48 points! The highest score in the playoffs this season was born, and it will be difficult for you to win the championship if you are overrated

The viewing performance of this year's NBA playoffs is indeed several levels higher than in previous years. On the one hand, there are more giant teams entering the playoffs, and the three traffic teams of Huyong Ship can gather together in the playoffs. The head-on confrontation between the old-school super giants and the new generation of stars is everywhere. On the other hand, the game itself is very intense. Only then did the second round, there have been five finals within 5 seconds, including Gordon twice, Halliburton twice, Brunson once, and many magical reversals of more than 20 points, such as the Thunder's counterattack on the Grizzlies in the first round, the Knicks fell behind by 20 points in a row, and the Pacers were even more exaggerated, making two reversals that were 7 points behind in the last minute, which is a NBA miracle. It even feels like McGrady in the viewing feeling. Finally, this year's playoff referees' standards have been looser.

This also makes players' physical confrontation very fiercely in the game, and they feel like they are 10 years ago in the NBA. The intensity has improved a lot compared to the regular season. In such an environment, it is not that easy to get high scores in a single game. After two rounds of series, there are only a handful of players who score 40+ points in a single game. In the final game with the Pistons, Brunson scored 40 points and 7 assists and staged a perfect final. Jokic scored a large double-double with 42 points and 22 rebounds in G1 with the Thunder, and the Nuggets made a difficult comeback to win. Murray scored 43 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists in the match against the Clippers, and made a performance of the gods descending to earth. Unfortunately, it was a flash in the pan. His highest score in the next four games was only 21 points. Edwards scored 43 points in the match against the Lakers G4.

The highest single-game score in this year's playoffs was created by Cavaliers guard Mitchell. In the G2 game against the Pacers, he made 15 of 30 shots, scored 48 points, 5 rebounds, 9 assists and 4 steals, but he was defeated and lost the game. Mitchell is the famous empty-scoring king. As early as last year's first round of the playoffs, the Cavaliers and Magic's G6, Mitchell scored 50 points. In that game, he even took charge of all the Cavaliers' fourth quarter scores (18 points), but he still couldn't avoid losing. The series was dragged into the tiebreak battle. When Mitchell was still with the Jazz in the park season (19-20 season), the Jazz played against the Nuggets in the first round of the playoffs that year. Mitchell scored 50+ super high scores in a single game twice, including G1 scoring 57 points, 9 rebounds, 7 assists, and scored 9 three-pointers.

57 points in a single game, which is also the highest score in a single game among all active players in the playoffs, ranking third in NBA history, second only to Jordan's 63 points and Baylor's 61 points. However, the Cavaliers still lost in this game. To be honest, Mitchell can indeed show his hard strength in high-intensity games and repeatedly score super high scores, but he always feels that he is almost there. After all, getting high scores is not a good thing to lose the game in total. His shortcomings are also very obvious. First of all, his physical talent is limited, which also makes his defensive ability mediocre. In addition, he has to invest a lot of energy on the offensive end and his defensive end is not that strong. Compared with superstars such as Alexander and Edwards, they are still inferior. Secondly, Mitchell has average abilities as a guard.

His ability and speed of shots have always been criticized, especially when facing double-teams, due to the average passing skills and insufficient vision caused by height, Mitchell will often make mistakes, which also makes the Cavaliers always collapse at critical moments this year's playoffs, and Mitchell and his teammates cannot find a good ending opportunity. Over the years, Mitchell has been able to lead the team to the playoffs every year, but has never been able to break the upper limit. This is a flaw. It is hard to believe that he has not even made the division final. His best result is only the second round, and it seems that this is the case again this year. At present, the Cavaliers are still behind the Pacers 0-2 in the second round, losing two home games in a row, and there is little hope of advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals. When NBA history lags 0-2 in the playoffs, the probability of a final comeback is less than 10%.

Cavaliers are likely to become a pseudo-strong team. They are unstoppable in the regular season, winning the first place in the Eastern Conference, winning 12+ long consecutive wins three times, ranking among the top in all offensive data, including in the first round of the playoffs, the Cavaliers' performance was also quite amazing, easily sweeping the Miami Heat, with a net win of more than 30 points per game in four games, breaking the NBA historical record, but when they met the Pacers in the second round, they began to reveal themselves. Although the Cavaliers were at a disadvantage, a large part of the reason was due to injuries. The absence of Garland, Mobley and Hunter gave Mitchell greater pressure to lead the team, but the fact is that they were already 0-2 behind in the series, and they lost another game and were basically sure to go home to fish. Regarding their current mentality, Mitchell also said: "We can think about it carefully. Do we want to go home in four or five days? Or should we continue to move forward? Take out some things we did very well and then move forward. I have no doubt that everyone in the locker room will be ready for G3."