297 Change of dynasty (1)
When the final whistle blew, the entire AT&T Center Arena was completely plunged into a carnival!
"Congratulations to the San Antonio Spurs for returning to the Finals after three seasons"
"This season's Western Conference title belongs to the San Antonio Spurs"
"Congratulations to the Spurs, this is the first time the Silver Grey have returned to the Finals since the Duncan era, and to everyone's disbelief, they did it in just one season"
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The Spurs management, which has always been "shabby", can be regarded as a "hemorrhage" this time, looking at the sky above the court, it is like a sea of streamers.
On the court, when the game ended, all the Spurs players scuffled together, they were celebrating wildly, including Popovich, they behaved like children at this time, completely silent in a sea of joy.
"Let's thank the San Antonio Spurs and the Golden State Warriors for this great series, this is a series that is destined to go down in history, this series is the pinnacle of the 21st century"
"The final winner of this series is the San Antonio Spurs, but we also have to pay tribute to the Golden State Warriors"
It was only the Western Conference Championship, but, judging by the celebrations on the scene, it seemed that the Spurs had won the championship.
In fact, it is not difficult to understand that if you can defeat the Warriors led by the Big Four, then, against the Cavaliers in the finals, at least the Spurs have more than half of the chances of winning!
Of course, at this time, Jin Feng didn't think about the finals, they just enjoyed the joy of the moment.
4:1!
It seems that the Spurs almost swept the Warriors, but only those who have really experienced this series will understand how big the test is for Jin Feng and them.
So, for them now, climbing over the mountain of the Warriors is enough for them to celebrate, and as for the finals later, that's a matter of later, and they don't need to think about it now!
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Of course, winners and losers are always two extremes in competitive sports, such as the emotional expression after a match.
Now, for example, when the Spurs are celebrating wildly, on the other side, it is a completely different scene.
For a moment, many people were distressed for the Warriors, look at Kevin Durant, who almost cried into tears, look at Stephen Curry who sat on the court floor for a long time and refused to leave, look at the hazy-eyed Draymond Green, look at Klay Thompson...
The Warriors lost, and this season, on the road to the championship, they are completely out, there is no way, in the world of competitive sports, there is always only one first, only one champion.
The Warriors lost, perhaps not just the series.
Everybody knows what's on the Warriors' shoulders right now, and everybody knows what it means to win the championship this season!
It is no exaggeration to say that the people of Jinzhou have lost an era and a dynasty.
A dynasty is defined as an invincible team that can dominate the league for a certain period of time, and traditionally, only a team that can win three championships in a row can build a dynasty.
By this standard, the NBA is a dynasty team with the Celtics, Lakers and the Bulls of the Jordan era.
But now in fact, in addition to the Celtics, Lakers, and Bulls, people have also given the aura of dynastic teams to the performance of some special teams in a particular era, such as the Spurs dynasty, such as the Miami dynasty!
The most typical of these is the San Antonio Spurs' "odd-numbered championship" dynasty, and even the Spurs of the 21st century have continued the dynastic era because they are the top team almost every season.
In the 21st century, in addition to the Spurs and the Heat, another team can also be called a dynasty team in recent seasons, and that is the Warriors.
In other words, if the Warriors can finally win the championship this season, then they will definitely be a dynasty team, because in terms of the current roster of the Warriors, once they win the championship, they will still be the strongest contenders for the championship in the coming seasons.
However, all this came to an abrupt end at the moment when the game just ended.
The dynastic dream of the Golden State people was completely shattered by the Spurs, why was it completely shattered? This is the inevitable connection of dynastic change.
Kevin Durant joined this season for the championship, but now, the championship is gone, so it is very unlikely that Durant will continue to stay with the Warriors next season.
This is not to say that Durant is unwilling to stay, but whether the Warriors are willing to let him stay, don't forget, the contracts of as many as 9 people led by Stephen Curry have expired, what will the Warriors take to keep Durant?
Or, putting aside those unimportant players, can just Curry and Durant stay together? It must be pointed out here that losing to the Spurs means that the Warriors of the Big Four are not invulnerable.
Then, when this is done, everything becomes clear.
Do your best to keep the Big Four, even if you can do it, but the team's bench strength may be weakened, so what are the odds of winning against the Spurs again next season?
The dissolution of the Big Four means a complete collapse.
And as things stand, the second possibility is very high, almost 80 percent, and there's a reason for that.
On the one hand, everyone knows that the Spurs can win this series, and the performance of Leonard and Jin Feng is indispensable, but it needs to be pointed out here that Leonard has only begun to enter the ranks of superstars since this season, and has just entered his prime, and Jin Feng is not a superstar, and even before the start of this playoffs, people defined him as just a player who has just begun to enter the ranks of All-Stars, and it is a little too early to talk about the peak.
This also means that the Spurs will be stronger next season, because Leonard and Jin Feng will be stronger if nothing else.
And, let's not forget here that the Spurs in this series are not the strongest Spurs, and their starting point guard Parker is still out due to injury!
On the other hand, the Warriors' own problems, simply put, are internal contradictions within the team, such as the previous situation where Green and Durant faced off in the game, which has been proven to a certain extent.
Moreover, let's not forget here that the Warriors are now facing a more troublesome question, that is, whether the Warriors are Stephen Curry's team or Kevin Durant's Warriors?
This season, since Durant joined, this dispute hasn't broken for a day.
In addition to the contradictions between the players, there are also the contradictions between the head coach and the players, the most obvious being the contradiction between Kerr and Curry.
These contradictions, when the team has a good record and finally wins the championship, may be suppressed, but when the team hits a low point and experiences a loss, it will be infinitely magnified, as it is now.
Therefore, the Warriors' exit is the untimely death of the prototype of a dynasty!