NBA: James wants to team up with me

In four games, Durant averaged 22 points per game and shot 41% from the field. In fact, overall, his performance cannot be considered a stretch.

As the strongest scorer in the league in the future, Durant's strength and understanding are still the best, but he happened to be defeated by Wang Chongtian, and even though he was restrained, Durant still gradually figured out the next two games at home. After getting the hang of it, he began to adapt to Wang Chong's defensive intensity. Although the offense was still very difficult, his shooting percentage began to pick up, and his scoring average could reach more than 20 points per game.

Even Wang Chong has to admire him. In terms of offensive talent alone, Durant may really be the strongest after Jordan, bar none.

Even he himself uses Durant's growth template card.

Of course, when it comes to comparing the spirit of a player, Durant definitely can't compare with Jordan. The courage to take the initiative to embark on the "most difficult road" is a decision that Jordan has been unable to make throughout his career.

But having said that, Durant’s current team is the Celtics, one of the top clubs in the league. It is different from a small-market team like the Thunder. Once it is confirmed that Durant is worthy of building a team, With the candidates cultivated by the core main players, the Celtics will inevitably build a championship lineup around Durant at all costs, and are unlikely to give Durant the opportunity to embark on a difficult road.

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A few days later, the two Western Conference matchups were also decided.

The Lakers defeated the Suns 4:2, and the Spurs eliminated the Mavericks 4:2, both entering the Western Conference Finals. In this way, the Western Conference Finals will be the Los Angeles Lakers vs. the San Antonio Spurs, another classic classic showdown in the Western Conference.

Facing the Lakers, who have reached the Finals for two consecutive years, the Spurs have no advantage at all. There is a high probability that they will fall in the Western Conference Finals and watch their opponents enter the Finals.

Compared to the two sets of matchups in the West, the match between the Magic and the Cavaliers in the East is undoubtedly much more intense and tragic.

The battle between James and Howard, the two No. 03 picks in 04 and , was extremely fierce.

James played an almost dominant performance, averaging an exaggerated triple-double of 36 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists per game that no one can match.

Howard strongly proved in his matchup with O'Neal that he is indeed qualified to take over the title of No. 1 center.

Averaging 25 points, 18 rebounds and 3 blocks per game, the penalty area with Howard in it is like a no-fly zone.

The two sides first won two games at home, and the battle ended in a 2:2 draw.

In the subsequent battle at Tianwangshan, the Cavaliers, who were playing away from home, successfully won the game with Ray Allen's super high shooting percentage of 10 of 7 three-pointers, taking the lead in winning the match point 3:2.

But the Magic did not sit still. In the subsequent sixth game, Howard scored a 30+20 double-double, leading the Magic to defeat the Cavaliers and tenaciously equalize the score.

With a big score of 3:3, the two sides had a final tiebreaker in Orlando, home of the Magic.

I thought this would be a fierce battle of the century, but the result of this game disappointed many people.

The Magic were suppressed by the Cavaliers throughout the game and were unfortunately eliminated by their opponents.

The reason why the fans were disappointed was not because the game was not intense enough, but because the game was somewhat strange.

As the absolute core of the Magic, Howard was troubled by fouls throughout the game. He committed two fouls in the first quarter. As a result, he was timid throughout the game and did not dare to play with all his strength. Even so, Howard In the end, he received his sixth foul a few minutes into the fourth quarter and was sent off.

Wang Chong watched the entire game in front of the TV, so he knew exactly what happened.

Four of Howard's six fouls came from James.

To be precise, it came from a defensive foul when James broke through and attacked the basket with the ball.

This is not to say that James' breakthrough was so unstoppable that Howard could only use a foul to stop it. It can only be said that the referee's penalty helped a lot.

You can't say that several foul calls against Howard were diving. The two did have physical contact at the time.

However, there is a certain degree of subjectivity in whistle-blowing. Many actions on the field can be whistled or not, and the referee needs to make his own judgment. If a controversial penalty is blown, the balance whistle will be blown by default in subsequent games. To make up for the team's disadvantage caused by the previous whistle.

The referee did blow the balance whistle later to make up for the Magic, but he changed the concept. The Magic called Howard for a foul, but when it was the Cavaliers' turn, the person who was called for a foul was an insignificant ordinary character. players.

Although the Magic had nearly 10 more free throws than the Cavaliers after the entire game and seemed to enjoy the home court advantage, the actual situation was completely different.

Wang Chong knew very well that this was probably ordered by the alliance. As for the reason... of course it was to make money.

Although Howard's fame has skyrocketed in recent years, he still has a lot of problems with James in terms of popularity and commercial value. More importantly, if the Eastern Conference finals were an old rival like Wang Chong vs. James, the attention, topic and ratings would be Definitely far better than Wang Chong vs Howard.

Considering this point alone, the league definitely hopes that James' Cavaliers can win the series and advance to the Eastern Conference Finals.

Originally, the Magic and the Cavaliers were about equal in strength. The referee only needed to interfere a little bit, which was enough to affect the balance of victory and defeat.

As a time traveler from 2023, Wang Chong already knows what the league is like, and he doesn't have any big psychological fluctuations.

He is even happier that the Bulls' opponent in the Western Conference Finals is the Cavaliers, because of the two teams, the Magic and the Cavaliers, the former is obviously more difficult.

It's not that the Magic are necessarily stronger than the Cavaliers, but the Bulls lack Garnett. Even with Wang Chong on top, the inside defense is still a bit weak. Gasol is not Howard's opponent at all. Once Howard is strong, Exploding to dominate the paint, the Bulls also had a hard time playing.

If you switch to the Cavaliers, this concern will completely disappear.

O'Neal no longer has the ability to attack the basket. The Cavaliers are even weaker inside than the Bulls. They mainly rely on James, Ray Allen and Mo Williams as the three main outside players. This is very similar to the Bulls. , this season after Garnett was injured, the Bulls also have three outside players: Wang Chong, Curry and Billups.

Therefore, the showdown between the Bulls and the Cavaliers is actually a competition between outsiders.

Under this premise, if the Bulls reuse Gasol in the game and use his inside offensive ability as a breakthrough, considering O'Neal's deteriorating competitive state, it is very likely to be the key to defeating the Cavaliers! ——

Los Angeles Lakers vs. San Antonio Spurs, Chicago Bulls vs. Cleveland Cavaliers.

The list of duels for the Eastern and Western finals has been determined, and by mid-May, the two teams will officially start the battle of the century.

Before the start of the Eastern and Western Conference finals, the league also announced the final selection results of various season awards for the 2009-10 season.

After a fierce competition between Curry and Evans, Curry won the Rookie of the Year award with 42% of the votes narrowly beating Evans, who received 41% of the votes.

The result of this selection was really beyond Wang Chong's expectation. He didn't expect that because of him, Curry actually won the Rookie of the Year title at the beginning, starting so high.