Defeated the Lakers, defeated the Clippers! The NBA's No. 1 brush team, the league really praised the wrong person this time

Since James left the Cavaliers to join the Lakers, the pattern of being strong in the West and weak in the East has become more obvious. In the past 5 seasons, the 19-year champion Raptors, the 20-year champion Lakers, the 21-year champion Bucks, the 22-year champion Warriors, including the 23-year champion Nuggets, it seems that the championship is not dominated by the West, but relatively speaking, as long as the Western team wins the championship, the Finals are almost one-sided, which is also true. This season, the competition in the West has become more and more fierce, the four major championship giants, only the Clippers are in the first group, the Suns lead the second group, and the Lakers and Warriors have been hovering outside the top eight in the West for many months, achieving three passes without entering, which also reflects the real competitiveness of the teams in the West. But the situation in the East is very clear, although the Cavaliers and Knicks, the two dark horses, have caught up with or even surpassed the Bucks, but they can't catch up with the Celtics.

To put it simply, with Embiid recovering from an injury for a long time, coupled with the Bucks' choice of the old Rivers as a bastard, and the Bucks' loss of defensive support, it is difficult for the Bucks to achieve anything this season, while the Cavaliers and Knicks are more balanced as a whole and are expected to become the protagonists of the new three. But what can't be changed is the Celtics, in the first 53 games of the opening game, they won 41 games crazily, with a winning rate of nearly 8 percent, and Tatum (27 points per game) + Brown (22 points per game) + Porzingis (20.4 points per game) + White (15.3 points per game) + Holiday (13.3 points per game) The starting five, with an average of 98 points per game! Especially at their home court, the Celtics have a record of 25 wins and 3 losses! But it is precisely these three games that have been lost that have exposed a lot of problems! Defeated the Lakers, defeated the Clippers, the NBA's No. 1 brush team, the league really praised the wrong person!

Let's start with the three home games that Celtic lost. So far this season, the overall record of the Eastern team is 378-411, and the Western team is 410-377. But since mid-January, the home team has lost to the Nuggets by 2 points, allowing Murray and Jokic to score 69 points, while Tatum scored 22 points on 9-of-24 shooting, and Brown scored 13 points on 6-of-19 shooting. Including being beaten by the Clippers in the third quarter, and finally losing to the Clippers by 19 points, Brown didn't believe in evil and always wanted to eat Leonard alone, but only scored 8 points on 3 of 13 in the whole game, and Tatum scored 21 points on 8 of 18 is not high! There is also the Lakers who completely defeated the James-Mei combination, so that Reaves scored 32 points, Tatum scored 23 points on 8 of 21, and Brown scored 8 points on 4 of 12.

In the offseason, the Celtics and Jaylen Brown completed a five-year super-cap salary extension of $286 million, including a five-year contract extension of more than $315 million with Tatum this summer, but this pair of core combinations of Tanhua can't play a high-end game. Brown is obviously a low-eyed player, lacks offensive means, and has inconsistent shooting, but he occupies a lot of the ball, and I don't quite understand why he is obsessed with taking the initiative to find Leonard and hit the stone with an egg. First of all, the Celtics are a team that relies heavily on three-point shooting (42.7 three-point shots per game, first in the league with 16.2 three-point shots per game, and the Warriors are first in the league), but they average a free throw difference of +3.0 per game, except for the Lakers, who have a free throw difference of +5.4 and the first in the league, the Celtics and the Knicks, Bucks are at the same level, and fourth in the league.

These sets of data show that the league's support for the Celtics, including Holiday , Boshen and others, can basically create damage as long as they impact the basket. There is also an All-Star bench selection, Brown can be an All-Star with an average of 22 points per game +57.7% true shooting rate (159th in the league), which is also a relief, even if Boshen is more qualified than Brown. Tatum, as the core of the Celtics' magic ball system, the team leader, the top five MVP in the league, including the average data per game in the past 6 seasons has been improving (30.1 points per game last season, diluted by Boshen, White, and Holiday this season), he has no ability to play alone in the low post, only shooting three-pointers, and attacking the frame. The simplest example, in the Summer Finals of '22, Wiggins was able to limit Tatum to an average of 21.5 points per game + 36.7% shooting, which is the best example.

To put it simply, when the Celtics face some fish belly teams, both Tanhua will be full of firepower, such as Tatum hitting the Grizzlies for 34 points, playing the Wizards for 35 points, and playing the Hornets for 45 points, including Brown also playing the Pacers for 40 points (the Pacers are at the bottom of the league in defense) + playing the Wizards for 36 points, but the two cores are typical of being strong or not. This will not change because of the arrival of Boshen and Holiday , because at the critical moment, the double tanhua will not give up the ball to others, which is why the Celtics once fell behind the Heat 0-3 in the Eastern Conference finals last year, although it was finally tied 3-3, but the tiebreaker was defeated. They have a very high ceiling, and there is basically no problem with the east, which is also because of the overall lack of competitiveness in the east. But there is no upper limit, because neither of the two tanhua is the type of team boss.

The Celtics look flawless from record to double probe data, but if they can't fight hard, they can only be crowned with the title of brush. The Celtics have been trying to build a gorgeous roster around the duo over the past few years, spending in the top five in the league every year, but sometimes they start the wrong way and go back more and more, and that's the reason. The real window period for the Celtics is only these two years, and once the big contract of Double Tanhua starts to take effect, Boshen, White, and Holiday can't keep any of them, and that's the beginning of the pain!