On April 1, the Raptors unexpectedly lost 101-104 to the Magic at home. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Magic without Maddie is much weaker than Yang Rui's previous life, but there are also players on the team who can score, and in this game, backup power forward Pat Garrity broke out, shooting 7 of 7, 3 of 3 three-pointers, 3 of 3 free throws, and got 20 points and 6 rebounds, with outrageous efficiency.

Guard Darrell Armstrong and interior Antonio Davis also scored 20+.

One day off, the focus game on the 3rd, the Raptors defeated the 76ers 100-85 at home to maintain the record lead.

Carter shot 12-of-25, 2-of-5 three-pointers, and made no free throws, finishing with 26 points, 10 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals and 4 blocks, and the stats suppressed Iverson.

Reed also scored 20 points, shooting 8-of-15 from the field, 4-of-8 from three-point range, and no free throws.

After Mutombo joined, the 76ers' defense in the restricted area was strengthened, and the defense was slightly inferior to that before the star game.

Even by his age on his papers, Mutombo is 34 years old, moving more and more slowly, and it is difficult to change defenders. He is good at blocking near the penalty area, and the strategy arranged by Yang Rui is to catch the ball on the perimeter and shoot without entering the penalty area.

When defending, the Raptors contracted, blocked the restricted area, and only Boikins was left on the perimeter to entangle Iverson, and Mutombo could be released after blocking and dismantling, and he would hardly shoot.

Iverson had a terrible game, shooting 7-of-23, 1-of-6 from three-point range and 3-of-4 from the free-throw line to finish with just 18 points, one rebound and two assists. It was right to choose the jump shot against Boykins, but he had no touch and repeatedly failed to shoot.

After that, the Raptors lost to the Bulls, Pistons, and Bucks, and won other games, and the winning percentage in April was not high.

On the 18th, the three stars of the Raptors rested and relied on the bench to defeat the Wizards, who were at the bottom of the league, 98-92, and ended the regular season with a record of 58-24.

This result is 16 more losses than last season, a significant decline, but it still won the first record in the East, and the same record as the Spurs in the first place in the West.

The 76ers finished with 56 wins and finished second in the East.

The 3-8 places are the Bucks, Pistons, Heat, Hornets, Bulls, and Knicks.

The Pistons had a high win rate in the second half of the season, surpassing the Heat and Hornets, which was somewhat unexpected. After Jeff Van Gundy left New York, he explained what it means to "die in a tree, live in a man", and when it came to the Pistons, people thought he was a good coach again.

Van Gundy may not have the ability to lead the team to a championship, but he can only lead the team to the playoffs and achieve a reasonable position, and his defensive system and two scorers can do it.

The Knicks' biggest star Grant Hill is out for the season, "Mad Man" Sprewell missed 12 games, and Larry Johnson missed 17 games, and the team's offense was too weak. The Knicks ended up just one game ahead of the Magic, 40-42 and catching the last train to the playoffs.

The 9-15 places are the Magic, Celtics, Pacers, Cavaliers, Nets, Hawks, and Wizards.

The Spurs are first in the West, and the 2-8 places are the Lakers, Kings, Mavericks, Jazz, Suns, Trail Blazers, and Timberwolves.

The 9-14 places are the SuperSonics, Nuggets, Rockets, Grizzlies, Clippers, and Warriors.

The Rockets recruited last summer, and Cato and Morris Taylor, who spent a lot of money to bring in, both performed poorly, one was a defensive blue-collar and the other was a variety of leaks on the defensive end.

Dawson didn't know why he was so pleasing to Morris Taylor, signing the famous 6-year, 42 million bad contract. The people who came out of the Clippers, no matter how beautiful the data is, can't be dug up casually.

The Clippers have a number of high-pick rookies, manager Elgin Baylor has been looking away, and there is only one Lamal Odom with quality, and the record is as bad as ever.

The Grizzlies have struggled all season with the prospect of sending away Byron Davis or Mike Bibby, with several high-pick rookie positions overlapping and no three-point shooters, and the Grizzlies are once again at the bottom of the list. They entered a strange circle, the statistics of the core players are not bad, but they can't win the ball.

The regular season statistics were released, and Iverson won the scoring title for the second time in his career, averaging 31.1 points per game.

The rebounding leader is also a 76ers player, with Mutombo averaging 13.5 per game.

Kidd won the assist king for three consecutive years, averaging 9.8 per game, and many NBA teams this year learned from the Raptors and Kings' interior strategy, and the interior players pulled out to organize passes, but the result was that there was no guard with an assist double.

The block king is another 76ers player, and Ratlleaf, who was traded away in the middle of the game, has played in 50 games and averaged 3.7 blocks per game.

The steal king is also Iverson, averaging 2.5 per game.

This time, the 76ers have a lot of honors, and Aaron McGee is likely to be named the Sixth Man of the Year, and their roster depth has reached its peak in recent years. The Coach of the Year contest will be between Larry Brown and Popovich, with Brown also being the most vocal in the competition.

The Raptors have three All-Stars even if Maddy leaves, and many fans don't want them to win the championship easily again, so they support the 76ers in the hope of causing trouble for the Raptors. Fans love lone heroes. The 76ers' offense relies primarily on Iverson, and he deserves the title.

In the first round of the Raptors vs. the Knicks, there was no suspense, and the Raptors had an advantage in all positions.

In the second round, they will face the winner of the Heat and Pistons, and the suspense is also not very large. The two teams share a common weakness and lack of depth on the inside. The Pistons are short of a flesh-shield center, and the best defender is veteran Charles Oakley. The core of the Heat is the short Anthony Mason Jr., who suffers from O'Neal Jr. and is not good at defense.

The playoffs haven't started yet, and experts are already unanimously optimistic that the Raptors will reach the Eastern Conference Finals, but they don't know which team they will meet.

It is much more difficult for the 76ers to advance to the Eastern Conference finals than the Raptors, and they have to gnaw the hard bones of the Bulls in the first game.

The Bulls have beaten many strong teams this season, including the Lakers, Spurs, Raptors and others, and in the end only finished seventh because of inexperience and some unpleasantness in the locker room.

Ron Mercer changed four teams, still didn't recognize himself, and in his first year with the Bulls, he began to be dissatisfied with his position on the team and quarreled with Artest in the locker room. He felt that Artest was just a defensive player, not as good as himself at all, and should not be substituted.

Coach Tim Freud has done a lot of mental work on Mercer, saying his style of play is fit for a sixth man. But Mercer's EQ was too low, and he whined outside to let the media know. As soon as the matter is exposed, even if he is traded out in the summer, it will be difficult to exchange him for a strongman.

When encountering this kind of thing, it is "force majeure", a mouse feces spoils a pot of porridge, affecting the morale of the whole team. The Bulls didn't play well in the second half, but their roster depth and strength weren't weak.

Whether the 76ers meet the Bucks or the Hornets in the second round, it will definitely be a fierce series, especially the Bucks, who drew 2-2 with the 76ers in the regular season.

In the past, many people said that "the West is strong and the East is weak", as if they have discovered the true meaning of life, and the Lakers were swept by the Raptors last season, and those who shouted this argument were honest.

This season, experts analyzed the situation of each team and believed that the competition in the East was stronger than that in the West, and the only teams in the West that had the strength to compete for the championship were the Spurs and the Lakers, and the other teams had obvious weaknesses in their lineups.

The Raptors have confirmed the final 13-man roster, with blue-collar Ryan Bowen and injured Billups left out, and all four big man centers are brought in, and the playoffs are about to begin!