I am so Accurate

"Would you rather play the Spurs, or the Suns?"

The Lakers were preparing for the conference semifinals. After the training session that day, Sun Hao and O'Neal sat together and chatted again.

"Spurs."

O'Neill gave his own answer.

Sun Hao gave him a puzzled look.

"For the Suns, the interior is more comfortable than playing the Nuggets."

Sun Hao continued.

In order to be quick, the Suns directly let Stoudemire play center.

Don't think that Stoudemire's nickname "Little Overlord" sounds more domineering than "Little Emperor", but his defense is lax.

If the Suns really play against the Lakers and use him as a center, then there is only one sentence to describe the scene: I beat your shit out, I hit you in the shit, and finally hit you with your shit !

And even if the Suns don't use Stoudemire as a center, no one in the Suns can hold O'Neal.

Steven Hunter, Jack Voskull... These names you may not have heard of, are much worse than the three major insiders of the Nuggets.

"No no, I don't want to run around with them, it's too tiring."

But what O'Neill said next was very true.

Even if the Lakers have the strength to win the Suns, it is impossible to score the ball in every round of the game.

When you can't score, you have to follow the Suns back and forth at high speed.

That intensity was much more than what Phil Jackson asked him to train.

After confirming his eyes, this guy is a "lazy person" through and through.

So in comparison, he is more willing to play with the Spurs who like to play positional warfare.

Moreover, O'Neill's next words made Sun Hao unable to refute.

"It's the same with anyone, Darrell Stoudemire and Tim Duncan, it's not that different for me."

There is no difference between Stoudemire and Duncan. O'Neal is probably the only one in the NBA who dares to say that!

"However, the two guys on the outside of San Antonio have become much stronger, and the following games will not be so easy to play."

After O'Neill pretended to be aggressive, he added seriously.

What he said in the first round might sound a bit cocky at first glance.

But in fact, this guy is smart.

He was able to say such things because he knew that the strengths of the two sides were very different, so he said what he said, and there was no such thing as being slapped in the face.

But the Spurs are different. He knows that belittling such an opponent is digging his own grave.

All of this has to start with the 1995 finals.

The experience of beating Michael Jordan that year and being swept by the Houston team in the Finals will be remembered forever.

Sun Hao nodded seriously after listening.

O'Neill can think so, he is relieved.

Originally, when Phil Jackson said that the Suns had a chance, he didn't think it was completely impossible.

But it turns out that this Spurs team is stronger than anyone else.

For the Lakers, even if he and O'Neal have advantages in both point matchups, there is still no possibility of an easy victory.

As the media has exaggeratedly reported, this is a collision of galaxies within the Milky Way.

As for who will win in the end, no one knows.

And for Sun Hao, the Spurs are also an opponent he is all too familiar with.

In the first few years of his career, he has been playing encounters with the Spurs.

Now it's the Lakers' first year, and it's happening again.

Well, either Duncan said "the future is yours" to him, or he was the first to say "it's mine now" to Duncan.

Definitely, it will be exciting.

...

Two days later, in the highly anticipated game of fans, the Wizards and Celtics in the East, and the Lakers and Spurs in the West officially kicked off in the divisional semifinals.

As before, the time in the Eastern Conference is earlier and the game will be played earlier.

The old enemies of the Wizards and the Celtics, plus Yao Ming and Gasol, the two top insiders in the same session, their encounters are a lot to watch.

However, it can be clearly felt in the game that the strength of the Wizards is better than that of the Celtics.

In the end, the Wizards established an advantage from the beginning, and led all the way to the end and successfully won the game.

97 to 81, although the Wizards under the guidance of Jeff Van Gundy lacked appreciation, but the players performed their duties and their strength was not bad.

In history, the Houston team under Van Gundy has always been a team in the championship.

It's just that the team has not found a strong role player in those years. After finding Yao Mai, he was injured one after another, so there was no result in the end.

Now that history has changed, it is still Yao Mai, but they have Hamilton, LaFrentz, Alexander and other high-quality role players around them.

Just like the fans expected in the All-Star Game, this year's Finals really has the opportunity to stage a play of the Wizards against the Lakers.

That's exciting.

Of course, that's just the expectations of the fans. At least in the West, there is still a lot of unknowns for the Lakers to pass the Spurs.

The first game of the series is still played at the Staples Center.

The Lakers' record ranks first in the West and first in the league. They have home court advantage against all teams in the playoffs.

The Staples Center is full of attendance.

After sweeping the Nuggets, Los Angeles fans' expectations for this Lakers team also soared.

Although they are facing a strong team, the Spurs, they still have full confidence in the team.

Including the owner of the Lakers, Old Buss, also came to the scene!

Bass said at the beginning that he would go to watch Sun Hao play again, but he didn't feel unwell before. On such an important occasion as the semi-final opener, he came!

During the warm-up before the game, the photographers on the scene took shots of the old Bass in the box, and this scene caused the scene to burst into cheers.

Including the players of the Lakers on the field, they all felt encouraged after seeing this scene.

After the opening ceremony, the starters of the two teams appeared one after another.

For the Spurs, Parker and Ginobili are on the outside, Bowen and Duncan are on the front line, and Rasu Nesterovic is the center.

Ginobili has been starting the regular season this season, and Popovich didn't make any adjustments in the playoffs.

Nesterovic was the starting center for the Timberwolves.

After playing the best performance of his career with the Timberwolves last season, he was recruited by the Spurs with a six-year, 42 million contract last summer.

For the Lakers, Phil Jackson followed the starting lineup for the playoffs, but the difference is that tonight Finley is playing small forward and Christie is playing shooting guard.

The intention of this adjustment could not be clearer, it is to let Christie go to match up with Ginobili.

Christie's opponent in the first game with the Lakers was the Spurs, and his defense against Ginobili was also very brilliant in that game.

So although this adjustment is small, it also makes fans look forward to the game even more.

There is a small detail before the game starts.

During the previous two games, Parker, Sun Hao's little fan, would come over to say hello.

But today he didn't do that either.

I don't know if it was the dunk in the All-Star Game that made Parker lose his temper.

The game started immediately, and the two teams started to play. O'Neill pressed Nesterovic and dialed the ball back to the Lakers half, officially kicking off the game.

Like the previous first-round play, the Lakers played O'Neal first as soon as they came up.

After Sun Hao dropped the ball in, O'Neal hit Nesterovic with his back.

Nesterovic is a Slovenian, with outstanding height and wingspan, and excellent confrontation.

Spurs fans affectionately called him "Ouchi" at this time, and thought he was the most suitable insider to partner with Duncan except for "Admiral" David Robinson.

In fact, Nesterovic's confrontation is indeed OK, typical Pyrenees.

"boom!"

There was a muffled sound when the two confronted for the first time. This was a complete duel of strength.

Then... Nesterovich took a big step back from being pushed.

Obviously, although he is given high hopes by the Spurs fans, he still doesn't look good enough in front of the "playoff sharks".

In fact, in the current league, such a one-on-one can hold him a little bit, except for Yao Ming and Dampier, there may not be a third one.

After taking Nesterovic away, O'Neal didn't stage a big abuse of the frame, but just a light little hook to send the ball into the basket.

It can be seen that after playing in the Denver Plateau, the Sharks also realized that their physical fitness was incomparable to when they were young.

And just like what he said to Sun Hao before the game, he had already foreseen that the game against the Spurs would be difficult, so he tried to save energy as much as possible at the beginning.

Of course, dunks and small hooks have the same effect as long as they can send the ball into the basket.

The Lakers, head start.

Looking back, the Spurs were organized by Parker.

In addition to competing for rankings, the regular season games are also a game for each team to test each other's strengths.

In the All-Star Game, the Spurs and the Lakers lost both games, and Christie's role was obvious.

Popovich gained wisdom by taking a fall, and realized that it was not feasible to start the offense from Ginobili like in other games, so he made a change.

In fact, the Spurs' ability to easily defeat the Suns in the first round has something to do with their "double point guard" lineup.

Ginobili's off-the-ball running on the wing restrains the defense, and Duncan rolls down after the pick-and-roll.

Although at this time Popovich has not specifically studied any "hammer tactics", the Spurs' offensive system is actually much richer than before.

If it weren't for this, they wouldn't have been able to beat the Suns to the ground in the first round with their offense.

Parker tacitly passed the ball to Duncan.

Duncan's catch step is a...wait for it!

O'Neal appeared on Duncan's dunk route!

After O'Neal became fat, he couldn't get out, and the defensive area shrank to the three-second zone.

But in this area, he is still the overlord of the restricted area!

Duncan's shot after the confrontation... went out of the basket!

In fact, the pair of inside partners of the Spurs is very interesting. Nesterovic and other centers have certain advantages in strength when confronting each other, while Duncan suppresses almost all opponents in terms of strength.

But only when they meet O'Neill, both of them are not good at it!

O'Neal showed flexibility that didn't belong to his body, blocked Duncan and then turned around to grab a defensive rebound.

The Spurs' first wave of offense returned without success!

However, while the Spurs strengthened their offense, they still retained their defense. This time they retreated very quickly, and did not give the Lakers a direct chance to fast break.

Switch to positional battle, Sun Hao, continue to give the ball to O'Neill!

In the third and fourth games of the Nuggets, due to O'Neal's physical fitness, Sun Hao's shots increased a lot compared to the previous two games, and his scoring also increased accordingly.

But to be honest, he still prefers to throw the ball to O'Neal.

It's not that he has low desire to score or something, but it's so easy to play!

Isn't it comfortable watching O'Neal take the ball in the paint and eat others alive?

Sun Hao is really getting more and more immobile, what is going on in Kobe's head.

When O'Neal is double-teamed, won't he save his energy by easily catching the ball from the outside and scoring? It has to be so difficult.

Nesterovic was once again carried away by O'Neill.

With O'Neill's current weight and strength, even if you are a European great pyrenes, he won't be of much use!

This time O'Neill scored with a light wipe.

The tiger came out of the cage and sniffed the rose.

These eight words can't be more accurate to describe O'Neill's performance.

4 to 0!

O'Neal scored 4 points in a row at the start!

Sun Hao said that the ball was played with a little effort.

Nesterovic received a sudden point from Parker in the frontcourt and hit a mid-range shot, scoring the first 2 points for the Spurs.

Can carry and shoot, this may be the reason why Spurs fans love this insider so much.

When he returned to the defensive end, O'Neal continued to catch the ball.

Only this time, the man defending him is no longer Nesterovic, but Duncan!

After being beaten like that in the opening game, it is impossible for Popovich to make no adjustments.

O'Neill, sinking his weight and continuing to chisel.

What he said to Sun Hao before was not a joke, Duncan and Stoudemire, for him, there is not much difference on the defensive end.

Just chisel it.

Duncan... expressed that he was a bit overwhelmed.

A big fat man who weighs more than you, is taller than you, and is as flexible as you, how can this make people play!

His suppressed center of gravity was a little bit unable to get up, O'Neill seized this moment, turned around and shot with a wipe.

Duncan, can't cover it.

"boom!"

The ball bounced off the backboard and headed toward the basket.

It's a bit of a pity that Duncan's defense still had some interference on this ball. O'Neal's shot didn't go directly into the frame, but knocked on the edge of the basket and then smashed out of the frame.

Duncan was about to turn around to receive the defensive rebound, and then, he felt a mass of dark shadows covering his head.

When you think that O'Neal's weight has prevented him from flying, and the consecutive hooks in the opening game have proved this, it means that you have lost.

Amidst the exclamation of the fans, O'Neal missed a shot on the rebound and took off for the second time, dunking the ball into the basket through Duncan!

Sun Hao stared straight at him.

There is one thing to say, he has always believed that Duncan is the greatest power forward in NBA history, not one of them.

The 20-year rookie of the Spurs, Shi Buddha, is the absolute cornerstone and has absolute dominance in the NBA.

But one thing is obvious is that if the Spurs don't play O'Neal, I will be the number one insider Duncan, and I met his only nemesis.

The stone Buddha, who was bullied by sharks in those years, was shown vividly in front of Sun Hao.

ps: One chapter will be updated today, and two chapters will be guaranteed tomorrow.