When the MVP shouts rang out, the helpless look on the faces of the Warriors players could be clearly seen.

If it was just the feeling of head coaches like Stevens and Casey before, now the Warriors players also feel the feeling of "why Jordan is on the other side".

Sometimes it's not a question of whether you want to, but whether you can or not.

As soon as Xu Yong came up in the finals, he broke the historical single-game scoring record, so he asked you how to play this?

Let's not talk about how this round of the finals is, but tonight the sense of oppression can't be fuller.

And after Xu Yong hit the free throw, the Bulls also stretched the margin to double digits with two minutes left in the game.

However, just when everyone thought the game was decided, Curry threw two difficult three-pointers in a row against the defense in the last two minutes, almost turning the game over.

But fortunately, the Bulls' lead was big enough, and they finally beat the Warriors 116-111 to win G1.

Xu Yong scored four more points after that, bringing the all-time record of the finals to 66 points.

"If you can't win the game with 40 points, then take 50 points."

This is what Jordan said back then, but tonight, Xu Yong scored 66 points on the stage of the finals.

As Barkley said excitedly, Xu Yong made the NBA great again since the Jordan era.

"We can lose others, but we can't do without Xu!" Barkley's shout at the end of the game was almost followed by the phrase "It's like the West can't live without Jerusalem."

However, considering the identity and background of most of the bosses of the alliance, I am afraid that kind of words will only get stuck in the throat.

But that didn't matter, the important thing was that O'Neill and Smith on the side both smiled and nodded, and didn't show the slightest difference in the exaggerated words.

This is a default.

If Xu Yong really retired halfway through the Jordan era, the scene is unimaginable.

Let Barkley kneel down like Johnson and beg Xu Yong to come back? I didn't hesitate for a minute.

Of course, Xu Yong's parents are healthy now, and retirement basically won't happen.

So whether it was Bird before or Barkley now, they were just blowing Xu Yong in this way.

What could be more convincing than to say that there can't be no one?

On the Warriors' side, the two people who played the best tonight were James, who had a triple-double of 24 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists, and Curry, who scored the Warriors' highest score of 37 points.

At the press conference after the game, Xu Yong tried his best to be relaxed and not show his fatigue.

He was also optimistic about the prospect of the finals: "Success comes from a good start, and our performance tonight shows that we are ready and we will finally achieve that goal. ”

After returning to the locker room after the press conference, Xu Yong sat on the bench for a long time, and then went to the liquid nitrogen freezer in the medical room to recover.

At the beginning of the century, the way for players to quickly relieve muscle fatigue was mostly ice baths, which was the one where Xu Yong and Kobe Bryant played back then.

But with the development of technology, starting last season, the Suns medical team relying on the space company took the lead in introducing the liquid nitrogen freezing method, although some people still have doubts, but it quickly became popular in the league.

The Bulls have made a lot of money over the years, and with frequent injuries in the past, management has finally installed this device.

As a reborn, Xu Yong is naturally familiar with the thing of cryogenic freezing, after all, in his previous life, news headlines such as [The king carried out cryogenic freezing, self-discipline to maintain his body] were endless, although he didn't understand what this way of standing to recover his body and self-discipline could touch.

When he came out of the freezer and put on a warm coat, he went to the rest room to recover his temperature.

The kind of ease shown in front of reporters is necessary, but the physical exertion of scoring 66 points at the intensity of the finals is incomparably huge.

If he could, he would rather only score 30 points.

It's not just a matter of teamwork, it's just a matter of whether it's a team or not, it's that the finals have just begun, and it's so much consumed in G1 that it's definitely not a good choice from the perspective of the entire finals.

But it's not a matter of choice, it's about having to.

Butler is plagued by injuries and can only play more on the court.

Even if it weren't for Jokic's performance and Green's imbalance in mentality, with the Warriors' state tonight, even if Xu Yong scored 66 points, the Bulls might not be able to win the game.

This is the strength of this Warriors team after the run-in, and Barkley's statement of the Cosmos is somewhat exaggerated, but it is not entirely fabricated out of thin air.

So such a choice is forced, because if the Bulls can't win G1, then there may really be no chance.

After a two-day break, G2 of the Grand Finals continued to play at the United Center.

The Warriors are still in form, and the loss in the last game didn't seem to have affected them much.

And after Cole tasted the sweetness in the last minute of the last game, he pinch Xu Yong in G2 full-court defense.

Under the Warriors' high-intensity pinch defense, Xu Yong only scored 37 points in G2, and the Bulls finally lost.

After two games in the finals, the two sides scored 1-1 and stood on the same running line again, but because of the current format, the Bulls lost their home-court advantage, and they are now the side behind in the situation.

The day after G2 ended, the Bulls flew to Oakland.

Xu Yong sat on the plane and leaned there looking out the window, he didn't reveal the sadness in his heart, but he was also thinking about the current situation of the Bulls.

Malone's advice in G1 was valid, and although Jokic had problems on the defensive end, he could help the Bulls more on the offensive end when Butler was under attack due to injury.

Under normal circumstances, Adams would be the starting center who would be a better fit for the Bulls, but in this particular situation now, Jokic starts with more pros than cons.

But the crux of the matter is that even if he did, I am afraid that Thibodeau would not agree to such a request.

Everyone has their own bottom line and persistence, and Thibodeau's bottom line is defense, which is why he is considered stubborn.

You can't say he's wrong, because "defense wins championships" is a wise adage, especially since Thibodeau has brought the Bulls four championships in this way.

Like, Kerr's tactics in the late stage of the Warriors have long been figured out by the opponent, but he has never made changes, this is his bottom line and principle.

If they can easily give in to what they have proven to be successful and what they believe in is basketball, then they will not be able to get to the point of success.

So perhaps, he may really only be able to show his hole cards.

The enthusiasm of Golden State fans is at an all-time high, and the fans outside Oracle Arena are bustling.

Although only two finals have been played, fans who know the ball can already see that the Bulls have a feeling of being at the end of a strong crossbow.

After all, Butler can't suddenly recover from a foot injury, and in a contest at this level, a key weight change is enough to determine the balance of victory and defeat.

Oracle Arena, Curry's daily warm-up, and even this time James was there.

James was smiling, and even played with Curry for an empty dunk, James toss, Curry dunked.

It can be seen that James was in a pretty good mood before the game.

It's clear that the current situation in the series is a little different than expected, but the overall trend is still in line with expectations.

Just like he thought at the beginning, this year when the Warriors won the championship, he definitely wanted to ask Antetokounmpo to go out and have a good time.

But as he was having fun, Green came to warm up and walked straight to Curry.

Seeing this, James chose to turn around and chat with the others.

Although the previous WWE turmoil in the team was finally dealt with as a big thing and a small thing, who would treat it as if it didn't happen after taking a punch in vain?

So now the two of them are basically in the same team, but there is no difference between being on the same team and not being on the same team, zero communication, and avoiding meeting.

Green was happily chatting with Curry, as if everything was still the same thing with the Warriors.

James chatted for a while and then left the arena.

Let Green keep it like this for a while, Finals G1 has made the management see that the current Green is not so important to the Warriors, and if he continues to play like this, even Curry will not be able to keep Green.

Half an hour before the start of the game, players from both sides entered the arena one after another.

When Xu Yong entered the field, there was a commotion among the players on both sides of the tunnel.

It's a commotion of excitement.

Xu Yong's current popularity, although it is not enough to say that he has turned the Bay Area into his home stadium, it is impossible for fans not to be excited to see him.

Xu Yong glanced at the Warriors a few times after entering, and withdrew his gaze after confirming that he saw what he wanted to see.

After the warm-up, the starting lineups of both sides were released one after another.

Before the game, there was speculation about whether the Bulls would make a change to the starting lineup for tonight's game, but it turned out to be none.

Cole was also paying attention to this, and he was also smiling when he saw it.

Everything is moving in the Warriors' favor.

After the game started, the Bay Area fans were full of momentum, shouts came and went, and the Warriors also attacked fiercely on the offensive end at the beginning.

Of course, the Bulls also came tonight with determination, and Xu Yong also adjusted the game strategy, playing more containment and without the ball, allowing Butler to attack the basket more, and then export the ball and let Anderson organize a second offense.

Adams also gave his best on the defensive end, and the two teams remained deadlocked.

However, Kerr is not in a hurry at this time, because this is the most comfortable mode for this Warriors team right now, with a halftime stalemate, and then wait until the third quarter to take the game away.

The game came to the second half of the second quarter, and the situation on the court was still inseparable.

After glancing up at the timer, Xu Yong stretched out his hand and beckoned Anderson to block and dismantle him.

The person who defended Anderson was James, who obviously didn't want to be replaced in front of Xu Yong, but Green's choice was very decisive, and he followed Anderson directly, and he didn't even implement Kerr's flanking strategy.

After revealing a Falk expression, James came to Xu Yong like a person who had been arranged to be married.

Xu Yong did not rush to attack, but chatted with James with the ball in one hand.

"Do you know? You're the first superstar I've ever seen to get beaten by a teammate. ”

The first sentence Xu Yong said made James blush.

Xu Yong said that he was a superstar and he was happy, but the prepositions in front of him made him completely unhappy.

What does it mean to be beaten by a teammate?

That's when he was beaten voluntarily!

If he hadn't volunteered, Green might have been able to beat him?

At this moment, Xu Yong launched an attack, a sideways dragging step and then a pass-through jumper.

Basketball hollow into the net.

Simple and quick, but effective.

Thanks to the extra training before the finals, he has been in excellent form since entering the finals.

"I want to be any man who at least gets beaten back." After scoring the goal, Xu Yong turned around and continued to say to James.

James was furious, but the faint pain in his thumb, the corners of his eyebrows, and his face made him snort coldly at the end.

"Look, you don't let people say it yet."

Xu Yong's appearance at this time was indeed a little underbeaten.

Kerr noticed what was happening on the field, and this time he didn't rush into the Orlando air, but shouted directly at James: "He's just trying to provoke you!" ”

Yes, Xu Yong's intentions are actually obvious, not to mention James, even Kerr can find out at the first time.

But, that doesn't matter.

Because in the next round, James made a mistake when he broke through.

It wasn't an unforced error, but James pushed too the back and Butler took the opportunity to remove from the bench.

After so many years in the alliance and successfully mastering the true meaning of the turtle, James is obviously not the person who can be easily provoked by Xu Yong back then.

However, people are people, and mood swings are inevitable, especially when Xu Yong is not ordinary trash talk.

What hurts the most in the world?

The truth.

Lies don't hurt people, the truth is the quick knife.

In order to resolve the one-punch incident, it is forbidden to talk about what happened within the Warriors.

But what happens is what happens, you say something that hurts someone's heart, can you make up for it with ten sentences?

And this is what Xu Yong is going to do tonight.

He was a gardener, and the tree of conflict between Green and James blossomed, but the fruit was a black, black mine.

And what Xu Yong has to do now is to harvest its fruits and detonate this mine.

So when James thought it was hurtful enough, Xu Yong was quick to tell him that it was just the beginning.

And the point is, Xu Yong's trash talk, oh no, those truths, are always accompanied by scoring.

For example, before attacking again with the ball, he asked, "I guess, did you deliberately let him hit you?" ”

Then, after he turned back to meet James' defense and sent the ball in, he looked at James and said, "Looks like I'm right." ”

Really, James didn't go berserk on the spot, that is, because Xu Yong was too jealous of what Xu Yong had done to him over the years, otherwise he would definitely have to flip the table on the spot.

Green reproduced Bynum's classic scene at this time, covering his mouth and snickering.

He didn't mean it, he just couldn't hold back, after all, when he was ravaged by Xu Yong, James was on the side with his hands on his hips.

James finally relied on the powerful turtle attribute to control himself, but it was clear that the emotional ups and downs were no longer something he could completely control.

After the ball went wide during the pass, he spread his hands and complained to Thompson, who received the ball.

The expression on Xu Yong's face became relaxed when he saw this scene.

People only follow their instincts when they are emotionally out of control.

Of course, it's just the beginning, and that's just the process, as for the end? It's still early.

Under Xu Yong's round-robin trash talk attacks, James couldn't hold his breath at all.

He didn't dare to spill his anger on Xu Yong, it could only be on others.

During a breakaway, James' angry elbow hit Adams in the abdomen and grazed Adams' crotch along the way.

Adams' second brother was hit hard again.

This almost sparked a confrontation on the field, but soon Adams got up from his crouch and signaled to his teammates that he was okay.

San Antonio's 101 strokes couldn't break Adams' egg, the hardest man in the world.

And although James did not intentionally attack the crotch like Green, this result still made him suffer a malicious foul.

At this point, the situation on the field began to show a clear watershed.

With less than six minutes in the second half of the second quarter, the Bulls seized the opportunity to extend the margin to double digits in one fell swoop.

The calculations that Cole could hear in Chicago were in vain at the last moment.

Although the Warriors theoretically have the possibility to recover the score in the third quarter, and even the ability, the mentality of the two situations is completely different to open up the score in a stalemate and chase the score when they are behind.

Not to mention G1 Thibodeau's use of Jokic, which shows that the Bulls are now not out of the way against the Warriors' Death Five.

Halftime came back and the game continued.

Then in the first round of the second half, Xu Yong broke through James, and then completed the dunk again through Pachuria, and also caused the latter's foul.

"Was anyone guarding me just now?"

And after scoring, Xu Yong didn't pay attention to Pachuria, who fell to the ground, and didn't do anything to celebrate, but turned his head and shouted at James.

"Really, your defense is far worse than Green's."

Then before walking to the free throw line, Xu Yong said with a smile.

James finally broke out and began to squirt back with Fark.

Xu Yong shook his head with a smile at this time, then turned his head to look at the referee, and motioned to what James was doing.

There is no mandatory rule in the league for trash talk, after all, it is also part of the basketball game.

Like Jordan (rookie, welcome to the NBA), Bird (are you here to fight for second place), Payton (crossing you is like crossing the road in the morning), those are all familiar classics to fans.

And Xu Yong can be said to be better than the blue, not to mention his career, just these trash words sprayed on James tonight can be canonized.

But trash talk doesn't equal swearing, which is why trash talk in the NBA is sometimes called art.

After James broke the defense, he sprayed directly.

The referee gave James a warning whistle.

Seeing this, Kerr immediately turned around and motioned for Iguodala to get up and replace James.

As soon as James came, Cole quickly stepped forward to reassure.

But when Cole finished calming him down and turned back to the sidelines to continue directing the game, there was a muffled "bang" behind him.

It turned out that James kicked over the bench of the bench.

This is not the point, the point is that after he kicked over, he scolded: "Fake, Fake, chase dreams!" ”

It's a pity that Xu Yong didn't hear it at this time, if he heard it, he would definitely add with a smile: "Look, you don't even dare to defeat me." ”

(End of chapter)