"The standings in the East are so confusing, with the exception of the top four and bottom three teams, there is no win gap of more than five games between the other teams. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info And to be honest, compared with the teams in the west, the winning rate of the teams in the east is really not eye-catching. ”

It's Saturday again, and it's also time for the major sports channels to do basketball shows.

"That's right, let's take the Thunder, who are ninth in the West, for example. This season's biggest dark horse in the West currently has a win rate of 58%! Such a result can be ranked fourth in the East, but in the West, they have not yet made the playoffs, this phenomenon is really unfair to the Western team. ”

"Now that teams have chartered flights to transport their players to away games, the conditions are much better than before, and there is no need to worry about taking up too much time from long distances. If I were to say, the NBA should abolish the East-West division and determine which teams qualify for the playoffs based on their regular season totals. ”

The two experts chattered on TV, and the questions they said were practical, but they were also unreal.

The reality is that the East is weak and the West is strong and many excellent teams are indeed kept out of the playoffs, and the illusory thing is that it is almost impossible for the NBA to change the pattern of the division between East and West at present.

As a new NBA team, the Thunder's performance this season is enough to be described as amazing. But the Lakers, the Nuggets, the Spurs, the Rockets, the Mavericks...... The name of this strong team had to be pressed on their heads. On the other hand, in the East, the 76ers, the Bulls, the Pistons and other teams in the playoff ranks are really not necessarily better than the Thunder.

In order to gain a foothold in the west, Anjie's career seems to have chosen difficult difficulty at the beginning. It's useless to complain about the rules, and all the Thunder and Van Gundy can do is do everything they can to win all their opponents in the final month of the regular season.

After the victory over the Jazz, the Thunder still have five games left in March, but looking at the opponents in these five games, Van Gundy really feels that God is playing a joke on himself again.

Except for the Timberwolves in the next game, which is a relatively weak opponent, with four games remaining, the Thunder need to face the Lakers who are first in the West, the Raptors led by Bosh, the Celtics who are second in the East, and the Spurs who are third in the West.

No matter how talented the Thunder Sanshao is, it is almost impossible to create a miracle and win all these opponents. Now Van Gundy only hopes that the Jazz's opponents can work harder to drag the Jazz back and give the Thunder a chance.

One day after the game against the Jazz, An Jie took the initiative to give up extra practice for the first time. If he insists on completing the set task, it will be difficult for him to guarantee that he will still have enough energy the next day.

With 82 regular-season games, this is unmatched by the NCAA's once-a-week schedule. An Jie thinks he is an iron man, but at the end of the season, he has to admit that he is just ordinary flesh and blood.

How much does the intensive schedule take a physical drain on the players? Popovich's habit of resting his players at the end of the season is not a trick, but it does have its effect.

But the Thunder team does not have such a thick bench depth, especially An Jie, in the Thunder team's several interior lines, except for An Jie, the defense of others can be described as sparse. Therefore, no one can help An Jie share it during the game, and everything has to be carried by himself.

The last game was only the last 15 minutes in a row, and An Jie felt that he was still a little tired today.

Those interior muscle men in the NBA are not so easy to deal with.

There is no rotation off, and he has to pay several times the hard work of others, An Jie had to take the initiative to stop training for the first time in order to ensure his physical strength.

Compared with strong teams such as the Lakers, Jeff Van Gundy cares more about the opponent of the Timberwolves. After all, the hard power of these strong teams of the Lakers is there, and if both sides play normally, then the odds of the Thunder winning will be very low.

But for a team like the Timberwolves, Van Gundy will never allow himself to overturn in the gutter. The team that should be won must not make mistakes. Because of this, the Timberwolves, the weakest of the five opponents, have instead become an important opponent in Van Gundy's eyes.

After a day of rest, the Thunder went on another expedition and flew to cold Minnesota on a special plane. With hot summers and extremely cold winters, the weather in Minnesota is just like this Timberwolves team, sometimes extremely strong, sometimes extremely weak.

When Anjie saw Kevin Lefu again, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, after a busy year, he had hardly done anything else except playing basketball. It seems that in addition to training this summer, I will also spend more time with Catherine and her parents.

A year ago, Anjie was battling UCLA to the death in the March Madness Tournament. Now, the UCLA guard who killed the Cyclones has become his closest teammate, and the Pacific 10 Conference Player of the Year has also become the starting power forward for the Minnesota Timberwolves.

The situation of a year is not long, but it is not short, but it has changed a lot.

Watching Westbrook and Love's intimate conversation before the game, Anjie also hoped that he could meet his familiar old teammates in the NBA. It's a pity that Mike Taylor was sent to the NBDL early by the overcrowded Trail Blazers on the guard line, and Andrew Morris is still working hard in the March Madness Tournament.

There wasn't much time left for Anjie to sigh, and in cold Minnesota, it was very dangerous if she didn't warm up adequately. An Jie's first ankle sprain was caused by not being serious about warm-up.

When the game started, Lefu was disappointed to find that it was now more difficult than before to break Anjie's defense again.

The two big men who played on par at the beginning are now significantly different.

No way, Lefu has only been a starter in the NBA for a short time, and his average playing time is less than 30 minutes per game. Anjie has been in the starting center since Van Gundy's arrival, and has played 35 to 40 minutes or more.

With so much more time to learn and adapt than Lefou, it is normal for Anjie to be better than Lefu now. When Lefu plays in the NBA for as much time as Anjie, he will naturally get better.

It's just that now he has to be aggrieved under An Jie's tough and fierce defense, and he loses his accuracy.

"Ann and Lefu had a fight in college, and at that time, Lefu was above Anjie in terms of fame and honor. But now, look at it, Kevin Love couldn't make a single shot in front of Ann on 0-of-5 shooting. ”

In the end, it was Greg Smith, who was good at back-tossing and turning, that made AnJie feel the pressure. In the face of a short and flexible center who is good at using strange tricks, An Jie's limited experience is a little insufficient.

Smith can break through Anjie's defense on the offensive end, and Anjie, who has a huge height advantage, can also beat Smith on the offensive end.

The diminutive Greg Smith's penalty area defense against Anjie was useless, and Anjie didn't even need to feint, just turn around and hook or shoot without much interference.

The Timberwolves players worked hard, but their offense couldn't break down the Thunder's defense.

The performance of UCLA's two former superstars was not excellent, and Lefu only made 3 of 13 shots under Anjie's defense, shooting only 23% from the field, and only 10 points were recorded, but Kevin Lefou's 10 points were the highest score among Timberwolves starters. It can also be seen how unbearable the Timberwolves are playing.

Westbrook's performance wasn't much better, shooting 2-of-10 from the field, and his percentage was lower than that of Love. However, after knowing that he had a bad hand today, Westbrook sent several wonderful passes to Anjie and Durant. Today's 10 assists were even more than his 7-point record.

Although Westbrook's offensive performance was not good, Anjie's 19 points and 8 rebounds and Durant's 28 points were enough for the Thunder to win easily, which is the advantage of the Thunder, they rarely have three Thunder and three less at the same time.

97 to 90, although the margin does not seem to be large, this is arguably the easiest game the Thunder have played recently. And this victory also allowed the Thunder to once again get rid of the embarrassment of not being able to win five consecutive victories.

The Thunder's second five-game winning streak of the season is finally long overdue.

Van Gundy's seriousness allowed him not to miss a chance to win against opponents who were weaker than him.

Returning to Oklahoma City for a night and a half of a day, the Thunder were again, this time, Westbrook was back in his hometown, Los Angeles, the City of Angels.

"I'll go to your game in the evening. As soon as An Jie landed and turned on her phone again, she saw a text message from Giardina. Giardina happened to be in Los Angeles for a business event these days, and when he saw that the Thunder were coming to Los Angeles to play, Giardina immediately bought a ticket for the front row.

Although An Jie is a little wooden about this matter, he is not a fool. He could guess some of this little girl's thoughts, but the other party didn't pick them, so he continued to pretend to be stupid. After all, that Catherine in Ames City is the object of Anjie's thoughts.

Even with Giardina on the sidelines, even if Kobe Bryant only scored more than 20 points on 6-of-18 shooting, even if the Thunder just reached a five-game winning streak, even if Westbrook slashed 30 points against the insults of Los Angeles fans, the Thunder team fell in the Staples Center again.

The inability to win at the Staples Center is another big curse that has plagued the Thunder this season. Neither against the Clippers nor the Lakers have experienced what it's like to walk out of here as winners.

Odom and Gasol's range was clearly exhausting for Anjie, and it's hard to tell if the Zen master changed his offensive strategy against Anjie. But the fact is that Odom's 18 points and Gasol's 14 points are inseparable from Anjie.

With 13 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists without a block, it was Anjie's worst game in March. If the Lakers, who are No. 1 in the West, can't even handle three rookies, then why are they No. 1?

Another heartbreaking news is that the Jazz, who also had a game, won the game against the Rockets. The difference between the two teams has once again become four. Keling's Rocket and Yao Ming, Jazz has almost become synonymous with Rocket nemesis.

There was no time left for the Thunder men to be frustrated, and they silently wiped off their sweat, got up again, and continued on to the next stop.

So in the duel with the "Dragon King" Bosh three days later, Anjie was fully rested and rebounded strongly. scored 21 points, 13 rebounds and 6 assists in the game, completely suppressing the majesty of the "Dragon King".

Bosh scored 18 points and 6 rebounds in this game, but the shooting rate was only 33%, Anjie not only has a strong offense, but also the defensive ability is once again reflected.

112-96, the Thunder dominated the game and won in Canada.

On the other side, the Jazz lost to the Suns a day earlier. That didn't bring the Suns closer to the playoffs, but rather gave the Thunder a chance. 3 wins, playoff tickets at your fingertips.

In this game, Anjie performed well individually, and the team also won the game. However, a message after the game swept away An Jie's happy mood.

"I lost man, round of 16, we were blocked in the round of 16 again. I don't know what to say, call me when you have time......" From the cold words, An Jie can understand Morris's mood at the moment, and An Jie, who has experienced it once, naturally understands. He didn't say a word, a phone call came and he talked to Morris for a long time.....

In the next two games, the Thunder lost 84-100 to the powerful Celtics Big Three, but once again successfully blocked the Spurs from shooting the game-winning shot with a score of 96-95 at the ATT Center.

However, the Spurs, who were on rotation, did not play Duncan and Ginobili in this game, and the loss of this game may be the situation that Popovich wants to see. After all, the Rockets, who have Yao Ming and Scola, are definitely an opponent that Popovich does not want to meet in the playoffs.

The scheming Popovich has begun to "pick" his opponents in the playoffs as much as possible.

After the victory over the Spurs, the Thunder's March games were all over. With 11 wins in 15 games, the Thunder's progress is obvious.

As of April 15, the 08-09 NBA regular season will be over. The last 15 days will be the hardest 15 days for the Thunder this season. (To be continued.) )