As early as before the finals, the NBA gave a statistic:
Although the Celtics have a 17 championship trophy, none of the young Celtics have finals experience. For all warriors, the final experience is 123 games.
Do or die, the experience of the Warriors once again gained the upper hand. On June/0/7, Beijing time, the Warriors beat the Celtics away/0/03-90, winning the championship with a big score of 4-2, and winning again after four years. This is also the fourth championship trophy of Curry, Green and Thompson.
After the game, Curry cried with joy ... He scored 34 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists in this game. Wiggins 18; Green 12 points 12 rebounds and 8 assists; Thompson 12 points and 5 rebounds; Substitute Poole 15.
On the Celtics side, Brown scored 34 points and 7 rebounds; Tatum's performance is poor, only 13; Horford 19 points 14 rebounds.
Curry (right) and Green celebrate the championship.
Forget buff, talk about experience.
On the media day before the G6 finals, the American media talked about two topics the most: one was that "G6 soup" came, and the other was that if Curry won the championship, would he be in the top ten in NBA history?
It seems that the media directly skipped the G6 series and imagined the moment when the team reached the top.
There are many factors to support this result. For example, 73.3% of the team that won Tianwangshan in the finals won the cup. For example, a 3-2 lead in the finals is equal to the winning probability of 8 1%. What's more, in the last game, the fans left a message: "When you face G6 soup and curry, the flower hunter of the Green Army, just ask, are you panicked?"
"G6 soup" is metaphysics. Since Cole led the team, Clay has played eight G6 games, averaging 27 points and shooting 54.8% from three points. Even when Poole entered the competition, he was wearing a T-shirt with Clay's head on it.
In the following game where Curry missed three points, he made three points 177, hit 93 goals, and hit 52.5%. Cole said: "when Curry struggled in a game, he quickly adjusted." This is my experience. "
Thompson broke the layup.
"G6 soup" and "rebound library", it seems that the soldiers full of buff are the "chosen sons". However, the veterans of the Warriors also understand that the ending of the series is the most difficult to play.
"If you are imagining things that haven't happened yet, you are digging a hole for yourself." As klay thompson said, the Warriors lost match points for the first time in each round since this year's playoffs.
Nuggets, grizzlies, and loners all took a breath on the edge of the cliff. At present, the Celtic opposite the Warriors is obviously a more difficult guy.
So at the beginning of the game, the Celtics began to play back-to-back singles, Horford sat in the low post and Smart played back-to-back singles. Two and a half minutes later, the Celtics made 4 of 6 shots, and 12-2 started dreamily. Smart fouled clay in the offensive round.
Before the game, Cole told the team: "In a game that is expected to win the championship, you don't have to play with anxiety. You need to play every round as usual. "
The warriors united to stop Tatum.
When the Celtics started with a sense of despair, the Warriors were the team with a more normal heart-when the two sides put on the bench lineup, the momentum has quietly returned to the Warriors.
At the end of the first quarter, little Peyton and Poole appeared, and the Warriors made a wave of 1 1-0 in the last quarter to complete the counterattack, and then the score difference approached 5 points.
This is just the beginning of a wave of warriors. Warriors hit 10-0 again in the second quarter, and blew out 2 1-0 in five minutes. Even if Uduka called a timeout twice in the middle, it seems that there is no way to change the situation.
According to statistics, 2 1-0 also created the biggest scoring gap in the NBA finals in the past 50 years. More interestingly, the previous record also belongs to the Warriors, who played a 20-0 attack wave in the G2 match of 20 19.
At the decisive moment, it is better to talk about experience than to talk about buff with the warriors.
Green (right) chases Tatum.
No one can replace the green army.
It wasn't until Brown hit a three-pointer that the attack climax of Warriors 2 1-0 ended, but this choice was Uduka's helplessness because he had to change into the main force in advance.
From the first round against the Nets, the Celtics insisted on 7-8 rotation. In the finals, there are fewer and fewer Celtics who can play a role on the court.
The data shows that the three players who played the most in the playoffs this season were Celtic players, namely Tatum, Brown and Horford, and Tatum ranked first.
Smart started defending the garage in the middle circle.
In the last game, the Celtics once equalized the score difference of 12 in the third quarter, but by the fourth quarter, their energy seemed to be drained.
It's not hard to see from the statistics that Uduka didn't dare to do so when Cole replaced Curry in the fourth quarter-he left Jaylen Brown and Tatum on the court, Tatum didn't rest for a second after the rotation in the first quarter, and the situation in Jaylen Brown was similar.
Throughout the game, Derek White and Grant Williams came off the bench, adding up to only 37 minutes. ...
Tatum (left) and Smart (right) double-team Wiggins (middle).
But Uduka had no choice. When the bench only scored 10, he had to hand in the first prize on the court. So before this game, Uduka said: "We don't want the substitute players to have insufficient energy again."
It was only at this time that the hope finally turned into disappointment. Richardson scored a three-pointer, and White's offensive end became more and more hesitant, so Uduka had to change into the starting lineup again.
In the first half of this game, the Celtics were 39-54 behind the Warriors 15 points. Among the three substitutes, White 14 minutes 6 shots 1 scored 2 points, while prichard (0 for 2 shots) and Grant Williams (/Kloc-0 for 0 shots) failed to score, and the sum of positive and negative values was as low as -67.
And they made mistakes in the first half 13, which is also the first half with the most mistakes in the playoffs. When they made 16+ mistakes in the playoffs, the Green Army's record was only 1 win and 7 losses.
The referee separated Smart (second from right) from Poole (left) in the dispute.
The most beautiful fairy tale
In the history of the finals, the only team that completed the reversal with 15+ was the Celtics in 2008. But the only reason is enough to know how low the probability is.
The last straw that crushed the Celtics was not "G6 soup" or "rebounding library", but Poole and Peyton Jr. on the bench.
At the end of the first quarter, with the sudden outbreak of Poole, the pursuit of warriors began. First, I scored two points against Brown in the paint, and then I made a three-pointer after retreating.
After scoring this goal, you can clearly see the confidence in his eyes, and then he hit two three-pointers in a row-he got 1 1 minute in the first six minutes of the game, with a positive and negative value as high as +23.
In addition, Payton scored 4 points and 3 rebounds in the first half, and Rooney scored 4 frontcourt rebounds.
Poole played well throughout the playoffs.
Poole, little Peyton, Rooney and others didn't suddenly break out for no reason.
In the first round of the playoffs against the Nuggets, Curry took the initiative to choose a substitute and let Poole start. Poole averaged 29 points in three starts, and even Curry returned to the starting lineup. He also said: "Poole playing as a substitute is a warrior spirit of self-sacrifice, and he will get what he deserves."
Rooney's frontcourt rebounds can be traced back to G5-against Grizzlies. Rooney scored 22 rebounds in that game, of which 1 1 was frontcourt rebounds. But the day before, it was Curry and Green who strongly recommended Rooney to start.
Compared with the Celtic's "Seven Jedi", the role players of the Warriors have played a highlight moment in the series, which are their efforts throughout the season.
When the Warriors win the championship again four years later, it may be the most beautiful fairy tale in the NBA.
Proofreading: Ding Xiao