Xuewei did not provide any valuable advice to Xie Hou. Her friendship with Margarita only exists on the surface, so it is impossible to give Xie Hou any advice.

"By the way, during the semifinals, I will go to watch the game live."

Before they parted, Xuewei talked about this.

"Miss, are you not serious all day long?" Xie Hou really doesn't think that the daughter of the Mustu family will really like basketball, nor does he believe that the people in this family will be interested in basketball. Otherwise, the Pacers will not be able to receive even a Mustu family advertisement or sponsorship until now.

"Serious things? Why isn't it serious to go to watch the game on site?" Xuewei continued to imitate Xie Hou's sweeping meme, and her serious and funny look made Xie Hou laugh.

"Okay, I just welcome you on my behalf." Xie Hou said.

Xuewei believes that the Pacers team will welcome her arrival, so it doesn’t matter that Xie Hou changed this sentence to “I represent the whole team.”

Xie Hou left Xuewei for a while, and also let go of Margarita's affairs and actively prepared for the next semi-finals.

Their opponents will only appear among the Heat and the Hornets.

These two teams are typical monk bell-type teams.

They are strong teams, there is nothing to say about this, but there are several types of strong teams in NBA.

One is a championship-competitive team, such as the Pistons Pacers Lakers Timberwolves.

One is a team that competes for the championship verbally. Typically, the Hornets and Heat are not as good as the top and the bottom. They often have a good lineup, but the ceiling is not high, and no one expects them to achieve any results in the playoffs. Every year, they will unilaterally announce that "we are the best team in the league" (moderate ones will add one) to attract attention, and then they will be sent away in the first round or second round when they go to the playoffs. Unless there is a chance of smoking on the ancestral grave, they will not even be able to touch the floor of the division finals.

One is a goalkeeper team, competing for the championship? It's a bad tone, but it can always prove that they are the strongest team after the division championship. Such teams can often reach the division finals and lose seven games with the winners in the division. They usually last for two or three years and then disband. Apart from leaving a bunch of background records and a basket of "defeated even though they are defeated", there is nothing else.

The Hornets and the Heat are in this position, but are still trying their best to qualify for the semi-finals.

After the first six games of the series, the two sides fought tenaciously until they tied 3-3.

"The secret to winning is to never give up hope." The Heat coach Stan Van Gundy, who led the team to escape death, was interviewed with gloomy face.

The Heat are definitely the most talented team among the Eastern Conference. The most talented player in the whole team is Lamar Odom, followed by Caron Butler. The only All-Star is Eddie Jones, and then a bunch of shrimp soldiers and crab players. In this lineup, they still play against the Hornets until the tiebreak.

In early May, the tiebreak between Hot and Hornets was staged on time.

The result is no suspense, and the lack of hotness to play as a player cannot resist the Hornets' sprint outside.

The Hornets have a relatively balanced lineup, with Byron Davis on the outside, PJ Brown and Jamal Maglouil on the inside. Two star-level blue-collar insiders provide shelter from them and provides a very powerful support for Davis' 30 points and 10 assists.

99 to 88

The Heat's failure is tragic. For a team that has not played as an All-Star, it is already the limit to this point.

"The Hornets put out the fire in Miami, strided forward, and continued to move forward, and ahead. The Indiana Pacers who arrived at the semi-final gate were waiting for a long time. They sharpened their knives and were murderous."

The Hot and the Hornets series was the only tiebreak in the first round of the season (except for them, there was no even a round of series to reach Game 6).

Therefore, the end of this series, and the semi-final matchup is also newly released.

The walkers are already ready, no matter who comes, they will not be affected.

When the semi-finals match came out, Xie Hou was drinking a drink, and it was Xiaosheng Takako who reminded him.

"Onissan, the tiebreak is over!" Takako said, "The opponent in the semi-finals is the Charlotte Hornets!"

"Hornet?"

Xie Hou put down the cup in his hand, "Why does this name sound familiar?"

Takako said: "Because it was the Hornets who used the third pick to bring you to the NBA." (It was also the Hornets who asked Xie Hou to get traded as soon as they stepped into the league)

As a player who is traded as soon as he wins, Xie Hou has always had a special feeling about the Hornets.

This feeling is not very good. The Hornets traded him, and it is very likely that they had negotiated with the Pacers in advance, which means that their first goal was not Xie Hou.

It's all just business.

Now, Xie Hou has scored 26108 in the rookie season. He believes that the Hornets will regret it now. Byron Davis is good and is now an All-Star guard, but there is still a long way to go before the superstars (maybe they can never finish it).

So the significance of this series is that Xie Hou wants to make the Hornets regret the deal they made that year.

"We have to admit that some things have been arranged long ago." Xie Hou drank the drink in the cup, "I must clean them up."

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May 6, 2004

This is the opening day of the semi-finals. The Pacers sit at home and the Charlottes come from afar.

Byron Davis, the Hornets' head player, showed his determination as soon as he got off the plane: "Arthur's numbers may be better than me, but I will prove that I am a better defender than him in this series."

The Hornets' veteran, whose independent offensive ability has deteriorated to the point where P-J Brown, who needs to look at Davis's face to score, naturally has to say a few words: "If Byron and Arthur's roles are compared, I'm sure he can do better than the latter."

The provocation only takes a few words, and the Hornets were immediately listed as unwelcome guests by the Inn City media who came to interview them on site.

Davis's words came out from the airport, fans learned about it, and the Hornets got the boo they deserved in advance.

"I like this feeling. Being hostile to away fans means we are doing well." Davis' self-feeling is quite good.

This matter fermented quickly.

Because experienced media people based on what has happened in the past, he can be 100% sure that Sherhou will fight back to Byron Davis before the game begins.

You know, this kind-hearted young man is not at all good at heart. Even a senior like Shark dares to squirt. Who else can not be responded to after squirting him?

Answer: Dead player. Why? Answer: Because if a deceased player suddenly cheats his body and just criticizes him, Xie Hou will not only not be angry but will feel scared...

That afternoon, Xie Hou went to the training center with nothing to do and "accidentally" met a large number of reporters outside. The crowd was angry and processed Davis's words and conveyed them to him.

Davis's original words were "Arthur's numbers may be better than me, but I will prove that I am a better defender than him in this round of the series."

After the reporter's processing, this sentence became "Arthur's data cannot stand scrutiny, and as a defender, I am better than him."

"He's right. He is indeed a better defender than me, because I'm not a defender." Xie Hou interrupted with a smile. "I'm the sixth position. This is a new concept for coach Claire. I like this position. As the first sixth position in history, I undoubtedly have the best sixth position ever. As for the question of who is the better defender, I'm not interested."

Xie Hou was surprisingly calm and did not fight back against Davis head-on.

When he turned and walked into the training center, a middle-aged man who had been in the media industry for many years said: "Arthur's calm at this moment is just accumulating energy for the explosion tonight."

Looking back on how Xie Hou dealt with these people who were whining him before, the reporters at the scene had every reason to believe that he would explode.

Xie Hou had no feelings for Davis, but the Hornets were jealous of him in order to get Davis to trade him. Therefore, he completely beat Davis to prove that the Hornets had no eyes and was not aware of this logic.

He was destined to beat Davis, no matter whether the other party said these words or not.

His words only made Xie Hou's heart go from "I have to beat him and prove himself" to "Oh, if you hit him, you'll kill another person on the list."

Due to the evening competition, the training intensity in the afternoon was very average, just to keep everyone in shape.

After the regular training, Xie Houjia practiced 300 three-pointers, and he scored 213 of them.

Night falls

Xie Hou’s dinner tonight was roast lamb legs. He had fallen in love with the mutton flavor (good kids who don’t know what’s going on). Recently, he has reached the most fanatical stage. He is already a little bit dead without lamb.

Some people may think roast lamb is unhealthy for athletes, but in fact - each hundred grams of roast lamb has lower calories than chicken breasts, and has lower fat content and a little more protein.

"Arthur, I didn't expect you to like eating lamb so much."

Xie Hou’s recent obsession with mutton has made him a gold card holder in Paradise Valley.

"If you eat chicken breasts like me for two years, you will fall in love with me like me!"

After saying that, Xie Hou opened his ruthless iron mouth and tore off a piece of mutton that was both fat and thin.

After eating and drinking, he paid the money, gave the tip, and drove to the Banker Life Stadium to adapt to the venue in advance.

Coincidentally, Byron Davis is there too.

They looked at each other.

Davis had a bald head, a mouth full of untouched stubble, and a headband that was not worthy of his temperament.

"I will prove that what I said is true." Davis had an incomprehensible hostility towards Xie Hou.

Xie Hou looked at him for a long time and wanted to say something harsh but didn't know what to say, because he had limited knowledge of Davis.

So, he had to let out a soft voice and turn around and walk away.
Chapter completed!