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It’s also a tomahawk dunk. Wang Chong’s dunk is completely different from James’s. Although it doesn’t have the violent aesthetics of strength that James does, Wang Chong’s stretching of his body into an arch in the air is quite perfect, so the visual impact is not inferior at all. By.

With this dunk, the United Center was completely detonated. The fans in the audience cheered and screamed crazily for Wang Chong's dunk. The reason for their cheers was not only Wang Chong's powerful tomahawk dunk counterattack, but also because During the one-on-one duel between Wang Chong and James, the Bulls had already scored a 7:4 score. Coupled with the 7-point lead in the first half, the point difference between the two teams had been expanded to double digits!

The Heat immediately called a timeout and arranged for Wade and Bosh to play early.

Although the two of them haven't rested enough yet, the situation on the field no longer allows them to rest. If this continues, it will be equivalent to giving up the game!

The Heat sent the Big Three in advance, but the Bulls only made slight adjustments. The lineup on the field became Billups, Thornton, Wang Chong, Gasol and O'Neal.

Gasol played as a guest power forward and let O'Neal play center. This situation was rare in previous Bulls games. It was an exception and was targeted at the Heat.

The inside was already weak, but facing two heavy big centers, Gasol and O'Neal, the Heat's penalty area defense collapsed instantly.

O'Neal, who was injured once in the regular season and only played in 46 games, is actually very poor in athletic ability, but as long as he can catch the ball at the basket, there are still very few players in the league who can guard him, not to mention the Heat's inside line. Facing O'Neal are blue-collar insiders like Joel Anthony and Udonis Haslem.

Whenever the Bulls successfully send the ball into the penalty area, O'Neal can easily score the ball, with a ridiculously high hit rate.

On the defensive end, O'Neal does not need to spend too much energy, because Bosh is defended by Gasol. Joel Anthony does not have the ability to score at all, and O'Neal does not need to specifically defend. He only needs to stand for three seconds. Just add soy sauce to the outside area.

In this way, he is only responsible for scoring on the offensive end, and does not even need to quickly return to defense when defending. This allows O'Neal to really play for a long time on the court, causing serious damage to the Heat's penalty area.

After 5 minutes of playing, O'Neal was replaced. With his current ability, it is very rare to be able to play 5 minutes on the court.

而这短短的5分钟里，奥尼尔5投3中，罚球2中1，得到了7分2篮板。

In the 5 minutes after the Heat's Big Three returned to the field, the score not only failed to narrow, but was further expanded. It has now reached 14 points!
Seeing that the third quarter is coming to an end and the Bulls have just replaced their entire starting lineup, Heat fans are already feeling a little desperate.

Only the final fourth quarter of the game was left, but the score difference was 14 points. Even Heat fans felt that it was too difficult for their team to catch up with the 14-point score difference in the final quarter and reverse the game. After all, Wang Chong So far, he has not shown his true strength. Counting the 12 points in the third quarter, Wang Chong's current personal score is only 23 points.

Considering the past games, Wang Chong scored 30+40+ points in one game as easily as eating and drinking. In the fourth quarter, the opponent is bound to have an extremely fierce attack. Whether the Heat can withstand Wang Chong's onslaught is a matter of doubt. Not necessarily, let alone if you want to chase points.

Sure enough, in the last quarter of the game, the Heat, led by Wade, began to launch a fierce attack, but because Wang Chong was able to fight back immediately every time, they were unable to narrow the score gap and watched the game time tick by. In the past, the Heat, unable to make a comeback, could only watch the game end.

"squeak--!"

The buzzer sounded at the end of the game, and the Bulls defeated the Heat 107:95, a 12-point victory.

As the Heat's first offensive core, Wade scored 34 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists in this game, but it was difficult to stop the Heat's defeat. James scored 22 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists in this game, shooting 13% of 6 of 46 shots. The rate is actually not low, but the defeat in the head-to-head confrontation with Wang Chong in the third quarter was the main reason why the Heat were widened and missed the chance to win.

As for Chris Bosh, the last member of the Big Three, he basically had no sense of presence in this game. Under Garnett's defense, Bosh made 14 of 6 shots and scored 15 points and 7 rebounds. Although Garnett also had He only scored 13 points and 8 rebounds, not much better than Bosh. The two were fighting at a 34- level, but the young and strong Bosh actually tied with the -year-old Garnett. He already had Problem.

Garnett is now just a functional defensive player for the Bulls. He is no longer the mainstay of the Bulls when they won three consecutive championships in the past three years. But even in the twilight years of his career, Garnett can forcefully swap with Bosh. First, Bosh, the Heat's Big Three, is somewhat embarrassed.

I'm afraid Bosh doesn't know it at this time, let alone this season, even next year, in the Eastern Conference finals of the 11-12 season, the Heat vs. the Celtics, the two sides will not decide the winner until the tiebreaker. After losing the battle of Tianwang Mountain, he narrowly passed two games in a row.

In the seven games of this Eastern Conference finals, Garnett and Bosh faced each other, averaging 19 points and 9 rebounds per game. He was the Celtics' second scoring point after Rondo, helping the ball win. While the team was scoring, Garnett also limited Bosh's average data to 11.7 points and 7 rebounds per game, achieving full suppression.

You must know that Garnett was already 35 years old at that time, and Bosh was only 27 years old at the time, at the peak of his career. Although this was because Bosh was injured in the second round against the Pacers and missed more than a week. It has something to do with the fact that he was injured when he played against the Celtics, but as a veteran, Garnett only has more hidden injuries than Bosh.

For the Bulls, Wang Chong scored a game-high 39 points, and Gasol scored 21 points and 11 rebounds. This made Curry only score 12 points on 4-for-14 despite being targeted by Wade in this game, but the Bulls The team's offensive firepower was not affected at all.

The Bulls won the first battle, which was in line with the guesses of most fans.

Originally, the strength of the two teams in the regular season was clear at a glance, but in the playoffs, even if the intensity of the confrontation increased, the Bulls were still the side with the advantage.

The Bulls, who won their first victory, continued to work hard in the second game two days later. They scored another victory at 103:97 and led by a big score of 2:0. They have taken full initiative in the series. In the next two away games, as long as the Bulls If the team can win one of the games, it will be the first to get the match point.

For the Heat, they have no retreat.

As a super team that formed the Big Three in the summer, the Miami Heat only have one goal, and that is the championship. But now they are about to fall in the Eastern Conference finals. Let alone the championship, they cannot even enter the finals. How does this work?
On May 5, in the third game of the Eastern Conference Finals, the Heat were a little anxious to return to their home court. Wade broke out strongly, making 22 of 20 shots, 13 of 12 free throws, scoring 8 points, 36 rebounds and 5 assists, and just led the way. The Heat barely defeated the Bulls by 11:95 and narrowly defeated the Bulls by 93 points, tenaciously regaining a victory and chasing the score to 2:1.

With Wade showing off his power, breakthroughs with the ball are still very lethal to the Bulls. In this game, Garnett left the game with 6 fouls, and Gasol also had 5 fouls. The foul pressure was extremely high.

Of course, on the one hand, Wade's breakthrough with the ball under his full strength is indeed very sharp. On the other hand, it also has the advantage of the home whistle.

Bulls vs. Heat, Wang Chong vs. the Big Three, are hot matchups in themselves. Even in the official thinking of the league, they are not willing to end this series in just four games. If possible, the two sides will fight to the tiebreaker and fight forever. , that would be the best if there were corpses everywhere. Otherwise, if we wait until the finals, whether the Spurs or the Mavericks enter the finals in the Western Conference, the popularity and attention of the finals will be far from comparable to that of the Eastern Conference finals.

This is the expectation of the league, but in many cases it often backfires.

On May 5, Game 24 of the Eastern Conference Finals was held at the American Airlines Arena, home to the Heat.

Wade continued his hot touch from the previous game and scored 32 points.

In this game, Bosh finally broke out under Garnett's continuous suppression. He scored 19 points and 9 rebounds on 24 of 9 shots. Wade and Bosh alone scored 56 points. It seemed like this was another A winning match.

However, no one expected that when Wade and Bosh both performed well, James actually stretched his crotch.

In the first three games, although James was not the team's leading offensive point, he actually played not bad, averaging 20+5+5 per game. He did a very good job playing a Pippen-like role next to Wade. good.

But in this game, James seemed to suddenly stop playing. He was sleepwalking throughout the game. He only scored 11 points, 3 rebounds and 9 assists on 10 of 7 shots.

James' poor performance caused the Heat to fall short. They were in a complete lead in the first half. In the second half, the Bulls seized an opportunity and launched a 12:2 attack wave. They overtook the score in one fell swoop and lost to the Bulls 89:92.

This defeat was extremely fatal, directly leading to the Bulls leading 3:1 and holding three match points.

Heat fans are all dumbfounded. What is going on? 9 points, 10 rebounds and 7 assists in a single game? Shooting 27%?

Just counting James' career, he has never performed such a hip-stretching performance so far, let alone in an important game that is about life and death. It is simply killing people!
For a time, fans of Wade and Bosh turned against each other one after another and began to attack James crazily on the Internet. They were all furious. The team obviously had a chance to tie 2:2, but James did it. Basically, The Eastern Conference finals are unplayable.

"You are still the chosen one? Who can lead you to win the championship with this performance?"

"I couldn't win the championship in the Cavaliers, so I came to hug our Wade's thigh, but he hugged his thigh so tightly that he couldn't move it. You are really good at it!"

"Nine points in a single game in the Eastern Conference Finals? Is this really James' true strength? With his physical fitness, it is impossible for him to perform like this even if he is recklessly going to the basket. Could this guy be because In the past few games, the team has always used Wade as the core of the offense, so they were dissatisfied and deliberately failed?"

Wang Chong did not expect that the famous scene of the 8-point release of military power that was supposed to happen during the finals was actually staged in the Eastern Conference finals ahead of schedule. Although James scored 1 point higher this time, getting 9 points, there was no difference in the result. .

The Heat's defeat was entirely James' fault, and he couldn't even shake it off.

The only thing that can be slightly fortunate is that the Heat and Bulls are at a disadvantage in the match. Most fans generally believe that the two sides are 46 points apart. The Heat only have a 4% winning rate and the Bulls have a 6% winning rate. Therefore, even though many people are criticizing James now, but It's not that difficult to accept that the Bulls are about to win the Eastern Conference Finals.

On the contrary, in the original 10-11 season finals, the Heat vs. the Mavericks, no one thought that the Mavericks had a chance to defeat the Heat. The gap between the lineups of the two sides was so huge that when the Mavericks upset the Heat, it felt like the sky was falling. Same.

To put it simply, the greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment.

But regardless of the level of expectations, James still faced the most dangerous and lowest period of his career. The Big Three failed to win the championship as a team. The reason for the loss was his own performance, which cannot be washed away no matter what.

If he still fails to win the championship with the Heat, he will undoubtedly become the biggest joke in the league for a long time.

After the G4 game of the Eastern Conference Finals, James did not appear in front of any media except for the post-game press conference. Even if he was photographed by paparazzi while traveling, the picture mostly showed him with a dark face and a very unhappy expression.

But the one who should come is still to come.

On May 5, Game 26 of the Eastern Conference Finals returned to the United Center in Chicago.

The Bulls, sitting at home, did not give the Heat any chance. They defeated the Heat at home 87:83 and defeated the Heat's Big Three with a big score of 4:1, entering the finals for the fifth consecutive season.

In fact, the performance of the Heat's Big Three was not bad in this game. Wade scored 28 points, James had 21 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists. Bosh also had 20 points and 10 rebounds. The Big Three scored 69 points together.

But the problem is that no one on the Heat scored in double figures except for the Big Three. In fact, only three players except the Big Three scored, namely Mike Miller who scored 3 points, Chalmers with 7 points, and Chalmers with 4 points. Joel Anthony.

This abnormal score is simply jaw-dropping, and it also vividly reflects the current situation of the Heat's Big Three - except for the Big Three, there are no usable players in the team.

After the whistle sounded at the end of the game, James walked to the locker room immediately without looking back, without any nostalgia.

Wade had a helpless smile on his face and took the initiative to hug Wang Chong and express his congratulations.

"I'm convinced, we are no match for each other when we join forces. Come on in the finals and strive to win four consecutive championships." (End of Chapter)