NBA Opening Draw To Twilight Shaquille O’Neal: Chapter 845 East and west rankings, first round released
At the end of the season, the quarterfinals of the East and West are also hotly released.
In the East, the Cavaliers ranked first in the East with 59 wins, followed by the Bulls with 58 wins, and the Raptors ranked third in the East with 56 wins!
Except for the top three, there is no team with more than 50 wins in the East. The fourth to eighth are the Heat with 49 wins, the Eagles with 48 wins, the Celtics with 48 wins, and the Hornets with 48 wins. , 45-win Pacers.
Although compared to last season, the overall strength of the Eastern Conference has increased. For example, the Pacers, the team that won the last playoff spot, also won 45, with a record of more than 50%.
This kind of performance was placed last season, but it was able to rank sixth in the Eastern Conference!
But looking at the entire Eastern Conference, except for the Cavaliers, Bulls and Raptors who are not bad, and can wrestle with the Western teams, the other teams have a bit of a dismal record.
Overall, the entire league is still in a trend where the west is strong and the east is weak.
After all, this season in the West may be the most intense competition in recent years.
In the West, the Trail Blazers led the league with 75 wins, the Warriors also broke history with 73 wins, and the third-ranked Spurs also had a regular record of 65 wins and 17 losses.
You know, a single season is 65 wins. In most years of the NBA, this kind of performance can completely win the first place in the regular season, but this season it can only compete for third place in the Western Conference.
Then there is the Thunder with 55 wins and 27 losses in fourth place, and the Lakers with 53 wins and 29 losses in fifth place.
Except for the top five, there is no team in the West that has broken through 50 wins. The sixth to eighth behind are the Mavericks with 44 wins, the Grizzlies with 43 wins, and the Mosaic team with 42 wins.
Compared with the minimum of 50 wins last season to enter the playoffs, the minimum threshold for the playoffs in the West this season has been reduced to 42 wins. Why can it be said that it is the most intense in recent years?
In fact, the fierceness mentioned here is mainly the competition for the top four in the division, which has even reached an unprecedented level.
In the past, almost no one thought that there would be a team that could break the Bulls' record of 72 wins in the future. As a result, two teams broke this great record at the same time this season. This is something that countless experts find incredible. matter.
Not to mention, there is still a 65-win Spurs behind...
Yes, the difficulty of the West's entry into the playoffs this season has indeed decreased, but this does not mean that the intensity of competition in the West has also declined.
Quite the contrary, the competition in the west not only didn't decline, but became more inhuman!
First of all, we must understand a point of view. The so-called west is strong and the east is weak. It means that there are more strong teams in the west and fewer strong teams in the east. It is about the universality of the team, not the particularity!
Because the overall strength of the west is stronger than that of the east, and it is much stronger. Because the Western teams will face more Western teams in the regular season, while other Western teams generally only have 30 games against Eastern teams in a single season, but the contest with Western teams is as high as about 52 games.
In this way, when other teams in the Western Conference encounter the Trail Blazers, Warriors, and Spurs in the regular season at every turn, they basically lose more and win less, which makes them almost lose more this season than last season played 10 games.
In the end, it was inevitable that the win requirement for the Western Conference playoff threshold would drop.
But in fact, the competition in the entire western environment is unprecedentedly fierce!
The East and West records are finally determined, and the first round of the playoffs will also be announced.
In the East, the Cavaliers played against the Pacers in the first round. Although the difference in wins between the two teams was as high as 14 games, this did not affect the crazy enthusiasm of this matchup.
The biggest thing to watch is the contest between the two leading stars, James and George, two active small forwards!
Since Paul George entered the league in 2010, he has not missed the playoffs almost every year. This year's matchup will be the fourth time he and James have met in the playoffs in their careers.
Then the Bulls played against the Hornets in the first round, the Raptors played against the Celtics in the first round, and the Heat played against last season's Eastern Conference powerhouse civilian Eagles in the first round.
In the West, the Trail Blazers' first-round opponent is the Mosaic team, which is almost an indispensable classic link in the Western Conference playoffs every year.
Cough cough, the classic link of Wang Zelin beating little beasts!
Since Wang Zelin entered the NBA, in the past few seasons, there have been many grievances and grievances between the two sides in the regular season. In the playoffs, they even shaved their heads 4-0. This round of the first round matchup will also be full of highlights.
Here I have to mention the Mosaic team. In such a fiercely competitive West, they can get rid of Kardashian's pressing defense in time and lead the team to the playoffs. Harden's personal strength is beyond doubt!
The Warriors played against the Grizzlies in the first round. Since Curry became Curry and led the Warriors to take off officially, the Warriors can almost be said to be the nemesis of the Grizzlies.
During the regular season of this season, the two sides fought 4 games. The Warriors and the Grizzlies played against each other with a record of 4:0, sweeping their opponents quite cleanly in the regular season.
Therefore, even in the playoffs, no one thinks that the Grizzlies will be the Warriors' opponents.
In fact, it's not just the matchup between the Warriors and the Grizzlies, but also the matchup between the Trail Blazers and the Mosaic team. These two sets of matchups are almost hailed as the least suspenseful matchups in the first round of the Western Conference.
The reason why it can cause heated discussions is because the Trail Blazers and Warriors are the top three super teams in active traffic for the first time, and they have their own topicality;
Secondly, because their first-round opponents had a lot of grievances with them before;
Finally, before the start of each playoffs, many fans are obsessed with black eights and black sevens.
According to the setting of the fairy tale script, the Trail Blazers and Warriors are undoubtedly the ultimate bosses, so Mosaic and Grizzlies are naturally mediocre civilian players.
The battle between civilians and bosses, such a classic plot ~www.mtlnovel.com~ has always been a beautiful fantasy in the hearts of many people.
Emmm, although the possibility of Mosaic and Grizzlies being upset is about zero, this does not prevent them from daydreaming.
The Spurs played against the Mavericks in the first round, and it was a duel full of love and hatred. The former four major power forwards in the league "Stone Buddha" Duncan and "German Chariot" Nowitzki are duel, and it is very likely that the two The last playoff match of their careers is also very interesting.
This kind of sunset red matchup is definitely one less game to watch. For old fans, the attraction is no less than drug addiction.
Under the momentum of the league and the media, the heat is really not lower than the first round of the Trail Blazers and Warriors.
The Thunder played against the Lakers in the first round, and it was another set of grievances.
It can be said that the rise of the Thunder Youth Storm led by Dewey's second young master is really inseparable from the Lakers and Kobe. The two teams have a lot of grievances and grievances in both the regular season and the playoffs.
(end of this chapter)