In fact, this season, if we say which teams in the Eastern Conference have attracted the most attention from the entire league, they are actually the two teams currently competing, the Detroit Pistons and the Chicago Bulls.
However, unlike the Chicago Bulls, who gained more attention by relying on their significantly improved record this season compared to last season, the Detroit Pistons became the league's talk team because they only shocked the league once.
events.
The Detroit Pistons were the league's championship last season. Although their record this season is also very good, if it is just that, it is a very common thing. However, because what happened in their home court of Auburn Hills more than a month ago
The fight at the Palace made the Detroit Pistons once again become one of the focuses of the league this season.
That incident can be said to be the most serious brawl in the history of the league. After the game, the league also issued the most severe fine in history.
The Palace of Auburn Hills, home of the Detroit Pistons, has become a household name.
However, in that incident, the one who really suffered a blow was not the Detroit Pistons, but their opponent, the Indiana Pacers, who were playing away games at the time.
That severe ticket was basically given to the Pacers' main players.
And that game almost became a watershed in the Eastern Conference.
After that game, the Pacers, who reached the Eastern Conference finals last year and have been on par with the Pistons in terms of record this season, have fallen into disrepair and are now almost at the bottom of the Eastern Conference. The Pistons... also started from that game.
After that, he led the Eastern Conference all the way and his record was unparalleled.
It wasn't until the Chicago Bulls won four consecutive away games in the Western Conference that they were tied for the first time.
Originally, that game between the Pistons and the Pacers was regarded as a preview of this year's Eastern Conference Finals. But after that game, no one thought that the Pacers could still enter the Eastern Conference Finals and challenge
The Pistons.
The Pacers may now have the luxury of even making the playoffs.
Instead, the Bulls team unexpectedly improved by leaps and bounds this season.
Before the game between the Bulls and the Pistons, countless news events took place. First, the country was talking about the rise of Chicago, then Chen Jie's bold words caused a new round of topics, and then Eddy Curry and Kwame Brown
The transaction was criticized by the media as stupid.
These news events attracted everyone's attention, making it impossible to focus on the two teams even before the game.
It wasn't until the game started that the media realized that this game between the Pistons and the Bulls seemed to be a focus battle.
The records of the two teams are now tied and they are tied for first place in the Eastern Conference. If nothing unexpected happens, the two teams should meet in the Eastern Conference finals. This is a veritable preview of the Eastern Conference finals.
Under normal circumstances, many media would have done a lot of special reports on the battle between the two teams before this game.
But this time, because their attention was on other things, no one came up with a comparison of the grievances between the two teams and their performance this season.
This is a good thing, at least, there is no such special report, which cools down the competition a lot.
For the young Bulls, the pressure of the game has also been reduced a lot.
After all, who wouldn’t be nervous when facing last year’s championship?
However, although there is a lot less pressure, the strength is still there after all. From the opening to the present quarter and a half, the Bulls' performance can be said to be no different from that of the Western Conference's four-game winning streak. It can be used to be very good.
To describe it, however, in terms of score, they are still lagging behind.
On the sidelines, looking at Scales, who was still unable to equalize the score with the rotation of the lineup, his brows gradually became serious.
In fact, he knew that it was time to make changes.
Before the game, Skiles' arrangement was to start the game step by step, take a look at the Pistons' arrangement, and then make targeted changes.
The recent good results have also given Skiles great confidence in his commanding ability.
However, judging from the game, the strength of the Pistons is indeed much higher than that of the Bulls. They don't need to make dangerous moves at all, as long as they play step by step, they can win the game.
It seems that expecting the other party to change and then trying to make changes oneself will not work.
In fact, the Bulls have never faced a team stronger than themselves.
The Spurs, Mavericks, these teams are much stronger than the Bulls in terms of book strength.
It can even be said that if these two teams meet the Pistons, it is really unclear who will win and who will lose.
However, the scarier thing about the Pistons than these two teams is that it is more stable and has no shortcomings.
Although other teams are strong, their shortcomings are still obvious. For example, the Mavericks' offense relies too much on Nowitzki. For example, the Spurs, his all-day defensive ability is stronger than his personal defensive ability and he can defend alone.
, there can only be one Bruce Bowen.
But for the Pistons, although every team on the field is not a superstar, together they can form a perfect lineup.
Their overall defense is very strong, and their individual defense is not bad either.
Billups and Prince, both of them can defend Chen Jie in one-on-one situations.
This reduced Chen Jie's role a lot.
When playing against the Spurs, wasn't it because Chen Jie faced Bruce Bowen's defense and beat Bruce Bowen to pieces? Then no one from the Spurs could step up and replace Bruce Bowen, and then let Chen Jie's score kill them.
Dead?
But now, facing the Pistons, it seems impossible to win like this.
Even if Chen Jie beats Prince, Billups can still hit him. By the time he beats Billups, Prince has almost recovered.
No matter at any time, Chen Jie faced the strongest defense.
And it seems a little impossible for him to break out.
This is the Pistons' advantage against the Bulls.
In fact, the strength of the Pistons doesn't have much to do with it. As mentioned before, it's not that the Bulls have never faced strong teams. On the contrary, the Bulls often staged good shows in which the weak defeated the strong.
But facing the Pistons, the Bulls didn't have much else to do.
Because the Pistons are not only stronger than the Bulls, but their lineup happens to restrain the Bulls.
The Pistons' big man, Ben Wallace, doesn't have very good offensive ability. If they meet a team with a particularly good big man, they might get upset.
But it just so happens that the Bulls don't have such an insider.
The Pistons have strong perimeter defense and organizational skills, which can limit the opponent's perimeter outburst and prevent the opponent's perimeter from getting into shape, and coincidentally, this is the Bulls' trump card.
In this way, how can the Bulls have a chance against the Pistons?
During the two minutes of rotation, the Pistons replaced Hamilton, replaced Prince, and replaced Atkins. Larry Brown deliberately asked Billups and Atkins to switch positions, allowing Atkin to
Si went to defend Chen Jie, thereby freeing up Billups. In this way, Billups could have the energy to organize the offense, because the Pistons' rotation requires Billups' offensive and organizational skills.
This was originally an opportunity for the Bulls. Atkins is only 1.8 meters tall and his defensive ability is far inferior to Billups and Prince. Chen Jie can just use this period of time to get into shape.
And as if God was helping the Bulls, Atkins, a funny guy, didn't know what was wrong with him, and deliberately provoked Chen Jie, which made Chen Jie even more unhappy.
Maybe soon, amidst the cheers of the fans at the United Center, Chen Jie will break out.
However, Chen Jie's luck was not very good.
He originally wanted to trick Atkins into fouling and hit a three-pointer, but he was unlucky and the basketball did not go into the basket.
Then, after Chen Jie made a three-pointer, he felt good.
It just so happened that at this time, the first quarter of the game was over.
Sitting on the bench, Chen Jie complained to Griffin.
In the first quarter of today's game, he felt very uncomfortable! (To be continued...)
ps: The last half of the last chapter yesterday, I don’t know what to do with it. It’s so inexplicable. I decided to revise it. So what, that chapter is not a compensatory update. I still owe it
