The Thunder were eliminated by the Spurs and failed to break into the Western Conference finals, and Durant missed the opportunity to take revenge on Wang Chao in the playoffs.

However, in the eyes of many people, such an opportunity should not be needed, after all, according to the current situation of the Thunder team, if they really face the Rockets in the Western Finals, the result may not be much better.

Durant has never won against Wang Chao, whether in terms of scoring or other aspects, it is obvious that Wang Chao is better.

Moreover, the Thunder can't deal with Da Yao, and the probability of losing is as high as more than ninety percent.

Rather than going to the West to bring humiliation on yourself, it's better to let the Spurs fight.

At least the twin towers of Howard + Duncan on the Spurs' interior still have some advantages in the face of Da Yao, who has just returned from injury, and he barely has the strength to fight.

The Western Conference Finals matchup is the Rockets vs. Spurs, while the Eastern side is the Heat vs. the Pacers.

Before the finals of the East and West Conference begin, the league's season awards are also announced.

Best Rookie was taken by Victor. Oladipo won, and this year's champion is the well-known parallel champion Anthony. Bennett, and the overall draft quality is average, and several players in the lottery area, including Oladipo, McCollum and others, are likely to win the Rookie of the Year award.

Originally, in history, the winner of this award was the forward Michael who was selected by the Bobcats. Carter. Williams, and because of the butterfly effect, the Bobcats drafted Victor. Oladipo, who formed an inside and outside partnership with Brother Thick Mei in the Bobcats, as the main scoring point on the outside, averaged 16.1 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists per game, and was successfully elected as the best rookie.

The best sixth man is Wang Chao's former teammate on the Magic team, Jamal . Crawford, who also won the Sixth Man of the Year honor for the second time.

The award for Best Coach went to Greg. Popovich, originally judging from the team's record, Rockets head coach McHale was more deserving of this award, but McHale has won the best coach for two consecutive years, and if he wins the best coach award again this time, it will be the best coach in a row for three times.

In the history of the NBA league, let alone three consecutive best coaches, even the coaches who have won the best coach honor three times in their entire coaching career are only a handful.

What is McHale's coaching ability, everyone knows it, how much does the Rockets' good record have to do with him? That's all the credit of Wang Chao.

A staff member who has left the Rockets has previously revealed that Wang Chao's status in the Rockets is like a Caesar, and the team's personnel adjustments, tactics, training and even the itinerary can only be carried out after Wang Chao's nod and approval.

Whether it is the general manager or the head coach of the Rockets, strictly speaking, it is more like Wang Chao's personal assistant.

Wang Chao's privilege is extremely rare in the NBA league, and at that time, many people criticized Wang for being more than a dictatorship and monopolizing power, which is not something a player should do, but this voice only lasted for a long time before disappearing, because the Rockets had a 72-10 record in the regular season that season, and won all the playoffs.

After all, the NBA is a place to talk with the ball, as long as you can win the game, everything else is secondary, not to mention that Wang Chao's dictatorship has brought all the benefits to the Rockets, and several rookies he selected at the draft have become the mainstay of the team, and the tactical play arranged is also the most scientific and advanced tactics in the league, and even the training of the Rockets players has been diligent and hard under the supervision of Wang Chao.

What else can you say when it's all like this? Other teams still wish that their own teams could parachute in such an "uncle".

However, the existence of Wang Chao does seem that head coach McHale is very incompetent.

The current achievements of the Rockets, McHale is really dispensable, with him or not, the Rockets win the same game, in addition to being able to pat Wang Chao's ass, he has not done anything else to contribute to the team.

is such a sycophancy head coach, who has won the title of best coach for two consecutive years, at least many head coaches in the league are very unconvinced, how can he be won for the third consecutive year?

McHale didn't seem to care about it, and the ridicule of his peers seemed to him to be nothing more than jealousy.

said that I knelt and licked Wang Chao, hugged my thighs to get honor, and if you have the ability, you can also hug one, do you think this job is very easy to do? I call it a good relationship with the star, which is the skill and ability that NBA head coaches must have, after all, there are countless examples of teams falling apart in this league because of discord between generals, and I call it great wisdom!

McHale didn't feel that there was anything wrong with his behavior of hugging the king's super thigh, in fact, McHale who originally hugged Harden's thigh when the Rockets were hugging Harden's thigh, but unfortunately Harden's legs were not thick enough, and just holding and kneeling and licking could not make McHale lie down and win, and the final result was that McHale was fired from the Rockets because of his lack of coaching ability after he was a licking dog for Harden for a season.

Ironically, it was none other than his kneeling Harden who asked to replace McHale.

The topic is far away.

Although McHale failed to achieve the unprecedented three consecutive best coach awards, he coached and brought out a real monster - Wang Chao!

Among the several season awards, the real value is the regular season MVP and the best defensive player DPOY.

The regular season MVP represents the best overall performance among more than 400 basketball players in 30 teams in a long regular season, which is equivalent to the apex above all players, and is the highest honor that is more valuable than the championship.

Of course, the regular season MVP and the championship, or finals FMVP, must complement each other, and both can establish a player's place in history.

For example, Jordan, the No. 1 in history, five MVPs, and six FMVPs, are the main honors for him to be the No. 1 in history, and other small honors such as scoring champions and a burst will not be taken into account at all.

And Abdul-Jabbar, who is second in history, has six MVPs and six championships, but it is precisely the FMVP that is worse than Jordan, Abdul-Jabbar only has two FMVPs, and the quality of the championship is much worse than Jordan.

As for Wang Chao...... The 2013-14 regular season MVP was finally awarded to Wang Chao without any suspense.

There was no suspense in the result of the vote, and Wang was far ahead of Durant by a large score, which was completely crushing to win the award.

This regular season MVP is the fifth regular season MVP trophy in Wang Chao's career, allowing him to officially tie Jordan in terms of MVP honors, and considering that Wang Chao is an unprecedented five-time MVP, the gold content is even higher than Jordan's five regular season MVPs.

In terms of championships, Wang Chao currently has five crowns in hand and four FMVPs, which is still a bit far from Jordan's six crowns and six FMVPs, if he wins the championship this year, the six championships can tie Jordan, and the five FMVPs are only one step away from the god of basketball.

As Jordan himself said in a previous interview, it is only a matter of time before Wang Chao surpasses him.

If Wang Chao is elected as the regular season MVP for the fifth consecutive year, it will be because of the team's No. 1 record and exaggerated personal data.

Then the best defensive player is also the result of Wang Chao, which really surprised many people.

This season's Wang Chao, the defensive efficiency value is indeed among the best in the league, whether it is the direct data performance on the defensive end with an average of 2.6 steals and 1.4 blocks per game, or the high-level data and defensive efficiency that cannot be reflected in the data, Wang Chao can be ranked in the top three in the league this season.

But even so, the inertia of thinking still makes many people unacceptable, Wang Chao can actually win the best defensive player.

Compared to the Supreme Honor Regular Season MVP, the best defensive player is like the difference between BMW and Jetma, one is a world-famous luxury sedan, and the other is a well-known bicycle and electric car brand.

Although the grades of the two are very different, they can all play a role in saving manpower and foot power.

Compared with the regular season MVP, the Best Defensive Player Award is completely a blue-collar award, which is dispensable.

Just like Duncan, who is known for his defense, he has never been elected as the best defensive player in his career, but his historical status has not been affected in any way, and even when people mention the defensive history ranking of interior players, many media will even rank Duncan in front of Garnett.

Having said that, as a top superstar, having a Best Defensive Player award can still be the icing on the cake.

The prime example is Jordan, who won the Defensive Player of the Year once as an outside player, giving more insight into his dominance on both ends of the floor.

The same is true for Wang Chao's best defensive player, although it will not be the basis for measuring Wang Chao's historical status, but it can make his honor more indisputable.

One thing to say, Wang Chao can win the best defensive player this year, there is still some luck.

In the first half of the regular season, Wang Chao was definitely the player with the highest defensive contribution value in the league. Wallace not only protects the team's rebounds very well, but also does not miss any player who rushes into the restricted area, and his ability to assist in defense and frame protection is full.

But after the All-Star weekend, for the task of the system, Wang Chao, who was ready to brush the data, decisively chose to withdraw from the restricted area, although it was not to the point of being mad and completely not defending, but the defensive efficiency also plummeted.

The reason why he was able to win this best defensive player award is really because of the foil of his peers.

In the 13-14 season, in addition to Wang Chao, the only player who can participate in the DPOY selection is Joakim of the Bulls. Noah, Roy of the Pacers. Hibbert, Jordan Jr. of the Clippers and Ibaka of the Thunder are just a few.

The most vocal of these players is Noah, who in fact has been voted the Defensive Player of the 13-14 season in history, with a whopping 49.33% of the vote, far ahead of all other players in the competition.

But is Noah really that good? Not necessarily, mainly because the media reporters who participated in the voting at that time had no other choice.

Noah's Bulls have a record of only 48 wins, ranking fourth in the East, and their average points per game are indeed the lowest in the league at 91.8, but that is also related to the rhythm of the Bulls themselves, which is still the lowest scoring team in the league.

Noah is naturally very important to the Bulls' defensive system, but it is still a notch behind the previous best defensive players, such as Howard of the Magic and Garnett of the Celtics.

Wang Chao's contribution on the defensive end is not much worse than Noah's, coupled with the Rockets' regular season record far better than the Bulls' regular season record and Wang Chao's own superstar effect, winning the vote for the best defensive player is naturally the general trend.

As a result, Wang Chao not only won the regular season MVP, but also won the best defensive player DOPY, and if the Rockets win the championship this season and win another FMVP, they will become an unprecedented Grand Slam honor.

How exaggerated is it to have a player with MVP, FMVP, DPOY, scoring title, rebounding title, assist king, steal king and almost all other honors in one season?

Even the alliance, which has been accustomed to Wang Chao's strong performance, was shocked by Wang Chao's wave of honor.

This is to heaven! Is there still a human existence on this planet that can stop Wang Chao? ——

On May 19, the opening game of the Western Conference Finals, the Toyota Center Arena, the home of the Rockets, was already a sea of red.

For Rockets fans, as long as they can win the Western Conference finals and break into the Finals, the defending champion is within reach!

The Rockets' starting five tigers are Wang Chao, Butler, Leonard, Garnett and Da Yao.

Seeing this starting lineup, many fans of the Rockets only felt tears.

This is the main lineup of the Rockets to win the championship last season, this year's time can be described as a sea of vicissitudes, Da Yao suspended the entire regular season due to injury, and did not finally return from injury until the division semifinals, and even if he has returned, he also came off the bench in the 4 games of the division semifinals and strictly controlled the playing time, for fear of any mistakes, this game is the first start of Da Yao this season since his injury.

As for Garnett, although there were no major injuries this season, the aging of his body made his competitive level fall off a cliff, and after poor performance at the beginning of the season, after communicating with the coaching staff, Garnett agreed to step back to the second line.

Garnett hasn't started since then.

Today, the Rockets arranged Garnett and Da Yao to start the interior team, not to let the classic interior partner pair pair against the Spurs' Duncan and Garnett.

Da Yao is still a little better, Wang Chao doesn't think that the current Garnett still has the ability to play against Duncan, if nothing else, Garnett will be replaced after two or three minutes of starting the game and replaced with Chandler. Parsons or Middleton to bolster the team's perimeter offensive firepower.

If you have to say it, such a starting lineup arrangement is more like a tribute, after all, it has reached the stage of the Western Finals, and it is also a good choice to use the classic lineup to drive the emotions and atmosphere of the fans in the stadium.

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