Healing Basketball

Chapter 242 242. The End of the Regular Season

After 2 hours and 21 minutes, the Trail Blazers beat the Suns 88-81.

小霸王15分、马里昂16分、当代乔丹12分、巴博萨11分、贾希迪-怀特替补登场拿到10分……半路上手的太阳队主帅迈克-德安东尼今晚控场都快把神经搞崩溃了。

No matter who goes up, the defense seems to be very good, and the offensive performance is good. With such fragmented playing time, 5 players can score in double figures.

对面那个菜鸟，在被围追堵截下狂扔27次，27投12中，其中三分球4中1，外加不断的往篮下凿博到的11中10的罚球，拿到35分8板3助攻2抢断1盖帽……

The biggest contributors to the Trail Blazers' win - Zach Randolph and Harrington.

全场两队篮板球数量是夸张的59比51，兰多夫15分17板，哈灵顿10分13板，两人携手扛住了小霸王和马里昂两大冲抢高手。

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On the second day, April 4, the two sides of the battle remained unchanged, and the home and away games were replaced. At 16:7 in the evening, the Trail Blazers challenged the Suns back to back.

Liu Xiu, who has completed the scoring target of 35/60, did not make too many shots tonight, and he is confident that he will score more than ten points in each of the next two games.

But the Suns are in really good shape!
They have too many scorers, and their style of play is very tough!Only one person is missing to link them together.

It's just that they chose the wrong person at first, mistakenly thinking that Marbury was their real son.

D'Antoni played his life to suppress the last game, but this time he couldn't suppress it.

小霸王25分、当代乔丹22分、马里昂16分、巴博萨10分、霍华德-艾斯利13分11助攻……太阳队主场以96比91险胜开拓者队！

Liu Xiu's performance tonight was actually not bad. He made 20 of 8 shots and 7 of 7 free throws. He scored 23 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists. Overall, he was very good. Only 4 of 0 three-pointers lowered his shooting percentage.

It was Randolph and Flying Squirrel who got stuck tonight. Randolph made 17 of 6 shots and only scored 14 points and 10 rebounds. Flying Squirrel made 9 of 3 shots and almost missed outside shots.

With the concerted efforts of the Trail Blazers team, they narrowed the point difference to 5 points in the final quarter, but it was still a little short.

After this wave of back-to-back, the Trail Blazers' record became 58 wins and 23 losses, missing 60 wins!
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Missing 60 wins, not only the Trail Blazers.

All teams in the Western Conference missed 60 wins.

On the night of the 16th, the Timberwolves also suffered their 23rd loss of the season.

After the Trail Blazers achieved a record of 1 win and 1 loss in back-to-back games, their ranking was promoted to second in the Western Conference. Because of the outcome of the match, they ranked behind the Timberwolves with 58 wins and 23 losses.

The Spurs suffered a three-game losing streak unluckily.

Playing against the Hornets, Baron Davis ran away with 35 points and 8 assists. The Spurs lost 96 to 98.

Playing against the Bucks, Reid went berserk, scored 3 points in the last 8 minutes, and played a wave of 8-0 alone. The Bucks fell behind by 86 points from 92 to 6, and then reversed from 94 to 92.

打76人队，艾弗森暴走，单场中投15中9，狂飙40分6助攻，76人队83比79险胜马刺队。

From the first place in the Western Conference with 57 wins and 21 losses, it was fucked to 57 wins and 24 losses.

So, on April 4th, Liu Xiu followed the team to Los Angeles. When watching the live broadcast of the game between the Spurs and the Supersonics at night, he saw that the starting five of the Spurs were all rested, and Ray Allen made 17 three-pointers in a single game. He made 14 shots and led the team with 8 points and 34 assists in a single game to slaughter the Spurs 5-108.

The Spurs suffered a 4-game losing streak at the end of the season, with 3 games losing within 5 points and two games being overturned at the last moment.

After the loss to the Sonics, the Spurs' record became 57 wins and 25 losses.

Liu Xiu hasn't paid attention to the rankings for a while. She has been busy these few days, with constant interviews, back-to-back, training and competitions.

He checked it curiously. In the past two days, the Lakers also played back-to-back.

打国王队，科比38分6板6助攻、奥尼尔22分20板，湖人队以115比91屠杀国王队。

打凯尔特人队，科比18分11板10助攻，奥尼尔赛季新高单场38分，湖人队以117比83血屠凯尔特人队。

After two games, the Lakers record became 56 wins and 25 losses.

Liu Xiu sympathized with what happened to the two teams that were beaten by the Lakers, and firmly refused to admit that it had anything to do with him.

Liu Xiu analyzed the current ranking situation in the playoffs, and came up with a weird idea-the Spurs have been beaten by outside stars for several consecutive games, are they afraid of his warden?
He thought this idea was too absurd!
In order to avoid him, pick the Kings or Mavericks for the first round, it's ridiculous!

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However, Liu Xiu is not the only one who thinks this way.

After the Spurs rested in the last game and gave the Lakers a chance to enter the top three, the Spurs game itself did not cause any topics. Their choice has aroused people's discussion.

Liu Xiu ignored a problem. Even if the Spurs were third in the West, they would have to face the Kings or the Mavericks in the first round.

He also didn't realize how much pressure he has put on the Spurs by averaging 4 points per game in 8 games since April!
The Spurs have just been upset by Baron Davis, Reed, and Iverson. With Liu Xiu's current competitive state and the depth of the Blazers' lineup, the Spurs chose to give it a go. Can it fall to fourth in the Western Conference and enter the playoffs.

This requires the Lakers to win the curtain call. On the curtain call of this year's season, Popovich is a Lakers fan!
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On April 2004, 4, the last game day of the regular season of this season arrived.

The most popular game tonight is undoubtedly the game between the Lakers and the Trail Blazers.

Liu Xiu, a rookie who shocked the basketball world, scored 62 points in a single game, just a few days ago.

Originally, this game was not the popular game of the curtain call. The popular game of the curtain call was the one between the Mavericks and the Kings.

But what the league is pushing now is this game.

Under the eyes of everyone, at 8 o'clock in the evening, the Blazers' away game against the Lakers started.

The Lakers are vicious tonight, and the Trail Blazers are also full of fighting spirit.

The Lakers want to rush to third. There are many purposes, one of which is to continue to play against the Trail Blazers in the playoffs.

The Trail Blazers wanted to hit No. 45 in the Western Conference. Although the Timberwolves had already led the Jazz 33-[-] at halftime when their game started, what if...

But the Lakers who play their lives are too cruel!

半场打完，靠着奥尼尔的13分5板、科比的6分6板7助攻、马龙的9分、替补登场的费舍尔的10分……湖人队半场49比35领先开拓者队14分。

刘秀半场7投2中，靠着4中4的罚球拿到8分3助攻，兰多夫9中3，拿到6分4板……

In the third quarter, the Lakers scored 18 to 16 in a single quarter, opening the point difference to 16 points.

It was Liu Xiu who forced Kobe to fight Malone hand in hand.

Such a Lakers team, the Trail Blazers chose to avoid their edge...

最终，靠着科比的14分8板11助攻、奥尼尔的34分、马龙的16分……盛怒的湖人队以100比87击败开拓者队，完成复仇！
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With the end of the last regular season game between the Rockets and the Grizzlies, the 2003-2004 regular season came to an end!
You come and go, you go up and you go down, you advance and you retreat... The competition for playoff spots and rankings has come to an end.

Teams that made it to the playoffs:
东部：62胜20负的步行者队第一、48胜34负的篮网队第二、51胜31负的活塞队第三、41胜41负的热火队第四、41胜41负的黄蜂队第五、41胜41负的雄鹿队第六、39胜43负的尼克斯队第七、37胜45负的凯尔特人队第八。

西部：59胜23负的森林狼队第一、58胜24负的开拓者队第二、57胜25负的湖人队第三、57胜25负的马刺队第四、55胜27负的小牛队第五、55胜27负的国王队第六、50胜32负的灰熊队第七、48胜34负的掘金队第八。

西部第九的44胜38负的火箭队、西部第十的42胜40负的爵士队遗憾的错失季后赛；东部第九到底十一名都是35胜47负，分别是骑士队、猛龙队、76人队，都只差一点点就能翘倒凯尔特人队。

The Spurs got their wish and fell to fourth in the West!
The league announced the first-round matchup list that night.

The playoffs began on April 4. The Pacers and Celtics, the Heat and Hornets, the Trail Blazers and Grizzlies, and the Lakers and Kings took the lead in the four-group series.

The four-group series between the Nets and the Knicks, the Pistons and the Bucks, the Timberwolves and the Nuggets, and the Spurs and the Mavericks will start on April 4.

The list of various statistics is also fixed tonight.

McGrady won the scoring title with an average of 28.2 points per game. No.2 is Iverson with an average of 26.5 points per game. No.3 is Kobe with an average of 24.5 points per game. No.4 Garnett is with an average of 24.3 points per game. Jia, averaging 5 points per game.

This scoring list, in the past ten years, has shrunk and the season is worse than this.

Because Iverson has only played 48 games, and if he averages out to the 56 games that are guaranteed to be the scoring champion, he only averages 22.7 points per game, which is not counted among the 25+ scorers per game.

In the official scoring list, McGrady is the only scorer averaging 25+ points per game this season.

Some media commented that this is the most crazy year for the league since the iron-blooded era.

Garnett won the rebounding title with an average of 14 rebounds per game. No.2 Duncan averaged 12.4 rebounds per game, which is a big gap.

Kidd averaged 9.2 assists per game and won the assists title. Like scoring, assists have also been affected by defensive strength this season. It is very difficult to get assists in positional battles.

Ratliff led the league in blocks with 3.6 blocks per game.

Both Iverson and Baron Davis averaged 2.4 steals per game, but because Iverson played only 48 games, the data needs to be spread to 56 games, and Baron Davis interrupted Iverson's 3 steals. Even the steal king.

However, since these data kings have long been confirmed, when the media reported these data as news, they were far less popular than the data lists of rookies.

安东尼场均23.6分、詹姆斯场均21分、刘秀谢幕战虽只拿到12分但依旧以场均20.14分跻身场均20+球员行列。

The 3 rookies averaged 20+ per game. This is the first time since 1971!
(End of this chapter)