am i proud?

Chapter 269 The Western Conference Finals Floor
Just at the end of the first round of the playoffs, the league finally announced the results of all awards this season.

The best sixth man was won by Al Harrington of the Pacers. He averaged 30.9 minutes per game this season, 13.3 points, 6.4 rebounds, 1.7 assists, 1 steal and 0.3 blocks.

Judging from personal data alone, Harrington is not as good as Wang Dalin in his rookie season.

要知道那时候王大林场均上场时间只有23.8分钟，场均数据却已经达到了13.4分6.8篮板5.3助攻0.8抢断0.6盖帽，三项命中率更是达到了47.8%、36.1%和80.2%。

Looking at the entire history of the NBA, there are really few winners of the best sixth man who can be compared with Wang Dalin!
Looking at the best rookie, the competition for this award is very fierce this year, because both LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony have performed very well.

其中詹姆斯场均20.9分5.5篮板5.9助攻1.6抢断0.7盖帽，安东尼则是21分6.1篮板2.8助攻1.2抢断0.2盖帽。

光看数据产量詹姆斯确实是略胜一筹，不过安东尼的三项命中率达到了42.6%、32.2%和77.7%，而詹姆斯只有41.7%、29%和75.4%……综合来看，两人的个人表现几乎不相上下。

In the end, as in the original history, James won this important award that can only be won once in a lifetime.

In fact, the number of votes received by the two is almost the same. Among them, James received 47.83% of the votes, while Anthony reached 40.49%. They alone won nearly 90% of the votes.

The most improved player award was awarded to "Big Black Bear" Zach Randolph.

上赛季他场均数据只有8.4分4.5篮板0.5助攻0.5抢断0.2盖帽，本赛季竟然一下冲到了20.1分10.5篮板2助攻0.8抢断0.5盖帽……光看数据的话，甚至比姚铭还要亮眼！
Yes, they averaged 20+10 per game, but you only averaged 19+11 per game... just a little bit worse?

Don't underestimate the impact of 20+10 per game!

Even if he is as strong as Pau Gasol, he has never averaged 20+10 per game in any season in his entire career...not once!

Therefore, Zach Randolph absolutely deserves the Most Improved Player award, and it can be said that there is no controversy.

After talking about these "small prizes", it's time to talk about the "big prize"!

The best coach award was awarded to the Clippers head coach Mike Dunleavy... The old man brought the Clippers, which was second to last in the Western Conference last season, to the fifth in the Western Conference. What else is there to say?

Besides, the Clippers had a record of only 27 wins and 55 losses last season, but this season they have reached 53 wins and 29 losses, which has achieved a qualitative leap. How could he not get the best coach award?

In the original history, this award was awarded to the old coach of the Grizzlies, Hubie Brown. He also won this award because he led the weak team to a brilliant record.

But in this life, the Grizzlies' record is no match for the Clippers, so he can only say "goodbye" to the second best coach trophy in his coaching career.

The Defensive Player of the Year award went to Ron Artest, as in the original history.

In the original history, Artest's winning of this award did not cause much controversy. After all, he did perform well in the Pacers, and the team's record ranks first in the league.

This life is full of twists and turns, because there is a person whose votes are too close to him... He is Wang Dalin!
The two are on the same team, so there is no need to compare the team's record. Only the individual performance needs to be compared.

阿泰斯特本赛季场均可以得到21.2分5.8篮板4.1助攻2.8抢断0.9盖帽，还拿下了本赛季的抢断王，防守确实强的一批。

而王大林本赛季场均可以得到36.9分14.7篮板10.1助攻2.3抢断2.6盖帽，只看数据的话，他的防守甚至比阿泰斯特还要强上一档。

However, the league's selection of the DPOY award will not only look at the data, but more will refer to the player's overall defensive efficiency and his proportion on the team's defensive end.

Wang Dalin is so outstanding on the offensive end, but his performance on the defensive end is slightly inferior, so this award is awarded to Artest, who works harder on the defensive end, and it is well deserved.

Since the DPOY was not awarded to Wang Dalin, it is impossible not to give it to him as the MVP!
So Wang Dalin won the regular season MVP award for the second time in a row, which is also the most important award in every season in the NBA... none of them!

Different from other MVPs in history... Wang Dalin got all the votes of the reporters and became the unprecedented unanimous MVP in NBA history!

In fact, O'Neal was expected to become the first unanimous MVP in NBA history. In the 2000-2001 season, he averaged 29.7 points, 13.6 rebounds and 3 blocks per game. His personal data is absolutely impeccable!
And that season the Lakers also ranked first in the league with a record of 67 wins and 15 losses, so O'Neal was elected the MVP without any suspense.

However, he only got 122 votes out of 121 votes. A reporter voted for Iverson. It is said that the reporter felt that O'Neal's free throws were too bad, which made him miss the opportunity to make history.

But Wang Dalin didn't have this kind of problem. All his statistics and abilities in all aspects had no shortcomings, so he finally became the first unanimous MVP in history!

After hearing the news, the entire Clippers team erupted in joy.

Even though it is now in the tense playoff stage, old Dunleavy and "Lord Baylor" still made an exception and held a small-scale PARTY for him, and everyone on the team followed him.

Of course, all the expenses of this PARTY were paid by Wang Dalin... Who made him the right owner? If he didn't pay, who would pay?

There is nothing to say about the All-Rookie team. Only Kyle Korver was selected for the All-Rookie Second Team in the Clippers. This sharp pitcher is quite gratified.

In terms of the best lineup, the first team is O'Neal, Wang Dalin, Garnett, Duncan and Kobe... The main reason is that their performance is so good that it is not appropriate to delegate anyone to the second team, so the league made an exception and did not have to forcefully install a point guard.

The second team is Big Ben, Jr., Peja, Tracy McGrady and Kidd... Kidd should have been selected for the first team. Unfortunately, he really can't compete with those five fierce players!

The five members of the three teams are Yao Ming, Artest, the old driver, "Bearded" Davis and Sam Cassell...Michael Reid of the Bucks could have been selected, but unfortunately the team's record is really not as good as Cassell's Timberwolves.

In addition, the best defensive team consists of Wang Dalin, Artest, Garnett, Kobe and Big Ben, and the best defensive second team consists of Duncan, Kidd, Bowen (Bruce Bowen), Kirilenko and Ratliff.

All the major awards have been given to each team, Wang Dalin is naturally very satisfied... His inside defense and outside defense have both increased by 3 points, plus the bonus of the special equipment "Defensive Shoulder Pads", currently his inside defense has reached 93, and his outside defense has also reached 92.

If it happens again, Wang Dalin dares to guarantee with his own head that he will definitely win the DPOY award... Uh, don't be so anxious, I will get it next season!
The most important thing now is the Western Conference semifinals.

……

The 2003-2004 season was undoubtedly a very embarrassing season for Kevin Garnett.

If in the original history, this regular season MVP will be won by him, and he also led the team all the way to the Western Conference Finals.

虽然在西决中他们并没能抵挡住湖人“F4”的强力冲击，可是在那轮系列赛的6场比赛中，加内特场均轰出23.7分13.5篮板4.5助攻1.2抢断1.2盖帽，他的个人表现比奥尼尔也不遑多让。

And Latrell Sprewell's performance is also remarkable, averaging 20.8 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists and 1.5 steals per game.

And Wally Szczerbiak... He also performed well in that round of the series, averaging 14.8 points, 4.5 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 0.8 steals per game. His output level even surpassed Karl Malone and Derek Fisher!
If Sam Cassell hadn't been able to go all out due to injury in the series, they might not have been able to defeat the conflicted Lakers in the end.

要知道卡塞尔在对阵国王队的西部半决赛中场均可以砍下17.9分3篮板5.4助攻1.1抢断，三分命中率达到了37.9%，个人表现甚至比国王队大当家克里斯.韦伯还要略胜一筹。

In later generations, an Internet celebrity commentator surnamed Xu once complained about Garnett's ability to lead the team, saying that he could not even touch the floor of the finals when he was sitting on a powerful combination such as the "three-headed monster".
Moreover, since the 2004-2005 season, the Timberwolves led by Garnett have failed to make the playoffs for three consecutive years, which is really worthy of their title of "historical power forward".

So Lao Xu came to a conclusion-Kevin Garnett's ability to lead the team is very hip, almost at the bottom of all the superstars who have won the MVP!

其实大家仔细分析一下加内特的个人数据就会发现……在森林狼期间他一直非常厉害，场均数据基本保持在22+13+4+1+1这个层次，他还连续4次夺得篮板王，攻防两端表现都属联盟顶级。

Garnett has always played the role of "the cornerstone of the team", and he has interpreted this role to the fullest, almost no less than "the number one power forward in history" Tim Duncan!

If the teammates around him can always remain strong and stable, how can they not even make it to the playoffs?

比如“狂人”拉特里尔.斯普雷威尔，他在2003-2004赛季场均还能贡献出16.8分3.8篮板3.5助攻1.1抢断，可是2004-2005赛季他的场均数据就下滑到12.8分3.2篮板2.2助攻0.7抢断。

As the "madman" is getting older and older, his physical fitness is no longer enough to support too long playing time, so his contribution to the team is getting worse and worse every year.

Wally Szczerbiak is young and energetic, and he has been making continuous progress during his years with the Timberwolves. Especially in the 2005-2006 season, he averaged 20.1 points, 4.8 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game, and his three-point shooting percentage was as high as 40.8%.

But the brainless Timberwolves uniform team traded him to the Celtics for Ricky Davis, the "former boss" of the Cavaliers.

As a result, the big guy who dared to let LeBron James take the bag for him averaged 19.1 points, 4.6 rebounds, 4.8 assists and 1.2 steals per game.

Just looking at these data seems to be pretty good, right?

Unfortunately, this is only superficial glamor!
The arrival of Davis disrupted the original chemical reaction of the Timberwolves, and his offensive efficiency is too low, shooting only 42.9% from the field, and 28.2% from the three-point range... It is not as good as Szczerbiak!
If it weren't for this deal, wouldn't the Timberwolves really be able to make the playoffs?
Maybe not?

The main reason for the weak state of the Timberwolves that season was that Sam Cassell and Latrell Sprewell left the team. Does it have anything to do with Szczerbiak?

If the two cores of the team have performed well, but the team still loses more than wins, this is obviously a problem of insufficient role players.

And how fierce was the competition in the West during that time?
Even if he was as strong as Kobe Bryant, didn't he fall in the first round of the playoffs for two consecutive years?

Even after O'Neal left in the 2004-2005 season, the Lakers didn't even make the playoffs that season... According to Lao Xu, Kobe is also a parallel importer in the MVP?

Of course, there is also Joe Smith's "yin and yang contract incident" in the summer of 1998... The league therefore deprived the Timberwolves of their first-round draft eligibility for five consecutive years, resulting in the team being unable to strengthen through the draft for a long time.

But if the Timberwolves picked up one or two decent players in the draft in those years, such as Ron Artest, James Posey, Zach Randolph, Tayshaun Prince, John Salmons, Leandro Barbosa, etc., they might have already reached the finals.

Think a little more... the championship is not impossible!

So Lao Xu said that Garnett's ability to lead the team is poor... really wronged him a bit.

His ability to lead the team is indeed inferior to LeBron James, Tim Duncan, Kobe Bryant, James Harden, Chris Paul and Stephen Curry, but who are these people?

Quan Te is the top super giant in NBA history!

No bragging..."Hard guys" are better at leading the team than Ray Allen, Paul Pierce or Russell Westbrook, right?

Of course, Garnett in this life doesn't know what kind of miserable situation he will experience in the next few years... He just played the best season of his career, which is the time when he is full of ambition.

At present, the Timberwolves team is strong and strong, and it is definitely better than the Clippers in terms of strength on paper... Even if the Clippers have Wang Dalin, the "League No. 1" in the team!
But strength on paper is always just strength on paper, you have to compete with real swords and guns to know which one is stronger and weaker!
The Clippers taught Garnett and his "cubs" a lesson at the Target Center in Minnesota, winning the game 117-106.

王大林全场23投14中，其中三分球9投5中，罚球9投9中，爆砍42分19篮板8助攻2抢断3盖帽，几乎将加内特完爆了。

仅从数据上来看，加内特本场比赛砍下23分13篮板6助攻2抢断1盖帽，也算表现不错了。

可是仔细看一下他的命中率……全场22投仅8中，其中三分球5投仅1中，罚球也只有9投6中，这哪还像是一名内线球员的进攻效率？

Moreover, Wang Dalin grabbed a total of 8 offensive rebounds, but Garnett only grabbed 1... Even on the defensive end, he failed to show the league's first-class defensive strength.

After coming to the ninth season of his career, Garnett suddenly found that he would encounter an opponent who was completely powerless!

Throughout the game, Garnett's self-confidence was shattered bit by bit by Wang Dalin. The aggrieved feeling was unbearable, and he even wanted to raise his head to the sky and scream—"What kind of monster is Darling-Wang? Is there anyone in this world who can be stronger than him?"

Facts have proved that there is indeed someone in this world who can be stronger than Wang Dalin in this game... He is Wang Dalin in the G2 battle between the two sides!

这场比赛王大林表现更加出色，他全场23投16中，其中三分球9投6中，罚球12投11中，爆砍49分20篮板10助攻3抢断3盖帽。

If it wasn't for his early exit in the last 3 minutes of the game, Wang Dalin would definitely be able to hit a super large triple-double of 50+20+10 on the stage of the playoffs... There is no way, the opponent has surrendered, you can't rely on the court to collect statistics, right?

Replaced by the "Admiral" David Robinson back then, maybe he could really do such a thing!
After returning to the home court, the Clippers continued their efforts and won two consecutive games cleanly, directly sweeping out the No. [-] in the Western Conference this season.

Wang Dalin was also very happy when he was about to touch the floor of the Western Conference Finals... He had never touched this thing before!

Now he can only wait quietly, waiting for the winners of the Lakers and Spurs to come and meet them in the Western Conference Finals...

(End of this chapter)