Chapter 280 The Big Fleet on the Lake in Los Angeles (2-in-1 monthly pass 1240 plus more, ask for a monthly pass!) )
At present, the top two teams in the league are the Golden State Warriors and the San Antonio Spurs, and the next four teams in the West, such as the Rockets, Jazz, Clippers, and Grizzlies, are all very difficult masters, especially the Rockets got Louis Williams at the trade deadline, and the strength of the backcourt has risen sharply, and the strength is not what it used to be!
The Warriors and Spurs should be the two most troublesome teams in the league right now, in the course of the season, neither team has made any major moves, the Spurs have not changed their personnel at all, and the Warriors, although there have been some changes, but they are only a small fight, and they have not brought in any heavyweight players. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
This season's Western Conference playoffs can be said to be the most intense playoffs in the past two decades, the top six including the newly formed Twin Towers Pelicans, which team is extremely strong, before the real battle results, no one dares to say that they can win the opponent!
The Spurs can be said to be the biggest victim of the crazy arms race in the West, and the Warriors are okay to say that they now have the Big Five, and there is no place to make up for it, and the Spurs are in a difficult situation!
In particular, the Rockets are the biggest threat to the Spurs, and if nothing else, the Spurs and Rockets will meet in the second round of the playoffs.
The Warriors' game against the Philadelphia 76ers was the last game of the Warriors in February, and throughout February, the Warriors had never lost a single game and ended the February schedule with a complete victory!
At present, the Warriors are ranked first in the league with a 50-8 record! The second-placed Spurs are 44-14, and it's almost impossible for the Spurs to catch up with the Warriors in the next schedule.
The only thing Warriors fans are concerned about now is whether the Warriors will continue to maintain this kind of super high victory in the next schedule, breaking their own record of 73 wins in the regular season held last season!
In the eyes of fans and experts, the Warriors really have a good chance to break their own record this season!
Of the eight games the Warriors have lost so far, the first two have been to the Spurs and Lakers, and Sun Dahei has not yet joined the Warriors at that time...... And when Sun Dahei joined the Warriors, the Warriors lost a total of five games, including a three-game losing streak plus a loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Christmas game, and an inexplicable loss to the Detroit Pistons!
Even if they want to break last season's record of 73 wins, they will need the Warriors to go undefeated in the rest of the season, so that they can end up with a 74-8 record!
Although it seems to be very difficult, fans and experts feel that if Kerr is really determined to continue to break the regular season record, he will send the strongest force in every game, with the terrifying lineup of the Big Five, it is not without a chance!
Now it's up to Kerr to decide, whether to continue to break the regular season record or save his fitness for the playoffs!
Of course, Kerr also knows the current situation of the Warriors, the regular season ends in mid-April, and there is still a month and a half to go, and the regular season will end, if the strongest team is sent out in every game, the Warriors have a chance to break the regular season record of 73 wins! But last season, Kerr, who suffered a big loss, is not ready to do this, no matter how attractive the regular season record is, it is not as tempting as the championship, Kerr is now thinking about the championship, even if all the next games are lost, he will not hesitate!
Even, Kerr wished that the Warriors would lose a few more games in the next few games to let the Spurs catch up!
If the Warriors enter the playoffs as the first in the West, they are very likely to meet the Twin Towers Pelicans in the first round of the playoffs, compared to the Pelicans, Kerr would rather the Warriors play the Thunder, the seventh in the West, the Thunder is an old rival, this season the Warriors face the Thunder to maintain a winning record, Kerr is confident that he will sweep the Thunder in the first round of the playoffs!
In the second round of the playoffs, if the Warriors enter the playoffs as the first, the opponents in the second round are one of the Clippers and the Jazz, and if the second enters the playoffs, they will face the Rockets or the Grizzlies.
As for the Western Finals, not only Kerr, 90% of fans are optimistic that the Warriors and Spurs will enter the Western Finals, regardless of the Spurs and the Warriors, who has the first record, the teams that enter the Western Finals should be these two giants!
Therefore, the Warriors' record in the next schedule is irrelevant, and even the second place in the West is more favorable for them......
Although Cole will not deliberately lose the game to lower the ranking, Cole can at least start to rest his main players with peace of mind!
Warriors fans can naturally understand Kerr's approach, Kerr, who has had a painful lesson, makes a shift to rest the main players, which is completely understandable!
At the beginning of March, the Warriors' first game was against the Washington Wizards!
The Washington Wizards team, Sun Dahei is not very impressed, the only thing he knows is that they have two backcourt guns in the team, and the city of Washington is the political center of the United States.
Washington Wizards, in fact, the real Chinese name should be called Washington Wizards, because their team name Wizards, Chinese is the meaning of wizards. It's just that the name wizard doesn't sound very auspicious, so it is called Washington Wizard in China.
The Chinese names of many teams in the NBA are not related to their English names, such as the Dallas Mavericks, the team label is obviously a horse, and Mavericks is actually a word to commemorate the life of the Western Cowboys, translated as the Dallas Cowboys, which may be a better choice!
In addition to the Dallas Mavericks, the translation error is also the Philadelphia 76ers, 76ers This is the English team name of the Philadelphia 76ers, at first glance, this translation is indeed correct, but the ers behind the 76ers is not the plural of people at all, but the abbreviation of years, and the name of the team is to commemorate the signing of the American Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia in 1776...... It's more appropriate to call it the Philadelphia '76 team......
The real translator of the New York Knicks should be the New York Dutch Panty Team! The true translation of the Los Angeles Lakers is the Los Angeles Lakers Big Boats, the Indiana Guided Team, the Chicago Beefs, ......
Our current fans don't know whether to be grateful or to hate the pioneers who were the first to translate the names of NBA teams......
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The Washington Wizards are currently the team that has changed the most names among all teams in the NBA, and the team has changed its name many times in its history, and it has moved many times......
Chicago Packers, Chicago Zephyr, Baltimore Bullets, Capital Bullets, Washington Bullets, and up to today's Washington Wizards......
Since the establishment of the team, there have been a lot of big-name stars, and the most familiar and famous of modern fans is the general Arenas, but even the most famous Arenas has no achievements...... On the contrary, he is gradually moving away on the road of pretending to be forced and brain-dead, and the peak of his career is extremely short, that is, our generation of fans can still remember Arenas, and after another twenty years, I am afraid that the new generation of fans will definitely not have the opportunity to pay attention to Arenas.
In addition to Arenas, the Wizards of the Ancient Times also had a famous god named Walter Bellamy......
Speaking of this name, many fans must have laughed, and Chamberlain was immediately reminiscent of it. That's right, this Bellamy is the man who was completely blocked by Chamberlain on the court......
After Bellamy, the Wizards began to walk to glory through drafts and trades, with superstars such as Bone Crusher Wess Unseld and "Big E" Elvin Hayes, and won the championship trophy for the first time in team history in the 77-78 season, which is also the only championship in team history!
After that, the Wizards began to decline, and among the later stars, there was also a Manute Ball, the tallest player in NBA history, as high as 2.31 meters, although the body was so thin that it was not good, but the blocking skills were terrible, before Sun Dahei did not enter the NBA, Manute Ball's blocking efficiency value was the first in history!
After entering the 21st century, the Wizards' record has been maintained well, and the worst is the level of the middle of the league, and the 13-14 and 14-15 seasons have played the fifth best in the league!
This season's Wizards, with a record that is also outstanding, are currently in third place in the East, and reaching the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs should not be a problem.
The biggest stars in the current Wizards lineup must be their backcourt duo, Beal and Wall!
Bradley Beal, the starting point guard for the Washington Wizards, signed a five-year, $127 million contract with the Wizards in the summer of 16, and the current data basically matches his huge contract, averaging 22.2 points per game, 47% shooting rate plus 40% three-point shooting rate, among the guards in the East, belongs to the first echelon!
And Bill is still very young, born in 93, he is only 24 years old, there is definitely room for further growth in the future, and he is regarded by the Wizards as the core of the team!
John Wall, another of the backcourt double-gun, plays as a point guard, and his statistics are eye-catching, averaging 22.8 points and 10.6 assists per game, and he is fully qualified to be the No. 1 point guard in the East! The only thing that makes Wall criticized is that he hits low, shooting 45%, which is not high, and it is reasonable, but the three-point shooting rate is only 31% when he averages 3.5 shots per game, which is a bit too low for a backcourt player!
Although Wall's statistics have a chance to become the No. 1 point guard in the East, his salary contract is not remarkable, compared with teammate Beal's five-year $127 million contract, John Wall only has a five-year $84 million, a salary of more than 40 million less......
The reason for this situation is naturally the sharp rise in salary space, Wall signed the contract in 13 years, only three years have passed, the salary cap has risen by at least 50%, and Wall's contract will not expire until 2019, which also means that between the expiration of the contract, Wall can only do high-paying work with a low salary.
From Wall's body, we can also see the real reason for the grouping of superstars in the league, many superstars signed contracts before the salary cap did not rise, and after the salary cap went up, their contracts were not much more than the middle class contracts, which also allowed the team to have sufficient salaries to bring in more superstars!
The most typical is the Golden State Warriors, the reason why the Warriors have the opportunity to form a feared Big Five this year is precisely because of the sharp rise in the salary cap!
Curry's 13-year contract is only 44 million for 4 years, and the average annual salary is only 11 million! You must know that next season's middle-class contracts are as high as $9 million, and Curry, the two-time MVP, has a middle-class salary, which is equivalent to saving more than 10 million salary space for the Warriors!
Klay Thompson in the Splash Brothers is also squeezed by the Warriors, the contract signed by Tang Shen in 15 years is only 4 years and 69 million, with an average annual salary of 17 million, you must know that with Tang Shen's strength, if he is not in the Warriors this season, no matter which team, a contract with an annual salary of at least 25 million will definitely be held to Tang Shen!
Chasing Egg Green's contract is 5 years and 82 million, which was signed in the same year as Tang Shen, and now it seems that this contract is also small, and Green's role on the court will be at least 5 years and more than 100 million US dollars!
Sun Dahei...... Half a million dollars a year, don't mention this.
It is precisely because of this that the Warriors can have a huge salary space to bring in Durant and swallow Durant's two-year contract of 54 million!
Fans only see the infinite scenery of the Warriors' Big Five, but they can't see the hard work of Curry, Tang Shen, and Egg Chase Green.
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In addition to the excellent backcourt double guns, the Washington Wizards also have the Polish Hammer Gortat, an interior player with a very tough style of play!
As well as Markieff Morris, Otto Porter and other very good players.
Washington can occupy the third position in the East, there is certainly no big problem in the lineup, there is nothing too weak in the starting lineup, but the bench is much weaker than the other giants, except for the five starters, the highest score among the bench players is only 6.2 points......
It is conceivable that once the main players of the Wizards' lineup are injured, the record will definitely be greatly affected, and the physical confrontation in the playoffs is very fierce, and the starters cannot play the full 48 minutes......
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In today's game, Kerr has already made up his mind to start taking turns to rest anyway, and the Big Five only sent three, namely Sun Dahei, Curry and Klay Thompson, according to Kerr, chasing eggs Green has broken his foot, and he has to rest again, Durant's daughter-in-law is not feeling well, so she asked for leave to take care of her daughter-in-law......
The fool also knows that Kerr has now made up his mind to start stocking up for the playoffs, so Kerr's excuse for the rest is a joke in the eyes of reporters.
Egg Chaser Green has a broken foot? Or is it an intra-team training match? He didn't have a broken foot when he flew into the air to kick other people's balls, and now you tell me that he broke his foot in the team training match......
Durant's wig version of Rondo's daughter-in-law looks much stronger than Durant, where is the body uncomfortable! If Kerr says that Durant is not feeling well, I am afraid that there are still reporters who believe it......