In the opening game of the playoffs, the Warriors only used three quarters to beat the Mavericks to lose their armor and surrender early.

115:82,33 points difference!

Curry scored a game-high 28 points, Thompson 22 and Wang Feng scored 19 points on 8-of-14 shooting.

On the Mavericks' side, Nowitzki, who scored 21 points on 9-of-17 shooting, was the best player on the Mavericks' team.

Harrison, the outside core who was pinned on by the Mavericks. Barnes was completely blown up in the confrontation with Wang Feng.

In the face of Wang Feng's defense, Barnes couldn't maintain a normal offensive rhythm at all, and made frequent mistakes, hitting only 4 of 15 shots, getting 9 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists, and 4 turnovers.

It was also a 1-on-1 heads-up, Wang Feng scored 19 points on Barnes' head, but the latter only had 9 points.

The level of the two seems to be completely different.

In fact, this is also true.

Compared with the overall evaluation of ability value, after Wang Feng has experienced another season of training, all ability values have been slightly improved, plus the rewards he received during the All-Star period, it has reached 80, which is almost the same as Barnes.

With similar ability values, Wang Feng, who has multiple high-level badges, is far stronger than Barnes in terms of strength!

What's more, although Wang Feng's overall rating is similar to Barnes's, the situation is completely different.

To put it simply, Barnes is like a well-rounded talent with comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, art and labor, while having a certain foundation in all aspects, there are no absolutely outstanding characteristics or advantages in any aspect.

Wang Feng is a serious biased player, some abilities are almost at the top of the league, such as three-point, mid-range, outside defense, etc., but some abilities are seriously failing, such as dribbling, ball breaking, passing assists, rebounding and interior defense.

It is difficult to determine which of the two development directions is stronger or weaker, but when the overall evaluation ability value is only 80, Wang Feng, who has outstanding characteristics, can easily defeat Barnes, who has eighteen kinds of martial arts.

On April 18, in the second game of the series, Barnes, who was unwilling to lose to Wang Feng, once again challenged the opponent, but this time it was even worse, shooting 1 of 11 and scoring only 5 points from free throws.

Before the first half of the game was over, Carlisle couldn't help but have bruises on his forehead and pressed Barnes, who was playing like a piece of, to the bench.

Unfortunately, the Mavericks' problems cannot be solved by replacing Barnes, and the gap between the two sides in the lineup is too large, no matter how you adjust the lineup and change the tactics, it will not help.

At 107:78, the Mavericks lost by 29 points again.

The combined 62 points in the two games showed the entire league how strong this Warriors team really is.

The Mavericks, who returned home with two defeats, didn't have any miracles either.

121:94。

99:87。

In four games, with a crisp 4:0, the Warriors easily eliminated the Dallas Mavericks to enter the second round.

It is worth mentioning that in the last two games, Barnes seems to have conceded.

4 of 15 at a time, 1 of 11 at a time, seemed to make him completely realize that he was not Wang Feng's opponent, and there was no way to face Wang Feng's defense.

Barnes, who figured this out, was no longer obsessed with single-handing Wang Feng, but began to integrate into the teamwork, using his teammates to block and dismantle to form a dislocated heads-up to avoid Wang Feng's defense.

That was the right thing to do, and it made him much better in the next two games, scoring 18 points on 7-of-16 shooting in Game 3 and 26 points on 58 percent shooting in Game 4.

It's just that Barnes, who finally played at a certain level, did not have the slightest joy in his heart, not only because the Mavericks were swept by the Warriors, but also because of his complete failure in the showdown with Wang Feng.

In the four series, Wang Feng averaged 22 points, 2.6 rebounds and 2.2 steals per game, shooting 47%, second only to Curry, who averaged 27 points per game, and was the second leading scorer on the Warriors' team, higher than Thompson's average of 18.4 points per game.

When the whistle blew at the end of the fourth game, Barnes looked at Wang Feng, who was calm and calm, and couldn't help but clench his fists.

At this moment, Barnes vaguely felt that the gap between him and Wang Feng would probably get bigger and bigger in the future.

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After a few days of waiting, the Warriors, who were the first to enter the second round, finally had a result from all the matchups in the first round of the playoffs.

The four teams in the second round on the Eastern Conference side are the Cleveland Cavaliers, Atlanta Hawks, Toronto Raptors and Miami Heat, all of whom are in the top half of the league.

And one of the four teams in the top half of the West has capsized in the gutter.

The fourth-ranked Clippers in the West faced the Trail Blazers in the first round.

The Clippers are significantly better than the Trail Blazers in terms of starting strength and roster depth on paper, as can be seen from the regular season records of both teams.

The Clippers won 53 in the regular season, while the Trail Blazers won only 44, a win gap of nearly 10 games.

But in this case, the two teams met in the first round, but the Trail Blazers eliminated the stronger Clippers 4:2.

I have to admit that Paul is indeed weak enough, obviously has the top strength among point guards, but he always misses the Western Finals, and it was not until he joined the Rockets that he finally broke the curse.

And Paul, who has entered the twilight of his career, overcame all the obstacles to reach the finals with the Suns, and he was only one step away from winning the first championship of his career, greatly improving his historical status, but he met the peak alphabet brother, which is really a tragedy.

Paul's Clippers failed to make it to the second round, and the Warriors' opponent in the second round became the Portland Trail Blazers.

This is exactly the same as another plane.

The core player of the Trail Blazers is Damian. Lillard, a point guard with strong offensive ability, his partnership with CJ McCollum can be regarded as the league's second only to the Curry Thompson Splash Brothers.

The matchup between the Warriors and the Trail Blazers is basically a clash between these two backcourt pairs.

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In fact, Lillard and McCollum, whether in terms of playing style or other aspects, have a little bit of a poor version of Curry and Thompson, which is really very similar.

Before the start of the regular season for the Portland Trail Blazers, the team's big brother Aldridge was bewitched by the Spurs and chose to leave, and Lillard, who carried the team's offensive banner, soared rapidly, averaging 25.1 points, 4 rebounds and 6.8 assists per game in the regular season, while CJ McCollum also followed suit, averaging 20 points, 3.2 rebounds and 4.3 assists per game, becoming Lillard's most effective assistant.

The reason why the Trail Blazers were able to eliminate the Clippers was because of the play of two backcourt guns.

In the first six series, Lillard averaged 22 points per game and McCollum averaged 19.7 points per game, and the two combined to kill Paul, who averaged 23.8 points and 7.3 assists per game.

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