The strongest unicorn in basketball

Easy sweep
The Kings started off with a 9-2 start against the Mavericks, and that was just the beginning.

After Ellis hit a mid-range shot with the help of a pick-and-roll, followed by a dunk by Giannis and a three-pointer by Butler, the point difference came to 14:4.

Ellis caused a foul and made two free throws, finally bringing the team's score to 6 points.

But then Middleton scored another three-pointer, and then Butler stole Ellis again and assisted Bledsoe for a dunk.

19:6, the point difference is getting bigger and bigger.

After that, the two sides entered the rotation stage.

The Mavericks replaced Barea, Aminu and Stoudemire. Yes, it was Stoudemire who smashed Huashan.

However, today's Stoudemire is no longer the former Stoudemire.

Suffering from injuries, he has long lost his explosive power, and now he can only rely on his mid-range shot and height to barely get by.

However, these two items are completely useless when facing Li Pu!
At this time, the Kings replaced Giannis, replaced Jokic, and played the twin towers. Li Pu was pushed to the position of power forward, which happened to meet Stoudemire.

It was so cruel to see Siu Si obviously had the space to shoot, but was blocked by Li Pu from the front!

Attack, you can't attack, you can't defend, you can't defend!
In this case, the Mavericks have no power to parry against the Kings. This is true for the starters and the bench!

Finally, after Barea missed a three-pointer at the buzzer, the first quarter ended.

The score was 32:19, and the Kings temporarily led by 13 points.

If it weren't for Barea's brave performance in the second half of this quarter, helping the Mavericks get 6 points, the Mavericks would only lose more.

At this point in the game, even if it was only for one quarter, the pessimism of the fans couldn't stop pouring out.

The difference in strength is simply too great!

In fact, after the start of the second quarter, the Mavericks' offense played well.

After all, the team is full of veterans. After gradually adapting to the Kings' defense, they can still play some beautiful offenses.

But the problem is that it is impossible to recover the score by attacking alone!

Stoudemire received a pass from Barea and made another mid-range shot!Get your own sixth point of the game.

After Li Pu left the field, facing Jokic, Stoudemire played smoothly.

No way, compared with Li Pu, Jokic's lateral movement speed is too slow to prevent it at all.

The fans of the Kings are joking. The two rookies selected by their team, one Giannis inherited Li Pu's defense, and the other Jokic inherited Li Pu's offense!

Li Pu doesn't like to hear that. I'm not dead yet, so why did I become an inheritance?

However, the Mavericks just scored and came to the defensive end.

Jokic took the ball at the top of the arc, turned his back to Stoudemire, made a fake hand, then passed the ball behind his head, found Covington who made an air cut, and dunked successfully.

It is conceivable for the Mavericks' defense to let Covington get into the paint so easily and dunk easily.

Shortly thereafter, the two sides started back to the court, and the Mavericks faced tremendous pressure again, and the point difference was even closer to 20 points.

If it weren't for the second half of the second quarter, when the Kings relaxed their vigilance and were scored by the Mavericks for several consecutive rounds, the point difference would only be even bigger.

Even so, when the Mavericks scored 36 points in the second quarter, they were still 14 points behind.

The difference is even bigger.

No way, the Kings scored 37 points, 1 point higher than the Mavericks.

In the second quarter, the Mavericks officially finished their three axes, and then it was time for the Kings to perform.

After the second half, as long as the Kings made a little effort, the point difference would go towards 20 points. Once they relaxed, the point difference began to shrink again, but it was always above 10 points.

This feeling is just like teasing you, the two teams are not on the same level at all.

After the third quarter, the point difference further expanded to 17 points, and the Kings replaced the full bench in the fourth quarter. Even so, the Mavericks failed to narrow the point difference.

The final score was 108:128, and the Kings easily won a big victory.

Li Pu played 28 minutes, scored 24 points and 11 rebounds, and clocked out of get off work in three quarters.

A total of eight players in the team scored in double figures, which was a complete mess.

Compared with the Kings' ease, the Mavericks seem to have tried their best, but they haven't even forced the opponent's true strength. The gap between them is really outrageous!
The results of the first game series clearly showed the gap in strength between the two teams, and it also made fans wonder, can the Mavericks win even one victory and avoid a sweep?
On April 4, the two teams continued to play the second game of the series in Sacramento.

At 111:99, there was no suspense in the result, and the Kings once again won a big victory.

This time, the Mavericks resisted to the end, and were taken away by the Kings in the last quarter!
The series is 2:0, such a result is not surprising to anyone, but the Mavericks obviously don't want to sit still.

In the third game of the series, the Mavericks showed an amazing start after returning to the home court.

They scored 36 points in the first quarter and beat the Kings 36:23, mainly against the guests.

Then, he scored another 36 points in the second quarter and scored 72 points in the halftime.
But unfortunately, the Kings scored 42 points in this quarter, and the Kings narrowed the point difference to 7 points at halftime.

Entering the second half, the Mavericks immediately became sluggish as if the medicine had passed its effects, lost in the Kings' impregnable walls.

As a result, there was another wave of flow in the third quarter.

The Kings scored 36:27 in a single quarter to overtake the score.

In the last quarter, the Mavericks still did not give up, but unfortunately they have not been able to overtake the point difference.

In the end, as Ellis hit the iron, 128:130, the Mavericks lost another game.

In this game, Nowitzki and Ellis both scored 34 points.

But unfortunately, this time Li Pu performed even more fiercely. He actually scored 42 points and 26 rebounds, completely dominating the inside.

With the end of this game, the big score of the series has come to 3:0, and the Mavericks no longer have any possibility of a comeback!

Sure enough, in the fourth game, although the Mavericks fought for dignity, they desperately wanted to win a victory.

But the Kings didn't give them a chance at all, especially Li Pu, who scored another large double-double with 28 points and 18 rebounds, leading the Kings to another big victory with 109:93.

In this way, the Kings swept the Mavericks 4:0 and became the first team to enter the Western Conference semifinals!
In addition, the other series in the West were very anxious.

The Warriors and the Spurs didn't decide the outcome until the sixth game. The Warriors eliminated the Spurs 4:2.

The Rockets also had a hard time beating the Grizzlies, until the tiebreaker, when they narrowly won 4:3.

On the contrary, the fifth-ranked Clippers beat the Blazers 4:1.

As for the East, the Eagles 4:1 Pacers, Cavaliers 4:0 Nets, Bulls 4:1 Celtics, Wizards 4:0 Raptors, playing more relaxed and boring.

In this way, the semifinals of the Western Conference: Kings vs. Clippers, Warriors vs. Rockets.

(End of this chapter)