Durant scored 36 points with a 50% shooting rate, while Harden grabbed 28 points, 7 rebounds, and 11 assists; both delivered MVP-level performances, making it hard not to have confidence in them.
Zhang Yang's fierce performance overshadowed Durant, pushing the Western Conference Finals' intensity to a peak. By the next day, on the second day of the Eastern Conference Finals, discussions about the Western Conference Finals were still more heated than those of the Eastern Conference.
The competitive level is vastly different; after the first battle of the Western Conference Finals, when fans looked at the Pacers and Miami Heat games, they compared it to the Eastern Conference Finals of 2001, 2002, and 2003...
On this rest day, the Lakers took the morning off and arrived at the Ford Center in the afternoon for a brief tactical adjustment training.
