freeallnovels Chapter 1300 The thief of the best rookie of the year
Chapter 1300 The thief of the best rookie of the year
Chapter 1300 The thief of the best rookie of the year
The Thief of the First Thousand 310 Chapter Four of the Best Rookie of the Year
Wilson didn't seem to react positively to earning his third career MVP, but his form with the remaining two games against the Spurs in the semifinals said a lot.
Game3
For the Spurs, this is a game of life and death for the season.
If they lose, they are 3-0 behind by a big score, and they can basically pack up and prepare for the offseason.
However, Wilson's state in this game was even more terrifying than the previous one.
Wilson played 30 minutes and made 14 of 14 shots, including 4 three-pointers. He turned the game into a shooting game without free throws. He scored 32 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists, leading the team to crush the Spurs.
"We've done everything we can to stop him, but to no avail," Popovich said. "Benj is without a doubt the best player in the league."
Louie's job is easy.
Because Wilson is in such a good state, it is difficult for the Lakers to lose the game as long as they play around him.
Moreover, the impact on the young people in the team was even greater.
Wilson's dominance left Garnett feeling like he might never reach that level offensively.However, he should have his own development path.
Garnett hopes to become a superstar who can be paired with a player like Wilson indiscriminately.
In Wilson, Nash further felt the influence and deterrence that offensive threats can bring.
Wilson's strength lies not in his 14-of-14 shooting performance, but in his perfect combination of personal offense and team offense.
Louie's system magnifies his power and makes it burst into full force.
However, in the final analysis, the two are mutually successful relations.
Louis needs a super giant like Wilson to implement his system, and Wilson is the unstoppable conqueror only in Louis' system.
What Nash thought was, if his ball-handling threat could reach Wilson's level, maybe...?
Bryant was most shocked by Wilson's performance -- or rather, he developed a kind of chagrin.He annoyed himself why he hadn't spotted Wilson's greatest spark sooner.
Because Wilson has played like this since his debut.
At that time, Kobe only thought that Wilson was the Knicks' system superstar, because most of his points were obtained through tactics.
Even if the playoff record between Wilson and Jordan was unbeaten before 1996, Kobe still believes that Wilson won because his teammates and coaching team were better, while Jordan was the stronger one. Whether it is his game quality, technical reserves, or offensive and defensive influence, there is no doubt that he is the strongest.
Why can't he beat Wilson?
What Liu Yuqing said to him during the preseason training camp flashed in Kobe's mind-"I will give you a piece of advice, the game is not one-on-one."
Maybe this sentence is the answer.
Wilson isn't the strongest one-on-one player, he's not even the strongest active player, but he is and will be the strongest five-on-five ace.
He can use the strength of the other four to defeat Jordan, and whether Jordan is standing next to Drexler, Olajuwon, or Barkley, he cannot have a similar chemical reaction with them.
He can only always prove himself strong on an individual level, while Wilson always proves himself on a team level.
This fact had a subversive impact on Bryant's view of basketball.
Just like a person whose three views have been destroyed, he either admits that the ideas he has accepted since he was a child are wrong, or he has to suffer deeply in this kind of internal friction of self-contradiction, questioning, argumentation and counter-argumentation.
"Benj is really amazing!" Big Ben pushed Kobe, "Are you convinced tonight?"
Kobe said helplessly, "Don't bother me."
"I just annoy you! I just annoy you! Why don't you talk?"
Kobe said unhappily: "After he played such a good game, don't you feel at all?"
"How can I feel? I just want to train hard and hope to have more playing time in the second season."
Kobe arrogantly expressed his understanding of Daben's pragmatic ideas.
This is indeed what Big Ben should focus on. As for what a style of play like Wilson means to players, this is a very profound issue, and it should be considered by noble lottery picks.
Back in the locker room, Barkley exclaimed excitedly: "The next game must be won with all my strength! I don't want to play the fifth game!"
"Hey, you really want to meet up with your spiritual mentor, Coach Riley, in the Western Conference finals?" Louis said yin and yang to the fat man.
Barkley said directly: "CTMD Pat Riley..."
However, Louis also hopes that the semi-final with the Spurs will end as soon as possible.
Because the Eastern Conference semifinals have already started to go in the direction of Louie and everyone who wants to watch.
The Heat and the Celtics, the Knicks and the Magic, the two rounds of the Eastern Conference semifinals with a lot of attention, the more optimistic Heat and the Knicks all fell behind 1-2.
Especially the Miami side was "wonderful". After the third game, the Heat lost to the Celtics by 10 points. After being beaten by Malone, Manning directly said to the media: "Some of us don't want to win."
Then, the second-in-command Petrovich didn't get used to Manning at all, and said in the same words: "Someone is upset, and this is the reason we lost."
Louie absolutely believed that Manning could fight Petrovic on the court.
In order not to miss this historic media moment in the NBA, the Spurs hurried to die.
You are all 3 to 0, you don't really think that there is such a thing as letting three chase four?
Game4
The Lakers are ready to fight, and the Spurs seem to be in a slump.
David Robinson didn't start well, and he had a few misplaced singles against Barkley, either short shots or missed shots.
This made Louis give up the "fuck Robinson" strategy of insisting on three games, and turned his guns on Iverson and Mashburn.
Mainly Iverson.
Rookie Iverson is actually not worth targeting at the strategic level, and Louie's doing this is just a slight change of thinking.
As a result, Iverson was not in good shape, and after being targeted, his performance was even worse.
Mashburn, usually the least effective and the one the Spurs can't count on, turned out to be the most personable one tonight.
Robinson made 19 of 6 shots and scored 15 points and 12 rebounds.
Iverson turned into a blacksmith of the holy city, and he was full of Mamba spirit from beginning to end. The more he couldn't make the shot, the more he wanted to shoot. Popovich's persuasion didn't work. He made 35 of 6 shots and the basket was crooked.
Iverson's performance was also used by Louis to educate Kobe, starting with "If you dare to play like him...", and Kobe repeatedly promised that he would never play like this, which is really selfish.
Louie would pinch his face whenever Kobe said that, the reverberation from his pain-sensitive nerves reminding him that, yes, this was a world where Kobe Bryant made "trust your teammates" and "don't be so selfish" his mantras.
As for the Spurs, the CPU was burned out, and without a backup, a fiasco was inevitable.
Popovich, who is still very immature, can't do anything about this situation. He can only watch the Spurs face the defeat with the most unbearable side.
122 is better than 98
The Lakers beat the Spurs by 24 points and eliminated them 4-0.
"See you next year, Greg."
Popovich saw the genuine joy on Louie's face, and it seemed that beating the Spurs was a very happy thing for them.
"See you next year, Coach Road." Popovich is determined to make this team stronger, but the premise is that Iverson must put away that damn temper.
Meanwhile, Bryant, in the classic "hug and say goodbye" sequence at the end of the series, said something to Iverson that made people laugh: "I think the real player of the year should lead his team to the conference finals, don't you think?"
The corner of Iverson's mouth twitched uncontrollably...
A guy who averaged 13 minutes a game in a series saying a guy who averaged 39 minutes a game in a series doesn't deserve Rookie of the Year because he lost the series?
What's even more outrageous is that Liu Yuqing hugged Iverson after Kobe, and said flatly: "Goodbye, the thief of the Rookie of the Year."
"Are you serious?"
Iverson asked seriously.
Liu Yuqing didn't reply, just waved her hand.
Iverson came to Wilson with suspicion and unhappiness.
Wilson looked at him regretfully: "You played too badly tonight, and Bean's award plagiarism theory has a basis for argument."
Iverson couldn't bear it anymore.
"You don't really think he's more deserving of Rookie of the Year than me? Are you mistaken???!"
(End of this chapter)