naaapseattle Chapter 410 Eastern Pattern
Chapter 410 Eastern Pattern
Chapter 410 Eastern Pattern
The Eastern Conference's playoff teams, from No.1 to No.8, are:
Toronto Raptors, Milwaukee Bucks, Philadelphia 76ers, Boston Celtics, Miami Heat, Indiana Pacers, Orlando Magic, and Washington Wizards.
These 8 teams look very familiar, right?
That's right.
These 8 teams again.
Except for James leaving the Cavaliers, which made the Cavaliers withdraw from the playoffs, the remaining seven teams still have the familiar formula and familiar taste.
The Miami Heat returned to the playoffs after a lapse of 7 years. In the new season, the Heat reinforced Butler, Adebayor and Dragic, and the effect was very obvious.
Everyone is familiar with the rest of the teams.
Except that the Raptors have newly joined Durant, Bazemore, Ge Feng, Lowry and Ibaka, the rest of the configuration is similar to previous years.
Siakam has completely grown into an All-Star starter this year, and his partner with Durant is infinitely powerful.
Both are the Raptors' best offensive players, and the Raptors will only make Durant and Siakam score more and more unscrupulously under Nurse's fierce defensive system.
The 76ers are still a combination of Simmons and Embiid, but the 76ers' management has not yet solved the problem of the team's weak three-point shooting ability.
Moreover, the 76ers' defense also has huge problems.
The 76ers still can't go further this season.
The Bucks are still dominated by Kunkun and Mishen. Both of them are talented players, but they are not the best duo in the league.
The rest of the Bucks, Bledsoe doesn't seem to have recovered from last year's meltdown, and Lopez is unlikely to provide the Bucks with an incredible three-point shooting rate for center players like last season.
Finally, we talked about the best rookie Brogdon who was sent away by the Bucks. The Bucks signed and traded Brogdon to the Pacers before the trade deadline.
The Bucks don't want to deal with the luxury tax of the former Rookie of the Year due to financial cuts.
The Celtics in the new season get the former queen bee Kemba Walker.
Kemba Walker has looked really good with the Celtics.
The culture of the Celtics is very harmonious, and Gordon Hayward is working hard to restore his All-Star status after breaking his leg.
Tatum, another important rookie of the Celtics, has also become more savvy in his offensive choices.
The Magic seem to have regressed from last year after signing Terrence Ross and Nikola Vucevic.
In the Eastern Division, the five teams that fans are most optimistic about are the Raptors, 76ers, Bucks, Heat, and Celtics.
But these five Eastern Conference teams, in any case, cannot be compared with the Western Conference teams.
Then, the climax of the west is coming.
The teams in the West that are determined to enter the playoffs, from No.1 to No.8 are:
Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers, Denver Nuggets, Golden State Warriors, Oklahoma City Thunder, Houston Rockets, Mavericks, Utah Jazz.
Leonard, Durant and LeBron are the three players with the highest efficiency value in the league this year.
It is worth mentioning that, except for Durant traveling east to the Raptors, the other two players are from Los Angeles.
Let's talk about the Lakers first.Fans are saying that LeBron is old, but in fact, LeBron's scoring average has only become lower, and his offensive efficiency has not decreased at all.
We can tentatively regard the situation in which James' average scoring per game has decreased but his efficiency value has remained unchanged as: LeBron is cultivating his successor.
Ge Feng and Davis are obviously LeBron's successors.
This season, the big ship of the Lakers, under the joint leadership of LeBron, Ge Feng, and Davis, is making rapid progress at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In the regular season this year, the Lakers double-killed the No. [-] Raptors in the Eastern Conference and quadruple-killed the Golden State Warriors in the same division.
Judging from the arrogance shown by the Lakers in the regular season, only the Clippers led by Leonard can win a victory from the Lakers when the Lakers are serious.
The other teams that challenged all lost to the Lakers.
The Lakers look like this year's championship.
In the 2020 season, the Lakers routinely achieved a record of 73 wins and 8 losses, surpassing the record of 15 wins and 16 losses created by the Golden State Warriors in the 73-9 season.
After talking about the Lakers, it's the second-ranked Clippers in the West.
As mentioned above, the three players with the highest efficiency in the league are LeBron, Leonard and Durant.
In the game where LeBron is on the court, the Lakers will outscore their opponents by 100 points per 14.1 possessions.
With Durant on the court, the Raptors outscored their opponents by 100 points per 16.0 possessions.
The last one is a small card.
During Leonard's regular season, the Clippers outscored their opponents by 100 points per 18.2 possessions.And when the Clippers played without Leonard, the Clippers had a minus-9.3 net rating, matching the 29th-ranked Knicks.
Judging from the offensive efficiency data, Leonard is really carrying the Clippers forward alone.
Leonard is really improving every year.
In the past few years since he became the core, Leonard's offensive methods will be more abundant than the previous year.
Leonard developed the ability of a mobile small forward this year, which Leonard asked Ge Feng for advice.
Now that Leonard is on the court, he can keep the ball in motion with or without it.
Because of this change, after Xiaoka got the ball, he no longer stood still like he did in previous seasons.
Xiaoka knows how to walk, and God can't stop him.
Xiaoka may be the last person in the NBA who regards Jordan and Kobe as objects he wants to surpass.
With the small ball era becoming popular in the league, there are fewer and fewer players who are still willing to work hard to practice backs, footwork, and various fancy breakthroughs and shooting skills.
Now the mainstream is to shoot three-pointers.
No matter how perfect your footwork and skills are, it's better to throw a three-pointer directly on the three-point line.
It is precisely because of this that there are very few people in this league who are still practicing offensive skills, and the players are all running to shoot three-pointers.
Xiaoka is really impeccable in terms of personal growth and technology.
But when Xiaoka leads the team, there is a fatal problem-that is, he can't manage the team, let alone deal with his teammates.
The Clippers' locker room issues are frequently pushed to the hot list.
It is well known that George and the old players of the Clippers are at odds. Leonard has no solution to the locker room problem.
Leonard is a general, but definitely not a good handsome.
The conflict between George and the Clippers veteran will be a huge obstacle restricting the Clippers' progress.
(End of this chapter)