Chapter 508 [Best Record, Full of Controversy]
In the final stages of the regular season, the Lakers lost twice to the Suns at home and away. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The Suns players are all healthy, play with the All-Star team, and show people that the way to beat the Lakers is to be better offensively than they are. However, there are few teams in the league that dare to play against the Lakers.
The Suns won 125-110 at home and 108-107 on the road, with Game 2 being the most spectacular, with Nash hitting a quasi-shot and Kobe Bryant's buzzer-beating shot deflected wide of the basket under Marion's interference.
Against a run-and-bomb team like the Suns, Yao Ming is difficult to play, and he is not bad on offense, but he often can't retreat back defensively.
O'Neal Jr. is a cameo center, and a person who can jump in the frame restrains Yao Ming, Yao Ming defends it, he breaks through, jumps if he doesn't go out, and can also attract defensive assist teammates.
Odom was injured, and he didn't feel any change when he played a slow-paced team, and if he didn't play against the Suns, the team as a whole would be affected.
On April 20, the Lakers defeated the Trail Blazers 123-106 away to end the regular season, with a final record of 71 wins and 11 losses, ranking first in the league.
The global sports media praised Yang Rui's status in Los Angeles unmatched, and the team's all-time best record, he easily broke it as soon as he arrived, which the management would not have dared to think of last summer.
The Suns are second in the league with a 62-20 record, and because they are in the same district as the Lakers, they can only rank fourth behind the three division championships, and they will have to fight the Mavericks in the first round.
The Mavericks are the unluckiest team this season, they are only one game behind the Spurs, and their 57-win record is far better than the 49-win Nuggets, but they can only finish fifth, have no home-court advantage, and are likely to be eliminated in the first round.
The Spurs and Nuggets ranked 2nd and 3rd respectively.
6 are the Grizzlies, who are on the roster and have the Nuggets for the first time. Their record of 51 wins is also better than that of the Nuggets. The Nuggets, who are ranked third in the West, are actually only sixth in terms of record.
As soon as the results were announced, many fans expressed dissatisfaction with the new rules, especially fans of Mavericks, Grizzlies and other teams, who strongly demanded that the system be changed so that better teams could meet later. Even if a weak team like the Nuggets is ranked high, it is just a food delivery.
In seventh place is the Warriors, and after joining Francis, the team has grown greatly.
The Timberwolves relied on their strength in the second half of the game to overtake the Trail Blazers with a 38-44 record and enter the playoffs.
The Trail Blazers are ninth with 37 wins, and the division of teams in the West has reached an all-time high.
After the Trail Blazers, they were all bad teams, Rockets, Clippers, SuperSonics, Kings, Hornets, Jazz.
The Hornets have hired the controversial Byron Scott as their coach this season, and have successfully brought the Hornets to the bottom of the team, and the Jazz are worse than them because the roster is too poor. Oku is currently with the Pistons, Kirilenko is with the Raptors, and Boozer, who was recruited by high salaries, has only played 51 games due to injury.
Jazz management is still willing to trust Sloan and has no plans to change coaches, and Sloan continues to break the record for years of coaching with the same team.
In the Eastern record, the Bulls overtook the Heat in the second half of the game and ranked first, only achieving a 59-23 record.
The term "Jerry coach" has been mentioned a lot in the media this season, Tom Thibodeau and D'Antoni were both assistant coaches to Yang Rui, and Hornacek seems to be on the verge of leaving.
The Heat won second with 57 wins, and in the end, the power forward could only rely on Haslem.
The Celtics are third in third place with 45 wins, and this happens because there are no strong teams in the Atlantic zone.
The Pistons have 54 wins and can only rank fourth, and they will have to meet the Bulls in the second round, and Pistons fans are also complaining about the home team because the schedule is too unfair.
The league has just begun to divide into six districts, and in its first year, it is already full of controversy.
There are good rule changes, and the NBA doesn't allow elbowing on defense. Only a few people questioned it, and it was the ancient blows that said that this would make the defensive intensity lower and the game would not be as good as it used to be.
In fact, this rule should have been changed a long time ago, simply put, the arm should not have contact with the opponent, the main contact surface when defending is the chest, and the arm cannot be placed on the opponent.
The NBA allows the opponent to support the opponent's strong play with the hand, but only straight, and the arm cannot be bent, which is still beneficial to the defender. Under international basketball rules, as long as the hand is placed on the opponent, it will be whistled for a foul. With the exception of the NBA, no other league has allowed such defense.
As for what the ancients said, when attacking with a face frame, it is allowed to use your hands to block the opponent's attack, or even pull people directly, which is definitely an alien basketball rule, which has never appeared on Earth. When a player has outpaced a defender, as long as he blocks with his hands, he will definitely be blown to block or pull......
The 5-8 spots in the East are the Wizards, Raptors, 76ers, and Pacers.
The Pacers surpassed the Cavaliers with 43 wins in the final moments and ranked 8th in the East, and the Cavaliers, who played well in the first half of the season, suddenly stopped playing and ended up with only 42 wins.
Halfway through, the Cavaliers fired head coach Paul Silas. At that time, the Cavaliers suffered a three-game losing streak and slipped to fifth place in the East.
The decline in results has made new owner Dan Gilbert very unhappy, he has just bought the team for half a month and is eager to take the team out of trouble and prove that he is doing better than the previous owner.
He believes that the way to improve the team's record is to make assistant coach Brandon Malone the new head coach, and said in an interview: "We strongly believe that we need to make this personnel change to ensure that the Cavaliers can get the best playoff spot possible, and we will do everything possible to improve the team." ”
Then, Malone successfully took the Cavaliers out of the playoffs and became a backstabber. The 18 games he led the Cavaliers would be the first and last time he was a head coach in the NBA.
LeBron James is even more depressed, as the champion, the person who was named "emperor" before entering the league did not enter the playoffs for two consecutive years, which is really ugly.
The 10-15 places are the Nets, Magic, Knicks, Bucks, Hawks, Bobcats.
Playing in the NBA for the first time, and with Gerald Wallace missing from the team, the Bobcats were rotten and fresh, with only 12 wins.
Their coach was Bernie Bixduff, who didn't think the 10th pick was worth picking Kobe, and Michael Jordan, who didn't have a good eye, and the future of this Bobcats team was certainly not much better.
According to the data kings of the regular season, Kobe Bryant re-won the scoring title with 31 points, and the second place was Iverson with 30.7 points.
Garnett continued to be the rebounding leader, averaging 13.5 games per game, and he made a last-minute effort to lead the team to the playoffs, defending the team's tradition of a first-round playoff tour with consistent play.
Nash of the Suns was the assist leader, averaging 11.5 per game.
The king of blocks surprised everyone, it was actually Raptors small forward Kirilenko, averaging 3.3 times per game, and it is very rare for a small forward to become the king of blocks.
The steal king is Larry Hughes of the Hawks, averaging 3 per game. The Hawks were rotten from start to finish, and after Walker was sent away in the middle of the game, the players took it as their responsibility to lose, and Hughes was the happiest on the team, averaging 23.2 points, 6.3 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 steals per game, although the shooting rate was only 39.4%, but the data was an absolute star.
Hughes is a free agent this summer, and this report card should help him get a big contract, and whoever signs him with a high salary will be out of luck.
Experts predict the first round, and they all think that the Lakers will easily sweep and advance, and the chance of the Timberwolves upsetting is zero, because they have never won the playoffs at all, which is the law of nature.
Yang Rui also felt that the first round was easier, and it was okay to eat snacks and watch the play on the sidelines.