On June 4, 2004, US time, under the greeting of the entire Cleveland, Chen Xiao and the Cavaliers players had returned to Cleveland from Orlando.

With the end of the Eastern Conference Finals, Chen Xiao's first playoff journey with the Cavaliers was over.

Although Cleveland fans and Cavaliers management were very satisfied with this result.

But as a Cavaliers player, whether it is Chen Xiao, James or others, he feels angry.

Well, the game has reached this level and has reached the Eastern Conference Finals and has reached the tiebreak, but it still lost in the end, which makes the Cavaliers players feel abruptly.

"We can obviously do better!"

This is the cry of all the young Cavaliers players except Chen Xiao.

This season, under the leadership of Chen Xiao, the Cavaliers can go to this day. No one of the young Cavaliers players will be moved by Chen Xiao's words, "I really tried everything."

So, after returning to Cleveland, Jerry rejected the invitation from the American Dream Team and focused on practicing shooting this summer.

Young Cavaliers such as Mo, Barnes, and Korver also stuffed themselves into the training hall and became mice in the training hall after returning to Cleveland.

Perhaps, now only young players who are still veterans such as Crawford, Chandler, Myers, Diop, etc. can be considered as calmly accepting the failure of this series.

But even if it is calm, it is not that calm.

After all, the finals!

As long as you win the G7 and the Magic, you can enter the finals.

Moreover, the scores between the Cavaliers and the Magic are not that big.

Even many games are a little bit short of it.

But just a little bit, the Knight can't feel like he can't get over it.

This is actually very frustrating.

Not only other players of the Cavaliers were frustrated, but Chen Xiao himself was actually a little frustrated.

Especially the score is so close that you can win the game as long as you have some plug-ins, but the plug-ins are banned. What kind of mood will you feel?

Anyway, Chen Xiao was in a little unhappy if he didn't know the others.

Although Barkley was calling him the most perfect power forward, he knew that his strength was indeed not as good as Duncan.

In this series, he and Duncan actually lost the matchup.

Although his outside attack is powerful, as a power forward, he has no steps under the basket and no hooking. He has just one move to attack under the basket. This is actually very bad.

So, thinking about this Eastern Conference Final, after Chen Xiao returned to Cleveland, he did not return to the training hall as a mouse like other Cavaliers players.

Instead, accompanied by Anthony and Paul, he said goodbye to training temporarily, concentrate on eating, drinking and having fun, and let himself go, and by the way, he took a look at the finals of the Magic and the Timberwolves, Duncan and Garnett.

By the way, in the division final in the West, the Timberwolves won the Timberwolves, which was also a big score of 4-3. The Timberwolves also finished a big score reversal while lagging behind.

After the division finals, the NBA was shocked by the terrifying data of Chen Xiao and Duncan. In fact, in the Western Conference, Garnett also played extremely terrifying data against Weber, averaging 25 points, 16 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 4 blocks per game. Except for the shooting percentage of only 46%, it was not as good as Chen Xiao and Duncan. In this data, it can be said that it is not much worse than Chen Xiao and Duncan.

However, in the face of Garnett's strength, Weber was unable to respond, so although Garnett performed well, his popularity was not that high.

Although Webber, who has returned from serious injury, is still strong, but it can be seen from the naked eye that it can no longer match Garnett's strength.

Especially Garnett, who has already understood the spirit of the Wolf King.

Webber's data in this round of series are 17+7+3+1+0.3 per game, and 0.3 is a block. This is the data that best reflects how much strength Webber has left now.

Just put it this way, Weber has never been so weak on the block.

Weber's weakness in the block also reflects how bad his body is now.

In the end, the King missed the finals again, this was the third time.

The direct competition between the four major forwards was Garnett and Duncan.

Just as everyone in the NBA was looking forward to the end of the match between Duncan and Garnett in the Finals, Duncan and Garnett were staggered in the first game of the Finals.

In this game, Garnett did not play power forward, but small forward.

Facing the Magic, the Timberwolves gave their signature three-inside lineup.

When fighting the King, the Timberwolves did not use the three insides, and the King's attack was too fast.

Moreover, the Timberwolves are unwilling to let Garnett play power forward and fight Duncan.

Garnett is different from Chen Xiao, why are Garnett fans in the NBA always dissatisfied with Duncan?

It is because of Garnett and Duncan's direct fight that Garnett has not been at a disadvantage, whether it is the regular season or the playoffs.

Both of them are in the 50s.

Even Garnett, who has not understood the spirit of the Wolf King, is always with Duncan.

Of course, the spirit of the wolf king is just spirit, not strength. Garnett's personal strength has not been increased by understanding the spirit of the wolf king. Understanding the spirit of the wolf king only makes Garnett's mentality more stable and tenacious.

The reason why Duncan couldn't defeat Garnett and widened the distance with Garnett.

The main thing is Duncan's offensive method, and Garnett's defense can match.

Garnett's defensive skills and height can match Duncan's offense.

Of course, Duncan's height defense skills can also counter Garnett's offense.

Garnett's offense is not as stable as Duncan, that's all, so in dozens of encounters in history, the data between the two were almost the same, among which Duncan's hit rate was a little higher than Garnett.

It's really not even 1% at all.

For Magic, Magic is of course willing to use Duncan and Garnett to redeem it.

There are too many people who can attack magic, and Duncan and Garnett have nothing to do with it.

But the Timberwolves are different, and the Timberwolves are unwilling to use their strongest offensive player to redeem.

The three-inside formation, two big centers block the inside, while Garnett swept the front line and had greater defensive influence, and the offense could also be staggered by Duncan.

Duncan also came out of the inside while defending, and the Magic's Zazapachulia could not withstand the Timberwolves' double center.

If the Cavaliers' outside offensive players can be as stable as the Timberwolves' aliens Russell, Szebiak and Spreeval, the Cavaliers can actually use double centers to stagger Chen Xiao and Duncan.

Because there is no player like the Timberwolves, even if Chen Xiao can't beat Duncan, he can only do it with his teeth instead of being staggered with Duncan.

The Timberwolves and Magic played very excitingly and fiercely in this round of the series.

Timberwolves' double center against Duncan, Timberwolves' Spraywell against McGrady, Timberwolves' alien Kassel against Parker.

Garnett needs to click wherever he wants.

After the first game, Anthony and Paul, who had been staying by Chen Xiao's side to comfort Chen Xiao, discovered it.

After watching the first game between the Timberwolves and the Spurs, Chen Xiao suddenly felt inexplicably better.

"Is it because the idol won the game?"

Every time, in the finals G1, the Timberwolves won at home, 100 to 93, and they also won a lot.

Duncan performed extremely well in this game. Facing the Timberwolves' double center, Duncan made 14 of 26 shots, scoring 36 points, 20 rebounds, 7 assists, 1 steal and 1 block.

But except for Duncan and other players, the Timberwolves played miserably in this game.

McGrady scored 6 and 15 points in this game.

Mike Miller scored 2,6 points in 8

Parker scored 4,12 points.

Perhaps the best scoring efficiency of the entire team besides Duncan is the substitute player Ginobili, who made 6 of 12 shots and scored 12 points.

Let's just say that, in this game, in addition to Duncan, who used his moving height and consciousness to grab 11 frontcourt rebounds, the Magic's offense was blown up by the Timberwolves' defense.

Garnett's assisted defense in the free agent position put too much pressure on other Magic's outside offensive players.

Especially McGrady.

In this game, McGrady faced the biting of the madman Sprewell and Garnett's assisted defense, which was hell.

So much so that in this game, McGrady once again used her physical talent to force her to break through and cause damage, and she sprained her ankle. Although she had persisted in this game, the whole world saw it. At the end of the game, McGrady limped away.

McGrady's subsequent finals are likely to be doubtful.

After all, McGrady's face was really bad when she left the field. The athletes were very clear about their injuries and could feel them.

Obviously, McGrady felt that his ankle sprained this time was not that simple.

Originally, I lost the first game of the finals, and then lost the general as soon as I came up. This was a bit worse for the Magic.

McGrady's injury is not a plot kill.

McGrady is really tired of playing in the playoffs this year.

The Magic played against the Raptors in the first round, playing six games.

In the second round, 76ers were played.

In the division final, the Cavaliers played 7 more games.

Before the Finals, McGrady had played 20 games in the playoffs.

The Magic played the first playoff game on April 18, and the first finals on June 6, and played 20 playoff games in the middle of one and a half months.
To be continued...