A big reason why the Spurs lost to the Thunder is that Ginobili has been in such poor form this year.

In the past, the Spurs looked at Duncan in adversity and Manu in desperate situations, but this year the Spurs have been pitted into a desperate situation by Manu.

The Pampas Condor was soft at the crucial moment in the semifinals, made mistakes, missed the breakaway, missed the three-pointer, and buried the Tianwang Mountain and also the series.

Since the Spurs joined the NBA in 1976, they have played a total of 14 games in the playoffs until 2012.

Winning seven of those games and winning seven of the series, the Spurs won them all.

The battle of Tianwangshan that was lost was also 7 games, including 6 series, and the Spurs eventually lost.

Only in the series against the Hornets in 2008, after the Spurs lost Tianwang Mountain, they still won two games in a row, and the tiebreaker eliminated the Hornets and prevented Paul from entering the Western Conference finals.

After losing to the Thunder in 2013, the Spurs moved to 7-8 and went on to lose the series after the loss.

This speaks volumes about the fact that the Spurs rarely pull off miracles in the playoffs, but they don't let their opponents do wonders either.

We don't have any characteristics, and our characteristics are to make you also featureless.

But the Lakers are different, they are a team with distinctive characteristics, strong offensive power, and outstanding individual ability.

If the Lakers are not united, they are often prone to moths and self-defeating.

But as long as the Lakers are united internally, even if only superficially in the game, their fighting power will be quite terrifying.

Because they are full of talent.

They all rely on talent to play, although the Thunder is talented, but without Harden, compared with the Lakers, who have never been superstars in history, they are a younger brother.

Talent teams began to come together, play team basketball, and switch freely between the two, and the Lakers began to show their formidable fighting power.

Li Liang's two threes are just appetizers.

Brooks quickly discovered during the timeout that he didn't know how to set up the defense.

To whom? How to target it? Who is the focus on?

I don't know, I look confused, and my head is full of question marks.

He didn't know how to adjust except to keep encouraging and cheering up the players.

Thinking about the lessons of Game 3, Brooks decided not to adjust, just to let the players take a break.

But this reprieve, the timeout ended and returned to the court, and the Lakers' offensive pace did not stop.

Li Liang didn't continue to throw three-point shots, just now he didn't use props at all, relying entirely on his own feel and a little bonus of runes.

It's not that he doesn't want to use props, he forgets.

He is deeply involved in the offensive and defensive system of the whole team, and he is highly committed.

The Lakers' offense is running at high speed like a machine, and everyone, after a season of running-in and two and a half rounds of hard work, has achieved the effect of quantitative change causing qualitative change at a certain point.

It seems to be the epiphany of the Buddha under the Bodhi tree, the aura of Lu Zhishen in front of the Qiantang River, the Lakers players slowly swallowed, polished little by little, and the offensive end finally began to be unstoppable.

After the Thunder came back from a timeout, it was still Durant's own ball-handling offense, and after breaking through, he made a two-point shot with a sharp stop and drift.

It didn't hit, it was too hard, and the rebound was picked up by Gasol.

Kobe Bryant received the ball in the low post, the Thunder wanted to pinch it, and gave the ball to Li Liang, who quickly passed the ball to Nash on the wing.

Nash now finds that he has a lot to do on the wing and doesn't necessarily have to be at the top of the arc.

He received the ball with the help of Gasol's cover and broke through with a change of direction, a Kobe, a Nash, a left and a right, and the Thunder's defense was stretched wide open in the middle.

Nash made a ground-hitting pass, and Howard followed up in the middle to catch the ball and dunk it with both hands!

The Thunder quickly countered, Westbrook wanted to bring the rhythm up, lunged with the ball, and the last zombie jumper was over.

The goal was scored, but the Lakers countered quickly, and after Nash got the ball, a super long pass came to the frontcourt, and Gasol was right under the basket.

There was only one feint to catch the ball and lightly point Ibaka into the air, and then a dunk with his left hand!

The Thunder can't get up because the Lakers have stepped back into place.

In positional warfare, Thunder has nothing to do, and all the tricks that should be used have been exhausted.

In the first half, Ibaka, Collison and other players still contributed, but in the second half, they couldn't.

What to do, it's still Durant coming, and the Lakers are starting to flank Durant, putting Sefrosa and Collison.

Durant jumped up and passed the ball under the pinch, and after Sefrosa received the ball, he missed an open three-point shot.

Sefrosa is also defending Kobe Bryant and Li Liang, and there are not many opportunities to shoot three-point shots in the entire series.

A shooter can't develop a sense of touch and confidence in the game, and it's weird that you can shoot a three-pointer at a critical moment in the fourth quarter.

Unless he has a system.

The Thunder's offense is collapsing.

And their defense is still holding on.

Howard got the rebound in the backcourt, Nash slowly dribbled across the halfcourt, and Westbrook was no longer able to play high-intensity pressing defense against Nash like he did in the first two games.

It's still a matter of physical strength, energy, and effectiveness.

Li Liang came over to cover Nash in a very far outside position, and then went down, Nash hit the ground and passed, Li Liang received the ball and threw it high, and Gasol tiptoed inside, got the ball and gently put the ball into the basket.

It's over, and the Thunder's defense is starting to crumble.

They lost their defensive focus, they couldn't score offensively, and they started to get impetuous.

This ball Ibaka should be kept inside, let Li Liang hold the ball and go inside, he took one more step, and the ball hit his foot and made a mistake.

Or simply make a stop-and-go jumper, Li Liang's stop-and-go mid-range is still not as good as Durant's.

But Ibaka had to pounce, but Li Liang passed to the inside line, and Gasol won the air relay.

resisted most of the half, and the Thunder collapsed silently under the power of the Lakers in the fourth quarter.

In the last 7 or 8 minutes, Stamps' Lakers fans didn't cheer loudly, because the scene was not tense at all.

The Thunder played sloppily and roughly, and the Lakers, like in the regular season, kept scoring points with all kinds of small combinations.

Of course, Kobe Bryant's difficult jumper and folding layup are indispensable.

It's not hard to be uncomfortable, and there's no difficulty to make it difficult for yourself.

The Lakers are playing more and more smoothly, and when they hit the back, what Jamison, Blake, and even the cornerstone Thackeray all appeared!

They beat the Thunder 42-25 in the fourth quarter, scored 40 points in a single quarter, and won the Thunder by 17 points.

If it weren't for the garbage lineup at the end, there would have been more points, and the point difference would have widened.

The Thunder will not play in the fourth quarter all of a sudden, and the more the players play, the more they can't let go, the more they play, the more they are constrained, and they can only let Durant and Westbrook play by themselves, and the two are isolated.

In fact, the score of 25 points is not small, the problem is that the Lakers' 42 points are really terrible.

The final score was 115:98, and the Lakers completed a big victory in the battle of Tianwang Mountain.

The overall score is 3:2 ahead, and there is still one step left before the finals.

In the post-match press conference, Mike Brown had a serious face and did not show his white teeth.

He kept saying that the Thunder's performance was very good, forcing the Lakers into a corner, and they used their strongest strength.

"The next game in Oklahoma is going to be a tough fight and we're going to give it our all."

Mike Brown now knows the truth of character building, so he didn't say anything big at the press conference.

He is not Li Liang, he dares to say anything, he will leave a line in life, he will see each other in the future, he will not save face in life, and be careful of being slapped in the face.

So this press conference didn't bring Li Liang's big mouth.

After all, after getting the match point, there is only one game left, and the Lakers outperform their opponents in strength, so there is no need for Li Liang to let go of his mouth.

And Li Liang was happy, went home early, and accompanied Zhu Shu to watch the night view.

……

The next day, Game 5 between the Miami Heat and the Pacers kicked off at the American Airlines Center.

Unlike the Lakers' offensive outburst in the West, the Miamis played a suffocating defense this time.

The Indiana Pacers still held their lead in the first half, leading by four points at halftime.

In the third quarter, the Heat's defense seemed to have suddenly awakened, beating the Pacers 30-13 in a single quarter, overtaking the score in one fell swoop.

The Pacers scored 13 points in the first quarter, not as many as James scored in the first quarter.

The Heat's airtight rotation and high-intensity pressing made the Pacers completely lose their offensive feeling.

In the end, the Heat 90-79, keeping the Pacers' score below 80 points.

The Heat, like the Lakers, won the Kings Mountain at home and are just one step away from the Finals.

It's just that the Lakers rely on offense, while the Heat rely on defense.

One offense and one defense, people are more looking forward to the showdown between the Lakers and the Heat in the Finals.

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