After some pleasantries, the game officially began.

In the jump stage, Hao Peng almost easily beat Jokic, and after the Lakers' point guard dribbled past half court, he immediately hoisted the ball to Hao Peng who was standing inside.

The Bucks are so strong that the Lakers head coach racked his brains and couldn't think of any good way to fight against them, and in the end he had no choice but to use the only killer move - Hao Peng.

No way, among the five positions on the court, only Hao Peng, who is the center, has an absolute advantage, including Jimmy, another of the Lakers' twin stars. Butler also lost to Durant in the small forward matchup.

If you want to win, or to be more realistic, if you want to lose, it's not so ugly, you can only rely on Hao Peng.

After Hao Peng received the ball on the baseline, he dribbled twice with his back, turned around and shook Jokic's center of gravity, and then scored easily with a low-handed layup.

At this stage, Hao Peng has an absolutely dominant position in the entire NBA, not to mention that Jokic is far from reaching the super center that is enough to compete for the regular season MVP in the future, even if Jokic reaches the peak of his own level, he is definitely not Hao Peng's opponent.

On the other hand, Wang Xiao naturally also knew that David was used. How difficult is Hao Peng of Robinson's growth template card, it is impossible to entangle on the inside.

The outside troika composed of Durant, Brother Alphabet, and Thompson was full of firepower, attacking the Lakers with all their might, and the Lakers, whose outside level was already below the league average, couldn't resist at all, and was pressed with a one-sided hammer.

In the first quarter of the game, the two teams fought until 29:22, and the Bucks led by 7 points at home, of which Durant scored 11 points, and Antetokounmpo and Thompson scored 5 points each.

On the Lakers' side, 17 of the 22 points in a single quarter were chiseled out by Hao Peng on the inside.

Not only that, Hao Peng's offense brought huge pressure to Jokic, and he accumulated two fouls in the first quarter of the game and went off the court early.

However, even so, the Lakers were still absolutely passive in the game, especially when the second quarter of the game, after Hao Peng went off the court, the situation became more one-sided.

In the second quarter of the game, the score of the two sides was 31:24, and the halftime was 60:46, and the score difference had been stretched to more than double digits.

About five minutes into the fourth quarter of the game, the Lakers had fallen behind by more than 25 points, and the head coach had no choice but to replace Hao Peng, Butler and others, and gave up the game early.

In the end, the result of the first game of the Finals was 121-98 for the Bucks, a 23-point victory over the Lakers.

Although this is already a result that many people have predicted, there are still many people who sigh when the cruel reality is in front of them.

Hao Peng, as the star of the Lakers, has done his best in this game.

17 points in the first quarter, 8 points in the second quarter, 14 points in the third quarter, and 4 points in the fourth quarter, with 43 points, 19 rebounds and 5 blocks in the whole game.

Such a performance seems to once again confirm that Hao Peng is already the No. 1 center in the league.

But basketball is not a one-man game.

On the Bucks' side, Durant scored 31 points among the three outside lines, Thompson scored 24 points, and Brother Alphabet broke through the basket because of his slightly poor projection ability, and was restrained by Hao Peng's defense under the basket, and his performance declined slightly, but he still scored 16 points, 11 rebounds and 4 assists.

Just three outside players have already contributed 71 points to the Bucks!

On the other hand, on the outside of the Lakers, only Butler scored double-doubles, and Butler only scored 15 points on 4-of-13 shooting.

The huge gap in the lineup makes the game between the two teams not suspenseful at all.

And so it is.

In the second round of the finals, the Lakers lost again, 108:89, and still failed to hold out until the last moment before surrendering.

Hao Peng scored a quasi-triple-double of 36 points, 16 rebounds and 9 blocks, but was fouled for 6 fouls at the beginning of the fourth quarter.

In this game, Brother Alphabet and other outside players changed their playing style and began to attack the basket, and at first let Hao Peng have a hot pot education, but how can there be a reason not to wet his shoes when he often walks by the river? The cap is covered, and the foul count goes up unconsciously.

Hao Peng's block data almost doubled, but he was also sent off early because of this, without Hao Peng guarding the basket, the Lakers will only lose faster and more miserably.

With a total score of 2:0, the Lakers have stepped on the edge of the cliff with half a foot.

After the game, the head coach of the Lakers bluntly said that if he continued to lose in the next game back at home, the Lakers' road to the finals would basically come to an end.

That being said, whether it is the head coach of the Lakers or the fans of the Lakers, they actually know that the Lakers' road to the Finals has come to an end as early as when they knew that their opponent was the Bucks.

Most Lakers fans are still very happy and satisfied with the Lakers' performance, after all, with the bottom of the league last season, who would dare to imagine that the Lakers would go all the way to the Finals in the new season?

They were excited by Hao Peng's ability and potential, and Butler proved that he was a qualified second-in-command, and the next thing for the Lakers to do was to continue to improve the roster, try to attract a superstar to join in the summer, form the Big Three standard, and then continue to challenge the Bucks.

The current Bucks are strong, but they can't last long.

The reason is simple, the salary cap.

This summer, Brother Alphabet will inevitably renew his contract with the Bucks with a maximum salary, so that the Bucks have three highest-paid players on the team, Durant, Thompson, and Brother Alphabet.

The team's salary space will be filled in an instant with these three players.

Next year, Embiid's rookie contract with Jokic will also expire, and with the level of performance the two are currently showing, they will inevitably have to pay a maximum salary to stay.

In other words, even if they are budget-conscious, or even pay the luxury tax, the Bucks will only be able to keep one of the two.

Although the Big Four of Durant, Antetokounmpo, Thompson, and Jokic or Embiid are also very rare supergroups in history, they are still much stronger than they are now.

As a traditional giant in the league, the Lakers have the capital and ability to build a luxury lineup around Hao Peng in the past few years.

The Lakers in this calculation ignore a problem, or this problem they selectively ignore.

Bucks head coach Wang Xiao.

Whether it is a wizard a few years ago or a buck now, it is actually personally selected and cultivated by Wang Xiao.

Now that he's produced more than a dozen All-Stars, who can guarantee that he won't be able to pick All-Star caliber players next?

No one in the Lakers management wants to think about this problem, because once you really think about it, this game is too difficult to play!