NBA Old Age Star System

Chapter 217 Advancing to the Finals!Fight bravely!

The Cavaliers defeated the Green Army and won the third victory in the series, and the Celtics' exit is a foregone conclusion.

Stevens had come to Su Tian at this time, and embraced Su Tian sincerely.

"Su, congratulations, you are very powerful, but I will arrange tactics against you in the next match."

Looking at Stevens' smiling expression, Su Tian didn't know whether Stevens was telling the truth or joking.

"By the way, Su, Boston is a nice city. If you want to come here to play, you can contact me."

Su Tian looked astonished, what the hell, just killed you guys, and now you want to recruit me?
"Su, let's go, don't stand there stupidly, go change your clothes and accept the interview."

As soon as Stevens left, James came over and put Su Tian on the shoulder.

"Okay LeBron, I'm going."

James walked back with Su Tian, ​​talking casually while walking.

"What did Stevens tell you just now?"

"Oh, haha, it's nothing. He said that he will arrange tactics against me in the next game."

"That's it, it's okay haha."

Seeing James' nervousness and pretending not to care, Su Tian found it quite interesting.

In the post-match interview, Su Tian easily dealt with the reporter's questions. Now Su Tian is very familiar with this kind of question and answer.

The next day, May 5, Game 22 of the Western Conference Finals.

Now the East and West are 3-0, the situation is actually very clear.

The Cavaliers and Warriors are super teams that far surpass other teams. Not only are the players strong, but there are also many coincidences.

For example, Curry's child labor contract on the Warriors' side, and Su Tian's rookie contract on the Cavaliers' side.

It is one of the reasons why the two teams can easily surpass the other teams.

In the fourth game, the two sides changed again.

The Warriors took out Curry, McCaw, Clay, Durant, and Green.As soon as he came up, he hit the fifth grader.

The Spurs are Mills, Green, Ginobili, Simmons, Aldridge.

The lineups of both sides are biased toward small lineups, which have high requirements for rhythm and space.

I thought that this change of the Spurs would bring about some changes, but this is not the case.

At the end of the first quarter, the Warriors had already led the Spurs by 31 points 19-12.

In the second quarter, the Warriors continued to chase hard, while the Spurs were very resilient and have been working hard to chase points.

Both sides played 34-32 in a single quarter, and the Warriors won by 2 points.

At the end of the first half, the Warriors have led by 14 points. It seems that it is only a matter of time before the Warriors win.

In the third quarter, the Warriors continued to exert their strength, taking advantage of your illness to kill you, the offensive firepower increased instead of decreasing.

In the third quarter, the Warriors led by 4 points in a single quarter. At the end of the first three quarters, the point difference had reached 18 points.

Now that the game has been played, many Spurs fans have understood it, and this probably has to be explained here.

In the fourth quarter, the Spurs only played the first half of the quarter. Seeing that the score could not catch up, they replaced all the main players and surrendered.

120-100, the Warriors beat the Spurs, successfully won the Western Conference Finals, and advanced to the Finals!
It's not that Popovich didn't want to resist in the past, but he really couldn't help it.

For example, this time Popovich was strictly guarding Durant. Durant was indeed restricted, but Curry shot away.

Curry scored 38 points in a single game and directly took away the Spurs.

This round of the Western Conference Finals series was criticized by many people, mainly because of Pachulia's kick.

On May 5, Game 23 of the Eastern Conference Finals kicked off.

Before the start of the game, the Celtics officially announced that Thomas Jr. will miss the rest of the playoffs due to an aggravated hip injury.

Thomas Jr. injured his hip against the Timberwolves in March, and he missed two games at the time.

In Game 6 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, Thomas' right hip injury worsened, but he still persisted with the injury.

The Celtics medical team said that since the first injury, Isaiah has been working hard to control the injury. After three games in the Eastern Conference Finals, Thomas' right hip gradually swelled.

In order to avoid more serious long-term injuries, the team doctor decided not to allow him to continue playing.

Thomas Jr. was indeed injured, but Su Tian didn't know if it affected his normal play.

Maybe it's just an excuse for not wanting to play?
So without Thomas, the Celtics went from a playoff team to an ordinary regular season team in an instant.

In the first quarter, the Cavaliers chased and played hard, hitting 29-19 in a single quarter, leading the Celtics by 10 points in a single quarter.

In the second quarter, Irving started to work hard, scoring 15 points in a single quarter with sudden shots, and the Cavaliers also opened up the point difference again with a 40-28 single quarter.

After halftime, the score came to 69-47, and the Cavaliers led the Celtics by 22 points.

In the third quarter, Tyronn Lue began to rotate players and began to prepare for the finals.

Without Thomas Jr. on the Green Army's side, no one can take on the responsibility of attacking the arrow. Although Horford is there, the tactics can still work.

But without a strong scoring point, this made the Green Army unable to catch up with the score.

The Cavaliers did not kill them all, and the third quarter was always played by rotation players, so the two sides played a tie in the third quarter.

In the fourth quarter, Su Tian played, and the Green Army was still struggling to support.

Horford tried his best to fight against James when he was in the Eagles. Now that the Celtics are here, they still have to fight against James. Horford feels bitter.

But there is no way, unless you go to the west, or James goes to the west.

Otherwise, it will take a few years to get ahead in the east.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Su Tian broke through continuously, either layups, assists teammates, or caused fouls.

In short, every breakthrough can be rewarded.

Halfway through the fourth quarter, the point difference had reached 25 points, and Stevens directly called a timeout.

After taking down all the main players and replacing them with substitutes, it was announced that the Celtics had come to an end this season.

Seeing this, Tai Lue also took down all the main players and replaced them with substitute players.

In the end, the Cavaliers easily won Game 120 of the Eastern Conference Finals 98-[-] and successfully advanced to the Finals.

Since James returned to Cleveland, this is the third consecutive year that he has entered the finals. I have to say that it is also a success in another way.

As soon as the Eastern Conference finals game ended, the publicity about the finals was overwhelming.

To be honest, this year's Eastern Conference Finals and Western Conference Finals were not exciting enough, and even the ratings were declining.

Moreover, the Spurs injured Leonard, and the Greens crippled Thomas, and the league couldn't help even if they wanted to "help".

After the lack of main players, there is a clear gap in strength between the two sides, so the league can only focus on this year's finals.

After the game with the Celtics, the Cavaliers took two days off.

Of course, it is not for the players to take a vacation to play, but for the players to recover their physical strength quickly, find a team doctor and a physical therapist, and repair their bodies.

On May 5, after the training ended that day, Tyronn Lue notified the players to hold a meeting.

Su Tian followed the team members to the conference room.

"Guys, the Warriors are a very strong team. I won't say anything superfluous. The three consecutive championships are just around the corner. I hope everyone will be more vigilant."

Tai Lun looked around, and then said.

"During the regular season, we played against the Warriors twice, with one win and one loss, but obviously, there was an element of luck in the victory, thanks to Su's lore."

"There was too much luck in that game, so I won't explain it much, let's mainly look at the second game.

In the second game, the Warriors also completed the running-in of the team, and Cole abruptly combined Durant and the Warriors together.

Although this can't give full play to everyone's advantages, I think it is the best choice at present. "

Immediately afterwards, Tyronn Lue turned on the game video and began to analyze the various tactics of the Warriors and the way the Cavaliers responded.

After Tyronn Lue introduced the tactics, the team began to practice according to Tyronn Lue's tactical arrangement.

On June 6st, Oracle Arena, the first game of the finals will start soon.

Before the game, Green's big mouth began to talk nonsense.

"There is no doubt that this year's championship must be ours, and we will end James' dream of three consecutive championships."

"James is old, everyone else is not afraid, they can't resist our shots."

Su Tian had expected Green's yelling. After all, if this guy didn't yell twice, he wouldn't be him.

But other Cavaliers players were very angry, especially Irving.

Soon, the game time came, and players from both sides began to play.

The Cavaliers are still regular starters, Irving, Su Tian, ​​James, Love, Thompson.

The Warriors also have a regular starting lineup, Curry, Clay, Durant, Green, Pachulia.

The game officially started, and Pachulia grabbed the first strike.

Curry came to the front court with the ball. Facing Irving's grab, Curry dribbled the ball behind his back to avoid it, and then slammed the ball to the inside.

Thompson returned to the basket, and Curry made a throw directly outside the penalty area.

bang - swish -

Curry contributed the first goal as soon as he came up

0-2
The ball is switched, and it's the Cavaliers' turn to attack.

Irving came to the frontcourt with the ball and passed the ball directly to James.

James got the ball and didn't rush to attack, but called Thompson to cooperate with the pick-and-roll.

What James thinks is that Pachulia is slow, and if he doesn't come out, he will shoot directly from the middle distance. If he follows up, he will directly break through the basket.

Thompson ran to the pick-and-roll, and Pachulia came out with him.

So James directly started a breakthrough and went to the basket.

Clay and Green rushed to assist in the defense. At this time, Durant was chasing behind James, and the three surrounded him for a while.

So James passed the ball quickly and accurately passed it to Su Tian in the bottom corner.

Su Tian caught the ball and made a three-pointer.

Swah——

Hit a three-pointer steadily.

3-2
Because Clay went to help defend James, he didn't have time to return to defend Su Tian, ​​which led to Su Tian getting an open chance.

Facing open three-point opportunities, Su Tian never wastes them.

The ball was given to the Warriors again.

After Curry came to the frontcourt with the ball, this time he did not hold the ball to launch an offense, but passed the ball to Green.

Green stood at the top of the arc with the ball, watching his teammates run while waiting for an opportunity.

After continuous tactical moves, Curry finally found an opportunity for an air cut, so Green passed the ball quickly.

Curry went straight to the basket with the ball, and Thompson hurried back to the basket to help defend Curry.

But Curry came to the basket first, followed by a pull bar to avoid Thompson's block and scored a layup.

3-4
Curry was attacking for the first two goals, which attracted the Cavaliers' defensive attention.

Immediately after the Cavaliers, Irving made an emergency stop and missed a jumper. Green took the rebound and started the fast break directly.

On the way to the Warriors' fast break, Green passed the ball to Curry.

As soon as he saw Curry taking the ball, Irving immediately chased after him, and James was also paying attention to Curry's movements.

But Curry did not attack by himself this time, but passed the ball to Durant, who came from behind.

Durant caught the ball and dunked with both hands.

3-6
The Warriors' fast break was easy, which is really not easy to defend. After all, Curry, Clay and Durant all have the ability to kill the game.

The ball was given to the Cavaliers again, and Irving began to press the rhythm, slowly holding the ball to the frontcourt, and passing the ball to James.

James got the ball and glanced at Thompson. Thompson would come to the pick-and-roll to cooperate.

James used the pick-and-roll to directly open the breakthrough, Durant followed James closely, and James did not completely shake off.

And this time Pachulia didn't follow out, but stayed at the basket, waiting for James' impact.

Facing the defense of two people, even James' shooting rate will not be much better, so James cleverly passed the ball in time to Irving who was making an air cut.

As soon as Irving received the ball, Curry and Clay's double team came, and Irving had to pass the ball again to Su Tian who was outside the three-point line.

When Su Tian received the ball, he made a fake shot and shook away Clay who was pounced on him. Then he took two steps forward and made a mid-range jump shot.

Swah——

Su Tian made a two-pointer.

5-6
Although the Cavaliers fell into a disadvantage in the situation, the score is still very tight.

In the next few rounds, both sides began to enter a normal rhythm of offense and defense, and they made normal substitutions at the end.

Soon, the first quarter is over.

35-30, the Warriors temporarily lead by 5 points.

The Warriors were able to take the lead mainly because of Curry and Durant. As for Clay, he was followed by Su Tian all the way and hadn't shown his true strength yet.

In the second quarter, the two sides began to change players, Su Tian was also replaced for a rest, and JR Smith came off the bench.

And in the half of the quarter when Su Tian went to rest, Klay Thompson began to exert his strength gradually.

Clay first received a pass from Iguodala in the middle distance, hit a jumper, and then made an air cut layup to make jr fouled and walked to the free throw line.

Clay's sudden effort made Tyronn Lue unexpected, and quickly took advantage of the free throw to take Su Tian again.

Su Tian only rested off the court for about 3 minutes before being picked up again.

After Su Tian came on the court, Clay couldn't catch the ball.

As an off-ball shooter, Clay does not have a certain ability to hold the ball, so it is difficult to break this kind of situation.

Under Su Tian's care, Clay also lost his previous performance and was frozen by Su Tian again.

On the offensive end of the Cavaliers, Su Tian also began to gradually take over the ball, especially after Irving took a rest, Su Tian came to the first position.

In the second half of the second quarter, under the organization of Su Tian, ​​the Cavaliers began to gradually catch up with the score.

Until the end of the second quarter, the score came to 60-60, and the two teams temporarily tied.

Because Su Tian played early in the second quarter, it cost more than Tai Lue's previous arrangement, so he couldn't play consecutively in the third quarter.

So in the third quarter, in order to deal with the Warriors' five small lineups, Tyronn Lue arranged for Irving, jr Smith, Korver, James, and Love.

As for the Warriors, there is no doubt that the ultimate version of the five minors will debut.

Curry, Klay, Iguodala, Durant, Green.

The ultimate battle is about to start.

(End of this chapter)