Boston, Celtics general manager Dennis arrived early on the team, as usual, the secretary gave him a cup of coffee, while he himself sat in front of the computer and called the web page to check on the NBA game last night.

Boston is in the eastern United States, so the Western team's kick-off time, for the Boston people is relatively late, especially the Lakers, the Clippers, the Warriors, the Blazers in the West Coast of the United States, the game kick-off time is three hours later than the East, the game in the East has ended, the game in the West has not yet begun.By the end of the game in the West, Eastern time was late, and many Bostonians were already asleep.So Dennis rarely pays attention to the Western team on the night of the game.After coming to the office the next morning, through the news to understand the situation of the Western team, it became a habit Dennis has developed over the years.

A field score in the past, Dennis finally saw the Clippers and Spurs score.

"92 to 87, Spurs lost to the Clippers?How is that possible!Although the Spurs are unlikely to win this year, their strength is still not to be underestimated, and now is the key to the impact of the playoffs, how can they lose to the Clippers this weak brigade?It was normal for the Clippers to get 92 points, but the Spurs scored only 87.The Spurs' offense is not weak, and the Clippers have never been a team with a defensive leader, how to score only 87 points for the Spurs, what happened?"

Dennis immediately clicked on the detailed statistics, from which he hoped to find some hints.

“All the replacements?What is that old fox doing?Both core players have been placed in the list of unactivated players, is this a rest?It's a month before the end of the regular season, and it's too early to take a break."

Dennis had looked at the Spurs in the Western rankings.

"The Spurs are now fifth in the West, after losing the ball, away from fourth place is 1.5 wins, and the six or nine catches are also very tight.Even the home advantage of the playoffs is not, where did the Spurs come from?At this time, it is not necessary to work hard to rise to the fourth place and at least hold the home advantage of the playoffs in hand.”

Dennis frowned and thought for half a day, guessing all kinds of possibilities, but the more blind guess, the more he couldn't understand why the Spurs arranged it.

"Although the Clippers are not strong teams, but the Spurs sent a substitute lineup, it is impossible to win.It’s like you want to lose!”Dennis said to himself, and suddenly he thought of something, and then clicked his mouse to inquire about the Clippers' record.

"The Clippers have now risen to 11th in the West, and the same record can be ranked 9th in the East, that is to say, there are four teams in the West with less than the Clippers, and the East has six teams with less than the Clippers, if according to the current record, the Clippers should be in the bottom 11 of the league!"“Damn it...”

Dennis couldn’t help but scold because he remembered the draft pick from the Clippers trade in his hand.

The NBA's draft pick and the team's regular season record ranking, the worse the team, the easier it is to draw a high pick, the better the team, the better the team, the better the overall score, the lower the pick.The team ranked first in the league has the greatest chance of getting the first-round signature.The first-ranked team was basically signed by Tideon No. 30.

So in theory, the Clippers are in the bottom 11th, so in the draft, they are likely to get the 11th sign.

However, before Li Dai was the head coach of the Clippers, the Clippers ranked second to the bottom of the West, and the overall record was also the fourth-to-last in the league, which can be said to be the bottom team in the league.According to the situation in previous years, the fourth-to-last team has a 10% chance of winning the dollar, and the probability of drawing the list and exploring flowers is also very large.Even if luck is more general, it is easy to keep the top five.

That is to say, after Li Dai was coached, the Clippers' draft pick changed from the top five picks to the 11th pick, which was obviously depreciated.

In fact, the 11th signature is not bad, but also a spot in the Lotto area.However, compared with the top five draft picks, the 11th pick is really down several grades, compared with the first pick, it is a sky and underground.Any team would rather bet on the 10% chance of signing than the 11th signature of 100%.

That year, the Clippers traded a draft pick to the Celtics in order to form the Big Three, which is the first-round pick this year.The Clippers have had such a bad record this season that the value of the Clippers’ pick traded to the Celtics is also rising, and Dennis feels that the deal is really making a lot of money.

The Celtics' record has been in the top three in the East and has a chance to hit the championship.And the draft picks obtained from the Clippers may be drawn.A team that has hit the championship is likely to get a contract, and whenever he thinks of this, Dennis can't help but want to applaud for it.

Unfortunately, the sky is not willing, the Clippers record has improved, and the top five picks have become the eleventh, and it is the possibility of a complete farewell.

The Celtics are better off than the Clippers are better off, and it is best to fall to the last place in the league, so that the Celtics can enjoy a dollar sign.Now the Clippers are getting better, and the biggest loss is of course the Celtics.

Thinking that the draft pick in his hand had depreciated, Dennis was suddenly very angry.

"Damn Spurs, why did you lose the ball, then you should win the Clippers right!"Send a full replacement team, you are deliberately lost!Yes, it must have been intentional!No, I want to complain to the league that you deliberately lost to the Clippers!”

...

After defeating the Spurs, the Clippers' next opponent was the Rockets.

The last time the two teams met, the Rockets took the Clippers away with a wave of three-pointers in extra time.

At present, the Rockets' record is the first in the West and the first in the league, and the Warriors have five wins over the second place, and the probability of locking in the first place in the West is already very large.

In Houston, Rockets coach Max also learned of the Clippers' victory over the Spurs.

"The Spurs lost to the Clippers, and they sent a full replacement team, it is really incomprehensible.This year's Spurs are one year old, but there's only one month left in the regular season, and you don't have to start giving players a break now."The assistant coach was talking in Max’s ear.

Max smiled and said, “You don’t know Gray’s old fox.”It was not a break, but a trick he was playing.What I didn't expect was that he would have wanted to take care of others, but he had been routined by others."

"Coach, I don't understand."The assistant coach asked confusedly.

Max went on to explain: “I used to work at the Spurs, so I knew about Gray.I guess Gray is trying to avoid extra time, the nearest Clippers played too much overtime, and the Spurs are too old, playing one overtime equals the usual consumption of two, and the risk of injury for players.So Gray sent a substitute player to play, waiting to play with the Clippers, but did not expect that the game did not play overtime, Gray calculated that other people's plans also failed.

“That is so!”The assistant coach showed an obvious look.

Max explained this, but he was also caught in thought.

"Grey's calculation of the old fox, though it failed, gave me a wake-up call, and perhaps I could learn."Max was in his heart.

Max is the NBA's "running bomb master", and his tactics are very advanced.When the NBA was still more admiring defense, he had already led the team to bombardment tactics.Now the NBA has entered the era of small ball, he is to come up with a set of magic ball theory, in the attack to give up the shot, or shoot three points or under the basket.In the defense, it is infinitely changed to break the advanced and most popular block removal.

However, Max has a big drawback, which is that he doesn’t trust the role players.In his team, many character players can only play in garbage time.Because of his distrust of role players, Max often uses a seven-man rotation, which is where he is often criticized by fans.

In the NBA's regular game time of 48 minutes, a team will have five players at the same time, which means that the entire team's debut time is 240 minutes, which is a fixed number.

If it is a seven-person rotation, the average debut time per person will be more than 34 minutes, and if it is a rotation of eight people, the average person's debut time will be reduced to 30 minutes, and if it is a rotation of ten people, the average person's wait time is only 24 minutes.

From this data comparison, each player can play 10 minutes less than the rotation of the ten-man round and the seven-man rotation.This also means that each of them can rest for 10 minutes more per game, and their physical fitness will be more abundant.

Of course, this is only a theoretical data, in reality, the main players will certainly have more playing time, and the debut time of substitute players will be relatively small.

But one thing is for sure, the more people who enter the rotation, the more people who can play the game, the less the physical consumption of the players will be.

Considering that there are 82 games in the regular season in a season, coupled with the fierce playoffs, the main players consume less physical fitness, which is obviously a good thing for the team.

However, Max is a manager who often relies on seven rotations, and he wants players to consume less physical energy.What is certain is that the Rockets must consume more than other teams due to the frequent rotation of seven people.

“With one month left in the regular season, it’s time to prepare for the playoffs.This season, we have played too many seven rotations, the physical consumption of players is relatively large, and there have been recent signs of injury, I have to find a way to control it."

"Anyway, the Clippers can't get into the playoffs, we can't make any threat to us, if you play overtime with them, it's really not worth the loss."And we now have a record in the West, and it's not easy for second place to catch up, and we lose one or two games occasionally, it's not the big picture."

...

The Clippers defeated the Spurs, which was already cold, and what was even more unexpected was that the Clippers actually defeated the league's first-ranked rocket team!

This time, the Rockets are also all substitutes, and even the players who played in the Development League have called back and played for more than 20 minutes on the court.

The strength of the Clippers players is no longer good, and it will not be able to deal with the players who play in the Development League, which is a race horse race.

The Rockets did this, and really did not want to spend extra time with the Clippers.After all, the Rockets played a nearly season of seven rotation, to the last month of the regular season, the players' physical fitness has been very poor, rather than with the Clippers to fight one or two overtime, it is better to leave more physical strength to play the playoffs.

...

Cleveland Cavaliers.

The coach walked up to a robust player and asked, “Do you want to take a break next game?”

Brownie, the sturdy black player, is the “first man” in the NBA today.

Brownie listened to the coach's words and showed a hint of doubt, and he asked, "What happened?"

"Our next opponent is the Los Angeles Clippers."The coach said.

“I know there are some Los Angeles fans who don’t like me, but those who don’t like me are mostly Lakers fans, not Clippers.In addition, even if the fans don't like me, the ball still has to play!"Brownie answered.

“You don’t understand what I mean.Last game, the Clippers defeated the Spurs, because the Spurs are all-replacement lineups; and in the last game, the Clippers defeated the Rockets, and the Rockets are also on the full replacement lineup.So I think, we face the Clippers, or not, let a few main players rest.There's less than a fifth of the regular season, and we should look to the playoffs, our goal is to win the championship, and the ranking of the regular season is not the most important."The coach said.

Brownie can become the NBA "first person", IQ is definitely online, he thought a little, he understood the reason.

Brownie nodded: "Our win or loss with the Western team almost does not affect the ranking, the West team, we only need to pay attention to the Warriors and the Rockets, we may meet them in the finals, if you play two or three overtime with a team that has nothing to do with the playoffs, it is really an unnecessary consumption."

“Next game, you have to rest.With this break, you can get at least five days of adjustment time.Now the schedule is so intense, and five days is so hard to get.”

...

The Boston Celtics.

Manager Dennis looked at yesterday's war newspaper with a tearful expression on his face.

In the last three games, the Clippers have successively defeated the Spurs, Rockets and Cavaliers, which are the strongest teams in the league.

More importantly, the three opponents of the Clippers are all the main forces in the snow, so that the replacement lineup will appear.And the horn also because of this wave of winning streak, the strength of the list rose a place.As a result, the Clippers' first-round picks have been devalued again.

"What?"The Spurs sent substitutes, the Rockets sent substitutes, even the Cavaliers sent substitutes, they put water!It’s about intentionally letting the boat win!How do I feel, the whole league is against me!”