After being defeated by Li Ang in the second game, everyone on the Magic team seemed to have lost their souls.

It's normal. Competitive sports are all about working hard.

If this energy cannot be lifted up, it will be released if it is vented.

It’s no wonder that the Magic players are not tough enough. After the game, as soon as you turn on the TV and see the picture of yourself being killed, your mentality will collapse.

So by the third game of the series, the Magic had almost no resistance.

McGrady, who scored 30 points in the first two games, only scored 23 points today.

He has realized that scoring cannot save Orlando.

In this way, the Raptors easily won the third game in Orlando, swept the Magic 3-0 in the first round, and advanced to the Eastern Conference semifinals!

The Magic's strength in the playoffs seems to be slightly worse than people imagined.

In other words, the Raptors are stronger in the playoffs than people think.

Everyone thought the Raptors would be in a tough fight in the first round, but who knew it would end so suddenly in the end.

In fact, the Magic have not been considered a strong team in recent years.

Although McGrady's statistics in the Magic are very gorgeous, personal statistics and team record have never been directly proportional.

Including the 2003 playoffs in original history, when Tracy McGrady almost defeated the Pistons and reached the semifinals, it was just that the Pistons underestimated the opponent at first and failed to react.

But in fact, the Pistons and Magic that year were not at the same level at all, so the Pistons finally got serious and turned over, adding another classic comeback in Rivers' coaching career.

In short, the Magic have never been a top team in the East.

It makes sense that the Raptors could sweep the Wheat 3-0.

After the game, Li Ang also went to comfort Tracy McGrady: "It's not that you are not good enough, the main thing is that I am a bit strong."

The corner of McGrady's mouth twitched, and he felt that Li Ang was gradually turning into a snake.

"You guys just gang up and bully me, hum! Forget it, trust the process. I still don't believe it, I will never be able to break through the first round on my own in this life!"

After McGrady finished speaking, he left dejectedly.

As the first among the five shooting guards to be eliminated, it's a bit of a loss of face.

Li Ang looked at McGrady's back and shook his head.

After all, you are young and don’t know the dangers of this society.

There are some things in this world...you really don’t believe it!

After seeing off McGrady, Leon and Carter also gave high-fives.

The score of 3-0 broke everyone's doubts.

In the last two months of the regular season, because the Raptors lost to the 76ers and the Bucks, the reputation of the Raptors was not very good.

What was the media saying at that time?

The Raptors can't beat strong teams, but weak teams won't let them go.

It's fine now. I defeated the Magic 3-0 unexpectedly. Let's see who has any opinions.

After accepting the reporter's interview, Li Ang hurried back to the locker room to check on the progress of the dungeon mission.

As a result, the question mark task was still not completed.

Li Ang initially wondered whether this mission would be to "defeat Tracy McGrady in the playoffs with Carter."

But now it seems that I just thought too much.

Also, how could something as simple as defeating Tracy McGrady be treated as a dungeon mission...

Then, the only possibility left for the dungeon mission is to lead the team past the Eastern Conference semifinals!

After all, in 2001 in original history, the Raptors were eliminated by the 76ers in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Last season, the Raptors also lost to the Heat in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

The Eastern Conference semifinals are like a hurdle for Leon and Carter.

Crossing this hurdle is a major career breakthrough for both of them.

Therefore, the question mark task must be to work with Carter to break through the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Just this Eastern Conference semifinals...

It's really not as easy as beating Tracy McGrady.

After returning from Orlando, Li Ang was not idle and continued to pull little Yao Cao every day.

practice.

The main thing is to practice confrontation and strength. After all, if you want to gain a foothold as an insider in this era, it's really hard to keep up with confrontation.

Of course, Li Ang did not immediately let Xiao Yao gain weight crazily. Sometimes maintaining flexibility is not necessarily a bad thing.

While Li Ang and Xiao Yao were practicing crazily, the 76ers also swept last season's Eastern Conference champion Pacers with a total score of 3 to 1!

Under the Pacers' rough defense, AI can still average 31.5 points per game, ranking first in the league.

This heralds that a new era has begun!

After the series, AI even called Li Ang: "Well, I like the white one. Order the car as soon as possible. I will use it immediately after the playoffs, hahahaha."

Li Ang is really convinced. Except for me and Carter, the five shooting guards all seem to have some problems.

"Li, the sandbag is broken, how about replacing it tomorrow?" At this time, Carter, who was playing sandbags on the side, said.

Li Ang laughed at that time and took back what he just said.

Except for myself, none of the top five shooting guards is serious!

Yes, a shooting guard who leads the league in rebounding is so normal.

The 76ers won cleanly, but people never expected that the Bucks, who beat the Raptors twice in March, would be locked in a head-to-head tie with the Hornets in the first round.

The Hornets in the playoffs seem to be more resilient than expected.

This season's Hornets are completely different from the Hornets that the Raptors easily defeated last season.

Eddie Jones, the core, was replaced, and Coleman was out for the season due to injury.

So now the Hornets have Mashburn, Bearded Davis and David Wesley as the core, supplemented by the defense of Campbell and P.J. Brown, making them surprisingly strong in the playoffs.

The Hornets and Bucks seem to be two teams with very similar styles, both relying on three outside attack points to compete with each other.

Whoever can swing the ball accurately today is the boss.

To contain them is very simple, just find a way to defend against those three attack points.

Therefore, although it is still unknown who the opponent will be in the next round, the tactics prepared by Wilkens are exactly the same.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Time passes day by day, and Leon and Carter pay attention to the Bucks' games every day.

As a result, the Bucks and Hornets were stunned to fight to the fifth decisive battle. Li Ang was worried that the person he was waiting for would not come again, right?

In the fifth game of the series, Marsh, who had already run out of ammunition and food, was exhausted and made only 7 of 25 shots, with a shooting percentage of less than 30%.

The Hornets lost the chain, but the Bucks did not waste the opportunity. Junzi Lei and Big Dog scored 28 and 29 points respectively, and finally led the team to defeat the Hornets 104-95, and advanced to the second round without any danger!

The moment the game ended, Li Ang let out a big sigh of relief.

He never expected that the playoffs would be so brutally defeated in the first round.

Moreover, this guy Glenn Robinson seems to have dropped his thermos, you know.

It’s really hard work!

But Li Ang found it very strange. Logically speaking, the Bucks' hard power should be higher than that of the Hornets.

In the original 2001 Eastern Conference Finals, the Bucks and 76ers fought until the tiebreaker before losing.

Moreover, in the tiebreaker, Junzilei only played three quarters due to a knee injury. Otherwise, it is not certain who will advance to the finals.

If the Bucks reach the Finals and Ray Allen steals a victory from the Lakers, then the top four shooting guards may really be different.

Don't get me wrong, AI is definitely still among the top four shooting guards. What Li Ang means is that there may really be no Kobe among the top four shooting guards.

Li Ang also wondered how the Bucks and Hornets could reach the top five.

But it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if it's a tiebreaker. At least in terms of physical fitness, the Raptors currently have the advantage.

At this time, Junzi Lei was already being interviewed by reporters on the court.

The reporter asked him how it felt to break through the first round for the first time in his career.

Ray Allen just glanced at the reporter and showed a disdainful smile: "I will answer your question when I enter the finals for the first time!"

Good guy, this is simply not taking Li Ang and AI seriously.

Many commentators laughed. You didn't decide the winner until the fifth tiebreaker in the first round, and you're still in the finals.

So ordinary, yet so confident.

very nice.
To be continued...