Chapter 546: Sad Wolf King
"Who can beat the Clippers?"
On June 5, the first game of the finals ended, and the media covered the game with such a simple headline.
Ji Guoqiu had 26 points, 13 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 blocks, Ji Guoqiu had 24 points, 10 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 blocks, Billups had 14 points and 6 assists, and Crawford had 14 points.
Garnett had 20 points, 9 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks, Pierce had 14 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists. Allen 12 points, Rondo 8 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists. Davis 10 points.
Yesterday's finals seemed to go back to 10 years ago.
At that time, the strength of the western team far exceeded that of the east, and whichever team in the west broke out of the encirclement and entered the finals was equivalent to booking the championship that year.
This year seems to be the same, and it seems far-fetched to describe the Clippers' victory as a thrill, the Clippers did not encounter any frustration at all, and the Celtics never led the Clippers in the whole game, only tying the score in the second quarter of the bench.
If this is also a "surprise" for the Clippers, I don't know if it is a disguised praise for the strength of the Clippers, or an opportunity to ridicule the weakness of the Celtics.
The Clippers already led by 25 points in the fourth quarter, but they still let the main team come back and continue to play for 5 minutes, completely making the game out of suspense before letting the game go into garbage time.
With such a cautious Clippers, they didn't even give @Celtics the last chance, which made Green Army fans desperate.
In the Finals, the Celtics faced the powerful Clippers, and they were not at all comparable to last year, and even had a slight advantage. The difference in strength between the two teams can be seen at a glance even by ordinary fans. The Celtics barely fought back.
Eastern Conference Finals. The Greenshirts once had an overwhelming advantage over the Cavaliers. If it weren't for the referee issue, the Cavaliers would likely have been swept out.
This time, however, they were the overwhelmed side, and those brilliant positional covers, interspersed runs and mixed defenses were all gone.
The Clippers used high-intensity pressure to wrap the defense, confined the Celtics players' movement space, and the constant wrap-and-clamp defense made it difficult for the Big Three to get comfortable shooting space, and the weaknesses of their own point guard and center were infinitely magnified by the Clippers. There was no suspense in this game.
Even the Boston press admitted after the game that maybe a loss in one game doesn't mean anything, and it doesn't mean anything, after all, there are still six games to come. However, if you don't come up with a strategy for a team as strong as the Clippers, they will give you no breather, and the Celtics may soon have to say goodbye to the Finals stage.
As for when will we reach the finals again?
The Boston media themselves do not know the answer to this question.
The Big Three will get older, and this set really has its last chance this year. Otherwise, let alone winning the championship, will you be able to reach the finals again next year? I'm afraid there will be several question marks.
In the first Finals, at the star-studded Staples Arena, the Celtics were completely lost, and their loss was doomed to a fiasco. Perhaps, they were too nervous. Perhaps, they were too excited. Perhaps, they are not in the state. Perhaps, they will be swept away......
The reason for Celtic's defeat is not one or two, but it can be attributed to the fact that they are not as strong as their opponents.
Garnett can be singled out by Brother Panda, Pierce has a hard time meeting Barnes and Garcia, and Dundee. Jones defends Ray. Aaron has a set, and Rondo can't throw it no matter how he throws......
With so many questions that can make the Celtics lose, it seems unreasonable that the Clippers don't sweep, and Clippers fans think so anyway.
The Clippers players didn't have much spirit at the post-game press conference, I don't know if it was too easy to win a relationship, and even Ji Guoyan didn't say anything to make the media excited, and the reporters were very disappointed, there was nothing to hype up after such a game, and they couldn't stare at Taylor every day. Swift's boobs, right?
They are sports media, not street tabloids, they are still a little bit disciplined, and the report is almost the same for more than a week, and the readers are not tired of it, they are tired of it.
The players didn't spray, the coach didn't pinch, and except for Garnett's junior, the media could only report on what was in the game.
The difference between the Celtics and the Spurs is that the latter's five starters have no fatal flaws, which made them close to fighting the Clippers in Game 7 and losing to the body. The Celtics were even better off the bench. Davis has improved significantly this season, with Thorton being the No. 3 player in the Sixth Man of the Year Poll. Allen has the quality to play as a starter, which makes their bench lineup better than that of the Spurs and Clippers.
But in the playoffs, the bench lineup actually does not play a decisive role, and the Clippers can play more than 40 minutes on the court with the animal brothers, and it is difficult to have a fatal impact on the Clippers with a bench lineup disadvantage of only three or five minutes.
So the media immediately said in hindsight that the Clippers were not afraid of the Celtics, and they restrained the Green Army. The Clippers did not have an advantage in the regular season, that was because the elder Dunleavy controlled the playing time of the two brothers, which allowed the Green Army to take advantage, and the Celtics' flaws in the playoffs were exposed, and the Clippers' two consecutive championships were unstoppable.
Ji Guozhi was holding a financial magazine the next day, and there was naturally a playboy in it, and while the dead fox was silently looking at his chest, he also saw the media swarming to pat the clippers out of the corner of his eye, and said in a rather disdainful tone: "It's so big...... No, these guys are so undisciplined, I blush for them. I now wonder how they will turn around and slap the Celtics in the next game if we deliberately lose the last game. ”
Taylor. Swift held a fashion magazine and said, "You deliberately lost the last game, aren't you afraid of going to the away game and being beaten twice in a row?" ”
"You're right, I just want the league to think of that. In the last game, we only made 8 free throws in the whole game, which is the number of free throws I made in the past, and I am worried that these damn media will mislead the league, and if they give us a knife in the next game, it will really be a loss that these media chrysanthemums can't compensate. ”
"Isn't the president your godfather? Will they turn against you? ”
Ji Guoyan smiled when he heard this: "Then you think about the godfather simply, that old Wang Ba will not let the game end in 4 games, and the team with the same strength." He's not going to play any tricks in it. That's where the cleverness comes in. He knows when to play tricks. ”
Taylor. Swift asked again: "Then how did the Cavaliers get swept in '07, and how did the referee turn to the Celtics yesterday?" ”
"I didn't help the knights in 07, that's because his godson has too many opponents, and it's useless to help, of course he won't interfere at this time, otherwise wouldn't it be too obvious? But this time it's different, now we're in the ascendancy, so I'm worried that the old stuff will deliberately favor the Celtics. to show that he did not favor his godson. ”
"Hehe, doesn't that mean that your godfather trusts you, knowing that even if it makes it difficult for you, you can't lose."
Ji Guoyi sighed lightly and said: "So the next game will not be so easy, the first game is used by the league as a reference, see how much difficulty should be adjusted to keep the game exciting, and the result will not be changed, in fact, I want to retain some strength in the first game." ”
Taylor. Swift shook his head: "You guys are playing basketball so complicated?" ”
The Clippers won the first game comfortably, and the second game will be played on June 7. With only a short day of rest in between, I want to find a way to deal with the Clippers in one day. I'm afraid it can only be achieved in movies or novels.
The Celtics have spent four full days after the Eastern Conference Finals looking for a way to deal with the Clippers, and judging by the course of Game 1, they certainly didn't find the right way.
On June 6, the Celtics had a recovery training session in the training hall in the afternoon, and Coach Rivers knew that this day's rest time would not even be enough for them to recover, and if they talked about bullshit tactics with the players who had just lost, they would not have to play the next game.
Rivers didn't even shoot during the day, but he was quick enough to shoot for an hour.
The Celtics have no time to make any changes at their home court, and they need to be done again after returning to their home court, but it is necessary to practice free throws.
After the free throw practice, Rivers gave the players a good pre-war mobilization lesson, which of course is indispensable for motivation, cheering, and by the way, a little more agitation, anyway, it is all positive energy. As an excellent coach, that's all I can do at the moment, and at most summarize the shortcomings of the team in the last game.
It's a pity that the players didn't have time to think about it when they went back, and when they woke up, they found that tonight was the second game of the finals, and time passed really fucking fast!
The media and pundits were even more overwhelmed by the second race than they were in the first.
Before the start of the Finals, the media surveyed 10 experts, and the results showed that 9 out of 10 experts believed that the Clippers would win the championship.
However, there are no more than nine now, and after the first game between the two teams, the only expert who is optimistic about the Celtics has quietly changed the flag and supported the Clippers to win the championship instead.
The fan survey is also continuing, and unsurprisingly, after the first game, the number of fans supporting the Clippers to win the championship has reached 70%. Their reasoning is simple: a mere day of rest is simply not enough for the Celtics, neither enough for them to recover, nor enough for them to come up with a strategy to defeat the Clippers.
At the pre-match press conference, I don't know if what the old Dunleavy said is true or false, he said: "Although we won the first game, the players' performance is also remarkable, but we still have a lot of shortcomings on the court, these are the places that may be targeted by the Celtics in the second game, if we don't want to be targeted, then we have to improve these exposed problems in the second game, which is what a championship team must do." ”
This bastard is talking more and more beautifully, and the team's record gives him the confidence to say beautiful things. Just like if you are handsome, of course you can look up at the starry sky at a 45-degree angle, and others will not say that you are a second stroke. But if you don't look good, you're going to be seen as stupid.
Ji Guoyan did not make offensive remarks before the game, which is certainly not in line with his character of under-beating, mainly because he is indeed about to be beaten now.
In the first game, Ji Guoyi said that he would give Garnett's mistress a ticket, and this word was broadcast live to the ears of fans in front of the TV, so Garnett was ridiculed by countless fans after the game, and this matter naturally spread more and more.
Garnett's, his wife knew it, but she just turned a blind eye, just like Kobe's wife Vanessa.
But now that it has been exposed in public by this dead fox, Garnett's wife finally can't bear it anymore, otherwise how will she raise her head in front of her friends in the future?
Garnett's wife was clamoring for a divorce from the tragic wolf king after the game, and it is said that he did not plan to watch the second game, and the wolf king drank too much yesterday, and also shouted to take a gun to kill the dead fox, and by the way, he peeled his skin! (To be continued......) R1292