After the All-Star Weekend, all media were reporting on the results of the game and vying to interview MVP Tracy McGrady. At the same time, many media also mentioned the topic of "Lu Yu may travel to the West."
In fact, this is a signal from NBA President David Stern, because the Eastern Conference is too weak. If you want to make the Eastern Conference teams stronger, only by letting Lu Yu come to the Western Conference can you have a chance to drive out more stars.
Go east.
Just like Jordan led the Bulls to invincibility in the past few years, his dominance shrouded the entire Eastern Conference. Stars of his generation couldn't defeat the Bulls, so they traveled westward.
The league also wants to use Lu Yu to come to the west and move all the stars of his generation to the east.
Logically speaking, the economy in the East is more developed, so shouldn't the football market for the teams in the East be booming?
In fact, during the Bulls dynasty and the Celtics dynasty, the league at that time was always in a state of strength in the east and weak in the west. However, in the east, because the economy was so developed, there were too many sports for the audience to choose from, such as baseball, football, etc.
Even golf will divert a large number of NBA viewers, which has also led to the general managers and even owners of many teams in the Eastern Conference to believe that there seems to be little difference from the perspective of making money between winning a championship and not winning a championship.
There are more and more bad teams in the Eastern Conference, and everyone has a feeling of being broken. In addition, just work hard to enter the playoffs and earn tickets. This pattern cannot be changed in a few years.
Nowadays, the west is more attractive to players. The cities in the west are not short of money. Second, basketball is an entertainment project after all. Entertainment in the west is more developed than in the east. Players are more exposed, life off the court is richer, and side businesses are easy to develop.
In addition, the famous players of the past generations preferred these areas to enjoy life after retiring, forming a complex network of interpersonal relationships, which made the West more attractive to players.
So more and more stars are willing to come to the West, which makes David Stern very helpless.
The trade deadline soon came, and most of the teams in the Eastern Conference began to fail. They did not expect to compete with the Bulls for the Eastern Conference championship.
The top eight teams are also trying their best to pull one down from the top eight teams.
However, during this period, fans' attention was focused on the NCAA's March Madness, and no one paid attention to the situation in the NBA. By the time March Madness was over, the NBA's regular season was gradually coming to an end.
After the All-Star Game, the Bulls lost two more regular season games, to the Magic and Kings respectively.
They lost to the Magic because after the All-Star Game, McGrady was as strong as if he had taken medicine. No matter how he threw the basketball, he could always fall into the basket, almost giving the Bulls a McGrady moment.
The Bulls actually had a chance to win the game, but the players on the team took turns and wasted the opportunity.
Among them, the most powerful player was Lu Yu. He set an example and played the worst game of the season. Even if the opponent completely let him go, he couldn't make a shot.
At the end of the regular season, the Bulls once again broke the regular season win record they set last season, reaching 78 wins this season.
An improvement from last season.
The Nets ranked second in the Eastern Conference, and the Pistons ranked third. Interestingly, the Nets only won 47 games, while the Pistons won 54 games. The Pistons ranked behind the Nets.
The reason is very simple. This season the Bulls have 76 wins and rank first in the Central Division. The Pistons and Bulls belong to the same Central Division and can only be ranked behind the Nets, which ranks first in the Atlantic Division.
The most unexpected thing in the Eastern Conference is the Heat. No one expected that the Heat could reach the fourth place in the Eastern Conference this season.
This is why Lu Yu said that James was actually quite good in the past few years, because in the past few years, both the Nuggets, Heat and Cavaliers were weak teams in the league. However, after the Nuggets and Heat welcomed Anthony and Wade, they quickly
They turned around and entered the playoffs, but James' Cavaliers still couldn't make it.
Of course, it cannot be ruled out that the Cavaliers gave away everything the team could play in order to clean up Ricky Davis.
How to put it, it's the same for Lu Yu anyway. Even if O'Neal is given to James, he will still prevent the Cavaliers from breaking out of the Eastern Conference.
The worst team in the Eastern Conference is probably the Magic. Last year they were the fifth team in the Eastern Conference, but this year they are ranked last. If it weren't for their victory over the Bulls, fans might have almost forgotten about this team.
One look at this posture, it seems that he is going for next year's No. 1 pick.
Poor McGrady has wasted another year of talent here. Maybe McGrady will leave next season?
But today's Rockets don't have Yao Ming, where can Tracy McGrady go?
If he goes to the Warriors to form the Yao-Mai team again, the key point is that the Warriors don't want him either.
Another team that disappointed fans is the 76ers, who did not make the playoffs this year.
But what makes them better than the Magic is that they struggled a little.
The Timberwolves are ranked first in the Western Conference, followed by the Lakers, Spurs, Kings, Mavericks, Grizzlies, Warriors and Nuggets. Looking at the first few teams that dominate the Western Conference, it proves that the money in this season's arms race has not been wasted.
The Spurs also have a higher number of wins than the Lakers, and their ranking behind the Lakers is also due to division issues.
Although the Lakers did not have Kobe's Eagle County incident this season, Malone's harassment of Kobe's wife Vanessa still inevitably occurred. This also made the atmosphere in the Lakers' locker room very subtle, and the record naturally declined.
Various statistics of the regular season were released. McGrady once again won the scoring title, averaging 28 points, 6 rebounds, and 5.5 assists per game. In fact, Iverson also averaged 28 points per game this season, but he missed too many games due to injuries and was not on the list.
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But when everyone looked down and found that Peja, who was second in points per game, only averaged 24.2 points, they were all stunned.
Tracy McGrady averaged 28 points per game to win the scoring title. Peja Stojakovic, who ranked second, only scored 24.2 points. Kobe Bryant, who averaged 30 points per game last season, also dropped to only 24 points.
What causes players to score so low?
It can be seen from the data that among the top ten scoring players, only 4 players have a shooting percentage of more than 45%. Among these 4 players, except Peja, they are all inside players.
When McGrady averaged 32.1 points per game in the previous season, he still shot 45.7% from the field. This season, he dropped 4 percentage points to only 41.7%. Not only McGrady, but also many defenders seemed to no longer know how to play. Kobe's shooting
The shooting percentage dropped from 45.1% to 43.8%, Carter's shooting percentage dropped from 46.7% to 41.7%, and Iverson's shooting percentage was only 38% due to injuries.
The fundamental factor behind lower scoring efficiency is the increase in defensive intensity. The most direct factor affecting low scoring is that the league used a new zone defense manual in the 2002-03 season, which no longer restricts teams from using zone defense. This rule
The introduction caused many stars to become uncomfortable with it.
After a season of adaptation period, in the 2003-04 season, every team found that zone defense was both labor-saving and efficient in restricting defenders in defense. They all used zone defense to limit the breakthrough offense of super scorers. Whenever the defender broke through to get close to the basket,
The attack range of the basket is limited, and there is always a center and a forward assisting in the penalty area, making it even more difficult for defenders to break through and score.
At this time, everyone suddenly realized what a wise choice it was for Lu Yu to play power forward!
Um?
Where does Lu Yu rank in terms of points per game?
So all the fans looked down, and there was no Lu Yu’s name in the top five, nor Lu Yu’s name in the top ten. Finally, at the fifteenth place, they saw Lu Yu’s data, averaging 20.2 points, 10 rebounds and 11.3 assists per game.
Data for 201010?
The advantage of low scoring average is beyond everyone's imagination, but when everyone saw Lu Yu's shooting percentage, they were shocked. When everyone's shooting percentage was generally lower than 45%, Lu Yu's shooting percentage was actually the same as that of Lu Yu.
Like O'Neal, reaching 58%?
Coupled with Lu Yu's 11.3 assists, he is basically guaranteed to be the assist leader. In other words, in the whole game, at least 40 points were related to Lu Yu.
You must know that in this season where the defense of the zone is being used more and more powerfully, the ones who benefit most are the super defensive teams such as the Pistons and Spurs. They can often score no more than 80 points in the game.
Win the game.
This is equivalent to Lu Yu carrying half the team by himself.
In fact, in the second half of the season, David Stern introduced a new rule in order to save ratings. This rule is called "no hand-check".
It was proposed at the beginning of the season, but it was not implemented. At the end of the season, Stern couldn't sit still.
The meaning of this rule is that if an outside player is above the free throw line, as long as he moves with the ball, the defensive player cannot use his hands or forearms on the body of the player holding the ball, otherwise it will be a foul.
This rule was implemented half a season earlier than Lu Yu's previous life, but no team dared to play, and even the referee didn't know whether to call or not, so in fact this rule existed in name only.
There is a high probability that it will not be officially implemented until next season.
There is not much difference from the previous life.
This season Lu Yu only won the honor of assists king. His other statistics were average, but his efficiency was frightening.
In the first round of the playoffs, the strong Bulls swept the Celtics. The Celtics, who lacked Anthony Walker, didn't even have a decent power forward. In the end, they had no choice but to let Pierce go to Lu Yu.
How could Pierce guard Lu Yu? Although he looked very strong, his lateral speed was slow. Lu Yu could cut into the inside and score easily with just a feint.
As a result, Lu Yu, who only averaged 20 points per game in the regular season, averaged 30.7 points per game in the first round of the playoffs, taking away the game.
The Bulls swept the Heat again in the second round. Because the Heat defeated the Bulls in the regular season, many people were optimistic that the Heat could cause trouble for the Bulls.
Wade also tried his best to score, but he couldn't bear the Bulls' team's efforts and the Heat couldn't stop him.
Awards Lu Yu announced, Lu Yu won the regular season MVP for the second time.
The league is helpless at this point. They also want to award the MVP to others, such as Garnett of the Timberwolves. The Timberwolves' record would have been no problem in the past. Garnett's personal data is also very good, but compared with the Bulls and Lu Yu,
In comparison, it is obviously worse than that.
Lu Yu also became the eighth player in league history to win two consecutive MVPs.
The first seven are Russell, Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Moses Malone, Bird and Jordan.
If Lu Yu hadn't emerged last season, Duncan would have become the eighth candidate for two consecutive MVPs.
Because Duncan had just won the regular season MVP the year before, and in Lu Yu's previous life, Duncan was still the MVP last season, but Lu Yu's appearance broke this honor.
Now fans are beginning to look forward to whether Lu Yu can win three consecutive regular season MVPs.
After all, only Bill Russell, Chamberlain and Bird have been able to win three consecutive regular season MVPs in history.
Although Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jordan, Magic, and Moses Malone have all won at least 3 MVPs, they have not been able to win MVPs for 3 consecutive seasons. At most, they have only won MVPs for two consecutive seasons. This difficulty can be imagined.
And know.
Pettitte and Karl Malone also won two MVPs in their careers, but they did not win them in two consecutive seasons.
Apart from this, no other player has won at least two MVPs.
Not surprisingly, the Rookie of the Year award went to LeBron James.
Although the team's record is mediocre, his personal data is quite good.
Cartwright once again won the best head coach. Many people doubted that he won the best head coach. Some fans even said that my grandma could have achieved this record when she was Lu Yu's head coach.
The Most Improved Player will be given to Wang Zhizhi of the Mavericks. Wang Zhizhi averaged 19.3 points and 9.2 rebounds per game this season, allowing the Mavericks to go from a five-star general to a six-star general.
This time the Defensive Player of the Year award did not go to Ben Wallace, but to Artest, who was mentioned as a starter this season.
The best team is still those regulars, but it is somewhat surprising that Garnett, who ranked second in the regular season MVP, only played in the second team.
There were O'Neal, Duncan, Lu Yu, Kobe and Kidd.
The second team is Ben Wallace, O'Neal Jr., Garnett, Arenas and Tracy McGrady.
The third team is Yao Ming, Artest, Nowitzki, Reed and Baron Davis.
To be honest, Duncan is able to make the first team because he made it to the Finals last season, because the Spurs' record this season is actually not as good as the Timberwolves.
Garnett is very depressed. His honors this season were almost robbed by Lu Yu!
Ever since Lu Yu started playing forward, Garnett has never scored a single goal!
What's even more hateful is that if Lu Yu hadn't led the Bulls to 78 wins, he would have been the regular season MVP this season.
However, when being interviewed by the media, Garnett still said with a smile: "Congratulations to Lu Yu, he deserves this honor. I also admire him very much. I think if he is the only one in the league who is qualified to win the MVP, in this
He is unique in the league."
Garnett didn't dare to antagonize Lu Yu anymore. Before the All-Star Game, he mocked several other Chinese players, but Lu Yu scolded him and severely humiliated him in the All-Star Game.
He is quite afraid of Lu Yu now. He is even thinking about what he would do if the Timberwolves reach the finals and face the Bulls led by Lu Yu.
Although he failed to win the scoring title again this season, two consecutive MVP awards and two first-team honors have made Lu Yu a superstar ahead of his contemporaries.
