Chapter 288: First Playoffs (4)

Eastern Conference Finals:

Boston Celtics (1) - Cleveland Cavaliers (2)

This series is the real focus of the playoffs, with both teams finishing first and second in the league, respectively. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

This is also the Celtics' second entry into the Eastern Conference Finals after the Big Three of Pierce, Garnett, and Ray Allen, and this time, Horford, Yahi, and Paul have become the new Big Three of this Celtics team.

In the first home game, the Celtics played like a rainbow in the cheers of the home fans, Ye Hai did not fall behind in the confrontation with James, although Ye Hai was far inferior to James in terms of strength, but in terms of offensive skills and breakthrough speed, Ye Hai was also better than James! In the offense, the two players almost exploded each other, in the last round James rushed into the penalty area and scored a basket, and in the next round, Ye Hai used the stop-and-go jump shot after the breakthrough to return James with a goal.

In the opening game between the two teams, the Celtics performed almost perfectly, and from the perspective of the game, they also showed very well, in all aspects, even after the Cavaliers made substitutions, there were targeted defensive tactics to deal with. Thanks to Stevens' pre-game arrangement and on-the-spot command, and the players thoroughly implemented the coach's intentions, the Celtics defeated the Cavaliers 107-95 in the first game and won the Eastern Conference Finals!

However, the situation later was beyond the imagination of Ye Hai and all Chinese fans, and the Cavaliers won three games in a row from Game 2 to Game 4 to overtake the Celtics with a score of 3-1.

In the second game, Ye Hai was injured in a confrontation with James and left the court injured, which also deprived the Celtics of a strong scoring point and a link between inside and outside. Stevens arranged for Jack Crowder to play in time, but all the pre-game tactics were affected, and James swipeed a quasi-triple-double of 32 points, 12 rebounds and 8 assists in the subsequent game, and the Cavaliers won the second game on the road and returned to Cleveland with a 1-1 score. And the good news for the Celtics is that Ye Hai's injury is not serious and he can play in the third game.

In the third game, Irving suddenly broke out and scored 25 points in the first half! Although Paul tried very hard to limit his opponent, there was nothing Paul could do in the face of Owen's crazy hand. Although Ye Hai started the game, but in fact, the injury still had an impact, and was discovered by James in the second half, took over the banner of Irving's offense, and repeatedly scored on Ye Hai's body by forcing breakthroughs, and the Cavaliers also defeated the Celtics in one go and achieved a 2-1 overtake!

In the fourth game, Ye Hai, who was almost healed from his injury, began to fight back, and in this game, he relied on his personal ability to score a high score of 44 points in regular time! He also reactivated his offensive signature of side-shot shooting, executed the final shot and hit, and dragged the game into overtime. However, in overtime, the Cavaliers seized the opportunity and beat the Celtics 6-0 in the opening game, although Stevens immediately called a timeout, but it still did not save the situation of the team's backwardness, and the Celtics had to accept the reality of returning to Boston with a score of 1-3.

Although the team fell behind 1-3, Boston fans still gave their support and encouragement to the best of their ability, and in the fifth game, the young coach Stevens made a bold change, putting the starting Amir Johnson on the bench, letting Al Horford play power forward, and the center position was started by Kelly Olynyk!

This change of formation activated Horford, and he returned to the power forward position as if he had returned to the all-round player who was omnipotent on the championship team in college, completely blowing up Lefu on the offensive end and blocking Lefou's three-point shots flexibly on the defensive end!

With Horford's strong performance, the Celtics won their home court and came to the Cleveland Cavaliers again 2-3. That's where the pressure comes to the Cavaliers, because the Cavaliers don't want to lose this game and try their luck in Boston!

Paul's mid-range shot gave the Celtics a 91-90 lead with 40 seconds left in the game, but Happy Fortune's mid-range throw once again overtook the score to 91-92!

With 20 seconds left in the game, the Celtics attacked, Horford's basket shot was interfered with by Thompson, the ball was hit to the outside in the scramble of everyone, Ye Hai picked up the rebound from the outside and rushed to the inside, and under the sandwich defense of James and Irving, he used a sideways shot, and hit a difficult shot, helping the Celtics to overtake the Cavaliers again 93-92 with 2.1 seconds left in the game!

The Cavaliers immediately called a timeout, and Irving usually made the last shot, but this time, James took the initiative to take the last shot.

After the timeout, Lefu pretended to help Irving block and dismantle, it seemed that Irving executed the last shot, but Thompson, who was originally looking at Irving, suddenly changed his hand and passed the ball to James, James received the ball and leaned back at an almost zero degree angle, and with the ball hollow hit, the time was just right, and James completed the final kill!

After the goal, James jumped excitedly to the rostrum on the sidelines, accepted the enthusiastic cheers of the fans, and the ribbons fell in the sky, and under the rostrum were the excited faces of Irving, Love, Thompson, Smith, Frye and others!

Originally, the quasi-lore opponent was killed by the opponent at the last minute, and the hearts of all the Celtics players will not be good, including Ye Hai, who is ready to return to Boston with victory.

The Cavaliers relied on James' stunner to defeat the Celtics 4-2 to win the Eastern Conference championship and advance to the finals!

Although they were eliminated in the Eastern Conference finals, the team led by young coach Stevens has won everyone's approval, and next season, they will definitely go into the new season with more fighting spirit!

After the game, Paul announced that he would renew his contract with the Celtics, and publicly declared that he was willing to accept a salary cut for the sake of the team, just so that the team could choose stronger pieces of the puzzle!

In the Western Conference finals, the Warriors defeated the Spurs 4-2 after a hard battle, but the Spurs' Chinese three-point shooter Liu Hao also left a deep impression on the league in the three-point competition with the Warriors' three-point musketeers.

In the finals, the Warriors and the Cavaliers, who had been enemies for nearly three years, met again, and this time the Cavaliers had the last laugh, but they still decided the winners and losers in the tiebreaker, defeated the Warriors 4-3, and won the NBA championship again!

James won the Finals MVP with a performance of 25.0 points, 8.3 rebounds and 7.7 assists, and the Cleveland Cavaliers won the championship!

Howard won another Defensive Player of the Year trophy for himself with the Hawks, and the Sixth Man of the Year was taken away by Jack Crowder of the Celtics, which also made Crowder decide to stay with the team, the Rookie of the Year was won by Yahi, and the Best Fair Play award was given to Dek Nowitzki, a retiring player from the Mavericks.

So far, the 2017-18 season has come to an end, and although there are regrets, the journey of Ye Hai and his Celtics team has just begun! (To be continued.) )