists. The shooting percentage of the entire series just reached 40%. Bucks point guard Bredso only had 13.3 points and 4 assists in the series, because his shooting percentage was 45%, which was blown away by fans.

Robertson, who came from the Lakers' trade, was also very successful in defending George, with three games that allowed George to hit less than 40%. Although his data is bad, he should get a good contract in the summer.

Experts generally hope that the 76ers broke through the East and reached the finals, on the grounds that Jokic was better than Joel Embiid.

Embiid averaged 21.6 points, 12.2 rebounds and 3 assists per game in the playoffs, and his shooting percentage dropped to 43.5%, his three-point shooting percentage was 27.6%, and his free throws were only 70.5%, which greatly reduced his efficiency.
Chapter completed!