Chapter 109: Advance to the Eastern Conference Finals (Part 1)

Amid endless rumors, the second game of the Eastern Conference Semi-Finals, the Magic vs. Cavaliers started on time. Before this game began, the league's long-distance award was finally awarded.

First of all, the award for Best Rookie. This rookie award, which should have been awarded as early as the end of the regular season, finally fell on Zhang Kong's head. The award was voted by sports journalists across the United States and Canada. Each judge voted for the first place, the second place and the third place player. Players won each first place vote and the second place vote will get 5 points, the second place vote will get 3 points, and the third place vote will get 1 point.

Zhang Kong was elected the best rookie with 239 first-place votes without any suspense. What you need to know is that there are only 240 sports journalists running for the United States and Canada, and the only one who lost the first-place vote fell on Kevin Durant.

Immediately afterwards, the two finale awards were awarded: Defensive Player of the Year and the MVP of the Regular Season. Defensive Player of the Year, Zhang Kong once again left the others behind with 200 first votes and a total score of 680 points. Dwight Howard, who scored the highest score behind Zhang Kong, only scored only 120 points.

After fierce competition, James was elected as he wished in the regular season MVP in 2007-08.

When James raised the "Maurice Podorov Cup" symbolizing MVP in the Quick Loan Center Arena, the young emperor finally won the first personal award with extremely high value in his life four years after entering the league. All he lacks is the championship trophy and the finals MVP.

The Cavaliers general manager Danny Ferry has also defeated the Celtics general manager with a very narrow advantage and won the trophy of General Manager of the Year.

Today is undoubtedly a day of great harvest for the Cavaliers. However, the Cavaliers fans were a little happy and were even full of worries.

Everything was caused by Zhang Kong's transaction rumors.

Since the first round of the game with the Magic, the right fans have not had a good sleep in the past three days. In the past three days, rumors about Zhang Kong's transactions have become more and more intense. Countless people stood up and countless people surfaced, as if everything is proof that this is indeed true.

Zhang Kong is indeed ready to leave the Cavaliers.

This is simply bad news for Cleveland fans.

This season, the Cavaliers have undergone earth-shaking changes. While their darling, the Little Emperor LeBron James, is still unstoppable, there is another indestructible player in the team.

The invincible LeBron James, the indestructible Zhang Kong. The sharpest spear and the strongest shield in the world are held in the hands of the Cleveland Cavaliers. How could this feeling be so refreshing? Not to mention that most of the victory achieved by the Cavaliers so far this season have been crushing and easy wins, with 66 wins and 16 losses in the regular season, the team's best record in history, and it was even considered possible to break the historical best record created by the Bulls in the schedule. In fact, in the end, they only lost 6 more games.

Zhang Kong won the Best Rookie, Zhang Kong won the Best Defensive Player, the Best Rebounder, the Best Regular Season Block King, and the Best Regular Season Block King, and the Best Regular Season Scoring King. The two joined hands to be selected for the Best Lineup and Best Defensive Team, and the two teamed up to sweep the league's major awards!

Just when the Cavaliers fans were looking forward to the two teams winning the first championship in the history of the Cavaliers, just when the Cavaliers were looking forward to the two teams working together to create a Cavaliers dynasty like an OK combination...

Zhang Kong said he was leaving...

How can this be done?

Among the fans who arrived today, many of them took off James' No. 23 jersey, put on the No. 25 jersey belonging to Zhang Kong, and held up the banner.

"Don't leave, we need you!"

"Tell us this is not true!"

"It's just a lie, right, it's a late April Fool's Day joke!"

Countless fans held up banners and called Zhang Kong, hoping that he could suddenly lift them up, snatch the microphone and said, "Hey brothers, I'm just kidding, I won't leave the Cavaliers."

Of course, there are also some more radical fans who booed when Zhang Kong received the award.

Zhang Kong didn't care about this. When he decided to leave Cleveland, he was ready to bear all this. He had a case for leaving the Cavaliers. If it was really necessary, he could buy out his own contract. As for the money to buy out the contract, it was a drop in the bucket for Zhang Kong now. After all, her contract was very small, and the penalty was only a little bit.

Of course, if possible, he hopes that he can try not to do this. She still has some feelings for the Cavaliers, and he still hopes to be able to sign first and then exchange, so that at least the Cavaliers can gain some benefits and make up for the losses.

"Zhang, have you really made up your mind?" After LeBron James received the MVP, he still hoped to make his final effort: "Is there no room for maneuver? Those fans, you see them, they don't want you to leave. I hope you can stay and we will build a dynasty together."

"It's very comfortable to join forces with you, LeBron. Maybe I can't find a better partner in this league than you. But sometimes I always have to sacrifice something for the pursuit. I don't want to announce a fall in love after establishing a dynasty with you. Just like O'Neal and Kobe, instead of having an unpleasant relationship at that time, I'll leave after the end of this season. In short, let's win the championship of this season first."

This is the second game between the Magic vs. The Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference semi-finals. After the first game, the Magic lost almost without resistance after Howard was injured. Stan Van Gundy once believed that the Magic's game this season was the end. The strength gap between the Magic and the Cavaliers is too obvious and cannot be compensated through tactics.

However, the rumors of Zhang Kong's transfer that broke out just in time added some confidence to him. In Stan Van Gundy's opinion, Zhang Kong's condition will definitely be greatly affected by the trading rumors, and the rest of the Cavaliers will definitely fluctuate in his condition. This is really a great opportunity for the Magic, but unfortunately Howard was injured, otherwise the opportunity would be greater and more certain.

Therefore, he made a lot of preparations for today's game. In terms of tactical arrangement, he arranged the quick attack tactics that had been carried out from the beginning of the game, trying to take advantage of the Cavaliers' unsteady opening opportunity to open the score first and compete for more opportunities for the subsequent games.

If it can be successful, we will further strengthen our defense and use regional joint defense to force the Cavaliers to enter the individual singles scoring mode, cutting off the cooperation between James, Zhang Kong and the whole team...

To be honest, overall this is a good plan, which is enough to prove that Stan Van Gundy does have a good foundation in tactics.

However, his plan was broken from the beginning.

At the beginning of the game, the Magic launched an attack on the Cavaliers. In Stan Van Gundy's plan, the Cavaliers' defense should be loose, chaotic, or even unspecified. But in fact, the Cavaliers' defense is still smelly and hard like a big rock in a pit...

Zhang Kong's four consecutive big hats with blood made the Magic generals bleed and dizzy, and also produced a 16:0 opening shock wave.

The Cavaliers' defense was not chaotic, as if Zhang Kong's transfer rumors had no impact. In fact, the impact was really not big...

The Cavaliers' generals had already made up their minds about Zhang Kong's transfer. He and James were quarreling openly in the locker room, but every player lay at the door and listened clearly.

Therefore, although there has never been a definite answer, they have already had a scheming in their minds when it comes to Zhang Kong staying away from the Knights.

When Zhang Kong's transaction rumors broke out unexpectedly, it can be said that the least surprised was these guys. Maybe these transaction rumors were leaked by one of these people. After all, the media mentioned again and again based on the "information revealed by a certain Knight insider". But no one would ask...

Zhang Kong did not pursue the matter.

Therefore, Stan Van Gundy made a mistake in judgment from the beginning. After making a mistake in judgment, he did not adjust his tactics in time, but sat in a daze in the coach's seat.

His on-site adjustment ability is extremely poor, and he can't think of any good way in a short period of time. His tactical ability is unable to help him find a way to defeat the enemy in a short period of time.

In fact, tactical ability has never been a necessary quality for a head coach. After all, in the NBA, this is just the job of an assistant coach. If you want to find a tactical master, there are rows of tactical masters from sports academy waiting to be hired.

Phil Jackson, the most famous coach in the league, was just a water dispenser guard on the Knicks' bench when he was young. When others were playing, he sat at the end of the bench to smoke marijuana. In the smoke of marijuana, the dizzy man, who was smoking, dizzy, saw through the true meaning of winning on the court. Since then, he has become a head coach and has become one of the representatives of the top coaches in the league.

What tactical abilities does he have?

Come on, he didn't make the triangular offense. It was just because he thought this tactic was particularly suitable for the Bulls at that time, so he promoted triangular tactics in the Bulls. As a result, he was named "Tactic Master".

Stan Van Gundy is not such a coach. If you ask him to arrange to explain tactics, he can do a lot of things. If you ask him to command in an emergency on the spot, you will probably have to be blind. The most suitable person for this kind of person is actually the position of an assistant coach.

After the initial tactical arrangement collapsed directly, Stan Van Gundy got blind.
Chapter completed!