NBA: James wants to team up with me

Chapter 203 The end of the regular season and three consecutive scoring champions

Wang Chong is not worried at all that the Cavaliers can cause too much trouble to the Bulls in the Eastern Conference, even though the opponent helped the Cavaliers beat the Bulls when they first arrived.

To put it bluntly, the record during the regular season is only for the purpose of playoff quota and home and away advantage. The Bulls currently have the highest record in the league, which is basically a certainty, so there is no need to work too hard in the regular season.

Wang Chong has also seen numerous situations where an important player was injured in the playoffs after being too aggressive in the regular season, causing the team to lose the chance to win the championship.

Wang Chong is really afraid that the Bulls will encounter this.

Although Garnett and Billups had a good attendance rate in the original 07-08 season and basically did not suffer any major injuries or illnesses, just in case, as the second half of the schedule progressed, Wang Chong They also began to recommend that head coaches arrange rotations for key players.

In the Bulls' last 20 playoff games, the Bulls' record continued to decline, and they lost to some tough and desperate teams that were hovering on the edge of the playoffs.

The Bulls' Big Three, including Wang Chong, Garnett and Billups, took turns taking turns in these 20 games, and basically rested for about 6 to 7 games.

Of course, nominally the Bulls are using the truce when players are unwell due to relapse of old injuries, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Bulls are already fully preparing for the playoffs.

And even though the Bulls struggled for a month and a half, they still ranked first in the league with a record of 64 wins and 18 losses, and were the only team in the league to achieve a record of 60+ wins in the regular season.

64 wins, although 69 fewer than the Bulls' 5 wins last season.

But everyone knows that this season the Eastern Conference is far more competitive than last season. The Cavaliers have assembled a lineup of the Big Three, and the Pistons have gradually adapted to Monta Ellis and continue to rank among the top players in the Eastern Conference. With a 55-win record, teams including the Orlando Magic, Washington Wizards, Toronto Raptors, etc. are all significantly stronger than last season.

Under this situation, the Bulls can still have the best record in the league with 64 wins, and their gold content is no worse than last season. Moreover, the Bulls' frequent rests at the end of the season have greatly affected the team's record. If not, the Bulls will not be able to win again. 69 wins or even 70+ wins are not impossible.

Of course, this is just a hypothesis.

At least Wang Chong himself believes that the current Bulls team is unlikely to break Jordan's 72-10 record. Moreover, there is still no championship and the system upgrade task has not been completed. If the team's main players are injured, It is very unwise to take risks to chase the regular season record.

Therefore, the Bulls' current 64 wins are enough in his opinion. They are the only 60+ team in the league, allowing the Bulls to enjoy home court advantage throughout the playoffs.

On April 2008, 4, the NBA regular season schedule came to an end.

In terms of record rankings in the Eastern Conference, the Chicago Bulls lead the pack with a record of 64 wins and 18 losses, ranking first.

Ranked second in the Eastern Conference is the Cleveland Cavaliers with 56 wins and 26 losses.

It is undeniable that the Cavaliers who acquired Ray Allen have a much better record than the Cavaliers who only had 07 wins in the 08-45 season. Especially as the schedule progresses, Ray Allen gradually adapts to James' He is more and more comfortable playing with the ball and without the ball. His average points per game have gradually stabilized at 19.6 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists, and his three-point shooting rate is 39%. He has become the second core scorer of the Cavaliers.

The arrival of O'Neal has also given the Cavaliers a certain ability to attack tough problems inside, and their strength has indeed been improved.

Ranked third is the Detroit Pistons with 55 wins and 27 losses.

The Pistons' 55-win record was beyond Wang Chong's expectation. He originally thought that after losing Billups, the strength of the Pistons would decline significantly. Monta Ellis, who swapped with Billups, was A player whose statistics are greater than his actual combat effectiveness.

But the Pistons, whose main point guard was replaced by Ellis, did not suffer a significant decline in combat effectiveness. The team still showed the league's top defensive efficiency. Bullying lower-ranked teams in the East was simply a waste of time.

This also proves that the Pistons are indeed a poor team that relies on the team. Whether it is the departure of the core defensive core Ben Wallace or the departure of the core defensive core Billups, as long as the Pistons' basic tactical plan is still there, in the Eastern Conference There will always be a place for you.

It's a pity that in the original time and space, during the 08-09 season, Pistons head coach Flip Saunders left. The team's new head coach Michael Curry was obviously not familiar with the Pistons' tradition, and Billups was one of the Pistons' main players. and Rasheed Wallace, the Roaring King, left the team one after another. Hamilton's condition declined due to injuries and age, and the iron-blooded Pistons of that year finally ceased to exist.

Ranked fourth in the Eastern Conference is the Orlando Magic with 48 wins and 32 losses.

Although they failed to achieve 50+ wins in the regular season, the Magic still relied on Howard's star-studded tactical system to enter the first half of the Eastern Conference playoffs, and they have vague prospects of reaching the Finals next year.

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These four teams perfectly support the situation of the strong west and the weak east, because as many as three teams in the east have entered the playoffs with negative records.

On the other hand, in the West, the Denver Nuggets, ranked eighth in the West, have a record of 50 wins and 32 losses, and the Golden State Warriors, ranked ninth, both have a record of 48 wins. If these wins were placed in the East, they would be tied for fourth with the Magic. It can be seen that the West Very competitive.

This is also one of the important reasons why there are many strong teams in the Western Conference, but there is no team with 60+ wins.

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The difference in wins between the first place in the Western Conference and the eighth place in the Western Conference is only 6 games, but there are a full 6 teams sandwiched in between. The degree of involution is evident.

On the contrary, the winning difference between the Eastern Conference's first-place Bulls and second-place Cavaliers is already as high as 8 games.

This led to the fact that although Wang Chong firmly ranked first in the regular season MVP list, the Lakers' Kobe Bryant won the MVP. The reason is that although the Lakers' record is not as good as the Bulls, the Western Conference itself is more competitive than the Eastern Conference. high.

Moreover, Wang Chong has regular season MVP-level helpers like Garnett around him. More importantly, compared with the Bulls' 69-win record last season, the Bulls' record has dropped slightly after the lineup was upgraded this season.

This argument seems reasonable, but it is pure nonsense.

Jordan's fourth MVP was won after leading the team to a record of 95 wins and 96 losses in the 72-10 season. Then in the second season, the Bulls achieved a record of 69 wins. Jordan failed to win the MVP again. In the third year, the Bulls record It dropped to 62 wins and 20 losses. In the same year, the Western Conference also had the Utah Jazz with 62 wins and 20 losses, but Jordan still won the fifth regular season MVP of his career.

Therefore, team record comparison is only one of the reference standards for winning MVP. The rest, including player data performance, advanced data, victory contributions, etc., need to be taken into consideration.

On the basis of these, the subjective impressions of media reporters, or to be precise, the official intentions of the league can often directly play a key role.

<divclass="contentadv">To put it simply, whoever the league wants to win the MVP can win it. Even if it is not as comprehensive as its competitors, it can still win the media vote.

After paying a little attention to the rhythm of the media, Wang Chong knew that it was unlikely that he would win the regular season MVP again.

Obviously, Stern has not given up on Kobe, and still wants to mold him into an iconic player in the league, because Kobe is indeed the player who plays most like Jordan, and his popularity and traffic in the United States remain high.

Although Wang Chong's commercial value is not inferior to Kobe's, more of his commercial value is still reflected in China. His popularity in the United States is still a little lower than that of Kobe, James and others.

Of course, this is not the point. The point is that what Stern wants is not a Michael Jordan that dominates the entire league, but a black and white era similar to Magic and Big Bird.

An era where all the heroes are competing for the title and it is not clear who is the strongest player in the league is the most exciting and most attractive era for fans.

Therefore, Stern definitely does not want a dominant alliance, otherwise he would be so angry when James went to the Heat to join forces to form the Big Three.

What he wants is an exciting alliance, not a grand finale alliance where one company dominates and the championship is unquestionable.

Wang Chong is already the youngest MVP in NBA history. If he is allowed to win the MVP again in the new season, he will really be unable to suppress it. By then, no matter how much the league promotes any player to compete with Wang Chong, it will look serious. insufficient.

There is nothing that can be done about it. Even someone as strong as Michael Jordan only has 5 regular season MVPs in his career, and he only won his first MVP at the age of 25, nearly three years later than Wang Chong.

And in addition to this, there is another very important reason, which will also be an important factor affecting Wang Chong's re-election as MVP, and that is the news that Wang Chong wants to return to Chinese nationality and join the Chinese men's basketball team to compete in the 2008 Capital Olympics. Under the brewing and fermentation, the spread of the disease in the United States became more and more intense.

Although the results of the negotiations between Wang Chong and the Chinese Basketball Association on a series of matters related to return have not been announced to the public, since Wang Chong has this intention, it is only a matter of time before he returns.

Wang Chongke was the MVP of the 04 Athens Olympics Dream Team and one of the main strengths of the Dream Team.

If Wang Chong really joins the Chinese Men's Basketball Team in the 08 Capital Olympics, even though it would be nothing to the star-studded dream team, it would still be different after all.

There is a fundamental difference between Chinese Americans and Chinese people in the alliance.

But Wang Chong will not regret this, even if it leads to the loss of the opportunity to win the MVP again.

In my previous life, after all, I was a serious Chinese, and I was deeply proud of my powerful motherland. I was able to win glory for the country and even compete for medals with Dayao and other Chinese men's basketball legends at the 08 Olympics. But it’s a scene that countless people have experienced.

He just needs to make all preparations to ensure that he will not be maliciously taken advantage of by some people with evil intentions.

As for NBA MVP honors, Wang Chong doesn't take it to heart at all, because as the system is upgraded and opened, he will only become stronger and stronger.

The league controls the MVP selection only when the players are relatively close. If there is a huge gap between the competitors, even if they want to operate in secret, they cannot do it. After all, the credibility on the surface must be maintained, otherwise the NBA's destiny will not be achieved at all. There will be nothing left.

Just as the league has been so vigorously promoting Tatum in the future, the result is that the opponent is still a helpless Adou, and foreign players such as Antetokounmpo and Jokic took turns to win the regular season MVP.

As Wang Chong's strength improves in the future, his team performance, personal data, and even various high-level data and victory contributions are destined to be far ahead. Once or twice is okay, but if Wang Chong's MVP is hacked every time, the league will not be able to suppress him. Live with angry fans and outpouring of public opinion.

Wang Chong has absolute confidence to catch up with Jordan or even surpass him in the regular season MVP honor and win more than five MVPs!

Of course, these are just speculations made by Wang Chong based on the past and future actions of the league. Who will win the regular season MVP in the 07-08 season will not be announced until the conference finals.

But the personal data list is a real honor that neither the league nor the media can manipulate.

This season, Wang Chong won the NBA scoring title for the third consecutive year with an average of 31.2 points per game.

This made Wang Chong the first player in the league after Jordan to win three consecutive scoring titles.

This is something that Allen Iverson, who was previously recognized as the strongest scorer in the league, could not do it.

Compared with the battle with Kobe Bryant in the previous two seasons, Wang Chong won the scoring title relatively easily this time, because James, who ranked second in the scoring list, only tried to compete with Wang Chong in the scoring list in the first and middle seasons of the season. After discovering that he could not match Wang Chong in terms of scoring ability, James decisively chose to give up and focus on other aspects of the game.

In the end, James averaged 30 points, 8 rebounds and 7.5 assists per game, 1.2 points lower than Wang Chong on the scoring list.

By the way, Kobe ranks third in the scoring list, averaging 29.7 points per game, which is obviously slightly different from the original 07-08 season.

Kobe's original average data this season should be 28.3 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists.

But obviously because of Wang Chong, Kobe also tried to compete for the scoring title, or he got the news that the league wanted to promote him as MVP, so he improved his personal data.

No matter what, Kobe's scoring average of 29.7 points, which is just shy of 30+ points per game, is also very good. Combined with the Lakers' excellent record this season, Kobe has received a lot of praise.

But in terms of scoring efficiency, compared with 54% field goal percentage, 41% three-point shooting percentage, and 94% free throw shooting rate, Wang Chong was once again selected into the 180 Club.

Whether it is James who shot 48.4% from the field or Kobe who shot 45.9%, there is obviously a huge gap.

This alone is enough to prove that Wang Chong is the player with the strongest scoring ability.