Thoughts after watching the playoffs: Times have really changed, basketball returns to tradition! Who will be eliminated first?

What is your most real view when the playoffs reaches this stage? Compared with the traditional basketball concept, the only three remaining teams in the playoffs have brought us different basketball concepts. On the surface, it is still the era of small balls, but please feel free to carefully consider the teams that can truly reach the present have different configurations for the matching of the stars and role players, and the Pacers and the Thunder are actually the most telling.

Our traditional understanding is that the playoffs are the stage for superstars, and the experience of the playoffs and the quality of the stars. If you are competing for the stars, I believe that James, Curry, Harden and others will definitely be able to reach the end. Unfortunately, the playoffs are now competing for more people. See who has more reasonable shooting space and whose lineup configuration is more reasonable. Although superstars are important, there is a gap between the 7-8-man rotation lineup and the 10-man rotation lineup. Although I don’t want to admit it, this is a fact.

Knicks won the G3 game. No one thinks how good Brunson played. Perhaps someone would praise Towns' super performance of 20 points in the last quarter, but there is a prerequisite behind all this, that is, Thibodeau used 9-man rotation, which largely retained the physical strength of the main players, allowing them to get full physical fitness in the last quarter. In the subsequent competition, Thibodeau also strengthened personnel rotation, which was truly a flowering iron tree. The rationality of the

lineup is particularly important: The Lakers and Warriors are the negative examples. Without an adaptable inside line, the star occupies most of the salary space, the role players are not enough, and over-reliance on the core players' ball-holding and playing style will never be returned.

Rotation depth of lineup: Nuggets and Celtics are negative examples, especially the Nuggets. The main players occupy all the salary space and the bench depth is insufficient. The playoffs are a long process. In addition, under the fierce competitive conditions, the main players will eventually be exhausted. This is the game that leads to the loss due to the irrationality of the rotation depth.

So what kind of team can go longer? Let’s first give a simple example. Pacers vs. Knicks. In the G2 game, Towns performed poorly. G2 was directly pressed on the bench in the final quarter. In the G3 game, Brunson performed poorly and was directly pressed on the bench. There are many such examples. The purpose of modern basketball is very clear. Just shoot in. No one can be pressed on the bench, even the core of the team cannot do it.

play style creates another kind of alien, that is, a way of holding a ball like Doncic or Harden, all the balls need a core hand, and being able to persist in playing for 82 games is a miracle. After the intensity of the playoffs is strengthened, if you are lucky, you will have more than a dozen games. If you play like this, you will have to lose your skin even if you don’t die.

Look at the current team, the main focus is youth, able to jump, jump, have good physical strength, and have good physical fitness. This is the mainstream of basketball at the moment. Who can imagine that the playoff lineup with 7-8-man rotation has developed to the standard of 10-man rotation. In the final analysis, basketball is ultimately a team sports. The era of fighting alone has passed. If you really want to continue to play in the whirlpool of the times, change is the only choice.