Chapter 70: It's Ruthless
The return of the talented Uncle Shan and Penny not only brought a large number of fans, but also reduced the burden on Hu Qingniu. Finally, there is no need to let Barkley and Jordan play small forwards, Barkley can take turns with Rodman, and Penny can take turns playing with Bugs and can also be Jordan's backup.
Hu Qingniu felt that he could put out a hundred starting lineups, and he had a competitive lineup with his eyes closed.
By the end of February, the Wizards had a 43-15 record, with their only loss coming in a game against the Kings of the Princeton system. The game was lost very mysteriously, and the Kings' outside shooters ushered in a big explosion, which is simply how to shoot.
Facts have proved that punching the master to death is applicable anywhere. Teams with a lot of outside pitchers are scary, and basketball is a sport based on shooting, and it's easy to understand the concept that whoever can put the ball in the basket wins. So there's a group of people who have a high ceiling on the work of putting the ball in the basket, and they're the pitchers, and it's not terrible for one pitcher to shoot well, it's terrible to have several pitchers to pitch well.
The situation faced by the Wizards is like this, Mike Bibby, Doug Christie, Peja Stojakovic, Bobby Jackson, Siddo Turkeglu, these are usually good outside players, once they are all accurate, the Wizards really can't hold back. After a wild bombardment, Hu Qingniu had no choice, and finally hit the street.
However, there are sometimes benefits to losing one, and consecutive victories have put a huge burden on everyone's back. It is often easy to be biased by the historical data listed by the media, and want to break what historical record. In fact, as a coach, Hu Qingniu only thinks about the team's ability to stabilize the first place in the East, and those meaningless records will only distract the players.
Of course, a record that doesn't make sense can be a big deal for the players, but having an award is very important. Despite his league-best record for two consecutive months, Jordan is currently ranked third on the MVP list.
The fourth place is Kobe Bryant, whose 30+7+6 data this season even surpassed O'Neal's 27+11, so O'Neal was ranked fifth.
The top two are the thunderous Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett, in addition to their outstanding records, the data of the two are also invincible, Duncan is 23+13+3, and Garnett is 23+13+6+1.5+1.5 super all-round data.
At present, the Wizards' record has come to the first place in the East, and it is also close to the Spurs' record. Jordan's disadvantage has changed from a record to a statistic, and with only 27+4.6+4.9, he seems to be a bit out of the numbers.
But the situation with the Wizards right now is that there are a lot of rebounders, Barkley, Rodman Ewing are waiting for him, and even young players like Kwame want some stats; There are also a lot of assists, Double Hardaway is a perennial 10+ assists figure, Hill is also an important organizational forward for Hu Qingniu, and Larry Hughes, who can play point guard, can also have 3 or 4 assists a game; There are even more players who can score, and the players who have won 20+ seasons in their careers can only send 7.
To sum up, it is already very good for Jordan to come up with such data in such a team, in addition to Jordan's own ability, the support of the players is also inseparable. Of course, some teammates are exceptional, such as Barkley, who is currently averaging 25 points and 10 rebounds per game, almost as much as Dirk Nowitzki, the team's boss. It seems that Barkley may be able to get a second team this season.
The media also didn't support Jordan for the MVP, and basketball critics thought the Wizards had a very good lineup, which didn't show that Jordan was better than anyone else. According to the available data, Jordan's ability to rank in front of Kobe, who surrounded him, is already a league favorite.
In this era, the popularity of the new generation of stars has risen, and it can be seen from the All-Star votes of Kobe Bryant and Maddy that their fans can almost compete with Jordan. This is related to the fact that the older generation of Jordan fans have married and had children, and they don't have so much energy after entering middle age.
As a result, there are many different voices on the Internet about Jordan's MVP ranking in front of Kobe and O'Neal.
"Jordan's data can also be ranked in front of Kobe, I'm afraid it's shady."
"I don't understand what does it matter if a person was strong in the past and strong now."
"Jordan was not weak with that Wizard before, Stackhouse is also a bull who averages 29 points per game, but it won't work when it comes to Jordan."
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Boss Joe's MVP is unstable, in fact, the whole team is a little discouraged, and his record is already impeccable, but he can't choose an MVP in his team.
Hu Qingniu convened the players to publicly discuss the need to strategically help Jordan get the MVP back to the Wizards. This has also been unanimously recognized by the Wizards players, who have expressed their support.
Hu Qingniu came up with a plan that had been formulated a long time ago, but in fact, there are rules and severity of brushing data.
Player A's stats are 27+8+8, and B's stats are 32+5+5, I think when choosing MVP, Player B will get a clear advantage, although the contribution ratio of Player A is greater, but basketball is a sport that looks at scoring. High scoring is king, otherwise why is the scoring king almost a very valuable honor, and the rebounding king and the assist king is worse.
Hu Qingniu's strategy is to make Jordan a fixed-point shooter and let other players give him more blocking and dismantling cover, which is basically the same as the treatment of Durant and Thompson in the future. Hu's ultimate goal is for Jordan to get as many open shots as Klay Thompson, and he doesn't need to dribble to exhaust physical strength, so it's easy to shoot 20 balls in a game.
With such a purpose, everyone was surprised to find that the Wizards' tactics had changed again, constantly going around the baseline, high blocking, elevator door tactics, and even adding the ball after breaking through the attraction package, and the outside pass after the inside line attracting the package. The whole goal is to create an empty seat and let Jordan decide the game.
An outside player who has been at odds with top defenders all year round, a superstar who has five people staring at every dribble, and a man who gets into a jungle fight of three or more people every time he breaks inside.
You tell him now that you just have to run and throw the ball, how terrible this player is to be now. How shocking the scene was, Hu Qingniu was also choked and speechless, a set of data for March can probably reflect a little clue from the side, 45 points, 51 points, 55 points, 49 points, 56 points, 53 points, 63 points......
Jordan is averaging 50 points per game this month, averaging 53.1415926 points per game!
A bunch of basketball commentators and fans who had watched Jordan were messy in the wind!
It's so ruthless!