Chapter 408: Finals, Lakers vs Nets
"In the regular season MVP selection, Wang Feng narrowly defeated Brother Alphabet by 3 points and won the regular season MVP for the fourth consecutive year."
"Make history! The first regular season MVP winner in the history of the league is born! Wang Feng created a miracle and became a new historical record holder! It's amazing, Wang Feng, who has achieved such brilliant achievements, has nearly half a year to reach the age of 29! His legend will continue! ”
"Wang Feng and the Lakers have reached the Finals for the third year in a row, can they win three consecutive championships this season, and can Wang Feng's individual championship count reach six? Let's wait and see! ”
In China, all kinds of news about Wang Feng are paved, and all kinds of front-page headlines are almost completed.
On the contrary, on the side of the United States, Wang Feng's four consecutive regular season MVPs were only briefly mentioned.
There is no way, Wang Feng can get four consecutive regular season MVP, which is itself an incident of the collective overturning of media reporters, this situation was not expected by anyone, I originally thought that Wang Feng ranked second in MVP with a relatively small gap in the score, which is more or less reasonable, after all, it is an average of 40 + 10 + 10 per game, how can you give a little ranking, otherwise where is the "fairness" of the media?
Unexpectedly, other peers had the same idea, which led to Wang Feng's outrageous high number of votes in the second place, and he actually killed Brother Alphabet by 3 points, and overturned the boat in the gutter.
Wang Feng won four consecutive regular season MVPs, a Chinese player in the NBA so flaunting, has made the basketball world of the United States disgraced, if they continue to make a big report, wouldn't it be clear that they have no player in the United States to compete with Wang Feng?
The media in the United States chose to treat the incident coldly.
And the biggest loser in the MVP of the regular season, Antetokounmpo, is even more unhappy.
originally thought that the first regular season MVP of his career was finally coming, but before the voting results were announced, Brother Alphabet had always been the most popular winner, and even suppressed Wang Feng for a while.
I didn't expect the voting results to be announced, and the regular season MVP was actually Wang Feng again!
This is the third season in a row!
Since the 18-19 season, Wang Feng and Brother Alphabet have always been the most competitive opponents in the regular season MVP, and the players who have been the most qualified for MVP in recent years.
In the first two years, Brother Alphabet lost to Wang Feng without any suspense, and he didn't even have a chance, and this year, he finally relied on the fact that the reporters of the United States did not want Wang Feng to be the MVP for the fourth time, and the Lakers had the opportunity to win the regular season MVP because of Butler's record, but I didn't expect it to fall short in the end.
Of course, Brother Alphabet also knows that if you look at personal data and contribution to the team's victory, Wang Feng is far better than himself, but he has been suppressed by Wang Feng for several years, and he can't bear it anymore, and this feeling of both Shengyu and He Shengliang has driven him crazy.
In the current news, whenever Brother Alphabet is mentioned, Wang Feng will always be brought out for comparison.
As a player who is basically a contemporaneous player, it is a kind of sadness compared to Wang Feng.
Therefore, even with the assistance of external forces, as long as he can defeat Wang Feng, it is acceptable in the eyes of Brother Alphabet!
It's a pity that even if he has acquiesced to this method, he still failed to win against Wang Feng, and the 3-point gap was even more ironic.
When the mood is extremely bad, something even worse happens.
The tiebreaker between the Bucks and the Nets will directly determine who can enter the Finals and compete for the championship trophy.
On the home court of the Nets, the Bucks resisted for three quarters of the game, but in the end they still couldn't resist, collapsing across the board in the fourth quarter, missing the last chance, losing the game 119:105, and being eliminated by the Nets 3:4 and missing the finals.
After the regular season MVP was taken away, Brother Alphabet lost the opportunity to win the Eastern Conference and compete for the championship, and completely failed the whole season with nothing.
Every year Brother Alphabet loses in the playoffs, there will always be someone to comfort him, it doesn't matter, you are still young, and there will be more opportunities in the future.
But going around and around, after the end of this season, Brother Alphabet is also 27 years old, but so far he has achieved nothing, has never won a regular season MVP, and has not won a championship.
But whether you want to or not, it's not what Brother Alphabet says, there are many depressed players like him in the league.
Garnett, James, and Durant are all hard to find a championship before making a decision, and they are extremely struggling, but I don't know if Brother Alphabet will also have the idea of embarking on the "most difficult" path in the career path that has been suppressed by Wang Feng.
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In the entire Eastern Conference finals series, Durant and Brother Alphabet are undoubtedly the brightest teams of the two teams.
After two not-so-successful seasons, Durant seems to have finally exploded and played the best playoff performance of his career.
In the Eastern Conference matchup with the Bucks, Durant averaged 37 points, 9.7 rebounds and 6 assists per game in 7 games, and his statistics were almost comparable to Wang Feng in the West.
During the entire playoffs, Durant also averaged 35 points, 9.3 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game, second only to Wang Feng in the playoff scoring list.
Brother Alphabet's seven-game performance is actually very good, averaging 28 points, 12 rebounds and 6 assists per game, and both offensive and defensive ends are key factors for the Bucks to support seven games, but there is no way.
The Bucks' Big Three configuration is indeed worse than the Nets in terms of quality, Middleton is slightly better, and Wall played well during the regular season, but in the playoffs it was somewhat undercover.
Wall's style of play is a bit like a combination of Westbrook and Rondo, and he is good at breaking through the frame with the ball and assisting teammates, but he is not good at long-range shooting and is not consistent with his three-point shot.
In terms of breaking through the frame with the ball, the Bucks already have a more efficient brother Antetokounmpo, and letting Wall attack with the ball will only make the Bucks' offensive efficiency less.
On the Nets' side, Irving and George, who are very accurate in three-point shooting, can not only pull space for Durant's ball-holding offense on the court, but also share the pressure on the offensive end.
While the helpers are not as good as the other party, Brother Alphabet has not beaten Durant in terms of personal ability, and even faintly falls behind, in this case, no one can be blamed for the loss.
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The Nets eliminated the Bucks and successfully entered the Finals, which is also the first time in three years that Durant has returned to the Finals stage.
Tracing back to the last time Durant won the Finals, it was the 2017-18 season, the Warriors went all the way, and swept James's single-core Cavaliers 4:0 in the Finals to win the Cup, Durant won the first championship trophy of his career and successfully won the Finals FMVP from his teammate Curry, completing the career honor slam.
Regular Season MVP, Finals FMVP, Championship, Scoring Champion......
Durant has all these honors, but sure enough, the championship won by the Warriors is still a little less convincing.
With his first championship, Durant began to aspire to a second championship...... And he wants a championship trophy with himself as the first core!
Therefore, in the 18-19 season, after the Warriors were upset in the Western Conference finals due to injury, Durant decisively chose to leave the team and joined the Nets, and the Nets also formed a big three with no depth as the Warriors.
While the strength of the lineup is not much worse, this team is not the same as the Warriors, it is a team that really belongs to Durant, here he is the only leader, the first core!
Last season, due to the force majeure of injuries, the Nets were not able to break through from the East, but this season, the team is strong and strong, and finally out of the East and into the Finals!
"Overall Champion! I've got it! ”
Durant, who lifted the Eastern Conference championship trophy, thought with pride in his heart.
It's just that such an idea was quickly shrouded in a haze, because he immediately remembered that his opponent in the finals was the Lakers led by Wang Feng!
This is definitely the worst opponent.
If he could, Durant would prefer to play against the Clippers or the Warriors when they were fully healthy.
Even the Clippers, the top three of James, Leonard and Westbrook, are better to deal with than the Lakers in Durant's opinion.
The reason is very simple, it is simply Wang Feng's reason.
Since the 14-15 season when Wang Feng joined the league, Durant has begun to play against Wang Feng.
From the beginning of the 3D player positioning Wang Feng is responsible for defending Durant, to the back of Wang Feng and Durant who developed scoring ability, and then to the back, since joining the Lakers, Wang Feng's scoring ability has begun to surpass Durant.
83 points per game, 38.6 points per game in the regular season, 40 points, plus a triple-double per game......
Wang Feng's performance every season is refreshing people's perception of the concept of scoring.
Before Wang Feng, the player who was recognized as the strongest scoring ability was undoubtedly Durant.
A four-time scoring champion, with a career average of 27 points per game, he can be said to be the most efficient and scoring scorer since Jordan.
The shortest champion in history, Aaron. Although Iverson also has four scoring titles, he is obviously inferior to Durant in terms of shooting percentage and scoring efficiency.
But the appearance of Wang Feng has changed everything.
Not to mention Durant, now people are talking more about who is stronger and weaker than Wang Feng's scoring ability, and even this discussion is divided into two factions, and the debate is extremely fierce.
The faction that supports Jordan believes that Wang Feng's high scoring is mainly reflected in the three-point shot, the defense is weak in the small-ball era, and the scale of blowing penalties is even more than the body hair whistle, and the score is far easier than in Jordan's era.
Whether it is Wang Feng, James, Curry or Durant, in Jordan's era, under the high-pressure defense, the score will inevitably shrink significantly.
"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"
The pro-Wang faction scoffs at this view.
Not to mention that Wang Feng has many offensive methods, not just a matter of relying on three-point shots to eat, even if he is really facing high-intensity defense, will Wang Feng really be afraid?
I don't see it at all in the usual games.
In order to target Wang Feng, all teams in the league can be said to do everything, what double or even three-person bags are endless, Wang Feng often has the behavior of forcibly breaking out of the bag with good strength, which proves that Wang Feng is not afraid of physical confrontation at all, even if the defense in the 80s is impossible to affect him.
The two factions are not convinced by each other, and they are arguing endlessly, but there is absolutely no Durant in this, and both sides believe that a thin arm and leg like Durant will definitely be dismantled in the 80s.