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How big a difference is there between the Warriors in the Finals and the Warriors in the regular season and playoffs?

In fact, there is not much difference. The players are still the same players, no increase or decrease.

But obviously, if you want to say there is no difference, then you are looking down on the Cavaliers' ability to enter the finals and their performance this season.

Although the Warriors' players have not changed in the finals, the resurrection of Wade and Ron Howard definitely made the entire Warriors team extremely terrifying.

Before the start of the finals, Warriors head coach Cole was most worried about Chen Xiao and Nongmei's defense against James and Oden.

Oden is the most powerful and most comprehensive offensive power center in the NBA. Chen Xiao's height will definitely make him impossible to guard against, while James is the most comprehensive offensive and defensive player in the NBA at the power forward position. He has thick eyebrows. It is also difficult to guard James on a single defense, and it is not easy to defeat James offensively.

It can be said that the Warriors will be very struggling inside in this finals.

In this case, the Warriors need the outside firepower of Clay, Wade, Ron Howard, Devin Booker, Jaylen Brown, Curry Jr., Norman Powell, VanVleet and others to mobilize James and O Climb to help defend.

If you want to mobilize the defense of Oden and James, you only need to be able to shoot accurately from the outside, because the Cavaliers' outside defense is also very good.

If the Cavaliers' outside defense doesn't collapse, they will defend you one-on-one. No matter how accurate the players are in shooting, the shooting percentage will be just that. It will definitely not be as good as the offensive shooting percentage of Oden and James in the paint. The Cavaliers won't even see it at all. Won't even look at you.

Therefore, the Warriors must have a strong point in singles on the outside!

In the last finals between the Cavaliers and the Warriors, the Warriors almost lost to the Cavaliers because they had no outside offensive strengths except for Chen Xiao.

This time, the Warriors have stronger offensive capabilities on the outside.

Not even one, not even two, but three!

Wade and Ron Howard really burned themselves out in their limited time.

Wade is now playing like he was at his peak, making lightning breakthroughs, and at most he can only maintain a high level for one quarter.

However, Luo Ge fought like he was at his peak, holding the ball and turning around to play singles. Due to his physical strength, he could only last for half a court.

In this case, the Warriors need another perimeter offensive powerhouse to attract the Cavaliers' defense for at least half of each game.

And this outside strength really stood out in the finals.

In the previous three games, two of which were at the Warriors' home court, the Cavaliers beat the Warriors 2-1 at the beginning.

After the Warriors won one game in G1, the Cavaliers won two consecutive games.

In such an extremely dangerous situation, experts across the league are shouting that Chen Xiao should step forward to save the Warriors in G4. Don't give in. He should take over the game like the god of basketball and be as unparalleled as he is at his peak. The game is won.

Then something magical happened.

The Warriors indeed have someone who is unparalleled.

But this unparalleled person is not Chen Xiao, but Devin Booker, who the Warriors have focused on training this season!

In G4 and G5, in two consecutive games, Devin Booker scored 40+ points with a shooting rate of more than 50%. As a substitute player, Wade and Ron Howard have tried their best and are already running out of gas. , the young guard of the Warriors, picked up the spear they left behind, and rushed towards the Cavaliers like Zhao Zilong.

As a third-year student, Devin Booker is very young, but Devin Booker does not lack experience, because this is the third consecutive finals in his career.

When the team needed him, he didn't have stage fright, he really stood up next to Chen Xiao.

Devin Booker's explosion is absolutely fatal to the Cavaliers.

Because there is such a strong offensive point on the outside, it will loosen Oden and James' inside defense, and it will also affect Danny Green and Matthews' defense against Klay and other Warriors shooters.

Let's put it this way, the Cavaliers are the league's strongest defensive team, a team that claims to have no defensive holes. After Devin Booker broke out, defensive holes appeared!

Then, Clay, thick eyebrows, even Curry Jr., Jaylen Brown, Powell, and even VanVleet all came alive.

When most of the Warriors' players are disrupted by the internal and external connections of Chen Xiao and Devin Booker, it becomes really difficult for the Cavaliers to play.

The overall strength of the Warriors is too strong.

In fact, in terms of overall strength, the Bucks are better than the Cavaliers.

The strength of the Cavaliers is that they can block Antetokounmpo, Dream Chaser, Ariza, Iguodala and other super players inside, preventing the Bucks from exerting their super overall strength.

In the first three games of the Finals, except for Chen Xiao, Wade and Ron Howard, the Warriors did not show their full strength, and many of their strengths were sealed.

And the outbreak of Devin Booker opened such a seal!

In the end, the Warriors also won three consecutive games after losing two games in a row.

In the end, they defeated the Cavaliers with a big score of 4 to 2 and won the 2018 NBA championship, completing the fourth consecutive championship in the history of the Warriors.

In this finals, Devin Booker became Chen Xiao's most effective assistant with his crazy performance of 28.2 points per game.

In the entire history of the NBA Finals, among players under the age of 25, the only players in the history of the NBA who can average 28 points per game are Bob Pettit, Jerry West, and Rick Barry. , Shaquille O'Neal, Chen Xiao, James, Rose and other seven players, and Devin Booker is the eighth after that.

In fact, although Devin Booker is under 25 years old, he is actually 22 years old, which makes him the youngest person in NBA history to average 28 points per game in the Finals after James and Chen Xiao. Players above.

It was precisely because of such an outstanding performance in the finals that during the finals award ceremony, Chen Xiao and Wade simultaneously picked up Devin Booker's left and right hands and raised them high.

This made the thick-browed man next to him look at him with envy.

He has been the second-in-command of the Warriors for so long and has never received such treatment.

Of course, Devin Booker's performance in this finals is worthy of any praise.

All I can say is, it’s too strong.

Who would have thought that the player whose template was a combination of Klay and Kobe could finally perform like this in the finals.

In this finals, Devin Booker really looks like a combination of Clay and Kobe.

By the way, although Devin Booker performed very well in this finals, the finals MVP was still unanimously won by Chen Xiao.

In this finals, although the Warriors will not be as desperate as they were against the Bucks last season, they are actually very dangerous.

In the last finals, the Warriors actually took the initiative.

In this finals, the Cavaliers actually took the initiative after playing three games.

Anyone who knows N BA knows that taking the initiative is very different from not taking the initiative.

Taking the initiative means that even if you are behind by a big score, you still have a chance to come back. Being behind is nothing and can be reversed.

If you don't take the initiative, you will really fall behind. If you want to reverse it, it will be extremely difficult.

Therefore, after the Warriors fell behind 1-2, the initiative was taken away by the Cavaliers. At that time, the atmosphere within the Warriors was indeed very tense.

Even Chen Xiao was in a very solemn mood.

Fortunately, in the end, Devin Booker did not waste Chen Xiao's troubles inside the Cavaliers. He worked frantically and successfully stood up with a good amount of space.

In this finals, Chen Xiao averaged 11.8 of 24 shots per game, with a shooting percentage of 49.5%. He averaged 31 points, 16 rebounds, 8.5 assists, 3 steals and 3 blocks per game.

In this finals, Chen Xiao created a unique record, which was the lowest shooting rate in his career in the finals.

This finals is also the finals where Chen Xiao has the lowest shooting rate in the history of his career.

I have to say that the Cavaliers' inside combination headed by James and Oden is really powerful. They can seal the Bucks' forwards in the Eastern Conference. This is really no joke.

In this finals, Oden and James performed very well indeed.

James averaged 30.2 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.5 blocks per game. He averaged a triple-double in the Finals. Let's put it this way. In this Finals, James can be said to have directly replaced the future No. 1 power forward in the NBA with thick eyebrows. It was shattered.

After this finals, James proved with facts that James is still the number one power forward in the league. He still has a long way to go if he wants to take over as the number one power forward.

James' partner Oden averaged 28 points, 18 rebounds and 2.6 blocks in this finals.

In this finals, Chen Xiao and Oden can be said to have their own styles and strengths and weaknesses. Generally speaking, Chen Xiao is stronger, but Oden did not collapse and defended the Cavaliers on the defensive end. Defensive system, and also played the role of the league's first traditional center on the offensive end.

Let's put it this way, Oden, who was not that strong offensively in the past, would never be able to average 28 points per game when facing Chen Xiao and being beaten by Chen Xiao.

Although Oden's shooting percentage is not as high as in the Eastern Conference Finals, his 47% shooting rate is actually not that low.

After all, Chen Xiao, a superman who always shoots 60% in the finals, only hit 49% in this finals.

Therefore, in this finals, the performance of the Cavaliers' twin towers was as outstanding as ever.

Even if they lost in the finals, the entire league was full of praise for the two's strength and performance.

In the Golden Eagle era headed by Chen Xiao, Wade and Ron Howard, the championship is not actually the criterion for evaluating a player's strength.

Just like Nowitzki of the Mavericks, even though he has retired, NBA experts are still full of praise for his performance against Chen Xiao in the finals.

It can only be said that in this time and space, the NBA is not a turn-based game, and the championship does not determine everything. Except for the championship, except for the FMVP, other players should just retire where they are, because they have no championship, no FMVP, and no data. That doesn't make any sense.

And in this time and space, all of this is meaningful.

At least, at the home court of the Warriors, at the end of the G6 Finals, the Warriors fans gave the Cavaliers players the warmest applause.

I have to say that over the years, Warriors fans have really enjoyed applauding the away team, and have already applauded the Bucks and Cavaliers in the Finals.

All I can say is that these years’ finals have been really exciting.

In the finals of the past four years, the Warriors played the Cavaliers for two years and the Bucks for two years. These four times were all very exciting.

It can only be said that the Warriors' four consecutive championships are really valuable. The Cavaliers and Bucks are really super strong teams in history, and they can even compete with the strongest teams in history.

But no matter what, no matter how strong the opponent was, the Warriors still completed a crazy four consecutive championships.

And Chen Xiao also completed the first four consecutive championships in his incredible career.

After this four consecutive championships, Chen Xiao also completed an achievement that made Russell look forward to it. That is, Chen Xiao became the third player in NBA history to wear championship rings on both his hands. .

Chen Xiao can now call himself the Lord of the Rings with dignity and dignity.

10 finals, 10 championships, and 10 FMVPs. There is no doubt that after this victory in the finals, Chen Xiao has truly achieved perfection.

Therefore, when Chen Xiao held the championship trophy, took the FMVP trophy from Jordan, and raised the MVP trophy for the tenth time in his career, Jordan was following the Warriors in front of all the Warriors fans. After the fans cheered for Chen Xiao for a while, they announced a very exciting and exciting decision to the Warriors fans and NBA players around the world.

"Starting next year, the NBA Finals MVP trophy will be renamed the 'God Chen NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award.' Starting next year, the NBA Finals MVP trophy will be redesigned and will use the same real-life image as the regular season MVP. , and this real-life image is the image of God Chen lifting the Bill Russell Cup for the tenth time!"

Yes, the new Finals MVP trophy will feature Chen Xiao’s image, as well as the Bill Russell Cup.

For the Bill Russell Cup, its mission ended when Chen Xiao lifted the Finals trophy for the tenth time.

However, the Bill Russell Cup has not disappeared, but will remain on the Finals MVP trophy forever in another form.

The last Bill Russell Cup was retained by Chen Xiao forever.

Just like when Brazil retained the Jules Rimit Cup for three consecutive championships, the World Cup was replaced by the Hercules Cup.

It can only be said that Jordan really knows how to play, but it is also because he is good enough at playing that this resolution can be passed at this time.

You know, David Stern was not able to do this, but said that he would do it after Chen Xiao retires.

The finals are over.

But the turmoil of this year's finals is far from over.

After all, whether Chen Xiao is perfect or the NBA Finals MVP changes his name, it is enough to make people crazy!

What a crazy 2018!