This season's NBA East first round playoffs, there have been three teams successfully broke through, into the stage of the semifinals, including the first round of the Nets' Green Kai, the soldiers did not sweep the promotion, and the defending champions did not let the East's most profound traditional heroes wait for a long time, after the second game of the middle of the playoffs was injured, they hung up the exemption card, the Bucks won three consecutive games under the leadership of The Alphabet Brother, eliminated the Bulls with a 4-1 score, and successfully met the Eastern Conference semifinals with the Green Kai! However, after the start of this round of the series, the defending champion has encountered a bad news, according to the news of the NBA well-known reporter Wo Shen Woj, the left knee injury of Middleton, who is called the man by the fans, is more serious than expected, and it takes longer to recover, which means that it is difficult for him to come back in the second round of the series with Green Kai, the best situation is to return from injury in the Eastern Finals, the lack of one of the big three will undoubtedly greatly affect the combat effectiveness of the Bucks, and also make the probability of Tatum leading Green Kai into the Eastern Finals become greater!
The Bucks can leave a regular season team impression on fans before last season's change, inseparable from the team management, recruiting Holliday, so that it and Alphabet Brother, Middleton together to form a core lineup of the Big Three, Holliday and Middleton, to the maximum extent to reduce the impact of Alphabet Brother has a projection weakness to the minimum, once one of them is missing, the opponent can free up more energy to defend the end of the letter brother, after all, Holliday's offensive instability is a well-known thing.
Some fans may think that in the first round of playoffs with the Bulls, without Middleton, the Bucks can still play the overall offense of the clouds, but the reason behind their efficient offense is the Bulls' weak overall defense, and in the Eastern Conference semifinals, the Bucks will encounter a green Kai with an iron-blooded defense, in such a situation, it is difficult for the Bucks to play the first round of smooth overall offense.
In such a situation, the alignment of the core players will directly determine the trend of the series, although the alphabet brother in the last season led the team to win the championship, the stability and self-confidence of the middle and long distance have been significantly improved, but it is undeniable that this is still its biggest weakness, in the absence of Middleton This strong containment point, the alphabet brother will inevitably be more targeted by the green Kai's more targeted defense, relying on him to play a super dominance of personal performance, leading the team to victory is very difficult.
As for Holliday of the offensive end of the nerve knife, it is even more difficult to give the alphabet brother strong fire support in the series facing the green Kai, after all, he will face the same physical fitness, strength, confrontation is the top smart God smart Godmart, from the latter's overall performance this season, and Holliday offensive and defensive ends of the tie, or even occupy a certain advantage The probability is very large.
Once Middleton can not appear, Holliday is consumed one-on-one, alphabet brother will fall into a one-man vs double probe Lang Tatum and Jaylen Brown in the situation, from the first round of the series can be clearly seen, Tatum offensive and defensive on both ends of the huge progress, and Jaylen Brown's key ball ability has also been significantly improved, then the alphabet brother will fall into the situation of two fists and four hands, which is also the reason why I personally think that Middleton can not come back, and the probability of Green Kai advancing to the East Finals is greater!