I’m Really Playing Basketball

After defeating the Lakers and entering the finals, everyone on the Warriors team, except for Chen Xiao, was really exhausted physically and mentally, and everyone seemed to explode.

Most of the current Warriors players have never played in such an intense playoff game in their careers.

Even championship veterans like Chen Xiao and Clay felt a sense of psychological exhaustion after playing this series.

After this Western Conference Finals, many people were criticizing Paul George for playing the worst series of his career. But for the Warriors, Clay played the most solid series of his career.

Well, including Chen Xiao, this series also played extremely well.

In Chen Xiao's career, except for playing with the 76ers in his rookie season, he has basically never been as good as playing with the Lakers this season.

It can only be said that in this battle, the Warriors really tried their best.

Of course, the same goes for the Lakers.

In such a meat grinder series, if you are not a true superstar, it is really difficult to maintain stability.

In the entire training match, the only players who could score 20 points in every game were Chen Xiao and Leonard.

And Chen Xiao, even though he is 40 years old now, is still stronger than Leonard offensively, and this is one of the reasons why the Warriors were able to defeat the Lakers in this series.

In this series, the two teams worked crazy on defense and pushed it to the extreme. In the end, the only thing they fought for was offense.

Therefore, after losing in the Western Conference Finals, Kobe really sighed. The players tried their best, but the Lakers were just a little bit behind.

In fact, this year's Warriors are really strong. In this Western Conference Finals, the Warriors have been relatively unlucky. They didn't start any of the first three games. Even in the entire training game, except for Chen Xiao's outburst, No one else's touch was good. In this case, the Lakers only won two games. There is really nothing more to say about this.

Therefore, no one can blame the Lakers for losing in the end.

Therefore, after the Warriors won the Western Conference championship again, Kobe immediately sent his blessings. As an opponent, if you lose to such an opponent, all you have is respect.

After the Warriors defeated the Lakers and reached the finals, the news in the United States was very big.

It directly covered up the news that the Nets won the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft lottery not long ago.

By the way, the much-anticipated 2022 NBA draft lottery finally came to an end. The Nets successfully defeated the Bobcats and won the No. 1 pick.

This result made Nets fans extremely excited, so much so that Nets general manager Jason Kidd responded excitedly to this matter every day. Every time he responded to this matter, he would say at the end, the entire New Jersey Can't wait for this year's draft.

Yes, with the Nets having the No. 1 pick, no one else can make a choice. If the Nets don't sign Xiao Chen with the No. 1 pick, then New Jersey fans will definitely be able to dismiss the Nets' management collectively.

Of course, this is exciting Nets fans and Nets management, but for Bobcats fans and management, this is quite disappointing.

Of course, Jerry West and the Warriors were also disappointed at the same time.

Not being able to get the No. 1 pick this time, for the Warriors, basically means that as long as Chen Xiao leaves, the Warriors will definitely lose most of the fans and attention that Chen Xiao left behind in the Warriors.

This loss is huge.

And although Chen Xiao didn't say it explicitly, everyone actually knew that maybe this season would be Chen Xiao's last season with the Warriors.

Because Xiao Chen's arrival basically means that the end of Chen Xiao's career will be left to Xiao Chen.

This is actually human nature.

Historically, Lao Zhan tried his best to be on the same team as Xiao Zhan.

In this time and space, in order to be able to coach Xiao Ke, Mr. Ke may have to do something earth-shattering.

If Wade hadn't been ready to retire at that time, didn't want to go to other teams, let alone drag down the Warriors, he actually wanted to play with Wade Jr.

Therefore, for the three teams of the Nets, Bobcats and Warriors, getting Xiao Chen actually means getting Xiao Chen, but it also means getting Chen Xiao.

Of course, these are all things in the offseason and beyond. The most important thing for now is to win this year's championship. This is not only Chen Xiao's eleventh championship beyond perfection, but also Chen Xiao's first victory with the Warriors. Perfect ending.

Of course, it was also the curtain call for Jerry West with the Warriors, the perfect curtain call for his NBA career.

But it's definitely not easy to win the championship this year.

After all, the opponent Bucks are definitely one of the strongest teams in history this year. They can compete with any team in history to be the strongest team in history, and they will be ranked very high.

After the Western Conference Finals between the Warriors and the Lakers, the Warriors gave the entire team a day off, and then the Warriors players almost invariably paid attention to the G6 battle between the Bucks and the Heat.

In fact, how could the Warriors players miss such a battle between the Bucks and the Heat? In fact, the Warriors players paid attention to every game.

It can only be said that when you pay attention to the entire game between the Bucks and the Heat, you will understand how scary the Bucks are.

You have Luo Gao in the pick-and-roll, and he has three goblins.

You have Razan tearing inside and outside, and he has three goblins.

You've got Gobo Adebayo's interior block, and he's got three goblins.

Curry, Durant, and Antetokounmpo, these three are on the same team, so awesome!

In six games with the Heat, the three averaged 90 points per game.

Even reaching G6, after the Bucks easily defeated the Heat in G6, the three Bucks still had a little more to say.

In G6, Rose was very uncomfortable being guarded by Bucks guard Jrue Holiday. In the end, because Rose pulled his hip in the only game of the series, the Heat died suddenly.

Although the Heat have many star players, the real core is not Zan, LaVine, or Adebayo, but Rose and Gao Bo.

When Rose was restrained by Holiday, the Heat limped on two legs.

The tactics couldn't be used, and in the end we had to let Brother Zan, LaVine, and Gao Bohe use it to deal with the Big Three.

How to open this?

In the history of the NBA, no three-man combination can open up and compete in front of the Bucks.

Therefore, compared with the Lakers' loss to the Warriors, which was a spectacular loss and a worthy death, the Heat's loss to the Bucks was really aggrieved.

They exhausted their skills and tactics, but the Bucks didn't even have the complex coordination of the three. This is a bit unacceptable.

Originally, in the past few seasons, the Heat played very close to the Bucks.

But who would have thought that with the growth of young players such as Gao Bo, they would not shorten the gap with the Bucks, or even widen the gap.

It’s okay to have a player like Chen Xiao in the NBA who gets better and better as he gets older. Unexpectedly, two of the Bucks’ Big Three are getting better and better as they get older.

Durant and Curry are both 34 years old, but even at the age of 34, when you watch their games, you can feel that they are still improving.

Maybe their bodies are not as powerful anymore, but their basketball skills and concepts are getting better and better.

What is a genius?

This is the real genius. Durant and Curry are unparalleled geniuses in the sport of basketball, and they are also devoted enough to basketball. Therefore, they always give people the illusion that they are always improving. .

Historically, the entire league couldn't handle a Curry who had already transformed. Now that Curry has transformed, he has Durant and Antetokounmpo at his peak. To be honest, the Heat did not try their best in 4-2, although It's shocking, but this is what it should be.

Therefore, after watching the series between the Heat and the Bucks, every Warriors player felt very heavy in his heart.

Such an opponent is really strong.

As long as they are not blind, everyone is a professional, so how can we not understand the despair of the Heat players.

You have been playing tactically for a long time and hit a ball, but on the opposite side, there is a direct pull-up that ignores the defense and easily throws the ball in. This is such a feeling.

In fact, when it comes to talent, the Heat are not bad either. Rose, Gao Bo, DeRozan, LaVine, and Adebayo are all geniuses.

But except for Rose, no one else is currently considered an invincible genius like the three Bucks.

Now these three goblins of the Bucks are standing in front of the Warriors.

The finals between the Warriors and Bucks will start on June 3, because the NBA Finals format has been changed, from 232 to 22111, so in the first two games, the Warriors will face the Bucks in Milwaukee. deer.

The Bucks and Heat played G6 on May 29, so there was three days of rest in between. Plus it was a home game, the Bucks would not have any problems with their physical fitness. They even just took the Heat to practice swordsmanship. Warming up, the Bucks' players must be in very good shape now.

If the Bucks win these two games, then the Warriors will be really in danger.

Therefore, for the Warriors, they must win at least one of the first two games.

Falling behind 2-0 in the finals is extremely fatal.

In this case, it is too difficult to win a game at the Bucks' home court.

The Heat have not lost a game at home throughout the playoffs this year.

In fact, except for the absence due to the epidemic in 2020 the year before last, the Bucks have lost only a handful of games at home in the playoffs in recent years.

It is precisely because of this that after the Eastern Conference Finals between the Bucks and Heat, the Warriors flew directly to Milwaukee.

The Warriors' home base in Milwaukee is Marquette University.

, I have to say, this can be regarded as a first-come-first-served basis. It would be impossible for other teams to find Marquette University in Milwaukee as a base to fight the Bucks.

The Bucks and Marquette University share a home court.

Being able to get the support of Marquette University basically minimizes the Warriors' away disadvantage.

At least, at Marquette University, you definitely don’t have to worry about someone poisoning you, you definitely don’t have to worry about someone finding a beautiful woman to make your important player’s legs weak, and you don’t have to stay in a hotel to enjoy the noise.

The Warriors live in Marquette University's dormitories and use Marquette University's training field. This training environment is not very good.

Moreover, Chen Xiao brought the team to Milwaukee to play, and the benefits would only be this little.

After Chen Xiao brought the Warriors players to Milwaukee, he was treated with cheers from the airport all the way to Marquette University.

Wherever he went, there were no boos.

Let's put it this way, as an opponent of the Bucks back then, Popovich shed tears after watching it.

You know, the Spurs also had Ron Howard, one of the Three Eagles, but when the Spurs came to Milwaukee under the leadership of Ron Howard and fought the Bucks to the point of life and death, not even Luo Ge could do it in the end. Enjoyed the treatment of home court.

Of course, in the end, Luo Ge led the Spurs to defeat the Bucks.

If possible, Bobo definitely hopes that he can also enjoy Chen Xiao's treatment.

By the way, in this finals between the Warriors and Bucks, the Warriors came to Milwaukee in advance to adapt to the environment and venue.

As for fans around the world, many of them have been to Milwaukee a long time ago, and many are even still on their way to Milwaukee.

You know, during the epidemic, flights between China and the United States are not yet completely unblocked. If they were completely unblocked, Chen Xiao's eleventh career finals would definitely explode.

Even without the live participation of a large number of Chinese fans, just relying on Chen Xiao's American fans and fans from other parts of the world, Milwaukee has exploded.

"Many people say that this is the last finals of God's career, the last chance to win the championship. If he doesn't come this time, he will never be able to see God in the finals again!"

That's why Milwaukee is exploding right now.

Chen Xiao has reached the finals for the eleventh time in his career. In the eyes of many people, this is the last finals of Chen Xiao's career and his last chance to win the championship.

Although the chance of winning the championship this time is not that high, it may be the lowest probability in Chen Xiao's career, but what if?

If by chance we can witness Chen Xiao's eleventh championship on the spot, it will be something that can be remembered for a lifetime.

Of course, for the Bucks players, if they really witnessed Chen Xiao's eleventh championship, it would be really uncomfortable for them.

"Not talking about the Eastern Conference playoffs, just in the finals, we have lost to him twice."

Yes, the Bucks have lost to Chen Xiao twice in the finals, and both losses to Chen Xiao were caused by their Big Three.

It can be said that Chen Xiao is the biggest obstacle in the careers of this group of invincible Big Three.

If you can't cross such a barrier, how can you be invincible?

Even if he wins more championships in the future, Chen Xiao will become their Larry Bird.

On the evening of June 3rd, at the Milwaukee Golden Eagle Arena, the finals finally began!