basketball god eye

Chapter 483 The regular season is coming to an end, UCLA enters the semi-finals of the elite competition

The Bulls started the game in April with a back-to-back opponent against the SuperSonics and Philadelphia, one with no hope of the playoffs and one still struggling on the edge of the playoffs.

Playing the Supersonics is an away game. Although there is no hope for the playoffs, Payton still did not make it easier for Li Lei. In Li Lei's limited playing time, he still used his body to fight against Li Lei as before. At the same time, the trash talk is still endless. This may be Payton's last season in the Supersonics. According to gossip, Payton has completely broken up with Nate McMillan, the former teammate coach. In fact, the management of the Supersonics is already very satisfied. As for Payton, if he wants to leave the team, he should leave the team. Anyway, he is no longer the one who can fight Jordan for a long time in the finals.

Of course, Payton and Jordan fought for a long time. On the one hand, it was because of Jordan during the second three-peat championship and Jordan during the first three-peat championship. The biggest change is that he paid more attention to tactical cooperation. Tumor bully, within half a season, Jordan will part ways with each other, not everyone has a good temper like Duncan.

Zen Master is the head coach who can set the upper limit of the team, while Popovich can only determine the lower limit. The former is obviously one level higher than the latter, because the former left Jordan and still won five championships, while the latter left Duncan, let alone a championship, and has never made it to the finals.

Payton was the same as Li Lei in this game. He went down after less than two quarters. Watson gained enough room to play. The reason why the Supersonics traded Payton was largely because of Watson. , He wants to win the championship, even if it is a salary cut, because Payton has gone to the Bucks at this time in his previous life, and exchanged with Ray Allen and others, but now he is still in Seattle, and Ray Allen seems to have not been renewed in the Bucks. As for where he will go during the offseason, it is still unknown.

Payton is not as strong as at the peak now, but his defense still has a chance to enter the best defensive team. The general championship team must be very happy with him. Li Lei estimates that 80.00% of this guy will team up with Malone to the Lakers, regardless of whether the Lakers win the championship this season.

The Bulls won the game on the road, and then rushed to Philadelphia overnight. Iverson, playing while continuing to record albums, actually managed to bring Philadelphia into the playoffs. It wasn’t that Iverson’s ability to lead the team was too strong, but that the Eastern Conference was too weak.

However, Iverson played very mediocre in this game. Under the entanglement of Hamilton, he only scored 18 points and took 28 shots. Fortunately, his head coach was Larry Brown, not Larry Brown's apprentice Popovich.The Bulls also got another victory.

On April 4th, Li Lei came to Anaheim, California to watch a regional final between UCLA and Kansas. The winner will enter the final four.

UCLA and Li Lei were the same this season when they were there. There was nothing to do, and no one was optimistic about them. However, they have already reached the regional finals. In addition to Li Lei, Barnes, Watson, Gadzuric and others have come, as well as Bill Wharton and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

In addition to the celebrities from the two schools, Yao Ming, Chen Jianghua and others also came. As a UCLA legend, it was very easy for Li Lei to get a few tickets. Compared with the calmness of Li Lei and others, Yao Ming and others were not so easy.

"Brother Li, Brother Yi, can they win?" It was Sun Yue who was talking. He has already graduated from high school like the same, so he has to start to choose NCAA university, and go to play for a year or two to participate in the draft. After all, their age is really not young.

"Look, anything is possible on the basketball court."

Apart from Yi Jianlian, Kapono and Hollins, Wang Lin couldn't find anyone he knew at UCLA. On the Kansas side, Thunder legends Collison and Hinrich, these two definitely surpassed the combination of Yi Jianlian and Kapono in terms of strength.

Fortunately, Roy Williams played very conservatively in this game. He double-teamed Kapono before he came up, and Yi Jianlian faced the combination of Collison and Wayne Simien inside. It's a gamble.

Kansas played better than UCLA as a whole. UCLA relies on individual ability. Yi Jianlian has been training at UCLA for a year, and he is a lot more cheerful. Apart from this, he is not weak in physical confrontation. After all, muscles and sticks are indispensable in any era. Yi Jianlian is not a Polish center.

Although Collison worked hard, he tried hard to keep up with Yi Jianlian, but Kapono also bloomed at the other end, which caused Kansas to be extremely passive. In the end, they fell outside the gate of the semi-finals in Anaheim. Hinrich and Nick Collison shed bitter tears. People are also very daring to fight, which makes Kansas two people unable to beat them, but Kansas loses, Roy Williams is to blame. Kapono's three-point shooting percentage and number of shots this season ranks first in the NCAA. In this game, Kansas did not make any targeted defense at all, but kept targeting Hollins.

Hollins played well in UCLA this season, but he is just a rookie. Maybe Roy Williams had drunk too much wine before this game, otherwise there is no reason for the team to play this kind of game.

(End of this chapter)