With 74 wins, the Runners enjoyed unprecedented attention as they entered the first round of the playoffs.

Virtually all of the world's major sports media outlets have sent reporters to Sacramento, and everyone is looking forward to the Runners being crowned king again, and they are looking forward to starting a new basketball order after their coronation.

As the opponent of the Runners in the first round of this year's playoffs, the Jazz are not left to chance, and probably their players only have a slight illusion in their hearts, thinking that their team can do a miracle and eliminate the Runners.

However, compared to last season's Jazz, they have seen a noticeable decline this season, and they held on to their eighth spot at the end of the regular season when they laughed last in a direct conversation with rival Trail Blazers.

Although the Trail Blazers unfortunately ranked ninth in the West and failed to make the playoffs, in fact, their management was relieved because once they became eighth in the West, they had to face the Runners, who have been used as a negative teaching material for the past two years, and compared to them is the extremely powerful Runners.

The better Turgun performs, the more embarrassed the Trail Blazers are, putting a super point guard who can be replaced or even more on the bench for a whole year, and even after using it, he will no longer give a chance, the Trail Blazers will undoubtedly have to pay the price for their previous behavior, even if Turgun himself has nothing, there are still media questioning whether the former head coach of the Trail Blazers is suspected of racial discrimination.

Not to mention the Trail Blazers' mixed emotions after failing to make the playoffs, the Jazz were a little resigned to their fate after playing their first game in Sacramento.

"I don't think a car with four acceleration gears can outrun a car with six gears, and obviously when we talk about the highest speed, people are just getting started."

These are the words of the head coach of the Jazz team at the press conference after the game, and his words caused a kind smile from reporters, at least the head coach of the Jazz team is calm enough and has the courage to admit defeat.

And the core player of the Jazz team, Claude Ninn, also said at the press conference: "It's hard to guard, indeed, I have to admit it, I think Turgun is the most difficult player in the league to guard, his rhythm changes too fast, I can't keep up with his rhythm changes at all, I will try to learn from him in the future, he will be my target to catch up." ”

Twenty-seven-year-old Crowder heard that he was going to learn from twenty-four-year-old Turgon, which surprised reporters as well, and they were surprised by the calmness of the Jazz coach and the main player.

In the second game, the Jazz still lost without temper, the three cores of the Runners clocked out in the third quarter, and Ervin alone turned the Jazz team upside down, he now has a solid foundation to become a superstar, and all that is missing is the grinding of the game.

After playing two home games, the Runners in Salt Lake City received a "warm" welcome from the Utah fans, but when the Jazz's first home game was over, their fans were almost silent.

You know, Salt Lake City's home stadium has always been the league's famous devil's home stadium, and the Mormons here have taken their desires out on the visiting team that comes here, but this is the first time that a team has completely dumbfounded the fanatical fans here.

After three games, the Jazz completely lost all confidence, and they could not bring up the courage to fight again in the face of losing by more than 20 points per game in three games.

The last game, still in Salt Lake City, although the Jazz plucked up the courage to fight with the support of local fans, they were too far behind the Runners in terms of individual player ability and team tactics, and it was another 20-plus point defeat, and the Jazz were swept out of the game by the Runners 0-4.

The Runners, who ended the fight early, were given a full week of rest after returning to Sacramento.

In other series in the West during this period, the Lakers were dragged into a tie-break by the rebuilt Spurs, which many people did not expect, and the Spurs entered the rebuild after last season, but no one would have thought that their rebuilding would be so successful, it is still the same way of playing, but the current Spurs have shown the potential to become a strong team.

The Lakers finally laughed at the end of the tie-break.

The Grizzlies also played Game 6 against the Mavericks, with the Grizzlies eliminating the re-emerging Mavericks 4-2, and Coach Rones Jerry's revamp of the Grizzlies was time to pay off.

The game between the Thunder and the Rockets ended also slowly, and the Thunder were dragged to the tie-break by the aging Rockets, but Gao Ming finally waited for the opportunity to face off with Wang Lei in the playoffs, and they killed the Rockets at the last minute in the tie-break.

After the second round of the playoffs between the Runners and the Thunder began, the Lakers vs. Grizzlies game also began.

Gao Ming actually played the last showdown with Wang Lei in the playoffs very early, and now the opportunity has finally come.

The Thunder, who have introduced a lot of young players and outside players this season, also played run-and-gun tactics, but the Thunder lost the first game without temper.

The speed of the Thunder team is indeed very fast, but their speed lacks enough changes, once they fall into passivity, the team will basically enter a chaotic state, while the Runners play as fast as they want, and slow down if they want, which allows them to always maintain the initiative in the game against the Thunder.

121-104, the Runners beat the Thunder by 17 points.

In the second game, the Thunder team still did not change their style of play, or Gao Ming himself was a little lacking.

114-89, the Thunder lost even worse today, and their shooting percentage in this game was less than 30%.

Back in Oklahoma City, the Thunder found their senses, and the outside pitchers were completely opened, and the two sides played a game until the last minute, but in the last six seconds of the game, Turgun hit an oversized three-pointer against the defense and killed the Thunder with such an incredible goal.

The Thunder team who fought back in the fourth game still performed well, but the Big Four of the Runners did not give the Thunder any chance, Elvin cut a big double-double of 21 points and 21 rebounds inside, Salehi and Turgun also scored 17 and 18 points respectively, and Turgun also handed out 11 assists, Salich also had 9 assists, and the most exaggerated was Blair, who cut his fourth career playoff triple-double, 24 points, 14 rebounds and 12 assists to lead the Runners to sweep the Thunder to the Western Conference Finals.

On the other side, the Lakers are in big trouble, they have no counterattack in the face of the Grizzlies' classic pick-and-roll tactics, and they are 3-1 behind.