Chapter 154: The front line is king

"Li Mojie has an advantage in the position, and the Suns are basically invincible!" Mike Woodson sighed from the sidelines.

Before Li Mojie crossed, many people said that the current NBA is the era of point guards, why do you say that the current NBA is the era of point guards? Wei Shao, Curry, Harden, Irving, Lillard, Paul, Thomas Jr. and Wall are the top point guards in the league, and in the 2017 MVP battle, there was a scene where Wei Shao and Harden could not stalemate. In other words, the point guard gets the MVP, and the forward gets the FMVP.

Let's first talk about the regular season MVP in the past three years, the 2015 regular season MVP is Curry, the 2016 regular season MVP is still Curry, the 2017 regular season MVP is Wei Shao, the 2018 regular season MVP is the two-way guard Harden, after Curry has two consecutive MVPs, it was once considered by the outside world that Curry replaced the position of James' active first person, and Wei Shao played a miracle of averaging a triple-double per game for two consecutive seasons, it is not difficult to see that the point guard can get the regular season.

The point guard can win the regular season MVP, but if you want to win the FMVP, you still need to rely on the position of the forward, there is a good saying: "The FMVP in recent years, either James or the person who is opposite James", so is there any basis for this sentence? 2012 FMVP James, 2013 FMVP or James, 2014 FMVP Leonard, 2015 FMVP Iguodala, 2016 FMVP Jade, 2017-2018 FMVP Durant, FMVP in the past 7 years, James won 3 times, others won 4 times, but these 6 FMVPs are all from the forward position.

The decisive factor for the Cavaliers to win the championship in 16 is the gap between Barnes and James, that is, the gap between the Warriors No. 3 position and the Cavaliers No. 3 position, and the major factor in the Warriors winning the championship in 17 years is that Durant can slowly offset James' strong point, in the final analysis, it is still a contest between the two teams at the No. 3 position, and the Spurs introduced Rudy Gay to deal with the Warriors and the Cavaliers. In the 2018 Cavaliers VS Raptors and Rockets VS Warriors, the importance of a small forward was fully reflected!

Looking back at the free agency market and trade market in the summer of 2017, Paul George, Jimmy Butler, Anthony, Gay and Jeff Green are also the targets of championship contenders, and where do the four big forwards of James, Paul George, Leonard and Kevin Durant go from here in 2018? After James announced his move to the Lakers, ESPN moved the Lakers' championship win percentage to second place, behind the defending champion Warriors.

In this prosperous era of super control, the peak matchup between Durant and James in the Finals sends such a message that the point guard wins the MVP, and the forward wins the championship.

Since the reform of the NBA, only two point guards have been elected to the MVP of the Finals, namely Billups in 2003 and Parker in 2007, and both teams won the championship by virtue of the system. On the other hand, centers, power forwards, small forwards, and shooting guards have all dominated the Finals in the past, but the point guard position is still blank.

In the past, it was the one who won the inside line, but now, times have changed, and without a good small forward, you don't have to count on the championship at all!

The result on the field expressed the meaning of this sentence very well, and when the aging Kenyon Martin couldn't prevent Li Mojie at all, Li Mojie immediately revitalized the whole team.

Seeing the Suns attacking, Li Mojie first ran to the right, and then made an emergency stop after receiving the ball, and put the ball on the left side, Li Mojie made a move to stop and change direction.

Seeing Li Mojie's action, Kenyon Martin immediately stopped himself from continuing to rush to the right.

But at this time, Li Mojie rushed to the right side in a shaky dribble.

And at this time, Kenyon Martin was not even able to do it sideways, because he was 36 years old and close to 37 years old! Many people say that veterans can abuse rookies when they come out, and what old superstars teach the protagonists to be human beings in training matches, and then teach them skills or something.

Maybe they can really score a goal or two with experience, but if you think they can abuse those talented rookies, you're thinking too much.

Don't talk about others, let's take Jordan as an example, in the 01-02 season, the old Jordan faced the stunned young Kobe Bryant, was beaten without any power to fight back, only played 12 minutes in the whole game, shot one out of five, scored a pitiful two points, and set a career low scoring record!

Whether it's basketball or football, they all belong to young people, and their athletic abilities are almost all different, and they can't be made up for by experience!

Kenyon Martin's defense was terrible, the rest of the Knicks' defense wasn't much better, Anthony was firmly stuck with PJ Tucker, and what about Tyson Chandler? He was at the Mavericks when he was at his peak, but he won the championship, and after coming to the Knicks for a big contract, Wang Xiaoer was not as good as a year after the New Year, and this year he only had embarrassing 8+9 data, and he got the third highest salary on the team this year, $14.1 million, and this season's luxury tax threshold is only $71.48 million!

In comparison, Chris Middleton, who only scored $790,000 this year with the Suns and $920,000 next year, and currently averaged 14.5 points + 2.1 assists + 4.7 rebounds per game has made Knicks fans cry and faint in the toilet.

So when Li Mojie broke through and rushed in, the boxing champion who was in a greatly reduced state did not react at all

"Bang!" Li Mojie slammed the ball into the basket with a long-distance gliding slam dunk.

"Oh!!" "Coaxing !!"

Seeing Li Mojie's dunk performance on the court, some Knicks fans at the scene were amazed at this time.

That's what Knicks fans are, if their team is playing well, they will not hesitate to cheer and applaud themselves, but when the opponent is playing well and their own players are not doing well, they may even give the cheers to the opponent at home.

"Well deducted!"

Hearing such an exclamation, Anthony's face was naturally not good, and he even secretly scolded the fans who were exclaiming in his heart at this time "a bunch of fools".

After Felton dribbled the ball to the half, JR Smith, the nerve knife on the other side, immediately opened his hand to Felton and asked for the ball.

With the ball in hand, JR Smith immediately waved his hand to signal his teammates to pull away, and he was going to go it alone.

"Others are afraid of Li Mojie, but I'm not afraid!" JR glanced at Anthony, who had a bad face, to be reasonable, although they often go to nightclubs together, but JR doesn't think much of Anthony, because after all, the basketball world still has to use strength to convince people, you Anthony took $22.41 million to fight against the coach and bring the team to the lotto area, how can you convince JR, who is holding $5.57 million this year as the Knicks' second scorer?

So J.R. Smith didn't care so much, he also had to play singles!

He is very confident in his singles ability, when he is in good shape, he can go against any of the top stars in the league, and when training in the team, Anthony, who is getting fatter, will find it difficult to suppress JR, so he is not afraid of anything!

Dribbling the ball back and forth from outside the three-point line, after considering whether to break or shoot, JR Smith chose to break through, in fact he prefers to shoot, especially three-point shots that don't make any sense outside the three-point line.

Soon, however, J.R. Smith regretted his choice, as he found himself unable to break through Middleton's defense.

Middleton was like a maggot attached to the bone, clinging to him, and JR Smith rushed left and right with the ball, and even added actions such as turning, but he couldn't shake off Middleton.

"Toot!"

The five-second countdown time sounded, JR Smith had just reached the free throw line, and at this time he didn't have the heart to shake off Middleton anymore, he leaned on Middleton's body a little bit, and directly turned around and jumped to shoot.

It's just that in the face of Middleton's completely in place defense, and Middleton's height and arm span are better than JR Smith's, so JR Smith had to use a large lean back to avoid the block, but the result was that the ball smashed directly into the basket and successfully hit the iron.

"Fool, every time Coach Tyrone teaches Li Mojie singles, the opponent is me, I'm afraid of you?" Middleton sneered, because of the low salary (the second to last in the team), so he often asked Li Mojie for a treat, and now it is at a critical moment for Li Mojie, and he, the second leader, naturally has to stand up (after Bledsoe's injury, he was self-proclaimed!). )