637. Eastern Finals
When the Miami Heat's home game against the Indiana Pacers' Eastern Conference semifinals ended on May 18, it means that the semifinals of this season's playoffs will be over for the entire league.
The four teams in the East and West Finals all appeared after the game that night. They were the San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference, the Memphis Grizzlies, the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference and the Miami Heat.
The two teams in the Western Conference met for the first time in the Eastern Conference Finals. However, obviously, the San Antonio Spurs, who have experienced many Western Conference Finals and even won many championships, is the team with more experience in this round of the Eastern Conference Finals; while the Memphis Grizzlies are only the first time in their team's history to enter this level.
Of course, most people will be more optimistic about the San Antonio Spurs, after all, their strength is really great; and for the Memphis Grizzlies, the only good news is that people still remember that they eliminated the San Antonio Spurs in the first round of the playoffs two years ago...
In addition, it is obvious that the Memphis Grizzlies don't have much advantage when they face the San Antonio Spurs.
So more people, of course, will still be more optimistic about the San Antonio Spurs with home advantage in this round of the Western Conference Finals. After all, although this Spurs are old, they are still very strong.
Under the leadership of GDP, the Spurs, who plays overall basketball, can compete with any team in the league.
So for the Western Conference finals, most people are more optimistic about the San Antonio Spurs, and most people think so.
In the Eastern Conference Finals, the situation will obviously be more confusing. Although in the past two seasons of the playoffs, Wu Dawei and his Cleveland Cavaliers have both eliminated the Miami Heat in the playoffs.
But in this season, people will not have any deviation from the two sides' matches in the playoffs in the past two seasons, but this season's Eastern Conference Finals game.
Although the Cleveland Cavaliers have almost always had the upper hand when they lost LeBron James after losing to the Miami Heat. In addition to being at a disadvantage in the four regular season matches this season, they even achieved an 8-0 record against the Miami people!
This is not something that can be done by just talking and joking, but even so, in this round of the Eastern Conference Finals this year, people are not all optimistic about the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Although the performance of the Cleveland Cavaliers since the second half of the season was indeed very refreshing. However, the strength shown by the Miami Heat this season is also impressive.
Especially the performance of 27 consecutive wins in the regular season has created the history of the league. In the history of the league, any team that has won more than 20 consecutive wins in that season won the championship, except for the former Houston Rockets!
Moreover, the Houston Rockets team was finally defeated in the playoffs due to injuries.
So this season, many people have different opinions about the strength shown by the Miami Heat. Even though they were once forced into a tiebreak by the new Indiana Pacers in the league in the Eastern Conference semi-finals that ended not long ago, this did not affect many people's views on such a Miami Heat at this moment.
In the Eastern Conference Finals that will start on May 21, there are still quite a lot of people who are more optimistic about the Miami Heat, which has a home advantage, rather than the defending champion of the league, the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Of course, this is not because the Cleveland Cavaliers did not perform well in the regular season this season. After all, everyone knows that it was caused by injuries. Moreover, the Cleveland Cavaliers achieved 8 wins and 2 losses in the playoffs, which is better than the Miami people.
The reason why this round of the Eastern Conference Finals is not like the Western Conference Finals, most people are optimistic about a team one-sidedly, of course, because both the Miami Heat and the Cleveland Cavaliers have performed very well.
Their supporters are half and half. This is because both sides have their own outstanding features.
However, as the defending champion of the league this season, there will certainly be more people. I believe that they can become the winner of this round of the series!
It's just that the number of players who think the Cleveland Cavaliers can win is not much higher than the number of players who support the Miami Heat.
Although many people will admit that the strength of the Cleveland Cavaliers is better than that of the Miami Heat, in this round of the series, the Miami Heat will have the advantage of home court. If the home court advantage can be used well, it will still be helpful to the team.
So there will not be too many people in this round of series. The Cleveland Cavaliers can definitely win this game tonight without any suspense!
Because the Miami Heat are also a force that cannot be underestimated. Their performance this season has also attracted countless people to admire, so at this time, people's views on the Eastern Conference Finals and the Western Conference Finals are of course completely different.
With the Eastern Conference semi-finals between the Miami Heat and the Indiana Pacers, the league's East-West Finals will soon begin again.
On May 21, the Miami Heat, who just finished the Indiana Pacers' game, was going to start their Eastern Conference Finals first. They continued to sit at home and welcomed their first Eastern Conference Finals!
At the home court, the American Airlines Center competed with the Cleveland Cavaliers led by Wu Dawei!
The Cleveland Cavaliers also set off on May 19th to Miami. Because their regular season record is worse than that of the Miami Heat, the Cleveland Cavaliers still have no home advantage in this round of games.
They have to play two away games first before they can return to home to play.
So for the Cleveland Cavaliers, a new round of series is still not an easy task. At the opponent's home court, the Cleveland Cavaliers have never won even one game this season.
Although there are also reasons why the Cleveland Cavaliers suffered large-scale injuries in the regular season, the fact is that the Cleveland Cavaliers are still unable to win the game.
So it is not easy for the Cleveland Cavaliers. They need to regain their sense of victory at the American Airlines Center. And the Miami people will definitely create great difficulties for them in the game at that time!
So when the Cleveland Cavaliers set off to Miami, the first thing they did was to go to the American Airlines Center to do adaptive training.
They need to get familiar with this venue first, after all, in the first two games of this round of series, the Cleveland Cavaliers need to complete the game at the opponent's home court.
And if they cannot be familiar with this venue and the two games here are ultimately lost, the Cleveland Cavaliers will face a very bad dilemma at once!
For the Cleveland Cavaliers, this is not what they want to see. They don't want to fall behind the Miami Heat in the series with a score of 0:2 at once.
Although for them, in the past two seasons of the playoffs, their record against the Miami Heat has won more than less, and they have eliminated the opponent, this will not become their capital.
For the Cleveland Cavaliers, their goal to come to Miami is to hope to win at least one game in the opponent's two home games!
This is the goal they set before they came to Miami. Even if they can't play an advantage in Miami, they will leave Miami with a 1:1 split.
It's like they did in the semi-finals with the New York Knicks, but obviously it's not easy, because the New York Knicks are certainly not as strong as the Miami Heat.
Naturally, the Cleveland Cavaliers have to be more careful in this round of the Eastern Conference finals. Otherwise, they may be taught a lesson by the Miami people.
Soon this round of series is very critical. Whoever wins the game will enter the finals to compete for Larry O'Brien Cup. Whether it is the Cleveland Cavaliers who are determined to defend the title or the Miami Heat who hopes to win the first championship trophy after the group formation, this round of series is likely to determine their future destiny!
Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for both the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Miami Heat to accept the failure in this round of the series!
It is necessary to win the game, which is the belief between both sides before the start of this round of series. Neither the Cleveland Cavaliers nor the Miami Heat, they will hope to lose this game in the end, because it is tantamount to them!
So before this round of series begins, both sides will definitely make full efforts! (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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