Chapter Seventy-One: The Aggrieved Lakers, the Awkward Rockets

The NBA is also known as the land of miracles, and although Jordan scored another 50 points every game night, when you actually heard that Jordan averaged 53 points this month a month later, you still feel like you were seeing fake news.

With an average of 53 points per month, how is this possible, the monster Chamberlain is back? Even if Chamberlain came back, he might not be able to do it in the current league.

To borrow a phrase from Jordan at the post-game press conference: "Is it difficult to average 50 points per game in a month, isn't it okay to score 50 points every night?" ”

At such a time, a large number of Qiao Hei had to retreat to the mountains and forests, pretending not to know.

The media that once provoked trouble can't pretend not to know, after all, reporting the news is what they eat. Most of the media saw the wind and the rudder directly joined Qiao Chui's army, as if none of the previous statements were made by them.

There are also a small number of media outlets that insist on their intentions and resolutely go against the trend, believing that Jordan's scoring is based on stealing a lot of shots from his teammates. This also caused most of his teammates' scoring stats to drop.

It seems to make sense, but they ignore that the Wizards didn't lose either. Jordan can still lead the team to win all the games with an average of 53 points per game, and there are even media who can find the angle black. This is the modern media, the eyeball economy is the top, as long as there are fans who love to watch, they dare to say anything.

In a wave of wild brushing, Jordan's score has risen to 31.5 points, but Hu Qingniu's reputation can be regarded as a hit. A coach who can design tactics to brush up data on his core, this reputation is neither praise nor depreciation.

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In the April game, Hu Qingniu slowed down the pace, and Jordan's data has almost been repaired, with an average of 31.5 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists per game. Jordan also overtook Duncan to rank first on the MVP list this week.

The Wizards played well, and the stars exploded again, with a record of 56-15, which is still the first in the league. Such a team couldn't help but nod her head again and again, and repeatedly praised the performance of the Wizards in the NBA high-level briefing.

After consecutive victories over the Raptors, Bulls, and Bucks, the Wizards ushered in the last strong team of the season, the Lakers.

Speaking of which, the rise of the Wizards began against the Lakers, and Hu Qingniu's coaching path also began because of the Lakers. Speaking of which, I would like to thank the Lakers.

The Lakers are having a rough time right now, with only 45 wins at the moment, behind the Timberwolves and fifth in the West. The two-core team lost to the single-core team, and both Kobe Bryant and O'Neal were disgraced and endured a lot of criticism.

Kobe Bryant and O'Neal inevitably had a rift as they did in history, although an outside threat had temporarily united them because of the return of the Wizards and Jordan. But Bryant's wings are getting fuller and are already challenging O'Neal's leadership position in the Lakers. In terms of the number of shots, Kobe averaged 23.5 shots per game, but O'Neal only made 18 shots, and Kobe's average score per game was also 3 points higher than O'Neal's.

The discord at the core of the team has brought about a decline in the team's performance on the court, and this is how the Lakers slipped to the fifth place in the West. This is undoubtedly an extremely unsuccessful result for a team that has won three consecutive championships and maintained a core lineup.

On the contrary, Garnett, the iron-blooded wolf king, has a rising evaluation and has become a lone hero who leads the team alone. It was unbelievable that the Timberwolves, a team with a 10,000-year-old fish, were able to climb into the top four in the West. Until Hu Qingniu's later life, Kevin Garnett's playoff experience with the Timberwolves is equal to the entire playoff experience of the Timberwolves, and this equation still holds. The magnitude of Garnett's achievements is impressive.

The top three teams in the West are the Spurs, Mavericks and Kings, all three teams currently have the same record of 53 wins and 18 losses, and the ranking is not yet certain. In order to get the home advantage in the playoffs, Duncan, Nowitzki, and Webb, the three leading power forwards, cannot rest yet, and must do their best every game.

Speaking of which, this is also a rare prosperity for the power forwards, with the four big forwards occupying the top four in the West. The Trail Blazers, who are sixth in the West, although they do not have an obvious boss, but "Roaring Heaven" Rasheed Wallace is the team's real scoring and rebounding champion, and the Trail Blazers are under his leadership. The Jazz, the seventh team in the West, is currently the No. 1 all-time forward, and the team of the famous ironman Karl Malone. Eighth in the West, the future underdog, Amare Stoudemire.

The top eight in the West, except for the Lakers, turned out to be a big melee of big forwards, no matter what era there have been so many excellent big forwards.

The Suns' top eight in the West are not very secure, and historically they have competed with the Rockets for eighth place in the West. The team's two rookies, Yao Ming and Amare Stoudemire, are also in contention for Rookie of the Year.

Historically, Yao Ming and Xiao Si have extremely similar data, Yao Ming 13.5 points, 8.2 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 1.8 blocks, shooting rate of 49.8%, Xiao Si 13.5 points, 8.8 rebounds, 1 assist and 1.1 blocks, 47.2% shooting rate.

In the end, Yao Ming lost the battle for the best rookie for probably two reasons, one is that the Suns led the Rockets in the last minute to enter the playoffs, and the second is that Yao Ming performed very well in the first few months and had an exceptionally high shooting percentage, but Yao Ming's performance began to decline after the All-Star break.

Everyone speculated that Yao Ming had encountered the rookie wall, but in fact, it was not at all, the rookie wall refers to the fact that when the rookie is thoroughly studied, the rookie will fall into a low ebb, and if you can't find a solution, you will keep hitting the wall.

But Da Yao's biggest problem is his physical strength, when he was in the CBA, there were very few games, once a week, Yao Ming played the whole game without any problem. But when he came to the NBA, there were almost three games a week, 82 games a season, and every game was a war, and Yao Ming's physical reserves were completely insufficient.

So in the latter part of the schedule, Yao Ming's performance was disjointed and fell again and again.

The current Rockets and Yao Ming are also in this embarrassing situation, the team's record is ninth behind the Suns, and Yao Ming is also second behind Xiao Si on the rookie list.

The only good news is that Yao Ming's hook hand has been used well, which is equivalent to mastering this stunt several seasons in advance, and there is also the big killer weapon "Sky Hook", which Yao Ming also uses from time to time. As a result, Yao Ming's scoring data is one point higher than in history, and he is currently averaging 14.5 points per game.

The Lakers are in an awkward situation as the Rockets, with Kobe Bryant and O'Neal both ranking just two places behind Garnett in the MVP rankings, and the team's record is also one year behind.

With little left in the season, this is when the Wizards play a big role. In addition to this game against the Lakers, the Wizards' last game on April 17 was against the Rockets.