Chapter 157: Playoffs Kill the Quartet
The 2021-2022 season is over......
After a bloody season in the East, the regular season is over......
The Fortune Players made the playoffs as third in the East and started their own playoff journey.
The regular season is over, and some awards have been released one after another, and Meng Xiaohao played very well in this regular season, although he has no form, but his performance is still eye-catching.
Meng Xiaohao's outstanding performance has also won corresponding honors for himself.
averaged 26.1 points, 5.4 rebounds and 6.3 assists per game, a very good statistic that made Meng Xiaohao the point guard of the second team of the best team in the regular season.
For a while, of course, it was taken away by the terrible Lucas, who averaged 28.5 points per game.
Regular season MVP, or Tom. Krusson, who is winning the award for the third year in a row.
He averaged 28.3 points, 10 rebounds and 11.8 assists per game this season, and the team's record was also the first in the league, and there was no pressure to win the regular season MVP.
Derrick also relied on his average of 24.6 points per game to sit in the regular season All-Season three-team forward position.
And Kobo also made the second team of the All-Defensive Team in the regular season.
Although Middleton did not make the roster, he won the 2021-2022 North American Conference regular season Most Improved Player Award.
From last season's bench, averaging 13.8 points per game, to this season's starter, the third scorer, averaging 18.2 points per game, and the second-highest three-point shooting percentage in the league, this improvement is still very huge.
The Fortune team has made a qualitative leap this season, because of the addition of Derek, Cobo and Middleton, Meng Xiaohao is no longer alone, and it is a good thing for the team to have strong teammates join.
Although there were some form issues in the middle and late season, it didn't hurt, and the Fortune Players are still at the forefront of the East.
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The Fortune Makers' first opponent in the playoffs is the Cleveland Owls, who are sixth in the East.
This season's Cleveland is also a team to be reckoned with in the East, and after Eddick and the Owls renewed his contract, the Owls equipped Eddick with several very good pitchers, and the lineup of one big and four small was put together.
Although there is only one defensive gate on the defensive end, Edik is quite sharp in attack, and although they don't have a superstar, they still managed to climb to the sixth place in the East.
But it's clear that the Cleveland Owls don't deserve anything in front of the Fortune Guys.
The Owls have a great offense, but they don't have a good defense, while the Fortunes have a very good offense, and of course the defense is excellent, which is a big headache for the Owls.
Facing the Owls, which were not very effective, the Fortune Players won their first two games at home with ease.
But in the third game on the road, the Fortune Players who thought they could still win were met with stubborn resistance from the Owls.
Edik was like a hanger, killing all sides on the inside of the Fortune team, and Kobo couldn't stop Eddick at all. Pressed to the ground by Edik and rubbed.
With Eddick's excellent performance, the Owls pulled back a game at home and did not lose face in their own home.
But the difference in strength has not changed because of the victory in the last game, and the Fortune team is still stronger than the Owls in terms of hard power.
So, in the fourth game, there was no doubt about it, and the Fortune team won the game.
In the whole game, the Fortune Players only missed 10 three-point shots, 20 of 30 shots, and shot the Owls to death from the outside.
Back at the Black Gold Arena in Game 5, the Fortunes aren't going to give the Owls any chance, they're going to win the game at home.
Meng Xiaohao, Derek, Cobo and Middleton directly exerted their strength, and the four of them scored 92 points together, and directly took away the Owls in a wave, effortlessly.
This is the first time that Meng Xiaohao feels that he is not so lonely, he is no longer as helpless as he was in the playoffs last season, and he is no longer the lonely general with many players around him.
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Winning the Owls didn't bring Meng Xiaohao much joy, because in the regular season this season, in all the games against the Owls, the Fortune Team won the game.
So this time the victory over the Owls is nothing.
On the contrary, the Fortune Team and Meng Xiaohao care about the team they need to face in the second battle......
The Philadelphia Watchers are second in the East.
The Watchers also had no trouble in the first round of the playoffs, eliminating the seventh-largest team in the East 4-0 to advance to the second round of the playoffs, where he faced the winners of the Fortune and Owls in the second round.
Of course, the Fortune team won.
Then the Watchers are facing the Fortune Players who are gaining momentum.
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The Watchmen, as the biggest and most threatening competitor of the Revolutionary Team in the East in recent years, have gradually increased their strength in recent years.
But they still couldn't shake the dominance of the revolutionaries in the East.
Therefore, in the offseason, the Watchers have made a series of reinforcements to improve their strength, and they believe that this time, they can definitely take out the Revolutionaries in the playoffs.
As for Meng Xiaohao and the Fortune Team, they didn't pay attention to it at all......
"The Fortune Team? It's amazing, but what's that? They are nothing more than a little ant in front of us, just trample to death! ”
These are the words of the Watchers coach before the game.
But pride comes at a price.
As soon as the first game began, Meng Xiaohao led the Fortune Team to carry out a large-scale attack, three three-pointers, one two-pointer, and a wave of 11-2 directly stopped the Watchmen, sobering up the self-righteous coach.
"Teams that make the playoffs aren't easy to gnaw on!"
The Watchmen, who were aware of the problem, made timely adjustments to the team's lineup and tactics, but this simply could not stop the Fortune Players from feeling hot.
Middleton, in particular, made 9 three-pointers, not only setting a new record for three-pointers in a single playoff game in his career, but also tying his single-game three-point record in the playoffs in the league, scoring 40 points and taking away the game.
Although in the second game, the Watchmen took the game seriously and pulled one back, but to no avail.
In the third game, Meng Xiaohao was powerful, scoring 44 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, and took the Fortune Team to win the Watchmen.
In the fourth and fifth games, the Fortune Team was still unstoppable.
The head coach of the Watchmen will regret that he said that before the game, because his team was eliminated 4-1 by the Fortune Ones.
The Fortune Ones eliminated the Watchmen, something that no one expected.
The expert was right, when the Fortune Players get over their form issues, they're going to move up a notch.
Now, there's only one team standing in the way of the riches, a team that has dominated the East for five years......
Boston Revolutionaries ......
(End of chapter)