Chapter 875 [Eight Kills in the Season, See You in the Finals]

Guo Xu called Yao Ming to offer condolences, and he didn't mean to gloat, he actually hoped to meet the Rockets in the Western Conference finals, so that more Chinese fans would see his playoff performance.

Without Yao Ming, Guo Xu feels that the Grizzlies have a better chance of advancing, and they have a clear advantage on the inside.

In Guo Xu's previous life, Yao Ming was seriously injured in the playoffs in 2009, and now it has happened again. At that time, many people put a big black pot on Kobe's head, saying that Kobe Bryant injured Yao Ming.

Kobe Bryant, the snow in May at that time was similar to "The Day After Tomorrow".

Although Kobe Bryant's center of gravity fluctuated high and low when he broke through, up and down, he could hit Yao Ming's knee on the top, hit the swingman's knee in the middle, and hit the point guard's knee on the bottom, which was obviously a technical job, but what does it have to do with his knee and ankle fracture?

In fact, Yao Ming's injury came out of exhaustion.

He has played too many games in the past two years, and it was a miracle that he was able to play the finals in good health in 2008, with almost no rest, and immediately returned to China to participate in the Chinese men's basketball Olympic training camp. It wasn't too early for him to finish the Olympics, and a month later he started preparing for the new NBA season. If the Olympics were not held in Beijing, the Basketball Association masters would probably have to let Yao Ming play in the 2007 Asian Championships.

Yao Ming is a giant with a height of 226cm, and his consumption on the court is far better than that of other players, although the old Nelson will control Yao Ming's playing time and only let him play an average of 33 minutes per game, he is still physically overloaded.

In the first round of the playoffs, Yao Ming was relatively relaxed, and Dampier did not have the ability to attack on his own. In the second round, facing the "double bears" Gasol and Randolph, Yao Ming had a hard time on the defensive end, both of whom could pull out to shoot, and he had to increase his running.

The hearts of Chinese fans are wow cool wow cool, Yao Ming's injury means that the Rockets failed to defend their title, and the first two games against the Grizzlies 2-0 did not mean much, they couldn't pass the Suns.

For Guo Xu, it doesn't matter who advances, even if there are no injured Rockets, the lineup has obvious weaknesses, they may have the ability to win the Suns once or twice, but it is basically impossible to eliminate the Suns in a best-of-seven game.

The next day, the Suns swept the Lakers, completing eight consecutive kills in a single season.

Easley is weak in offense and defense, Fisher is weak in offense and defense, Famar will be fine in everything, and the gap in the No. 1 position is doomed to the end of the Lakers.

The Lakers are not very disadvantaged in other positions, but the Lakers have to relax their defense against others in order to contain Guo Xu, and the Suns will blossom more as soon as the offensive end is running.

Guo Xu's performance in this series is very eye-catching, averaging 27 points and 12.5 assists per game, shooting more than 50%, and the three-point shooting rate has also reached 50%.

The Eastern Cavaliers swept the Hawks 4-0 and advanced as easily as the Suns.

Boozer singled out Murphy, James outscored Josh Smith, and even MoreWilliams didn't suffer much against Nash, scoring a lot of points under Nash's defense, and was the team's third scorer.

After bringing in Murphy, the Hawks' strength declined, but Murphy broke his fate in his previous life, and he played in the playoffs......

The other two series were tie-breaks, with the Magic beating the Pacers 4-3.

Howard "The Monster" is a flawed player, and although he was named to the All-Star team this season, O'Neal didn't take advantage of it at the end of his career. O'Neal was waiting for him to attack near the penalty area, and Howard couldn't single out, so he had to cut back on his shots.

If Howard wants to score, he has to pull out to cover his teammates, wait for the guard to lure O'Neal away, and then cut to the basket.

Turkglou and Caron Butler are both playmakers and have a half-hearted strength.

Magic's point guard Jamal Nelson was luckier than Guo Xu in his previous life, not seriously injured, but only sidelined for four weeks during the All-Star break, otherwise he would have been selected as an Eastern Conference All-Star. With him there, the Magic didn't consider trading for point guard reinforcements, and in the parallel world they traded for Alston in the middle of the game.

Nielsen has excellent mid-range shooting, breakouts and playmaking, and deserves All-Star status this season. However, he is not a guard who is good at launching fast breaks, and the Magic can only grind with the Pacers.

The Magic won the Pacers by 20 points in the home tiebreaker, which resulted in 25 points, 5 rebounds and 12 assists on 9-of-12 shooting, 4-of-5 three-pointers and 3-of-3 free throws.

In the key game, Butler was lost, shooting only 4 of 15, 0 of 3 three-pointers, and 5 of 6 free throws, and only scored 13 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists.

O'Neal had 18 points, 15 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 blocks, slightly better than Howard's 12 points, 16 assists and 3 blocks.

This time O'Neal was eliminated with a smile, and the Pacers achieved this result without being favored at all, although it was still honorable.

O'Neill began to concentrate on studying the script at home during the holidays, and only waited for Guo Xu to make that comedy movie together after he finished playing.

The series between the Grizzlies and the Rockets ended up decided, with the Grizzlies winning 99-83 in seven games on the road and advancing from the competition.

The Bears were still the key to the win, Gasol beat Hayes with 21 points, 18 rebounds and 4 assists, and Randolph outperformed Scola with 18 points and 8 rebounds.

After Yao Ming was absent, the Rockets' interior offense could only rely on Scola, who shot 4-of-12 and 3-of-4 free throws under the opponent's strict defense, scoring only 11 points, 6 rebounds and 1 assist.

The Grizzlies struggled to advance, and the prospects for the Western Conference finals are not optimistic.

The Suns originally had a lot of people playing, and their physical strength was all back to their best, and experts predicted that there was no suspense, and the Suns would 100% advance to the finals.

In the Eastern Magic VS Cavaliers series, people are also one-sidedly optimistic about the Cavaliers advancing to the Finals for four consecutive years, because the two teams have a clear advantage in the regular season.

David Stern doesn't want to see this pattern, 4 years and 3 Finals Suns vs Cavaliers? How many fans are still willing to watch?

Because of the emergence of Guo Xu, the NBA entered an era of lack of competitiveness ahead of schedule. Just like the days when he was a Cavaliers VS Warriors in his previous life, there were no more than four teams in the NBA that had a chance to compete for the championship, and most of the teams were running together and were not competitive.

If you want to win the championship, it has gradually become a trend for you to have stars together. The only way to change that is to introduce a hard salary cap, which doesn't fit the NBA's business line. James has not yet announced the first decision, and when he decides, he will start a new era of star huddles.

There is really no suspense between the west and the east.

The Suns eliminated the Grizzlies 4-1, and their second home loss made Grizzlies fans excited for a while, and soon the Grizzlies lost three games in a row and went home fishing.

The Grizzlies relied too much on the play of the two bears, Mike Conley and Nate Robinson performed well in the first two rounds, but they were fiercely suppressed when they met Guo Xu, and the flank strength was half a pound on both sides.

The Suns have a slight advantage against the Bears in the interior wheel battle, with a four-man rotation, and the Grizzlies have a somewhat worse rotation than the starters. In key games, the coaching staff reduced Jordan Jr.'s playing time to avoid being targeted by the opponent with "shark cutting tactics".

The Grizzlies won one game when the Suns collectively missed the perimeter and shot just 25 percent from the field.

The Cavaliers eliminated the Magic 4-2.

The Magic did not poach Rashad Lewis and brought in Sean Marion, neither of whom is an orthodox power forward, and it is very difficult to defend Boozer, but the weakness of this position is enough for the Magic.

The advantage of the Magic is "Warcraft" Howard and "Little Shark" Bynum, Bynum is very efficient as a substitute, but it is not suitable for Howard to play together, so the formation cannot be pulled apart, and it is not good to break the Cavaliers' defense.