"The famous coach Larry Bird once again proved his status as the strongest defensive coach..."

Zhang Hao looked at CNK's evaluation of Larry Brown's coaching this season, and the whole article was praised... but he could not deny this, so he felt strange.

Last night, Zhang Hao was both happy and regretful when he saw the Bulls lose to the 76ers in the tiebreak battle. The 76ers regained their dominance in the first three games of the Eastern Conference Finals.

No matter which of these two opponents is eliminated, it makes Zhang Hao feel regretful, just like seeing the Suns out after the first round, and seeing the Kings out after the second round.

If possible, he hopes that all 15 opponents in the playoffs will be played...

‘If the veterans knew about this idea, I would probably come to visit me with a knife, so forget it…

The opponent is the one who has been winning the game before, and he will definitely be a better opponent.

But Brown is really amazing. This year's playoffs, he has made great defense adjustments in every round. He is lucky and meets the little blacksmith who is 20 points behind and refuses to give up. There is also a critical competition between the little blacksmith, who is even more fierce than the little blacksmith... He has become the top coach again. Could it be that he will create the first head coach's salary of tens of millions?'

After the end of the 1996-97 season, Larry Brown resigned because the Pacers did not make the playoffs. In the 1997-98 season, Larry Bird could not find the right person to choose to coach himself. The Pacers became a 60-win team. This is a strength that Larry Brown has never approached in his four years of coaching. During the 1997-98 season, the Pacers won at most 52 wins.

Because of this, Larry Brown's reputation plummeted.

But this season, the Bulls, which had a poor lineup in Plan B, won the second place in the Eastern Conference, reversed continuously and entered the Eastern Conference Finals, and also fought to tiebreaks... The reputation suddenly changed!

Carlisle, Hubby Brown, and Supersonics coaching team are all over the limelight. There is even a saying that Larry Brown should be the best coach of this season.

Those who don’t know thought Larry Brown was the final winner... but he really became the big winner.

Yesterday was the day of the Eastern Conference Finals tiebreak. Zhang Hao helped the coaching team sort out the problems encountered in the Western Conference Finals for the whole team in the morning. In the afternoon, the Supersonics team rested. This morning, Zhang Hao arrived at the stadium early and started preparing for the first finals between the 10th and the 76ers the day after tomorrow.

As early as when the Eastern and Western finals reached the tiebreak, the league announced the final schedule, starting on the 10th, ending on the 17th, and ending on the 24th at the latest.

The two-day preparation time must be made good use. Today is not a training day, but a tactical conference day. There is training in the afternoon, and it is all personal training.

It's time to play. For the Supersonics, everything has reached its limit. Strategic plans, and tactical changes in the game are much more useful than training.

Whether it is a strategic plan or a proper tactical change in the game, it requires a large amount of tactical reserves to support it.

At 8:30 in the morning, when Michael Jordan, the first teammate to the stadium, appeared, Zhang Hao was a little dazed... He thought of his opponent, Lakers, who had just been eliminated by them two days ago.

This Lakers, their Supersonics, are so powerful this season, and they have played until the third quarter of the tiebreak battle before they can truly gain an advantage and finally win the series.

This Lakers team is too strong! Zhang Hao suddenly remembered the team formed by him and O'Neal in the 1997-1998 season. Although he won 73 wins and won the playoffs, the Lakers team and they now, plus the Lakers team, three teams compete for the championship together...

‘Who is the strongest?’

This idea came out, and Zhang Hao couldn't help but think about it...

‘What a pity, both the Lakers and I are in the West and cannot fight on the highest stage… Then enjoy the finals with the ordinary talented 76ers!’

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On the 8th, the afternoon of the second day after the Eastern Conference Finals, the Supersonics had already started preparing for the game, and the 76ers also came to Seattle.

The Pacers died without success. The 76ers are already recognized as the strongest team in the East. The three major stars Iverson, Duncan and Mutombo are extremely powerful. Snow, George Lynch, Aaron McGee, Teeron Hill, Matt Geiger, Rodney Buford and other role players are also very outstanding.

The Supersonics team's regular season champion has reached the finals, with the two superstars who won the championship in the 1990s and won the most FMVP times. The number of stars and role players are even better than the 76ers.

Although the Western Conference Finals between the Supersonics and the Lakers won the difficult situation, from this year's Western Conference Finals, people have seen the strength of the Supersonics!

The Lakers, which performed so terrifyingly this year's playoffs, even some people compared them to the Lakers in 1998, and the Supersonics won.

Without any suspense, this final, the Supersonics had a higher approval rating in public opinion.

But in people's discussions, the 76ers were not hopeless. It was just that before the start of the playoffs, the inside advantage that the 76ers had had was gone.

Duncan, against Zhang Hao.

Both were double first teams, Zhang Hao won the MVP, and Duncan won the Best Defensive Player twice.

Although the two best defensive players cannot compete with the value of an MVP, they can barely make up for the gap in Duncan's personal honor in the regular season that Zhang Hao is not as good as that in Zhang Hao.

Duncan is not as good as Zhang Hao in playoff honors, but Duncan enters the NBA two years later than Zhang Hao, which is a pretext. Duncan also won the championship in the second grade. If Duncan defeats Zhang Hao to win the championship this year, the number of championships will catch up, and he will defeat Zhang Hao head-on.

If the 76ers win the finals, then the regular season honors and disadvantages in the battle between Duncan and Zhang Hao can be erased from public opinion.

Iverson and Jordan are naturally incomparable. Even Zhang Hao has to compete with him for honor, and public opinion generally believes that it will take at least 10 years.

But now Iverson is an MVP. In the first team, Jordan barely entered the third team. Although Jordan performed well in the playoffs, Iverson was better, and it was the advantage of the 76ers.

Originally, the 76ers had an advantage, but now, this advantage has disappeared - center!

The double towers of Mutombo and Duncan were originally regarded as the absolute advantage of the 76ers, and they were not afraid of the Lakers.

However, the rise of Ben Wallace of the Supersonics, especially his performance in the playoffs, is not inferior to Mutombo at all.

Ben Wallace has attracted a lot of fans in this regular season this season. He has a tough guy image, rough playing style, and beautiful defensive data...

After this Western Conference playoff journey, Ben Wallace became the "strongest defensive player candidate".

Defending O'Neal and switching to Pierce, Ben Wallace did not do any of them well, but no center in the league dared to say that he could play a limiting role in encountering these two combinations.

But in defending the Lakers role players, Ben Wallace did a good job, not only Zhang Hao, Jordan, Cassel, and Artest were concerned. Ben Wallace saw the opponent's goal of saving the opponent's three-point shooting from the bottom line in the reasonable collision zone, which left a deep impression on people.

Not many people dare to assert whether Mutombo will grow old year by year, but he is just a backing for his partner with Duncan.

Mo Ning basically couldn't return to his original state, so this is certain.

Ben Wallace has become an existence in people's eyes that can threaten Duncan's continued victory in the best defensive player!

The 76ers have double-one defense double towers, and the Supersonics also have double-one defense double-towers!

The defenses of the two teams' double towers are very different. Duncan and Mutombo can both defend and assist in defense. The two can even switch roles at any time. In terms of tacit understanding, the two of them have extremely high defensive ball quotient. Almost as soon as they form a double tower, they immediately showed the strongest defensive double tower strength in history.

The double towers of the Supersonic team are traditional. Zhang Hao is fierce in single defense, with one-on-one defense efficiency and one-on-one defense level. The single defense in 3-5 positions can be competent. It is not impossible to go directly to the single defense defender. The ability to supplement the defense is stronger than that of single defense, but it does not mean that single defense cannot be achieved, but it only focuses more on single defense.

The two-tower leader Supersonics team made up of the two teams to defend the entire team, playing the defense efficiency of the league third and the actual defense effect of the league second.

Judging from the various defensive data in the regular season, Duncan and Mutombo are indeed more defensive.

The playoff data are even more incomparable. After the division final, Zhang Hao and Ben Wallace's double-tower defensive efficiency was widened by Duncan and Mutombo.

However, in the first round, Zhang Hao and Ben Wallace met Garnett, and Duncan and Mutombo met Jermaine O'Neal.

In the second round, Zhang Hao and Ben Wallace met Rashid Wallace and Sabonis, while Duncan and Mutombo met Odom and Antonio Davis.

In the division final, Zhang Hao and Ben Wallace met O'Neal, and Duncan and Mutombo's opponent was Brad Miller.

Moreover, the Supersonics' Twin Towers are younger! Even Zhang Hao is younger than Duncan. Ben Wallace vs. Mutombo, it is possible that he is ten years younger...

From the matchup situation, to the characteristics of the players, to the tacit understanding of cooperation, to... After the 76ers reached the finals, the media and experts, and the famous online masters of football understanding, began to analyze the strength of the Supersonics and the 76ers from all angles, and predict the results...

Public opinion generally believes that the Supersonics have obvious advantages, and the only clear advantage of the 76ers is Iverson!

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It is June 10th, and the first match day of the finals is here.

At 7:40 pm, the stadium of the Key Stadium was held in the finals against both sides.

The 76ers players who appeared first felt extremely stressed when they looked at Jordan, Cassel, Ben Wallace, Artest and Zhang Hao who walked out one after another.

Let's look at Horacek, Much Brecklow, Ruben Patterson, James Percy, Dell Curry, Kukoc, and Jason Williams standing on both sides of the player's passage.

Also in suits were Bryant Stich, Schramf and Sam Perkins.

This is a damn...

At first, people were shocked when they saw Zhang Hao and Jordan joining forces simply because of the strong duo.

But such a pair was initially regarded as one of the favorites to win the championship, because there are too many veterans in the Supersonics team, and they even traded players who are in their year of playing for veterans. The players signed are all veterans.

Veterans are very good, but their health and continuity are all big problems.

The Supersonics often have a large-scale absence due to "injury reasons" in the middle of the season. From December to March, in 4 months, the Supersonics only had 10 players rotation for a long time, which seems to be a good verification.

At that time, people felt that the Lakers and the Kings would be the biggest favorites to win the championship. By March, after Duncan and Mutombo showed outstanding dominance, people added the 76ers pair.

At that time, the Supersonics were still regarded as one of the biggest favorites to win the championship and were placed in the tie for the Lakers, 76ers and Kings, but most media used it to tie for the Kings, and the Lakers and 76ers were to be ahead.

After all, in March, two of the SuperSonics' five starters were often "absent due to injuries". Zhang Hao was absent from two games due to family affairs, Artest and Ben Wallace have been maintaining health.

But in April, the Supersonics have remained healthy until now.

Moreover, almost everyone in the veteran is in a very good condition!

The media and experts did not take this into account when analyzing this final!

Media experts say that the Supersonics players are old and young, which is the advantage of the 76ers, but looking at the veteran team on the opposite side... Duncan is complaining, is there really an advantage?

When I arrived in Seattle the day before yesterday, Hubby Brown held a team meeting in the evening and analyzed the situation of the Supersonics, one of which was the problem of more veterans.

Many players of the Supersonics' regular season suffered injuries that they had to rest for two or three games after playing two or three games, and were determined by Hubby Brown to be a scam!

They believe that the SuperSonics must have encountered injuries, but it will not be that Horacek is absent from 33 games due to injury, Muqi Brecko is absent from 45 games due to injury, and Kukoc is absent from 30 games due to injury... so exaggerated.

It is even more impossible to say that these people are absent every few days, and their injuries are still in excellent condition after they are healed.

In this case of the Supersonics, Hubby Brown named it - the injury strategy.

It would be fine if you don’t analyze it, but after the analysis, the 76ers players are under greater pressure.

Just like now, seeing the group of people on the other side... it's too strong!
To be continued...