Chapter 232: Season Finale
The turmoil of infighting comes and goes quickly.
In the away game against the Trail Blazers, at the pre-game press conference, only one reporter from ESPN kept asking questions about infighting.
Qiao Hai didn't shy away from talking about it, and responded in person: "Sharif didn't attend the party, because it was ***** fasting day, there was no other reason, there was no problem inside the grizzly bear, I only said it once, I won't repeat it a second time, if anyone dares to spread rumors again, don't blame me for banning him!" ”
Blocked?
The ESPN reporter was a little excited, but soon, he was pulled by a colleague next to him and quickly coaxed.
Last season, Qiao Hai played a ban, and the object of the ban was ESPN, and ESPN suffered a big loss that time, after all, the Lakers were the final champions that season, ESPN was banned, and in the end, the key news reports of the playoffs, ESPN slowed down the opponent.
After reluctantly compromising, it was already the finals.
But the Lakers won the finals cleanly and neatly, and there was no topic, so ESPN's loss was a big one.
This time Qiao Hai shouted the word ban again, and the little reporter of ESPN naturally coaxed it, the reason is very simple, the Grizzlies have a chance to win the championship this season, and around Qiao Hai and the Grizzlies, there are all kinds of topics, especially in the playoffs, the Grizzlies are likely to face the Lakers, which will be a series full of topics.
If ESPN is really blocked by the Grizzly Bear and can't cover the report, ESPN will lose a lot again, and he, a little reporter who angers Qiao Hai, may be in trouble, so after thinking about it, this reporter from ESPN is instigated.
Playing the Trail Blazers away, the Grizzlies led by 10 points in the third quarter, but were almost tied by the Trail Blazers in the fourth quarter, and finally relied on Maddy's 17 points in a single quarter to win the game.
The Grizzlies won their 60th game of the season.
Breaking 60 wins, this is also a milestone.
In the system, Qiao Hai received a little dynasty point, which can be regarded as a surprise.
This point of dynasty points Qiao Hai is useless for the time being, and he is ready to save it until the end, he feels that if he wins the first place in the league in the regular season at the end of the season, the system should also reward a little dynasty point, and he is ready to keep it until the end of the regular season.
In reality, the Grizzlies' 60-win break is also widely discussed in North America.
60 wins is a threshold, and teams with 60 wins have generally reached the championship level, after all, in a regular season season, there are two or three teams that can win 60 at most, and they are the top teams in the league.
Now, with 60 wins, the Grizzlies have seven games left until the end of the regular season, which means the Grizzlies still have a chance to win 65 games.
And in addition to the Grizzlies who have a chance to win 60 this season, only the Lakers are left.
In the top four in the West, the Spurs have been in poor form recently and have been overtaken by the Trail Blazers.
And the Trail Blazers have lost too many games before, so they don't have any hope of winning 60 anymore.
The team that finished bottom last season is going to have a regular season record of 60 wins or more and have locked up the top two in the league, which is obviously big news, and there is a lot of discussion in North America about what the Grizzlies can achieve in the playoffs.
ESPN's Max Coleman said: "With a championship coach and at least the top three best Maddie players this season, the Grizzlies undoubtedly have the capital to compete for the championship, if by the end of the season, the Grizzlies are still ranked first in the league, I predict that the Grizzlies will at least make it to the second round, but in the second round they will meet the Spurs, looking at the Grizzlies' record against the Spurs in the regular season, they have no wins, so they are likely to fall in the second round." ”
That's Max Kleman's prediction, and his prediction, like most, is that the Grizzlies will fall at the feet of the Spurs.
But there are also different opinions.
Hoop Sports' John Hollinger analyzed the remaining schedule of the Spurs and Trail Blazers and concluded that the Grizzlies could meet the Trail Blazers instead of the Spurs in the second round.
Therefore, against the Trail Blazers, the Grizzlies have wins and losses, but the Grizzlies have Maddie and superstars, and the Trail Blazers should not be the opponent of the Grizzlies, so the Grizzlies should be able to enter the Western Conference finals.
Heading into the Western Conference finals, the Grizzlies will meet the winner between the Lakers and the Spurs, and John Hollinger has made a terrible discovery.
If the Grizzlies meet the Lakers in the West, with the Grizzlies' performance of killing the Lakers four times in the season, perhaps, the Western Conference championship will go to the Grizzlies.
If the Grizzlies run into the Spurs, John Hollinger believes that the Grizzlies have a fight, but are likely to lose.
So, Hoop Sports' conclusion is that the Grizzlies will at least make it to the Western Conference finals as well.
……
The playoffs are just around the corner, and Qiao Hai will know something from other people's mouths even if he doesn't want to pay attention to the analysis and predictions of major media in North America.
But almost all the analysis of experts and commentators is not the answer in Qiao Hai's mind, so, Qiao Hai thought about it, and he is ready to publish a column on his hoop website column himself at the end of the season predicting the direction of the playoffs.
For now, his priority is to lead the Grizzlies through their remaining regular season games.
After playing the Trail Blazers, the Grizzlies face the Warriors away.
In this game, Qiao Hai only let Maddy and Raheem play half of the game, and in the second half, the Warriors let all kinds of points chase points, and insisted on not letting Maddy and Raheem return to the court, and the regular season is no longer important in the playoffs.
Although there was no Maddie and Raheem in the second half, the Grizzlies locked a 13-point lead in the first half, and the Grizzlies' bench dared to fight, although they were frantically chased by the main force of the Warriors, and the difference was once narrowed to less than 5 points.
Chauncey Billups scored seven points in a row at a critical moment to help the Grizzlies win the game.
The game was the Grizzlies' 61st victory.
The next day, the Grizzlies played back-to-back games against the Suns, Maddy and Raheem still only played half of the game, and Billups, who played well in the last game, did not play in the second half, and the Grizzlies' lineup for the second half was a surprising point guard Earl Boygins, shooting guard Ragabel, small forward Sammark, power forward Wang Zhizhi and center Rasione Estrovich.
As a result, in the second half, the Suns fought back, overtook the score, and won the game, giving the Grizzlies a loss.
Two days later, the Grizzlies returned home to take on the Timberwolves.
Facing his bitter master, the Timberwolves, this time Qiao Hai did not take turns to rest either of Maddie and Rahim,
Instead, he took the initiative to attack, and several sets of restrained Timberwolves were arranged in the opening game, and Maddy and Brad Miller frequently blocked and dismantled offenses from the outside, directly breaking down the Timberwolves' defense.
The Grizzlies led by nine points at halftime.
In the second half, the Timberwolves counterattacked, but were stopped by Qiao Hai's sudden replacement of a small lineup.
At the end of the game, the Grizzlies won by 13 points and won their 62nd game of the season.
After playing the Timberwolves, the Grizzlies fought the Spurs back-to-back.
This big battle attracted much attention before the game, and various media flocked to it, believing that this game was either a rehearsal for the Western Conference semifinals or a rehearsal for the Western Conference finals, which was very crucial.
As a result, when all the media arrived in San Antonio, they learned that the Grizzlies had rested most of their main ......
"Maddie, Raheem, Brad Miller, the Grizzlies have three people on the rest."
A team core, an interior offensive core, and a tactical core, do the Grizzlies want to play this game?"
"Rotation and rest, and rotation rest, I think we should jointly attack Qiao Hai!"
At the Alamo Dome Arena, a group of reporters gathered around and angrily denounced Qiao Hai.