Super Small Forward - 707
The Warriors didn’t put the Thunder in the same position at the beginning, and when the team was caught off guard, their mentality was out of balance, and there was an incident where Randall kicked Adams and almost caused a fight.
This incident caused the Warriors’ morale to collapse when they wanted to regain the home court advantage in the second game away. Because Randall was so embarrassed by the Thunder’s iron barrels that he gave the Adams brother a kick, which belongs to Unreasonable things, no matter where they are, unreasonable things, are untenable, so the last time the Warriors were beaten by the furious Thunder 133 to 105, it was simply miserable.
But in the desperate situation, they adjusted their mentality instead.
Great shooters are born with a calm personality. Whether it is Stephen Curry or Klay Thompson, they all have the nature to be calm at critical moments, otherwise they would not be great shooters.
People can say that the “splash brothers” still lack the domineering style of Jordan, Kobe or James, but their calmness at the moment of life and death is definitely not inferior to the superstars.
The two of them are very calm. Even Randall, who is the easiest to get irritable in the Warriors, became calm and stopped fouling, avoiding technical fouls and malicious fouls, otherwise it would hurt the team.
Today the Warriors showed a completely different overall feeling.
They have the strongest backcourt guns in the league, but the Warriors do not rely entirely on the “splash” brothers to win. The Warriors dare to place marginal substitutes to win a break for the Masters, and this is just a microcosm.
At the juncture of life and death, the Warriors trust each other. They played team basketball and fully tapped the energy of the role players.
Substitutes were originally a magic weapon for the Warriors to defeat the enemy, but in the first 4 games, they did not tap the energy of the substitutes, or that their substitutes did not perform well.
Some teams, in this case, will be even more afraid to use substitutes, reduce the rotation of players, and extend the playing time of the main players. The Warriors didn’t do this. They gave the trust of the substitute points in the last game where they went fishing after losing the last battle. In this game, the Warriors scored 30 points as a substitute.
On the other hand, the Thunder actually chose to play conservatively in a 3-1 situation and sent a seven-man rotation. Westbrook and Durant played almost the entire game.
Durant is notoriously weak in physical fitness. By the time of the last quarter, Durant was already unable to move. Without Durant’s restraining power, Westbrook began to continue the road to iron. They all say Kobe Iron, Westbrook used actual actions to prove what is really iron, and there is one more favorable candidate for the league’s No. 1 Comet.
At this time, I have to talk about the Warriors’ defense. They averaged 117 points per game this season, the league’s first, a full 3 points higher than the Lakers’ 114 points per game, so people think they are an offensive team.
In fact, the Warriors’ defensive efficiency ranks sixth in the league. Only the Lakers, Spurs, Grizzlies, Celtics, and Bulls have higher defensive efficiency than them. The Jazz, which claims to be hard-working and only defend, are not as effective as the Warriors.
It’s just because the Warriors’ offense is so eye-catching that their defense is often overlooked.
It may also be because the offense is so good, they think they can overwhelm the Thunder by offense, because they swept 3-0 against the Thunder in the regular season, and they were all big wins, so the Warriors’ defense in the first four games was a disaster.
Now lagging 1 to 3, the Warriors have regained their defensive weapons to contain the Thunder’s offense, which has become another key factor for the Warriors to turn defeat into victory.
There has long been a saying in the NBA that offense wins the box office and defense wins the championship.
The Warriors had their last defensive battle in Game 5, which was on the verge of elimination. They picked up their defense again. After Durant was tired in the fourth quarter, the Thunder began to be unable to compete with the Warriors’ continuous offensive firepower and forever. An angry and passionate defense, the Warriors once played a wave of 18 to 4 in the fourth quarter, which directly opened the deadlock to more than 15 points.
118 to 110, the Warriors continued their lives in the fifth game! And it’s a life extension like a rebirth!
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“Oh…Thunder and Thunder are over.” Liu Ren let out a whisper, curled his lips, said with regret.
“Really? No!” Green was a little surprised. “The Thunder are still one game ahead, and they will be promoted after winning two games. They may not give the Warriors a chance when they return to the home court. To be honest, I prefer to hit the Thunder, the Warriors are too difficult to deal with.”
“There is no hope for the Thunder. Stephen and the others have found a way to deal with the Thunder, and it is very simple. Their offensive and defensive ends can play a normal level, and they can scare the Thunder coach to change Durant and Westbrook. , Westbrook is okay, Durant is so thin, and physical fitness is a disaster.” Liu Ren is not surprised by Green’s view, because the Thunder are indeed leading the way, but the strength of the two teams is too far apart. If the Warriors are one It was so serious at the beginning, and it’s possible to directly sweep the Thunder. The Thunder only have a double number, and the Warriors are strong from the starter to the bench.
“Yes, Durant is not very suitable for the team’s first scoring candidate, but he must take this responsibility in the Thunder, and even if Westbrook wants to grab the position, the Thunder management must insist on Durant being the first. Candidates, otherwise this is disrespect for the top three players in the league.” Kobe saw it thoroughly, “Well, let’s go back to Los Angeles.”
“Huh? Don’t we go to Oklahoma for a vacation together?” Liu Ren still wants to visit Goose Village. I haven’t been to a game before, but I have a rare opportunity this time. Who will wait until the offseason? Still willing to go to goose village to play.
“You have already determined that our next opponent is the Warriors! Go back, haven’t you seen Mike and Bernie have begun to study how to deal with the Warriors!” Kobe finished speaking and left.
“No! So we are going to start training again? God!” Nick Yang, who has been chatting with the beautiful woman next to him, wailed in an instant…
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Three days later, everything was as thought by Liu Ren, Kobe, and the Lakers coaching staff. The Warriors, who regarded the Thunder as equal opponents, arrived in Oklahoma and still knocked the Thunder to the ground and dragged the game into the tiebreaker. .
At this time, no one still thought that the Thunder had a chance to beat the Warriors. From 3-1 to a 3-3 draw, this defeat was even more embarrassing than being directly 3-0.
At this time, the other three rounds of the series have already been won. The Cavaliers eliminated the Celtics 4-2 and advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals with blood and tears, but fortunately this time because the referees are watching closely~www.mtlnovel .com~The Cavaliers players are also very protective of themselves not to be injured, but they did not play the tragic situation of last season. The Celtics worked very hard, but in the end the Cavaliers are indeed dominant in the East.
If you want to talk about why the Eastern Stars get together and run to the West these years, it’s James. His dominance is too strong. Anyone in the Eastern Conference who is not a bad team will have the chance to enter the Finals if he gets James. In the past five years James swept every finals in the Eastern Conference, and forced those stars to have no way of survival and had to escape to the Western Conference.
Although the West now has the Warriors, Spurs, Lakers, and Thunder, they are playing the finals. The Thunder, Lakers, and Spurs have played in the past few years, unlike the East, except for James or James.
The Knicks also defeated the 76ers 4-2. After all, the team with a more complete system and a deeper lineup can have an advantage in a series. It can only be said that the Knicks eliminated the 76ers. Things in.
The little assassin is regarded as a new generation of answers, and some people even expect the little assassin to lead the 76ers back to the finals and the Lakers to have an answer to the sequel to the showdown with the Flying Man, which is the showdown between the little assassin and the boss, but it’s the second one. This round of expectation is over without a problem.
And this put the little assassin on a curtain called “Sadness”. He averaged 34 points and 6 assists per game, just like the real answer. He led the 76ers forward on his own, but after all It’s the same as walking away.
Before, there was only one Lakers team waiting for the Warriors and the Thunder to decide the victory or defeat. Now it has become three teams waiting together.
And whether it’s the Lakers, Cavaliers or Knicks, they are extremely upset with the Thunder.
Liu Ren, James, and Anthony’s psychological os are: You two can’t compete! Can’t you kill the Warriors quickly…