"It's the first quarter of the game, it's a boring game, the visiting Celtics have already made the playoffs and decided their spot, so they play very leisurely and don't care about winning or losing the game, while the other home team, the Wizards, they're out of the playoffs, and they're still the lead in this game, so they don't have any reason to fight hard."

The MCI Center in Washington, where the game going on is the Celtics regular season game, at this time their ranking in the East has been determined, fourth in the East, the playoffs are just around the corner, and the Celtics are certainly lazy when they can be lazy in this unimportant game.

So even if the Wizards are leading now, the Celtics don't care, and when the team is only 7 points behind, Rick Pitino even replaced Jonny Lee, who doesn't want to chase points at all, so the commentator of this game, Kehalan, said what he just said a little depressed.

At the end of the game, the Celtics were on the back foot, losing the final game of the regular season, and then they were ready to prepare for the playoffs.

The opponent of the Celtics in the first round of the playoffs is the Charlotte Hornets who were predicted earlier, and the Charlotte Hornets seem to have become Jonny's sworn enemies, and they will always meet Jonny's team. However, the star of the Hornets, Glen Les, is very much looking forward to this matchup, for the simple reason that he thinks his team can win against the Celtics, and he can also face Jonny again and get revenge.

The reason why Glen Les has such a high level of self-confidence is, of course, because the Celtics' roster is poor, and it can't be compared to the Magic in last season's playoffs. The Hornets, on the other hand, are a bit better than last season because of the further growth of the likes of Vladidiovac and David Wesley.

And in the regular season, the Celtics and Hornets played 3 games, winning all of them. But that doesn't make Glen Les lose confidence, because there's a common sense in the NBA that regular season records can't be used to predict the playoffs, for the simple reason that when it comes to the playoffs, each team will come up with something different than it did in the regular season. Whether it is strong defense, or the arrangement of targeted tactics, or the overall competitive state, it is more than one grade higher than the regular season.

After the game between the Celtics and the Wizards, the playoff matchups are all out.

The Bulls will face the New York Knicks in the first round, Patrick Ewing has dropped a lot this season, and this time he fell to eighth, and he will face the Bulls in the first round, which is a serious decline in strength for the Knicks. It can only be a must-lose series, and for the Knicks, all they can do is fight a series with the Bulls with all their might, and refuse to sweep.

The Pacers, who are second in the East, will play against the Cleveland Cavaliers, who have Sean Kemp and Zay Drunas Ilgoskas on the inside, but the Pacers seem to be somewhat restrained by the Cavaliers, because the Pacers' interior is all defensive interiors, while the Pacers' outside are core shooters. On the Cavaliers' side, there is only one Bob Soula who can defend the Pacers' perimeter stars.

So in this group matchup, the Pacers have a bigger advantage.

The Heat, who are in first place in the East, will play the Atlanta Hawks. This group is considered to be the most evenly matched in the East, with the Heat with Alonzo Mourning and Tim Hardaway and the Hawks with Deacon Bemutombo and Steve Smith really evenly matched in terms of strength.

However, the matchup between the Heat and the Hawks is considered by the media to be the most evenly matched matchup in the East, and the Celtics are a little unhappy, because they are actually considered by the media to be not a close matchup with the Hornets.

In the playoff predictions of various ESPN experts, the Celtics are believed to be killed by the Hornets 31, which makes Jonny a little resentful. There is not even a 32, but it is still 31, and the Celts are underestimated by various experts.

Of course, not everyone is underestimating the Celtics, Yahoo Sports' Adrian Wonarowski thinks. The Celtics have an advantage over the Hornets, and his reason is that Jonny Lee, this season is a season in which Jonny Lee really broke out, and after the entire regular season, Jonny played 81 games and only missed one game, averaging 37.8 points per game, plus 5.2 rebounds, 9.6 assists, 3.2 steals and 1.2 blocks.

And Adrian Wonarowski believes that Jonny Lee can help the team beat the Hornets even if he only relies on this rebellion.

And Adrian Wonarowski's words also attracted questions from his peers, USA Today's expert reporter Sam Amik believes that Adrian Wonarowski is too deified superstar, and he believes that the playoffs are still a team battle, and the team with the better team will win the game.

The debate over the Celtics and Hornets is just one of the more contentious in the playoff array, with the West side arguing even more intensely.

This year's Utah Jazz are the first in the West, the second is the SuperSonics, the Los Angeles Lakers are the first, the Phoenix Young is the fourth, the San Antonio Spurs are the fifth, the Portland Trail Blazers are the sixth, the Minnesota Timberwolves are the seventh, and the Houston Rockets are the eighth.

The playoff matchup will be the first Jazz vs. the eighth Rocket, and this matchup is also the most controversial group, because some experts who are biased towards the Rockets believe that this matchup will be a close matchup, and the Rockets are likely to stage the Black Eight Miracle, and there are not a few expert reporters who have this argument. Jonny also paid a little attention to it, for these people's arguments, Jonny could only laugh, what is the strength of Jazz? And what is the strength of the rocket?

It can be said that if Jonny did not expect, in the first round of the Western Conference, the most suspenseful group is the group of Jazz and Rockets, because the Jazz is so strong, so strong that even if the Bulls meet the Jazz, they can't guarantee that they will win. It's just that the Rockets' super roster and the strength of previous seasons have blinded these expert reporters who support the Rockets.

The Seattle SuperSonics, who are second in the West, will face the Minnesota Timberwolves, who are considered to be a team to make the playoffs and gain experience, so there is no doubt that the SuperSonics have the upper hand in this matchup.

The Los Angeles Lakers played against the Portland Trail Blazers who were sixth, and this group of matchups was naturally dominated by the Lakers, whether it was Shaquille O'Neal on the inside against Arvidas Sabonis, or the Lakers on the outside, the Lakers were stronger.

Fourth-placed Phoenix Young will face the San Antonio Spurs, a matchup that is believed to be the dominant for the Spurs, and Tim Duncan could replicate last year's Joni Lee saga and lead the team's veterans to the division semifinals and even the division finals in his first season.

The playoff matchups are all out after the regular season is over, and the Celtics' first playoff game will be played on April 23 at the Celtics' home stadium, with three days to rest before that. (To be continued......)