Chapter 446 The Weak Eastern Powers
After the All-Stars, they played ten games in a row. Although they were not idle for more than half a month, the busyness of the Celtics gave many competitors a headache, because these guys won eight wins and two losses.
I'll go. Can I be more ferocious? There are a total of ten games. Did you win eight? Is this how the 80% winning rate is achieved? If these Boston animals are like this again, the rest of the people really don't have to fool around.
Now the news about the Celtics has long been numb to fans and the media. Love may be excited at the beginning of the season, especially when these guys keep talking, you always expect them to win more!
But after this, there were too many victories, and ** were almost squeezed out. Maybe except for Boston's fans, most people opened the newspaper or turned on the TV and saw the victory of the Green Shirts, which was automatically filtered.
Because they have no other news except winning. There is no infighting, no rumors, no involvement in big deals, but very monotonous wins. If they win one after another, their desire seems to be filled forever.
This feeling will not make competitors collapse. Even those who watch the game will feel very collapsed.
The main reason is that you want to see the Celtics lose. It's so difficult. Occasionally, there are one or two games, or these guys take the initiative to give up. If you want to conquer face to face, at least it is difficult for those teams in the East now.
For the competitors in the Eastern Conference, it is almost sweeping. This domineering record makes the pursuers very helpless, and also makes the fans of those teams very depressed. It is simply an impossible task to defeat the Celtics first. Now even the fans of the Cavaliers and Pistons do not expect their own team to win them. It is.
Of course, this is only limited to the regular season stage. If you really meet in the playoffs, it is inevitable to fight. No one will take the initiative to give in in that kind of fight. Even if you are not strong, you have to fight with a bayonet.
But the current regular season record is really distressing. The Celtics' results are too strong!
Especially the Pistons, the Cavaliers and the Magic, who have been chasing after the Celtics.
But how can this distance get farther and farther? How did this happen? The supporters of these three teams will definitely feel confused about their future, because no matter how hard they try to catch up, they don't seem to be able to catch up with the Celtics.
This feeling is simply terrible, and because the Celtics are too strong, the backbones in the east, after this wave of continuous battles, have begun to show different degrees of weakness.
Especially the Cavaliers and the Magic. The former is that injuries begin to increase. For example, Wallace has always been injured. In the Bulls, there is not enough recovery time. In the Cavaliers, it is also overloaded.
There's nothing we can do. The Cavaliers really don't have a good insider to make Mike Brown. Even if Wallace is not as good as before, he is still the most trusted backbone for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
This is also the reason why the Cavaliers exchanged with the Bulls and had to deal with Wallace. The inside line in the east is really too weak. There are a few big men who are almost all the targets of each team.
Some people have even asserted that it won't take too long. Maybe when Wallace is retired, the main combat power of the alliance's insider may come from foreign supply, and this species no longer exists in China.
Even the NCAA league is now showing this trend. The swinging talent is the boss. The center and power forward are all supporting roles. The better one is the team's second offensive choice. The worse is the role of the blue-collar. You have to do any dirty and tiring work. There is no People pay attention.
This is the survival state of the big man. Every team is indispensable, but this mature position is particularly late. Few people are willing to cultivate it. More often, they still expect to get it through trading.
Anyway, NCAA is not available, and there are international players, which is also Stein's alternative marketing method.
It's just that it's more and more difficult for the American Dream Team to find a big man to take advantage of it, otherwise Lao K will not keep staring at Chen Feng. You know, when did the former Dream Team lack the insider?
From Barkley, O'Neal and other guys, the inside line of the Dream Team has always been a tough style.
But now the players that old K can play, such as Bosh and Howard, are either soft or too strong. Although they all have their own advantages, their shortcomings are also a headache.
It was easy to keep an eye on Chen Feng, an extremely powerful guy, and in the end, he didn't get into the Dream Team.
Even Lao K has lamented that the dream team in the future does not know whether it can become the number one in the world.
At least in terms of the inside line, the Dream Team has no advantage. If one day even the advantage of the outside line is lost, the existence of the Dream Team is a symbol of remembering the past, and it is meaningless.
Wallace can come to Cleveland, which is already the most cheering deal for the little emperor, because Cleveland lacks a good insider and no control of the three-second zone under the basket. Everything is empty talk.
The Cavaliers may be good. After all, there is also a Ilgoskas rooted in Cleveland.
However, with a tough guy like Wallace, it is impossible for Mike Brown not to use it, but also because of the existence of a hard bone. Therefore, the Cavaliers began to fight crazily after the All-Star Game.
But no matter how tough this old guy is, there are times when he can't stand it. After the All-Star Game, he persisted for less than five games, and Wallace went to the factory for repair. There were no big problems, and the minor problems had to be temporarily suspended.
After all, this kind of insider player who depends on his body has been fighting for many years, and there are many injuries on his body.
Mike Brown's overdraft use, even the Iron Man can't stand it, but he can't help it. The Cavaliers need enough wins to keep Cleveland's home advantage after the start of the playoffs.
Even if they can't overturn the Celtics, they also need to consider other competitors. After all, the east is not all soft persimmons. If you want to pinch anyone, you have to bear a certain impact, and the inside line is especially important.
But don't expect Wallace to help now. The old guy will have to take a truce for at least a week, otherwise don't plan to let him play in the playoffs. No one dares to take this risk now.
Wallace himself also hopes to take a break. After all, from the bull to the knight, he basically has no time to rest.
In order to prove that he is not old, "Big Ben" has to play with his life. Otherwise, more people will say that he is more useless than an ordinary blue-collar worker with a large salary. There has been a lot of criticism recently.
Especially in Chicago, the management and fans who gave high expectations to Wallace had been extremely disappointed after more than a season, otherwise they would not have lost money.
Just in exchange for such a disabled guy as Hughes, everyone knows how much money this business has done. Even in Chicago, where the performance is declining, Hughes's nerve knife is useless and can only sit on a cold bench.
Wallace needs to rely on his achievements and performance to explain his value, but in the face of injuries, he is also helpless.
And the old injury on Ilgoskas' ankle is also terrible. Since the day this big guy was injured, he has rarely been able to work full-time in a season. It is a rare miracle that he has persisted for more than 50 games this season.
It's because it's not easy to find such a big guy of more than two or twenty meters, otherwise the Cavaliers may have been replaced long ago, but even if you have money like Ilgoskas, you may not be able to find it now.
It's just that he has been plagued by injuries for so many years. This Lithuania's most potential insider master has also lost some ambitions. Now he is at most a second-rate master for the little emperor.
But now Wallace is injured, and Ilgoskas has to rest for three weeks. The Cavaliers' inside line is empty. This is their weakness. Well, the fatal weakness has been infinitely magnified.
When they met the Trail Blazers, they were beaten awkwardly by Aldrich. Although the little emperor scored 40 points at that time, Aldridge of the Trail Blazers just beat Vallejo.
It not only made the Brazilian leave the field for the last six times, but also scored a career-high 35 points.
The Cavaliers were also very depressed because of the weakness of the inside line and were continuously attacked at home by the Trail Blazers and the Mavericks.
The magic of the fast loan stadium seems to have faded. Now everyone knows that if you want to kill the Cavaliers, you have to fight the insider. As long as they are forced to shrink their defense, you are one step closer to victory.
Now Cleveland's trouble is not only because Wallace and Ilgoskas were injured. After a long season, many accumulated problems have begun to show clues, especially the arrival of injury tides.
Gibson and Szebiak have suffered minor injuries in recent games. The Cavaliers' main defensive strength and offensive firepower have been weakened by at least one-third, and the inner defense is nearly half less!
In such a lineup, what Mike Brown can expect is the little emperor, but the little emperor who can average 30+ points per game for most of the season, but the poor feeling in recent games makes him angry.
The more the team needs someone to stand up, the more the little emperor is facing the situation of being surrounded by his opponents.
Now there are really few people who can help him. The inside defense is already poor. Now there are two high points missing. Vallejo is holding under the basket by himself, and he can't prevent the opponent's attempt to cut into the basket at all.
The little emperor is sometimes forced to defend back, but once he withdraws, the other party will have a better chance to kill on the periphery. What's more, the little emperor's defense is more about chasing speed players such as defenders.
Once the opponent rushes with a strong inside line, even the little emperor can't stand it. They lost to the Spurs again a few days ago, and that's how they lost. Duncan cut in with the ball head-on, and Vallejo couldn't stop it at all.
Even if this guy has exerted the fake fall to the extreme, but in front of the "stone Buddha", the Brazilian's trick does not seem to work at all. Duncan tortured this unlucky guy again and again with a board into the basket.
In addition, Parker, a light sports car, was running wildly, and Ginobili's demon knife was randomly chopped. The Cavaliers had no choice but to usher in a three-game losing streak at home, which also directly wiped out their victory ahead of the Pistons.
But the Pistons failed to take this opportunity to complete the overtaking. The Cavaliers were weak, but Detroit was not strong to the end. After the All-Stars, the Pistons' performance has also been declining all the way, and there is even a risk of continuing to slide. Even the Magic may replace their current ranking. No one can save this kind of downturn. Help.
Billups' average data per game has not declined, and Hamilton's efficiency is still the same. Empty-handed walking is still unpredictable, but the overall efficiency of the Pistons is declining, which can't be stopped by one or two people.
Even Starky, who has performed well in the rookie season, has not been able to bring the Pistons the vitality they want. Rashid Wallace is in a slump, Prince can't find a front sight, and the old Hunter is truce.
When these factors are added together, even the tough Pistons can't withstand the team's decline, but they won enough games at the beginning of the season, so now they still have a little advantage.
But this advantage is already negligible. Wizards, magic, eagles, walkers, and these pursuers are all staring at the recent state of the knights and the Pistons. Later, everyone is very happy with the drama, but the strength of Cleveland and Detroit is also there, not to surpass or surpass. Of.
But the whole of the East is declining. This is not to say that their overall strength is declining, but that the inertia of winning is constantly weakening, which also highlights the strength of the Celtics, and their position is unshakable.
This feeling is terrible, but in the east, no one can easily kill the Celtic beasts.
After a chaotic wave of transfers, only the Celtics can be regarded as a vested interest. The remaining competitors are either ineffective or the whole team has collapsed and have to be rebuilt.
What can you say about such a result? Blame God for the old man's partiality? Or did Boston accumulate 20 years of luck and squander it this time in exchange for a super lineup and good state?
Anyway, whether you are sad or not, the Celtic lead in the East has become unshakable after the end of the All-Stars, and they will not lose the top position in the East at all.
Do you expect these guys to make mistakes? Forget it, neither Cleveland nor Detroit have such illusions, because this matter is completely unreliable, and those green shirts will not make any fatal mistakes.
They just want to hold the first place in the East to play in the playoffs and suppress the tough people in the East.
Rivers and others are not paranoid, but Celtics. They are doing this, making their opponents have no resistance to look at the green shirts far away from the pursuers and go all the way.