After the NBA playoffs kicked off, there were too many surprises. For example, the Celtics, who were far ahead in the regular season, lost their home-court advantage in the face of the nemesis Heat, and I can't imagine if Butler could play, the Celtics would not be blackened. To put it bluntly, Shuangtanhua is not the core that can pick the beam, the team's lower limit is very high, because the entire squad framework is perfect, but the upper limit can't touch the championship, which is naturally the core problem. Another example is the NBA's strongest offensive triumvirate combination, the Suns of Durant + Booker + Beal, who can suppress the Timberwolves in the regular season, and are repeatedly bullied in the playoffs. The key Suns team is strange, as long as they lose, Durant and Booker are sighing and looking very frustrated. It's only a matter of time before the Suns are out.
The Clippers lost valuable home-court advantage in a series that included the Clippers and Mavericks, and simply put, Leonard needed a process of readjusting to the game after his return, and George has shown that he is loyal and will not leave the team this summer. After four years of some failures, it's time to challenge for the championship this season. And the most surprising thing is the series between the Lakers and the Nuggets, after the first three games, the Nuggets got the match point 3-0. So much so that James was a little frustrated, bluntly saying that this is just basketball, and in the final analysis, it's just basketball. Obviously, it is only a matter of time before the Lakers are out, but where is the upper limit of the Nuggets? After a whole season, it seems that no team can push the Nuggets into a desperate situation! 20 points of reversal, 19 points of reversal successfully turned the tables! The real champion of the NBA, you have ended an era with your own hands!
Let's start with an inconspicuous piece of news. Jokic was a little too modest when he talked about the series against the Lakers, who got harder and harder with each game, having led by 20 points at home and more than double digits on their own home court. They played very hard, we were chasing points all the time, so it was very difficult to win. said the softest words, but dealt the most ruthless hand to the Lakers. For example, you can know that the Nuggets and Lakers series G1, the Nuggets took away in a wave in the third quarter! G2 battle, the Nuggets once fell behind by 20 points at home, the Nuggets fought back crazy in the second half, and finally Murray shot a reversal and kill! G3 battle, once behind by 12 points, and then entered the Nuggets rhythm in the second half, and finally won by 7 points, completing the reversal with 19 points! James and thick eyebrows can achieve an average output of about 60 points per game, but the Nuggets start five, and 4 people average more than 18 points per game! This is a typical two-fisted opponent with four hands!
In the playoffs last season, the Nuggets won the championship trophy 16-4 all the way, but it didn't attract much attention until the West Finals swept the Lakers 4-0! The opponent single-handedly defends Jokic to make a strong attack, there is no offensive shortcoming, and Jokic's mentality is very good, whether the referee blows the penalty scale is unfair, or he has too many fouls, he can always do his job at the same time, drive his teammates, and the average of 27.7 points, 15.7 rebounds and 8.7 assists per game in the playoffs is the best illustration!
Throughout the regular season this season, the Nuggets are basically paddling, incomplete statistics, they have four chances to top the first place in the West, but three of them have been defeated, refusing to top the first place in the West! Including playing to the final stage, unexpectedly losing to the Spurs (killed by Graham), foreshadowing the playoff layout, forcing the Lakers into a dilemma, either walking a tightrope to get the eighth seed, or playing against themselves steadily, and also declaring the Lakers a dead end. There are also two sets of data that confirm the terrible things about this Nuggets! Murray, the team's outside core, averaged 17.5 points per game in the regular season in his career, and 24.9 points per game in the playoffs, with an improvement value of +7.4, the first in NBA history; the team's old Jokic, averaged 21 points per game in the regular season and 28 points per game in the playoffs, with an improvement value of +7.0, the second in NBA history!
Jokic's career average of only 27 points per game in the regular season, but the first time he played in the playoffs in his career, he averaged 25 points per game! Jokic is the same as Butler, Leonard, Durant and James at his peak, and he is one of the few superstars in the playoffs in the league! In contrast, the Nuggets have no shortcomings, but the American media "BR" gives the Nuggets a probability of winning the championship is only 5.8%, obviously looking down on the Nuggets, and even far inferior to the Thunder and Timberwolves!
The Lakers led by James just can't beat the Nuggets. Last season, the Nuggets quietly rose to win the championship, if it was an accident, then this season is the embodiment of absolute strength, James has a career of 21 years, and it is very likely that the first time he will usher in the fate of being swept 0-4 in the first round of the playoffs! Jokic and his Nuggets, keeping the starting five-man framework unchanged, they are expected to dominate the league for the next 3-5 years, in the end, this is the biggest reward for not choosing to take shortcuts and rise all the way!