Bishop of the Devil

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At the end of the regular season, a bunch of new players on the Pirates were extremely excited. They could clearly feel Richard's ambition for this playoffs.

Richard is aiming to win the championship.

To be precise, they can no longer call them Xinguadanzi.

Milicic has completed the fourth season of his career and is actually considered a "veteran". After all, the average career span of a league player is only about four years.

It's just that he, a veteran, is a bit outrageous for being young.

Except for a few newcomers who just joined the team this year, the other players have all played for more than two years.

The Eastern and Western Conference playoff schedules have been released.

The eight playoff teams in the Western Conference are, in order, the Mavericks, Suns, Spurs, Lakers, Jazz, Nuggets, Clippers and Warriors.

Seeing this list of the Western Conference playoffs, I am afraid that future fans should have expected what will happen in this Western Conference playoffs...

That's right, Black Eight was born.

This year's Mavericks were directly eliminated by the Warriors in the first round with a score of 2:4, which has become a shame that will never be erased in the history of the Mavericks.

When it comes to the Mavericks, in addition to thinking of Nowitzki, I'm afraid the second thing that comes to mind is that they were beaten by the Warriors.

Richard is not sure whether Nelson can still beat the Mavericks this year. After all, the team's lineup is different.

The Mavericks' Warriors team actually has a lot of strong players on the team, but they just don't have a superstar-level star.

Bearded Baron Davis, Al Harrington, Warrior Jackson, Monta Ellis, Jason Richardson, Dunleavy Jr., Pietrus, Matt Barnes, Bidlin Si...

In fact, with this lineup, it is impossible for them to only achieve the eighth record in the Western Conference...

Mavericks deserves to be so unlucky that he encounters such a group of people who are so cruel to him.

Nowadays, Old Nelson certainly does not have so many strong players on hand, at least Big Beard and Monta Ellis are not under his account.

Anyway, Richard feels that it is basically impossible for Nelson to defeat the Mavericks in the first round.

Of course, we don't rule out the possibility that Nelson will make a magic move and really defeat the Mavericks.

Under normal circumstances, the Rockets actually entered the playoffs this season. Although they were eliminated by the Jazz in the first round, they still reached the tiebreaker with the Jazz.

Jazz in the Shuangsha era has withdrawn from the stage of history, and now Sloan has created a jazz triangle.

De Xiaopang, Boozer and Kirilenko...

Under normal circumstances, Okur also belongs to this Jazz team. It is not too surprising that the Rockets lost to the Jazz.

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And now that the Rockets are without the Yao-Mai combination, they didn't even make the playoffs this season. Instead, the Clippers led by Stevens Jr. made it to the playoffs.

This can also be seen from Stevens' ability. It is not easy for such a young head coach to lead the Clippers, a rotten ship with few nails left, to the playoffs.

Competition is fierce in the West.

The competition in the East is not that interesting...

Pirates, Pistons, Cavaliers, Raptors, Heat, Celtics, Nets and Magic.

The Nets had a good record before the All-Star break, but after the All-Star weekend, their record declined, slipping directly from the top half to the bottom half.

The Cavaliers and Raptors teams are undoubtedly a big surprise. They have reached the top half this season, squeezing out the defending champion Heat and the veteran strong team Nets. They performed well.

It can only be said to be good, not too amazing. The main reason is that the number of wins of these two teams is actually similar to that of the following teams...

The Eastern Conference can be said to be a situation where there are two super teams and many weak chickens.

The two supernaturals refer to the Pirates and Pistons, both of whom have achieved impressive records of more than 60 wins this season.

As for the next six playoff teams, it is not an exaggeration to describe them as weak chickens.

Because the Cavaliers with the best record actually only have an embarrassing 49 wins...

You must know that the Cavaliers are third in the Eastern Conference, with only 49 wins. In the Western Conference, they are almost the same as the sixth Nuggets.

As for the Magic, who are ranked eighth in the Eastern Conference, they only have 40 wins, not even a 50% winning rate.

It can be said that except for the Pirates and Pistons, all other teams in the Eastern Conference are weak.

On April 17, the Pirates' first round of the playoffs began.

The opponent is the Orlando Magic, whose winning rate is less than 50%.

The Magic's lineup this season is pretty good, mainly because Grant Hill has maintained good health this season.

Although Hill is no longer as brave as he used to be, he can still score around 15 points.

G1 starts at the Pirates' home court.

In fact, there was no suspense in this game at all. The Pirates won quite easily. That is to say, Warcraft Howard caused some trouble for the Pirates' inside line.

However, Richard adopted a defensive strategy of cutting off Howard's receiving route, and Warcraft's trouble was reduced a lot.

Howard should be considered a player in the category of super center, but as a super center, he needs passes from his teammates more than other super centers. Once the receiving route is strangled, the only thing he can do is to grab rebounds and play a secondary offense.

This is also the reason why Howard rarely has a scoring explosion. He has only averaged more than 20 points per game in four seasons in his entire career, and they were just over 20 points each time. His career-high scoring average in the season was only 22.9 points.

In tonight's game, although Varejao couldn't defend Warcraft alone, Varejao, who has a high level of intelligence, did a good job in cutting off passing routes.

In the end, in the first game, Warcraft scored 18 points, 17 rebounds and 3 blocks.

This is already quite good data, but such data is far from enough to lead the team to win against the strong pirates.

Unless the Magic have a top outside attacker like Kobe Bryant or Tracy McGrady, their fate is already doomed in the first round of this playoffs.

Under Iguodala's DPOY-level defense, Hill struggled in this game. This is the last year of his contract with the Magic...

After this season, Hill's contract with the Magic expires, and he will have to find another home by then.

So he didn't dare to work too hard at the moment. If he got injured again, it would be completely over. Which top team would dare to sign him.

As a result, Iguodala was limited to only 2 of 10 shots in the entire game. In the end, including free throws, he only scored a pitiful five points.

Turkoglu's performance tonight was quite impressive, with 17 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists. If he hadn't performed well, I'm afraid the Magic would have been rubbed on the ground by the Pirates.

After the game, Howard looked disappointed. It was not terrible to lose. What was terrible was that he was beaten like this. The Magic had no hope of winning at all throughout the game.

Richard looked at the expression of Warcraft and became happy.

Speaking of which, Warcraft is actually a player that Richard admires. Of course, the admiration here refers to his strength on the field, rather than his unfair style that caters to both men and women off the field...

Richard is not that heavy on taste yet.

Right now, the Pirates really lack a traditional big man like Warcraft. If they can get Warcraft, Richard is confident that he can maintain consecutive championships in the next few years.

But the Magic will definitely not let him go. Even if Richard comes up with something better, the Magic will definitely not let Howard go.

This team has an inexplicable desire for a center, probably because O'Neal's departure hurt them too much, so in the draft, whenever they have the opportunity, they will definitely choose big players first.

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The next few games were basically similar to the first game. The Magic were completely pinned to the ground and rubbed.

After four games, the Buccaneers got a ticket to advance to the Eastern Conference semifinals directly at the Magic's home court.

Although Magic fans know that the home team is not the opponent of the Pirates, after all, one has 64 wins and the other has only 40 wins. The gap is really too big.

But seeing the home team being beaten like this, they were still extremely disappointed.

The young monster frowned and was in a daze after suffering such a blow.

Although the young men of the Pirates got tickets to the Eastern Conference semifinals, there was not much joy on their faces.

Maybe it's because his vision and ambition are high, and he doesn't attach much importance to the small honor of the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Next, the Buccaneers will face the Toronto Raptors at their home court.

When it comes to the Raptors, Richard thinks of the Timberwolves...

There is not much connection between the two teams, but Toronto once had a team named the Huskies, which happened to have the same nickname as the Timberwolves.

The Toronto Huskies are a team from ancient times. At that time, the NBA was not yet established. This team belonged to the BAA, which was the predecessor of the NBA.

This team is quite legendary, and it can even be said that it is the most bizarre team in the entire NBA history.

The history of the NBA can be traced back to 1946, when the Huskies and ten other teams established the BAA...

The first game of the BAA or NBA was the New York Knicks against the Huskies. As a result, the Huskies lost, and they became the first team in NBA history to lose.

The Huskies are bad, and this team is even better. The team executives came up with a bad idea. If the audience is taller than a 2.03cm player on their team, they can enter for free.

This is completely deceiving people. How can ordinary people be 2.03cm tall? As a result, the fans were quite dissatisfied and refused to enter the stadium to watch the game.

Then……

There's no after that……

The Huskies couldn't continue in the second year and immediately announced their disbandment.

This may be the most embarrassing and short-lived team in the entire NBA history. It only lasted for one season and was immediately eliminated.

From this point of view, the Timberwolves are actually pretty good. Being called the Huskies is a bit insulting to the Timberwolves.

Fifty years later, the NBA has re-established the Raptors team in Toronto, allowing Toronto fans to have their own home team again.