An important reason for the Spurs' loss to the Thunder is that Ginobili's state this year is really bad.

In the past, the Spurs looked at Duncan in adversity and Manu in despair, but this year the Spurs became desperate by Manu.

The Pampas Condor was soft at the critical moment of the semifinals, made mistakes, missed a breakthrough, and missed a three-pointer, which ruined Tianwangshan and the series.

Since the Spurs joined the NBA in 1976 to 2012, they have played a total of 14 Tianwangshan games in the playoffs.

Won seven of those games, seven-game series, and the Spurs ended up taking them all.

The battle of Tianwangshan was also lost in 7 games, of which there were 6 series, and the Spurs eventually lost.

Only in the series against the Hornets in 2008, after the Spurs lost Tianwangshan, they still pulled two games in a row. The tiebreaker killed the Hornets and prevented Paul from entering the Western Conference Finals.

After losing to the Thunder in 2013, the Spurs Tianwangshan's record came to 7 wins and 8 losses, and continued to lose the series after losing.

This fully shows that the Spurs rarely perform miracles in the playoffs, but they will not allow their opponents to perform miracles either.

We have no characteristics, our characteristics are what make you have no characteristics.

But the Lakers are different. The Lakers are a team with distinctive characteristics, strong offensive power, and outstanding personal abilities.

If the Lakers are not united, they are often prone to moths and self-defeating.

But as long as the Lakers are united internally, even if it is only superficially united in the game, their combat effectiveness will be quite terrifying.

Because they are full of talent.

They all rely on talent to play. Although the Thunder are talented, but without Harden, compared with the Lakers who have only had superstars in history, they are a younger brother.

Once the talented teams started to stick together, play team basketball, and switch freely between the two, the Lakers began to show their terrible combat effectiveness.

Li Liang's two three-pointers were just an appetizer.

Brooks quickly discovered during the timeout that he no longer knew how to deploy the defense.

To whom? How to target it? Who is the focus on?

I don't know, with a confused face and question marks all over my head.

Apart from constantly encouraging and cheering up the players, he no longer knows how to adjust.

Thinking of the lessons of the third game, Brooks decided not to adjust, just let the players take a break.

But this slowdown did not slow down, the timeout ended and the Lakers returned to the field, and the pace of the Lakers' offense did not stop.

Li Liang didn't continue to throw three-pointers. He didn't use props at all just now, relying entirely on his own touch and a little bonus from runes.

It's not that he doesn't want to use props, he just forgot.

He is deeply involved in the team's offensive and defensive system, and is highly involved.

The Lakers' offense is running at high speed like a machine. Everyone, after a season of running-in and two and a half rounds of hard work, at a certain point, achieved the effect of quantitative change leading to qualitative change.

As if the enlightenment of the Buddha under the Bodhi tree, and the spiritual light of Lu Zhishen in front of the Qiantang River, the Lakers players slowly slowed down, polished a little bit, and the offensive end finally became unstoppable.

After the Thunder came back from a timeout, it was still Durant's own offense with the ball. After the breakthrough, he made an emergency stop and drifted for two points.

Missed, the ball was too difficult, the rebound was taken by Gasol.

Kobe received the ball in the low post, the Thunder wanted to pinch, and the ball was passed to Li Liang, who quickly passed the ball to Nash on the wing.

Nash now finds that he has many things to do on the wing, and he doesn't have to stay at the top of the arc.

He caught the ball and used Gasol's cover to make a breakthrough. One Kobe, one Nash, one left and one right, the Thunder's defense was widened in the middle.

Nash hit the ground and passed the ball, and followed up with Howard in the middle to catch the ball and dunk with both hands!

The Thunder counterattacked quickly, Westbrook wanted to bring the rhythm up, rushed with the ball, and the last zombie jumper ended.

The goal was scored, but the Lakers counterattacked quickly. After Nash got the ball, he made a super long pass to the frontcourt, and Gasol happened to be under the basket.

There was only a fake move to catch the ball, and Ibaka was sent flying, and then he dunked with his left hand!

The Thunder can't rush now, because the Lakers have already retreated in place.

To fight positional warfare, Lei Ting had no choice but to use up all the tricks that should be used.

Players such as Ibaka and Collison still made contributions in the first half, but they couldn't do it in the second half.

What to do, Durant is still here, and the Lakers have started to flank Durant, let Sefolosha and Collison go.

Durant jumped up and passed the ball. After receiving the ball, Sefolosha missed an open three-pointer.

Sefolosha was defending against Kobe and Li Liang, and there were not many three-pointers in the entire series.

A shooter can't develop his touch and confidence in the game. It's really strange that you let him shoot a three-pointer at a critical moment in the fourth quarter.

Unless he has a system.

The Thunder's offense is collapsing.

And their defense is still holding on.

Howard got the backcourt rebound, Nash slowly dribbled the ball across the half court, Westbrook was no longer able to defend Nash with high intensity as in the previous two games.

It is still about physical strength, energy, and effect.

Li Liang came over from a very outside position to cover Nash's pick-and-roll, and then rolled down. Nash hit the ground and passed the ball. Li Liang caught the ball and threw it high. Gasol tiptoed inside, got the ball and gently put it into the basket. in the basket.

It's over, and the Thunder's defense began to collapse.

They lost their defensive focus, couldn't make any offense, and began to become impetuous.

Ibaka should keep the ball inside. Even if Li Liang walks in with the ball, if he takes one more step, the ball will hit his foot and miss.

Or simply stop for a jumper. Li Liang's mid-range stop is still not as good as Durant's.

But Ibaka insisted on making a save, but Li Liang took advantage of the opportunity to pass to the inside, and Gasol succeeded in the alley-oop.

After resisting for most of the game, the Thunder quietly collapsed under the force of the Lakers in the fourth quarter.

In the last 7 or 8 minutes, the cheers of the Lakers fans in Staples were not loud, because the scene was not tense at all.

The Thunder played sloppily and roughly, while the Lakers, like in the regular season, kept using various small cooperation to score points.

Of course, Kobe's difficult jumper and folding layup are indispensable.

Corvo is not difficult and uncomfortable, if there is no difficulty, he has to create difficulty for himself.

The Lakers played more and more smoothly, and at the end of the game, Jamison, Blake, and even the cornerstone Thackeray all appeared!

They beat the Thunder 42:25 in the fourth quarter, scored 40 points in a single quarter, and beat the Thunder by 17 points.

If it wasn't for the garbage lineup in the end, there would be more points and the point difference would be even wider.

The Thunder would not be able to play in the fourth quarter. The more the players played, the more they couldn't let go, and the more they played, the more their hands were restrained. They could only let Durant and Westbrook play by themselves, and they were alone and helpless.

In fact, the score of 25 points is not too small. The problem is that the Lakers' 42 points are really terrible.

The final score was 115:98, and the Lakers completed a big victory in the battle of Tianwangshan.

With a total score of 3:2 lead, there is still one step away from the finals.

In the press conference after the game, Mike Brown had a serious face and did not show his white teeth.

He kept saying that the Thunder's performance was very good, they pushed the Lakers into a corner, and they used their strongest strength.

"The next game in Oklahoma is going to be a tough fight and we're going to give it our all."

Mike Brown now knows the truth of saving character, so he doesn't say anything big at the press conference.

He's not Li Liang, he dares to say anything, he stays on the sidelines so that we can meet each other in the future, he doesn't save face, be careful of being slapped in the face.

So this press conference did not bring such a big mouth as Li Liang.

After all, the match point has been won, and there is only one game left. The Lakers are better than their opponents in terms of strength, so there is no need for Li Liang to talk about it.

But Li Liang was happy to be at leisure, and went home early to watch the night scene with Zhu Shu.

...

The next day, in the Eastern Conference, Game 5 between the Miami Heat and the Pacers kicked off at the American Airlines Center.

Unlike the offensive explosion of the Lakers in the West, the Miamis played a suffocating defense this time.

The Indiana Pacers still maintained the lead in the first half, leading by 4 points at halftime.

In the third quarter, the Heat's defense seemed to have suddenly awakened. They beat the Pacers 30:13 in a single quarter and overtook the score in one fell swoop.

The Pacers scored 13 points in one quarter, not as many as James scored in one quarter.

The Heat's impenetrable rotation and high-intensity oppression made the Pacers completely lose their sense of offense.

In the end, the Heat kept the Pacers' score below 80 points at 90:79.

The Heat, like the Lakers, won Tianwangshan at home, only one step away from the finals.

It's just that the Lakers rely on offense, while the Heat rely on defense.

With one offense and one defense, people are even more looking forward to the matchup between the Lakers and the Heat in the Finals.

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