Chapter 244 End of the regular season(2/2)
Second in the Western Conference is the Mavericks!
They overtook the Lakers in April and became the final second place in the Western Conference. Their opponent in the playoffs was the Spurs!
In the Western Conference playoffs, there is once again a "cow-horse battle"!
This made many fans talk a lot.
The Spurs are not in very good shape this season, especially in the second half of the schedule. Other teams have developed a chemical reaction, but this team is still in the process of developing a chemical reaction, and until the end of the regular season, the chemical reaction is still there.
Still bad.
But there has always been a saying in the league that "the Spurs in the regular season are different from the Spurs in the playoffs!"
No matter how the Spurs are in the regular season, as soon as the playoffs begin, no team is willing to meet the Spurs!
For this team, whether the weak defeats the strong or the strong defeats the weak, it can be done easily!
Of course, this is not the reason why these two teams are being discussed a lot.
You know, after all, it is the second place in the Western Conference against the seventh place in the Western Conference. If it were other times, the probability of the second place beating the seventh place is very high. It is the kind of win that is basically no problem!
Just look at the attitudes of the experts in the matchup between the second in the Eastern Conference and the seventh in the Eastern Conference.
There shouldn't be so much suspense in the Western Conference's second vs. seventh game.
Even if seventh place is the Spurs!
It shouldn't have caused so much discussion.
Another important reason is that the second team is the Dallas Mavericks.
In the playoffs, you can always trust the Mavericks. No matter how he performs in the regular season, as long as he enters the playoffs, he can always pull his hips in 10,000 ways!
It's also because the Mavericks are second, which makes this series a lot of highlights!
Third in the Western Conference is the Lakers.
This team relied on Kobe to survive the period after the All-Star break.
But when April came, even Phil Jackson, who was as calm as Phil Jackson, knew it was time for Kobe to rest. This rest caused the Lakers to fall into third place in the Western Conference.
Of course, there is no big difference. They are not afraid of the Mavericks, and if the Spurs win in the end, they still have home court advantage!
In the absence of No. 1, it doesn't make much difference to the Lakers whether they are No. 2 or No. 3.
The only thing that gives them a headache is that they will meet the Grizzlies in the first round... This is the team with the most "meat grinder" style of play currently. Meeting this team will really be "immortal"
Also need to peel off the skin”!
This team will pose a huge test to the Lakers' already problematic physical fitness.
For this reason, the biggest doubt among experts in this series is "How quickly can the Lakers defeat the Grizzlies!"
Yes, in the opinion of these experts, the Lakers should have no problem beating the Grizzlies.
The only question is how strenuous it will be!
If too much energy is wasted on the Grizzlies, it will have a huge impact on their subsequent series!
The Nuggets are fourth in the Western Conference!
The Nuggets, who had a slow start to the season, finally became one of the top four teams in the Western Conference at the last minute, which gave them a home court advantage in the first round.
Like the Lakers, for the Nuggets, who reached the Western Conference finals last season, how to make good use of this home court advantage to defeat the fifth-place Jazz will determine whether they can survive the Suns in the next round.
How many!
Chapter completed!