From today on is the king

Chapter 1198. Chapter 1197. Goals crush their basketball dreams
The Lakers and the Suns, the Heat and the Nets, the emotions of the two teams off the court are tense.

It was the Mavericks who played the most intense game and the two leading superstars of the Spurs, Dirk Nowitzki and Duncan, who seemed very calm.

Duncan was not selected for the first team for the first time in his career, but he went to the award press conference in shorts and slippers like a normal person; Nowitzki had not been selected for the first team, and the second team was also good, better than Garnett, and Duncan was not selected for the first team. Nowitzki felt balanced.

The Eagles began to prepare for the Heat. Whether they are players or coaches, the Eagles are very optimistic about the Heat's advancement to the Eastern Conference Finals. Therefore, the focus of the training and research of the coaching staff is for the Heat, and the Nets should pay less attention.

And now the Eagles are no longer afraid of the Nets. After defeating them, their knots have been untied and they have great confidence.

In the playoffs, Wade and O'Neal each played a round of the series. With the league's top two shooting guards and the league's top two centers, the Eagles paid more attention to them.

Sweeping the Heat in the regular season does not mean that they will have that advantage in the playoffs, and they played very anxiously twice in the regular season.

The rest of the three-round series continued in earnest as the Hawks prepared for the upcoming Eastern Conference Finals.

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On May 5, the Lakers returned to their home court to play against the Suns in Game 16 of the series.

Back at home, the Lakers did not play easily. They fell behind by 11 points in the first quarter. Until the third quarter, the Suns still maintained a 10-point lead and entered the fourth quarter with a score of 79 to 69.

However, the Lakers had a more balanced lineup after all, with strengths both inside and outside. Relying on Yao Ming's strong play in the fourth quarter, the Lakers set off a wave of 4-15 offensive in the last 8 minutes of the final quarter.

In overtime, Kobe had no solution. He scored 3 points on 3-of-6 shooting, and also sent an assist to Wang Zhizhi and Odom. The most important thing was that Kobe received a pass from Fisher to make a buzzer-beater at 109 with two points left in overtime.

4 to 1, the Lakers relied on Yao Ming scoring 4 points in the last 10 minutes, and Kobe Bryant's double lore, and entered the Western Conference Finals again after a year.

The series between the Spurs and the Mavericks continued to be anxious. Nowitzki was finally able to match Duncan's match in Duncan's weakest year. Nowitzki competed one game and Duncan competed one game. The two of them seemed to have negotiated with each other, and both played explosive statistics.

The strength gap between the Spurs and the Mavericks is very small. Both teams have a superstar. The Spurs have an extra top star, Ginobili, and Parker, a first-class star. From an absolute point of view, the Spurs are stronger.

But the Mavericks have a group of quasi-first-class stars, all with a very complete tactical system, and their styles are completely different.
Home advantage and away disadvantage are almost useless in this series of similar strengths. The Spurs and the Mavericks each won a game in the first two games at home. The Mavericks also won a game in the third and fourth games at home.

In the fifth game of Tianwangshan, the Spurs defeated the Mavericks at home, 88 to 87. The Spurs played the best defense in this round of the series, relying on Ginobili's buzzer tip-up, and won the match point.

Seeing that the Spurs have already played the feeling, on May 5, the Spurs came to Dallas to prepare to kill the Mavericks.

In the sixth game of the two teams, the Spurs still played very well defensively, limiting the Mavericks to only 11 points with 81 seconds left. The Spurs led the Mavericks by two points 83 to 81. The Spurs were about to eliminate the Mavericks 4-2. Foul, gave Harris three free throws...

Then the Spurs were dragged into the tiebreaker by the Mavericks.

On May 5, the second day after the Mavericks and Spurs were dragged into the tiebreaker, the series between the Heat and the Nets was decided.

After the first four games were tied 2-2 by the Nets, on May 5th, the Heat did not give the Nets another chance in the third game. They won the Tianwangshan battle 17-110 at home. Wade scored 95 points, 37 rebounds and 7 assists. Kidd was blown away.

On May 5th, in the sixth game series between the Heat and the Nets, both teams played very good offensive performances.

Carter scored 43 points, Kidd scored 22 points, 12 assists and 7 rebounds, and Ratliff scored 20 points and 8 rebounds. The strongest trio of the Nets scored more than 20 points. Even Ratliff scored 20 points. Kidd scored 6 three-pointers and scored 22 points.

But the Heat were even better. Wade, O'Neal, Payton, and Walker all scored 4 points.

Although Carter hit a three-pointer with 11 seconds left to narrow the point difference to 1 point, after a tactical foul, Carter missed a three-pointer again. The Heat beat the Nets 112-110 and entered the Eastern Conference Finals.

The Nets unfortunately lost their chance to meet the Eagles in the Eastern Conference Finals for the fourth time in six games. In people's eyes, this is a signal of the complete end of an era. In the past five seasons, neither the Nets nor the Pistons made it to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time.

Liu Mang also entered the NBA five years ago. For the first time in the playoffs, he was unable to meet both the Nets and the Pistons. In the past four seasons, in three of the seasons, his opponents would meet the Nets and Pistons in two rounds of the playoffs.

After watching the wonderful sixth game between the Heat and the Nets, Liu Mang saw Carter's lonely back. Unfortunately, he has not played against Carter in the playoffs.

In this playoffs, Carter played very hard, averaging 33 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists in the six-game series. Seeing the performance of McGrady, Kobe, Iverson, and the performance of young players like Wade and James, Carter also played a very different feeling from before.

The combination of Carter and Kidd is indeed powerful, but when the best teammate is the old Ratliff, this pair of guards, which is regarded as the second in the league, is unable to go further.

Liu Mang sighed with emotion about a past era. Although the Pistons were an unpleasant team, they did represent the last afterglow of the iron-blooded era. The Nets also carried a memory of Liu Mang.

But the past has passed, and Liu Mang is looking forward to the next duel with Wade.

The Heat with Wade, O'Neal, Antoine Walker, Payton, Jason Williams, Mark Jackson, Posey, Haslem..., especially Payton, Jason Williams, Antoine Walker, are all here for the championship, representing the hearts of a group of veterans in the 90s to pursue the championship, and it may also be their last chance to fight for the championship as the team's main force...

Playing against such an opponent, Liu Mang felt that his pursuit of three consecutive championships became more meaningful!

kill them!

Fuck his basketball dreams!

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The three teams of the Lakers, Heat, and Eagles have been determined to enter the conference finals.

The series between the Eagles and the Heat will start on May 5, leaving only the tiebreaker between the Spurs and the Mavericks on May 22.

The Lakers are anxiously waiting for who their next opponent is. The Eagles have entered the last two days of preparation time, and the Heat have also started preparing for the Eastern Conference Finals with the Eagles in Miami.

People's attention is on the final tie-break between the Spurs and the Mavericks.

The five teams that are still in the playoffs are the five strongest teams in the eyes of fans.

On the night of May 5th, Liu Mang watched the game at home with his daughter in his arms.

Originally, Liu Mang thought that the Mavericks and the Spurs would play an ugly and anxious game like the fifth and sixth games, at least it should be a close game.

but……

Nowitzki went berserk from the start of the game!
Nowitzki scored 41 points in three quarters!
Ginobili's super god in the fifth game and super ghost in the sixth game seemed to cut the neck of the Spurs, and the last game collapsed!
Relying on Nowitzki's 41 points in three quarters, the Mavericks led the Spurs by 81 points 56 to 25 in three quarters!
Duncan averaged 30 points and 14 rebounds in the first six games, and Nowitzki averaged 32 points and 15 rebounds in the first six games. Duncan did not fall behind too much, but in the tiebreaker, Duncan couldn't hold on. He only scored 11 points and 4 rebounds in the first three quarters, but Nowitzki scored 41 points and 12 rebounds. Duncan was crushed by Nowitzki.

Nowitzki made 9 mid-range shots in the first three quarters, killing the Spurs!

In the three quarters, 56 was 81 points behind 25. According to the Spurs' style of play, there is almost no chance of a comeback, especially the rare superstar Duncan's poor performance.

If you change to another team, even Zen Master’s team, in the original time and space, in the sixth game of the 2008 Finals, Zen Master also gave up the game after trailing by 29 points in the third quarter. In the end, the Lakers lost Game 39 of the Finals to the Celtics by [-] points.

But Popovich is different!
Popovich was about to lose, and he felt uncomfortable. He felt uncomfortable when he was alone, and wanted to drag the opponent into the water.

When it came to garbage time in the fourth quarter, Popovich didn't change the main players. In the final quarter, he continued to send the troika, Sprewell, and Nesterovic's strongest lineup, and continued to fight.

Just like in the 2001 Western Conference Finals, the Spurs trailed by more than 20 points in the fourth half and more than 30 points in the third quarter.

This time, it was the Mavericks' turn to be tripped by Popovich.

In the fourth quarter, the Mavericks all sent substitutes, but they were beaten 6-0, and the point difference was narrowed to 19 points. The young general Johnson replaced the main force in pain.

Although the Mavericks have many stars, Popovich's narrow-mindedness basically cannot affect the Mavericks, but Popovich just wants to make the Mavericks players and the Mavericks coaching staff unhappy.

However, this helped Nowitzki. Nowitzki scored 9 points in the final quarter, 33 of 16 shots, 11 of 5 three-pointers, 16 of 15 free throws, and 50 points!
Nowitzki became the fourth active playoff player with 50+ points in a single game after Liu Mang, Iverson and Carter!

Moreover, since Karl Malone in 2000, the second inside player in the new century to score 50+ in a single game in the playoffs.

In the history of the NBA, only five superstars, Wilt Chamberlain, Bob McAdoo, Charles Barkley, Karl Malone, and Bob Pettit, can score 50 points in a single game in the playoffs. O'Neal, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Duncan have never done it, and Nowitzki has done it!
Stronger than O'Neal and Duncan, neither has approached 50 points in a single game in the playoffs.

O'Neal had 46 points in a single game twice, but when he scored 40 points in one of them and wanted to score 50 points, he changed his shooting percentage from a terrifying 20-for-16 to 27-for-17.

The difficulty for inside players to get 50+ is that their offensive range is so large, and the opponent can easily destroy them to score points.

As for the inside players who got 50+ in a single game, even Chamberlain is a master of short-range shooting. Nowitzki became one of the six inside players who got 50+ in the playoffs in NBA history!

Luckily, Liu Mang didn't turn off the TV at the end of halftime. The Mavericks led by 19 points after halftime. According to the current characteristics of the Spurs, it is almost impossible to come back. The first six games were so intense that there was almost no point difference of more than 10 points. With such a large point difference, the Spurs will definitely not be able to catch up.

Unexpectedly, Nowitzki scored 21 points in the second half and scored 50 points in the audience.

It was the first time for Liu Mang to see other players score 50 points in the playoffs, and he was shocked. Every time the Spurs wanted to start, Nowitzki stopped the opponent's momentum with a mid-range shot.

Liu Mang thought of the next Heat team, and thought that whether he met Kobe and Yao Ming or Dirk Nowitzki in the finals, he felt very excited!

The opponents for the Eastern and Western finals have been determined. In one day, Liu Mang and Wade will play against Wade for the first time in the playoffs!

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