Chapter 691: Rookie of the Month
Towards the end of November, the Lakers faced no weak opponents, and the home and away games were relatively balanced, and after losing to the Raptors at home, they faced the Trail Blazers at home. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
This year's Trail Blazers can't compare with last year, last year's Trail Blazers had a starting lineup composed of LaMarcus Aldridge, Damian Lillard, Wesley Matthews, Nicholas Batum, Robin Lopez and others, and the strength was extremely strong.
But this summer, first Aldridge went to the Spurs, then Matthews went to the Mavericks, Batum went to the Hornets, Lopez went to the Knicks, and more than half of the main players of the Trail Blazers went, leaving only the lone Damian Lillard.
Although the Trail Blazers have also added something, they have dropped a lot in terms of overall strength.
With the current Trail Blazers' lineup, it is even worse than the Lakers, and this game is the home court of the Lakers, so there is no surprise in the game, the Lakers defeated the Trail Blazers, and immediately brought a victory to the home fans after losing the last home game.
Next, the Lakers are two consecutive away games.
On November 25, the Lakers rushed to Golden State to play away against the league's now hot Warriors.
In this game, the Lakers played very tenacious, although they were playing on the road, although they faced the Warriors, who are now ranked first in the league, they were not scared at all.
When full-time was over, the Lakers were just nine points behind.
In this game, Kobe Bryant scored 31 points, Chen Feng scored 23 points, 8 assists, 4 rebounds, and the two combined for 54 points, compared to Curry's 36 points, Thompson's 21 points are not much inferior.
It is worth mentioning that Curry shot 7 three-pointers in this game, while Chen Feng hit 5, only two less.
At the end of the game, the Lakers had a few more days of rest before heading to Portland to play the Trail Blazers on the road.
A few days ago, the Trail Blazers lost to the Lakers on the road, which made them very unhappy, so when they returned to their home court, they vowed to beat the Lakers and get revenge.
It's a pity that their respective strengths are there, especially when Chen Feng is getting braver and braver, and Kobe Bryant's state is always stable, and the morale of the Lakers team is getting higher and higher, the Trail Blazers failed to win the game, even if Lillard scored a game-high 42 points.
The next day, the Lakers returned to their home court to take on the Pacers.
Perhaps because they only played one game against the Trail Blazers yesterday, the Lakers didn't play well, losing at home to the Pacers and failing to hold on to the last game of the month.
However, Chen Feng still performed well in this game, scoring 18 points, plus 9 assists, 3 rebounds, and 2 steals.
At the end of this game, the Lakers have all ended this month, and together with the two games at the end of October, they now have an 11-6 record, a winning percentage of more than 60 percent, and the team is still ranked third in the West.
For the Lakers' record, it is still somewhat unexpected.
Many people thought that at the end of this month, the Lakers' record would drop a little, and they should be ranked fourth, or fifth in the West, but they didn't expect that after the first month of the regular season, they would still stay in the third position.
On the one hand, it is because the Lakers performed very well, and on the other hand, because the Thunder did not play well during this period and lost some games that should have been won, so they have not been able to improve their record, but they were pressed by the Lakers and could only rank fourth in the West.
And it was followed by the Clippers, Mavericks, Rockets, Grizzlies.
As for the East, the Cavaliers are the only ones, followed by the Raptors, and the Cavaliers' record is actually worse than the Spurs, that is, a little better than the Lakers, and they can be ranked third in the West, but in the East, they can be ranked first.
From this point of view, it seems that the statement that the west is strong and the east is weak does not seem to be exaggerated.
Of course, once you get to the playoffs, maybe everything will change, not necessarily that the first place in the regular season will necessarily win the championship, nor does it necessarily mean that if you don't play well in the regular season, the playoffs will be bad.
It's an NBA tradition, and that's what makes the NBA so appealing, and you don't know which team will win the championship until the last minute!
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In early December, the NBA's official website announced the results of last month's monthly awards.
Last month's Eastern and Western coach of the month were Raptors coach Dwayne Casey and Warriors head coach Steve Kerr.
The best players in the East and West are Kyle Lowry, and Stephen Curry, in the last month, Lowry played an All-Star level game, averaging 21.2 points and 6.5 assists per game, ranking first on the team in points and assists, while Stephen Curry is even crazier, averaging 31.2 points, 6.6 assists, 5.0 rebounds per game, leading the league in scoring.
The outside world predicts that Curry is likely to become the scoring champion this season!
At the back, last month's Eastern and Western Rookie of the Year, the best rookie in the East was D'Angelo Russell, who averaged 14.6 points, 4.8 assists, 4.1 rebounds and 1.2 steals per game for the 76ers in November, which is already very good as a rookie.
In addition, Okafor, Porzingis and others, who have returned from injury, have performed well, and they are not much inferior to Russell.
Therefore, Russell's election as Rookie of the Month is also controversial.
Compared to the East, several rookies in the West performed better, such as Towns, who averaged 17.2 points and 7.8 rebounds per game.
In addition, the Kings' Willie Cauley-Stein, the Pistons' Immanuel Moody, the Hornets' Frank Kaminski, and the Jazz's Stanley Johnson also performed well, scoring in double digits, and the difference between them was not too big.
But even so, there is no suspense about the best rookie of the month in the west, there is no doubt that it is Chen Feng.
Throughout November, Chen Feng started every game, averaging 18.6 points, 8.6 times, 2.8 rebounds, and 2.0 steals per game, of which the scoring ranked second on the Lakers team, and the assists and steals ranked first on the team. His scoring, assists, and steals all rank first among rookies.
When the news reached Huaxia, it immediately caused cheers from the fans.
This is the second Chinese player to win the NBA Rookie of the Month after Yao Ming, and Yao Ming is still in the second month of the NBA, in December 2002 with an average of 17.1 points, 10.3 rebounds, and 2.7 rebounds per game to win the Western Conference Rookie of the Month.
But Chen Feng won the Rookie of the Month in the first month of entering the league, and calculated the time, which was earlier than Yao Ming.
This makes Chinese fans feel honored, how can they not be happy?