The Pelicans, who played in the middle of the NBA's 21-22 season, played a state of waging. But the team didn't seem to want to survive, and before the door closed during the trading period, CJ, Nance Jr. and Snell were traded from the Blazers. Fate always favors those who work hard, and after dismantling the Trail Blazers' two-gun, CJ partnerEd Ingram, he started his second spring with the Pelicans. And before the start of the playoffs, squeezed out the old club Blazers, as well as the Western Conference Clippers, Lakers, Spurs and other teams.
The Pelicans have been lucky this season. Why? In the life-and-death battle between the play-offs and the Clippers, they encountered a Clipper with a remnant major general. Leonard, who missed the entire season, and George, who was unable to fight because of the triggering of a health and safety agreement. Leaving the Clippers without a backbone, Ingram and McCollum's excellent performances were to lift the ninth-ranked Pelicans from the playoffs into the playoffs.
When you hear that the Pelicans' opponent in the first round of the playoffs is the Suns, who are the number one in the league, you may have scoffed, thinking that this series is just a slaughter clean sheet show by the Suns. But is this really the case? It's not so much that the Creation is playing tricks on the sun, but that the Pelicans' luck is really good.
In the second game of the first-round series between the two teams, the Suns' main defender Devin Booker, who played at home, suffered an injury in the third quarter and returned to the locker room. The Pelicans stole a victory at home from the Suns with Booker's absence. After the game, the Suns officially announced that Booker suffered a first-degree strain on the hamstring and was expected to miss 2-3 weeks. It also indicates that he will miss all the games in the first round of the pelicans' series, and in a flash, whether the Pelicans can "black eight" has become the focus of the fans' mouths.
After the latest two-team matchup. The Suns won the third game of the series with the excellent performances of Paul and Ayton, and the big score also came to 2-1. But the sun's weakness is also fully reflected in these three games, that is, the team's rebounding. According to statistics, in three games, the Suns have 40 fewer rebounds than the Pelicans. The problem of rebounding on the inside line has become a major weakness of the current Sun as a whole. And for the sun is even more terrifying, it is still to come.
According to Zhou Ling'an, a foreign female correspondent of Tencent Sports, in the Pelicans' recent team training, with the departure of the media, the team's big forward Zion Williams conducted a closed training. This also makes many fans question, is the Fat Tiger really going to go out of the mountain? As the 2019 winner of the show, Zion from Duke University is the man who is known as the template James. However, due to excessive weight in the later period, he missed the game for nearly two seasons due to a foot injury.
In the 21-22 season, although Zion still did not play. However, some media revealed that he has successfully lost 24 pounds during the season, about 10 kilograms. It has also given Pelicans fans this season confidence in the team. Anyone who has seen Fat Tiger play know that his dominance is phenomenal, both in college and in the NBA. In his first season, he played in 24 games, averaging 22.5 points and 6.3 rebounds per game. He played 61 games in his second season, averaging 27 points and 7.2 rebounds per game. Such data is undoubtedly a superpower in today's alliances.
There have been only five black eight miracles in NBA history, and the last time was back 10 years ago in the 11-12 season, when the 76ers reversed the sky. The eighth-ranked Pelican wants to overturn the number one sun, which is obviously not easy to achieve. If you use "time, location, and people", the time of day is the injury of the Suns Booker, the location is the home battle, and the person and may be the successful comeback of Zion, forming the big three with the Song of Warbler CJ. I don't know if the Fat Tigers can catch the last train in the playoffs this season.
Do you think Fat Tiger can make a comeback this season? And can the Pelicans become the sixth team to create the "Black Eight Miracle"?
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