The first round of the NBA playoffs is nearing its end, and the 8 teams that have entered the divisional finals are about to be born, and throughout the first round of the playoffs, the strongest performers are the Green Army and the Bucks!
The Green Army met the Nets in the first round! Although this team does not have Simmons and no Joha, under Durant and Irving, they still have the strength to fight for the championship! But it is in the face of such a strong opponent, the Green Army has shown their terrible dominance, not only in the defensive end of the good containment of Durant, but also in the offensive end of the Nets defense to crush, and finally the big score of 4:0 swept the Nets to advance, is the only team to complete the sweep in the first round, showing their strong strength.
The Green Army completes the sweep, while the Bucks win even easier! Although the Green Army is a sweep, but 4 games have been played to the final moment, the Bucks are different, in addition to the first 2 games, the remaining 3 games, is completely one-sided situation, the team basically in 3 quarters to beat the opponent, easily won the game, but also beat the Bulls 4:1 to advance.
It has to be said that the Bucks and the Green Army are the two teams that performed the strongest in the first round, and they are also the first to show the level of championship competition, and these 2 strong teams ushered in the dialogue in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
Green Army vs Bucks, is definitely a Finals level confrontation, so when the 2 teams meet, who has a better chance of winning the series?
2 teams are very strong, the same offensive and defensive team! On the offensive end, the Bucks are superior, with the alphabet brother this big killer, will cause great threat and damage to the Green Army defense line, while Holliday, Dalo, Portis and other generals to help, they are better than the Green Army in offensive firepower, in terms of offensive stability, but also better than Tatum, Brown and other Green Army generals.
The Green Army took advantage of the defense! As the No. 1 team in the defensive league this season, the Green Army has evolved the defense to the extreme, and even more in the first round, Durant was limited to death, even against the alphabet brother, they can maximize his performance, which provides the team with the opportunity to win.
Bucks and Green Army, it can be said that the strength is equal, if not on the high and low, the Bucks may rely on experience and the status of defending champions, slightly better, more chance to win the series, but before the 2 team series began, the Bucks ushered in a bad news, so that the balance of the series began to fall to the Green Army.
Bucks big player Middleton was sprained in the series G2 with the Bulls, suffering a sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee and missing the next series with the Bulls.
According to the latest report from NBA celebrity Shams, Middleton's medial collateral ligament sprain on his left knee is a grade 2 sprain, and it is expected to miss the full round of semifinals with the Green Army, and even poses a potential risk to the Bucks Eastern Conference Finals (if the Bucks advance).
From Shams's report, we can see that Middleton's injury is more important than expected, the rest time may reach 3 weeks or even more than 4 weeks, it is expected to miss the entire semi-final, and even affect the final, which shows that Middleton's injury recovery is definitely not so fast.
With a second-degree sprain, Middleton missed the Eastern Conference semifinals, and the pair of alphabet brothers was also the first blow, which reversed the situation in the semifinals of the 2 teams.
As we said earlier, the Green Army defends better, the Bucks attack better, so if the Bucks want to defeat the Green Army, the team's offense must be played, but without Middleton, the Bucks' offense is not good.
Alphabet brother has improved a lot this season, but his shooting problems still exist, the offense still relies more on breakthroughs and interior lines, and shooting is only an aid! And once there is no Middleton, the Bucks are missing a long gun on the outside line, and they are also missing an offensive general who will close the game, and the Bucks are missing the sharpest weapon on the outside! And Middleton faced the firepower of the Celts and knew everything.
Moreover, without Middleton's constraints, the Green Army can frantically adopt the defensive tactics of shrinking the basket and wrapping the letter brother, limiting the breakthrough and basket power of the letter brother, which will make the letter brother play very uncomfortable, thus affecting the overall offensive efficiency of the Bucks, and they want to defeat the green army, it is no longer so easy.
Because the Bulls are weak, the problem of the Bucks' lack of Middleton has not appeared, but now when facing the Green Army, an opponent who is not at all a rank with the Bulls, the problem of lack of Middleton has emerged, and it has become more and more difficult for Alphabet Brother to lead the team through the Green Army.