NBA opening draw to twilight Shaquille O'Neal

Chapter 437 The bottom line of the regular season, the prospect of the playoffs

Next, Wang Zelin played the full third quarter. Among the main lineup, except for Lillard who had a rest period, the other four also played the full quarter.

After this section, 84:61, basically announced the Heat's death sentence.

Of course, the other side may not think so.

The game restarted in the fourth quarter, and the Heat's offensive point was still James.Today James is in a hot state. After three quarters, he has scored 25 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists. Not to mention accidents, after tonight, another quasi-triple-double will be recorded.

It's a pity that the only reliable person for the Heat is James.

Another member of the Big Three, Bosh, is in mediocre form today, and he played hard in the interior a few times, but he didn't gain much.

For the Blazers, Wang Zelin will continue to attack. Since he said he will take over the game, he will definitely fulfill his promise.

As the game progressed, after discovering that his teammates couldn't score no matter what, James had no choice but to attack the banner.And every time he finally succeeded in attacking, the Heat fans who thought they had seen hope, regrettably found that the Blazers on the opposite side, No. 36, could always respond quickly in the next round.

At the end of the game, the Blazers scored 26 points in a single quarter and the Heat scored 22 points in a single quarter. Not only did the two sides fail to narrow the point difference in the last quarter, but the Heat lost by 10 points.

In the end, at 110:83, the Blazers beat their opponents by 27 points in an away game.

Tonight, the score difference between the two sides is really too wide!

Although everyone knows that the Heat are missing a general Wade, they still have James and Bosh on the court after all. Before the game, they still thought that even if the Heat lose, they should not lose much.

I didn't think so...

And judging from the details of tonight's game, if the two sides really meet in the finals, I'm afraid the Blazers will have a better chance of winning.

There is no other reason. The strongest offensive point of the Heat is undoubtedly James and Wade on the outside.

However, the strongest point of the Blazers happens to be the inside line, the seven-foot giant Wang Zelin with excellent defense.

This kind of opponent happens to be the last thing breakthrough masters want to see.

well, let's get back to business.

After the 56th win of the season after a visit to Miami, the Trail Blazers returned to Portland after a night of rest.

The next three games will be played at home, which is good for them.

In terms of opponents, the opponents in the next three games are Magic, Thunder and Bulls.

The Magic are still the same, purely playing bad routines, currently ranked third from the bottom in the Western Conference, and have not even won more than 20 games.

As for the next two opponents, the Thunder and the Bulls, although they are all playoff seed teams in their respective divisions, the two teams have the same tragedy.

Both sides have a core player missing due to injury, and they are both the No. [-] core of the organization.A team without a core No. [-] position is like a car without a powerful engine. Although there are other engines that can replace it for a while, the overall impact on the car and the driving experience of the driver are very bad.

Therefore, for the next three games, Wang Zelin and his teammates are full of confidence.

Of course, the fact is also true.

On March 3, the Trail Blazers ushered in a visit from the Magic at home.

The biggest highlight of this game, apart from the front office of Wang Zelin and Oladipo before the game and several three-point battles between Oladipo and Lillard during the game, looking at the audience, it is basically a one-sided momentum.

In this game, the Trail Blazers won as expected.

In the ensuing games against the Thunder on the 22nd and the Bulls on the 24th, although the two sides showed an anxious situation in the first half, once it came to the third quarter, after Wang Zelin and his teammates habitually set off a wave of offensive climax, neither the Thunder nor the Bulls could stop their offensive.

3 consecutive victories at home!

At the same time, the Trail Blazers also won the longest wave of 2 consecutive victories since February. As long as they win another game, the Trail Blazers will be able to win 9 consecutive victories for the third time in the season...

What is this concept?
At least this season, no team has won three 10-game winning streaks.Not to mention three 10-game winning streaks, even teams with two 10-game winning streaks are one of the few in the league.

Do Wang Zelin and the others want to get it?
Of course I want to!

If you say you don't want to, you are definitely pretending to be noble.

But if you ask yourself, it is a bit difficult to win 10 consecutive victories.

After sending away the Bulls at home, the Trail Blazers only have the last 3 games left in March. If you want to rank the difficulty of these 4 games in order, the most difficult one is undoubtedly the game against the Grizzlies on the 4th.

Because this game is not only an away game, but also a back-to-back!

And everyone knows that playing with a shit stick like the Grizzlies is a bad feeling from the inside out, from the mind to the body.

It's not enough to be timid before the game, but Wang Zhilin did find that the state of his teammates was obviously different from previous games before the game.

In fact, he is not like this.

Alas, let's take a step at a time.

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In the end, it didn't take long to win a wave of 9 consecutive victories. Seeing that the 10-game winning streak is imminent, the Trail Blazers still failed to win the 10th game winning streak.

They lost to the Grizzlies.

This defeat was completely due to the state of all the Blazers. They were brought into a swamp-like defensive vortex by the Grizzlies, and they couldn't get out of it once they entered!
After this battle, the Blazers and the Grizzlies became 2:2 in the regular season, and the two teams drew.Next, if you want to meet the Grizzlies again, you have to wait until the playoffs.

Scoring twice and losing to the Grizzlies on the road again, the media did not rush to bad-mouth the Blazers.

Everyone knows that since the Grizzlies have the title of shit-stirring stick in the regular season, they are naturally not ordinary people.What's more, the Grizzlies are not that weak. I don't know how many strong teams have failed in Memphis this season.

In the end, there are still too many uncontrollable factors in the 82 games of the regular season, which led to the occasional occurrence of weak teams defeating strong teams.

Only in the 7-game 4-win system of the playoffs, the chances of such accidents will be much, much smaller.

This is why black eights, black sevens, and even black sixes in NBA history will cause a huge sensation.

After losing to the Grizzlies, the Blazers had another strong 3-game winning streak.

First, after defeating the Lakers at Staples, they defeated the Suns and Pelicans at home.

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Up to now, after the game in March was completely over, the Trail Blazers had already broken through 3 games in the regular season, achieving an impressive record of 60 wins and 62 losses, and it was the first team in the league to break through 13 wins.

If nothing else, the 2013~2014 regular season champion will definitely belong to Portland!
Now, it's time to put the prospect and arrangement of the April schedule on the agenda.

从4月1号到4月16号的最后半个月赛程里，开拓者还需要打7场比赛，才能正式宣布2013~2014赛季的常规赛赛程结束。

In the last 7 games, there is no lack of challenges from strong teams, no, it should be said that basically more than [-]% of the next opponents are strong teams.

The first is No. 1. Wang Zelin and the others need to travel to Indiana to challenge the Pacers, the top team in the Eastern Conference. After returning home on the 4th to play the Jazz, the next three consecutive away opponents are the Warriors, Clippers and Mosaics, and finally the Cavaliers and Lakers.

As long as Wang Zelin thinks that five of the next seven opponents are at the playoff level, he will feel a faint sadness in his heart.

Who arranged this schedule? It's too outrageous.

After complaining fiercely in his heart, he also understood that the team is now paying for the loose arrangements at the beginning of the season.

After understanding, you have to learn to choose.

Both Wang Zelin and the coaching staff are very clear that even if they win all the next 7 games, the Blazers' final record can only be fixed at 69 wins, completely missing 70 wins.

Of course, it doesn't mean that 69 wins are so weak. On the contrary, winning 69 games in the regular season is already very strong.

放言NBA历史，能在常规赛取得69胜的球队，也就只有1971~1972赛季的洛杉矶湖人以及1999~1997赛季的芝加哥公牛。

Only these two!

But who let the two teams still have a 72-win Bull standing above their heads!
To be honest, if after 69 wins, only the Blazers temporarily rank second in history behind the Bulls with 72 wins, then Wang Zelin may be more interested.

But the problem is that there are already two teams in front of the 69-win team in the regular season, and Wang Zelin always has a feeling of awkwardness and cheapness in his heart when he squeezes in.

If the players and fans of other teams knew Wang Zelin's state of mind at this time, they would probably want to spit on his face.

Are you pretending to be Nima?
Well, it's a bit pretentious.

But Wang Zelin believes that he has the strength and capital.

But it's not all a matter of pretending or not, but they have to start preparing for the next playoffs.

Anyway, San Antonio, currently ranked second in the league, won only 59 games, and their remaining games are 7 games like the Trail Blazers.

It means that even in the worst case, the Trail Blazers only need to win 7 of the next 5 games, and they can dominate the league with a record of 67 wins and 15 losses!
Maybe it won't take 5 games, but 3 to 4 games will do.

On the morning of the 31st, Wang Zelin got up early.

Morning training ended after breakfast, and Wang Zelin arrived at the team headquarters on time at 10:[-] am.

It is about to enter the last month of the regular season. At the request of the management, the whole team will hold a targeted meeting today.

In today's meeting, a clichéd topic was brought up by coach Terry Stotts:
Take a break!

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At present, the regular season championship basically belongs to the Trail Blazers, and it is also the consensus of the outside world.

Then, preparing for the playoffs half a month later has become the top priority.

In addition to talking about the rotation, the team general manager Neil Orsi also put forward a precondition in the meeting.

Win at least 5 regular season games to ensure that the team can securely win the regular season championship.

Everyone expressed their understanding of the importance attached by the team management.

Regardless of the fashion of the Trail Blazers, although they have had a championship banner, compared to many teams in the league, they can be regarded as having richer ancestors.

But this "wider" is only compared with some ordinary teams, and compared with some famous teams, it still seems too shabby.

The only championship during the Bill Walton era, the only 90-63 regular-season championship during the Drexler era of the glider in the 19s...

The above is the only thing that the history of the Portland Trail Blazers can come up with to chat with other strong teams.

Then, it's gone!

7 wins and 5 wins to secure the regular season championship became the bottom line given to the team by team owner Paul Ayton at the meeting.

in the conference room.

Wang Zelin raised his hand and attracted everyone's attention.

There are those who are envious, those who are grateful, and those who are amazed...the eyes are different, but there is no jealousy.

After all, everyone in the conference room is fighting for a team, and only when the Blazers perform better will it be more beneficial to them.

"I don't care about other teams. The game against the Houston Mosaics on the 13th must not be lost!"

Under the gaze of everyone, Wang Zelin made his only request.

"Uh……"

"Of course, I have seen those grandchildren displeased for a long time."

"Wang, don't worry, we will definitely kill the Houstonians this season!"

"..."

en, although I don't know why the Mosaic team was kept in Wang Zelin's notebook for so long, neither Lillard and others as teammates, nor Terry Stotts and others, asked him the reason.

It can be said that if Wang Zelin had not been selected in the 2012 draft, the Trail Blazers would definitely not be as glamorous as they are today.

From the appeal of selling tickets to the improvement of the overall strength of the team, the changes caused by the arrival of Wang Zelin in the past two seasons are obvious to all.

As early as the trade deadline of this season was coming to an end, the team owner Paul Allen said outside: Regardless of whether the Trail Blazers can win the championship this season, he is absolutely not for sale.

Whether it is to buy people's hearts, or for other reasons.After these words fell to the ears of Wang Zelin and other teammates, they were still moved and shocked.

"Since that's the case, then it's decided. Tomorrow's game against the Pacers is decided to give up strategically. Wang, LaMarcus and Kevin will take turns and stay in Portland."

"As for the match between Shun Xia and the Jazz..."

After realizing that the game against the Mosaic team must be won, Terry Stotts continued with his arrangement.

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After entering April, on April 4st, the league arranged 4 games.

Among the 10 games, the most eye-catching one is the Indiana Pacers vs. Portland Trail Blazers.

The former beat the defending champion Miami Heat to the top of the Eastern Conference this year, making remarkable progress.

The latter's progress this year is even more outrageous, not only ranking first in the Western Conference, but also overwhelming the East and West. Since the beginning of the game, it has been ranked first in the league and has not been down for a long time.

The dominance is evident!
(End of this chapter)