Rebirth of Yidi Legend

Chapter 527 Western Championship
Game start!
The Thunder and the Mavericks directly tore apart the polite faces before the game, and started fighting on the field.

These two teams really have no room for each other. They have been fighting together from the first second of the game. The Mavericks are led by Dirk Nowitzki, and the Thunder are led by Wei Led by Sturbrook and Kevin Durant, they are both in a very hot state.

After a short stalemate at the beginning, the Thunder began to gain the upper hand driven by the "King Bo combination".

Kevin Durant and Westbrook are obviously more willing to win.

Especially Kevin Durant, his state from the beginning can make people feel that he is the one who really wants to win this game.

Of course, it's not without reason that he has such fighting spirit.

As a rookie in the same period as Yi Jianlian, he was ranked ahead of Yi Jianlian at the beginning, so he should be able to achieve a better career than Yi Jianlian.

But the result was obviously not what he wanted.

Last season, the Thunder made it to the playoffs in the Western Conference. This is the reward the Thunder got after three years of poor performance, and they finally won the Spurs 4-1. You know, everyone was not optimistic at the time They could beat the Spurs, even though their regular season record was better than the Spurs at the time, and even though he and Westbrook had reached the star level, these guys still didn't like them!
Fortunately, in the end they slapped these guys in the face with the results!
This season, the Thunder has maintained the original core lineup. The important thing is that both Durant and Westbrook are still improving. James Harden has made a sudden breakthrough this season and has made significant progress!Speaking of which, his growth also made the Thunder team's investment in 09, 07 and 08 reap the rewards, and the Thunder team's management's precise vision has become a benchmark in the industry that everyone praises!

Harden manages the role of the sixth man well, while Ibaka focuses on defense!

This season's Thunder team can be said to have excellent offense and defense, and already has the ability to win the championship.

Although everyone thinks that they are still rookies, all Thunder fans and Thunder players themselves think that they have the ability to win the championship!
The most confident among them is naturally Durant. Yi Jianlian has already won the championship. Although he has lost a lot of competition with Yi Jianlian this season, it can be seen from his sacrifice for the team that his goal is the real honor. Let's compete with Yi Jianlian. Otherwise, with his scoring ability of averaging more than 33 points per game last season, he can continue to take the ball alone. It will never happen that his scoring average has not exceeded 29 points per game this season. Part of the ball was given to Russell Westbrook!
The rise of the latter is also the real reason why the Thunder can go so far in this year's playoffs!
Few people know that in the first half of the regular season, the Thunder team has been in the top two in the Western Conference, and their performance is very stable. In the playoffs, they continued this momentum. The team went all the way to the Western Conference Finals.

This is the first time Durant has played in the Western Conference Finals. This is also the first time Westbrook has stood on the stage of the Western Conference Finals. This is the first time fans in Oklahoma City have felt the atmosphere of the Western Conference Finals.

While everyone was discussing that Yi Jianlian helped the Knicks rise, Kevin Durant actually did the same thing. He made the Thunder, which was just a new team that moved from the league three years ago, become the leader of the entire Western Conference. Powerful team.

At the same time, he also made himself a highly anticipated superstar. In this season, he became the starter of the All-Star Weekend, letting all NBA fans know that there is a team in the West that is the Oklahoma City Thunder. There's a superstar there called Kevin Durant!
After reaching the Western Conference Finals, Kevin Durant's ambitions have also become even greater!

He hopes to reach the finals in one go!
And this time he was facing the Mavericks, a team that had repeatedly lost the chain in the playoffs, which made him feel that the reason why he wanted to reach the finals was not so difficult.

On the contrary, he even felt that the Mavericks in the Western Conference Finals would be much easier in the previous games.

Therefore, many fans, including experts, are not optimistic that they can beat the Mavericks, but they themselves feel that this is the Thunder's best hope of entering the finals!
But the result was that they lost the first two games of the series in a row, which hit him very hard, especially to Kevin Durant. Now he really realized that the Mavericks are the best team in the West this year Strong opponents, especially Nowitzki, his state in this year's playoffs is really terrifying!
Kevin Durant has to use this word to describe Dirk Nowitzki, and he believes that all opponents who have played against him will also use this word to describe this year's Dirk Nowitzki.

However, this does not stop Kevin Durant's belief in wanting to win them, he must win them!

The Thunder also recovered two games in a row.

This made Kevin Durant think that when he could reverse it, it was Dirk Nowitzki again, who scored 28 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists with an incredible performance!

In this era of big data explosion, Dirk's data is not terrible, but every point of Dirk is crucial. Dirk Nowitzki, who was detained by the media in the past for losing the chain at a critical moment The most amazing thing about his performance in this year's playoffs is that the closer he gets to the critical moment, the more he can score goals!

Lost in the battle of Kings, but Kevin Durant wants to win even more!

The reason here is not only because he wants to catch up with Yi Jianlian, but also because a series of things that happened in the series made them very unhappy!

In the second game of the series, the Dallas Mavericks beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 108 to 89. This is the second game the Mavericks won in the series. The big score has come to 2-0. Both the fans and the fans thought that when the Mavericks would continue to beat the Thunder by a big score in the third game, the Thunder stubbornly defeated their opponents 85-84.

However, the victory in this game did not bring much attention to the Thunder. Instead, it aroused criticism from a large number of spectators. Many fans thought that the Thunder won unfairly!
Because of this game, all the fans thought that the referee was biased towards the Thunder!What's worse is that the NBA officially announced the penalty report for the last 2 minutes of the game a day later, which also confirmed this situation.

According to the penalty report, the referee made four missed judgments in the last 2 minutes, three of which were in favor of the Thunder.

For example, in the last 41.1 seconds of the fourth quarter, the two sides drew 81.Thunder point guard Russell Westbrook misses a 2-pointer and Mavericks backup center Mejri puts his arm on Thunder center Adams' shoulder as he scrambles for a rebound. , which should have been called a foul, but the referee didn't call it.The rebound was finally taken by the Thunder's Russell Westbrook. Westbrook quickly broke through and scored a valuable two points in the next offensive round, helping the Thunder to gain a [-]-point lead.

In addition, in the last 26.5 seconds of the fourth quarter, the Thunder is bound to win this offense.Both center Adams and power forward Serge Ibaka had screen fouls, which affected Mavericks guard Matthews' pursuit of Durant's forward line.Both of these actions should have been whistled for fouls, but the referee did not whistle.Although Adams and Ibaka set up a very good barrier for Durant, Durant, who had a bad shooting touch in this game, still failed to seize the opportunity, and his two consecutive jump shots ended in iron strikes.

Finally, with the last 7.1 seconds of the fourth quarter, the Mavericks led 85-84 by one point.Thunder guard Waiters directly pushed Mavericks player Matthews to the ground, which should have been whistled for a foul, but the referee did not blow the whistle.Then Westbrook fouled Felton, and Felton missed two free throws at the critical moment.The Thunder kept the lore chance, but Durant and Westbrook failed to make consecutive offenses. At the last moment, Adams grabbed an offensive rebound and completed a tip-up.The referee changed the judgment after reviewing the video, and they finally believed that the game time had run out when Adams made a tip-up.And today's penalty report once again confirmed this point. When the basketball left Adams' hands, the game time was indeed over.

The victory in the third game was not easy for the Thunder.They lost Game 70 of the series to the Mavericks by a full 108 points, 38-[-], but they returned home with a victory.The head of the Thunder, Kevin Durant, also said after the game, don't even think about beating us easily.

Being more and more responsible is also a change for Kevin Durant as the core of the Thunder. This year, he really has more and more awareness of being the core player!
It's a pity that his statement became a joke among the fans after the official report was given by the league. Everyone thought it was just the Thunder team's blind cat meeting a dead mouse!
"Do you still think the referee will favor you so clearly in the next game?"

"Stop joking, Kevin Durant, you will never be Yi Jianlian's opponent, and you will never try to achieve what he can do!"

"I'm actually very optimistic about Kevin Durant's growth trajectory. He is very likely to become the best small forward in the league under Yi Jianlian, especially after LeBron James gets old. Unfortunately, judging from the current situation, Yi Jianlian's winning It put too much pressure on him, which made him eager for success, and he was unwilling to accept the fact that they were no better than the Mavericks. They clearly received preferential treatment from the referee, but they still pretended that they won by relying on their strength. The appearance of the game, which makes me a little confused!"

It is also the reason why the taunts of these fans have remained in Kevin Durant's heart, so he wants to win all the games so much!

After they won the fourth game, Kevin Durant once saw the hope of winning, but unfortunately he fought to the end in the fifth game, scoring 38 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists, but did not get a victory!
This made him very frustrated, but he didn't give up immediately, because they still had a chance, as long as they won two games in a row, they still had hope of winning!

Drag to Game [-]!
Kevin Durant has already made up his mind to drag it to the seventh game!
This is why he played so fiercely in today's life and death game!
It's just a pity that the Thunder team only led by such an initial time in today's game. In the following time, the Mavericks relied on steady and steady play and gradually grasped the rhythm of the game. During this period, the point difference gradually widened to more than 10 points .

What makes Kevin Durant even more frustrating is that his "second brother", his good brother who has made great progress this season, entered the frequent black iron in the third quarter, and he would like to ask Russell El Westbrook, why do you have such a strong ability to hit the basket, but you always pull up jumpers in front of the basket?

Dash in!
But he didn't want to destroy the brotherhood with Russell Westbrook. This was only Russell's third season with the Thunder. Kevin Durant recalled himself last year and didn't want to blame Russell Westbrook too much. Sbrook what!
In the "second brother"'s crazy strike, the Thunder also lost hope of winning.

In the most crucial sixth game, the Thunder lost!

Final 4-2!
The Mavericks beat the Thunder to advance to the finals!
In these six games, three games were actually won by less than 6 points, and the Mavericks had the last laugh every time.

When it comes to playoff PK, master duels, the outcome often depends on the performance at the last moment.In the first game, Dirk Nowitzki staged a lore in the last 1 second, making the Thunder 1 point behind; in the second game, in the last 20 seconds, Terry scored a layup, 99-100.Harden then made two free throws, Terry made two three-pointers to tie the game, and the Thunder lost again.In the fourth game, the Thunder team won without discussion; in the last 2 minutes and 5 seconds of the fifth game, Kevin Durant completed a 47+2 attack, and the Thunder team still led 1-91, but then they missed 88 shots in sports and once again In the late quarter, the Mavericks had the last laugh.In terms of execution at critical moments, the Mavericks are obviously superior, and they have shown their maturity.

而从杜兰特和诺维茨基的颠峰对决，杜兰特6场比赛场均出场39.8分钟，场均得到25分和6.3个篮板，命中率为44.6％，和常规赛的28.3分、8.0个篮板和49.6％的命中率有一定下降。

德克诺维茨基场均送出26.5分和6.3个篮板，命中率达到44.2％，比常规赛的21.6分、6.8个篮板、45.7％的命中率有一定提升，显然诺维茨基为季后赛保存了实力。

In other words, Dirk Nowitzki, who has entered the playoffs, started the mode of killing gods and preaching!
It is also worth mentioning that in this series, Nowitzki surpassed Ewing in the playoffs historical defensive rebound ranking and rose to 10th. In the NBA playoffs historical free throw list, his ranking surpassed Al Kim Baylor and Bill Russell moved up to tenth.

(End of this chapter)