May 5, 2009

On the opening day of the semi-finals, many people were looking forward to the arrival of this day. This person did not include Xie Hou, who studied the Bulls' videos and tried to find the weaknesses of the team.

He eventually found that the team had no obvious weaknesses.

Everyone can score, and the starter can defend except Kevin Martin.

Garnett's presence allowed Howard to eat more cakes.

In the Suns, Garnett tasted the bitter fruit of failure, but he also reached the finals for the first time in his life. By the way, he developed a reliable three-pointer. With Howard's partner, he seemed so comfortable and happy. In the early years, when he was at the Timberwolves, many professional commentators didn't want to see him shooting outside. From the 2004 to 2005 season, he even averaged 0.4 three-pointers per game.

It was a strange era, with many superstars and endless talents in power forward positions, but Garnett is the most strange one. He is not like a traditional power forward. He can attack, defend, and organize and support. The ball-holding offense technique can be compared with most small forwards and hopes to become an all-round creator, but in his era, he cannot accept players as tall as him to become the team's ball master.

He changed, hoping to be more suitable for the times and more suitable for his teammates. No matter how he changed, the weak team's strength, the boss who was unwilling to invest more money could not bring him strong teammates. Xie Hou's success stimulated him.

He found that as long as he had strong teammates, Xie Hou in his rookie season would be enough to win the championship.

After that, he explored and explored all the way. From the Suns to the Bulls, he finally joined the most suitable team.

He and Howard, one likes to run to the inside line, and the other likes to pull out, just cater to the technical characteristics of the two of them. They have become rare inside teams in history, with perfect combination of offense and defense.

Howard is in love with protecting the basket. Garnett's specialty is sweeping and pick-and-roll defense, and standing at a high position gives strong blockade and pressure to the ball holder.

When necessary, he can go back to protect the basket. Most of the time, he just needs to stare at the opponent's ball holder.

The Bulls are a team that is far more suitable for him than the Suns.

In the Suns, he needs to put in a lot of energy for Nash's defense, while in the Bulls, Martin is a loophole, but he is younger than him, has a good size, and has a better defense effect than Nash. Although the two people who don't defend are stranger than defense, if they have to compare, Garnett thinks Martin's defense is better.

When defending, he and Howard performed their duties.

The offense will not affect each other, it is a dream partner.

Howard only makes people dislike him, his personality. His personality is too free and he means a little young O'Neal. Fortunately, Garnett was not the lunatic who could punch his teammate in NBA when he was angry.

Years of failure made him understand many principles he didn't understand when he was young.

When Xie Hou brought his teammates into the field, the Bulls' lineup made him embarrassed to bring others over to say hello.

Look at their lineup.

First team center and forward, second team defender, and several capable role players 10.

1The timeline at this time, the major awards have not been announced yet, and this narration is an insignificant spoiler.

Xie Hou seemed to have seen the Pacers in 2004, and his team had reached its peak. Six years were enough to make the team go from prosperity to decline.

"I thought a lot about the failure last year." When we met again in the playoffs, Garnett's attitude was much better.

No matter what class of people, snobbery is certain. If Xie Hou did not make a big comeback in the fourth quarter of Game 7 last season, nor did he scored the only tiebreaker in history from Garnett, if they had not experienced "that       moment", Garnett would not be more polite to him.

"So you joined another super team?" Xie Hou laughed faintly.

Garnett said without changing his face: "Before I joined the Bulls, they stopped in the semi-finals, which is a super team?"

"Did you hear it? kg said you are not a super team." Xie Hou wished the Bulls' internal strife and made Paul want to laugh.

That is indeed one of the few chances of winning for Pacers.

If the bulls' young men could really fight in the middle as he wished.

"Kevin is right, what are the super teams we have stopped in the semi-finals?" Howard's happy look made Xie Hou want to punch him.

That evil impulse was quickly suppressed by him.

Be calm, thank you.

He told himself that unless he could punch Howard in season and ensure that he would not be banned for more than three games in the league, he would not do it easily.

"But you're right." Paul got the words, "KG's joining has indeed turned us into a super team."

Xie Hou had nothing to say.

He went back to warm up, and so did the bulls.

A few minutes later, both sides started and jumped the ball. "White Warcraft" Foster lost to the authentic "Black Warcraft". If possible, Xie Hou hoped that he would transform into Yao Zhu, who had eaten, sleep and fight the Warcraft.

Wishes are beautiful, but reality is cruel.

The cruelest thing is that Foster is their most reliable inside line now. He has height and size, and excellent athletic ability. He can barely compare with Howard and Garnett in hardware. Although the software is much worse, it is better than not. Xie Hou believes that the Pacers fans in front of the TV will not want to see Steven Hunter fight against Warcraft. That must be a beautiful game.

The cruel reality makes the Pacers' down-and-out inside line fill a brand new wound.

Four minutes into the game, Xie Hou asked Foster to dismantle the air relay.

With a wonderful cooperation, Howard could not go back. Garnett was too far away and the ball passed. Foster jumped into the air, received the ball and dunked. The ball entered. He failed to grab the basket and cushion, and it went straight up and down. The fragile human body inadvertently collapsed the string.

When Foster landed, he felt a sword under his feet piercing his feet from the soles of his feet, and penetrated to the kneecap on his calf.

He screamed in pain, and the last reliable giant in the Pacers formation fell.

Bull announcer Tommy Edwards said: "It seems that Jeff Foster is not in a minor injury. As a Bulls supporter, his injury has increased the Bulls' chances of winning, but I don't like this. I believe every fan who loves competition doesn't like it."

In the live broadcast room of tnt, a crowd of thanks wailed.

"Jeff was injured, and there was only one center left in the Pacers."

"Steven Hunter, can the Indiana people count on him to fight Dwight?"

"No, Dwight will kill him!"

"If Jeff cannot return, the Pacers' penalty area will be live-streamed 18x movies from now on."

Thibodeau's choice is that there is no choice. If you can choose, he will not let Hunter face Howard even if he chooses 10,000 times. Just like the future Internet celebrity-faced beauty who is struggling with Rosamund Kwan, he also has an Internet celebrity-faced face, one looks like a fairy, and the other looks... unspeakable inconsistency.

Howard is also a superstar center with strong attributes in the famous basketball team. His threat is infinitely magnified against Hunter, who is also a basketball team.

Foster's injury made the Pacers' inside line worse.

At the end of the first quarter, the Bulls led the Pacers by 15 points 37 to 22.

"Tell me a ghost story. In the first quarter, the offensive rebound comparison between the two sides was 11-0."

"Yes, the Bulls grabbed 11 offensive rebounds."

"The offensive efficiency of both sides is not different, but the Bulls have 11 extra offensive capabilities, which can also have 11 extra second offensive opportunities. Those extra second offensives have scored 14 more points for them."

"This is the benefit of the inside advantage."

The Bulls' inside line will continue to be strong. If Foster is there, the rebound will be exploded, but the difference is that it will be miserable, or it will be relatively less miserable.

He fell behind by 15 points in the first quarter, and he hasn't experienced it for a long time.

The intensity brought by the bull made him unable to continue waiting.

Keep waiting, all you have to wait is garbage time.

If you are going to be beaten into garbage before the half is over? That's really a shame.

In the second quarter, Xie Hou scored 20 points.

The penalty area jointly built by the Warcraft and the Wolf King is indeed the same as the wall. In the 20 points, only 2 points came from the basket, and the others were mid- and long-distance jump shots.

A few days before the semi-finals, Xie Hou practiced the most fiercely and shot. His teammates suspected that he would die of exhaustion on the basketball court several times.

Those trainings that overdrawn physical fitness consolidated his feel and supported his offense.

50 to 61

After halftime, the Bulls led by 11 points.

Chicago media had smiles on their faces, and they wanted to ask what else to do to save the situation.

“Do everything I can do.”

The reporter wanted to hear the stubborn answer, so Xie Hou gave it to them.

In the second half, Xie Hou did not rest for a second.

Thibodeau asked him, he shook his head and refused to rest, so he played the second half.

The Bulls' defense became more and more crazy. They found that Xie Hou's shooting was accurate, so they asked Garnett to do what he was best at: oppressing the ball holder.

Xie Hou was oppressed and his shooting feel plummeted.

When he was with the Suns, his pressure was stronger than that at this time, so the Suns lost many defensive rebounds. But now, even if he pressed outside the three-point line, he was not worried about rebounds. Others came out, and there was Howard at the basket.

Rebound? No more worrying.

The Bulls provide teams around the world with the best solution to prevent death.

The outside pendulums are 2-3 who can match him and will not be beaten by one step - the Bulls include Sephrosa and Brewer.

If he calls for pick-and-roll or attack, he needs to have a high-level insider that is full of pressure on the ball holder.

Finally, there must be an elite insider to protect the basket and protect the rebound.

Only with these three conditions can success be achieved.

Although the Pistons met this condition, Rashid, Big Ben and Garnett were of the same level as Howard; the Cavaliers only met the depth of the wing; the Spurs, Mavericks and others had their own defects, and the Sun had oppressors, but they were the long men who did not protect the basket.

And the bulls happen to have all this.

The wings match Xie Hou, and Garnett followed the pressure to break through. If he wants to pass the ball, he can only go outward. With Howard in the inside, who can challenge Howard head-on in the team besides him? That is the historical defender who will dominate DPOY in the next three years.

Pacers who want to create miracles will be defeated in three quarters.

Xie Hou was defended for the first time in his life - and was defended for death with a touch.
Chapter completed!