God's hand behind the scenes

Chapter 219 Kicks off
Relying on the advantage of more home games in the final stage, the 76ers narrowly beat the Lakers by 0.5 wins and ranked first in the league. This also allows them to have home court advantage until the finals. Words at that time.For each player of the 76ers, this is undoubtedly the best reward for their efforts during the entire regular season. Brown also specially gave everyone a day off, allowing the players to have time to have dinner and relax by the way.

However, the members of the coaching staff did not rest, and they still analyzed the opponents in the playoffs under the leadership of Brown.The Pacers eventually retained their place in the playoffs, but they were tragically ranked eighth in the Eastern Conference and became the opponents of the 76ers in the first round of the playoffs.This is undoubtedly a sad thing for them. They were beaten to the brink of collapse by the 76ers when they were still second in the Eastern Conference. Now their morale is not as high as that time, and it is even more impossible to be the opponent of the 76ers. up.

But Brown still didn't relax his vigilance. Any time the ship capsized in the gutter, it was because he didn't pay enough attention to it. Brown didn't allow such a thing to be encountered by his team.Chang Wei also attaches great importance to the opponent, but he pays attention to the opponent tactically and despises the opponent strategically. He is full of confidence in himself and the omnipotent system in his consciousness.

The remaining three groups in the Eastern Conference are: the second Bucks against the seventh Magic, the third Heat against the sixth Hornets, and the fourth Knicks against the fifth Raptors.If the 76ers eliminate the Pacers, their opponent will be the winner between the Knicks and the Raptors. Of course, Chang Wei is more willing to play against the Knicks, but this is not something he can decide.

Although the Lakers lost the league's first battle, they still won the first place in the Western Conference steadily. Their opponent is the Timberwolves led by Garnett.The second place in the West is the Spurs led by Popovich. They are only 1 game behind the Lakers and have shown great strength. They will face the Trail Blazers in the first round.The remaining two sets of matchups in the West are the third Kings against the sixth Suns, and the fourth Mavericks against the fifth Jazz.In Chang Wei's view, except for the Mavericks and Jazz who are not sure who will win, the rest of the groups should be hard to beat. After all, the Lakers, Spurs and Kings are the top teams in the West.

On April 4th and 19th, the 20 teams that made it to the playoffs got two days of rest, but they didn't dare to relax, and they continued to train step by step, but the training intensity was reduced to a certain extent. That's all.As the team's physical fitness assistant, Chang Wei can be said to be the busiest person on the team in the past two days except Brown. One-shot playoffs.

On April 4, the first four playoff games started, and eight teams fought each other, and the 21ers were one of them.Although this means that the other eight teams can get an extra day of rest, it is no different for the 76ers players. They are ready to show their talents in the playoffs, so naturally they don't want to Preoccupied because of a day off.

Now the first round of the playoffs is not the best-of-seven series in Chang Wei's impression, but only the best-of-five games, which means that there is not much time for each team to adjust. If there is no way to find a solution, Then you can only watch your opponents advance directly, while you go back home and continue to work hard next season.However, starting from the second round, it was still a best-of-seven rounds system, which made Chang Wei heave a sigh of relief, so that his work pressure was at least not as great as the first round.

Fortunately, the opponent of the 76ers is the once defeated Pacers. It's not easy to pack them up.In order to get off to a good start in the playoffs, Brown did not arrange for players to take turns and played with the full main lineup. However, he still controlled the playing time of the players, and Snow only had 100 minutes at most.

The final score was 100 to 88, and the whole game seemed a bit dull, largely because the 76ers perfectly controlled the rhythm of the game.Iverson clocked off work directly in three quarters, scoring 27 points and 7 assists in an understatement. Lewis and Snow also scored 21 points and 17 points respectively. He grabbed 8 rebounds overhead while dishing out 13 blocked shots, perfectly dominating the paint.

However, the endings of the other three games were not as unremarkable as this one. The Heat, the third in the Eastern Conference, unexpectedly lost to the Hornets by a huge gap of 26 points, losing their home court advantage; There is also the Mavericks. They were killed by Stockton's mid-range shot 5.2 seconds before the end of the game. However, the strength gap between fourth and fifth is not very big, and it is reasonable for the Mavericks to lose.Although the overall strength of the Lakers can directly crush the Timberwolves, they couldn't stand Garnett and Szczerbiak breaking out at the same time. The two sides fought fiercely until the last moment of the fourth quarter, and the Lakers narrowly won 98-92.

Although one game cannot determine the final result of the entire series, judging from the state of the first game, the 76ers are undoubtedly the best. Their ease in the game has left other teams in the dust.Of course, with the strength of the Lakers, they can also do it, but the explosion of the opponent's two leading stars still robbed them of the limelight.

Although the state of the 76ers was blown up by the media, Brown still maintained a calm attitude. In an interview after the game, he said very calmly: "The Pacers played very well in this game, but we played better. , I believe they will put a lot of pressure on us in the next games, and we will take every game seriously."

When Brown said this to the microphone, Chang Wei was standing in the corner of the press conference.Seeing the old man praising his opponent in a serious manner on stage, Chang Wei just wanted to give him a middle finger, so it sounds fake, okay?Although I was afraid that the team would be fed a mouthful of poisonous milk by myself, there was no need to step myself into the mud directly. Those who didn't know thought that the 76ers lost in this game!Acting is okay, but acting too much is not good!
Of course, if it was Chang Wei who went up to speak by himself, the content of what he said would probably not be much different from that of Brown. Everyone has to look up and look down, so you have to save face, and if there is a deal someday, you can also talk about incense. love!

(End of this chapter)