Chapter 95
"In the next round, we may face challenges!"
Stotts took Lin Feng and Lillard to watch the G6 game between the Thunder and the Clippers!
After winning the decisive battle in G5, the Thunder did not stop their winning streak!
In the G6 game, they won another victory at the Clippers' home court, sending the Clippers home to go fishing with a score of 4:2!
Tragic Paul, don't even mention touching the floor of the Western Conference Finals, and he was eliminated in the first round again!
Emmm...!
Paul was in a bad state! The two youngsters of the Thunder played extremely aggressively in the G6 game!
Durant scored 39 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 blocks and 2 steals!
Westbrook scored 33 points, 3 rebounds, 9 assists, 1 block and 4 steals!
With such performance, the Big Three of the Clippers seemed to be a little bit lacking!
Think about it, Paul's style of play with the ball can perfectly guarantee the lower limit!
But it is difficult to improve the upper limit of a team!
Griffin and Jordan both play in a cake-eating style, and their independent offensive capabilities are anxious!
It is difficult to exert subjective initiative when Paul is restricted!
It sounds nice to call it the Big Three! To put it bluntly, as long as Paul is useless, Griffin and Jordan will also be useless!
The Thunder is obviously driven by two cores!
Durant and Westbrook can lead the team alone!
The effect is completely different!
The Trail Blazers are also driven by two cores now!
Lillard and Lin Feng can carry alone!
And when the bond effect between Connaughton and Lin Feng is improved, he can also carry as the third point!
"I will restrict Du Xiaoshuai!"
"I'll leave Westbrook to you guys!"
Lin Feng smiled.
"Who is Du Xiaoshuai?"
"Kevin Durant?"
Stotts asked curiously.
"That’s right!"
"Don’t you think he looks so cool with his schoolbag on his back?"
Lin Feng spread his hands!
"All right!"
"Your description is very appropriate!"
Stouts smiled and shook his head.
The current atmosphere in the team is very good, which also makes Stouts feel very relieved!
A very harmonious team can naturally exert stronger combat power!
On the other hand, there is already a big rift between Durant and Westbrook in the Thunder!
It's just that victory has covered everything now!
When the Thunder is at a disadvantage, perhaps the conflict will break out!
The Thunder's two youngsters are no longer the big brother and the second brother of the past!
……
On April 29, the first round of the playoffs was over! The semifinals of the divisions were also released!
Eastern Conference Semifinals:
Cavaliers vs. Hawks!
Raptors vs. Heat!
It will be a smooth road for James to lead his team to the finals!
Western Conference Semifinals:
Trail Blazers vs. Thunder!
Warriors vs. Spurs!
The hard power of the four teams in the Western Conference Semifinals obviously beat the four teams in the Eastern Conference Semifinals!
The situation of the West being strong and the East being weak has always existed!
Therefore, it is not difficult for James to reach the finals in the East, and I am not burying him!
Two days later, on May 1.
Portland, Moda Center, the G1 game between the Trail Blazers and the Thunder will start soon!
This game undoubtedly attracted more attention from the media and fans!
Thunder's two youngsters vs. Trail Blazers' double guns!
Although the Trail Blazers swept the first round and the Thunder won 4:2!
But there are more media and fans who are optimistic about the Thunder winning this round of the series!
This made Lin Feng feel a little unhappy!
"Coach Li, why are we always looked down upon?"
Lin Feng was about to stir up trouble!
"Because our qualifications are not as deep as the Thunder's two young players!"
Lillard smiled faintly.
The league looks at strength and qualifications!
Otherwise, how could there be a large number of traffic teams?
In Lin Feng's previous life, several traffic teams led by the Lakers, Suns, Clippers and Warriors have always attracted a lot of media and fans' attention!
Those who don't know would think that these teams are competing for the championship!
As a result, they are playing in the play-offs!
This is a big deal!
And the teams that really have the strength to compete for the championship, such as the Celtics and Timberwolves, don't have too many people paying attention!
"It seems that if we want to get more support and attention, we have to persevere!"
Lin Feng shrugged.
"In theory, that's right!
Lillard nodded.
"I think there is another way!"
"That is, defeat them!"
Lin Feng grinned!
……
During the pre-match warm-up, Durant and Westbrook were talking and laughing!
It was as if they were back in the old days!
Such a [warm] scene made the Thunder's head coach Billy Donovan nod his head again and again!
This is the scene he hopes to see!
Only a harmonious Thunder team can exert the strongest combat power!
Billy Donovan naturally knows the conflicts in the Thunder better than anyone else!
In a sense, this season is also the last chance for the Thunder's second young player!
Billy Donovan is a little unclear about the future of the Thunder!
……
"We are the City of Rip!"
"We are invincible!"
"We are the City of Roses!"
"We specialize in playing against the Thunder!"
When the game was about to start, the Moda Center Arena once again rang out the slogan modified by the Trail Blazers fans in unison!
Lin Feng felt that the fans were also talented!
Such slogans can be modified infinitely, and can be called customized!
Lovely fans!
Lin Feng made a flying kiss gesture towards the audience on a whim!
And this caused screams from the audience!
Especially the female fans, they couldn't wait to pounce on Lin Feng!
"Oh my god!"
"I'm so popular!"
Lin Feng shuddered subconsciously!
Because he saw a 200-pound girl being held up by the security guard!
It was so scary!
"puff——!"
"Haha!"
The other players on the Trail Blazers couldn't help but burst out laughing!
"Stop it!"
"It's time to play! Be serious!"
Lin Feng said speechlessly.
No matter how noisy it is, you still have to cheer up for the game!
The starting players of both sides walked onto the court.
The starting lineup of the Thunder team, Adams, Ibaka, Durant, Robertson and Westbrook! The starting lineup of the Trail Blazers, Gobert, Aminu, Allen Crabbe, Lin Feng and Lillard!
Gobert and Adams came to the center circle, ready for a jump ball!
Gobert also looked a little nervous and excited at this time!
After all, this was his first time playing in the Western Conference semifinals!
Such nervousness and excitement made Gobert jump too hard and too early, and he almost missed the basketball, allowing Adams to take advantage of it!
"Rudy is a little nervous!"
Lin Feng looked at Gobert and smiled.
"Aren't you nervous?"
Lillard chatted with Lin Feng while controlling the ball across half court.
"I seem like a nervous person!"
"In my dictionary, there is no"tension"】!"
"Only】!"
Lin Feng shrugged
"Then I'll give the first attack to you!"
Lillard passed the ball to Lin Feng!
"I go!"
"Good guidance!"
"You are being lazy!"
"Wake up!"
"This is the Western Conference semifinals!"
Lin Feng shouted to Lillard!
""Get lost!"
Lillard ran to the corner to smoke!
Damn it!
So cruel!
Lin Feng grabbed the ball with one hand and raised it high, and saw Robertson had quickly appeared in front of him!
Lin Feng was ready to defend Durant on the defensive end, but Durant would definitely not come to defend Lin Feng!
Robertson's defense against Lin Feng was to defend against the breakthrough and let him shoot!
Because Lin Feng's three-pointer threat was relatively small!
At least it couldn't be compared with his mid-range threat!
Lin Feng saw Robertson waiting near the three-point line, not too close, and curled his lips.
Bullying me because I can't shoot a super long-range three-pointer?