(The third watch, there are two more later)

The worst thing is that the Menglong team spent so much effort to defend Wang Feng, resulting in Butler and other Lakers players having good scoring opportunities, but the result was not much better.

At halftime, the score was 59-49, and the Lakers led by 10 points at home.

The game entered the second half, and the Menglong team, led by Lowry and Siakam, played a wave of 12:4 attacks, closing the difference to within 5 points, but as the game entered the fourth quarter, especially in the last 2 minutes, Wang Feng began to exert his strength.

Facing Leonard's defense, Wang Feng hit jump shots one after another, and he was as stable as a robot.

At 118:109, the Lakers won the first game of the Finals, with a total score of 1:0.

In this game, Wang Feng scored a game-high 34 points, 16 points in the half, and only 2 points in the third quarter, but scored 16 points in the fourth quarter, including 11 points in the last 2 minutes, with a shooting rate of 44.8%.

Under the help of Leonard and the Menglong team anytime and anywhere, they can still contribute to score stably and efficiently, which is enough to prove Wang Feng's ability.

In addition to Wang Feng, the Lakers also have Butler, who scored 25 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists on 10-of-18 shooting, shooting 55.6% from the field.

With Wang Feng heavily guarded, Butler got a lot of scoring opportunities, and they all successfully grasped them.

On the side of the Menglong team, the highest score was Siakam, who shot 14 of 17 from the field and scored 32 points and 8 rebounds with a very high shooting rate.

Impactful, with frequent off-ball runs and cuts to the basket throughout the game, Siakam managed to tear apart the Lakers' weak interior defense, Ingram and Kuzma couldn't match Siakam's strength, and McGee was too slow to keep up with the opponent's agile pace.

Siakam played well, but Leonard did not play very well on the offensive end because most of his energy was focused on defending Wang Feng, scoring 23 points on 8 of 17 shots, and his 47% shooting rate was slightly higher than Wang Feng's, but considering that Leonard attacked in the way of blocking and covering on the offensive end, it didn't mean anything to have a higher shooting rate.

"The First Evolution"

Two days after the end of the first game, that is, on June 2, the second game of the series, still in the G2 game at the Staples Center, the home of the Lakers, the Menglong team once again lost to the Lakers 107-121, and the overall score was 0-2.

In this game, the Menglong team lost more completely than the first game.

In the G2 game, the Lakers made adjustments on the defensive end, and Wang Feng did not continue to play against Leonard, but went to mark Siakam.

Wang Feng, who started as a power forward, should have been paired with Siakam, but because he was the strongest player on the Lakers' outside defense, he would play against Leonard, the strongest player in the Menglong team, in the G1 game.

However, in the course of the G1 game, Leonard did not directly confront Wang Feng, but used blocking and dismantling and running without the ball to avoid encountering Wang Feng's defense on the offensive end.

In this case, Wang Feng simply did not defend Leonard, and the task of marking Leonard was handed over to Butler, and Wang Feng was responsible for defending Siakam, who played well in the last game.

Although compared with the outside defense, Wang Feng's interior defense is weaker, but after all, it has also strengthened the interior defense ability value to the extent of 90, Siakam's height is 2.06 meters, and his weight is 104, and Wang Feng's body size gap is not large, under this premise, strength, speed, bounce and other physical qualities, Siakam is not as good as Wang Feng.

Siakam, who is not a traditional backbasket offensive inside, faced Wang Feng's defense and successfully handed over an answer sheet of 5 of 18 shots, 12 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists and 5 turnovers.

Siakam's poor play freed up the offensive end, and Leonard, who shot 8-of-20 from the field and 14-of-16 from the free-throw line, was unable to recover from 32 points, 14 rebounds and 3 assists.

Wang Feng shot 10 of 17 in this game, 5 of 8 three-pointers, 6 of 6 free throws, and scored 31 points and 10 rebounds.

After the two finals, the score was 2:0, and the process of the game was far less intense than imagined.

Facts have proved that although Menglong has a 58-win record in the regular season this season, one more than the Warriors, it is obviously far inferior to the Warriors when it comes to real combat effectiveness.

If you have to say it, I'm afraid that the Warriors, who are absent from Durant, can also wrestle with the Menglong team a little.

Indeed, in the other time-space finals, the Warriors still won two games without Durant, and the battle with the Menglong team was inseparable, but unfortunately the world is impermanent, after Durant forced a return with a torn ligament, Thompson also torn a cruciate ligament in the G6 finals.

Before Thompson retired from injury, the Warriors were still in the lead after three quarters of the game, but with Thompson also leaving the game with a serious injury, the team's morale plummeted, and only scored 22 points in the final quarter, and Menglong, who scored 28 points, lost the game by 4 points, missing the opportunity to tie the score to 3:3.

If Thompson hadn't been injured and had scored a few random shots in the fourth quarter, the result would have been completely different, if the Warriors could tie the total score to 3:3, and the final tie-break battle, it would really be possible to kill Menglong and win the championship with the remnants!

It can only be said that luck is not on the side of the Warriors.

The strength of the Lakers is obviously higher than that of the Warriors without Durant and the Menglong led by Leonard.

With all the players healthy, it's no surprise that the Menglong team is not an opponent.

On June 5, the third game of the finals, back to Toronto's home court, the Menglong team finally won a game with difficulty.

In this game, Leonard scored 30 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists, Siakam rebounded, scoring 18 points on 8-of-16 shooting, and Lowry also played two soy sauce games in the first two games, and finally played a role, contributing 23 points and 9 assists on 8-of-16 shooting.

In addition, the Menglongs also played well off the bench, with Van Jordan VanVleet scoring 17 points, Danny Green 15 and Gasol 17.

The Menglong team, which had six players in double figures, won a big victory 123:109.

In this game, the Menglongs also changed their defensive strategy, allowing Danny Green to defend Wang Feng, freeing up Leonard to improve the overall defensive ability of the Menglongs and strengthening the defense against the Lakers' other four positions.

This kind of tactical adjustment has a remarkable effect, although Wang Feng beat Green throughout the whole process, scoring 47 points on 17-of-31 shooting, but the whole Lakers team except Wang Feng played abnormally.

Butler finished with 17 points, seven rebounds and four assists on 6-of-14 shooting.

Rondo had 11 points, Ingram had nine and Kuzma had six.

Relying on the victory of this game, the Menglong team struggled to pull the total score to 1:2.