With the 03-04 season, the regular season schedule has officially ended.
Duane, who played in 82 full-time games during his rookie season, also surrendered to the fans who supported him, averaging 23.4 points, 5.8 rebounds, 7.8 assists, 1.1 steals and 0.6 blocks per game.
In terms of points per game, Durn ranks sixth on the scoring list, second only to McGrady, O'Neal, Peja, Garnett, and Kobe.
In order of total points, Dunn scored 1,919 points in a single season, only behind Garnett with 1,987 points and Peja with 1,964 points.
Speaking of assists, Duen is also on the list.
The average assists per game ranks fourth in the assists list, only behind Kidd, Marbury, and Nash.
Many people find it incredible. Isn’t Marbury’s nickname Lone Wolf?
In fact, if you look at assist data alone, Marbury has always been on the list.
Especially this season, he has 719 assists in a single season, the highest in the league.
It can only be said that sometimes data can be deceiving.
Averaging a triple-double per game does not mean comprehensiveness, and high scoring data does not mean rich offensive methods and strong key ball ability.
Take Duen himself as an example. Most of Duen's statistics were obtained in the first half of the regular season.
If Duane didn't get templates like Pippen, Eddie Jones, and Kidd, then his scoring and organizational abilities would be somewhat weak.
But now, Duan looks like a real player, one of the top ten stars in the league.
After leaving the OK group and the Lakers, Duan's personal ability may not be as good as the top ten superstars in the league.
But in terms of team leadership ability, Du En feels that he has surpassed many superstars who are good at playing alone and don't know how to unite their teammates and help the team win.
Next, Duan will use his own abilities to help the Lakers win the biggest honor and the biggest award this year - the NBA championship!
Dun will also use this to achieve a gorgeous transformation between rookie and superstar.
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"Dunn, are you excited?"
On April 18, at the Staples Center, the first round of the playoffs between the Lakers and Jazz will begin in G1.
At this time, the starting players of both teams have arrived on the court, and the game is about to enter the jump ball session.
Before the game officially started, O'Neal, as the big brother of the Lakers, still cared about Duan, a rookie participating in the playoffs for the first time.
"I don't seem to be excited... I seem a little nervous and a little tired now."
Duan answered O'Neill truthfully.
In fact, last night, Du En was still looking forward to tonight's game.
Even after taking melatonin, I was excited for an hour or two, and then I fell asleep.
Before playing in the All-Star Game, Du En didn't seem too nervous.
Suddenly having to play in the playoffs tonight, it feels like something is not right...
However, this is obviously the most familiar arena and the most familiar venue - Staples Center!
Du En didn't know how he was affected.
"Don't worry, even if you perform poorly, Shaq can help you win!
Don't look at Kobe, who is very strong now, but he was weak when he first played in the playoffs.
You still need to study, take your time and don't be in a hurry. Later, you can find opportunities to be on the bench and score more than ten points!
All that's left is to pass the ball to Shaq, and Shaq will naturally help you win the game! "
O'Neal, as a Triple Crown champion, gave advice to Duan, a rookie.
After listening to O'Neill's experience, Du En felt that this is indeed what should be done.
Although Duan feels that his strength is enough, he might as well hug O'Neal's thigh first and accumulate experience in the playoffs.
Anyway, there is no chance to win FMVP this year!
And with Du En's current strength, I'm afraid he won't be reduced to a role player championship.
Winning the championship is the top priority!
Now let’s take what we have been practicing for a season – pass the ball to O’Neal, get it on the playoff stage, and test the results!
Perhaps it was also because of the support from O'Neal that Du En suddenly gained the confidence to act like a fox and a tiger.
Du En started shaking all of a sudden! "Shaking" in high spirits!
As O'Neal beat Jazz center Greg Ostertag with a jump ball, Payton steadily dribbled the ball across half court.
For the sake of the championship ring, Payton can only restrain his temper and petty temper.
According to the stable style of play in the last five games of the regular season, the ball was handed over to Du En.
Facing Kirilenko's single defense, Duen naturally would not choose singles, but immediately started a pick-and-roll with Payton.
At the same time, O'Neal and Kobe made preparations to catch the ball and play singles.
I saw that when Du En and Payton were crossing the screen, the Jazz still chose to attack Du En one after another.
Duan immediately took the ball and passed it to O'Neal in the form of a lob.
Not wanting to, Kirilenko immediately let go of Duen and retreated into the penalty area.
Thanks to O'Neal, he directly faced Greg Ostertag's defense and hit the back to create a breakthrough space. Then he turned around and made a strong bow to take off and dunk.
Kirilenko's assisting defense speed is already very fast, but it is still not as fast as O'Neal's combo.
"It seems there is no problem..."
Although O'Neal made a lucky move behind the ball, Duan failed to get assist data.
But the ball just now was real and passed to O'Neal without any mistakes.
Thanks to O'Neal's personal ability, he scored into the basket, which still gave Du En great confidence.
Before the playoffs, Duen was still a little uneasy, worried that he would perform poorly in the playoffs.
Now I find that I can do my job well, O'Neal's thigh is still reliable, and someone can give him the bottom line.
Du En's courage naturally grew, and he finally no longer had to restrain himself and be cautious.
Speaking of the Jazz's offensive round, Sloan seemed intent on replicating the success of Stockton and Malone. He first played a pick-and-roll match between Carlos Arroyo and Kirilenko in the frontcourt.
Although Kirilenko is taller than Duen, Duen can still beat Kirilenko with his strength. What's more, if Kirilenko plays without the ball, Duen will just mark him.
Carlos Arroyo's overall view is far inferior to Stockton's, and he cannot pass the ball to Kirilenko through the gap to help the latter attack the basket.
In the end, he could only go around in a circle and lob the ball to Tom Gugliotta in the low post, allowing Tom Gugliotta to single out Malone in the low post.
Tom Gugliotta was also an All-Star backup power forward in his peak period, but now he is declining and his form is no longer good.
Malone blocked Tom Gugliotta's position, and Tom Gugliotta tried to play back but failed to shake Malone, so he could only pass the ball to the outside again.
Although Alexander Pavlovich is a shooter, facing Kobe's defense, he simply cannot create shooting space and throw the ball on his own.
Ever since, the only option was to hand the ball to Kirilenko and let Kirilenko complete the shot in the remaining five or six seconds of attack time.
There is no way, sometimes the boss of the team has to do this kind of work.
After taking over the pot, Kirilenko could only rely on his height advantage to finish the game in the face of Duen's tight defense.
It's true that Kirilenko is an all-around fighter and can shoot well, but he is better at picking and rolling and getting to the basket.
Under Duan's interference, Kirilenko, who took a hasty shot, not only could not help the Jazz recover the point difference, but instead contributed a defensive rebound to O'Neal.
After O'Neal got the ball, he chose to pass it to Duan, who had passed to him not long ago.
In the past, Duan would have slowly dribbled the ball across the half court, continued to follow the normal rhythm of the game, and played the triangle offense.
However, knowing clearly that O'Neal could take advantage of the situation, Duan took the ball and rushed forward in a fast attack.
Kirilenko returned to defense very quickly, but still failed to guard Du En. Multiple templates were superimposed, and Du En's physical attributes were basically above 90.
If he is strong, he will be strong, I am the slam dunk king!
Even with some physical confrontation, Duan was still able to dunk the ball into the basket!
Unfortunately, the whistle in the playoffs was stricter than in the regular season, and Duan did not get the opportunity to add two plus one and extra penalties.
Even so, Duan didn't have stage fright in his first playoff game!
As soon as the game started, he relied on his personal ability to help the Lakers expand their 2-point advantage.
(End of chapter)
