naaapseattle Chapter 780 The media fire, the battle at the end of the month
Chapter 780 The media fire, the battle at the end of the month
The end of the year is approaching, and the media are not idle. On December 12, after the league officially announced the players of the past week in the East and West as Marcin Gortat and Wang Zelin, on the 28th, several authoritative media also updated the latest MVP rankings.
In the expectation of the fans, Wang Zelin will definitely rank first in the major media rankings.
He deserves such praise and praise, whether in terms of team performance or personal data, he is fully worthy of the three letters "MVP".
Then, when the leaderboard was actually announced, all the fans were taken aback. Wang Zelin, who had a dominant performance, failed to dominate the leaderboard.
In the latest MVP ranking list announced by Sports Illustrated and TNT, Wang Zelin ranked first!
But in the rankings of the two media, Bleacher Report and ESPN, Wang Zelin, who is considered to be the leader of all MVP rankings, can only be ranked No.2 and No.3 respectively!
In the bleachers MVP rankings, the number one is Stephen Curry.
In this regard, the reason they gave is-the only active team leader with 31 wins!
In addition, Curry's amazing feeling in the new season is also stronger than that of Wang Zelin, who has been the MVP for two years.
To put it bluntly, the outside world feels a little tired of the Trail Blazers and Wang Zelin. Compared with each other, the performance of the Warriors and Curry in the new season makes them feel even brighter.
Of course, if the reason given by the bleachers is a little forced, but still reasonable, then ESPN's ranking of Wang Zelin in third place is indeed a bit outrageous.
In ESPN's updated MVP rankings, neither Wang Zelin nor Curry ranks first. Although Curry ranks higher than Wang Zelin, it is only one position higher.
Because the first place in the MVP rankings was snatched by Kawhi Leonard.
Everyone was stunned, how could he, Leonard Hede, sit on top of Wang Zelin and Curry?
When everyone saw the reasons given by ESPN, they felt even more absurd and funny, because ESPN's reason for ranking Leonard first was that it had made rapid progress!
In a few simple words, De Leonard has overwhelmed the two super giants who have played phenomenal performances this season. For the first time in his career, ESPN officially listed the No. 1 position in the MVP rankings in a single period.
That's right, compared to last season, Leonard's personal performance this season is indeed surprising. From the first day of the season, he has been constantly refreshing his various career records.
截止目前，他场均可以得到22.5分7篮板2.8助攻1.8抢断1盖帽的数据，比起上赛季有了较大的提升。
As for the team, at the beginning of the season, after lobbying by the luxury lobby group led by Simavich sent by the Spurs, the Spurs finally ushered in the first All-Star player in team history, Kevin Love, who has already made a name for himself in another team.
Relying on the striker combination of Leonard and Love, as well as the young GDP trio, the Spurs started a big winning streak next.
As of December 12, the Spurs' record has reached 29 wins and 28 losses, second only to the Trail Blazers and Warriors in the West, and also ranks third among all teams in the league!
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Spurs management once again bet on the right treasure with the 11th pick in the first round of the 15th draft. After four seasons of training, the Spurs' 4-meter wing finally came to the day of blossoming and bearing fruit.
The entire holy city finally ushered in the leader of the next era.
Coupled with Kevin Love's biggest reinforcement in team history, under the leadership of Leonard and Love, even after the GDP gets old, the Spurs can still maintain enough championship competitiveness in the Western Conference and even the league.
But this still can't make Leonard beat Wang Zelin and Curry and become No.1 in the authoritative MVP ranking list.
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San Antonio.
Inside the Spurs head coach's office.
Murder with a knife!
This is killing someone with a knife!
There is no shortage of smart people in the league, not to mention the old thief Sima Weiqi who sits on the Spurs.
Almost as soon as the list came out, he understood ESPN's intentions. In order to prevent the Trail Blazers No. 36 MVP from making a three-peat match, those hateful media people came up with such a bad move, pushing Leonard to the most dazzling position to attract firepower, which in turn sparked fierce controversy.
In this way, the trend of mainstream public opinion has suddenly become a denunciation of Leonard, so that people can subconsciously ignore Wang Zelin and Curry who have performed well.
Sure enough, the comparison of the media is the knife that kills people without blood.
As for face or something, just kidding, if you want to be a media player, who cares about it?
As expected, when the latest MV ranking came out, it caused huge controversy.
It turns out that Leonard has made remarkable progress this season, and together with Love led the team to a brilliant record.
However, since San Antonio is only a small city after all, the influence of the local media is limited, so apart from the local media and fans, few people will pay attention to the changes of the Spurs.
Who would have thought that ESPN would suddenly come up with such a trick and rank Leonard as the MVP. On the surface, they were approving Leonard's performance this season.
However, this actually put Leonard on fire.
For a while, basketball fans all over the world were condemning Leonard, because he was not worthy of the top spot in the MVP rankings.
Of course, there are also many Spurs fans and people who eat melons to support Leonard:
With the core of the team getting older, Leonard can quickly grow from the wings of GDP and stand up to carry the team this season. Since his current record and statistics are not bad, why can't he be ranked first?
Not to mention number one, even if the MVP trophy was directly awarded to Leonard, they would all agree with it!
As for that, Wang Zelin and Curry.
One has won two consecutive MVPs, and everyone is already tired of watching it;
The other player is soft, and at most he is an enhanced offensive version of Steve Nash. What good is a good regular season game? In the playoffs, this kind of jump shooting team will definitely not go far.
Under the voices of various controversies, things developed as ESPN expected, and the popularity of Wang Zelin and Curry really dropped a bit.
ESPN executives opened champagne overnight to celebrate: It was not easy, we finally beat that kid once!
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the other side.
For all kinds of discussions on the Internet, Wang Zelin is too lazy to join in the excitement. After all, he is not stupid, so how could he not see that ESPN deliberately did it.
Those guys wanted to disgust him, but he wasn't fooled. He wasn't Durant, and his mind wasn't that sensitive and fragile.
Compared with opening a trumpet on the Internet and interacting with netizens, Wang Zelin prefers to play well and talk with the ball!
What's more, the Trail Blazers only have their last game left this year, and their opponent is the Cleveland Cavaliers, the strongest in the East. Facing such a strong enemy, he is eager to celebrate the arrival of the New Year with a hearty victory.
By the way, I also bet on the mouths of some so-called "objective fans" on the Internet.
They all say that you are tired of watching my games, so I will use more explosive statistics to let you gain insight.
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It's almost here, December 12th.
On this day, Wang Zelin and his teammates traveled thousands of miles to Cleveland, preparing to use a big victory to draw a perfect end to the December schedule.
Before the game, under the mobilization of Wang Zelin, the Blazers felt as if they had been beaten up and down, wishing to dunk the Cavaliers' basket at night.
Especially Wang Zelin, he is ready to win a super data tonight.
For example, breaking the previous season high score with the Cavaliers-60 points in a single game!
However, when the game was about to start at 7 o'clock in the evening, when the players from both sides entered the field to warm up, Wang Zelin saw a scene that disappointed him.
The main center of the Cavaliers, DeMarcus Cousins, was dressed in a casual suit and sat at the end of the bench, seemingly unable to play.
After the warm-up, when he returned to the visiting team's locker room, Wang Zelin learned from the coach that Cousins had a calf sprain before the game, and it is expected that he will have a truce for a period of time before returning to the game.
It also means that the opponent he has been thinking about will not be able to play tonight.
What are you doing?
After hearing this, Wang Zelin was speechless on the spot. It felt very similar to what, my set was ready, but you told me that your relatives were here?
But having said that, looking back at Cousins' career attendance rate, it is not difficult to find that this guy's health has not been sufficiently guaranteed.
The first few years of being a rookie were better, but later on, this guy directly developed into a glass man.
And this is also related to Cousins' style of play. Obviously a big center, I honestly look for those, and I must like to play tricks.
Speaking of which, Cousins in this time and space escaped from the king's misery early and fled to the arms of a thirty-year-old man. His style of play is not as demonic as in his previous life, and it is more in line with his personal style.
So the question is, how did he get hurt?
After thinking about it for a while, Wang Zelin still didn't come up with a reason, so just ask Cousins, the game is about to start again.
And if you ask now, are you sure it's not an act of adding salt to the wound?
Simply, he expressed his doubts to the coach.
Sure enough, every successful team has its own intelligence network, so that they can keep abreast of the movements of other strong teams.
The typical representatives are the Celtics and the Lakers, the two most powerful players in the NBA.
Especially the Celtics, during the period of "Cardinal" Auerbach, the eyeliner can be said to be all over the league. Sometimes a word from Auerbach can affect the management of other teams, even more reliable than the words of the league president David Stern.
For the superiors, the existence of Auerbach undoubtedly affected Stern's control over the entire league.
This is why Stern refused to sign the 97th No. [-] pick to the Celtics.
You know, at the beginning of the Celtics management, under Auerbach's hint, the biggest tycoon in history put down their face for the first time, and did not hesitate to compete for the 97th No.
If it weren't for Stern to stop it in time, relying on Auerbach's power in the league at the beginning, after getting Duncan as he wished, the pattern of the Green Army's dominance of the league can be said to be almost certain.
This is the last thing Stern wants to see, so even if the Green Army has a record of 82 losses in the regular season and has a 99.99% probability of winning the No. 0.01 pick, Stern will let that [-]% probability appear.
Because the Celtics are already brilliant enough, he doesn't want to see an Auerbach-style figure in the league.
This led to Auerbach's sad exit and the Celtics' next 10-year trough, until the deal in August 07 appeared...
Cough cough, the topic is far away, let's get down to business.
In Coach Terry's high knowledge, Wang Zelin knew that Cousins was injured because of excessive weight gain in a short period of time, which caused his body to be unable to carry the routine in the long and cumbersome schedule.
Well, that Cousins guy wants to win so much that I will fight like this!
After clearing the ins and outs, Wang Zelin couldn't help but burst into tongues.
Why did Cousins work so hard to gain weight?It's not to deal with him, Mr. Wang.
So, to a certain extent, the reason why Cousins was injured has something to do with him...
impossible!
Absolutely impossible!
That guy was injured obviously because he couldn't bear it himself, so what has it to do with me, Mr. Wang?
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At 7:30, the game between the Trail Blazers and the Cavaliers officially began.
As of now, the Cavaliers have a record of 25 wins and 8 losses, leading the strong teams in the Eastern Conference and ranking fourth in the league, an absolute top team.
It's a pity that the Cavaliers not only lost a general before the game, but they were talking about the main center Cousins, the inside core!
The absence of Cousins not only dimmed the stars of Quicken Loans Arena at home tonight, the key is that there is one less person who can barely talk to Wang Zelin on the inside.
The three giants of the Cavaliers are indispensable, because only the complete Cavaliers have the ability to fight with the Western powerhouses in a real sense.
But if it is said that during the regular season, due to unavoidable reasons, there must be one less giant, presumably Cavaliers fans would prefer Irving instead of Cousins to sit on the court at the moment.
Especially when playing the Trail Blazers with the league's strongest inside combination, without Irving outside, James and JR, Dellavedova, Shumpert, Jones and others maintain offensive firepower.
But the few people they have tonight are indeed Cousins. At this moment, Wang Zelin and Aldridge couldn't be defended, and now they don't even have anyone who can come out and attack them.
At the end of the first half, the Trail Blazers took a 15-point lead and beat the Cavaliers 58:43.
If it weren't for JR, the guard with a knife in front of the imperial court, who suddenly felt his shot and scored three three-pointers from the outside, it is estimated that the score has been stretched to 20 points by the Blazers.
However, the Cavaliers barely resisted for two quarters in a disabled state, and finally fell in the third quarter.
Entering the second half, the Trail Blazers went all out, and Wang Zelin scored 18 points in a single quarter, plus 10 rebounds and 3 blocks, completely killing his eyes.
After three quarters, the score was stretched to 36 points. The Cavaliers were silent at home and fell into a deathly silence.
Not surprisingly, the game completely entered garbage time.
In the final quarter, the rookies of the two sides pecked at each other, and the score difference did not decrease but increased. In the end, the Trail Blazers beat the Cavaliers by 135:91 in the away game by 44 points and won the final game of the December schedule!
So far, the Trail Blazers' 2015 schedule is all over. With a record of 32 wins and 1 loss, they rank first in the league!