NBA: Five big moves to start

The Lakers, Warriors, and Rockets compete for the first place in the West, just to have home-court advantage in advance and have a certain upper hand when playing in the playoffs.

But to put it bluntly.

They’re all teams that have already made the playoffs.

The more intense Western Conference matchup is between the Timberwolves, Spurs and Nuggets, who will stop the regular season and miss the playoffs if they are not careful.

Among them.

Despite the loss of Butler’s Timberwolves, as well as the likes of Downs, Wiggins and Teague, Goji Gowggins, the talent ceiling is high, and it is in crisis.

After all, do not maintain health, get serious.

The Timberwolves also burst into action, standing out in the competition with the Spurs and Nuggets, finishing seventh in the West and successfully locking up the playoff spot.

Now.

The most anxious scramble fell on the Spurs and Nuggets.

Although the Spurs were absolutely at the core, Leonard returned from injury in late March, but in view of a series of problems such as contracts, he did not negotiate, only played a few games, and did not play again.

Otherwise.

The Spurs want to win the Nuggets, and it’s easy.

But.

Ginger is still old and spicy.

Even without Leonard, as the second in the West last season, with 60 wins, the former “TGP”, Ginobili, Parker and others, could not allow the team not to enter the playoffs.

Under stubborn confrontation.

The last game was won, and although the Nuggets also won, the Spurs eventually squeezed into eighth place in the West by a margin of one game and took the last playoff spot.

This side in the east.

The top three have not changed, the Raptors, Celtics and 76ers, the fiercest competition is still between the Bucks, Wizards and Pistons.

The Bucks have the “Greek Monster” alphabet brother, the Wizards have the “backcourt golden double gun” Wall and Beal, and the Pistons have the “Zhuang God” Andre Drummond.

Every team is strong.

As a result, they can only compete for the final seventh and eighth places in the playoffs, which can be imagined… How strong the playoff teams are, how fierce the competition for playoff spots is.

A vicious battle.

Alphabet’s Bucks team took the lead and locked up seventh.

The Wizards and Pistons will have a deathmatch in the final game of the regular season, and the winner will finish eighth and qualify for the playoffs.

Pistons “Zhuang Shen” frantically grabbed rebounds, ravaged the box, dominated the basket, and the Wizards’ “golden double gun” Wall and Beal shot three points from the outside.

The ultimate pair of inside and outside.

Whoever can have the last laugh is the winner in the end.

Ultimately……

The Wizards are still better at the backcourt, and although Drummond’s rebounding ability is strong, his ability to finish offense is still slightly worse.

For the handling of key balls, the heat is not enough.

On the other hand, Wall, the champion of 2010, has a big heart, and finally chased the stage, dared to attack, and hit a long-range three-point shot at the top of the left arc and hit it cold-bloodedly.

Murderous!

The Wizards eventually won over the Pistons and secured a final playoff spot.

So far.

16 playoff teams from the East and West were released.

West: Lakers, Warriors, Rockets, Trail Blazers, Thunder, Pelicans, Timberwolves and Spurs.

East: Raptors, Celtics, 76ers, Cavaliers, Pacers, Heat, Bucks and Wizards.

That came out together, and the list of the first round of the East-West duel was released.

West: Lakers vs Spurs, Warriors vs Timberwolves, Rockets vs Pelicans, Blazers vs Thunder.

East: Raptors vs Wizards, Celtics vs Bucks, 76ers vs Heat, Cavaliers vs Pacers.

A day later.

The regular season is completely over.

The Los Angeles Lakers, with a 67-15 record and an 81.7% win rate, won the first record in the West, and it was also the best record in the league in the 17/18 season, which means…

In every series of the playoffs, as long as the Lakers can advance to the next round, they will always have the home court advantage first.

Meanwhile.

Regarding the first-round prediction on the Internet, fans also expressed their opinions and engaged in fierce debate.

“I come first, I come first, the West, the Lakers and the Spurs, it must be the Lakers winning, and… There is a high probability that it will be swept 4:1, and the Lakers will lose the first game because they are not yet adapted to the playoffs. ”

“After adapting to one game, the Lakers, under the leadership of Qin Rui, will go all the way, sweep the Spurs and enter the Western Conference semifinals.”

“And the game between the Warriors and the Timberwolves, this seems to be a contest between stars, but compared with the Timberwolves, whether it is star strength or playoff experience, the Warriors have the advantage.”

“With the Timberwolves still losing Butler, the Warriors have a good chance of sweeping the Timberwolves to the next round.”

“In the Rockets and Pelicans series, although the Rockets are third in the West, he has led Westlake for most of the season, and the light bulb combination is still strong.”

“Against no Cousins, only the Davis Pelicans, should be able to sweep the opponent or lose a game.”

“The game between the Blazers and the Thunder, as long as Lillard maintains the form of March Madness, there is no problem in winning the Thunder, blind guessing to win the Thunder 4:2.”

“As for the east.”

“Not surprisingly, it should be the top four, the Raptors, Green Army, 76ers and Cavaliers advanced, and the Eastern Conference is weak, these four teams are the strongest.”

“Of course, that doesn’t include the Bucks before the injury.”

Airplanes!

As soon as this remark came out, it immediately aroused widespread heated discussions.

Some people agreed, some people objected, some people were neutral, just holding a look-and-see attitude, and did not care too much about the person’s analysis and predictions.

There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people, everyone has their own ideas, and every fan has a selfish desire to win on the team of their favorite star.

There are a lot of opponents.

Speak out against the fans.

Fans continue to controversy, predict, and speculate about the outcome of the first round of the playoffs, although all are fans’ personal ideas.

But at least.

In the gap period leading up to the playoffs.

Fans can have fun.

At the time of controversy, another new controversial topic was quickly topped the list and became a hot spot for fans, and this hot spot is:

[17/18 season, who should the regular season MVP belong to?!] 】