Although the famous basketball coach Mitsuyoshi Anzai once said that until the last moment, don't give up the game, once you give up, the game will end early, but if you are 30 points behind, Coach Anzai will definitely say, "It's better to give up, how can basketball keep winning, prepare for the next game." ”

Game 3 between the Thunder and the Warriors ended with a score that no one expected, but it was reasonable again.

135:101, a 34-point gap, the Thunder on the road, the third game of the Western Conference Finals, swept the Warriors.

It's hard to imagine that this is a match between a team with 71 wins and a team with 73 wins.

The Warriors' offense and defense began to collapse in the second half of the third quarter.

From tactics to state, from body to spirit, the warriors failed to withstand the bombardment of the thunder and surrendered.

After the game, Curry sat on the bench with red eyes, but he didn't let the tears flow.

After all, the series is not over yet.

But everyone knows that the series is over early.

After falling behind 0:3, no one can successfully turn the tables around.

By the end of the game, the Oracle Arena had become empty.

The fans left disappointed, they never imagined that the Warriors, who had been devastating in the regular season, would be so embarrassed by their opponents in the Western Conference Finals.

I'm still thinking about seven big battles, and the result is coming to an end.

The media and league executives were actually not happy with the results.

Originally, the Western Conference playoffs were to watch the matchup between the Warriors and the Thunder, and the excitement of the Western Conference Finals affected the ratings of the entire league to a certain extent.

Because the east is too weak, people are thinking about the big drama of Mars hitting the earth in the western final.

How do you know that the suspense is lost so quickly, how can this ticket be sold?

In fact, in the third game, the referee's whistle in the first half was slightly biased towards the Thunder, and the second half was about to start to favor the Warriors.

Who knew that the referee had no chance to favor the Warriors in the second half, and the Thunder directly killed the Warriors.

This shows that the professional level of referees still needs to be improved.

After playing this game, the Thunder players felt relaxed, leading 3-0, and the Warriors had no chance.

Li Liang went to San Francisco the next day and had lunch at Ganjia Restaurant in Chinatown.

The head chef of the store, Gan Guoyang, made a table of wine and food for Li Liang, Li Liang really healed the scar and forgot the pain, so he ate it anyway.

He ate three of the steamed roosters alone.

While eating, Li Liang asked Gan Guoyang, do you remember that there is a big Nate barbecue restaurant?

Gan Guoyang replied: "I remember, when I first came to San Francisco, I went there to eat barbecue and played there. However, I didn't have much talent, I studied for a while, and then I went to school after the summer vacation, and I didn't get selected for the basketball team, which is a pity. ”

Li Liang has been stuck at the Big Nate Barbecue for a long time, and he wonders if he has to be stuck until school starts?

As he spoke, Gan Guoyang went upstairs, and after a while, he took a photo album in his hand and handed it to Li Liang.

Li Liang wiped his hands and mouth, took the photo album, and saw that there was a photo inside, which was the basketball hoop in the backyard of the Big Nate Barbecue Restaurant.

Under the basketball hoop stood Gan Guoyang and Nate Thurmond, which is a group photo of the two.

And under this photo, Li Liang saw another group photo, which was also a tall giant.

Li Liang recognized that it was basketball superstar Wilt Chamberlain.

Flipping back further, Li Liang even saw various sports celebrities such as Bernard King and Mohammed Ali.

But it's normal to think about it, a famous time-honored restaurant, after a long time, there will always be celebrities who come to have a meal and take a photo.

"I met Chamberlain at a barbecue restaurant, and he was really tall and strong, huge. It's a pity that he died too early. ”

Gan Guoyang recalled Chamberlain, the two had several encounters, and every time he came to San Francisco, he would come to Gan's restaurant for dinner.

Li Liang thought to himself, then do I need to meet Chamberlain in the system to enter the next link?

Thinking so in his heart, Li Liang ate two more plates of soft-pocketed eel and a pot of white rice.

With the amount of food he eats, it is terrible among the giants in the NBA, and it is not a problem to eat one table alone.

There is no way, he uses the system to exercise all year round, which causes his appetite to become huge.

After eating, Gan Guoyang actually asked Li Liang to collect money.

"What? Uncle cousin, do I still need money for dinner? ”

"I'm sorry, you're a public enemy of the Bay Area now, I'm not going to take your money, I'm sorry for my status as a Warriors fan."

As he spoke, Gan Guoyang opened the white chef's suit, revealing the undershirt with the warrior logo inside.

"Okay, I'll pay...... Cousin, you didn't poison your food, did you? Don't make me have diarrhea again! ”

You only remembered this stubble after you finished eating, and you clearly wanted to repay the debt.

"No, no, you eat these, at most you pull a little more... No, a lot more, but it won't have diarrhea. ”

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A day later, Game 4 between the Warriors and Thunder kicked off at Oracle.

It's a game that will decide whether the Thunder sweep or go home to win the Western Conference championship.

For the audience and the league, of course, it is still hoped that the Warriors can win one game.

The alliance, in particular, really doesn't want to see a big war that should be evenly matched turn out to be one-sided.

For Thunder fans and winning fans, they can't wait to sweep the game round by round to win.

But the league seeks checks and balances, even if at some times that balance affects the openness and fairness of competitive sports.

From the first quarter, the referee's whistle was clearly biased in favor of the Warriors.

Li Liang was whistled for a foul as soon as he came up - tonight's referee is no longer good friend Kennedy, but Tony Blazer.

If Joe Crawford had been there, the task would have been given to bald Joe.

However, Crawford is already one step ahead of Duncan, opting to retire in March due to a knee injury.

It is estimated that Duncan also retired because he felt lonely on the court without Crawford.

Once the referee starts to stare at Li Liang to blow fouls, it means that he must want to rectify Li Liang's team.

After all, based on experience in the past few years, the best way to deal with Li Liang is to let him rest off the court.

Sure enough, at the 7-minute mark of the first quarter, Li Liang was whistled for a second foul on the defensive end.

Donovan could only let Li Liang rest.

However, Li Liang is gone, and the Thunder's offense has not collapsed.

Come to think of it, when he was with the Pacers, Li Liang was a single core, and the team was a unicycle.

Can he still run without wheels?

Thunder is different now, Thunder is a tricycle, and this tricycle is missing one wheel...... It seems that you can't run, and you can still run as a board car without the front wheel, and it will be troublesome if you have less rear wheels.

But you can still run if you modify it.

For Thunder, the lack of Li Liang is just a return to the two young people.

The Thunder's offense is still there.

At the same time, the Thunder's defensive system does not rely on Li Liang alone.

Li Liang is a great reinforcement for the whole team, but without him the team can still run well.

Moreover, the referee's blowing penalty made the whole Thunder team breathe.

Li Liang sat on the bench and drove a hair dryer to cheer his teammates frantically.

As a result, the Thunder went all out in the second quarter and scored 45 points in a single quarter!

Among them, Westbrook scored 21 points alone, and in the second quarter he used his sharp breakthrough to break the Warriors inside into a whistle.

Li Liang spends most of his time sitting on the sidelines with a hair dryer to cheer on his teammates, and exchanging feelings with Warriors fans on the sidelines.

There is no trace of the demeanor of a league superstar.

But what is the meaning of grace, it is nothing more than the decoration of victory, the cover of defeat.

The warrior was beaten to the point that he lost his armor and the referee couldn't save it.

With another 20-point deficit at halftime and two games in a row at home, people can't help but wonder how strong this Thunder really is.

The Thunder is strong on the one hand, and on the other hand, Donovan's deployment and tactical use in the series have made Cole's arrangements clear.

The expected super-showdown did not materialize, but rather a one-sided slaughter.

In the second half, Thompson briefly gave the Warriors a little hope with a three-pointer, and he hit three three-pointers in a row to close the gap to nearly 10 points.

But the shameless Bruce Lee immediately returned the favor with three threes — and he used Cordinger's sieve.

The Warriors' counter-attack bubble burst.

At Oracle Arena, two consecutive 20-point massacres by opponents.

This is rare in the history of the playoffs.

The team with 71 wins lost so badly.

This time, the Warriors fans did not leave the court early, but silently waited with the players until the end of the game.

At 119:92, the Thunder slaughtered the Warriors again with a 21-point advantage and swept all the way to the Finals in the Western Conference playoffs.

The last team to sweep all the way was the Los Angeles Lakers in 2001.

The Thunder is already unstoppable.