But the Bobcats being eliminated in the second round after losing 2-4 to the Pacers was surprising.
However, fans who watched the gas didn’t think so.
The Bobcats lost the first match 98 to 104 to the Pacers, imdiately losing ho-court advantage.
In this match, Randolph scored 28 points, grabbed 17 rebounds, and made 3 assists and 2 steals with 66.7% shooting, completely dominating the Bobcats’ inside players.
Granger scored 24 points, grabbed 9 rebounds, and made 3 assists; DeRozan steadily scored 18 points and made 5 assists; Ford dished out 11 assists in this ga...
As for the Bobcats, once the intensity of the ga increased, they seed intensely fatigued altogether.
In the subsequent gas G2 and G3, the Bobcats won both and regained the ho-court advantage, but in G2, Zhang Yang scored 40 points by making 13 of 27 shots, 3 of 9 three-pointers, and 11 of 12 free throws; in G3, Zhang Yang scored 38 points by making 13 of 28 shots, 5 of 12 three-pointers, and 7 of 7 free throws.
When Zhang Yang couldn’t continue to explode, the Bobcats lost three consecutive gas.
Randolph averaged 25.3 points, 14.8 rebounds, 2.5 assists, and 1.5 steals; Granger averaged 23 points, 8 rebounds; DeRozan averaged 17 points, 3 rebounds, and 5 assists, jointly leading their team to end the Bobcats’ two-year championship streak with a 4-2 win!
When the Bobcats were down 2 to 3, most people still expected them to make a coback.
After being eliminated, many dia provided excuses for them, claiming that over the past two years they played too many gas; so main players should have rested during the regular season, but because they couldn’t introduce several new substitutes like last season, the 10 main players in the rotation almost played nonstop unless injured, striving for victory in every ga, because they were crucial in the tactical system, yet there was no capable substitute.
So dia retrospectively pointed out that the Bobcats showed signs of decline in the first round, losing the ga when the Bucks went berserk.
This is the first ti that the Bobcats have had such a dia treatnt after being eliminated in the playoffs...
Both the first place teams in the East and West were eliminated early, but the second place teams won.
The Chicago Bulls defeated the Celtics in 5 gas and easily advanced to the East Finals.
The Spurs defeated the Lakers in 6 gas with a 4-1 big score to et the Mavericks in the West Finals.
The dia inexplicably excused the Bobcats, but so reasons were indeed correct; the overall fatigue from long-term battles was indeed the main reason, with core players Okafor and Felton performing far below expectations compared to the regular season, which dragged Zhang Yang down, forcing Millsap, Ibaka, and Collison to carry the team forward, which was too much for the three of them.
The Lakers experienced a similar situation, being the team that played the most gas league-wide for three consecutive years; even though Zen Master repeatedly reduced the playing ti of core players, Kobe played only 33 minutes in the regular season, scoring 25.5 points, 4.6 rebounds, and 4.4 assists, falling out of the All-Defensive First Team for the first ti in six years. Garnett also reduced the difficulty of his offensive plays, mainly leaving the orchestration to Gasol, focusing on simple plays, concentrating on connecting defense. Kidd almost retired during the regular season...
The Lakers didn’t pursue the continuity of regular season play like the Bobcats did; being related to the sowhat abstract nature of the Triangle Offense, unlike Carlisle’s high demand on the system; of course, each has its own rits; Carlisle does not demand as much from players other than the top star, whereas Zen Master does not have as many requirents for the abilities of role players outside the main core.
Even though Zen Master did his utmost to ensure the three veteran players played conservatively, the Lakers still showed fatigue in the playoffs; they almost overturned in the first round and ultimately couldn’t overco the second round, falling to the Spurs.
First team: Rose, Kobe, Zhang Yang, Jas, Howard;
Second team: Wade, Parker, Durant, Nowitzki, Gasol;
Third team: Ginobili, Mayo, Bosh, Randolph, Yao Ming.
No player from the first team made it to the West Finals.
All-Defensive First Team: Rondo, Tony Allen, Zhang Yang, Jas, Howard;
All-Defensive Second Team: Hinrich, Kobe, Garnett, Okafor, Chandler;
The Defensive Teams faced an even worse situation; only Hinrich made it to the Conference Finals.
The Mavericks and Spurs et in the West Finals, the Bulls and Pacers et in the East Finals.
The circumstances of the East and West Finals once again surprised people.
Initially, it was thought that the battle between the Bulls and Spurs would be intensely fierce, and the Bulls would easily hamr the Pacers, but in reality, the situation was reversed.
The Mavericks concluded the fight in 5 gas, with Nowitzki averaging 32.8 points, even surpassing his performance in the second round as if in a god-like state.
The only ga the Spurs won was when Duncan scored 34 points and Ginobili scored 26 points; the two veterans went berserk and won the ga; in the other four gas, the Mavericks had an average winning margin of 11 points, with every ga having a significant point difference.
In the East Finals, the Bulls and Pacers pushed to a ga-seven showdown, and it was only in the last ga that the Bulls, playing at ho, defeated the Pacers 91 to 80, advancing to the Finals with a thrilling 4-3 victory.
Wade fought hard in this series, averaging 30.3 points, 5.7 rebounds, and 4.3 assists; Yao Ming also exploded with an average of 22.7 points and 10.3 rebounds; except for the two of them, no other Bull players averaged double figures in points, while Hinrich averaged 9.3 points and 5 assists with 38% shooting, but Hinrich really did well on defense, giving DeRozan a hard ti, and perford well in crucial monts.
Wade was disadvantaged when defending against Granger in terms of size, and Granger averaged 25 points.
Nobody expected that the Pacers, having only signed Randolph, would fly so high; if in Ga 1, with the score tied at 88 to 88, Wade’s pass to Hinrich for a corner three wasn’t made by Hinrich, the Pacers could have gone straight to the Finals!
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