37 wins + 35 wins + 40 wins, the champion of the East with water injection! If you don't win the championship, it's time to rebuild

Lao Liang commented

2024-05-31 23:27Posted in Shandong Sports Creators

This season, the NBA has entered the Finals stage, and it is the Mavericks who finally come out of the Cruel West. Looking back on the journey of each team in the Western Conference playoffs this season, in fact, many are surprising, such as the Warriors stopped the play-offs, such as the Suns were swept out of the first round, and the Clippers who originally thought they were missing Leonard, and finally lost 2-4 to the Mavericks, but I didn't expect the Mavericks to play the most difficult series was the first round, and then the Thunder and Timberwolves, the opponents were not enough to match the output firepower of Doncic and Irving. The defending champion Nuggets stopped in the division semifinals, and in the final analysis, the depth of the lineup is not enough, and like the Knicks in the East, they can play the starting five. As difficult as the West is, it's as easy as the East, and in ESPN's words, the playoffs have been going on for more than a month, and the Celtics haven't faced a decent opponent.

Looking back at the Celtics' playoff journey this season, they defeated last season's Eastern Conference champion Heat 4-1 in the first round, but in fact, the Heat's offensive firepower could not match without Butler and Rozier; The Cavaliers were eliminated 4-1 in the second round, and after Mitchell fell down with an injury, the Cavaliers did not have the power to fight back. The Eastern Conference finals beat the Pacers 4-0, and Haliburton also suffered a hamstring injury and went down. When Jaylen Brown lifted the MVP trophy of the Eastern Conference finals, the American media raised a question: Is the Celtics the Eastern Conference champion with the lowest gold content in the history of the playoffs? To tell the truth, the Celtics have a proud record of 64 wins and 18 losses in the regular season, and they really have no opponents in the East, but several impressive losses are indeed humiliating enough, such as being reversed by the Hawks by 30 points, being beaten by the Clippers in the third quarter at home, and being beaten by the Lakers who lack the Zhan Mei combination, etc.

The American media also calculated the gold content of the Celtics' playoff journey, playing the Heat in the first round, Butler's winning contribution value was 9.2 more than the bench, simple calculation, the actual number of regular season wins of the Heat is 46 games-9.2 games = 36.8 games, which is still not counting Rozier's winning contribution, the Heat is about equal to a team with 37 wins in the East in the regular season! Using this algorithm to calculate the Cavaliers, Allen missed 5 games + Mitchell missed 2 games, and the Cavaliers with no injuries won 48 regular season games, missing two cores, and the actual average was only 35 wins! As for the Eastern Conference opponent Pacers, Haliburton missed two games, and the Pacers' average is 40 wins in the regular season. In the words of the American media, the Celtics won eighth in the East this season, then won the fourth place in the East, and finally won the sixth place in the East. It's a far cry from the journey of a lone ranger!

You must know that in the range of 35-40 wins, in the East, it is roughly a team at the level of the Hawks and Bulls, this is still in the East, and there is another data: when the Eastern team faces the Western team this season, the overall winning rate is 42%! In such a simple comparison, the average of their opponents in the past month or so in the playoffs is better than that of the Grizzlies and Jazz in the West, and it is not up to the level of the Rockets (41-41)! So whether it's Dream Green, including Garnett and Barkley, no one pays attention to how many Eastern Conference finals the Celtics have played, or how many games they have won in the Eastern Civil War, including Tatum's various Eastern Conference finals records, they are a Finals-level team, and the previous games have no gold at all.

And Celtic quietly broke an all-time record: they were the team with the largest difference between an opponent's injury adjusted and true wins since statistics began. The previous record belonged to the Suns in 21, defeating the Lakers without thick eyebrows in the first round, eliminating the Nuggets without Murray in the second round, and defeating the Clippers without Leonard in the Western Conference finals. You must know that the Celtics have 17 championship trophies in their history, but in the last 10 years of playoff journey, they have not returned. Especially after establishing the core system of Tatum + Brown, he has entered the Eastern Conference finals 5 times in 7 years and reached the finals 2 times, and Brown has taken the lead in getting 304 million in 5 years (shrunk to 289 million US dollars, but it is also sky-high)! Tatum's five-year, $318 million super-cap contract this summer is also a certainty!

Starting next season, Brown's big contract will take effect in the first year, $49.35 million, and in the 25-26 season, Tatum's big contract will also take effect, and the two will take more than $100 million in the 25-26 season! At the same time, White + Horford will reach the contract year, and even if the Celtics don't count the cost, they can't keep such a big plate and framework, because Holiday still has a 4-year $135 million contract, and Boshen still has a 2-year $60 million contract, and if White stays with an average salary of about $25 million in the market, then the Celtics will replace the Warriors in the 25-26 season at the earliest, ranking first in the league's salary! But what about the actual effect? In addition to eating the dividend of the overall lack of competitiveness in the East, the Celtics have reached the Eastern Conference finals these 5 times, but they have only entered the finals 2 times, and the last time they reached the finals, they were beaten by the Warriors and had no power to fight back!

In the final analysis, the opponent of the Celtics in the Finals this season, the Mavericks, although the Eastern European combination is very strong, but compared to the Nuggets, Timberwolves, and even the Clippers and Lakers, the Celtics' bitter masters, the Mavericks are not so terrible, and the Celtics swept the opponent in the regular season this season. If the Celtics still can't win the championship with such a good chance, then Shuangtanhua should be dismantled, Tatum can't go, then Brown goes, find a thigh for Tatum, Shuangtanhua has spent 7 years to prove that they are not the material to be big, and this year's finals are the last fight.

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