(There seems to be a mistake earlier. The reward for winning the championship is a gold badge, not purple. I made a mistake. I’m sorry to say it here.)
When the total score reached 3:1, it was almost certain that the Warriors would eliminate the Thunder and advance to the finals.
Looking at history, there are very few teams that can complete a comeback when trailing 1:3.
The 73-win Barnes version of the Warriors that originally staged this scene in the Western Conference Finals counts as one.
In the finals, James led the Cavaliers to complete a dramatic comeback.
It's a pity that Wang Feng's existence means that these two desperate comebacks may not be staged.
After winning an away game against the Thunder, the Warriors returned to their home court to prepare for Game 5 of the series.
During this period, the league's most important season award, the regular season MVP, finally announced the results.
Warriors guard Stephen Curry won the regular season MVP award with a unanimous vote for the first time in the league.
There is no suspense about this.
74 wins in the regular season, the longest 35-game winning streak in history, plus personal averages of 31 points, 5.4 rebounds and 7.2 assists per game. If these are not the MVP of the regular season, then no one in the entire league is worthy of this award.
Curry is like another time and space, successfully winning two consecutive MVPs, feeling proud, and the situation in the Western Conference Finals is clear.
On May 26, the Warriors returned to their home court and had a fierce battle with the Thunder. The battle was inextricable. Westbrook on the Thunder team finally made a comeback after losing four games in a row, shooting 12 of 28 from the field.
In the game, he scored 31 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists. Together with Durant's 34 points, the two scored 65 points together, leading the Thunder to a difficult 120:117 win, chasing the score to 3:2.
But this is just a desperate struggle to not be eliminated, and the league also secretly exerted its strength in this game. Durant and Westbrook both received a lot of whistles. The former made 11 of 13 free throws and the latter made 8 of 10. Obviously,
The league hopes to see a conference finals with fierce competition and ups and downs.
By Game 6 of the series, the Warriors gave the Thunder no chance.
In this game, Clay Thompson fully demonstrated his terrifying scoring explosive power. He scored 41 points on 14 of 31 shots. Curry scored 31 points on 9 of 22 shots. Wang Feng took fewer shots, but he also made 7 of 10 shots.
Scored 17 points.
The Warriors scored 89 points with just three perimeter players!
For the Thunder, Durant scored 29 points and Westbrook scored 28 points. However, one made 10 of 31 shots and the other made 10 of 27 shots. Both shot rates were around 30%.
With a huge gap in scoring and shooting percentage, the Thunder struggled tenaciously at home but to no avail.
126:117.
The Warriors defeated the Thunder 4:2, ended the Western Conference Finals in 6 games, and successfully reached the Finals.
As the Warriors successfully advanced to the finals, the voice of the Warriors winning the championship became louder and louder in the league, and the odds of winning the championship also soared.
It is hard for people to imagine that a super team that just broke the Bulls' record of 72 wins would lose the championship this season.
Even in the Eastern Conference finals, the Cleveland Cavaliers also eliminated the Toronto Raptors 4:2, and no one thought the Cavaliers could defeat the Warriors in the finals.
In the two regular-season games between the two teams, the Warriors had the last laugh. The record gap between the two teams was even greater. One had 74 wins, while the other only had 57 wins.
The huge gap has even affected the winning odds of bookmakers.
The Warriors' winning odds are only 1.35, but the Cavaliers' odds are as high as 2.7, which seems to have killed the suspense in advance.
No one expected the Cavaliers to win the final championship.
Since Wang Feng's version of the 74-win Warriors performed better than the original 73-win Warriors in both the regular season and the playoffs, fans are more convinced that the Warriors can win.
Wang Feng is actually quite curious. If the Cavaliers were really like what happened in another time and space, when they fell behind 1:3 at the beginning and fought back to make a comeback, and finally pulled off three games in a row to complete the comeback, how much of a sensation would it bring to the league?
, will it be more exaggerated than in another time and space?
However, out of curiosity, Wang Feng cannot sit back and watch the championship slip away from his fingers!
After all, winning the championship will reward you with a gold badge. Nothing can compare with the badge reward!
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The Eastern and Western finals ended on May 27. After two days of rest, on May 30, at the home court of the Warriors, the finals officially started!
This is the second time the Warriors and Cavaliers have met in the finals. At this moment, fans may not know that the finals will be a battle between the Cavaliers and the Cavaliers in the next few years.
Although James and the Cavaliers are basically in a state of being beaten by the Warriors, we have to admit that the games between these two teams in recent years will be the most representative scenes in the league.
Since both teams have studied and analyzed each other countless times during the regular season, they know each other well, and their tactical arrangements are also very targeted.
In the opening game of the Finals, the Warriors' starting lineup was Curry, Clay Thompson, Wang Feng, Green and Bogut.
The Cavaliers' starting lineup is Irving, J.R. Smith, James, Tristan Thompson and Love.
Both the Warriors and the Cavaliers were in the testing stage at the beginning of the game. They did not choose targeted defensive arrangements and tactics, but simply faced off between the same positions.
In this way, Wang Feng directly faced James.
Wang Feng cannot guard against James, and there is a huge gap in strength between the two. This is something both sides know very well.
But even so, the Warriors still chose this formation.
The reason is simple. Wang Feng cannot guard James, and neither can other players on the Warriors.
They met twice in last year's finals and this year's regular season. Cole tried many methods to limit James, Green, Ying Guodala, and Thompson, who also took turns playing. However, James has always been able to maintain an extremely efficient offensive efficiency and play the role of a top star.
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After careful calculation, neither Green nor Yingodala is much better at defending James than Wang Feng, and even less effective than Wang Feng in terms of outside defensive shooting.
Therefore, Cole made new defensive tactical arrangements in the Finals.
Wang Feng mainly defends James' mid-to-long-range shots. If James breaks through and hits the basket, the Warriors' interior players will be responsible for helping to defend against double teams. If James cannot be guarded in this case, then he will no longer worry about guarding James.
It would be great to curb the offensive rhythm of other Cavaliers players.
This is also the main reason why Wang Feng, who is good at defending the perimeter, is allowed to mark James, freeing up Green, who can defend both inside and outside. Green, who does not need to mark James, can further strengthen the Warriors' interior defense.