Although he didn't win the Rookie Challenge MVP, Roy has clearly strengthened his confidence against his peers. After the All-Star Weekend, his stats continued to improve, basically stabilizing at the level of 23+4+7, and his name was written on the top of the official rookie list most of the time, let alone the Eastern Conference Rookie of the Week.

The Lord will be so violent, and the others will not be far behind. Chang Wei's optimistic players have basically played well, especially Milicic, who was once known as a parallel import, has become one of the league's second-rate interior players, with averages of 17.3 points, 8.2 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 1.4 blocks per game. In fact, there are too many outstanding centers in the league now, and in another ten years, he can get an annual salary of more than 20 million with such data.

However, the top teams in the East have been very consistent this year, and have been fortunate not to have seen a major injury wave, and the occasional minor injury has not affected the main players. The Bobcats are not so filthy as to pray that their competitors are injured, and not only that, but their actions on the court are also very clean, which is why there are no old players in the team.

Still, the Bobcats moved up one spot from eighth in the East, pushing the Nets into eighth. The Nets can now continue to rank in the top eight in the East, and Chang Wei has to say that he admires, but their ceiling ends here. In the previous life, with Carter, the Nets gradually began to decline at this time, not to mention that Carter is still partnering with Maddie in the Raptors!

After climbing to seventh in the East, Jackson does want to lead the team up one place so that he doesn't directly become cannon fodder even in the playoffs. Unfortunately, the Bobcats are still as many as five wins away from the sixth-place Pacers, which is not a gap that can be settled in one or two games. After Miller's retirement, the Pacers relied on the combination of O'Neal Jr. and Harrington to play well in the East, although they can't be regarded as a strong side, but they can always cause problems for opponents in the playoffs.

This can't be helped, who makes the family play well? The only thing the Bobcats can do is to follow in the footsteps of their opponents, win the games they deserve, and try to fight for the games they shouldn't win, waiting for the Pacers to make mistakes. In fact, it is indeed surprising that the Bobcats can play like this, is it possible that this new army is going to make the playoffs in its first year?

Excluding the teams that joined through the merger of the NBA and the ABA in ancient times, there are basically no teams in the history of the league that have made the playoffs in their first year of existence. Indeed, it is very difficult for a new team to make the playoffs in the first year, because everything needs time to get on track, and the Bobcats are undoubtedly the luckiest one, because they brought in Chang Wei, although Chang Wei did not agree to be the head coach of the team, but as the head assistant coach he also made a huge contribution.

The Bobcats were excited to move up to seventh in the East, but their excitement was quickly drained by the constant training. Jackson and Chang Wei have agreed that it is obviously a high demand to make the playoffs and make a name for themselves in the first year, at least now that the team has performed as expected, so the development of players is relatively more important.

In addition to the starting five, Chang Wei also put a lot of effort into the substitutes, and he believes that a good rotation is the key to the success of any team. Although I have a lot of experience in recovering from injuries, I still try not to get injured if I can, and a wide range of rotations is undoubtedly the easiest and most effective way to avoid injuries to key players.

Among the Bobcats' bench bandits, Chang Wei is most optimistic about Ellis and Lee, the two cores inside and outside. Chang Wei didn't intend to make the benches as balanced as the starters, and after convincing Jackson, he had only one requirement for the bench lineup, and when they came on the court, they had to do their best to score and defend...... There is a general level that is about the same.

It's normal to be optimistic about Ellis and Lee, because Chang Wei knows how high they will reach. In fact, apart from them, most of the players sitting on the Bobcat bench are functional players, and they are relatively simple, such as Capono is positioned as a pure three-point shooter, yes, he has no defense, only three-point shooting; Allen is regarded as a perimeter defensive striker, after all, this guy's offense is completely negligible compared to defense; As for Mark Hill, it's good to be a meat shield.

It seems that Ellis and Lee's ceiling is relatively high, and relatively comprehensive, Chang Wei naturally spent a lot of effort to help them grow. Fortunately, since the summer league, Ellis has gradually changed his style, starting from a pure assaulter to an all-round guard who can shoot, organize and defend, of course, Chang Wei also made a weight gain plan for him, Ellis still seems too thin, and the disadvantage in physical confrontation should be made up as soon as possible.

Although in Chang Wei's opinion, this group of little guys still has a lot of room for growth, but for the Bobcats, their current strength is basically enough. Don't look at the championship teams in recent years are all from the East, in fact, since Jordan left the Bulls, the West is strong and the East is weak, which has also made many Western teams publicly express their desire to select the 16 teams with the best records in the league to enter the playoffs, instead of selecting the top eight in the East and West as now, which is not very fair to the Western teams.

But this has nothing to do with the Bobcats, and they even have to thank the league for only selecting the top eight in the East and West to enter the playoffs, otherwise they will probably be eaten to the bone. After months of competition, all 82 regular season games were finally played, and the Bobcats neither went further, nor were they caught up by the pursuers behind the butt, and the 41-41 record was enough for them to rank seventh in the East, such a regular season record made the team owner can't help but give the whole team a generous bonus.

Why do so many teams desperately want to make the playoffs? In addition to the league giving bonuses to playoff teams every year, teams can sell more tickets and merchandise, players can get more training, and the head coach can make the team's cultural heritage, technical and tactical system more perfect and cohesive. Even if it's just eighth in the division, even if they're eliminated in the first round, most NBA teams are fighting for a playoff spot every year, unless they really want to mess up.

The Bobcats weren't going to mess up, so they worked hard and made the playoffs in their first season, even if they were swept in the first round, and their name is engraved in the history of the NBA, and that's the glory.