The 2012-13 season can be regarded as the most exciting season in recent years, with the Wizards' 70 wins and the Heat's 27 wins making this season wonderful.

But at the same time, it was also a season of poor stats.

On the scoring list, Cameron. Anthony was elected the season's scoring champion with 28.5 points, and the top five scorers on the scoring list were not high, from second to fifth Kevin Durant with 28 points, Kobe Bryant with 27.3 points, LeBron James with 26.8 points, and James Harden with 26.1 points.

Curry, the core of the Wizards and a two-time scoring champion, averages 24.8 points per game, ranking only sixth on the scoring list.

This is true not only in terms of scores, but also in other aspects of the data.

Dwight. Howard only averaged 12.4 rebounds per game to win the rebounding crown, compared to 14.5 rebounds needed to win the rebounding title last season.

In terms of assists, Jeremy Lin, who averaged 10.8 assists per game, won the assist king, and he is also the only player on the assist list to average double-doubles in assists per game.

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The league's All-NBA, All-Defensive Team, and other awards such as regular season MVP are still being voted on, and are usually announced around the second round of the playoffs, so the biggest focus is on the first round of the playoffs.

The Celtics, like the Heat, are old rivals of the Wizards, and since Wang Xiao joined the Wizards, the two sides have met in the playoffs for the fourth consecutive year.

With the exception of the Eastern Conference Wizards' loss to the Celtics in their first season, the other two seasons ended in Wizards victories.

The Wizards' players have grown faster and stronger over time, while the Celtics have done the opposite.

By 2013, Garnett was 37 years old and Pierce was 36 years old, both of them had a significant decline in fitness and competitive form, and the team's new core Rondo was reimbursed for an injury season in the regular season.

Basically, the two teams met in the first round of the playoffs, and no one thought the Celtics had any chance of winning.

In fact, this is also true.

On April 21, the first battle between the two sides began.

The Wizards face the Celtics at home, and the starting lineup on the Wizards' side is Curry, Thompson, Leonard, George and Whiteside.

The Celtics' starting five are Bradley, Pierce, and Jeff. Green, Garnett, Bass.

Judging from the lineup alone, the two teams are not at the same level of strength at all, and there are no surprises in the results of the two sides.

The Celtics couldn't keep up with the Wizards' rhythm at all. Green's offensive ability was limited, while Pierce was completely stared at by Leonard, and in the interior matchup, the Wizards actually had a rare advantage in rebounding.

Putting aside Garnett, who is no longer in much competitive form, although Bath is a relatively strong insider, his height limits his rebounding ability, and throughout his career, Bath has only averaged 4.5 rebounds per game, which is not even as good as Paul George.

As a small forward, George has 6.4 career rebounds.

In this case, Whiteside was like a rebounding monster on the Celtics' interior, using his strengths in height, bounce, explosiveness, etc., to constantly compete for offensive rebounds.

The game opened up a huge margin in the first quarter.

35:18！

The Celtics trailed by 17 points in the first quarter.

Then in the second quarter of the game, the point difference further widened, once exceeding 25 points.

However, when the score gap fell by more than 25 points, Wang Xiao replaced some of the main players.

He didn't save face for Celtic, he just made a decision after considering all aspects.

It's a very bad thing to kill all the people when they already have an absolute advantage, just like in the 12 playoffs, the Bulls were beaten by the 76ers in the first round of the playoffs, and it was clear that the Bulls had locked the win, but they insisted on letting Rose stay on the court, which led to Rose's accidental injury and directly ruined the bright future of the Windy City Roses.

There is also the 14-15 season, James returned to the Cavaliers, the first round of the playoffs against the Celtics in the rebuilding stage, has a big score of 3:0 lead still chased hard, the fourth game in the first quarter of the lead of the Green Army double-digit points, so that the Green Army dissatisfied, as a result, Olynyk waited for an opportunity to retaliate, and saw an opportunity to dislocate Lefou's arm, resulting in Lefou's absence from the follow-up game, James led the team all the way to the finals but lost the good game alone.

The behavior of not being able to afford to lose is very despicable, but it is not uncommon in the alliance, and Wang Xiao has to take precautions in advance.

So although he had previously warned the players not to be careless and to go all out in the game, when he gained the advantage, he still chose to slow down a little.

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Replacing the main force in advance did not change the situation on the court, after all, like Jimmy. Butler, Chandler. Parsons and Isaiah. Thomas has also been systematically trained for two seasons, and his strength is already extraordinary, and it is not a problem to serve as a starter for a mid-range team in the NBA.

By the third quarter, the margin was approaching the 30-point mark, and the Celtics were almost desperate.

So when the fourth quarter of the game began, the Celtics also replaced all the main players and lined up a full bench lineup.

The entire fourth quarter of the game became a stage for the Wizards and the Celtics to train their recruits, all the Wizards' bench players got playing time in the fourth quarter of the game, and the Celtics did the same, the two sides played the game under a tacit understanding, and the score was fixed at 106:97, and the Wizards won the Celtics by 9 points at home.

If you only look at the point difference, it seems that the gap between the two teams is not particularly large, and only those who have watched the whole game understand that the Wizards and the Celtics are not at the same level at all.

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In the second game of the series, the situation was the same as the first game, except that this time the Celtics only held out for a while, and it was not until the third quarter that they could not hold on and completely collapsed.

Easily won the second game, and the big score of the two teams has come to 2:0.

The Wizards then traveled to Boston for their third and fourth series against the Celtics on the road.

On both of these two away games, not even many Washington fans rushed to Boston to cheer on the team, for the simple reason that it seemed too suspenseful in their eyes.

Even with a favorable position, it will be difficult for the Celtics to beat the Wizards.

The same is true of the results.

121:99，108:85。

In the two away games, the Wizards still won bloodlessly, and the total score of the series was also fixed at 4:0.

The unmistakable direction of the game has once again reminded people that the era of the Celtic Big Three is over.

(There is a chapter later)