NBA Old Age Star System

Chapter 266 Complicated rules about record ranking

The Lakers' fast break cooperated tacitly. Su Tian acted as an arrow and ran at the forefront, and Mitchell followed closely behind him, but Mitchell found that he was chasing farther and farther.

When Su Tian came to the basket in the frontcourt, Mitchell was already three steps away, so Su Tian went straight to the basket and scored.

84-75
Mitchell frowned, Su Tian in the fourth quarter was as strong as ever.

The ball returned to the Jazz again, and Rubio advanced with the ball again. This time, Rubio did not pass the ball to Mitchell.

Encountering Nance's help defense, Rubio passed the ball to Ingles in the bottom corner, and Ingles caught the ball and made a direct three-pointer.

Swah——

Ingles made a direct three-pointer.

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In fact, Rubio saw very clearly that as long as he avoided Su Tian and grabbed the rest of the Lakers to fight, the Jazz still had a chance.

The possession of the ball was changed, and Su Tian pushed forward with the ball to the frontcourt.

"It's just that the offense can be avoided, but the defense can't." Rubio muttered to himself.

After Su Tian came to the front court with the ball, facing Ingles' defense, he didn't call for a pick-and-roll, but signaled everyone to pull away.

After pulling away, Su Tian turned forward and easily swayed the defensive center of gravity, holding the ball to the basket. Ingles' speed could not keep up with Su Tian at all. Su Tian came to the basket and directly collected the ball and took off for a dunk. .

Gobert wants to help defend, but Nance is standing outside the three-point line, and Gobert can't ignore it. As long as Gobert follows him, it will be too late to help defend Su Tian, ​​because Su Tian is much faster than Gobert .

After several consecutive rounds, the score difference on the court has not changed much, and has remained between 5 and 10 points.

Walton saw that the time was almost up, so taking advantage of a dead ball, he replaced the entire main lineup and prepared to reap the game.

Because of the uneven lineup, the Lakers have a limited lineup, but they are also more competitive than the Jazz.

After the substitutions and adjustments, Su Tian passed the ball to assist his teammates twice in a row, and the fans at the scene clearly felt that these players' help to Su Tian was far better than the previous one.

After switching to the starting lineup, the Lakers' defense became better. Every time the Lakers defended successfully, Su Tian had to play a fast break with the ball. Although some were defended by the Jazz, most of them were successful. .

The scores of the two teams kept changing, and the point difference gradually widened.

In the end, under the leadership of Su Tian, ​​the Lakers kept suppressing the Jazz until the end of the game. In the last 2 minutes, Mitchell wanted to take a three-point bet.

However, they were all interfered by Su Tian, ​​and they hit all three points, which accelerated Jazz's death.

In the end, the Lakers successfully won the Jazz 112-97.

苏天全场出战41分钟，拿到42分12助攻10篮板2抢断2盖帽的三双数据！
In addition, Nance scored 17 points and 7 rebounds, and Kuzma scored 22 points, all of which provided Su Tian with a lot of help.

The Lakers succeeded in winning the Jazz by relying on their remnants.

After the game, Su Tian took the initiative to find Mitchell for a hug.

Su Tian patted Mitchell on the shoulder and said, "Donovan, you are a very good player, keep at it, and you will make a difference."

Mitchell became very excited when he heard Su Tian's encouragement to him. Although Su Tian was not a few years older than himself, Su Tian became famous early after all, and he is the most popular player in the league now, and he is also a regular player this season. Mitchell is very grateful for this kind of affirmation of himself.

After the game against the Jazz, the Lakers had two days to rest, and in these two days, Su Tian was forced by Wharton to take at least one day off.

During this period of time, the coaches have worked hard and the players have worked hard, but if you want to say the hardest one, it has to be Su Tian himself.

Wharton has always been worried about Su Tian's physical condition. He was afraid that something might happen. If the team doctor hadn't assured that there was nothing wrong, Wharton would have given Su Tian a rest long ago.

Su Tian knew his own situation. With the "Iron Man" badge, he was not afraid of any injuries, but he was really tired. Since the coach asked him to rest, he just went home and rested.

Of course, another reason why Su Tian is willing to rest is that the Lakers will face off in two days, and it is the Houston Rockets who are currently competing with the Lakers.

Currently, both the Rockets and the Lakers have only two regular season games left.

The record of the Lakers is 65 wins and 15 losses, and the record of the Rockets is 64 wins and 16 losses. The record of the two teams' matches, the two teams played against each other in the first three games, the Lakers won two and one loss, if the Rockets can win the game against the Lakers two days later.

Then, the two teams will have the same record and the same record of the match.

At this time, it is time to look at the cumbersome rules and regulations in the NBA.

The ranking rules are very complicated. When the record is the same, the tie-break criterion will be used for comparison.

The first one is to compare the record of the two sides. Both teams have two wins and two losses, so the results cannot be compared.

The second is that the division champions rank ahead of the non-division champions.

In addition to the division of the East and West leagues, the NBA is also divided into six major divisions, three in the East and three in the West.

Among them, the Rockets belong to the Southwest Division of the West, while the Lakers form the Pacific Division with the Clippers, Warriors, Suns and Kings.

The records of the two teams are tied for the first place in the league, and of course they are also the champions of their respective divisions, so the second point can't be compared.

The third and fourth articles are to compare the record in the division, as well as the record in the Western Conference.

If you still can't distinguish the first four, then look at the fifth and sixth, which are the winning percentage against the playoff teams in this league and the winning percentage against the playoff teams in another league.

That is to compare the records against the Eastern and Western playoff teams respectively.

Of course, if there is no result here, there is the seventh and last point, which is to compare the total net points of the season.

Under normal circumstances, the results of the first three are determined. As for the competition until the seventh, it is unprecedented.

Su Tian got a headache looking at these rules and regulations, so he didn't read them at all. Anyway, it's the end of the season now, and the next game is a head-to-head confrontation with the Rockets. As long as he wins the next game, there will be no such comparisons. If If you lose, then go over the rules again.

The next day, Su Tian followed Wharton's instructions and lay down at home to rest, resting his body and mind at the same time.

On April 4, the Rockets visited Staples to play against the Lakers.

This match is undoubtedly the focus of the battle in the league. The league has also arranged a national live broadcast, and the three big shots in the commentary are already ready.

"The records of the Rockets and the Lakers are almost the same. This game must be sparks hitting the earth, and it is also a key battle for the Lakers and the Rockets to compete for the No. [-] spot in the Western Conference." Kenny Smith first briefly introduced the background of the game between the two teams.

"Kenny, if the Rockets win this game, the record and head-to-head record of the two teams will be the same, so how will they be ranked?" Barkley asked.

In fact, Barkley knows the answer to the question, and he asked this question to tell the audience.

"Good question Charles, thanks to the fact that you've been playing in the league for so many years, you don't even know about this little problem." Hearing Barkley's question, O'Neill immediately retorted with a sneer.

Smith ignored the ridicule of the two, and then said some rules about the record ranking.

"Having said so much, can the Rockets complete the overtake?" Barkley said.

Smith sorted out the information in his hand, and said: "According to the information collected by tnt, if the Rockets can win this game, then the first and second items are indistinguishable, and we will check the third item. Once again, it is also indistinguishable, only in the fourth article, the Rockets have a slight advantage."

"So, if the Rockets win this game, they can overtake the Lakers and return to No. [-] in the Western Conference?"

"That's right, according to the rules, that's the case. But they still have to make sure that they can win the last game of the regular season."

Barkley nodded to express his understanding. In this game between the Rockets and the Lakers, both sides are the penultimate regular season game, and there is one game left after the end.

Soon, the game time came, and players from both sides began to play.

The starting lineup of the Lakers has adjusted to the best after several days of training, and the starting lineup returned, so the starting lineup for this game returned to Ball, Su Tian, ​​Ingram, Randall, and Lopez.

The starting lineup for the Rockets is Chris Paul, James Harden, Ariza, PJ Tucker, Capela.

The Rockets grabbed the ball in the opening game. Paul got the ball and advanced to the frontcourt. Ball stood in front of Paul, and Su Tian followed Harden closely.

In fact, following Harden is not tiring, because Harden doesn't run without the ball very much. Under normal circumstances, if the offense has nothing to do with him, Harden will stand on the side to open up space, and rarely take the initiative to run without the ball.

Paul stood at the top of the arc holding the ball, protecting the ball while calling Capela to come over for pick-and-roll cooperation.

With the help of the pick-and-roll, Paul took the ball to the basket. Lopez did not follow Capela out at the beginning, but stayed near the free throw line. After all, Paul's mid-range is also quite murderous.

Seeing Paul holding the ball to the basket, Lopez hurriedly defended and followed Paul to the basket, but Paul did not make a shot easily, but passed the ball to Capela who was behind him.

Capela received the ball and bypassed Lopez's position, took off directly, and dunked with both hands.

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The Rockets took the lead.

The ball is switched, and it's the Lakers' turn to attack.

Ball held the ball and advanced to the frontcourt. Ball also did not pass the ball directly to Su Tian, ​​but called Lopez to pick and roll, and used the pick and roll to make a breakthrough.

Paul made a lot of small defensive moves, and Ball was a little uncomfortable. He passed the ball to Lopez at the top of the arc when he was about to make a mistake.

At this time, Capela did not follow to the basket, but kept defending in front of Lopez, so Lopez didn't have a good shot, so he had to pass the ball again to Su Tian who stepped forward to respond.

Su Tian got the ball hand-in-hand, took advantage of Lopez's body cover, and broke through to the basket with the ball.

Harden was a little confused by Su Tian's set of operations, and was pulled away for a while, so Su Tian accelerated again and went straight to the basket and made a layup.

2-2
Su Tian made a successful hit, and the offense and defense of both sides began to get on track.

The ball was given to the Rockets again, Paul took the ball to the frontcourt, this time Paul passed the ball directly to Harden.

After Harden got the ball, he faced Su Tian's defense and dribbled the ball continuously under his crotch to mobilize Su Tian's defensive center of gravity, but Su Tian's defense has always been stable, and at the same time, Su Tian's "death entanglement" also grew to 2.13 meters due to his wingspan And there has been a qualitative improvement.

After Harden dribbled the ball several times in a row, he suddenly rushed to the basket in a burst. Su Tian hurriedly followed, but as soon as Su Tian changed his focus to catch up, Harden directly stepped back and returned to the three-point line. , A direct three-point shot.

Harden also knew that Su Tian's defense was very strong, so he didn't hesitate when he shot, but shot with his fastest speed.

But even though Harden speeded up his shots, he was still interfered by Su Tian at the last moment.

boom--

Basketball strikes iron.

With Capela under the basket, Lopez competed for a ball. Randall knew that Lopez's rebounding ability was average, so he also entered the basket to compete for rebounds.

pj Tucker is limited by his height, and he is not dominant in rebounding.

The basketball fell, Capela clicked first, and then Lopez stuck Capela's body and gave up the position to Randall.

Randall was not polite when he saw this, and took off directly to receive the rebound.

After getting the rebound, Randall subconsciously held the ball high and turned around to find Su Tian's position.

It was Randall who subconsciously held up the basketball, avoiding Paul who wanted to steal the ball.

Immediately afterwards, Randall saw Su Tian running in the frontcourt, so a long pass was passed directly in front of Su Tian. Su Tian ran two steps forward and successfully got the ball and dunked it.

It wasn't until after Su Tian's dunk was over that Randall had time to look down at Paul, who had been jumping in front of him.

"Chris, the sixth child." Randall whispered.

As if he heard Randall talking about himself, Paul turned to look at Randall, "Boy, what did you just say?"

Seeing Paul's unkind expression, Randall quickly said, "Ah? What? I didn't say anything."

Seeing that Randall refused to admit it, Paul had no choice but to give up provocation, "Be careful, kid."

When Su Tian came back, he happened to see what Paul and Randall were talking about, and hurriedly stepped forward to pat Randall.

"What's the matter? Julius."

"It's nothing, that guy Paul just tried to steal my ball."

"Be careful with that guy, Paul is not a simple character, don't be provoked by him on purpose."

"Okay, don't worry, Sue."

After reminding Randall by the way, Su Tian returned to his defensive position.

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The Rockets have the ball, and Paul continues to hold the ball to organize the offense.

After coming to the frontcourt, Paul stretched out his hand to draw a tactic, and then Capela stepped forward to cover the pick-and-roll. Paul used the pick-and-roll to break through to the inside, and everyone else was actively running.

After a tactical run, Paul attracted the defense at the basket and passed the ball to Ariza in the bottom corner.

Ariza catches the ball and makes a three-pointer directly.

Swah——

Ariza made a direct three-pointer.

4-5
The score of the two teams has been catching up.

(End of this chapter)