Chapter 249: The End of the Regular Season
(I'm sorry, I accompanied my family on a long trip during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the update was broken, so I will try to update as much as possible in these two days, and make up for the first two days.) )
In order to help Curry win the regular season MVP award, in the next few games, Wang Xiao did not arrange a rotation for Curry as he did in previous months.
With the help of the whole team, Curry's shooting space and opportunities have also improved, and Curry's average per game stats in April has increased even further with 15 games, when all games in April are over. , his average points per game has risen to 32 points, and his average assists per game have also stabilized at around 7.
The Wizards' record is also fixed at 53-13, and the winning rate remains around 80%, ranking first in the league.
This is also the second consecutive season that the Wizards have maintained a win rate of more than 80%, and if it is a full season, it will be another 65-win season.
On the Eastern side, outside the Wizards with 53 wins, the best record is the Bulls, who won 48 games in the regular season, the Heat with 45 wins, and the Nets with 40 wins.
Apart from these 4 teams, there is no team in the East with more than 40 wins.
The Celtics, who are fifth in the East, have 38 wins, the Hawks who are sixth have 38 wins, the Magic who are seventh have 37 wins, and the Knicks who are eighth have 35 wins.
If such a ranking is at the beginning of the season, it will definitely make many people fall through the glasses, and the Magic with Howard can only rank 7th in the East, and the Knicks Big Three, whose reputation is no weaker than the Heat Big Three, is actually just able to catch the tail of the playoffs, and was almost overtaken by the Pacers with 34 wins, if it has the top three configurations, but it fails to enter the playoffs, then the Knicks will surpass the Heat, who was eliminated by the Wizards in the Eastern Conference finals last year, and become the object of ridicule in the league.
However, it seems that the situation of the Knicks is not good, because they are ranked 8th in the East, and their opponent in the first round of the playoffs is the Bitter Wizards.
Although it has the configuration of the Big Three, it is still generally not optimistic about the Wizards, after all, this Wizards team is too strong.
In the West, from the 1st to the 8th place in the record, the Spurs with 50 wins, the Trail Blazers with 48 wins, the Lakers with 41 wins, the Grizzlies with 41 wins, the Clippers with 40 wins, the Nuggets with 38 wins, the Mavericks with 36 wins and the Thunder with 36 wins.
The Spurs are as strong as ever, and the Trail Blazers, who were cut off by Wang Xiao to get Durant, replaced the Thunder in another time and space, and ranked second in the West under the partnership of Aldridge and Jordan Jr., and the subsequent teams have not changed much, but the Thunder won Oden, and after Wang Xiao snatched Harden, they could only form a combination of Westbrook, Evans and Dunn, and their strength was much worse than that of another time and space, and they stumbled all the way to the playoffs with the eighth place in the West.
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With the end of the regular season, the major awards of the league have begun to be released one after another.
Curry topped the league scoring list with 32 points per game.
The rebounding title was won by Howard, who averaged 14.5 rebounds per game.
Jeremy Lin, who is currently averaging 11.8 assists per game in the Nets, won the assist king by a narrow margin of 0.1 assists over Rondo, who averaged 11.7 assists per game.
The blocking king is Jordan Jr., who averages 3.8 blocks per game, and the steal king is still won by Chris Paul with an average of 2.5 blocks per game.
In addition to hard statistics, awards such as regular season MVP, best defensive player, best team, and best defensive team will not be released until the voting results, but the Wizards' Curry side will basically be selected for the best team nine times out of ten, and there is a high probability that he will win the regular season MVP for a second consecutive year, becoming the third point guard in history to win the regular season MVP for two consecutive years.
However, in addition to Curry, the Wizards may be on the best team, and only Paul is the best team. George was alone.
By the end of the regular season, George averaged 19.8 points, 7.6 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 2.7 steals per game, and made great contributions to the team on both offensive and defensive ends.
The current Wizards team is good at everything, but there are too many players with outstanding strength, resulting in a lack of rights that capable players should have, originally with George's current strength, there is no problem with getting 25+8+5 such data, but there are also Jamison and Chandler in the position of power forward. Parsons and Yi Jianlian, this is also a matter of no choice.
The best defensive team is similar to the best team, and the Wizards are likely to be selected, George and Leonard, but the two of them have defended for a few times and Wang Xiao can't judge.
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The end of the regular season is equivalent to a long vacation for the teams with the lowest records, but for the teams with the top eight records in the East and West, the real fierce battle has just begun.
After a one-day break after the final game of the regular season on April 26, the Wizards hosted the first game of the playoffs on April 28.
Just like last year, in the first round of this year's playoffs, they once again faced the challenge of the New York Knicks.
I'm afraid the whole league didn't expect that Cameron. Anthony, Delong. Williams plus Amare. Stoudemire's combination, after two seasons of running-in, is still so unbearable, and even almost missed the playoffs, and in the face of the league's No. 1 Wizards, basically no one thinks the Knicks can win, which is completely different from the first round of the playoffs last year.
At this time last year, the Knicks' Big Three had only been formed for less than two months, and the players were all in high spirits, with the only goal being a championship, and a team like the Wizards, which was made up entirely of rookies, was not in sight at all.
The result was a bloody 4:0, and the Knicks, who were sitting on the Big Three, were swept out by the Wizards.
This year, they have completely lost their underestimation, and even put themselves in a very low position.
The head coach of the New York Knicks, Mike Brown. D'Antoni was very low-key in interviews with media reporters.
"The Wizards are a very strong team, they have a lot of young, talented players, a strong and perfect offensive and defensive tactical system, and a young and amazing coach...... It's going to be an extremely tough battle for us and we have to give it our all or we're going to be knocked out. ”
In contrast, Wang Xiao seemed very calm, Wang Xiao did not have any evaluation of the Knicks Big Three and D'Antoni, but shook his head and sighed in front of the media.
"I think it's a shame that the Heat are in third place in the East in the regular season."
Media reporters were puzzled by Wang Xiao's words, but what Wang Xiao said next made them all dumbfounded.
"It would be nice if they were fourth in the East so we could meet them in the second round and the Heat wouldn't be able to make it to the East Finals."
What does that mean? Sniper Heat? Wait, you're so sure the Wizards can make it to the Eastern Conference finals?
Although he has advanced to the Eastern Conference finals for two consecutive years, Wang Xiao said this in the first round, which is simply an insult to other teams participating in the Eastern Conference playoffs, especially the Knicks in the first round.
While there are no positive comments on the Knicks, such disregard is more infuriating than disparagement.