Chapter 433
Durant's outburst was unexpected and reasonable, no matter what, relying on his 55 points in a single game, the Bucks won the battle of Tianwang Mountain, changed the score to 3:2, and regained the initiative.
Next, the Bucks only need to win one more game to eliminate the Wizards and enter the Finals, and there is only one step left before the championship!
The Wizards, who are back on their home court in Washington, are certainly not going to sit still, and Curry, Leonard and George are doing everything they can to drag the game into Game 7 and face the Bucks to the death.
But the Bucks, for their part, don't want to make a fuss, and they can end the battle in Game 6 and don't want to drag it out until Game 7.
The two teams met fiercely in Game 6, even no less than the Wizards and Cavaliers in the second round of the tie-break, almost to the point that every ball must be contested.
Under the high-intensity and high-pressure defense, the scoring efficiency of both teams was greatly reduced, and the score was stalemate and slowly rising.
At the last minute, the situation finally changed.
The Wizards finally made a mistake, Curry made a mistake in the offense with the ball, and the basketball came out of his hand and was grabbed by Brother Alphabet, and then Brother Alphabet immediately turned his head and launched a fast attack, and for a while, none of Leonard George and others could catch up, and he scored an easy layup.
Time was running out, and the Wizards had to bet on three points on the outside, but the shooting rate of everyone in this game was not high, Curry and George both missed the basket with three-point shots, and finally the Bucks won the game on the Wizards' home court, eliminated the Wizards with a total score of 4:2, and successfully entered the finals.
It may seem like the goddess of victory favored the Bucks, but in fact it was an inevitable consequence.
The Wizards look strong, but they've been exhausted along the way.
In order to keep the second place in the East in the regular season and not be overtaken by the Cavaliers, Curry, George and Leonard basically played full attendance, and the playing time was not small, after all, the Wizards' bench lineup is very bad now, and they can only rely on the main starters to gain an advantage.
In the playoffs, the first round was okay, and after meeting the Cavaliers in the second round, the two teams had a rather intense series, and the battle lasted for 7 games, and finally the Wizards defeated the Cavaliers to enter the Eastern Conference finals.
Before the matchup with the Bucks, the Wizards had already experienced a round of battles, and the pizza of the Eastern Conference finals and the Bucks was under great pressure all the time.
In the sixth game of life and death, the Wizards' big three basically played the whole game, and at the end of the fourth quarter, the physical fitness was close to the limit, and it was normal to make mistakes.
All in all, the Bucks were able to eliminate the Wizards due to a variety of factors, the difference between the strength of the opponents in the playoffs, the advantage of the rationality of the team's lineup, plus Durant's crucial fifth game of the battle of the Kings Mountain God scored 55 points, and a little luck in the final minute of Game 6.
Of course, the most important thing is that the Bucks really have the strength to compete with the Wizards, otherwise everything is just a floating cloud.
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With the Bucks beating the Wizards and making it to the Finals, this year's championship seems to be out of the way.
Although this is a bit exaggerated, and it doesn't even take the teams in the west into account, but it is true.
Since the Mavericks won the championship in 2011, the Western Conference team has not won the Finals for five consecutive years.
Whether it's Durant's Trail Blazers or Paul's Clippers, there is no resistance to the Cavaliers in the face of the Eastern Wizards.
Now there is another monster team in the East, the Milwaukee Bucks, who have a younger and more promising roster than the Wizards, which has made other teams despair.
Does this also make the game not enjoyable for others?
In the Western Conference Finals, the Kings defeated the Clippers 4-2 to reach the Finals, the first time the Kings reached the NBA Finals in decades after the team changed its name from the Rochester Royals to the Kings.
In the NBA, this is definitely a remarkable achievement.
With this bonus, Kings star Harden became the ultimate winner of the regular season MVP.
The personal data is impeccable, the team's record is also remarkable, and in the playoffs, it was a blockbuster all the way to the Western Conference Finals, and the conditions of other contenders were not very suitable, so that Harden was finally elected MVP of the regular season.
Harden was very happy to receive this highest individual honor, but he couldn't be happy when he thought of the opponent he was about to face in the playoffs.
Durant, Antetokounmpo, Thompson, these players are just equal opponents in his opinion.
But the Bucks also have head coach Wang Xiao.
Harden is also a player selected by Wang Xiao, and he was also cultivated by Wang Xiao.
It was precisely because of this that he felt more and more that Wang Xiao was terrible.
What Wang Xiao said back then is being fulfilled step by step.
He once said that Curry and himself would be regular season MVP-caliber players, and now Curry has three regular season MVPs and is about to win his first career MVP trophy.
He has also said that his defensive attitude and seriousness in training will determine his ceiling in the NBA, and the same is true, after first arriving at the core of the Kings, Harden also had a brief period of disorientation, focusing only on personal data and ignoring defense, and as a result, the Kings failed to enter the playoffs for several years.
And when Harden learned from the pain, began to follow Wang Xiao's words, and put more energy into defense, the Kings' record immediately changed significantly, and they even reached the Finals this season!
It's scary to think about!
Not to mention that the media are not optimistic about the Kings winning, even Harden himself doesn't think the Kings will have any chance of winning against Wang Xiao's Bucks!
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On June 2, 2016, the NBA2015-16 Finals officially began at the Bucks' home court.
The Bucks' starting point is still the ever-changing Death Five, and the Kings' starting five are point guard Rajan. Rondo, quarterback James. Harden, small forward Rudy. Gay, power forward Cowley. Stan, center DeMarcus. Cousins.
Judging from the lineup, it is somewhat understandable why the Kings can reach the Finals, and four of the starting five players are All-Stars.
But in fact, this is not the case, Rondo before joining the Kings, mixed up not very well.
Like another plane, Rondo was traded to the Mavericks by the Celtics two years ago and was subsequently hidden after the Mavericks had a serious falling out with the head coach.
By last summer, the original All-Star point guard was unpopular in the free market, and few teams were willing to risk spending a lot of money to sign the player with rumored personality problems, and in the end, Rondo could only get a one-year $9.5 million contract from the Kings!
You must know that even Conley, who averaged 15.8 points and 5.4 assists per game this summer, broke the record and got a super contract of 150 million for 5 years, and I don't know how much stronger than Conley, Rondo, can only get 9.5 million a year.
The Kings can be said to have picked up a big bargain!