Chapter 510: Most Improved Player Award
While the Grizzlies completed the "Black Eight Miracle", there were also teams in the East and West that made the cut, such as the Bulls and Heat in the East, who easily eliminated their opponents 4-0 in the first round.
In other words, with the exception of the Mavericks' game against the Trail Blazers, three of the first four series have already seen results.
The only remaining group, the Mavericks, has also taken the advantage, currently leading the Trail Blazers by a score of 3-1, just waiting for the fifth game to return to the home court to eliminate the Trail Blazers!
Nowitzki has been outstanding in those four games, averaging 25.5 points, 8.5 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game while shooting 48.7 percent from the field and a staggering 90.1 percent from the free-throw line!
This performance made a group of experts in the United States dumbfounded, strange things happen every year, especially this year, first the Spurs have always been stable in the gutter overturned, by the Grizzlies "Black Eight", and now it is Nowitzki, who will be sluggish in the playoffs, rose in the first-round series and played a better performance than the regular season.
Considering his age, considering that he has just returned from injury, this kind of performance has undoubtedly made many experts look at him differently!
In the last four group series, on the Eastern side, the Knicks also effortlessly eliminated their first-round opponent 4-0 and advanced to the next round.
With the exception of the Knicks, the progress of the other three groups has been much slower, such as the Magic and the Celtics, who have just played a 2-2 tie after four games.
They were the same as the ESPN pundits predicted before the game, and every game was played with extreme anxiety, and it was not until the last minute of the game that the winner was decided.
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The Knicks' advance made Knicks fans happy, and if they didn't count on their fingers, they couldn't remember how many years later the Knicks reached the second round of the playoffs.
They were happy, and the fans of the Heat were desperate, although they knew that it was impossible, but there were still many fans who were lucky, looking forward to the Knicks and the Spurs losing in the first round. Unfortunately, God didn't hear their prayers again, and the Knicks made it through the first round comfortably and stood across from them.
On his head is the crown of "4-0 sweep of the Heat in the regular season".
"The Heat will face the Knicks in the second round, and three of the four strongest players in the '03 draft will face Yi together for the first time in their careers!"
"Guys, what do you think the series will turn out for?"
ESPN has arranged a roundtable specifically for this competition.
"I think the Knicks can definitely sweep the Heat 4-0, or knock the Heat out 4-1, and they showed their suppressive power against the Heat in four games of the regular season, and this kind of suppression makes people feel helpless, and if anyone thinks that the Heat can win, or the Heat can drag the series to Game 6 or Game 7, I think it must be crazy!"
It was Bill Walton who spoke, and he was very optimistic that the Knicks would continue to suppress the Heat in the playoffs.
"I think the Heat will win!"
But soon, the next expert to speak slapped Bill Wharton in the face, and Bill Wharton really looked at the expert with a "you're really crazy" expression, and shook his head slightly, obviously, no matter what the expert said next, he would not agree.
"It's not the regular season anymore, it's the playoffs, and we all know what superstars mean to the playoffs, and that's basically the same as taking the initiative at the critical moment of the game, because only a real star can put that damn ball in when the team needs to score, such guys, there are 3 of the Heat now, I really don't know how terrifying they are going to be in the playoffs, so, I insist that the Heat will win in the end, They'll knock the Knicks out 4-1 or 4-2! ”
"And, don't ignore Chris Posh's performance in the first round of the playoffs, where he averaged nearly 20 plus 10 per game, and that inside dominance means he's been freed from the regular season slump, and he's the biggest variable in this game!"
The views and reasons of the remaining three experts are similar to those of Bill Walton and the expert who spoke first, supporting the Knicks' experts to talk about the regular season record, and not supporting the Knicks experts to talk about the superstars and Chris Bosh's state recovery.
The final score was 3 to 2!
More experts believe that the Knicks will win, but this result still makes Knicks fans unhappy for a while:
"The Heat were swept 4-0 by us in the regular season, and these experts are still optimistic about this team, are they really not watching the game?"
"I sometimes really suspect that these experts are drinking alcohol and making remarks, and what they say is all bullshit reasons!"
"The Heat's Big Three didn't change the game during the regular season, so what did they do to change the game in the playoffs? Are the brains of these experts stuffed with shit again? ”
Knicks fans cursed a lot.
In fact, it is also very easy to understand the psychology of these experts who think that the Heat will win, or that sentence, a team with LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, no one believes that they will not be able to enter the Finals!
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At the same time, the league also announced the "Most Improved Player Award" for the 10~11 season!
The winner of the award is the "new wolf king" Kevin Love, who entered the All-Star Game for the first time this season, he averaged 20.2 points and 14.2 rebounds per game this season, which is a great improvement from last season's average of 14 points and 11 rebounds per game, and it is not surprising to win this award.
Kevin Love has also become a superstar in the league since this season, and has become the "new wolf king" of the Minneshuda Timberwolves!
It's just that judging from the Timberwolves' record in later years, Kevin Love is indeed not a good leader, he is just a "data brush".
He's more suited to be the second or third leader of a team than the core player who will revive the team.
Yi Jianlian actually felt sorry for Dragic, he averaged 11.5 points and 5.5 assists per game after coming to the Knicks, and his statistics have increased by leaps and bounds.
However, fortunately, it came late, and although Dragic missed out on the "Most Improved Player Award" this season, he still has a chance to fight for next year. His final average of 8.7 points and 3.6 assists per game this season is naturally a lot of room for improvement, Dragic has won the trust of D'Antoni, playing an average of 32.1 minutes per game in the first round of this year's playoffs, averaging 15.4 points and 7.6 assists per game, if he can maintain this data in the regular season next year, then Dragic has a great hope of becoming the NBA's 2011~2012 season "Most Improved Player Award"! The legend of the reborn Yi Emperor