Chapter 166: Best Coach

As the first round of the playoffs progresses, the regular season awards are being revealed, such as Rookie of the Year, Most Improved Player, Defensive Player of the Year and more. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

The two heaviest awards, Coach of the Year and Regular Season Most Valuable Player, have not yet been officially announced before the Knicks swept the Pacers.

The best coach is also known as the Reed Auerbach Trophy, which is named in honor of the Boston Celtics' nine-time decorated coach "Cardinal" Auerbach, and is the highest praise for the coaching ability of the head coach.

According to the past practice, the best coach is announced before the regular season MVP, in fact, the best coach of this season is the most suspenseless in the past years, the reason is very simple, that is, Wang Zhuo.

The Knicks have completed the leap from hell to heaven in the past three seasons, and this season's Knicks are even more unbeatable, leading the league in regular season records, third in the league in offensive efficiency, first in the league in defensive efficiency, and first in the league in points per game and points conceded per game.

The Knicks have the largest gap, which means that the Knicks' offense and defense are the most balanced, which is entirely due to Wang Zhuo's integration of Van Gundy's defensive system, which has made the Knicks' defense a qualitative leap, not just because of the trend of emphasizing offense and ignoring defense in today's league.

In fact, compared with last season, the Knicks' offensive efficiency has declined, but the quality of defense has improved by leaps and bounds, the reason is very simple, last season's Knicks mainly ran and bombed, strategically gave up defense, and put all their energy into offense, and this season to allocate a large part of their energy to defense, so it is inevitable that offensive efficiency will decline.

Of course, the Knicks have done a very good job, and it is a miracle that they can maintain the top three offensive efficiency in the league while being the first in the league in defensive efficiency, and there are only a handful of teams that can do this.

This is just an intuitive analysis of the data, and there are countless effects that cannot be experienced by the data, such as the transformation of Anthony, who has been criticized, into an outstanding team leader; Rose, whose career was almost ruined by injury, has a second youth; Porzingis has grown into the league's top interior in just three years; There are also Yi Jianlian, Auden, etc., which are almost all Wang Zhuo's masterpieces.

More importantly, Wang Zhuo raised the team cohesion of the Knicks to an unprecedented height, when it comes to Wang Zhuo, the players have reverence, fear, obedience, convincing, etc., as the helm of the team, Wang Zhuo's every achievement is impeccable.

In view of the Knicks' unanimous performance, Wang Zhuo was unanimously voted the best coach in the 2016-2017 season, which is a miracle in the coaching world after Stephen Curry was unanimously elected as the MVP of the regular season.

In fact, Wang Zhuo's election as the best coach is a miracle in itself, after all, this is only Wang Zhuo's second season as the head coach of the Knicks, and strictly speaking, it should be the first and a half seasons.

Some people will say that Steve Kerr is better, winning a championship in his first season in charge and best coach in his second season, but only if the Warriors have a good record before Kerr comes to the Warriors, Kerr just makes the Warriors stronger.

Wang Zhuo is completely different, before Wang Zhuo came to the Knicks, the Knicks just played the league's bottom record, even in the season when he came to the Knicks, Fisher served as the head coach in the first half of the season, the Knicks' record still did not improve.

However, after the Knicks fired Fisher and corrected Wang Zhuo, the Knicks' record changed abruptly, and they re-entered the playoffs with a strong counterattack, and became a shocking dark horse in the playoffs, connecting the Heat and the Raptors to the Eastern Conference Finals, setting off a storm.

Therefore, Kerr only catalyzes geniuses into peerless masters for the Warriors, while Wang Zhuo turns waste wood into peerless masters for the Knicks, which is higher and which is lower, at a glance.

"The achievement of this trophy does not satisfy me, but it is the source of motivation for me to achieve more."

Wang Zhuo's acceptance speech was distinctive, there seemed to be no ups and downs, but instead the best coach as the starting point of the next goal, which surprised the media and fans.

After teaching in the United States for two years, Wang Zhuo never got a green card in the United States, not because Wang Zhuo could not get it, but because Wang Zhuo was unwilling to take it, although he came through time, Wang Zhuo always regarded himself as a Chinese and retained his identity as a Chinese.

Therefore, Wang Zhuo's election as the best coach in the NBA also broke the record that non-American coaches have not been selected as the best coach, which is an unprecedented precedent for the NBA, which has aroused widespread attention and reports around the world, and international media have speculated that more international coaches will enter the NBA in the future and show excellent coaching talent.

PS: D'Antoni has also been voted the best coach and has dual Italian and American citizenship, and in the strict sense of the word, he is still an American citizen.

For the league, Wang Zhuo opened the precedent for an international coach to be selected as the best coach, and for the Knicks, Wang Zhuo became the third best coach in the history of the Knicks.

The last time the Knicks' head coach won the best coach award was back in the 92-93 season, which was won by Pat Riley, that is, the Knicks have not won the best coach award for 14 years, and Wang Zhuo is destined to go down in the history of the Knicks because of this award.

The other was the '69-70 season, a season far from where the Knicks not only had an impressive regular season record, but also won the championship in the playoffs.

This season is very similar to the past season, so the New York media began to boldly predict that Wang Zhuo would lead the Knicks to a championship, but the New Yorkers have not touched the championship for more than 40 years.

"Wang deserves the title of best coach, he is the most special coach I have ever seen."

In an interview with the media, Knicks veteran Ray Allen made a pertinent evaluation of Wang Zhuo's award for the best coach, Allen, as one of the few remaining veterans in the league, said something very convincing, and then, Anthony, the star of the Knicks, also stood up and affirmed Wang Zhuo's outstanding contribution to the Knicks.

When Wang Zhuo was selected as the best coach, the domestic basketball world was already boiling, just because Wang Zhuo received the best coach trophy as a Chinese, which is absolutely unprecedented, the glory of the domestic basketball world, and the pride of the Chinese. (To be continued.) )