The Overlord of Basketball: 2K Possession

Chapter 420 The Situation of Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian

This year's regular season rankings are quite nonsense, and the teams with good results are ranked behind.

The Bulls in the East have significantly better results, but they can only rank fourth.

What is even worse is the Cavaliers, who obviously had a better record, but ran to the fifth and fifth positions.

Against the Bulls without home-court advantage, James is dangerous, to be honest.

In third place is the New Jersey Nets. The Nets have a record of 49 wins and 33 losses, one game behind the Cavaliers.

The reason why the Nets ranked third is only because the Nets are the first in the Atlantic Division.

The East is okay, anyway, the third and fourth are about the same, and they have to face the Pistons and the Heat.

Of course, Chen Mo and the Heat were very happy to see the Pistons and Bulls collide in the second round.

The West is even worse. The third place is the Denver Nuggets with a record of 44 wins and 38 losses.

By the same token, they can rank third only because the Nuggets are the top in the Northwest Division.

According to the normal record, the Nuggets can only rank eighth in the West.

I have to say that the ranking from eighth to third in the West is quite embarrassing.

Especially the Mavericks, who obviously have the second record in the Western Conference, actually ranked fourth.

You know, according to the real results of the Mavericks, he is only one game behind the Spurs.

As a result, the Spurs and Mavericks had to meet in the second round.

In other words, in the second round of the playoffs, the east and the west will each have a game where Mars hits the earth.

The only one who is happy is the Clippers, because they are ranked sixth in the West.

In other words, their opponent in the playoffs is someone with a worse record than them.

Although there is no home court advantage, isn't this advantage greater than the home court!

The reason for this situation is mainly because the NBA wants to maintain the balance of the division.

There are express regulations that the first place in each sub-division will automatically get a place in the playoffs and be in the forefront.

When there were only two divisions, the first place in each division locked the top two in the playoffs.

Now that there are three divisions, it becomes an automatic lock for the top three.

The result became what it is now.

However, this embarrassing situation only lasted for one season and will change next year.

Next year, according to the new NBA rules, the division champions can only guarantee the top four.

In this way, the two teams with the best records rank first and second, and they will not meet in advance.

Let's go back to the playoffs, the last three seats in the Eastern Conference playoffs are the Wizards, Pacers and Bucks.

In other words, the Heat's opponent in the first round is the Pacers, which is an old opponent.

It's just that the strength of today's Pacers has dropped by more than one level.

Jermaine O'Neal has been injured this season, and his strength has not increased but decreased, averaging only 20.1 points and 9.3 rebounds per game.

It seems that the average points and rebounds per game have not decreased, but his efficiency has decreased significantly.

No way, Artest left, without the outside line, O'Neal played very hard.

As for Peja, who was traded through Artest, he scored well, but unfortunately, he was too soft.

The wing composed of O'Neal and Jr. is not only too soft, but also a big defensive hole.

In the West, the last four spots in the playoffs are the Grizzlies, Clippers, Lakers and Kings.

Although the Kings got Artest, they are almost the same as the Pacers, and they can be regarded as difficult brothers.

Adelman has basically decided to resign, and the Kings are not far from rebuilding.

By the way, let's talk about Mosaic and the Warriors, these two are also difficult brothers.

Mosaic is almost the same as the Warriors, one is 40 wins and 42 losses, the other is 34 wins and 48 losses, and was rejected from the playoffs.

There is no way, today's Mosaic is basically injured and stopped, McGrady only played half of the game.

Yao Ming followed Chen Mo's advice and did not gain weight. Although his playing time increased this season, fortunately he did not suffer any major injuries.

Only in the second half of the season, there was a muscle strain and I was rested for 10 games, about a month.

Originally, Yao Ming saw hope in the playoffs and wanted to make an early comeback, but was stopped by Chen Mo.

Chen Mo didn't bother to tell him, so she called Ye Li directly and told Ye Li that she didn't want to help Yao Ming push the wheelchair all day in the future, so she shouldn't let him come back early.

Ye Li withdrew from the national team because of her injury, so she naturally paid special attention to it.

As a result, Ye Li came here with Yao Ming's parents, and even made a comeback ahead of schedule.

Chen Mo was also speechless. In order to prevent Yao Ming from being ruined by injuries, he was really worried.

It turned out to be the case.

Although Yao Ming came back before the playoffs, the hole he dug was too big to be filled at all.

In the end, Mosaic missed the playoffs with a difference of four games.

No way, McGrady was injured twice this season, one at the beginning of the season and one at the end of the season. The impact was too great.

Chen Mo remembered that Yuan Shikong's mosaic this year had no hope of playing in the playoffs at all.

Because Yao Ming didn't miss many games, it improved Mosaic's performance.

Obviously, Yao Ming still has the ability to lead the team alone.

This season, McGrady averaged only 24.4 points, 6.5 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game, and his true shooting percentage was less than 50%.

On the other hand, Yao Ming averaged 22.8 points and 10.5 rebounds per game, which has surpassed O'Neal, Duncan and others.

Yao Ming this season can even be said to be the No. [-] center in the NBA.

It's a pity that in name, Mosaic is still McGrady's team, and he still has unlimited fire rights.

Not to mention, because of injuries, McGrady's defense has further declined.

To be honest, now that McGrady is suffering from injuries, Yao Ming is the real pillar of the team.

It's a pity that McGrady doesn't think so, and Mosaic doesn't think so either.

After the end of the season, Mosaic naturally wanted to renew Yao Ming's contract immediately.

However, even if the contract was renewed, Mosaic did not guarantee his status to Yao Ming.

The boss of Mosaic is so stressed that he is indeed a big fan of McGrady, and he is really a big fan.

After talking about Mosaic, it is natural to talk about the Golden State Warriors, especially Yi Jianlian.

This season, because the power forward is not very competitive, Yi Jianlian won most of the starts.

However, his performance can only be said to be qualified.

A qualified power forward for a big team, not particularly bad, but not great either.

If it's the Golden State Warriors who just want to hang around all the time, then Yi Jianlian is a guaranteed starter.

It's just that next year, with the old Nelson taking over the Warriors, their goal is not just to dawdle.

Currently, Yi Jianlian is averaging 11.2 points, 7.2 rebounds and 1 block per game.

Following Chen Mo's suggestion, he used more pick-and-rolls for Baron Davis and cooperated with him, and the effect was good.

As a traditional point guard, Baron Davis has good offensive power, but he is still quite willing to pass the ball.

For Yi Jianlian, Baron Davis is his thigh, and it is enough to hold his thigh tightly.

(End of this chapter)