The favorite to compete for the championship + the highest 82% advancement, why are the Clippers eliminated in the first round? Cajordan tried his best to save the two

The favorite to compete for the championship + the highest 82% probability of advancing. Why are the Clippers almost unanimously optimised by the US media eliminated the first round? Ca Jordan tried his best to save Tyron Lou + Harden's general.

The game was out in a tiebreaker and lost 3-4 after G6 won a game back, the Clippers went to Denver with a tiebreaker and failed to continue their magic. They lost 101-120 in a life-and-death battle and were eliminated 3-4.

Unlike the fierce battle predicted before the game, this tiebreaker life and death battle was almost one-sided shortly after the start, and the Clippers had no fighting spirit.

If the referee forcibly control the field in the second half and the decisive moment, the Clippers would have to swallow at least a 30-point defeat.

Being favored by one side before the game

is different from the tiebreaker defeat, the Clippers are the more favored side before the series begins.

The reasons come from two aspects. On the one hand, the Nuggets fired the general manager and coach Malone for ten years at the end of the regular season, and the internal chaos fell into great chaos.

On the other hand, the Clippers are strong enough, especially after Xiaoka fully recovered from his health in the second half of the regular season, the Clippers locked in the top six positions with a winning rate of nearly 80%.

Therefore, in the big data prediction of the championship before the US media playoffs, the Clippers ranked fourth for a long time, second only to the three teams with a gap-leading record, the Thunder, the Cavaliers and the Celtics.

Judging from the results, the other three teams showed absolute strength in the first round, not sweeping and advancing, but also gentlemen sweeping and advancing strongly, and only the Clippers were eliminated.

Even after the series began, the Clippers were more optimistic. According to statistics from the data media Polymarket Hoops, the Clippers' promotion probability reached 82%.

Xiao Ka was praised for being full of blood and was praised for being "Car Jordan"

Another intuitive reason why the outside world is so optimistic about the Clippers is that Xiao Ka returned in the playoffs with full blood and played an exaggerated personal offensive and defensive performance, and was once praised as "Car Jordan" and "Modern Jordan".

In terms of personal performance alone, Xiao Ka is worthy of such praise. He played in the series for 7 games, averaged 25 points, 7.6 rebounds, 4.7 assists, 1.1 steals, 0.7 blocks and all-around data.

When playing the role of arrow characters on both offense and defense, the small card takes into account both output and quality, with a three-item hit rate of up to 53.7/40.5/77.8%. After losing, Xiao Ka did not blame his teammates too much, but publicly stated that he believed that the gap between the team and the Nuggets was definitely not 30 points, and the team should have put in more effort.

Combined with Xiao Ka's own efforts, he is also qualified to say this.

As the legendary Barkley said after the game: "Only Xiao Ka in the Clippers was persistent, and he was the only one in the game in the first half. No one else really competed, only Xiao Ka was working hard and working hard. So when the Nuggets reached a climax, the Clippers were completely finished."

Where did the Clippers lose?

Helplessly, Xiao Ka's performance is difficult to save Harden, who is invisible in life and death, and Tyron Lu, who is crushed by the Nuggets' "rookie" coach.

Harden scored 2 of 8 shots and scored only 7 points, 5 rebounds and 13 assists, with a shooting percentage of 25%, 0 points in the second half of the 18th playoffs in his career.

Tactics and on-the-spot adjustments were crushed, and Tyron Lux, who made a violent statement after the game, first said that he told the players that this was a difficult defeat and we did not perform at the best level.

When asked whether to think about offseason, Tyron Lu said humorously: "I haven't thought about offseason yet. To be honest, my mind is full of the Thunder."

After the Nuggets eliminated the Clippers, they will face the Thunder in the next round.

In fact, the Clippers did have an absolute advantage in the first four games of the series. Unfortunately, Tyron Lu's use of people and tactical adjustments at critical moments were too rough, especially in the last moment of G4, which caused the team to waste opportunities again and again, and it was not surprising that they were punished by the God of Basketball, because it is difficult for those who disrespect their opponents and the game to win, especially in the playoffs.