Two 2-0! The most worrying loss! The NBA giants fell with a bang, and the first-round elimination was a foregone conclusion

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2024-04-25 08:55Published in Jiangxi

This year's NBA is particularly interesting, starting with the play-off divisions, where all seven or eight places in the East and West divisions are promoted, and all nine and ten places are eliminated. The only variable is that the Pelicans and Lakers have switched places. If it is said that the four teams eliminated lost due to poor squad depth and poor discipline, it is understandable. After all, in the lower divisions of the play-offs, the results speak for themselves.

But when it comes to the playoffs, the first round or even the second round is halfway through. No team has yet won all of their home teams! If this is the case, then it is not the Celtics who are going to win the championship. On this side of the East, there is a dark horse team to pay special attention to, the Cleveland Cavaliers!

I don't know if anyone has noticed, the two games of the Cavaliers 2-0 Magic limited the opponent's score to 90, and the main focus was on the defensive line. The two brothers, Mitchell + Allen, turned the magic upside down and taught the young people a hard lesson, as if to say welcome to the playoffs!

But if you want to say that the most worrying loss, it has to be the 76ers and the Lakers, two brothers, both of whom were in the lead, and were knocked down by their opponents in the last minute and suffered a 2-0 start. From a historical perspective and mathematical probability, the elimination of the first round is almost a foregone conclusion.

On paper, although the 76ers have a poor record, the lineup is due to the Knicks. When Embiid led the team, he always maintained the top three in the East, and the record slowly fell after the injury. But Embiid and Maxey were both All-Stars in the East, and Embiid was even eligible to compete with Joshua for the league's No. 1 center. In contrast, Mr. Yoo is even in terms of all-round ability and strong back-up ability, and Embiid's offense is slightly better.

Embiid this season even has super data of 70 points and 18 rebounds in a single game, and it stands to reason that a small role like Harden in the playoffs should be in hand. Coupled with Maxey's awakening, the data exploded this season, and he just got the most improved player.

On the Knicks' side, Randle is reimbursed for the season, and only Brunson is an All-Star player. Most of the rest are mainly functional players, but they still beat the 76ers like this. Especially in the last 1 minute, it makes people gnash their teeth.

On the Lakers' side, they led the Nuggets by 15 points at halftime and even stretched to 20 points in the third quarter. I thought it was stable, but the Nuggets boiled frogs in warm water and kept closing the score. In the end, Murray showed his true colors as a killer, and in the face of thick eyebrows, he made a lore. Raising the score to 2-0 showed the strength of the defending champions.

After the game, some media people said that the Lakers have basic discipline and execution on both offensive and defensive ends, and they will not have a collapse-like chaos. can't beat the Nuggets, it's an objective strength gap. The Lakers' odds of advancing are not high, and they have won the series 2-20 after starting the 0-2 in their history.

Looking at this number in NBA history is also a small probability event. It is reported that 196 teams in NBA history fell behind 0-2 in the first round of the playoffs, and only 13 won the series, with a 6.6% probability of advancement.

"The Nuggets are a very good team offensively, and we know they're going to find their rhythm at some point," he said after the game. We don't want to let them play a wave of highs easily, especially at home of the opposition. We just had to hold on defensively, and, I think we did it today, but we still wasted our 20-point lead. ”

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