Seven Hundred and Forty-Eight: Keywords: Rollover

After April 16, the regular season is over.

This year's regular season, the Memphis Grizzlies is undoubtedly the only protagonist. With 74 wins in a single season, they are not only the first in the league, but also the first in history!

For the first time ever, the No. 2 Spurs are 12 fewer games than the No. 1 Grizzlies.

When the Bulls won 72 in 1996, they were "only" 8 more games than the second-best SuperSonics in the league.

What is the concept of the gap of 12 wins? That's the difference from the eighth in the West to the second in the West.

Therefore, the Grizzlies are definitely the only protagonist of this year's regular season, they are the only one. In the regular season, no team can match the Grizzlies.

Therefore, as soon as the regular season ended, people also said that the suspense of the MVP this season has also been lost.

Link won 70 wins last season, but still lost to James and failed to become MVP, which has caused a lot of controversy. This year, Link has "intensified" and won 74 wins. It is impossible for people to give the honor of MVP to others.

What's more, Link's personal data is no worse than James's this season. Averaged 29 points, 7.4 rebounds, 7 assists, 1.2 steals and 1.4 blocks per game! 8 triple-doubles in a single season, 11th in history. Two 50-point triple-doubles in a single season, first in history!

Compared with the average of 26.9 points, 6.4 assists and 6.8 rebounds per game last season, there is a significant improvement! It is no exaggeration to say that Link is the most versatile player in this era!

Last season, Link lost to James mainly because of his slightly inferior statistics. In addition, the influence that James has accumulated over the past ten years has influenced the vote to a certain extent.

But this year, when it comes to influence, no one can match Link. In terms of data, James has averaged 27.1 points, 6.9 rebounds and 6.3 assists per game this season, which is completely incomparable to Link. On the record, let alone.

Even compared to Durant, who averaged 32 points, 7.1 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game this season, Link is not inferior.

When it comes to Durant, Link's fans feel pity. The only place Link is not as good as Durant in stats is in scoring. However, Link's 29 points per game this season is not a low score. This data has been put in the past 3 years, and it is a proper scorer! When Durant won the scoring title for the second time, he averaged "only" 27.7 points per game.

It's a pity that this year Link ran into Durant, who averaged 32 points per game, and could only regret passing by the scoring champion.

But in addition to scoring, Link's regular season this season is quite satisfactory. He's definitely an MVP, and even Durant and James fans don't hold out hope for that. This year's MVP is definitely Link's, James and Durant are not next to each other.

The only suspense now is whether Link can become the first unanimous MVP in NBA history!

Even in Jordan's most dominant years, he didn't do anything like being unanimously MVP. O'Neal was the closest to a unanimous year, when he was just one vote away from becoming the first unanimous MVP in NBA history. But that vote was voted for Allen Iverson by a reporter.

To this day, O'Neal still hasn't forgiven the reporter. After all, one of his small moves made O'Neal miss a great achievement in his career.

Therefore, it is not an easy thing to get the unanimous MVP. not to mention,

Still with Link having so many multimedia enemies.

However, to almost lock the MVP title as soon as the regular season ends, Link is already tough enough.

In the past few days, there have been endless discussions about Link. People are speculating about how many personal honors Link will get this year. Of course, some people are also discussing whether the Grizzlies will become the "74-win runner-up."

In previous seasons, before the playoffs began, the topic of conversation often involved different stars.

But this year, Link seems to have become the only protagonist before the playoffs, as if the other stars are foils.

On the training ground at FedEx Arena, however, things weren't so lively.

When the outside world was heatedly discussing, every Grizzlies player was training for the Dallas Mavericks' play style, as if others were discussing a team that had nothing to do with them.

No one dares to slack off, no one dares to slack off. Because once someone is lazy, Link will send him a heads-up invitation.

Whether it's one-on-one with Link or training hard, almost all Grizzlies players choose the latter.

One of the most notable changes in Link's playoffs this year is that he is really strict!

"Della, you missed someone again! In the game in a few days, whether you missed Calderon, Ellis or Devin Harris, they will make you pay!"

"Jimmy, what are you doing? Do you want to be played by old Carter again?"

"Tobias, be tough, don't be afraid! Do you think Dirk Nowitzki will humble you in the playoffs because you're just a rookie!?"

Link's roar always sounded in the training hall, and Dave Jogel was now a "hands-off shopkeeper". Because even if he leaves it alone, Link will urge the players to train.

But it's strange, why is Link so nervous just facing a Western Conference No. 8?

The Grizzlies have had little trouble in the first round for the past two years. Judging from the state of the Mavericks a few days ago, they are not very strong. Because of a grizzly bear who did not try his best, the Mavericks were driven to the edge of the cliff.

Maybe Link didn't want to see an accident happen.

No one knows why Link is so nervous. He can't always say to others, "I have seen the future."

But Link knew very well that if he didn't want to waste too much time in the first round, he had to do his best in advance!

The Grizzlies won 74 games in the regular season, which is really impressive. But the playoffs and the regular season are two completely different concepts. Link believes what Nowitzki said to himself a few days ago. He believes that the Mavericks can really burst out with greater strength in the playoffs.

Playing the Mavericks in the first round is not without benefits. If the first round encounters a worthy opponent, then the Grizzlies will only fight more and more bravely, and will only enter the state faster than others.

Back then, the Spurs were almost invincible after the first round. It can be said that the Mavericks pushed the Spurs to the limit.

Link also hopes that the Mavericks can push the limits of the Grizzlies, but the tiebreaker? That's still free!

Before the start of the playoffs last year, Link also invited everyone to his house to barbecue, fish and play cards. But this year, the Grizzlies players spent almost all of their time in the practice gym between the regular season and the playoffs.

The playoffs are officially on. But because the Grizzlies are No. 1 in the West, on the first game day of the playoffs, the Grizzlies didn't play.

Today, the NBA has arranged a total of 4 playoff opening games. The process of these 4 games is not the same, but one thing is very similar. The teams with higher rankings have overturned!

In the first game, the Raptors, the third in the East, were beaten by the Nets, the sixth in the East!

In the second game, the sixth-placed Trail Blazers beat the Thunder in overtime! Lillard's shot to tie the game in the last 1.2 seconds of regular time is regarded as a classic!

In the third game, the Eagles, the eighth in the East, actually killed the high-profile Pacers by 8 points! Paul George shot only 33 percent from the field, and he and his team were clearly still playing at the rhythm of the regular season.

In the fourth game, the Golden State Warriors, seventh in the West, used 43% of their three-pointers to defeat the old-fashioned Spurs!

When the results of the first round came out, the whole world was shocked! On the first game day of the playoffs, people realized the uncertainty of the playoffs.

It is no accident that the four higher-ranked teams all overturned!

Looking at the speechless result on the first day of the playoffs, Link was not worried.

He is very fortunate that he and the team are fully prepared for the playoffs. He had long expected that the playoffs would be like this, so he took the lead in taking precautions!

He knew that the regular season record could not determine the playoffs, so he took the Mavericks very seriously from beginning to end. Link believes that the Grizzlies will never fall off the chain in the playoffs.

Now, the Dallas natives are definitely getting confident, and they definitely feel like they can make the higher-ranked Grizzlies pay for it, too. If the other four teams can do it, so can they!

But Link killed that possibility long before the game even started. What Link hates most is being beaten by the weak.