Chapter 647 Losing awards in a row and entering the second round
Winning the fourth game of the series and successfully sweeping their opponents will undoubtedly be of huge benefit to the Trail Blazers.
The first is ample rest and adjustment time; the second is that they can better observe their opponents in the next round.
At this time, most of the first-round series was already underway.
In other group matches, the Cavaliers, like the Trail Blazers, were also swept 4:0. Facing the Big Three combination of James, Irving, and Cousins, the Celtics couldn't find anyone if James alone rushed forward.
To be able to restrain his players a little bit.
In the entire series, the Cavaliers outscored their opponents by an average of 9.3 points per game. It is not an exaggeration to say that they were beaten throughout the entire series.
As for the Hawks, they were tied 2:2 with the Nets at this time.
After losing two games in a row, the Nets had a double-double of 22-13 from Los Angeles in the G3 game, and Thaddeus Young had 18 points and 11 rebounds.
From the outside, Bojan Bogdanovic scored 19 points on 3 of 7 three-pointers, while Joe had 16 points, 10 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals in isolation.
This brought the Nets back from the precipice of falling behind 0:3.
In the G4 game, in the third game, De Xiaopang, who performed normally, scored 35 points, 7 assists and 5 rebounds. He single-handedly defeated the Hawks' perimeter. Together with Daluo, who had 26 points, 10 rebounds, 3 assists, 4 blocks and 2 steals, he helped
The Nets won two games in a row, making the series once again full of suspense.
After losing one game first, the Menglong chased three games in a row, currently 3:1 Bucks.
Facts have proved that as long as they don't encounter James in the East, the Trash Brothers are still very powerful.
Of course, to say that the most thrilling and ups and downs showdown in the Eastern Conference has to be the following group.
The Bulls, who won one game first, kept up their efforts and returned to Chicago with a 2:0 lead. At that time, everyone thought that the Black Friday drama was inevitable.
As a result, in the G3 game, veteran Paul Pierce scored two points to kill the Bulls at a critical moment, saving the Wizards' lives in time.
By G4, Wall, who had been in a slump for three games, finally woke up and remembered his identity as the leader of the Wizards. He made 8 of 16 in the game. Even the three-pointers that he was usually not good at, he shot 50% of 2 of 4.
In the end, he scored a super double-double of 26 points, 17 assists, 1 rebound, 1 steal and 1 block, which made everyone look stupid.
In the end, the total score of the series was equalized at 2:2.
This side of the west.
According to rumors, the Mosaic team, which lost the first game, took the initiative to go to Harden's room on the night of his return. No one knew what the two did that night. Anyway, Howard stayed all night and never came back.
But in G2, Howard scored a 28-12 double-double, and Harden, who scored 24 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists with the standard 20-5-5 data, defended the home court.
In g3, Harden used a good game of 42 points, 5 rebounds, 9 assists and 1 steal to not only help the Mosaics chase two games in a row, but more importantly, he defeated Kobe in a head-on confrontation.
Kobe only scored 21 points this night.
In g4, it was Kobe's turn to take the lead. He made 13 of 21 shots and scored 33 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists and 1 steal.
However, the Lakers still lost G4 and trailed the Mosaics 1:3 in the series.
Not only because Harden scored 24 5 5 and Howard 23 17, but more importantly, everyone saw the Lakers' shortcomings, that is, Rondo at the first position really has no offensive ability.
Once all the main players of both sides are on the court, at certain extreme moments, the Mosaic team will even give up defending Rondo and choose to double-team Kobe or Pau Gasol.
The change in strategy after g2 directly affected the different trends of the two sides in the last two games.
Like Mosaic, the Warriors also led the opponent 3:1. The Spurs simply couldn't withstand the Warriors' endless pick-and-rolls. The most reliable defender on the outside was only Leonard.
But after all, Leonard is one person with limited skills, but the Splash Brothers are two people. If you guard against one, you will miss the other.
According to expert research, the Warriors may be the team that uses screens the most in the entire NBA offensive system. They can always screen each other, be screened, and counter-run in any combination in every corner of the court, changing the horizontal direction of the court.
The space works very well.
In fact, if it is just a simple pick-and-roll, the Spurs are also very familiar with it. After all, the GDP trio has taken the pick-and-roll to its extreme.
But the problem is that the Warriors have used routines more than once. They have taken the response after the pick-and-roll to the extreme. There are also many "extra passes" interspersed between various pick-and-rolls and various screens. When the three are combined, it makes
The Warriors' entire system quickly connected.
In this way, once they reach the climax of their attack, it will be one wave after another and they will not be able to stop at all!
Compared with the first three groups, the Clippers vs. Grizzlies series seemed much more torturous.
After Paul carried one game in the first game, he quickly returned to his normal level.
When faced with the Grizzlies' relentless defense, the Clippers' Griffin and DeAndre Jordan were completely useless, and the entire series was extremely frustrating.
The two sides are currently 2:2, and the series is tied.
However, this is a benefit to the Trail Blazers, who have advanced ahead of schedule. Next, they only need to sit tight and wait patiently for the Clippers and Grizzlies to decide the final winner.
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At this moment, the league announced the winners of the awards for the three seasons.
The first one is the selection of the best sixth man.
After the selection voting was announced, Beverley of the Trail Blazers could only be ranked 4th, with a vote rate of 8.55%.
In front of him, there are Chris Cronus, who got 11.2% of the votes, Thomas Jr., who got 27.69% of the votes, and...
With a vote rate of 42.91%, Menglong player Lou Williams was overwhelmingly elected as the Super Six Super League player this season!
That is what many fans later called Lu Wei.
The second one is the Most Improved Player Award.
This award had nothing to do with the Trail Blazers. It was finally won by Jimmy Butler, who averaged 20 points, 5.8 rebounds, 3.3 assists, 1.8 steals and 0.6 blocks per game this season.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After the selection voting results came out, he won 47.18% of the votes, beating out Draymond Green, Rudy Gobert, Hassan Whiteside and others behind him.
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No way, in terms of data growth, Jimmy Butler, first of all, scored nearly 7 points more than last season, and his shooting percentage also reached 46.2%, which was 6.5% higher than last season.
He was elected without any objection from the outside world!
The final award is a grand prize that for a certain group of players is no less important than the regular season MVP among players.
That is the best coach of the season!
Logically speaking, the Trail Blazers are the most promising team to win this award. After all, they created a new team history this year and also ranked second in history, winning 70 games!
But what I didn't expect was that in the end, Hawks head coach Budenholzer was elected the best coach of the season, defeating Letris Stotts and the Warriors' Steve Kerr.
After the results of this selection came out, it immediately caused a lot of controversy.
You know, the Trail Blazers became the second team in history to win 70 games this season!
No matter what happens, just give it to Warriors coach Steve Kerr!
In his first year, he led the Warriors to the best record in team history with 65 wins, which is quite a show-off.
Perhaps seeing the growing controversy in public opinion, the alliance quickly sent a senior executive to give an explanation.
Regardless of whether it is Tristos or Cole, the Trail Blazers and Warriors led by the two of them were teams that entered the playoffs last season, and all they have done this season is to take the team's record to a higher level.
Although both teams have refreshed their respective opponents' regular season records, and also set many exciting winning streak moments during the regular season, as long as they are placed in many years, they will have a high probability of winning.
But this time, the two brothers met Budenholzer.
This season, without any change in the core of the Eagles, the Eagles' record climbed from 38-44 last season to 58-24, an increase of 20 wins, and the regular season winning rate also increased from 46.3% to 58-24.
70.7%.
When the league revealed the important selection factors for this year, fans of both the Trail Blazers and Warriors teams were choked and speechless.
To say that Terry Stotts and Cole were unlucky enough, in a year when their performance could be called a god, they met Budenholzer, who was directly called a god. No matter how unhappy they were, a loss was a loss.
It’s not that our side is incompetent, but the other side has Gundam!
It’s okay that Beverley didn’t get the Super Six. He originally thought he was the best head coach, but he didn’t get it either.
well!
His head coach missed out on the award, which was another blow to the Blazers' morale.
In the next few days, the Trail Blazers players who returned to Portland were conducting simple training while waiting for their second-round opponents to be announced.
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Time flies and it’s May 3rd.
This year's Eastern and Western playoffs only saw one tiebreaker - the Clippers vs. the Grizzlies.
No one thought that the fierce collision between the two teams would last for so long, and that the winner would have to be determined until the last moment.
In the tiebreaker, the Clippers returned to their home court. They thought they would have an easier game today after beating the Grizzlies 112:96 in the last game.
Unexpectedly, the trend of the game was like a microcosm of their entire series. No one knew the winner until the last moment.
As soon as they came up, their captain Paul strained his leg and left the game for treatment.
Then, amid the cheers of the fans in the audience, Paul staged the most classic scene in his career - Return of the King!
After making 9 of 12 shots, including 5 of 6 three-pointers, and 4 of 4 free throws to score 25 points, he even hit a quasi-winner in the last second of the game, helping the Clippers win this crucial game.
tiebreaker to advance to the semifinals.
In this game, Paul, who was fighting with a leg injury, performed absolutely worthy of a heart-wrenching performance!
After the game, the excited Clippers owner Ballmer and his friends around him embraced each other passionately. Su Wei, a famous commentator on China Channel who was in charge of the commentary that day, said bluntly:
"No matter what, this is the best Paul in the past five years!"
The Clippers' promotion also announced that this season's playoffs have officially entered the second round.
The teams in the Eastern Conference that successfully broke through the first round series were the Hawks, Cavaliers, Toronto Raptors and Bulls. In the end, the Bulls relied on their more tenacious defense to become the only team to defeat the top team this season.
The ones that successfully broke through in the West were the Trail Blazers, Warriors, Mosaics, and Clippers.
At the beginning of the season, the Lakers' introduction of Rondo was considered by the outside world to be the most proud transaction of the Lakers management this year.
Unexpectedly, in the playoffs, Rondo would become a target of madness, eventually causing the Lakers to fall in the first round again.
It can be said that there are many successes and many failures!
As soon as the Lakers were eliminated, there was a conflict between Rondo and the Lakers management. Whether it was to find a scapegoat or for some other reason?
The Lakers management must give an explanation to the Lakers fans who have been looking forward to it all season. Rondo, who has been frequently ignored in the series but has continued to play hard, has become the best candidate for the scapegoat.
At the same time, there is also news that the Lakers want to bring in a famous coach this summer.
Obviously, if you just insist on being bad, Byron Scott will be a good candidate; but the ambition of the Lakers leader Black Mamba does not stop there, he also wants to take advantage of the tail of his final peak to rush forward.
The sixth O'Brien Cup in his career.
After all, he still has not forgotten his original intention of entering the NBA, which was to chase the owner of a certain No. 23 jersey.
Regular season mvp is completely out of the question, and he can no longer compete with the young players now, but he still has a lot of obsession with the number of championships.
Of course, it is precisely because of his paranoid character that Kobe Bryant and the Mamba Mentality were created!
Soon, the lineups for the semi-finals of the East and West groups came out.
Eastern Conference: Eagles vs. Bulls, Cavaliers vs. Dragons!
West: Trail Blazers vs. Clippers, Warriors vs. Mosaic!
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Portland, in Wang Zelin's villa.
He was lying on the sofa at this time, and Jenna was sitting on him to massage his abdominal muscles.
To be honest, when he saw the Cavaliers facing off against the Bengals, he couldn't help but start to mourn for DeRozan.
He is here, he is here, he is here with another eight years of compulsory education!
Poor Azan is about to face James for the first time in the playoffs, and it is also the beginning of his nightmare.
Let us observe two minutes of silence for him!
Tick tock! Tick tock...
Okay, two minutes have passed.
On the TV, the highlights of the Clippers vs. Grizzlies series are being played.
In the end, it was Paul's game-winner that helped the Clippers advance to the next round that season.
Looking at Paul's killer shot, he really didn't expect that the restorative power of history could be so powerful.
Although the Clippers were not facing the Spurs but the Grizzlies, the script remained the same.
However, this is also a disguised proof that Pao Ge and the Clippers in the 2014~2015 season are real.
It's no wonder that many fans in later generations lament that if it weren't for those damn injuries, 2015 would definitely be the year when the Clippers have the best chance of reaching the top.
No matter how bad it is, Brother Pao can still experience what it's like to touch the floor of the Western Conference Finals years in advance.
But then again, the loan championship seems to have always been the Clippers' tradition.
From the era of Paul, Griffin, and DeAndre Jordan, to the later days of Kawhi and Pickle, every critical moment was like a ghost, and there would always be players injured.
If we really want to make a comparison, if Portland is a cursed city, why aren't the Clippers the same?
The eldest brother, let alone the second brother, are both unlucky!
Wang Zelin, who turned off the TV and focused on massage exercises, couldn't help but get excited when he thought that his next opponent was the Los Angeles Clippers, who had just experienced an injury to their boss, a fierce tiebreaker, and difficulty advancing.
"Jie Jie Jie Jie!"
Suddenly there was a strange laughter in the villa.