I am so Accurate

Ranked fourth is the Mavericks, who ended up with 57 wins.

Deron was infamous for his "trustworthy incident" in the summer, but his performance with the Mavericks was very good, averaging 17.6 points and 7.9 assists per game this season.

Moreover, the Mavericks are reasonably configured and they have more possibilities in the playoffs.

The Clippers are in fifth place with 55 wins.

Kobe did not suffer a devastating injury like in history, and his performance was still outstanding.

However, Howard was seriously affected by his back injury and his performance was not as good as before. In addition, Gasol has not been able to get over his ex-girlfriend's cheating. In the end, the Clippers' position became a bit embarrassing.

Because this ranking means that they will have to fight the Mavericks in the first round.

Moreover, the strength of the teams in the Western Conference this year is no longer a matter of competition format. There are only four spots in the top half. If you fall into the bottom half, you should not think about the championship, but think about how to get out of the first round.

The Grizzlies rank sixth with 54 wins.

In the end, like the Bulls in history, Rose's health has become a key factor restricting the team's upper limit.

Fortunately, Gasol has grown rapidly during Rose's absence.

And Rose recovered from injury before the end of the season, which makes their actual combat strength far stronger than the ranking reflects.

The Thunder ranked seventh with 54 wins.

It's the same record but different wins and losses, and the Thunder can only be ranked seventh.

But when you said 54 wins and 7 games, no one would believe it in any previous season!

But the West this season is so cruel.

However, like the Grizzlies, the Thunder have shown further integration this season, and their combat power cannot be underestimated.

The Hornets rank eighth in the Western Conference with 44 wins.

It's easy to see that there is a gap in performance between seventh and eighth.

In fact, after the Hornets, no other Western Conference team has a record of more than 40 games, and the last-place Timberwolves have even single-digit wins!

Poor display is one factor, but the bigger factor cannot be defeated!

Teams in the same district play against each other the most times in a season, and most of those teams' 50+60+ wins were against them!

So if it weren't for such a record, it would seem abnormal.

The rankings of the East and West are released, and the final matchups are also released.

In the East, the Knicks VS Celtics, Bulls VS Wizards, Pacers VS Bucks, Hawks VS Pistons.

There are many suspenseful matches among these four groups, but if the fans pay the most attention, it must be the game between the Bulls and the Wizards.

In the past ten years, when the Wizards were still in the Yao Ming era, the two teams have met many times in the playoffs, and they have won and lost each other. It is worth looking forward to what kind of sparks they will create when they meet again now.

And Harden averaged 26.1 points per game in his first season with the Wizards.

Fans will have to wait and see how he performs in the playoffs.

One thing that is easily overlooked is that the league has not produced a dominant shooting guard for a while since Wade.

In the West, Warriors VS Hornets, Lakers VS Thunder, Spurs VS Grizzlies, Mavericks VS Clippers.

Compared with the east, every group in the west is more interesting.

The least suspenseful game will definitely be the game between the Warriors and the Hornets.

For the Warriors, this is another warm-up game.

Why do you say "again"?

Because the Warriors also played the Hornets in the first round last year!

Most people may have forgotten the process of that series, but what they will not forget is that the Warriors defeated the Hornets by 58 points in one game!

Delong: This time it finally has nothing to do with me!

Except for this group, which has no suspense, the remaining three groups are all full of suspense.

The Mavericks and Clippers, the Spurs and the Grizzlies, these four teams are all championship-level teams as long as they are healthy.

Now that they are facing each other in the first round, the fans are happy, but no one knows which two teams will win in the end.

Because they all have too many reasons to win the series.

Then the last Lakers and Thunder.

This is not the first time the two teams have played against each other, but compared to the last time, the suspense this time is obviously greater.

Although the two core players of the Lakers, Sun Hao and Yao Ming, have more experience in the playoffs, the Thunder have also established a good tacit understanding after running in. Coupled with their consistent impact, the Thunder have no chance of winning. Not small.

Or in other words, it is not as easy for the Lakers to beat the Thunder as expected.

Before the playoffs began, the league handed out the first awards of the season as it has in the past.

The Best Sixth Man of the Year belongs to J.R. Smith of the Hawks. He averaged 18.1 points per game and was the contributor to the Hawks ranking fourth in the Eastern Conference;

The Most Improved Award went to Harden without any suspense. Harden's blowout data allowed him to receive more than 90% of the first-place votes and 47% of the total votes.

The best coach went to Spoelstra of the Knicks. This was also the first time in his career that he won the honor of best coach.

"Silver Fox" Harris also received 19% of the votes in the selection, second only to Spoelst and Bulls head coach Steve Kerr.

After this wave of award selections, the playoffs began one after another.

The game between the Lakers and Thunder is scheduled on the first day.

Of course, the Western Conference teams all play late.

Before them, the games between the Pacers and Bucks, and the Bulls and Wizards in the East started first.

The game between the Bulls and Wizards that fans paid close attention to finally gave fans enough scares.

That's right, it's scary.

In the first playoff game, Harden made 6 of 19 shots, 20 points, and only made one shot in 6 attempts from beyond the three-point line.

This data is not good for an ordinary star, and it can only be considered bad for Harden.

Because fans expect much more from his performance in the playoffs!

However, it turns out that Harden during this period is indeed not a player born for big scenes like Sun Hao, Jordan, and Kobe, who were or are "dominant" shooting guards.

With Harden's performance, there is naturally no suspense about the outcome of the game.

The Wizards suffered a 91-120 defeat to the Bulls and suffered a bad start to the playoffs.

Well, the fans feel like they went to eat chocolate with great joy, but in the end they were forcefully fed a mouthful of Xiang.

But this isn't entirely a bad thing.

Because after fans have been fed Xiang, they naturally look forward to eating something delicious to forget the experience.

Then the two playoff games in the Western Conference are their new expectations.

In the West, the first game to start is the Spurs and Grizzlies.

Then, in the first game, the fans had a delicious bite.

Rose scored 29 points and Gasol contributed 17 points, 18 rebounds, 6 assists and 4 blocks. Together, the two led the team to defeat the Spurs 103-99, completing the first victory in the new season's playoffs!

It was said before that if the Spurs encounter the Lakers, Sun Hao will meet Popovich again after many years, who he has opposed many times.

But now, that’s really not necessarily the case!

Then, after enough "warming up" in the previous games, the last and most watched game of the first day between the Lakers and Thunder began.

During the warm-up before the game, the faces of the Thunder players were full of vigor and confidence.

The last time the two teams met, Griffin and Westbrook showed fans how well they fit together.

This time, the two people showed that vigorous vitality.

The atmosphere of the team is related to the temperament of the core. The temperament of the Thunder team, both before and now, has a lot to do with the personalities of the two cores.

And this kind of temperament is very attractive to fans.

This was at the home court of the Lakers, but when Westbrook and Griffin were projected onto the large LED screen at the venue, they still attracted a lot of attention.

Opponents do not prevent fans from loving them and the Thunder team.

After the warm-up, the scene entered the opening ceremony, and the starting lineups of both sides were announced one after another.

For the Thunder, Westbrook, Sefolosha, Jeff Green, Griffin, DeAndre Jordan.

For the Lakers, Knight, Sun Hao, Carter, Millsap, Yao Ming.

After completing the final tactical arrangements before the game, the starting players on both sides were ready to take the field.

While they were on the court, Sun Hao and Yao Ming were walking and chatting.

"Dayao, it's up to you tonight."

Sun Hao patted Yao Ming on the shoulder and said.

These words are not polite, nor are they trying to get Yao Ming to deliberately increase his statistics like he did during the previous All-Star Game, but they really rely on Yao Ming to beat the Thunder.

The Thunder's lineup is not strictly a small-ball lineup.

But anyone who has watched the Thunder play will know how much this team's offense relies on defensive counterattacks.

This has nothing to do with who the Thunder's head coach is, but rather the composition of the team.

The technical characteristics of the people selected by the team determine how they will play.

There are actually two ideas for team building involved here.

One is to establish a system first and then find the right people.

The most typical example is after several major systems were formed, such as the triangle system in the OK period, the Spurs system, etc.

However, this is still a minority in the league in general, because it is difficult for the "system" to succeed.

The other is to find a coach that suits them based on the team's personnel framework, and then create a tactical system that suits them.

This is the vast majority of the league, including the current Thunder team.

If it’s hard to understand, you can compare this to cooking.

One is to decide what you want to eat and then go out to buy the ingredients.

The other way is to make whatever ingredients are available.

So after determining the Thunder's style of play, the Lakers' response is actually simple.

You are good at defensive counterattacks, so if I reduce the number of defensive counterattacks you do, that will be half the battle.

As for how to reduce defensive counterattacks? Increase the success rate of positional warfare attacks!

This is the same as playing small ball.

So in fact, you will find how useful it is to have a dominant center!

In fact, this is also the reason why Jordan is loved by so many fans in history, because before the advent of the small ball era, in addition to the Bulls, those dynasty teams, even teams that won two consecutive championships, would have super centers in their teams.

Yao Ming and DeAndre Jordan's jump ball in the center circle.

Jordan often performs alley-oop dunks. Coupled with his excellent rebounding and defensive abilities, he gives the impression that he is a hard-line beast.

But when he competes with Yao Ming, he looks a little dapper.

In fact, Jordan is only 2.11 meters tall. This height is obviously short for playing center in the NBA.

This is one of the reasons why his draft stock is not very high.

"beep!"

A whistle sounded on the sidelines, and Yao Ming moved the ball back to the Lakers half. The Lakers' playoffs this season officially began.

Advancing to the frontcourt, after Sun Hao's tactical signal, he used a low-post offensive tactic in a triangle offense, and the ball was directly fed in.

The Thunder are not the Warriors or the Bulls, and Griffin's defense ability is not as good as Yi Jianlian and Ibaka, so they did not dare to help defense at the beginning.

The result of not daring to help defend was that Yao Ming got the ball and had the opportunity to comfortably beat Jordan in singles.

Play from behind, feel the defensive focus, turn around and make a small hook.

Jordan jumped up and covered the air!

Centers in this league are now basically divided into two categories, one is Yao Ming, and the other is other centers.

There are many types of other centers, including low-post defensive masters, such as Chandler; there are jumping men with excellent physical fitness, such as Howard, and in front of you, DeAndre Jordan.

Because he knew that he could not withstand Yao Ming, Jordan's only choice was to take the initiative.

It's a pity that his thinking was correct, but his judgment was a little inaccurate.

This time, the "Tigger" background board is available.

"Uh-huh!"

Yao Ming easily hooked the ball into the basket.

The Lakers came out on top.

There was a burst of whistles from Lakers fans.

Yao Ming played the opening ball very casually and easily!

But as mentioned at the beginning, this Thunder team is full of energy. Although Jordan has a tendency to be ravaged at the beginning, the morale of the Thunder team has not been affected.

Looking back, Westbrook and Griffin set a pick-and-roll, and rushed inside with hot wheels under their feet.

Although Yao Ming has almost lost weight, due to his age, he cannot keep up with Westbrook.

Westbrook went directly past Yao Ming and flew inside for a layup and score.

This style of play is easily reminiscent of the man named Francis.

Westbrook's score boosted the morale of the Thunder, but it obviously had no impact on the Lakers.

Attacking the frontcourt, Sun Hao continued to play low-post tactics.

The Thunder still didn't help with defense!

Yao Ming drooled when he saw this, and then he beat Jordan hard and turned around and pushed the ball into the basket!

Jordan was scolded after jumping in front of him. He didn't dare to jump and had to push hard. Yao Ming grabbed the center of defense and beat him completely with a Tai Chi style of play.

But this is not the fault of DeAndre Jordan. Yao Ming played this way when he was at his peak and Ben Wallace was at his peak.

Westbrook repeated his old trick and rushed forward again, but this time Yao Ming was on guard and went to the basket in advance to collect.

It still looks like Westbrook passed Yao Ming and entered the paint, but in fact Yao Ming is already following behind.

At the moment when Westbrook made a layup, Yao Ming seized the opportunity to take action.

"boom!"

A top hat!

Yao Ming has taught the young Westbrook a lesson!

And after blocking the shot, Yao Ming immediately took off the defensive rebound and turned around and threw it to Sun Hao on the outside.

The Lakers played a defensive counterattack that the Thunder are best at.

The Thunder retreated quickly and did not start the first wave of fast breaks. However, no one noticed that Yao Ming quickly followed up with the second wave!

Sun Hao passed the ball back, and Yao Ming received the ball and flew for a layup.

On the Thunder team, Jordan and Griffin have not returned yet, and now only Sefolosha and Jeff Green are under the basket.

Seeing Yao Ming's flying layup, they really felt like seeing the giant leaning against the wall in "Attack on Titan".

Instinctively, they just avoided it.

Yao Ming took a step forward and turned his layup into a dunk.

"Bang!"

The ball was easily smashed into the basket.

Staples Center was instantly filled with cheers and whistles.

In the first few rounds, Yao Ming has already scored 6 points, and all 6 points of the Lakers!

Sun Hao also smiled and high-fived Yao Ming after dunking.

Tonight, I have a thigh hug!