Bishop of the Abyss

Chapter 323 323. The end of the regular season, another best record in history!The first round of the playoffs was swept!
Entering March, the Grizzlies have unsurprisingly become the most watched team in the league.

Everyone wants to see what kind of record the Grizzlies can achieve this season.

The current record of the Grizzlies is 60 wins and 4 losses, which is stronger than the same period last season.

Even the Grizzlies, which went 76-6 last season, lost five games when they got 60 wins.

In terms of probability, the Grizzlies this season undoubtedly have a great chance to break the best record in history set by themselves last season.

At this time, not to mention that outside fans and the media are looking forward to it, even the Grizzlies themselves are getting a little nervous.

Everyone knows what the team's remaining 18 games represent.

It represents whether everyone's name can be completely written in history, and whether the efforts of a whole season can be converted into rewards.

No one wants to be part of the best team in history, even Jason Kidd, who is infinitely close to retirement.

To be able to win the NBA championship while breaking the best record in NBA history, no player can refuse this temptation.

Throughout March, the Grizzlies continued to maintain a super high level of game status with the constant encouragement of veteran Jason Kidd.

As of the end of March, the Grizzlies' record came to 73 wins and 4 losses, with only the last five games left before the end of the regular season.

As long as the Grizzlies win four of these five games, they can successfully break the best record of 76 wins and 6 losses in history, redefining what is called the strongest in NBA history.

At the same time, Luke is also constantly cheering for the players. Everyone, including Luke, wants to redefine history.

According to Luke's coaching style in previous years, at this time, there are only the last five games left before the end of the regular season. Luke would have arranged for the main players to take turns and simply use the third team for the game.

But this year is very challenging even for Luke. In the face of breaking the best record in history, there are no rules that cannot be broken.

Even the players themselves don't want to be rested by Luke at this juncture.

Everyone in the Grizzlies worked together, and the entire team played an unprecedented cohesion at this moment.

Even Nelson, a living fossil who has been fighting in the league for 30 years, seems to be ten years younger in an instant, standing on the sidelines and roaring tirelessly, as if he wants to grasp every offensive and defensive round of the Grizzlies with his own hands.

There is no doubt that although the physical condition of the Grizzlies players is exhausted at this time, everyone is as excited as if they have been injected with chicken blood on the court.

Achieved the true sense of the ball must fight, let the outside world see the most powerful Grizzlies this season.

As the time came to the end of April, the team defeated the Suns by 21 points in the last game, and the Grizzlies fixed the final record of the season at 78 wins and 4 losses.

While breaking the best record he set in history last season, he also improved this record by two games.

What kind of strength is it to lose only four games in a single season? Fans got an answer to this question from the mouth of "God of Basketball" Michael Jordan.

"I can't believe it. I still can't believe it to this day. There is actually a team that can only lose four games in a single season."

"Even if the Grizzlies had a record of 76 wins and 6 losses last season, I was not surprised, because I think the Bulls could have achieved this achievement if they had been more focused in the early stage."

"But this time, the Grizzlies did the impossible!"

There is no doubt that the Grizzlies this season are not only the best team in NBA history, but also played the most dominant year. "

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With the official end of the regular season, the East and West playoff rosters have also been released.

In the East, the top three is naturally the Cavaliers led by LeBron James.

The Cavaliers have the best record in team history with 68 wins and 14 losses this season. If the Grizzlies are not too dazzling, the Cavaliers will definitely become the most successful team this season.

It's a pity that both the Bears and He Shengqi compete for the championship with a team like the Grizzlies with a record of 78 wins and 4 losses. The Cavaliers are destined to be full of depression this season.

Ranked second is the Magic led by "Warcraft" Howard. Although there is a big gap between the Magic and the Cavaliers who rank first in the East, the Magic's performance this season is still very good.

However, the emergence of the Grizzlies has made other teams in the league less dazzling. Except for Orlando local fans, few fans will pay attention to the performance of this Magic team.

Just as no fans believe that the Grizzlies will lose this year's championship, the rankings of other teams are not important to the outside world.

The teams ranked three to eight are: Eagles, Celtics, Heat, Bucks, Bobcats and Bulls.

It is worth mentioning that the New Jersey Nets, which has been completely acquired by Luke, only had a record of 12 wins and 70 losses this season.

Although this record is not the worst performance in history, the degree of hip pull of the Nets this season undoubtedly makes fans unable to bear to look directly at it.

According to news from local media in New Jersey, fans in New Jersey are not only not interested in the Nets, an NBA team, but some even fly thousands of miles to watch games in other cities.

Even though the home ticket price of the Nets dropped again and again, the lowest time was as low as two dollars per ticket, but fans still don't want to watch the garbage game played by this garbage team.

Hearing this news, Luke couldn't help showing a smile. Now Luke wants to see what kind of expression the fans will show when the outside world knows that he will be the owner of the Nets next season.

Luke is not worried at all about the Nets' poor performance this season. He has too many ways to make this Nets complete a transformation.

As long as you take over the team yourself, things like this can only happen in a dream.

In the West, the number one is naturally the best Grizzlies in history with 78 wins and 4 losses.

Ranked second is the Lakers led by Dwayne Casey.

Although the Lakers suffered three massacres by the Grizzlies during the regular season, the team's strength looks very broken, and it doesn't look like a team that has a chance to compete for the championship.

But this is just an illusion brought to the fans by the Grizzlies. In fact, apart from the defending champion Grizzlies, the overall strength of the Lakers in the league is second only to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

It even ranks third in the league in the power rankings released by ESPN, and is one of the biggest favorites in the league.

It's a pity that the strength of the Grizzlies can be said to push everything across. No matter who the opponent in front of him is, the Grizzlies can always hang the opponent up and beat him up.

In addition, the Western Conference teams ranked three to eight are: Mavericks, Suns, Jazz, Spurs, Nuggets, and Thunder.

The Grizzlies' first-round opponent in the playoffs will be the Oklahoma City Thunder led by Coach Brooks.

The Thunder is definitely the most talented team in the current league. Except for Luke, no one knows what a terrifying lineup the Thunder has this season.

Westbrook, James Harden, Kevin Durant, Jeff Green and Ibaka.

If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, no one would have believed that the Thunder had a lineup of this level at the same time.
You know, Westbrook, James Harden and Kevin Durant have all won the regular season MVP in later generations.

It is certain that these three players will be selected into the Hall of Fame after retirement. When a team has three MVP-level players at the same time, this potential is unmatched even by the Grizzlies this season.

However, the Thunder at this stage are still too young, and James Harden and Westbrook have not reached their peak yet.

Except for Kevin Durant, who is regarded as the league's top star, the entire team is still in the growth stage, like a rookie who has just learned to fly.

The talent of the Thunder team is even dying for Luke, who has the "eyes of God". If he hadn't just bought the New Jersey Nets, Luke would definitely consider going to the Thunder as a coach during the offseason.

Experience what it's like to coach this Thunder team!
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On April 4, local time in the United States, the first round of the NBA playoffs officially kicked off.

The series between the Grizzlies and the Thunder made the outside world have no desire to watch at all. After all, the strength gap between the two teams is too large. Even if the Thunder collectively took drugs, it would be difficult to defeat the Grizzlies.

In this period, James Harden's averages are only 9.9 points, 3.6 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game. He is an inconspicuous younger brother next to Durant and Westbrook.

In the entire Thunder team, only Durant averaged more than 20 points per game. In addition, the highest is Westbrook's 16.1 points.

And counting Kevin Durant, the scoring champion of the season, there are only three players in the Thunder team averaging double figures per game, namely Durant, Westbrook, and Jeff Green.

This lineup configuration with the Grizzlies is almost as funny as a joke.

In fact, this round of the series is indeed the same. After the game started, the Thunder was quickly completely crushed by the strong strength of the Grizzlies.

From the beginning of the first quarter of the game, the Thunder was always opened by the Grizzlies by double digits. By the end of the half, the Thunder had fallen behind the Grizzlies by a full 30 points.

The huge gap in strength even made the Grizzlies home fans start to drowsy.

If it weren't for Iverson's wonderful individual performance on the court as if he was dreaming of returning to the peak, I am afraid that most Grizzlies fans would want to go home early and sleep late instead of watching this round of ups and downs on the spot.

With Luke taking all the main players and sending them to the third team in the second half, the Thunder managed to recover some point difference at this stage, but as the game ended, the Thunder still lost to the Grizzlies by 27 points.

This is Luke's intention to be merciful in the second half, otherwise the Grizzlies would not be a problem if they wanted to kill the Thunder by more than 40 points per game in this round of the series.

It's not that Luke suddenly changed his temper, but that the Grizzlies' all-out efforts in the late regular season have made the Grizzlies very tired.

Since there is no suspense about the outcome of the game, Luke naturally has to buy more time for the main players to rest, and there is no need to appear aggressive on the court just to make an eye-catching point difference.

In addition, the Thunder's current head coach Scott Brooks is also an excellent basketball coach.

Although Brooks' coaching career looks mediocre, except for leading the team to the finals once, he has not performed too well.

But Brooks is definitely a true basketball coach.

Unlike Jeff Van Gundy and Tom Thibodeau's coaching philosophy of winning for the sake of winning, Brooks is an excellent life mentor while trying to lead the team to win.

During his coaching period, Brooks often instilled some positive ideas into his players.

And these concepts are different from the chicken soup of Doc Rivers and Tyronn Lue. Brooks is more about teaching players how to be an athlete who is respected and respects others.

It can be said that although Brooks' coaching career was not successful, he is definitely a qualified basketball coach.

In all fairness, Luke still admires this guy Brooks, and even plans to recruit him to his coaching staff next season, and come to the Nets as a member of the "luxury" coaching staff.

Of course, the premise is that Scott Brooks is willing to give up the opportunity to coach the Thunder, otherwise Luke will not be too reluctant.

After the game, Thunder coach Brooks took the initiative to walk towards Luke, with a faint smile on his face, and he didn't seem to be depressed at all because of the loss.

"Lu, thank you for letting go in the second half. Otherwise, the Thunder might lose by more than 50 points in this game."

"The strength of the Grizzlies is indeed very strong. There is absolutely no team that can stop you from winning the championship this season."

"To be honest, I gave up on this round of the series long before it started, and now it's all about accumulating some experience for these little guys."

"The Thunder's ability to make the playoffs this season was beyond my expectations. Losing is a reasonable thing, and there is nothing to be frustrated about."

"I just hope that these little guys don't get injured on the field, let alone be discouraged by this series."

Brooks looks very free and easy. Compared with those stubborn coaches who keep emphasizing the team's record and going all out even if they lose, Brooks obviously has more responsibility.

As Brooks said, the Thunder's ability to make the playoffs this season already has a certain element of luck. some experience.

"You've done enough, at least in my opinion, you're an excellent basketball coach."

Patting Brooks on the shoulder, Luke did not ask Brooks to join his coaching staff.
Because of this moment, Luke felt that Brooks was more suitable for the position of the head coach, rather than an assistant coach who advised the head coach.

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In the next three games, the Grizzlies won a complete victory without any surprises, sweeping the Thunder 4:0 and advancing to the second round so smoothly.

Next, the Grizzlies only need to wait for the winner between the Suns and the Jazz to meet in the semifinals.

Even in the view of the Grizzlies, no matter whether the Suns advance or the Jazz advance, the final result is likely to be the same...

(End of this chapter)