This season's NBA playoffs will be more competitive than ever, due to a combination of factors.
First of all, the number of players has reached an all-time high, with the previous generation of superstars still not being eliminated and a new generation of young stars already on the rise.
Nearly every team has several high-profile All-Stars, making them almost the same in quality.
Second, next year's draft year isn't ideal, so there are fewer teams that deliberately mess up trying to get the top pick.
In addition, the introduction of play-off rules has given the top 10 teams in the regular season a chance to make the playoffs, which has prompted almost all teams to go all out to win every game.
So far, 10 teams in the Western Conference have won more than 50 percent, while nine teams in the Eastern Conference have won more than 50 percent.
And those teams with a winning percentage of less than 50% are likely to not be able to compete in the playoffs.
For example, the Golden State Warriors currently have a win rate of less than 50%, with a 10-13 record, and only 11th in the West.
The Warriors have been in trouble this year and the situation is in shambles.
Last season, due to the conflict between Poole and Green, the team's cohesion plummeted, resulting in a sharp decline in overall strength.
It was thought that Poole's departure would put the Warriors on the right track, but it turned out to be unexpectedly worse.
Dream Green is still doing the same thing, constantly causing problems on and off the court.
He has been ejected twice for foul play this season and has now even been suspended indefinitely.
Green will still be very important to the Warriors' system in the game, and without him, the Warriors' interior and defense will take a heavy hit.
In addition, Wiggins is one of the most important players for the Warriors inside and defensively, but his performance has regressed significantly this season.
Wiggins looks like he's sleepwalking, probably because he signed a lower-paying contract in the offseason, causing his performance to become nonchalant.
In the past, his scoring averages have been steady between 17-18 points per game, but this season he is averaging just 12 points per game and shooting percentage has dropped by 6 percentage points from the field and 11 percentage points from three-point range.
Even his vaunted defensive level has slipped to mediocre levels, and many fans have noticed that Wiggins has lost his elite-level defensive ability this season.
He averaged just 03, and the average block per game is only 03, a drop of more than 50% compared to his career average.
It's really incredible that the offensive players he plays against are shooting even 2 percentage points higher than the league average.
Warriors player Thompson has also had a hard time this season, and in addition to Green, he is also a member of the team.
As a top three-point shooter, Thompson has struggled to regain his touch with more possession and shots over the past two seasons.
Last season, he shot 41 percent from beyond the arc2. Returned to normal state.
However, Thompson's three-point efficiency has dropped again this season, averaging just 27 three-pointers on 343. He loses his characteristics as a top three-point shooter.
What's more, Thompson is now underutilized in other areas except for three-point shooting, and his breakthrough aggression and defensive ability are far from his peak form.
At the end of the season, Thompson will enter a contract year, although his current contract is five years and 1$900 million, earning more than $43 million this season, but his next contract is expected to be significantly reduced, estimated at around $15 million a year.
According to Theathletic's Shamskarania report, Klay Thompson's future has been in question.
I was told that before the start of the season, the Warriors offered Klay Thompson a contract extension of about two years and $48 million, but now there is no agreement between the two sides.
The Warriors offered Thompson a two-year, $48 million contract, but Thompson seemed unsatisfied, and he even wanted to pursue a bigger contract to become the league's highest-paid player.
In fact, Thompson has always been a confident and conceited player, he often trash and taunts each other on the court and opponents, but in reality he is just a player who relies on the system, and without Curry there is no championship for him.
Thompson once put up four fingers to show Booker that he had won four championship rings, but Booker's individual ability was much stronger than Thompson's.
Recently, Thompson and NBA legend Ross Barkley have also attacked each other, Barkley said that the Warriors have fallen out of the altar, which is undeniable, but Thompson attacked Barkley by saying: "Can Barkley understand how hard it is to win a championship?
He's always jealous of us, he's really a funny guy.
It seems that Thompson has been immersed in past achievements and is not aware of the team's current situation and future.
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