Chapter 326 Feeling sorry for Stephen Curry, the Cavaliers are close to the second round of the playoffs

The Warriors chose to give up strategically in the final game, which gave them the same final record of the season:

73-9.

This statistic also made them the number one in the league this season.

Enjoy all the home-court advantage of the playoffs.

The first place in the East changed in the final moments, as the Cavaliers won the final game of the regular season with a 118-95 victory over the Lakers, and their record for the season was fixed at 66-16.

It was also this victory that made them go from second in the East to first in the East again.

As soon as they changed, LeBron James was dumbfounded.

Because they happened to be in fifth place in the East, and even in order to stabilize this position, they also lost the last game specifically.

I thought that at least before the Eastern Conference Finals, I wouldn't be able to meet Li Wan.

I didn't expect it......

Could it be that the saddest result is really going to become a reality?

If the Heat are just LeBron James dumbfounded, then the Hawks are the whole team dumbfounded.

The Eagles have been clear since they played Lee Wan last season that they could never be Lee Wan's opponent, and they are trying to avoid Lee Wan in order to prolong their survival this season as much as possible.

It's better to fall in the Eastern Conference Finals than to fall in the second round of the playoffs!

But now it seems that this year it will be at most the second round!

If the Hawks are dumbfounded, then the Pacers are the whole city is feeling miserable.

They are eighth in the East this season.

They will meet the Cavaliers in the first round......

How many times has this been?

Since they drafted Paul George, it seems like it's the third time, or the fourth.

The outside world says that LeBron James was taught a bad lesson by Li Wan, but who knows that Paul George is also an absolute "Li Wan bean curd" and has been completely stunned.

In the last interview before the end of the regular season, he was a little gibberish in front of the camera: "I have already bought fishing equipment on Amazon......"

There is no heart for resistance at all.

These are because of the sigh of meeting Li Wan and the knight captain, and there are also those who feel unhappy because they didn't meet Li Wan, such as ......

Carmelo Anthony!

In the last six games of the Nets season, he averaged 28.6 points, 6.5 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game, and with his excellent performance, the Nets also climbed back to the third place in the East.

Originally, according to the Cavaliers' second-place position in the East, they would have met in the semifinals, but now they must win the first two series to reach the Eastern Conference Finals......

Howard hasn't made it to the Eastern Conference Finals in years.

And Chris Paul didn't even touch the floor of the final......

Introducing Li Wan......

It's really "dog luck"!

The sixth and seventh places in the East are the Raptors and Bobcats, respectively.

Therefore, the results of the first round of grouping in the east this year are:

Cavaliers vs. Pacers, Bulls vs. Bobcats, Nets vs. Raptors, and Hawks vs. Heat!

On the Western side, the team behind the Warriors is the "Terminator" Hornets.

Their final record this season is 60-22.

He is the only two in the West to have won more than 60 games.

Third in the West is the Trail Blazers.

After the arrival of Deron Williams, he perfectly made up for the gap in Jeremy Lin's absence, and there were even many things that Jeremy Lin couldn't do.

For example, his more consistent singles and mid-range projection......

This not only allowed them to stabilize their previous standings, but also moved one step closer to becoming third in the West this season.

Fourth in the West is the Thunder.

The Thunder, who were sixth in the West a month ago, won 12 of their 15 games in their final season, including the Linker Warriors and Hornets.

In these 15 games, Kevin Durant averaged 32.4 points, 7.6 rebounds, 4.6 assists and 1.6 steals per game.

It was also this streak that brought his name back to the ranks of the most heated discussions in the media.

Fifth in the West is the Clippers;

Sixth in the West is the Grizzlies;

Seventh in the West is the Spurs;

Eighth in the West is the Sacramento Kings;

Therefore, the matchups in the first round of the West are:

Warriors vs. Kings, Hornets vs. Spurs, Trail Blazers vs. Grizzlies, Thunder vs. Clippers......

It can be seen from the grouping of the East and West this year that the alliance has changed in the past two years.

Especially in the West, the Lakers, Spurs, and Thunder teams have fallen behind, and they have been replaced by the "New Three", especially the first two teams, which are all teams that have only risen in the past two years.

Bill Wharton sighed: "The league has changed again!" ”

Of course, sighing and sighing, the feeling is not very big, after all, they have explained these years for many years, and in this alliance, the ebb and flow are too normal.

The NBA is iron-clad, and the players are ......

Change is normal, unchanged, there is a problem!

Even if it is as strong as Li Wan, when he arrives at a new team, he will have to have a year to precipitate.

With the first round of the playoffs being decided, the list of the big data kings of this season has also been finalized......

Li Wan has played a total of 74 games this season. He averaged 32.5 points, 9.8 rebounds, 11.8 assists, 2.8 steals and 1.4 blocks per game. He is shooting 53.4 percent from the field, 45.5 percent from three-point range and 91.58 percent from the free throw line per game.

Among them, averaging 32.5 points per game made him the "scoring champion" again, which is also the fifth game of his career to win the "scoring champion".

Behind him is Stephen Curry's average of 31.8 points per game, and he was also the "scoring champion" of this season, but unfortunately because of the existence of Li Wan this time, his average points per game did not dominate the list.

However, it should be a sure thing that he won this season's "regular season MVP", with a 73-9 record and his personal data, as well as 4 times winning the "best of the month" results this season, coupled with the early foreshadowing of the outside media, all explain this matter......

Kevin Durant averages 30.5 points per game, behind Stephen Curry.

Last season's season reimbursement affected his form, leaving his scoring at the start of the season unremarkable. Even if he regained his form at the end of the season, it was too late to challenge the "scoring champion......

In addition, Li Wan averaged 11.8 assists per game and once again won the title of "Assist King".

This is the third time that he has won the "scoring king" and the "assist king" at the same time...... In the entire history of the NBA, there is one and only such one!

Quite explosive, so to speak!

In second place was Rajan Rondo, who was a bit unlucky......

His average assists per game this season are not much different from Li Wan, only a 0.2 gap, and his average assists per game this season is 11.6!

At the end of the season, the two also had a scramble, but unfortunately, Rajon Rondo still "fell off the bench".

In the end, it was defeated.

Also losing was Stephen Curry on the three-point list.

Well......

It's Curry again!

His total three-point shooting this season, as the experts say, eventually broke through 400 three-pointers to reach an exaggerated 408 three-pointers, a result that would have made him stand out from the crowd in any previous season.

It's a pity that he met Li Wan this season.

Averaged 5.8 three-pointers per game......

Li Wan, who has played a total of 76 games this season, finally made 429 three-pointers this season!

That's 21 more than Stephen Curry!

You know, this summer's "Champion Lang" can't invest in these numbers in several careers!

The media that saw this number described Li Wan the same:

Crazy!

How crazy is it?

Even though they witnessed Li Wan's "three-point show" one by one, it was still hard for them to believe that there was such a player who could play such a performance outside the three-point line.

Stephen Curry is already amazing, but Li Wan is simply a "god of thirds"!

Barkley said: "This is probably what Michael Jordan looks like with a three-pointer!" ”

As soon as Jordan heard that this "dead fat man" was using him to "step up" to Li Wan again, he was about to say something at the time, but thinking about his record of staying in the three-point shooting contest so brilliant that he himself had some old red faces, he chose to close the microphone.

Anyway, it's not once, twice, or three times, and there will definitely be more in the future.

I put up with it!

Well......

What can you do if you can't bear it?

You can't be in that "history book" every day, right?

What kind of "god of basketball" shelf is there!

After more than ten years of retirement, Michael Jordan gradually felt what it means to be "people go to tea and cool down"!

Li Wan's appearance is writing some more amazing stories than he did back then......

This is what he has to admit himself!

I knew that I wouldn't retire in '94 and '95......

Michael Jordan came up with such an idea for no reason.

Or in '99 and '00, fight for another two years......

It's not over, in addition to the "scoring king", "assist king" and "three-point king", Li Wan also became this season's "steal king" with an average of 2.8 steals per game!

It is worth mentioning that it is none other than Stephen Curry in the "second" position......

From the scoring list to the three-point list, from the three-point list to the steals list, where Stephen Curry goes, where Li Wan presses.

It is also for this reason that a topic appeared on Twitter:

I feel sorry for Curry!

The "rebounding king" belongs to Dwight Howard......

Thanks to the reform of the league, after several years, "Warcraft" has returned to the position of "rebounding king".

To say that the competition for this year's "rebounding king" is really fierce enough, Jordan Jr. averaged 14.1 rebounds per game but failed to get the "rebounding king", and Drummond averaged 14.8 rebounds per game and also did not get the "rebounding king......

Howard scored an exaggerated 15.2 rebounds this year and became the ultimate "rebounding king"!

The first place on the "block list" is Hasse Whiteside, who walked out of the New York Knicks that year.

Big White Edge is also coming off this season.

Of course, his blocking ability is the same as that of Marcus Camby and the like before, and he has a lot of water.

At least he didn't bolster his team's defense.

This season's "turnover" belongs to James Harden, who averages 4.6 turnovers per game.

Westbrook is in second place, averaging 4.3 turnovers per game.

This number of turnovers is hard to imagine in the NBA in the past, but it can also be seen from how fast the pace of the league is now.

Of course, you can still see it......

These two guys' ability to handle the ball is really not like that of traditional defenders!

……

On April 17, 2 days after the end of the 15~16 season, the league officially announced the "best rookie" of the season.

Compared to the previous two years, there was little competition, and the competition for the "Best Rookie" this season is still quite fierce:

Okafor, who averaged 17.5 points per game, Porzingis, who averaged 14.3 points and 7 rebounds per game, and Downs, who averaged 18.3 points and 10 rebounds per game, fought together, and finally Towns defeated the first two with 52% of the votes and became the final "best rookie".

Then on the day of the playoffs, Dwyane Wade averaged 15.5 points, 4.3 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game, becoming the "best sixth man" this season!

He also became only the second player in NBA history to win the Finals MVP and the season "Sixth Man of the Year" award......

As for the first player to achieve this feat, it is none other than Bill Wharton, the current ESPN gold medal commentator.

Wade is a bit like him.

also won the championship in the third season of his career, and also completed the reversal to win the championship after falling behind 0-2 in the finals.

Now because of injury problems, he can only continue to shine on the bench.

Of course, compared to the fragile Bill Wharton, Wade can be regarded as an "iron man"!

Winning this award, Wade thanked the team for their trust in him in front of the media: "They gave me enough stage! ”

Compared to being submissive in the starting lineup, Wade now likes the feeling of hitting the bench too much...... The little resistance to playing as a substitute at the beginning of the season has long been forgotten by him.

To his surprise, Pat Riley actually sent him a message congratulating him on winning the "Sixth Man of the Year": Obviously, you're in the right place again, and I'm so proud of you, Dwyane! I also no longer regret the choice I made, it was right to let you go to the Cavaliers!

Although there was a villain in his head who was madly reminding him:

Don't believe it, this old man is in KTV again!

But Wade's eyes were still red unconsciously.

Teacher......

On April 18, the playoffs officially kicked off.

The four sets of matchups that started today are the Cavaliers vs. the Pacers, the Hawks vs. the Heat, the Hornets vs. the Spurs, and the Trail Blazers vs. the Grizzlies.

Except for the Cavaliers VS Pacers, there is no suspense, and the other games are quite suspenseful.

This can be seen from the pre-match predictions, and experts have different differences in these three sets of matchups.

The Hawks and Heat have played a total of four games this season, winning two games each, so it can be said that they have won and lost each other.

And it can be seen from the course of the game that if the Heat let the Hawks players cooperate and the outside shooting feels like they play early, then they will be very passive.

Similarly, if the Hawks get the Heat's "Big Three" into shape, it will be difficult for them to do everything with their proud team defense......

Hornets vs Spurs, each of which has obvious advantages and disadvantages.

The Hornets are strong in their energy and obvious strength, and the Spurs are inferior in both areas, but there is one thing that no media can question: don't underestimate the Spurs in the playoffs, no matter what they look like in the regular season......

The Trail Blazers vs Grizzlies also can't do a comprehensive suppression of each other.

The Trail Blazers' strong point is on the inside, the Grizzlies' strong point is also on the inside, and the outside Deron Williams gives the Trail Blazers an offense, but Mike Conley is not a vegetarian.

His current scoring ability is no worse than Williams......

At the same time, there is an additional attraction to this group.

The Ohio Four met on the stage of the playoffs......

Although Li Wan and Cook have met before, the gap between Cook and Li Wan cannot be said to be big, it can only be said that Cook can't even touch Li Wan's hair.

The gap is true in heaven and on earth!

Oden is not the same as Conley......

The strength of Wuwukai and the alliance status of Wuwukai are still very exciting!

The two of them also spoke harshly to each other before the game, one said "I'm going to kick your ass hard", and the other said "up to 5 games, send him home early to fish"......

It's very lively.

A reporter suggested that Li Wan join the "chat group".

Li Wan pouted: "It's impossible for me to meet these two rookies in the finals, so let's not talk about it!" ”

That night, he received a "middle finger greeting" from these two men.

The middle finger is the longest of the five fingers, so ......

Li Wan replied: "I know, I know, I know that I am your boss, needless to say!" ”

Oden:???

Conley:???

This guy is thick-skinned again!

As the game time approached, the Quickloan Arena was bustling with activity, with large crowds of Cavaliers fans pouring into the arena from all directions. With an excited smile on his face and a look of hope in his eyes.

It's the Cavaliers' final year in Cleveland, and their thousand words have been reduced to three words:

Overall Winner!

With such an urgent thought, you can imagine how intense the Cavaliers' home atmosphere will be tonight.

However, judging by the state of the Pacers, they are not intimidated. In particular, Paul George, who said in an interview at the end of the regular season that he had bought fishing gear, was warming up there in earnest.

Obviously, when it comes down to trouble, he and the Pacers still have the idea of defeating Li Wan and the Cavaliers in their hearts.

It's just that in the end, the Cavaliers at home won the first game of the series with a 25-point victory.

And that's just the beginning.

On the 20th and 22nd, the Cavaliers won 2 more games in succession, winning 24 and 27 points respectively, and the big score came to 3-0!

On the 24th, in the blink of an eye, it was the fourth game of the series between the Cavaliers and the Pacers.

The silent Indiana "Library" was silent as the Cavaliers won 121-91, 30 points to win the fourth game of the series.

The big score came to the familiar 4-0!

The Pacers were swept out by the Cavaliers for another year.

Throughout this series between the two teams, no matter how many replays you watch......

You can't find any other adjective to describe this round of the series other than grinding.

In these four games, Li Wan averaged 36.5 points, 10.5 rebounds, 11.5 assists, 2.5 steals and 1.5 blocks per game.

Under his leadership, Wiggins averaged 18.5 points, 5 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game, Chris Bosh averaged 19.25 points, 8.5 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1 block per game, Adams averaged 12.5 points and 8 rebounds per game, Joe Johnson averaged 10.5 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game, and Wade averaged 14.5 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists......

It can be described as "full force"!

This was more exciting for Cleveland fans than the 4-0 thrashing of the Pacers.

After all......

Sweeping the Pacers, they did it last year.

And the playoffs are not just one round, so the whole Cavaliers can maintain their vigorous state, which is the best news!

On the Pacers' side, the only one who has played consistently is Paul George.

He averaged 24.5 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists per game in the regular season, and he averaged 23.5 points, 4.5 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals per game in these four games...... Except for him, there are almost no normal people in the whole team, and the statistics are much worse than the regular season.

Isolated and helpless, Paul George was completely stunned, and in the face of the reporter's last interview this season, he was stunned: "My fishing gear is ......"

While the Cavaliers reached the first round, the other seven matchups are now gradually coming to an end......

On the 25th, the Warriors won their fourth series against the Kings by 23 points at the home court. It also gave the Kings a sweep with a 4-0 score.

Although it was out in this way, it was already a very successful season for Kings fans, and the last time the Kings made the playoffs was 10 years ago.

At that time, the main player of this team will be ...... Ron Artest!

The most sincere teammate in Li Wan's mind!

Now, with Evans and his "cousin" teaming up, they're finally back in the playoffs.

The so-called "full man does not know that hungry man is hungry", "hungry" for so many years, and now Sacramento is very satisfied that the team can advance to the playoffs.

Then on the 26th, the Hornets also eliminated the Spurs 4-1 and advanced to the second round.

For the entire 5 games, it can be roughly summed up in these 8 words:

The wasps are too fierce, the spurs are too old!

The energetic and energetic Hornets almost didn't use any tactics, just a hard "fast attack counterattack", which knocked out the Spurs.

Leonard has shown his strong perimeter defensive ability, and the results are visible to the naked eye, both in terms of individual defense quality and help defense quality. But now the team is not only asking him to do well on the defensive end, but also to contribute on the offensive end, and at this time, his energy is a little low......

Every time there is a critical moment, he can't stand up, or he doesn't know which one to give up!

This is actually a key step in the transformation from superstar to supergiant, and Leonard is on his way.

"It's time, in fact, I wanted to say this for a long time, and I also think that there is no better opportunity than now, I think, it's time to leave this alliance!"

And on the night he was eliminated by the Hornets, Tim Duncan dropped a "bombshell" and announced his retirement, ending his 18-year career.

There is a lot of discussion about this.

But I think it's reasonable, because ......

As Tim Duncan said, it was indeed time!

In the regular season this season, Tim Duncan averaged 11.2 points and 6.8 rebounds in 23.4 minutes per game, and in the playoffs, when the average playing time per game increased, his average data per game not only did not increase, but also dropped to 10.4 points and 6.4 rebounds per game......

With such a performance, with Tim Duncan's historical status and achievements, it is natural that he will not want to continue to fight in the league.

Since then, there is no legend of "Stone Buddha" in the rivers and lakes.

On the 27th and 28th, more teams were promoted.

In the East, the Nets eliminated the Raptors 4-2 and successfully reached the semifinals.

The "garbage brothers" combined for 48 points, 9 rebounds and 8 assists, especially the two games won by the Raptors, and the two of them played even better.

It's a pity that at this time, DeRozan's daughter is a baby, and she is not "the strongest female foreign aid in the NBA".

Without such a strong main force, after 6 games with the Nets' "Big Three", they still lost.

Lowry, at the moment when he was officially eliminated by the "Nets Big Three", once again buried DeRozan's head in his chest. This scene is about to become an iconic scene in the hearts of Raptors fans.

The Bulls eliminated the Bobcats with a score of 4-1 and advanced to the second round.

In the West, the Thunder also eliminated the Clippers 4-2 and met the Warriors in the semifinals.

The only remaining matchups between the two sides are the Heat vs. Hawks and the Trail Blazers vs. Grizzlies.

To say that this matchup between the Heat and the Hawks, the gap at the beginning is actually quite large.

The Heat won two straight games on the Hawks' home court, bringing home-court advantage back to Miami.

At the time, a lot of media thought they would knock out the Eagles 4-0.

The facts seem to be moving in that direction, and the Heat, who returned to their home court, won another game, and the big score came to 3-0!

But after the Cavaliers eliminated the Pacers 4-0, the Heat, who had been invincible before, suddenly encountered ups and downs in form, and after losing their second home court in this round of the series, the Hawks found the court on their home court, rewriting the big score to 2-3!

Of those two defeats, LeBron James' ups and downs in form were the most obvious.

Winning the first three games, LeBron James averaged "30 plus 10 plus 10" per game!

After losing the next two games, LeBron James's data suddenly shrank to "25 plus 6 plus 7"!

Spoelstra specifically talked to LeBron James: "Man, win the Hawks, we can play the Cavaliers, don't you want revenge?" ”

He thought it would definitely boost LeBron James' adrenaline, but the result was ......

In the sixth game of the series, on his home court, LeBron James's performance was even more sluggish, with gorgeous statistics of 28 points, 8 rebounds and 9 assists, compared with the previous two games, it has improved, but he has 5 turnovers, and the defensive end has been completely beaten into a sieve by the Hawks.

Spoelstra looked at him, and the more he looked at it, the more familiar he became, in Game 4 of the 2011 Eastern Conference Finals, wasn't he like this?

This is......

Too much pressure?

That's not right!

What pressure does he have when he plays the Eagles?

If you have to be pressured, you will only have pressure when you play the Cavaliers in the next round?

What Spoelstra didn't know was that LeBron James was really already thinking about playing against the Cavaliers.

The thought of having his head shaved by Leewan, Chris Bosh and Wade on the Cavaliers' home court really gave him the urge to fall in the first round of the playoffs.

But the problem now is that the Heat have a 3-0 lead before, and if they are really beaten by the Hawks for four games in a row, then he will also be a joke of laughter.

Seashell......

To win or not to win!

That's a problem!

It was a loss to the Eagles, and it was laughed at "You can lose a 3-0 lead, it's so useless!" ”

Or was he swept by the Cavaliers in the second round......

Which of these two ways of dying is more noble?

LeBron Hamlet-James is hesitant.

There have been a little changes in the past two days, but to put it simply, my mother has been at home for the past month because of her body recuperation after the sun, so she can cook for me. But she couldn't be idle for the past two days, and went back to work, and it was my turn to make lunch for her, and I had to take on the job of picking up my niece, so the update of the past two days was unstable and the number of words was not enough, but now the adjustment is almost complete, and it will definitely be stable again tomorrow.