Chapter 277: The Regular Season Ends
With a somewhat shrill beep from the timer, the final game of the 2012-2013 Spurs regular season came to an end, with the San Antonio Spurs ending their regular season with a 100-90 home win over the Minnesota Timberwolves. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Although the Spurs released the water in the next ten games after 60 wins, they still finished with a good record of 64 wins and 18 losses.
This result, ranked second in the league, is one less than the Heat's 65-17, and at the same time, it is one more than the Thunder's 63-19.
In other words, the Spurs relied on the last ten consecutive wins to withstand the pursuit of the Thunder and successfully won the first place in the West.
Sure enough, the old men still take good care of the juniors, and successfully met their desire to win the first place in the west.
Then, after the Spurs end their regular season, it also means that the regular season of the year is finally over, and there are only a few games left for other teams.
One of the most noteworthy for the Spurs is the game between the two teams currently hovering in the seventh and eighth positions in the West, as this is their opponent in the first round.
At present, the Lakers are seventh and the Rockets are eighth, and the two teams are only half a win away, which means that as long as the Rockets win their last game and the Lakers lose, they will switch orders.
Of course, if both teams win, then the Spurs in first play the Rockets, and the Thunder in second play the Lakers. If the Rockets succeed, it will be the Spurs beating the Lakers and the Thunder beating the Rockets.
The Spurs who didn't play were watching live TV in the locker room today, of course, they didn't watch it live (you don't have to watch it at all to play the Timberwolves, you can definitely win) but you watched the Lakers and Rockets game, fortunately there are two TVs, otherwise it would be troublesome to change the channel.
"Qin, these two teams, which one do you think is better?" Whiteside had already taken a shower at this time, and he scored a big double-double of 15 points and 15 boards in this game, and he was very happy. Seeing that Qin Yan and the others were watching the live broadcast seriously, he asked.
"Difficulty, you say? Then the rocket must be easy to fight. Qin Yan said without thinking.
"But the Lakers have problems this year, their record is so bad." Whiteside was puzzled.
"They, as soon as they get together F4, they're going to be finished~" Dior joked on the side.
"Don't relax too much, after all, Bryant is very competitive, and it will be difficult to meet them in the playoffs." Duncan wasn't so optimistic.
"Wouldn't it? Aren't they fighting to the death over who is the boss this year? Mills was also puzzled.
This year's Lakers are really full of disasters, first of all, the new F4 is injured in turn, and there is not enough time to run in together.
Secondly, Howard and Kobe Bryant are not on the same page, Kobe's paranoid personality is destined to make him not get along with people who are grinning and giggling. If you don't believe me, just look at O'Neill back then.
Of course, Howard's strength is not as good as O'Neal back then, so it is even more unlikely that he will be able to gain an advantage in the fight against Kobe.
In the end, D'Antoni's system does not match the Lakers, and Nash has never been able to return to the MVP level he was at in the Suns.
And under this D'Antoni system, Gasol's position is so embarrassing, let's set up a double tower with Howard, Howard wants the ball, and he is lazy and unwilling to block and dismantle, and the effect is not good.
If he doesn't form the twin towers, Gasol can only play as a substitute, because he has too little ball in the start, which is really wasteful.
Overall, this season's Lakers have been unsuccessful, even unsuccessful, and stumbling along the way, and if it weren't for the fact that these stars are sometimes reluctant to lose big explosions, it would be a question of whether they can win seventh in the West now.
No, in the last game, the Lakers will compete with the Rockets, and whoever wins will be seventh, otherwise eighth.
In the live broadcast, the game on the Rockets' side has ended, James Harden was the boss for the first year this year, played a super data of 26+6+7, and brought the Rockets into the playoffs by himself!
Now, in the most critical ranking game, he scored 44 points without mercy, led the Rockets to win the game, temporarily surpassed the Lakers and ranked seventh in the West, and took the initiative in his own hands.
On the Lakers' side, there is a lot of trouble, the last leg is facing the Eastern powerhouse Pacers, and now it is almost halfway through the fourth quarter, but it still failed to open up the difference, and the scores of the two teams have risen alternately, and it is not certain who will die!
"I suddenly had a bad feeling that we were going to fight the Lakers." Ginobili watched the live broadcast, and then suddenly came to this sentence.
"Manu, let Bryant hear this, and he'll fight you alone." Parker made jokes with his teammates, and he also saw that the Lakers were not in a good situation now, Kobe Bryant was working hard, but Howard was playing soy sauce on the court, it seemed that he was deliberately not getting along with Kobe, you hit yours, I hit mine, and they have nothing to do with each other.
The Pacers seem to see this, and they use Hibbert to kill Howard, Howard belongs to the kind of center with weak lower limbs, and in the face of a heavy center like Hibbert, he can't move his back, and in turn, Hibbert's back can't withstand him.
Especially Hibbert is not only heavy, but also tall! With a height of 219 centimeters, it's no wonder that American fans will call him "Hei Yao Ming", at least in terms of body type, it does look a bit like it.
As for the technology, forget it, if Hibbert and Yao Ming have similar skills, then it is really "black" Yao Ming.
So it's very embarrassing, if it weren't for Howard's good bounce, then he would have been completely suppressed by the other side, and this face really felt like Yao Ming fighting Warcraft back then.
But after all, Hibbert didn't have any skills, so the two sides exploded at most.
Kobe Bryant did not have the support of his teammates, so he faced the sandwich attack of the Pacers' future big man Paul George and the former big man Danny Granger alone, even with Kobe's ability, he felt very difficult for a while.
Originally, they were a little entangled in the fight, but the rocket here actually won! At this time, the morale of the Lakers suddenly fell to the bottom.
After Kobe Bryant learned the news, he suddenly didn't know what to say.
He was disappointed with his team this season, thinking that with Nash and Howard this year, the team could go to the next level, but it turned out to be the original "F4" situation again.
Especially the guy who laughed and laughed, he was as unreliable as the fat man at the beginning, and he was a person who valued status.
If this guy has the strength of the fat man back then, then it's okay to say, the key is that this guy is not as good as the fat man at the beginning, and he is still so arrogant! He's just playing with the game!
Such a teammate, Kobe Bryant said that he can already give up, Los Angeles doesn't need such a person, so he beats his, I beat mine, and there is no need to cooperate with him!
In this way, the Lakers have had conflicts this season, and this is why they have fallen to this point.
Now that I heard that the Rockets had won, the others were burned out, wasn't it eighth? Anyway, you can enter the playoffs, eighth is eighth, and wouldn't it be better to have a "black eight" at the end?
Kobe Bryant gave up, he didn't want to stay here longer, he already knew that the Spurs won the first place in the West, and now he has to go back and think about how to deal with the three old hooligans of the Spurs, and the Chinese teenager who is favored by him.
"Let's go, there's nothing to look at, play the Lakers in the first round of the playoffs." Seeing Kobe Bryant go down the court after the timeout, Duncan took the lead out of the locker room, they also need to prepare well, after all, it is Kobe, the league's famous black mamba, even if he is old, a mouthful of venom is enough to kill!
Qin Yan went out behind Duncan, thinking as he walked: The first playoff game in his life is the Spurs VS Lakers!
In other words, Qin Yan VS Kobe!
Is there a showdown between himself and Kobe?
Qin Yan suddenly felt so excited, Kobe, I'm ready, what about you?