Chapter 305 Is Order a divine thing?
In fact, there has never been a clear difference between strengths and weaknesses in the playoffs. After 82 regular season games, the remaining teams are not too weak, and they can compete with the first and eighth.
This is the case with the confrontation between the Magic and the Pistons. Although the Pistons are the top of the East, they have not been able to get a record of complete victory in the regular season against the Magic team, only three wins and one loss in four games.
The losing game was still because the Magic lacked Howard, and the Pistons were unable to catch their opponents away from home. They were hit by Grant Hill and Tekoglu with a three-pointer.
In the remaining three games, the gap between the two sides is not big, and the Pistons can also win three or five points in each game.
Compared with the Magic, the Pistons, the whole team runs more reasonably. The win is in defense and the handling of the key ball. There is the old monster Billups. Compared with Nelson's immatureness, it is always a win.
And Howard, whose offensive ability has yet to be developed, is always unable to find his offensive focus in the face of an old-fashioned opponent like Rashid Wallace, and is often deceived by consecutive fouls by his opponents.
It is said that the playoffs are a place to compete for experience, but in addition to experience, the Pistons are not very sure to win. The descendants of the Magic team can still create some threats to them.
So, it doesn't matter whether the piston is the first in the east, and whether the magic is the eighth in the east or not. If you really want to hit it, who can win the final promotion right is still unknown. This thing, you really have to watch it.
The catching and fighting between the other teams is the same. No one dares to assert that the top-ranked team will definitely win. Like the Cavaliers and Bulls, they may fall into a difficult tug-of-war.
Especially when the Bulls are against the Heat, it's hard to say whether a group of calves can play the strength of the regular season, and whether Skearls can cut off the cunning Pat Riley.
After all, O'Neal's deterrence is still there, and Wade's impact is still quite considerable. It's a little exaggerated to say that the Bulls can tie these two guys with a calf.
But if the sharp horn hits the Miami people's chest, it will probably burst into a rather dazzling light.
If the new generation wants to get out of position and kill the previous champion, this is a very good choice. Whether the defending champion can keep their status depends on whether they can risk their lives to fight hard.
It's just that the top-ranked teams now have a home advantage, which is also a crucial point for the playoffs. It can play a super level of fighting ability in front of home fans, and it is said that it can also have a so-called home advantage. This is estimated that many people are looking forward to it. After all, home is better at home. Control.
"It can put pressure on the opponent at home, but it is also easy to add a burden on themselves, especially for teams with a large number of young people. They are often tied up by the atmosphere of the playoffs and can't play."
This is a warning issued by the Boston media before the start of the playoffs, but those guys are also kind-hearted. After all, the Celtics are now mostly young, and their experience is indeed relatively short-sighted.
It's not only Chen Feng and Rondo who are the new generation. Even if they are like Jefferson and Perkins, they have very little experience in the playoffs. What Rivers can rely on is only Pierce, Spreville and Webb.
At the beginning, these two old guys were introduced to prepare for the playoffs. Now it depends on whether these people are awesome or not. The Celtics' most urgently needed experience depends on these old guys.
Like West and Szebiak, they have completely become marginalized this season. It is still a very confused question whether they can stay in Boston next season. At least they have not shown the ability to stay.
Although Szebiak's scoring data has not declined much and he can often have a 20+ performance on the court, this guy's defense can no longer be described by leaking spoons. It's simply a soft mess.
So the playoffs expect them to explode or play extraordinaryly, and they can only hope that the old man of God will open up, and the supporting roles of Ratliff and Allen Ray may not even be able to play.
Although the Celtics rushed fiercely at the end of the season, which surprised many people, once they entered the big stage of the playoffs, it was a completely different world for Rivers.
Some people even assert that the Celtics, who shine in the regular season, will realize that this new battlefield cannot be easily conquered in the playoffs, and it will be very difficult for them to win.
Even Rivers himself is not an old fried dough stick. You know, at the beginning of the regular season, there were still people who criticized why Boston didn't fire this high-paying and incompetent fool.
"Is it that the best coach of the 99-00 season has not been eaten up yet? A guy with an annual salary of 5 million, but can only take the team to wander outside the playoffs." This is the comment on Rivers at that time.
Even if after a season of baptism, the Celtics have returned to the playoffs with the ranking of the Eastern Conference, some diehards still think that Rivers is not suitable to coach this old strong team.
"The coach who can lift the Auerbach trophy in the first season is not necessarily suitable for a city with Auerbach traces. Now Rivers can't provide much help to the Celtics."
Even if he won the fourth place in the regular season, Rivers has not won the support of too many people. According to those media reporters, with a beast like Chen Feng in his hand, even Thomas can enter the playoffs.
You can say that this is envy and hatred, but it also reflects one thing. At the beginning, neither Pittino nor Rivers could take the team too far in the playoffs.
Once it comes to the battle of life and death, it will be a major test whether the coach's command is appropriate, and Rivers gives people the feeling that it is more his diligence than any talent.
"Dogg doesn't have the courage of a bishop. His control over the court is far from enough, especially when he confronts strong teams. He is always disturbed by the opponent's adjustment and often falls into passivity."
The playoffs are a battlefield of all-round confrontation. It is the same between players and coaches. Rivers, who is a junior, are still a little worse than the old greasy ones of Phil Jackson and Pat Riley, and this is not something that can be made up for in the short term. Those so-called critics are not wrong. What?
The Celtics' flaws are as obvious as their characteristics, inexperienced, too young, lack of playoff experience, not enough hidden kills, and relatively simple players and tactics.
Anyway, most people will not be optimistic about this kind of rookie team in the playoffs. Although the Celtics have the deepest background, for this team now, they are still pink newcomers and are not worth looking forward to.
Even the betting company that has always liked its own way, the odds of winning the championship for the Celtics this time are only ahead of the Magic and the Raptors, and even the Nets have an advantage over them.
This is what most people think. For such a cruel and abnormal battlefield in the playoffs, newcomers are always cannon fodder, and there are always few novices who can break out of the siege.
For the old guy, do you want to be the champion? Then learn from the rookie period. How can you reach the highest peak of the NBA without experiencing a painful failure? The playoff journey is not destined to be smooth sailing.
The order of the NBA has always been like this. Even Master Qiao won the championship after seven years of hardships. Can the rest be free from vulgarity? The little emperor is such an awesome guy, he doesn't want to be cleaned up obediently.
The place in the playoffs has always been awkward with geniuses. Iverson is just rushing to the finals. McGrady and those guys have not even entered the big scene of the finals.
Compared with them, Kobe is lucky. No matter whether he holds his thigh or something, this guy already has three championship rings. When he is lucky like him, he doesn't often meet him.
Although Chen Feng and his team have attracted much attention now, there are also countless people saying that it is amazing that a rookie can play such regular season data.
But if he wants to play the rise in the playoffs, he can only fantasize for the time being, at least those old guys won't stick out their necks and wait for him to cut.
"It is certain that Chen Feng can win the best rookie. I have no doubt about this, but on the stage of the playoffs, he has a lot to learn."
Even Murphy, who has always been very optimistic about Chen Feng, will calm down his head at this time and will not blindly give any predictions.
Although Chen Feng's performance in the regular season has exceeded his expectations, now it is the playoffs! It's not a place where anyone can play hegemony!
The stunned guys of the Celtics need more training. Rise can't be done overnight.
It is estimated that only Xie Miaomiao is very optimistic about Chen Feng's results in the playoffs. Anyway, he will definitely win the first round, which is much more perfect than YAO Ming's recent years with the Rockets.
"Anyway, they won't lose to the Raptors. As for the second round, it depends on luck. However, I think the boy's luck has always been good. Maybe Boston will really make a breakthrough this season."
Xie Miaomiao is not the kind of reporter who likes to objectively analyze the game. Her prediction of the game is more based on blind trust in a certain person or a team. Perhaps this is a woman's intuition.
Listening to two well-known reporters predicting the trend of the playoffs there, Chen Feng could only say helplessly, "This game is not played by you. Why do you worry more than me on the court?"
"I don't know what the outside predictions say, but my goal is very simple. If I meet one, I will kill one. Anyway, either I kill someone else or be killed by others, but the result is different."
"I don't know if there is any order in the NBA. The guy who is trying to block the way really wants to see if he has that ability. Otherwise, it's not negotiable to build one by one."
In fact, this is not only what Chen Feng said in front of two acquaintances, but also what Boston's animals are thinking, order? What the he-in-law is? The world is still the winner!
Since the door of the playoffs has been opened, there is no reason to go far away and block the road? These animals absolutely don't mind beating a few more...
How can the Celtics and the bald boy be allowed to be easily underestimated...
(Ibrahimovic's 33-meter barb is decisive and sharp. It's really a halberd... Hart, a sad man with a sad background, dares to be tragic?)