Chapter 596: MVP
Zhuang Fei failed to win the best coach trophy this year, because he had won it last year, in the NBA, it is extremely difficult to win the best coach for a second time, especially for a team to win the best coach for a second time, if Zhuang Fei can't play more than 75 wins in the Celtics this year to break Zhuang Fei's own NBA regular season record set by the Timberwolves, he will not be able to win this award again in the Boston Celtics.! But just like Zhuang Fei snatched the trophy of the best coach of Jerry West in the regular season last season, this season, the league is obviously intentional to make up for Jerry West, this season's Jerry West's team is the second in the league, and it is naturally not as good as the Boston Celtics in terms of record, plus this team has also broken out with fans to fight, it can be said that these things will lose points, so in the case that the awards have not been selected this season, Most people think that Popovich, who led the team to the first place in the West this year, is likely to win the best coach trophy, and Jerry West is likely to win the best general manager for a second consecutive year, because the Grizzlies' head coach and general manager has done a good job in several trades this season, whether it is Reed's explosion this season in exchange last year or getting Terry from the Hawks is some good trades, as a general manager, the draft and trade and signing are their official responsibilities, and Jerry West has been doing a good job in this regard, So his voice is naturally the highest, but he didn't expect that the head coach and general manager of the Grizzlies was unexpectedly named the best head coach, which is also a big surprise. There are many competitions between the Spurs and the Grizzlies this season, not only the competition for the best head coach Jerry West and Popovich, but also the competition for MVP Duncan and Carter and the competition for Ben Wallace and Duncan for the best defensive player. And the starters given by the league are that the outbreak of Arenas and Xiao Ao this season confirms Zhuang Fei's trading vision and draft vision, and Xiao Ao's contract renewal also proves Zhuang Fei's contract renewal talent, it can be said that these are some dispensable reasons, because most of these reasons are from last season and not this season. So it was definitely a bonus.
It's just that for Zhuang Fei's unexpected award, although the outside world has some doubts. But the doubts are not loud, after all, Zhuang Fei did a good job after coming to Celtics part-time, whether it is the team's record or the team's operation, it is very good, at least compared with Jerry West winning the best head coach this season, Zhuang Fei's award is more convincing. Of course, Best Coach and Best General Manager aren't the first NBA awards of the season, as the league's Sixth Player of the Year and Most Improved Player were announced just over a week ago, with Boston Celtics' backup guard Arenas, who is averaging 20.4 points per game this season, taking both counts. This also makes Arenas the second player in league history after Timberwolves player Ginobili to win both awards, just for his two awards. The Boston Celtics' ambitious backup guard was not very happy, and even refused to know that the Boston Celtics backup guard locked it in his cabinet long after receiving these two trophies from the league, obviously because he didn't want to see these two trophies all the time, or in the heart of the Boston Celtics player, these two trophies were not what he wanted at all or that he didn't deserve him at all, of course, anyway, so far. This season, the Boston Celtics are definitely the biggest winners of the league's major awards, although the MVP or the best rookie and best defensive player are likely to have nothing to do with the Boston Celtics, but Zhuang Fei is also extremely happy about the performance of these young players in the Boston Celtics this year
"It's a pity that the Lakers really lost this game, Phil Jackson must be very depressed."
In the chairman's office of the Boston Celtics, Zhuang Fei held a newspaper in his hand, at this time he was reading the report of the Lakers and Spurs who played the same game as them yesterday, the game between the Lakers and the Spurs was definitely a Mars collision between teams of similar strength, but after the results of that game came out, the media on the second day did not praise the game between the Boston Celtics and the Heat, and both teams played a very high tactical literacy in the game between the Boston Celtics and the Heat. In this regard, it can be said that it is considered the most exciting game of the recent year, and the game between the Lakers and the Spurs is not like this, this game in the last five minutes, the two sides are only three points apart, it can be said that it is extremely close, with the strength of these two teams, this is also the most normal result, but in the last five minutes, the Lakers are completely chaotic, in the last five minutes, the Lakers player Ao Fat only got a total of one shot, no free throws, and the number of times he touched the ball was only a handful, In the last five minutes, the Lakers scored a total of 11 points, of which Kobe Bryant scored 9 points, and the other two points were scored by the team's point guard Fisher, and the Lakers made a total of 11 shots in the last five minutes, of which Kobe Bryant accounted for 7 times, and the shooting rate was 4 of 7, which is not bad, and it can even be said that the performance is quite good, but obviously, This Lakers is not Kobe Bryant's team alone, it is obvious that his performance like this cannot be recognized by everyone, especially when the team loses, so after this game, the outside media is quite lively, unlike the Lakers, the Spurs played much more as a whole, in the last five minutes, this team only made 1 shot, no mistake, there was really only one shot, Parker scored 2 points on 1 shot, and the other 13 points of this team were all taken at the free throw line, The Spurs' Duncan and Scola caused a total of 7 fouls on the Lakers' interior in the last five minutes of the game, including 3 for O'Fat, and Samaki Walker and Robert Hawley were twice, Duncan scored 7 points on 7 of 8 free throws, and Scola scored 6 points on 6 of 6 free throws. This is also a typical game of the so-called interior player, it is obvious that it is more efficient to make free throw fouls than to shoot, and in this case, the Lakers lost 82-89 in the end, which is definitely a very embarrassing thing, because in fact they are not an outside team, and their interior is no worse than the Spurs. Although this season, O'Fat has not been in good shape due to injuries. But it's still a player of Duncan's level, and for a player of this level, he didn't make a free throw in the last five minutes, just made a shot, and it was still a mid-range shot from the free throw line that didn't have time at the end. This doesn't make sense in any way.
So Zhuang Fei looked at this New York Times analysis in his office and was also a little emotional, although the New York Times did not deal with him and often discredited him and his team, but this media's coverage of other teams and games is very good, and the depth of the article is also higher than that of other newspapers, which is also the reason why Zhuang Fei likes to watch this media that has been hacking him, and Zhuang Fei also agrees with the analysis of the New York Times, although Ao Fat encountered Duncan and Admiral and Scola in this game. The difficulty of the offense has increased a lot, but you can't not give him the ball because of the difficulty of Ao Fat's offense, if you can't use Ao Fat's lethality to kill the Spurs' interior line, if you want to beat this team unless the Lakers have an outside line like the Celtics, even if the Celtics use the outside line to beat the Spurs' outside line, it is not guaranteed that they will be able to win, not to mention that the Lakers have only Kobe Bryant on the outside line.
"I think Wally must be more depressed" and Zhuang Fei lamented that Phil Jackson is not very much, Stephen Green is emotionally reminded of the Lakers' three-leader Szzerbiak, and Zhuang Fei shook his head helplessly after hearing Green say this, because Szzerbiak has played really hard this season, especially after Ao Fat paid, Szzambiak averaged only 17 points per game this season, which was the lowest and only season in his career without an average of 20 points per game. It can be said that Kobe Bryant and Ao Fat are the most injured in the competition, in this game Kobe and Ao Fat one is 40 shots, the other is 20 shots, Kobe Bryant scored the highest 37 points in 16 of 40 in the whole game, and Ao Fat is 10 out of 20 scored 24 points and 21 rebounds, these two look very good, but the Lakers team only has 86 shots, Szebiak only scored 7 points in 3 of 7 in this game, and the current Lakers can no longer be said to be a triangle offense, It has completely become a singles team in which Kobe Bryant and Ao Fat play one by one. In this case, it will be difficult for other Lakers players to get too many offensive opportunities.
"Anyway, if the Lakers can't take advantage of Ao Fat, they will have a tough series in this series," Zhuang Fei also sighed and said at the end.
And on May 8, just before the Boston Celtics' home game against the Heat, the league announced the MVP candidates for this season, and in the end, Grizzlies' Carter narrowly defeated the Spurs' Duncan, and won the MVP trophy for the third and first time in his career.
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