Chapter 140: The Regular Season Ends
Ye Feng has seen the horrors of the regular season. As soon as the All-Star weekend ended, the giants from all walks of life rushed forward, those in front wanted to continue to consolidate or even expand their lead, and those in the back were holding back their energy to find a suitable playoff spot for themselves, and even those teams that were still a long way from the top eight wanted to seize even a glimmer of hope.www.biquge.info Basically, among the 30 teams in the league, only a few teams such as the Thunder are focused on player growth, and the other teams, one is counted as one, and they all want to squeeze into the playoffs.
However, the pioneers are very stable, and they can't see that most of them are still jerky cucumber eggs, and they can almost win the balls that should be won, but they don't just tie their hands and catch those who should lose, but they have the courage to pull the emperor off the horse and go up and do it a few times. Not to mention, their fearless mentality is a great stimulus to the fighting power, as the Spurs and Lakers have been defeated by them sometimes. Although they suffered two straight defeats against the Rockets and Spurs on February 24 and 25, the Trail Blazers did not suffer a single losing streak after that, but the small winning streak always came one after another.
But the dense schedule made Ye Feng hit the rookie wall, and it was the first time he encountered such a dense schedule, even in the NCAA, which played more than half of the games in the NBA in almost the same time. The so-called rookie wall is used in the top sports leagues in Europe and the United States to describe the situation of an athlete who is not in shape during the first two rookie seasons when he turns from an amateur player to a professional player. Rookies who hit the wall will have all kinds of inexplicable symptoms, including lack of sleep, weakness, exhaustion, etc., and it is strange that they can play well in such a state.
Someone once described in detail how and why he hit the rookie wall, saying, "Every year after the start of the season, the rookies seem to be getting more and more active. They will jump higher and run faster. Unfortunately, however, the NBA is a marathon event, not a sprint event. Starting at training camp, you'll have two practices a day for a whole month, and eight preseason games right after that. Then there's the long road of 82 races to torment you, a long road filled with a dozen back-to-back races and endless days of flying, staying in hotels and riding buses. And if you're in a strong team, you'll have two more weeks to your two-month away season. When you're a 19-22-year-old rookie, you basically have to multiply your college schedule by three. Eventually, when both physical and mental strength began to break down a little - the 'rookie wall' came. The vast majority of rookies hit this evil wall in their debut season to varying degrees. ”
However, Ye Feng quickly got rid of the rookie wall, which surprised his teammates, and Auden even forcibly thought that it was "magic from the East", because he was also tortured by the rookie wall, but it seemed that it would take a while to get rid of it. In fact, Ye Feng didn't have any other way, he just gradually increased his training, and used a stricter schedule to arrange his life, on his mobile phone, the time range of that watch was even accurate to the minute. Coupled with the fact that he also humbly consulted his father, it is not surprising that he can come out quickly.
In fact, in the final stage of the season, the competition in the West is not bad at all compared to that in the East. The top three Cavaliers, Celtics and Magic in the East have won steadily, and there is nothing to fight for in the remaining five positions, obviously, whether it is fourth or fifth, six, seven, eight, whether it is the first round or the second round, it is basically a food delivery to the big three, and strictly speaking, there is nothing to fight for. But the West is different, in addition to the Lakers, the Nuggets, Spurs, Trail Blazers and Rockets are all biting very tightly, especially the second and third positions, not only can they get home court advantage, but they don't have to meet the Lakers before the Western Conference Finals, what a beautiful thing, these four teams are determined to fight for these two positions, if they don't get it, it depends on luck, anyway, they all have to face the Lakers.
The Trail Blazers are very stable, and the others are not bad, having said that, it is normal for the Spurs and Rockets to play like this this season, but what about the Nuggets, how to say it? It really relied on trading to shake up. They traded Iverson to Anthony, a duo known as the "Golden Double," ranking third and fourth on the 2007-08 scoring charts, averaging 52.1 points per game. But this is useless, the Nuggets 50-32 lost eighth in the West, and were swept 4-0 by the Lakers in the first round, although the eighth place in the West is because the teams in the West last season were all bloody, but it is a little too much to say that they were swept in the first round.
As a result, not long after the start of this season, they opened a trade, trading Iverson from the Pistons to the former Finals MVP Billups, and the Nuggets who changed their brains were immediately reborn, even though Billups contributed less than 20 points per game, but his organization of the team was incomparable to Iverson. With the help of Billups, plus a strong player such as Martin, Kreza and JR, the Nuggets can go hand in hand with several other strong teams, which really blinds many people's eyes. However, the Trail Blazers don't want to deal with this opponent in the same division, they just want to play their own game.
To the relief of McMillan and a group of Trail Blazers fans, the Trail Blazers did not let go of that breath, but withstood the pressure in the final sprint stage to play a wave of six consecutive wins, and this streak is not low, the Lakers, Spurs and Nuggets, the top three in the West, were all won by this group of stunned boys. But there is no way, the Trail Blazers are still at a disadvantage in terms of head-to-head records, even if they finally played the same 54-28 with the Nuggets and Spurs, but according to the relationship between each other, the Trail Blazers can only be aggrievedly ranked fourth, and the Lakers are in the same half.
On April 15, U.S. time, all the regular seasons of the season finally came to an end, and the top eight in the East and West were also settled. The final two divisions are: Cavaliers 66-16 (East 1), Celtics 62-20 (East 2), Magic 59-23 (East 3), Hawks 47-35 (East 4), Heat 43-39 (East 5), 76ers 41-41 (East 6), Bulls 41-41 (East 7), Pistons 39-43 (East 8). The Lakers are 65-17 (1 West), the Nuggets are 54-28 (2 West), the Spurs are 54-28 (3 West), the Trail Blazers are 54-28 (4 West), the Rockets are 53-29 (5 West), the Mavericks are 50-32 (6 West), the Hornets are 49-33 (7 West), and the Jazz are 48-34 (8 West).