The strongest bishop in the NBA

Chapter 101 The end of the regular season

As time entered March, the schedule became more intensive and intense.

The Wizards' schedule in March is not particularly friendly. A total of 3 of the 16 games are away games. There are three back-to-back games in these 10 away games, and there is even a bad schedule of 10 consecutive away games.

Among these away opponents are the Lakers, the Celtics and the Magic, the league's top teams, and a little carelessness is likely to be a wave of losing streak.

However, the intensive schedule and fierce confrontation can easily lead to potential injuries, and Wang Xiao had to start to prevent this from happening.

From the beginning of March, the daily training volume of the Wizards began to decrease. At the same time, in the game, the playing time of the main players has been slightly reduced. Players who are over 3 years old, such as Butler and Jamison, even arranged rotations in away games. .

Under such circumstances, the Wizards' record was still affected.

The away game against the Celtics, the Eagles and the game against the direct rival Magic all lost. Fortunately, the Magic did not have a good time in the March game.

At the beginning of the first day of March, the Magic rallied to catch up and once won seven consecutive victories, directly completing the catch-up to the Wizards' record. The two teams had the same record and were only half a game behind the Wizards in mutual wins and losses.

In the away game against the Wizards, Howard Cosmos of the Magic broke out and made 67% of his free throws.

Fortunately, the imposing Magic team suffered a two-game losing streak, and the Wizards immediately seized the opportunity and caught up.

When the time came to the end of March, the Wizards still led the Magic by a slight advantage of 3 game and ranked second in the Eastern Conference.

By the end of March, the Wizards' record had reached 3 wins and 52 losses, and the winning percentage remained above 22%.

Such a fantastic record has made Washington fans not know how to describe it!

The last time the Wizards achieved a record of more than 50 wins in a season dates back to the 70s. At that time, the Wizards were still called the Bullets. They acquired the All-Star center Elvin Hayes through a trade, and used Hayes as the team building The core, won the best record in team history, 60 wins and 22 losses!

Since then, the Wizards have never won more than 50 games in any season.

It was 2010 in a blink of an eye. The Washington Bullets became the Washington Wizards. The owner of the team passed away. General Arenas, who was regarded as the hope of revitalizing the team, was traded and left the team. No one expected that in such a turbulent year , The Wizards can actually play such a fantastic record!

At this moment, even a fool can understand why the Wizards can achieve such an excellent record.

Wang Xiao!It was his arrival that brought something different to the Wizards.

50 wins in a single season!

Jordan, who came back, couldn't do it. Chris Webber, who grew up as an all-star power forward in the Wizards, couldn't do it. General Arenas also couldn't do it, but Wang Xiao only took one short season. Just did it!And it's so easy to write!

You know, there are still 8 games before the end of the regular season. The Wizards who have won 52 wins can win at least half of these 8 games. At that time, the Wizards' record will reach 56 wins or even more!

In fact, it's pretty much the same as fans expected.

After the fierce March, the rest is the final work of the regular season in April.

In the last 4 games in April, the Wizards achieved 8 wins and 6 losses. The final record was fixed at 2 wins and 58 losses, with a winning percentage of 24%, ranking second in the Eastern Conference, second only to the Cavaliers who won 70.7 wins and 62 losses.

The score of 58 wins is not only ranked second in the Eastern Conference, even in the entire league, it can still be ranked second.

The No. 57 Los Angeles Lakers in the West had a final record of 25 wins and 56 losses, losing one more game than the Wizards, while the Wizards' direct competitor in the East, the Magic, had a record of 26 wins and [-] losses.

The end of the regular season has also made the various awards of the season gradually clear.

The first thing to determine is naturally the hard data honor.

Kevin Durant of the Trail Blazers became the new scoring leader with an average of 31 points per game, and became the youngest scoring leader in league history at the age of 21 years and 197 days!

Although with the performance of rookies such as Curry and Harden, people no longer questioned Wang Xiao's vision, and even praised Wang Xiaohui's vision more than once, but Durant's explosive performance still surprised the fans.

However, Durant alone cannot fully demonstrate Wang Xiao's ability.

Stephen Curry's scoring dropped slightly in March and April. After the regular season, his scoring average was fixed at 3 points per game, which was second only to Durant's 4 points in the league. James' 26.5 points, Anthony's 31 points and Kobe's 29.7 points ranked fifth, Wade's 28 points ranked sixth, Monta Ellis' 27 points and Nowitzki's 26.4 points point……

In his rookie season, he averaged 25+ points per game. The last player to score such a high score was Michael Jordan, but Curry and Jordan are completely different, because his main scoring method is three-pointers.

This season, Curry averaged 10.7 three-point shots per game, with a shooting percentage of 43%. He could hit 4.6 three-pointers per game. Excluding a few games of rest and absence due to illness, Curry played 77 games throughout the season. In the game, a total of 354 three-pointers were scored throughout the season!

This is an almost terrifying amount!

You know, the previous record for three-pointers in the NBA was set by Ray Allen in the 05-06 season with 269!

And Curry, a first-year rookie, actually raised this record from 269 to 354 in the first season!

Curry became the new three-pointer almost without any suspense. At the same time, the data of averaging 26.5 points and 6 assists per game also made the candidate for the best rookie of the year lose suspense.

Of course, the winner in life is not alone in Curry.

The Wizards' sixth man, James Harden, has been equally astounding this season.

Although the data of 18 points and 8.4 assists per game is not as good as that of Curry, it can definitely be regarded as the top data in the league. The data of 8.4 assists per game ranks sixth in the league's assist list.

Although he is far inferior to Curry in the selection of the best rookie, but with such data, the award of the best sixth man in the league has basically been properly won.

The two rookies of the Wizards exploded, while the data of the team's two veterans declined slightly.

Antawn Jamison averaged 17.8 points and 6 rebounds per game this season, while Butler's scoring dropped from 20.8 last season to 15.2.

This is a matter of course. The ball and the number of shots are limited. Curry and Harden occupy a large number of shots for the team. Jamison and Butler naturally have a lot less shots. This season, what they did More, it is to stand in the bottom corner or the top arc, and use the threat of three-point range to help Curry and Harden stretch the space.

(End of this chapter)