Today after the Bulls and Thunder, DeRozan, LaVine and SGA were eliminated, there was a spectacle.
Top four points per NBA per game this season:
Embiid, Luca, Lillard, SGA - three have already been eliminated.
Add Irving in eighth, Makanen in twelfth, LaVine in fifteenth, DeRozan in seventeenth, Siakam in nineteenth - the top twenty on the scoring list, the smaller half is gone.
Who said: Originally, scoring Mordor was forced to concentrate the ball for them to play, no wonder...
But let's do it... Scoring king Embiid not eliminated?
Looking back, the knockout scoring masters, Luca, Lillard, SGA, Owen, LaVine, DeRozan - all are peripheral ball handlers, defenders.
Those who stay, such as Embiid who is number one in the scoring list, Giannis who is fifth in the scoring list, and Tatum who is sixth - the striker - don't worry about the play-offs?
Who would say that the two guards Mitchell and Morant are still shooting devils - to add:
Mitchell has Mobley by his side, and Morant has JJJ by his side:
Both men are monster forwards and both can run for Defensive Player of the Year.
In turn, Luka and Owen in the forward line, Lillard in the forward line, well...
As for the strikers around SGA, LaVine and DeRozan, look at today's game:
Today the Heat and Timberwolves advanced, and the Bulls and Thunder were eliminated.
The peripheral stars each shine, and the winner is the striker.
The Bulls were still leading by three and a half points before the end of the fourth quarter, but from then until the end of the game, they only relied on DeRozan to make a free throw.
Ge's side: Jimmy Butler made a breakthrough foul, Adebayo made another foul; The Bulls were scared and caught Jimmy, so Jimmy gave Strus a three-pointer in the game - Strus, an Illinois native who began his basketball career in Chicago, sent his hometown team home.
The target of the foul by Jimmy and Adebayo, and the target of Jimmy's breakthrough point after that, were all Vucevic.
Vucevic was -23 and the Bulls were team-low.
- It's weird, Vucevic scored 12 points and 9 rebounds on 9 shots, but -23; Adebayo on the hot side shot 1 of 9 for 8 points, but +16?
——Because Adebayo had 17 rebounds and 4 assists, I don't know how many times he changed defenses for LaVine and DeRozan, attracted Caruso's pinch shots to open teammates three times, and directly let Jimmy catch the basket twice.
And at the last minute, he covered LaVine's layup, extinguishing the last hope of the Bulls.
He missed shots, but passing + defending, all against Vučevic.
DeRozan is tough - in the fourth quarter, Vucevic had 0 in all numbers except for fouls, LaVine missed 5 shots and scored 1 point, only he carried the Bulls forward, and the Bulls' four small formations were invincible to defend, but there were still weaknesses after all.
- After the All-Star Break, the Bulls defended first in the league. The secret is four small formations: Beverley, Caruso, LaVine, DeRozan and Vucevic. 185 cm + 193 cm + 196 cm + 198 cm + 208 cm. The Bulls started this set in the regular season, 11-4.
- Beverley's bite, Caruso's defense, LaVine's self-conscious "I've improved into a good defender", and DeRozan's top defense is also okay. It seems that there are no flaws, right? Yes.
Mitchell at the beginning of the year: Thank you to Brother Vučević for seeing me score 71 points.
Jimmy and Ade Today: Oh got it.
On the other hand, the Timberwolves and Thunder haven't been entangled for that long.
At the beginning of the third quarter, the Thunder made a three-pointer, 7 points behind the Timberwolves; By the end of the third quarter, it was 15 points behind.
What happened in the third verse?
Gobert made an empty attempt and made up the dunk, Gobert made two free throws, Gobert cut inside for a layup, Towns broke through for a layup and hit a three-pointer, Downs made a layup, Gobert made a layup...
Towns and Gobert combined for 20 points and seven frontcourt rebounds in the third quarter.
The Timberwolves scored 58 points inside, including 49 from the Twin Towers. Towns hit 11 shots, nine in the box – Davis: Huh? When you fight me, it doesn't seem to be this painting style...
The other day, the Lakers won against the Timberwolves, relying on unlimited defenses, attacking Downs to get him fouled, and relying on Davis' frontcourt rebounds. Hardness.
Today's hot knockout of the bulls was aimed at Vučević; The Timberwolves leaned on the twin towers and pressed down the Thunder.
Of course, there are other details - when Conley switched to the opposite SGA today, he deliberately let his jump shot block his footsteps; The Timberwolves cleverly used Kitty's off-ball defensive awareness to find many weak side clearances; At one point in the first half, the heat selectively emptied Caruso to limit DeRozan's catch and LaVine's ball holding.
But at the end of the day:
The inside line determines the winner.
Add Embiid, who basically determined this season's regular season MVP, the regular season MVP of the past five years: two Giannis, two Jokic, and one Embiid. The three of them are still the top three players in the regular season this season.
The Bucks have three towers led by Giannis, and the Nuggets have Jokic; In addition to the double jack, the Celtics also have Horford and two Williams; The Grizzlies have JJJ and Adams, Philadelphia has Embiid, the Cavaliers have Mobley and Allen, and the Suns have Ayton.
New York and the King are the most typical cases of the season:
The offense of both teams is in the top three in the league, because of a strong main offensive guard (Brunson and Fox) and a space elder (Randle's three-pointers this season are probably the Knicks' all-time single-season record, and Sabonis is the player with the most assists in the league).
Because of the era of three-point shooting and large space, the most glorious shots of the NBA are still covered by outside geniuses, but in the end, the victory and defeat are still by the forward - it is best to change the defense and supplement the defense on the defensive end, at least it will not be chased and played; If you can't score on the offensive end, you can at least open up space - decide.
And that's not surprising: like the NBA's first three-point wave that year — the league averaged more than double digits in three-pointers per game — it was the era of shortened three-point lines + four centers.
Ball-carrying geniuses are the face of the league.
And the front group, especially the front group that can be fought against flexibly, is Lizi, the present, and the future.
Venbanyamar, Brandon Miller, Taylor Hendricks:
All right.