Chapter 608: The Strongest Final
The next round opponent of the Boston Celtics is the Vancouver Grizzlies, which is almost the result that all the Boston Celtics can think of before this round of the series, and even the result that all Boston Celtics players are most willing to get, if for Zhuang Fei personally, the biggest defeat he suffered in the NBA came from Po*vic, then for these Boston Celtics players, the most painful defeat of their careers is definitely from the round of matchup between the Eastern Conference Finals and the Grizzlies in the playoffs last season, In that round of matchups, except for the Celtics, who came from the former Forest or the former Wake Forest and other old disciples of Zhuang Fei such as Xiao Ao and Jackson, who played normally, the other Boston Celtics players were almost heartbroken by the Grizzlies, especially the two cores of this team, Maddie and Yao Ming, two young players who were in high spirits last season for the first time to experience the cruelty of the playoffs.
Although the current Grizzlies have a completely different taste from last season, this team is no longer the super defensive powerhouse that gave people a sense of suffocation last season, and this team is also beginning to have flaws, but this team that can finally beat the Wizards is definitely still one of the strongest teams in the league, at least even now it is not easy for Zhuang Fei, a person who knows the Wizards, to beat the Wizards again, as all the media and experts said, the four teams left in the league at present, Each one has the absolute strength to reach the top, and it is extremely normal for each team to win the championship in the end, and every game is not an easy thing for both sides of the game, you know, in the history of the NBA, it is the first time that there are four finalist teams in the regular season all of the grand occasion of more than 60 wins.
Just the day after the Grizzlies defeated the Wizards at home, another game against the Kings and Mavericks in the league division semifinals also came to an end, and in the seventh game of this round of matchups, there were almost no surprises, and the two offensive teams once again played a jaw-dropping score, in fact, at the beginning of the series between the Kings and the Mavericks, although most people thought that the Mavericks would cause a lot of trouble to the Kings, it did not mean that these experts would think that the Mavericks could play Game 7 with the Kings, In fact, there was a great accident in this round of the series, in the second game of this round of the series, the king's leading player Chris Webber felt some pain in his knee after the game, it can be said that when he got the news, all the king's management, coaches and players were directly stunned, you must know that half of the strength of their team is all on Webb, if Webber has a problem, then this team will not say that it will win the championship, even if it is a problem to beat the Mavericks, and in fact, although Webb has a knee problem, but a comprehensive examination in the hospital is not as serious as these people imagined, just knee muscles are hydrated, and you need to rest for half a month, which is also the main Webb This season is too tired, this year in the environment of five teams running wildly, almost every superstar of these five teams is overloaded, not only Webb of the Kings, but also Jordan of the Wizards, Jordan was also unable to play in the fourth quarter of the last game and the last game of the Grizzlies, In the end, the team was finally killed, and the Spurs' Duncan and Grizzlies' Carter are young, but even so, the Grizzlies' Carter is transforming in the second half of the season, and when the Grizzlies were suspended in a large area, the league's first person carried the team almost alone for more than a dozen games, and after Billups and others returned and Terry and others came, the league's first person began to slowly change roles on the off-duty schedule, otherwise according to the MVP, he could contribute an average of 36 points per game in the first half of the schedule, almost on par with Iverson, But at the end of the season, that average became 31 points per game, and injuries like these, whether young or old, when the body is extremely tired, no player in the NBA has ever been a superman.
It was during Webb's absence that the Mavericks and the Kings kept the score from 1 to 3 to 3, in fact, when Webb was absent, the Mavericks were already stronger than the Kings in terms of strength, but in the end, the Kings still dragged until Webb came back in the seventh game, which can be regarded as the efforts of the Kings to hold on, and in the seventh game, the Mavericks who have played with momentum and the Kings who have waited for the boss to come back staged an offensive battle that is almost the most terrifying in the history of the league.
The second game between the Kings and the Mavericks had created the highest scoring score for the two teams in the first half of the playoffs in NBA history, and although the two teams were not able to score 144 points like 83-61 in the first half of the game, the two teams scored 140 in the fourth quarter of the game plus an overtime, and the final score was 144-140, the Kings defeated the Mavericks at home, and the shooting percentage on both sides of the game reached more than 55, The Kings and Mavericks both shot above 45 three-point shots, and it can be said that this was completely turned into a peerless shooting battle by these two teams, and in this big battle, Peja shot 8 three-pointers, Bibby 6, and Finley's 7 and Nowitzki's 6 broke the NBA playoffs game with four people shooting more than 5 three-pointers.
Of course, this is an extremely thrilling game for the Kings, because before this series they would not have thought that the Mavericks would be able to cause such a big problem for themselves, and they did not expect that their team boss Webb would miss four games with an injury, it can be said that this year's Kings have been in doom, but after defeating the Mavericks, this team is considered to be out of this doom, and for the Mavericks, their goal this year is to be able to reach the Western Conference Finals, although in the end it is only one step short, but obviously, Being able to play like this with the Kings is definitely a shot in the arm for a team that has just rebuilt and rebuilt for a short time, and this team now needs to completely run in Nowitzki and Finley plus white chocolate to fill in the team's shortcomings in the No. 3 and No. 5 positions, and it is definitely possible to improve again, and even to reach the top of the strongest team, according to the character of Mavericks owner Cuban, this team will definitely make big moves next season.
"Grizzlies and Celtics, Spurs and Kings? It's the two greatest matchups, they're the best teams of the season, now everyone forget the Lakers and the Wizards, these four teams are the four scariest teams in the NBA this year, and even in the history of the NBA, it's unthinkable to have such a dominant four teams in a given year, and I'm already looking forward to the two division finals this year, and I swear, it's definitely the two best NBA finals matchups of my journalistic career. Even greater than the 1999 Timberwolves and Spurs in the 1999 Divisional Finals, which was called the greatest division finals in NBA history."
Almost the day after the king defeated the Mavericks, almost all the media focused on these four teams, especially on the terrifying dominance of these four teams in this year's NBA regular season, and as the most authoritative media in the NBA basketball industry in the United States, the United States today almost took out 32 American pages to make a special report on these four teams, you must know that every year in the NCAA finals, this media only took out more than 20 pages to report on the special report, Now the coverage of this division finals is the second most important feature of the media in terms of basketball, just a little worse than when Zhuang Fei left the Timberwolves to join the Celtics, and this is just a trade-off in the United States today, and the same is true in other media outlets across the United States.
"Congratulations to the Spurs, congratulations to the Kings, they are the strongest team in the West, it is the most appropriate for them to represent the entire West on the stage of the Finals, they are more suitable than the Lakers, the Lakers' performance this year has been disappointing, but we have to turn the page, now we need to start again, just like we chose to kick Harris and bring in Phil Jackson, now we need to start again, and then catch up with the Spurs or the Kings, and now we are getting farther and farther away from them, And our time is running out, and now the Lakers' management needs a decision, O'Neal and Kobe? What to do with the two, and what to do with Phil Jackson, I think all the Angelenos are waiting for the decision of the Lakers management"
In addition to the media like USA Today, which talks about the game itself from a completely neutral point of view, the media in Los Angeles directly began to put pressure on the Lakers club through this incident, for these Los Angeles media, their NBA is over, if the Lakers have been eliminated, they have to follow up on other important news, obviously, this is also their retreat in the most helpless way.
"It's Grizzlies again, it's Boston Celtics again, is this going to be another uncontroversial slaughter? Will the Grizzlies beat the Boston Celtics again? Just like last season, it's time for Carter to show his determination to catch up with Jordan, and now he needs to beat the Boston Celtics, then defend his title, and finally step on the Boston Celtics and swear to the world that he's the greatest small forward in NBA history, and now that opportunity has come."
Unlike the graceful exit of the Los Angeles media, the New York media did not follow the Knicks' exit, and these New York media once again sounded the alarm of the battle with Zhuang Fei.
And all of this is due to this division finals, which is the first time in NBA history that all teams with more than 60 wins have gathered in the finals, and it is also the most powerful division finals in NBA history. (To be continued)
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