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Easily advanced 4-0, unexpectedly eliminated 1-4! The most failed team this season, you really should rebuild

11:25am, 31 May 2025Basketball

This season, the NBA playoffs have reached the division finals, from the competition between 30 teams in the regular season to the competition of only 3 teams. The Western Conference Thunder eliminated the Timberwolves 4-1 without bloodshed and won the Western Conference championship in advance. This round of the series also nailed the Lakers to the embarrassing pillar of history. The Timberwolves are indeed very strong, but they are not as strong as the Western Conference Finals. In the Thunder + Nuggets + Clippers, the Nuggets and Clippers fought to tie the seventh place, and the Nuggets and Thunder fought to tie the seventh place, which were all out of the crowd. In the half-zone of the Timberwolves Lakers, Curry was seriously consumed and overdrafted in the Warriors and Rockets series. He won the second round of Timberwolves G1. The Warriors only burst into a huge spill after he was injured. Only the Lakers, the full lineup was vulnerable to the Timberwolves.

To be precise, the Lakers are the team with the worst strength or competitiveness in the playoffs. They are not as good as the Grizzlies who were swept 4-0 by the Thunder in the first round. Even if Morant fell, the Grizzlies still dragged the game to the last moment in two consecutive games, forcing the Thunder into a cold sweat. On the Eastern Conference, the unexpected exit of the favorites to win the championship and the Celtics broke the balance. Since winning the championship last season, the Celtics have shown fatigue in the regular season this season. Holiday has aging and regressed, and Boss has suffered from injuries and has not improved at all. The team relied on one leg to walk on three-pointers. As a result, in the playoffs, after being reversed by the Knicks for two consecutive games, they couldn't hold back. With Tatum's Achilles tendon ruptured, the Celtics also embarked on the road of demolition and reconstruction. But the most failed team this season is the Cavaliers.

Firstly, the Super Dark Horse Pacers were used as the anchor point. The Pacers beat the Bucks 4-1 in the first round this season. Antetokounmpo's fists were hard to beat four hands. Lillard suffered a torn Achilles tendon. Antetokounmpo's departure from the Bucks this summer is a foregone conclusion. In the second round, encountering the Cavaliers, the Pacers advanced 4-1 again. The Cavaliers team is a typical data brush type. To list a few data, in the playoffs, the Cavaliers averaged 119.4 points + 122.6 offensive efficiency + 14.9 three-pointers + 22.8 free throws, all of which were the first in the league! The Knights' net efficiency value for 100 rounds is +11.9, even higher than the Thunder (+11.2) who won 68 wins! But this was basically achieved when playing against the Heat 4-0 in the first round! And in the second round, Mitchell was the only one left to the Cavaliers to fight.

5 games, Mitchell scored 33 points in G1, G2 scored 48 points in absent, G3 scored 43 points in absent, and finally won the game. G5 scored 35 points in an empty match! The Cavaliers' lineup looks good. Garland, the team's ball-controlled core, suffered a toe injury. Allen, who is inside, also averaged 14+10 per game in the regular season, including Mobley, who is known as the cornerstone of the team's future team building, was elected as the DPOY best defensive player this season, and was also selected for the second team of the best team. He played 4 games with the Pacers, averaging 18 points and 10 rebounds per game. The data is not bad, but there is one data that is surprising: when Mobley was on the field in the playoffs, the Cavaliers beat their opponent 1.9 points in 100 rounds; when he was not around, the team beat their opponent 25.8 points in 100 rounds, and the On-Off value is -23.9! Garland is -26.7! The team used three second round picks to strengthen the forward Hunter, who averaged 23 minutes per game in the playoffs, averaged 10 points and 4 rebounds per game, making it difficult to reuse. The biggest shortcoming of the team is that the defense shortcomings of Mitchell and Garland are too obvious, and Allen and Mobley are too high and too slow, so the team's forward line is completely out of touch. From the second most popular team to the regular season to the unexpected 1-4 out of the playoffs, the team was left with only one Mitchell who was injured. In the words of US media, the Pacers are getting closer to winning the Eastern Conference championship. Their best opponent in three rounds of the series is the Cavaliers, and the Cavaliers must demolish the team this summer to rebuild! In response to this, Fedor, a reporter from the team, also confirmed that the team only has two non-sale products: Mitchell and Mobri.

U.S. media bluntly stated that even if the point guard position is very scarce in the trading market, the Cavaliers will listen carefully to various quotes about Garland, including the inside core Allen. From the perspective of salary, Garland still has three years, $127 million contract, and Allen still has four years, $110 million contract. If this lineup framework is maintained, the Cavaliers' total salary will exceed $220 million next season. At the same time, this lineup may continue to play a regular season winning rate of 80%, but the playoffs are not competitive. This does not count Jerome, Merrill and others whose contract expires. Therefore, Garland and Allen are likely to become victims. Since the team's No. 3 position is still a shortcoming, some US media also suggested that the Cavaliers should trade James with Hunter + Allen, and the team lacks experienced veterans to lead the team.

The regular season was smooth and the road was running wildly, becoming a favorite to win the championship; the playoffs were eliminated quickly, and the Cavaliers got up early and rushed to the evening episode. Their overall performance this season was even worse than that of the Lakers. As the main body of the young framework, why can the Thunder be infinitely close to the championship, and the Cavaliers still have a big gap? Mitchell is almost 30 years old. Although he has the ability to score points in the playoffs, the upper limit of leading the team is limited. The Cavaliers should indeed rebuild it in a comprehensive way. It seems that only Mobley is truly worth entrusting the future.

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