Chapter 384: Rookie Scoring King
On April 13, the 2010-2011 NbA regular season ended with the conclusion of the last four games.
The Wizards also won the last regular season game of the season that night, against the Cavaliers, who are aiming to compete for the top pick, thus earning their 57th win of the season, which means that the Wizards' regular season record is completely fixed at 57-25, ranking third in the East.
The end of the regular season also brought to an end the fierce battle for a playoff spot in the final days, and for the strong teams, they will want to fight for a higher ranking and thus gain home advantage in the upcoming playoffs.
And for teams on the fringes of the playoffs, every win they win is more likely to make the playoffs.
This year's competition in the East is particularly fierce because of the Wizards' sudden rise.
In addition, the Chicago Bulls' record has also improved by leaps and bounds after the growth of the core of the team, so this year's Eastern Conference ranking is very close.
The Bulls are 62-20 the only team in the East to win more than 60 games, and if nothing else, this year's coach of the year should belong to Thibodeau.
In fact, Sanders also has a very good chance, after all, he can bring the Wizards who got the first pick last season to the third place in the East, and it makes sense to be the best coach, but who made the Bulls jump to the first place in the league.
The Miami Heat, the second in the East, 58-24, pays tribute to James' good brother Chris Paul, after a season of running-in, the Big Three seem to have found a way to coexist, and the progress of Spo, a rookie coach, is also visible to the naked eye.
The third Wizards in the East will not be repeated, the Boston Celtics are fourth in the East, 56-26, and each team between the 2nd and 4th in the East has a record of exactly one win difference, and the Celtics simply gave up in the last week, it seems that the idea of the Celtics and Rivers this year is to avoid the big three favorites to win the championship, and would rather play the Bulls in the second round.
But the Celtics' evasion of the Heat doesn't necessarily make it easier for them in the playoffs, as they face the Orlando Magic, who are fifth in the East, in the first round.
The Magic made several big trades in a row during the season, Lewis for Arenas, Vince Carter for Jason, Richardson and Turkoglou, and their performance in the regular season can be said to be completely unsatisfactory, after all, this is a former Finals team, after a big trade, but the record is not as good as in previous seasons.
But after all, it has a lot of playoff experience, so no one dares to underestimate the playoff strength of this Magic team.
Therefore, many people can't understand why the Celtics will directly give up the third place in the East to the Wizards in the last few days of the season, they are afraid of meeting the Heat in the second round, aren't they afraid of the Magic team in the first round?
Or do the Celtics and Rivers have plenty of confidence in playing the Magic?
No one knows.
The Wizards' first-round opponent is the 44-38, sixth-ranked Hawks in the East, and the Hawks are not an easy opponent in the playoffs, and this team with two forward combinations, Joe Johnson and Josh Smith, can cause problems for any team in the playoffs.
No. 7 in the West is the New York Knicks, who acquired Amare Stademeyre last offseason, and on the first day after the All-Star break, the Knicks acquired their star Carmelo Anthony from the Denver Nuggets in a three-way trade with the Nuggets Timberwolves.
Now even the Knicks, who are ranked seventh in the East, have two All-Star players, and the Heat must also have a headache about this result, because Xiao Si will definitely kill in the face of the Heat's weak interior line, and now the Knicks have another Anthony on the outside......
No. 8 in the East is the Philadelphia 76ers, their 41-41 win rate is exactly half of the winning rate, this season's sudden rise of the Wizards, like a catfish being stuffed into a group of sardines, immediately turned the East upside down, in previous seasons, where was the competition in the Eastern Conference playoffs so fierce? There has even been a situation in the East where the 6th record in the East cannot be made to the playoffs if it is shifted to the West.
As for the West, the Spurs are in first place with 61 wins and 21 losses, and they are also the only team in the West with more than 60 wins, followed by the Mavericks 57-25, Lakers 57-25, Thunder 55-27, Nuggets 50-32, Trail Blazers 48-34, Grizzlies 46-36, and Hornets 46-36.
I have to say that the average strength of the West is indeed much stronger than that of the East, and the eighth Hornets in the West can rank sixth in the East if they are ranked in the East, and the win difference between the teams in the West is very close, and in addition to the top four in the East, the remaining teams are basically set a week before the end of the regular season, and the West is not until the last minute, and the ranking cannot be determined at all.
In addition to the record and playoff matchups, the regular season statistics have also been determined.
Averaging 33.6 points per game, Lee became the leading scorer in 2010-2011 in his rookie season, making him only the fifth man to do so after Joe Verks, George McCann, Chamberlain and Elvin Hayes.
As strong as the basketball god Michael Jordan did not achieve, let Li Kaiming achieve it.
However, Jordan was actually the total scoring champion in his rookie season, that is, he was the first in the league in total points throughout the season, but he was not the average points per game, so he unfortunately missed this record.
Li Kaiming's average score of 33.6 points per game can be ranked first even in history, equal to Jordan in 1990, and tied for 19th in history in a single season per game.
The second in the scoring list is Kevin Durant, the scoring champion of last season, with an average of only 27.7 points per game, 6 points away from Li Kaiming, and the gap of 6 points is larger than the gap between the 2nd and 14th in the scoring list, which shows how high the gold content of Li Kaiming, the scoring king, is and how strong his dominance is!
This year's rebounding king belongs to the Timberwolves' interior core Kevin Love, who can get an average of 15.2 rebounds per game, which is really powerful, and his average rebounds per game are higher than the average points per game of most players in the league!
It is worth mentioning that Li Kaiming ranked 5th on the rebounding list with an average of 10.5 rebounds per game, and the only thing that made him feel a little unhappy was that Griffin actually ranked above him with an average of 12 rebounds per game!
It's infuriating! It's time to grab rebounds next season, anyone can lose, but you can't lose to Griffin!
The league's assist king belongs to Steve Nash, who averages 11.4 assists per game, and the second-ranked Boston Celtics star Rajon Rondo missed out on the assist king with 11.2, while Li Kaiming once again appeared in the 11th place on the assist list with an average of 7.5 assists per game, and in front of him is his good brother Derrick Rose.
The steal king belongs to the 183-hip man Chris Cannon from New Orleans, who averages 2.4 steals per game, and the block king belongs to the Bucks' 2005 No. 1 pick, Andrew Bodog, who has a dead face.
The schedule of the playoffs is also very tight, the regular season ends on the night of the 13th, and the first round of the playoffs starts on the night of the 16th.
And the Wizards also began to fully equip themselves to prepare for the playoffs, Sanders also led the coaching staff to start studying the video of the first-round opponent Hawks day and night, and finally entered the playoffs, and entered in the third place in the West.
The players also began to prepare for training under the arrangement of the team's training team, and three days was enough time for them to recover from fatigue while adjusting their condition and facing the hard-won playoffs with a new look.
Li Kaiming also received a message from his good brother Elliott Williams, and he was coming to the home stadium to cheer for Li Kaiming.
Because the Raptors have a 20-62 record this season and deservedly missed the playoffs, Williams will have a five-month vacation after playing the final game of the regular season.
When he heard Williams say that he could rest, Li Kaiming was also a little envious, "It's good to have a holiday, you don't have to play, you can sleep lazy, and you don't have to fly around in the sky anymore!" ”
Williams: I don't have a backache when I stand and talk, why don't we change them? You're here to enjoy the holidays, and I'm going to play the playoffs for you?
Li Kaiming: You don't have to, you can't be killed by the other side in the past? I finally made it to the playoffs, can I let you be a loser and spoil me?
Williams:? Okay, okay, so I am, right?
Li Kaiming: You just go fishing obediently, buddy will give you a high-quality fishing rod, make sure you don't have the Air Force!
Williams:......
Before the start of the exciting playoffs, the media preview of the repertoire is also indispensable, whether it is ESpN, tNt, or cbS, they have done all kinds of TV shows, invited all kinds of ghosts, snakes, and gods to start making predictions for this season's playoffs.
On the ESpN side, the prediction of the pillar big mouth A Smith is very thunderous, because he thinks that the Celtics and the Wizards will be in one round, and the Celtics will not talk about it, no matter how the two sides analyze each other, they will win and lose each other, but for the Wizards' prediction, Smith said that "The Wizards are a regular season team, and their seemingly inexplicable offense will go off directly under the defense of the playoffs!" So I predict the Wizards will be swept 4-0 by the Hawks! ”
At the same time, on tNt's show, Fliggy Barkley made the exact opposite prediction, "I think the Wizards are 4-0 to the Hawks, they are ahead in the regular season, and the team also has Li Kaiming, he is definitely a playoff player, no doubt!" ”
Koslov, who has been diving for a long time, also wrote a long article on his personal blog to analyze the situation in the playoffs, and when it came to the Wizards, he wrote:
"In the long regular season, most teams will not show their true strength, only the Wizards, I can see from them the fighting spirit of playing in the Finals, the core of the team averages 33.6 points per game, it seems unstoppable. But the playoffs are a different level of competition, and this group has not been tested in the playoffs at all, and Joe Johnson and Josh Smith will destroy their ......."