On December 10, Beijing time, with the Lakers' 123-109 victory over the Pacers to win the championship, the question of whether the Lakers' midseason championship is high or not also caused heated discussions among netizens after the game. Some people think that the Lakers' midseason championship has little gold content, and some people think that the gold content of the midseason game is very high.
There are two bases for saying that the Lakers' midseason championship is not high: one is that the Lakers' opponents in the group stage are all weak teams, and teams such as the Grizzlies and Suns are not neat in the group stage, and the Trail Blazers and Jazz are proper bad teams this season.
The second is that the Lakers' opponents in the midseason knockout rounds are not ranked high in the regular season, in fact, the Lakers have not met the top four teams in the current East and West records in the group stage and elimination, and they have not played against real strong teams in the midseason. Today's Pacers also currently have the fifth regular season record in the East. The top four in the East are: Celtics, Magic, Bucks, 76ers;The top four in the West are: Timberwolves, Thunder, Mavericks, and Nuggets.
And those who think that the Lakers' midseason has high gold content also have their own reasons: first, the knockout game of the midseason is a single-game elimination system, which is more accidental and requires the team's attention to be more focused.
Second, although the Lakers have not met the top four teams in the East and West, the opponents they defeated in the finals, the Pacers, eliminated the Celtics, who ranked first in the East, and the Bucks, who ranked third in the East, in the knockout round.
Third, the Lakers' midseason championship is the first midseason championship in NBA history, which can be regarded as creating NBA history, and the gold content cannot be low.
Personally, I think that this mid-season competition is similar to the midterm exam when I was a student, and the champion is equivalent to the first place in the midterm exam. Whether the gold content is high or not may depend on how much you value this event.
Of course, the gold content of the mid-season lies more in the process, which allows a team to experience the intensity of the playoffs in advance, which is conducive to the team's inspection and run-in of its own lineup, finding deficiencies and adjusting in time.