Chapter 399: 2004~2005 Season Regular Season MVP! (The second is to ask for a monthly pass!) )
There is a limit to everything, including the limit of human psychology.
Sun Hao's three points poured down one by one, not to mention the fans, the mentality of the Spurs players on the court was a little collapsed.
That feeling of trying hard and still failing, it sucks!
The most direct manifestation is that Parker's three-point shot from the outside is a three-point shot!
Duncan quickly grabbed the offensive rebound, but the strong attack on O'Neal was directly pressed down by O'Neal!
In contrast, the morale of the Lakers is skyrocketing!
Then, with Sun Hao hitting his 12th game before the end of the third quarter, which was also the number of three-pointers he hit in a single NBA playoff game, the game basically lost its suspense.
While Popovich continued his "101 Strokes Theory" and put all the GDP on the court at the start of the fourth quarter, the game actually got out of hand.
With a 20+ lead over the Spurs in the third quarter, even Spanoulis was able to trick Parker into flying layups.
In the end, in the extremely reluctant expressions of the fans at the scene, the Spurs lost 97-113 to the Lakers at home in G6!
They were also eliminated with an aggregate score of 2-4 and stopped in the Western Conference semifinals!
The process and result of the game were beyond everyone's expectations, and the most favored match with a tie-break ended in G6.
And the "culprit" of all this is G6 Sun!
Popovich: I don't believe you can shoot me with a three-pointer!
Sun Hao: Look at it, little brother!
Sun Hao shot 13 of 22 from beyond the three-point line and scored 51 points! While setting a new personal NBA playoff single-game scoring high and the first 50+, he also increased the NBA playoffs single-game three-point shooting percentage record to 13!
This is the masterpiece of his Lakers career so far, and it is also the masterpiece of his career!
Well, more importantly, he set this record against the Spurs who "have a hard time getting 40+ opponents"!
Before, I was afraid that no one would have imagined this.
But in this battle, Sun Hao has completely confirmed his name as "G6 Sun"!
Since then, those opponents of the Lakers in the playoffs have been difficult to play G6 without paying attention to Sun Hao.
Walker is the happiest, because Sun Hao's performance proves that his philosophy is right: three-point shooting can change the game!
After putting the beer down, he called his agent.
He has only one thought in his mind now, he is going to play for the Lakers! No one can stop him from playing with Sun Hao!
……
After the game, the Spurs and Lakers had a post-game handshake.
Losing the game in such a way, the Spurs players must be unwilling in their hearts.
Ginobili and Parker hurriedly shook hands and went back to the locker room.
Duncan and Sun Hao hugged each other.
"It's yours now."
It's different from what Jordan said before that the future is yours, and it's also different from what Duncan and James said in history, Duncan said something like this.
Obviously, just as O'Neal was impressed by the Spurs' performance before, Duncan was also impressed by Sun Hao's phenomenal performance.
Sun Hao is still quite happy.
Duncan, who was in his prime, said this, and the sense of accomplishment was incomparable.
At the press conference after the game, Sun Hao and O'Neill attended together.
In addition to Sun Hao's 51 points, O'Neal also had a big double-double performance of 22 points and 20 rebounds in this game.
The instant kill combination, as he said before the game, touched their ceiling, soaring from 50+ to 70+.
Of course, O'Neill was taken away this time.
"He's a my.boy, I love him to death!"
O'Neill, say my.boy again!
Of course, the meaning is similar to what he said during the game, which can be understood as "my boy".
It's like my brother is saying that his younger brother was admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University, full of pride.
Sun Hao, helpless.
It seems that this thing is going to sit down.
Still, it's nothing.
This shows that the relationship between O'Neal and him has gone beyond a simple teammate relationship.
"How do you rate your performance?"
The reporter asked Sun Hao a question, and the other reporters also looked at him in unison.
As the protagonist of tonight, Sun Hao is the focus of attention.
"I'm glad I was able to hit those shots, but I want to thank my teammates even more."
Sun Hao had the breath of Jordan before he did it, but after he did it, he still behaved low-key and humble.
"The Spurs wouldn't have given me that much room to attack without the kind of performance Robert had in the last game, and I wouldn't have been able to do that without Shaq, which is a team win."
"Emotional Intelligence" has a full score of post-game interviews, which can be directly incorporated into textbooks.
"How would you rate the Spurs' performance?"
The reporter then asked again.
'They're fighters, they've never given up when they've been behind, Tim, Tony, Manu, Brent, they've all been very tenacious.
Sun Hao praised the performance of the Spurs, a great game is because there are great opponents.
If it were another team, under his god-level performance, he might have been defeated at halftime.
"But I've always been sure that we're going to win tonight."
Sun Hao added.
O'Neill burst into laughter.
Well, you're strong, but I know I can win.
This damn Jordan's breath can't be hidden!
The reporters in the audience nodded their heads in recognition very seriously, and they felt that Sun Hao's personal charm was becoming more and more attractive.
"The Lakers' Western Conference Finals are going to be against the Mavericks, and we all know you played there last season, and we know Kobe Bryant is playing there now, what do you think about that?"
The series with the Spurs has been decided, and after asking about the Spurs, the reporter naturally mentioned the next round.
The Lakers and Mavericks are the two teams that have attracted the most attention this season, and now they are directly facing each other on the stage of the Western Conference Finals, you can't pay attention to it!
"Beat them."
Sun Hao didn't say anything about sitting and watching this time, but replied directly and positively.
The feud between Kobe Bryant and O'Neal, combined with the pressure of public opinion that the losing side will face, all adds up to this answer for him.
There is no choice but to win.
O'Neill gave Sun Hao a thumbs up after hearing this.
Low-key when it should be low-key, and never ambiguous when it should be hard-hearted.
O'Neill doesn't just like his "my.boy" anymore.
……
The semifinals between the Lakers and the Spurs ended vigorously, and the two sets of matchups in the East were also announced to be over.
Both the Wizards and Pistons won their games on the road and advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals with a 4-2 score.
ESPN did a survey before asking fans which group to tie seven, and in the end, well, there was no group to tie seven.
However, that doesn't matter, because the two teams in the Eastern and Western finals are too eye-catching.
Needless to say, on the side of the Wizards and the Pistons, Yao Ming, who has already "taken" Maddie through the first round, can lead the Wizards back to the Finals again, and whether the Pistons have a chance to complete two consecutive championships, these are the focus of fans' attention.
Of course, before the start of the division finals, fans are more concerned about another thing at this time, the belonging of the regular season MVP!
In fact, this topic has been repeatedly mentioned at the end of the regular season.
Among them, the most vocal is Nash of the Suns.
Although the record was suppressed by the Lakers at the last moment, the Suns' improvement in this season's record, Nash's role does not belong to D'Antoni at all.
Big late four words, Nash deserves it.
This year in history, Nash is also the ultimate MVP winner.
Then the second and third highest calls are the Lakers' "instant kill combination".
Just like the best coach selection, if you look purely from the team's record and personal data, Sun Hao and O'Neal are more worthy of being elected.
In addition, Yao Ming and Maddy of the Wizards, Anthony of the Pistons, and Kobe Bryant of the Mavericks are all popular candidates for MVP.
This year should be the most suspenseful in recent years, and it is also foreseeable that it will be the most controversial selection.
Everything depends on the votes in the hands of more than 100 media outlets and journalists.
At the end of the day's training session, Sun Hao and O'Neill sat on the sidelines chatting as usual.
Talk about Nowitzki, talk about Kobe, talk about the Western Finals, talk about MVP.
"Do you want that?"
O'Neill asked with a smile.
"Yes."
Sun Hao is more honest.
Although he doesn't attach so much importance to personal honors, he has already won 3 All-Star Game MVPs, and one FMVP, what he lacks may be the most valuable regular season MVP.
And speaking of which, this is the fifth season of his career, and he has also played a matching MVP performance.
It's his turn, too.
"But I hope you can get it, because that will tell the world that you are still a big shark, and you were just dragged by your tail before."
Sun Hao continues to show his "emotional intelligence" science.
But he was telling the truth.
If O'Neal can win this MVP, then the inexplicable war of words between the OK combinations will naturally be settled in the hearts of fans.
And to be honest, O'Neal in history only won 1 regular season MVP in the 1999~2000 season.
There are many reasons for this, but it is also clearly inconsistent with O'Neill's historical position.
O'Neill laughed.
With Sun Hao, even chatting is so happy.
"I want to too, but if you get it, I'll raise my hands in favor."
O'Neill laughed and said what he thought.
Other people, if they are robbed of MVP, he will not be happy, but Sun Hao likes it too much.
As he said, Sun Hao won the MVP, and he didn't have any opinions.
Sun Hao also laughed after hearing this.
"We say that as if the MVP is already the Lakers."
O'Neill was stunned for a moment, already overjoyed.
Like, that's what happened.
At this point, Phoenix's Wind Child sneezed hard.
The next day, before the curtain officially kicked off on the Western Conference finals, the NBA officially announced the voting results for the regular season MVP.
The results of this election can be said to have completely refreshed the cognition of fans.
In the past, no matter how fierce the selection, the suspense was between one or two people in the end.
But this year, that's not the case at all!
As a result, 6 people received more than 10% of the votes, and none of them received more than 20% of the votes! Even the maximum difference in the number of votes between them does not exceed 5%!
Maddie, who came in seventh, also got 10.7% of the vote!
O'Neal, who came in third, got 15.5 percent of the vote.
Nash, who came in second, received 17.2 percent of the vote.
Sun Hao, who ranked first, got 19.1% of the votes!
Sun Hao, who defeated Nash and O'Neal by a narrow margin, was successfully elected MVP!
The three MVPs, he has already arrived!
Even, he has already won the All-Star Game MVP before, if he can help the Lakers win the championship and get the final FMVP this year, he will have an MVP major!
That will be a Sun Hao year!
At the moment when the awards were announced, the fans of the forum were already frying.
"Nash: Did I pay the wrong one?"
"It's a shame that Nash, by the definition of MVP, Nash is definitely the one who deserves to be elected MVP, and he has led the team to a qualitative leap."
"Sun: It's okay, it's okay, it's all the same."
"Haha, I'm laughing to death, Nash ran to Oakland and was eliminated by Sun, and ran to Phoenix to be robbed of MVP by Sun, so, the more you love someone, the more you hurt you?"
"I don't think there's anything wrong with Sun's MVP, you don't look at how much the Lakers struggled last season, the Lakers' lineup this season is not as good as last season, but they won the first place in the regular season!"
"Agreed, you said Nash made the Suns better, but Sun did the same, he even made O'Neal, who was considered to be at his peak last season, back into a big shark, isn't that enough?"
"I said you guys forgot about Sun's regular season performance so quickly, he broke the NBA single-quarter scoring record! Just for that, I think he has a low number of votes! ”
"That's right, that is, the opponent is strong this year, otherwise I think he has a chance to be unanimously elected MVP in another season!"
"And he just won 50+ in the playoffs, 13 three-pointers in a single game, and he eliminated the Spurs by himself, is this not worthy of MVP?"
"Play and play, make trouble, don't joke about MVP, there's nothing wrong with Sun!"
……
Surprisingly, although the competition is fierce, most fans feel that there is nothing wrong with this voting result, but they feel that Sun Hao's vote rate is low.
Perhaps this is in line with the saying that the more competitors there are, the stronger they are, and the more convincing the conclusions they can draw.
When the MVP results were announced, the Lakers had just finished their in-house workout.
As a result, Sun Hao was directly bathed in champagne by his teammates.
The leader is none other than "Big Shark" O'Neill.
The smile on his face is definitely not fake, as he said before, if Sun Hao is finally elected MVP, he will not have an opinion, but will be happy for Sun Hao from the bottom of his heart.
Sun Hao finally "ran" into the bathroom, this champagne bath looks cool, but the person being washed is not so comfortable.
However, he was indescribably happy in his heart.
He used to be, and when he saw the protagonists in those, the five-year MVP had already been softened.
He just got the first one, which sounds a bit miserable.
But just like his G6 performance, it's late!
Next, he can fight for the second championship trophy of his career with high morale!