Du En thought he would have to wait until the All-Star Weekend to get the brand new template, but he didn't expect the surprise to come so quickly!
You know, the honor of Player of the Week is not simple.
Many All-Star players have difficulty winning a Player of the Week award after playing in the NBA for a lifetime.
Because the Player of the Week award not only looks at statistics, but also at team performance.
If you are on a strong team, a team that has been winning, even if you are the second in charge and the third in charge, you will have the chance to win the Player of the Week.
But because weak teams rarely win three or four games in a row within a week, even the boss of a weak team rarely gets such an honor.
In other words, the Player of the Week template, with its upper limit being super huge and its lower limit being a championship puzzle, is much different than the All-Star template.
"lottery!"
[Congratulations on getting the Scottie Pippen template! 】
"Fuck!"
After winning the Pippen template, Du En didn't know whether to be happy or disappointed.
Winning the all-time superstar template in the Template of the Week draw is a sure win.
However, among the historical superstars, Pippen is undoubtedly a relatively unworthy and poor category.
In Buckley's words: "A group of bosses are talking here, why are you, the second oldest, joining in the fun?"
This is mainly because Pippen's offense is too unstable and his mental attributes are very poor. It can only be said that being the second child is more than enough, but being the boss is really not good.
Many people question Jordan's historical status. Leaving Pippen and the Bulls means nothing.
This is like questioning whether Curry is a system player. After careful study, you will find it ridiculous.
During the last three consecutive seasons, everyone felt that Pippen was the number one small forward in history, even Bird didn't question it.
Barkley always thought that he was no worse than Jordan, and felt that he was only one Pippen away from the championship.
So, just when Pippen wanted a big contract of 10 million and left the Bulls after three consecutive championships, Barkley took the initiative to reduce his salary to a base salary of 1 million, so that the Rockets would have the salary space to sign Pippen, and then Form the Big Three of Pippen, Barkley, and Olajuwon.
Logically speaking, this is better than the Bulls' Big Three who just won three consecutive championships!
But the fact is that, dragged down by Pippen's 32.9% shooting percentage, Barkley tried his best to shoot 52.9%, but was still taken away 3-1 by the Lakers led by OK combination.
"Isn't Danzi too perverted? Can such a useless guy get six rings?"
After this round of playoffs, Barkley truly understood how great Jordan was.
They also understood Pippen's true strength. The Rockets' Big Three only formed a team for one season and immediately sent Pippen to the Trail Blazers.
The Trail Blazers are also a strong championship contender, and after acquiring Pippen, they made Pippen the nominal boss.
As a result, in the playoffs, Pippen was ranked second, third, fourth...
In the Western Conference Finals, Pippen was confident that he could guard Kobe, but Kobe broke him out.
In the tiebreaker, the Trail Blazers clearly led by 13 points before the start of the fourth quarter, and they had to study their opponents in the finals in advance.
As a result, Pippen led the team to make 0 of 3 shots and failed to score a point in the fourth quarter. Rasheed Wallace was unable to hold on alone. The Lakers, led by the OK combination, reversed a huge 15-point deficit and won with a 5-point advantage.
It was precisely because of Pippen's classic hip-pulling scenes in the playoffs for two consecutive seasons after he left the Bulls that everyone realized the truth of the matter.
Pippen next to Jordan is a superstar and the strongest second player in history.
After leaving Jordan, Pippen was just an ordinary All-Star! Jackson knows Pippen's offensive level best, and when it comes time to take the key shot, he has to let Kukoc take the shot.
A careful analysis of Pippen's style of play reveals that it is actually filled with a large number of simple balls, including fast breaks, fake handoffs, breakthroughs through screens, and the use of Jordan to attract open shots from the defense...
He is also a top defender and is also good at organization. Green next to Curry also plays in the same way.
Pippen won six championships with Jordan, and Green also won four championships with Curry.
Where Pippen is better than Green is in physical fitness. However, Pippen's most commendable defense is his lack of DPOY.
Therefore, looking at how much blood Green absorbed from Curry, you can roughly understand how long Jordan carried Pippen with the weight.
If you think about it carefully, if you didn't play beside Jordan, even Pippen at his peak would be nothing more than an All-Star and a quasi-star player.
Duane has obtained the Pippen template. His physical fitness, defense and ball-handling ability will improve a lot, but there will not be much improvement on the offensive end.
If you want to become a superstar, you still need to have super attack power!
What measures the upper limit of a star's strength is his scoring ability and his hard-hitting ability at critical moments!
"Hey, I'm here to compete for the top spot. Why am I becoming more and more like the second best?"
"It seems that before you get the template of a top ball-handling superstar, you still have to suck blood!"
In Dunn's view, after digesting the Pippen template, he will definitely be an All-Star player, and may even be close to the superstar level.
However, if you want to lead the team alone, you are still not strong enough.
However, the current situation is to eat the old Lakers F4 and win a championship.
There will be All-Star Weekend next, and Duan will definitely gain a lot.
I think that with the support of domestic fans and the marketing of Nike and the Lakers, Dunn still has great hope of becoming an All-Star player.
Closer to home, after Duan obtained the Pippen template, he had no time to practice more. On December 3, he went to San Antonio again with the Lakers.
This time, although Popovich put Ginobili on the bench, he still couldn't solve the problem of the Lakers attacking from the outside and being unable to defend.
91 to 86, the two teams continued to fight with their main players, and the Lakers still won the game with a 5-point advantage.
On December 4, the Lakers challenged the Dallas Mavericks in back-to-back away games.
Riding on the ferocious momentum of their continuous winning streak, the Lakers once again scored over 100 points, defeating the Mavericks 109-102, a difference of 7 points, and stabilized the league's first position.
After playing against the Mavericks, the Lakers stayed in Dallas for a day's rest, and Dunn treated everyone to a meal as agreed.
Immediately afterwards, he started cooperating with Nike to shoot a promotional video in Dallas for half a day to prepare in advance for the upcoming All-Star voting.
After returning to Los Angeles, Duane has digested part of the Pippen template, and his ball-handling and defensive abilities have improved to a certain extent.
It is worth mentioning that Duan gained a lot of experience playing under Pippen, and his understanding of the triangle offensive system has also been greatly improved.
In other words, with the help of the triangle offense, Duane can score more efficiently.
However, after winning too many games recently, Payton and Jackson had some different ideas.
Jackson believes that fast breaks can become a complementary part of the team's tactics, but the Lakers must insist on playing a triangle offense.
What Payton means is that now that we are leading the team to win, Jackson can manage the locker room well, manage the substitutes well, and know how to call timeout. Leave the game to us, don't beep all the time.
Jackson felt that the team's status was challenged and its tactical philosophy was questioned, so he became even more dissatisfied with Payton, who was arrogant and increasingly lawless.
And on December 7, the Lakers played against the Jazz at home.
Malone sprained his knee after a physical confrontation during an offense and was carried off the court.
Although the Lakers still won the game, Malone's MRI showed that Malone will be recovering from injury for the next two months and will be unable to continue playing.
The Lakers were originally short of players inside because of O'Neal's injury. Now that Malone is gone, this is undoubtedly a leak in the house and it rains all night.
It just so happened that Jackson's resentment towards Payton could not be suppressed for a long time. Now he took the opportunity to attack, injuring Malone's knee and passing the blame to Payton to speed up the fast break.
No one expected that during the continuous winning period, the league's number one Lakers would also break out in the locker room...
