One Thousand Eight Hundred and One. Not Just FO-FO-FO!
The Grizzlies have won 11 consecutive games in the playoffs and lead the Lakers 3-0!
Just as Kobe thought, after this game, not many people complained about the Lakers' poor performance. The Grizzlies' outstanding dominance has been recognized by people.
The Lakers seemed to have done nothing wrong. They were able to overturn the Spurs in the second round because of their stable performance even when trailing 1-3. On a stable basis, they relied on Leonard in the last three games. An explosive comeback with 20 points in three consecutive games.
According to media analysis, most of the preparations made by the Lakers last summer were reasonable, and the lineup was indeed designed to target the Grizzlies. However, the Grizzlies were stronger than the Lakers expected. .
Although the Bulls have swept three consecutive rounds into the finals, they are in the Eastern Conference. There is really no one in the Eastern Conference that can compete with the Bulls.
But the Grizzlies are as dominant in the West as the Bulls are in the East.
It's simply too strong!
In this situation, a strange situation occurred... Lakers fans are praising the Grizzlies' strength! I wish I could praise the Grizzlies to the sky!
This situation is rare, but only in this way can Lakers fans heal the inner scars... and face.
After the game, not many people discussed the fierce, crazy, and exciting game that had just ended. They were more discussing which team was the strongest team in the playoffs in NBA history.
The Prophet's 76ers, OK's Lakers, and Lord's Grizzlies were nominated!
In the 1982-83 season, Moses Malone led the team to a playoff record of 12 wins and 1 loss, which was the best in history at the time. After that, the Lakers had a 15 win and 1 loss performance in the 00-01 season. If not for carelessness, It was a complete victory, but it also created a new best in history.
Now, if the Grizzlies can achieve a record of 16 wins and 1 loss, they will become the best in single-season playoff history just like the Lakers surpassed the 76ers!
Although a dynasty is the condition for absolute dominance, if it can produce the strongest single-season playoff performance in history, it will also be remembered, just like the 76ers and Lakers!
After the Grizzlies led the Lakers 3-0, public opinion changed. Which fan doesn't want to see this happen in his career?
This time, there is a Grizzlies team in the West that has the potential to sweep all their opponents into the Finals. There is already a team in the East that has swept all the teams into the Finals... Before the Western Conference Finals are over, fans have already begun to analyze the Grizzlies and Bulls. The probability of a team sweeping the opponent before...
Not to mention the results of the analysis, the Lakers, after the third game, saw that their team's first two home games had not been played yet, the media and fans had already begun to discuss the Grizzlies and the Finals. As for the probability of the Bulls sweeping the opponent, they have no choice but to do so.
There is really nothing but helplessness. They are already strong enough, maybe just a little weaker than the Grizzlies, but they are weaker in every aspect.
The current strength of their Lakers team is already one of the top teams in NBA history, but for the Grizzlies, only the 76ers and Lakers can compare in a single season, surpassing all other teams. A super team of another level!
The Grizzlies will not accept interviews during the series, including post-game interviews. Only Paul George, the team's most stable player, will participate in on-site interviews. This guy is the only one who will not go crazy.
But Kobe rarely gave an interview after such a tragic loss and said: "I know you must think I'm crazy, but I think we can still make a comeback..."
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The 2014-2014 playoff conference finals ended earlier than usual.
On May 29, 2015, at 10:22 pm Los Angeles time, in Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals, which lasted 2 hours and 22 minutes, the referee blew the final whistle.
108-85, the Grizzlies swept the Lakers 4-0 and entered the finals with a record of 12 wins and 0 losses!
The Grizzlies didn't give the Lakers any chance.
The Lakers gave up halfway through the third quarter.
Their anger was gone. It would be okay if they just lost their anger. They might be angry, but before they had time to generate anger, the feeling of being helpless when facing the Grizzlies deepened to despair...
Sun Ce's "King of the Western Conference Finals" effect finally took effect after the third game, which was the opponent's most desperate game, and it took effect because the Grizzlies won the Lakers' most desperate game.
In this game, the Grizzlies led the Lakers by 11 points, 31-20, in the first quarter. In the second quarter, the two teams tied at 27, and the Grizzlies still led the Lakers by 11 points, 58-47.
In the third quarter, the Grizzlies sealed the victory, 28 to 18 in a single quarter, opening the point difference to 21 points, 86 to 65 entering the last intersection.
The Lakers did it simply and didn't let the three Zhanlencos go up to fight in the final quarter. It was unnecessary.
Having reached this point, there is definitely no way to advance. As for face or not, so far in this year's playoffs, the Grizzlies and Bulls' opponents have no face.
The team hopes that the health of Kobe, a veteran, and Leonard, who has always been in average health, is what Bickerstaff cares about most.
Sun Ce played 25 minutes tonight, making 7 of 17 shots, 5 three-pointers and none, plus 6 of 6 free throws. He scored 20 points, 6 rebounds, 1 assist, 4 blocks and 1 steal.
The best player was Randolph, who came off the bench and played 34 minutes. Aldridge spent the rest of the time on the sidelines yelling at his boss...
Randolph made 16 of 26 shots, including 1 of 1 three-pointers and 5 of 5 free throws. Randolph scored 38 points and 16 rebounds. In the second quarter, he went up and asked Sun Ce to throw three-pointers. As a result, Sun Ce made 5 three-pointers in a single quarter. Randolph made 0 shots, but he got 9 offensive rebounds in the game.
Paul George finally took advantage of a certain unnamed player No. 3 to rest and collected 10 rebounds. He scored 11 points, 10 rebounds, 11 assists, 2 steals and 1 block. Paul George won the first playoff game of his career. Three pairs.
James also scored a triple-double in this game, his third triple-double in four games in the series, scoring 23 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists.
But Kobe only scored 13 points on 4 of 13 shots, Leonard scored 8 points on 3 of 9 shots, and Boozer scored 12 points and 6 rebounds...
The biggest problem for the Lakers in this series has been JR Smith.
He scored 4 points on 1-for-11 shooting. This performance was almost the epitome of J.R. Smith's performance in the Western Conference Finals. It was as if he had used up all his luck against the Spurs in the second round, and he couldn't make any shots.
The moment the whistle sounded at the end of the game, Kobe stood up and wanted to say something to Sun Ce. After losing in the third game, he expected that such a scene might appear, although he was very ambitious after the last game. He said he could make a comeback, but he had already expected the result.
He is too experienced. After the third game, his teammates were so helpless that they doubted his life and turned into despair. He felt it too deeply. Even if James' mentality becomes more stable after winning the championship, even if there is Leonard, who is not subject to public opinion. Kobe doesn't think there is any chance for a successor who is affected by the strength of his opponents.
It was proven in the last game that the three of them could not defeat the Grizzlies, who were too strong overall.
Now that he has been promoted to the Grizzlies, he wants to say something to Sun Ce. However, asking Sun Ce to prevent the Bulls from winning the seventh championship means that Sun Ce will win the championship again! The number of Finals MVPs will definitely exceed that of Kobe.
As for stimulating Sun Ce, even if Sun Ce's mentality explodes and he loses in the finals, the Bulls, who represent Jordan's career as a player, will have to win the championship.
Kobe was not angry at first, but suddenly became angry after thinking about it. He got up from the bench and walked to the tunnel...
James, who had been communicating with Kobe just now, discussing how to calmly welcome the defeat of the title defense and exchange experiences with each other, saw Kobe suddenly angry and was confused - this guy is indeed a little crazy!
How moody!
If you can't afford to lose, say it earlier! What kind of exchange were we having just now?
Although he thought so, James also left the court. He has nothing to say now.
On the other side, Sun Ce and his teammates briefly celebrated their promotion to the finals, and were surrounded by the media who had been waiting for a long time.
The Western Conference Finals are over, and the Grizzlies' interview ban except for Paul George has been lifted. Of course, what the media most want to interview is Sun Ce, who became the league's number one player at the moment the final whistle sounded!
But Sun Ce only said one sentence, and then turned around and walked into the player tunnel with little Gohan, who couldn't help but look disgusted and helpless because of the sweat on Sun Ce's body.
"I'm-back, not FO-FO-FO, but FO-FO-FO-FO..."
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After the third game of the Western Conference Finals, many media already labeled Sun Ce as "the lord of the NBA", "the number one player in the league" and "the leader of the era" in the news.
When the Lakers' almost zero possibility of a comeback from a 0-3 deficit disappeared, at this moment, Sun Ce, who was about to enter the ranks of veterans, had already firmly established himself as the number one player in the league!
But once he took the position of the league's number one player, he wasn't that popular.
Just like how few people discuss who is the number one player in history, in today's league, Kobe and Duncan are getting older, James has lost to Sun Ce twice in the playoffs, and is clearly unable to compete with Sun Ce. Players of his generation are competing with Sun Ce to be the number one player. He has no qualifications, and the new generation of players is still young... Unless James wins the championship again, and wins the championship in the season when he defeats Sun Ce in the playoffs, Sun Ce's position as the number one player in the league will basically be unshakable!
Just when people were paying attention to the finals and looking forward to what kind of game they would play when two teams that swept all the way to the finals met, Sun Ce added fuel to the fire in the finals.
"I'm-back"
After the Western Conference Finals, the first short sentence of Sun Ce's interview was a high-profile announcement of returning to the finals, but this was not the headline.
Because the last half of his sentence is so crazy!
After the Western Conference Finals, Sun Ce responded to Rose's declaration about Rose's sweep into the Finals that he had not responded to before. Sun Ce's answer was simple - sweep the playoffs and win the championship!