Chapter 91: Semi-finals
After the first round of battles, the Celtics entered a long period of rest. ∈ ♀ top novel,
During this time, the other groups of matchups are still going on, the fourth game between the Pacers and the Cavaliers, started in Cleveland, and the final result of this game was that the Pacers won, and they successfully entered the Eastern Conference semifinals, and a day later, the Hawks defeated the Heat at home, 3:1 also advanced to the Eastern Conference semifinals, and in this way, the Eastern four groups faced off, and after 4 games, all the winners and losers.
The Celtics will face the Bulls on the road, while the Pacers will face the Hawks at home. However, the semi-final schedule is yet to be released, as they still have to wait for the final result from the western side.
In the West, the Jazz advanced early, while their opponents Spurs and Suns drew in the fourth game, and the Suns defeated the Spurs to tie the total score 2:2 and will play the fifth game! On the other side, the SuperSonics defeated the Timberwolves away and advanced to the next round 3-1, while the Lakers beat the Trail Blazers and also advanced to the next round 3-1. In this way, there is also a set of matchups in the Western Conference semifinals, and the Lakers will face the SuperSonics in the semifinals.
And during this time, the league wasted no time, announcing the winners of the Best Sixth Player and Best Defensive Player one after another.
The best sixth man is the Suns' Danny Manning, as the hope of the Clippers that year, the current Danny Manning is no longer the big forward who can average 20 points per game, but in the past few years of the Suns, Danny Manning has learned to get up from the bench to score, this season Danny Manning has played 70 games, of which only 11 games are starts, averaging 13.5 points, 5.6 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.0 steals per game, as a bench power forward, Danny Manning is still playing very well.
Danny Manning was officially awarded on his home turf, and he then won 2-2 on aggregate with the Spurs. It became the only group to play the 5th game in the first round.
And the best defensive player was finally won by Deacon Bemutombo, Uncle Mu played 82 games this season, averaging 13.4 points, 11.4 rebounds and 3.4 blocks per game, and finally won the honor of the best defensive player. In fact, Ben Wallace, who was originally from the Celtics, also had a chance to get this award, this season, after moving to the Celtics. Big Ben is averaging 4.6 points, 12.7 rebounds and 2.7 blocks per game, and Big Ben has slightly fewer rebounds than Deacon Berg Mutombo.
If there is a loss to Big Ben, it should be lost in scoring and the team's overall defense, Big Ben was not fully exploited by the team, but because the team really lacked a player who could protect the basket, Big Ben would win so many rebounds and blocks. And Big Ben ended up third in the league in rebounds in the regular season this season, behind Dennis Rodman and Jason Williams of the Nets.
The Bass is fifth, behind Marcus Camby, Deacon Bemutombo, Sean Bradley and Siolatliffe.
After the Defensive Player of the Year accolade was decided. Two important honors will be announced, one is the best rookie and the other is the regular season MVP.
Best Rookie, this honor is no longer in doubt, Tim Duncan, who averaged 21.1 points, 11.9 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 2.5 blocks per game in the regular season, is 100% sure that he will get this honor.
The regular season MVP is still a little questionable, with Jonny Lee, who averaged 37.8 points, 5.2 rebounds, 9.6 assists, 3.2 steals and 1.2 blocks per game in the regular season, plus the Celtics' regular season record of over 50 wins. It can be said that Jonny Lee has a good chance of getting this most prestigious honor.
You know, this season. The Celtics have 54 regular season wins, compared to 15 regular season wins last season, the Celtics have directly improved 39 wins under the leadership of Jonny Lee, this huge improvement, obviously Jonny Lee has a lot of credit.
Jonny is averaging a whopping 37.8 points per game. Much higher than Michael Jordan, who is second in the league, Michael Jordan averaged 28.7 points per game in the regular season, and was almost pulled away by Jonny by 10 points. With an average of 9.6 assists per game, he ranks second in the league behind the Wizards' Rod Strickland. And Jonny's assists are obviously much more useful than Rodstrickland's stats.
In addition, the average of 3.2 steals per game is also much higher than the second-place Muche Braellock, who is second, and the second-place Muchy Braerock also averages only 2.6 steals per game.
Jonny's luxurious data also gave him the confidence to compete for this regular season MVP.
The only disadvantage for Jonny is that this season is Michael Jordan's last season, the last season of the basketball gods, and it will obviously not be interesting enough if there is no regular season MVP to see him off.
Therefore, Jonny also had to guard against the possibility that the league would give this MVP to Michael Jordan and see Michael Jordan off. And this is very likely, the All-Star MVP has been sent before, and there is no less than a regular season MVP.
While the Celtics were nervously preparing for the next round of the series, the final game between the Suns and the Spurs was also decided, with the Spurs having a slight advantage to win Game 5 and advance to the next round, where they will face the Jazz in the Western Conference semifinals.
The first game of the Eastern and Western semifinals will be played on May 3, and the Celtics only have two days left to prepare.
And in the course of these two days, the league announced the winner of the best manager, Michael Leoncarr of the Celtics, who finally won the honor of best manager. This season, there are really not many general managers who have come up with beautiful transfer operations, and Michael Leoncarr's biggest competitor is actually the general manager of the Cavaliers, Wayne Embri, whose best operation this season is to trade Shaun Kemp.
However, everyone knows that Sean Camp has gone downhill, and this deal is a beautiful deal, but overall, the gold content of the deal is still a little worse.
Compared to the Celtics, in exchange for the Jonny Lee trade, it is even worse than a little.
The Celtics' beautiful trade this season is not limited to Jonny's deal, the free signing of Bruce Bowen in exchange for Ben Wallace, and the mid-season big trade to get Derrick Coleman are all considered good trades, and these transactions have greatly improved the team.
Bruce Bowen, who is free of visas, has become the outside gate of the Celtics. In exchange, the big book has become the big gate of the team's internal line. And the much-criticized Derrick Coleman, after coming to the Celtics, also averaged 18+10 data per game, and this deal is naturally very good in terms of results.
What's more, the Celtics make a lot of money in every trade, David Wesley and others in exchange for Jonny Lee, earn a draft pick and a cornerstone player, Derrick Coleman's trade, also earn in draft picks, overall, the Celtics make a lot of money. This recent manager, if you want to give Michael Leon Carr, it's hard! (To be continued......)