msmithbooks Chapter 851 Who Is The Dog?
Chapter 851 Who Is The Dog?
Chapter 851 Who Is The Dog?
The Thunder and the Warriors scored 2:2 in the regular season. It is basically difficult to see who has a clear advantage.The Thunder are more athletic here, while the Warriors shoot significantly better.
No team is perfect, the Warriors have flaws, and the Thunder are also a team with obvious strengths and weaknesses.
Both teams have many All-Star players, both have MVPs, both have killers, and both have good bench depth.
For Thunder fans, it really hurts to be reversed from a 3-1 lead last season.What hurts even more is that Durant, the boss of the team, actually joined this team that humiliated you during the offseason. There is really nothing more heart-wrenching than this.
Fortunately, Xie Kai's sudden joining and the team's mastery made this team suddenly have the strength to wrestle with Universe Yong.
Thunder coach Donovan also wanted revenge. He had been waiting for a year for this day.Originally, if he led the team to win the championship last season, he would be able to become a god, but the reality is still a joke with him, and Fengshen has become a chicken soup coach with a stomach like Tyronn Lue.
But there is no way, some lives are good, as long as the chicken soup is boiled, tactics and so on, the players will arrange it themselves.
Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals will take place on May 13 at the Oracle Center, home of the Warriors.Since the Warriors have the league's best record in the regular season, they have home court advantage in all series in the playoffs.
This kind of competition is what Xie Kai has been waiting for.He likes challenges. If the series is always swept, winning the championship is too easy, and the championship comes too easily, but he will feel a little empty in his heart.
Before the start of the series, the gambling city offered odds, and major sports media, NBA celebrities, and basketball experts were all predicting this round of the series.
The predictions for this round of the series are not as one-sided as the previous rounds.There are those who are optimistic about the Warriors, and there are also many who are optimistic about the Thunder.
In the circle of fans and players, there are still many who support the Thunder.The Warriors have been invincible in the regular season in the past two seasons. Many teams are scared of being beaten. They hope that some teams can snipe the Warriors.Another reason is that after Durant joined the Warriors, it was emotionally unacceptable. The Warriors became a 4-star and a cosmic warrior. The Thunder, which could have competed with him, instantly became a single-core.The arrival of Xie Kai and Paojiao brought the two teams back to the same starting line, and of course gained more public opinion support.
The coaches of the two teams did not utter harsh words in the interviews before the game. Compared with Donovan, he is a gentleman coach. Cole is obviously an old fox. He has been a commentator and knows what to say and what not to say.
Cole said in an interview: "We are the dog! The number of MVPs on the opposite side is more than us, and the number of championships is also more than us. We are the challengers."
There is no problem with what he said. Xie Kai holds 3 championships and 4 MVPs (2 regular seasons, 2 finals), and indeed has more honors than the stars of the Warriors.
Donovan didn't even laugh after hearing the reporter tell him about Cole's point of view: "What I know is that Steve has more championship rings than me, so we are the dogs."
The coaches of the two teams were poisoned milk before the game, which made the fans happy, thinking that the story of this round of the series will be very exciting, and it will definitely not disappoint.
Before the game, some media pointed out that Cole and his Warriors never beat Xie Kai's team in the playoffs.However, the Bay Area media immediately counterattacked. They said that the Thunder had never defeated the Warriors led by Cole in the playoffs, so this does not count.
The Thunder arrived in the Bay Area two days before the game. They had acclimatization training in the training facility. The players were very confident and excited. This is the matchup they most desire, even more than possible finals.
For the Thunder players who participated in the Western Conference finals last season, the lingering pain of being reversed has tortured them for a whole season. Now, there is a chance for revenge. This opportunity is indeed hard-won.
Therefore, the old Thunder people are very grateful to Xie Kai. Without his arrival, the team will not try to get pickled peppers. Maybe this season will be the season when Westbrook leads the team with a single core, and the team can enter the playoffs. game, but it is difficult to go further in the playoffs, and there is no chance to confront Yu Yuyong.
The confrontation in the regular season made the Thunder full of confidence. Their core can stand the test. Xie Kai is still the omnipotent God K, and it is also the biggest capital for this team to defeat Universe Yong.
K honey in the Bay Area has slowly gathered. There are a lot of Chinese and Asians here. Naturally, these people are highly concerned about this round of the series.Even if the home team is the Warriors, I don't dislike Xie Kai, after all, he is the pride of Asians.
Xie Kai has no shortage of champions, in fact he has no shortage of big honors in the NBA.But his goal is not just to be an ordinary superstar, he wants to become a superstar of the era, he wants to improve his historical status, he needs more honors.In addition, this season is his comeback season after a major injury in his career, and he needs to prove again that he is still the best player in the league.
From this perspective, Universe Yong is really a good opponent.
Xie Kai's wife, Zhou Jing, also arrived in the Bay Area, and she will be there to cheer for her husband.And Chen Guixiang had already been stationed in the Bay Area with K Mi's army for many days, and they had already arrived before the entire Thunder team arrived.
Tickets for this game are in short supply, and it is really a matter of character + relationship to buy tickets.The few remaining tickets in the hands of scalpers have already been fired to sky-high prices.
In the past two years, NBA star groups have become more and more common, and oligarchs are frequent, which makes the regular season many games with great disparity in strength, which makes the regular season less exciting.Even in the first two rounds of the playoffs, many people were not interested.But when it comes to the division finals, it will be a contest between historically strong teams, and the viewing and topicality will also be historic.
Some NBA celebrities have always said that the current game is too soft, Jordan is so awesome, and now everyone is in a group, the game is not enjoyable, there are a lot of blah blah blah.
Of course Jordan is awesome, but he is not yet blown into a god.At that time, there was no grouping, so the Bulls had two NBA 50 superstars, and basically suppressed his opponents in terms of the number of superstars.
If Jordan can really lead the team with a single core to face today's Cosmos Yong, and can beat his opponents in the playoffs, that would be a god.Of course, this is simply impossible.
Many of those who have been bragging about Jordan are his contemporaries, and some have even been defeated by him.After these superstars retired, many of them entered the world of commentary and hosting.They have not stayed away from the NBA, and are still active in everyone's field of vision by commenting and explaining the game.When they brag about Jordan, they are actually bragging about themselves. Jordan is a god, and we are also good. We just lost to God, so it’s not comparable to you little brats who haven’t played with God.
Xie Kai has now shut down his own social media, and concentrates on playing the Western Conference finals, so he won't go to the BBS to watch messy things!
(End of this chapter)