Chapter 327: Advance to the semifinals!

At 11 pm, James, who lost the battle of Mount Tianwang, was upset and did not feel sleepy, so he reviewed the past five games with the Nets.
"After these five games, Jason Kidd turned out to be the Nets' rebounder... The Nets have a strong place, but we are not without a chance to win." James looked at the statistics of the five games and was very concerned about the current situation. Is dissatisfied.
It was at this moment that James' cell phone rang.
"Who called this late? Sun? Wouldn’t it be for me to ask for this summer’s travel expenses? Didn’t they get the match point? They mocked me?" James saw Sun Zhuo calling, and his mood became Even more depressed.
After hesitating, James answered Sun Zhuo's call.
"LeBron, I know you just lost a crucial game today. I came to talk to you specifically. You must be very upset?" Sun Zhuo cared about James very much.
James quickly yawned pretendingly: "No, you think too much, I'm going to sleep."
Sun Zhuo felt that James might think he came to see the joke, so he continued to talk about the game: "LeBron, I have been talking with D-WADE all the time. This year is the year of our 03 generation. You, me, D-WADE and Cameron Anthony both led the team into the playoffs. The protagonist of this league gradually became us. Cameron Anthony was out. I don’t want to see you leave so early. I will be in the next game. Just solve the Bulls and meet D-WADE in the next round. No matter who can win with me, we hope that the person we meet in the Eastern Conference Finals is you."
Sun Zhuo's remarks moved James instantly. Sun Zhuo didn't come to show them that they got the match point to ridicule James' loss. He came to encourage James. And these words are very moving. James always put Sun Zhuo and Wade is regarded as a target and an opponent. The three are in the east. Both of them led the team to the second round. Only James in the first round of the game, is it not a shame?
"You and Dwyane are watching, I will definitely reverse the Nets and advance to the next round! I also hope you solve the Bulls as soon as possible. I'm waiting to see you and D-WADE play!" James said with great spirits .
Want to see Sun Zhuo and Wade, O'Neill confrontation, is it only James? Fans all over the world are waiting for their duel.
On May 6th, at home of the Bulls, the sixth game of the Magic and Bulls series has begun!
The Bulls are fighting today. If they can’t win, they will be eliminated. All the players are working hard. However, the Magic have suppressed the rhythm throughout the game and did not give the Bulls a chance to equalize again. In the end, Sun Zhuo scored 40 points. The team With a shocking victory over the Bulls, the Magic also officially advanced to the second round of the Eastern Conference semifinals with a total score of 4:2!
"Haha, won! We are promoted!" Howard happily, like a child, gave his teammates a high five.
At this time, Sun Zhuo's face was not too happy, but rather a little melancholy.
"The victory over the Bulls was expected, but in the next round, we will face the previous NBA championship team!"
Orlando Magic is about to meet with the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference semifinals. All Magic players know that the Heat are the defending champion and a strong team, but they do not know that the Heat are also the championship this season.
In the finals last year, Wade was unstoppable. This year, he has become more mature and more threatening. Although O'Neal is older, he still has dominance in the basket.
Sun Zhuo is about to face the biggest challenge this season! Although it is only the Eastern Conference semifinals, it may be more difficult than the Eastern Conference Finals or Finals!
After the Magic Bulls had the result, other teams quickly ended the series. In the end, the teams that advanced in the east were: Pistons, Magic, Heat, Cavaliers. After losing the battle of Tianwang Mountain, James was stimulated by Sun Zhuo. Dragging the series to the tiebreaker, in the seventh game, James was lucky to hold the victory in his own hands.
The Pistons will play against the Cavaliers, and the Heat will challenge the Magic.
Among the teams advancing in the West, Sun Zhuo had a very unexpected result. The Los Angeles Lakers led by Kobe Bryant, they even defeated the Phoenix Suns and advanced to the Western Conference semifinals!
The Lakers and the Suns fought hard in seven games, and the last game was in overtime. Only in the last second did they win or lose. The exciting and fierce level is the best in the first round! Kobe hit a lore ball in the last second of the last game, which made the Lakers successfully promoted. At that moment, I believe that all Lakers fans are crazy.
After the Suns were eliminated in the first round, Steve Nash, a popular MVP candidate in the regular season this season, was also teased and satirized by netizens, saying that Nash should not be an MVP. How can an MVP be eliminated in the first round?
At present, the results of the regular season MVP have not yet come out, and Sun Zhuo is also waiting. That is not only a great honor, but also a special training card that can enhance the ability!
The Lakers will play against the Clippers in the same city in the semi-finals. This is a scene that has never appeared in NBA history. After the results appeared, many netizens have posted to ask: "The Lakers and the Clippers are in Los Angeles. How to play in the playoffs? ?"
Kobe fans replied: "I have seven home games on Lake, Kobe Bryant has been called MVP for seven consecutive home and away games, so I ask you who has done it?"
Sun Zhuo smiled when he saw a post on the Internet and replied a sentence of "666", but was asked by the netizen what it meant. Sun Zhuo did not reply and boldly imagined a duel between the Lakers and the Clippers. The Clippers and the Lakers were there. In the same arena, the home and away are nothing more than changing the floor, but even when it comes to the Clippers home, the Clippers will be crushed by the Lakers fans in terms of popularity. The Lakers have won so many championships and have been out. With many historical stars, the Clippers have no way to compete with the Lakers in terms of influence.
"That netizen is right, the Lakers are home for seven games, and for the Clippers, these seven games are all away, the Clippers can really decline, there is no home advantage for the first time in the playoffs. Team. Alas, poor Mike Dunleavy, who made some money from me last summer, was humiliated by 81 points this season, and he was going to encounter this embarrassment in the playoffs. Call him. , Ask him if he needs financial management."
Sun Zhuo was very sympathetic to the experience of Clippers coach Mike Dunleavy. Such a thing has not happened for decades. It has never happened in the previous life, but this time Dunleavy encountered it.
"Coach Dunleavy, I'm Eric. I heard that you are playing the Lakers in the next round. Alas, why are you so unlucky? You should think of this when competing for the regular season rankings. Don't be too sad. If you are defeated, summer I can help you make some investment." Sun Zhuo said kindly.
Coach Dunleavy over the phone said angrily: "I don't want to make those fast money anymore! Since I made a little money from you last summer, I haven't had a good season this season! You got 81 points in a single game. Well, I met the Lakers in the playoffs. My God, what the did I do? Now we have no home advantage!"
Sun Zhuo listened to Deng Leiwei for a long time before he hung up the phone. He was thinking again, if the Lakers can kill the Clippers, they will advance to the Western Conference finals and play against the Mavericks.
"How do the Lakers win against the Mavericks?"
If the Lakers can overturn the Mavericks, wouldn't it be that the Lakers are going to the finals this season!
Sun Zhuo didn't continue to think about it. It's not time to think about who can make it to the finals in the West, because the Magic is very likely to be eliminated in the next round!
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Orlando, Magic Training Ground.
The Eastern Conference semifinals will be coming soon. The Magic is the better player, so you don’t need to get stuck in the boat, and the players will feel at ease on the training ground, waiting for the Heat's challenge.
After advancing to the semi-finals, the team atmosphere has changed slightly. After all, the opponent is the defending champion, and everyone is playing for the first time in the playoffs. It is still very important to face such a strong enemy.
On the training ground, Dwight Howard specially practiced a pair of singles with the team to practice the basket. This time Howard's opponent is the league's greatest center Shaquille O'Neal. Although O'Neill is no longer in his peak state, Howard is young, after all, The power can't shake the opponent, he still valued the showdown.
In the other half, Sun Zhuo, Monta Ellis, Ariza, Turkoglu, Nelson, Granger, Stevenson and other outside players are training three-pointers in a unified manner.
This training content is also requested by Sun Zhuo. Against the Heat, the Magic must make more use of three-pointers. The Heat will rarely make three-pointers. Wade can’t make three-pointers, O’Neal can’t, Haslem can’t. Anthony Walker is going to shoot a few, but the shooting rate is terrible, only 35%, next season is even worse, will fall to more than 20%, Jason Williams' three-point shooting rate is slightly better Some, but not to 40%, if compared with the 2017 Warriors and Rockets, the Heat are simply a team with no three points.
The Heat are strong, but only strong in the offensive line, and the Magic have a lot of good three-point players.
On the field, Tekoglu, Nielsen and others were in continuous three-point fixed-point projections. Sun Zhuo watched from the side and also wanted to make sure the three-point strength of several of them.
Tekoglu's three-pointer is very accurate, but his shot is slower, but with his height of two meters and eight meters, the opponent is difficult to defend.
"Tekoglu's three-point shooting percentage this season is 41%, which is quite good. In the series against the Heat, he will be my most reliable outside shooter."
After that, Nielsen also made a dozen consecutive shots, and his shooting rate was not as good as that of Tekoglu, but it was also good.
"Nielsen's three-point shooting rate this season is 42.4%, Bitkoglu is still high, but he has fewer shots, and as a point guard, his first choice for receiving the ball is to organize the attack instead of himself Shooting, unless there is a particularly good chance, I can give him."
Even if Nielsen's shooting percentage is higher than Tekoglu this season, when Sun Zhuo scored, Tekoglu was still the first choice.
In addition to these two people, there are no three-pointers in the starting lineup. Howard can't shoot. Like O'Neill, he is struggling to shoot on the free throw line. Stevenson doesn't shoot threes at all. If you really want to threaten and impact the Heat on the three-pointer, it is best to have four on the field who can shoot three-pointers. Like the Warriors of 17 years, five people on the field can all make three-pointers. Is what Sun Zhuo wants.
If Stevenson is replaced when necessary, who will replace it? Put Monta Ellis on the court and form a pair of point guards with Nelson, or let the young Ariza or Granger play?
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While the Magic is actively preparing for battle, the Miami Heat is also planning a way to deal with the Magic.
Heat coach Pat Riley brought all the players together and briefly told everyone about the next round.
Pat Riley said: "The Magic are a very young team, but each is very talented, so we have to be careful next, dealing with the Magic, we only need to do a good defensive line, focusing on restricting Sun Sun and Tekoglu are definitely going to defend with great force. Now I don’t know how much trouble he will cause us in this series. Focus on defending his low post and corners. Don’t let him be here Receiving the ball from both positions, if he wants to force a singles in the low post, immediately pack in. Throwing away these two people, the Magic score is still very lacking."
"Hahaha." Hearing Riley's last sentence, O'Neill and Haslem couldn't help but laugh~EbookFREE.me~ As you can see, Riley still has high standards for players, But for the Magic team, the operator is still quite disdainful. He is not looking down on Sun Zhuo who can score 81 points in a single game, but he does not look down on several other players who have just entered the league for the first time in the playoffs. Player.
After the coach finished speaking, Anthony Walker walked in front of O'Neill and Wade and asked with a smile: "Sun is your brother, how many games do you plan to solve them in this series?"
O'Neal smiled and said, "If I'm afraid of four sweeps, he will ask me to settle the accounts this offseason, let's play five games."
Wade replied: "I want to play a few more games with him and play a game with him, which is more effective than ten days of training."
O'Neill and Wade are very confident in this series of victory.
TN.T, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith are also discussing this topic, who is the Heat and Magic who have the upper hand?
Kenny Smith said: "There is no doubt that the Miami Heat, they are defending champions, have won a championship, and the Magic team except Sun, only entered the playoffs for the first time, the magic will be a hard lesson Yes, Shaquille O’Neal is still at the peak. Dwyane Wade proved himself in the finals last year. No one at the Magic can protect them. Of course, no one at the Heat can protect Sun, but Sun still Not growing up to be able to compete with such a mature team, Sun's performance will determine the outcome of this round of series, Charles, what do you think?"
Charles Barkley's mouth seemed to be stuck and it was difficult to speak. Kenny Smith laughed: "Because it is related to Sun, so dare not say it? You can say other parts."
Barkley thought for a while and then said something to express his opinion: "I'm extremely optimistic about Dwight Howard!"
"So you think the Magic will advance to the Eastern Conference Finals?"
"No, I'm on the heat."