Who is the most champions team in the East now? As long as Irving doesn't return, the Bucks will certainly be the team most likely to win the championship. Because only Durant and Harden's Nets can't compete with the Bucks, not to mention harden has played this ghost this season. Therefore, considering the strength of other teams, the Bucks are still the most promising to go to the Eastern Conference Finals. As for whether you can win the championship, this is not easy to say. The West is too strong this season, and if you follow last year's routine, the Bucks are now difficult to directly compete. So who can win the championship, there is no accurate statement yet.
Leaving aside the other teams for the moment, let's first talk about why the Bucks are the most likely to dominate the East. Before playing the Finals last season, the Bucks actually had a lot of problems. Although the number one has been replenished, Holliday can help the team stir up trouble in the front. However, the shortcomings of the alphabet brother itself are still many, and the individual attack is easily limited. At that time, the solution of most of the opponent teams to face the alphabet brother was encirclement and suppression, which was successful to some extent. Before the Finals, everyone knew it would work.
And in the finals, the alphabet brother suddenly evolved. His low-post skills support a huge offensive system, and the Bucks' firepower output is also directly upgraded by a notch because of the help of the alphabet brother. So for the Bucks, the key to winning the championship is the evolution of the alphabet brother at the last minute.
By this season, Alphabet Brother has evolved to an almost complete form. Two aspects support his position, one is that the technology of the back is more mature, everyone now no longer uses rough man to describe the alphabet brother, and the footsteps and positions are first-class. Even if it is not at the top level, it is still the one above the horizontal line. In fact, the alphabet brother has always been not bad, before the weight gain, the letter brother's various small techniques played very slippery. Now it's just a return to the previous level. Statistics show that alphabet brother's low efficiency this season has improved by 15.8% compared with the previous season, which is one of the few players with sustained growth in the new season. And the alphabet brother also learned a hand in the low position of the organizational skills, this is very rare, call him the first person in the fourth position of the new season, is not a problem at all.
The second is the long-range projection of the alphabet brother. This is the most boastful boost. Every season before that, it was said that The Alphabet Brother was practicing hard to shoot, but no one saw that the Alphabet Brother had changed significantly. Because there are not many shots, and the hit rate does not meet everyone's expectations. Especially in this day and age, many people prefer to see an all-round forward win the league first. As long as the alphabet brother does not practice shooting for a day, when the fans praise him, there will definitely be doubts. Now Bucks fans don't have to worry about that. Alphabet Brother's mid-range shooting rate has increased to 45% this season, which is not as good as the top defenders and classical forwards, but in the same position, maintaining production and efficiency, Alphabet Brother is the first man.
Some fans may ask, since they have been touting the alphabet brother, why have the Bucks not got better results this season? To know that the Bucks have been the hegemon of the Eastern Conference regular season in the past few years, and now there are no previous results, can it be said to a certain extent that the Bucks are not as powerful as everyone thinks? In fact, no, at the beginning of the season, the Bucks' injury problem was very serious, and the absence of multiple main players caused the Bucks to start and did not play the expected results. But with injuries slowly recovering, the Bucks can now overcome the problem.
For the Bucks management, they've already experienced the taste of the championship. So now it's not about trying to rank for the regular season, the most important thing is to ensure the health of the main players. As long as this team of champions is still there, the Bucks have a good chance of returning to the Finals this season. As for whether you can win the championship, it depends on the opponent this season. However, there is also bad news now, the most suitable for the letter brother center Big Lopez is not yet able to play, the team's rebounding protection plate is relatively weak. If it is replaced by other players, it may not be able to achieve the current effect of Lopez. So it's also a variable, and management is also trying to help recover.
After saying the letter brother, the next need to talk about the other members. The Alphabet Brother in the Finals is certainly a key figure in the finals, but Holliday and Middleton are equally important. Although it's only been a season, Holliday's help to the Bucks has been tremendous. This kind of defensive guard is not easy to find in the league, so Holliday has always been the management's dependence. Against a team with strong defenders, Holliday is the key to breaking the game.
Holliday's performance this season is similar to last season's, with no significant fluctuations. This is a good thing, many players will have a bit of a data decline after winning the championship, but holliday closed his heart in time and is now one of the guarantees of the team's defender line. Holliday averaged 32.2 minutes per game this season and had 16 points, 4.4 rebounds and 6.2 assists, basically the same as last season. Judging by the distribution of shots, Holliday began to consciously increase his shots in the near frame area. For a defender, there is only one reason to increase the proportion of shots in this area: to ensure that the team's shots at key moments are no longer only two points, Alphabet Brother and Holliday. Bucks this is to multi-point in unison to ensure stability.
When we talked about the Bucks' shortcomings before, we would say that once the alphabet brother was restricted, the Bucks could not rely on Middleton at key moments, because his performance in key moments was very poor. Don't worry about this problem now, one is that the alphabet brother is not easy to be restricted, and the other is that Holliday has also increased his own shooting percentage, giving the team another insurance.
Finally, there's Middleton, who is also stepping up his shots in the mid-range. As you can see, the Bucks are now taking a safe route. The three-point shooter is just the icing on the cake for the Bucks right now, and doesn't play a key role in the overall impact of the team. Up to the management, down to the first-line players, they are all considering the problem of safety. This also poses a problem, the Bucks' inner line pressure is stronger. After the return of Da Luo, it is difficult to say whether the team's interior space will be problematic. Looking at the Bucks now, it is actually looking at a semi-finished product, and the Bucks' policy is not the same as last season, but the overall strength is online. Again, in the East, as long as Irving doesn't return, no team can beat the Bucks head-on.