After the Cavaliers lost two consecutive games between G4 and G5, the Cavaliers' interior was quite relaxed.

After the team led 3-0, the focus was on cultivating young players of the team. This is Carlisle's established team strategy.

The Cavaliers have six young players this season, including Chen Xiao, James, Crawford, Chandler, Dalius Myers, and Diop.

There are also four rookie players, Barnes, Dior, Korver and Mo.

It is basically difficult for Dior and Xiao Mo to form combat effectiveness this season, because the physical confrontation exercises of the two have not been completed yet, and the standards for the regular season may not be met, let alone games such as the playoffs, or even the Eastern Conference Finals, and the Finals.

But the two players Korver and Barnes are different.

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

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

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

After all, Chen Xiao used his systematic evaluation of his strength to choose theirs.

In the past, his ability to be 80 was only 70 or even 65 most of the time.

Now, his 80 ability can finally show that he is 80.

Isn't this going up straight?

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

Barnes has also gained a lot of time in the regular season, and he has played a lot of playing time this season.

But like the previous five playoff games, there are still very few playing time per game.

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

I have to say that Matt Barnes's "hiding" is really deep.

Before, the team was not very good at leaking. After these five games were reused, Carlisle discovered that the team's small forward was so easy to use.

You can do anything, maybe it's not that strong, but you can do everything from attack, defense, passing, shooting, and breakthrough.

Especially his defense.

This season, like other Cavaliers players, Barnes also learned to defend with Chen Xiao.

Chen Xiao always thought that the Cavaliers who learned defense from him, except for James, who made the fastest progress, Chandler was the fastest progress player.

After all, his teaching is quite testing the player's IQ and ball quotient.

Players with high IQ and ball quotient will make rapid progress only by teaching them with experience cards.

Players like Luo Ge who have extremely high quotient in both quotas are simply tailor-made for Chen Xiao's teachings.

And a student like Dalius Myers, then...

Of course, Chen Xiao didn't think Barnes was a "bad student" like Dalius Myers, but he didn't think Barnes was a good student like James and Chandler.

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

However, in this series of matches with the Pistons, Barnes not only changed Carlisle's view, but also changed Chen Xiao's view.

"Even if he is the weakest player in UCLA's history, he is still the boss of UCLA. In the fourth year of UCLA, he can average 13.5 points, 6.2 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.1 steals per game in the NCAA, with a shooting percentage of 49.5%, and a three-point shooting percentage of 41.7%.

Cavaliers assistant coach Mike Brown looked at Matt Barnes' data in these five games and said with a smile to the team's head coach Carlisle next to him.

Barnes' performance on the bench in the past five games is simply a surprise for the Cavaliers.

Not to mention his defense that has become very good after being trained by Chen Xiao for a season. 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 attack!

To be honest, if you simply want to defend, the Cavaliers have such players. Dalius Myers, the little wolf king, must have a very strong defense, but the problem is that he does not have the ability to shoot.

But Barnes is different. He has offense and defense. The defense may not be as strong as Dalius Myers, but it is much better than Koval.

His offense may not be as strong as Korver, but he is much better than Dalius Myers.

It can be said that Barnes is a very important intermediate choice for a Knight.

and……

"Rick, look at this data. When the score difference between the two sides was within five points, Matt's three-point shooting percentage increased by 15%!"

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

“He is a player with a big heart.”

A player with a big heart, knows everything, is good at defense, and is very tough.

This is definitely a treasure. His talent is not that strong or not. There are enough players with strong talent in the Cavaliers.

It's great value to use the failure of two games to make such an excellent character player better familiar with the playoffs and the strongest confrontation games.

Barnes has used it well, and it is definitely a strategic weapon belonging to the Knights!

At this time, Barnes, who was being taught by Chen Xiao, definitely did not know that his status suddenly rose to such a state in the mind of the head coach.

Anyway, the Cavaliers are a very young team.

This made Carlisle want to play 100 more games before the Eastern Conference Finals.

But Carlisle also knew that this was basically impossible.

This series between the Cavaliers and the Pistons must end in Game 6.

If you play one more game, there will be a big variable in the tiebreak.

Jordan was in the Bulls, and played more games. He never finished the seventh game, but most of them ended in the sixth game.

Even Jordan knew that in the tiebreak battle, everything would become different.

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

Before the sixth game between the Cavaliers and the Pistons, the two semi-finals in the West had all been decided.

The Kings are the fastest team to advance in the semi-finals in the division. Under the leadership of Peja and Chris Webber, the Kings easily defeated the five-star Mavericks led by Nowitzki 4-1.

The Five-Star Mavericks were eliminated in the second round, which completely failed Cuban's Galaxy Battleship plan.

Nowitzki's performance in this round of the series was excellent, averaging 26.6 points, 11.8 rebounds, 1.4 assists, 1.4 steals and 2.6 blocks, with a shooting percentage of 45%, and a three-point shooting percentage of 47%. It can be said that he has played the top performance of an offensive and defensive superstar.

However, Ke Boss and Ji Boss have quite high requirements for themselves.

Chen Xiao knew that these two bosses were not satisfied with their performance this season.

However, whether you are satisfied or not, the series is over.

The results are different from the division finals in the West.

The fight in the east is quite tangled.

Of course this entanglement is not the Knights and the Pistons.

If the Cavaliers want, the Cavaliers can also complete this series earlier.

Mainly magic and 76ers.

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

Although the 76ers are the sixth team in the Eastern Conference, everyone knows the reason why this team is ranked sixth in the Eastern Conference. It is not that they are not strong, but that Iverson is basically in a cultivating game in the regular season.

In the playoffs, the strength of the 76ers was simply described as a surge. Many people say that the 76ers this season are much better than the 76ers in 2001.

Whether it is a substitute, the team's offense and defense are one level stronger.

Do you think the team that can sweep the Cavaliers 4-0 in the regular season is an ordinary person?

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

Among them, the Heat was the worst sweeping Cavaliers, followed by the 76ers, and the Magic.

Why is the Magic the strongest in the three teams, but the Sweeping Cavaliers are not that brutal?

It's mainly because of the inside defense.

The Magic's inside defense is only one Duncan. Although Duncan is strong, he cannot lock the inside one by one, so that James cannot break through.

The 76ers and the Heat, the 76ers inside combination of Mutombo and Kenny Thomas and the Heat inside combination of Yao Ming and Chris Bosh are really like a deadly existence for James.

The Magic did such a hard game in this round of series with the 76ers, but what's better for the Magic is that they have a home advantage in tiebreaks, and although Duncan played better than the previous round in this round of series, he was just average.

According to Xiao Zhan’s evaluation...

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

It is indeed possible that this is true. Ginobili is a substitute, and the data changes are not obvious. Parker, obviously, he is constantly increasing in the playoffs, whether it is playing time or shooting.

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

In fact, Xiao Zhan’s guess is correct, and the Magic was originally what he wanted to win in the sixth game, just like when he was fighting the Raptors.

However, no one expected that in the sixth game, the 76ers' small forward Glen Robinson suddenly broke out!

This really caught the magic off guard.

I have to say that there are risks in releasing water, and execution should be done with caution.
To be continued...