NBA: Start the water cooler and reach the Hall of Fame

After the first playoff game, NBA officials began to announce the major awards for this season's regular season as usual. Generally speaking, the order of announcement is from low to high importance.

Not surprisingly, the first one is the best defensive team, but this year's best defensive team has been a big job. There are actually six people, namely Tony Allen, James, Ibaka, Li Kaiming, Chris Paul and Joakim Noah.

The second team has the same five players as before, Mike Conley, Avery Bradley, Kawhi Leonard, Tim Duncan and Marc Gasol.

The Grizzlies actually selected three players, Tony Allen in the first team, Conley and Gasol in the second team, and the Wizards selected Li Kaiming and Leonard, which shows that the Wizards' defense has also received votes from reporters this season. After all, this is a team that ranks among the top three in the league in defensive efficiency and ranks first in record. It is very reasonable for two people to be selected for the All-Defensive Team.

This All-Defensive Second Team is also the first more formal honor that Leonard has received in his career. Of course, if the previous All-Rookie Team is also counted, this is not the first one, but the entire Wizards team knows it. Leonard is definitely not a guy who can only get the best rookie team. Almost every veteran in the Wizards is optimistic about this facial paralysis...

In the interview after the first game, Li Kaiming did not make any big talk in front of reporters. He just said that he should maintain this rhythm, play steadily and advance to the second round.

The reporters really didn’t have anything to ask. After all, after Rondo announced that he would not be able to play in the first round of the playoffs, basically all the suspense was gone. The Celtics averaged the highest points per game among the entire team. The person is Paul Pierce, but he averages less than 20 points per game. With this kind of constipated offense, Li Kaiming's firepower alone can match the firepower of two Celtics, which is equivalent to the Wizards having 6 people playing on the court. , how to win?

There is no need to celebrate for this Wizards team after winning the first round of the playoffs. After all, everyone knows what their goal is.

The second game came very quickly. Two days later at the MCI Center, on the Celtics side, head coach Doc Rivers made adjustments to the starting lineup at the beginning of the game and replaced him with Jason Terry. Brayden Bass, who had a poor performance in the last game and was completely unable to perform the duties of a point guard, also helped Bradley reduce the burden on the organization, allowing the latter to better focus on attacking defense and off-ball offense. .

There is nothing wrong with this adjustment in terms of thinking, but the current Terry is no longer the same Terry who helped the Mavericks win the championship in 2011. He only has a little experience, but the Wizards' starting point guard Kirk Hinrich is also a veteran who has been playing for a full 10 years, and his experience is more than enough!

At the beginning of the game, the two sides started a tough battle around the inside, but the inside combination of Blatche and Li Kaiming made it impossible for the elderly Garnett and the overwhelmed Jeff Green to stop them, especially Jeff Green. His physical talent is far inferior to that of Li Kaiming, and he is also shorter. He just had heart surgery last year and can't run and jump as wildly as before. As expected, he was beaten by Li Kaiming in the paint in the first half of the quarter!

So the Celtics changed their formation directly, asking Garnett to defend Li Kaiming, and his brother-in-law Green to go inside to support Blatche.

This adjustment had a miraculous effect at the beginning. Li Kaiming pulled out two shots against Garnett's long arm and missed two shots. This scene made Doc Rivers smile on the sidelines, but the next one soon came. When the round started, he stopped laughing.

Although Li Kaiming is also very confident in singles against Garnett, this is the first quarter of the game, and there is no way to play like that. There is obviously a mismatch inside, so why force himself to take action?

So next, Li Kaiming transformed into a master of positional warfare, passing the ball to Brachi who started to pass the ball to the inside position from all angles. After receiving the ball, the latter only dribbled, or did not dribble at all, and then hooked Or turning around and shooting, Jeff Green was half a head shorter than Blatche and couldn't be guarded. At this pace, the Wizards led the Celtics by 29 points 21-8 at the end of the first quarter.

The Celtics are really weak. The Wizards players just defend on the three-point line, which means they let you shoot three-pointers. As for getting into the paint, don't even think about it!

As for the Celtics players, if you dare to let me go, I will take action; if I dare to take action, I will not score!

Except for Pierce and Terry who can hit shots from beyond the three-point line, the remaining Celtics players have no three-point ability at all. Basically, they average about 3 shots per game and hit 30%. There are even 20%. This offensive firepower is simply the difference between bow and arrow and Gatling in front of the Wizards.

In the second quarter, Li Kaiming took a rare break and did not play again until 4 minutes left in the first half. At this time, the Celtics were still 5 points behind. Li Kaiming even wanted to rub Rivers. The bald man said, "I gave you a chance but you didn't use it!"

As soon as Li Kaiming came on the court, the Wizards' offense went to a new level. Pierce wanted to respond to Li Kaiming's goal. The first ball was overturned by Leonard and he made a mid-range shot. Pierce thought he could regain the courage he had back then. Unexpectedly, The second shot came up short...

Leonard's defensive pressure is very strong. If Pierce's skills were not very good, this ball may not be thrown.

Looking back, Li Kaiming could once again withstand the Celtics' interior defense and score 2+1. When the referee's whistle blew, everyone from the Celtics, from head coach Doc Rivers to the ball The core of the team, Garnett Pierce, and others, and even the players sitting on the bench watching the game, all realized this sad fact in their hearts:

The glory of the Celtics is a thing of the past!

Now is the era of the Wizards and Kaiming Li!

At halftime, the Wizards led by 11 points, and this point difference was due to Li Kaiming not sweating much in the half. Instead, the two old guys on the opposite side played for nearly 20 minutes in the half. The teams are not at the same level at all.

In the second half of the game, the Celtics' offense still did not start. Instead, after their physical strength dropped, they could no longer guarantee high-intensity defense, so the Wizards, who had been guarded for most of the game, suddenly exploded from the outside!

Li Kaiming broke into the penalty area with the ball, and then passed a wide-range transfer ball to Thompson on the outside. After receiving the ball, the latter ignored Bradley's defense and hit a three-pointer!

Hinrich held the ball past half-court, and Li Kaiming got stuck at the waist. After receiving Hinrich's pass, he turned around and wiped it to the basket. After being double-teamed, he passed it to Lewis in the opposite corner, who took a shot. Three-pointer, a hollow hit!

In just a few rounds, after the Wizards completely exploded with three-pointers, they directly opened the point difference to 20 points, and this 20-point point difference was difficult for the Celtics, who had a total score of 90 in the entire game. For humans, it’s almost like a natural chasm!

G2, it’s over!

Even Wizards head coach Saunders couldn't stand it anymore, so he took the initiative to call a timeout and took the team's starters to rest for a while. Even with the Wizards' substitute on the court, the Celtics couldn't hit a three-pointer. Score the ball.

At the end of the game, the Wizards defeated the Celtics 103-79 at home, bringing the series lead to 2-0. Both games were big wins. America's Basketball Commentary Players have spoken on their social media: The Celtics' season is over!

李凯明全场仅仅出战了29分钟，得到25分11篮板6助攻2盖帽的全面数据，伦纳德出场33分钟得到11分7篮板2助攻2抢断，汤普森全场命中了4记三分得到16分，这是一场全员都打出风格的奇才式赢球。

At the post-game press conference, the expressions of all Celtics members were not good-looking. After all, before the series started, Garnett also said that nothing is impossible in this world and that his era has not passed yet. As a result, Gone in a blink of an eye...

Doc Rivers became the protagonist of this press conference. Almost all reporters were asking him how he would limit the offense of Li Kaiming and the Wizards after returning to the home court. The Celtics' lineup determines their offense. It will definitely not be much better, so if you want to win, there is only one possibility, and that is to reduce the Wizards' offensive efficiency, and then use their rich blacksmithing experience to defeat them!

Garnett still maintained the stubbornness of a tough guy. Facing the camera, he still had full confidence in his team, saying that they would defend their home court in the next two games and then regain the score.

After the second playoff game, the NBA officially announced the second regular season honor of the season - the Most Improved Player. In the end, Paul George, the forward from the Indiana Pacers, received 52 first-choice votes and won the title. The most improved player of the season, he averaged just over 12 points per game last season, but this season he averaged 17.5 points per game and 1.8 steals. If it weren't for the presence of facial paralysis Leonard, he might have been here. He was selected to the All-Defensive Team this season.

Generally speaking, Paul George deserves the title of Most Improved Player!

On April 4, three days later, the Wizards came to one of the most famous Devil's home stadiums in the NBA - TD North Shore Garden Arena. Boston is a city with very serious racial discrimination. It is the oldest stadium in America. An area where the descendants of slave owners gather, but don’t think that this kind of racial discrimination is only against black people. In the eyes of old white men, the status of yellow people is even worse than that of black people.

So when Li Kaiming stood on the floor of the North Shore Garden Arena, he felt the strong malice coming toward him!

This kind of malice came not only from the boos of the fans at the scene, but also from the eyes of these guys. Li Kaiming had never seen this before. He was just watching a basketball game. Many people at the scene looked at him with that kind of disgust from the bottom of their hearts. , if there were no laws in this place, he even suspected that these guys might be able to take out a rifle from behind and give him a shot...

As for verbal abuse, let alone verbal abuse. Of course, after three years in the NBA, Li Kaiming has heard racially motivated personal attacks on him more than once. He was very angry at first, but later he became relieved. There are too many idiots in this world who will let you see the diversity of species, but you don't need to argue with them, because no one can make everyone like themselves.

But this does not mean that Li Kaiming can be completely bearish and cannot rush up to beat the fans. Then I will beat your home team to the head office...