Healthy basketball, starting from eating the old Lakers F4

On May 5, after Game 31 of the Western Conference Finals, the young Timberwolves successfully defeated the Clippers with a record of 6 to 4 and advanced to the finals.

This is good news for the NBA.

Edwards, who is expected to become the face of the league, has led the relatively young Timberwolves to the finals at a young age.

This will undoubtedly be more conducive to alliance marketing and supporting Edwards, allowing Edwards to gain more recognition from fans.

Furthermore, it will help the league to leverage Edwards' personal abilities and image to attract more young fans to the NBA, while also leveraging Edwards to develop more commercial value, allowing the NBA to further consolidate and expand its influence in the next few years.

At the same time, this is also good news for Bulls players and fans.

If the Bulls play the Clippers in the finals, they may have to work harder to achieve the great achievement of 4-0.

But now they are facing the Timberwolves who have no experience in the finals.

Even though the Timberwolves' star player looks somewhat like Jordan, he is not the real Jordan after all.

Of course, with the Bulls' current strength, they are not afraid of even Jordan in his prime.

What the Bulls players are worried about now is whether they can have an early holiday and whether the sun will be too hot on the day of the championship parade.

Back to the topic, time quickly came to the evening of June 6th, and the finals G5 officially started at the Target Center in Minnesota.

As soon as the game started, just as most fans expected, the Bulls opened fire at full force, beating the Timberwolves into a daze and leaving them unable to fight back.

Whether it is Towns or Gobert, they are all Jokic's playthings.

Edwards, the outside player, is ostensibly the only one among the Timberwolves' starting lineup who can actively hold the ball and score, but his efficiency is just so-so. He cannot be said to be an undercover, but he certainly did not help the team at all.

If it were more than 20 years ago, any of the top four shooting guards would be able to do Edwards' job.

Of course, comparisons across eras are unfair and should not be made.

However, if you want to become the face of the alliance, you must go through the process of "bearing the weight before you can wear the crown."

Edwards has gone through the test of the finals and currently does not seem to be qualified.

Some Timberwolves fans are quite optimistic. They believe Edwards' condition will definitely improve and there is no need to judge him based on just one quarter.

But the problem is that Edwards is not a role player, but the team's leader.

On a stage like the finals, it's either you or I, there's no way out.

If the team wants to win, the leader must stand up, show his strength and prove his superstar quality.

It is true that times are different now, and a championship-contending team can have several core players.

Unlike in the past when the boss was the boss and the second in command was the second in command, there are some jobs that only the boss can do and some responsibilities that only the boss can bear.

However, as the leader of the team, it is impossible for you to let your teammates do the difficult tasks and rush to do the simple tasks yourself, right?

The team is behind at the beginning of the game, the leader takes the ball and fails to win, then waits for his teammates to catch up, and then goes all out to pile up data by taking a large number of shots? Is this appropriate?

Therefore, it is okay for the big boss to not play well in the first quarter, and it is not too late to make up for the loss after other teammates have performed well and recovered. This is a kind of fan circle thinking.

When a team owner gives the team's biggest contract to a star player, or assigns all the team's main tactics to a player to establish his position as the team's boss, it means that some work must be done by him.

On a stage like the finals, if there are some tasks that cannot be done, it means that he is not qualified.

Making excuses and looking at your teammates are cowardly behaviors.

A real man faces challenges head-on, overcomes all difficulties, helps the team gain a glimmer of hope in adversity, and finally defeats the opponent completely.

All I can say is that Edwards is too young and still has a long way to go.

The Timberwolves are too young. They have several stars who, although individually strong and with good overall combat power, have not really reached the championship level.

Just talking about the championship puzzle pieces within the team, they are far inferior to the Celtics and Bucks in the Eastern Conference.

The Timberwolves made it to the finals this year because of both strength and luck.

But by the time we got to the finals, our luck had almost run out.

The Bulls did not give the Timberwolves any chance to turn the tide, and they scored a terrifying 37 to 18 in the first quarter, directly completing a double kill.

In the second quarter, no one on the team showed any sign of slacking off after taking a big lead.

The team continued to perform well on both offense and defense, scoring 31 points in the second quarter while limiting the Timberwolves to just 22 points.

After the first half, the score was 68 to 40, a full 28 points difference.

Judging from the Timberwolves' current scoring ability, the Bulls are already leading the Timberwolves in scoring by one quarter.

In order of appearance, how could the Timberwolves be a match for the Bulls? The second half had already become garbage time. However, the Bulls did not slack off. In the third quarter, both Jokic and Curry played for more than 10 minutes, trying to secure the victory in the third quarter.

This was indeed the case. The Timberwolves failed to launch any effective counterattack in the third quarter. The referee did give a lot of sympathetic whistles, but the Bulls still led by 27 points in a single quarter with 25 to 2, further widening the gap.

Because before the start of the fourth quarter, the Bulls had already established a 30-point lead and did not send out their main players in the fourth quarter.

The fourth quarter was a complete lineup of substitutes and rookies, and even allowed three first-year rookies to play for seven or eight minutes, fully experiencing the atmosphere of the finals.

Of course, the Timberwolves also wanted to save face. The main players played for more than four minutes and found that they couldn't even beat the Bulls' pure substitute lineup composed of third-year rookies. They could not catch up to 5 points in more than four minutes. In the end, they chose to surrender early and call it a day.

Three days later, on June 6, the same competition stage and the same plot were staged again.

In fact, the Timberwolves had quite a lot of whistles, but they still couldn't score.

On the Bulls side, Wiggins is back in form.

In the matchup between the top picks, Edwards' performance was slightly better than Wiggins', but also limited.

He can't get into the paint very well and his three-point shooting is not accurate. The only opportunity he has is the relatively inefficient mid-range shot.

Nowadays, Durant’s mid-range shots can’t even kill people, let alone Edwards.

On the Bulls side, both Jokic and Curry have great scoring efficiency.

This is equivalent to O'Neal and Jordan forming a team and playing mixed doubles against Kobe.

The outcome of the game seemed to have lost suspense from the very beginning.

With the Bulls once again easily winning the game with a 2+ point difference in Game 20 of the Finals, this round of the series became unsuspenseful and boring.

The only highlight is the 4-0 sweep result in the finals that everyone has guessed but is extremely looking forward to.

The Bulls did not disappoint everyone. After returning to the United Center in Chicago, it was obvious that the Bulls players performed better than in the previous two away games.

However, the only drawback was that the referees at home were even more cruel than those at away games. If the Bulls had not been leading the whole time, the Bulls fans watching the game would have probably rioted.

Fortunately, the problem is not serious, as long as we can win the game.

Sometimes it's a pleasure to win with 5 vs. 8.

After the game, fans can curse the referee to release the negative emotions accumulated from their daily work and life.

In short, justice will prevail! Cool!
On June 6, the much-anticipated day finally arrived.

The ratings for the NBA Finals also soared from a stable level of around 10 million in the first three games to over 20 million.

The reason why the ratings doubled is, of course, because tonight there is a possibility that the classic tragedy of defeating the opponent 4-0 in the finals will happen again, and at the same time, we can see the great Chicago Bulls lift the championship trophy.

After the game started, fans once again saw the referee causing trouble on the court.

However, the Bulls players continued to play stably and were basically not affected by the referee. They played the same way they should have played before.

On the other hand, the Timberwolves players were no longer as aggressive as they were in the first three games.

Most of the players were absent-minded on the defensive end, made passing errors on the offensive end, and even failed to score in tactics or transition.

I can only say that the mentality of workers is the same. When the holidays are coming, workers will naturally not work so hard.

Of course there are exceptions. There are honest people everywhere who are willing to work diligently and stand guard until the last minute. It’s just that such cases are relatively rare and have little impact on the overall situation.

91 to 126, the Bulls won the game with a huge advantage of 35 points.

This is mainly because this is the last game of this round of finals, and it may also be the last finals for Durant and Curry, and the last finals played at home.

Therefore, even when the fourth quarter had become garbage time, Duane and Curry were still playing on the court until the game time was completely reset.

Leaving aside Curry, at least Durant was using this game to say goodbye to the fans at the scene and the fans in front of the TV.

"we are the champion!"

Duane once again held the championship trophy high, but his career had completely fallen from the peak to the bottom.

What will be left for Duane next will be a load of honors, as well as admiration, praise and compliments from fans, media and peers, until they are gradually forgotten after his farewell.

"A new season, a retirement tour...it's finally time to say goodbye."

Unlike his teammates who were full of joy and cheering, Duan felt lonely, reluctant, and even a little confused.

If he really retires, what will Durant do next? Buy an NBA team and become his own boss? (End of this chapter)