Butler, who was born in 89, is actually 3 years older than Wang Feng.

However, due to personality reasons, Wang Feng was on the side that comforted the other party.

Listening to Wang Feng's words, Butler didn't say anything, just nodded.

From his determined gaze, Wang Feng knew that there was no problem.

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"Welcome to watch the live broadcast of the NBA2021-22 season finals brought by CCTV Sports, and I am the director of Yu who is responsible for commenting this game."

"We can see that before the game started, Wang Feng greeted the Lakers players very warmly, and it seems that he didn't feel too much pressure for today's game."

"Hey, Jimmy, Brandon, I didn't expect to meet on the stage of the finals." Wang Feng smiled, although he took the initiative to say hello, but he showed no mercy on his lips. "I'll apologize to you in advance, don't blame me for not showing mercy to my subordinates for a while, after all, I really want this championship."

Butler: "......"

Ingram: "......"

Wang Feng's words were somewhat hateful.

However, it is precisely because Wang Feng has a very good relationship with the players of the Lakers that he can make this kind of joke.

Butler and Ingram didn't take it seriously, but laughed along, "Then it's each other, and we really want to use this championship to prove that even without you, our Lakers team still has the strength to win the championship!" ”

Indeed, this season's Lakers, the lineup is quite good, and they can definitely rank in the top five in the league.

Although Butler is barely the only top star, and Ingram is not qualified, but with his excellent overall strength, he can make up for the shortcomings of the lack of top stars.

But even so, in Wang Feng's view, compared with the opponents in the finals in previous seasons, this Lakers team is already a relatively weak one.

This season's situation is special, and several strong teams in the league have more or less various problems, resulting in a big reduction in strength.

In the Bucks Big Three, John. Wall's season is reimbursed, the Nets sprained his ankle in the last game of the Eastern Conference finals with the Cavaliers, the Clippers have no injuries, but Westbrook, one of the Big Three, is completely negative equity, and as for the Warriors, there is a lack of Poole, Wiggins and Otto Jr. In the case of players such as Graham Potter, the strength has been affected more than the previous teams.

This is one of the reasons why the Lakers were able to make it all the way from the West to the Finals.

Of course, Wang Feng's Cavaliers are not really above the top team, although Lefou, Poole, Bane and others have played remarkably in the regular season and playoffs, but the key to being able to go all the way in the playoffs is Wang Feng.

Adding the replacement of Wang Feng with any All-Star player in the league, I am afraid it is difficult to say whether the Cavaliers' lineup can successfully break into the playoffs.

Therefore, the Finals matchup between the Cavaliers and the Lakers, while the most dramatic Finals matchup, is not the strongest Finals matchup in recent years.

Soon, the game began with the enthusiastic cheers of the fans.

The Cavaliers' starting lineup is unchanged, it is still Poole, Bane, and Otto Jr. The starting combination of Graham Potter, Wang Feng and Lefou.

On the Lakers' side, it's Sexton, Garland, Butler, Ingram and Dwight. Howard.

In the jump ball stage, the old monster was very "easy" to beat Lefou, and the Lakers attacked.

Garland held the ball and burst into the basket for a layup with the help of his teammates, and Wang Feng, who was supplemented, interfered in time and missed.

After Wang Feng finished defending, he took advantage of the situation to protect the defensive rebound, and rushed to the front court without pause.

Butler followed almost immediately, and stayed close to Wang Feng without giving him a chance to continue to accelerate.

Butler has partnered with Wang Feng for three seasons, during which he has participated in a large number of competitions and countless training matches, and he knows Wang Feng's offense well, and he knows very well how terrifying Wang Feng's speed is.

Butler, as a frontliner, is a defensive stalwart who has been named to the All-Defensive Team multiple times.

When Wang Feng was still on the Lakers, the outside defense he formed with Butler was ironclad, enough to make the outside of any team in the league fearful.

But now, with Butler to defend Wang Feng, the strong oppressive power from the first person in the league is really intuitively displayed in front of him!

Wang Feng's strength is far stronger than Butler's, and the result of the physical contact between the two is that Butler was squeezed by Wang Feng and staggered, and Wang Feng took advantage of the gap in Butler's footsteps to suddenly accelerate, and in one step, he threw off half of the opponent's body and rushed straight towards the basket.

"Boom!!" Pass ...... Or Wang Feng, who squeezed Butler, took advantage of the unstable foothold of other players on the Lakers team, jumped directly in two steps, and slammed the basketball into the basket with a powerful tomahawk dunk in the air!

It was only ten seconds before the game began, and Wang Feng used this dunk to detonate the atmosphere of the audience.

Cavaliers fans cheered loudly as they got up from their seats they had just sat down.

With that goal alone, it was as if they saw the championship trophy beckoning to them.

"Abominable ......"

Butler was a little helpless.

Wang Feng's speed and strength are far superior to him, and he can play inside and outside, such a player is a disaster for any defensive player on the field.

The Lakers didn't have a defensive strategy against Wang.

However, the team's head coach Walton has deduced several defensive tactics, but he is not satisfied.

To deal with Wang Feng, in fact, the best way is to wrap the bag, if you defend alone, there is no one in the entire alliance who can restrict Wang Feng, Leonard can't do it, and Brother Alphabet can't either.

But the problem is that if you use the trap tactic against Wang Feng, Wang Feng can choose to pass the ball.

So far, Wang Feng's average assists per game in the playoffs has remained stable at 10.8, and he is the league's assist king in the regular season.

On the court, whenever there is a vacant position for teammates, Wang Feng can always pass the ball out in various ways, just pass it out, the biggest problem is that the five starters of the Cavaliers all have three-point shooting ability, and the shooting rate is not low!

There have been countless teams in the league who have personally demonstrated with one heavy defeat after another, what will happen to giving the Cavaliers' outside shooter a chance.

It's a bit of a despair.

Whether it is more reliable to bet that Wang Feng can't score 70+ points per game, or whether it is better to expect the Cavaliers' outside shooters to collectively feel inaccurate, at least the Lakers will have a difficult choice.

In the first game of G1 in the finals, they plan to test Wang Feng's offensive ability, assuming that Butler, who is familiar with Wang Feng's playing style, will he be able to slightly curb Wang Feng's scoring momentum and get a chance to win?

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As it turned out, such an attempt failed.

In the first quarter of the game, the Cavaliers followed Butler's single defense of Wang Feng, and other players stared at the Cavaliers' outside strategy.

Then Wang Feng came to a super high efficiency performance of 7 of 10 shots, 3 of 5 three-pointers, 4 of 4 free throws, and 21 points in a single quarter.

Relying on Wang Feng's 21 points in a single quarter, the Cavaliers directly led by 8 points at 34:26 in the first quarter!

The terrifying offensive efficiency scared the Lakers, so in the second quarter of the game, they decisively used the trap tactics against Wang Feng, even if it would allow Wang Feng to pass the ball to the outside, and the headquarters let Wang Feng continue to score on his own.

Unfortunately, the house leak happened to rain overnight, and Wang Feng's super performance in the first quarter of the game seemed to inspire the other players of the Cavaliers, making them not only resolute on the outside, but also quite good in shooting percentage.

As a result of both defensive strategies, the score was 64-47 at halftime.

The margin was directly widened from 8 points to 17 points.

The huge point difference made the second half of the game completely garbage time.

Even though the Lakers, led by Butler and Ingram, tried to launch a counterattack, the momentum that was finally played was quickly suppressed by Wang Feng.

The huge point difference forced the Lakers to replace all the benches and surrender early.

In this way, the Cavaliers easily won the G1 game with a score of 128-109 at home and took the lead 1-0.

Throughout the game, the confrontation between Wang Feng and Butler was completely one-sided.

Wang Feng scored 44 points, 8 rebounds and 14 assists in the game, although he did not brush up a triple-double every day, but the exaggerated statistics are still breathtaking.

On the other hand, Butler, when defending Wang Feng throughout the whole process, was cut by the opponent with a shooting rate of nearly 60% and scored 44 points, not to mention, his performance was still very bad.

In the whole game, Leonard, who played 43 minutes, scored 14 points on 5-of-14 shooting, shooting just 35.7% from the field.

It is not too much to describe Butler being comprehensively suppressed or even beaten by Wang Feng, but not many people blame him for such a result.

There is a huge gap between Wang Feng and Butler, and no one thinks that Butler can match Wang Feng, even if he is no longer the Jimmy who is always despised at this time, and even wants a contract extension with a maximum salary. Butler.

"The Lakers lost the first game of the finals on the road, and obviously, in order to beat the Cavaliers, the Lakers must find a way to contain Wang Feng, otherwise seven games or even seven games will not be needed, and the championship will be lifted by Cleveland!"

After the first game, some Los Angeles media commented.

However, the whole alliance understands this truth.

The core of the Cavaliers is Wang Feng, and once Wang Feng can't play, the Cavaliers won't be able to win no matter what.

But what the whole league knows, why did the Cavaliers reach the finals in the end?

Because Wang Feng is not so easy to restrict!

On June 2, the second game of the finals began.

The Lakers, like in G1, are still trying to prevent Wang Feng by all means, and this time they did not let Butler target Wang Feng, but replaced it with the taller Ingram.

The Ingram doesn't have the same defensive ability as Butler, but his height and reach give him a big advantage when it comes to defensive outside shooting.

As for Wang Feng's super tentative step breakthrough, it was handed over to Howard on the inside to deal with.

If necessary, Howard will give up Lefu to help defend Wang Feng, if Wang Feng chooses to pass the ball to Lefou, other players will rotate as much as possible to make up for the defense, if the time is too late, it is not unacceptable to let Lefu shoot three points in the vacant position.

Although Love averaged nearly 40% three-point shooting per game during the regular season, he is currently the only player on the Lakers who can try to give up his chances.

It's a pity that this defensive arrangement still has little effect.

It's not that Love has a god in today's game, how to shoot, the main problem is the interior defense that the Lakers are trying to rely on. Howard.

If the opponent is Howard ten years ago, then even if it is as strong as Wang Feng now, he must weigh the pros and cons and choose to attack away from Howard as much as possible.

After all, Howard at his peak was known as an existence that could replace James alone, with super strength, bounce, and speed and bursts comparable to that of a guard, Howard had an almost terrifying dominance on the defensive end.

But this is not what it used to be, today's Howard, after several major injuries, has lost the explosiveness of the year, and Howard's age is not small, the main reason why he can become the starting center of the Lakers this season is with Brook. With Lopez gone, the Lakers are just missing a quality center.

When Wang Feng rushed to the basket with the ball, Howard did not put much pressure on him on the defensive end, and Wang Feng could even take the initiative to make physical contact with Howard, and then successfully score the ball with the help of time difference by virtue of the advantage of bounce and air ability.

Moreover, at this stage of the small-ball era league, the intensity of whistle-blowing penalties is also increasing.

After a few rounds, Howard was whistled for two defensive fouls and had to daunt.

In this case, Wang Feng's efficiency of breaking through the offensive score with the ball was not affected at all.

The defensive tactical adjustments made by the Lakers' side didn't help.

Unable to solve Wang Feng's offense, the Lakers lost again in G2.

114:110。

The aggregate score came to 2:0.

With two more home wins, the Cavaliers are one step away from the championship trophy.

On June 5, the third game of the series.

The venue was the Lakers' home court, the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

After trying to lock Wang Feng in the first two games, the Lakers finally realized that it was unrealistic to want to prevent Wang Feng from dying, and instead of wasting most of their energy on useless things, it was better not to dwell on this problem, but to find ways to make their offense better.

Therefore, in the finals G3, the Lakers completely gave up locking Wang Feng on their home court, and instead focused all their energy on offense, staging an offensive battle with the Cavaliers.

I didn't expect this move to have an immediate effect.

The Lakers blossomed more, with seven players scoring in double figures, including Butler scoring 24 points, Ingram scoring 27 points, and Sexton, Garland and Kuzma also scored a lot.

The Lakers also took advantage of this to pull one back 119-117, and the score came to 2-1.