Chapter 565 Sweep the promotion!(1/2)
On April 19, 2008, three days after the end of the regular season, the highly-watched playoffs between the Bobcats and the Cavaliers will be the season's opening game and will start at the Charlotte Bobcats Arena.
Although the Bobcats are fifth and the Cavaliers are fourth, the Bobcats have better record than the Cavaliers, and the Bobcats will have a home advantage.
Logically speaking, as the defending champion, he has a home advantage and has so many records ahead, the Bobcats should be more optimistic. But in fact, the Bobcats and the Cavaliers have a very anxious battle, and many people are more optimistic about the Cavaliers.
As for the reason, it is very simple, that is, after Xiao Pao and Randolph left, the Bobcats became Chen Xiao's team again.
At least this is what these experts think.
The Cavaliers' Xiao Zhan is the best player in the entire league to defend Chen Xiao.
If Zhan and Chen Xiao die together in this round of playoffs, it will be a huge challenge for the Bobcats who return to the single core.
Therefore, before the start of the playoffs, nearly 60% of experts were optimistic that the Cavaliers were the final winner.
Both the Bobcats and Jordan are very low-key in this regard.
Because this is indeed true, if Chen Xiao dies with Xiao Zhan, it will be very unfavorable to the Bobcats.
However, the Bobcats are not without advantages. The Bobcats are the defending champions. This is their advantage. They are more experienced teams, and experience is very important in the playoffs.
Whether it is the experience of the player or the experience of the head coach, the Bobcats have the Hammer Cavaliers.
Even Jordan, the rookie head coach, feels that in the playoffs, he has no problem with the head coach of the Cavs.
After all, in the playoffs last season, people like Pat Riley and Phil Jackson were all miserable by his intelligence.
On the evening of April 19, the first game of the Charlotte Bobcats Arena, the Bobcats and the Cavaliers.
In this game, Mike Brown, Jet Jr. and the Cavaliers wanted to win the away game with their morale.
But at the beginning of the game, the Cavaliers met Jordan and formed a strange formation with an unconventional lineup.
In this game, the Bobcats did not line up their usual lineup, but instead allowed Chen Xiao to appear in the power forward position.
Bynum, Chen Xiao, Bathir, Granger, Roy.
To be honest, the Bobcats' lineup really blinded the Cavaliers' head coach Mike Brown.
To be honest, Mike Brown is planning to use James to die with Chen Xiao in this game.
But judging from the formation of troops, Jordan did not give him such a chance at all.
In fact, if the Cavaliers' head coach was not Brown but Carlisle at this time, he would definitely not have made such a mistake.
Although Chen Xiao didn't play much in the inside after coming to the Bobcats, he is recognized as the most comprehensive player in the NBA. He can play in any position and is both first-class.
Although Jordan's tactical level is not very good, he is the most imaginative and smart head coach in the NBA. In this case, Mike Brown should consider the change of Jordan and the Bobcats.
The whole world knows that as long as James and Chen Xiao die together, the winner of the final game will be the Cavaliers. So how can Jordan not know?
Since Jordan also knows, do you think he will sit and wait for death with Jordan's personality?
Perhaps ordinary NBA head coaches will not make such a huge change before the start of the playoffs. After all, Chen Xiao has really not played in the inside for a long time.
However, Jordan is definitely not an ordinary head coach. He is the head coach who is most willing to bet on. In the playoffs last season, he bet on Pat Riley and the Nets to death.
Since your Cavaliers' victory is that James and Chen Xiao die together.
Then I won't give you the chance to die together, so if it's a head coach like Carlisle and Popovich, they will definitely calculate that Jordan is very likely to let Chen Xiao play inside in this game, thus staggering the direct showdown with Xiao Zhan.
But Mike Brown did not expect this.
I have to say that although Mike Brown has good tactical standards, especially his defense is very high, he is not very good at adapting to situations or dealing with these things.
Therefore, even Cavaliers fans will feel that Mike Brown is a somewhat stupid head coach.
And this game between the Bobcats and the Cavaliers' G1 is particularly obvious.
Chen Xiao's effect of playing inside is immediate.
When Chen Xiao plays inside when facing the Cavaliers, he can not only avoid the entanglement of Xiao Zhan, but also in the inside, whether it is against Scola, who is weak in defense or Oden, who plays in the playoffs for the first time, his offense and defense skills are very rough, Chen Xiao can easily play under the basket and back-playing inside.
Originally, after Randolph left, the inside comparison between the Cavaliers and the Bobcats was the Cavaliers.
However, after Chen Xiao was placed in the inside, the Bobcats obviously became the dominant one.
On the other side, although Chen Xiao came to the power forward from the position of a small forward, the Bobcats still have points to match Xiao Zhan.
And this point is very solid.
Let's just say that, Bathir is definitely the top point in the league except Chen Xiao.
This makes Xiao Zhan not have to worry about Xiao Zhan's sudden explosion even without Chen Xiao's defense.
On the other hand, Jordan raised Roy from the substitute based on Mike Brown's favorite to fuck James and didn't believe in other rotation players.
Roy can suppress the rookie Conley!
Granger also has the advantage in chasing and defending Korver.
So, after Jordan's whole game, the Bobcats and the Cavaliers should have a 55-5 match, but in the first game it turned into a one-sided game.
Because of the five positions, the Cavaliers were all at a disadvantage except for James.
"A great trick to get rid of the firewood from the cauldron!"
Even Teacher Zhang and Xiao Su next to him were shocked by Boss Qiao's move in this game.
If Chen Xiao knew about Teacher Zhang and the others' surprise at this time, he would definitely find it very strange.
I have been saying all year long that Boss Qiao is not the champion he won by holding my legs, he is really talented and knowledgeable.
His coaching skills are not good, but he is better than on-the-spot, adaptability, wit, and even psychological warfare. In the history of the NBA, few people can compare to him.
Of course, Teacher Zhang and others look down on Jordan's contribution to Bobcats' championship last season, and it cannot be blamed for Teacher Zhang. After all, in China, Chen Xiao was single-core last season, and a super single-core win!
So, no matter what, Boss Joe or Little Cannon or Randolph, Granger, Roy, they all hold their legs.
Therefore, in this series between the Bobcats and the Cavaliers, in the atmosphere where the Bobcats are likely to play seven games to advance, with Jordan's series of witty performances that set off Mike Brown as an intellectual retarded performance, he easily eliminated the Cavaliers 4-1 and advanced to the next round.
Boss Qiao, whose reputation rose so much in China, was resounding throughout China.
Mike Zhuge Jordan, this nickname is very arrogant, and Boss Qiao was quite surprised after he found out.
However, from another perspective, in this series against the Cavaliers, Boss Qiao's performance is indeed quite super magical.
G1, in this series, the most important game, Boss Qiao's change of team allowed the Boss Cavaliers to beat the Cavaliers 106-93 at home, setting the tone of the series and allowing the Cavaliers' youngsters Alexander.
Chen Xiao and Roy who took Boss Qiao to play in this game did not disappoint him. Chen Xiao successfully made Oden's foul crisis in this game, and Roy directly hit Conley, who played in the playoffs for the first time.
Although Jay Jr. faced Bathir's single defense in this game, with 12 of 19 shots, 32 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists, because Oden was in a foul crisis, he did not have Oden's pick-and-roll, his lethality dropped greatly, and the style of the pick-and-roll king was not that strong.
At least such efficiency is not possible to defeat the Bobcat with the Knight.
In the G2 game, Oden and Conley, who were carrying huge pressure on their bodies, needed to prove themselves in this game, and Boss Qiao even targeted the two of them in this game.
The two of them who wanted to prove themselves in this game were in an unbalanced manner, but Boss Qiao was targeted.
It has to be said that it is really not easy for a rookie to play in the playoffs for the first time and to take on such an important task from the beginning.
Not to mention the two players who still have obvious technical flaws, Oden and Conley, who can be targeted.
Even Boss Qiao's apprentice Durant, the biggest favorite of the rookie of the season, is known as a player who has no weaknesses. After meeting the Heat and Tony Allen in the playoffs, they are all struggling to play.
He scored 5 of 15 in the first game, played 10 irons, and scored 17 points.
In the second game, he made 6 of 22 shots, continued to work hard, played 16 irons, and scored 24 points.
Durant, from the scene, was completely broken by Tony Allen in these two games.
However, what makes Durant better than Oden and Conley is that this kid is really not afraid of his poor performance or his ironwork.
The first two games were so bad, and he was so badly beaten by Tony. In the third game, he still dared to make more moves. He made 28 shots in the whole game and made 12 of 28 shots. Although the shooting percentage was still not that high, he successfully led the Bucks to win at his home court with 36 points and 4 blocks in this game.
Don't bother with whether the Heat changed the court in this game, the whole team felt bad. At least, the Bucks seized the opportunity.
He won his first home game in three-pointers from Durant, Curry and Ray Allen.
And on the Cavaliers, there is no chance like the Bucks.
In the crucial G3 game, Boss Qiao was still staring at the two young men, Oden and Conley. Although James wanted to change his fate against the will of heaven, he made 12 of 19 in three quarters and scored 28 points efficiently again.
However, after the three quarters, the Cavaliers were already 26 points behind 51 to 77.
Good guy, after the first three quarters, the Cavaliers player with the highest score was Xiao Zhan's 28 points, and none of the remaining players scored more than 5 points.
There is no way. The Cavaliers scored a total of 51 points in the first three quarters, while Xiao Zhan scored 28 points by himself, while the others scored 23 points in total.
Obviously, the two young men Oden and Conley who were focused on being trained by the Cavaliers this season were broken by Boss Qiao.
Therefore, the Cavaliers eventually became a team where Xiao Zhan fought alone.
"We all thought this series was a magical boy who couldn't beat his hands alone, but we didn't expect that LeBron James was the one who really couldn't beat his hands alone!"
At the end of this G3 game, even TNT's commentator Barkley was shocked.
After the Bolkata and the Cavaliers' G3 game, there is basically no suspense in this series.
Especially everyone can see that after the Cavaliers lost to the Bobcats at home in G3 72-108, the other team except Zhan, the enthusiasm of the others has basically dispersed.
Well, it was broken up by Boss Qiao.
Conley and Oden have a very important role in the Cavaliers this season.
To be continued...