One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty-One. Show of Force

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The Bulls slaughtered the Celtics 92-75. There was really no suspense in today's first game. The game was far less exciting than the fans expected before the start of the playoffs. The major TV stations put this game in the afternoon. It's time to fight, there's really nothing wrong with it.

Also taking place is the series opener between the Raptors and Knicks.

This media prediction is wrong. Although the two teams have a gap in record, they played very fiercely! The ratings also started low and then went up. However, due to people’s working time between live broadcasts, the increase in ratings was also limited.

Under the leadership of Gasol and Paul, their respective teams played super defensive performances. At 11 minutes and 58 seconds of the fourth quarter, Paul hit a mid-range shot to lead the score 89 to 88. Gave the Raptors two seconds.

The Raptors called two timeouts in a row and arranged a winning strategy for DeRozan. However, DeRozan failed to withstand the pressure and shot a hollow outside the basket like an idol in his rookie year. He wasted 22 points and 11 rebounds tonight. Gasol's outstanding performance with 4 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks.

In the end, the Heat defeated the Raptors 89-88 and took away the home court advantage.

The Raptors became the first team this season to be robbed of home court advantage in a series!

In this game, both teams showed a very high defensive level. On one side, Gasol, who gradually entered his best form in the second half of the regular season and really entered his best form in the playoffs, supported the Raptors. The team's defense is on the other side, and the other side is a team defense. The characteristics are completely different, but because of the different characteristics, there are more points to watch. This is the collision of two completely different defenses.

It's just that although the Raptors are stronger overall, they don't have players like Paul and Wade who can score steadily at critical moments.

From any point of view, Wade and Paul are veterans, and the Raptors' strongest players inside and outside are all young people. This game is a good interpretation of a word in the minds of fans-veterans never die!

Although Josh Smith's incomprehensible decline occurred after Chandler left and lost hope of competing for the championship, causing the Heat to plummet from the overall runner-up last season to the bottom half of the Eastern Conference playoffs.

However, Wade and Paul, the veteran backcourt pair, did not give up and played a very exciting game.

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The time arrived at 7:40 in the evening in the Eastern United States, and Sun Ce and his teammates entered the court after warming up.

The game between the Warriors and the Thunder has now reached the critical fourth quarter. Sun Ce did not watch the live broadcasts of other teams' games this year when his own team had games and had to prepare.

There was no game yesterday, and even though I was scolded while eating, I had to go to the game, but today there is a game, that is, the game of my own team is more important, and the games of other teams are not interesting to watch - it is such a double standard.

Sun Ce also told Sun Ce about the results and general process of the first two games when Zuo went to the home team to find him before entering the stadium to make a short training video and post it online to show off.

In this year's playoffs, Sun Ce's mentality is indeed very different from before. This year is a year that must not fail!

Although Sun Ce seems to have made no progress at all in terms of so-called maturity, he is also making adjustments in his approach to things based on competition experience, which is also an improvement.

Now, Sun Ce is extremely focused and has only one goal - to defeat the Pelicans.

Moreover, it is a sweep!

On the other side, the Pelicans players who entered the stadium first looked at the luxurious lineup on the opposite side. The regular season was actually fine. After all, there was an essential difference between the regular season and the playoffs. After all, there were only 5 players playing at the same time.

However, in the playoffs, I saw the Lakers and Bulls with similar lineup depths crushing their opponents, I saw the extraordinary strength displayed by the Spurs and Mavericks, and then I saw the Grizzlies lineup... Irving thought that in the regular season The Grizzlies we saw were scary enough, but at least they were scary enough to fight.

Now, Irving has no idea how strong the Grizzlies are!

Theoretically,

The Grizzlies, with so many masters of positional warfare, will only be stronger in the intensity of the playoffs!

But the pride that should be shown to his teammates and the preparations that should be made have been completed. Irving doesn't know how effective it will be, but he has tried his best. This is his style.

At 7:55 pm Eastern Time, Sun Ce learned from Zuo Goose who got behind the bench that the first game of the series between the Thunder and the Warriors was over. 115 to 109, the Warriors won and maintained their home court advantage.

Although the Thunder are ranked higher than the Warriors, home court advantage is determined based on record.

Because it is inevitable that a division will be too strong. If all five teams in a division enter the playoffs, there is no chance that the sixth team will have a better record than the third. The ranking can determine the opponent, but it cannot determine the opponent. Home field advantage.

Zu'e didn't know the specific situation of the game between the Warriors and Thunder. She read text news on her mobile phone. Harden had 32 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists, Curry had 24 points and 6 assists, and Durant had 32 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists. With 34 points, 15 rebounds and 2 assists, Westbrook had 16 points, 4 rebounds and 11 assists.

All we know is that in the final quarter, the Warriors trailed the Thunder by 9 points, 56-65, in the first half, but the Warriors began to counterattack in the second half. In the final quarter, Harden made 6 of 7 shots in a single quarter, plus 4 of 4 free throws, soaring 16 points, and Curry shot After scoring two fatal three-pointers, the two worked together to help the Warriors score 27-20 in the final quarter. The Thunder, which scored 65 points in the first half, only scored 44 points in the second half, and the Warriors completed the reversal.

After understanding the general situation of the Warriors and Thunder, combined with the fact that the Spurs and Mavericks, two strong offensive teams, only scored about 110 points in overtime... Sun Ce is even more certain that defense is still very critical in the playoffs. When the strengths are equal, this may be the most critical link!

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At 8 p.m., Game 1 of the series between the Grizzlies and Pelicans begins.

As the final game of the day, and after the game between the Warriors and the Thunder, the game that just ended has aroused the enthusiasm of the fans. The game between the Grizzlies and the Pelicans attracted almost half of the paid games from the previous game. The interest of the fans who watched the game continued to buy this game, and there were more Grizzlies fans and passerby fans who were originally interested in how the Grizzlies would perform after entering the playoffs. Then there was a story that made major players The TV stations thought it was a weird situation.

From all aspects, the probability of the Pelicans advancing is not much higher than that of the Pistons in the Eastern Conference, but just such a game actually broke the historical record of the first game of the first round of the NBA playoffs!

The game has just begun, and the three TV stations that broadcast the game live include Time Warner Cable Sports, .T, and USA Cable Sports, and the number of paid viewers has exceeded 19.27 million!

In the 11-12 season, when the Grizzlies and Mavericks broke the historical record for the first game of the first round of the NBA playoffs, the number of paid viewers was only over 16 million.

This is only the first round. There are a lot of fans, mainly old fans, and it is difficult to watch even the games of the teams they support from the first round. The Eastern Conference usually has to go to the conference finals, and the Western Conference usually has to go to the second round. Pay-per-view Only when the number of visitors exceeds 15 million, and for this game between the Grizzlies and Pelicans, it seems that it will not be a problem if the number of visitors exceeds 20 million!

However, after the game started, facing the Grizzlies' luxurious starting lineup composed of Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, Paul George, Randolph, and Aldridge, the Pelicans' Irving, Quincy Pondexter, and Anthony -The lineup of Davis and Asik is obviously at a disadvantage, and it is at a disadvantage on both offense and defense!

The Grizzlies, who were on full fire from the beginning, played the Pelicans 18-10 in the first half of the quarter. In the second half of the first quarter, coach Hollins suddenly changed his formation, three up and three down, using Sun Ce, Tony- The ultimate defensive combination of Allen, Paul George, Larry Sanders, and Gobert caught the Pelicans off guard.

In 6 minutes and 28 seconds, the Pelicans only scored 3 points.

The Grizzlies only scored 10 points during this period. The combined offense of Larry Sanders and Gobert was basically useless. Anthony Davis alone blocked Gobert twice in the last minute of the first quarter. This time, it directly ended the Grizzlies' hope of 30+ points in the first quarter.

Anthony Davis doesn't need to expand out. The opponent only needs to guard Sun Ce and Paul George on the outside. Tony Allen can just leave the space and guard the inside. No matter who holds the ball, Sun Ce or Paul George will double team on the outside...

But even if the Grizzlies didn't play well offensively, because the Pelicans played even worse offensively, the Grizzlies still extended their lead to 15 points at the end of the first quarter!

28 to 13, the Grizzlies had a crushing performance in the first quarter!

Sun Ce had 4 points, 6 rebounds, 1 assist, 3 blocks and 1 steal, Paul George had 8 points, 2 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 steal, Randolph had 11 points and 2 rebounds, and Klay Thompson also scored 5 points, although no one else scored. However, the Grizzlies limited the Pelicans on the defensive end to only 13 points in a single quarter!

The Pelicans led by Irving and Anthony Davis are not without their efforts. Everyone can see that the Pelicans tried their best in the first quarter, but they were defeated by the team who also tried their best and played the rhythm change style they are best at. The Grizzlies are clearly stronger! A whole new level of strength!

Complete crushing!

In a conventional sense, this quarter of the game is not a good-looking game, but the Grizzlies are "showing off their strength". In the first half of the quarter, they used the strongest triangle offensive lineup to score 18 points in more than 5 minutes. They also used Sun Ce, Paul George, Klay Thompson's crazy defense coupled with a reasonably qualified inside combination limited the Pelicans' scoring, and then directly sent the most terrifying defensive lineup... This game seemed to have no suspense from the beginning. The Pelicans When we came up, we were defeated by the Grizzlies who went all out!

However, not many people think it’s “unsightly” because they come here just for such a competition! I just want to see the Grizzlies’ overwhelming dominance!

However, Coach Hollins of the Grizzlies felt that it might not be over yet. There seemed to be a problem with the opponent's rotation just now, and the Kidd on the opposite side was a little too calm.

Competition is never just a competition of strength, brain and strategy are also very important parts of the competition!