Chapter 869 The Rise of the Lakers and Durant’s Comeback!

With all NBA regular season awards being awarded, the NBA in the 2008-2009 season officially bid farewell to the topic of the regular season and completely entered the topic of the playoffs.

However, after the SuperSonics eliminated the Spurs, Leafs, O'Neal and Kobe won the regular season MVP together, and the NBA has stirred up a new topic.

"With the elimination of the Spurs and the recognized strongest team unexpectedly leaving the NBA, an extremely interesting thing will happen in this magical season of the NBA. Now the NBA games have completely entered the rhythm of the playoffs. But in the previous games, three players jointly won the All-Star MVP and regular season MVP this season. In other words, Yes, Kobe and O'Neal are likely to become the players who dominate this season by winning three MVPs this season! "

"In Yes's career, he once won three MVPs last season with a dominant performance. In O'Neal's career, he also won three MVPs in the 99-00 season. Among the three, only Kobe did not. This achievement has been achieved.”

"In the history of the NBA, a total of four players have achieved three MVPs in a single season, including Jordan twice, Yes once, O'Neal once, and Willie Reed once. After this season, it was Kobe who became NBA history. The fifth player to achieve three MVPs in a single season, or is it Yes or is O'Neal a player comparable to Jordan?"

"In the All-Stars and All-Stars, yes, Kobe and O'Neal can share the MVP, but in the finals, there is really only one MVP!"

This topic that has suddenly aroused public opinion in the United States is very, very interesting.

After the Spurs, who were previously recognized as the favorites to win the championship, were eliminated, the remaining team is undoubtedly the strongest one.

But the sudden rise of public opinion in the United States never mentions James, and then thinks about who is the cancer and who is the undercover that ESPN brought up before? topic of.

It is very, very obvious what the direction of public opinion in the United States this time is aimed at.

For these media, whether it is Yes, O'Neal or Kobe, there is no problem for any of these three teams to win the championship, but the Heat will never win the championship.

But the Heat are the strongest of all the remaining teams, so even if they don't want it, the Heat have the greatest chance of winning the championship.

In this case, let's target this pretentious team first.

Can break the mentality of this team,

That's naturally the best, but it really doesn't work...

If it doesn't work, there's nothing they can do. They can't replace Yes themselves. Kobe and O'Neal will play, right?

When the NBA's major awards began to be presented, the first round of the NBA was over. At the same time, the second round of the NBA and the conference semifinals had already taken place.

The Mavericks' game against the SuperSonics on May 4 was already the latest game among the four matchups in the second round.

Prior to this, the first of the other three games in the conference semifinals had been played.

The first game of the second round of the conference semifinals was the Lakers' home game against the Nuggets. After the Spurs were eliminated, the Lakers and Nuggets automatically became the two biggest favorites. As for the Mavericks and SuperSonics, the Mavericks and The black spots on Nowitzki's body have not been washed away at all, and the SuperSonics. Although the SuperSonics unexpectedly defeated the strongest Spurs with Ye's superb performance in the Spurs, people always like miracles from the bottom of their hearts. I don’t believe that miracles will always happen.

So it seems that the Lakers and Nuggets are more interested in representing the West in challenging the East.

The Lakers and Nuggets indeed regard themselves as natural representatives of the Western Conference.

So much so that in this game between the Lakers and the Nuggets at home, the two teams really fought with sparks flying, it was extremely exciting!

The Nuggets, who were playing on the road, took the lead as soon as they came up. Anthony scored 16 points on 7 of 8 shots in the first quarter. The Nuggets led the Lakers by 8 points in the first quarter. In the second quarter, the situation suddenly changed. In one quarter, Kobe performed even better, scoring 10 points in a single quarter, but what was even more outstanding was the overall strength of the Lakers. In this quarter, Kidd, Zach Randolph, Bynum, Artest, and Ali Nine people, including Zach, Fisher, Batum, and Turkoglu, scored, erasing the 8-point advantage Anthony established in the first quarter in one fell swoop, and even led by one point at the end of the half.

The styles of the two teams can be seen from the first half of the game between the Lakers and Nuggets.

The Nuggets have Anthony as their battering ram.

The Lakers have Kobe as the sharp knife, but there are a bunch of machetes next to him!

The Nuggets have a lot of choppers, and Billups and Hamilton also performed very well, but Anthony is the main player.

The tone of this game was indeed the same. The two teams kept the score tight until the last two minutes. Even because Anthony was in excellent form in this game, the Nuggets were still the one leading.

But with two minutes left in the game, when both teams were nearly exhausted, it became Kobe's stage.

In the last two minutes, Kobe Bryant scored all eight points of the Lakers. On the other side, Anthony, who had already scored 40 points before, didn't score a single point in the last two minutes. I'm tired, I'm really tired. Artest, Batu Tom, Ariza, Zach Randolph...the Lakers' terrifying forward line really made Anthony vomit!

Among this group of Lakers forwards, Anthony scored 40 points, which is really amazing.

The final result was that it was Billups and Hamilton who faced off against Kobe in the end...

The three of them are really old rivals.

In the end, Kobe defeated the combination of Billups and Hamilton 8-6.

The Lakers also finally defeated the Nuggets 105-103 at home.

Both Kobe and Anthony scored 40 points in this game.

The performance of both of them is worthy of the title of super giant.

But the overall gap between the two teams meant that Anthony, who took 20 shots for 40 points, lost to Kobe, who took 28 shots for 40 points...

At the same time, this contest that to some extent determines who is the strongest team in the Western Conference has allowed the world to see the gap between the Nuggets and Lakers.

The Nuggets' lineup is already very thick, but compared to the Lakers, it's still too thin.

Especially on the forward line, the Nuggets can't find a substitute for Anthony...

The Nuggets' forward line, except for Anthony, other players are in front of Artest, Batum, Ariza, and Turkoglu. No kidding, that's a gift...

Even if Anthony has no physical strength, he must stay on the court, otherwise the Nuggets will collapse.

Anthony's physical strength is actually not bad, but he was eventually worn down by the Lakers.

It was also after this game that the Lakers' odds of winning the championship surpassed all teams except the Heat, and they have the momentum to replace the Spurs' Western hegemony.

Compared with the sparkling matchup that started first in the West, the first game of the two groups in the East was lackluster.

The Cavaliers easily defeated the Wizards led by Arenas 118-101 at home.

The Wizards can beat the Magic because Arenas blasts the Magic's perimeter harder than Howard blasts the Wizards' inside.

This does not mean that the Wizards' inside guard can guard the Magic's Howard.

The Wizards' weak inside line can't even defend Howard.

Can you defend O'Neal?

And how can the Cavaliers' outside line be comparable to that of the Magic? Although Deron Williams can't defend Arenas, he can have a huge impact.

It can be said that after half the game between the Cavaliers and Wizards, there was no suspense.

Arenas is also really unlucky. The Wizards have been able to go so far in the playoffs in the past few seasons because of Arenas' leadership. In the playoffs, the Wizards really don't have a reliable helper.

It's really thanks to Arenas that he gave up the temptation to join the Grizzlies last summer.

The game between the Celtics and the Heat was not as one-sided as the Cavaliers and Wizards.

But it’s actually pretty much the same.

In the Celtics' away game against the Heat, the Celtics trailed by 15 points 36-51 in the first half.

The Celtics are a veteran team that is slow to warm up. More importantly, the Celtics were built with the SuperSonics as their goal. They really didn't expect such a shameless team to suddenly appear in the Eastern Conference.

After the Celtics played this game, they really felt restricted in all directions.

After halftime, in addition to Ray Allen teaching his junior brother Ben Gordon a lesson, Garnett slightly beat Chris Bosh. Although James was still a bit undercover offensively in this game, he also beat Pierce on the defensive end. , the most important thing is the duel between Wade and Baron Davis. Baron Davis is worthy of his strength, and Wade, whose speed is faster than Baron Davis, not only defeated Baron Davis in the first half He didn't score a point and made 0 of 4 shots. He also scored 23 points on 9 of 11 shots.

"Yes, yesterday's game did not stimulate James, but it stimulated Wade..."

According to the trend of this game in the first half, if James hadn't gone undercover on the offensive end in the second half and made 1 of 6 shots in the fourth quarter, I'm afraid the Heat would have closed this game long ago. Of course, although James inexplicably failed on the offensive end again, Being undercover caused the Heat to have some twists and turns in ending the game, but Wade scored another 13 points in the fourth quarter to secure the victory.

This round of showdown between the Celtics and the Heat should have been a strong dialogue, but as long as they watched the game and saw that James was undercover, the Celtics could not beat the Heat. Most people would not hold a candle to the Celtics defeating the Heat. How much confidence.

"Heat fans always thought that James was the biggest player before the season started. Unexpectedly, Wade was the most reliable for the Heat in the end."

"James felt like he couldn't play anymore after that five-double night. James wouldn't be as useless as Durant, right?"

"Durant is disabled at least because of injury. This is force majeure. James is disabled. That is really embarrassing. His mentality is so unbalanced that he can't play."

The game against the Celtics caused James' already low reputation to fall to the ground.

Faced with these doubts, James remained silent.

The Pistons are used to develop new offensive rhythm, and the Celtics are used to hone their new game rhythm and offensive rhythm!

In the East, no team is more suitable to hone skills than the Celtics!

As for the controversy?

As long as you defeat Yes or win the championship, everything will come back!

As for whether the team can beat the Celtics and continue on?

"Thank you for your kindness..."

Anyway, before I master it, I will be an undercover agent, so what do you do?

James felt unusually relaxed after putting down all his burdens.

On the other side, Durant, who was also under tremendous pressure, was not so relaxed.

Durant still hasn't regained his game form.

After not playing for a year, not playing a single official game, and coupled with the huge changes in his body, there is no way to get back to the game state just by relying on training games and intra-team confrontations.

Durant is depressed.

Although Yes told him, their stage is far away.

However, he did not want to be a burden to Yes, and he was carried to the stage in front by Yes like everyone else!

He wants to walk to the center of the stage side by side with Yes!

The game with the Mavericks is approaching, and Durant's game status is still not there.

But Nelson and Yeas could only start Durant in the game against the Mavericks.

Ibaka's current defense is really useful against the Spurs' less flashy offensive players. Let him run, let him jump, and let him work hard without any skills.

But Ibaka's current defense has proven in the regular season that he is the main culprit for the Sonics being swept by the Mavericks in the regular season.

Nowitzki, Kwame Brown, Afflalo, Josh Howard, Monta Alice, Jason Terry...

Really, it would not be the same if everyone played against Ibaka.

Compared with Ibaka's now immature one-on-one defense, Durant's defensive advantage is one-on-one duel!

When Durant was criticized for his lack of concentration on defense last season, his one-on-one defense was still above par.

Durant's offense isn't very good right now, but his defense can at least keep the Sonics from collapsing.

Durant's current status is no secret at all. The reporters next to the SuperSonics training ground couldn't wait to update Durant's status every minute.

They may be more anxious than Sonics fans.

SuperSonics fans feel that the Sonics have made a fortune by entering the second round.

I thought I would be swept out by the Spurs, but now I'm in the second round.

What more could you ask for?

Now that we are facing the team's nemesis, the team's two small forwards are having such a difficult time.

Nothing more to ask for.

But these reporters didn't think so.

We have already passed the Spurs and have reached this point.

The opponent is still the Mavericks, whom they despise very much. If they don't move forward, they are really unwilling to do so!

more importantly.

"If Yes is eliminated, how much traffic will it lose in the playoffs this year?"

Compared with being unwilling, what they feel more distressed about is the lost traffic.

Compared with these reporters, experts across the United States are much calmer.

Before the first game between the Mavericks and the SuperSonics, ESPN routinely organized a poll of 100 experts. Sure enough, only 20% supported the SuperSonics.

"The SuperSonics have received support from 20% of experts, 10% of which support Yes, and the other 10% simply do not support Nowitzki."

This series between the Mavericks and the SuperSonics has great advantages in all aspects.

But not until the very last moment before the game started.

Mavericks head coach Rick Carlisle is cautious.

"Yes is the greatest player in the NBA. KD is also a very good player. The Sonics have many capable young players. I hope this will be a very exciting game."

Whether or not Rick Carlisle and the Mavericks think so in their hearts, that's what they're saying at least.

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