With the deepening of the NBA playoffs this season, more and more accidents have occurred. First of all, in the east, in the past few years, the Celtics+Bucks+76 people+Heat have dominated the regular season and the playoffs. However, only the Celtics are left this season. The Bucks destroyed the Great Wall by themselves. With the appointment of old Rivers and the replacement of Lillard, the team's victory rate has been less than 60%. Lillard is still proud of it. As a result, Lillard was eliminated from the first round by the young army walkers. Without Harden, 76 people could not even enter the second round; The Heat also hastily ended the season, leaving Butler with only a hard mouth. On the western side, the four major flow giants, Warriors+Suns+Lakers+Clippers, have been out of the game. In the past ten years, our old Zhan, Durant and Curry have all gone! It was replaced by a group of young people, who rose to the top quickly and unprecedentedly.
After several big clubs were out, Denver, as the defending champion, was most favored by the outside media and fans. However, after playing several games in the series with the Timberwolves, we found something wrong: Denver's advantage, Jokic's support was cut off, Murray could not break through layers of sandwiches, and the depth of the lineup was seriously insufficient. While the Timberwolves consolidated their defense, Edwards averaged 32 points and 6 assists in the playoffs to quickly improve the gear! Nuggets are used to overcoming hardness with softness, but unexpectedly, they encounter a steel plate! The triple height combination of Gobel+Downes+Reed, the random switching of the twin tower form, and Edwards' dominance at the critical moment, in short, the Timberwolves almost locked a ticket for the Western showdown! The other group of duels is even more surprising! The NBA era has changed with 10 consecutive victories! When the alliance doesn't want to see it, it will slowly become reality!
As the No. 1 player in the Western China in this season's regular season, it can be said for sure that after Wei Shao and George left, the reconstruction work of Thunder has been completed, and it's time to make achievements! In the regular season, the team took Alexander (30.1 points, 6.2 assists, 5.5 rebounds per game)+Javert (19.1 points, 4.5 assists, 4.0 rebounds per game)+Homgren (16.5 points, 8 rebounds, 2.3 blocks per game) as the cornerstone of the framework. Thunder can achieve the efficiency of attack and defense among the top four in the league, of which the three-point shooting rate (38.9%)+blocks (6.6 times)+steals (8.5 times)+use of mistakes (20.5 points) Wait for the first place in the multi data alliance! The rhythm is fast, the counter attack is sharp, everyone can shoot, the defense is fierce, and the execution is particularly strong. In the playoffs, Thunder's defense efficiency was 93.5, ranking first in the league in the cliff style! The second ranked Magic's defense efficiency is only 100.0.
And from the closing stage of the regular season, Thunder began to make efforts, including 18 points of victory over the Bucks, 49 points of victory over the Lone Ranger, 38 points of victory over the Spurs, and so on, to achieve five consecutive victories! In the playoffs, the Pelicans were swept 4-0 in the first round. In addition to the first game, which just adapted to the rhythm of the playoffs, the Pelicans were beaten by 17 points in the other three games! And in the western semi-finals, they won the Lone Ranger by 22 points and won 10 consecutive victories! Although Thunder shielding and confrontation are obvious weaknesses, their biggest advantage is that they can carry out confrontation and closing in advance, restrict opponents to attack inside, so as to speed up the counter attack. After repeated attempts, the opponents pay little attention, and Thunder will open the gap in one wave. The lone ranger is the opponent that Thunder likes best. There is no speed in the back court, no interior projection, and the overall rhythm is too slow. Thunder is too relaxed.
The Timberwolves have Edwards, and the Thunder has Alexander. Like Edwards, Alexander also has a big heart. He averaged 3.4 points+58% shooting rate at the critical moment of the regular season. In the playoffs, there was only one critical moment in which opponents could not force Thunder to a desperate situation, and the game was wasted. Thunder's Jaway also contributed a lot. The first round of Pelican Game, Jaway's positive and negative value+74, the highest positive and negative value in the league's first round series! As a player only 23 years old, this is only the second year of Javier's career. At the beginning, he was just a chip addition to George in the Clippers trade, but this season he has become one of the best flanks in the league. In the playoffs, he has hit 50.6%+39.1% in two events, and the net efficiency of a hundred rounds is+23, ranking fourth in the league! This is definitely a qualified second leader!
The NBA era has changed! The Nuggets won the championship last season, and this season they are facing the fate of being kicked out by a younger team. And they really have no way to deal with the Timberwolves, especially Murray, because the Timberwolves have the best offensive defense resources in the league. Although Jokic can train strongly and become the biggest killer of the Lakers, he has little advantage against some European insiders, including Sabonis and Goebbels. As the most experienced "veteran" among the remaining eight teams in the playoffs this season, Owen is just a second in command. With Dongqi's bad temper and inefficient performance in the playoffs (39%+23.5% shooting rate in two events, creating a career record), they cannot compete with Thunder. The so-called super insiders Garford and Leffley can't catch up with each other in running.
If the western region finally meets the Timberwolves and Thunder, I'm afraid the league really does not want to see this situation. James+Curry+Durant have left with a huge amount of traffic, but fortunately, the defending champion Denver Nuggets and the lone ranger in Eastern Europe are still supporting the scene, but compared with young teams, they can't support it. The transition between old and new is so fast, sometimes for several years, sometimes just a playoff. But we can be sure that no matter which team in the west finally breaks out of the tight encirclement, there is not too much pressure to face the Celtics in the east. In the final analysis, the superstars of Alexander and Edwards are above the double flowers.
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