On April 13, with the end of the last four games of the 2010-2011 NBA regular season, the entire regular season also came to an end.
The Wizards also won the last regular season game of the season that night. Their opponent was the Cavaliers, who were competing for the No. 1 pick, and thus won their 57th victory of the season. This also means that the Wizards' regular season The game record is completely fixed at 57 wins and 25 losses, ranking third in the Eastern Conference.
The end of the regular season also brings an end to the fierce battle for playoff spots in the last few days. For strong teams, they want to strive for a higher ranking to gain home court advantage in the upcoming playoffs.
For teams on the edge of the playoffs, every time they win a victory, they are more likely to enter the playoffs.
The competition in the Eastern Conference this year is particularly fierce because of the sudden emergence of the Wizards.
In addition, the Chicago Bulls' record has also improved by leaps and bounds after the core of the team has grown, so this year's Eastern Conference rankings are very close.
With 62 wins and 20 losses, the Bulls have become the only team in the Eastern Conference with more than 60 wins. Not surprisingly, this year's best coach should belong to Thibodeau.
In fact, Sanders also has a very good chance. After all, he can bring the Wizards, who won the No. 1 pick the previous season, to the third position in the Eastern Conference. It makes sense to give him the best coach, but who made the Bulls become the first in the league?
The second-place Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference, 58 wins and 24 losses, pays tribute to James' good brother Chris Paul. After a season of running in, the Big Three seem to have found a way to coexist. The progress of Spoelstra, a rookie coach, is also visible to the naked eye.
I won’t go into details about the third-place Wizards in the East. The Boston Celtics are fourth in the East, with 56 wins and 26 losses. Each team’s record between second and fourth in the East is exactly one win difference. The Celtics are here. They just gave up the rest in the last week. It seems that the Celtics and Rivers' idea this year is to avoid the Big Three who are the favorites to win the championship, and would rather play the Bulls in the second round.
But the Celtics' avoidance of the Heat may not necessarily make it easier for them in the playoffs, because their first-round opponent is the Orlando Magic, fifth in the Eastern Conference.
The Magic made several big trades during the season, including Lewis for Arenas and Vince Carter for Jason Richardson and Turkoglu. Their performance in the regular season was completely unsatisfactory, after all. This was a former Finals team, but after a big deal, its record was worse than in previous seasons.
But after all, they have rich playoff experience, so no one dares to underestimate the playoff strength of this Magic team.
Therefore, many people can't understand why the Celtics directly handed over the third place in the Eastern Conference to the Wizards in the last few days of the season. They were afraid of meeting the Heat in the second round. Aren't they afraid of meeting the Heat in the first round? Are you going to overturn the Magic?
In other words, the Celtics and Rivers have enough confidence to beat the Magic?
No one knows.
The Wizards' opponent in the first round is the Hawks, who are ranked sixth in the Eastern Conference with 44 wins and 38 losses. This Hawks is not an easy opponent in the playoffs. This team has two forward combinations of Joe Johnson and Josh Smith. Causes problems for any team in the playoffs.
Ranking seventh in the Western Conference is the New York Knicks, who acquired Amar'e Stoudemire last offseason. On the first day after the All-Star break, the Knicks passed a three-way trade with the Nuggets and Timberwolves. Acquired their star player Carmelo Anthony from the Denver Nuggets.
Now even the Knicks, ranked seventh in the Eastern Conference, have two All-Star players. The Heat must also have a headache with this result, because Stoudemire will definitely kill him when facing the Heat's weak inside line, and now the Knicks Another Anthony is coming to Sri Lanka's outside line...
The eighth place in the Eastern Conference is the Philadelphia 76ers. Their 41 wins and 41 losses are exactly half the winning rate. The sudden rise of the Wizards this season is like a catfish being stuffed into a group of sardines, which immediately disturbed the Eastern Conference. The world is upside down. In the past few seasons, how could the competition in the Eastern Conference playoffs be so fierce? There was even a situation in the Eastern Conference where the sixth-place record in the Eastern Conference would not make it to the playoffs if it were moved to the Western Conference.
As for the Western Conference, the Spurs rank first with 61 wins and 21 losses. They are also the only team in the Western Conference with more than 60 wins. Second to eighth in the Western Conference are the Mavericks with 57 wins and 25 losses, and the Lakers with 57 wins and 25 losses. In losses, the Thunder were 55-27, the Nuggets were 50-32, the Trail Blazers were 48-34, the Grizzlies were 46-36, and the Hornets were 46-36.
It has to be said that the average strength of the West is indeed much stronger than that of the East. The Hornets' record, which is eighth in the West, can be ranked sixth in the East. Moreover, the winning difference between the teams in the West is very close, while in the East, except Outside of the top four, the remaining teams have basically decided their positions as early as a week before the end of the regular season. The Western Conference will not be able to determine the ranking until the last minute.
In addition to the record and playoff matchups being determined, all regular season data has also been determined.
Kaiming Li averaged 33.6 points per game and became the scoring leader in the 2010-2011 season in his rookie season, making him the fifth player to achieve this achievement after Joe Fulkes, George Mikan, Wilt Chamberlain and Elvin Hayes. people.
Li Kaiming achieved an achievement that even the god of basketball, Michael Jordan, could not achieve.
However, Jordan was actually the total scoring champion in his rookie season, which means that his total points throughout the season were first in the league, but he was not in terms of points per game, so he unfortunately missed this record.
Li Kaiming's 33.6 points per game average ranks high even in history. It is equal to Jordan in 1990 and tied for 19th in history in single-season scoring average.
The second in the scoring list is last season's scoring champion Kevin Durant, who only averaged 27.7 points per game, which is 6 points behind Li Kaiming. This 6-point gap is larger than the gap between 2nd and 14th in the scoring list. It can be seen that Li Kaiming is How valuable is the scoring champion and how powerful is his dominance?
This year's rebounding king belongs to the Timberwolves' inside core Kevin Love. He averages 15.2 rebounds per game. This rebounding ability is really strong. His average rebounds per game are higher than the average points per game of most players in the league!
It is worth mentioning that Li Kaiming ranked fifth in the rebounding list with 10.5 rebounds per game. The only thing that made him feel a little unhappy was that Griffin ranked right above him with 12 rebounds per game!
So angry! You have to rebound hard next season. Anyone can lose, but not Griffin!
The league's assists leader belongs to Steve Nash, who averages 11.4 assists per game. The second-ranked Boston Celtics star Rajon Rondo unfortunately misses the assists leader with 11.2, and Li Kaiming once again appears in the league with 7.5 assists per game. He ranked 11th in the assists rankings, and the person in front of him happened to be his good senior brother Derrick Rose.
The steals leader belongs to Chris Cannon, a 183-foot-tall man from New Orleans, who averages 2.4 steals per game. The blocks leader belongs to the Bucks' 2005 No. 1 pick, Andrew Bodog, who has a dead face.
The playoff schedule is also very tight. The regular season ends on the night of the 13th, and the first round of the playoffs begins on the night of the 16th. This speed is like riding a rocket.
The Wizards also began to prepare for the playoffs. Sanders also led the coaching staff to study the video of the first-round opponent Hawks day and night. They finally entered the playoffs and finished third in the Western Conference. If you get into the position, you have to make it to the second round no matter what. If you are knocked out of the first round, then Sanders will probably pack up and leave.
The players also began to prepare for training in full swing under the arrangements of the team's training team. Three days were enough for them to recover from fatigue and adjust their condition to face the hard-won playoffs with a new look.
Li Kaiming also received news from his good brother Elliott Williams that he was coming to the home court to cheer Li Kaiming on.
Because the Raptors achieved a record of 20 wins and 62 losses this season and naturally did not enter the playoffs, Williams took a vacation after playing the last game of the regular season. He will have a five-year career. months of vacation.
When Williams said he could rest, Li Kaiming was also a little envious, "It's so nice to have a vacation. I don't have to play ball, I can sleep in, and I don't have to fly around in the sky anymore!"
Williams: My back hurts when I stand and talk. How about we switch? You come to enjoy your vacation and I'll play in the playoffs for you?
Li Kaiming: That’s not necessary. At your level, you were not allowed to be killed randomly by the opponent in the past? I finally made it to the playoffs, but you, a loser, can be ruined by me?
Williams:? Okay, okay, that’s what you’re saying about me, right?
Li Kaiming: Just go fishing obediently. I’ll give you a high-quality fishing rod, and I’m sure you won’t be in trouble!
Williams:…
Before the exciting playoffs begin, the media preview of the reserved program is also indispensable. Whether it is ESpN, tNt, or CBS, they have all made various TV programs and invited all kinds of ghosts and monsters to start. Playoff predictions for this season.
Over at ESPN, the prediction of pillar A Smith is very shocking, because he believes that the Celtics and Wizards will both go out in the first round. Let’s not talk about the Celtics. No matter how the two sides analyze, they will win or lose. , but regarding the Wizards' prediction, Smith said, "The Wizards are a regular season team. Their seemingly unsolvable offense will directly stall under the defense in the playoffs! So I predict that the Wizards will be swept 4-0 by the Hawks. !”
At the same time, on the tNt program, Barkley made a completely opposite prediction, "I think the Wizards are 4-0 against the Hawks. They are ahead in terms of regular season record, and the team also has Li Kaiming, who Definitely a playoff player, hands down!”
Koslov, who has been diving for a long time, also wrote a long article on his personal blog to analyze the situation in the playoffs. When talking about the Wizards, he wrote:
"In the long regular season, most teams will not show their true strength. Only the Wizards, I can see from them the fighting spirit of playing in the finals. The core of the team Averaging 33.6 points per game, it seems unstoppable. But the playoffs are a different level of competition. This group of people has never withstood the test of the playoffs. Joe Johnson and Josh Smith will destroy them..."
