Chapter 170 [Brilliant Extreme, Returning to Blandness]
The next day, major media reported the Lakers' away win over the Heat, and while Guo Xu was highly praised, it also caused great controversy.
The high evaluation is not only for Guo Xu's 40+ in a single game, but also because he locked the best rookie of the season early, and the two main competitors said in interviews that they could not compete with him, and their strength was not as good as him.
Mike Miller sighed: "It's not strange to me that Jason Guo scored more than 40 points in a single game, and I thought he was a monster in the finals, and the offense was terrible." If he had been in the Magic's training camp and physical testing before the draft, maybe the team wouldn't have drafted me. ”
After watching the video interview, Magic coach Doug Rivers looked like an aunt carrying a sedan chair for the exorcist, and he was eager to find Miller's theory: "Earlier, why didn't you say it earlier?" Why didn't you say it earlier? You should have said it earlier. ”
Bulls swingman Jason Richardson said: "I called him last night to congratulate him, and I'm so happy for him. ”
The reporter asked: "Jason Guo has played beautiful statistics, and the best rookie list is in front of you, won't you be depressed about it?" ”
Richardson laughed: "No, we are not just teammates in college and high school, we have been neighbors and good friends since we were children, and we grew up together." I'm happy for him, I'm proud of him, he's played better than me this season. ”
Richardson is currently averaging 14.6 points, 4.5 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game, but the team's record is at the bottom of the league, and the Bulls players feel like they are playing randomly and brushing up the stats together.
Other high-ranking rookies didn't evaluate Guo Xu this time, because they weren't even competitors, and Saiqi was interviewed by the media in the early stage, and now I'm not interested in knowing what they think.
Kenyon Martin, the top player of the Nets, averaged 12 points and 7 rebounds per game, and his average data of 12 points and 7 rebounds per game seems to be good, but he actually plays an average of 33 minutes per game, and he is a blue-collar player with low efficiency on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends. He doesn't have much defensive ability right now, flying in a flash, averaging 4.1 fouls per game that ranks first in the league.
Grizzlies star Stromeyer Swift is even less worth mentioning, averaging 5 points, 3.6 rebounds, 0.4 assists and 0.8 fouls in 16.5 minutes per game.
The Clippers' Tanhua Darius Myers averaged less than 10 points per game, and the only bright spot was 1.5 blocks in 26 minutes.
The top three rookies in the class of 2000 have been labeled as parallel goods by the media, and in Guo Xu's previous life, only Martin and other real coaches of the Nets Kidd will have a significant improvement in strength after the arrival, and he will be selected as an All-Star and get a big contract, and the other two are destined to turn over.
On the Internet, Guo Xu's popularity has increased dramatically again, scoring 40+ in the national live broadcast competition, and almost everyone believes that he will set a historical record for the lowest pick in the NBA to win the best rookie.
Controversy ensued, with many people believing that even if he was the best rookie, he was not qualified to compete with 76ers boss Iverson.
"Iverson is the top scorer, what is Jason Guo? Even if you want to make a war book, it should be Kobe Bryant and O'Neal. ”
"He was blown up on the stage and forgot about his dead virtue so quickly, and he still wants to be a star in the future with this memory?"
"The most self-conscious rookie in history, the two teams really met in the finals, and if the single-core 76ers win, it must be because Jason Guo's defense is too poor, and Iverson explodes."
"It's just that I'm so crazy after a convulsion, I want to find Iverson for revenge and wait for the next life, how can the brain-dead person who hug his thighs compare with the superstar who leads the team independently?"
Unlike when he lost to the 76ers, Guo Xu was not angry at all when he looked at the many unfavorable remarks on the Internet.
In the time loop, he often makes big news, and he has long been sprayed by others, crashing into a car, jumping an epole, jumping an umbrella, making a date, and a group of people will come out on the Internet to comment on him, saying that he is useless.
One day he suddenly realized that he didn't need to care about the trivial slander, and the people standing at the foot of the mountain and the top of the mountain were equally small in the eyes of the other party.
Slander is a kind of admiration in itself, if I am better than you, how can I have time to deal with you?
After watching the news on the Internet for a while, Guo Xu went to knock on the opposite door at noon, Megan's vacation was over, and she came back from Port St. Lucie yesterday.
After opening the door, Guo Xu asked, "Do you have a class in the afternoon?" ”
Megan said, "No, what? ”
"It's okay, it's just that I just made a lot of money from stock trading, and I want you to accompany me to a distant place for a big dinner."
"Oh."
The spring of Huazhi is full, the moon is full in the heart of the sky, and it is extremely gorgeous, and it is dull.
On January 7, the Lakers defeated the Clippers 119-104 at home to make it two wins in a row, with the Trident combining to contribute 91 points.
Guo Xu had 30 points, 3 rebounds, 7 assists and 4 steals, and the Clippers starting point guard Jeff McGinnis, who had 11 points and 6 assists.
At the end of December, when the two teams competed, McGinnis used his height of 193CM to face Guo Xu and still had the upper hand, but only two weeks later, his advantages could not be brought into play, and Guo Xu was stuck in a bad turn.
Guo Xu's defense has also improved, in NBA games, it can often be seen that many people at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends will use small actions, and the referee may not blow when he sees it, and Kobe can be said to be a small action arsenal, Guo Xu learned a lot from him.
In this era, the NBA did not have a "no handcheck" rule. As the name suggests, hand is a hand, and check is to stop, that is, "it is forbidden to stop with hands".
For example, this season, Kobe Bryant played with the ball on his back, and the defender could carry it directly on his waist with one hand. In this way, people who lack strength can use their arm strength to stop strong people from hitting their backs. In the future, the NBA will not allow this to be done, and it is forbidden to use your hands and forearms to contact the body of an offensive player outside the free throw area to block the offense.
This doesn't have much impact on players who like to break through the face frame, as long as the face frame stretches out his arm to make contact with the opponent, he will be fouled by the whistle at any time. Anti-back, this small movement is very effective.
Guo Xu's arm against McGinnis's waist will affect his dribbling rhythm, and as a 193CM point guard, McGinnis's back to protect the ball, observing his teammates' running and organizing the offense is very large, and his back body breakthrough is far from the extent of Payton's random turn left and right.
Guo Xu holds the ball in the face frame heads-up, McGinnis can't prevent it, his lateral speed is not fast enough, he can be close to Guo Xu before the cycle is very uncomfortable, now Guo Xu knows how to break this move, run when the distance is close, take the ball out, and use the width of the court to widen the distance and turn the face frame.
As long as he turns around, no matter how far away he is from the basket, it is McGinnis, who is at a disadvantage, that is uncomfortable, and he is difficult to get close to, and if he doesn't grasp the distance, he will be passed.
Even if Guo Xu doesn't force a breakthrough, he can also observe his teammates running and organizing passes, which is very easy.
Clippers point guard Kenyon Durin is out due to injury, and the bench can only use the 165CM tall fringe man Earl Boykins.
Boykins' strengths are speed and projection, and it was difficult to play against Guo Xu, who was also flexible, and was beaten miserably.
In two consecutive 30+ games, there are more media that blow Guo Xu, and reporters like to compare him with Iverson.
Tomorrow the Lakers will face the Jazz back-to-back, many Jazz fans are sweating for the veteran Stockton, Guo Xu has been strong recently, and the breakthrough is so fierce, can the veteran prevent it?