naaapseattle Chapter 122 People are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong
Chapter 122 People are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong
Chapter 122 People are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong
The All-Star Weekend came to an end, and Lu Yi won the MVP of the Rookie Challenge, the champion of the three-point long-range shooting contest, and the MVP of the All-Star Game.
There is no doubt that Lu Yi is the biggest winner of this All-Star Game.
All of a sudden, inside and outside the league, there was a lot of news about Lu Yi.
As for Lu Yi himself, he entered the preparations for the second half of the regular season ahead of schedule.
As the saying goes, those who travel a hundred miles get half ninety.
For Shan Jiuren, the success fell short!
Although the Clippers played quite well in the first 51 regular season games, they currently rank first in the Western Conference.
However, the Lakers, Suns, Mavericks, Nuggets, and Jazz have all played well, and they are only 6 games behind the Clippers at most.
If the Clippers relax at this time, not only may they lose their No. [-] position in the Western Conference, but even the easy-to-get Western Conference playoffs will be handed over to others.
After working hard for four and a half months, I was only short of the last two months to see the harvest.
Lu Yi naturally didn't want to be too complacent at this time, and in the end, his efforts were in vain, and all his previous efforts were wasted.
But what do the other Clippers players think, Lu Yi, as the head player, must be careful and do some preparations in advance.
In other words, after the end of the All-Star Weekend, just one day later, the regular season started again.
Lu Yi followed the Clippers to Portland to participate in the away game against the Trail Blazers.
The Trail Blazers this season are not bad, but compared with the Lakers, Suns, Mavericks, Nuggets, and Jazz, they are a little behind.
However, the last 30 games of the regular season affect the team's record ranking.
If the Clippers lose this game and the Trail Blazers win the Clippers, then maybe the next time the Clippers meet the Trail Blazers, the Clippers will become the chaser instead.
For today's game, Lu Yi didn't want to experience how cruel it would be to switch roles in the future.
Either don't fight, and if you want to fight, you must go all out.
Even though his body has been exhausted due to participating in the All-Star Weekend, his state should not be that good today.
"Time to get ready for the playoffs!
Next up on the regular season schedule, the teams we meet.
Most of them will be opponents we may encounter in the playoffs.
The number of places to play in the playoffs is limited, and your performance directly affects my consideration and arrangement of the playoff roster.
I hope everyone can go all out!
Use our best state and most positive attitude to play the best game. "
Dunleavy is also worried that the Clippers players will not be able to find their status after a week of rest.
Although there was a team training yesterday, the feeling of playing the game will not be found so quickly.
It is precisely because of this that Dunleavy had to use intimidation and temptation to motivate the Clippers players to play instead of fighting for wages and playing for entertainment.
Indeed, the Clippers' rotation players can't sit still when it comes to the number of playoffs.
The Clippers didn't have many stars before, but now they need to compete for the starting position.
In this case, the Clippers still have six or seven regular rotation players.
Among them are players like Gordon who are eligible to compete for the best sixth man, and former All-Star players like Baron Davis.
As for why other rotation players compete for the playoff roster?Nobody pays for the playoffs!
Obviously, they want to go to the playoffs stage, prove their worth, and want to win the next contract with this.
The other 29 management teams in the league are very clear that the Clippers can make such a big improvement this season, not because of the role players.
It is entirely because the addition of Lu Yi, an extremely mature No. [-] pick, has injected huge momentum into the Clippers, and can move forward unremittingly and quickly.
In essence, without Lu Yi, the Clippers are still the bottom team in the league.
The role players of the Clippers are also the group of fringe players who are about to be eliminated in the league.
Every year, nearly 60 players enter the NBA through the draft.
This also means that every year, the same number of players leave the NBA without most people noticing.
With each team cutting 2 people!
For those championships, there is no shortage of veterans who can fight tough battles, and role players can also be carefully selected.
Only tank teams like the Clippers, who were originally picking cheap and making up the number of players, faced the risk of being laid off.
So, with a word from Dunleavy, he lit a pile of firewood,
The wood had just smoked and the fire hadn't started to burn. The Clippers' role players felt their butts were on fire, and now they couldn't sit still.
In this case, the race starts quickly.
As soon as he came up, Jordan helped the Clippers jump to the ball.
Although Jordan is a rookie, this year is already the second year of the guaranteed contract, and next year will be a non-guaranteed contract, which means that the Clippers can lay off Jordan at any time.
Now it is also due to Kaman's injury that he is temporarily in the starting lineup.
Now that he wants to understand things, and wants to fight for an early contract renewal and a big contract, Jordan has to work harder than before.
Iverson advanced with the ball, and Lu Yi just took two steps and raised his hand to catch the ball. The Blazers' Roy and Martel Webster double-teamed him.
The shooting guard and the small forward double-team together, and Lu Yi has no room to catch the ball at all.
However, in order to prevent Lu Yi's three-pointer, the Blazers emptied the flanks.
Iverson pretended to break through to the right, but suddenly made a bold cross pass.
Fortunately, Ariza received the ball and quickly went to the basket to kill.
It is also because there is no one on the left, and Ariza, who went from the three-point line to the three-second zone unimpeded, and finally reached the basket, even in the face of Aldridge's defense, still scored the ball through his personal ability.
Moreover, he also got a chance to add a penalty.
Ariza is not well-known yet. Although he has a championship ring, he is still a little-known little guy in the league.
Under normal circumstances, if the ball is scored, it is scored, and the referee will not make another whistle.
The problem is, the referee called the whistle fairly, and Aldridge got his first foul as soon as he came up, which is...
Extra penalty hit!
3 to 0 start!
Blazers head coach Nate McMillan felt a bit of a headache when he saw this scene.
"Today's game is not easy!"
Nate McMillan was also intimidated by Lu Yi in the previous All-Star Game.
Given Lu Yi's easy shooting space, then Lu Yi's three-pointers will definitely be unreasonable.
After carefully studying the clips of the Clippers this season, it is not difficult to find that the defense against Lu Yi's large amount of physical contact can indeed affect Lu Yi's touch and reduce Lu Yi's scoring efficiency.
If it is only a single defense, the referee will consider giving the whistle as appropriate.
Nate McMillan knew very well that if he wanted to limit Lu Yi and avoid being killed by Lu Yi with a three-pointer, he had to send someone over to limit Lu Yi.
The problem is, Lu Yi restricted it, but others let it go. What should we do?
Fortunately, the Clippers don't have so many pitchers now.
Space is a sharp weapon to improve the three-point shooting rate and the success rate of breaking through the basket.
If the Clippers use the ability to attract double-teams and open up space, and deploy shooters who can shoot three-pointers on the outside, then the Blazers may be shot directly by the Clippers.
Now it's two cups of poison to choose to drink one, whether to choose to be beaten to death by Lu Yi, or to try to see if Lu Yi's teammates are capable of scoring from the basket.
The answer is still relatively obvious. Under the leadership of Lu Yi, the Clippers once again defeated the Blazers.
It turns out that the Clippers with Iverson, Beard, Gordon and Jordan are very suitable for breaking through to the basket and scoring.
Jordan himself doesn't have the ability to attack with the ball, but Iverson and Beard break through fiercely!
The two guards took turns to attack with the ball and hit the basket a few times, and no one noticed Jordan.
After a little flexibility, Little Jordan's mouth is full of oil when he eats cakes.
Coupled with the young, healthy, and physically strong Gordon, the Blazers encountered continuous impacts, and Aldridge, who was burdened with a foul as soon as he came up, obviously persisted for a long time.
Before the first half was over, Aldridge had already committed three fouls.
However, the Blazers were in a bad mood, even though it seemed that Iverson and Beard would lead the team to death, and Aldridge had to be protected in advance and rest off the court.
But the Blazers just didn't want Lu Yi to catch the ball and let Lu Yi score.
95 to 83, the Clippers in the away game achieved a 12-point advantage and finally won the game.
However, Lu Yi in this game got the lowest scoring data of the season.
8投5中，三分球4投2中，罚球2投2中。
Lu Yi scored only 14 points, and even rebounded and assisted only 4 times and 1 time respectively.
Lu Yi's scoring efficiency is still not bad, but the opponent does not let him catch the ball or participate in the offense, which makes Lu Yi very uncomfortable.
Lu Yi seemed to be suffering from chronic pharyngitis, unable to cough or swallow.
The team's victory or defeat seemed to have nothing to do with Lu Yi.
In addition, Lu Yi is one of the top contenders for regular season scoring and MVP.
If other teams copy the Blazers' strategy in future games, let alone whether the Clippers can benefit from it and win the game better.
It is said that Lu Yi himself will also lose a lot of awards and honors that should belong to him due to the serious decline in data.
Lu Yi didn't pay much attention to this at first, but something is better than nothing.
Lu Yi has a chance to win a unique award, so why not do it.
But now, a difficult problem suddenly appeared.
Lu Yi had no choice but to make a choice, whether to protect personal data or to put the team first?
It's still early, but Lu Yi wants to give it a try first.
It is true that people are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong.
But for the entire NBA, it doesn't make sense to target Lu Yi alone!Lu Yi hasn't reached the level of the alliance ruler yet!
"Perhaps, the situation is not as serious as I imagined..." Lu Yi was lucky.
However, the facts are still beyond Lu Yi's imagination.
After ten years of cold window no one asked, he became famous all over the world.
Lu Yi's reputation outside the league is much higher than inside. After all, he came from the NCAA and is the No. [-] pick.
But the problem is that Lu Yi played well enough, and some old-school coaches who stick to the tradition don't pay too much attention to Lu Yi.
They firmly believe that defense wins championships and jump shots have no future.
Until the All-Star Weekend a few days ago, Lu Yi broke their inherent impression a little bit.
Lu Yi played in the Rookie Challenge. It can be seen that he is not at the same level as his peers. Lu Yi's strength is to unilaterally crush everything.
In the three-point long-range shooting competition, Lu Yi seemed to be better than other shooters who are good at shooting.
Lu Yi is not only accurate, but fast.
Fast and accurate, when it comes to the game field, it is difficult to defend, but extremely well-known synonymous.
In the All-Star Game, Lu Yi fully demonstrated his three-point ability.
In the past, no one could score 40 points with three-pointers. Now the head coaches of the entire league know that Lu Yi has this ability.
Maybe the All-Star Game is just an occasional event, and it will only be a flash in the pan.
However, Lu Yi scored 20 points with three-pointers, which is really not difficult at all.
Lu Yi's three-point shooting percentage is usually above 50%.
This means that when Lu Yiguang shoots three-pointers, as long as the hand feel is not too bad, he has a true shooting rate close to 70%.
If Lu Yi played a little smarter and more talented, he would score some easy points in transition.
Well, it's really not difficult for Lu Yi to score 30 points in a single game.
The head coaches of other teams analyzed Lu Yi's scoring highlights this season and found that this seemed to be the case.
Lui is either shooting [-]s or playing in transition.
The offensive method seems to be single, but it is extremely effective.
Relying on this offensive method, Lu Yi averaged 31 points per game, and the remaining five or six points were obtained by mid-range and free throws.
In other words, Lu Yi's scoring base is 30 points.
Although the regular season is different from the playoffs, the 30 points in the regular season may only be 20 points in the playoffs.
But if you carefully analyze Lu Yi's scoring in the regular season, you won't think about it.
After all, the points Lu Yi got from free throws accounted for a very small proportion of the total points.
Every game, Lu Yi is the same as training, relying on three-pointers and transitions to score 30+ steadily.
This easy scoring method is not only enviable, but also fearful.
It's like Jordan back then, who scored 15 points just by mid-range, and the remaining 15 points were taken from the basket.
Lu Yi seems to have the ability to output such a stable output.
However, the most terrible thing for a shooter is to rely on the touch to eat.
No matter how high the lower limit of Lu Yi's shooting percentage is, it cannot be higher than the offense at the basket.
Once Lu Yi doesn't feel good, the Clippers may continue to fall into the abyss because of Lu Yilang's three-pointers, unable to extricate themselves.
Sometimes, if you are too superstitious about shooting, it is easy for your opponent to seize the opportunity and kill you with one blow, or turn defeat into victory with a chance.
On February 2, the Clippers played back-to-back at home.
The Eagles also use shooting guards and small forwards to double-team, and in many cases even off-ball double-teams to limit Lu Yi.
It became more and more difficult for Lu Yi to catch the ball, and he was also consumed a lot before making a shot.
That's it, it's hard for Lu Yi not to be influenced by his opponent.
If the game is only halftime, Lu Yi can still carry it. At least he still has strength in the first half. Even if he makes a strong shot, he has greater confidence.
But the game is a whole game, four quarters, a full 48 minutes.
It is impossible for Lu Yi to play on the court all the time, nor can he always have such excellent physical strength.
109 to 95, the Clippers sat at home, and eventually lost by 14 points.
In the final analysis, Lu Yi was still guarded.
The Clippers' other rotten sweet potatoes and rotten birds missed Lu Yi's opportunity to attract defense, helped Lu Yi score more points, and helped the Clippers defeat their opponents.
After the Clippers' undefeated golden body and winning streak were broken by the powerful Eagles in the Eastern Conference, other teams in the league also began to replicate their success and intensified their efforts against Lu Yi.
Next, every time you encounter this level of defense.
Lu Yi can only sigh with emotion: "It's too difficult for me!"
Then, he silently took out the video and learned Kobe's technique of running without the ball and defending against two people.
(End of this chapter)