Chapter 881: Two peerless heroes advance one after another
This quarter lasted for nearly five minutes, and the Lakers, led by Paul and Kobe, could only hold the score to 22 points.
Coach Terry saw that the rotation time was about the same, and calmly and calmly replaced the three main players of Barton, Batum and Aldridge. Tonight, the Trail Blazers were determined to complete their success in one game.
Qualifying for the Western Conference Finals depends on this game!
Seeing this, Walton Jr. had no choice but to put on the entire main lineup and was forced to challenge, and have a final battle with the Trail Blazers.
Even though he has no hope for this game.
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The Trail Blazers defeated the Lakers by 21 points on the road and won the crucial match point battle in this series.
This game is not complicated. It can be summed up in one sentence: the Trail Blazers used an offensive frenzy with incredible efficiency to extinguish the Lakers' desperate struggle.
In the whole game, Kobe only scored 22 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists, which was his worst performance among the four games in this series.
But even so, Kobe was still the Lakers' best player tonight. The second best performer was Paul, who had a double-double in assists.
From then on, the Lakers no longer had a player who scored 15 points.
Gasol, the last member of the Big Three, only had 14 points and 9 rebounds tonight.
It is worth mentioning that this is almost the data of the Big Three in the first three quarters.
Because at the end of the third quarter, the Trail Blazers had already stretched the point difference to more than 40 points!
Just after the third quarter, many fans couldn't bear to see the team being slaughtered, and many fans also had a premonition of something, and they all left the game early after the start of the fourth quarter.
This was undoubtedly a heavy blow to the players who were still fighting on the court, completely shattering the Lakers' remaining fighting spirit.
In the end, the two sides stopped the game in the final quarter, leaving the main players on the bench, allowing the substitutes to rotate and stage a show of novices pecking each other in the final quarter.
Throughout the game, the Trail Blazers shot an astonishing 57%!
If it weren't for the various shots from the substitutes in the last quarter that caused the shooting percentage to drop, the Blazers' efficiency might have gone even higher tonight.
In addition, the Trail Blazers also sent out as many as 42 assists, which was almost twice as many as the Lakers.
In the first three quarters, Wang Zelin had 4x5 luxurious statistics of rebounds, 5 assists, 5 blocks and 1 steal, and was named the best player in the game.
According to the final statistics, except for Wang Zelin, six players on the Trail Blazers team scored in double figures!
Including the Fab Five, as well as Connett Lee and Jokic on the bench.
On the Lakers bench.
Looking at the big score of 0 to 4 on the big screen, and looking at the opponent's crazy celebration after the whistle sounded, Kobe looked up at the big screen and didn't know what he was thinking.
As for Paul, when he saw the score was completely settled, he began to doubt life a little.
Why is it the second round again?
He fell in the damn second round again!
From the Hornets era to the Clippers era, and now to the Lakers era, Chris Paul, affectionately called the "Point Guard God" by many fans, once again missed the Western Conference Finals!
Paul's mentality was shattered. He really couldn't stay in this place in the west!
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"The ruler of the new era is none other than Wang Zelin!"
"The Purple and Gold Army once again fell under the iron heel of the Portlanders, heading toward the Western Conference Finals for the fourth consecutive year!"
"We missed George Mikan's three consecutive championships, the Celtics' eight consecutive championships, and Jordan's two three consecutive championships. We missed too many great moments...
But those are all in the past. The most important thing for people is to grasp the present moment...
Now we are witnessing the emergence of another great team!"
After Wang Zelin led the Trail Blazers to four consecutive games and swept the Lakers again after two years, TNT's expert team published such an extremely long column overnight.
Last summer, the Lakers completed an upgrade of their lineup. The vacant position was changed from Rondo to Paul. In terms of paper strength, the Lakers have the most luxurious backcourt combination in the league.
At the same time, they also have Pau Gasol, who is still young, sitting inside.
Logically speaking, such a championship-favorite team with such a lineup should fall in the conference finals even if it has to fall.
The results of it?
Fell in only the second round!
But looking at the statistics of their opponents in the second round, perhaps it was expected that they would be beaten.
After four games, Trail Blazers star Wang Zelin showed even greater dominance than in the first round, evolving from an average of 5 5 2 per game in the first round to an average of 6 6 1 per game.
Among the five basic statistics, apart from the slight decline in steals, points, rebounds, assists and blocks have all increased a lot.
Such a performance shocked the fans!
Since his rookie season, Wang Zelin has never missed the Western Conference Finals. It seems that there is no way he can stop his dominance of the Western Conference Finals!
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Wang Zelin and his teammates are very excited to have reached the Western Conference Finals for 44 consecutive years.
Now no one dares to question that it will be difficult for the Trail Blazers to defend their title. At this point, I think they have achieved a historically rare dominance in the Western Conference playoffs, with eight wins from eight games! The Trail Blazers have not played a single game in the playoffs this year.
defeat.
The Trail Blazers successfully advanced, and the pressure was entirely on Curry and the Warriors.
Can the competition for the strongest team of the new generation continue last season?
Another day passed, on May 12, after returning to the Bay Area to rest for a day, Curry led the Warriors to face the Spurs at Oracle Arena.
From gaining a 2-0 advantage at home, to regretting not being able to sweep the away game 3-1, and losing some advantage to the Spurs, this series of ups and downs made Curry feel the pressure and feel extremely excited.
Last season, he unfortunately lost six games against Wang Zelin in the Western Conference Finals. Now a season later, both Curry and his teammates have made great progress.
From the regular season record competition to the MVP competition, he has been overwhelmed by Wang Zelin and his Trail Blazers. This time Curry is eager to prove himself by entering the Western Conference Finals again.
He wants to prove to everyone: I, Stephen Curry, am no worse than anyone else!
However, the Spurs seem unwilling to be swept into the dustbin of history by young people.
After the game started, the old GDP seemed to have a second spring, helping the Spurs to exert strong defensive dominance.
As a result, the two teams launched a high-quality duel tonight, and they fought hard until the fourth quarter but could not decide the winner.
Unfortunately, entering overtime, Gdp Killer fell into a physical crisis due to aging, causing the Spurs to gradually lose their ability to deal with the Warriors.
Prior to this, the confrontation between the two sides was very fierce and the game was inextricable.
However, the Lakers, who had better physical strength and morale, ultimately allowed the Spurs to score only 5 points in overtime, while they only scored 11 points.
Curry finished the game with 33 points, 7 rebounds, and 8 assists, a near triple-double. He beat Leonard with 3 rebounds and 3 steals. He led the team to beat the Spurs with 6 points and advanced with a total score of 4-1!
Following the Trail Blazers, the Warriors also completed promotion. This season, the two Western Conference heroes will meet again in the Western Conference Finals after a year.