The strongest champion puzzle

Chapter 449 Strong and Weak
The Spurs won easily at home, which did not surprise the outside world. In fact, they were not the only ones who won easily. Things like dark horses are not common.

Not to mention the strong teams such as the Spurs, Warriors, and Cavaliers, the Wizards and Rockets also won their second home games on the same day as the Spurs.

To be honest, Zhang Xiaotian felt that the Eagles' management was inaccurate in judging people, and that's why they became less and less competitive in the Eastern Conference.

In this game against the Wizards, they had nothing to do with the Wizards' double guns, allowing Wall and Bill to score 63 points together.

Wall said after the game, "Although we didn't play very well in the third quarter, someone came forward to lead the team in the fourth quarter, and I just stayed aggressive and always believed in my shooting."

"Everyone is a professional player with their own professionalism. They also understand that their missed shots will hurt the team, so they will complain about themselves in the locker room during the halftime break. At this time, I told them, 'It's okay, I'll keep passing you the second half,' Glad they stayed aggressive in the second half and made shots in the fourth quarter."

"The difference from two years ago is that two years ago we took a 2-0 lead in the away game. All we need to do is to go home and win the home game. Now we are about to go to the away game. We have to seriously prepare for the third game. In Game [-], we knew the opponent was getting better and better, and we felt like we weren't at our best yet."

Wall is not satisfied with his victory, but Hawks head coach Budenholzer can only motivate his players now, "Compared to the performance in the first game of the series, our performance in the second game has improved somewhat, and this is what we need to continue to do. Yes. Obviously, our offense in the fourth quarter was not good."

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On the Rockets' side, Harden played steadily, and the two strong substitutes Gordon and Lou Williams both scored 20+, throwing away the Thunder's rotation lineup by a thousand miles.

After the game, Westbrook was also very depressed when facing reporters. He was a little impatient with reporters repeatedly asking questions about statistics and shooting.

"I've already answered that question, brother."

"I don't fucking want to talk about the stats anymore, we lost."

As the winning side, Rockets guard Beverly said in an interview: "The Rockets fans are phenomenal. They are the sixth man of the team, and they have done a good job. They came to the scene to cheer for us. They really It's phenomenal, and all the fans in the city came to cheer us, I am very grateful."

Speaking of the away game, he said: "It feels good. I just hope that all the boos will come to me, and the Oklahoma City fans will not go to Harden."

Regarding Westbrook's performance, Beverly said, "He has done everything he can and played as aggressively as possible...Tonight we also showed the comprehensiveness of this team."

The third game of the first round of the playoffs still started with the Cavaliers and Pacers. The Cavaliers reversed in the second half after a bad start in the first half.

James also won a large triple-double of 41+13+12. Unlike Westbrook, he led the team to win.

Paul George also scored a quasi triple-double of 36+15+9, but unfortunately he failed to hold on to the victory in the end.

Cavaliers coach Lu said after the game: "I think we were too relaxed at the beginning of the game. I told them in several timeouts that their attitude towards the game was too relaxed. The Pacers have talent, have home support, and have a good team. Coach, we can't be too relaxed like today."

"McMillan made adjustments to our defense on Paul George, which put us down by a big margin in the first half. We also made adjustments in the third quarter, and the Pacers only scored 17 points in the third quarter. I am for my players. Proud to be able to fight so hard even with a 2-0 lead."

"When LeBron made three consecutive 3s, I knew it was going to be another historic performance for him, he carried the whole team on his shoulders, he could score and pass the ball, there was no second half. Any mistakes, I'm not surprised anymore."

The Pacers are obviously a little discouraged. Their head coach McMillan said: "The fourth game is a test for our players. Who will do their best to win the game and extend this series. expected."

Teague also said, "We are fighting for dignity now. We are all fighters and trust each other. We are not broken."

In the third game between the Raptors and the Bucks, because the Raptors' double guns were habitually lost again, the Raptors lost miserably.

The Raptors only scored 30 points in the half, which also created a record in team history.

"Our fans were great tonight, we felt the energy from the start and I think we definitely had a chance to turn that energy to our advantage, come on and take an early lead in the game and keep it going. Control of the game." Bucks player Monroe said after the game.

Their core alphabet song also thanked the fans, "From the first leg, the home atmosphere is very influential, it's fun, it's fun to have such a good fan, hope they are in the fourth game There's some love for the team in there and a lot of shouting."

"We have to make changes," Raptors coach Casey said in an interview. "Our performance improved in the second half, but as long as the players on the court should work hard to make changes and affect the game."

"We've got to start with moving the ball and finding the players who come up and that's what we have to do, you have to move the ball, you can't just dribble it over and over. It's hard to get away with speed, but the ball rotates. There's always going to be more speed. That's what we did in Game [-] of the series, and we're going to get it back."

On the west side, the Warriors also had a clean 3:0.

Grizzlies coach Fizdale sighed after the game, "It looks like our offense is great, shooting 51% from the field, 40% from the three-point range, and 90% from the free throw line. We only had 9 shots in the game. Turnovers. For us, stats like that usually mean wins. But we didn’t have any defense today, and I think the team gave it their all and didn’t execute it well enough.”

Warriors head coach Kerr was unable to command on the spot due to injury. Curry said after the game: "Our coach is going through very difficult things physically. He also told us this morning that we need to be united in this situation. , to support him, he said we want to 'Win one for the Gipper'."

"So, this win is dedicated to you, Coach Kerr."

(End of this chapter)