NBA opening draw to twilight Shaquille O'Neal

Chapter 1138 Different Battle Situations
After sweeping the Jazz 4-0, the Trail Blazers became the first team to advance to the conference semifinals this year.

According to the optimistic estimate of the Portland media, fans will have to wait at least a week to see the Trail Blazers game again.

When players from other NBA teams saw the news that the Portland media complained that the Blazers rested too long, they felt very uncomfortable...

MMP!

A bunch of Versailles guys.

Your sister, if we can advance earlier, we definitely want to advance earlier too!
The first round of this year's Eastern and Western playoffs can be described as lively.

In the East, the Celtics, who ranked first in the Eastern Conference, actually tied the Pacers 2:2, which was somewhat unexpected.

Before the start of the series, the Celtics had an 83 percent chance of advancing to the Pacers' 27 percent.After the first four games, the Celtics' promotion probability is only 55%, and the Pacers have reached 45%, which is basically equivalent to a [-]-[-] situation.

Many experts in this round of the series believe that there will be 7 games.

The strength of the Pacers has surpassed people's imagination. The strength of the two sides is similar. Two of the first four games played overtime to decide the winner.

The original good situation has developed into the current balance of power, making many fans once again question the gold content of the Celtics' regular season record, and the Celtics' reputation has been damaged for a while.

The Chicago Bulls, ranked second in the Eastern Conference, played the same dominance in the regular season. Facing the Bucks led by Antetokounmpo and Mi Wenyuan, who are still in the insignificant development stage, they currently easily rewrite the big score of the series to 3:1.

Chicago fans said that the reason why they lost in G4 was purely because the referee was on the side of the Bucks, 5 against 8, who would be uncomfortable?
Of course, this may still be a good thing for the Bulls, because they are very hopeful that they will win the Bucks in the fifth game and complete the promotion amidst the cheers of the home fans.

Thinking about it, what a beautiful thing...

Even though he is 33 years old and his hairline keeps receding, James' dominance in the Eastern Conference is still terrifying. After the first four games, the Cavaliers and the Eagles scored 3:1. It is only possible that they will advance to the conference semifinals at home in Game [-], just like the Bulls.

The biggest highlight of the game between the Cavaliers and the Eagles is that "Little Emperor" James and "Warcraft" Howard have another encounter in the Eastern Conference playoffs after eight years.

Eight years, how many eight years can life have?

Back in 09, the two of them were the young emperors in their prime, and the other was the pinnacle Warcraft who had firmly established himself as the league's top center.

Keke, get back to business.

Compared with the 33-year-old James, Howard, who was born in 85 and entered the league in 04, has just turned 32 years old, but because of injuries, he is no longer a player at the same level as James.

Not to mention James, even Cousins ​​can clean up Howard casually now.

On James, there seems to be no trace of the years, which once again verifies a truth:
Often the attribute of tolerance is the most important talent of a super giant!
If you don't have a strong enough anti-fucking attribute, so what if you are talented?Can't even hit the ball, so what talent are you talking about?
Zion Williams in the future is the best example. In the first three years, he played 85 games. Thanks to the small city of New Orleans, the Pelicans management is really reluctant to give him a big contract of [-] million.

To use one sentence to describe the management of the Pelicans, it is probably: the P I asked for, I have to finish the fight even crying!

Back to the eagle fight.

After four games, James played steadily and averaged 25 points, 7 rebounds and 9 assists per game. Judging from his performance on the court, many people seriously doubt that James King may not even use [-]% of his power.

It can also be seen from this that the overall strength gap between the Cavaliers and the Eagles.

It ends with the Toronto Raptors vs. Washington Wizards series.

What about this series?

Except for the fans of the two teams, basically not many people paid attention to them, including the league did not spend too much effort on the two teams.

Due to their relatively close strengths, the fifth-ranked Wizards in the Eastern Conference and the fourth-ranked Raptors drew 2:2.

Judging from the current situation, after the first four games, there are actually only two teams in the Eastern Conference that truly have the championship appearance.

One is the Chicago Bulls and the other is the Cleveland Cavaliers!
After the G4 game, the two teams were also considered by many famous basketball commentators to be the two teams most likely to reach the top of the Eastern Conference this year.

This year's Eastern Conference champion will be produced between their two teams.

West side.

The Grizzlies deserved to be the league's shit stick + strong team quality inspector. After returning to the home court in the third game, facing the headwind of 0:2 behind, they just relied on the crazy meat grinder battle to drag the Warriors to overtime.

In overtime, the Warriors' outside shooters could be in crisis, while the Grizzlies firmly held the inside advantage, played two points to stabilize efficiency, and finally defeated the Warriors by 4 points.

At 103:99, the big score of the series between the two sides became 1:2.

However, Warriors coach Cole is not a vegetarian.

After understanding the Grizzlies' main strategy of dragging words, he immediately chose to do the opposite. As soon as the fourth game came up, the Warriors players played fast breaks and ran bombs.

You want to fight slowly, but I am not as good as you want.

Relying on the targeted strategy of playing fast and playing slow, the Warriors with a better touch ran to the death of their opponents in just three quarters, entering the final quarter with a 28-point lead.

The Grizzlies are not good at scoring, and letting them catch up to 28 points in one quarter is tantamount to nonsense.

In the end, at 124:102, the Warriors won another game away and rewritten the big score to 3:1. It is very likely that they will return to the Oracle Arena with a triumphant victory. Under the witness of the home fans, they will become the second team in the Western Conference to advance to the semifinals.

The three old gingers of the Lakers still have some skills, at least there is still a lot of fuel in the fuel tank.

After San Antonio was beaten 0:2 by the Spurs, they returned to the home court to regain morale and won two consecutive games through overtime, rewriting the big score to a 2:2 tie.

However, the Lakers are clearly at the end of their battles. This team with an average age of 32 can't afford to consume it, especially when the two core players are almost 40 years old.

The Houston Mosaic team played against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Harden really didn't intend to show any affection to his once dear second brother and childhood friend.

After the first four games, the big score of the two sides came to 3:1, with the Mosaic team in front and the Thunder team behind.

In this round of the series, Harden's demeanor basically overwhelmed Westbrook.

G1战：哈登37分7篮板9助攻3抢断、威少22分11篮板7助攻2抢断，马赛克队1:0雷霆队。

G2战，哈登35分4篮板8助攻1抢断，发挥还行，但是……架不住对面威少天神下凡，单场爆砍51分10篮板13助攻4抢断1盖帽的超级三双，不仅成为了今年季后赛的首个50分先生，还成为了NBA历史上第二位砍下50+三双壮举的球员。

Who is the first?

Of course it's Michael. There's me everywhere... Ahem, it's easy to say.

This time it's not Joe's leader, but Wang Zelin.

And different from the previous life, the Thunder team won this game!
Yes, this time the Thunder did not defeat the Mosaic team by 4 points as Wang Zelin remembered, but Westbrook had the last laugh.

The result of this is that after the G2 game, the cheers for Westbrook's coronation this season's MVP became louder again.

If Westbrook can continue to persevere and lead the Thunder to complete the series against the Mosaic team, it may be that he really has something to play.

It's a pity that Westbrook couldn't keep going hard, and he played like this, and the Thunder only stayed strong for one game.

G3战：哈登大爆发，单场44分，外加6篮板6助攻，力压威少28分12篮板11助攻3抢断的三双，马赛克队得以118:110战胜雷霆队，系列赛大比分来到了2:1。

G4战：哈登表现稍稍拉胯只得到了21分7篮板8助攻1抢断，远不及对面砍下35+14+14+3+1大号三双的威少，但架不住马赛克队这边的板凳匪徒全员爆发。

大弩机28分10篮板、圆脸登哥18分8篮板、路威18分7篮板……马赛克一众角色球员突然暴走，打乱了雷霆队的所有赛前部署，在雷霆主帅比利·多诺万的苦涩笑容中，雷霆队只得无奈收下系列赛的第三场失利。

After this game, the Mosaic team led the Thunder 3:1 in the series.

G3 and G4 failed to defend two consecutive home games, causing countless people to say that the Thunder have gone far, and their journey to the playoffs this year will most likely stop in the first round.

So far, the first round of the East and West playoffs is likely to be like this.

Except for the defending champion Portland Trail Blazers of the new dynasty, which showed the same terror dominance as before, there was no second sweeping series in the East and West.

……

In the next few days, apart from the necessary routine training, the coaching staff of the Trail Blazers did not arrange any other training tasks, and repeatedly asked the players not to practice after returning.

Especially Wang Zelin.

It should be noted that when NBA players fight everywhere, sometimes the real threat to them is not a powerful opponent, but an injury lurking in the shadows that will erupt at any time.

In the history of the NBA, there are countless cases where the hope of winning the championship was ruined by injuries.

Part of this is because I am too memorized, and I am really unlucky; and part of it is my own death, and I have to practice too hard before the big competition.

The typical representative of the latter is Pat Riley, who advocates devil training.

Hard training is the only way for NBA players to become superstars. Jordan has a "breakfast club" to challenge his limits, and Kobe has insisted on the almost abnormal "666" training for many years.However, hard training must control the amount of training. Once the amount exceeds the amount that the body and mind can bear, problems will arise.

The reason why Riley is known as the "devil coach" is because he tried his best to promote the overload of training.

Riley's devil training made the strong man Mourning suffer from glomerular necrosis in the fourth year of coming to the Heat; Wade suffered frequent injuries in the fourth year of his career; Hardaway's knees broke out successively in the fourth year of the Heat; O'Neal and Riley tore his face in the middle of the fourth season of the Heat...

Riley's devil training is the most well-known and most criticized, and it has to be traced back to the Santa Barbara emergency training camp before the 1989 finals.

At that time, the Lakers, who were aiming for three consecutive championships, reached the finals with 11 wins and 0 losses in the playoffs that year. The physical and mental condition had been adjusted to the best, but Riley was not satisfied. He pulled the team to Santa Barbara for a week of closed training.

You know, the Lakers team was an out-and-out veteran team. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was 42 years old. They had reached the finals for four consecutive years. One can imagine the physical and mental exhaustion, but Riley still wanted to squeeze more, and the result can be imagined...

The results of that training camp turned out to be “remarkable”:
Magician and Byron Scott were both injured, and the Lakers were directly swept by the Pistons, making Abdul-Jabbar retire with regret!
After that, the past relationship between Riley and the Lakers' second-in-command went from bad to worse.Until the semifinals in 90, the Lakers were unexpectedly swept by the Suns 1:4, and the conflict between a generation of devil coaches and the core players of the Lakers broke out completely.

Worthy took Byron Scott and others straight to the office of the Lakers general manager Jerry West at the time, demanding that Riley be fired, and Riley, who was forced into the palace, then "voluntarily" resigned.

The once glorious "Show time" Lakers have so far disappeared into the dust of history.

Riley's living example is there. Coach Terry and general manager Orsi don't want the Trail Blazers to follow in the footsteps of the former Lakers.

For the team's four consecutive championships, the two talked about it, coupled with the raids on home textiles from time to time, it was Wang Zelin who finally canceled the previous private training plan.

Come on, this extra training is definitely not enough, let's watch the game honestly.

……

Time passed quickly, and teams from the East and West advanced to the conference semifinals one after another.

After the Chicago Bulls returned home, they lived up to expectations and easily defeated the Bucks 115:103. In the series, the Gentleman swept the Bucks 4:1 and became the first team in the Eastern Conference to advance to the conference semifinals.

Followed by the Golden State Warriors, they swept the Grizzlies 4:1 at home and became the second team in the Western Conference to advance to the conference semifinals after the Trail Blazers.

The promotion of the two teams is expected, after all, the strength lies there.

The Bulls have the Big Three of Davis + Rose + Wade. The average age of this group of Big Three is not too old, the team structure is relatively reasonable, and it has steadily surpassed the Bucks.

Considering the competition between the core players of the two sides, Nongmei has already reached the peak of his career, and he is an absolute first-team player under healthy conditions. On the other hand, Antetokounmpo still needs 1 to 2 years of honing before the stage of great success. In the competition at the same position, he was restrained by Nongmei to death.

In the crucial G5 game, Antetokounmpo made 21 of 7 shots and a poor 30% shooting rate, leading the Bucks out.

The strength of the Big Four of the Warriors does not need to be repeated too much. This is a team that requires the Blazers to go all out. It is not surprising that the Grizzlies lost to them.

The most surprising thing is the game between the Cavaliers and the Eagles.Came to the Quicken Loans Arena, home of the Cavaliers, all the Eagles broke out in their last stand, the master Paul Millsap, 29+14+5+1+2, all-round offensive and defensive

Dennis Sroeder scored 27 points and 9 assists, also outstanding.

Even Howard, who was considered to be in the sunset before, also handed over a double-double of 15+18 tonight, with 18 rebounds on the spot, including 11 frontcourt boards, which can be regarded as blowing up the Cavaliers' frontcourt boards alone.

In the end, the Eagles defeated the Cavaliers 113:99 at the Quicken Loans Arena and successfully extended their lives.

As for the remaining groups of duels.

The Spurs returned home to win another game, 3:2 the Lakers, and the balance of victory began to tilt towards them.

Coming to Aerospace City, even though Westbrook scored a super quasi triple-double with 47 points, 11 rebounds and 9 assists on the spot, it was still difficult to save the savior.

Just because the performance of Harden on the opposite side is not much inferior to him, with 44 points, 8 rebounds and 9 assists in a single game, it is also a super quasi-triple double.

Plus 31 points for Gua Ge... The Thunder were eliminated 1:4, and the loss was not wronged.

Back in Toronto, the Raptors successfully defended their home court, 3:2 the Wizards, again gaining the upper hand.

After all, the Celtics are No. 3 in the Eastern Conference during the regular season, and they are embarrassed to lose face to their hometown folks when they return home. They regained a game and rewritten the big score of the series to 2:[-].

(End of this chapter)