Chapter 122: 4:2 Elimination of Thunder (1st Update)
(There seems to be a mistake in the front, the gold badge is awarded for winning the championship, not purple, I made a mistake, I'm sorry to say it here.) )
When the overall score came to 3:1, it was almost certain that the Warriors would eliminate the Thunder and reach the Finals.
Historically, there have been very few teams that have been able to complete a comeback from 1:3 down.
The 73-win Barnes version of the Warriors who originally staged this scene in this Western Conference final is counted as one.
In the finals, James led the Cavaliers to complete a turnaround.
It's a pity that Wang Feng's existence makes these two Jedi turnarounds probably not happen.
The Warriors, who won one away game with the Thunder, returned to their home court to prepare for Game 5 of the series.
During this period, the league's most important season award, the regular season MVP, was finally announced.
Warriors guard Stephen. Curry won the regular season MVP award with a record unanimous vote for the first time in the league.
There is not the slightest suspense in this.
With 74 wins in the regular season, the longest 35-game winning streak in history, plus a luxurious statistic of 31 points, 5.4 rebounds and 7.2 assists per game, if this is not the regular season MVP, then no one in the entire league can deserve this award.
Curry, like another plane, managed to win two consecutive MVPs, and the spring breeze was proud, and the Western Conference finals were clear.
On May 26, the Warriors who returned to their home court and the Thunder had a fierce battle, the two sides played inextricably, the Thunder side Westbrook finally got up once in a row in the case of four consecutive pits, 28 shots 12 of 28, cut 31 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists, plus Durant's 34 points, the two combined to score 65 points, leading the Thunder 120:117 to win a difficult game, chasing the score to 3:2.
But it was just a desperate throbe of not wanting to be eliminated, and the league was secretly working hard in this game, with Durant and Westbrook both getting a lot of whistles, with the former shooting 11-of-13 on the free-throw line and the latter 8-of-10.
By Game 6 of the series, the Warriors didn't give the Thunder another chance.
This game, Clay. Thompson showed his terrifying scoring explosion, scoring 41 points on 14-of-31 shooting, Curry scoring 31 points on 9-of-22 shooting, and Wang Feng took fewer shots, but also scored 17 points on 7-of-10 shooting.
The Warriors scored 89 points with just three outside players!
On the Thunder's side, Durant scored 29 points and Westbrook scored 28 points, but the two shot 10-of-31 and 10-of-27, both shooting around 30%.
With a huge gap in scoring and shooting percentage, the Thunder struggled tenaciously at home to no avail.
126:117。
The Warriors defeated the Thunder 4-2 to finish the Western Conference Finals with six games and successfully reach the Finals.
With the Warriors successfully advancing to the Finals, the voice of the Warriors winning the championship is getting louder and louder in the league, and the odds of winning the championship have also soared.
It's hard to imagine that a superpowerhouse team that just broke the Bulls' record of 72 wins would lose the championship this season.
Even if the Eastern Conference Finals, the Cleveland Cavaliers also eliminated the Toronto Raptors 4-2, no one thought that the Cavaliers could defeat the Warriors in the Finals.
The two meetings between the two teams in the regular season were also the last laugh of the Warriors, and the two teams had a huge gap in record, one with 74 wins and the other with only 57 wins.
The huge gap has even affected the bookmaker's odds to win the championship.
The odds for the Warriors to win the championship are only 1.35, but the Cavaliers are as high as 2.7, which seems to have killed the suspense in advance.
No one is optimistic that the Cavaliers will win the championship.
Because Wang Feng's version of the 74-win Warriors is more effective than the original 73-win Warriors in both the regular season and the playoffs, fans are more convinced that the Warriors can win.
Wang Feng is actually quite curious, if the Cavaliers are really like in another time and space, they are chasing after the Jedi when they are 1:3 behind at the beginning, and finally win 3 games in a row to complete the reversal, how much of a sensation will it bring to the league, will it be more exaggerated than in another time and space?
However, curiosity is curiosity, Wang Feng can't sit back and watch the championship slip through his fingers!
After all, winning the championship rewards a gold badge, and nothing compares to the badge reward!
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The Eastern and Western Finals all ended on May 27, and after a two-day break, on May 30, at the Warriors' home court, the Finals game officially began!
This is the second time the Warriors and Cavaliers have met in the Finals, and it may not be clear to fans at this moment that the Finals will be a Warriors battle for years to come.
Although James Cavaliers are basically in a state of being beaten by the Warriors, I have to admit that the games between these two teams in recent years will be the most representative picture of the league.
Since both teams have researched and analysed each other countless times during the regular season, they know each other inside and out, and both sides are very targeted in terms of tactical arrangements.
In the opening game of the Finals, the Warriors' starting lineup was Curry, Klay. Thompson, Wang Feng, Green and Bogut.
The Cavaliers started with Irving, J.R. Smith, James, Tristan Thompson and Love.
Both the Warriors and the Cavaliers were in the tentative stage at the beginning of the game, and they did not choose targeted defensive arrangements and tactics, but simply matched up with each other.
In this way, Wang Feng directly confronted James.
Wang Feng can't guard against James, and the gap between the two in strength is huge, which is something that both sides know well.
But even so, the Warriors chose such a lineup.
The reason is very simple, Wang Feng can't prevent James, and other players in the Warriors team can't prevent it either.
Kerr tried many ways to limit James, Green, Iguodala and Thompson all took turns in the Finals last year and this year's regular season, but James was always able to maintain an extremely efficient offensive efficiency and play the individual data of a top star.
After careful calculation, whether it is Green or Iguodala, the effect of defending James is not much better than Wang Feng, and even the effect of outside defensive projection is not as good as Wang Feng.
As a result, Kerr made a new defensive playset in the Finals.
Wang Feng mainly defends James' mid-to-long-range shooting, if James breaks through and impacts the basket, there are Warriors interior players responsible for helping to defend the package, if you can't prevent James in this case, then you don't have to worry about defending James, and it would be good to curb the offensive rhythm of other players on the Cavaliers.
This is also the main reason for Wang Feng, who is good at defending the outside, to mark James and liberate Green, who can take care of defense inside and outside, and Green, who does not need to mark James, can further strengthen the Warriors' interior defense.