Chapter 400: Sorrowful Paul

The two groups of battles on the eastern side all ended the battle 4:2, and the final meeting in the Eastern Conference finals was still the finals between Ye Xuan's Pacers and James' Cavaliers. However, there is one more game in the West that has not been able to end their battle, and that is the game between the Rockets and the Clippers.

Originally, in the fifth game, the Clippers defeated the Rockets by 17 points on the road, and everyone thought they had found a way to defeat their opponents, but they didn't expect that after returning to the Staples Center, the Clippers actually lost a 17-point to the Rockets on their home court, allowing the Rockets to draw the score to 3:3.

Speaking of Paul, Paul did have enough bad luck, when he was in the Hornets before, due to the gap in role players, it was difficult for the Hornets to reach the Western Conference Finals, and after coming to the Clippers, their combat effectiveness every season was able to rank in the top four in the West, but I don't know what went wrong, the Clippers never found the door to enter the Western Conference Finals, even if this time they led the Rockets 3:2 again and achieved match points, but in the next two games, they still lost.

The Rockets relied on their tenacious will to fall behind 2:3 in one fell swoop, and won the remaining two games in one fell swoop, taking away the key to the Western Finals that Paul had already gotten, in fact, this can't be blamed on others, Doug Reaves as a coach didn't do what a coach should do at all, everyone was confused by the Big Three of the Green Shirts he led, and won the championship in the first year, making everyone think he was a famous coach, but everyone forgot, In fact, if you let a coach lead the Green Shirts to play, maybe the final result will be the same, because in that era of dual-core at that time, the Celtics not only had 3 All-Star level players, but their role players were not particularly weak, so they easily won 60+ games with a casual play.

But after winning the championship, look at what Reeves did? He treats the Big Three as if they were livestock, Garnett, who is already in his thirties, has to continue to play more than 38 minutes per game in the Celtics team with the Big Three, plus Pierce, who averages 37 minutes per game, did not give full play to the power of his substitute players at all, and did not arrange the playing time reasonably, the result is naturally self-evident, Garnett was injured, Pierce was injured, and even Ray Allen had an injury, and the Celtics who could have had a transcendent position in that era, In the end, he only won one championship.

It's all Reaves' fault, including his attempt to get Ray Allen off the bench and pushing Ray Allen to the Heat, as well as his sending Perkins to the Thunder, only to get back a Kostic floating on the outside.

After coming to the Clippers, the situation has not actually improved, the Clippers have Paul, Griffin and Jordan Jr., three of the league's top players, but they have not been able to play at the level they should have, 55 wins? That was the 39-year-old Duncan with the Spurs, and after coming to the Clippers, Reaves became more and more excessive, and even directly traded his son, Rivers Jr.

In fact, everyone knows that Rivers Jr.'s level is at most the end of the bench, how can he be the main backup guard in a strong team like the Clippers, and he can also get nearly 20 minutes of playing time per game, if this playing time is divided among other players, it is estimated that the Clippers can win several more games, not to mention cronyism, and the teams he is in charge of seem to have a very gorgeous lineup, but there is no tactics at all, when the Celtics were in charge, We've never heard of any high-end tactics arranged by Reaves, basically relying on the individual ability of the stars to play on the court, and even more so when the Clippers were on the court, with Paul on the court to control the overall situation, Reaves only needed to complain to the referee from time to time on the sidelines, and brush up on the sense of presence.

After the Clippers lost this Eastern Conference semifinals matchup, the matchup table for this season's Eastern and Western finals has been determined, with the Pacers facing the Cavaliers in the East and the Warriors in the West versus the Rockets in second place. IN FACT, AT THE BEGINNING, THIS MATCHUP LEAGUE STILL WANTED TO SEE, AFTER ALL, THE FINALS ON THE EASTERN SIDE LOOKED FULL OF TOPICS, PICKLED PEPPER VS JAMES, THE NEW 23VS24, AND IT WAS ROUND 3.

But the Cavaliers' side has greatly reduced their strength because of injuries, and now it seems that the Pacers have become the biggest profiteers, because they will face a crippled Cavaliers, and if they can beat this Cavaliers, the team they will face, whether it is the Rockets or the Warriors, the Pacers will rely on the single-core Ye Xuan to kill the opponent in the regular season, so they will occupy an absolute psychological advantage.

On the day the match table came out, the schedule was also released, the Pacers defeated the Hawks on the 15th, and rested for 2 days again, and the Rockets defeated the Clippers in the seventh game, and the finals in the East and West were scheduled to start on the 20th and 21st, the first kick-off on the Eastern side, officially started at the Cavaliers' home speed loan arena, and then the 22nd will have the second game, after which the two teams will move to the Conseco Arena and play two games on the 25th and 27th, If there is no sweep, the two teams will return to the Quickloan Arena on May 29 for Game 5, and if necessary, the two teams will play two more games on May 31 and June 2.

And on the West side, the Rockets are going to be more tragic, after finally defeating the Clippers, they didn't get much preparation time, and they had to start the Western Conference Finals with the Warriors, in the regular season, the Rockets and the Warriors have a 1-3 record to dominate, plus the Rockets don't seem to be particularly calm on the inside now, so the game on the West side is obviously the same as the East side, and it has not started to play to one side.

After Ye Xuan advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals, he finally began to think about improving his strength, because the gains in the playoffs were enough to improve Ye Xuan's strength again, and although he was facing a Cavaliers with an incomplete lineup in the subsequent games, it also meant that he would face a James who went all out, and the horror of Zhan was something Ye Xuan had seen once in the regular season.