Standing pretty old

Chapter 863 Season Summary, Opening of the Playoffs

As the same Los Angeles team, the Clippers had already confirmed their top spot in the season, but the Lakers did not win their playoff spot until the last two games of the season, and relying on their record advantage, they overwhelmed the Rockets in the top spot. Seventh place in the West.

However, it doesn't make much difference to the Lakers whether they make the playoffs. Team leader Kobe Bryant ruptured his Achilles tendon in the penultimate game of the regular season against the Warriors and was reimbursed for the season.

Based on the principle that people are hard to break, it is really unnecessary to criticize Mamba.

The only ones who really need to take the blame and accept the ridicule are Jim Buss and Kupchak. If the old Buss predicts the current Lakers, he will probably die.

The behavior of blindly pursuing superstars without considering the team's configuration is not only a prodigal, but also a brain-dead.

At that time, in order to allow Buss Jr. to take over smoothly, the old Buss had to exile the LOGO man - Jerry West, and let Kupchak control the management. But from the current perspective, I have to say that the old Bass made a mistake.

Without the help of the LOGO man, Kupchak's gambling problem was immediately obvious.

The prince has just succeeded to the throne, so it is understandable that he wants to achieve results.

As an old courtier, you blindly indulge, even helping the prince to create a superficial scene of prosperity, without considering the current situation of the Lakers, it is dereliction of duty.

In fact, looking at the reaction of the old fox in San Antonio should have known the ending long ago.

Popovich said that the Lakers' acquisition of Gasol was a robbery, but he did not express any opinion on the Lakers' formation of this F4, which fully proves that the second-generation F4 is seriously lacking in compatibility.

When many professional media commented on the Lakers in the 12-13 season, apart from regretting the long-term injury of the team, most of the time they questioned the team's chemical reaction.

Ruan Erniu regretted not being able to meet the Lakers in the first round of the playoffs. The city derby was very interesting, but the Lakers who met the Thunder basically had no hope of passing the first round.

As the regular season of the 12-13 season comes to an end, the league's various data lists are also released one by one.

Er Niu was once again crowned the scoring champion with an average of 37.5 points per game. In the 6 years since entering the league, Er Niu has won the title of scoring champion four times.

Melon, who went to New York, cried again and fainted in the toilet. When it comes to scoring ability, Anthony is undoubtedly the best player in the league. However, in his peak period, there was Kobe Bryant before him, Er Niu and Durant behind him, so that Anthony managed to average 28.7 points per game this season over Durant, who averaged 28.1 points per game, but he still missed the scoring title.

Durant's mentality is relatively relaxed. After all, when he took advantage of Er Niu's injury last season, he already won the scoring title once, thus establishing his position as the league's top scorer.

In comparison, Anthony's career is difficult to get another chance to counterattack.

In the rebounding list, Kraft Nguyen dominated the list for the fifth time in his career. Due to Jordan’s poor performance in the early stage, Er Niu’s rebounding data has improved slightly this season. He averaged 19.4 rebounds per game, more than No.2 Dwight Howard, who averaged 12.4 rebounds per game, averaged 6 more rebounds per game.

In terms of rebounds, Ruan Erniu has always been unique. Even if he changed from the 5th position to the 4th position, even if the proportion of three-point shots was increased, the frontcourt rebounds declined, and the backcourt rebounds were divided by Jordan. In part, he still firmly dominates the league's rebounding.

From this perspective, Howard, like Durant, is also very lucky.

Taking advantage of the year Er Niu was injured, Sparks won the rebounding champion and D-POY, otherwise his career would have left huge regrets.

To be honest, during the reign of the Chinese, most players in the league could only compete for No.2 for a long time.

Of course, on some lists, Er Niu is also helpless, such as assists and steals.

There is nothing to say about assists. With the Clippers' one-vote pitcher and the stable output of the two bulls, Paul averaged 12.7 times per game, beating Rondo's 11.1 times to become the assist leader.

C lost to CP3 for more than two consecutive years, but also helpless.

Ruan Erniu's assist bonus effect directly made Rondo fall short in the competition for the assist king for two consecutive years.

On the steals list, Ruan Erniu lost to Paul again. That's right, CP3 averaged 2.4 steals per game this time, surpassing Ruan Erniu's 2.3 per game and became the steal king.

In terms of the total number of steals, the two bulls who are healthy are actually still higher than Paul, but there is no way. The scoring standard for the steal list is to calculate the average assists per game under the qualified number of appearances.

This is also the second season that Erniu lost to Paul in the steals list.

Of course, looking at it from another angle, it can also be seen as the girl-picking group taking the top two steals for two consecutive seasons.

The first place on the block list is the Celestial Man again. The Bull once again topped the block leader with an average of 3.4 blocks per game. This is the third time he has become the league block leader.

Except for the injured season, only Marcus Camby and Serge Ibaka averaged 3.6 times and 3.7 times per game, respectively, to take away the block leader of Erniu.

But from a longer time perspective, Erniu is still the league's top blocker, which is in stark contrast to his not-so-top height.

On the turnover list, James Harden, who is quickly approaching the Uchiha family, became the league leader with an average of 3.8 turnovers per game, followed by Zhu * Holiday and Kobe Bryant. The data are all 3.7 times.

On the iron list, Anthony ranked first in the league with an average of 12 times per game. Ten did not enter.

By the way, Kobe Bryant, who ranks No. 11 in the iron list with an average of 2 iron strikes per game, has contracted the top three positions in the single-game iron record of the season, namely: 25 times, 22 times, and 22 times.

Well, people are hard to break down, let's talk about the team's record.

The personal list data came out, and the rankings of the East and West were naturally determined.

In the East, ranked 1-8 are: Heat, Knicks, Pacers, Nets, Bulls, Eagles, Celtics, Bucks.

So the playoff situation in the Eastern Conference is as follows:

Upper half: Heat VS Bucks, Nets VS Bulls
Bottom half: Knicks VS Celtics, Pacers VS Eagles
After changing the head coach, the Heat are still strong, and Woodson didn't make too many changes to the team. He just used James as Ruan Erniu, so the Heat easily won the first place in the Eastern Conference and the second place in the league.

If it weren't for the existence of Ruan Erniu, James would definitely have the opportunity to compete for the MVP for the first time in his career this season.

Speaking of the biggest loser in the league in the past few years, it is probably neither the Big Three, Howard, or Kobe. If you have to choose a leader in the league of losers, it can only be LeBron James.

The Chosen One almost became Er Niu's queen runner in the MVP list.

In addition to the 10-11 season when the team was changed, Ruan Erniu was reimbursed due to injury, and Rose rose strongly. Since the 08-09 season, James has ranked second in the MVP list for five consecutive years, and ranked first four times. They are all bulls.

Unless all the reporters in charge of voting are blinded selectively, or the league is determined to disregard the principle of fairness and black two bulls have an MVP, it is only a matter of time before James misses the MVP again.

It is somewhat unexpected that the Knicks can rank second in the Eastern Conference. Stoudemire's early season reimbursement made the team lose the possibility of going further.

Under such circumstances, relying on the strong performances of Anthony, JR* Smith, Tyson Chandler, and Raymond* Felton, the team finally made a bloody way in the East that lacks top teams.

JR*Smith in the contract year is so reliable. If in the non-contract year, JR is not a key game, he is also a habit of pretending to be dead.

Well, Doug Rivers' Chicken Soup also contributed.

The Pacers are rising rapidly, and Granger's marginalization will not affect the overall upward trend of this team.

Especially after they have Paul George, David West, Lance Stephenson, Eric Bledsoe, Roy Hibbert and other players.

The Nets are also making progress. The combination of Deron, Joe Johnson, and Brook Lopez gives people hope. The bear boss has repeatedly promised to build a championship lineup. At least for now, it is not entirely bragging.

For the Bulls, no one can ask them to do more. Windy City Rose continues to be reimbursed due to injuries, and Ruhr Deng has become the team leader. Such a team is still in the playoffs, which is already a surprise.

And in an unknown corner, a player who looks exactly like Jordan is gradually growing up, he is Jimmy Butler.

After the Eagles traded Jon Jonson and Dragic, it is not bad to be able to reach the sixth place in the Eastern Conference. Jeff Teague, who can hardly play the ball from the Jazz, can be said to be the finishing touch. Finally, there is a relatively reliable guy in the first position.

Green Kai is old, but once they enter the playoffs, they will still cause a lot of trouble for the Knicks.

As for the Bucks, as long as their team leader is still Brandon Jennings, they have no hope.

How to see it, please see Jennings' speech about the first round of the playoffs in an interview when he participated in a local charity event:

"I'm really confident. I'm sure everybody's ticked us off [from the playoff map], but I think we're going to win the series in six games."

Jennings has never been an efficient superstar. In his rookie season, he scored 55 points in a single game and won 6 games against the Heat, which is enough to explain his career.

After talking about the east, let's look at the west.

In the West, ranked 1-8 are: Clippers, Thunder, Spurs, Nuggets, Grizzlies, Warriors, Lakers, Rockets.

So the matchup format for the West is:
Upper half: Clippers VS Rockets, Nuggets VS Grizzlies
Bottom half: Thunder VS Lakers, Spurs VS Warriors
After the Thunder left Harden, they were barely supported by Kevin Martin, but the decline in overall strength was still obvious.

From the perspective of the tactical system, when Reggie Jackson has not yet grown up, the team also lacks offensive points that can hold the ball.

The Spurs are old and strong. Whenever you think they are going to die, they can still dangle in front of you from time to time, and they don't have absolute strength, and they really can't beat them.

Nuggets coach George Karl is the biggest opponent of Erniu to compete for the best coach of the season.

It is great to be able to win 74 wins and 37 consecutive victories, but because Ruan Erniu has already set a record of 09 wins in the 10-75 season, 27 consecutive victories in the opening season, and 34 consecutive victories. The defending champion, so it's no surprise to get a good result.

Relatively speaking, it seems even more incredible to be able to bring a team like the Nuggets into the top four in the Western Conference.

You know, at the beginning of the season, many media directly ranked the Nuggets outside the playoff list.

Thinking about it, it's a miracle in itself that the team with the highest personal scoring average of less than 17 points per game actually finished fourth in the fiercely competitive Western District.

The Grizzlies traded away Gay in exchange for Prince. The team played more overall, but it was not easy to go further in the playoffs.

They are a strong team, but they are not a top team.

The rise of the Warriors surprised most people, but it did not exceed Er Niu's expectations. With the old guy Jerry West around, all of this is just a matter of course.

Er Niu has a hunch that as long as the LOGO man is in the Warriors for one day, sooner or later the Clippers will meet the Warriors in the playoffs.

Needless to say, the Lakers have made the playoffs, but it is almost certain that they will not pass the first round because their opponent is the talented Thunder.

It is gratifying for the Rockets to return to the playoffs, but James Harden, who has just completed the transformation from the team's sixth man to the team leader, does not have much confidence in defeating the defending champion.

In the first round of the playoffs, the Celestial Derby appeared again, this time against Er Niu and Yi Jianlian.

In addition, because Jeremy Lin is in the Rockets, for the first time in the league, there are three yellow-skinned scenes on the court.

In the 08-09 season, when the Rockets and the Hawks met in the Finals, Er Niu and Dayao got the chance to talk directly on the court, but Sun Yue was the keeper of the drinking fountain, and rarely played in the playoffs.

On April 2013, 4, US time, the first round of the Western Conference playoffs began.

The Clippers sit at home and ushered in a challenge from the Houston Rockets.

The starting lineup for the home and away teams is as follows:

For the Clippers:

C DeAndre Jordan
PF Ruan Erniu

SF Kawhi Leonard

SG Matt Barnes

PG Chris Paul
Rocket side:

C Omer Asik

PF Yi Jianlian

SF Chandler Parsons

SG James Harden
PG Jeremy Lin

It can be seen that the Clippers still attach great importance to the Rockets themselves. They would rather sacrifice a certain amount of aggression than strangle Harden on the defensive end, which can be regarded as the greatest face for Hakishi.

The actual situation of the game is that the defending champion did not spend too much time on the opponent in the first round. Although the Rockets wanted to play well, Harden was still under the defense of Kawhi and Baye, and the iron was scum.

As for Parsons, who is called "tall, rich and handsome" by Chinese fans, it is also difficult to do anything in the playoffs.

Jeremy Lin and Yi Jianlian completely lost themselves under the high-intensity defense of the girl-picking team, and they couldn't find the rhythm of playing at all.

At 91:130, the girl-picking combination clocked in and got off work in three quarters. The Clippers took the lead at home and won G1 of the series.

　Thank you Immortal Immortal Eternal Immortal reward!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)