The perfect life of basketball

Chapter 538 537 God Turtle 2.0!The semi-final against the Thunder!

After sweeping the Mavericks 4-0, the Glory once again became the first team to reach the conference semifinals.

Some fans even went to check the sweeping ratio. The Glory team after Ye Yingjie joined is the only one in the league!

Everyone in the Glory of New Orleans is quite happy, after all, they have completed the task set before the game: to complete the sweep while avoiding injuries and conserving energy!

then……

get high!
After achieving 82 consecutive victories and setting the league's first record, they haven't celebrated well yet!
It's still the old rules, Ye Yingjie spends money, spends a while with them at the nightclub, then goes home with Xiaoyu, and the others continue to have fun!

As early as the return flight, Ye Yingjie had already begun to analyze the next round of opponents.

Their opponent will be the winner of the Thunder and Clippers!
The Thunder are currently leading with a big score of 3:1!

In this round of the series, Westbrook and Paul met each other, Ibaka and Griffin were equally matched, and then Durant became the god of death who decided the outcome!

Although Durant was often injured and missed due to injuries in the past two years, it is obvious that his scoring ability and physical condition have not declined too much, and the long absence makes him need to justify himself and play harder!
Coupled with the fact that no one on the Clippers' front line can limit Durant a little bit, Du Shao's explosion is a matter of course!
In the first 4 games of the series, Du Shao averaged 33.5 points, 9.0 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game, among which scoring directly ranked first in the league.

In G2 and G3, Du Shao scored 35+ rebounds and 10+ consecutively, helping the Thunder win.

In this round of the series, if Du Shao's performance is as stable as a dog, then Westbrook's performance is open to question.

Although Westbrook has evolved into version 2.0 and is no longer obsessed with scoring, his assists and rebounding skills are also constantly improving.But Westbrook is always prone to lose his mind when he encounters a master who stirs up emotions like Paul!

The calm Westbrook is very strong. When his teammates have a good opportunity, he will never begrudge his possession of the ball. He will always pass the ball to the right player and the right position as soon as possible.

When the Thunder's offense stagnates and the efficiency of others drops, he can always stand up and hit the opponent's defense time and time again with sharp jump shots and breakthroughs.

but!

The irrational Westbrook can always ignore his teammates again and again and attack by himself; when he is one rebound short of a triple-double, he will grab rebounds without hesitation, and when he is one assist short, he doesn't care how his teammates feel , always go for a forced assist!
Such Westbrook is obviously more harmful to the Thunder!

在雷霆队唯一输掉的比赛中，威少虽然取得了21分9板10助的准三双数据，但是他疯狂出手22次只命中了6球，同时还贡献了6次失误！
This kind of Westbrook is obviously not what Thunder fans want to see.

Ye Yingjie felt that although Westbrook played like this, the Thunder team was still able to reach the semifinals, and the Clippers' striker strength was really bad.

Sure enough, within two days, in the G5 game, after Westbrook regained his composure, the Clippers had nothing to do with the Thunder.

Facing Paul's small moves and all kinds of trash talk in this game, Westbrook remained unmoved, concentrated on assists and rebounds, and scored a triple-double of 23 points, 13 rebounds and 12 assists!

As long as Westbrook calms down, in terms of overall strength, he can be regarded as one of the strongest point guards in the league!

Next, the Glory team will face the Thunder team's challenge in the Western Conference semifinals!

In addition, one after another, the results of other groups of duels were also released one after another.

The Warriors lead the Trail Blazers 4:0.

Although it was swept away, in the eyes of many experts and the media, the Blazers still have an infinite future.

The performance of the Trail Blazers this season has exceeded almost everyone's expectations. After all, last summer, they lost their four main players at once. It seemed that they were going to be completely destroyed and rebuilt, but they made it to the playoffs in the West of Hell. .

In this huge success, the explosion of the two young backcourt Lillard and CJ-McCollum is the key reason.

Because of the presence of two guns in the backcourt, the Blazers are extremely efficient offensively. In the regular season, Lillard averaged 25.1 points and 6.8 assists per game, while McCollum averaged 20.8 points per game.The two of them have become the second best backcourt combination in the league after Tyrant Rose and Splash Brothers!
Although the Blazers' offensive data under the leadership of the two guns is very good, their defense is really bad. They can't defend against the Warriors at all. This is the biggest reason for their loss!
With the double guns restricted in the playoffs, even though Roy and Oden withstood the Warriors' luxury bench, the Blazers could not escape the fate of being swept.

In the final matchup in the Western Conference, the Spurs defeated the Rockets 4:2 in six games.

Of course, there are reasons why the Spurs have no fat solution this year, but the Rockets' performance this year is indeed unsatisfactory.

From miraculously breaking into the semifinals of the Western Conference a year ago and fighting the universe bravely in six games to directly kneeling in the first round this season, the Rockets can be regarded as one of the most regressive teams last season.

Although Morey adopted a coaching change and midway signings this season, he failed to bring substantial improvement to the Rockets, and even regressed significantly.For this, Morey really has to take the blame.

In exchange for the "Bombard Master" D'Antoni, the Rockets who pursue the "Magic Ball Theory" are still a typical example of polarization.

They average three-point shots per game, ranking first in the league, and the total number of shots is also ranked fourth, but the three-point shooting rate is only ranked in the middle and lower reaches of the league, with a lot of volume but not good.

In fact, the Rockets' offense is okay, and defense is what they need to improve most now.

After changing to running and bombing, the Rockets' rhythm is much faster, but their pass control is not high, which leads to their high turnover rate!

Coupled with D'Antoni's emphasis on grabbing offensive rebounds, the Rockets' retreat was not fast enough!
In terms of defensive rebounds, except for Howard who is serious about protecting, everyone else thinks about fast breaks, which leads to the bottom of their defensive rebounding league!

With such a poor defense, if Harden was not in good condition in this round of the series, it would be impossible for the Rockets to win two games.

On the eastern side, it was unexpectedly fierce. Except for the Bulls sweeping the Pacers, the other teams played at least 6 games!
Facing the Bulls' iron-blooded defense, the Pacers' small ball whirlwind had been strangled in the cradle before it could blow up.

Brother Nongmei averaged 28.7 points, 13.4 rebounds and 3.2 blocks per game, completely dominating the inside line and dominating the entire series. The most feared thing about playing small balls is this kind of dominant inside line!

On the other side, the Cavaliers defeated the Hornets 4:2 with difficulty!

In fact, it's really not the Cavaliers' water, but Walker, who sounds the same as the volute, broke out in this round of the series!Facing Irving, who likes to spin around, Walker was defended as the leading scorer in this round of the series!The average of 24.3 points per game completely dominates the two teams!
If it weren't for the fact that his teammates were really bad, Black Seven would really be possible!
On the other side, the Raptors defeated the Celtics in the tiebreaker!
Although Lowry and DeRozan are dubbed "Iron Flower Brothers" by fans, although DeRozan, who was 7 out of 32 in G10, was directly called the most iron position by the media!
But the Celtics are tougher...

Although Kobe has retired, but the Mamba spirit has not...

In the last set of duels, the Heat sent the Eagles home with Wade's outstanding performance and Da Baibian's dominance inside!

If the Rockets are the most disappointing team in the West, then the Eagles are in the East.

From last year's Eastern Conference Finals to this year's stop in the first round, the Eagles fell really too fast.

(End of this chapter)