Everyone who had won 50 consecutive games happily came to Rose Paradise to party all night. This regular season, the fans who are most excited are undoubtedly the Trail Blazers fans.
After the All-Star Game, it came to the middle of the season. Although the Trail Blazers lost to the Clippers and Spurs one after another, they lost two consecutive games. When the water came back, they won two consecutive games and three consecutive games, allowing them to continue to consolidate the league's No. 1 ranking. The first place in the league made them the first 50-win team among the 30 teams in the league.
And all of this is always inseparable from the soul of the Portland Trail Blazers-Wang Zelin!
This season, Wang Zelin, who is only in his second year, has improved a lot in all aspects of his statistics compared to his first year. The responsibility of the team leader has been completely transferred from Aldridge to his shoulders.
In February, because the Trail Blazers lost 5 games and the schedule was slightly bleak compared to other months, Wang Zelin missed the Western Conference Player of the Month in February.
But despite this, when the Trail Blazers defeated Mosaic and the news of reaching 50 wins in the season spread throughout the United States, countless people couldn't help but be moved by it.
The most direct manifestation is that in the season MVP prediction lists of major sports media, Wang Zelin has always topped the list, and his position has become increasingly unshakable.
50 wins and 11 losses! The Trail Blazers, who have played 61 games so far, seem to be preparing to win 70 games...
ESPN rarely takes the lead in promoting the Trail Blazers to become the second 70-win team in NBA history!
On the morning of the second day after the match against the Mosaic team, Wang Zelin got up from his home and saw the news. He rubbed his groggy eyes as it rained.
what's the situation?
ESPN has changed its character!
However, this cannot affect Wang Zelin. Even if ESPN appears in front of him and licks him now, he will still have to fight one game at a time in the next games.
However, he never expected that this wave of praise from ESPN was actually a wave of poisonous milk.
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After the All-Star Weekend, teams began an exciting competition for rankings, and the competition for playoff seats became more intense.
The Grizzlies, after occasionally falling behind at the beginning of the season, still did not give up. Especially one of the core members of the team, "Black Bear" Zach Randolph, completed his body management before the middle of the season. The Grizzlies currently sit firmly in the Western Conference. seventh position and trying to catch up with the Lakers and break into the top six.
The battle between the Grizzlies and the Lakers for sixth place in the Western Conference is a highly anticipated competition at the moment.
The current 35-win Grizzlies and 36-win Lakers are very close in record. At the same time, they are not far behind the fifth-place Warriors with 38 wins.
There is also the Dallas Mavericks, ranked eighth, who defeated the Phoenix Suns in a direct contest two days ago, completed the regular season lead, and successfully ranked among the top eight in the Western Conference with 34 wins.
Although they are only in last place, as soon as they see that the Mavericks, who are eighth in the Western Conference, are away from the Grizzlies, who are seventh, and there is only one win between the two teams, the outside world has to sigh again:
The West is full of devils! If you are not careful, the pattern of 5th to 8th place in the West will be violently shaken.
Of course, despite the extremely fierce competition between these four teams, it is still difficult to catch up with the 50-win Trail Blazers.
Just put it this way, after winning 50 games, the outside world instantly came to a unified understanding: the Portland Trail Blazers have obtained a ticket to the playoffs in advance!
You will be at the top of the mountain and have a panoramic view of the mountains!
It's about the current proud status of the Trail Blazers.
In fact, even coach Terry Stotts, who has always been steady, began to become arrogant and began to pick opponents for the playoffs early.
On the night of the 7th, the Trail Blazers came to Memphis again to challenge the Grizzlies away from home.
The previous three consecutive victories have given the Trail Blazers a lot of confidence. They are bound to win this game and get 60 regular season wins early.
Only in this way can they hit the super difficult goal of 70 wins in the regular season!
In fact, everyone has some vanity to some extent. Under the overwhelming offensive of flowers and applause from the outside world, the entire Blazers team gradually lost themselves.
Coupled with the two previous contests with the Grizzlies, the Trail Blazers all had the last laugh, which made them look at the Grizzlies players with a little contempt.
Facts have once again proven that the Grizzlies' "shit-stirring" attributes are by no means in vain.
In order to secure the seventh place in the Western Conference and then attack the Lakers, who are sixth in the Western Conference, Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph, the black and white fat guys, also worked hard, and they cooperated with each other in an incomparable way on offense and defense!
As soon as they came up, the Blazers launched a storm-like offensive. Everyone could see that the Blazers wanted to use a wave to open up the score early and end the game.
But Wang Zelin and others still underestimated the resilience of the Grizzlies players.
Memphis, a city abandoned by the league, has gathered a bunch of abandoned people over the past few years, and it burst out with eye-catching energy tonight.
The main thing is Randolph. In the second half today, he went crazy and attacked like crazy, and his touch was frighteningly hot. Only 5 points were scored in the first half. At the end of the third quarter, personal scoring statistics had exceeded 26 points.
In other words, this guy scored 21 points individually while playing 12 minutes in the third quarter.
Moreover, this fat black man is particularly cunning. He will pass the ball as soon as the opponent is double-teamed. As long as he gets the slightest chance, he will hit the net without hesitation.
On the other hand, look at the Trail Blazers.
After the violent play in the first half did not achieve the desired results, everyone began to feel impetuous.
But in the professional arena, the more impetuous people are, the harder it is to score goals.
After the third quarter, under the leadership of Zach Randolph and his sister-in-law, the Grizzlies defended the Trail Blazers at home and scored only 93 points.
You know, this season, the Trail Blazers wanted to be an offensive team that could easily score over 110 or 120 points in a single game, but they failed tonight against the Grizzlies.
Wang Zelin played 37 minutes, but he felt that he was lost in the game. He only scored 4 points in the half. His 11-point performance in the second half was slightly better, but it had little impact on the overall situation.
With half the time left in the fourth quarter and seeing that the game had entered garbage time, he could only sigh and go to rest early.
Did you say the grizzly bear is easy to beat?
Are you sure you can get what you promised?
This is great, I got slapped in the face again!
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After losing to Memphis, Wang Zelin returned to Portland with the team overnight. Then, at the request of head coach Terry Stotts, no one was absent the next day, and everyone came to his home stadium Rose Garden before 9 o'clock.
Yesterday, the Trail Blazers scored 115 points on themselves by a team that is not good at offense. On the other hand, they only scored 93 points in total.
Lost to the Grizzlies by 22 points, which was unimaginable before!
Therefore, this morning's meeting is destined to be a painful lesson...
