After the Clippers entered the Finals for three consecutive years, the NBA's official website reported on the homepage: After the Bulls dynasty's three consecutive championships, only the Lakers and the Spurs have won the cup four times in 12 years. In the era of competition, only the Spurs and Lakers can bring the feeling of a dynasty to fans. Will the next dynasty be the Los Angeles Clippers?

Most people will now give a positive answer to this question, compared to the Clippers' dominance, the two teams in the East, it seems that both of them seem to be more than a step behind, the Magic and the Cavaliers let alone beat the Clippers, whether they can beat the Lakers, Spurs and Rockets who were eliminated in the West, let alone the Clippers, who have set N historical records in a row this season. It can be said that such a Clippers is already at least one of the top three teams in NBA history, and it is really hard to say who is better between them and the Celtics, who have won eight consecutive championships.

Nash congratulated his two teammates on the national team after the game and said in an interview: "The Clippers are no longer invincible, I have faced the Lakers in the OK era, and I have played against the Spurs in the GPD era, but neither of them has given me the feeling of being invincible, only the current Clippers make me feel invincible." We feel that this team is not like a team made up of earthlings, they are like Barcelona in football, invincible. ”

Real Madrid fans said: "Fart, why can't Barcelona win, we have the magic bird, we have Cristiano Ronaldo, we have to win them 5:0 this season." ”

On May 24, the fifth game of the Eastern Conference Finals continued. James made it clear before the game that the Cleveland Cavaliers would not stop in the Eastern Conference Finals.

The Cavaliers swept the East in the regular season and won the first two rounds of the playoffs to advance. But in the Eastern Conference Finals, it got bogged down. The Orlando Magic won two games in a row at home. Howard became an invincible Cavaliers on the inside. Now that the score is 2:2, the prospect of both teams advancing is no longer clear.

For the current difficulties encountered by the team, the second leader of the Cavaliers is Mo. Williams said it wasn't a big deal, saying, "The Magic are respectable, they're a great team, but we're the best team in the basketball world," Williams said, "and I promise we're going to make it to the Finals." We're now 2-2 drawn, but we still have home court advantage and everyone is confident we're going to win the Eastern Conference Finals. Yes, it's going to be tough, we know that, so we're going to win the fifth game so we can get the match point. ”

Regarding Williams's rhetoric, James said that it was reasonable: "He should have said that, there is no reason for us to stop in the Eastern Conference Finals. ”

Dwight. Howard shrugged off the confidence of James and his younger brothers and said, "We just have to play well." We don't care what people say, we can't do anything. ”

James in the first four games of the Eastern Conference Finals. With an average of 41 points per game, the game turned into James VS Magic, and the Cavaliers, including Brand and Williams, failed to give James enough firepower. James knows he can't win a championship on his own, and he wants his teammates to share the pressure on him.

'I know my team-mates can play better, they know they can play better, I don't want to put pressure on them, they're going to put a better picture and all we need to do now is put the ball in.'

Before the game, the two teams were full of gunpowder, and in the last game, the Cavaliers were reversed by the Magic, and the biggest reason for the defeat was that they were completely inferior in the interior competition, allowing Howard to kill the Cavaliers alone and lose on the inside. It was the Warcraft that gave the Magic the upper hand in the game, and the Knights could not control the situation, so they had no choice but to accept the bitter consequences of defeat.

Obviously, if the Cavaliers want to win, they must make adjustments in defending Howard in order to limit the Monster as much as possible, while taking advantage of their own advantage of having more interior players to form a multi-point attack. If the Cavaliers don't lose too much on the inside, then the odds of winning can be greatly increased.

In the fifth battle of Tianwang Mountain, the Cavaliers finally made adjustments, and they frequently used packing, assisting defense and even foul tactics to effectively limit the play of Warcraft, so that it only made 3 of 10 shots in the game, and there were 5 mistakes and 3 times blocked, which can be described as a loss of face.

One of Howard's serious flaws in this year's playoffs is that he is shooting just 44 percent of his free throw percentage on the road, which would have led all teams to use foul tactics against him.

In Game 5, the Cavaliers were sent off two inside shots, Brand and James both fought for five fouls, and they allowed Howard to stand on the free throw line a full 25 times, but the Monsters only hit 11 of them, exactly 44% of the free throw percentage, and the Magic died on Howard's free throws again.

If there is any difference between O'Neal and Howard, it is that although O'Neal is not accurate in free throws, he is very sure of his offense in the low post, and it is almost impossible to limit him with single defense at his peak, Big Ben is the best one, but O'Neal's scoring is still high.

Howard couldn't do that, and once he didn't make the right throws, he would be sent to the free throw line frequently, and the monster would only be embarrassed to face the ridicule of the enemy. Howard's five turnovers today are basically in the low post offense, as long as he receives the basketball, the Cavaliers players immediately wrap up, and Howard, who has rough low post skills, is easy to be steals or make dribble mistakes.

The Cavaliers didn't stop there, and if they couldn't make Howard's turnover, they would immediately foul Howard and send Howard to the free throw line.

From the perspective of actual combat, the Cavaliers' strategy of defending Howard is still very effective, especially in the bag and weak side help defense. In the first quarter, Howard continued to ask for the ball in the low post, and after a single play, he turned around to dodge the defender, and was about to make an easy layup. Parker came over and jumped high to slap the ball away, but the monster attacked unsuccessfully

In the next round, the Magic continued to attack on the inside, but this time it was like a copy of the previous round, Howard turned around and got a chance, this time it was James who came to help the defense, and slapped the ball off again, fortunately the referee blew a foul, but the monster missed two free throws.

This weak-side defense caused huge problems for the Monster's offense, and when the Cavaliers didn't come in time to help, the player defending Howard resolutely fouled him and sent him to the free throw line.

In addition, in addition to assisting in defense, the knights also used bag clips, and double or even triple bag clips are very common. And this defense was even more lethal, only in the first quarter, Mo. Williams, Vallejo and James made several steals on Howard.

It was this two-pronged targeted tactic that allowed Howard to slow down the Magic's offensive tempo again today, and the two divisional finals teams continued to battle in the swamp for the whole game, and the game was unbelievably ugly, just look at the final total score of only 75:70 to know how ugly these two teams played today.

The Cavaliers have won the game twice in this series with Howard's free throws, now don't say anything about "winning like this, it's not decent", since you have weaknesses, then you should be targeted, there is no way to say that you should not be, why don't you see the animal brothers being targeted like this?

In the Clippers game, many coaches will repeatedly emphasize to their players before the game that if they can't prevent it, even if they let the two brothers score the ball, they should try not to behave, because sending two people to the free throw line is equivalent to giving away points, and there is a high chance that they will play two plus one.

If it's a Celtic, Rivers will also emphasize that at the end of the game, the two can't be allowed to go to the free throw line, because that is likely to happen: free throws and free throws...... Penalty and penalty...... Penalty and penalty...... Such an infinite loop. This is not their nonsense, the champion of the Green Army in 08 was snatched away by the two with the most despicable and shameless tactics, and the Green Army fans still feel angry when they think about it now.

But anyway, the Cavaliers did grab the match point at home, and the situation changed again, and the Magic were pushed to the brink.

The Clippers watched Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals as a team, and they knew very well that the gap between the two teams in the East was not large, so whoever can grab the match point first has a better chance of eliminating the opponent. The Cavaliers now undoubtedly have the advantage, they have one more home court than the Magic, and that home court could well be the difference between victory and defeat.

At the post-game press conference, Black Bread said: "The Eastern Conference Finals are far from over, and it's not easy to knock them out when the opposing team has a star of Howard's level. Brown was right, and when he came back to Orlando two days later, Howard's free throw crosshairs were on target again, and their foul play didn't work in the first place.

In Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals, at the beginning of the game, Howard stepped up to lead the Magic's offense, using not very flexible footwork, but definitely strong body, he can always go deep in the restricted area. Once in the attack area, as long as the Magic players pass the ball into the interior in time, the Monster can pose a great threat when they catch the ball, because his free throws are accurate today, and the Cavaliers' slashing tactics are no longer in a position to be implemented.

The Cavaliers' interior line couldn't deal with Howard at all, and could only use fouls frequently to prevent the Monster from scoring in the penalty area, Vallejo fouled twice early, and Big Z couldn't stop the Monster, Howard scored 7 of the Magic's first 10 points as soon as he came up, helping the team take the lead in the opening game.

But then Howard got into foul trouble, and it was again the best coach in the East, LeBron. James's clever plan. The Gorilla knows very well that if this game cannot be won, although the Cavaliers have a higher winning rate than their opponents when they return to their home court, there is still a great risk in a game that is determined to win or lose, no matter how high the odds are, it is best to eliminate the Magic in this game. (To be continued......)