I’m Really Playing Basketball

With Chen Xiao's terrifying performance in the first quarter as if he was playing 2K on the court, the Warriors led the Spurs by 8 points 42-34 after the first quarter.

For the Spurs, being 8 points behind is really not a lot.

But the problem is that the team the Spurs are lagging behind is not the Clippers, but the Warriors. This is the biggest problem.

And what's even bigger than this problem is that Chen Xiao, who has been maintaining his health in the regular season this season, exploded in the first quarter of this game.

Chen Xiao's incredible three-point shooting performance made Popovich on the sidelines once again doubt his basketball philosophy.

Popovich doesn’t like three-pointers. He believes that no one can be confident enough in three-pointers, even open three-pointers. When you play on the court, as long as you shoot enough, you There may not be a 50% shooting rate, but Chen Xiao's performance in the first quarter really made him doubt his basketball philosophy.

Chen Xiao's stability is incredible.

In terms of three-point shooting ability, it is controversial who is the better three-point shooter, Chen Xiao, Ray Allen, and Curry.

But when it comes to mental stability, Chen Xiao is definitely the strongest.

This is awesome.

Maybe Chen Xiao doesn't have as fast a shooting rate as Ray Allen and Curry, and maybe Chen Xiao's three-pointers are not as elusive, but his stability is also not comparable to Ray Allen and Curry.

You know, the reason why Popovich dared to bet like this in the first quarter was because he had seen Curry and Ray Allen. Curry and Ray Allen treated him like this when they faced the Spurs before. Chen Xiao is confident.

But now...

Popovich definitely can't talk about regrets, but there is no doubt that the Spurs will never treat the Warriors' offense like this in subsequent games.

In the second quarter of the game, the Warriors' rotation on the court was Jaylen Brown, Carter, Devin Booker and Curry. In this game, Thick Eyebrow was a substitute, so he naturally led tonight's rotation.

For the Warriors, this rotation is definitely strong, and it also has a considerable restraining effect on the Spurs' rotation.

Because the center of the Spurs' rotation is Gobert. Although Gobert is fast, he is still a big center.

The thick eyebrows that the Warriors rotate to play center are definitely lightweight centers and can be pulled out.

Of course, Gobert can also prevent it.

but……

As long as Gobert comes out from the three-point line, he is no longer the center with the best defensive player ability.

Historically, Gobert's defensive performance was not very good in every playoff. For several years in the playoffs, Gobert was laughed at by fans as the 'best defensive player named'.

Yes, as long as Gobert comes out from the inside, the opponent will ask outside players to blast Gobert on the outside.

Then Gobert, the best defensive player, instantly became the defensive colander in the small game.

Gobert is a former player of the Warriors, and the Warriors certainly know what Gobert's characteristics are.

So after the thick eyebrows pulled Gobert out, the rest was the work of Devin Booker and Curry.

Then Popovich saw a speechless scene on the sidelines.

Every time Gobert was pulled out, Devin Booker and Curry used pick-and-rolls to name him.

To be honest, he felt that Gobert had the speed to pull out. Although the speed was not fast, it was enough for a big center.

But now, Popovich feels that he would rather Gobert didn't have the speed that makes him think he can do it, so that he will honestly let Gobert squat.

But it is precisely because Gobert has the speed that makes people imagine and write articles, and this speed that makes people imagine and write articles becomes a sweet trap.

As the head coach of the Spurs, at that moment he actually hoped that his players would not be so strong, so he would not have more expectations.

Does this kind of thought make Popovich speechless?

Yes, quite speechless.

So as the game was going on in the second quarter, Popovich silently sat back to his seat from the sidelines.

Before the game, the Spurs had a very good positional defense tactical system from starter to substitute.

Starting center Howard can form his own system on the defensive end.

Backup center Gobert can also form his own system on the defensive end.

Having two players like this can indeed raise more expectations for Popovich. He hopes that the Spurs can seize the weaknesses of the Warriors and then attack them fiercely, and then kill the Warriors, a super strong team with huge flaws. .

but now……

As a former Spurs legend and TNT commentator who has won two championships for the Spurs, this game also has some expectations for the Spurs.

But now.

"Unfortunately, I originally thought that this series between the Spurs and the Warriors could maintain suspense for at least three to four games. But now, I find that I was wrong. We were all wrong. No one would have thought that the Spurs would be in front of the Warriors. It couldn't even maintain the suspense at halftime. Yes, the result of this series was already very obvious before halftime of this game was over."

"The Spurs don't have any chance. The Warriors are indeed not a perfect team, but in front of the Warriors, the Spurs are not all loopholes, but the sea. The Spurs' weaknesses seem like they are in front of the Warriors. It is as wide as the sea.”

Halfway through the second quarter, by the time Chen Xiao and other starting players from both sides returned to the court, the point difference had been widened to more than 10 points.

After Chen Xiao and the others came on the court, the Spurs really didn't dare to let Chen Xiao shoot a three-pointer so easily. Although Chen Xiao's points and three-pointers dropped after he came on the field in the second quarter, Wade was beaten again. The Spurs let it go.

In the second quarter, Wade made 4 of 5 and two free throws, scoring 10 points in just six minutes. This allowed the Warriors and Spurs to score directly at the end of the half. 76 to 60, the Warriors led by 16 points at the end of the half.

If being behind by 7 points in the first quarter is nothing, then being behind by 16 points at halftime is really nothing.

What's more, the Spurs have yet to solve the dilemma of the Warriors' two-poison offense giving them options.

Therefore, after halftime, the TNT studio team, Barkley and others were no longer talking about the game between the Spurs and the Warriors.

Barkley, O'Neal and all they are talking about now is whether the Warriors can sweep them all and win the championship in this year's playoffs.

Yes, in the eyes of these people, it is a foregone conclusion that the Warriors will sweep the Spurs.

The key now is whether the Spurs can sweep the Bobcats or Bucks in the finals.

As Chen Xiao's former teammate, O'Neal is particularly interested in and enthusiastic about this topic.

"There is no doubt that our God will replicate his achievements with the Nets."

When Chen Xiao was in the Nets, he swept all the way. In the finals, he also swept the OK team at the time and won the championship.

Nowadays, with the emergence of historically strong teams in an endless stream, many people still think that the Nets were the strongest team in NBA history, because the Nets swept the OK Lakers, which were in full swing at the time.

So O'Neal keeps saying now that the Nets at that time were the strongest in NBA history.

"If we talk about the regular season record, I believe that the current Warriors, the Bobcats, Cavaliers, Heat, and Spurs in the past are all likely to have a regular season record that surpasses the 2003 Nets, which only had 72 wins and 10 losses.

But if they reach the playoffs, I don’t believe these teams can beat the Nets back then. Only the teams that played against them know how terrifying that Nets were. Yes, that Finals. Chen Xiao, he may not be as strong as he will be in the future, but his magic is unique, the true eyes of the wolf king, the true eyes of the snake king, the eyes of God, that is the most unreasonable basketball player I have ever seen, if he is not real Yes, I might even think he's cheating!

Yes, what I mean is very easy to understand. The current God may be the strongest, but if the current God encounters the former Wonder Boy, he will still only be defeated. I am not kidding.

I take responsibility for my remarks!

And with the Nets having that magical boy who can create unlimited magic, no team can beat them in the finals!

Therefore, if you put all the top teams in NBA history into a playoff game, the only one that can win in the end is the Nets! "

This damn fat man spends a lot of time in Dahei Simi's Hei Chenxiao.

But when talking about the Nets back then, O'Neal's fear of Chen Xiao was definitely from the bottom of his heart.

After all, at the peak of his career, he was hit five times with the left hand and then five times with the right hand. This was the only time.

In that finals, he suffered too many injuries.

Therefore, this time O'Neal said this: "If the Warriors can sweep all the playoffs this year and win the championship, then I am willing to accept that this Warriors team is comparable to that Nets team.

You don’t need to tell me that the Bucks are strong and the Bobcats are strong. Of course I know the Bucks are strong and the Bobcats are strong, but aren’t the OK Lakers that Kobe and I played together? Who of you thought that the Nets would sweep us? ? "

"If you don't have the ability to create miracles, then you can only be an ordinary team. No matter how strong it is, it will still be an ordinary team. It will never be comparable to the Nets back then!"

"So, I know there will be miracles when sweeping the Bucks or Bobcats, but the strongest team needs to have the ability to manipulate miracles. Only in this way can they not be defeated by miracles and become the strongest!"

I have to say that O'Neill's words are indeed quite convincing.

After all, I say this as a victim.

Therefore, after O'Neal said these words, the people next to Barkley were speechless.

For a moment, I felt that although O'Neal's words were radical, they were indeed very reasonable.

Especially the evaluation of Chen Xiao.

Chen Xiao is very strong now, unbelievably strong, but on the court, Chen Xiao no longer has the magic he had when he was a rookie playing in the Finals with the Nets.

So much so that even now, Chen Xiao has won 8 championships and played in 8 legendary finals. However, in 2003, the rookie Chen Xiao played in the finals and was still evaluated by Barkley as the best in history.

Chen Xiao, who played the strongest finals in history, can indeed destroy anyone.

Moreover, O'Neal's words were not only fermented in the TNT studio, but also fermented on the Internet.

For a time, the Internet was filled with the strongest discussion in NBA history.

This is the Warriors team that won 80 games in the regular season and has yet to lose in the playoffs. This is the same amazing Nets that year.

This passage will also be called the biggest myth in the basketball world in the future. There is a special term called "O'Neal Conjecture".

To be honest, this is actually quite rude to the Spurs who are playing against the Warriors.

But there is no way, who makes you look so good?

Trailing by 16 points at halftime and already trailing by 20 points after three quarters.

Although a few points were recovered in the garbage time of the fourth quarter, the Spurs still lost by 10 points 130-140 on the road.

Well, in the fourth quarter, the Warriors actually gave the Spurs some face, allowing the Spurs' rotation players to score 38 points in a single quarter.

Therefore, the final score of this game seems to be what it is, and the Spurs seem to have a great chance.

But anyone who watched the game knows that the Spurs had no chance at the last moment.

After all, the Warriors had VanVleet and Norman Powell all throughout the fourth quarter.

Well, the Warriors were really training their new players in the fourth quarter.

In this game, Chen Xiao, who only played for three quarters, finished with 16 of 24, 14 of 20 three-pointers, and 4 of 4 free throws. He scored 50 points, 12 rebounds, and 10 assists in the game.

A triple-double was completed in three quarters, and it was a 50-point triple-double in the playoffs.

Although Chen Xiao has had a 60+ triple-double and a quadruple-double in the finals, the 50+ triple-double without any loss in the three quarters this time is still very shocking.

After all, Chen Xiao is now 35 years old.

In addition to Chen Xiao, Wade scored 29 points in this game, while Luo Ge had 20 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists.

The three veterans of the Warriors all performed very well in this game.

It can only be said that facing the Spurs in this game, the Warriors made everyone see how they are different from the regular season.

In the playoffs, these three veterans seem to have no weakness in slowing down when Chen Xiao can start a strong attack.

So the question is, if Chen Xiao can play the entire game in the fourth quarter, will the Warriors no longer have the weakness of being unable to follow up.

So can the Bucks still beat the Warriors in the first and fourth quarters?

After watching this game, everyone in the Bucks team had this question.

"Can he really still be able to perform at the same time for an entire quarter at the age of 35 in the first and fourth quarters?"

Seriously, if it were anyone else, no one would believe it.

but………

"This man is, God!"

Yes, this man is God, and no one knows what kind of miraculous things he can do in the end.

Since he is a rookie, he can produce the strongest finals performance in history.

So why can't he be 35?