After getting the ticket to the Eastern Conference finals, the Menglong sat back and waited for the Bulls and Knicks to decide the winner.

The two teams have played four games and are currently tied at 2:2.

In this series, Dazhi has almost played the role of God in Jordan's Bulls. He is currently averaging 31 points, 14 rebounds, 6 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks per game. It is completely a bug.

The main purpose of the Bulls' transaction during the regular season was to target the Menglong.

Against the Knicks, the Bulls' lineup changes did not actually improve their combat effectiveness. In fact, their overall combat effectiveness became weaker because they were missing a top third-position defender.

Now whether the Bulls can advance to the Eastern Conference Finals depends entirely on Jordan's personal performance.

In the Western Conference, the Spurs faced the Lakers. The Spurs also swept the Lakers 4-0 and secured a ticket to the Western Conference Finals.

Duncan went crazy. Facing O'Brien, he averaged 29 points and 11 rebounds per game, while O'Brien only averaged 24 points and 13 rebounds per game.

In normal games, O'Pang is not very interested in rebounding. It is rare to see him desperately trying to get a rebound.

The situation in the Western Conference semifinals is completely different this time. O'Brien averaged 6.5 offensive rebounds per game, while the entire Lakers team only had 8.3 offensive rebounds.

You can tell he really wants to win.

It's a pity that his teammates were really ineffective and seriously hindered Ao Pang's performance.

In other words, the Spurs played too well.

Kobe actually performed well. He averaged 44.7% shooting and 21.3 points per game. He was the second-leading scorer in the series after Duncan and O'Brien.

Against Bowen, Glenn Rice averaged only 37% shooting per game, but he averaged 18 points per game in 14.8 shots, and his efficiency was acceptable.

The real war criminals are role players like Fisher, Horry and Fox.

Compared with them, the Spurs' role players all look like superstars.

The Nuggets' opponent in the Western Conference semifinals is the Kings.

The Kings' lineup this year is also quite gorgeous. The inside combination is Divac and Webb. Unfortunately, the outside strength is far inferior to that of the Nuggets, and they were eventually eliminated by the Nuggets 4:1.

A few days later, the Bulls and Knicks finally decided the winner.

The two teams played a tiebreaker. Jordan scored 22 points in the fourth quarter and scored 58 points in the game, keeping his hope of winning the championship.

Kong Bu led the Menglong generals to watch this game together. After watching it, even their opponents sincerely admired Jordan.

A 36-year-old man still scored 58 points in the tiebreaker. The word great is no longer enough to describe his greatness.

On May 30, the Eastern Conference Finals officially began.

The first two games are Menglong’s home games.

When Kongbu saw Jordan on the sidelines, he could clearly see the fatigue on Jordan's face.

The schedule of the shortened season is extremely intensive, so young people don't care, but veterans have a bit of it.

What's more, Jordan had just finished a tiebreaker and averaged 38 minutes per game. The Iron Man couldn't stand it either.

"Kong, did our Bulls really put so much pressure on you?"

"I actually asked you to trade Payton."

The Zen master stood beside Kongbu and said in a strange tone.

The tone was a little helpless and a little bit weird.

"The pressure is not that great, but there is an old saying in China: a lion fights a rabbit, so use all your strength."

"Phil, you are a smart man and should know the meaning of this sentence."

"We are not lions, and you are not rabbits, so we cannot be relaxed at all."

Kongbu took a rare moment of seriousness and said something that sounded very Zen to the Zen master.

They all know in their hearts that this round of the Eastern Conference Finals is just like last season. As long as they can win, they will basically win the championship.

After a while, the referee blew the whistle and the game officially started.

The Menglong's lineup tonight is a bit strange, with Ben, Daba, O'Sullivan, Tracy McGrady and Payton.

It's not that Kongbu is a maverick and wants to do stunts to attract attention, but that he can only play with this lineup when playing against the Bulls.

The Bulls failed to find a suitable blue-collar No. 3 position in the free market, so they simply let Kukoc take over as the No. 3 position.

There is a big gap between Mashburn's height and Kukoc's. Even if Kukoc shoots a three-pointer in front of him, Mashburn has no good way to deal with him.

But if Xiao Ao comes on the court, the situation will be different.

Ou's running and jumping ability is relatively top-notch at the fourth position, and he has no problem guarding Kukoc.

And with Xiao Ao on the court, he can further enhance the Menglong's inside offensive pressure.

Kongbu is already ready to focus on the inside in this series.

In the jump ball session, Xiao Ao won the jump, and the Menglong got the first offensive ball.

Payton resisted Harper's defense, advanced to the frontcourt, and rushed directly towards the penalty area.

Near the free throw line, Rasheed stepped forward to cover up the defense. Payton jumped up to score the ball, and the ball passed to Bus.

Ben had already blocked Sabonis's position, and Ben took a step forward and dunked under the basket.

The Zen master was in a panic. He still remembered the Eastern Conference finals last season. He and Kongbu deployed various troops and generals, and the battle was in full swing.

Even if Bull was defeated in the end, Zen Master did not feel that he had lost the head-on dialogue with Kong Bu.

We met again in the Eastern Conference Finals this season. Master Zen wanted to continue deploying his troops, but unfortunately he didn't have anything in hand.

If you have a top-notch 3D small forward in your hands, Master Zen might be able to laugh out of his dreams.

In the Bulls' offensive round, the team's main point guard Harper's job is to control the ball to the frontcourt and then pass the ball to Jordan.

Payton took the initiative to find Jordan, and the strongest spear and shield in the league officially faced off.

Jordan is the strongest offensive guard, there is no doubt about this, and Payton is the only point guard to have won DPOY so far. He also has nine defensive first team appearances. If he is not the best defender among guards, he is at least the point guard.

The best defender among the defenders.

At the beginning of the matchup, as soon as Jordan received the pass, Payton immediately defended him.

As the old saying goes, there are only wrong names, not wrong nicknames. The nickname Glove quintessentially sums up Payton's defensive characteristics.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Jordan is like a baseball, and Payton is the baseball glove, holding Jordan tightly in his hands.

Because hand-check can be used, Payton's hands are always on Jordan and his body is always within ten centimeters of Jordan.

No matter how much Jordan moved around, Payton stayed close to Jordan and refused to give him a chance to play the ball.

The two fought for nearly 20 seconds. Jordan kept trying to get rid of Payton's defense, while Payton kept sticking to Jordan. He didn't rush to steal, just stick to him.

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In the end, Jordan chose a large mid-range shot with a step-back, and the ball was scored.

Kongbu didn't take it seriously. Even if the ball went in, he knew that Payton's defensive purpose was achieved.

Payton's defensive purpose has never been to limit Jordan's goals, but to consume Jordan's physical fitness.

You can score goals, but you have to spend twice or even twice as much physical energy as usual.

With such a defensive method, Payton naturally consumes a lot of physical energy, but don't forget that Payton is a super iron man, and his physical energy does not seem to be exhausted at all.

This is Payton's secret to defending Jordan, exhausting Jordan as much as possible.

In the previous finals, he relied on this move to cause Jordan's shooting percentage to drop significantly.

Times have changed. After a few years, Jordan is older and Payton is still at his peak. The effect of this defensive method will become better.

It’s Menglong’s attack round again.

This time Payton had no chance to break through to the basket and pass the ball. He could only pass the ball to O'Brien who was waiting near the free throw line.

With the departure of Billups and Da Zhi, the Menglong are no longer able to support the previous pick-and-roll tactics.

Now they are back to being reckless and do whatever they want when they get the ball.

Ou held Kukoc half a step away from the free throw line, turned over and shot the mid-range shot.

It's a pity that I couldn't hit it.

Ben and Bus under the basket are definitely human meat grinders. They stand in the reasonable collision area under the basket and just squeeze around.

Taking advantage of his height advantage, Lao Sa's fingertips had already touched the basket, and he failed to grab the rebound in the end.

Of course, Daben and Daba didn't grab the rebound, but let O'O who rushed in collect the rebound.

After collecting the rebound, Xiao Ao did not take the shot himself, but handed it to the bus next to him.

In terms of low-post offensive ability under the basket, Daba is two levels better than O'Brien, and O'Brien is also very clear about this.

Bus stuck out his butt and squeezed away Rashid behind him, and dunked directly under the basket.

Even though it is using the Duncan template, the bus's style is not like Duncan at all, but more and more like Barkley and O'Neal.

Turning around, it's the Bulls' offensive round.

The focus is still on the matchup between Jordan and Payton.
To be continued...