The convulsion superstar of basketball

Chapter 254 253. The end of the regular season, the list is born (5K words ask for a monthly ticket)

As the Magic defeated the Pistons, in addition to completing the three-game sweep of the Pistons this season, they also successfully helped Iverson complete this battle of revenge.

After this game, the Magic have only the last six games left this season.

However, unlike most teams, even though there are not many games left in the season, the Magic at this moment still dare not take it lightly.

From the coach to the players, everyone has devoted 120% of their energy and is bound to win the next six games.

In the next few games in April, the state of the Magic is still very hot, and the schedule at the end of the season is not particularly difficult.

Therefore, after defeating the Nets in the last home game, the Magic also successfully scored 5 wins and 1 loss in the last six games, ending the regular season schedule of this season.

With the end of the final game, the Magic's record this season has been completely fixed at 63 wins and 19 losses, successfully joining the ranks of 60-win clubs.

At the end of the regular season, the entire Magic team let out a long sigh of relief from top to bottom.

Because then the Magic only need to wait for the other teams' schedules to be over before they can know what the final ranking of the playoffs will be.

It can be said that the team has done everything it can do so far. As for whether the next schedule is a blessing or a curse, it can only be resigned to fate.

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February 4.

With the end of all five games on this day, it also means that the regular season of the 08-09 season has come to an end.

In the future, all the teams will work hard for the playoffs, or go home early to fish and enjoy their happy vacation.

But for the Magic, once the results of this day were announced, there was a very bad news.

That is, with the Cavaliers' efforts at the end of the season, the team managed to achieve a record of 65 wins and 17 losses before the end of the final season, ranking first in the league.

At the last moment, the Cavaliers not only successfully overtook the Magic and climbed to the top of the East, but also surpassed the Lakers very tenaciously, becoming the league's No. 08 in the 09-[-] season in one fell swoop.

In addition, the record of 65 wins and 17 losses also broke the team history record of the Cleveland Cavaliers and created a brand new brilliance.

It can be said that after the end of the regular season, the Cavaliers entered the media's field of vision in an instant.

Even overnight, he successfully jumped from fifth place on the championship prediction list to second place, second only to the Los Angeles Lakers.

And after the regular season schedule is all over, the East and West playoff lists are all released.

Western side:

After the end of the season, the Los Angeles Lakers ranked first in the Western Conference with a record of 65 wins and 17 losses, leading the other seven teams behind them by a large margin.

As for the 2nd to 8th places, they are the Nuggets, Spurs, Trail Blazers, Rockets, Mavericks, Hornets, and the Utah Jazz who, at the last moment, beat the Suns and entered the playoffs.

And as the regular season rankings are determined, the battle situation in the West is also clear at a glance.

In the first quarter of the playoffs, the four games in the West will be the Lakers VS Jazz, the Nuggets VS Hornets, the Spurs against the Mavericks, and the Blazers against the Rockets.

It can be said that once the ranking battle in the West came out, the media immediately entered a state of boiling.

Because in the first round of the playoffs in the entire Western Conference, except for the Lakers who will have some larger advantages when facing the Jazz, the strengths in the other three rounds are evenly matched.

If the game does not go to the last minute, then no one will know which of the other six teams can complete the promotion.

Even this year, even if the Hornets and Mavericks completed black seven and black six respectively, this is completely reasonable in the eyes of the media.

Because apart from the Lakers in the Western Conference this year, the strengths of other teams are too similar.

The win gap from the eighth place in the West to the second place in the West is only 2.5 games.

So this situation also makes this year's Western Conference playoffs competition will become very fierce, and may even be selected into the first round of the most tragic playoffs in NBA history! !

In addition to the West, the playoffs in the East are also interesting. Compared with the West's blooming, the East can be said to be five points in the world.

Perhaps in terms of the overall effect, the East may not be the opponent of the West, but in terms of high-end combat power, the East has a complete crushing advantage.

Eastern side:

Before the end of the regular season, the Cavaliers also successfully won a record of 65 wins and 17 losses by virtue of a wave of momentum, and finally sat on the throne of the Eastern Conference.

In addition to the Cavaliers, the Magic and Celtics, which rank second to third in the Eastern Conference, also have a record of 60 wins this season. The gap between them can be said to be negligible.

排名东部第一的骑士队最终的战绩为65胜17负，第二的魔术队则是63胜19负，至于排名第三的凯尔特人同样也是有着62胜20负的战绩。

And there are only four teams in the league with a record of more than 60 wins this season, and among these four teams, the Eastern Conference occupies three of them, so the competition among them is not fierce enough.

In addition to the Cavaliers, Magic and Celtics, the fourth to eighth places in the Eastern Conference are the Eagles, Heat, 76ers, Bulls, and the Pistons who barely made it to the last train of the playoffs at the last moment with a record of 39 wins and 43 losses.

It can be said that after the Eastern Conference's regular season rankings finally came out, the amount of discussion that arose was obviously much smaller than that of the Western Conference.

Because in the entire Eastern Conference, there are only five teams that are truly competitive.

As for the three teams of the 76ers, Bulls and Pistons, the combined winning percentage of the three teams is not as much as half that of the Heat, the fifth in the East.

So if there is no accident, then these three teams are definitely the fate of a round trip and being forced to go home to fish.

After the results of the regular season rankings are announced, this means that in the first round of the playoffs in the Eastern Conference, they will be:

Cavaliers VS Pistons, Magic vs Bulls, Celtics VS 76ers, and the last round of suspenseful Eagles vs Heat.

In the first round of the playoffs in the Eastern Conference, once the schedule was announced, the media probably had a result in their minds.

Because compared to the remaining suspense in the west, the top three teams in the east in the first round of the playoffs will definitely not have too many obstacles to advance.

As long as there are no too special circumstances, the chances of the Cavaliers, Magic and Celtics overturning in the first round are absolutely negligible.

Unless the main players of these three teams suffer serious injuries in a certain game, the chance of being overturned will never exceed 10%.

Even under the unanimous predictions of the outside media, in the first round of the entire Eastern Conference, except for the Heat VS Eagles round, the chances of winning the tie-break in the other three rounds are very small.

And most people have begun to predict that the Cavaliers and Magic can solve their opponents in only four games, and even the Celtics and 76ers will basically not exceed 6 games in this round of the series.

As for the real suspense and intensity, there is only the Heat VS Eagles game.

For this round of series duel, the outside media are unanimously recognized that the two sides are likely to reach the tie-break, and the winner can only be determined at the last moment.

Because these two teams not only tied 2:2 in the regular season competition, but the most important point is that the sum of the points difference in these four games is less than 20 points.

Therefore, for this series of matchups, most media cannot give an accurate prediction.

However, the support rate for guessing that the two sides will reach the tiebreaker is as high as 73.7%, and the support rate for the series ending in 4 games is only 0.23%...

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February 4.

With the complete end of the regular season and the release of the first-round playoff list, each team is already in a state of strict preparation for the next playoff matchup.

Regardless of whether each team is optimistic or negative by the outside media before the playoffs, but for any team that enters the playoffs, psychological quality will definitely be a very important link.

So no matter how likely the team is to win before the game, at least before the start of the playoffs, the head coaches and players of each team have devoted themselves to training and researching tactics without any slack.

After all, even the eighth-ranked teams in the Eastern and Western Divisions will fantasize in their hearts that one day they will be able to perform the classic scene of the Black Eight Miracle.

You must know that in the history of the NBA, the black eight miracle is not so rare. Although the probability of it appearing is very low, it does not mean that it has no chance.

And with the end of the regular season, the top figures on the various lists have also been fixed.

This season's scoring champion was won by the Heat's Flash Wade. This season, Wade averaged 38.6 minutes per game, contributing 30.2 points, 5.1 rebounds and 7.5 assists.

The average of 30.2 points per game not only helped Wade successfully win the scoring title in the 08-09 season, but also the only player among all players who averaged 30 points per game this season.

And while the offensive end is very good, Wade also has 2.2 steals and 1.3 blocks in defense this season.

Among them, 1.3 blocks are the top among all defenders this season.

In addition to scoring, the rebounding and assists this season were won by Howard and Chris Paul respectively.

其中德怀特霍华德在本赛季场均出场36.7分钟，个人能够贡献出17.8分13.8篮板2.1次助攻以及2.7次封盖的数据。

And in addition to winning the rebounding title in the 08-09 season, Howard is also likely to win the honor of the best defensive player of the season.

As for the best player first team, Howard has already completed his personal reservation in the middle of the season. After all, the centers who can compete with Howard in terms of personal strength and team record this season basically no longer exist.

So compared to several other positions, Howard's pressure to enter the best team is definitely the least of the five.

Chris Paul, who won the assists title this season, averaged 22.8 points, 11.6 assists and 2.6 steals per game.

It can be said that although the results of the best team have not been released so far, but if there is no accident, then the best player team of this season is likely to be Paul, Wade, Kobe, James and Howard.

But this is just a lot of speculation by the media so far, because the real season honor results will not be announced until the league finals in early June.

The purpose is to fear that the players who failed to win the award will have some psychological barriers in the playoffs, which will lead to abnormal performance in the playoffs, and eventually have to be out of the game with regret.

After all, whoever really believes that this kind of selection is completely fair and just, without any shady background, is a real fool.

So this is the main reason why the league still chooses to announce the winners of all awards this season before the finals in early June after the results come out.

Because the league is afraid that this situation will affect the personal performance of the stars, which will lead to some turning points in the game and affect the ticket revenue for the playoffs.

After all, after the annual results are announced, not only the stars will feel very dissatisfied in their hearts, but even many fans will shout shady, and even threaten to boycott watching the NBA Finals.

Well, under such circumstances, if the league really announces the regular season winners of all the honors of this season at the end of the season, then I am afraid that the ticket revenue for the playoffs will shrink by at least 1/5...

As for the final steals and blocks, it was also crowned again by Chris Paul and Howard.

It can be said that for these two people, this year is definitely a bumper year.

After all, in addition to leading the team to the playoffs, the two also won a lot of honors in terms of personal statistics, which continued to contribute to their career status.

After the end of the regular season and before the start of the playoffs, the fans are definitely the most lively existence during this period.

Because at this stage, even though the league has not announced the various honors, fans will have openly discussed on the Internet, who has the best chance to win the regular season MVP of this season.

What you need to know is that in the professional league of the NBA, in addition to some of his honors and the number of championships, the regular season MVP is definitely a very important part of evaluating a player's historical status.

Throughout the historical career of the entire league, there is no star who has not won the regular season MVP and can still compete for the No. 1 ability in each position.

Even the very sad uncrowned king Karl Malone has won the honor of regular season MVP twice in his career.

So from this point, we can see how high the gold content of this award is.

After all, a pure data brush cannot win this award, because in addition to having extraordinary strength, the minimum standard for winning this award is that the team must enter the playoffs.

Even when Westbrook of later generations won this honor, he forcibly brought the team into the sixth position in the Western Conference, barely overwhelmed James Harden, and won the regular season MVP trophy in the 16-17 season.

So before the start of the playoffs, most of the discussions among fans are who can get the most valuable player of this year's regular season.

Of course, among the many discussion objects among the fans, apart from the diehard fans of individual players, players with a little sense of reason are very clear.

The three players who have the greatest chance of winning the regular season MVP this season are James, Wade, and Kobe Bryant.

The reason why Howard was not included in this list for discussion is because Howard's Magic team has an excellent record.

And Warcraft's personal defensive ability is very explosive, but its shortcomings on the offensive end are very obvious.

This has also become the biggest obstacle on Howard's way to compete for the regular season MVP.

So from a rational point of view, the three players who are most likely to win the regular season MVP this year are James, Kobe and Wade.

Among them, James and Kobe both have the bonus of having an excellent team record.

As for the Heat where Wade belongs, the record is not very outstanding. Although they finally entered the playoffs, compared with these two 60-win teams, they are still a little bit powerless.

But the good news is that Wade's statistics this season can be said to be very explosive, and even if it is only about the performance of the regular season, then Wade can be said to be a god.

So this is also the biggest advantage for Flash Wade to compete for the regular season MVP this season.

Throughout the long history of the NBA, it can be said that the selection of the regular season MVP is undergoing slight changes every year.

Because you don't know at all, who will add more points to the team's record and personal performance this year, and which will be more dominant in the team's record or personal ability.

After all, in the regular season MVP selections in recent seasons, the league has received more and more doubts.

Even the fans have long felt confused about the league's series of operations, and they don't know what is the real standard...

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