Recently, the US media searched for 15 coaches, scouts and executives to vote on the title of next season's championship. Among them, the team that is most optimistic about rushing out of the East is Bucks . They won 7 votes, and the Western Conference is Clippers . They won 8 votes. In terms of championships, the Clippers have the most, with 5 votes. The Bucks and Celtics are the same, both of which are 4 votes. Unfortunately, the Lakers' name did not appear once in this vote.
There is no doubt that the Lakers' flashy team has been denied. They have two players who have won MVPs, and one of the best inside players in the league in the past. However, because of the lack of chemistry, they have become flashy paper tigers and can be broken with one stab. Having said that, are there any giants like the Lakers in history who have a grand formation but have very limited strength? Let's take a look together.
04 Mavericks
In the 202-03 season, the Mavericks achieved 60 wins and 22 losses in the league, led by Tridents Nowitzki , Nash and Finley and reached the division finals , and finally lost 2-4 to the championship of the year Spurs . Such a loss is acceptable. Kuban saw the hope of the team's championship, so he began to sign crazily in the offseason, intending to make the team's strength higher and strive for the championship.
So he introduced All-Star forward Antoine Jamison in the offseason. In the season before joining the Mavericks, he averaged 22.2 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 steal. In addition, he introduced All-Star forward Antoine Walker . In the season before joining the Mavericks, he averaged 20.1 points, 7.2 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game. In addition, the team has Trident Nash, Finley and Non-Tianwang . has a total of five All-Star players. Such a grand formation is rare in history.
However, the two new strong players are both playing in the 3rd and 4th positions, and they are in conflict with Finlino Kings. Fortunately, Finley can play in the 2nd position, but the 5th position of the No. 5th position, so Jamison can only sacrifice himself to play in the substitute. In this way, a team with a strong lineup, they only achieved 52 wins and 30 losses in the regular season. thought they could not find a chemistry in the regular season, so they could not play a record, but in fact, he had no chemistry at all.
In the first round of playoff , they were easily eliminated by the Kings 4-1 from . The King of Nothing averaged 26.6 points per game, but they couldn't stand it alone. Nash, the other four other stars of the team, averaged 13.3 points per game. In addition to the lack of chemical reactions, the biggest problem of this team is that he lacked a top star. The King of Nothing at that time was more like a pure scorer, without super strength . After losing this season, Cuban broke up his grand formation in anger. The five stars of the team only left Finley and the King of Nothing.
13 Lakers
After introducing Howard, the Lakers did not stop their operations. The team also won two MVP Nash. In the season before joining the Lakers, Howard averaged 20.6 points, 13.8 rebounds, 1.4 assists, 1 steal and 2.4 blocks, . Before joining the Lakers, Howard was already the best defensive player winner in the three-time season, and was considered to be able to exchange for , James alone. At that time, Nash was also a treasure-free sword. In the season before joining the Lakers, averaged 12.5 points, 3 rebounds, 10.7 assists, and was still selected as the All-Star.
plus the Lakers also had three 10-year champions, Kobe, Gasol and Atai , who were also the All-Star players of the past. The team is also a five-star lineup of the . Although they do not have five peak All-Stars like the Mavericks in 2004, they have top superstar partners like Nash, Kobe and Howard, and their lineup looks stronger. did not expect that this highly anticipated thunder team only achieved a record of 47 wins in the regular season, seventh in the division.
In the playoffs, they were swept by the Spurs . The main reason for their swept was that Kobe was injured in the regular season, and they did not have a good chemical reaction in the regular season. Moreover, Howard was unwilling to follow the tactical arrangements, so the team could not perform well on both offense and defense. What's more interesting is that after the end of this season, Howard had thought of renewing his contract, but he asked the team to give up Kobe and correct him as the boss of the team, but he was directly given up by the Lakers. It was a dream! Although
htmlF4 in 004 was not successful, at least they reached the finals and were not considered paper tigers.12 Clippers
In the offseason in 2011, Paul wanted to leave Hornets 2. At that time, the Lakers were the most interested in winning his team, and Paul also hoped to join forces with Kobe. If this transaction was completed, it would be estimated that the Lakers would be able to continue to dominate the league for many years. However, the Hornets at were custodial teams at that time. They did not have the team boss . Their transaction required the consent of the other 29 teams. No one wanted to let the Lakers get Paul, and the result was conceivable. The Lakers failed, but the Clippers seized the opportunity to successfully find a bargain.
After getting Paul, and the team has White Warcraft Griffin, the Clippers wanted to quickly form a lineup that could win the championship, so they began to sign crazily, first introducing the former FMVP Billups. Before joined the Clippers, Billups averaged 17.5 points, 3.1 rebounds, 5.5 assists, . He has always been like this. He is not a player who can show the data. Billups at that time was still at the level of an All-Star.
In addition, the team also won Mo Williams , Mo averaged 15.2 points, 2.5 rebounds, 5.6 assists in one season before joining the Clippers. Although he was selected as an All-Star back then, it is undeniable that Mo was indeed close to the All-Star level at his peak. In addition, the team also introduced Caron Butler, who helped the Mavericks win the championship last season, and Butler had 15 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists per game last season.
Butler was only 30 years old at the time and was still at the peak. He sacrificed his data to win. He also served as the All-Star forward for two times, but the Clippers were too distorted at the time. Their three cores were point guards, which were not as effective as 1+1+1>3. The team only achieved a record of 40 wins in the regular season, with fifth place in the division. In the playoffs, the strong team defeated the Grizzlies through a tiebreak, but was swept out by the Spurs in the second round. In fact, the Clippers were like this during Paul and Griffin's period, and they could never overcome the Spurs.
Flying flow can never beat the floor flow.
14 Nets
Nets were in New Jersey 12 years ago. At that time, the team had three extremely powerful players, Joe Johnson, Lopez and Deron Williams. However, after moving to Brooklyn , the team's new boss was still not satisfied. They were preparing to form a super grand formation to win the championship, so the team took a fancy to the two top Celtics stars Pierce and Garnett . Although the Truth and the Wolf King at that time were both at the end of their careers, they were in good shape before joining the Nets.
Garnett averaged 15 points, 8 rebounds, 2.3 assists, 1.1 steals and 1 blocked data in the 12-13 season. Garnett was also successfully selected as the All-Star this year. Pierce averaged 18.6 points, 6.3 rebounds, 4.8 assists, 1.1 steals and were averaging 18.6 points, 6.3 rebounds, 4.8 assists, 1.1 steals and were the two of them, so they made a big deal of 9 for 5. Let's not talk about the players sent by the Nets here. They also gave away 4 first-round picks, of which Tatum and Brown came about.
The Nets formed the Big Five in this way, but after Garnett and Pierce came to the Nets, no one expected their state to decline sharply. In fact, this is understandable. After all, the two are old and may suddenly lose their previous dominance in a certain offseason, and the Nets were cheated. To be precise, they were made by Garnett, Pierce and Angie. At that time, they colluded to trick the Nets. To be honest, Garnett and Pierce did not want to help the Nets win when they went there.
They achieved the sixth record in the Eastern Conference in the regular season. After defeating Raptors through a tiebreak in the first round of the playoffs, the team was swept by the Heat gentlemen in the second round. Joe Johnson tasted the taste of being isolated and helpless in the series against the Heat. averaged 20 points per game, while Pierce, who scored second in the team, only 14 points. These five giants are also flirting. After this season, the Nets broke up their grand formation and sent Pierce away.
15 Hawks
In the 13-14 season, because the Hawks did not achieve decent results for many years, they replaced the team coach, Larry Drew resigned, Budenholzer took office, after taking office, Budenholzer led the Hawks to the eighth position in the first season, and then next season he led the Hawks to the first record in the division, winning 60 wins and 22 losses in , looking at the whole league, it was a little worse than the Golden State Warriors.
At that time, there were actually not many stars in this Hawks, but Budenholzer would train him. He trained the Korver , which had been frustrated before, into All-Star . The , who played calmly and liked to stick to the ball, was no longer criticized. He was also successfully selected as the All-Star. In addition, , Al Horford and Paul Millsap, who were originally an All-Star player, , a total of 4 Hawks were selected as All-Star in 2015, and there were also , Schroder , a scorer like him, and he looked very luxurious.
In the playoffs, they defeated two weak teams, the Nets and the Wizards , and then faced James who returned to Cavaliers from the Heat. At that time, James had only one injured Irving . In this round of series, Irving averaged 13 points per game. As a result, facing a super giant like James, they were eventually swept out. James averaged 30 points, 11 rebounds and 9 assists. The man beat their so-called 4 All-Star . After that, the Hawks maintained their quad-core lineup for several years, but they all returned in vain. In desperation, they also broke up their lineup.
Budenholzer showed good coaching ability. After leaving the Hawks, he succeeded in the Bucks. Now, among the coaches of the next generation, Cole is the only one. Budenholzer can rank in the second level, at least much better than coaches at Nash and Billups.
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