Chapter 70: Best of the Week and Best of the Month
The league was shocked again, Tang Wenlong came from behind, and his blowout performance made him a well-deserved first person in the class of 2010.
What is the concept of averaging 20.7 points per game? In the NBA, the average score of the average offensive starter is about 10 to 15 points per game, and those who can score 15 to 20 points are basically an important firepower point in the team, and once a player scores more than 20 points, it proves that the player is at least a quasi-All-Star level.
What is a would-be All-Star? Regardless of whether the image and playing style are beautiful, once the team's results go up, the prospective All-Star players will turn positive in minutes.
And Tang Wenlong is not yet twenty years old
When LeBron James was the pride of the sky, he came to the league with a variety of halos, and his performance was also struggling at the beginning, and LeBron James's rookie season cut 40+, which was also in March 04, when James had played most of the season.
A person like Tang Wenlong, who played a total of 14 games, and only about 20 preseason games, was able to surpass the vast majority of NBA players and get high scores that they may not have scored in their entire career, which is really rare in history.
So he naturally became the hottest rookie in the entire league, and he was in the limelight for a while.
The scouting reports of each team have changed again and again, from a rookie with amazing physical fitness, to a high-potential shooter, and now to a super rookie with a top scorer, his name jumped out of this year's rookies, and suddenly he was ahead of the likes of Wohl, Tanhua Hayward, etc., and people began to compare his performance to the amazing rookie seasons of some of the superstars in history, such as Jordan, like James.
"He's a very smart player, he's got a great dribble, he's shooting accurately, he's playing phenomenally." Kevin Durant, as an opponent, was also full of praise for Tang Wenlong at the post-game media conference.
In China, Tang Wenlong has become the most talked about topic in the age group of 15 to 35 years old overnight, and countless high school and college students have fallen madly in love with him.
Yao Ming has not yet comeback, Yi Jianlian is struggling on the Wizards bench, one thing that should have made fans in other Asian countries happy happened to encounter Tang Wenlong's most popular performance, which made Asian fans have complicated emotions, on the one hand, Tang Wenlong is an outside player, occasionally wonderful and violent dunks, and his playing style is good-looking, which is the pride of the whole Asia, on the other hand, Tang Wenlong is so powerful, when China forms a new round of national team, where is there still their country's drama?
The growing fame has also brought a lot of economic benefits, Tang Wenlong's 76ers No. 1 jersey was sold out in just a few days, and the marketing volume in the official memorial merchandise hall of the Philadelphia 76ers showed explosive growth.
In addition, as Tang Wenlong's agent Joe Thomas, he officially fell into pain and happiness, and the Chinese businessman who didn't know the jet lag often quoted endorsement contracts with him in broken English in the middle of the night, and he stayed up with dark circles and nervous breakdowns for several days in a row. Joe Thomas pondered whether it was time to assemble a team of agents, so that no matter how much money he made, he would not have a chance to spend it.
At this time, Tang Wenlong had been repairing in Philadelphia for two days, and once again embarked on the road to conquer other arenas.
This time the opponent is the New Jersey Nets next door, after the Russians settled, the New Jersey Nets became the team with the heaviest temperament in the league, and the "obscure" Gordon Hayward was selected in the draft, which almost made the Nets fans collapse, and Harris is no longer as popular as in previous years, with high shots and low efficiency.
It's just unexpected that after the start of the season, the combination of rookie Gordon Hayward and inside Brook Lopez is eye-catching, especially Gordon Hayward, his offensive options are very mature, and he acts like a veteran who has played for 30 years on the court, and he has won the hearts of coach Avery Johnson all at once, playing longer and longer, and getting more and more opportunities.
So far, Hayward is averaging 13.9 points, 3.7 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game and has managed to squeeze out Travis Outlaw as the team's starting small forward.
The handsome young man is proud of the spring breeze, and he is thriving in New Jersey, and his girlfriend is changing like a horselight.
The arrival of the 76ers has brought the two current rookie No. 1 and No. 3 rookies on the rookie rankings into a direct conversation, and the media have written articles to promote the game - "King Matchup in the Next Five Years?" 》
When he was in college, Tang Wenlong's good brother Wesley Johnson was particularly unhappy with Hayward, and at that time, even the invincible Tang Wenlong also suffered from Hayward.
But this time, Tang Wenlong's side is not the young Wesley Johnson, but the league's top wing defensive gate - Iguodala!
Hayward found Tang Wenlong before the game and expressed how to admire the hero's demeanor and other soft words, his expression was sincere, and he could score full marks.
However, in the middle of the game, he found that these words were useless to Tang Wenlong.
It turned out that in the 76ers' offense, the highest proportion of ball-holding offense was Iguodala, followed by Holiday and finally Tang Wenlong's turn, and after the last game, Collins did not say that he would continue to extend the tactics of the last game, nor did he specifically draw out Tang Wenlong's privileges, but in the offensive proportion, the players' hearts naturally changed, and Iguodala also intended to give more ball-holding opportunities to Tang Wenlong, and he was happy to defend.
This wordless change is the best embodiment of Tang Wenlong's strength proof, in the face of Anthony Morrow against such a weak scoring guard, he didn't say a word, just used his fierce body to eat.
In the first quarter of the game, Tang Wenlong scored 14 points, including 6 free throws, all of which were hit.
Gordon Hayward struggled under Iguodala's blockade, shooting 0-of-2 in the first quarter and embarrassingly collecting a duck egg score. The reporters sitting on the sidelines held their glasses and wrote down in their notebooks the manuscripts they were going to use today-Tang Wenlong finished beating Hayward, and the first rookie won completely!
The Nets as a whole were naturally suppressed, and Devin Harris was no longer an All-Star in front of the young Holiday and a mess.
At the end of the game, the Nets lost by 21 points at 78-99, and only three players scored in double figures, including Lopez, who scored 25 points. On the 76ers' side, there were 6 double-doubles, and Tang Wenlong scored the highest 29 points and was named the MVP of the game.
Poor Hayward only scored 4 points under Iguodala's defense, and was immediately blacked out by the media after the game.
After this game, Tang Wenlong was named the Eastern Conference Player of the Week, averaging 35.3 points and 5.4 rebounds per game to lead the team to defeating the Cavaliers, Thunder and Nets, respectively.
This is the first time Tang Wenlong has won the Player of the Week award, and the team also made him happy with a simple award ceremony before the game against the Raptors at home.
It's just surprising that the Raptors, who have lacked the Dragon King in this match, actually lost the game.
As soon as Tang Wenlong won the award of the week, he was very embarrassed to have a bad hand, and in the whole game, he took four shots from the outside, none of which hit, but barely got a double-digit score of 11 points with free throws and layups.
After the game, some media joked that this was the curse of the week.
Just when Tang Wenlong was stirring the world upside down in the east, the white monster in the west finally broke out unwillingly, and the outbreak came so fast that people forgot that this repeater of the class of 09 was just a rookie this year.
On November 20, Griffin scored 44 points, 15 rebounds and 7 assists in the game against the Knicks, and he used his violent aesthetics to show the art of dunking.
The rookie list is finally no longer a stand-alone situation, Tang Wenlong lost to the Raptors and lost to the Celtics, scoring only 10 points in the whole game, so after this game, Griffin fought back gorgeously and became the first place in the rookie list.
This whole month of November is a big drama with ups and downs, from the outbreak of Hayward and Turner at the beginning, to Tang Wenlong's domineering in the middle of the middle, to Griffin's tiger out of the gate in the second half of the year, people realize that this is an extraordinary rookie, and someone said at the beginning of the month that 7 years is a reincarnation, comparable to the words of the platinum generation, which seems to be a bit unpredictable at the moment.
Within a few days, the time entered December, and the first month of NBA games officially ended.
Not surprisingly, the Western Conference's Rookie of the Month award went to Griffin, who averaged 20.2 points and 11.6 rebounds per game, both ranked first in rookies, ranked second behind Wall in 35.5 minutes played, and ranked third in shooting percentage of 52 percent.
The competition for the rookie of the month in the East was fierce, and it was still awarded to Tang Wenlong, who averaged 19.8 points per game, because Tang Wenlong's average of 32.7 minutes per game was only fifth among rookies, lower than Turner and Hayward, with a shooting rate of 49.7 percent and a three-point shooting rate of 38.9 percent, which is definitely high for an outside player.