In the Charlotte Bobcats Arena, before the start of this round of the Bobcats and the Raptors, as the team led by Nash and Chen Xiao, the core players of the NBA's strongest running and storm, many expert media fans think that the Bobcats and the Raptors' series will eventually return to the fast and running and storm styles that Chen Xiao and Nash are good at.

Then, Chen Xiao will use his stronger and more comprehensive abilities to easily defeat Nash.

However, the first game between the Bobcats and the Raptors' playoffs made media experts and even fans in the entire NBA dumbfounded.

In the regular season this season, the Bobcats and the Raptors were enough to make people feel abnormal. Nash and Chen Xiao, who have always been accustomed to the fast attack style, cooperated with the team to play positional offense.

But in the playoffs, it should be back to normal, right?

This is the game, and the style of the position attack of the two teams even becomes more obvious.

Judging from this game, the two teams really have no intention of repentance on the road to position attack.

The incredible style of the Bobcats and the Raptors naturally caused discussions among many people. Is it necessary to completely give up everything I was good at before?

The Bobcats and the Raptors wouldn't really think that they had given up on such a long quick attack, and they could pick it up if they were picked up, right?

Faced with such doubts, a passage from TNT's live commentary on this game, Barkley's commentary during the game attracted a lot of attention and recognition: "I don't think the Bobcats and the Raptors are confused.

They just want to get closer to the championship. In the current NBA, with three powerful and peculiar teams such as the Heat, Nets and Magic, other teams must play their own position and attack if they want to win the championship.

Both teams are using their opponents as their whetstones. In my opinion, the two teams are full of tacit understanding. They have used the formation and playing styles they have been honing for the whole season of the regular season, and now they need to achieve it with real challenges.

While playing positional offense, every player of the Bobcats has very good singles ability and is very good at one-on-one breakthrough and pass-through peripheral shooting.

The Toronto Raptors have the strongest forward line in the league, and they are very good at suppressing opponents in the paint area.

These are two very different styles of positional offense. Which one is more effective when encountering the Nets, Magic or Heat? It is hard to say, but for both teams, promoting their positional offense style is the key to their ability to compete with the other three super teams."

I have to say that in terms of view on this matter, Barkley is very reliable.

Let’s not talk about the Raptors for now, just talk about the Bobcats. The Bobcats are indeed treating the Raptors as the strongest imaginary enemy of the Heat, which is testing and grinding.

Milicic and Ojosh Smith Jr.'s forward styles are very similar to those of Yao Ming, Chris Bosh, and Tony Allen.

When the Bobcats face the Heat, they are most afraid of the Heat's forward line. Yao Ming and Chris Bosh suppressed Bynum and Randolph very much.

According to normal procedures, the Bobcats who ended the regular season will not be able to score 50% against any team in the league, at least they will not suffer too much, but they will definitely be a life-threatening death against the Heat.

In this case, it is really lucky for the Bobcats to be able to meet a team like the Raptors and the Heat to be able to achieve a team with similar styles.

So the question is, if that is the case, why should the Raptors cooperate with the Bobcat and use it as a whetstone for the Bobcat?

Obviously, this is not out of selfless dedication, because there is a team like Chen Xiao that can play from No. 1 to No. 5. The Raptors and the Bobcats play fast attacks, run and fight, just say that, ten dead will be alive!

D'Antoni and Nash have already understood very well when they met Chen Xiao, the running nemesis in recent years.

So, since the Bobcats are willing to fight with them without running and fighting, if you are D'Antoni and Nash, would you not want to?

The Raptors, who have O'O and Milicic, are not afraid of fighting against the Bobcats in position to attack.

Running and bombing, ten deaths are alive, and fighting a positional battle may be five deaths and five deaths. Is this a choice that even a fool can make?

For the Raptors, as long as they pass the team led by nemesis Chen Xiao, just say that, no matter when encountering the Magic, the Heat or the Nets, they will not be timid!

Therefore, for the Raptors, the positional battles in this round of the series are not only a tempering, but also an opportunity!

Under such circumstances, the Bobcats and the Raptors played a very traditional game in the playoffs G1.

In the end, the Bobcats defeated the Raptors 106-101 at home.

Chen Xiao played in this game for 40 minutes, making 11 of 21 shots, 5 of 11 three-pointers, and 4 of 5 free throws. He scored 31 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists in the whole game.

In addition to Chen Xiao, Granger made 5 of 16 shots, 2 of 6 three-pointers, and 5 of 6 free throws, scoring 17 points.

Xiao Cannon made 5 of 11 shots, 2 of 8 three-pointers, 2 of 2 free throws, and scored 14 points and 15 assists.

The five starting players of the Bobcats, except for Chen Xiao, Granger and Xiaopao scored in double digits, Bynum and Randolph did not score in double digits.

Bynum made 2 of 4, 0 of 2 free throws, scored 4 points and 10 rebounds, while Randolph made 4 of 9, 1 of 2 free throws, scored 9 points and 7 rebounds.

Milicic and O'Neal Jr. are both meat and the other one is fast, and both can run and stand up at the same time. They are simply an alternative version of Yao Ming + Bosh.

Facing the combination of Milicic and O'Neal Jr., it can be seen that Bynum and Randolph's offense are very uncomfortable.

At the same time, judging from the data of Bobcats players, the Bobcats mainly played on the outside in this game, so Chen Xiao, Paul and Granger combined to shoot 25 three-pointers and 9 of 25 shots. This hit rate cannot be said to be good, but can only be said to be qualified. The 36% hit rate allows the audience to see what tactics Jordan and Bobcats are going to play, and the tactics are played instead of throwing them around.

Compared with the Bobcats, the starting players on the Raptors have much better offensive efficiency.

O'Neal Jr. made 7 of 15 shots, scored 22 points, Milicic made 4 of 9 shots, and Josh Smith made 7 of 12 shots, and 18 points, especially Josh Smith, who can be said to have spit out the cannon, and his shot is just like his shot. If the shooting is removed, his efficiency in the empty cut in this game is simply amazing.

So, for the Raptors, their tactics in this game were actually played out.

If we look at the starting tactics, the two teams play evenly, if we look at the efficiency and scores of the starting players, the Raptors are evenly strong.

But the reason why Bobcats won in the last game was not only that Chen Xiao was more stable at the critical moment, but also that we have to talk about the rotation lineup led by Roy.

In this game, Roy made 5 of 10, 2 of 4 three-pointers, 4 of 4 free throws, and scored 16 points. Although Aldridge scored not many points, only 6 points, his shooting percentage was 3 of 4.

These two Bobcats' rookies this year have really changed the fate of the Bobcats this season. If they were not in the perfect match of the two of them in the rotation lineup, to be honest, the Bobcats would have to lose at least 10 more games in the regular season this season.

Therefore, the Raptors head coach D'Antoni was quite unwilling to accept this game by Roy and Aldridge.

Because he and the Raptors did not fail tactically.

"We blocked the paint area, and we forced the Bobcats to take 32 goals outside the three-point line in this game. They shot 85 goals in this game, and they had nearly 40% of them shot outside the three-point line, which is in line with our expectations for this game before the game. I am very satisfied with our players' performance, but we just lost. I can only say that Brandon Roy and Aldridge are really geniuses. Putting players of their level on the bench is simply a crime against other NBA teams!

Of course, I know that for Bobcats fans, it is their luck to have players of Roy and Aldridge on the bench and they will thank Michael, I know.

So, you can say that Michael defeated me in this game, but you can't say that head coach Michael defeated head coach D'Anthony."

Not to mention, D'Antoni was quite humorous. When he finished speaking, he and all the reporters on the scene burst into laughter.

Jordan, who was named by D'Anthony, also laughed after hearing this: "To be honest, I don't want everyone to divide Michael into head coach Michael and general manager Michael. In the NBA, there is only one Michael.

Of course I know what Mike means. My strength in the position of the head coach is indeed not that good, but I still don’t want my coaching ability to be underestimated. You should be happy that I will win another playoff game by coaching."

This season, many people have said that Roy and Aldridge's performance on the bench are bad. These two rookies can average 25 points per game for the Bobcats to be stable and efficient.

To be honest, this firepower and efficiency are rare in the history of the NBA.

So many head coaches said after the game: "It was Michael who beat me, but it was not Michael."

This is quite interesting and quite funny.

So much so that when Chen Xiao was asked this question, he laughed: "I think you are right, but this means that Michael is really excellent, but I believe that in the end, there is only one Michael in the NBA."

Well, in the end, there is only one Michael in the NBA, so Michael has a lot now.

The Bobcats and the Raptors played very fiercely in the first playoff game, but after the game, except for D'Antoni and the Raptors showed a lot of unwillingness, everyone's atmosphere was actually quite happy.

However, the joy after the game does not mean that the two teams are full of kindness to each other.

In fact, at the summary meeting of this game, both teams were "full of maliciousness" towards each other.

After the first game, both teams deepened a lot of understanding of each other.

For the Bobcats, the Raptors are indeed an alternative little Heat.

They can be assured and bold in experimenting with various tactics and preparations for the Heat in this round of the series.

For the Raptors, in this game, they also saw their huge advantage in the forward line. They can have such a huge advantage against the Bobcats. In other words, they really have one of the strongest forwards in the league, which means that they may really be able to compete for the final championship.

Now, they need to develop more available tactics for their forward edge.

On April 24, 2007, after two days of rest, the Bobcats and Raptors' G2 not only did not give up the tentative style of the previous game, but even in this game, the tentative style of the two teams became more obvious.

Under such circumstances, the two teams played back and forth, but the process of the game was just that.

If you say that this game is not exciting, it is definitely not, but if you say that this game is very exciting, it is not right.

In short, this game is definitely not a real playoff, and there can be no wrong playoffs in the game.

In this game where the two teams frequently made mistakes, the Bobcats, who played at home, lost to the Raptors 103-109.

In this game, as the team's leading player, Chen Xiao's performance was still very outstanding.

In the NBA, Chen Xiao will increase his defense and ruthlessness, and wish he would foul every time he defended, Chen Xiao made 11 of 24 shots, 6 of 14 three-pointers, and 6 of 8 free throws, scoring 34 points, 11 rebounds and 5 assists in the whole game.

But in addition to Chen Xiao, Randolph strengthened his offense under the instruction of Jordan. He made 5 of 16 shots in the game. O'Neal Jr. made three of them in this game and two of them were Milicic. At the end of the game, he was a little star-stirring.

"I'm not afraid of that guy O'Neal, but that big European bear is really the best!"

After this game, Randolph said indignantly at Chen Xiao. By the way, Chen Xiao believed it. Randolph seemed to be really not afraid of Duncan. A opponent with a style like Xiao Ao, one-on-one. He played in an offensive end, which was not very tall and strong, but he had the means to play in an extremely comprehensive inside line.

But he really felt very strong and tall as a person like Milicic, and he was really uncomfortable.

This time, O'O's three were all Milicic, and after he was holding him back, he was twisted and O'Neal was fucked from the side.

It was not only Randolph who was uncomfortable in this game. Xiaopao made 5 of 14 shots, and the data was average. Xiaopao also strengthened his offense in this game, but he killed Nash. After killing Nash, Xiaopao found that the Raptors were full of long hands and feet. He was stunned by these long legs and long hands.

In this game, Xiao Cannon made an excellent shooting percentage of 4 of 6 shots from three-pointers, which is rare, but when it entered the three-point line, Xiao Cannon's shooting percentage was 1 of 8 shots!

An iron piece!

It can be seen that in this game, both teams made a lot of mistakes on the offensive end, but on the defensive end, the Raptors' forward advantage allows them to be more bottom-line and more stable when everyone makes mistakes in offense.

If Roy hadn't scored 6 of 10 in this game and scored 17 points and Aldridge had 2 of 2 in 2, to be honest, the Bobcats should have lost more in this game.

Therefore, the adjustments between the two teams in this game were completely defeated.

It was just because of the stable performance of Chen Xiao, Roy and Aldridge that Boss Qiao seemed to have just lost so much.

On April 27, 2007, the two teams came to Toronto to engage in a G3 battle between the two sides.
To be continued...