The Cavaliers kept recruiting in order to win the championship, the total salary exploded, looking at the card lineup, they are not inferior to the Sun, the depth of the Magic lineup is no worse than Guo Xu's previous life, but it is almost impossible to beat the Knights.

The Cavaliers' biggest regret is that Szczebiak has been disappointing, and he can't even be called a qualified role player this season.

After entering the playoffs, Szczebiak played an average of 12.8 minutes per game, scoring only 3.6 points and 2.3 rebounds, shooting 16.7% from three-point range. Fortunately, he only has the final year left on his big contract, and the Cavaliers can free up more than 10 million salary space in the summer.

However, the Cavaliers still can't bring in big names in the free market, and after throwing away the big baggage of Szczebiak, their total salary will still exceed the salary cap.

Before the game, whether it was basketball experts or online fans, they were one-sidedly optimistic about the Suns winning the championship.

No way, who doesn't look at the sun? The Cavaliers have won one game in the finals three times, and the pattern of being strong in the west and weak in the east has not been maintained for a year or two. Due to a series of butterfly effects created by Guo Xu, the Eastern team has not won a championship since the Bulls won the championship in 1998.

There are also many people who question James's leadership temperament, he seems to be lost in a tough battle, and his performance in the three Finals has been terrible, and his shooting percentage is not as good as the team's second-leader Boozer.

Only a handful of Cavaliers fans believe that James can lead the team to defeat the Suns to win the championship this time, citing that he is much better than last season. Since entering the playoffs, James has averaged 28.5 points, 8 rebounds and 7.2 assists per game, shooting 51% from the field and 33.3% from three-point range, and shooting 1.7 three-pointers per game.

He shot a career-high mid-range shooting percentage of 48.2 percent from two points, 44.4 percent less from mid-range, and 71 percent from the basket, making him a superstar in every way.

James was very low-key in the interview, and he didn't say anything like beating his opponent.

The low-key is because he has a lot of pressure, he can't afford to lose this year, and if he loses again, he will win the runner-up for the fourth time, which is to surpass the rhythm of Elgin Baylor!

Guo Xu said in an interview: "I have played in the finals 6 times before, I have never lost, and the winning rate of the finals is 100%, I said that no one will believe it if I am not confident?" ”

He cared about another thing, after training, Xiao Si consulted with him and asked him if he could give himself an FMVP.

Guo Xu agreed after thinking about it, Xiao Si joined the Sun Logistics diligently as the second leader, not grabbing the ball and not making trouble, even if he chose to jump out of the contract in 2010, the two have been partners together for 8 years.

If it weren't for such a star insider, Guo Xu would not have easily won 4 crowns in the Suns.

After 8 years of cooperation, if the personal honors are all Guo Xu's, and Xiao Si has nothing, he will definitely be very depressed.

Just like the two dynasties of the Bulls back then, the honor was all Jordan's, will Pippen be depressed? He desperately wanted to prove himself when Jordan retired, so there was a playoff boycott in 1994, which was "the biggest stain on Pippen's career".

If James knew that the Suns' core research was not how to win, but who won the MVP, the pressure on him would be even greater.

On June 4, the finals kicked off at the American Airlines Arena in Phoenix, with a schedule of 232.

In order to better prepare for the finals, Guo Xu asked D'Addario and Meghan to take their cats to live in a Los Angeles mansion after the Western Finals.

Guo Xu no longer threw magnesium powder when he played at home this year, and this ceremonial opening was suitable for young people, who now prefer to keep the wind light on the court. To put it bluntly, it is facial paralysis, and it is even more exciting to look like you don't care about anything.

Suns starters: Guo Xu, Morrow, Roy, Stoudamire, Gasol Jr.

Roy is responsible for defending James on the perimeter, and his shorter size may lead James to make more jumpers, and the Suns will wrap James around the box to limit his breakthrough as much as possible.

James' shooting has improved, but his most threatening skills have always been the breakthrough and the offense under the basket, so D'Antoni started Gasol Jr., who is the best center on the team to defend the restricted area. Xiao Si can also be better defensively as a power forward, and his size is not suitable for center.

Cavaliers five: Mo Williams, Delonte West, James, Boozer, Vallejo.

Vallejo jumped the ball to win and the game began.

James took the ball in the middle and organized, Roy put a step more than a distance, lowered the center of gravity and broke through the main defense.

The Cavaliers pulled out two interior players and covered their guard teammates off the ball on either side, helping them create opportunities to run and catch the ball. Many of the Cavaliers' tactics are to imitate the Suns, occasionally launching quick counterattacks, and the essence of positional warfare is constant cover and air cuts.

It works like this, and when Gasol Jr. starts the game, the Suns aren't fast enough inside. West's catch on the left drew Gasol Jr. into a switch and distributed the ball to an open-cut Vallejo, who squeezed away Moreau for a layup. 0 to 2.

Small's defensive ability was mediocre and was led out of the basket by Boozer, which was an easy score.

The Suns attacked, Guo Xu distributed the ball to Roy's organization, and he and Morrow also relied on cover to run, which was the same as the Cavaliers' positional play.

Guo Xu received the ball on the weak side, Mo Williams caught up, he had a heads-up opportunity and did not play strongly, and passed to Xiao Si who was empty and cut.

Smalls broke through the frame, Vallejo kept his distance to keep up with the interference, Smalls' layup deflected off the basket, and the rebound was grabbed by the retreating Boozer and passed to West.

West launched a counterattack with the ball, and the front court hit a 3-pointer to James who followed up on the right. In the counterattack, James showed his advantage and relied on Roy's forced layup. 0 to 4.

The Suns attacked, Guo Xu and Xiao Si played blocking and dismantling in the middle, and the weak side attracted the bag to divide the ball to the middle, Xiao Si missed the empty three-point shot, and the rebound bounced far away, which was picked up by Mo Williams.

After Guo Xu agreed to help brush the data, Xiao Si became excited, and as soon as he started, he wanted to score more points, and the rhythm was a little anxious.

In the Cavaliers' positional battle, James observed the organization in the middle and waited for his teammates to run. West ran on the left side to break through with the ball, attracted the inside line to change the defense and then gave the ball to Vallejo, Moreau saw that Gasol Jr. turned slowly and couldn't return to his position, and pulled Vallejo near the penalty area.

Vallejo stepped to the free-throw line and was booed by the Suns' home fans.

CCTV5 Zhang said with a reasonable smile: "Vallejo is a player who went out from the Suns, he is familiar with the Suns' routines, and quickly integrated into the team in the Cavaliers, and helped the Cavaliers understand several typical tactics of the Suns." I think the fans should boo him. ”

Yu Jia said: "The Cavaliers imitated well, they went 1-1 with the Suns in the regular season, and they didn't suffer losses. ”

Vallejo made both free throws to make it 6-0.

The Suns attacked, Guo Xu and Xiao Si blocked and dismantled to attract Boozer to switch defenses and distribute the ball to Xiao Si, who cut in the middle.

Smalls squeezed away from Williams and got to the basket, Vallejo retreated and let Gasol Jr. block Small's way and interfere closely. Xiao Si chose to lean on the right side and turn around to force the shot, and deflected the basket under the interference.

Gasol Jr. cut in on the left side to grab the rebound in the front court and failed, Vallejo didn't take the ball, jumped lightly and pulled the ball out with one hand, the rebound was grabbed by James, and he slowed down the rhythm in his arms.

In the positional battle, James passed to Mo Williams first, who was caught up by Guo Xu and had no chance to shoot, and the lob was given to Vallejo in the low post on the left.

At this moment, Vallejo was excited, and his teammates passed him more, and before the game, he was very confident that he could play Xiao Si alone. His figure does have an advantage, his back leaned on Xiao Si twice, turned around to the middle and hooked his hand to avoid the block, the action was not very beautiful but the ball went in. 0 to 8.

Xiao Si is a bit square, FMVP is not easy to take.