Chapter 306: The NBA of Stars
During the Lakers' three-game winning streak, O'Neal and Kobe Bryant were both selected to the best team. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Especially since the 2001-02 season, the "OK" group has been selected for the first team of the best team for three consecutive seasons.
It's too extravagant, too excessive, too unfair for the rest of the NBA.
There are 15 players on the best team each season, and the NBA has 30 teams, and on average, there is only one player for each team.
But the Lakers have two teams alone, and in recent years, they have taken up two of the five spots in the first team of the best team, and it is definitely impossible to say that other teams have no opinion.
In previous years, like the Spurs' Duncan and David Robinson, the 76ers' Iverson and Mutombo, and the Mavericks' Nowitzki and Nash, were also selected to the All-Star team at the same time, but like O'Neal and Kobe, they were selected to the first team at the same time, dating back to Jordan and Pippen in the 1995-96 season.
Being selected for the best team is not necessarily a superstar, because there are less than ten superstars, but in the first team of the best team, those five people must be superstars.
For example, last season's All-NBA first team, O'Neal, Duncan, Garnett, Kobe and Kidd, which one is not a superstar who has the ability to win the MVP?
Duncan, Garnett and Kidd are undoubtedly the bosses of their teams, while O'Neal and Kobe Bryant are on the same Lakers.
A superstar needs to use the bag and trap tactics against the hand, what about two? How else to prevent it?
This is the fundamental reason why the Lakers have been able to win three consecutive championships.
Since Kobe Bryant was first named to the All-NBA Second Team in the 1999-00 season, only two teams have been able to beat the Lakers in the playoffs, one is the Spurs in the 2002-03 season and the other is the Pistons in the 2003-04 season, both champions that year.
In the 2002-03 season, the Spurs had only one superstar, Duncan, but they had David Robinson, a former star center, Parker and Ginobili, two new stars, and Bowen, a super role player who was selected to the All-Defensive Team many times.
Last season's Pistons, the lineup was very civilian, only Ben Wallace was an All-Star, and only he was selected to the best team, which is why their victory over the Lakers to win the championship was regarded as a big upset.
At the end of the day, the NBA relies on stars.
It's not just the fans who look at the stars, the coaches who want to win, and the stars who want to win.
There is a superstar who can't defend in the team, the coaches' offensive tactics will be much simpler, even if the tactics can't be played, they can rely on the superstar's personal ability to score singles, which is why Phil Jackson can sit on the bench and watch the game most of the time - two superstars take turns to lead the team.
However, in this era, it is not the era of the future when stars are grouped, every superstar has their pride, they all want to lead the team to win the championship as the team boss, and take the initiative to run to team with other superstars, almost nothing.
Therefore, there are many teams with stars, but except for the Lakers' "OK" combination, there is no team that can have two superstars at the same time.
The coaches of other teams can't be as easy as Phil Jackson.
In order to win, some coaches have to increase the playing time of their stars, like Iverson of the 76ers, who averages more than 40 minutes per game almost every season.
But even if his stars are like Iverson, playing for more than 40 minutes per game, there is always a time to rest, and in those few minutes, the team has no backbone, how to play?
You can't let them play the whole game, can you?
Occasionally, one game is okay, and the game is full, no matter how good the body is, I can't stand it!
As a result, most teams have a "sixth man" who, although on the bench, plays no less time than the main team, like the Kings' Bobby Jackson, the Mavericks' Jamison, the Spurs' Ginobili, and the Bulls' Ben Gordon.
They were no worse than the main team, but the coach put them on the bench in order to lead the team through difficult rotation times.
The Lakers didn't have this problem, although O'Neal was gone, Lu Xiaofeng came.
Although Lu Xiaofeng has only played more than ten games, he is like a superstar, with him, not only Kobe's offensive efficiency has been greatly improved, but Kobe's playing time has also been greatly reduced.
For Lu Xiaofeng, it's the same reason, with Kobe Bryant's teammate, he can rest off the court with confidence, and the rest time is longer - although he doesn't mind playing the whole game, it's good to be able to sit in the first row on the sidelines as a spectator.
If you want to win more games like James and go to a team without superstars, you can increase your playing time, which is like this, averaging a little more than 35 minutes per game.
Of course, with more playing time, maybe the data will be better, Lu Xiaofeng's rebounding data may be able to get a double-double, in that case, maybe he can average a triple-double per game.
But does Lu Xiaofeng care about data?
He doesn't care.
Therefore, Lu Xiaofeng has no intention of objecting to Tang Shuai's arrangement, and always gives the substitutes a chance to perform.
Lu Xiaofeng doesn't care about the data, he doesn't play for money, but his teammates are different.
They care a lot about data, because data means contract money, it means money.
Especially the substitutes who sit at the end of the bench, with very low contracts, are not guaranteed, and if there is no playing time, without good data, there is no future.
However, the game only reached the end of the first quarter, and it was not the turn of those marginal substitutes to play, and even Vujacic, a first-round rookie, only had to play garbage time.
The Lakers replaced Lu Xiaofeng, Butler and Mime, and Grant, Jones and Atkins went up.
In fact, Grant and Atkins both signed long big contracts and are not worried about playing time, only Jones, who signed a veteran base salary, is in his final year, and has to work hard for future contracts.
The Lakers' bench, old and small, except for one Atkins, the combat effectiveness of the others is almost negligible.
The Kings players are doomed to disappointment, though.
The Lakers' bench is terrible, and Lu Xiaofeng is sitting on the sidelines to rest again, but they still have Kobe.
In the final minutes of the first quarter, the Lakers seemed to turn into Kobe Bryant's one-man team, constantly attacking, facing Christie's defense, scoring back-to-back points.
Although without Lu Xiaofeng's crazy defense, the Kings finally found their groove on the offensive end, but the difference could not be narrowed.
In those few minutes, for the Lakers, Kobe Bryant's offense alone was enough.
When the energy is high, superstars can play five, and Kobe Bryant proved it again.