Chapter 715: Grab the Seven Battles, Drink the Head
The second round in the east is more complicated than expected.
The Raptors and Heat finally dragged on to the tiebreaker.
Kyle Lowry and DeRozan finally played normally at key moments, and the Raptors extended Biyombo's playing time, who played 41 minutes and scored 17 points, 16 rebounds and 3 blocks to help the team win.
Although Biyombo is a rookie on the offensive end, he has done a great job on the defensive end.
After this season, Biyombo is destined to get a big contract.
Another inspirational black player.
However, this kind of player, with average height, gets a big contract with a momentary performance, and if he is injured later, he will definitely become a garbage contract.
In this way, the finals of the East and West this season are out.
Westward:
The Warriors play the Mavericks.
Eastern:
The Cavaliers vs. the Raptors.
In the Eastern and Western finals, the team is very strong, even if the gap between the Eastern Raptors and the Cavaliers is slightly larger, but it is not without the power of a battle, and the game between the Mavericks and the Warriors has also been fried in the sky.
TNT News:
"With the Splash Brothers against the Mavericks with Bruce Qin and other players, this series is perhaps the best game of the season so far in the playoffs."
Fox News:
"This series is likely to break the NBA's all-time record for the most three-pointers shot and the most three-pointers hit. Both the Mavericks and the Warriors have excellent three-point players. Both teams made the most shots on three-point courts, which is among the best in the league. ”
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Before the game even started, all sorts of speculation about the Mavericks and Warriors had already emerged.
And in this case, on May 16, the first game of the Western Conference finals of the playoffs, the Mavericks played the Warriors away.
In the warm-up training, Qin Yang greeted Curry and Klay Thompson and others.
The relationship between the three is very good, Curry has a good personality and high emotional intelligence, it is difficult to be annoying, even if he won the All-Star Game MVP in the All-Star Game this season, he did not let others hate him, this is Curry's ability.
Klay followed Qin Yang to win the championship with the Kings, and then came to the Warriors and became a superstar.
This season, Klay Thompson scored 30 points in a single quarter, which caused a sensation.
After the pleasantries, the game began.
The two sides jumped the ball, Gobert first dialed the ball, and the Warriors started very regular, Draymond Green, Speights, Barnes, Curry, Clay Yangpson.
This lineup is very strong in attack and depends on luck in defense.
Qin Yang attacked, Nurkic stepped forward to cover, Qin Yang directly broke through Klay Thompson's defense, and when he got to the basket, Qin Yang was hit by Speights's body, and before the ball could be shot, the whistle sounded.
Speights fouls.
Qin Yang was a little surprised by this ball.
The whistle is much smaller than a one-round series.
In this confrontation, there is a suspicion of a foul, because Speights pounced when he helped defend, but there were no other very excessive actions, and it would not be considered a foul under normal circumstances.
2-of-2 from the free-throw line.
Warriors offense.
Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson took a screen, and after the screen, Curry made a direct signature three-point shot.
James Ennis stepped straight forward to interfere and hit Curry.
The basketball didn't go in, but the whistle blew too.
Ennis looked depressed.
This defense will not blow the penalty at all in the last series.
At the beginning of the game, two consecutive blows, everyone noticed the scale of the game, and they didn't dare to go too far when defending, and they didn't dare to be too strong in physical confrontation.
In this way, the game becomes incredibly smooth.
Curry and Klay Thompson shot back-to-back shots and shot very well, and the Mavericks also performed well, and they didn't lag behind on the offensive end.
The first quarter ended with the Mavericks leading by one point.
During the break, Coach Carlisle quickly made a change, and Rudy Gay was replaced with Seth Curry.
On this defensive scale, Rudy Gay's role is minimized, and Seth Curry is useful.
In the playoffs this season, the Mavericks have four players who have played relatively short minutes.
Al Jefferson is too old on the inside and has a role on the offensive end, but there are too many holes on the defensive end, not as good as Dirk, and even less as Nurkic, so Al Jefferson only plays an average of six minutes.
On the outside, Cassby is older, has obvious disadvantages on the defensive end, and the rookies have performed well, and the playing time is about the same as that of Al Jefferson.
This is followed by Corey Brewer and Seth Curry.
The characteristics of the two are completely opposite, one is too poor offensively, the other is too poor in defense, and they don't play a lot of minutes, but the new additions PJ Tucker and James Ennis have been reused, and they both played more than 25 minutes.
Against the Warriors, Coach Carlisle made a change.
But this change is not necessarily for the better.
When the referee's penalty scale is very small, Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry's strength can be brought into full play, and no matter how they match, they can shoot relatively easily.
In the second quarter, the Warriors reversed the difference with the play of the two.
In the third quarter, Qin Yang led the team and reversed again, but the score difference did not widen.
Barnes made six shots in the third quarter, shooting 100% from the field, which was desperate, and even if Qin Yang broke out, there was nothing he could do. Barnes, who is not good at shooting, made 3 of 3 three-pointers, and the Mavericks were a little speechless.
In the fourth quarter, the two teams went crazy again.
Curry began to throw three-pointers in the middle of the half, and although he was 1 of 3 from a long distance, the Mavericks' defensive lineup was pulled apart.
Speights is a screen, and the Mavericks will be difficult to defend.
Curry threw directly at the defense.
Qin Yang couldn't prevent it from being misplaced a few times, Curry shot too fast, much faster than Qin Yang, obviously the defense was not slow, but when the defense was in place, Curry had already shot.
Predict in advance that Curry will make fouls, not to mention, Curry's breakthrough is also very sharp, and he will be broken through if he is not careful.
Coupled with the small size of today's defense, Curry is almost unstoppable.
The Mavericks' defense was completely disrupted by Curry, and Klay Thompson felt explosive, and the two threw them endlessly, directly throwing the Mavericks to death.
Qin Yang once again got 43 points, 9 assists and 6 rebounds.
But there is no way back.
Stephen Curry had 39 points, 8 assists and 6 rebounds, Klay Thompson had 36 points, 7 assists and 4 rebounds, and the Splash Brothers worked together to extinguish the Mavericks.
At the end of the game, the Mavericks players were in a state of low spirits.
In this season's playoffs, it was a defeat.
The team lost, and Qin Yang took the initiative to take responsibility during the post-game interview:
"It was my mistake, the team wasn't prepared enough, we weren't aggressive enough to make too many shots from my teammates, and then I wasn't as good as Curry, and he was better at the team than I was."
Qin Yang is not modest, but fact.
Curry made consecutive ultra-long-range three-pointers, and the Mavericks were disorganized defensively.
When Curry draws two defenders from the perimeter, there is bound to be an open spot at the other position, and the Mavericks certainly can't defend it properly.
That's what really makes the Mavericks win.