On the day the award selection results came out, in addition to the awards dominated by the Lakers, the Most Improved Player Award and the Best Defensive Player Award were also won by two Wang Shuo's "rebellious sons".
This season, Rondo, who averaged 14.7 points, 7.8 rebounds, and 9.0 assists per game for the Knicks, won the Most Improved Player Award.
As for the best defensive player, it was won by Tyson Chandler.
After being swept away by the Lakers in several important awards, Stern also had to consider the feelings of other teams.
Therefore, even though Gallinari and Marciano were also eligible to be elected as this year's Most Improved Player, the judges still gave this award to Rondo.
Chandler can become DPOY because Hogoud has been elected the best defensive player for three consecutive years. It is impossible for the league to elect him for four consecutive years.
In addition, the selection results of the 2009/10 best team and best defensive team are as follows:
All-NBA first team: Yao Yao, Stoudemire, James, Kobe Bryant, Wade.
All-NBA Second Team: Dajia, Duncan, Anthony, Arenas, Rose.
Best third team: Hogoud, Nowitzki, Durant, Joe Johnson, Curry.
All-Defensive First Team: Chandler, Gerald Wallace, James, Kobe, Rondo.
All-Defensive Second Team: Hogdog, Duncan, Josh Smith, Sefolosha, Wade.
Curry, who was shortlisted for the All-NBA Team in his rookie season, can only describe the starting point of his career as a leading actor.
Of course, Curry's inclusion in the best team this time is also related to the fact that the NBA's point guard position is currently being reshuffled.
Among the older generation, Iverson, Kidd, and Nash, who have always been on the best lineup, have all reached the twilight of their careers.
In the Mesozoic Era, even if the judges wanted to select Paul and Deron into the best team this year, fans of Paul and Deron would not agree.
Because right now, fans of Paul and Deron are busy holding meetings between the two brothers.
Affected by the emergence of Wang Shuo, torture of one's favorite stars has become a trend in today's NBA.
In an interview with reporters on the 10th, Wang Shuo said with a smile: “In competitive sports, results speak for themselves.
I think the current atmosphere will help the stars continue to improve their level and bring more exciting games to the fans. "
In Wang Shuo's previous life, after some fans fell in love with a star, they would always add some personality to the star that did not belong to them according to their own imagination, or they would infinitely improve him according to their own fantasies. Skills.
To the extent that others can break their defenses by just telling a few truths.
But in the NBA, where does the so-called perfect person come from?
Even for Michael Jordan, when fans praise him, they often add the phrase "personality aside."
In Wang Shuo's view, packaging a star as a "saint" because he likes him is an extremely stupid act.
Fortunately, compared to the "five big embarrassments" in my memory that dared to catch McGee...
In this life, because the "Five Big Bad" launched by Wang Shuo and Barkley last season is famous for targeting superstars, and with his own support, Barkley's firepower output is by no means comparable to that big shark who bullies the weak and fears the strong.
Therefore, fans of various sports stars are obviously more rational than Wang Shuo remembers.
Anyway, if you are not convinced by the "Five Big Embarrassments"'s torture of your brother...
The big deal is that Barkley will label your brother as "even Wang Shuo can't train him."
Although some fans believe that the "Five Big Embarrassments" should not be limited to torturing superstars, but should also torture certain role players who always make bizarre mistakes on the court.
But in Wang Shuo's eyes, it is natural for role players to make mistakes on the court.
And besides, you can't compare your favorite stars with those role players all the time, right?
Does this mean that in your eyes, the star you like is actually just a role player?
On the 11th, the Lakers, who had a bumper harvest of awards, continued to face the Grizzlies at home.
The Grizzlies, who had preserved their strength in the last game, made the Lakers feel the pressure as soon as this game started.
Hollins took full advantage of the Grizzlies' two major wings, Jackson and Battier.
Wang Shuo noticed that when Kobe launched an offense with the ball, the Grizzlies often asked Jackson to face off against Kobe.
When defending, Jackson's defensive ideas are very clear.
It does not seek to prevent Kobe from taking shots on the court, but only seeks to effectively reduce Kobe's shooting percentage on the court through physical combat.
When Kobe switches to playing off the ball and prepares to cut, Battier will immediately help defend Jackson.
Under the defense of these two people, Wang Shuo knew very well that if Kobe was allowed to attack like he did against the Jazz, it might have the opposite effect.
Because it is different from the Jazz who were unable to provide Kirilenko with more help on the defensive end.
The Grizzlies also have Milicic on the inside.
Yes, as a short and stocky center, although Jefferson has a wingspan of more than 220 centimeters, due to his weight of more than 130 kilograms...
Therefore, his moving speed is destined to be slow. Even if he can average 1.8 blocks per game in the regular season, the Grizzlies mainly rely on Milicic to protect the frame.
You know, historically, even Milicic, who was screwed by Larry Brown, averaged 2.0 blocks per game when he played for the Timberwolves in the 10/11 season.
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In the game, Milicic's frame protection not only put a bunch of black insiders who call themselves "black and tough" to shame, but the most amazing thing is that in Wang Shuo's original time and space, in 2010, in a game against the Lakers In the game, Milicic also defeated Dajia in a matchup.
In this campaign, while the Timberwolves' core core Love only scored 0 points and 7 rebounds, Milicic scored a total of 23 points, 16 rebounds, 5 assists and 6 blocks.
Although in the NBA, everyone has a meal of dumplings from time to time.
But in his career, averaging only 18.5 minutes of playing time per game, Milicic's Excel average of 1.3 blocks per game fully proved that he is by no means the "softie" in people's minds.
Milicic has a height of 213 centimeters and a wingspan of about 226 centimeters.
Combined with his excellent lateral movement ability...
The above qualities determine that under the guidance of coach Hollins, he will definitely become a star power forward with both offense and defense.
Previously, "Captain" James had already tested the Grizzlies' defensive strength for the Lakers.
Wang Shuo cannot live up to James' contribution to the Lakers.
Therefore, after half the first quarter, Wang Shuo decisively sent on O'Neal and Curry.
Speaking of which, Xiao Yao might be a little bit embarrassed.
In Wang Shuo's memory, Jefferson, who was very good at beating him, never took advantage even against O'Neal in his later years of his career.
In Wang Shuo's previous life, most of his career matches were with Jefferson, who played against the late Shark. In his career record against O'Neal, his overall shooting percentage was only 42.7%.
In this life, if it weren't for having Duncan beside him and changing his style of play under his own guidance, Wang Shuo felt that when facing Jefferson, Yao would probably have to say "Is he better than Olajuwon?" Still strong" sigh.
Yes, you are not mistaken.
Historically, because in a game against the Timberwolves, Jefferson scored 17 points in the first quarter, Yao Ming complained about himself afterwards: "If I were the coach, then I would definitely let the coach be responsible for defending Allen. Jefferson's players were fired."
And afterwards, Yao Ming went to the Houston Chronicle reporter Billy Pollin and said to him with a big face: "Why do I feel that he is better than Olajuwon?"
In Wang Shuo's previous life, Yao Ming could have such emotion because Jefferson was indeed a seriously underestimated player.
But Jefferson also has his own weaknesses.
Especially on the defensive end.
In the first half of the first quarter, because Ellis's shooting range was not enough to pull Jefferson out, Jefferson's weakness on the defensive end was not exposed.
But now, with O'Neal and Curry on the court together...
The Lakers immediately opened a breakthrough on the outside.
This season, Lowry, who was helped up by West, averaged 13.8 points, 6.4 assists and 3.7 rebounds per game in the regular season, which was a remarkable performance.
But no matter in the past life or in this life, Lowry has never taken advantage of Curry.
In addition, Lowry's offensive ability has yet to be developed and he cannot compete with Curry on the court, so Wang Shuo does not even need to use Kobe to help defend Curry.
On TNT TV, Barkley said with emotion: "Wang's vision is indeed unique. I still remember the doubts people raised about Stephen when he first selected him for the US men's basketball team.
But in just two and a half years, Stephen has become one of the best point guards in the NBA. "
In the first round of the playoffs, the "matchup" defeated Deron.
Now he is suppressing Lowry, who is also a new generation point guard with him, on the court...
Before he knew it, Curry had already taken a favorable position in the ranking of the NBA's number one point guard in the next era.
In this G2 game with the Grizzlies, Curry made 4 of 5 shots in the first quarter, and all 4 of his goals were three-pointers.
Seeing this, coach Hollins immediately frowned on the Grizzlies bench.
Because with Curry breaking the deadlock for the Lakers from the outside, the Grizzlies' iron-blooded defense was self-defeating.
And facing O'Neal, Jefferson made only 1 of 4 shots in the second half of the first quarter, and his performance began to plummet.
After Hollins took charge of the Grizzlies, the way the Grizzlies won mainly relied on defense.
In the regular season, in this era when everyone is playing offensive basketball, the Grizzlies averaged only 102.5 points per game.
Hollins knows very well that if the Grizzlies cannot reduce the Lakers' shooting percentage through strangulation, then the Grizzlies will never be the Lakers' opponent compared to offense.
In order to limit Curry, after the two teams entered the rotation lineup in the second quarter, Hollins adjusted the Grizzlies' defensive arrangement. When Curry started the pick-and-roll with the ball, Jackson used early flanking to limit Curry's outside attack. Take action.
Hollins' adjustment gave the Grizzlies both good news and bad news.
The good news is that facing the tall and long-armed Jackson, Curry did not take a single shot during the entire first half of the second quarter.
The bad news is that Curry sent out 5 assists in the first half of the second quarter alone.
In Wang Shuo's view, Hollins's defensive idea of letting the wings flank Curry in advance at the slightest disagreement is not bad against Curry under Cole...
But Wang Shuo didn't understand. Who gave Hollins the courage to target Curry like this when facing the Lakers?
After entering the playoffs, "Zhang Tielin" seemed like a different person. He hit three three-pointers for the Lakers in the first half of the second quarter alone.
On the Lakers bench, Wang Shuo turned to look at Mike Malone with a curious look on his face and asked: "How many three-pointers has Danny hit since entering the playoffs?"
Malone took a look at Green's technical statistics and said: "Danny took a total of 22 three-pointers after entering the playoffs, hitting 11 of them, and his three-point shooting rate was exactly 50%."
Hearing this, Wang Shuo immediately showed a happy smile.
Because it turns out that the Lakers did not let Green spend a season in vain in the regular season!
In the 2009/10 season, Green's field goal percentage and three-point shooting percentage in the regular season were 37.5% and 30.8% respectively.
With this data, even Rondo would be ashamed!
But no matter how the outside world criticizes Green, Wang Shuo will always have nothing but encouragement for the North Carolina captain.
In fact, most of the shots Green missed this season were opportunities in the absolute sense.
And as the season progresses, Green has gradually adapted to the intensity of NBA confrontation.
Therefore, it is different from Lang’s guidance that as long as the three-point shooting rate can be maintained above 30%, it is a sunny day for the team...
Green has been unable to regain his accuracy. In Wang Shuo's opinion, it is mainly because he has not been able to adjust his mentality.
Wang Shuo knew very well that now was the perfect opportunity for Green to turn his cocoon into a butterfly!
Because for a player like Green, as long as he finds the feeling of constantly scoring goals, he is likely to be accurate throughout the Lakers' playoff journey this year.
On TNT TV, regarding Danny Green’s outstanding performance in the first half of the second quarter, Barkley commented: “This is why Mr. Wang said that every coach should be patient with young players.
Instead of replacing him just because of a mistake or a missed shot. "
In the first half of the game, the halftime score of the two teams was 48 to 61.
The Grizzlies' best player in the first half was Milicic, who scored 17 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists, and 2 blocks for the Grizzlies in the first half.
Wang Shuo knows that the Lakers' fourth position cannot completely limit Milicic's performance.
Therefore, in this game, he focused his defense on Jefferson.
As for Stephen Jackson, the Grizzlies' third leading scorer?
In the regular season, Jackson did average 19.4 points per game for the Grizzlies.
But its field goal percentage and three-point shooting percentage were only 41.8% and 33.4%.
It is true that Jackson's shooting percentage is not high, which is related to the fact that he will take on a lot of ball-catching duties in the game to help the team attack.
But this night, facing Gallinari, Jackson encountered his nemesis.
Historically, in his career battles with Gallinari, Jackson's field goal percentage and three-point shooting percentage were only 36.6% and 25.8%.
In front of this Italian cannon, the reason why Jackson often misses is precisely because Gallinari's style in the game is very tough.
In this series, because Kobe has to be responsible for defending the ball-handling offense most of the time...
Jackson's offensive touch will be affected to a certain extent.
What's more, Gallinari would elbow him during the game if he disagreed?
And as the game progressed, Hollins also discovered another situation that was unfavorable to the Grizzlies.
That is, in this series, Kobe will only have to guard against Battier...
It wasn't that he was guarded by the Grizzlies.
It's just that Wang Shuo deliberately made him travel at the wrong peak to avoid the enemy's edge.
In the third quarter, facing Jackson, who didn't rest for a minute in the first half, Kobe began to explode.
Upon seeing this, Hollins immediately adjusted his thinking and used Battier, whose physical fitness was relatively intact, to deal with Kobe.
Then, the "hypocritical" Kobe told the world with his unreasonable shooting...
The so-called blind defense doesn't work in front of him at all.
Battier's athletic ability is limited. After losing weight, Kobe can not only pull out unscrupulously in front of him, but it is also difficult for him to keep up with Kobe's breakthroughs.
On the court, after Kobe Bryant scored 9 points for the Lakers with a sudden outside shot, Hollins hurriedly took a timeout.
After the timeout, the Grizzlies originally planned to use one-to-four to target Kobe.
But before Kobe could show people how he and his teammates broke up the one-to-one four-way... Curry, who was replaced by Wang Shuo after the timeout, hit two three-pointers for the Lakers from the outside. point.
This time, Hollins was completely at his wits end.
In the final quarter of the game, after letting the main players hold on for a while, Hollins took the initiative to withdraw all the main players with about 7 minutes left in the game and surrendered his guns early.
In the end, the final score of the G2 game between the two teams was 101 to 125. After the Lakers won two games in a row, they led the Grizzlies 2-0 in the series.
In the whole game, Kobe made 9 of 17 shots, including 2 of 4 three-pointers and 7 of 8 free throws. He scored a total of 27 points, 7 rebounds, and 8 assists.
Curry made 9 of 15 shots, including 7 of 10 three-pointers and 6 of 6 free throws. He scored a total of 31 points, 4 rebounds, and 7 assists.
Due to the Grizzlies' tactical restrictions, Xinke assist Wang Xiaojia only had 4 assists in this game.
Green, who came off the bench, made 4 of 7 shots in 18 minutes of playing time, all of which were three-pointers. He contributed a total of 12 points, 2 rebounds, and 1 assist to the team.
In this game, the Grizzlies did successfully slow down the pace of the game, but the Lakers' patience on the field left a deep impression on Grizzlies coach Hollins.
After the game, at the press conference, Hollins said in an interview: "I think they are undoubtedly the favorites to compete for the championship this season.
No matter what we do on the court, they can handle it calmly. "
Before the start of the Western Conference semifinals, Hollins thought the Grizzlies could at least drag the Lakers into a tough battle.
But in the G2 game, facing Wang Shuo, who always came up with various plans in the game, Hollins felt the all-round gap between him and Wang Shuo.
Especially on the defensive end where he is most confident.
Hollins found...
Wang Shuo not only disrupted the Grizzlies' offensive layout by targeting Jefferson in the game, but Wang Shuo was also better than himself in defensive training of young players.
Hollins felt this way because he noticed the defensive details of the Lakers players on the court during the game.
For example, when Curry is on the court, the Lakers will heavily use the defensive strategy of letting Curry take the initiative to one side.
In a basketball game, this kind of active one-side defense tests the protection of the defender by the inside players and wing players.
But no matter how the Lakers rotate the lineup, when partnering with Curry, other Lakers players have always maintained close contact with Curry.
Hollins knows very well that these defensive details that are destined to be difficult to remember are the key to the Lakers' ability to play high-quality defense on the court.
Two days later, the G3 game of the Western Conference semifinals between the Lakers and the Grizzlies moved to FedEx Arena in Memphis.
Hollins, who had no other options left, could only place his team's hope of winning on the Lakers being less accurate under the Grizzlies' desperate defense.
In the first three quarters of the game, the performance of the Lakers players did give the Grizzlies hope of winning at home.
Lowry is obsessed with Curry this time.
Although Lowry was unable to supplement the output for the Grizzlies because he focused all his attention on the defensive end, under Lowry's initiative, Curry, who still needs to level up at this time, obviously did not play as well as he did in the previous two games. Bright.
Kobe's performance in this game was also average.
However, Gallinari's explosion in the final quarter allowed the Lakers to take away the game in the final quarter.
Under the control of Kobe and Curry, Gallinari, who only scored 7 points in the first three quarters, scored 17 points in the final quarter.
Both Jackson and Battier were exhausted as the game entered the final quarter.
This is the price the Grizzlies must pay if they want to limit Kobe.
But what makes Hollins and the Grizzlies desperate is...
Even if Curry and Kobe have average touch, there are still players on the outside of this Lakers team who can stand up.
And under the attack of Marc and O'Neal, as Jefferson was unable to produce stable output in this series, another weakness of this Grizzlies was also exposed to the world.
That is, they lack a player who can make the final decision for the team at critical moments.
Milicic can always perform well in regular time, but when the game enters the critical round, he prefers to play from the outside. He is obviously not as good as his future brother Jokic in breaking down the opponent's defense.
Wang Shuo discovered this problem after watching the first round of the playoffs between the Grizzlies and Clippers.
Therefore, even though the Grizzlies kept clinging to the score in the first three quarters of this game, Wang Shuo did not panic at all.
In the end, the finishing score of the two teams in this G3 game was 117 to 106.
After the Lakers won another victory on the road, they have basically locked in a ticket to this year's Western Conference Finals in advance.
A day later, at FedEx Arena, it was a similar story.
Only this time, the players who harvested the game for the Lakers in the final quarter became Kobe and Curry.
In the final quarter, as the Lakers led a 19-0 offensive climax on the court under the leadership of Kobe and Curry, the desperate coach Hollins had to take the initiative to withdraw all the main players with 4 minutes and 45 seconds left in the final quarter.
In the G4 battle, the finishing score of the two teams was 118 to 94.
In this series, if you only look at the big score, you will definitely think that the Lakers won easily.
But in fact, the Lakers players showed a Finals-level attitude in this series, especially the next three games.
Before the game started, Wang Shuo decided that this Grizzlies team would be difficult to deal with.
Therefore, in addition to repeatedly emphasizing to the players after the G1 game that they must pay attention to the Grizzlies as an opponent, Wang Shuo told the players the most in this series that they must be patient and calm.
The Lakers players successfully fulfilled Wang Shuo's requirements during the game, and thus received a perfect result.
After defeating the Grizzlies with a 4-0 score, the Lakers successfully advanced to the Western Conference Finals.
However, Wang Shuo, who led the team back to Los Angeles, did not have time to enjoy the praise given to him.
Because on the same day that the Lakers successfully advanced to the Western Conference Finals...
The results of the first four games in this year's Western Conference semifinals were completely beyond people's expectations.
With youth and invincibility, the Thunder captured Dallas for two consecutive games.
This team first eliminated the Nuggets with a score of 4-1 in the first round of the playoffs.
Now leading the Mavericks in the Western Conference semifinals with a big score of 3-1, the Young Guards have already created a youthful storm in this year's playoffs!
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PS: I’m going to go out to collect some materials today, so I’ll keep it short!
