The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

Chapter 399 Who Knows

Compared with the violent collision of comets and meteorites in the East, the Western Conference Finals does not seem so attractive.

The Trail Blazers, ranked No. 1 in the Western Conference regular season, played against the No. 2 Clippers.

These two teams are also old rivals.

Because of Wang Xiao, there is no Wang Chaoyong in the West, the Spurs have no Leonard, the Rockets have no Harden, and several teams that should have been strong have all sunk one after another, making the West less competitive. He has reached the finals for several years, but it is a pity that he lost to Wang Xiao's Wizards several times without any suspense.

Basically, in the eyes of the majority of NBA commentators and people who eat melons, the outcome of the Western Conference Finals is not important, because whether it is the Trail Blazers or the Clippers, the odds of winning against the two behemoths in the East are slim.

In other words, as long as the Wizards and the Cavaliers decide the outcome in the Eastern Conference Finals, the championship will basically be stable.

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Although the Bucks were eliminated and had little to do with Wang Xiao this season, Wang Xiao still left for Washington to watch the game between the Wizards and the Cavaliers.

After all, this is an epic confrontation between the Wizards and the Big Four of the Cavaliers. If you think about it with your toes, you know it must be very exciting, and it will be extremely rare. After all, neither the Wizards nor the Cavaliers can afford so much all year round. Star salaries.

The Eastern Conference finals officially begin on May 20.

In Washington, home of the Wizards, the first game of the series between the two sides started.

As soon as the first game came up, the Wizards gave the Cavaliers a disarm at home. Under the leadership of Curry, within three minutes of the opening, the Wizards used a sharp and unsolvable offense to beat the Cavaliers 12:0, forcing the Cavaliers The team called two timeouts in a row.

Then even if the Cavaliers regained the rhythm of the game and began to restore scoring efficiency, the Wizards have always occupied the initiative in the game.

In the second quarter of the game, James relied on his outstanding personal ability to continuously cause huge damage to the Wizards' defense and once evened the score.

However, Curry quickly stood up and hit two key three-pointers in a row, once again widening the point difference. As the third and fourth quarters progressed, the Cavaliers players inevitably fell into a trap. Physical crisis.

The luxury lineup of the Big Four does not come just as you want. In order to have four stars at the same time, the salary of the Cavaliers can be described as shocking. There is not enough cap space to sign more role players.

Here the difference becomes apparent.

In another world, the Cavaliers are also the team with the highest salary in the league, but in the case of maintaining the Big Three, the Cavaliers can also have many excellent role players at the same time, such as blue-collar players Tristan Thompson, JR. Smith , Korver, Shumpert et al.

But in this world, the Cavaliers' cap space means they can only use the veteran's minimum salary to sign some players who have no strength.

In contrast, although the Wizards also had the same problem, they won because of the strong family background left by Wang Xiao.

Needless to say, the starting lineup is not weaker than that of the Cavaliers. On the bench of the Wizards, there are still two guys, Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green.

In order to counter the more reasonable rotation and tactics of the Wizards, the Cavaliers can only be forced to let the Big Four play more time, so as to ensure that the point difference will not be widened to an unbearable level.

However, as the game progressed, the excessively long playing time correspondingly caused additional consumption of the players' physical energy, and the state began to gradually decline.

When the number of James' breakthroughs with the ball decreased a little bit and the number of outside shots increased, the Cavaliers' offense inevitably began to stalemate.

The Wizards seized this opportunity and scored several counterattacks in a row to open the score again.

In the end, when the game ended, the Wizards won the game with a score of 116:93 and won a good start.

Throughout the game, James scored a game-high 33 points, along with 6 rebounds and 8 assists. His performance was all-round and powerful, and his shooting percentage was close to 50%.

But apart from him, Irving, the Cavaliers' second-highest scorer, only scored 18 points in the game.

Howard had 15 points and 13 rebounds, and Love had 13 points and 7 rebounds.

All three of the Big Four were very disappointing.

In contrast, several stars of the Wizards performed extremely well.

Curry scored 25 points, George 22 points, Leonard 21 points, and Thompson 18 points.

The starting four scored a total of 86 points, which is 7 points higher than the total score of the Cavaliers' Big Four.

At the same time, Butler and Green also scored 13 points and 9 points respectively on the bench.

While the starting lineup scored lower than their opponents, they also lost completely in scoring from the bench.

Cavaliers fans are desperate to find that what's happening now doesn't seem to be any different from last year.

Even without Wang Xiao in this team, the offense is still sharp and the defense is still so strong.

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"In this game, we failed to prevent the opponent from scoring, especially when the shot was missed or there was a turnover, the opponent always seized the opportunity to play a fast break. In the next game, we will try to reduce the turnover and speed up the replay. Speed, to limit the Wizards' fast break..."

At the press conference after the game, Cavaliers head coach Tyronn Lue chattered endlessly, and seemed to have found the key to victory, and he was very sure of winning the next game.

But Wang Xiao felt that this guy was probably in a panic.

The gap between the Wizards and the Cavaliers is entirely reflected in the strength of the players. No matter how powerful the tactics are, they cannot make up for the gap in player strength.

During the game, the field cameras filmed Wang Xiao who watched the game from the sidelines more than once, and after the game, some reporters blocked Wang Xiao to interview him about his views on the game.

"The game was very exciting, the players all played their due level, this is a beautiful game."

The reporter was a little dissatisfied with Wang Xiao's answer. After thinking about it, the reporter asked again: "Then which of these two teams do you think will win the final victory and enter the finals?"

"Of course a wizard."

Wang Xiao replied without thinking, and at the same time, he said without waiting for the reporter to continue asking questions: "First of all, as the former head coach of the Wizards, I personally supported them to win, and secondly, from the perspective of the team lineup. Considering various factors such as depth, player's personal ability, advanced tactics and other factors, the Wizards have an absolute upper hand, as long as there are no accidents, the Wizards will definitely be able to eliminate the Cavaliers and enter the finals."

As long as there are no accidents?

The reporter raised his eyebrows slightly: "The accident you mentioned refers to..."

"There are many, such as natural disasters and man-made disasters, or player injury factors, etc..." Wang Xiao chuckled: "Who knows about such things?"