If you want to say who the favorite to win the championship this season, it is estimated that before the start of the season, you will choose the Lakers or the Nets. There's no problem with such a choice, the Nets have Durant, the best guard Harden, and the ability to attack Irving. The Lakers are the old and tough James, the most perfect center in the small-ball era Davis, and the all-around warrior Wei Shao. Almost all of the league's best stars are brought together on both teams. Just when the fans imagined how they would harvest their opponents and easily advance to the finals, they realized that we were the Jokers. Nowadays, don't talk about winning the championship, whether you can successfully enter the playoffs is enough.
First of all, the Nets Irving suddenly insisted on their beliefs not to play games, Durant was injured for a long time, and Harden led the team alone with a stomach full of anger. In the end, they parted ways, and Harden joined forces with Embiid. After that, Durant has all kinds of high scores, but this can't win, even if Irving can play at home now, he still keeps the whole moth, and can really put into the game on Durant.
After losing to the Hawks on April 3, Beijing time, the Nets have fallen to 10th in the East, and they are on the edge of the playoffs, if they lose the playoffs again. A few years before that, the Nets missed the playoffs, and thanks to the league reforms, with the so-called playoffs, they also had the opportunity to counterattack.
The Lakers side is also a lot of problems, Davis Glass Man attributes are exposed, long-term absence, can only be a dual core. Westbrook is almost out of form, and at the end of a season, he has played a few good games. He is completely out of the tactical, the defense is almost non-existent, and it is basically a side effect on the field.
James fought for his old life, and now he is about to win the scoring king, and he has no choice but to serve the old man at the age of 37. The inability to do so at a critical moment is really visible to the naked eye, and the good big three are now playing their own. The Lakers are even more miserable, 11th in the West, and there is only a theoretical possibility to enter the playoffs.
If the Lakers and Nets didn't make the playoffs, that would really be the biggest joke of the season. Such a luxurious lineup, do not win the championship will endure, the final playoffs can not enter, which also proves that the "hugging" basketball is not as incomprehensible as imagined.