Chapter 353: Eliminate the knights and advance to the finals
The overall score of 3:1 is much better than the situation of 3:0, but for the Cavaliers, the difference is not particularly big, especially in the fourth game, losing by 40 points at their home stadium is definitely a very significant blow to the confidence of the Cavaliers' players.
Next, as long as the Wizards return to their home court and easily win the last game, they can go straight to the Finals, compete for the third championship trophy, and create a dynasty era that belongs to the Wizards.
On the other hand, the situation is more similar in the Western Conference Finals.
Although the Spurs have no Leonard, after strengthening Bosh, the strength is by no means comparable to the Grizzlies, and the Spurs are currently leading 3:1 and holding the match point.
Basically, if nothing happens, the Finals will be a game between the Wizards and the Spurs.
Wang Xiao has to sigh at the skills of Popovich, an old man, who can still keep the Spurs in the ranks of the Western powerhouses even after being cut off by Leonard, and even compete with the Trail Blazers with Durant in the Western Conference for several years, and this year he reached the finals again.
Facing the Trailblazers in the finals for two consecutive years made Wang Xiao feel a little tired, and he felt a little interesting in the face of this new opponent.
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Back at home, the Wizards didn't give the Cavaliers any more chances, even if James went down to earth again, getting a quasi-triple-double of 41 points, 8 rebounds and 12 assists, even if Howard finally broke out, beating Gobert on the inside, scoring a big triple-double of 27 points and 18 rebounds, even if Irving still contributed steadily and also scored 20+ points, even if Love finally played normally, a rare data of 18 points and 7 rebounds, but the Cavaliers still couldn't recover the decline.
James scored 41 points, Howard 27, Irving 21, Love 18, and the Big Four combined for 107 points, which is more than a team scored in the whole game most of the time, but they still lost.
At 128:124, the Wizards won Game 5 of the following game by 4 points, which officially fixed the score of the series at 4:1.
After the game, James said bluntly in an interview.
"Can you imagine? Our starting lineup scored over 110 points! (COUNTING STARTING POINT GUARD JR. SMITH) But we still lost! The Wizards are a team on an all-time level, and they are really too strong and perfect, almost invulnerable. ”
That's true.
This game is completely a fairy fight.
The Cavaliers' starting five scored more than 110 points, and the Wizards weren't bad at all.
Curry 27 points, Thompson 21 points, Leonard 23 points, Green 13 points, Gobert 9 points, the five also scored 93 points, although it is slightly worse than the Cavaliers' starting five, but it can't stand the Wizards' bench lineup luxury.
Jimmy. Butler 12 points, Isaiah. Thomas 10 points, Chandler. Parsons scored nine points, and the three have completely become the sharpest knives on the Wizards' bench.
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Wang Xiao felt that James's heart might be desperate, he was too difficult.
After failing to win a championship in the Heat huddle and returning to the Cavaliers to regroup the Big Four, and still losing to the Wizards, is it really going to take the most difficult path?
For LeBron. For a man like James, without the honor of the championship, no matter how beautiful the data is, it will not be able to improve its historical status.
For Wang Xiao, James's historical status has nothing to do with him, as long as he Wang Xiao can leave a strong mark in the history of the NBA and even basketball, it is very good.
And it seems that such a day is getting closer and closer.
After the Eastern Finals ended and the Wizards confirmed that they would enter the finals for the fourth year, Wang Xiao received a very formal official invitation from the Chinese Basketball Association.
The high-sounding official words in this invitation are garbled up, but at the end they still express their purpose.
After the NBA playoffs, they hope to invite Wang Xiao to the Basketball Association to talk and study whether Wang Xiao is suitable for the position of head coach of the Chinese men's basketball team.
To put it bluntly, it's equivalent to an interview.
Wang Xiao can fully imagine that this group of guys who don't want to be the coach of the men's basketball team will definitely change the law to embarrass themselves.
But Wang Xiao is not worried at all, the pressure of a certain bigwig is not something that the senior management of the Basketball Association can bear, as long as he does not die, bites to death the requirements mentioned before, and does not give the Basketball Association a chance to find faults, no matter how reluctant they are, the position of the head coach of the Chinese men's basketball team is properly their own.
Becoming the coach of the national team and leading the team to achieve unprecedented results will undoubtedly make Wang Xiao's status in the coaching industry rise again.
Everything is going on in an orderly manner......
In the Western Conference finals between the Spurs and the Grizzlies, the Spurs finally had the last laugh, eliminating the Grizzlies 4:2 and advancing to the NBA Finals.
It has been many years since the Spurs last played in the NBA Finals to the 06-07 season, and now it is the 13-14 season.
Over the years, the Spurs have been the biggest team in the West, but they have never been able to reach the Finals again.
The aging of GDP and the lack of fresh blood replenishment have always plagued Spurs.
It's not a good thing to have a good record, after all, it determines that their draft pick will not be too high, and it is difficult to select high-quality rookies with strength and potential.
After all, like Wang Xiao, the ability to frequently pick out talents from the second round of shows is not something that anyone can do.
And not many people are optimistic about the Spurs in the long-lost Finals.
The Wizards are so strong that even the Cavaliers' Super Big Four have been defeated, let alone the Spurs?
Even if they got All-Star power forward last summer, one of the Heat's Big Three, Chris. Bosh is also completely incomparable to the Wizards in terms of lineup.
Duncan, Parker plus Ginobili, the youngest in the GDP portfolio, Parker, is 32 years old, not to mention Ginobili and Duncan, who are more than five years older than Parker.
Although both Duncan and Ginobili still maintain a good competitive state because of the Spurs' scientific and reasonable style of play, they are still much worse than the Wizards' group of young men with an average age of 24 years and unlimited vitality.
It is entirely predictable that in the whirlwind storm of the Wizards, the Spurs' slow style of play and tactics will be torn apart.
The only thing to look forward to in this matchup is whether Popovich can think of any good way to limit the Wizards' scoring firepower and win the game by defending.
On June 5th, the first match of the NBA2013-2014 season finals will officially begin.
And in the days leading up to the Grand Finals, several of the key prizes of the regular season were finally announced.