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The Warriors and Thunder’s seven-game battle was vigorous, and finally won, becoming the tenth Warriors team in history to fall behind 1-3 and successfully reverse, which was unanimously praised by the media.

“After the baptism of the big seven, the Warriors are more mature and tacit than the team with 73 wins in the regular season, and they will definitely defend their title in the end.” The front page of the New York Times headline reads.

“The Warriors are a solid step towards dynasty teams, and they will become the OK combination, another dynasty team in the league to achieve three consecutive championships.” The Los Angeles Daily described it this way.

“The aging Spurs have retired from the championship race, the Warriors are starting to become the dominant team in the West, and they will usher in an era.” The Washington Post reported.

The Warriors became the other team in the Western Conference Finals, and their opponents are still the same as last season, the Rockets.

This convinced the Warriors, and indeed most fans in the league, that they would easily eliminate their opponents and reach the Finals as they did last season (the Warriors were 4-1 with the Rockets last season).

The media is also generally optimistic about the Warriors, after all, the latter has set a league-best record of 73 wins this season, and the Rockets have an aging GDP despite eliminating the Spurs, and Aldridge is not worthy of the name, and the strength is not comparable to the Warriors.

The Warriors’ Draymond Green continued his usual big-mouthed in an interview with reporters. “The Rockets have been amazing this season, they’re a very athletic team, but we’re better than them and we’re going to tackle the battle in five games like we did last year. ”

Green’s words immediately drew a burst of saliva from fans, a burst of indignation from Rockets fans, and a cheer from Warriors fans.

At this time, the two media giants T.N.T and ESPN also split into two factions and supported different teams.

ESPN supports the Warriors, who believe their strong scoring ability will destroy the Rockets, and their defense is good enough to handle the Rockets’ double guns.

T.N.T supported the Rockets, and T.N.T well-known journalist Barkley spoke out. Povic and the Spurs can’t do anything with Hao Shuai, and the Warriors don’t have much to do.

The fan media took their respective positions, and this series had already earned enough gimmicks before it even began.

The first game of the series between the two sides was played at Oracle Arena, home of the Warriors.

According to CNN statistics, the ratings of this Western Conference Finals exceeded 12%, which was 2 percentage points higher than the average rating of last year’s Finals.

What the US cable TV station did not count is that far away on the other side of the ocean, in the Celestial Empire, more than 50 million viewers watched the broadcast of this game in various ways, which is still the number of viewers before the start of the game, and the NBA market in the Celestial Empire suddenly became extremely huge.

The first match between the two sides started quickly, but the start of the match was a surprise.

As soon as the Rockets came up, Harden sent two turnovers, then Howard fouled, Ariza fouled, and on the Warriors’ side, the Splash Brothers, who had just finished the seven-game game, continued their excellent form to this game, frequently shooting three-point shots.

Throughout the game, although Hao Shuai played steadily, scoring 52 points on 22-of-30 shooting, his teammates shot 10-of-55 from the field, and the performance of his teammates also allowed the Rockets to lose 98-113 in the first game.

At the end of the game, the Oracle Arena was boiling, and the fans at the scene roared excitedly.

In an interview after the game, the Warriors’ Draymond Green shouted: “As I said, we will solve the battle in five games, and now it seems that maybe four games will be enough!” ”

Green’s clamor has also attracted support from fans and media in the United States.

“What Charles [Barkley] said before was not true, and the Warriors didn’t have to think about how to defend Hao Shuai because they were enough to destroy the Houstonians on offense alone.” ESPN’s Albert said with a smile after the game.

The big win in the first game made the voice of support for the Warriors the main theme, and in the latest major website forecasts, the probability of the Warriors qualifying soared directly from 55% before the game to 70%, and it only took one game for the media to feel that the outcome of this round of the series was decided.

In the locker room after the first game, the Rockets players did not look good, and they waited until Hao Shuai returned from the press conference.

“Hao, I’m sorry, it was my team that lost, I want to apologize to you, to my teammates.” Harden was the first to stand up and say that he scored 10 points, 5 assists and 6 turnovers on 2-of-15 shooting in this game, showing that he was ashamed of the team giants.

“And me, I shouldn’t have gone on vacation to Miami, which made me completely out of shape tonight.” Ariza followed suit.

“The biggest responsibility is on me, I gave Stephen (Curry) 40 points, and the win against the Spurs paralyzed me.” Beverley also stood up and said.

The Rockets’ main rotation apologized one after another, and they didn’t score as many goals and points as Hao Shuai alone, and they had plenty of reasons to do so.

After listening to the apology of his teammates, Hao Shuai breathed a sigh of relief, losing is actually not terrible, the terrible thing is that after losing is indifferent, judging from the reaction of teammates, this team has not lost confidence because of the loss.

“I propose that tomorrow we all practice more and we will win the next game of the series.” After listening to his teammate’s words, Hao Shuai opened his mouth and proposed.

His offer was quickly echoed by his teammates, and there was a shout in the dressing room, and the team’s morale and confidence were even higher before the game.

The head coach of the team went to the locker room with his back foot, and when he saw the scene in front of him, he couldn’t help but smile, he was thinking about how to boost morale, but now it seems that it is unnecessary, Hao Shuai has done this work without saying a word.

The next day, in the training hall of Oracle Arena, the Rockets team arrived early for training, and the players shouted to remind each other on the court, and the morale of the whole team was high.

The training lasted for three days, and sweat soaked the floor of the arena.

After three days of adjustment, the players have recovered their form and feel, especially Harden, who played dashing and confident in the whole court, and the bearded man who played well in the previous series is back.

Bixstaff has been watching the team training on the sidelines, nodding frequently, his eyes full of relief, such a team, despite losing the first game, but he has enough reason to believe that the team will launch a Jedi counterattack in the next game.