Chapter 648: Where there are miracles, there will be regrets
The Clippers are about to sweep the Suns 3-0, and the Cavaliers also plan to eliminate the Magic and enter the Finals early, and they don't plan to let the Magic see any hope of advancing in Game 4.
The Eastern Conference Finals are 2:1, in fact, this is still very dangerous for the Cavaliers, once the Magic pull the score to 2:2 at home, the two teams will return to the same running line, and the Magic players will gain important confidence, and the draw means that they are not worse than the Cavaliers, but they just missed the opportunity to play away first, which is not good for the Cavaliers.
"What we're missing is confidence, we can beat them on the road, and we're going to prove it at home today, Cleveland wants to go to the Finals to challenge the Clippers, but we want to go more than them," Van Gundy said before the game. ”
James disagrees with the Magic's following offenses, if there is anyone in this league who wants to beat the Clippers the most, except for the Celtics and Lakers, the rest is the Cavaliers.
Why?
Whoever calls Ji Guoyan, a slut, doesn't come out every once in a while to provoke Kobe and James, and he will be uncomfortable. Many people are very strange, with his current low position is no lower than these two people, is it necessary to bite others all day long?
Ji Guoyi once explained this very seriously, and he responded: "Because I'm used to it, rookie season provocation can increase their popularity, at that time, I needed an endorsement contract to buy a car and a house, and it was easy to increase popularity by stepping on their shoulders." As for why they did this later, of course, they formed a habit, and they felt uncomfortable without teasing them. And I think they would be uncomfortable if they weren't teased by me from time to time, right? ”
Dead fox is so honest. but Kobe and James. The two said: "Put your mother's shit." I have never seen such a brazen person who can tell people why he provokes others with the confidence of reason! ”
Back to the game, the Cavaliers players also know the importance of this game, but for a long time, once James's Cavaliers encounter a key battle, these usually good helpers will be habitually invisible, and this year is no exception, the fourth game of the Eastern Conference Finals. Again, "Success is James, defeat is James." ”
The reason why I say this is because after four games, what we see is James's helplessness, once again cutting 38 points, 11 rebounds, 6 assists, fighting 5 fouls, but also contributing 8 turnovers. The Cavaliers painstakingly traded teammates for James to make the playoffs a key battle. Again magically evaporated from the team.
James was helpless, he had done his best. The body saved by the previous 8:1 promotion has been exhausted with the four games against the Magic, and what remains on the faces of James and the Cavaliers players at the moment is nothing but exhaustion or exhaustion.
The Cavaliers had already experienced the tenacity of the Magic on their home court, but in the face of the scorching score on the Magic's home court, how could the Cavaliers, who only relied on James to resist stubbornly, withstand the Magic's attack?
Big Van Gundy often doesn't let Howard take on the role of the team's offensive core, saying that he doesn't like the Monster's low-post offensive skills, or that he has a father-son relationship with Nelson, but in key battles, these role players of the Magic do dare to take responsibility more than the Cavaliers players.
Vince. Carter and Nelson played a game that made the Cavaliers players ashamed in the fourth game, the former demigod contributed 28 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists, Nelson scored 18 points and 8 assists, Howard had 16 points, 18 rebounds and 6 blocks, and the Magic died in the fourth game, announcing "the emperor is dead" on his home court!
The league has never sold shoes or jerseys on the inside, but the emergence of Howard and the twin brothers has hopefully changed that tradition, and the monster's trickery, his super bounce when he dunks, and his always smiling face that looks murderous. But today, it was the big boy who loved to laugh and put Brand and the Brazilian actor in the box, and James was humiliated by several blocks under the basket.
Still, you can't deny the greatness of James, the Cavaliers, who have been in the limelight for a season, finally showed their fox and tiger side after easily advancing in the first two rounds, and this team is nothing but James. The subprime mortgage crisis broke out one year, and the Cavaliers used the series to pay off James' debt, and finally went back 50 years, and they returned to the dark era when LeBron fought against the Pistons and Spurs alone.
Vallejo and Navarro were always on the fringes in the first three games against the Magic, and with Mo II in charge, the series proved to be just an imposter All-Star who hadn't experienced a major tournament. Here are the playoffs, no Mo here. Williams, and without Navarro and Anthony Parker, the only one who could give James a little help was the old captain, who happened to be blown clean by Howard.
Remember how the Rockets prevented James from 0 assists for the first time in their careers last year? Battier was close, Ariza relied on the machine to assist in defense, and Yao Ming squatted under the basket to form the last iron gate. And the fact of several games is that Carter, Lewis and Warcraft were the three shields of the Magic in the final moments of the game, and James' final breakthrough either fell into Howard's big hand block or dribbled himself. Of course, the referees gave him some foul free throws, but the shadow of the Magic's interior defense always hung over, and then more, James always ended up with a step-back jumper.
The Magic just blocked the emperor's breakthrough route and let the girl shoot on the outside, although James was strong, but his jump shot was far inferior to Kobe Bryant and the animal brothers, and he was not yet able to shoot the dead.
The Cavaliers ended up with a pale tactical board, and Mike. Brown said: "I don't know how to play, you all give the ball to James." "Well, that's our beloved Eastern Conference Coach of the Season, and everyone on Earth knows that this award should go to LeBron. James.
On May 23, fans watched the death of the little emperor and began to continue to expect the Clippers to beat the Suns and maintain their undefeated record.
In the history of the NBA, there have been 88 times when a team has been 0-3 in the best-of-seven games, and in the end, none of them can catch up and overtake, which is also known as the "law of death". In other major sports leagues, there have been only three teams in a similar seven-game series, the most recent of which occurred in 2004, when the Boston Red Sox trailed the New York Yankees 3-0 in the National Major League Baseball League knockout round.
Although the Suns fell behind 0-3 before the game, and almost no one in the outside world was optimistic about their comeback, from the team's coaching staff to the players, it seems that they still believe that "as long as you work hard, everything can happen."
"At the pre-game meeting, I'm glad that no players came out wearing Hawaiian T-shirts," the Suns head coach responded to speculation about the team's loss of momentum the day before Game 4. ”
Nash's words were also full of ambition for nirvana, and he said in front of the media on behalf of the team: "We must not retreat. We can't give up either. We can't just lie on the ground and let them step on it. ”
But how high the heart is, the road may not necessarily be able to go further.
The game proved that the Clippers not only have more fighting and passion than the Suns, but also have richer tactical combinations and deeper personnel heritage.
The Clippers once again showed their regional defense in Game 4, and they rarely used it for long periods of time in this year's playoffs, which was a magic weapon that they repeatedly performed when they won the first championship, and it was the defending champion's trick to press the bottom of the box, but this season it seems that the Clippers can win the game without using this big killer weapon.
Fans reminisced and found that when the Clippers played against the Lakers in the semifinals, they used a period of joint defense to open up the score in each game, and against the young Grizzlies and now the Suns, the Clippers rarely used their joint defense to limit the opponent's offense.
In this game, the elder Dunleavy asked the Clippers players to go all out, not to deal with the Suns, but to show the two teams in the East how good they are, and to scare their Finals opponents in the near future.
In the fourth game of the Suns, it was nice to say, but it could be seen that Xiao Si and O'Neal had given up the game, and the two were no longer tough on the inside, and they were typically ineffective. There is also Richardson, who only threw three points from the outside today, and he couldn't see his breakthrough in the first three games at all. Even Nash's individual attack today is not strong, what suspense is there in such a game?
The two brothers were a little careless, the Suns were not high in fighting spirit today, but the Clippers did their best, and as a result, the score was stretched to double digits after the first quarter.
But I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the two brothers don't have the slightest intention of showing mercy, they know that old Dunleavy is right, they want to ensure the championship, undefeated, they can't take it lightly. Playing a high-intensity game at this time will help them a lot in the Finals, and the Clippers are actually just warming up, and they have to adjust to the Finals.
At the end of the first half, the Suns trailed the Clippers by a full 28 points, and the Suns fans at home were shocked, thinking that the Clippers were going to have a massacre, and we didn't resist this Nima!
In the second half, the Clippers finally converged a point, the score did not widen further, and the elder Dunleaweitong Guò was already satisfied with the team's performance in the first half, and only let the main team play half a quarter in the second half, and then did not replace them again.
When the final whistle blew, both brothers stepped forward to hug Nash, who was in poor spirits.
Missing out on the finals again, the Wind Son was extremely disappointed, and many people said that he didn't have a championship factor, because his defense was a big weakness in any championship team. And as he gets older, this shortcoming seems to be getting bigger and bigger, so even if he goes to the Nets next year, will he be able to win the championship?
No one will give him an answer to this question, and when it comes to players similar to him, there is a more tragic Iverson on the current roster, including the Magic's Carter and the Celtics' Big Three, etc., they don't have MVP honors like Nash.
Every decade, there are always some players in the NBA, who are destined to leave this stage with great regrets, like the retired Barkley, like Malone, like Miller, who can say that they don't have a championship factor? But they just couldn't win the championship. (To be continued......)