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“You know, it’s a bad feeling to lose.

In the next game, we will definitely release all our energy and try our best to win the game.

I have great confidence in my teammates and I believe we will make our opponents taste the pain of defeat!"

After the Game 1 of the Finals, Durant made this statement during an interview with the media.

In tonight's Finals Game 1, the Clippers lost to the Bulls by 26 points.

This score difference is enough to show that the two teams are not at the same level at all.

This is unacceptable for the Clippers, who have a complete lineup and are rushing out of the West in full strength.

For Durant, who wanted to defeat Durant and win the championship, the facts before him were even more unacceptable.

In order to find an excuse for himself, and also to regain the belief of winning and to rally the morale within the Clippers, Durant, as the team leader, was forced to speak in front of the media reporters.

In fact, if the team had not lost so badly in Game 1 of the Finals, the team would need him to demonstrate his leadership as the team's leader.

Given Durant's personality, he usually only argues with fans on Twitter, and won't make boasts in front of reporters.

The next day, there were indeed no surprises.

After the Clippers lost Game 1 of the Finals, many fans discussed and even criticized the Clippers players on Twitter, including Durant, who made repeated mistakes at the beginning of the first quarter.

In the era of streaming media, everything about a star player will be magnified under the spotlight.

The star's strengths will be more prominent, and his weaknesses will be particularly obvious.

Durant himself is a relatively sensitive person, and he is particularly concerned about the outside world's evaluation of him.

When he was already very upset about losing the game, he noticed the sudden "cyberbullying", which naturally made him unable to tolerate it.

The day after Game 1 of the Finals, Durant spent the entire day in intense confrontation with fans on Twitter, venting his frustration and resentment.

However, the result was that Durant's temper became even more explosive, and the media reported the incident extensively, making this year's NBA Finals even more intense.

"There's such a thing? Doesn't KD need to rest?"

The next afternoon, Duane, who was warming up in the hotel gym, also heard the news from the team staff.

After the warm-up, Duan took out his mobile phone to check.

"Durant, you are really worthy of it!" Duen smiled without saying anything.

This era is completely different from when Duane first started playing. Teams will not be forced to collect cell phones in the playoffs.

You can surf the Internet and use the computer or iPad in the hotel.

However, the result is that the stars are more easily distracted by external factors, and the playoff games are not as exciting and interesting as before.

After all, basketball stars are not saints who have no desires or ambitions. Many of them even play for statistics and evaluations rather than for winning games or honors.

In addition, NBA rotation players also have their own lives to live and their own pursuits.

As Ewing said - although we make a lot of money, we also spend a lot.

No one would complain about having too much money! Ordinary NBA players do not have much commercial value. If they want to get more off-court income, they can only collude with some interested parties.

Besides, the NBA has legalized gambling in recent years, and some games have suddenly become very strange. NBA players and fans are well aware of this.

However, most stars will not participate. After all, once exposed, the scandal will ruin everything.

Of course, there are also those who are fearless and openly welcome the release of the drug lord from prison. What else can't they do?

Back to the point, the Bulls players noticed Durant's farce, but they just wanted to understand it and have fun.

During the finals, the overall atmosphere was still tense and depressing.

Game 2 of the Finals is about to start again. The Bulls players will not be like Durant, who will focus solely on confronting the fans online.

Basketball is a sport where one minute on stage requires ten years of hard work off stage. It is imperative to maintain a certain amount of training every day during the finals.

The Bulls players, especially the veterans, will not let down their guard because of Durant's anecdotes and waste their time and the last glimmer of their careers.

We will not slack off on the efforts and training we should do. Time soon came to October 10, and the finals G4 was held as scheduled.

Perhaps because he was busy online in the past two days, Durant was not in good shape tonight.

However, compared with the several mistakes that occurred in the first quarter of G1, there is actually not much difference.

He also made frequent mistakes after coming on the court and was unable to score due to the Bulls' outside defense.

In short, Durant's presence on the court was of little help to the Clippers, but of great help to the Bulls.

The Bulls relied on Durant, who seemed to be still asleep, to establish a 12-point lead in the first quarter.

If this continues, the Bulls' main players may only need to clock out for three quarters tonight and then be able to go home easily.

In response, the referee on site said he could not agree to this.

The players on the field and the audience in front of the TV could all clearly feel that the scale of penalties suddenly became drastically different.

It has to be said that in the past three months, the Bulls have not been penalized too many times, and the Bulls players have adapted to the relatively fair penalization method this season.

Now that the referee has suddenly become double-standard, it has really caught the Bulls players off guard, and even Duane and Curry are not immune.

In short, for most of the quarter, the Bulls had many problems, played poorly, and struggled a lot.

The Clippers not only made up for all the points difference, but also established a 5-point lead before the end of the second quarter.

Fortunately, in the last attack of the second quarter, Curry had a good touch and made a buzzer-beating three-pointer to narrow the gap to 2 points.

After a halftime break, the game quickly entered the third quarter.

The Bulls are worthy of being the team with the most championship players. After one quarter of game time to adapt, the Bulls players have remembered how to play under the restrictions of CP3 and how to help the team win the game.

The Bulls played like this in the past few years, and were able to win the championship with 5 vs. 8.

Now, as long as we adjust our mentality, winning the game tonight will be a piece of cake.

The Bulls began to slow down the tempo of the game, slowly engaging in positional warfare round by round.

Physical contact in the low-post back-to-the-basket is definitely allowed, and there will be no situations where the player is inexplicably called for a traveling foul or an offensive foul during transition.

By the way, the Bulls already have advantages in size and strength in the interior, and now Duane is personally taking charge and executing the low-post one-on-one tactics.

After Durant scored two goals in a row, the Clippers had to adjust their defensive strategy and began to double-team from the front and back to limit Durant's low-post singles.

However, the Clippers' move was exactly what the Bulls wanted.

The Clippers need to send someone to double-team Duane in the low post on the wing, so the Bulls have local 3-on-2 or 2-on-1 opportunities on the outside.

And whether it's 3 or 2, Curry is one of them.

You know, Curry is now the boss of the Bulls and the best player in the league.

What does it mean to have more players on the outside and even have Curry in a wide-open position?
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Curry did not waste the open three-point opportunities created by Durant in the low post to attract defense. Although he only made three three-pointers in a single quarter, he also changed the Clippers' defensive strategy.

After all, if the Clippers want to double-team Durant and guard Curry at the same time, their defensive resources will definitely be stretched and insufficient.

In the finals, it's impossible for the Clippers to let one person run around to provide backup defense and defend three people at once, right?
No matter what, someone must be sent to support Jokic at this point.

But in this case, the Clippers will have to use up all five playing spots just to defend the Big Three of Durant, Curry, and Jokic.

Another point worth noting is that the Clippers will not send out five defensive stalwarts.

Durant and Irving's defense is not too bad, but once Durant and Irving appear on the court together, it means that Davis must devote more physical energy to the defensive end to help the Clippers build an iron wall in the penalty area.

But the facts have proved that Davis is Jokic's toy.

Therefore, even if the NBA officially added three people to the Clippers, it would be of no avail.

104 to 109, the Bulls defeated the Clippers again with a 5-point advantage and won the Game 2 of the Finals. (End of this chapter)