The Godfather of Basketball

After the matchup list was released, the media's matchup results and championship predictions were also released.

TNT also conducted a wave of strength analysis on the strength of each team. The Cavaliers, Thunder, Warriors, and Spurs are the top four favored teams.

"Their run-in is getting better and better. No one in the East can shake their status, and LeBron's playoff experience will give this team an advantage in the finals. There is no doubt that LeBron Will win the first championship after leaving Tang Tian." Barkley is infinitely optimistic about the Cavaliers.

"The Thunder's messes really hurt them. They should have fought back this season and won the championship with a luxurious record, but fortunately they have talent. Dude, talent is really a good thing. Even so, they still With 60 wins, they still have a high probability of winning the championship." O'Neal is still a talent-only theory.

"I think the Warriors will slap our guys in the face again. They won 67 wins, which is a remarkable record. They will overwhelm all opponents with a flood of offense." Kenny Smith is optimistic about the Warriors.

"Hey, what you said is wrong. The jump shooting team will definitely not win the championship. Their probability of winning the championship is not even as good as the Spurs and Clippers." Barkley still had the same attitude and sneered at the Warriors.

Several people inevitably had another round of arguments.

In addition to these four teams, the Clippers and Pacers are also considered to have a chance, but the chances are not great.

After discussing the hotness of winning the championship, the Nets will naturally become the next focus of their discussion.

"To be honest, I still don't understand why Don chose to coach the Nets. He became the owner of the Nets, but the Nets are in a bad state. They need to deal with big contracts and then spend a few years to rebuild. , but Tang chose to come out at this time, I really don't understand." Kenny Smith was Tang Tian's former "fan", and because of this, he has always had a grudge about Tang Tian coaching the Nets.

"Hey, man, he has no choice. He is the owner of the Nets. According to the rules, he can only choose to coach the Nets." Barkley repeated Smith's question again, of course he also knew that Smith was more It's just complaining.

"I know, I know! I just don't understand why at this point in time, he can wait until next summer, or another year? Two years? His draft vision is good, he can even wait a few years before coming out, and now It's really not sensible at all." Smith still couldn't help complaining.

"Doesn't he always like to do this? When no one thinks he can do it, he always likes to try?" Barkley was full of jokes when he said this. He obviously saw that Tang Tian was about to fail. It was schadenfreude.

"This time he's really going to fail. He said before the season that he wanted the Nets to appear in the top half of the playoffs, but now, they are ranked eighth, and they will face the Eagles in the first round. Team." O'Neill took over.

"Yes, eighth, how many times are there black eights in history?" Barkley said with a smile.

"It has been 68 years since the NBA was founded, and the total number of black eight appearances is... 5 times, that is to say, his probability is... Kenny, you are good at math, how much is this?"

"7.35%." Smith was still calculating, and O'Neill had already calculated the result with his mobile phone.

"Well, although I think the team style of the Eagles needs to be proven in the playoffs, they are a 60-win team after all, and the Nets...they traded away the only reliable player on the team. Scored points (Lopez), won some victories with the enthusiasm of a group of recruits, and I still expect Don to bring us some surprises.” Smith finally chose Congxin.

"You'll see, one or two wins, we'll see." Barkley said with a laugh.

7.35%, less than 10% promotion probability, this is the current situation facing the Nets.

The Big Three of TNT know it, the media knows it, the fans know it, and they also know it, including the players of the Nets.

The eighth vs. the first, the ranking alone already knows the disparity in strength.

In fact, TNT is not bad. FOX Sports was not optimistic about the Nets before, and now it is doing its best to ridicule them, and they are almost dismissed as the worst team in the playoffs.

But Tang Tian wasn't negative at all.

In fact, he thinks this matchup is fine for the Nets.

If the Cavaliers are number one now, then he might be talking about playing with characteristics and style, but the Eagles, a team without superstars in a strict sense, have never been a strong team in the playoffs. It was disbanded by James.

Facing such an opponent, the probability of the Nets advancing is not small.

There are only two days before the start of the playoffs, and the Nets have only one day of serious training.

After training for the day, he pulled the players together.

"The eighth is the first. To be honest, I have been coaching for so many years, and I have won the first place in the regular season many times, but this is really the first time I have been eighth. This experience must be very good." Tang Tian looked very relaxed.

"Do you know that the eighth and the first have one thing in common, what is it?"

The team members looked at each other, apparently not knowing what the similarities were.

"They are all playoff teams?" Bogdan said at this moment with a more straightforward character.

His cold humor caused a burst of laughter from his teammates, and McGrady couldn't help but pat the rookie on the head.

Tang Tian also smiled, and continued, "They have the same probability of advancing."

The team members were taken aback, this joke was colder than Bogdan's before...

But what Tang Tian said next made them realize that this was not a simple joke.

"The advanced teams will face the challenges of the four or five teams, which is much easier than the second and third teams."

This is a fallacy, but it is true. The first team in the upper half is the strongest, but the fourth team is definitely weaker than the second and third teams. As long as they pass the first, the opponents in that round will be Will be the weakest one.

The current situation in the East is also the same. Whether it is the fourth Raptors or the fifth Wizards, the strength is obviously one level behind the Cavaliers and Pacers.

"The Eagles look strong, but they were eighth last year like us, did they really get a lot stronger from eighth to first? No, their roster is almost exactly the same as last season, the difference is The new tactical system that Budenholzer implanted in them, team basketball."

The players nodded repeatedly. The Eagles' lineup has left a scorer, Lou Williams, and a rookie, Dennis Schroeder. It is really weaker than last season.

They can achieve such a record, really thanks to Budenholzer, the coach of the Spurs, who showed the world the magical changes that basketball tactics can bring to a team.

"And this kind of tactic, I have played it badly about six or seven years ago." Tang Tian said lightly.