nba championship predators

Chapter 25 A Bad Smell
In fact, the 76ers are not as strong as the unscrupulous media touted.

On the correct timeline, after winning Game 76 in a big blowout, the [-]ers lost four games in a row and went home fishing.

It's not that the Lakers were lucky, nor that the 76ers didn't work hard. This result is traceable.

From a technical analysis, it is undeniable that the 76ers VS the Lakers are definitely David VS Goliath. There is nothing to say about this. Before the three finals, people on earth thought so.

Regardless of the technical comparison, the 76ers are also at an absolute disadvantage in other aspects.

The first is home field advantage:
For this season, it's a more complicated proposition.

76人取得了56胜26负的东部第一战绩，湖人同样是56胜26负，但是他俩都不是最棒的，联盟第一战绩是千年老妖怪圣安东尼奥马刺队的58胜24负。

But the Spurs were cleanly eliminated by the Lakers 4:0 in the Western Conference Finals.

So the question is, the 76ers and the Lakers have the same record, who has the home court advantage?
The league said that teams with good records in the regular season have home court advantage.

Then let's take a look at how the two teams pinched in the regular season this season:

2000年12月5日，76人客场造访斯坦普斯中心，湖人以96：85捍卫了主场的尊严。

易边再战，2001年2月14日，76人主场112:97干掉了湖人。

Well, the two teams fought each other in the regular season to a 1:1 tie, and there is no way to determine the home court advantage.

The league also said that in this case, the team with a high winning percentage against the other top eight teams in the league has home court advantage.

Therefore, the 76ers, who often "show mercy" to the Eastern teams based on the concept of "born from the same root, why be too anxious", lost their home court advantage aggrievedly.

Followed by physical reserves:
Since the Lakers swept the Spurs at 5:27 on May 111, the first game of the Finals began on June 82, during which they rested for 6 days.And it should be noted that the last game that swept the Spurs was at home, and the first game of the finals was still at home, so the Lakers basically spent the past 6 days eating, training, watching movies, going home to sleep, no need to travel, no need to travel.

Looking at the 76ers, the Eastern Conference finals were hanging by a thread, and the tiebreaker with the Bucks was on June 6. The next day, before I woke up naturally, I had to fly to Los Angeles in a hurry. I couldn’t rest on the third day, and I had to practice tactics. Because the finals will be played on the fourth day (June 3), there is no time to train.

Moreover, the Lakers only played 11 games in the first three rounds of the playoffs, sweeping all of them to advance, without physical loss or mental pressure.

On the other hand, the 76ers, the Pacers 3:1 in the first round, played four games;

Raptors 4:3 in the second round, played seven games;
The Bucks played 4:3 in the third round and played another seven games.

A total of 18 games, and two tie-breaks, played 7 more games than the opponent in the same period of time, and the physical and energy consumption is not at the same level as the Lakers.

The third is injuries:
A championship team needs a very, very important factor, and that is health.

In the history of the NBA, there are some teams that were originally favorites to win the championship, but injuries took away the health of the team's stars, and then gradually lost their presence on the road to the championship.

For example, Elgin Baylor of the Lakers in 1965:
During the regular season that year, Baylor averaged 27 points per game for the Lakers, second only to Jerry West in scoring in the team.But Baylor suffered a knee injury in the first game of the playoffs, and then missed the rest of the series and the finals, so the team lost to the Celtics in the finals after 5 games, and this is the third time the Lakers have suffered in the finals in four years.

This is not the most regrettable, the most regrettable 1989 Lakers.That year, the Lakers, who were aiming for three consecutive championships, achieved the league's best record of 63 wins and 19 losses in the regular season, leading No. 24 wins, and reached the finals with 11 wins and 0 losses in the playoffs.Objectively speaking, the Lakers have adjusted their physical and mental conditions to the best, but Pat Riley, the devil coach, is still not satisfied. He pulled the team to Santa Barbara for a week-long closed training.

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

In the first game between the overdrawn Lakers and the Pistons, Scottra injured his hamstring; in the second game, the Magician strained his hamstring; so the team was swept by the Pistons in the finals.

Why always the Lakers?

Because the Lakers stand against Zhao Ke...

This season, the Lakers had better luck. Everyone healed their injuries in the regular season. The Lakers, who were in full shape, once again reached the finals with an 11-0 playoff record.

Kobe played 68 regular-season games. He sprained his ankle because he stepped on Jaylen Rose's foot after a shot in Game 3 of the Finals last season. He missed the first three games of the season, and then missed another nine because of foot soreness.

O'Neal took 8 games off and played 74 regular-season games, which is considered a season with a relatively high attendance rate in his 19-year career.

Fisher played just the final 20 games of the regular season because of a stress fracture in his right foot, but the Lakers won 15 of them.Entering the playoffs, Fisher exploded into his own small universe. He not only averaged 13.4 points, 3.8 rebounds, and 3 assists per game, but also shot 49% from the field and 51.5% from three-pointers.

Phil Jackson, who has always said "he will let him be strong, the breeze caresses the hills, he will let him go, and the moon shines on the river." He will not do any Santa Barbara devil training.

Looking at the 76ers again, do they still have healthy players?
Iverson suffered 11 serious injuries this season, including right shoulder dislocation, left knee contusion, left ankle inflammation, coccyx contusion, right elbow bursitis, and left sacral joint contusion.In order to protect the team's record, Iverson played 71 regular season games and 18 playoff games with these injuries.

George Lynch is the only Sixers player to play all 76 regular-season games (82 starts) this season.The playoffs were supposed to be the time when Lynch showed his talents, but in the fourth game against the Toronto Raptors in the Eastern Conference semifinals, he injured the extension bone of his left foot and almost missed the season.

Eric Snow's two feet are basically useless. In December, doctors drove a steel nail deep in Snow's broken right ankle, which made him miss 12 games.However, Snow broke his left ankle in the Eastern Conference finals and now wears a plastic ankle brace.

Aaron McGee broke his ankle in Game [-] of the Finals and now wears a plastic ankle brace he borrowed from Snow.

Five starters, four serious injuries, only Mutombo is still healthy.

Oh yes, Uncle Mu was also injured. His tongue was blown off by O'Neill's elbow and he needed 11 stitches.

Well, the starters were wiped out.

Can you count on this group of blacksmiths on the bench to kill the "OK" combination that is in full swing?

On the way to the stadium, Zhao Ke kept recalling the glorious Lakers dynasty and the rapidly declining 76ers in the original timeline, and he couldn't help but sigh.

And now why is the media belittle the Lakers so uniformly and praise the 76ers?
Zhao Ke faintly felt that there was a bad taste in it.

(End of this chapter)