Chapter 547: The playoffs begin

In the blink of an eye, the pace of the playoffs has quietly come, after the first round of the playoffs came out, everyone said that the first round of the playoffs in the West will be the most interesting in recent years, first of all, the competition between the Warriors and the Thunder team is needless to say, the epic bitter drama of the year is that he didn't run, and the Texas civil war between the Spurs and the Rockets is also very eye-catching, the battle between the two teams has never stopped, in Texas, in fact, the competition between the two teams has been very fierce, This season, the two teams even fought to the last game in order to be able to compete for home court advantage in the first round of the playoffs, so this matchup is also considered to be the closest group in terms of combat effectiveness.

As for the game between the Pelicans and the Jazz, who are third in the West, there are actually some highlights, first of all, the staffing between the two teams is very similar, the Pelicans thick eyebrows and Cousins' interior combination, just against the combination of the Jazz Gobert and Favors, Anthony, the small forward, also happened to face Hayward, the new potential small forward, and Holiday is against Teague, although the lineup of the two teams seems to be the Pelicans have an absolute advantage, but when it really starts, The two teams should also be very interesting, after all, the positions of the main players are almost the same, but the Jazz are younger, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a low-profile version of the Pelicans lineup.

The most uninteresting thing in the West is naturally the game between the Lakers and the Grizzlies, but for Ye Xuan, this is actually an opportunity to hook up with Gasol Jr., and Pau Gasol actually hopes that his younger brother can come to the Lakers to play side by side with him, and if the Lakers have the opportunity to bring Mark Gasol under his command, then Pau Gasol may stay with his younger brother for another year or two with the base salary.

And the playoff matchups in the East are not so interesting, first of all, the strength gap between the top three in the East is still too much ahead of other teams, especially the Cavaliers, they are almost ahead of the Bucks in the lineup, the only thing that may be in suspense is the contest between the fourth and fifth in the East, if you want to talk about the record, the Raptors in the fourth place in the East have a record of 3 wins better than the Wizards, but everyone also knows that the Raptors' combat effectiveness in the playoffs has plummeted, so it is not necessarily necessary to really fight.

And this year, the league has made some innovations, they have saved all the regular season awards until the playoffs are all over, so that they can hold a grand awards ceremony, and there will be such a year in the future, it will be like the Oscars, I have to say that this idea is really good, so that the league can at least cheat another wave of ratings, of course, the various advertising space investment will definitely make the league's revenue rise again.

However, in this way, Ye Xuan will not be able to get the rewards that belong to him before the end of this season, and everyone can clearly know the data awards this season from data analysis, but the league still insists on waiting until the award ceremony. Ye Xuan can actually get a lot of awards in terms of data this season, first of all, Ye Xuan is a well-deserved first in the award of the scoring champion, he can average 36.1 points per game this season, which is the highest in the past 30 years, and the last one who can average more than 36 points per game is still the old man Jordan Qiao in the 86-87 season. Of course, this is actually related to Ye Xuan's many explosive scoring performances in the middle, including two consecutive performances in which he scored super high scores to end the game against the Warriors, and there are still people talking about it to this day.

In addition to the scoring champion, Ye Xuan's steal statistics are of course also well-deserved first in the league, Ye Xuan can average 2.5 steals per game this season, a full 0.5 steals more than Draymond Green, who is in second place. Therefore, the steal Wang Yexuan was also unceremoniously in the bag. In addition to these two data kings, Ye Xuan's three-point shooting rate is also the highest in the league, and the number of three-point shots is still the highest in the league, and even the Lakers team has surpassed the three-point team Warriors in three-point shots, ranking first in the league.

And when it comes to data, we have to mention the two brothers Wei Shao and Harden, Wei Shao has shown his talent in brushing data from the beginning of this season, 82 games in the season, he got a total of 42 triple-doubles, this number exceeds Oscar Robertson's 41 times, is the player with the most triple-doubles in a single season, and he also achieved a feat that Oscar Robertson did - an average triple-double per game in the season. With eight assists against the Suns, this is only the second time in BA history that someone has accomplished such a feat, having only Oscar Robertson done it once 55 years ago in the 1961-62 season. While "The Magic," Kidd, and LeBron have come close to this feat over the years, they all fell short in the end. To this day, Westbrook has finally regained his feat of averaging a triple-double per game.

Before the start of the season, the management, coaches, medical team, and trainers collectively developed a plan, and Coach Billy Donovan will strictly implement every element of the plan. They all know Wei Shao, and they understand what kind of responsibilities Wei Shao shoulders, and they must strictly control Wei Shao's playing time. So far this season, Wei Shao has only played more than 40 minutes in five games, all of which have come in overtime, and he played 45 minutes in the most game of the season. Also handed over the data of 30+10+10 per game this season, Wei Shao averaged 10 minutes less than Robertson per game, and the number of rounds was 25 less. If you convert Willis's playing time to the same 44.3 minutes as Robertson in 1961-62, then Willis's stats would be 39.9 points, 14.6 rebounds and 13.3 assists per game.

So if anyone can threaten Ye Xuan in the regular season MVP award this year, it must be Wei Shao. Of course, Ye Xuan is not a vegetarian, in addition to Ye Xuan is the first in the league in terms of scoring and steals, Ye Xuan's assists this season are also among the best in the league, and he can average 11 assists per game this season. It is 0.2 less than Harden's average of 11.2 per game, and it is a pity to lose the title of this data king, if Ye Xuan can win the title of these three data kings at the same time, then he will also be the third player in history to win three data championships in one season at the same time, a feat that only Chamberlain and David Robinson have done.

At that time, there were no block statistics in the league, so Chamberlain did not win the honor of the block king, but according to the players at the time, Chamberlain's blocking ability was very outstanding, and even Skyhook Abdul-Jabbar was blocked many times in later encounters with him. However, Chamberlain won the assist king in his career, in fact, Chamberlain's personal ability is much better than other teammates, there is no need to pass the ball at all, and his own grasp is greater. However, because of the dissatisfaction of his teammates, the coach asked Chamberlain to reduce his shots and focus on rebounding protection and defense, so Chamberlain's number of assists did not increase. In the 67-68 season, he became the league's assist leader with an average of 8.6 assists per game, and the center was elected as the assist, which is also the only time in history. Chamberlain then achieved the three kings of scoring king + rebounding king + assist king.

David Robinson was drafted in 1987 but didn't land in the NBA until 1989. He averaged 24.3 points, 12 rebounds, 1.7 steals and 3.9 assists per game in his rookie season and was named an All-Star in his rookie season, and was named to the All-Rookie and All-Defensive Second Team after the season. In his second season of career, David Robinson averaged 13 rebounds per game and won the title of rebounding king in one fell swoop. and averaged 4.5 blocks per game in the 91-92 season, winning the block king in a single season. In the 93-94 season, David Robinson continued to shine, averaging 29.8 points per game and was elected the scoring leader. O'Neal also played very well this season, averaging 29.3 points per game, and was once the favorite for the scoring title. But because David Robinson "brushed" 70 points in the final game of the regular season and snatched the scoring title, O'Neal despised David Robinson very much.

However, for Ye Xuan, now he is most concerned about the team's record, since they have come to this point this season, then there is no other goal, their only goal this year is to win the championship, this is not a single data king or something like that is much more useful, and although Wei Shao is averaging a triple-double per game this season, the Lakers' record can also add a lot of points to Ye Xuan, the reason why Curry was unanimously elected MVP last year is because his own data itself is very bright, The team's 73 wins are also a big reason, and this season, the Lakers directly won 75 wins, and there is a wave of the second-longest winning streak in history, so Ye Xuan's regular season MVP win is still relatively large.

Time soon came to the Lakers' first game of the playoffs, for the Lakers, the Grizzlies are really not a strong opponent, and from the process of the game, it is indeed the case, in the first quarter of the game, the Lakers defended the Grizzlies from shooting 5 of 21, a total of only 12 points, at the same time the Lakers' own offense did not fall, although 29 points in a single quarter is not high, but it is still much stronger than the Grizzlies' 12 points.

Since then, the rhythm of the game has basically been given by the disparity in the score of the first quarter of the game, Ye Xuan is also happy, in the second quarter, he just went up to play 3 minutes when the Grizzlies wanted to chase points, and then he was replaced again, and the same was true in the third quarter, Ye Xuan and Gasol played more than three minutes and were replaced, and in the end, Ye Xuan only played 21 minutes in this game, got 19 points and 8 assists, and the Lakers defeated the Grizzlies 112-95, Although the current Grizzlies team has a certain amount of combat effectiveness, he is a little too difficult for them to challenge the status of the Lakers.

However, although nothing happened to the Lakers, but on the eastern side, something happened, and the Celtics, the first in the East, had problems in the first game, they couldn't find any effective offensive methods when attacking, and they couldn't completely lock the opponent when defending, and finally the Bulls took the lead 109-106, and were defeated by the team ranked eighth in the East in the first game of the playoffs, and the Celtics also looked very embarrassed.

In addition to the battle between the first and eighth sides of the East and West, there were also some problems in two games, the first was that the Warriors managed to win the opponent in the first game of the Thunder, but they paid a heavy price, Livingston left the court with an injury, and Green and McGee also received technical fouls, the Thunder side was also embarrassed, Oladipo and Kante received technical fouls, and Robertson also seemed to have suffered some sprains on his left ankle during the game, although in the end he played the whole game, However, it can also leave injury concerns.

And there is another game that people didn't expect, that is, the game between the Spurs and the Rockets, before the game, everyone agreed that the game between the Spurs and the Rockets would be the most fierce pair of the eight matchups in the first round of this season, but everyone didn't expect that Harden, who played very well in the regular season, suddenly disappeared in this game, which made the Rockets, who played well in the regular season, lose their way in an instant, and play in a mess, there are no three points to break through, and there is no breakthrough to break through. And their defensive efficiency is also very low, and they were finally easily taken away by the Spurs with a game of 110:91, compared to the fourth and fifth games in the East, this battle on the West side surprised people, and the evaluation of Harden began to decline, after all, as the core of the team, he actually sleepwalked at this critical moment, and the shooting rate of 5 of 19 shots in the whole game was uncomfortable to watch, plus Gordon's 2 of 9 three-pointers, Anderson's 1 of 5 three-pointers, the Rockets' outside three gunners today were all inaccurate.

The first game of the first round of each team ended quickly, and on the eastern side, the top four teams except for the Celtics, the other three teams all successfully defeated their opponents and won their first win on their home court, while on the western side, the Rockets, who were fourth in the west, overturned at home, and the other three teams won the first game of the playoffs. The game between the Raptors and the Wizards even reached overtime to decide the winner, the garbage brothers did not continue to be weak this time, DeRozan forced two points in the face of Beal's defense at the last moment to drag the game into overtime, and in the overtime, the garbage brothers combined to score 13 points, directly ending the game, which can be regarded as justifying their own name in disguise.