Chapter 52 Victory in the first battle and Owen's retirement
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Game 1 of the Finals between the Cavaliers and Warriors ended with this score.
James of the Cavaliers made 18 of 38 shots in the game, scoring 44 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists with a 47.4% shooting rate. His performance was flawless.
It's a pity that except for James, no other player on the Cavaliers team can stand up.
Irving made 6 of 18 shots from the field and only scored 16 points, which was actually the second-highest score on the Cavaliers!
Apart from James and Irving, the only other Cavaliers player to score in double figures was blue-collar center Mozgov’s 14 points!
The Warriors are not high enough inside, and Mozgov, who is tall and heavy, has gained many opportunities under the basket. Unfortunately, as a heavy-duty blue-collar center, Mozgov's offensive ability with the ball is quite poor, resulting in the inability to get anything under the basket.
More points.
Except for these three players, no one from the Cavaliers scored in double figures. In this game, the Cavaliers only had three substitute rotation players, namely JR Smith, James Jones and Dellavedova.
With a total of eight players rotating, even the famous European coach Sepp Blatter was helpless.
If the Cavaliers have a headache because they don't have enough rotation players, then the Warriors have a headache because they have too many rotation players.
Except for the five starting players, the Warriors' bench includes Ying Guodala, Barnes, Livingston, David Lee and other players, and their performances are also remarkable.
Only three players from the Cavaliers scored in double figures, but five players from the Warriors scored in double figures!
Curry scored 24 points. After his abnormal performance in the first quarter, he quickly made adjustments and contributed 10 points in the second quarter with a 100% shooting rate. In the subsequent two quarters, the shooting rate has been relatively stable, and the final shooting rate was actually
Reached 50%!
In addition, Curry also sent 8 main attacks in this game, nearly half of which were given to Wang Feng!
Wang Feng had a great time in this game.
There were a total of 9 shots in the game, all from outside the three-point line. He hit 7 goals and scored 21 points with a 78% shooting rate! The efficiency was terrifying!
Not only that, while maintaining efficient output on the offensive end, Wang Feng also made great achievements on the defensive end!
Irving's poor performance was directly related to Wang Feng's full coverage. Wang Feng repeatedly intercepted and stole the Cavaliers' passes throughout the game to create opportunities for fast break counterattacks, helping the team equalize the score and establish an advantage.
In the end, Wang Feng's personal statistics were 21 points, 3 rebounds and 4 steals!
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Wang Feng's eye-catching performance in the finals excited the Chinese fans across the ocean.
This is the NBA Finals! In the history of Chinese basketball, before Wang Feng, there had never been a Chinese player competing in the finals!
Although seniors such as Battelle and Sun Dasheng have won championship rings, let alone the finals, they did not even have the opportunity to appear in the playoffs. They sat on the bench and watched the excitement. At most, they could only cheer and shout a few times.
Then after his teammates came off the field, they moved the place and handed him a towel. It was like a free prostitution ring.
Wang Feng is different!
Starting from the second half of the regular season, Wang Feng gradually became an indispensable piece of the puzzle for the Warriors. Entering the playoffs, he repeatedly took on important tasks, such as guarding James Harden in the Western Conference Finals and guarding Irving in the Finals!
From the first game of the playoffs to now, Wang Feng has averaged more than 10 points per game, which is only lower than Curry, Thompson and Green. He is the fourth scoring point in the Warriors team! He is definitely not a soy sauce character!
Now every game Wang Feng plays in the finals is setting a new milestone in the history of Chinese basketball!
Many Chinese fans felt even more proud when they watched Wang Feng's performance on the NBA Finals stage.
Who said our Chinese basketball is not good? Who said the Chinese players are poor?
A big Yao can be explained by coincidence and individual cases, but what about Wang Feng now?
He doesn't have Yao's height or other unique physical talents. What else do those trolls have to say?
Almost all Chinese fans hope that the Warriors can defeat the Cavaliers and win the championship trophy, so that Chinese players can have a truly valuable championship ring.
Emperor LeBron James, who was originally very popular in China, now has very few supporters, and they no longer sympathize with the Cavaliers' current situation of being riddled with injuries.
The Cavaliers are indeed unlucky this season.
Injuries have been constant since entering the playoffs. Many players were injured, and it rained all night. After the first game of the Finals, Irving felt discomfort on the inside of his left knee. After examination, it was found that the injury was quite serious.
The problem must be treated through surgery. Once the problem is operated on, Irving will miss all subsequent games of the Finals.
After Love was reimbursed for the season, Irving, another of the Big Three, also left the game, leaving James alone to support the Cavaliers.
Regarding Owen's injury, it was a little different from Wang Feng's memory.
Wang Feng remembers that in the original first game of the Finals, the two teams were in a stalemate and it went into overtime. Irving suffered a fracture in his left knee after colliding with Clay Thompson in overtime and was injured.
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Due to Wang Feng's appearance, it was Wang Feng who defended Irving throughout the game, not Clay Thompson, and Wang Feng's 21 points also resulted in the two teams deciding the winner early, without overtime.
Even Wang Feng thought that Irving was a blessing in disguise. Although he suppressed him for the entire game, he avoided injury.
Unexpectedly, what was supposed to come eventually came.
Irving's injury was undoubtedly the heaviest blow to the Cavaliers. Once the news was announced, basically no one thought that the Cavaliers still had a chance to win.
Without Irving, the Cavaliers are even worse. There are only 7 players left in the rotation. The only star is LeBron James. If the Cavaliers can still win and win the championship under this situation, then James is too strong.
!At that time, his historical status will directly catch up with Gang Leader Qiao!
In fact, the year that James' historical status skyrocketed was exactly the year after he made a comeback from 1:3 behind in the 2016 Finals and reversed the 73-win Warriors to win the championship!
As a time traveler, Wang Feng knows very well that without Irving, James will indeed not be able to drag this remnant Cavaliers to win the game.
Even because of Wang Feng's existence, James may not even have the greatest performance in the Finals next year.
The Cavaliers' comeback to win the championship in 2016 had a lot of luck involved, and Wang Feng's presence will undoubtedly nip this slim possibility in the cradle.
In this regard, Wang Feng can only say sorry in his heart to James and the hundreds of thousands of Cleveland fans who yearn for a championship.
As the saying goes, a dead Taoist friend will never die a poor Taoist. Being able to win two championship rings with the Warriors is beneficial to Wang Feng's reputation and the accumulation of achievements on the badge wall!
So even if they were stolen! Wang Feng must snatch these two championship rings!