In the West, if Li Ang remembers correctly, the top three in the original history should be the Lakers, the Trail Blazers and the Jazz.

Originally, the defending champion Spurs were quite strong, but unexpectedly, Deng Jun tore the meniscus at the end of the season, causing the Spurs to decline in their record and were surpassed by the Jazz.

Because of this, Deng Jun missed the playoffs and the Lakers automatically lost a strong opponent.

The Jazz's style of play was restrained by the Trail Blazers, so they were eliminated 4-1 early in the Western Conference semi-finals.

It's just that the Lakers avoided the opponents who had eliminated them in the past three years, and passed the hurdles and fought with the Trail Blazers to tiebreakers, entering the finals.

OK From now on, there are more and more rings, but marriage is getting further and further away.

So people often say that the three consecutive championships of the OK group are actually very dangerous, and at least two times they almost failed.

The first time was in 2000, lucky to avoid the Spurs and the Jazz, and narrowly defeated the Trail Blazers in the tiebreaker.

Just imagine, if the Lakers meet the Spurs or the Jazz halfway through, can they still compete with the Trail Blazers to tiebreak?

You know, the Trail Blazers’ salary this season is as high as $7,353, and the salary cap this season is only 34 million!

The luxury of the Trail Blazers lineup can be seen.

O'Neal was swept five times in a row, and the reputation is far from as good as in the future.

Under public opinion at that time, most people believed that the Trail Blazers would reach the top of the West.

Although everyone knows the final result, if the Lakers are really consumed in advance, the Trail Blazers are not without a chance of winning.

The second time I almost failed was in 2002, the Lakers and the Kings' famous tiebreak.

OK is really invincible in 2001, and lost one game in the entire series, which is simply perverted. This is also the reason why AI is still honored even though it loses.

But to be honest, in the other two years, the Lakers' dominance is not impeccable.

Now, the matchup in the West has changed.

Because Carl Malone was injured by Li Ang's elbow, he missed several games, so the Jazz's regular season record was not 55 wins in the original history, but only 51 wins!

Although it was only 4 games away, it was enough to get the Jazz from third to fifth.

In other words, if the Jazz pass the first round smoothly, they will meet the Lakers in the Western Conference semifinals!

A major assumption in basketball forums in the past has now become a reality!

Although it seems that the Jazz was eliminated by the Trail Blazers 4-1 in the original history, it seems to be very naughty.

But in fact, the Jazz was restrained by the luxurious Trail Blazers, and Malone was very uncomfortable being defended.

But if you fight the Lakers, the Jazz are not necessarily that bad.

You know, two years ago in 1998, the Jazz swept the Lakers!

Although the Jazz are old, they still have great experience in fighting the Lakers.

They don't say they can win, but they will never make the Lakers play easily.

The simplest point is, how can the Lakers solve Malone? Let O'Neal pull it out?

On the Trail Blazers, the luxurious forward group was enough to soften Malone. In this way, Malone still scored 23.8 points in that round of the series.

But on the Lakers, the forward line is Horry and Glenn Rice.

It would be okay for Horry to hit Nash, but he would ask him to touch Ma Long, for fear that he would hit him to death.

The cloud dragon's elbow made the whole northwestern Shanxi mess up.

Li Ang looked at the matchup in the West and couldn't help but smile.

It's interesting. The playoffs are basically completely offset from history. Now even Li Ang cannot predict the trend of the playoffs.

Things that are full of suspense are always the most attractive.

Li Ang put down the newspaper and prepared to go on stage for training.

Chaotic, the more chaos, the better!

The little Jazz robbed the Lakers at night.

Captain Li bombarded Xia Village!

The day before the playoffs began, Uncle Butch made a lot of tactical arrangements for the Hornets.

But Li Ang discovered desperately

Most of the scoring tactics are arranged for Carter and McGrady!

Uncle Butch just looked at Li Ang with a smile: "Sage, you have to worry about rebounding! "

Fortunately, Uncle Butch did not let Li Ang play center directly, otherwise Li Ang would have gone on strike in minutes.

However, during the regular season, although Li Ang beat Coleman to a bad temper in offense, Li Ang has indeed been at a disadvantage in scoring.

Well, for players like Li Ang, we must discuss scoring and offense separately, it is not the same thing.

To put it bluntly, at the basketball level, Li Ang has not completely defeated Coleman.

On the other hand, Coleman was also ready to go.

No matter how good he is, he is at least the one who led the Nets to play in the playoffs.

Although it has been a round of tours for three consecutive years, it is already very good.

Thinking of my sister-in-law leading the Grizzlies in the future, you will find that Coleman is not that bad.

Coleman is very confident in the series and defeating Li Ang in the playoffs is what Coleman always wants.

The last Magic VS Cute Dragon may be the most supportive time in Coleman in his life.

Because only when the Cute Dragon team wins, the Hornets have the chance to meet Cute Dragon in the playoffs.

It is not the first time that Coleman has had a conflict with others over the years, nor is it the first time that he has made enemies.

But what a fool

Where is there such a person who directly deforms a person's brain?

Too much!

Coleman was thinking about how to do Li Ang's shot.

His self-confidence is not groundless, although the Raptors rank third in the East this season and the Hornets are only sixth.

But the Hornets only won two games less than the Raptors in the regular season!

This is the case in the East this year, from third to sixth, there is only a gap of two wins.

It is normal for anyone to win.

Last time, Li Ang gave him an elbow technique that fell from the sky. This time, he would give Li Ang a bottom-up killing move!

The interval between the NBA regular season and the playoffs is very short, and in just two days, a brand new battle is about to break out.

Before the game started today, the hottest news in the media was Leon, Francis or Brand who could become the best rookies.

After all, the Best Rookie is the first regular season award to be announced, so it is also the most popular one at the moment.

Frances' performance this season is similar to that of his original history, averaging 18 points, 5.5 rebounds, 7.1 assists and 1.5 steals per game, which is worthy of his second-place status.

Compared with the original history, because of the more teammates, the number of assists is slightly more.

However, compared with the original history, the data of Brand has declined slightly.

He averaged only 17.1 points, 8.3 rebounds and 1.6 blocks per game.

In the original history, in order to train Brand, the team even did not hesitate to trade Kukochi, freeing up all the inside for him to work hard.

But in the Grizzlies, Brand did not have such treatment. Both young men, Bibi and Rahim, also want the ball.

Moreover, Rahim is also an insider.

Brand's data inevitably declined.

From this perspective, Li Ang’s 13.6 points, 14.3 rebounds, 1.4 assists, 0.8 steals and 1.8 blocks are not completely without the chance to compete for the best rookie!

Although our old Li scored a little less, he had more rebounds.

The titles of modern basketball's first rookie rebounding champion and the youngest rebounding champion in history will also give Li Ang a lot of points.

Moreover, Li Ang is the only one among the three who has entered the playoffs with the team!

At the beginning, Li Ang actually just wanted to complete the dungeon mission and enter the Best Rookie lineup.

Unexpectedly, I can still compete for the best rookie now.

That's so arrogant

Of course, some media outlets who do not think that Li Ang can win the best rookie are also ridiculed by Li Ang’s lack of offensive ability and are not considered a new generation of stars.

Although these media reports will not let Li Ang fall out of the top three best rookies, it can disgust you.

Li Ang looked at these reports that he kept saying that he couldn't score well, which was quite disgusting.

In the playoffs, you must keep the score straight!

Carter and Maizi are both excited, one leads the team to play the playoffs for the first time as a core, and the other hopes to make a fortune in the playoffs.
To be continued...