Chapter 799: Super Defender
After this game, the Los Angeles media took a look at the stars who were defended by Kardashian, including Odom, Tristan Thompson, Humphries and James Harden.
There is no need to say much about Odom, and Kardashian died and lived, almost never woke up, it was a sadomasochistic drama.
Humphries was signed to a big contract with the Knicks that year and was considered junk contract.
But to be honest, it's a bit hard to say. Defensively, Humphries is very strong, a bit like Kevin Garnett.
Signing Humphries with a contract of more than $10 million a year is actually not a loss.
The point is that Humphries's form has been greatly reduced after being defended close to Caddès, and it really became a garbage contract.
The same thing happened to Tristan Thompson and James Harden.
James Harden's regular season MVP last season was snatched away by Westbrook because of the difference in averages per game. Many people have dumped this pot on Kardashian, because in the first two dozen games of the season, James Harden encountered Kardashian's close defense, and Kardashian, who did his best, was that easy to mess with? In the end, James Harden's legs and feet were numb, and the first 20 games were sleepwalking.
Fortunately, James Harden turned around in time and broke up with Kardashian, otherwise it wouldn't take two years for Harden to be scrapped.
This is no exaggeration.
Tristan Thompson is also like this this year, if last season, the relationship between the two was not very good, then this season Tristan Thompson's performance is a pit for teammates.
Many pundits began to spray the Cavaliers on this contract extension.
Tristan Thompson's goods, the 5 million middle-class contract feels too big, let alone close to 20 million contracts.
But think about Tristan Thompson in the past, on the defensive end and rebounding, he did a very good job.
The Kardashian sisters' close defense is really not something that ordinary people can resist.
Perhaps the only news for the Cavaliers is that Tristan Thompson carries most of the pot, and the rest of the people won't be sprayed wildly.
It's just that after the second game, James's words flickered when he was interviewed:
'It's too early to renew my contract, I want to talk about it after the season, the future is uncertain and I still have a lot of consensus to come to terms with the team.
This season's playoffs are not far away, so the main problem for the Cavaliers is to re-sign James.
James re-signed to the Cavaliers, apparently with the biggest contract.
The Cavaliers' contract is four or five million dollars more than any other team can offer, and this is also a way for the league to prevent superstar huddles.
But...... James did not agree to the proposal to renew his contract.
And Cavaliers owner Gilbert was also very depressed, he paid so much for James, but the result was that James did not lead the team to win the championship, and he was still hesitant in renewing his contract.
It's unbearable.
The season hasn't even ended, and the Cavaliers have a big problem.
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Western Conference Finals.
The third game started quickly, but unlike expected, this one was a wave from the start.
In this game, the Warriors' splash brothers magically disappeared. It was embarrassing, and in the first quarter, Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson hit iron one after another.
That's not all, Curry is the Iron God in this game.
In the first three quarters, he made 0 of 9 three-pointers, and it wasn't until the 10th three-pointer that he finally hit, but by this time the difference had come to 24 points.
There is no suspense about this point difference.
The game came to this point, Qin Yang was not in a hurry, and controlled the rhythm a little bit, and Nurkic also got a long chance to play.
The Warriors are too weak inside, when they are ahead, as long as they are not in a hurry and play tactics slowly, Nurkic plays a great role, whether it is a strategy or an inside attack, Nurkic can cause a lot of lethality, relatively speaking, Nurkic's shooting rate on the inside is more stable.
In the third game, he won it smoothly.
On May 22, the fourth game of the Western Conference Finals.
Curry and Klay Thompson finally broke out, Curry scored 18 points in the first quarter, hitting three-pointers three times in the face of Qin Yang's interference.
Klay Thompson exploded, scoring 21 points in the second quarter and leading the Warriors to open up the gap.
This performance is superb.
But at the critical moment, Qin Yang is still as stable as a dog.
The Mavericks will not panic, because Qin Yang is not panicking, in the third quarter, the Warriors did not make any big mistakes, but the Mavericks played steadily, with solid defense and efficient offense, they narrowed the difference little by little, from 24 points behind to 13 points behind, in one quarter, no matter how the Mavericks played, they could not pull away again.
In the fourth quarter, Qin Yang blocked Curry first.
Immediately after stealing a pass from Drackmond Green, the Mavericks scored twice to narrow the gap to eight points for the first time.
This is a dangerous point difference.
At a critical moment, the Warriors' flaws were revealed.
Under the tenacious defense of the Mavericks, the Warriors couldn't get a good offensive opportunity, Iguodala made a layup and bounced out of the frame, and Qin Yang grabbed the rebound.
Then beat Stephen Curry and hit a 3+1!
This was the turning point of the game.
Curry then passed to Klay Thompson, who played against James Ennis' defense and Kevin Durant got the rebound.
Subsequently, Qin Yang hit the iron, but Kevin Durant grabbed the rebound under the basket and forced a layup and was fouled.
2-of-2 from the free-throw line, and the Warriors were out of momentum.
McCaw hit a mid-range shot at a critical moment, and Gobert got the rebound.
The Warriors began their fourth season in a scoring drought, with the Mavericks on an 18-8 run to turn the deficit around.
After the comeback, the Warriors had no hope of moving back.
Qin Yang led the team to win the game as steadily as a dog.
4-0, swept again.
The Warriors' Splash Brothers have been doing well in the past two seasons, but the team has problems with the roster, and there is only one slow Zazapachulia on the inside.
Iguodala also played at his age, and the others were only Draymond Green.
Among the substitutes, the best performance turned out to be Livingston.
But this is a Mavericks abandonment, and he really can't reach any ball in the Mavericks, and he was poached by the Warriors.
The Mavericks may not be perfect, the passing and cutting coordination is not smooth enough, but the defense at every position is excellent, Brogdon, James Ennis, Qin Yang, Durant, Donovan Mitchell are all very careful to defend and dare to fight. Even Seth Curry, who has reduced playing time, is working the defensive end.
The Warriors didn't lose unjustly.
The lineup is inferior, there is no way.
The Mavericks were swept 4-0 in the West, and the Mavericks advanced to the finals again, but the East was different.
Originally, the Celtics led 2-0, but when it came to the Cavaliers' home court, Favors guessed Tristan Thompson's ankle when he fell in the second quarter.
That's right, the current Tristan Thompson is a substitute for the Cavaliers.
And this inadvertent injury is Tristan Thompson's biggest contribution to the Cavaliers.
That's how amazing it is.