God's hand behind the scenes

Chapter 456
The 76ers have always been one of the best offensive teams in the league during Brown's coaching period, even if they made up Mutombo and Bell successively.For them, winning is about scoring more points than their opponents, not allowing their opponents to score fewer points than themselves.This style of play also allows this team to easily absorb a large number of fans.

But this is both their strength and their weakness.It's true that the Sixers' offense is strong enough to break most teams' defenses, but when they're actually guarded on the court, there's basically nothing else they can do.This is the predicament now. They are very difficult to score every time, and at the same time they are helpless against the Pistons' offense.

Whether it is Hill on the inside, Dalembert on the outside or Bell on the outside, they have tried their best on the defensive end. However, the offense of the Pistons cannot be prevented by a few defensive players. They are stronger than the 76ers. A team with team spirit, even if no one in the team scores more than 20 points, can still kill the Quartet on the offensive end.

The 76ers had no way to take the Pistons. At the end of the half, they were once again 44 points behind 58 to 14.If it was an accident to only get 40+ in the half of the first game, then it was only 40+ in the second half of the game, which means that the team has a problem. For a top offensive team in the league, Such performance is undoubtedly unqualified.

To make matters worse, the physical energy of the 76ers players was very exhausted, especially the main players who played more than 20 minutes in the first half were a little unstable when they left the field.In stark contrast to them are the Pistons players, who walked into the player tunnel talking and laughing, and a few players even thought about fighting with each other.Although this has a lot to do with the fact that the Pistons are all soldiers, Chang Wei has always attached great importance to their physical training. He and Brown teamed up to build the Pistons into an army!
The intermission time is not enough for the 76ers players to recover their physical strength. Since Chang Wei left with Brown, although the new trainer has put more emphasis on physical fitness, the effect is far from as good as Chang Wei, and it is reasonable to suffer.O'Brien has no good way, he can only desperately encourage the players under his command, trying to motivate them to forget fatigue from the spiritual level.

However, the gap in hard power cannot be made up by chicken soup. After the start of the second half, the Pistons played another small climax.Billups clearly saw that the opponent was weak, so he decisively brought up the speed on both ends of the offense and defense. This time the 76ers were even more overwhelmed, and because of physical reasons, the shooting percentage dropped very obviously, and the scores of the two sides further stretched. open.

After three quarters, the Pistons have led by more than 25 points, directly turning the last quarter into garbage time.O'Brien gritted his teeth and still left the main lineup on the field, trying to see if he could complete the reversal.But he obviously thought too much, and the Pistons' bench lineup is not vegetarian. Although this reduces the pressure on the 76ers on the offensive end, they can't prevent the Pistons' offense.Arenas would be able to compete with Wade, but for the 76ers, evenly matched means failure.

The Pistons still won the game easily, with a final score of 102 to 88. This was because they released water in the last 2 minutes of the fourth quarter, allowing the 76ers to narrow the point difference to less than 15 points.But it still didn't help. The 76ers could only return to Philadelphia with a 0-2 deficit, hoping to hold the next two home games.However, in Chang Wei's view, the 76ers are just dying. Now that the Pistons are in great shape, they are in full swing, and it is entirely possible for them to sweep their opponents 4-0.

Chang Wei is not aimless. The Pistons' away record this season is also not bad. They won both games in Philadelphia in the regular season. For them, the league's No. 76 Center Arena is not a devil's home.Moreover, the disastrous defeat in two consecutive games is obviously a heavy blow to the morale of the 76ers. Although they may still have a last stand at home, the Pistons have proved that their overall strength is far above the [-]ers in the first two games. There is no problem if you don't make mistakes.

However, the 76ers did not intend to catch it without a fight. They quickly entered the state in their first home game, starting with a wave of 12 to 4, which is their best performance so far in this round of the series.However, falling behind by nearly double digits did not panic the Pistons players. They didn't even change their game rhythm, and still adhered to their own style step by step.This also allowed them to gradually catch up with the score, trailing only 31-33 at the end of the first quarter.

The confident 76ers players intend to widen the point difference in the second quarter, but they encounter Wade, who is in hot form. He scored 12 points on 10 of 7 shots in 15 minutes, and also sent 4 assists to help The Pistons played 32 to 25 in this quarter, but took the lead at halftime.In the second half, the physical advantages of the Pistons players gradually emerged, opening up the point difference little by little, which made the 76ers feel extremely desperate.Reid and Iverson helped the team score piecemeal, but it was only a drop in the bucket, because they couldn't guard Hamilton, who still had enough energy to scurry around.

In the end, the Pistons continued their winning streak in the away game, with a score of 95 to 90.Although the point difference is not big, it made the 76ers very frustrated. They failed to beat their opponents after the best start of the series, and they didn't know what to do to win.After this campaign, the Pistons have already won the match point of this round of the series, and they will be able to advance if they win another game.

Perhaps because they were knocked out of their championship ambitions in the third game, the 76ers performed quite sluggishly at the beginning of the fourth game. The Pistons took a double-digit lead at the beginning and put the The point difference widened to more than 20 points.During the intermission, many 76ers fans left the field early. They didn't want to see the team they supported suffer a massacre. In fact, they were right to leave the field. The final score of the two sides was 100 to 72, 28 points The huge gap made the 76ers fans who stayed and held their ground cried bitterly. They didn't expect the team to be swept by their opponents in the second round.

Seeing the 76ers players walk into the player tunnel with a lonely face, Chang Wei's face sank like water. Although he still felt a little pity in his heart, he quickly put away this thought.In the NBA arena, every matchup is life and death. The Pistons have no reason to release water. If they want to win the championship undisputedly, it is undoubtedly the best way to stay strong against any team. This is also the same It is beneficial for players to accumulate confidence in one game after another.

(End of this chapter)