The Fifth Point Guard

The Magic, which fell behind 0-3, had no way out.

Grant Hill and Tracy McGrady were under a lot of pressure.

In the face of verbal and written criticism of Orlando Multimedia's defection, defending the home court has become Orlando's final bottom line.

The magic team, which worked hard for the three armies, finally relied on the strong performance of Hill and McGrady, 91-87 tenaciously regained 10%.

In this game, Shentong's attribute was improved to "steal". Although the attribute value after the increase was as high as 83-86, after the whole game, Shentong discovered that the improvement of this attribute had limited impact on the game. Although Shentong won The number of steals is as high as 6 times, but the overall effect is not as good as improving the "defense" attribute alone.

Although this game was lost, Shentong has a deeper understanding of the impact of personal abilities on the game after practicing with high numerical attributes.

Just as Barkley predicted.

The Nets returning home did not let the suspense continue.

110-96, the Nets sent away the sky-high Orlando Magic 4-1, sent away the new Eastern duo "headset" combination, and sent away the veteran Ewing who was chasing the championship dream.

After the game, Shen Tong hugged Hill, McGrady and Ewing one by one.

"Shen, this is my first season after my injury. Next season, the Magic will definitely be even more terrifying. Tracy and I will definitely put you underfoot." Too convinced.

McGrady's inner expression was directly reflected on his face, quite indifferent, but because of the good relationship with Shentong, he patiently hugged and greeted Shentong.

"Hey, suck it up, don't be so sullen, at least you broke through the first round this season, you are much better than McGrady at that time!"

After parting, McGrady had a question mark on his face: "What?"

"Shen, congratulations. I really didn't expect you to improve so much this season. Except for Michael, I have never seen such an outstanding guard in his rookie season. I wish you good luck." Ewing, who missed the championship again, said sincerely .

Shen Tong said: "Hey, Patrick, what are your plans next?"

Ewing shook his head, with a hint of confusion in his eyes, and said, "I don't know, maybe I'll take a good rest first, and then think about my plans for next year, maybe I'm leaving this stadium."

Ewing glanced at Shen Tong's thin and young face, with a gorilla-like smile on his face, and said: "The future will belong to you young people, and I can no longer make any substantial achievements on the court. contributed."

After shaking hands again, Shentong and Ewing bid farewell.

In the live broadcast room, Barkley's butt was about to stick up from the bench.

"Hey Kenny, what did I say? 4-1, is there?"

Smith said: "The iron tree is blooming!"

Buckley: "."

It's strange to say that the two semifinals in the East and West have exactly the same score in the series.

Four 4-1!

The New Jersey Nets defeated the Orlando Magic 4-1.

In this round of the series, the best performance of the Nets is Kidd and Shentong. Kidd used extremely sharp ball control and passing to firmly control the rhythm of the game on the Nets side, and also improved the performance of the team. Shen Tong became the Nets' assaulter. If Kidd is the strategist who strategizes in the rear, then Shen Tong is like a general who charges in the front line!

Hill and McGrady's performance is not bad, but they can't just care about their own performance. The Magic team needs to think about how to equate star performance with team victory.

Another Eastern Conference semifinal is the second-ranked Detroit Pistons in the Eastern Conference against the third-ranked Boston Celtics.

Before the start of this series, people were generally optimistic about the Pistons with iron-blooded defense, but the result was surprising. The Celtics easily eliminated the Pistons 4-1.

The biggest contributor to the Celtics' victory is the pair of twin stars Pierce and Walker, but Walker's performance is even more commendable.

The shortcoming that Antoine Walker has always been criticized for is that his performance is extremely unstable. He scored 30 points in the last game and can score single digits in the next game.

Because of his outward shooting style, Walker's scoring depends almost entirely on his shooting touch.

Fat Toutuo, who is known as the "King of Wave Casting", can cast as well as he can when the feel is accurate, and "dang dang dang dang" when the feel is not good.

In other words, no matter what kind of defense he faces, Walker's performance is completely uninterrupted, and the only one who can defend him is himself.

As a result, the Pistons were unlucky. Their iron-blooded defense didn't work against Walker at all, and this guy went crazy for an entire series.

In the first matchup, Walker scored 7 three-pointers from the outside, which directly stunned the Pistons.

The Pistons, who were beaten hard, lost their minds all of a sudden. They didn't discover the characteristics of Walker's scoring, and spent a lot of money on defense.

However, defense has no effect on Walker. On the contrary, Walker's long shot in this round of the series has become a wild shot, no matter how he shoots.

Coupled with the iron-blooded defense of the Pistons, coupled with the media's great exaggeration, Walker's confidence is getting stronger and stronger.

A shooter is like this. When you lose confidence in shooting, standing under the basket is also a long-distance two-pointer. When you have sufficient confidence, standing in the middle circle is just outside the three-point line.

With the foundation of Pierce, the third-ranked scorer in the regular season, and Walker's frantic performance in this round of the series, the Celtics pulled out the Pistons, advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals, and successfully joined forces with the Nets.

Compared with the Celtics defeating the Pistons in the East, there were no surprises in the two-round series in the West.

The Sacramento Kings defeated the Dallas Mavericks 4-1.

Although the Mavericks are all soldiers, and Nick Van Exel even played a magical performance of 50+ in a single game, the overall strength of the Kings is even better.

The Mavericks recruited in the middle of the season and engaged in an arms race. Nick Van Exel, Juwan Howard, Reeve LaFrentz, Tim Hardaway...but did not consider the running-in problem.

Several players of the Kings are familiar with each other, and Webber is also known as the power forward who can pass the ball the most. Therefore, it is not surprising that the Kings beat the Mavericks.

It's just that many people think that 4-1 cannot reflect the true strength of the Mavericks.

Wang Zhizhi's first trip to the playoffs ended in the Western Conference semifinals.

In this round of the series, Wang Zhizhi only played 8 minutes of playing time, scoring 4 points and 3 rebounds.

The third-ranked Lakers in the Western Conference eliminated the San Antonio Spurs without any suspense.

Also 4-1.

No way, the "big shark" woke up.

In O'Neal's own words, the record in the regular season can't reflect their true strength at all.

Neither David Robinson nor Tim Duncan can stop O'Neal at the basket.

After this round of the series, Popovich plans to go to China in person to inspect the Mongolian man who is touted by the Chinese media as "not inferior to O'Neill in strength".

May 20, 2002.

In this day when the hospital is overcrowded 10 months later, the East and West finals will start at the same time!