Chapter 828 Breaking Records in a Row, East and West Dominate the Screen
On February 22, 2012, the Los Angeles Clippers welcomed their last opponent before the All-Star Weekend, the Denver Nuggets, at their home stadium, the Staples Center.
Everyone knows what the biggest hot topic will be tonight, but whether Kraft Nguyen can do it or not will need to be tested by the competition.
Various media outlets have been dispatched, and as early as before the start of the game, relevant interviews were conducted with people outside the NBA circle.
None of the most interesting are the opinions of the current NBA players.
A group of players, including Russell Westbrook and Joe Johnson, are naturally absolute supporters of Erniu.
"If there's anyone in the world who can challenge Chamberlain's record, it's Kraft.
You never know what he's going to do in the next game, he's a natural superstar. ”
Joe Johnson, a former rival of Erniu, also said: "I always believe that Kraft is the best player on the planet.
You know, as long as you play with him, many seemingly impossible tasks can always be easily completed.
He has a magical power. ”
There are supportive and more neutral, or seemingly neutral, but in fact tasteful views.
For example, LeBron James, Paul Pierce and others.
"There's no doubt that Kraft is a great player, but the Clippers put the ball in Kraft's hands, and that's the basis for his high scores," James said.
I don't think it's the right thing to do, and to be overly dependent on a player is maybe a disservice to the team. ”
Hehe, that's right, so that the Cavaliers and the Heat never rely on James.
In fact, the subtext of the Chosen One should actually be like this: "If he continues to do this, I will be out of action for this year's MVP!"
Paul Pierce shrugged and said, "I'm past the age of stats, and for me personally, it's all about trying to fight for a championship ring. ”
Pierce actually knows very well in his heart that the possibility of losing to the Heat last year and wanting to get it back this year is too low, but the championship is always the ultimate goal of truth.
Being defeated by the Hawks in the year the Green Triumvirate first met was the biggest pain for the Green Army.
They had a chance to attack the O'Brien Cup, but unfortunately they met the Great Demon King of the Celestial Empire whose evolution speed exceeded the imagination of ordinary people.
There is support and relative neutrality, but opposition is hard to hear.
After all, Kraft Nguyen's performance is one notch above everyone else, which is really difficult to criticize.
If I had to find one, it would be the leader of the Clippers' rivals in the same city - Kobe Bryant.
When asked what he thought of Kraft Nguyen, the Black Mamba asked reporters: "What do you think I need to say?"
Actually, he said something similar not long ago, and the object is also a yellow person.
Back to the day's game.
The starting lineup for the Nuggets tonight is:
C Timofey Mozgov
PF Kenneth Farid
SF Corey Brewer
SG Aaron Afflaro
PG Andre Miller
Erniu also had a brief exchange with former UCLA captain Afflaro before the game.
Afralo naturally congratulated Erniu on his previous achievements, and he said with a smile: "I really hope you can get 50 points tonight and we can take away a victory." ”
When Ruan Erniu heard this, he immediately knew in his heart!
The Nuggets, who currently have an 18-15 record, still want to win, and George Karl's team has the hope of making the playoffs and will certainly not throw in the towel easily.
This is undoubtedly good news for the two bulls, because George Karl wants to win, which means that the Nuggets will never deliberately let others go in order to block their own record.
Speaking of George Carr, Erniu himself still admires it.
Think about it, dragging Nene Hilario, who is always injured, Gallinari, who has been injured this season, and even starting point guard Ty Lawson is out tonight due to injury.
With such a team that is constantly suffering from injuries, Karl still has a chance to bring the team to the playoffs, what a ability.
The old guy may lack top accolades, but he does have two brushes.
The Clippers didn't make any changes to their starting lineup tonight, with the starting five remaining the same.
With the referee's whistle, the game officially began.
Jordan Jr. lost to Mozgov in the jump ball, and Andre I was the ball over half court by Karen Mozgover.
Corey Brewer and Afflaro each ran back, the latter was in a better position, and Miller immediately passed the ball, but JJ Redick judged the way of the ball in defense and stabbed it with his hand the moment Afflaro received the ball, and the ball flew out immediately.
Paul got the basketball for the first time, immediately dribbled the ball across the half court, pulled the ball forward with one hand, shook Miller Sr., and scored an easy layup.
The Nuggets organized the offense again, and Mozgov singled Jordan Jr. to a basket.
At this time, Little Jordan is no longer the Wuxia Amon at the beginning of the season, who is abused by Erniu in daily training every day, and now Mozgov's offensive steps are a little rough in the eyes of Uncle Huang.
"Smack!"
Mozgov tried to lean on Jordan Jr.'s hook hand, and what awaited him was Jordan Jr.'s front block.
The basketball was fanned, and Kawaii immediately dribbled across half court after getting the basketball and sent the ball to Paul, who made a bow in front of him, but sent the ball to the wing space in the middle of the way.
It's Ruan Erniu!
Erniu, who was inserted from behind, received the ball in the open space and pulled it directly.
"Brush!"
Chase three points, beautiful offensive and defensive transitions!
There are already fans on the scene who have played tape cue boards that can change numbers - there are still 47 points left!
The die-hard fans who can become Clippers are basically guys with big hearts and strong masochistic abilities, otherwise the Clippers' cursed tragic fate for many years is enough to destroy the healthy mentality of any fan.
But since they have Erniu and Paul, winning this kind of thing seems too simple, and watching supergiants break records from time to time has become a daily topic of conversation among Clippers fans.
Just as the Hawks fans had two bulls, the happiness came so much that the Clippers fans felt like they were in a different world, as if they had become the league's masters as soon as they woke up.
Erniu's performance is obviously not over yet, the "half-orc" Farid who is responsible for defending Erniu is a rookie with the 22nd pick in the first round of this season, and his height is only 6 feet 8 inches, which is still the height of wearing shoes, and Er Niu's actual naked height is 6 feet 9 inches.
Even in the position of power forward, Erniu rarely has this opportunity to bully people with his height.
The Celestial Empire simply gave up on the inside punch completely in the first quarter, and he set up a turret on the top arc and two flanks.
Six three-point shots in a single quarter, and magically hit all of them, and counting the tomahawk dunk in a counterattack, Erniu scored 20 points in the first quarter, and he led the team to lead the Nuggets 27:40 in the first quarter to reach 13 points, which is quite a momentum to play the game in the first quarter.
Tom Thibodeau was quite happy at first, but after thinking about it carefully, the situation was not right, so he immediately replaced Erniu, but it was still too late.
Don't look at Erniu's small goal of only 30 points, but once the game goes into garbage time, according to league convention, Kraft Nguyen, as the leader of the team, should not go up to score points.
Ruan Erniu, who scored 20 points in a single quarter, returned to the court halfway through the second quarter.
During the second quarter rotation, the Nuggets played very well, and Afralo, who staggered playing time, helped the team recover a difference of about 5 points with Jordan Hamilton and Costa Koufus, making the original game without suspense reappear with some ups and downs.
But with the return of Erniu, the game once again tilted one-sidedly in favor of the Clippers.
After hitting six three-pointers in the first quarter, the two bulls broke out again from the outside in this quarter.
"Brush!"
"Brush!"
"Brush!"
……
The hapless orcs were once again relegated to the backdrop, and Kraft Nguyen scored 16 points on 4-of-5 three-point shooting and 4-of-4 free throws in the quarter.
At the end of the half, the Clippers led the opponent with a score of 54:70, and Erniu's personal score had reached 36 points, and he was only 14 points away from breaking the record.
Referring to this efficiency calculation, even if the Clippers directly beat the game in the third quarter, Erniu is very likely to complete the task ahead of schedule.
In addition, there is another point that cannot be ignored is that the Celestial Empire has already hit 10 three-pointers in the first half.
That's right, it's definitely breaking the half-court three-point shooting record again!
In addition, the current league record for the number of three-pointers in a single game is also held by Erniu at 13, which means that as long as he throws four more three-pointers in the next half of the game, he will break the single-game three-point shooting record set by himself.
Rookie Farid is going crazy, he was ready to be blown up by the Celestial Empire, but he didn't expect to be shot in half the game!
In the studio of the imperial court station that broadcast the game live, Yang Jian and Da Xu, who were in charge of the commentary, had already turned on the braggart mode.
Yang Jian said: "Teacher Xu, do you think Erniu can directly break the record in the third quarter?"
Da Xu smiled: "I want to say no, you don't believe the audience!"
The game has reached this point, unless all five Nuggets go to block two bulls, otherwise this record is broken!"
What about the objective evaluation of the commentator?
Forget it, with a national-level supergiant like Erniu, you still need to be objective, just blow it to death, anyway, Manniu can really do it.
The third quarter of the game finally began, and Farid, who had almost been knocked down, was useless in front of Erniu, who also threw confidence, and shot directly two steps outside the three-point line!
Return!
11th three-pointer!
11 points left to reach the overall goal!
Afflalo responded with a three-pointer on the Nuggets offense.
But turning his head, Paul made a simple block in the high post and Erniu, and sent the ball to the hands of the Celestial Empire again.
One step away from the three-point line!
Dry pull!
Again!
12th three-pointer!
There are 8 points left to reach the overall goal.
An enraged George Carr called a timeout, and he pressed Farid directly to the bench and replaced it with Al Harrington, who was not feeling well in the game.
That's right, this is definitely not to prevent Ruan Erniu, Harrington has always been an ATM, it is unrealistic to expect him to prevent it, it can only be said that George Carr still wants to win in his heart.
Al Harrington, who was holding the ball on the outside, broke through and hit the basket, and Erniu simply let him go.
Unexpectedly, Erniu let go of Harrington, but little Jordan, who came to assist in defense, did not let go, and after a powerful block, Ruan Erniu directly won the rebound and rushed to the frontcourt.
No one is guarding!
Layups?
No, it's still three points!
Return!
The 13th three-pointer, this goal has tied the record of the highest single-game three-point shooting in the second bull.
There are only 5 points left!
With about a quarter and a half left in the game time, the Nuggets have no hope of organizing the Celestial Empire to break through the 50+ mark, they will eventually become the background board, and it will be difficult to win this game.
In the subsequent offense, Mozgov, who misplaced the defense of Erniu, knocked Erniu outside the three-point line directly to the ground.
The Celestial Empire missed a shot after being fouled and got three free throws.
3 of 3 free throws.
Only the last 2 points remained!
The next few rounds were a little dull, and after missing two three-pointers in a row, Nguyen finally hit a long-awaited three-pointer against Al Harrington.
The fans in the stadium were completely boiling, and even the game was interrupted for a while!
If it weren't for the league's regulations, maybe the Clippers would have sent a ribbon from the sky to celebrate.
Tom Thibodeau then replaced the two-bull who broke two consecutive records.
“MVP!”
“MVP!”
“MVP!”
……
In the cheers of the fans, Kraft Nguyen, who had only played less than two and a half quarters, slowly walked off the court with 51 points, 10 rebounds, 1 assist, 4 blocks, 3 steals, and 14 three-pointers in a single game, and he deserved all the praise.
There was no biggest suspense in the game, and in the remaining games, the Clippers led by Paul also did not give the Nuggets any chance to turn the tables.
Kraft Nguyen clocked out early and watched Paul lead the Clippers to their final game before All-Star Weekend in the player zone.
At 95:123, the Clippers slaughtered their opponents at home and improved their record to 28-3 before the All-Star break, and they will continue to lead the league.
After the game, Ruan Erniu was also surrounded by various media, and when asked why he shot so many three-pointers tonight, he said: "I just want to get off the court early, and the next All-Star weekend will be more tiring, so I chose the fastest way to end the battle." ”
After this game, the evaluations given by various media, including ESPN and TNT, were similar, and they were summed up in one sentence: "There is no suspense about the regular season MVP of the 11-12 season!"
Of course, there is another statement that cannot be ignored, that is, in February 2012, the entire NBA news page was dominated by the Celestial Empire.
That's not all right.
Because on the western side, it is true that Erniu, a Celestial Empire, rules everything as in the past, but the yellow man in charge of the ruling alliance in the east is a Chinese-American.
Yes, he's the point guards of the New York Knicks – Jeremy Lin, Jeremy Lim!
This top student of Harvard University used his amazing performance to blow a whirlwind of "Lin Crazy" in the NBA.
At a time when the New York Knicks were riddled with injuries and head coach Mike D'Antoni's position was in jeopardy, a Chinese-American kid stepped up and began the most glorious journey of his career in February.