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Chapter 189 Playoff Ranking

Chapter 189 Playoff Ranking

In the early morning of the next day, the ESPN roundtable talk show grandly invited Pippen and other celebrities to seriously discuss whether the Spurs or the Thunder could beat the Clippers in the first round of the playoffs. Six of the eight guests thought it was very possible.

The six guests gave many reasons, the most important of which is that the Clippers lack playoff experience.

After the broadcast of the program, major basketball-related media and forums quickly generated a new round of upsurge of discussion.

Su Yang didn't care at all about the arguments of all parties, and neither did the other teammates.

NO.14 In the morning, the Clippers held pre-match training.

Van Gundy announced that there are new plans for the remaining 15 games, and the core content is to focus on training to break double-teams and fast transmission, to eliminate weaknesses in the bud, and to avoid the recurrence of the sloppy play of losing to the Spurs.

The whole team felt that it was feasible, and went directly to the key training rhythm, and the three-pointer was a bang bang.

In the evening, the Hornets are a guest at the Staples Center.

The Clippers practiced in games, and tried to conduct quickly at the beginning, and made mistakes in several rounds.

But for the Hornets, Paul has been reimbursed for the season, the team has long lost the possibility of entering the playoffs, and the head coach is a temporary agent. The key point is that there are no players in a contract year.

The two teams finished the first half of the game just like that, and the Clippers still led by [-] points.

Throughout the second half of the game, Su Yang showed his face for a few minutes, making two random shots to satisfy the audience.

The Clippers finally won a big victory and continued to maintain the league's first place.

After the game, the reporter asked Su Yang what he thought of the results of the ESPN round table discussion.

Su Yang said it made sense, after all, things haven't happened yet, who can't make predictions?

The reporter asked if he should take the initiative to drop the rankings and avoid the Spurs or Thunder in the first round.

Su Yang replied that any team that wanted to pick an opponent in the playoffs would die a miserable death.

For example, in 05, the Kings took the initiative to drop to No. 6. They wanted to play against the Supersonics, the dark horse team of the season, but were eliminated by the Supersonics 4-1.

The reporter asked if he was worried that the Spurs or the Thunder would bring great troubles. Su Yang said that any player who wants to win the championship will not worry about encountering great troubles, because it is an inevitable thing, and fear is tantamount to admitting defeat.

Such remarks quickly spread on social media and basketball forums. Commentators and fans were quite excited about Su Yang's intention to win the championship. They believed that no matter which step the Clippers took in the end, Su Yang would definitely contribute a super performance.

After two days of rest, the Clippers played against the Bucks at home.

The major media hyped the game with the theme of "the strongest rookie showdown", but in an interview, Jennings bluntly admired Su Yang's changes to the team and hoped to learn some qualities and skills from Su Yang.

Even so, the game still attracts a lot of attention, and many fans want to see the battle.

But after the first quarter of the game, all these expectations came to nothing, because Su Yang made 4 of 4 shots and scored 10 points with super high efficiency, plus 2 assists, 1 steal and 0 turnovers, while Jennings only had 0 points and 3 rebounds 2 assists.

Afterwards, the gap between the two performances widened.

From the second half of the third quarter, Su Yang sat off the court to rest, and the Clippers finally won 101-93.

Jennings took the initiative to come over and hug him, and the two took a photo with the camera, completely ending the competition for the best rookie.

Affected by this, Su Yang's personal MVP ranking continued to rank first, and the competition with LeBron entered a fierce stage.

And as time entered the second half of March, many journalists and commentators with voting rights began to reveal the candidates for the major awards in their hearts. Except for the MVP, Su Yang was not so safe, and almost all the awards were selected for a while.

The biggest controversy surrounding Su Yang is whether he can enter the best defensive team, because from the data point of view, it is really difficult for him to run against Kobe, Wade, Rondo and Sefolosha, but many coaches and celebrities comment on him extremely high.

ESPN found related videos during Su Yang's draft. The Haikou that he once boasted about is being realized one after another, and the videos have been forwarded and commented more than tens of thousands of times, and have been selected as learning cases for elementary school students.

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After a four-day break, the Clippers started a harvesting trip for weak teams. First, they won consecutively against the Rockets, and then they went on a two-game trip in the Eastern Conference. They successfully avenged the Raptors and beat the Bucks again. gold.

Van Gundy strongly arranged for Su Yang and other main players to rest, and the Clippers lost to the Nuggets 90-98.

The team returned to Los Angeles with a record of 62 wins and 13 losses, officially securing the first place in the league.

The schedule entered April. After the Clippers won consecutive home wins over the Trail Blazers and Knicks, they encountered a challenge from the Thunder.

The process of the game was quite tragic. The two teams committed 53 fouls in total. Krstic and Jordan were sent off one after another.

The two teams scored overtime, the Thunder relied on Harden to make a foul and narrowly won by 1 point, and the fans on the scene ran away.

Su Yang scored 43 points in the air. For the first time in the whole season, he made as many as 7 turnovers, and his shooting percentage was also the lowest.

At the post-match press conference, the reporter asked why the Thunder lost three games in a row and whether they were restrained.

Su Yang said that the reason is very simple. The Thunder team is talented enough. Durant, Westbrook, Harden, Ibaka, and Jeff Green are all players with both offensive and defensive skills. Sefolosha can even be selected for the defensive team, and Brooks The coach is very clever to simplify the tactics, forcing the game to have a lot of one-on-one situations, and it is normal for whoever loses and who wins.

The reporter asked again if he still had the confidence to beat the Thunder, Su Yang said absolutely no problem.

His answer quickly sparked a lot of discussion in the media and forums, and the famous 'Su Hei' Skyp jumped out to emphasize: "This is the reason why he praised Durant so much at the beginning, he was afraid of losing to the Thunder, and his face would be damaged. "

Such a statement was already partially supported, and after the Clippers lost three times to the Thunder, it was even more touted.

As a result, Su Yang's personal MVP ranking was affected, and he was slightly behind LeBron.

AJ called him, hoping that he could respond with a strong performance to avoid being affected by the preparation of the MVP series of sneakers. Su Yang agreed decisively, but also emphasized that he would not be able to pursue the effect.

Fortunately, the Clippers went to Sacramento to challenge the Kings the day after the Thunder.

Su Yang opened fire, scoring 51 points and 11 assists in three quarters, leading the team to a 33-point lead.

He won the fourth quarter without playing at all, but it is precisely because of this that this oversized double-double has caused a lot of discussion, which can be used to slightly distract from the impact of the previous loss to the Thunder, and let him win some votes in the MVP rankings.

In the last three games of the season, compared with LeBron, who had already started a truce, he didn't play for one minute. The Clippers lost to the Mavericks and Warriors in a row, and only won the Lakers, who played with all substitutes. They ranked first in the league with a record of 1 wins and 65 losses.

The playoffs in the Western Conference also came out, and the Clippers played against the super-powerful Thunder in the first round.

For the first time, the odds of the Clippers winning the championship soared, and the odds of the Thunder entering the second round plummeted. However, the UAE prince who had previously bet millions on the Clippers to reach the finals raised his bet again, with an amount as high as 300 Ten thousand U.S. dollars.

ESPN once again launched a roundtable discussion, inviting 21 retired NBA players, not Julius Irving or Oscar Robertson, the old-timers who don't watch football much, but Webber and other recently retired stars.

17 of them are optimistic about the Thunder's victory over the Clippers. The main reason is not that the Clippers lack playoff experience, but that the Thunder has a stronger and younger lineup, and can use seven or eight players in rotation to obliterate the Clippers' overall balanced advantage.

In addition to round table voting, ESPN also initiated statistics.

In the voting results of tens of thousands of people participating in the three-day period, more than 62.58% of the fans believed that the Thunder would win the final victory. The main reason was that Durant was really as good as Su Yang boasted.

(End of this chapter)