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Chapter 121 Playoff debut
"Hey, Yan, congratulations on leading the team to the playoffs."

After the appearance ceremony was over and the starting players of both sides began to warm up, Carmelo Anthony, the head player of the Nuggets, walked directly to the center circle and greeted Yan Hua who passed by. Carmelo Anthony and Yan Hua Hua's agent is Bill Duffy, so Carmelo Anthony doesn't feel bad for Yan Hua. Although the two are rivals now, Anthony doesn't think that this little brother and the king can cause damage to his team. what a threat.

Even Anthony felt it was a pity, because the Nuggets had a chance to get Yan Hua at the beginning. When Yan Hua first came to the United States, Bill Duffy also helped Yan Hua contact the Nuggets' rookie training camp, but Yan Hua got the Kings After the promise, he did not continue to go to Denver to participate in the Nuggets training camp, so Carmelo Anthony also felt very regretful. If Yan Hua had come to the Nuggets first, maybe Yan Hua would be a member of the Nuggets now , although the Nuggets with NN-Hilario and Kenyon Martin are also very strong inside, but compared to Yan Hua, these two people are obviously less interesting, and Yan Hua, who has just entered the league, Also younger, with better potential.

"Thank you, Carmelo." After Carmelo Anthony congratulated Yan Hua, Yan Hua reached out to shake hands with Anthony, and then hugged each other before returning to their respective halfs.

In today's game, the king's starters are center Yan Hua, power forward Drew Gooden, small forward John Salmons, shooting guard Andres Nosinho, point guard Tony Allen, It can be seen from the starting lineup that Reggie Toyce's arrangement today is conservative. He did not continue to let Andres Nosinho take the fourth position, but put him in the position of shooting guard .

Although the king has now used one big and four small tactics as the main tactics, but the king's four small has a lot of flaws. After Kevin Martin was injured, the two guards Tony Allen and Benno- Udrih's three-point shooting ability is very average, while Spencer Hawes moves too slowly in the fourth position, and the newly developed three-point shooting is very unstable. Andres Nosinho's The height is too short, and it is simply a loophole on the defensive end, so in the first game against the Nuggets, Reggie Troyce once again used veteran Drew Gooden.

For the Nuggets, today's starters are center Nene Hilario, power forward Kenyon Martin, small forward Carmelo Anthony, shooting guard Dengtay Jones, point guard Chauncey Billups , Unlike the Kings, the Nuggets continued their starting lineup in the regular season in today's game, and it is also the strongest lineup for the Nuggets.

"Although the King's regular season ranking is seventh in the West and the Nuggets are second in the West, the difference between the Kings and the Nuggets is only 4 games, and judging from the performance of the Kings in the final stage, they are not So easy to deal with."

Just after the starting players of both sides began to warm up on the field, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith on the sidelines also began to predict the trend of the game. Originally, after the king’s boss Kevin Martin was reimbursed due to injury , everyone thought that the Kings would miss the playoffs, but they did not expect that relying on the outbreak of rookie Yan Hua, the Kings had a record of 6 wins and 1 loss at the end of the regular season. With a record of 50 wins and 32 losses, they are ranked seventh in the Western Conference, and their regular season record is only four games away from the Nuggets who are second in the Western Conference. Not as big as it appears on the leaderboard.

"It is indeed the case. In this season's Western Conference, except for the Lakers who are thriving, the remaining seven teams that entered the playoffs are not far apart in strength. In terms of record, they are all very close. Therefore, this year's playoffs In the first round, it is very likely that the next game will go up." After Charles Barkley finished speaking, Kenny Smith on the side also echoed with a smile.

The Western Conference in the last two seasons has indeed presented a very weird situation. It is different from the previous situation where there are many strong teams and great disparities between strengths and weaknesses. The gap between teams is getting smaller and smaller. Last season, the No. 7 Lakers in the West only won 2 games more than the No. 6 Nuggets in the West. From No.54 to No.28, there was only one win In this season's rankings, although the Lakers have widened the gap with the teams behind them, from the Nuggets in second place in the West to the Hornets in eighth in the West, the gaps between these seven teams are Very small, even the Nuggets ranked second in the West, the Spurs third, and the Trail Blazers fourth, all with a record of [-] wins and [-] losses.

While Barkley was still chatting with Kenny Smith, the warm-up on the field was over. Yan Hua and NN-Hilario, who represented the jump balls of the two teams, also walked into the middle circle one after another, waiting With the start of the game.

With the whistle of the referee on duty, in the jump ball between Yan Hua and NN-Hilario, Yan Hua easily defeated NN-Hilario and won the ball for the king. After the first offensive opportunity, the Kings point guard Tony Allen quickly advanced the ball to the frontcourt. After a few dribbles on the spot, he began to move laterally, and then hoisted the basketball to the inside. Yan Hua of the location.

Although it is now the playoffs, the King's tactics are still very monotonous, or the combination of internal and external tactics is so boring and single. The center under the basket plays singles with the ball, and passes the ball when encountering double-teams.

However, Yan Hua, who had just got the ball, had not had time to launch an attack. Kenyon Martin, who was not far from Yan Hua, quickly rushed towards Yan Hua. In the first round after the start of the game, the Nuggets faced Yan Hua used double-teaming, double-teaming the whole time, maybe this is the intensity of the playoffs, and the treatment a star should have.

Seeing that Kenyon Martin's double-team is about to be in place, Yan Hua can only choose to pass the basketball, while he stays where he is, stuck in position and ready to grab the offensive rebound.

The Nuggets' defensive strategy today is very simple, that is to double-team Yan Hua, using the mobility of NN-Hilario and Kenyon Martin to double-team Yan Hua inside and force him to pass the ball. The main tactic is a big and a big four, but when Kevin Martin is reimbursed and Drew Gooden in the fourth position has no three-pointers, the King's three-pointer ability is actually very average, and in the digging According to King's head coach George Karl, under the defensive strength of the playoffs, the shooting percentage from the outside is far inferior to the offense at the basket.

(End of this chapter)