Chapter 314: Winning the Best of the Month
The narrow victory over the Spurs has made the 76ers fans more confident in the home team, and so far this season, the 76ers have a very high winning rate against strong teams, and most of the games they have lost have fallen below zero, or they have been seriously lacking in physical strength after back-to-back away games.
Overall, the 76ers are still stable, and after two months, they are still the best in the league.
Throughout the month of December, the 76ers went 13-3 and averaged 108 points per game, while their defensive opponents averaged only 99.8 points per game, and played several high-scoring games in the fast-paced game.
Tang Wenlong averaged 31.9 points, 7.3 rebounds and 6.6 assists per game, including a 44 percent three-point shooting rate, and an overall shooting rate of a little more than 50%.
On Jan. 5, the 76ers traveled to Staples in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles is star-studded, and in ordinary games, the arena will be filled with stars from all walks of life, large and small, and the first team in the NBA league will be a guest, which naturally attracts a wave of stars. They are cheering for the home team, the Lakers, and at the same time to see the performance of Tang Wenlong, who is now red and purple.
Before the game, the official announcement was made that last month's Eastern and Western Player of the Month of the month.
The Player of the Month award in the West went to Clippers commander Chris Paul. Paul led the Clippers to a 16-game winning streak throughout December, and now it has extended to 17 straight wins, the best winning streak in Clippers history. In these games, the Clippers can outscore opponents by an average of 15.8 points per game, which is more than the 76ers.
Paul led the way during this winning streak, averaging 16 points and three rebounds per game, as well as averaging 9.3 assists and leading the league in steals at 2.73 per game. He kept the Clippers organized, scoring 24 points, 13 assists and five steals in the Dec. 22 win over the Kings without a single turnover. Paul's outstanding performance made the Clippers their third team to 16 wins in a single month after the Lakers in '71-72 and the Spurs in '95-96.
The best of the month in the east was awarded to Tang Wenlong.
Tang Wenlong ranks first in the league in points per game, has the highest efficiency value in the league, and in the East, no team has a better record than the 76ers in December, and it cannot be compared to Tang Wenlong in terms of statistics.
Tang Wenlong won the Player of the Month award for the first time in his career, and the 76ers' official website released a brief message to celebrate Tang Wenlong's Player of the Month award. Classmates, teammates and friends sent congratulations, and today, with the rise of Twitter, countless stars in the same league congratulated and @ him.
Staples vs. Lakers, at this time Pau Gasol returned, and Spanish fans had a lot to watch.
It was a derby in Spain, a duel between brothers, and two excellent inside players, Gasol Jr. and Gasol Jr., were compared and hyped by the European media.
The American media mainly focused on Kobe Bryant and Tang Wenlong, the Lakers had collapsed in Philadelphia in December, and now Philadelphia has made a comeback, and the Lakers are bound to return the color head-on.
Tang Wenlong was unfortunately listed as the number one enemy, and when Staples was playing, there was a lot of boos.
Every player who comes to Staples will be inspired by this, and even be in a different mental state than usual.
Iguodala sighed, "I still remember that time, Arenas scored 60 points in Staples, and in history, Chamberlain once scored more points than Arenas in Staples." ”
"Crazy players, crazy generals." Although Tang Wenlong has not experienced that era, he also knows that about a few years ago, it was the era of scorer blowouts, and the top scorers including Kobe, Maddy, and Arenas probably have the ability to score as much as he wants.
"It's just that, because of injuries later, my ability declined too quickly, like a bright meteor." Iguodala sighed, how did his super defensive ability be trained, isn't it cultivated by the continuous training of scorers like these beasts!
Staples, Tang Wenlong's heart was surging......
Nash is still on the injury list, Dujon and Kobe Bryant are in the backcourt, Artest and Pau Gasol are in the frontcourt, and Howard is in the center.
The Lakers currently sit in ninth place in the West, which is an embarrassing record for a team that is committed to winning a championship. The problem is that their new manager, D'Antoni, doesn't have much of the means to integrate them into a true supership.
After Howard came to the Lakers, he found that he seemed to have fallen into a pit. It's no longer him here, and the core of the tactics won't be his Warcraft. Although there were occasional low-post shots in the game, for the most part, he was just an excellent pick-and-roll, meat shield, and rebounder.
It's not a question of whether to pass or not, it's a change in his mentality.
The outside world criticized Kobe Bryant for not passing the ball to Howard, believing that if the Lakers want to go further, they must play Howard's ability as a super center.
But when it comes to the game, even if it was O'Neal, the invincible overlord in the low position at the beginning, Kobe Bryant sometimes chooses to ignore it, not to mention Howard, who Kobe Bryant can't stand at all. Howard couldn't catch the ball, and only relied on a secondary offense with frontcourt rebounds and a few bad low-post offenses, and the score was too low to fail.
Tang Wenlong didn't expect the Lakers to struggle so much this season, and he was also blindsided.
Once when the Lakers just formed the Super Four, he once thought that the Lakers would become their 76ers' big enemy, but he didn't expect that after half a season, the Lakers are still in a state of anchoring.
In this game, the 76ers still resolutely defended and counterattacked.
The starting five, Lowry, Iguodala, Tang Wenlong, David West and Gasol Jr., only have a slightly worse rebounding ability than the Lakers.
But the resolute fast break and defensive counterattack have also made the Lakers dare not easily rush to grab rebounds.
In the first quarter of the game, the 76ers scored 32 points, the Lakers only scored 24 points, and the 76ers led by 8 points, of which Tang Wenlong scored 13 points on 5-of-7 shooting, completing two step-back jumpers that were as chic as Kobe Bryant, which made many fans in Staples shout magically.
"All the fuss, our boss can fly." Whiteside is disdainful of the Los Angeles fans, who he feels prefers the 76ers, despite their glorious traditions.
The Lakers are slow to climb the ground, the 76ers bench is very good, Butler and Whiteside have become the highlights of the 76ers bench today, and the two of them are also powerful when they block and dismantle.
Soon the margin was stretched to double digits, forcing D'Antoni to call a timeout.
Then he soon discovered that time-outs were useless.
In this game, Kobe Bryant's hand felt average, and after Iguodala limited it, his hand felt fell to about 4 percent, and without the magic of the previous game, the Lakers quickly collapsed.
By the end of the third quarter, the 76ers had a 24-point lead of 91-67, and it turned into a one-sided slaughter.
Tang Wenlong did not play in the last quarter, scoring 27 points in less than 30 minutes of playing time, and Lakers fans were heartbroken...... (To be continued.) )