Chapter 353 Eliminate the Cavaliers and advance to the finals
The total score is 3:1. Although the situation is much better than 3:0, the difference is not particularly big for the Cavaliers, especially in the fourth game, losing 40 points at home, which is definitely a very serious blow to the confidence of the Cavaliers players.
Next, as long as the Wizards return to their home court and easily win the last game, they can go straight to the finals, compete for the third championship trophy, and create a dynasty era that belongs to the Wizards.
On the other hand, the situation in the Western Conference Finals is also similar.
Although the Spurs have no Leonard, after strengthening Bosh, their strength is definitely not comparable to the Grizzlies. The Spurs are currently leading 3:1 and holding match points.
Basically nothing big accident happened, the finals will be the Wizards against the Spurs.
Wang Xiao had to sigh at the ability of the old man Popovich. When Leonard was intercepted by himself, he could still keep the Spurs as the Western Conference strong team, and even compete with the Trail Blazers with Durant in the Western Conference Finals for several years, and this year he reached the finals again.
Wang Xiao felt a little tired of facing the Trail Blazers in the finals for two consecutive years. Facing this new opponent, he felt it was a bit interesting.
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Back at home, the Wizards did not give the Cavaliers any chance. Even though James came to earth again, scored 41 points, 8 rebounds, 12 assists, even Howard finally broke out, beat Gobert in the inside, scored a large triple-double with 27 points, 18 rebounds, and even though Irving still contributed steadily, he also scored 20+ points. Even Love finally performed normally, and scored a rare 18 points, 7 rebounds, but the Cavaliers still could not recover the decline.
James scored 41 points, Howard scored 27 points, Irving scored 21 points, Love scored 18 points, and the four giants scored 107 points together, which was higher than the overall score of a team in the whole game most of the time, but they still lost.
128:124, the Wizards won the fifth game of the following match with a 4-point advantage, which also officially freezes the score of the series at 4:1.
After the game, James said bluntly in an interview.
"Can you imagine? Our starting lineup scored more than 110 points! (including starting shooting guard JR. Smith) But we still lost! The Wizards are a historical team, they are really too strong and perfect, almost impeccable."
That's true.
This game is a total battle between gods.
The Cavaliers' starting five players scored more than 110 points, and the Wizards are not bad at all.
Curry scored 27 points, Thompson scored 21 points, Leonard scored 23 points, Green scored 13 points, Gobert scored 9 points, and the five players also scored 93 points. Although it was slightly worse than the Cavaliers' starting five Tigers, it could not stand the Wizards' substitute lineup.
Jimmy Butler scored 12 points, Isaiah Thomas scored 10 points, and Chandler Parsons scored 9 points. These three have completely become the sharpest sharp swords on the Wizards' bench.
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Wang Xiao felt that James might be desperate inside, and it was too difficult for him.
After the Heat teamed up and failed to win the championship, returned to the Cavaliers and re-formed the Big Four, but they still lost to the Wizards. Is it really necessary to embark on the most difficult path?
For a pride like LeBron James, if you don’t have the honor of a championship, no matter how beautiful the data is, it will not be able to enhance your historical status.
For Wang Xiao, James' historical status has nothing to do with him. As long as Wang Xiao can leave a strong mark in the history of NBA and even basketball, it would be great.
And it seems that such a day is getting closer.
After the Eastern Conference Finals ended and the Wizards confirmed that they would enter the finals stage in the fourth year, Wang Xiao received a very formal official invitation from the China Basketball Association.
The invitation letter was full of official words, but it was expressed in the end.
After the NBA playoffs, they hope to invite Wang Xiao to the basketball team to discuss and study whether Wang Xiao is suitable for the position of head coach of the Chinese men's basketball team.
To put it bluntly, it is equivalent to an interview.
Wang Xiao could completely imagine that these guys who do not want to be men's basketball coaches will definitely make things difficult for him.
But Wang Xiao was not worried at all. The pressure from a certain boss was not something that the senior executives of the Basketball Association could bear. As long as he did not commit suicide, he would bite the request he had mentioned before and would not give the Basketball Association a chance to find fault. No matter how reluctant they were, the position of the head coach of the Chinese men's basketball team was his own.
Becoming the national team coach and leading the team to achieve unprecedented results will undoubtedly make Wang Xiao's status in the coaching industry rise again.
Everything is going on in an orderly manner...
In the Western Conference Finals between the Spurs and the Grizzlies, the Spurs finally laughed to the end, eliminated the Grizzlies 4:2 and advanced to the NBA Finals.
The last time the Spurs played in the NBA Finals, we have to go back to the 2006-07 season, and now it is the 2013-14 season, which has happened many years ago.
Over the years, the Spurs have been a powerful Western Conference team, but they have never been able to reach the finals again.
Aging of GDP and lack of fresh blood have always troubled the Spurs.
It is not a good thing to have a good record. After all, this determines that their draft pick will not be too high, and it is difficult to choose high-quality rookies with strength and potential.
After all, it is not possible for anyone to frequently pick talents from second round picks like Wang Xiao.
And not many people were optimistic about the Spurs in the long-lost finals.
The Wizards are really too strong. Even the Cavaliers' super four giants are defeated, let alone the Spurs?
Even though they got the All-Star Power Forward last summer, Chris Bosh, one of the Heat's Big Three, is completely incomparable to the Wizards in terms of lineup.
Parker, the youngest in the GDP combination of Duncan, Parker and Ginobili are all 32 years old, not to mention Ginobili and Duncan, who are more than five years older than Parker.
Although both Duncan and Ginobili still maintain a good competitive state because of the Spurs' scientific and reasonable playing style, it is still much worse than the Wizards' young men with an average age of 24 and unlimited vitality.
It is completely predictable that in the Wizards' whirlwind-like fast-paced storm, the Spurs' slow playing style and tactics will be torn to pieces.
The only thing that can be expected in this duel is whether Popovich can think of any good way to limit the Wizards' scoring firepower points and win the game through defense.
On June 5, the first NBA 2013-2014 season finals will officially begin.
Chapter completed!