After the victory over the Cavaliers, the Pacers were suddenly raised to a very outrageous height by the media, some media said that the Pacers have a chance of winning the championship this year more than 8 percent, and some media even directly compared the current lineup of the Pacers with the 'OK combination' three consecutive championship periods, and there is only one situation to sum up, that is, the Pacers suddenly became the favorite to win the championship this season.

In fact, this is not very difficult to understand, after the comeback of Pickled Pepper, the last few games of the Pacers regular season are basically more losses and fewer wins, so the media are not very optimistic about the prospects of the Pacers, but when the Pacers showed their strength in the playoffs and eliminated the Hawks who dominated the East this season, the media reacted, it turned out that the defending champion is still no different from the king division last season, the only difference, It's probably because they're more mature and stronger this year.

And in this game, when the Pacers defeated their opponent in the Eastern Conference Finals with a playful situation, the media had to start singing praises for the Pacers led by Ye Xuan and Pickled Pepper, in fact, in the eyes of Americans, James's historical status in the NBA is still very high, when a team can easily defeat James's team, then the strength of this team must have been grabbed to a very terrible level.

However, these things are not of much use to Ye Xuan, because it is already the Eastern Conference Finals, so there is no local school or other unit in Cleveland that is willing to risk the world to lend the arena to the Pacers for training, so the Pacers also have to return to Indiana directly for training, fortunately, the distance between Ohio and Indiana is not particularly far, so the Pacers did not feel too tired of the journey.

After the first game of the Eastern Conference finals, the first game of the 21st Western Conference finals was officially started at Oracle Arena, the first quarter of the game The Rockets played very well, under the organization of Harden, the Rockets blossomed everywhere, although the highest personal score was only 7 points, but 8 of the 9 people who got the opportunity to play scored points, and the Rockets who blossomed more in the first quarter also scored 31 points.

And the Warriors are a little weak, although they also have 9 people in the first quarter to get the opportunity to play, but 3 of them don't even have a chance to shoot, the other 6 people, there are two 1 shot 0, no point, this quarter of the game if Curry didn't stand up, 3 of 4 three-pointers, 11 points in a single quarter, then maybe the Rockets will be able to open the score gap to more than 10 points in this quarter of the game, the Warriors 24 points in a single quarter, lost to the Rockets 7 points.

But when the game entered the second quarter, the situation completely changed, the Warriors relied on their bench to be stronger than the Rockets, so they quickly used substitute players to chase points, and there was no player on the Rockets' side who had anything to do with Sean Livingston, and Livingston also played a career masterpiece in this quarter, shooting 5 of 5 in a single quarter, plus 4 of 4 free throws, a total of 14 points, which directly led the Warriors to win the opponent by 10 points in a single quarter, and directly overtook the score.

In the third quarter of the game, Harden sent 11 points, 3 boards and 1 assist, helping the Rockets score 24 points, and Curry's side did not show weakness, scoring 10 points, 2 boards and 3 assists in a single quarter, helping the Warriors score 26 points in a single quarter and win the opponent by 2 points again.

Entering the fourth quarter of the game, Harden began to break out, hitting 5 of his 8 shots in a single quarter to score 10 points, and also grabbed 5 rebounds and sent 2 assists, but Curry's side also began to explode, shooting 4 of 6, scoring 11 points, and also 3 boards and 2 assists, although the Rockets won the Warriors by 1 point in a single quarter, but the final score was still the Warriors' upper hand. The first game of the Western Conference Finals, which attracted worldwide attention, also ended with the victory of the Warriors playing at home.

In fact, the Rockets still have a good chance to win this game, in the last two minutes of the game, the entire Warriors only scored two points, and the Rockets scored as many as 9 points, but unfortunately in the first half of the fourth quarter, the Rockets were opened up by a wave of attack waves from the opponent, which led to the final moment was not able to fill the hole. And if Beverley hadn't been injured, the Rockets would have had such a mad dog defensive player to limit Curry's play, and maybe they could have beaten the Warriors who didn't play well, but unfortunately these are just ifs.

In the end, the Rockets still lost to the Warriors by 4 points on the road, and the media were also dissatisfied with Howard's sluggish performance after the game, but in fact, this game was not Howard's pot, first of all, when facing a team like the Warriors, Howard's speed became the biggest point that limited his play, although he only scored 7 points in this game, but he still got 13 rebounds in 26 minutes of playing time, and the efficiency was already very good, Coupled with the fact that he only got 7 shots, it is reasonable that the score is low.

It's a pity that the media is like this, in order to increase their sales, they always only write out the superstars that the audience likes to see, but they don't help these stars analyze the reasons at all, which caused Howard to be very depressed after this game, and called Ye Xuan after the game to complain, fortunately, Ye Xuan has a deep foundation in mouth artillery, and he comforted him in a few words, after all, Ye Xuan also hopes that the Rockets can cause some trouble to the Warriors.

The clock passed quickly, and at noon on the 22nd, the Pacers will once again ride to Cleveland for Game 2 of their Eastern Conference Finals. If they can win again in this game, then the trip to the Eastern Conference is basically secure, after all, the next two games will be played back on the Pacers' Devil's home court.

At the beginning of the game, Tristan Thompson won the jump ball and gave the racket to George Hill, Hill took the ball without the slightest pause and passed the ball directly to James, James received the ball and wiped the Scola in front of him and was ready to come to a fast attack, but Solomon Hill on the side reacted quickly and immediately blocked James's way, and the other players of the two teams fell into position, James then signaled his teammates to pull away, and he wanted to single Solomon Hill.