When the game went into garbage time, Stephen Curry collapsed on the bench and glared at Poole, who scored seven points on 3-of-10 shooting
Time seems to have been reversed five years ago, and LeBron James angrily gestures to the errant J.R. Smith, unable to understand his final "blackout error."
That year, the 34-year-old LeBron scored 51 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists, but was dragged into overtime due to J.R. mistakes, losing 114-124. On the opposite side, Durant, Curry, and Klay fired 79 points in a salvo, and the Cavaliers were shot into grass men.
Today, Curry had 32 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists, and it was he who desperately pulled the Warriors back little by little from the huge hole of 10-27 in the opening game. But this time he was without an inexplicable Durant, healthy Klay and normal dream-chasing brains.
With the exception of DiVicenzo, who scored 16 points, none of the Warriors scored a double-double.
Compared to five years ago, everything has changed, and everything has never changed.
The lonely strong man burned himself, but could not stop the thousands of troops on the opposite side.
LeBron James five years ago and Stephen Curry today all wanted to challenge the impossible with one person and one sword like Snow, but they didn't wait for the support group to kill from behind.
Only a pale shell remained.
Five years have passed, and when the status of the two is reversed,
When LeBron James has younger, healthier thick eyebrows, and Stephen Curry no longer has Durant by his side.
The balance of victory and defeat is back in its normal position.
Since Kerr took the helm of the Warriors in 2014, they've won four championships (the most in the same period) and have lost just two playoff games against LeBron James.
Once the overall runner-up with 73 wins in 2016, once just today.
And that's not even counting the 2021 playoffs, when LeBron's desperate three points kicked the Warriors out of the top seven and eventually failed to make the playoffs in a showdown with the Grizzlies.
After 2014, the two met for six seasons at the end of the regular season.
Playoffs Curry 3-2, playoffs James 1-0.
Only Curry + Durant can beat James,
But the only one who can kill Curry is James.
Today's game may be the first time James has shown his fangs in this year's playoffs.
After all, the first round of G4 killings of the Grizzlies was too short-lived and short-lived.
And today he finally returned to the familiar "post-season Zhan" and "All-out Zhan", the immortal lion king who has accompanied his fans for twenty years and always makes people look forward to him.
He played 43 minutes, shooting 10-of-14 from the field and 2-of-3 from three-point range, scoring 30 points, 9 rebounds and 9 assists.
Playing the Warriors, people are still more familiar with LeBron, who averaged 30+10+10 per game during the "Riding Brave War" period.
Even more familiar is the manager's use of him.
With 2:49 left in the first quarter, Coach Hamm replaced him with Walker, at which point the Lakers led 27-14.
But after only a minute, seeing the warriors rushing to catch up, Hamm immediately released him.
Then until the Lakers led 116-94 in the fourth quarter, completely throwing the Warriors into garbage time, he didn't get off the court for a second.
He played 32 minutes and 15 seconds in a row, playing the second and third quarters until the fourth quarter completely helped the Lakers set the stage for the victory and locked the victory in the lockbox.
This kind of usage, often used by Mike Brown when he was a child, helped them reach the finals and became the hero of the East,
When it came to the Heat, Coach Spall also liked to use it, so it brought them two championships,
Back to the Knights, Coach Lu especially likes to use it, even if he will shout a timeout to let him breathe, which is the main force of 16 years champion and 18 years of superheroes,
When it came to the Lakers, Coach Vogel has been saving use, for fear that the old Jen, who has passed the age of 34, has a three long and two short,
And today, Coach Hamm couldn't resist the temptation to keep him on the pitch because they all needed this win so much.
They faced the defending champions, the Golden State Warriors, and Stephen Curry.
It was the "culprit" who personally took away three championships from him, leaving him with only two championships at the peak age of 30-35,
He was the legendary attacker of this era, the man who revolutionized this league with three-pointers.
Like James, Stephen Curry is also a brilliant sportsman.
From the fourth game of the series, he knew that he could only rely on his own play to win, and he pulled the current deformed Warriors out of the ghost door again and again, and led the team to this day with an ultimate personal hero main force.
Just like LeBron James in 2018.
When Klay can no longer be relied on, when Chase Dream almost has to go to LeBron, when only Moody can barely stand on the court in the team's high-ranking pick in the past three years, and when Poole, who renewed his contract at a high price, has long separated from him.
He really is a lonely strong man,
All he can do is squeeze himself dry and try to use his own flame to ignite the people around him, but you can't expect him to always shine, as long as he is a person, there will always be a limit.
His appearance shook LeBron's domination of the NBA in his prime,
His excellence has made the warrior the leader of this era,
His unanimous MVP and the team's 73 wins, while crippled, were equally hard-won,
His teaming up with Durant finally gave them a 3-1 lead in a four-year battle with LeBron.
However, five years have passed, when Durant is adrift in Brooklyn and Phoenix, and when Curry finally experienced the helplessness of 18 LeBron,
You will find that at the age of 38, James can still dominate this most crucial game and become the ultimate winner.
The first 30+, exaggerated 36-minute streak in the playoffs this season was just to beat Stephen Curry, the man who brought him the most losses,
LeBron just wanted to prove:
Without Durant, you're not my match at all.