70 points, the first in NBA history! The league is the most dominant supergiant, and the championship is about to lose suspense

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2024-05-15 22:30Posted in Shandong Sports Creators

Every year, the playoffs are a process of distinguishing between real and fake superstars. Since 19 years, we have witnessed Leonard's playoff performances, including the 76ers in the seven-tiebreaker Embiid, the East Finals to let two chase four, and the Warriors Galaxy Battleship in the Finals; 20-year-old Zhan took the Lakers to realize their dreams in the bubble park, including Brother Alphabet in 21 years, Curry in 22 years, these superstars, all confirm their playoff attributes, even if Curry and Lao Zhan are no longer young. And the biggest regret of this season is that after the first round of the division series, we have successively said goodbye to Curry, Durant, Brother Alphabet, Embiid, James, Harden and other stars.

For 80% of the season, the American media has always been optimistic about the Celtics winning the championship, but Tatum, as the team's number one core, only ranked 6th in the league in the MVP vote, which can only be said that the Celtics are strong overall. In the course of the playoffs, Alexander in the West averaged 29.5 points, 7.9 rebounds and 6 assists per game, Edwards averaged 30.6 points, 6.2 rebounds and 6 assists per game, and Brunson in the East averaged 33.9 points and 7.5 assists per game. If the team wants to win the championship, there are only two ways, either the overall strength is cut off and leading, or the team boss has super dominance. Obviously, whether it is the Thunder, the Knicks and the Timberwolves, either because of injuries or the overall young lineup, they do not have the conditions to mature. But one person was ignored and scored 70 points, the first in NBA history! The championship is about to lose its suspense.

Last season, the Nuggets had a 16-4 record in the playoffs, crushing them all the way to the championship, and only the Suns who really posed a threat to them were Durant and Booker. And this season, the Nuggets adopted a follow-up strategy, biting the Thunder and Timberwolves all the way in the regular season, and waited until the playoffs, eliminated the Lakers 4-1 in the first round, and also got the match point in the second round against the Timberwolves. Jokic averaged 28.8 points, 13.3 rebounds and 9.5 assists per game in the playoffs this season, which is a perfect statistic, but when it comes to key games, Jokic can really make opponents desperate! To give two examples, first, the Nuggets faced the Timberwolves in the second round and won the match point battle, Jokic made 15 of 22 from the field, scored 40 points, 7 rebounds and 13 assists, and had no mistakes! Among them, scoring + assists, a total of 70 points were created, and on the playoff stage, he was the first person in NBA history!

In addition, only two people in NBA history have achieved 40 points, 10 assists + 0 turnovers in a single game, one is Jokic and the other is Paul (a total of 64 points). What's even more exaggerated is that on the playoff stage, the only centers who can play 40+ in a single game at least 5 times are O'Neal and Jokic, where did Embiid go? As the player with the highest scoring average per game in the regular season for two consecutive years (this season, the scoring title belongs to Doncic due to insufficient games), leading the team alone in the playoffs, and not even passing the first round? In addition, Jokic used 28.4% of the round possession rate to play the first game contribution value in the playoffs in the league (20.2), and Jokic's RAT value in the playoffs this season is also the first in the league, as for the NBA's all-time PER value, Jokic still occupies the first position in history. Won the MVP three times in four years, two words to describe Jokic's dominance: reasonable!

As the defending champions, the Nuggets actually have some obvious shortcomings. First of all, the depth of the lineup is seriously insufficient, but coach Malone will give Bryan + Holiday + Reggie about 40 minutes of playing time as much as possible to alleviate the physical disadvantage of the starting five to the greatest extent. Second, when Murray was completely out of form in the playoffs this season, Jokic did just that: he lost the first two games against the Timberwolves, and Jokic gave up the ball, but it didn't work well. Murray was easily trapped, and the Timberwolves used their matchup and speed advantage to keep the Nuggets in the cracks. And in the next three games, Jokic stood up, averaging 33 points, 9.3 rebounds and 9.6 assists per game. The league's best defensive player, Gobert single-defense? Jokic hit Gobert to surrender, and Gobert himself was saying that he had already defended in place, but Jokic could always score!

Including the three players of Towns + Reed + Lee Kyle, this is the core framework of the Timberwolves' regular season defense league No. 1, and no one can stop it under Jokic's finishing + strategy switching back and forth. In fact, this is the direct embodiment of the most dominant supergiant, not that gorgeous statistics mean that you are the strongest in the league, but can help the team win and completely convince the opponent. In comparison, in the series of Nuggets playing the Lakers, at least the Zhan Mei combination led the team, and each game could play more than 30 minutes of good balls, and the Lakers were weak because Reaves and Russell couldn't defend the outside, causing the thick eyebrows to not know whether to mark or go to the outside to make up for the defense. But when it came to the Timberwolves, the three insiders were trained by Jokic in turn, which was a state of being blown up in the position, and I really don't know who else in the league can limit Jokic!

In fact, among the remaining teams, the Thunder interior is a natural disadvantage, the Timberwolves are out of the game only a matter of time, the Mavericks Eastern European combination is a longboard and a short board, especially Doncic, temper is a big hidden danger, and the inside Gafford and Lively, which are equivalent to a simplified version of the Timberwolves interior frame, cannot compete with Jokic. As for the East, the only Celtics who are qualified to come out, it is even more unrealistic to expect Horford, or Boshen, who can come back in the Finals, to withstand Jokic. It seems that this season's championship is really about to lose suspense, and Jokic and the Nuggets are going to start their own era.

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