The Nuggets didn't play very well in the entire first half, and even made several mistakes in a row.

It doesn't feel like a playoff-level team at all.

In fact, this is really not a fault for playing too badly, after all, the Nuggets team is still in a transition period.

With all old faces like Anthony and Billups being traded out and Kenyon Martin is unable to play on the court, the offensive system of the entire Nuggets is equivalent to a complete demolition and reconstruction.

Therefore, after entering the more intense playoffs, especially when facing top teams in the league like the Thunder, the Nuggets' disadvantages are naturally very obvious.

After halftime, the Thunder had already led the Nuggets by 16 points.

This is still the case where JR? Smith performs well, otherwise the Nuggets will only lose more.

After all, whether in terms of top combat power or team rotation, the Nuggets are at a disadvantage without any suspense.

Even in the playoff experience, the Nuggets have become nothing.

After returning from the second half, the Nuggets tentatively chased the score, but the score on the field did not shrink, but was still pulled bigger and bigger by the Thunder, head coach George Carl could only sigh helplessly.

Because in these two short seasons, the Thunder have undergone earth-shaking changes.

George Carl still remembers that when the Thunder defeated him two years ago, it was called "Black Seven", but this year it turned into a beating.

Especially when George Carl looked at Yang Fan sitting on the sidelines with a relaxed look on his face, this made George Carl feel helpless.

It is fake to say that he doesn't envy him, but George Carl knew that he definitely didn't have the same trick as Yang Fan.

Yang Fan was able to reach this point today because of his excellent coaching ability, because his vision of selecting people was too evil.

This also led to the Thunder hoarding a large number of potential newcomers in just a few years.

The success rate of these potential newcomers is completely proven by the best rookies every year.

As the score on the field was getting bigger and bigger by the Thunder, George Carl simply replaced the main player and announced that he would give up the game.

After all, before this round of series started, George Carl never thought of leading the team to defeat the Thunder, because this was really an impossible task.

If it was a lucky victory, then George Carl could barely compete, but if George Carl wanted to win this round of series, he would not believe it himself.

"Du~Du~Du"

When the whistle sounded at the end of the game, the Thunder beat the Nuggets at home with 27 points, winning the victory without any suspense.

After the game, George Carl took the initiative to walk towards Yang Fan and shook hands with Yang Fan on the sidelines.

If George Carl never took Yang Fan seriously two years ago, then the identities of the two will be exchanged for the last time.

Anthony's performance in this game is remarkable. When facing his old club Nuggets for the first time in his career, Anthony, who finally made only 23 minutes of the game, contributed 15 points and 6 rebounds.

It was easy to give it to the old club for the first loss in the playoffs.

I'm afraid at this time Anthony realized that the playoffs could be played so easily...

Since the Nuggets are not the Thunder's opponent at all, the main players on the Thunder are clocked in and off work in the third quarter.

Everyone's playing time is not higher than 25 minutes, of which Anthony's 23 minutes is already the player with the most playing time on the Thunder.

This is Yang Fan's chance to show Anthony's performance in view of his old club, otherwise Durant and Curry would have less than 20 minutes of playing time.

As for the "Chinese giant" Yao Ming, Yang Fan only used him to play the first quarter.

After all, when there is no suspense in the game, try to protect Yao Ming as much as possible. Otherwise, once Yao Ming is injured, it will also be a loss for the Thunder.

It is no exaggeration to say that this game is definitely the easiest playoff game that the Thunder has played in recent years.

Even in the eyes of Yao Ming and others, this seems to be no different from the regular season.

Yang Fan could also see a sentence from Durant's expression, "I took off all my pants, but you'll show me this one?"

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As the Thunder defeated the Nuggets without any suspense in the first game, the odds of the Thunder on the bookmaker were already terrible.

Basically, even if you put in $10,000, you can only earn some electricity bills in the end.

This also led to the bookmakers having to helplessly remove the winning and losing points in the Thunder and Nuggets series, and in the end they can only place odd and even bets or even sizes.

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The Thunder also played steadily in the next few games, and did not give the Nuggets any chance, nor even let the Nuggets see hope of winning.

Until the four games were finished, the Thunder swept through without any suspense and became the first team in the league to advance to the semi-finals.

In the first round of the playoffs, Durant averaged only 26.7 minutes of playing time, which was even less than his 33.8 minutes in the regular season.

So from this point of view, it is not difficult to see that the Thunder did not encounter any resistance in the first round.

The only game that was quite anxious was the third game. In that game, JR Smith and Jordan possessed him and scored a total of 9 three-pointers in the whole game.

And while maintaining a shooting percentage of more than 70%, JR Smith contributed 46 points in the game, breaking his career high.

But the Thunder are too stable on the offensive end, so even if JR Smith has already gotten so scared, the Nuggets finally lost to the Thunder 9 points at home.

It is worth mentioning that Jeff Green, the Nuggets side, can average comprehensive data of 18.6 points, 7.3 rebounds and 4.1 assists in the entire series.

Although the scoring is slightly lower than in the regular season, overall, Jeff Green's offensive efficiency is still good.

Perhaps this is the last bit of comfort for the Nuggets.

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In the next few days, as the competitions of each team continued, several other teams that advanced to the semi-finals were released one after another.

Among them, due to the large gap between the strong and weak teams in the Eastern Conference, the four teams that advanced to the Eastern Conference semi-finals have been confirmed.

These four teams are the Bulls, Heat, Celtics and Magic, which are the top four teams in the Eastern Conference in the regular season.

It can be said that under the absolute strength gap, the probability of getting below the score in the east is completely smaller than that in the west.

As for the Miami Heat, which has been highly anticipated this season, it also swept the 76ers 4:0 in the first round of the playoffs, and the entire team looks very good.

In terms of paper strength, the Heat are the most promising team to sniper championship this season.

In the Western Conference, except for the series between the Spurs and the Grizzlies, the results of the other three groups are also released.

Among them, the Thunder were 4:0 Nuggets, the Mavericks were 4:2 Trail Blazers, and finally the Lakers were 4:2 Hornets.

This means that the Thunder's opponent in the Western Conference semi-finals will be the Lakers, a team that has long been full of resentment and conflicts.

Yang Fan was not surprised by the Lakers' promotion, so when he learned that the Lakers would meet him in the semi-finals, Yang Fan just smiled lightly and planned to settle the old and new debts together.

But on the other hand, after the Lakers defeated the Hornets and advanced to the semi-finals, this should have been something worth celebrating, but no one in the Lakers felt happy.

Even head coach Jackson frowned on his face, and his facial expression was as ugly as if he had eaten bitter melon...
Chapter completed!