The Clippers defeated the Grizzlies with a very easy 4-0 to win the Western Conference championship for the second consecutive year and reach the Finals.

Game 4 was played in Memphis, and the Grizzlies tried to win one game to save some face, but the result was clearly in vain.

They were still ambitious before the game, wanting to pull the Clippers off the horse, but they had no confidence in the fourth game.

No way, the gap between the two sides is really too big, and the thought that the Grizzlies will cause problems for the Clippers with their quagmire defense has not appeared.

Instead, the Grizzlies themselves were stuck in a quagmire, and their offense for four games was never effectively organized and connected.

Often in the first quarter of the game, they start to fall behind, fall into the pit, and then chase the points hard, but the difference in points is getting bigger and bigger, and they can't catch up at all.

After playing three games like this, the Grizzlies, from the players to the coaches to the fans, knew that the gap was too big to beat.

The fourth so-called battle of face is meaningless, and another one is just a lingering breath.

Of the entire Grizzlies, only Blake Griffin struggled to resist from the start of the game.

He hasn't lost his fighting spirit since Game 1 and has been hoping for a win on the Clippers' head.

However, if you have more than enough heart and insufficient strength, you really can't win.

The Clippers have been in playoff mobilization since April, and after the first two rounds of tuning, they have reached their best.

The Clippers took the win away with a defensive victory, and Griffin sat on the bench in agony and returned to the locker room with tears in his eyes.

And in the locker room of the Clippers, everyone was relaxed, high-fived each other, hugged, simply celebrated, and took a group photo in front of the silver trophy of the Western Conference champions, nothing more.

Compared to the madness when they defeated the Lakers to win the Western Conference championship last year, everyone is much calmer this year, after all, the Western Conference championship is just a prelude to the Finals.

Besides, Mr. Smart's face didn't look good from start to finish in the whole series, and everyone felt that there was nothing to be happy about when they won.

It's too easy to fight a grizzly bear.

After three rounds of Western Conference games, the Clippers lost one, or the first loss to the Jazz.

The Thunder are ruined by injuries, the Spurs are dying of old age, and the Grizzlies are too young.

The so-called Wild West, with the crushing strength of the Clippers, is nothing more than that.

After reaching the Finals, the media touted the Clippers to the sky.

But the Clippers are quite stable, so what should everyone do.

Harden, Curry, Butler and others won the Western Conference championship after the fourth game, and they also practiced three-point shooting at FedEx Arena for an hour.

Instead, in addition to the Grizzlies with the ball, the players went to bars, nightclubs, or other places to enjoy and party.

After all, to reach the Western Conference Finals, they have already done their job.

It's okay to have a contract next season, you should make money or earn it.

As for the championship, there is only one championship in a season, and many people will never touch the edge of the finals in their lifetime.

If you win the playoffs, you can get very little prize money, or you simply don't have any money, so what's the life?

Grizzlies coach Hollins lamented after the game, "The Clippers feel different to me as a team than any other NBA team. They're strong, but at the same time there's something very special about them in their bodies, something that doesn't fit in with the NBA style. Of course, I'm not saying it's bad, I think it's the opposite, it's what the NBA teams and players are missing right now. They are very united, very teamwork, and the individual heroism that the league relishes is rarely seen in them. They love to share the ball and everyone is involved in it, whether it's offensive or defensive. Seriously, it's been a long time since I've come across a team like this, and their performance, and their presence, is incredible. ”

Hollins gave the Clippers a very high rating, and what he said was not a flattering statement, but the current state of the Clippers.

Not only did Hollins say this, but the TV hosts and some celebrities, such as Barkley, Van Gundy and others, praised the Clippers.

"I see in the Clippers the potential of a great team."

"They're a unique wonder, and it's a miracle that the NBA's soil can give birth to such a team."

"If the Clippers' roster had shifted to the team next door, I guess they'd have broken up in the middle of the season."

Such praise has been circulating in the news media during this time, causing Min Congda not to want to watch TV for the past two days.

Min Congda's mood was certainly not good, but it wasn't too bad.

After all, he had been mentally prepared for a long time, and he had gone crazy more than once before because of this.

This time it's just to enter the finals, how can it be easily knocked down?

His willpower has long been honed like steel, and no amount of difficulties and failures can thwart him.

It's just that occasionally when he gets up in the morning, he will still be in a trance, lying on the bed silently for a while.

Thinking of his distant goal in life, and thinking of the hardships along the way, he felt pity for himself.

Because no one can share his pain and joy, no one can.

Now, Min Congda's only lifesaver is the eastern team.

His adopted son, James, carries his hopes on his shoulders, and the commissioner he sends out is Cole, who is responsible for making the knights strong again.

As a result, after the first four games of the Eastern Conference Finals, the Heat and the Cavaliers were tied 2:2.

The Heat took the lead, and then the Cavaliers won two games in a row, and they had a chance to take a 3-1 lead in the series in Game 4.

But in Cleveland, the Heat burst out with powerful energy, and the Cavaliers once again fell into the usual cycle - at a critical moment, the flames were turned off.

With the team's offense sluggish and the defense unable to contain Howard's wreaking havoc under the basket, the two sides tied and entered the crucial battle of Tianwang Mountain.

At this point, the Clippers have eliminated the Grizzlies and are waiting for their opponents in the Finals.

Before the Heat and Cavaliers played Game 5, Min Congda made a special call to James.

To be honest, Min Congda was not satisfied with James' performance in the playoffs.

Instead of sticking to the regular season style of play, he went back to the old all-encompassing style of play.

Min Congda told him on the phone that if he could reduce his possession in the game, let Irving be more of an offensive initiator, and he would be more involved in defense, the Heat would not be able to beat the Cavaliers.

Although the Heat lineup is more luxurious and looks terrifying, both Howard and Nash have major flaws, seizing Nash's defensive problems, letting Irving name more, seizing Howard's offensive problems, forcing him to play more singles, and the Cavaliers have every chance.

But James said on the phone that he didn't want to listen to Min Congda's opinion, and he said bluntly, "Your Clippers are in the Finals again, so you are now directing me to the Finals, and then killing me, right?" ”

James's words were full of a sense of grief and indignation, and Min Congda didn't know how to explain it to him for a while.

How so? I can't explain it, the Cavaliers' lineup this year can't beat the Clippers in the Finals.

The Clippers were defeated in every way, but it was the Heat who had a chance to beat the defending champions.

But even so, Min Congda still hopes that James and the Cavaliers can enter the Finals.

Not for anything else, just for the relationship between the two, Min Congda is an emotional person.

But he really couldn't explain it, so he could only leave one sentence: "LeBron, I'm doing it for your good, sincerely." ”

"If you're really doing it for my good, you should let the Clippers dissolve and go bankrupt!"

James let out a roar and hung up the phone, leaving only a beep.

Min Congda let out a long sigh and thought to himself, why didn't I think so and do it again?

Damn, it's not my destiny.

The day after the two spoke on the phone, the Cavaliers and Heat had a pivotal battle over Mount Tenwang in Miami.

James played very well in this game, and he scored 41 points, 8 rebounds and 11 assists at the American Airlines Center.

However, the Heat still maintained their pressure on the Cavaliers throughout the game, until the final moments of the game, when Howard blocked James' three-point shot.

Wade made a fast break and made a layup, and the Heat led by three points at 97-94.

And at the last moment, James passed the ball to Irving, and Irving missed a three-point shot, and the Cavaliers lost this extremely crucial game point.

James' points plus assists account for more than half of the team's scores.

The Heat, on the other hand, played more evenly, with only Wade scoring 20 points, and everyone else contributing in their own areas of expertise.

Dwight Howard is worthy of being the man who has been able to replace James alone, and this time in the Eastern Conference Finals, he made James dream back to 2009.

Although he only scored 10 points in the game, he contributed 17 rebounds and four blocks to firmly hold the Heat's basket.

After watching this game on TV, Min Congda must admit that this year's Heat was trained very well by Spolskola.

The group of players in his hands all have more fatal problems.

Wade is older, has a knee injury, and is no longer a Flash.

The ability to attack the ball has declined greatly, and playing on the court has become very slippery.

But he still has the ability to burst single-point in the playoffs, and can explode in some games, scoring 30 or 40 points.

Therefore, for Wade, Spo pays attention to the protective use of him, relieves him of pressure in attack and defense, and allows him to play reliably at critical moments.

Howard was affected by his back, lost weight, and his so-called low-post attack power plummeted as the tonnage dropped.

The point is that Howard still wants to be a top low-post center and see himself as a historic interior lineman.

Spo and Riley teamed up to persuade Howard to reduce his low-post offense and focus on defense, after all, the Heat have too many people to attack.

Riley has handled too many super centers, Abdul-Jabbar, Ewing, O'Neal, Mourning, so his words are intimidating.

When Howard focused on defense, his role on the court became more prominent, and he did a good job of compensating for Bosh's problems on the defensive end.

Bosh was liberated on the offensive end, got a better offensive experience, and did what he did better on the defensive end.

As for Nash, Spo played him for about 20 minutes per game, playing efficiently and combing the offense, leaving most of the rest of the time to Norris Kerr.

The most important role of the point guard in Spo's system is to set up three-point points and a certain amount of defense, and it is okay not to become a big hole.

Nash's injuries and defensive problems are well glossed over, and any little injury can be fatal for a veteran.

As for the Heat's forward line, the all-around and all-powerful Odom, the serious decline of Lewis, and the unknown amount of gas in the box of Ray Allen.

Spodou did his best to bring out what little energy he had left, weaving a proper defensive system to bring these former bigwigs together.

Although the Heat is a galaxy battleship from the lineup, any galaxy battleship in history is often defeated and cannot be supported for long.

When the team formed this kind of galaxy battleship, they all knew that it could be the ability to move forward at full speed for a season, and how to maintain it without falling apart was a headache for every coach and every management.

Very few can succeed.

The Celtic in '08 were able to give a good example because the Big Three were still at their peak, in good form, and the ship's keel frame was strong enough.

The Heat situation is worse, injuries, playing style and other problems, and finally can sort out the clues, and it is not easy to win 58 wins in the regular season.

After Game 5 of the playoffs, the Heat's morale was at its peak, and the advantage of the series had completely gone to the Heat's side.

If they win the sixth game, they will enter the finals.

If you can't take it, you can still go back to your home court and play a tie-break with the Cavaliers, and you still have an advantage.

James is once again in the same situation as in 2012, cornered.

But in 12 years, they won the sixth game, and they were able to return to Cleveland.

This year, even if the sixth game is spelled out, I still have to go to Miami.

What's more, James felt his motivation draining.

A whole season's hard work seems to be going down the drain again.

Ten years, a whole ten years, he has received a lot of honors.

This year's regular season MVP was won by him again.

This is his fourth regular season MVP, and he's had enough of it.

All he wanted was the golden trophy, but as time passed, the distance became more and more distant.

In Cleveland, a cursed place, does he really have a chance?

Once a basketball player begins to doubt himself, it is fatal in a high-intensity competitive arena.

What's even more deadly is that it's not just James who doubts himself, but also Steve Cole.

He's eager to prove himself with the Cavaliers, especially if he makes it to the Finals against the Clippers.

However, between the coach and the general, there was a conceptual difference, and there was a crack in the relationship between the two.

Kerr is a very strong personality and he can't be a nanny-type coach like Mike Brown.

Kerr was quite unhappy that James violated his strategic and tactical intentions in the playoffs, but there was no way.

It's James' team, not his Kerr's team.

In fact, there are many people in the Cavaliers who support Kerr, but under James's coercion, no one can stand up.

As a result, in Game 6, the Cavaliers did not create a miracle in Cleveland and were defeated by the Heat's 100-90, 10-point gap.

James scored 27 points and exited the game early with two minutes left in the fourth quarter due to groin discomfort.

It also ended his slightly chaotic 2012-2013 season early.

The Heat successfully reached the Finals and met with the Clippers.

(End of chapter)