Chapter 450: Strong and Weak
The Spurs won at home easily, but in fact, it was not only them who were easy, and dark horses were not common.
Not to mention the Spurs, Warriors, and Cavaliers, the Wizards and Rockets also won their second home court in the same day as the Spurs.
To be honest, Zhang Xiaotian feels that the Eagles management is not accurate about people, so they will become less and less competitive in the east.
In this game against the Wizards, they couldn't do anything about the Wizards' double shots, allowing Wall and Beal to combine to score 63 points.
"Even though we didn't play well in the third quarter, somebody stepped up in the fourth quarter and led the team, and I just stayed aggressive and believed in my shot," Wall said after the game. ”
"Everybody is a professional and they know that if they miss a shot, they will hurt the team, so at halftime they would complain about themselves in the locker room, and then I told them, 'It's okay, I'm going to keep passing you in the second half,' and it's nice that they were aggressive in the second half and hit the shot in the fourth quarter."
'It's different from two years ago when we were 2-0 up on the road and all we need to do is get back at home and win the home game, and now we're going to play away from home and we have to prepare seriously for the third and fourth games, because we know they're getting better and better and we don't feel like we're at our best.
Wall is not satisfied with the victory, but Hawks head coach Budenhozer can only motivate his players now, "Our performance in Game 2 has improved a little bit compared to the first game of the series, and that's what we need to continue to do." Obviously, our offensive performance in the fourth quarter was not very good. ”
And the Rockets also won the Thunder, although Westbrook cut 51 points, 10 rebounds, 13 assists, 4 steals and 1 block.
On the Rockets' side, Harden played steadily, and the two strong benches, Gordon and Louis Williams, both scored 20+, leaving the Thunder's rotation lineup of 108,000 miles.
After the game, Wei Shao was also very depressed when facing reporters, and he was a little impatient with reporters repeatedly asking about statistics and shooting questions.
"I've already answered that, brother."
"I don't want to talk about the stats anymore, we lost."
As the winning side, Rockets guard Beverley said in an interview: "The fans of the Rockets are phenomenal, they are the sixth man of the team, and they are doing a great job of coming to the scene to cheer us on." They are truly phenomenal and all the fans in the whole city have come to cheer us on, so we are very grateful. ”
Speaking about the away game, he said: "It feels good, I just hope the boos are coming at me, and the City fans don't go for Harden." ”
Regarding Westbrook's performance, Beverley said, "He's done everything he can and play as aggressive as possible...... Tonight we also showed the all-round nature of this team. ”
Game 3 of the first round of the playoffs began with the Cavaliers and Pacers, with the Cavaliers coming back from a bad start to the first half in the second half.
James also scored a big triple-double of 41+13+12, and unlike Wei Shao, he led the team to win.
Paul George also scored a quasi-triple-double of 36+15+9, but unfortunately he was not able to hold on to the victory in the end.
After the game, Cavaliers coach Lue said: "I think we were too relaxed at the start of the game, and I told them in a couple of timeouts that they were too relaxed. The Pacers have the talent, they have the home cheer, they have a good coach, and we can't relax as much as we did today. ”
'McMillan made changes to our defence against Paul George, which led to us falling behind in the first half. We also made adjustments in the third quarter so that the Pacers scored just 17 points in the third quarter. I'm proud that my players are fighting so hard with a big 2-0 lead. ”
"When LeBron made three 3-pointers in a row, I knew it was going to be another historic performance for him, and he carried the whole team on his shoulders, scoring and passing good balls, and I wasn't surprised that there were no mistakes in the second half."
The Pacers are clearly getting a little frustrated, and their head coach McMillan said: "Game 4 is a test for our players, and who will do their best to win the game and extend the series, that's what I expect." ”
"We're fighting for dignity now, we're all fighters and trust each other, we're not broken," Teague said. ”
In the third game between the Raptors and the Bucks, the Raptors lost miserably because the Raptors habitually lost their guns again.
The Raptors scored only 30 points in the half, also setting a team record.
'We had great fans tonight, we felt the energy from the start and I think we definitely had a chance to turn that energy into our advantage, take the lead in the opening stages of the game and then continue to control the game.' Bucks player Monroe said after the game.
Their core alphabet song also thanked the fans, "The home atmosphere has been very influential from the first leg, it's fun, it's fun to have such good fans, hopefully they can show some love for the team and have a lot of shouts in the fourth game." ”
"We've got to make changes," Raptors head coach Casey said in an interview, "and we got up in the second half, but anyone who is on the court should try to make changes and impact the game." ”
'We've got to start by moving the ball and finding the players who have the chances, that's what we have to do, you have to move the ball, you can't just dribble the ball over. It's hard to get rid of your opponent in terms of speed, but the ball spins faster. That's what we did in Game 2 of the series, and we're going to get it back. ”
On the western side, the Warriors also came with a crisp 3:0.
Grizzlies coach Fitzdale lamented after the game, "It looks like we're doing a great offense, shooting 51 percent from the field, 40 percent from three-point range, and 90 percent from the free-throw line, and we only had nine turnovers in the game." For us, such data usually means victory. But we didn't have any defense today and I felt like the team did their best but didn't execute well enough. ”
Warriors head coach Kerr was unable to take charge of the game due to injury, and Curry said after the game: "Our coach is going through a tough thing physically, and he told us this morning that we need to stick together in this situation and support him, and he said we want to 'ihe gipper.'" ”
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