Chapter 947: He's a Data Brush!
Before playing the Rockets and Jazz, everyone's attention was on the quadruple-double.
But this wave of away trips has not yet been completed, and fans suddenly found that this is Tang Tian's fifth consecutive game to win a triple-double!
Tang Tian also did this last season, but the situation now is different from that time.
At that time, Tang Tian did his best to complete it with the help of a bunch of Kafeng teammates, and now he is obviously at ease.
And with the increasing number of triple-doubles, Tang Tian's average data per game is infinitely close to triple-doubles.
Averaged 30.2 points, 9.5 rebounds and 10.2 assists per game!
If he continues to perform like this, he could have achieved a triple-double per game by April!
And this is also the goal he set for himself after communicating with Jordan at the beginning of the season!
Tang Tian is moving towards the goal of averaging a triple-double per game, but he is not alone in the league now.
The Thunder's Westbrook is averaging 29.6 points, 11.1 rebounds and 10.1 assists per game so far.
Although his shooting percentage has dropped due to the increase in penalty rods, and his points and assists per game have decreased compared to the beginning of the season, he still maintains a triple-double per game.
If this momentum continues, the NBA league will not only have players who average triple-doubles on the field again, but also two at once!
It will be an unprecedented event.
Fans are discussing whether Tang Tian can continue to perform with a triple-double, and they are also discussing the average triple-double of him and Westbrook.
As we enter the second half of the season, the accolades of the season will become even more noticeable.
Against this backdrop, the Pelicans continue their road trip against the Cleveland Cavaliers in their next game.
It was also the second and final regular season meeting between the two sides this season.
The last game was the season opener.
At that time, the Pelicans defeated the Cavaliers under the leadership of Tang Tian, making the Cavaliers' 98 million reinforcements in the summer directly lost.
However, this time they met again after more than four months, and the situation of both teams has changed.
The Pelicans traded for Williams to bolster their bench strength, while the Cavaliers changed even more.
They also traded Korver at the trade deadline, who quickly settled into the Cavaliers' rotation and became the No. 2 scorer off the bench.
More importantly, though, Whiteside has been asked by the coaching staff to lose weight, and he is now a modern centre-forward who combines speed and confrontation.
After successfully losing weight, he can average 13.6 points, 11.7 rebounds and 3.6 blocks per game, with a shooting rate of 59%!
And in the past 3 games, the number of blocks has exceeded 5, and the form is hot.
This is where the Cavaliers have grown the most.
In other words, this meeting between the two teams will certainly not be as easy as the first time, and it will not be so easy for the Pelicans to win.
Not to mention that the Cavaliers are still playing at home.
In Cleveland the day before the game, fans were already building momentum on social media.
The fiasco in the opening game, as well as the subsequent fiasco against the Warriors, made the outside world think that this season is a two-bear battle between the Pelicans and the Warriors, and who wins the championship in the West.
As for the Cavaliers, in their opinion, they have become the winner of the West, and the Finals are just a formality.
Now that the Cavaliers are improving, they will naturally want the team to make a name for themselves in the most positive way.
And whether it is James, the former No. 1 in the league and the "little emperor" who has only been on the throne for one year, or Whiteside, the most talked-about person, or even Tang Tian's brother Irving, and Lefou, who has fallen from an All-Star to an ordinary player because of the change in the penalty scale, all need to prove themselves with such a game.
"This is a playoff for last year's Grand Final, and again, this could be a preview of this year's Grand Final."
As Barkley said on TNT, the Pelicans-Cavaliers game was the most watched game at the end of the season.
All eyes are on the horizon.
In the afternoon of this day, the Cavaliers had a training session that was open to the public.
The media reporters present were black.
The topic of conversation at the end of the season is much less than at the beginning and middle of the season, and the media will never miss such a topical game at this time.
As soon as training ended, the Big Four of James, Irving, Whiteside and Love, as well as the team's head coach Lue, were surrounded by reporters.
And among the crowd, Whiteside has the most reporters, even more than James.
The feud between James and Tang Tian continues, but it is not new, and the entanglement between Whiteside and the Pelicans has become the freshest topic.
And Whiteside itself has always been a topic maker, and the words of the opening game are still fresh in the memory of reporters.
I think the team will get revenge tonight, he is completely different from the start of the season, and they will get a big win at home......
These words were not at all strange when they came out of his mouth.
His resentment against the Pelicans, exacerbated by the debacle in the opener, is desperate to prove himself with tonight's game.
However, one of these questions from a FOX sports reporter gave this pre-game interview a new topic.
And the explosion point of the topic is bigger than all the other interviews combined.
"What do you think of Don's performance? He's got a triple-double in five straight games, and if he reaches six tonight. ”
The reporter's question is a natural question, Tang Tian is now setting a record for consecutive triple-doubles in the season, and is likely to equal the history of nine consecutive games.
But Whiteside wasn't so happy when he heard it.
"You should follow me, I've got five blocks in three straight games."
He was in the accident world when he was with the Pelicans, and when the Cavaliers and James were mixed for a long time, he cared more about these things.
The reporter smiled.
The number of blocks in 3 consecutive games is more than 5, which is really good, but it is a bit worse than Tang Tian's consecutive four doubles and five triple-doubles.
And now he is asking questions related to Tang Tian, not Whiteside.
Seeing the reporter's expression, Whiteside's thoughts, which had remained in the cerebral cortex, became active again.
He was upset and had to say something.
"He's not going to do it."
Hearing Whiteside's words, the reporter's excitement came.
Whiteside didn't disappoint him!
"We all watched the Pelicans and Rockets and the Jazz games, and AD was giving Don a board in both games, and he was in the spotlight because of that, but I wouldn't let him do that, I would grab every rebound, and Don would not be able to complete a triple-double."
The rest of Whiteside's passage is surprisingly logical.
However, this was also the reaction he would have, and he needed to shift the attention of the outside world from Tang Tian's body to his own.
"Do you mean to say that Tang Tian is a data brush?"
The reporter then asked.
Sure enough, he is worthy of being a reporter for FOX Sports, and he jumps straight to the most critical part.