Basketball Legend: When Pride Still Matters-Chapter 1071 - 605 GOAT is very accurate at

Chapter 1071: Chapter 605 GOAT is very accurate at judging people Chapter 1071: Chapter 605 GOAT is very accurate at judging people The main problem with the Warriors Team is that although their young players are full of zeal, they are too young.

Lillard is still not at his peak, Leonard is still the lagging version of Jordan, Griffin is close to his peak, but he has never been the decisive figure in the playoffs.

The most relied upon veteran, Joe Johnson, is an existence that is good enough to not be out of place but not quite at the top.

He is very useful when the game cannot be opened, or when someone is needed to execute key plays, but if he is expected to bear this pressure for the whole game, that is asking too much of him.

They can push against the 39-year-old Duncan, but in front of the 32-and-a-half-year-old Yu Fei, that youthful energy does not do much.

Facing a 1-3 predicament, the Golden State folks have not lost faith in Game 5.

They want to prove that they are even better than last year.

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Last year they lost to the Clippers 1-4, and this year after strengthening their lineup with Griffin, are they going to lose 1-4 again? If it really ends up like this, who should carry the blame?

Unfortunately, they indeed did strengthen, but the Clippers strengthened even more.

Setting aside the major addition of Yao Ming, the growth of Antetokounmpo and the arrival of Jokić were both obvious enhancements.

With Richard Jefferson, Gerald Green and other players increasing the roster depth, it’s not by chance that this year’s Clippers achieved 71 wins.

The key to Game 5 lies with Yao Ming.

This year is the third consecutive season for Yao Ming to make the first team, but the praise he has received is not high.

Generally speaking, anyone who makes the first team three times in a row is a superstar of their era, but Yao Ming has not earned a similar reputation, because his stats are nothing special, and moreover, contemporary big men all have their own issues.

After all, this is an era where even DeAndre Jordan with an average of 12 points, 12 rebounds, and 2.4 blocks per game can be selected for the second team as a center.

After Yao Ming successfully transitioned, due to his outside playing style, the low-post offense seen in the past years has been much less frequent, and fans more often see him shooting threes from outside, scoring easy baskets inside, and then picking up 17-18 points per game and grabbing 6-7 rebounds.

Are these the stats of a super big man?

However, if the opponents really ignore Yao Ming and focus all their efforts on the Clippers’ outside line, then Yao Ming will start to punish them.

His low-post offense may not be as strong as in the past, but that also comes with losing weight, and now there are few heavy centers that can withstand him.

The Warriors died on this tonight.

They tried to have Green take on Yao Ming.

Yu Fei looked from the outside, Green defending Yao Ming one-on-one?

Not to mention low-post defense, even in terms of physical conditions, Green would have to exert a lot of extra effort to try to front Yao Ming, and for Yao Ming, his size is simply too small.

So Yu Fei began lobbing the ball to Yao Ming.

Yao Ming, not doing anything else, just showcased his hook shot over Green.

At this moment, Green chose path dependence; he is used to blocking low to deal with contemporary star big men because the Space Basketball era requires almost harsh movement speed from big men, so contemporary big men basically do not specifically strengthen their lower limb strength.

Yao Ming is different though.

His legendary thick calves have been a point of attention since he entered the league; it’s his innate advantage for strengthening lower limb strength, but the troubles it brings are obvious—his lateral movement speed is inherently insufficient.

Green’s choice to block Yao Ming’s lower body was doomed to be utterly exploded from the beginning.

Yao Ming continuously finished off his offense in the low post, making it hard for Green to cope.

By the time the Warriors gave instructions to double-team Yao Ming, Yu Fei and Yao Ming switched their attack strategy.

They started running pick-and-roll plays, and Yao Ming started shooting threes again.

If it’s about shooting threes, Yao Ming is more accurate than most shooters.

As a giant beast of 223 centimeters, he has a 40% three-point shooting percentage, and any team daring enough to let him shoot threes will ultimately not meet a good end.

The collapse began from the inside, and then moved to the outside.

Klay Thompson had been waiting for this day ever since he scored 60 points against the Warriors in the regular season.

Scoring 60 points in a single game only proves he has the ability.

But to prove that the Warriors’ decision to trade him was a mistake requires personally sending them home in the playoffs.

Once Yao Ming started firing, Thompson continued the firepower. The shooting percentage of the Warriors dropped, and Antetokounmpo cheerfully started defending and fast-breaking.

The Golden State people did not achieve their goal.

4-1

This result is exactly the same as last year.

At the end of the game, Clippers owner Steve Ballmer crazily tossed super-sized buckets of popcorn and roared at the nearby media: “You all said we were doomed! What now! We are going to the Finals!”

This is a historic night.

The Clippers finally took home their first Western Conference championship banner in team history.

Of course, that’s nothing compared to the Lakers, a super powerhouse with countless Western Conference championship banners.

But what’s important is the present.

This is Yu Fei’s ninth time winning the division championship, he is already immune to such a scene.

“Our work is not done yet,” Yu Fei told an ESPN reporter, “This is just the beginning.”

Indeed, this is a beginning.

But the Clippers are going to the Finals.

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“The Clippers have advanced to the NBA Finals for the first time this season, and it is also their first time in franchise history; we are about to welcome a Finals with the Clippers participating, which is a strange thing for the NBA—Frye has really done it!”

The media heavily promoted the news of the Clippers advancing to the Finals.

While in the Eastern Conference, a great battle is still unfinished.