Chapter 2 The Spurs' Uncle's Regiment

David Thompson, nicknamed "Skywalker", is extremely physical, extraordinary, and very capable of scoring, is Jordan's idol and the only retired jersey from NC State (NC State is not the same school as NC)

On the final game day of the 1977-1978 regular season, the Nuggets' David Thompson averaged 26.6 points per game, while George Gervin averaged 26.8 points per game, and Thompson needed to score 14 more points than Gervin in the final game to take away the scoring title this season.

Before the game, some media asked Thompson, the gap of 14 points is not big, do you want to win this year's scoring championship honor, Thompson said seriously,

I came to the team with the goal of winning the championship and I didn't really care about those individual accolades.

That's what Thompson said, but it's not like that at all on the court, Thompson shoots when he gets the ball, throws when he gets the ball, and he doesn't have the ball in his hand and asks his teammates, and a lot of shots are still the middle and long distance that Thompson is not very good at, and it happens that Thompson's hand feels surprisingly good in that game, shooting in, shooting in, and as a result, he scored 32 points in a single quarter in the first quarter, creating a new record for NBA single-quarter scoring, and at halftime, Thompson scored 53 points in the middle of the half on 20 32 shots.

I forgot to explain, the opponent of the Nuggets in this game is the Pistons, and Thompson's crazy scoring behavior angered the Pistons team, -- didn't you TM say that you don't want to win the scoring title, and you are crazy about scoring now, and it means that you are crazy about scoring, pull me as a stepping stone, isn't it! Brothers, go on, kill him, no one can let him score! So in the second half, the other Pistons players didn't care, the three of them were crazy to wrap Thompson, whoever shot could not let Thompson shoot, the result was obvious, the Pistons lost the final game, Thompson faced the Pistons in the second half almost self-detonated bag, only scored 20 points, and finally he scored 73 points in this game! After this game, David Thompson managed to surpass George Gervin by 0.3 points and became the top scorer.

The next day the Spurs played against the Jazz, before the game, he just woke up from bed, and learned that Thompson scored 73 points in the last game of the regular season, so as to surpass himself in the scoring list, before the game, the media who watched the excitement and asked Gervin, Thompson swept 73 points in the last game, and now he is the first in the scoring list, after calculation, you only need to score 58 points in this game, you can overtake Thompson and win the scoring title, do you want to take this scoring title.

George Gervin's answer was exactly the same as Thompson's,

My goal is the championship, and I don't care about individual honors.

Again, that's what Gerwen says, and it's not the same thing when he comes on the pitch.

Gervin also began to shoot wildly after the opening, but unlike Thompson, Gervin shot one, lost one, shot another, lost another, lost another one, six minutes before the first quarter, Gervin shot 0 of 6 and did not score a point, when the pause, Gervin said, I really can't shoot today, or we don't want it, Thompson wants, just give it to him, Gervin said so but his teammates disagreed,

Damn, Thompson, this kid is not authentic, you can't cheap him, you just shoot hard, don't think about anything else, we'll feed you the ball!

So Gervin continued to shoot in the second half of the first quarter, perhaps his teammates gave Gervin strength, and then in this half of the quarter, Gervin suddenly found his touch, scoring 20 points in the first quarter, and in the second quarter he continued to work hard, scoring 33 points in a single quarter, directly breaking the 32-point record in a single quarter created by Thompson the day before, and everyone knows that later Gervin's record was broken by another Thompson-Klay Thompson's 37 points in a single quarter (Klay shot 9 of 9 three-pointers in that quarter, but Gervin did not have a three-point shot in that era), In the end, Gervin scored 63 points in the game, defeated David Thompson by a narrow margin of 0.06 points, and won the first scoring title of Gervin's career.

The next season, Gervin continued to work hard, with an average of 29.6 points per game to become the first consecutive scoring champion in NBA history, led by Gervin, the Spurs were able to average 119.3 points per game when the league highest, and the Spurs finished the season with a 48-34 record at the top of the Central Division for the second year in a row, but, everyone mind, I will say but, however, the Spurs were eliminated again in the first round by the Washington Bullets......

This bitter spur......

Come, let's change a few words from the previous paragraph and copy it. From 1979 to 1980, Gervin averaged 33.1 points per game and scored three times in a row, winning the scoring title for three consecutive years, and he also won the All-Star Game MVP with 34 points and 10 rebounds in the 1980 All-Star Game, and the Spurs entered the playoffs again with a 41-41 record at the end of the season......

The 1980-1981 season was an epoch-making season for the Spurs, because this season, they finally broke through the first round! This season, the Spurs were classified into the Midwest Division, with Houston, Kansas, Denver Utah and the Mavericks for a season, the team hired Stan Albeck as the head coach, the head coach is still very capable, and the coaching experience is also very rich, but unfortunately the health is not very good, always easy to get sick, in 2001 unfortunately suffered a stroke, which eventually led to his physical paralysis, how difficult it is to be a good person.

This season's Spurs team is actually not a good lineup, only Gervin and Silas are struggling to support, and the other sub-role players are not particularly prominent, although this season has newly introduced Johnny Moore, who was later retired by the Spurs, but he did not play well in his rookie season, Averaging only 7.4 points and 4.5 assists per game, although the lineup is not outstanding, Albeck stubbornly brought the team to 52-30, won the division championship, and led the Spurs to the second round of the playoffs, and finally went through 7 tragic battles, lost to the Houston Rockets 3:4, unfortunately out.

The Spurs broke through the curse of their consecutive stops in the first round of the playoffs, and everyone thought that the Spurs could go one step further or even win the championship, who would have thought that at this time, the Western Conference semifinals would become a nightmare for the Spurs again!

Following last season's Western Finals, next season Gervin won the scoring title again, but the team was swept out by the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Finals, and next season, it is still the Western Finals, or the Los Angeles Lakers, but this time the score is 2:4, this season the Spurs ushered in a good general - Altis Gilmore, Uncle Ji looks like McGee, add a beard and an explosive head to McGee, then it is Uncle Ji, Uncle Ji is not high, in the 7th round in 1971, but the ability is very good, He is 218 cm tall, serving as a center, when he was in the NCAA, he was a "Chamberlain" type character, averaging 22 rebounds per game, after entering the NBA, Uncle Ji was signed by the Kentucky Colonel for a record 10 years and 2.5 million US dollars, and it was not surprising that he became the colonel's boss, and then left the championship in Kentucky, and later the ABA merged with the NBA, the Kentucky Colonels failed to enter the NBA and were forced to disband, in the ABA dismissal draft that year, Uncle Ji was selected by the Bulls, Signed a 3-year, $1.1 million contract, was traded to the Spurs in 1983, at this time Uncle Ji is no longer a super center who scored 30 points and 20 rebounds at every turn in the colonel, but still has an average of 18 points and 10 rebounds per game, and is also a star center, the weird thing is that although Uncle Ji's career resume is brilliant enough, he has not been inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame so far, and his career has been 12 years, averaging 17 points and 10 rebounds per game at his peak, averaging 24 points and 18 rebounds per game, None of such players have been inducted into the Hall of Fame, don't ask me why, even Abdul-Jabbar, who was once beaten by Uncle Ji, doesn't know why, can I know?

Spurs are out of the West again! At this time, the spurs were already crying and fainting in the thatched house, there was the first round of spells in front of them, and there was the spell of the West Decisive in the back, it was really a day! But don't be discouraged, the next season after being defeated by the Lakers 2:4, that is, the 1983-1984 season, the Spurs broke the curse of the West Finals, because they didn't enter the West Finals, not even the playoffs, because the role players were absent due to injuries and George Gervin's state declined, and the meritorious head coach Albeck switched to shooting the Nets, all of which led to a bad year for the Spurs this season, and finally ranked ninth in the West with a record of 37 wins and 45 losses, missing the playoffs, but, This bad season has indirectly brought huge benefits to the team, that is, the draft, in the 1984 NBA draft, the Spurs got the No. 7 pick in the first round, and they used this pick to select Alvin Robertson from the University of Arkansas, who had a smile full of wrinkles.

Guys, don't get confused, this is not the one nicknamed "Big O", the one is called Oscar Robertson, these two are similar not only in name, but also in style, Alvin Robertson can be regarded as a weakened version of the "Big O", but it is also quite powerful, and he was once a representative of the league's all-round defenders, He averaged 14 points, 5.2 rebounds, 5.0 assists and 2.7 steals per game in his career, and Alvin Robertson has a very good defense, being a regular in the league's top three steals, and Robertson was the owner of that number until Tim Duncan wore the number 21.

Robertson spent most of his rookie season off the bench for Gervin and Mike Mitchell, averaging 9.2 points, 3.4 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game.

Mitchell was the No. 15 rookie in the first round in 1978, spent the first four seasons of his career with the Cleveland Cavaliers, and was later traded to the Spurs in the 1981-1982 season, this uncle averaged around 20 points per game in 7 seasons in his 10-year career, and his career shooting rate was close to 50%, but you must not be frightened by his statistics, this uncle has no particularly awesome offensive skills, and his shooting basically relies on teammates to feed the ball or shoot in the open position, to put it bluntly, it is to pick up leaks, But you also have to admit that it is also a leak, and the average score per game of Uncle Mi in his ten-year career can be maintained at about 20 points, which can be regarded as superb, reaching the peak, and Uncle Mi is notoriously unable to pass, with an average of 32.3 minutes per game in his career, he can only average 1.3 assists per game, accompanied by 1.7 turnovers......

After Albeck left, veteran coach Cotton Fitzsimmons took the helm, and the Spurs only won a 41-41 record this season, and were eliminated by the Denver Nuggets in the first round.

As of June 9, 2016, Gervin scored 19,383 points for the Spurs, second only to Duncan and David Robinson, ranked third, 3,392 rebounds ranked fifth, 2,070 assists were seventh, 892 steals ranked sixth, 647 blocks ranked fourth, and he won four scoring titles for the Spurs, although the personal honor was outstanding, but the Spurs did not break through the record for consecutive years under the leadership of Gervin, which is also the most criticized place for Gervin, so until 1996, Gervin, who has four scoring titles, was inducted into the NBA's Slack Hall of Fame. The Spurs have embarked on a new chapter.

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