Chapter 278: Playoffs Times
Because of the last effort of the Rockets and the last block of the Pacers, the Lakers did not hold on to their seventh position in the West and fell to eighth in the West. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
That means they're going to be playing against the Spurs, who won the West in the last 10-game winning streak at the end of the season, in the first round of the playoffs in a few days' time.
And with the end of the Lakers game, then the top eight in the East and West this season will be officially released, let's take a look.
First of all, in the East, the luxury "Big Three" Heat team took the top spot, with a record of 66 wins and a record of 66 wins in the league.
The second in the East is to unite as one this year, work together, and make everyone sigh that the spring of the Big Apple has finally come, and the New Century Alliance is the vice president of the New York Knicks.
This year's New York is indeed okay, with a 56-win record that is the best since Ewing left (the plot needs to add wins).
Third in the East is the last game to stop the Lakers Pacers, Paul George has improved by leaps and bounds this season, and with Granger at the end of the peak, the Pacers are very good.
The next fourth is the Brooklyn Nets, a new local tyrant team that also belongs to New York, and the first season after moving to a new home is so good, which makes the Russian tycoon very satisfied.
The fifth is last year's MVP Rose's Bulls, this year because Rose was injured for almost half a season (or let Rose survive), the Bulls' record has been up and down, once fell out of the top eight. Fortunately, in the final two months, Rose made a full recovery, and the thorny Windy City Roses forced the team to fifth place in the East.
Sixth, the Atlanta Hawks, who have been a standard playoff first-round team in recent years, can make the playoffs no matter how they play, and then they can't go any further. Privately, I think it has something to do with the fact that Atlanta has the most famous stripping club in the United States, and the nightlife is too rich.
The seventh is only the "two elders of the Xuanming" of the Green Army, since 09 Garnett was seriously injured, the vitality of the Green Army has not recovered, and in 10 years, he injured Perkins at a critical moment in the playoffs, and then there is no then, and the current Green Army is struggling to support it with the last bit of glory.
The last spot in the East is a bit surprising, it turns out to be the Milwaukee Bucks who have never been favored, but Qin Yan is still not optimistic about this buck, their future "deer king" is still in Greece, and this year it can only be said that the bucks are lucky.
According to the league's rules of matchups, the first to play eighth, the second to play seventh, the third to play sixth, and the fourth to fifth, Qin Yan was very unhappy when he studied privately, NND, Heat, isn't this equivalent to escorting the second round!
Now the luck of the east is really good, and the difference in strength is still quite obvious, which is like the west, which has become a pot of porridge.
Take a look at the top eight of this year's in the West.
Needless to say, the San Antonio Spurs, who "your uncle is still your uncle", were caught off guard by the last wave of ten consecutive wins to grab the position, and successfully turned the tables.
The second is the Thunder, as the league's "only three" 60-win team, the Thunder once thought that their record would decline after losing the original three-leader James Harden this year.
The result? "Papa" slapped in the face, Thunder "big and small kings" (later everyone found out that they originally thought that Durant was the king, Westbrook was the king, and Harden was A, but these three turned out to be kings!) The explosion brought the team all the way to the top of the West, and if it weren't for the unusually wild last-minute win of the Old Hooligans of the Holy City, they would have been the first in the West this year.
Otherwise, the gap between the three 60-win teams this year is also very small, 66, 65 and 64, which is the same as no gap.
The third place in the West was also a big upset, and after Carmelo Anthony left, the Denver Young Guards were replaced by a bunch of young people, who came out of the big names in the West and came out in third place in the West.
This is really "the tree moves the dead and the dead move the living", Gallinari, Wilson Chandler and others, who were originally in the Knicks for 10,000 years, came from the east to the west, and turned into heroes here! After Anthony went to the East, he also won the first scoring title of his career this year, and at the same time really showed his ability to compete with James that was praised by the media back then. (Don't blow it, it's not black, this year's Anthony, the regular season is indeed okay, bringing the Knicks to the second place in the East after the Heat, which is already very good, after all, the combination of Kidd and Stoudemire is definitely not as good as Wade and Bosh)
It's just that as soon as he left, the Nuggets turned around and relied on a group of young people to win the third place in the West, this result, uh, how to say, seems to make Anthony a little ashamed.
After all, if there was no Billups that year, Anthony would not have been able to make it to the Western Finals, so the Nuggets and Knicks, at least this year, the two teams are a win-win situation.
The fourth is a mess of the air force at the beginning of the season, the Los Angeles aircraft carrier, but this aircraft carrier, the endurance is a little poor, in the middle of the season, the newly established aircraft carrier may be out of fuel, suddenly lost the momentum to move forward, a wave of consecutive defeats directly sent out of the top three positions in the West, although the late full of fuel after desperately chasing back, but the Denver group of young miners (the meaning of nuggets, in fact, is mining...... It's just that people are digging gold mines) is too stable, always suppressing the Clippers to prevent them from coming out, and finally had no choice but to sit in the fourth place in the West, but it is still in the upper half of the region, and it also has a home advantage.
But the trouble with the fourth is that they have to play fifth, and the difference in strength between the fourth and fifth has always been close, and there are many strong in the West, and sometimes the fifth is no worse than the fourth, but because of the division, they have to be relegated to the fifth (such as the Rockets and Jazz that year).
The fifth in the West this year happens to be a particularly difficult bone to gnaw, the Memphis Grizzlies led by the "black and white bear" Randolph Gasol Jr.! Randolph, who was not favored by the data brush back then, and Gasol Jr., who was ridiculed when he first joined the league, have achieved an amazing transformation here in Memphis! The current Grizzlies are a team that can really fight tough battles, and they are not afraid of anyone who fights, and whoever wants to win will have to lose their skin.
The sixth place in the West belongs to the future super team, the current growth team Warriors, the future Warriors have the nickname of "Cosmic Brave", but now they are not good, several important positions either have not yet come, or have not grown up, I don't know who can be more fierce now or the Denver Shakhtars.
The last seventh and eighth don't talk nonsense, the Rockets and the Lakers. Two inextricable brothers who are fighting for the final playoff spot.
In the end, the Rockets had a little better luck and came in seventh, with the Lakers dropping to eighth.
However, in this way, the game is interesting, first of all, the Thunder, who is second in the West, beats the seventh Rocket, and last year's "Three Less" reunites, and the bearded third brother wants to challenge the eldest brother with his hands over his knees and the second brother who is loyal and brave (if you look at it this way, it seems that Zhang Fei beat Liu Bei and Guan Yu haha).
And the rogue Spurs, the No. 1 rogue in the West, want to play with the Purple and Gold Aristocrats, the Lakers with a super "F4", whether the Lakers' "Black Eight" succeeds or the Spurs pass smoothly, everything remains to be seen.
The hard work of the first season is finally about to usher in the time to be tested, and each of the sixteen shortlisted teams in the East and West is making final preparations!
All for the O'Brien Cup in June!!