Top of the league! Compared with the Lakers and Nets, the Sun without supergiants is seriously underestimated

Last offseason, the Nets retained the "Duooha" super big three combination in an attempt to hit the championship trophy again with the advantage of the big three. Under the premise of retaining the Big Three lineup, the Nets have become the favorite for the championship again. After all, the reason why they were eliminated in the second round of the playoffs last season was mainly because Harden and Irving were injured and invaded.

The Lakers, who collapsed in the first round of the playoffs last year, introduced Wei Shao, who averaged every game in the season, and successfully formed the "Zhan WeiMei" super big three. With the blessing of the "Zhan Weimei" big three, the Lakers have also become one of the favorite teams in the eyes of the outside world...

Even if the Lakers and Nets have "overturned", there are still many people who firmly believe that they can win the championship

After the start of the new season, Westbrook did not develop the ability to have no ball as desired, and did not make much progress in medium- and long-range projection. The large package of ball style and the lack of long-range shooting ability of Wei Shao made James and Thick Brow have to make "sacrifices" for this; directly leading to the "Zhan Wei Mei" three giants have never been able to produce chemical reactions, nor can they play a dominant force.

Coupled with the "serious aging of the lineup", the overall defensive intensity of the team is insufficient, and finally the Lakers have been "pulling the crotch" since the beginning of the season. To this day, the Lakers still have not solved the problem, only achieved a record of 29 wins and 39 losses to the ninth place in the West...

And last season, the Nets Big Three, although they have proved that they can coexist, can also play most of their strengths. But after the start of the new season, Irving's "part-time", Harden's decline, and Durant's injury have also made this Nets once fall out of the top eight in the East, and it has been difficult to play a championship-level dominance.

Even now the Nets' "Duoha" big three have disintegrated, and the Lakers' "Zhan Weimei" big three are incompatible, and their respective records have slipped to the eighth and ninth places in the division, and they can almost only get playoff spots through playoffs. But there are still many fans who firmly believe that no matter how many Lakers and Nets are in the division now, they still have a lot of possibilities to win this year.

The record is at the top of the league list, but the Suns are not optimistic about winning the championship?

At the beginning of the new season, the Suns lost to the Nuggets, Blazers, and Kings, and only got a bad record of 1 win and 3 losses. But under the leadership of Paul and Booker, the Suns quickly regained the fiery state of last year's rush to the Finals, rushing to the top two of the West with a wave of 18 consecutive wins.

Even when the Warriors' overall state fluctuated in January, the Suns' performance was still stable, and they opened up a certain record gap with the Warriors, easily stabilizing the top position in the league's record list...

If the Bucks' second-place record of 43 wins and 26 losses in the East in the new season is rarely mentioned, it has been underestimated by the outside world. Then the sun, which won 54 wins and 14 losses in the new season and successfully stabilized the league's first record, was seriously underestimated by the outside world.

No matter how stable the overall record of the Suns is today and how well the players perform, the outside world is still generally not optimistic that the Suns can win the championship, and it is rare to see the Hot Spots related to the Suns and the championship.

After all, the Nets and Lakers, the two teams, have durant, Irving, James, thick eyebrows and other superstars, and even the core of the super giant level; in contrast, the core lineup of the Suns " Booker + Paul + Ellington" is much more "shabby".

Compared with the Lakers and Nets, the Sun without supergiants is seriously underestimated

1. The two attacks in the finals "pull the crotch", Booker is seriously underestimated. After winning G1 and G2 in the finals last year, Booker's G3 offensive end ushered in a "disastrous" performance, only 14 shots in a single game, only 10 points, 6 boards and 2 assists, and a 21.4% shooting percentage. And in G6 Booker also only shot 8 of 22, 19 points, 3 boards and 5 assists in a single game, and 36.4% shooting.

That is to say, last year's finals Booker did not play a super star performance in G3 and G6; this also led to many people's impression of him still staying on the "regular season brush 70 points" and "the finals two offensive crotch pulls".

Turning a blind eye to Booker's superstar performance of averaging 25.6 points, 5.1 boards, 4.9 assists and 45.3% shooting percentage in the new season, and the "superstar performance" of 40 points + 51.5%, 42 points + 60.7% in the finals last year, it is always believed that his overall strength is still not up to the superstar.

2, age + average of 14.9 points per game, Paul's offensive ability is underestimated. In the new season, the personal positioning and team system have not changed much, Paul's average score per game has slipped to a new career low - averaging only 14.9 points + 48.7% shooting per game.

This has to make people question Paul's actual state, whether he has begun to decline; after all, paul is now 36 years old, and he is no longer as energetic as he was when he was young.

But in fact, Paul, who is not mainly scoring, averaged only 16.4 points + 49.9% shooting rate in the regular season last season; but after entering the playoffs, he can forcibly improve to 19.2 points + 49.7% shooting percentage. Even when Paul was required to take on more scoring tasks in the Finals last year, he was still able to blast down his personal performance of 21.8 points, 8.1 assists + 52.7% shooting.

3, without Paul can still be 6 wins and 2 losses, the overall strength of the Suns is seriously underestimated. After Paul was injured during the All-Star Game, many felt the Warriors' chance to return to the league first place. But who would have thought that after the All-Star Game, the Warriors not only failed to regain the first position in the league, but also fell to the third position in the West.

The Suns, which have recently lacked Paul and Booker (who missed 4 games due to health and safety agreements), have not entered a state of continuous rout. On the contrary, in the past eight games, it has still been able to deliver a 6-2 record, further helping the team consolidate the first position in the league in paul's absence.

The Suns have lost two games in the past eight games, one of which is to the Bucks (without Paul and Booker, but met middleton and Holliday), the other is lost to the Raptors, and the other is against the sky Trent (42 points). In the absence of the current players, the Suns can still maintain such combat strength, which has a lot to do with their overall rotation and defensive efficiency.

In summary, today's young + no substantial honor blessing, coupled with the former "crotch" offensive performance, it is always difficult to believe that Booker's overall strength has reached the superstar level; and Paul's 36 years old + average of 14.9 points per game has always made people question his difficulty in playing an efficient offensive performance in the playoffs.

Coupled with the Suns' unknown rotation lineup, even if they played the offensive efficiency of the third in the league in 114.0 and the defensive efficiency of the second in the league in 105.9, it is difficult to get recognition from the outside world. However, in my personal opinion, although the Suns are seriously underestimated because they do not have superstars, as long as no super teams appear, the Suns have a great chance to rush to the finals again this year, and even achieve the goal of winning the championship...