Chapter 542: Hold Your Head High in the Second Round

In the fourth quarter, Durant wiped the sweat on his forehead with his jersey, he looked at the scoreboard above his head, 85-79, they were still behind, but the score behind was not much, only 6 points, two three-pointers could catch up, and now the fourth quarter has just begun.

Prince calmly threw the ball into the basket, 85-80, and the gap was five points.

Seeing this, the fans were slightly lifted and stood up to cheer them on, while shouting, "DEFENDS!" ”

Iverson held the ball and advanced slowly, with a relaxed smile on his face, and Billups shouted off the court: "Allen, cheer up, don't be frustrated and don't be discouraged, there are still 12 minutes left, and you can still pull the score away!" ”

Jackson smirked and punched Billups, put his arms around his neck and shouted, "Chauncey, you look honest, but you're a terrible bastard!" ”

The Warriors bench gathered around and no one seemed to be worried about the outcome, but they only led by five points.

Iverson faced Westbrook's aggressive defence, and when he got to the frontcourt, he accelerated and shook his body like a ghost. Westbrook gritted his teeth and followed, trying to jam the position and not let Iverson break through, but Hill came up to cover and Westbrook stagnated, and Iverson seized the opportunity to take a step sideways and shoot the ball.

'Bang', the ball popped up, and little Jordan jumped up with a loud shout, raising one arm to catch the ball. On his side, an even more sturdy figure flew into the air, his body collided with little Jordan, the latter suddenly lost his balance in the air, and the ball that was about to arrive also fell into the opponent's hand.

After landing on the ground, he hit the side again, and Reynard Krstic, who came up to make up for it, staggered back with a muffled snort, and there was no one on the inside, the man stomped on the ground again, pulled the ball back of his head with both hands, and twisted his waist in the air, and the whole person was stirred up like a twist, and he won the dunk.

There was a wail in the arena, and Chamberlain winked at Jordan Jr., turned and ran to the backcourt, his blue jersey shining with a golden No. 0.

Jordan Jr. was grief-stricken and indignant, he had been taking Chamberlain as the object of catching up, and had made unimaginable efforts for this, after a season of growth, he thought that although he was not as good as Chamberlain, he was already qualified to play against him, but, but what happened in the playoffs destroyed the self-confidence he had just established, and the two were not at all opponents on the same level.

"It's so quiet and I'm not used to it." Iverson smiled and said to Chamberlain, "Otherwise, I would have made a breakthrough just now, and the fans are so unhelpful, and I don't want to try too hard." ”

"You're just making excuses for your own iron." Chamberlain sarcastically mocked him mercilessly.

Hill shrugged, "But let's be honest, Oklahoma's home stadium is a little too cold, is this the NBA?" ”

Yes, this is the home arena of the Thunder, and this is their fourth playoff game, and they moved to Oklahoma City the day before the big day.

On the evening of April 18, the Warriors and Thunder met for the first time, and under the leadership of Chamberlain, the Warriors defeated the young and energetic Thunder with a score of 122-94 at home, becoming the first team to win in the first round of the playoffs and the team with the most points.

Chamberlain played 41 minutes, and he exploded with 38 points, 18 rebounds and 7 blocks in the interior God blocking God and Buddha blocking Buddha, killing the Thunder team and becoming the first player to score 35+15+5 in the first game of the NBA playoffs. In addition to Chamberlain, the rest of the Warriors played just as well, with Billups' 15 points and 16 assists, Iverson's 28 points, 8 assists and 6 steals, and West's 22 points and 6 rebounds.

On the Thunder's side, Durant scored 31 points, but only hit 11 goals in 28 shots, Westbrook was even worse, and he scored 25 points on 6 of 19 shots by relying on crazy breakthroughs and crazy fouls, and Jordan Jr. only scored 8 points in the whole game, and the rebounds were the same 8.

The Warriors dominated all four quarters, scoring 34 points in the first quarter with their strong offensive prowess, and again 30 points in the second quarter, and allowing the Pistons to score only 40 points with their defense, so the Warriors ended the game with a 64-40 lead after halftime.

In the second half, the Warriors continued to move forward, although they only scored 25 points in the third quarter, but let the Pistons score only 20 points again, and in the final quarter, both sides simply stopped defending and started to attack with full firepower, and finally played a high score.

A day later, at the same time and place, the two teams met again, and this time the Thunder remembered the lesson, they strengthened their defensive intensity from the opening and stopped obsessing with offense, but it didn't work, and the Warriors slaughtered the Thunder 20+ 105-80 again on their home court, in a 100-decibel shout.

Chamberlain was even more vigorous today, he scored 26 points in the half, played only 28 minutes in the whole game, and in today's game he shot 10 of 10 and 8 of 8 free throws, setting a record for consecutive half-court shooting percentage and free throw percentage in his career, and finally contributed 28 points, 12 rebounds, and 4 blocks.

The proud little Jordan was completely destroyed without self-esteem and self-confidence, in fact, he can't be blamed, this game Chamberlain felt too hot, every time he held the ball in his hand and turned around, he threw how to shoot, and then the Thunder dispatched three people to wrap him, but his hook hand is still extremely accurate.

In this game, all 12 players of the Warriors got the opportunity to play, Iverson scored 17 points on 5-of-8 shooting, and also completed 6 steals. Billups played 24 minutes and had nine points and 12 assists, while West had 14 points and five rebounds.

For the Thunder, Durant scored a game-high 32 points, becoming the first player to score 30+ in two consecutive games in the first playoff game of his career, but it didn't work, and no one was staring at Durant at all this year.

After these two games, the outcome is basically predetermined, and in NBA history, the team that wins the first two games in a playoff series has a 94% chance of advancing to the next round, and the young Thunder are now useless to bring in the peak O'Neal to help.

Game 3 returned to Oklahoma City and the Thunder went home.

Saddened fans played 'don't sweep' and 'win the first game' at home, much to the hearts of the motivated Durant and Westbrook, and the Thunder's youngsters were humiliated and finally put on a spectacular show on their home court, which ended in a 97-105 run to close the deficit to single digits.

The Thunder started the game very well, and in the first quarter, they even limited the Warriors to 18 points, and they scored 29 points! Jordan Jr. frantically defended Chamberlain, acting rudely almost fighting, but Chamberlain didn't want to meet him in this situation, and the home referee took care of the Thunder, and they once played with hope in the first quarter.

As a result, the Thunder are a new army after all, lacking resilience, and then they showed their true colors, and the scores in the last three quarters were 27-20, 29-25, 31-23, of which the Warriors scored in front, and just like that, it was another game of ball concedion, and today this is the final fourth game.

The score fell to 7 points again, and Durant's face was solemn, at this time he knew that as the core of the team and the absolute boss, he had to stand up.

Westbrook passed the ball to him and ran with Iverson to the corner beyond the three-point line.

In the face of Hill's defense, Durant secretly gritted his teeth, he stepped across his shoulders and shook quickly, the ball landed quickly and bounced quickly, after falling from his left hand to his right hand, Durant turned sideways like an arrow from the string, and stepped out with speed to pass Hill.

Hill's speed and explosiveness are not as good as before, but he is too experienced, and the moment Durant changed direction, he judged the direction of the opponent's breakthrough, and did not follow his footsteps at all, but retreated, blocking Durant's way in advance.

After Durant took a step, the center of gravity of his body was too high to counteract the inertia, and he suddenly hit Hill's body and flew him up, the referee's black whistle could not be too obvious, and they were helpless to make such a clear offensive foul, so they didn't care about Durant's resentful gaze and blew the whistle.

Chamberlain pulled Hill up, Iverson took the ball from Evans and ran across the half court, he nodded to Hill and motioned for him to come up and help him cover, seeing this, Westbrook hurriedly moved his steps to change his figure to prevent being blocked, took Iverson and threw the ball to the basket.

A domineering figure flew up, Chamberlain caught the ball with one hand and waved his arm to split Huashan, and pressed the ball into the hoop neatly.

The score has widened to 9 points, and the fans of the Thunder team suddenly became anxious when they saw this, some people booed, and others booed, and they didn't know whether they were booing the Warriors table too eye-catching or booing the Thunder team table xiàn too bad.

Durant didn't want to see the situation in the last game repeated, in the third game they held the lead at the end of the first three quarters, only to collapse in the fourth quarter, and today he was going to win anyway!

Now the Thunder is already lost, and they will definitely be eliminated, but for the young and good-looking players, losing seven battles and being swept in four games are absolutely different things.

The Thunder wanted to score a goal to stabilize the situation, otherwise the score would be down to double digits again, Westbrook was in a hurry, and his brain was easy to heat up, and after rushing to the frontcourt, he rose from outside the three-point line and threw his hand to a long shot.

The three-point shot is a thing that pays attention to the feel, Westbrook has been relying on breakthroughs to eat, and suddenly such a long shot came, and the basketball happily hit the hoop and bounced out.

Chamberlain pushed Jordan Jr. away and threw the rebound in his arms to Iverson again.

The Thunder team does a better job of defending fast offense, their lineup is young and fast, although Jordan Jr. is not as fast as Chamberlain, but as long as there are teammates to cover, he can still return to defense in time, as for Westbrook and Durant, these two are first-class speeds.

Iverson sensed this and stopped focusing on the fast attack, and when he got the ball, he raised his right hand and stretched out his index finger and swayed forward.

West stuck Green in the low post and stretched out his hand to ask for the ball, the height difference between the two was quite large, Green shook his hand and pushed him and rushed in front of West, Iverson had already passed the ball.

Thunder fans stood up in surprise and were about to steal!

Reality disappointed them, West was pushed away by Green and stepped directly into the restricted area, Iverson's pass was thrown to the basket, West just got rid of Green's defense, he jumped up to receive the ball and threw it towards the hoop, throwing the ball into the hoop.

Thunder fans sighed in disappointment, Brooks had to call a timeout again, the Warriors' attack in this round was too fierce, and the success rate was too high, not how well the Warriors played, but that the Thunder players were too anxious.

Brooks has no tricks to do now, he has done his best in terms of psychology and tactics, but the players are still playing so badly, but this can be forgiven, the boys are too young, the playoffs are the stage for the old guys, not every rookie is as fierce as Chamberlain last season, and directly led the team to the Western Conference Finals.

The Warriors led by 11 points, and after Chamberlain got off the court, he hugged Billups and others, and the elder Nelson waved heroically: "Okay, let me think about the opponent in the second round!" ”

Americans have never known what modesty and low-key things are, and why should they be low-key? Their strength is obviously much stronger than their opponents.

The Thunder's first playoff journey is over, although the score gap is not very large, but on the one hand, the indifference and composure of the old birds, and on the other hand, the despair and anxiety of the rookies, which is the ultimate reason for the result.