Healing Basketball

Chapter 690 690. The Battle of Focus
With 69 wins and 12 losses, the Trail Blazers tied the Bulls and Lakers for the second place in NBA history. At the end of the 2005-2006 regular season, people's attention focused on the Trail Blazers and the Suns.

The opponent of the Trail Blazers in the last game of the regular season is the Suns!

Only by defeating the Suns can the Trail Blazers win 70!
The importance of this game was raised after the Trail Blazers lost to the Nuggets and defeated the Jazz.

Originally, people thought that the Trail Blazers would definitely win both games, and winning or losing the last game was not that important. The suspense of 70 wins came to the last game, which was indeed beyond most people's expectations.

At this time, Liu Xiu's 40+ triple-double against the Jazz a few days ago became a hot topic again - if the Trail Blazers hadn't been able to reverse the Jazz and win that day, they might have bid farewell to 70 wins against the Nuggets. hope.

开拓者队拿下69胜的第二天，4月17号晚上9点58分，经历了2小时28分钟的比赛后，太阳队主场以115比78狂屠黄蜂队，结束了他们本赛季最后一个主场比赛，将战绩提升到了54胜27负。

After this game, there was another topic in the regular season finale between the Suns and the Trail Blazers-can the Suns win 55 or the Trail Blazers win 70?
The two records seem to be very different, but this topic is very hot!

The Sports Illustrated reporter said in the game preview that his MVP vote will go to the winner of this game.

The reason convinced many people-the Suns won 25 wins without Stoudemire, an insider who can average 50+ points per game, which is already incredible. It is completely possible to win 54 "God of point guards" to describe it, if you can get 55 wins, not to mention the consecutive MVP, three consecutive MVPs are worth voting for.

At this time Kobe was pulled out and beaten-he didn't make the playoffs in the first year without O'Neal.

Even if they make it to the playoffs this year, they don't even have 50 wins.

In addition to this, after the game between the Suns and the Hornets, a new topic emerged-the battle for the assist king!

Originally, Nash had always been in the lead. Although the advantage was slowly eroded by Liu Xiu, the advantage has always been there.

If the two play normally, Liu Xiu will still fall behind Nash by the end of the season.

But the last game between the two was not normal.

The two have slammed their opponents crazily in the last game. However, when Liu Xiu led the team to slam the Jazz with 40 points, he got 18 assists; when Nash led the team to slam the Hornets, Nash only played 21 minutes. , scored 12 points, 1 rebound and 6 assists, and did not play in the second half.

After Liu Xiu got 18 assists, the total number of assists in the season increased to 910. After playing 81 games, his average assists per game increased from 11.15 to 11.234.

After Nash got 6 assists, the total number of assists in the season increased to 874. After playing 78 games, his average assists per game dropped from 11.27 to 11.205.

Sports Illustrated called Nash the "God of Point Guards", and ESPN felt that if Liu Xiu finally won the assists title, regardless of whether he won 69 wins or not, he would perform better than Nash.

This statement is also supported by many people.

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The time came to April 4th, and the number of games today is obviously more than usual, because today is the beginning of the curtain call of the regular season. There are a total of 18 games, plus tomorrow's 9 games, the regular season of this season will come to an end.

At 11:26 p.m., the Spurs defeated the Rockets at home, improving their record to 63 wins and 19 losses, and today's game is all over.

Although there are still 6 games to be played tomorrow, the list and ranking of the playoffs have all been determined.

East: Pistons first, Heat second, Nets third, Pacers fourth, Cavaliers fifth, Raptors sixth, Bulls seventh, Wizards eighth; West: Trail Blazers First, the Spurs second, the Suns third, the Mavericks fourth, the Clippers fifth, the Grizzlies sixth, the Nuggets seventh, and the Lakers eighth.

Because the Nuggets defeated the Sonics at home today and ended the regular season with 49 wins and 33 losses, even if the Lakers defeated the Mavericks at home tomorrow, they would only have 48 wins. The Nuggets advanced to the playoffs seventh in the West.

On April 4, the last game day of the 19-2005 regular season arrived.

The eyes of basketball fans are focused on Portland. No one cares about the other 5 games. The ranking has been confirmed. There are two suspenses: 70 wins or 55 wins for the Suns, and who can win the assists king between Liu Xiu and Nash.

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the Celtics and the Knicks in the East started the unnoticed game, sounding the clarion call for the end of the regular season.

At 7:40 in the evening, the two warm-up teams began to enter the Rose Garden Arena.

The first entry was the visiting Suns. They enjoyed the most enthusiastic boos of the Trail Blazers this season. In the eyes of Trail Blazers fans, there is no regular season game in their entire team history that is more important than tonight. .

After Nash was the last one to run out of the visiting team's tunnel, it was the home team's turn to play at home. Liu Xiu led his teammates to run out of the tunnel.

The Trail Blazers fans who came to the scene wanted to witness history and see the second 70-win team in NBA history.

Even if they are 'just' competing for second place, they want to be uniquely second, not tied with the other two teams!

After the players of the two teams played, the data of Liu Xiu and Nash were posted on the big screen.

Neither Liu Xiu nor Nash was in a hurry to speak to each other. Hearing the exclamation of the fans, they looked at the big screen in unison.

Liu Xiu has a player detection report, but he still looks up at the big screen. There must be a sense of ritual when playing.

纳什赛季至今出战78场，场均19分4.2板11.2助攻0.8抢断0.2盖帽，投篮命中率51.2%，三分命中率43.6%，罚球命中率92%。

Average points and rebounds are career highs.

The hit rate is the most exaggerated, 51+43+92 hit rate, super rich 180 club performance!
Nash's shooting percentage and free throw percentage are career highs, but three-pointers are not. In the era when perimeter defense can be used, in the 01-02 season, Nash had a 45.5% three-point shooting percentage, averaging 1.9 three-pointers per game. point.

刘秀看着纳什这表现，明白了原本时空里奥尼尔为什么总是表示对04-05赛季MVP被纳什抢走感到不满，却没有怼纳什05-06赛季只有54胜却连庄MVP。

Nash's performance is terrible!

另一边，看着刘秀打了81场，场均25.2分7板11.2助攻3.1抢断0.8盖帽的数据，51%的投篮命中率、34.9%的三分命中率、90.4%的罚球命中率……

Think about the guy in Los Angeles averaging 38 points per game...

Nash: Fortunately, I have already won the MVP once, otherwise this year's MVP competition will not cause a heart attack?
(End of this chapter)