The day after the game, David's injury report came out. Isn't the injury particularly serious? If it were players like Jackson, it might have been almost done in less than a week of rest.

However, it is not so easy for a player like David to recover in a short period of time. According to the medical team, it is necessary to rest for a month to ensure that it will not affect the future competitive state.

Of course, it is not impossible to come back early. For example, after recuperation for half a month, you may be able to play. Your competitive state will not be affected too much, but if you are not careful, you can easily get injured again. If you are injured again, it will definitely be a big deal.

Jiang Dongbing refused to make a comeback without hesitation. What a joke? The Grizzlies are not yet at the end of their lives, so David has to risk being injured to hold on to the scene.

Now there is still a position on the Grizzlies who can replace David on the bench. In addition, as early as the first half of the season, Jiang Dongbing had already made arrangements in advance, that is, he signed Rodman. Now is the time for Rodman to return.

Speaking of which, Rodman has had a great time this season. He has paid the Grizzlies but doesn't have to show up at all. He can do anything he wants.

Now that the season is about to end, he can play and get the playoff dividends directly, which is a considerable income.

In fact, the player's income is not just about the salary income on the contract, but also about some playoff dividends and regular season bonus pools. Although it is not much, if the team goes far enough, the income is still quite considerable.

For example, the Grizzlies are the team with the most wins in the regular season this year, so they can take away 432,000 US dollars from the prize pool, and the most wins in the regular season in the division, which is another 378,000 US dollars.

The team entered the first round of the playoffs at US$223,000, the second round was US$266,000, the division final was US$440,000, and the championship was US$2.65 million.

If all of them are added up, the Grizzlies' dividend will be roughly 4.4 million US dollars. The team cannot get involved in this money, and it will be allocated to the players.

According to the unspoken rules of NBA distribution, the money will generally be distributed to substitute players, and most of the main core players hold big contracts, and they don’t care about this income.

If the core players don’t get it, each other player can get at least $500,000? This is higher than the annual salary of many players.

This is also the reason why many players prefer to join the super powerful? Especially those players with basic salary, if they can join a championship team, their salary may be doubled directly.

...

Game 4 of the Western Conference Semi-Finals? The Jazz's home court.

Before the game started, Jiang Dongbing stood on the sidelines to make pre-match tactical arrangements for the players? Even if there is no David, the Grizzlies will definitely be able to win the Jazz easily? But the preparations that should be made must be done.

"Ben?      Your position is the fourth position tonight. The task I give you is to limit Ma Long's breakthrough and grab as many rebounds as possible. Can you do it?" Jiang Dongbing asked Da Ben.

Da Ben nodded confidently? “Can you definitely do it? Coach, don’t worry, I will definitely take good care of Malone tonight. Don’t worry about rebounding, I will do my best!”

If Daben defends Ma Long's shooting? Then he may not have much confidence, but only defends Ma Long's breakthrough? Daben is full of confidence and his strength is not inferior to Ma Long? The speed is even faster than Ma Long, and his bounce is better than Ma Long? There is no reason why Ma Long's breakthrough will be effective.

As for the rebounding end? This is the guy who made a living in Daben? He is even more confident.

Jiang Dongbing nodded. In fact, as long as he could defend Ma Long's breakthrough, everything would be easy to say. It would be absolutely impossible to count on Ma Long to shoot a shot to defeat the Grizzlies.

As some experts later said, mid-range shots cannot kill the game, and even if Ma Long's mid-range shots are good, they are definitely not as good as they can kill the game.

Now Malone has also started to shoot some three-pointers appropriately, but the shooting rate is rather awkward, with only about 25% shooting rate, so there is no need to worry at all.

"Jermaine, you'll play center tonight."

"You are against Polynis, the defense is not very good, you have to seize any opportunity to end the offense."

"Because Ben's offensive ability is limited, Malone may double-team you with Polynis, and quickly transfer the ball to Big Ben's hands at this moment, and then pass the ball to the outside."

"Is there any problem?" Jiang Dongbing arranged Xiao Ao's work again.

The Jazz's main attack point in the interior is Malone, so they naturally need to take care of Da Ben, who has stronger defense. Xiao Ao, who has stronger attack power, is the Grizzlies' main attack point in the interior tonight.

Xiao Ao nodded happily, David was absent, and now the Grizzlies' inside offense is almost handled by him. It is conceivable that after the game, his data will definitely be overwhelming.

"As for your outside players, they are still the same old style, strong defense, decisive three-pointers and breakthroughs. As long as you play stably, no team in this league is our opponent!"

...

The Grizzlies have high morale, even if the starting regular center David is absent, their morale will not be affected at all.

On the other hand, the morale of the Jazz is a bit sluggish now. They are already behind by 0:3. Although David's absence is good news for them, this does not mean that they are confident that they can defeat the Grizzlies.

The dominance shown by the Grizzlies this season is so desperate. Not to mention David is absent, even if the Grizzlies have two starters, the Jazz have no confidence in winning.

This is the foundation of the Grizzlies. The foundation of this Grizzlies has increased by more than ten times compared to when Jiang Dongbing took over. In other words, the value of all the players of the Grizzlies was one-tenth of the current Grizzlies!

At the beginning of the game on the court, in just the first offensive round, a fierce opponent emerged between Da Ben and Malone.

Daben is also different from the past. In the regular season, because many players have been raised to the limit by Jiang Dongbing, Daben has also been specially trained. Although he has not reached the limit yet, his most important rebounding and single defense assisted defense attributes have reached a very high level. There is no problem with using it to deal with the old Ma Long.

Malone broke through with the ball, and the small-sized Da Ben blocked Malone's attack route.

Generally speaking, most No. 4 players in the league will wisely avoid Malone who is leading the way when facing a big elbow, because if they are hit, the consequences will be unimaginable.

But Daben stood like an iron tower, as if waiting for Ma Long to collide.

"Boom!" Two strong men who were as fierce as iron, collided together, and neither side actually took advantage of them. Da Ben was hit and retreated repeatedly. Ma Long was also unstable and almost fell down.

Logically speaking, there is no problem with calling Malone for an offensive foul this ball. After all, Da Ben has already set his position, and Malone obviously broke through and hit someone for a foul. However, because it was the Jazz's home court tonight, and the Jazz was already behind the score, the referee turned a blind eye and did not blow the whistle in his mouth.

Jiang Dongbing was unmoved by such a side whistle. He knew very well that this side whistle was actually part of the game. It was just because the Grizzlies are too strong now and they did not give the referee a chance to help them blow the side whistle. They were all beaten their opponents. If the referee blew the side whistle again, the game would not be able to be played.

...

Ma Long rubbed his chest and looked at Da Ben with a little horror.

Judging from Da Ben's extremely excited appearance, it is hard to believe that he had actually endured a hit by himself just now. Ma Long knew very well that he had encountered a tough guy tonight.

In the next offensive round, Malone did not make a breakthrough, but instead made a mid-range shot with the help of pick-and-roll. As a result, he failed to make a blacksmith and did not snatch the rebound. Xiao O's under the basket easily grabbed the rebound.

After several offensive rounds, Sloan's face looked a little ugly. He originally thought that although they could not win the Grizzlies, they would never lose too much.

But now the crazy restrictions on Malone caused the Grizzlies to still beat the Jazz on the scene, as if there was no difference between David or not.

In the five minutes of the game, O'O scored four goals in a row, scoring 8 points, 3 rebounds and 1 block. Polinis, who was facing O'O, seemed like air.

At his peak, Polinis was also the first blue-collar insider in the league, but now his strength is really unfavorable to face Xiao Ao at his heyday.

Even if you can't defend against Xiao Ao, you can't beat Xiao Ao even if you fight, and you are completely crushed by Xiao Ao.

Not to mention the advantages of the Grizzlies' outside line, it is simply all-round suppression.

In terms of athletic ability, the Grizzlies obviously have a huge advantage. In addition, the height advantage of the Grizzlies is also extremely amazing. The average height of the three is seven or eight centimeters higher than that of the Jazz three.

With the same athletic ability, the higher the outside players, the more they have, the better they have. This is why Durant in later generations can have such terrifying dominance on the offensive end. You should know that Durant is the only outside player qualified to play alongside Jordan on the offensive end.

The key to the problem now is that grizzlies not only have height advantages, but also have an advantage in athletic ability, which is terrible.

...

Rodman played for 25 minutes as a substitute, mainly because the Grizzlies are too scarce in the interior now, and Kirirenko was placed on the outside, which means that the Grizzlies now only have three inside players, O'O, Big Ben and Rodman, so Rodman naturally has a lot of playing time.

As a result, Rodman, who had not shown up for nearly a year, performed extremely well. Whether it was rebounding or defense, he was above the level and was definitely worthy of his cheap contract.

"Dudu!" The referee blew the whistle at the end of the game, and both sides began to end.

Jiang Dongbing looked at the technical statistics of this game. The Grizzlies won 18 points, which was slightly less than the previous three games, but it can still be said to be the Jazz who beat the whole game.

The most surprising player tonight is undoubtedly Da Ben. Da Ben had wonderful games before, but that was the regular season after all. Now in the playoffs, when facing Malone, Da Ben scored 3 points, 18 rebounds and 4 blocks, and directly scored his own net worth.

You should know that this year is Daben's contract year. If he can continue to perform like this in the next game, the contract he can sign next will definitely be a generous contract. He may not be able to sign a maximum salary contract, but it will definitely be no problem to sign a $35 million in five years.

David's absence made Daben fulfill his life.

Jiang Dongbing rubbed his temples. With Artest and David absent, Kirilenko and Daemon, the Grizzlies, have now played their worth. In the future, the Grizzlies' salary space will become a difficult problem.

Xiao Ao scored 34 points, 11 rebounds and 3 blocks tonight, and once again used strong evidence to prove that he had the value of matching the maximum salary.

As a No. 4 player, he can still play this dominance when he serves as the center. Xiao O is already more tempting than most No. 4 players.

It is actually difficult for players like Duncan to distinguish whether he is a center or a power forward, but Garnett or Weber are standard power forwards. If they are allowed to play center, their level is definitely not as high as power forwards.

Now, whether it is a power forward or a center, O'O is at a high level, which is completely equivalent to buying one and getting two free. If the Grizzlies don't give the maximum salary, other teams will never miss this opportunity.

...

The Lakers also swept the opponent's Trail Blazers 4:0.

Pippen performed badly enough in this round of series, almost the same as when he was with the Rockets last season. His regular season data is pretty good, but when he arrived in the playoffs, he immediately declined.

In fact, Pippen's style of play is destined to have such problems.

The defensive intensity in the regular season is not high, and Pippen can use breakthroughs to score more during the game. But in the playoffs, especially in the Western Conference semi-finals, who doesn’t defend desperately? Pippen’s breakthrough efficiency has become much lower, but his shooting ability is very weak, so the scoring efficiency has naturally decreased.

There are actually many players of this type. They are powerful in the regular season, but problems will occur immediately once they reach the playoffs. For example, Antetokounmpo, a famous Antetokounmpo, is basically a type like Pippen, but Antetokounmpo is still young, and no one knows what Antetokounmpo will look like in the future.

When he was in the Bulls, because of Jordan's involvement, Pippen's disadvantages were not exposed. Now, after Jordan is gone, Pippen directly reveals his true form.

O'Neal still dominated the game, playing in four games, and even averaged 35 points, 14 rebounds and 4 blocks per game. It can be said that the Trail Blazers lost at all.

With the birth of the two teams in the Western Conference Finals, fans from all sides are now excited. The Grizzlies were originally one-sided and there was almost no suspense, but now with David absent and O'Neal in a hot state, it is hard to say the outcome of this group of matches.

In the Eastern Conference playoffs, there was almost no one paying attention to them except for the home teams of their respective teams, and everyone turned their attention to the showdown in the Western Conference.
Chapter completed!