Chapter 212: The Regular Season Is Over, the New Scoring King!
After the trade deadline, in March, the Lakers defeated the Thunder in two consecutive games on the 4th and 6th.
It's a pity that if Curry's MVP rival this season is Durant, then in Wang Shuo's eyes, with just these two games, he can find a way to make Curry beat Durant to win the MVP.
Again, that's the same sentence.
No matter how short Durant's fitness slot is, it's not like he's averaging more than 20 shots per game in the regular season.
Although these two games against the Lakers, the intensity of the game is indeed much higher than the average regular season......
But can you believe that, as the most consistent scorer on the Thunder court, Durant only took 17 and 18 shots in those two games?
Seeing this, one might say......
In the NBA, it is not low to take about seventeen or eight shots in a game!
Yes.
For some team basketball goats, even a team shouldn't have players who average more than 15 shots per game.
However, not to mention whether a team plays team basketball or not, it is never the distribution of the players on the court of this team......
Take Durant's career true shooting percentage of about 60%, for example......
With a scorer of the historical level of "Mantis Du", wouldn't it be more reliable for you to design a few more tactics for him in a game and let him pick up a few more times on the court than if you handed the ball to a role player to throw?
In Wang Shuo's previous life, he had seen one of the most ridiculous assertions that if Kobe Bryant could give his average of 27.2 shots per game to Vujasic, Odom, and Devin George, then maybe the Lakers would have performed better in the 05/06 season.
There is no doubt that the person who can say such a thing has definitely not watched the Lakers' games back then, and it is likely that they do not even know what level Vujacic and George are.
Because it's like Curry binge-slamming a game where the Warriors failed to win, and Warriors fans complained afterwards that Curry didn't let Green make more shots on the court.
In fact, whether it is Curry or Kobe, as long as the teammates can be slightly more reliable...... They don't always have to smoke on the pitch to win.
In Wang Shuo's memory, because in the series with the Suns in the 05/06 season, Kobe's average shots per game dropped to about 20 times, and his efficiency was higher than that of the regular season, and the Lakers played seven games with the Suns at that time, so some people who had been black Kobe for a long time immediately jumped out and said:
You see, as long as Kobe Bryant takes a few fewer shots, the Lakers will play better.
So, do you want to say that some people are already stunned by the black Kobe?
Historically, the Suns led by D'Antoni have preferred offense, but is it possible that the Suns are a team with luxury guards such as Marion, Bale and Dior?
Unlike the lack of scoring firepower faced by the Lakers in the previous regular season, in that series with the Suns, Kobe Bryant had to use his excellent form in the regular season in the 05/06 season to contain his teammates and find a way to activate his teammates in order to lead the Lakers to the next level.
Because in the G6 game between the two teams, in that game in which Kobe Bryant shot 20 of 35 from the field and scored 50 points, Vujacic and Smash Parker proved it with their 54 points combined with Kobe......
No matter how many points Kobe Bryant scores on the court, it will be difficult to lead the Lakers to defeat the Suns, who have a higher scoring ceiling.
It's a pity that some Kobe Bryant, who doesn't even know how to be black, is destined not to see this, nor can he see the trade-offs that Kobe Bryant made in that series to help the Lakers win.
Just like now.
After Curry proved his scoring prowess, who said Kobe Bryant wasn't willing to pass the ball for this little brother of his?
In the two games against the Thunder, Curry took 25 and 27 shots, respectively.
On the court, the entire Lakers team, including Kobe, was trying to figure out how to make the ball for Curry.
The result is with the help of teammates.
The hot-touch Curry hit 10 three-pointers in Oklahoma and Los Angeles again.
In Wang Shuo's previous life, as the world's recognized three-point king, Curry was not only the player with the most consecutive three-pointers in NBA history, but also the player with the most three-pointers in a single game in NBA history.
On these two technical statistics, even if you add up the rest of the NBA players, Curry can hold his head high and say to them:
Why don't you have any fights?
Judging from the post-game results of these two games, it seems reasonable for the Lakers to win because Curry is on fire.
But in fact......
In these two games against the Thunder, Curry was not the only player on the court who felt hot.
For example, Durant shot 11 of 17 in the first game and Durant made 12 of 18 shots in the second game.
Afterwards, when reviewing the two games, Vogel said with a puzzled expression: "Coach Scott Brooks doesn't really know......
Kevin Durant is much more efficient at scoring than any other player on this Thunder team, right? ”
On the basketball court, when a player feels good, it is common sense to give him the ball to play as much as possible.
Because it doesn't matter how efficient your team's offense is, if you have a player on the court who can consistently shoot 50 percent from the field and score for the team......
Wouldn't it be over to him with the ball?
However, Brooks didn't choose to do so in those two games against the Lakers.
Other than that......
Durant himself did not show the murderous spirit that he had when he was under Wang Shuo and slaughtered all sides in Istanbul.
In Wang Shuo's view, Durant's mood at the moment determines that it is difficult for him to win more personal honors at the beginning of his career.
Because it's one thing whether the league wants to play him up or not.
Whether Durant wants to fight or not is definitely another matter.
In fact, if Durant can really deliver the same ungodly performance on the court, then even if the NBA doesn't want to praise him, he has to praise him.
Because in competitive sports, the winner is always king.
In Wang Shuo's previous life, in that season when he competed with Anthony for the scoring title, Durant not only played the "50+40+90" shooting percentage panel for the first time in his career, but also successfully entered the NBA's "180 Club".
However, the season ......
In the case that Anthony knew that if he wanted to win the scoring title, he had to pick a few more shots on the court, and Durant ended up with an average of nearly 5 fewer shots per game than Anthony, but it seriously dragged him back.
Admittedly, if Durant throws two or three more times per game that season, he may not end up in the "180 Club".
But he wants to use 17.7 shots per game to compete for the scoring title......
Durant is also a little too whimsical.
In March of this year, although Kobe Bryant returned from injury in order to help Curry compete for the scoring title, he took the initiative to reduce his offensive desire on the court.
But after Kobe Bryant's return, Curry's on-court scoring has been affected to a certain extent since mid-March.
It has nothing to do with whether Kobe Bryant is willing to pass the ball to Curry.
It is only related to the scoring structure of one team.
After all, no matter how big Wang Shuo makes the cake on the court, affected by only 48 minutes in a game, the Lakers' average total points per game can only be maintained at about 120 points.
In this scoring range, Kobe Bryant, who has to score 20 points per game, every point he scores on the court means that someone will score one less point.
However, Wang Shuo did not panic at all about helping Curry compete for the scoring title.
Because in the face of this best opportunity to overtake Curry in the scoring per game rankings, Durant unsurprisingly chose to ignore it.
In late March, when Curry's average points per game had dropped to 29.1 points, in the spirit of friendship first and game second, Durant's average points per game also dropped to 28.2 points.
On April 2, the Lakers played the Bobcats away.
Since everyone in the Lakers team knows that Curry likes to play in Charlotte, Wang Shuo doesn't even need to mobilize, and the Lakers players on the court give full play to their subjective initiative and make walls and feed cakes to Curry on the court.
Led by Paul Silas, the Bobcats are currently ninth in the East.
Although after acquiring Paul through a trade, the Bobcats have recently begun to show some tactical discipline on the court.
However, this season's competition in the East is still fierce.
The Hawks, who let go of Joe Johnson last summer, have been replaced by the Magic, led by Davis, Cousins and Bagnani, who let go of Joe Johnson last summer.
If you only look at the performance of the Magic who are expected to make the playoffs this season, you must think that the Magic's previous trade of Conley for Davis was not a loss.
But in Orlando, Davis, who is attacking the city for the Magic every night, is pressing the accelerator button for his career in Wang Shuo's eyes.
Because of the "bearded" kind of play, you will play with your life when you play......
Once they lose human control, their risk of injury on the field only increases as they age.
In addition, Paul, who thought that after being sent to Charlotte by the Clippers, even if he would have to accompany the Bobcats for a long rebuild in the future, at least he could escape Curry's beating......
Even if he was traded to the Bobcats, he would have to be beaten by Curry.
In this life, Paul is not in the mood to compete with Curry for the NBA's active No. 1 point guard.
Because under the support of Wang Shuo, Hook and Stern, Paul, who has been on the move, what will he do to touch Curry, the "chosen son"?
Is it based on his "tragic case" experience that is destined to go down in history?
Well, if it's better than this, then Curry really can't compare with Paul.
Because as of now, in the NBA's single-game loss record, Paul alone has several.
In this game with the Bobcats, Paul was unsurprisingly targeted by Wang Shuo.
Offense, there is Kobe's iron elbow waiting for him in front of him.
Defensively, he had to face Curry, who had always been a god in Charlotte.
On the court, in addition to being bullied, the only thing that can give Paul some comfort is that Klay, Jr. and Butler, three young players who will always get extra attention from the Bobcats' uniforms, have all shown some potential on the court.
But before these young players grow up, what can Paul do at this moment except to shout "Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi, don't bully the poor youth"?
Despair!
It's really hopeless!
Time Warner Center Arena, in the final quarter of the game, when Paul, who had been beaten to the point of being stunned, was replaced, even the famous "Cannon Black" Yang Yi felt sorry for him and said: "Did you see Paul's expression just now?" The face can be described as full of grievances and unwillingness. ”
On the side, Yang Jian smiled: "Curry's men are indeed a bit heavy tonight, and they scored 50 points in the first three quarters of the game only for the Lakers." ”
Yang Yi said with a regretful face: "This is also Curry's current sadness, because there is no chance to play in the fourth quarter, so no one can know how many points he can score in a game." ”
After a pause, Yang Yi continued: "On the other hand, Paul obviously doesn't have such troubles.
Because if the Lakers really continue to use the main force in the final quarter, then Paul will have to think about it tonight...... How many points will the Bobcats lose to the Lakers under his leadership. ”
In the final quarter of the game, when the game had entered garbage time, the NBA live broadcast seat, which has always been good at camera language, gave close-ups to Paul many times.
TNT, about the game that the Bobcats finally won the opportunity to broadcast live in the United States, Barkley Rui commented: "You have to admit that Chris and Bobcats do have some similarities.
Because since playing in the league, the Bobcats have not made a single playoff game so far.
Although every year they have a group of energetic young people, every year their ending is full of sadness.
And what about Chris?
As a player who entered the league back then, many people thought that he would become a star point guard in the future......
Chris has not been able to prove himself to this day.
On the contrary, on the list of slaughtered, he wrote his name one after another. ”
In the end, in this game against the Bobcats, the Lakers won comfortably 137-94 on the road.
In the NBA, Paul's team being beaten by a big score is nothing new.
Therefore, people are obviously more concerned about the fact that Curry, who is in his third year of career, is very likely to be the scoring champion this season than the result of this game.
"It's a pity that if it weren't for the Lakers, Curry would definitely be the regular season MVP this year."
"No way, the Lakers are too strong, even though the buddy is Kumi, but the buddy also thinks that Griffin is more worthy of the NBA's regular season MVP this year."
"If he stays with the Lakers, Curry may have to wait for Kobe Bryant to retire before he can get the regular season MVP, right?"
In April, at the end of the regular season, Wang Shuo helped Curry cut down "40+" in the game with the Nuggets and the Warriors.
And on the 18th, after defeating the Clippers captained by Gerrard 125-88 in the final game of the regular season, the Lakers finally ended all the team's games in the regular season this year with a record of 67 wins and 15 losses.
With Bryant previously out for injury, young DeRozan has been given more playing time this year.
In fact, if it weren't for the Knicks' best NBA record of 77-5, it would have been too much to ......
Coupled with the fact that this Lakers team likes to wave in every game, in Wang Shuo's view, the Lakers who can make up a playoff team like Jordan Jr., Odom, Gallinari, DeRozan and Ellis in the second team also have a chance to break the NBA's record for the best regular season record.
This summer, facing Gallinari and Green, who are about to enter a contract year, the Lakers will have a headache at that time.
Because under the new collective bargaining agreement in the NBA, even if a team has bird rights, it can extend the contract with the player by more than before, so under the premise that there will definitely be a team to give Green at least a contract with an annual salary of about 6 million to 8 million, the Lakers are bound to have to make a choice between the two brothers.
And if Wang Shuo doesn't choose to take Curry, the Lakers can even let go of Gallinari and Green for nothing this summer.
Because next summer, the Lakers must make sure they can complete a cap-extension with Curry.
It has to be said that after the new collective bargaining agreement, before the signing of the sky-high broadcast agreement in the future, it is no longer possible to maintain a super team in the NBA for a long time.
Including the Knicks, who have always spent a lot of money.
Once the Knicks enter the next contract extension node in the future, in order to retain Yao Ming, Duncan, West and Rondo, the Knicks will inevitably choose to lay off employees at that time.
For the future development of the NBA, this provision added to the new collective bargaining agreement will undoubtedly make the game more exciting.
In fact, in Wang Shuo's previous life, after the NBA signed the sky-high broadcast agreement, in Wang Shuo's view, the NBA should also introduce the corresponding clauses as soon as possible to avoid the situation that a team is likely to have several All-Star players at the same time due to the fact that the big contract before the sky-high broadcast agreement becomes a small contract.
It's a pity that Xiao Hua, who was only bent on making money at the time, where could he take care of these things in the first place?
On the 18th, with the successful conclusion of the regular season, the East and West rankings of the 11/12 season and the playoff matchups were also released.
The western 1st to 15th are as follows:
Lakers, Thunder, Grizzlies, Spurs, Mavericks, XX, Jazz, Trail Blazers, Clippers, Kings, Hornets, Timberwolves, Suns, Nuggets, Warriors.
After trading Paul away, the Clippers finally got their wish and entered the stage of rebuilding again.
In the first round of the Western Conference playoffs, the Lakers will face the Trail Blazers, Thunder vs Jazz, Grizzlies vs. XX and Spurs vs. Mavericks.
In this life, Aldridge and Rudy Gay have replaced DeRozan and Lowry as the new NBA "garbage brothers".
Because as of now, the Trail Blazers, led by Aldridge and Gay, have been swept out of the playoffs almost every year......
So after the first round of the Western Conference playoffs was announced, even local Portland fans said in interviews that they had prepared brooms for the Lakers to clean up the excess trash on the court after the Lakers swept the Trail Blazers.
As for the Jazz, who are back in the playoffs this year......
It was thanks to Bledsoe's excellent performance in the regular season.
As the "Serena Williams" in the West, in the regular season, this year's "Blood Cloth" averaged 22.5 points, 6.8 rebounds and 7.7 assists per game for the Jazz.
There is no doubt that at present, due to the weak strength of the west as a whole, the entire west has become a paradise for rookies to level up.
Of course......
Not all rookies can play in the West.
For example, Oden, who was reimbursed for the injury season this season, has already made the Spurs management lose confidence in him.
Last summer, for the sake of Oden's talent, the Spurs offered him a contract with a total value of $15 million, a contract structure of "2+1", and a team option for the final year.
However......
Oden, who has played just 40 games for the Spurs in the past three seasons, is destined to leave the NBA with a talent that he has been unable to deliver.
This season, the Spurs were able to play fourth in the West, in addition to the Mavericks pulling their hips too much, mainly because the interior line composed of "Eros" Love and "Poet" Sanders was tough enough.
The former is currently one of the best empty-type interior lines in the NBA.
And the latter, like Wang Shuo remembers, cashed in on his talent on the defensive end.
But right now, Spurs are in trouble.
That's ......
Although he is no longer teammates with Brent Barry in this life, there is no chance to hook up with Barry Jr.'s wife.
But Parker, the only one in the "GDP" who stayed in San Antonio, managed to hook up with Chelsea Kilgore, the wife of JJ a certain Dick who was poached by the Spurs last summer, and his wife's twin sister Kelly Kilgore.
In Wang Shuo's previous life, a certain Dick would often show off his relationship with his wife's sister Kelly in interviews, and refer to her as a "halfwife".
But in this life, don't wait for him to enjoy it......
Parker has already "killed two birds with one stone", and first felt the tenderness of the two sisters.
Wang Shuo doesn't know if Popovich will help Parker make a big thing a small thing and a small thing in this life.
But he was sure of one thing.
For the Spurs, who are now seeing hope of revival, the big trouble they encounter off the court at the moment is destined to affect their performance in the next playoffs.
The 11/12 East 1-15 finishes are as follows:
Heat, Knicks, Cavaliers, Wizards, Pacers, Celtics, 76ers, Magic, Bobcats, Hawks, Bulls, Pistons, Bucks, Raptors, Nets.
In the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs, the Heat will face the Magic, the Knicks PK 76ers, the Cavaliers vs. the Celtics and the Wizards vs. the Pacers.
In the closing stages of the regular season, Stevens finally brought the Celtics to sixth place in the East by letting James and Delon stagger and Pierce "go down to earth" in a row.
In order to stay in the playoffs, the Knicks chose to give Yao Ming and Duncan more rest time in the closing stages of the regular season.
In Wang Shuo's view, the competition in the east this year can only be described as miserable.
In the first round of the playoffs, in addition to the fact that the Heat and Knicks may be relatively easy, the road to promotion for the Cavaliers and Wizards will certainly not be easy.
After all, facing their old club......
In Wang Shuo's eyes, James should always use his full strength this time.
The Pacers, on the other hand, are the Wizards who will play their least favorite regular season game in the first round of the playoffs.
Because with the increase of time, Xiao Si's form has declined this year......
Wang Shuo didn't know how Xiao Si could break up the inside combination of Dajia and Randolph at this moment.
In addition, with the end of the regular season, the data kings of the 11/12 season have also been released.
The rebounding king is still won by Lefou.
He is averaging 14.7 rebounds per game this season and has contributed a "20+20" double-double in many games.
The assist title was picked up by Rondo.
This season, Rondo, who averaged 18.7 points, 8.8 rebounds and 9.9 assists per game for the Knicks, ushered in the peak of his career.
After Yao Ming's comeback, whether he chooses to attack or pass the ball on the field, Rondo is obviously more comfortable than last season.
As for the steal king and block king, Paul and Ibaka were elected respectively.
The former, who is averaging 2.7 steals per game this season.
The latter averages 3.5 blocks per game.
And the scoring champion with the highest gold content among the five data kings......
Curry, of course, is averaging 29.7 points per game.
In April, Durant, who had the only chance to surpass Curry in the scoring average list per game, did not choose to pay tribute to Robinson, the general of the year, but went off the court to play with his mobile phone after scoring 20 or 30 points for the Thunder every game.
Durant is averaging 29.1 points per game this season.
In fact, as long as he is willing to brush up more data in the last few games, then he has a high probability of overtaking Curry.
But what ......
Before being provoked by Green's "Green formula", Durant was so calm.
If it is based on the game rating of the future football manager, you can probably understand that Durant at this moment, in terms of his ambition attributes, is only about 10 points, which is basically the same as "salted fish".
According to the schedule, the Lakers and Trail Blazers playoff opener will kick off on April 21.
Wang Shuo has nothing to say about this team of pioneers led by the "garbage brothers" of Ade and Gay.
Because this round of the series......
In Wang Shuo's view, not being able to sweep is a failure for the Lakers!
……