The upset of 10 wins and 1 loss is about to end an era! What the league does not want to see is about to happen
The NBA season is coming to a close, with most teams remaining with around 10 games remaining. As the Celtics, who have the best record in the league, it is only a matter of time before they lock in the first place in the East + the first place in the league, including several core Tatum, Boshen, Holiday and Brown, and they have also begun to gradually rotate their rest plans. There is basically no team in the East that can pose a threat to them, and when it comes to the playoffs, counting on the Heat's weak defense and inconsistent offense this season, even with Butler, it looks like a grasshopper shaking a tree. In the West, the top five have basically defaulted to their current rankings and positions, but in the play-off range, several teams have already lost their eyes. The three teams of Suns + Kings + Mavericks have reached a very tacit consensus: whoever falls to eighth wins.
And behind the Lakers and Warriors, the Rockets caught up. According to the modeling calculations given by the American media "BR", the probability of the Lakers playoff is 30.7%, the Warriors are 28.5%, and the Rockets are 5.5%. Originally, the Lakers and Warriors turned around and joined hands to hit the top eight, but the Rockets went all the way and broke this balance, the key is that the Rockets lineup lacked the best defensive Ethan, the bench engine Whitmore, and the team's interior core Shen Jing! Upset 10-1, to end an era! What the league doesn't want to see is about to happen!
Let's start with rockets. Since entering March, the Rockets have played a total of 11 games, with a record of 10 wins and 1 loss, and the only loss was against the Clippers, that game was also interesting, the Rockets led the Clippers by up to 20 points, but the Clippers launched a counterattack in the second half, especially at the end of the fourth quarter, the Rockets still had a chance to win, but Jalen Green and Shen Jing conceded 3 free throws, plus Harden and George's free throws after that, the Clippers got lucky. But the other 10 games won by the Rockets are not low: the Suns led by the Big Three in an upset, the Cavaliers who beat the third place in the East Super Dark Horse, including the King of the West, and the Rockets will not waste the opportunity if they beat the belly of the fish. And after Shen Jing fell, the Rockets won 6 consecutive victories, averaging 127.7 points per game!
Why has the Rockets become so strong? It's very simple, in the past two years, Jalen Green, the cornerstone of the team, let go of the picking, unscrupulous play, exposed a lot of flaws, stuffy and easy to eat hats, insufficient confrontation, defensive inaction, including easy to quarrel with teammates, emotional instability, and so on. When Udoka came to the team this season, he also connived at Jalen Green at first, but after fighting, Jalen Green was abandoned in the fourth quarter! Jalen Green of course expressed dissatisfaction, but Udoka had a tough attitude, and Jalen Green began to slowly change his shortcomings. Since entering March, Jalen Green has scored a total of 306 points, second only to Doncic + Durant in the league, especially after Shen Jing fell, in the past 5 games, Jalen Green has averaged 34.4 points, 7.4 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game, with a shooting rate of 56% + 50%, and many of his scores are counterattacks, and the premise of counterattacks is to defend with all their might!
And after Shen Jing fell, the overall speed of the Rockets was very fierce, and the rhythm was the first in the league. So is it possible for the Rockets to threaten the Warriors? The Warriors have a winning rate of 47.8% for opponents and 51.2% for the Rockets, and it seems that the Rockets are more difficult, but the Rockets and the Warriors have a card battle in April, but if the Warriors make mistakes and give the Rockets a chance, what does that mean? Back to the Warriors, the Warriors' struggles this season have changed from suppressing young people in the first half of the season to becoming veterans of the team, including Curry, in the second half, unable to contribute energy steadily! It is completely understandable that the small lineup is tired of offense and defense, plus Curry's age is increasing, and Klay only has three-point projection on the bench, and when the lineup is deformed, it will only get more and more difficult to play!
However, from Warriors owner Rugbu, to management, to Curry, they have always had illusions! Curry wants to be with Clay Green for the rest of his life with the Warriors, and the Warriors are forced to support themselves with $400 million a year's expenditure, but what have they gained? Whether it is a new bottle of old wine, Kerr has no contingency plan, including Kutang chasing the three brothers, in fact, it has really come to an end! This season is not the same as the 20-year bad season, that year Curry suffered a broken hand, a minor injury and a big recuperation season, Green directly put it bad, there is nothing to say about that year's record, but this year's framework is healthy! In the words of Montepoor, a Bay Area legend who has followed the Warriors for a long time, people are saying that the Warriors dynasty is over this year, but in fact it ended last year. This year will only be the year for the outside world to recognize them.
To put it simply, the rise of the rocket has almost become the last straw that crushes the Warriors! Even without the rocket, the rest of the Warriors' games are almost euthanized. Tenth place is too difficult, one life battle for two games, and both are away, how to play? But for the league, if the Warriors miss the play-offs, they may really not want to see it, after all, the Warriors are the golden signboard, and Curry is the traffic and façade! It is not ruled out that the league will take the initiative to intervene and even use some means to pressure the Rockets! In my opinion, I believe that the Rockets will help the Warriors end their era, overturn and rebuild, don't torture themselves!