In the Western Conference semi-finals, the Warriors defeated the Spurs in tiebreak and advanced to the finals first.

One day later, the Cavaliers, led by James and Oden, won two games in a row under the unfavorable situation of falling behind 1-3 in the beginning of the series, and stubbornly tied the big score to 3-3. Two days later, on June 4, the two teams also had to play a tiebreak battle.

Yes, this year's NBA, Eastern and Western Conference finals will be decided by a tiebreaker.

I have to say that this year's NBA division finals are really intense.

Needless to say, the Warriors and the Spurs are very difficult to win. Even if they advance, many people say that if it weren't for the super gods of Clay G6 and G7, the Warriors would not be able to defeat this incredible Spurs with Chen Xiao.

In the east, the Bucks and the Cavaliers are truly incompatible.

The whole world knows that the Bucks are the strongest five small teams in the league. This team does not have a big center and is not traditional at all.

The Bucks' most traditional center, even Nene...

On the Cavaliers, the inside combination of Oden and James is the strongest inside combination in the entire league in recent seasons and one of the most traditional inside combinations.

It can be said that the styles of the two teams are really different.

Before this series started, many experts said that whoever can play their own style in the game will win the final victory.

In the end, the Bucks obviously played their own style in the first four games.

The Bucks' fast offensive conversion and speed have made the traditional team Cavaliers with big centers very uncomfortable.

But soon, Cavaliers head coach Rick Carlisle found a way to deal with it all.

After the big score of 1-3 put the Cavaliers in a desperate situation, Carlisle asked the Cavaliers players to use stronger confrontations on the court to slightly reduce the Bucks' conversion speed.

Don’t be afraid of fouls, don’t be afraid of being sent off, get your hands and legs, as long as you can fight, then go to fight, and it doesn’t matter if you pull it.

Just reduce the Bucks' conversion speed a little, and Oden will be able to keep up!

As long as Oden keeps up with the Bucks' pace, the Cavaliers, which have an inside advantage, will have the advantage.

I have to say that Carlisle is really accurate in looking at the problem.

Although the Cavaliers are a traditional team, this team is really not slow.

Five starters, Oden, James, Danny Green, Matthews, Conley, except for Oden, the big center, everyone else was very fast.

In fact, power forward James, although he has been gaining weight in the past few seasons, he is still very fast.

The Cavaliers can actually keep up with the Bucks' offense and defense rhythm.

As long as Oden is a little faster, or the Bucks are a little slower.

When playing traditional Cavaliers can keep up with the offensive and defensive rhythm of playing five-small Bucks, how do you let the Bucks play?

Therefore, the key to this training match is rhythm.

It is difficult to make Oden faster. Oden has also gained weight in the past two seasons and enhanced his offensive deterrence.

Perhaps Oden in the past few years could keep up with the current Bucks' pace, but now, it is impossible.

Then the only way is to slow down the Bucks.

Can the conventional method slow down the Bucks?

Of course it is very difficult. If others want to be fast, can you still slow them down?

Do you think they are fools?

You say they will be slower?

But obviously, the Bucks are not fools.

However, in the end, Carlisle found a way to slow the Bucks down.

That is to interrupt the Bucks' offensive rhythm with a foul.

Carlisle did not encourage Cavaliers players to make malicious fouls. It was simply a confrontation, intensity, fouls, and trash talk, so that the Bucks players on the court were not as smooth as the attack.

This move is very effective for the Bucks.

Conley chased Curry and threw it, while James took the initiative to find Durant to talk about trash.

This made the gunpowder smell rise straight up in the first two games between the Bucks and the Cavaliers.

The Cavaliers used this method to shatter the Bucks' offensive rhythm.

Especially the offensive rhythm of Curry, the Bucks' tactical core.

Although Curry's figure has increased after gaining weight, he is still relatively thin.

More importantly, the whole world knows that Conley is very fast, jumps very high, and has good physical fitness. Curry really finds it difficult to get rid of Conley's chasing and throwing defense.

Anyway, no matter what, the Bucks' offensive rhythm was interrupted by Rick Carlisle's move.

When the Bucks lost their rhythm, it was obvious that the rhythm of the game entered the Cavaliers.

As a traditional team with only traditional inside teams, the Cavaliers have a great advantage.

G5 won 15 points in the Bucks, G6 won 14 points in both games.

Therefore, before the tiebreak, the probability of the Cavaliers entering the finals suddenly increased.

You know, when the Cavaliers finished their first four games and fell behind 1-3, the probability of advancing to the finals was only 3%, and they were almost eliminated.

Now, before the Cavaliers tiebreak, the probability of advancing is 65%, and the probability is 20 times higher!

On June 4, the Cavaliers and the Bucks tiebreak battle. In this game, the two teams almost improved their defense and intensity to the extreme.

On the Cavaliers, it is not just Conley's tactical core of the Bucks, Curry is holding and throwing Curry. As long as Curry is on the court, as long as there is any Cavaliers player around Curry, the Cavaliers player will hold and throw Curry, and they will give strength.

During the game, Jayne hugged Curry more than once, some of them fouled, and some of them did not.

In fact, most of them did not call fouls. Obviously, in the playoffs, in the playoffs where the referee encouraged confrontation, such a defensive approach is very unfavorable to offensive players.

Curry is the case, and Durant is the same.

Of course, on the other side, the Bucks were not waiting for death. In this tiebreak battle, Ray Allen was very decisive and directly made the entire Bucks shrink.

The team's starting lineup has also become Dream Chasing Green, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Durant, Iguodala and Curry.

Except for Curry, the other four players of the Bucks are all tall fast players who can play on the front line above 2 meters. The forward line of these four Bucks can not only shrink, but also save very quickly!

The shrinking effect of such four big forward players must be very good. Although Oden and James have strengthened their shooting, their shooting is relatively incomparable to those of the real inside players such as Yao Ming and Nowitzki.

With such high intensity shrinkage, the efficiency of the two people is actually difficult to guarantee.

So, in this game, the shooting percentage of the two teams was really low.

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In the whole game, the Cavaliers' shooting percentage was only 40%, and the three-point shooting percentage was only 24%.

The Warriors are even worse, with a shooting percentage of only 39%. Of course, the Bucks' best three-pointers hit 15 in this game, which is their advantage. Of course, the shooting percentage is not that high. For example, Curry's shooting percentage is three-pointers of 4 of 14...

But there is no way. Facing the Cavaliers, which have an absolute advantage in the interior, the Bucks can only throw three-pointers from the outside in a crazily. In this game, the Bucks only made 82 shots in total, including 41 three-pointers.

Let's just say that, if the Bucks had a mid-range player Durant, Ray Allen would have wanted to shoot three-pointers every time he attacked.

And this is also the immature thing about the rookie head coach Ray Allen, who is not patient enough.

The offensive efficiency of both teams is very low in this game, and Ray Allen is too eager to succeed.

Looking at Carlisle on the opposite side, he knew that the Bucks were shrinking, but he still asked Oden and James to play inside and try not to shoot.

Although the Bucks have high players with four contraction and good defense, Green, Antetokounmpo, Durant and Iguodala, the four of them are not as good as James and Oden.

When fighting one-on-one, you have an advantage. Even if you don’t hit, you can still commit a foul.

And the outcome of this game is reflected in the free throw.

The Bucks, who were eager to achieve success and blindly threw three-pointers, got 10 free throws in this game.

As for the Cavaliers, there are 28 free throws in this game!

The Cavaliers made 24 of 28 free throws in this game, which was quite accurate, and they missed James and Oden, both of whom made 10 of 12.

In such a low-tempo and high-confrontation defensive battle, free throws are really the best way to increase points.

The final score of this game was 95 to 90, and the Cavaliers won five points.

In this game, the Bucks lost the last 14 free throws!

Both teams hit 32 goals in this game, and the Bucks had 9 more three-pointers, which means they had 9 more shots, but they had 14 less free throws, just so they lost 5 points.

In the end, he lost 5 points in the game.

From the perspective of hindsight, the Bucks can indeed be as big as they can get inside.

but……

The Bucks' shooting percentage in this game was less than 39%, but their three-point shooting percentage was close to 37%. The Bucks' three-point shooting percentage in this game was actually OK.

Can you really get more points than three-pointers by attacking Oden and James if you challenge more at the basket?

It can only be said that the Cavaliers, who won 71 wins in the regular season, have a team style that is more suitable for the game rhythm of this meat grinder and more suitable for the playoffs.

In short, after the Cavaliers defeated the Bucks 4-3, a super-reversed team, the Cavaliers and Warriors, the third and second teams in the regular season, finally met to the finals.

This is the second time the Cavaliers have entered the NBA Finals. The last time they reached the Finals was 10 years ago. Chen Xiao and James led the Cavaliers to the Finals, sweeping the Suns led by O'Neal to win the championship.
To be continued...