Chapter 428: Sweeping the Regular Season Awards

On May 7, 1995, after the Jazz finally lost to the SuperSonics at home, all the games in the first round of the playoffs in the entire league this year were over, and finally, all the matches in the second round also came out, the Houston Rockets in the first round in the West will face the SuperSonics who won the finale in the first round, and the Lakers in the second place in the West are facing their old rival Spurs, as for the East side, the Chicago Bulls, the first in the East, will face the Hornets in the fourth in the East, As for the Magic, who are second in the East, they will face the Pacers, who are third in the East.

Although this kind of matchup is not what many people expect before the start of the first round, for example, the Jazz team in the fourth place in the West was finally defeated by the supersonic upset This is very surprising, although this year's Jazz team's table is very average, and the team is not very peaceful, but there is no doubt that the strength of this team is there, although the team has not been able to run in place because of Lin Han, but almost the top three Jazz teams in the hard power league can overpower the supersonic in strength and experience, In this case, it is quite difficult for the SuperSonics to win without home field advantage, so the SuperSonics' upset this time really set off a huge frenzy the next day.

As the only team in the first round to be on the gram, the SuperSonics are quite good in this year's playoffs, especially the two leading players of this team, Kemp and Payton, Payton will not mention, the restrictions on Stockton in the whole series are quite in place, if this family does not have so many restrictions on Stockton, it will not force Malone to hold the ball again and again, if it is not for Malone to hold the ball desperately. He will not be injured at the end, and the supersound will not win so easily. And in addition to Payton's direct guidance to the Jazz's offense after choking Stockton www.biquge.info there was a problem, Kemp. The strongest spring man in this alliance really did it, except for the extremely tough Ma Long, everyone else came to him like scum!

If Payton finally forced the Jazz's big boss Malone to keep holding the ball, then Camp forced the Jazz to only use Malone to continue to attack, and other people's offense was quite inefficient in front of Camp, so to speak, throughout the first round, these two supersonic young masters really locked the Jazz team to death, obviously the Jazz team is superior in strength, but the Jazz team has been in a weak position in the big score.

Such a situation is similar to that of the protagonists described in some knightly novels. In almost all knight novels, the protagonist's strength is generally inferior to that of the villain, but when the two sides fight, the protagonist can always defeat the villain with the weak, and Supersonic is undoubtedly the protagonist who can defeat the villain with the weak!

After all, don't look at the NBA's super talents, who are almost the protagonists of the basketball world all over the world, but can play normally in the playoffs. There are not so many players who beat the strong with the weak, so the day after the game against the Jazz, Lin Han could clearly see the praise of Payton and Kemp from many media outlets.

Although it is said that the game between the superSonics and the Rockets has not yet begun. The Rockets are even tougher than the Jazz in terms of strength, but it's not easy for the Rockets to win as easily as they did in the first round, in fact. After the first round, almost all the media that made game predictions on the second day thought that the round matchup between the Rockets and the SuperSonics would not be so easy. Of course, it's not easy to say. Talking about Team Rocket, of course.

This is not only because the SuperSonics played quite well and calmly in the face of the Jazz, but also from the regular season record of the two sides in recent seasons, in recent years, in the past few years when the Rockets have slowly become the strongest team in the league, the SuperSonics have a very good record in the face of the Rockets, and in the entire NBA regular season, the teams that can be in the win-lose stage with the Rockets have only one superSonic, even if it was the Bulls of that year, the Jazz of last season, This season's Bulls and Lakers or Magic and other teams are all in a weak position when facing the Rockets, and even if Lin Han does not play more than 90 points in the game with the Rockets, the Lakers may be swept by the Rockets as the second in the West this season, and the second team in the league may be swept by the first team in the regular season, which can see what the gap between the first and second is.

Of course, the Lakers are like this, and the other strong teams in the league are similar, especially after Barkley came to the Rockets, but only the supersonics, no matter how the Rockets change in this team, when Payton and Camp become the core of the team, the Rockets have been difficult to beat this team, Camp is quite experienced in the face of Malone and Olajuwon, such as Olajuwon's strongest dream footsteps, in the face of other jumpers in the league, even in the face of David Robinson, the effect is quite significant, But only in the face of Camp is a little deflated, it's not that Camp is so good, so he doesn't shake, in fact, there is no one in the league who doesn't shake up, and Camp, as the head of the league's jumpers, is even more so, this guy is even more uncontrollable than David Robinson.

It's just that the reason why this kid is better when facing Olajuwon is not because he doesn't shake, but because Olajuwon is useless even if he shakes this kid, this guy's bullet speed is too fast, even if this Nima Olajuwon shakes him up, before he can attack, Sean Kemp jumped up again, and this is also a direct guide Olajuwon had to stop attacking and shaking people again when he was preparing to attack, and so on, Originally, Dream Foot was not a fast way to attack, but when Sean Kemp made it like this, Olajuwon could only force a shot or pass the ball directly.

Let's start with the year of the rise of the supersonic twin stars in 92, from the beginning of the 92-93 season to the current season, a total of three seasons, the SuperSonics and the Rockets played a total of 14 regular season games in three seasons, the Rockets only won four games, the two sides played a playoff game, and the final winner is still the SuperSonics. In the entire league, the team that was able to play the Rockets so aggrieved. There is and only hypersonic.

In this case, even the Rockets are now expected to be unexpected. No matter how strong they are, for most people, the SuperSonics are also one of their nemesis, or for the Rockets, this team would rather run into the Spurs or Lakers than the SuperSonics.

Therefore, the result of this round of the series is quite unpredictable, originally with the strength of the Rockets, this matchup should be one-sided no matter how you look at it, but in fact. When many media are predicting, the support rate of the Rockets is not one-sided, but it is June Fourth, and the supersonic speed has at least forty percent supporters!

And this is also quite surprising to Lin Han, if it weren't for these media to pick up the old bottoms of these two teams, Lin Han really didn't know that Kemp and Payton could play the Rockets so badly.

Of course, with the exception of the Rockets and the SuperSonics, which looked a little confusing, the other matchups in the second round of the league were not bad at all, especially the Lakers and Spurs.

The second round of the entire league. To say that the two closest teams in terms of strength are undoubtedly the Lakers and the Spurs, of course, under the mainstream evaluation, the overall strength of the Spurs is stronger. But after the Lakers were able to play Princeton's system in the first round, that assessment changed somewhat, although the Rockets were more likely to win in the second round. But no matter who is predicting, it is said that the strength of the two teams is close. In addition, during the regular season, the two teams also played quite intensely. and the special relationship between Lin Han and David Robinson, this matchup is considered by many to be perhaps the most brutal of the entire second round!

This is not just what these media experts and fans think, after the first round, after determining that their opponent is the Spurs, the entire Lakers actually think so, the second round against the Spurs, the Lakers will be quite difficult and cruel, especially after watching the first round of the game between the Spurs and the Nuggets, the entire Lakers know that the Spurs' run-in is now completely in place, and this team is now in good shape!

Of course, compared to the extremely confusing and fierce rivalry on the western side, the eastern side is completely different in terms of intensity because the strength of the two super teams, the Magic and the Bulls, is a notch higher than the other teams.

Especially the matchup between the Bulls and the Hornets, in terms of strength, the Hornets are really not the opponent of the Bulls at all, and more importantly, the city where the Hornets are now located is Charlotte, this team is not welcomed here, because Charlotte is the base camp of the ACC League, and the ACC League is the base camp of the NCAA. As a team that has not had a bad record, the treatment that the Hornets get here is quite poor, and even recently there has been news that the Hornets owner is preparing to move away, which is not groundless, the situation of the Hornets in Charlotte is absolutely desperate for the owner of this team, after all, if he doesn't work hard, it doesn't matter, but the Hornets are really working hard, although the boss doesn't seem to spend a lot of money, it can't compare to the Heat and Magic who entered the league at the same time as them, But the Hornets are definitely not the bottom of the money, but the end result is that as soon as some legendary players from the NCAA or ACC league come to play in Charlotte, the fans in the stadium will defect.

Whether it's Jordan, Leitner or Hill, as long as these guys return to Charlotte, these fans will be on the other side, and the Bulls are Jordan's team!

In this case, it doesn't matter if the Hornets are inferior to the other party in terms of strength, and the fans are likely to directly turn against each other, so no matter how you look at it, this round of the series is an impossible series for the Hornets to beat.

Therefore, in the four matchups in the second round of the entire league, the matchup between the Bulls and the Hornets is actually the most suspenseful, almost 100% of experts and media are optimistic about the Bulls, and more than 60% of all the experts believe that the Bulls can sweep the Hornets, and only a very small number of people think that the Hornets can give the Bulls some blows on the inside advantage.

Of course, there is no suspense about how the Bulls and Hornets will look at this round of matchup, and as another super strong team in the entire East, the Magic team, this team is actually under a lot of pressure when it encounters an opponent like the Pacers.

As far as the table xiàn of the regular season is concerned. The Pacers can't match the Magic, who have a much better record than the Pacers. But if you just look at the regular season meetings between the two sides and the comparison of hard power, the gap between the two sides is not that big. In particular, Reggie Miller, the Pacers' dominant player in the first round, seems to have exploded in the last two games, which is even more unpredictable.

You know, as far as the entire East is concerned, the Magic team is now the most balanced team inside and outside the entire East, and if you want to talk about the balance of the inside and outside, in addition to the Magic team, it is the Pacers, this team is quite strong inside and outside, and it is precisely able to compete with the Magic team, such as on the inside. O'Neal is now the strongest interior player in the East, while the Pacers have Eastern defense, especially Dale Davis, one of the most outstanding interior players, who proved himself to be able to withstand O'Neal in the regular season, among the Mesozoic interior players in the league, his defensive ability is very good at that level, especially the Pacers In addition to having a defensive player on the inside, there is also an offensive interior center Schmitz who can play O'Neal on the offensive end. The archetypal European big center's mid-range shooting ability is something that can definitely drive O'Neal crazy. Coupled with the fact that there is a strongman on the team like Mark Jackson who plays the ball to them, it can be said that Schmitz can make a big difference in the face of O'Neal, and more importantly, the Magic team is too strong because of the starting strength. The bench is almost the weakest in the league, and the Pacers' bench is one of the strongest in the famous league.

And even more deadly. The Pacers' bench lineup is not just tough but has the same inside and outside balance as their starters, with Titanic Antonio Davis on the inside. On the perimeter are former Lakers legend Byron Scott and Sam Mitchell, although the Pacers don't have a true sixth man. But these three can give the Pacers a lot of support both inside and outside.

If it weren't for Reggie Miller's poor schedule this season, this team would not be as simple as just third in the East, and this team would definitely not be just a tough battle in the first round of the playoffs, if Reggie Miller can find his own rhythm of the game, then it will not be so easy for either the Magic or the Bulls to beat this team.

Judging from the situation in the first round, Reggie Miller seems to have a tendency to find his own rhythm of the game, so it is really not so easy for the Magic team to win against the Pacers, so this round of matchups is also a six-four matchup, and at least forty percent of experts believe that the Pacers can counterattack the Magic!

Of course, after the first round of the league is over, the entire outside media experts and fans have been arguing about the second round of matchups, and in fact, within the NBA team, after the first round of games are all over, the Lakers are actually quite heated discussions, especially as the defending champion Jazz team actually went out in the first round, which is simply incredible to many Lakers players, especially those Lakers players who were former Jazz players.

And even if those Lakers players who are not former Jazz players, the pressure is quite high in the situation that a team like the Jazz is out of the first round, in fact, in such a terrifying playoff game in the West this year, I am afraid that not only the Lakers players, but also the players of many other teams are in a similar mood at this time, this year's playoffs have to be said to be really terrifying, even a strong team like the Rockets in the West may not necessarily guarantee that they will be able to beat the SuperSonics to enter the Western Conference Finals.

However, fortunately, although the Lakers are a little nervous at this time because of the elimination of the Jazz, this kind of nervousness is actually shared by everyone, which is nothing, and after the end of the first round, there is one thing that makes the Lakers very excited about all of them, that is, the awards season of the NBA regular season after the end of the first round!

Although the Lakers are not the team with the best record this season, in terms of record, they are still suppressed by the league's No. 1 Rockets, but the record is not the first does not mean that the award is not the first!

Although the major awards in the NBA have not been awarded before, most of the awards have actually been seen by many people as no suspense, and even the best defensive player has been won by Lin Han, so what other awards Lin Han can't win?!

So, just get into awards season. Then Lin Han is the biggest winner in the league, and Lin Han will sweep the entire NBA regular season award season will also become inevitable!

And more importantly. Lin Han is not the only one in the entire Lakers team who has gained during the awards season. There are plenty of opportunities for the other players, too!

So, after the end of the first round of the playoffs in the NBA. Almost all Lakers players are looking forward to the NBA's major awards at this time!

Of course, when the NBA comes to the awards season, the Lakers players are looking forward to it, and those media reporters and fans in the league are also looking forward to it, this year's Lakers team is bound to become the biggest winner, and how many awards this team can finally sweep is also very exciting.

When the NBA arrives at awards season, the first award to be presented is the Sixth Man of the Year, which is the biggest suspense of the year. Although the Lakers' rookie Ruffin has the greatest chance, former Rockets player Sam Cassel also has a lot of opportunities, plus the Warriors' Gatlin and the defending champion of this award, Dell Curry, in fact, everyone's chances are similar, after all, although Ruffin is good, but in the absolute number jù, Ruffin is not dominant, you know, Dell Curry won this award last season was able to average 17 points per game. And this season Ruffin is only averaging more than 12 points per game, although this score is good among competitors, but it is still not as good as Curry this season.

Eventually, though, when the league sent the Sixth Man of the Year trophy to the Lakers' rookie off the bench, Ruffin. Although many experts and fans in the league are a little surprised, they are quite acceptable, comparative. Ruffin was just a rookie, as a rookie player. As soon as he came to the team, he became a substitute, and he was able to score as long as he needed to be like a microwave oven in the bench position. This is very difficult, and Ruffin has done it, so no matter what he does, at least an average of more than 12 points per game is enough.

After the Best Sixth Man award, followed by the league's defensive first team, the league's best defensive player and defensive first team selection mechanism is different, the best defensive player may not even be able to enter the defensive team, so, because the selection mechanism is different, the best defensive player and the best defensive team are completely two different awards, and there is no inevitable connection between each other.

In this year's Best Defensive Team vote, the best defensive player of the year, Lin Han's vote score is the first, surpassing the first place in previous seasons Olajuwon, and in the end, this year's best defensive team is also led by Lin Han, the other four are Olajuwon, Rodman, Pippen, Jordan, and in addition to the first team, this year's best defensive second team is led by Mutombo, and the remaining four are Sean Kemp, Grant and Payton and Stockton

Of course, compared with the best sixth man who is a little unexpected but not controversial, this year's best defensive team is actually somewhat controversial, such as Jordan and Payton, such as Kemp and Rodman, although Jordan's defense is as good as ever, but in the league, many people hope that Payton, who is very good on the defensive end this year, can enter the first team, but it is obvious that when the league has two strongmen, Lin Han and Jordan, it is not so easy for Payton to be on the top line. And Rodman's side is similar, although Kemp is indeed extremely good, but his excellence is not without flaws, Kemp may have the league's top defensive ability, but his single defense ability has always been a huge flaw, if this point is not improved, it is difficult for Kemp to really become a defensive player or an impact on the best defensive player.

Of course, anyway, after the award of the best defensive team, as a team with two players entering the defensive team, the Lakers were really in the limelight for a while, especially in the award of the most improved player in the next step, as the biggest favorite for MVP, Lin Han, the scoring champion last season, actually became the league's most improved player, and the entire league was almost in an uproar!

There is no doubt that Lin Han has no problem getting the fastest offensive player this year in the number jù, this season's Lin Han, in the number jù, scored more than last season by 6 points, assisted almost 5, and rebounded almost 7 more, as for steals and blocks, the proportion has even doubled compared to last season, and it has more than doubled!

If it's just counting jù, almost everyone can see such progress, but how can Lin Han's growth this season just count jù. The same is true in terms of ability. And more importantly, the improvement of the ability to lead the team. Having taken a team considered to be at the bottom of the league to second place in the league, such a table has no problem in any way taking the most improved player.

The key is that many people have controversy and surprise that Lin Han was already a superstar player in the league last season, no matter how much he improved in terms of numbers and ability, Lin Han's identity as a superstar player has not changed, as long as he has not become the king of the ball. Lin Han actually has not made any progress in his status, in this case, the core of the most improved player is actually not improving, for many people, the most improved player, the number of improvements is very important, and more importantly, the progress of a player's status!

For example, Ellis, the Lakers' other player who has taken the most improved player, is the former league's No. 1 regular season shooter. Not only did he improve in terms of numbers, but he also improved from a dispensable role player to the team's core player in one fell swoop, although Ellis is now quite miserable, but this guy is definitely the best template for the fastest improving player!

And Lin Han compared to this teammate. Progress is not so obvious, so controversy is inevitable.

If it is said that in the area of the most improved player, Lin Han's award is controversial. Then after the results of the best team were announced, when Lin Han finally led the best team with the first score. Then this controversy is completely absent!

The first team of the season's best team, in addition to Lin Han. And Olajuwon, Pippen, and Jordan and Hardaway!

Of course, Lin Han can become the player with the most points in a group of players this year, which is completely recognized without any controversy, but one interesting thing is that Lin Han did not enter the best team as a defender, and the reporter experts who voted for the best team this season are a total of 120 people, of which Lin Han received 120 votes for all the first team, a total of 600 points ranked first in the league, but among these 600 points, there is a different distinction!

Because Lin Han's position this season is extremely unfixed, scoring guard, point guard, small forward, power forward, center, Lin Han's five positions have all played, and the time played is not one or two games, almost every position Lin Han has played at least ten games, extremely average, in this case, many reporters are a little hesitant when voting, although Lin Han's official position is scoring guard, but when voting for the best team, reporters can not vote according to the official position given by the league, Because generally speaking, the position given by the official is the position that the player has played the most this season, and Lin Han's most played position this season is scoring guard, yes, but there are also many other positions, if you count the inside, Lin Han plays the inside more times than when he plays point guard, and he plays forward more times than he plays point guard.

When the league votes for the best team, like the All-Star, players can shoot a total of three positions, center, forward and guard, and Lin Han's scoring in these three positions is that 20 of the 120 reporters put Lin Han in the center column of the best team, Lin Han's center score is 100 points, and there are also 70 people who cast Lin Han's position in the forward column, so Lin Han's forward score is 350 points, and the last 30 people are to throw Lin Han's position to the guard. Linham's guard scored 150 points.

Therefore, when the final voting results appeared in such a situation, even David Stern was shocked, there has been no such situation in the history of the league, you know, if according to this score, Lin Han's center score of 100 points can only make Lin Han rank fourth in the center ranking, and the forward 350 points can only make Lin Han the forward position ranked third, and the guard's 150 points make Lin Han in the guard position can only rank fifth, if you look at the score in the position, Lin Han can't say that it is impossible to enter the first team, even if it is the second team, he can only be ranked in the second team through the forward position!

If Lin Han finally loses the first team for such reasons, this Nima will not mention others, just reporters, experts and fans will have to spray them to death!

So, the ultimatum guò David Stern's clapper, the league finally changed the rules in the vote for the best team, this one was called' The rules of Lin Han's law were also born, in the future, when a player votes for the best team, he will no longer be scored according to the corresponding position, that is to say, Olajuwon can appear on the guard or the striker in the future, the league no longer forcibly stipulates what position the player is, whatever the reporter and experts vote for, and the players who enter the best team are given priority to calculate the total score, taking Lin Han as an example, Lin Han has the first total score, then Lin Han has priority to get a place in the first team, and where to put Lin Han, it depends on his position to score, Lin Han's forward position has the most points, then he gets the best lineup among the forwards, and so onIf the player with the second highest score is also the player with the most votes at the forward position, and the player with the third highest score score is also the top scorer at the forward position, and the player has lower points in other positions than the player behind him in the total score, then that player may not be selected from the first team if the total points can be in the top five.

This Lin Han rule is quite complicated, but in general, compared with the previous rules, it can better protect the rights and interests of all-round players like Lin Han, in short, players like Lin Han are very rare, so generally speaking, this Lin Han rule is difficult to use.

It's just that, even so, when the league came up with this Lin Han rule in order to put Lin Han in the first team, although it did not cause any controversy, it was certain that Lin Han entered a while, but it also caused a great sensation, after all, the league created a rule for a player, which can be regarded as the most versatile player in the history of Lin Han's league!

If someone really wants to challenge Lin Han's status as an all-round player, let's not talk about it, let the league change a rule for his all-round ability.

Of course, it is precisely because of the reason why Lin Han's best team this year appears in the forward position, in the first team composed of Lin Han, Olajuwon, Pippen, Jordan and Penny Hardaway, this lineup can definitely be regarded as one big and four small.

In addition to this All-Round Team, the All-Round Second Team is David Robinson, Karl Malone, as well as Shaunkamp, Stockton and Payton, and the All-Round Third Team is O'Neal, Barkley, Dominic Wilkins, Sprewell, and Tim Hardaway

And the entire best team, the Lakers also have two players selected, Lin Han and Wilkins, although Wilkins is only the third team, but this is also very good, after all, the best team is only fifteen people, and there are a total of 27 people in each team in the entire league, which means that even the big players of most teams in the league cannot enter the best team, and in fact, Wilkins's own career is not in the best team every year. After last season's failure, returning to the All-Star team this season was also a big surprise for Wilkins.

After the league's best team vote is completed, followed by the selection of the best rookie, this year's best rookie was won by the Pistons' leading player Grant Hill without accident, and in addition to the best rookie, the Lakers' rookie player Eddie Jones also entered the rookie first team, the most surprising thing is that the Lakers just won the best sixth man Rufen also entered the rookie first team, Rufin, Eddie Jones, Glen Johnson, Kidd and Hill, these five are the first team players of this year's rookie, The NBA's rookie best team does not consider the position, just look at the final vote score, the top five scorers automatically become the first team players, if there is a tie in the score, the first team can even have more than five people, six seven or even eight or nine is no problem.

And Ruffin, as an undrafted rookie, was able to enter the rookie first team, which can be regarded as a miracle.

At the same time, even players like Ruffin have become the best rookie players for a while, and you can see how terrifying the Lakers are at this time, and it can be said that they have truly swept all the awards in the entire NBA!

And when the NBA's finale award, the NBA's regular season MVP award was finally awarded to Lin Han, the Los Angeles Lakers finally achieved a sweep of the NBA's awards season this season! (To be continued......) R1292