On April 4, the NBA regular season continued, with the Spurs beating the Blazers at home to usher in two consecutive wins. Although the Spurs trailed by 8 points in the first half, they made a strong comeback in the third quarter, completed a reversal, and extended their advantage in the final quarter, and the scrappy Spurs won 6 of the last 7 games. In this way, after the Spurs won two consecutive games, the record came to 33 wins and 45 losses, ranking 10th in the West, and beating the Lakers. With four games left in the regular season, the Spurs have great hopes of locking up the playoff playoffs.
The Pelicans are currently 9th with 34 wins and 43 points, the Spurs 10th with 3 wins and 45 losses, and the Lakers 11th with 31 wins and 47 losses, and the three teams will compete for two playoff spots. Obviously, after the Pelicans beat the Lakers yesterday, the remaining 5 games ahead of the Lakers by 3.5 wins, not too unexpected, basically locked in a playoff qualification, so the Lakers and Spurs compete for the playoffs, is the biggest attraction.
The Lakers have suffered 6 consecutive losses after losing to the Nuggets today, and the thick-browed brother has not fulfilled his promise of ending a 5-game winning streak, and without James, the Lakers lost the game. Yesterday's defeat to the Pelicans has gradually moved the Lakers away from the ranks of the playoffs, and today with the loss to the Nuggets, the Lakers' hope of impacting the playoffs is already slim. The next Opponents of the Lakers are the Suns, Warriors, Thunder and Nuggets, in addition to the thunder's weak strength, the overall strength and status of the other three teams are not inferior to the Lakers.
Now the Pelicans have 5 games left, and the Lakers and Spurs have only 4 games left. Next, if the Lakers want to get play-off tickets, they want to win all 4 games, and they want the Spurs to lose at least 3 games, or the Pelicans to lose all. Once the Spurs can win 2 games and the Pelicans win 1 game, then the Lakers will be out early.
If the Lakers continue to lose consecutively against the Suns and Warriors, then even if the Spurs and Pelicans lose the rest of the game, the Lakers will still not be able to qualify for the playoffs. So the current condition is that the Lakers want to win all 4 games as much as possible, lose 1 game and have a chance, and lose 2 games directly announcing that they will not be eligible for the playoffs in advance.
From promotion to conditions, the Lakers want to advance to the playoffs, the difficulty is very large. On the one hand, they want to fight to end the recent 6-game losing streak, and the next opponents are the Suns and Warriors, and there is not much hope of beating these two teams. There is also James's injury problem, against the Pelicans fire line return, cut 38 points to perform well, but it is a pity that there is no hit from a three-pointer, and James's injury will also have a great impact on the Lakers' impact on the playoffs.
So I also hope that the Lakers can have good luck, from the pre-game rhetoric to win the championship and the media predicting 70 wins, to the hope of the playoffs is not big now, such a gap is indeed too big. The arrival of Westbrook did not play an expected role, the performance of the thick-browed brother after the championship winning season has not been stable enough, James is 37 years old, he still has the hope of impacting the scoring king, provided that the next 4 games can play 2 games, but also to withstand the impact of Embiid and Alphabet Brother.