The Menglong team successfully advanced to the second round of the series, which made everyone in Stern smile.

For so many years, the Eastern Conference has been dominated by the Bulls, Knicks, Heat and Pacers.

It is true that some new tea should be added to continue to stimulate the ratings.

However, I don’t know how long this new tea can last in the meat grinder-like Eastern Conference semifinals.

Last year Danzi retired and the Eastern Conference was leaderless. The Hawks and 76ers seized the opportunity and both reached the Eastern Conference semifinals.

I thought the pattern of the Eastern Conference would change, but as a result, the Hawks were swept by the Knicks 4-0, and the 76ers were defeated by the Pacers, unable to fight back and failed to win a game.

Stern hoped that they could become the protagonists of the new era, but they turned out to be just guest appearances.

This year, if the Dragons are swept 4-0 like last year's 76ers and Hawks, the stimulation to the ratings won't be that great.

Stern is worried about the future of the Menglong team, and Li Ang is also worried.

He looked at the 76ers who were defeated by the Knicks 3-1 and sighed.

Hey, as a man who can compete with me for the best shooting guard, AI, you actually left first. How can this make me feel so embarrassed?

Of these five shooting guards, suddenly I, Lao Li, was the only one left.

I'm so stressed!

What? Carter and Tracy McGrady?

Forget it, based on the performance of these cousins ​​in the playoffs, do they have the nerve to say that they are among the top five shooting guards?

Carter is a counter dunk player, and McGrady is a blue-collar shot blocker.

As we all know, there are five of the top four shooting guards, but there are only two of the top five shooting guards.

The AI's elimination not only made Li Ang feel regretful, but also made him nervous.

Even AI, which has an extremely explosive offense, lost to the Knicks. With Mai Zi and Carter, two players who are extremely explosive, I'm afraid it won't be easy to beat the Heat.

After all, the Heat and the Knicks are probably equal in strength.

In original history, the seven-game battle between the Knicks and the Heat in the 2000 Eastern Conference semifinals was the last glorious performance left to the fans by these two teams.

But if it only reaches the tiebreaker, it doesn't actually show how close the two teams are in terms of strength.

The most exaggerated thing is that in these seven games, two of them had a score difference of 1 point, one had a score difference of 2 points, one had a score difference of 4 points, two had a score difference of 6 points and one had a score difference of 8 points.

No ball was scored in garbage time!

In all games, the outcome is unpredictable until the last second. The two teams always have to fight to the last drop of blood before giving up.

At this time of the game, because three-pointers have not yet become popular, it is not easy to open up the score.

Unlike more than ten years later, it was often just a wave of games.

It was also the tiebreaker, the Cavaliers VS Warriors in the 2016 Finals. Only one of the seven games was within 10 points.

The excitement of these two tie-breaks is completely different.

After seven gloomy hand-to-hand battles, the Knicks relied on a slim advantage to defeat the Heat and once again advance to the Eastern Conference Finals.

The two teams really couldn't give in to each other, and because the gap was very small, if it happened again, whoever won would lose if they couldn't keep the score.

If it is so difficult for AI to beat the Knicks, then it will not be easy for the cute dragon to beat the Heat.

Moreover, Li Ang also remembered a very scary fact - in the original 2000 playoffs, Menglong seemed to be eliminated by the Knicks in the first round.

The total score is 3-0, and all three games belong to others!

McGrady shot 38.6% from the field throughout the series, 28.6% from three-point range, and averaged 16.7 points per game.

Carter's shooting percentage is even worse, not 40%, not 38%, not 35%.

Only 30%!

The three-point shooting percentage is an astonishing 10%!

Don't ask why Li Ang remembers it so clearly, because at the beginning Li Ang was very curious about why the Raptors, which had two talented men in Carter and Tracy McGrady, couldn't even win a game in the playoffs.

So, he went to check the data.

The data of these two cousins ​​brought a great shock to the still young Li Ang, and it simply refreshed Li Ang's outlook on life.

It turns out that these cousins ​​were so good at that time!

I have seen people doing it in the playoffs, but I have never seen people doing it together as a team in the playoffs.

A 10% three-point shooting rate is equivalent to scoring 1 out of 10 shots. Li Ang thinks he can do it!

Combined with the performance of the cousins ​​in the last round, Li Ang instantly felt that a 10% three-point shooting rate was not impossible.

Good guy, how many rebounds do I have to grab in the next round of the series?

Speaking of which, after one season of contact between Li Ang and the two of them, Li Ang discovered that these cousins ​​were actually a bit happy playing basketball.

Carter is very scary when he is angry, but the problem is that the number of times he is angry is too little. Take the last round of the series, he didn't get a little angry until 2-1, and his performance in that game was very special.

Don't be nice.

Tracy McGrady really wants to express himself, but now his abilities are not enough, and he is talented and wants to show off.

During the regular season, the two of them dunked and dunked in various ways, which was a joy to watch. The scenes were both beautiful and winning.

There was also Li Ang who helped grab rebounds for the second attack, which made the two of them even happier. When they were happy, they would throw around alley-oops.

But when it came to the playoffs where they had to fight hard, the brothers were dumbfounded.

Because Happy Basketball’s approach won’t work in the playoffs.

There aren't that many fast break counterattacks in the playoffs, and there aren't that many easy dunk opportunities.

48 minutes of non-stop grinding, boring and torturous confrontations... these are the norm in the playoffs.

This kind of tough battle cannot be fought by Carter and Tracy McGrady now.

In the original history, the Knicks used this suffocating defense to weaken the two brothers.

Now facing the Heat, who are on par with the Knicks, the Dragons' journey to the Eastern Conference semifinals may be a disaster.

When Li Ang entered the training hall today, he found that Carter and Tracy McGrady were still laughing and competing in dunk competition.

Lao Li sighed, you guys, please be more careful!

When he returned home from training today, a tired Li Ang found three people standing at the door of his house, waiting for him.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! One of the people Li Ang knows is Director Zhang.

The other two people are representatives from the Basketball Association.

This is the first time that someone from the Basketball Association has officially contacted Li Ang!

In the past, they all watched Li Ang create miracles with his big butt from a distance.

And the purpose of their coming today is to recall this big butt to the team and play with it personally!

Yesterday, Director Zhang called Li Ang and said that people from the Basketball Association were coming to talk to Li Ang about playing in the Olympics.

This was not a purely commercial activity, so the Basketball Association did not go through Li Ang's agent, but asked Director Zhang, who was familiar with Li Ang, to be the intermediary to help contact Li Ang and arrange a meeting.

Therefore, Li Ang was well prepared for this battle.

He greeted the three of them politely and then led them into the house.

As soon as they walked into the living room, the smiles of the four people instantly froze.

"Uh... well, let me clean it up first..." Li Ang's face turned red because there were Theron's stockings and clothes on the sofa in the living room!

After Theron made love with Leon last night, she left Toronto early this morning and returned to Los Angeles to continue filming the movie.

In order to make Li Ang miss her, she would often leave one or two original pieces on the sofa in the living room waiting for Li Ang to come back.

But she didn't expect that Li Ang was not the only one going home today.

"Uh...it's okay, it's okay hahahahaha. As a young man, oh, it's very reasonable!" Director Zhang smiled awkwardly and helped Li Ang smooth things over.

The representative of the Basketball Association laughed awkwardly while wiping his sweat. Emma, ​​a player who studied abroad, is open-minded.

So much so that when the two representatives of the Basketball Association sat down, they checked the sofa specifically for fear of finding some strange viscous liquid on it.

Li Ang helped make a few cups of tea, and the representative of the Basketball Association stopped caring about the slime and went straight to the topic.

Because Li Ang is not a player within the system, joining the team through the normal recruitment process is not suitable for Li Ang.

After all, when it comes to recruiting, Li Ang can do nothing.

Our old Li family has been frugal and used our own money to work hard in the Ugly Country for so many years and made a name for ourselves without responding to the obligation to be called by the Basketball Association.

Therefore, the representative of the Basketball Association brought Li Ang, perhaps the first invitation letter to the national team in the history of Chinese basketball!

"Hello, Mr. Li Ang.

Because of your demonstrated sense of honor, team responsibility and competitiveness on the court, the Chinese Basketball Association sincerely invites you to join the Chinese National Men's Basketball Training Team. I hope you will inherit your mission, create glory on the stage of the national team, and win in the international arena.

The ability and style of Chinese basketball players are demonstrated on the court!

I hope you can accept the invitation and let us work together!”
To be continued...