Chapter 300: In the first round, swept the Green Army

The 2012-13 season can be regarded as the most exciting season in recent years. The Wizards' 70 wins and the Heat's 27 wins have made this season exciting.
But at the same time, this season is also a season where personal data is not outstanding.
In the scoring list, Cameron Anthony was selected as the season's scoring leader with 28.5 points. The top five points in the scoring list are not high. From second to fifth, Kevin Durant's 28 points and Kobe. Bryant's 27.3 points, LeBron James's 26.8 points, James Harden's 26.1 points.
The Wizards' leading core, Curry, the scoring champion for two consecutive times, averaged 24.8 points per game, ranking sixth in the scoring list.
Not only scores, but other data as well.
Dwight Howard won the laurels championship with only 12.4 rebounds per game. Last season, he needed 14.5 rebounds.
In terms of assists, Jeremy Lin, who averaged 10.8 assists per game, was the only player on the assist list to average double assists per game.
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The league’s best lineup, best defensive lineup, and other awards such as regular-season mvp also need to be selected by voting. They are generally announced after the second round of the playoffs, so people are now the largest. The focus is on the first round of the playoffs.
The Celtics, like the Heat, are old opponents of the Wizards. Since Wang Xiao entered the Wizards, the two sides have met in the playoffs for the fourth consecutive year.
In addition to the first season of the Eastern Conference Wizards lost to the Celtics, the other two seasons ended with the Wizards victory.
The Wizards players grow faster and faster over time, and their strength is getting stronger and stronger, but the Celtics side is just the opposite.
Until 2013, Garnett was 37 years old and Pierce was 36 years old. Both the physical and competitive status, both of them showed a significant decline, and the team's newly emerging core Rondo was reimbursed in the regular season injury season.
Basically, the two teams met in the first round of the playoffs, and no one thought the Celtics had any chance of winning.
The same is true in fact.
On April 21, the first battle between the two sides began.
The Wizards ushered in the Celtics challenge at home. The Wizards' starting lineups are Curry, Thompson, Leonard, George and Whiteside.
The Celtics start the five tigers are Bradley, Pierce, Jeff Green, Garnett, Bath.
From the perspective of the lineup alone, the two teams are not in a strength class at all, and there is no surprise in the result of the match between the two sides.
The Celtics couldn’t keep up with the Wizards’ pace, Jeff Green had limited offensive ability, and Pierce was completely stared by Leonard. He had no sense of feeling. In the inside duel, the Wizards were rare in rebounding. Has an advantage.
Leaving aside Garnett, who is not much competitive, Bass is a relatively strong insider, but his height limits his rebounding ability. Counting the entire career, Bass has only 4.5 rebounds per game. This is not even as good as Paul George.
As a small forward player, George has 6.4 career rebounds.
In this case, Whiteside is like a rebounding monster in the Celtics, using the advantages of height, bouncing, explosiveness, etc. to constantly compete for offensive rebounds.
The game opened a huge difference in the first quarter.
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The Celtics trailed by 17 points in the first quarter.
Then in the second quarter of the game, the score difference further expanded, once exceeding 25 points.
However, when the score gap fell more than 25 points, Wang Xiao replaced some of the main players.
He did not save face for the Celtics, but just made a decision after considering from all aspects.
It's a very bad character to rush to kill in the case of an absolute advantage. It is like the 12th playoffs. The Bulls were blacked by the 76ers in the first round of the playoffs. It is clear that the Bulls have locked the victory, but insisted that Ross stay on the field. As a result, Rose was injured accidentally, directly destroying the bright future of Fengcheng Rose.
In the 14-15 season, James returned to the Cavaliers. In the first round of the playoffs, the Celtics faced the reconstruction stage. They already had a big score of 3:0 and still chased after the lead. The first quarter of the fourth game He also led the Greens in double-digit scoring, making the Greens dissatisfied. As a result, Ornik retaliated and took a chance to drag Love’s arm out of position, leading to Love’s absence from the follow-up game. James led the team to the total. In the finals, it was difficult to win a lone hand.
This kind of behavior that can't afford to lose the black hand is very disgusting, but it is not uncommon in the league, Wang Xiao had to prevent it in advance.
So although he previously warned the players not to be careless and to go all out in the game, when he got the advantage, he chose to slow down a bit.
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Changing the main force in advance did not change the situation on the court. After all, people like Jimmy Butler, Chandler Parsons, and Isaiah Thomas have also been systematically trained for two full seasons. More often than not, it is not a problem to be the starting player of the nba midstream team.
When the game reached the third quarter, the point difference was almost approaching the 30-point mark, and the Celtics were almost desperate.
So after the start of the fourth quarter, the Celtics side also replaced all the main force, and ranked on the bench.
The entire fourth quarter game has become the stage for the Wizards to work with the Celtics to recruit new recruits. All the Wizards' substitute players got playing time in the fourth quarter, and the Celtics also did. After playing this game in a tacit agreement, the score was also fixed at 106:97, and the Wizards won the Celtics by 9 points at home.
If you only look at the difference in points, it seems that the gap between the two teams is not particularly large. Only those who have watched the entire game understand that the Wizards and the Celtics are no longer at the same level.
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In the second game of the series, the situation is exactly the same as the first game. The difference is that this time the Celtics only lasted for a while. It was not until the third quarter that they could not sustain a complete collapse.
Easily won the second game, the big score of the two teams has come to 2:0.
Then, the Wizards went to Boston to play the third and fourth series with the Celtics away.
In these two away games, there weren't even many Washington fans who rushed to Boston to cheer for the team. The reason is very simple. In their view, there is no suspense.
Even if it occupies a favorable position, it is difficult for the Celtics to defeat the Wizards.
The result is the same.
121:99, 108:85.
In the two away games, the Wizards still won the game without any blood, and the total score of the series was also fixed at 4:0.
The undoubted direction of the game made people realize once again that the era of the Celtics Big Three is over.
(There is a chapter later)