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Chapter 343 Desperate Warriors Fans, Super Nuggets

It is true that in terms of lineup, the Cavaliers are indeed inferior to the Nets. The only high-strength players in the team are James and Embiid. Another star, Thomas, has been reduced to an irrelevant substitute role. players.

The current lineup of the Cavaliers can only be said to be a little stronger than the Cavaliers in the original 17-18 season, mainly reflected in the fact that Embiid is much better than Love.

But the Nets are different.

Durant and Paul both have the level of the league's top stars, as well as Booker and Jokic, the lineup lead is obvious.

But the Cavaliers have James after all. Even if the honor is discounted, James, who can only be ranked around [-] in the league at present, is still there after all.

The Cavaliers suffered a disastrous defeat in the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals and were mercilessly beaten. Even Wang Chao was a little surprised, but after carefully recalling the original 17-18 Western Conference Finals, Wang Chao felt that it was not so surprising.

In the original 17-18 season, the Western Conference Finals was a game between the Cavaliers and the Celtics.

Facing the Celtics without Irving, the Cavaliers once fell into a difficult battle, especially in the first two games, the Celtics lost by a large score at home, and there was also a disastrous defeat of more than 20 points. After the two games, the score was 2:0, and it was a one-sided situation.

However, the Cavaliers, who returned to their home court, finally stabilized the situation, and under the efforts of James, they pulled two consecutive rounds to recover the score.

In the subsequent battle of Tianwangshan, the Celtics took the lead to win the match point, and then the Cavaliers won two consecutive cities, and finally entered the finals with a thrilling score of 4:3.

The current Nets are not the Celtics, but the Cavaliers are not the Cavaliers led by James' single core. Regardless of how Embiid's future style of play will be criticized, he is an MVP-level star after all. So far in the playoffs It can also stably contribute 24+12 data to the Cavaliers, which is very different from Love's performance of 14.9 points and 10 rebounds in the same period.

Therefore, Wang Chao is still more optimistic about the Cavaliers and the Nets playing six games or even a tiebreaker, and it is still unknown which side can successfully break through from the East.

For Wang Chao, the game in the Eastern Conference was just a spectator. On the second day of the opening game of the Eastern Conference Finals, the first game of the Western Conference Finals also went on as scheduled.

The venue is still the home court of the Nuggets. Wang Chao's team will rarely lose home court advantage in the playoffs. The attendance rate, playing time and field performance are guaranteed enough, and the team's record will not be too bad.

The Golden State Warriors, the cliche opponent.

This team has been in Wang Chao's hands since Curry's rise, whether it was the Rockets period or the Nets period.

The Warriors with a luxurious lineup, reasonable style of play and gorgeous warriors will end in failure in most cases against Wang Chao.

The scenes of the four big names fighting Wang Chao appeared countless times, but the Warriors failed to get Durant after all. Sins didn't fit very well, and it was only natural that they lost to Wang Chao and even the previous Cavaliers.

But now, with the Warriors, whose lineup structure has not changed in any way from previous years, Wang Chao will not have any fear at all.

In the final analysis, Curry, as a top-level superstar in history, is one of the most easily targeted stars in the playoffs and even the finals. Even Curry fans have no way to refute this. Originally, there was only one FMVP for the four championships in time and space. No matter what excuse you use, there is no way to excuse it.

Thompson and Green are strong jigsaw players who win the championship, and they cannot be expected to stand up and turn the tide every time.

Iguodala is getting old and already in a half-hook state.

As for Cousins... This insider star who can often play very luxurious statistics, whether he can take the lead at critical moments, I believe everyone here has the answer in their hearts.

In the opening game, the scores of the two teams were quite stalemate at the beginning, and they rose alternately, and even the Warriors were in a long-term lead for a certain period of time. However, at the end of the third quarter, the difference between the two teams was only 1 point.

The Warriors should be very happy to be able to do this in the Devil's home court of the Nuggets.

But at the beginning of the fourth quarter, all the Warriors, including head coach Cole, looked dignified.

There is no other reason. In the first three quarters, Wang Chao was too low-key. He didn't attack much with the ball. Instead, Mitchell broke through Curry with a lot of balls.

Facing Mitchell at 1 meters, Curry at 85 meters finally experienced what is called a height advantage.

But Mitchell's strengths lie in speed and explosive power. Curry obviously doesn't take advantage of any of these two points. This has led to Mitchell being able to pass Curry almost every time and rush into the inside to cause damage, giving Green and Cousins cause no small burden.

The result is that Mingming Wang only scored 14 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists in the first three quarters, but the Nuggets were evenly matched with the Warriors.

Mitchell scored 22 points after three quarters. Although his shooting percentage of 20 of 8 shots was not high, but 8 of 6 free throws allowed him to successfully get the highest score of the team and even the whole game... temporarily.

The Nuggets' style of play made the Warriors unexpected, but it was in Wang Chao's plan.

The Rockets, who originally won the Best Anti-Brave Award in the past two years, faced the Warriors who were in full swing in the Big Four. The limited consumption of Curry made him exhausted on the defensive end and had no time to take care of the offensive end.

In the Western Conference Finals of the 17-18 season, the Rockets relied on this trick and the superb performance of their teammates, and even won the Tianwangshan battle one step ahead of the Warriors, winning the match point 3:2. Unfortunately, Paul was injured in the Tianwangshan battle. The Rockets lacked a general, and suffered disastrous defeats in the next two games, declaring the failure of the resistance.

Although the game was lost, Harden's frequent military training and Curry's style of play were learned by all teams in the league during the game.

What the Nuggets are doing now is to apply this tactic that has not been widely known to the game.

With Mitchell's ability to break through with the ball, this can be done completely. Therefore, in the first game, Wang Chao directly gave Mitchell a chance to blow up Curry. The responsibility of the opponent's defensive center of gravity.

Of course, Mitchell failed to do the so-called explosion.

Although he scored 22 points in three quarters, Curry's performance was also not bad. He scored 18 points and 5 assists, and his shooting percentage was as high as 48%, which was much higher than Mitchell's 40% shooting percentage.

But for the Nuggets, even if Mitchell and Curry form a mutual explosion situation, they are sure to win and not lose. After all, the Warriors' strongest ace is offset by a role player on the Nuggets side. How can Wang Chao manage?
In the fourth quarter of the game, Wang Chao, who had played soy sauce in the previous three quarters, began to exert his strength.

And as soon as he exerted his strength, the Warriors immediately couldn't bear it.

With the help of his teammate's pick-and-roll to cover the open three-point shot from the outside line, Curry's signature three-point technique has long been in the shape of Wang Chao, and other players, including Curry, are all imitators of his style of play. Curry is at best one of the better performers of the pack of parodies.

Three minutes before the fourth quarter, Wang Chao scored 3 points in a row with this trick, plus a conversion fast break after a steal, and scored 6 points in a row to stop the Warriors.

The point difference reached more than 5 points in the blink of an eye. The Warriors who came back from the timeout desperately tried to stabilize the situation, but they couldn't stop Wang Chao, and everything was empty talk.

Under the double-teaming of Green and Thompson, Wang Chao made another mid-range fadeaway jumper and made 2 of 2 free throws that caused a defensive foul!
Before half of the game time in the fourth quarter, Wang Chao scored 12 points alone, and his personal score in the whole game reached 28 points.

This is not the most desperate.

In the next game, Wang Chao took advantage of the Warriors' long-standing shortcomings and lack of rebounding ability, grabbed two offensive rebounds and completed tip-ups for both of them.

This scene is the most shrimp and pig heart!
You must know that this Warriors team is not the Durant version of the Warriors after all. As the league's top center, Cousins ​​also averaged 12.9 rebounds per game at his peak, and averaged double figures in rebounds per game in most seasons of his career.

With him guarding the inside of the Warriors, even Wang Chao is not so easy to compete for offensive rebounds.

But here lies the problem. The Warriors, who are behind, want to catch up with the score as soon as possible, but they have to replace Cousins ​​if they want to speed up.

It is indeed a bit embarrassing for Green, who is 2 meters, to face Wang Chao and Gobert in the interior to compete for rebounds.

The result was Wang Chao's two offensive rebounds, allowing the Warriors to decisively replace the death five small lineup in the next round, and let Cousins ​​play to guard the basket again.

Just such a toss, the Warriors have fallen behind by more than 10 points, and the remaining time of the game is less than 5 minutes, and they are already weak.

At 113:106, the Nuggets finally beat the Warriors by 7 points at home and won the first game of the Western Conference Finals.

王超前三节比赛仅得到14分6篮板8助攻的情况下，第四节比赛完全接管比赛，单节轰下21分4篮板3助攻，最终全场数据定格在35分10篮板11助攻的三双数据上。
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The Nuggets, who won their first win in the Western Conference finals, won the G2 game, which was also at home two days later, with a total score of 2:0.

Facts have proved that the Nuggets' devils' home combat effectiveness is really strong, even the Warriors' combat effectiveness here is greatly affected.

On May 5th, the third game of the series, after returning to the home court of the Warriors, the Warriors finally managed to pull back with Curry and Cousins ​​scoring 20+ points, and the score came to 30:2 .

The loss of this game is the first game the Nuggets have lost since entering the playoffs, and it can better prove that the Nuggets have a strong combat effectiveness this season.

To be honest, although their own team pulled back a city, most Warriors fans are still immersed in an atmosphere of despair.

The Warriors won the game thanks to the double explosions of Curry and Cousins. At the same time, Thompson played steadily and also scored 20+ points. This is how he won the game at home.

On the other hand, for the Nuggets, Wang Chao often only needs to make shots at critical moments. In ordinary times, Mitchell and Murray alone can fully support the team's offensive rhythm.

The two guards made a sudden shot, which led to the main... No, to be precise, it should be that the Warriors, who put all their defensive power on Wang Chao alone and kept an eye on one, lost sight of the other, and couldn't spare more defensive power to limit the two guards. Many players, especially Mitchell, who stared at Curry.

In G1, Mitchell scored 27 points and became a major contributor to the team's victory.

In the G2 game, Mitchell's performance declined slightly, but he also scored 22 points.

The only game where he played abnormally was in the Warriors' away game in G3. This game was not Curry or the Warriors who had a greater impact on him. Mitchell's pressure came from off the court, to be precise. The tension of participating in the Western Conference Finals for the first time.

No matter how outstanding Mitchell's personal ability is, after all, he is a rookie who only entered the league this season. He participated in the regular season for the first time, played in the playoffs for the first time, and played in the Western Conference Finals for the first time.

Mitchell, who has multiple first-time buffs, is still prone to impulsively making irrational offensive choices on the field, and it is easier to be targeted.

If Mitchell is the first scoring core of the Nuggets, an unstable performance will definitely not help the team defeat the Warriors, but the core of the Nuggets is Wang Chao, and the situation is completely different.

On May 5, G22 of the Western Conference finals, the Warriors fans who were expecting the Warriors to tie the score to 4:2 in this game, and the Nuggets to fight Tianwangshan again, were all disappointed.

In this fourth game, the Nuggets changed the tactical play of the previous three games. Wang Chao scored 16 points in the first quarter and scored another 15 points in the second quarter. It has come to 31 points.

The explosive scoring efficiency forced the Warriors to double-team and even restrict Wang Chao. As a result, the two guards of the Nuggets took the opportunity to play, and Wang Chao took over the team's offense.

98:94，掘金以4分的优势赢下这场比赛，大比分直接来到3:1。

What Warriors fans were most worried about happened.

With 1:3 behind, the Nuggets still have two home games. Even if they lose one of them, the Warriors will stop in the Western Conference Finals and lose the chance to win the championship again.

Such a result made the Warriors fans extremely painful, but someone was more painful than them, and that was Barkley, who put on a painful mask when he saw that the Nuggets had taken the initiative in the game halfway through the game.

"It's over, it's over, it's really over now, the Nuggets are really going to enter the finals!"

Barkley was really dumbfounded. He finally realized why he never had a championship in his whole life, but Wang Chao's victory was as simple as eating and drinking. People are really different!

But the Nuggets went all the way through, but couldn't find any faults, including the four games against the Warriors.

It seems that the Warriors do have a more luxurious lineup than the Nuggets, with four All-Star players in their pockets, and their combat effectiveness is extremely sturdy.

But in fact, in a head-on encounter, the Warriors' four All-Stars played no better than the Nuggets' main starter.

Mitchell averaged 22.4 points and Murray 16.8 points in four games. His scoring performance and efficiency are comparable to those of Cousins ​​and Thompson. powerful.

I am afraid that before the Nuggets and Warriors duel, no one would have thought that the inside Cousins ​​​​could not take advantage of Gobert at all, and his performance was severely restricted. The average scoring in the four games was only a little over 17 points per game, and his shooting percentage was even higher. It is only 42%!

In this case, the comparison between the ace players of the two teams, Wang Chao and Curry, made the outcome obvious.

(End of this chapter)