Chapter 274: The West is Strong and the East is Weak

CCTV also broadcast this game, because this game has a certain historical significance for the Chinese people.

Last year's finals were the first time that a Chinese face appeared.

And this year's finals have become the first time that Chinese players have participated, and the status of the Grizzlies is not low now, since the playoffs, it has gradually become the main rotation of the Grizzlies, because of his unique style, the Grizzlies need roughly outside three-pointers, and they can roughly have two positions, center and power forward, so in many games, Qiao Hai will give priority to the bench players.

Therefore, throughout the playoff journey, the approximate playing time has been a lot, and in this finals, he also played more than 9 minutes, made five shots, made two three-pointers, and got 6 points, 4 rebounds and 2 blocks, and his performance was quite good.

After this game, CCTV's Director Zhang said with a smile: "There is really no suspense in this year's finals, the Grizzlies are too strong, there are Maddie, Raheem, and Bibby, Billups, all of them are strong players, and they are all young, and then look at the Pacers, Reggie Miller is getting old, Jalen Rose has some potential, but I think he is about the same as Marion at most, so, just this lineup, the Grizzlies will crush the Pacers, not to mention the gap in coaching." ”

Partnering with Coach Zhang to explain was Coach Xu Jicheng Xu, and Coach Xu also said: "Yes, the gap between coaches is even greater, Big Bird is very good as a player, but as a coach, it is too bad, especially compared with Qiao Hai, it is too far behind." ”

The domestic commentary is naturally blowing Qiao Hai, because although the general performance is good, it is not worth blowing, but Qiao Hai is different, Qiao Hai, who has just won the best coach trophy, is a demon, a young man who is only 25 years old, actually stood out in a group of 50-year-old and 60-year-old old men, such a demon, it is not too much to blow.

However, then, what Director Zhang and Director Xu talked about the most was the gap between the east and the west.

"The current NBA pattern is that the West is strong and the East is weak, and there is no team in the East that can play!"

"Yes, look at the Pacers, the Grizzlies beat him by 35 points as soon as they played, and the Pacers are still the best team in the East! Look at the West again, although the Lakers were swept, at least they could have a relationship with the Grizzlies, the Spurs almost beat the Grizzlies, and the eighth King in the West also won the Grizzlies, and now the gap between the East and West is really big......"

After this game, as Coach Zhang and Coach Xu discussed, the gap between East and West became the focus, and the Grizzlies won too much, and the 35-point win was terrifying.

However, this is not over, the severity of the strength of the west and the weakness of the east is still being reflected.

The second game of the finals was still held at the General Motors Arena, and the Grizzlies took the lead again, but there was no way, the Pacers still couldn't prevent the Grizzlies' offense, and Maddy's singles helped the Grizzlies open the situation, opening with a wave of 15:9, leading by 6 points.

In this game, Larry Bird learned to be obedient and honestly played defense, focusing on defense, and relying on Jalen Rose's singles and Reggie Miller's shooting on the offensive end.

After the Grizzlies took the opening lead, the Pacers stepped up their defense and finally didn't collapse as much as they did in the previous game.

However, at halftime, the Grizzlies still led by 11 points and dominated the Pacers from start to finish.

The Pacers have no chance at all, Reggie Miller has been stared to death, from the beginning of the game to the end of the game, the Grizzlies have someone to guard Reggie Miller, the opening is Maddy, and then Shaun Marion was also replaced, and when the bench was replaced, the player who defended Reggie Miller became Ragabel again, each of which was a top single defense player.

Reggie Miller was prevented from dying, and the Pacers naturally did not have the capital to turn the tables.

The Grizzlies just led until the end.

At the end of the game, the Grizzlies won again, leading the Pacers 2-0 in the finals.

At this point in the series, it is clear to everyone that unless the Pacers find a way to stop the Grizzlies' offense, there will be no suspense in this Finals, and the Grizzlies will beat the Pacers and lift the first O'Brien Cup in franchise history.

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The Pacers returned to their home court, and in Indianapolis, where the ball market was crazy and hot, the Pacers at home still couldn't stop the Grizzlies' crazy offense.

In this game, Reggie Miller gritted his teeth and broke out a game, in the first quarter of the game, Reggie Miller's state was rare and hot, hitting two three-pointers in a row, forcing Qiao Hai to sacrifice a bag and clip tactics to deal with Reggie Miller, but even if he sacrificed a bag and clip tactics, in the first quarter of the game, Reggie Miller still cut down an 11 points.

Reggie Miller scored 19 points in the half, and in the game, Reggie Miller exploded to 36 points and hit seven three-pointers.

But the Grizzlies still won the game with a score of 122-107.

Reggie Miller broke out, Maddie is not bad, the whole game, Maddie got 33 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals, scoring only 3 points less than Reggie Miller, and more assists than Reggie Miller.

The Grizzlies have other scoring points, no matter how they play, the Grizzlies' offense is stronger than the Pacers', and as long as the Pacers can't prevent the Grizzlies' offense, the game won't have to be played.

So, after playing three games, the Grizzlies easily won three victories, leading 3-0 in the finals, and only one victory away from winning the cup.

Vancouver was excited, and the Grizzlies were in a state of extreme excitement.

Especially Maddie, in the first three games, Maddie played an epic individual performance, scoring 15 points in the first quarter, 22 points in the half, and 38 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals and 1 block in the whole game.

In the second game, he scored 29 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists, 1 steal and 1 block, and in the third game, he scored 33 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals comparable to Reggie Miller.

Averaged 33.3 points, 6 rebounds, 4.7 assists, 1.7 steals and 0.7 blocks per game in three games, such a data, if the Grizzlies continue to win in the fourth game, as long as Maddie plays normally, the Finals MVP will be in Maddie's bag!

The championship will be the MVP of the finals! The NBA's highest honor in the true sense of the word, even Maddie, has to be excited when facing the NBA's highest honor.

The Grizzlies are more calm, in addition to Qiao Hai, there are only Bairon Scott, the assistant coaches who followed Qiao Hai from the Lakers to the Grizzlies, because they had already won a championship with Qiao Hai last year, and the coaches who did not win the championship - Lawrence Frank and Lionel Hollins were also a little excited.

Before Game 4 of the Finals, the Grizzlies were in a good mood overall, which is a good thing, but at the same time, it can also be a bad thing, and sometimes, excessive excitement can affect the team's state.

Of course, Qiao Hai will not worry about this, because he is confident that he will pull these excited people back and celebrate after the fourth battle.