In the first two years of his career, Nash never beat Zhang Hao even once. Last season seemed like an accident, and he lost five consecutive times this year...

Open the Blazers, as long as Jordan's mid-range shot is in the online state, the veterans can perform normally without cheating when they play on the court, and the Supersonics' advantages are becoming more and more obvious.

The Western Conference opponent that the Supersonics coaching team attaches most importance to is the Lakers, but the most well-researched opponent is the Trail Blazers.

Zhang Hao's broad mind has already been understood by the coaching staff, among which Silver Fox is the best.

He lost to the Trail Blazers five times last season. Zhang Hao will definitely want to take revenge this season, so he has to be more prepared.

In addition to the faction division within the team, Sabonis and Steve Smith have aging, there is another reason why their playing style has hardly changed over the years.

Since Mike Dunleavy coached the Trail Blazers, the Trail Blazers' style of playing has not changed much. In terms of introducing players, they do not consider their personality, but they are actually very good. They are all players that Mike Dunleavy needs.

Mike Dunleavy is only good at on-the-spot command, and the system is basically not built. When the rookie coached the Lakers to the finals, he relied on the system left by Pat Riley, and now he relied on the system left by P-J Calesimo. Of course, he has excellent on-the-spot command ability and is also very powerful.

But several years have passed, and they reached the finals last season and last season. Now, all the changes in their playing style can be guessed by the opponent!

The Suns have no choice. The Suns have almost become a pure outside team, but if other strong teams can have a way to restrain the Trail Blazers, it will be too difficult for the Trail Blazers to defeat the opponent's targeted strategy.

With experience in four regular season matches and G1 completed a comeback in the second half, the Supersonics were more confident in dealing with the Trail Blazers, and the coaching staff also implemented their established strategies more firmly.

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The first games of the four series in the second round were quite unexpected.

The Trail Blazers really don't beat the Supersonics. Last season, the Trail Blazers fell behind the Supersonics 1-2 in the regular season. The situation immediately changed during the playoffs and almost completed a sweep against the Supersonics.

Moreover, the Trail Blazers have reached the finals for two consecutive years, and this year's lineup is more profound. Under the leadership of the bandit leader, the bandit gang narrowly defeated the Suns in the first round, and the level of playing is very high. It is obvious that if these two teams finally win the championship, no one will think they are not worthy of it. The two teams are really strong.

I think the Supersonics can beat the Trail Blazers fans, but there are more.

But the Trail Blazers started with great situations, but in the end they were beaten by the opponent and were beaten to the tables... This was still very surprising to people.

The Bulls won the Knicks three games in a row and turned around 3-2. People thought they had found their form, but in the second round, G1 was defeated by the team that ranked low...

The 76ers were upset in the first game, which was the most surprising thing. Carter made 9 mid-range shots in a single game, but failed to make a mid-range shot. Three more times caused the opponent to foul and all 6 free throws were hit.

Carter scored 24 points with the mid-range shot, destroying Duncan's backup defense.

Before, people only remembered Carter's dunk. This round of series, at least at this stage, has made many people face Carter's strength.

The series between the Lakers and Kings is the most surprising. The Kings can defeat many top teams in the regular season, including the Supersonics, Lakers, 76ers, Trail Blazers, Suns, and Jazz. The Kings have won all of these six championship-level teams, and most of them have the advantage in the game! But in the playoffs, they were hit by Payton, Pierce, and O'Neal, and the offense was also tossed into a mess.

Some unexpected things will make some fans have unhappy ideas, but they are more attractive for more fans who like to ‘find different’!

Fans prefer to watch the media and the competitions other than the situations analyzed by experts, and if everything is analyzed, then what else can I read? Isn’t it enough to read the battle report?

On May 5, the NBA officially announced three best teams.

Best Rookie Team:

Mike Miller, Morris Peterson, Mark Jackson, Dalius Myers, Kenyon Martin joined hands to be selected for the first time.

Courtney Alexander, Desmond Mason, Marcus Fezer, Chris Meim and Tkoglu were selected for the second team.

Best lineup:

Iverson, Kobe, Zhang Hao, Duncan and O'Neal were selected for the first time.

Kidd, Carter, Garnett, Webber and Mutombo were selected for the second team.

Payton, Jordan, Maddie, Anthony Hardaway, and Ben Wallace were selected for the third team.

Best defensive team:

Kidd, Kobe, Zhang Hao, Duncan and Mutombo were selected for the first time.

Payton, Doug Christie, Garnett, Clifford Robinson, and Ben Wallace were selected for the second team.

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Since his third year in his career, Ma Long fell out of the best lineup for the first time, making many people feel that their youth is gradually fading...

But Malone did play the worst season since the third grade, and it was not bad. He averaged 23.3 points, 8.5 rebounds and 4.6 assists per game, and was still very good, but his average of 25+ per game for 14 consecutive seasons has been cut off.

Malone steadily declined, and the Jazz's record also steadily declined. When he played against O'Neal, he did not have the previous dominant performance.

David Robinson failed to enter the All-A-Series again. Since his rookie season, except for the reimbursement of the 96-97 season, this is the first time that David Robinson has failed to enter the All-A-Series after playing for a full season.

However, Kobe, Duncan, Zhang Hao, the three strongest players in the three Double First Team, the 95th, 97th and 99th classes made the fans very excited!

There is another thing that makes some fans feel dissatisfied.

The Trail Blazers have not even been selected into the Best Team!

ESPN pointed out that Nash and Rashid Wallace's performance and leadership results should be selected for three players. Jordan and Ben Wallace were selected for the best team, but these two did not make the round, accusing the media of unfair voting and should vote according to their performance. They should not vote for the Trail Blazers because they have a bad reputation.

At the same time, ESPN also pointed out that no matter who Zhang Hao plays with, as long as it is not bad, he will have the chance to win the league first place.

It is worth mentioning that the media that has made the negative news of the Trail Blazers popular is ESPN, the commentator of ESPN, which has the right to vote, and a total of four reporters. The voting list posted on the blog did not vote for Nash and Rashid Wallace.

Supersonics' Jordan and Ben Wallace did not react after seeing the news about ESPN.

But after seeing the news about ESPN, the Godfather of the Trail Blazers and Tianzun were in a bad mood!

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The second round of the playoffs was in full swing.

The most eye-catching series...the series between the Bucks and Bulls!

The Bulls fell behind 0-2, and G2 also lost 95-101, but when they played G3 away, the Bulls won! 111-107, Kobe passed the ball to McGrady at a critical moment, and McGrady made a three-pointer, killing the Bucks' chance to tie the big score to 3-0.

The most popular part of this round of series is personal heroism vs teamism.

After three games, McGrady averaged 15.3 points, 8.4 rebounds, 7.3 assists, 1.3 steals and 2.3 blocks per game, Kobe averaged 37.7 points, 5.6 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 3.3 steals per game. The former is all-round, with an offense and defense combined with an organizational offense, while the latter is a single-defense maniac + scoring maniac.

The Bucks seem to have a higher overall strength than the Bulls, but just like they can't surpass the Bulls in the regular season, in the playoffs, no matter how big the advantage is, they almost lost the game in the end. When they reach G3, they can't handle it!

In an interview, the Bucks fans said, "Watching our team and Bryant play, it's like watching a serial killer chasing us. We can only escape, but in the end we still couldn't escape. We knew what he was going to do, but we just couldn't stop it."

Kobe's performance makes the ratings of this series higher than those of the 76ers and the Raptors!

The second series that has attracted attention is the series between the 76ers and the Raptors.

Carter scored 50 points in the first game, and in the second game, Iverson scored 40 points in regular time, helping the 76ers and the Raptors tied at 85.

In overtime, Iverson scored 14 points alone, which was completely different from playing 45 minutes in regular time.

In the end, with the 54 points Iverson scored after playing for 50 minutes, the 76ers narrowly defeated the Raptors 99-90 through overtime and defended their second home court.

When it arrived in G3, people thought that the Raptors would take advantage of the victory to chase the big score at home. After all, the Raptors won the first game and played overtime with the 76ers in the second game, which was in a favorable situation. However, in G3, the Raptors were defended so that only Carter scored 25 points, Odom scored 29 points and 11 rebounds, Antonio Davis scored 11 points and 11 rebounds, the Raptors had only 9 assists, and only 5 players scored!

In addition to the three major stars, only Charles Oakley scored 7 points and 7 rebounds in the Raptors, Robert Horry scored 7 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist, and no one else scored!

The 76ers defeated the Raptors 88-79 and regained their home advantage.

The Kings and the Lakers were behind 0-3 and came to the brink of being eliminated.

The Lakers have obvious advantages. People originally thought that this round of series was the most exciting series in the second round and the most exciting series.

But in reality, the Lakers are completely crushing.

The Kings revealed that they are still too young. It is difficult for Weber C to win even if he has bleeding. O'Neal is too strong! He averaged 38.3 points, 17.7 rebounds and 4 blocks in three games, Pierce also averaged 20.6 points per game, and Payton averaged 20.3 points per game.

How did the Kings play this?

If the Kings team's offense is smooth and they can still compete with the Lakers, but Bibi met Payton and was defended very much. Wang Zhizhi averaged only 10.6 points, 7.8 rebounds and 2 assists per game, with a shooting percentage of only 36.8%, Peja averaged 13.3 points per game... Weber averaged 30 points per game, and it was useless! In addition to Weber's best performance, the Kings team was the rookie Tkoglu, who averaged 13.6 points and 6 assists per game, which was difficult to deal with.

However, more, O'Neal is too strong! At the age of 29, he has achieved his best career playoff performance!

O'Neal played so well, and people's impression of this round of series is that O'Neal played well. The attention of this round of series is not as good as the other round of series that reached a 3-0 score...

The series between the Supersonics and the Trail Blazers is really more concerned than the series between the Lakers and the Kings, and the Supersonics and the Trail Blazers do not have players who have performed as brutally as O'Neal.

G2 and G3, Jordan averaged 26 points per game, Ben Wallace averaged 11 points, 15 rebounds and 4 blocks per game, Cassel averaged 20.5 points and 7.5 assists per game, plus young players Artest and Ruben Patterson, veterans Horacek, Much Brecklow, Kukoc, Jason Williams...

Zhang Hao scored 20 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists in G2, which was OK. G3 scored 12 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist, but he didn't play in the second half...

103-96 and 93-80, the Supersonics won two consecutive games. After defeating the Trail Blazers away on May 9, the score was 3-0!

Jordan scored 22 points and 32 points in two games respectively. After G3, Jordan said in an interview: "The two Trail Blazers who are more worthy of the best team played well, but I think this time we came to Portland is the last time this year."

The Supersonics team's two games can be called a rampage!

Veterans are also divided into grades.

Hornersek, Kukoc, Much Brecklow, Schramf, Dell Curry, Jason Williams... and others are definitely the top veteran role players.

After the first round, I had to rest for too long. G1 did not find the state at the beginning. After finding the state, there was a star C and the coaching staff had targeted tactics. In these two games, the Trail Blazers won the game.

Nash wanted to cry again, but this time was different from last year's cry of joy, and it was really hopeless!

‘What does it have to do with us? We are not talking nonsense! It’s too bullying!’

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Seeing the news about Jordan and Ben Wallace approaching the two most popular series, Zhang Hao couldn't help but sigh that "ESPN is a bit of something."
To be continued...