Quietly reached the divisional finals, 7 years and 0 championships! The NBA's most overrated giant, you should rebuild it as soon as possible

Lao Liang commented

2024-05-16 22:32Posted in Shandong Sports Creators

This season, since the regular season, several young teams have risen rapidly, the Thunder and Timberwolves in the West, the Magic and Knicks in the East, including the Cavaliers, the young storm has swept the league, and we have also witnessed the growth of new generations such as Edwards and Alexander. And in the playoffs, the Warriors went out of the play-offs early, the Bucks + 76ers + Heat in the East stopped in the first round, and the Lakers + Suns + Clippers in the West also stopped moving forward. The Nuggets are still calm and spicy, they spent 2 games to figure out the Timberwolves' routine, and then Jokic used a dimensionality reduction blow to slash the Timberwolves' twin towers; The Mavericks came from behind, and they were not soft in the face of the No. 1 Thunder in the West, and got the semifinals match point, and the West is indeed surprising this season.

On the Eastern side, although the Knicks are using fewer and fewer people, it is not a big problem to solve the Pacers, after all, Brunson's playoff state is too hot, averaging 33.9 points and 7.5 assists per game, and what awaits Brunson next summer is a super contract of 250 million. The Celtics, as a dominant team in the regular season, eliminated the Heat without Butler 4-1 in the first round of the playoffs, and eliminated the Cavaliers who lacked Mitchell (2 games less) and Allen 4-1 in the second round, and the journey was smooth. Let's start with a statistic, since the NBA implemented the East-West division (since the 70-71 season), the Celtics and Warriors are the only two teams that can reach the division finals 6 times in 8 years. The Warriors went from 15 to 22 years, 8 years and 6 times in the division finals, and finally won the cup 4 times. The Celtics have reached the division finals 5 times in the previous 7 years, and have only reached the finals 1 time, and they have won 0 championships in the previous 7 years!

In last offseason, the American media selected the league's most overrated duo, Tatum and Brown were elected first, and then Brown reached a five-year, $304 million super cap contract with the Celtics. And this summer, Tatum and the Celtics' five-year, $338 million super cap salary contract is a certainty, and the Celtics will not hesitate at all. I specially checked it, from this season's All-Star Weekend, the probability of the Celtics winning the championship is more than 50%, and when they take the lead in getting the ticket to the Eastern Conference finals, the probability of winning the championship is more than 61%! You must know that when Jokic hasn't won the MVP this season, the probability of Jokic winning the MVP given by the American media "BR" is only 60%. How can Celtic lead the way off a cliff? Will Tatum and Brown be dominant in crunch time, or will the Celtics be able to crush Western Conference teams?

Tatum was drafted with the third pick in the first round in the summer of '17, and since then the Celtics have embarked on a series of Eastern Conference "domination" journeys. In the summer of 18, I believe everyone was impressed, the Celtics met the Cavaliers in the East Finals, from 2-0 to 3-2, and then to the final 3-4 eliminated by the Cavaliers, James was tired and fell on the podium in the East Finals! In the summer of '19, the Celtics lost to the Bucks in the second round, and Irving couldn't escape the blame; In the 20-year bubble park, the Celtics lost to the Heat 3-4 in the East Final; In the summer of 21, the Celtics lost to the Nets 1-4 in the first round, and Harden averaged 27.8 points and 10.6 assists per game; In the summer of 22, the Celtics finally eliminated the Heat, but lost to the Warriors 1-4 in the finals; In the summer of 23, the Celtics once fell behind the Heat 0-3 in the East Finals, and after a 3-3 draw, they lost by 19 points in the tiebreaker. The rest is this season, which is Tatum's fifth time in seven years that he has reached the Eastern Conference finals.

Whether it's Smart, Gwee, Lowe and others in the past, or Boshen and White this season, the Celtics' lower bar is constantly improving. In the West, no team says that it has absolute certainty that it can finish in the top three, but in the East, the Celtics have entered the Finals with one foot, which is the team's lower limit guarantee, to give a few examples, the starting 5 average 98 points per game in the regular season, the team's regular season offensive efficiency of 122.2 is the first in the league, the defensive efficiency is 110.6 and the league is the first in the league, and the average of 16.5 three-pointers per game is the first in the league. To put it mildly, the Celtics face 80% of the teams in the league, and they rely only on the magic ball projection system, and the opponent can't hold it, which is also the guarantee of their lower limit! Where is the maximum increase? It must be the ability of Shuangtanhua to play until the last 5 minutes of the game and solve the game individually. has entered the Eastern Conference finals 5 times before, only entered the finals 1 time, and was crushed by the Warriors!

Tatum can score + rebound + assist + steal + block in the second round and be the first person on the team, the first person after James, we will not deny Tatum's regular season statistics that are improving every year, and the ability of United Brown to lead the team to ensure the team's lower limit. If the key to success is to reach the Eastern Conference finals, they are successful every year. But Tatum himself said he only wanted a championship, and Brown said the team could do anything, but they couldn't. There is no shortage of data to support it, in the regular season this season alone, Tatum has a two-point shooting rate of 36.1%+33.3% and an average of 2.9 points per game, while Brown averages 1.9 points + 50%+20% per game. If the east is the sheep area, then the west is the wolf area, and with the level of double tanhua, it may not be enough for Edwards to show off himself!

How cruel the West is! Predictably, the Nuggets, as the most likely team in the West, have no chance of winning against them. Not to mention Jokic's finishing efficiency and playoff dominance, the double tanhua is more than lucky against Gordon and Porter! Every year, I thought that if I reached the Eastern Finals, I was a stone's throw away from the championship, but I didn't know that this distance was too far! The Celtics should have given up on choosing to rebuild, Tatum and Brown are actually representatives of the pity of being tasteless and abandoned, Brown was downgraded in the playoffs, Tatum was not tough enough at critical moments, how much time did the Celtics have to give them? They are equivalent to 7 years of standing still, living in the foam they weave.

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