Bishop of the Abyss

Chapter 158 158. Predicted to be swept before the fight even started!
When the Timberwolves had entered the finals early and were in the rest stage, the Eastern Conference finals were playing fiercely.

The tenacity of the Cavaliers has impressed many fans. No one expected this season that the Cavaliers would become the dark horse in the East, competing with the two giant teams of the Pistons and the Heat.

After the first six games between the two sides, the Cavaliers and the Heat are now tied 3:3. The two sides will decide the winner in the final tiebreaker to decide who is the Eastern Conference in the 05-06 season. champion.

Judging from the situation, the Heat and the Cavaliers are evenly matched. It is difficult to judge who can win the tie-break. Even though the Heat have home court advantage in the tie-break, the Heat still lost to the Cavaliers at home in the Tianwangshan battle.

If it weren't for the "Shark" O'Neal dreaming of returning to the top in the last game, scoring 39 points and 14 rebounds to blow up the Cavaliers inside, the Cavaliers have already entered the finals.

As Luke said before, the Heat's defensive focus on the Cavaliers is all on LeBron James, ignoring the impact of role players on the trend of the game.

James is a player with his own system, and LeBron James' breakthrough is even more unique in the league.

Rolling like a bulldozer makes it difficult for strikers to defend one-on-one. The trick to defending James in the early league is to double-team, block James' breakthrough route, force James to pass the ball outward, or simply put James in a farther position. shoot.

However, James has a very high golf quotient, and there are [-] or [-] players in the league who are good at breakthroughs. The reason why James can reach this height and stand out among many players is because James' breakthrough can drive the entire team to attack.

James' overall view in this period is still very general, not as monstrous as later generations, but averaging more than 30 points per game and sending out six assists is enough to prove LeBron James' comprehensiveness.

The Cavaliers' lineup this season is not outstanding. Apart from James, there is no No.2 All-Star player. Even "Big Z" Ilgauskas has not been selected for the All-Star ranks this season, and his overall performance is mediocre.

But the Cavaliers' lineup, although the old, young, and young, have average combat effectiveness, but their outside shooting ability is very good. When James encounters a double-team and sends the ball outward, everyone else can contribute good outside firepower.

It is precisely because the Heat put all their defensive focus on LeBron James, so the offensive environment of other Cavaliers players is very comfortable. Marshall, Larry Hughes and others have played a good offensive performance in this round of the series.

今年季后赛拉里休斯的场均数据为11.6分3篮板4助攻以及2.2次抢断，但投篮命中率只有31.9%，三分球命中率更是低到28.7%。

However, in this round of the series with the Heat, Larry Hughes' average scoring not only rose to 14.7 points, but his shooting percentage also rose to 46.3%. As for the three-point shooting percentage, it reached 36.8%, averaging 2.3 points per game three points.

Needless to say, Donyell Marshall, since entering the playoffs, his three-point shooting percentage has remained at around 40%, and this round of the Heat series has reached 46.7%.

Even the "Master Gooden", who has never taken a three-point shot very much, tried open shots in this round of the series. All this stems from the Heat's high-intensity defense against James, which makes the offensive environment of the Cavaliers' role players particularly good. .

In the battle of Tianwangshan, James only surrendered 22 points away, but 9 assists revitalized the team, leading the Cavaliers to take the lead in winning the match point.

If O'Neal hadn't shown his power in the sixth game and destroyed the inside of the Cavaliers by himself, the Cavaliers would have already won the finals tickets.

It is not known whether Riley, the "magic operator" Riley will adjust his defense in the tiebreaker, but Luke knows that O'Neal's playing time in this round of the series has been seriously overloaded.

This added a lot of unstable factors to the next tiebreaker. Riley was originally a coach who used the center forward, and the devil training on weekdays had already tortured Ou Pang.

When the 34-year-old "Shark" O'Neill meets the cold-blooded "magic fortune teller" Riley, this is destined to be an unpleasant cooperation.

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With the attention of fans across the United States, the tiebreaker between the Cavaliers and the Heat officially came to an end. With LeBron James' comprehensive performance of 34 points, 11 rebounds and 8 assists in the tiebreaker, the Cavaliers beat the Heat by four points in an away game.

Successively defeated the Pistons and the Heat, the two favorites to win the championship, and stepped into the gate of the finals.

The moment the game ended, the Cavaliers were extremely excited. Even the head coach Mike Brown was so happy that he completely forgot that the next opponent the team had to face was the defending champion with 74 wins in the regular season.

The Cavaliers can win the Lower East Championship and join the Timberwolves in the finals, which is something that all fans did not expect.

And this time, not only is the Cleveland Cavaliers returning to the playoffs stage again after eight years, it is also the first time in the history of the Cavaliers team that they have entered the finals.

Prior to this, the most glorious years of the Cleveland Cavaliers dated back to the Dougherty period.

Dougherty once led the team to enter the playoffs 1988 times in the 1996 years from 9 to 8, but the best result among them was only to reach the Eastern Conference Finals, and never made it out of the Eastern Conference.

This year, the Cavaliers reached the finals stage when everyone was not optimistic, and even the management was not optimistic. This is definitely a season that will be recorded in team history.

It's just a pity that when the Cavaliers fans calmed down, they discovered that the Cavaliers' journey this season may end here, because the Cavaliers' opponent in the finals will be the Timberwolves.

During the regular season, the Timberwolves not only double-killed the Cavaliers without suspense, but also won a total of 43 points in the two games, averaging 21.5 points per game. This is definitely a huge gap.

No one believes that the Cavaliers, who have been upset all the way, can continue to perform miracles in the finals, overturning the best team in history with 74 wins and 8 losses.

The reason why the Timberwolves can be called the best in history is naturally because of their suffocating defense.

When a single-core team like the Cleveland Cavaliers meets the mighty Timberwolves, this year's finals must be a tragedy.

According to the words of TNT famous mouth Kenny Smith, if the Cavaliers can refuse to be swept in the finals, it is considered a success, but unfortunately, it seems that even avoiding being swept is an impossible thing now!
After eliminating the Heat, the league has already arranged the time for the first match of the finals, and the two sides will officially start the fight on June 6, local time in the United States.

Compared with the Timberwolves, who have rested for more than a week, the Cavaliers' schedule is undoubtedly a bit tight, especially in the case of seven consecutive battles with the Heat and severe physical exertion, the probability of the Cavaliers being swept has become even greater!
(End of this chapter)