75. When cruelty is about to meet Gouzi
At present, there are four teams that have been confirmed to advance to the semi-finals in the East and West Divisions.
In addition to the Timberwolves who eliminated the Rockets 4:1, the other three teams are the Heat who eliminated the Nets 4:0, the Spurs who eliminated the Nuggets 4:1, and the big score of 4 just ended the game: 1 eliminated the Kings Supersonics.
In this way, a group of matches in the Western Conference semi-finals has been determined in advance, and the Timberwolves, ranked No. 1 in the Western Conference, will compete with the Supersonics, ranked No. 4 in the Western Conference.
As for the Spurs' opponent in the Western Conference semi-finals, the Suns will be the winner between the Suns and the Mavericks. Currently, the Suns are 3: 2 lead the Mavericks temporarily hold the match point, and the chance of advancing seems to be relatively high.
Although the Suns have a record of 62 wins and 20 losses this season and have completely crushed the Mavericks in terms of rankings, the Mavericks' team is very strange. The strength of the Mavericks' team is by no means a reference for the record.
Nowitzki, Michael Finley, Starkhouse, Jason Terry, and Josh Howard, the Mavericks' offensive ability is definitely the top in the league when these guys are grouped together.
Even though his defensive ability is as unbearable as the Suns, it is completely inconsistent with offense, but the Mavericks, who feel smooth, can even overturn the Timberwolves, the No. 1 in the league.
This was tasted by the Timberwolves during the regular season, so the Suns did not feel good in this round of series. Even if they could advance in the end, they would have been skinned by the pirates.
From this point of view, the Suns are definitely at a disadvantage. After defeating the Mavericks, the Suns have to face the Spurs in the semi-finals. This schedule even Luke, who is the opponent, feels a headache.
In comparison, the Timberwolves' schedule is obviously much better. Even if the Rockets' strength is not underestimated, the Rockets are simply a scumbag compared to the Mavericks!
There is no need to say more about the semi-final showdown. The Suns and Spurs are one of the biggest favorites to win the championship this season.
No matter who can advance to the Western Conference Finals, it will definitely cost a lot. It can be foreseeable that the Suns and the Spurs will definitely play very fiercely in this round of series, and may even make it to the tiebreak.
Compared with these two brothers in distress, the Timberwolves faced the supersonics in the semifinals.
Before the playoffs started, Luke had thought that if the Timberwolves had the chance to choose their opponent, he would definitely choose the Supersonics as his first round opponent.
Because the Timberwolves' defensive system naturally restrains the supersonics, as long as there is no accident, the Timberwolves will definitely advance in this round of the series.
Luke's inner confidence is much higher than when he played against the Rockets.
In the playoffs, Luke was worried that McGrady, the "Son of God", would cause trouble for him, but in the face of Supersonics, Luke really couldn't think of this team as a threat to him.
Ray Allen and Lewis have good personal abilities, but neither of them are singles stars with excellent team-leading skills.
Relatively speaking, the two are better at playing without the ball and causing damage to the team in terms of shooting, rather than playing so arrogantly like Kobe and McGrady.
Luke is not afraid of cold-blooded killers like Ray Allen. On the contrary, what Luke is most afraid of is Kobe's unreasonable individual singles.
Regarding the semi-finals, Luke set a goal for himself in his heart to be 4 : 0 sweep!
In the Eastern Conference, the only team that has advanced is the Heat led by "The Big Shark" O'Neal.
No! To be precise, it should be the Heat led by "The Flash" Wade!
Wade averaged 42.5 minutes per game in the entire series, and he could score 26.3 points, 6.3 rebounds, 8.8 assists and 1.8 steals.
This data has definitely reached the league's top star level in the playoffs.
And Wade, who was in the second grade in personal match, beat Vince Carter, which is the most shocking thing about Wade.
After all, Vince Carter is one of the most popular players in the league today. It is absolutely amazing to be able to beat Carter in personal matchups.
In addition, the reason why the Heat can easily sweep the Nets in this round of series is 4
As we all know, the Heat have two three-pointers this season, Damon Jones and Eddie Jones. Their defensive abilities are average, but their excellent shooting abilities are simply the most important helpers around Wade and O'Neal.
Without the threat from the two outsiders to help the Heat open up space, neither O'Neal nor Wade would be able to play so smoothly as it is now.
Especially when both of their main scoring methods are in the penalty area under the basket, the threat of double Jones on the outside is too important.
Jones averaged 16.5 and 16.3 points per game in the whole series, and both of them scored more than 50% of their three-point shooting percentages, among which Eddie Jones was even more terrifying 53%!
The main offensive method of the two is shooting from outside the three-point line. Damon Jones averaged 8.5 three-pointers per game, and Eddie Jones averaged 6.5 three-pointers per game.
In this case, the two of them can still hit more than 50% of their three-point shooting percentage, which can only be said that the Nets were swept out by 4 It is really not unfair.
With this offensive efficiency, the Heat have the ability to sweep any team, including the Timberwolves, who played the No. 1 in the league this season.
It's just a pity that the Timberwolves' defensive ability simply cannot make double Jones shoot such high three-point efficiency.
The playoff three-point shooting percentage is more than 50%, which is simply an insult to a team's outside defense!
In fact, the Nets lost four games in a row with the Big Three, and head coach Frank must take the blame.
The Nets and the Heat only played overtime in the G3 game in the entire series, but Vince Carter averaged 44.6 minutes of playing time, and Carter could only rest a pitiful 3.4 minutes per game.
It's no wonder Carter was weak in the fourth quarter and frequently made a comeback on the offensive end. His shooting percentage in the entire series was only 36.5%.
But that's all that can't prove the crazy head coach Frank. In addition to Vince Carter, Nets point guard Jason Kidd averaged 45.5 minutes per game!
What is this playing time? This means that Kidd can only rest for 2.5 minutes per game per game, and can rest for about 40 seconds per quarter on average.
This coaching method of not treating players as humans is simply crazy, but unfortunately the Nets' good hand of cards was beaten by head coach Frank.
Anyone who takes over the Nets' coaching point is Luke, and Luke is confident that he will lead the Nets to the finals again.
Let’s not talk about whether the Eastern Conference can defeat the Heat in the playoffs. At least the Nets coached by Luke will never be swept by the Heat. This is the bottom line of a team with the Big Three!
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With the 4th round of the Supersonics: 1, the first match between the Timberwolves and the Supersonics semi-finals will officially start on May 7th local time in the United States.
The first two games were still played at the Timberwolves at home. If the Timberwolves can eliminate the Supersonics and advance to the Western Conference Finals, Luke will tie the best height of Sanders when coaching the Timberwolves, which is the Western Conference Finals!
The Western Conference Finals are the highest basketball stage in the history of the Timberwolves, and are also a barrier in the history of the Timberwolves.
Sanders, the old barrier, led the Forests for ten years but failed to break through, so when the Timberwolves went further and further in the playoffs, fans began to feel even more nervous.
No one wants to face failure, but the word failure has become one with the city of Minnesota, which has never been successful.
And this year Luke's arrival is like a ray of sunshine that breaks through the dark clouds, bringing not only hope, but also a sense of security to the city of Minnesota!
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It is worth mentioning that Supersonics head coach McMillan said in an interview with the media before the series that the Timberwolves are a very outstanding team, and head coach Luke is even more of the freak among the coaches.
McMillan bluntly stated that fighting with the Timberwolves will be a wealth in his coaching career, and no matter what the result of the series is, the Supersonics will benefit a lot.
Finally, McMillan said jokingly: "Everyone knows that the Supersonics are the most civilized team in the league. I hope Coach Lu can restrain his emotions in this round of the series. I am really afraid of him."
McMilan's words attracted a lot of laughter, and everyone regarded it as a joke from McMilan. It was only when McMilan knew that the team's promotion was slim, so his mentality was so optimistic.
But after watching the video of McMillan's interview, only Luke knew that McMillan was using the introduction of a joke to say what he said.
"The first in the league, everything is safe!"
Chapter completed!