The Celtics arrived in cold Minnesota a day early. The last game of three consecutive games gave them a day to rest.
During the away holiday, Ricky Davis, who was already the second-in-command of the Timberwolves, made an appointment with Lin Yu and Marcus Banks.
Outside the hotel, they got into Ricky Davis' car, a Maybach.
After getting into the car door, Lin Yu had just settled down when he heard a male voice with a slight American accent coming from the car radio.
"In the fourth week of January 2006, the NBA's Player of the Week was announced. In the Western Conference, Kobe Bryant had brilliant statistics, but because he lost one more game, he lost to Elton from the same city in the final selection.
-Brand..."
"As for the Eastern Conference, Lin Yu, who went crazy, defeated LeBron James and won the first Player of the Week trophy in his career."
"Hey, Crazy Lin, you're really strong!" Ricky Davis, who was driving, turned his head, and Lin Yu smiled. In fact, he had just received the news that he had won last week's Best of the Week.
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"Last week, he played four games. In the first game against the 76ers, he scored 47 points and 22 rebounds. In the next game against the Heat, he made a magical 26 shots and scored 65 points. In the third game against the Heat, he played in four games.
The Clippers were the only loss in four games. In this game, his data was 37 points and 8 assists. In the last game, at the Staples Center, he suppressed Kobe Bryant and scored 31 points and 11 assists.
16 rebounds, 5 steals.”
The sound on the radio continues.
"In four games, he averaged 45.0 points, 10.25 rebounds, 7.75 assists, 2.25 steals and 1.0 blocks per game. Although he lost to the Clippers, China's Lin defeated Allen Iverson in a direct duel.
Dwyane Wade and Kobe Bryant, plus Lin’s crazy first game, when he defeated Vince Carter, crazy Lin Yu has become one of the hottest topics in the United States.”
Marcus Banks was sitting in the front row and mentioned another honor with a smile: "The Rookie of the Month will be announced soon. Lin should have a great chance, right?"
Lin Yu nodded. He calculated his average data in January.
Before Linsanity, most of his points in a single game were in double figures, and Linsanity's high scores in five games directly raised his scoring data from the top to 20 points.
Throughout January, the Celtics played 16 games, and his game averages were 22.2 points, 5.2 rebounds, 3.6 assists, 1.4 steals, and 0.6 blocks.
With this data, the rookies in the Eastern Conference have no equal.
Looking at the entire league, I am afraid that only Chris Paul can compete with Lin Yu this month, but one of them is in the East and the other is in the West, so they cannot compete with each other.
Even if there is competition, Paul, who averages 16.1 points, 5.1 rebounds, 7.8 assists and 2.2 steals per game this season, may not necessarily be Lin Yu's opponent.
Of course, Lin Yu, who has just exploded for a month, does not have the capital to compete for the Rookie of the Year trophy that has basically been won by Paul.
So far this season, Lin Yu has played in 34 games, averaging 13.7 points, 3.7 rebounds, 2.0 assists, 0.9 steals and 0.4 blocks per game. Compared with the current Paul, the overall data is still far behind.
In the entire 2005 rookie class, except for Paul, only Channing Frye, who averaged 12+6 per game, and Charlie Villanueva, who averaged 13+7 per game, can compare with Lin Yu, but with Lin Crazy, and
The on-court statistics are indescribable in single defense. Lin Yu is already ahead of Frye and the eyebrowless Villanueva.
In other words, Lin Yu, a veteran who should have been classified as a rookie in the 2004 class, has now become the second player among the rookies in the 2005 class.
"Lin, tell me about your Lin Madness. Why did you suddenly explode?"
Ricky Davis, who was driving the car, directly turned the topic to Crazy Lin, the hottest topic in the NBA recently: "I know you are making rapid progress, but what did you do in the past five games to abuse Vince?"
Carter abused Dwyane Wade and also abused Kobe Bryant, it’s so crazy!”
Lin Yu shrugged and spread his hands: "It's nothing, I got the ball that I usually can't get, and my condition was inexplicably hot, and then it exploded."
"It's that simple?"
"Yes, it's that simple!"
"Then in tomorrow's game, I will put an end to your Linsanity."
Lin Yu glanced at Ricky Davis funny: "Are you so confident?"
"Of course, the defensive line formed by me and Kevin is not comparable to that of Kobe Bryant and Andrew Bynum. Of course, it must be better than that fat guy of Dwayne and Shaq. Wait for tomorrow's game.
Just know it.”
"You're a bit pretentious."
"The fox pretends to be the tiger's power?"
"A Chinese idiom talks about a fox with no ability relying on the tiger behind to scare away all kinds of beasts."
Ricky Davis immediately turned his head and glared angrily at Lin Yu behind him.
"Look ahead, Ricky, you're driving a car!" Marcus Banks screamed in panic.
In the second day of the game, Lin Yu used the attribute of "Lin Madness" again, but this time it was no good. Fortunately, it was not too bad. He drew the attribute of Ricky Davis.
"Ricky Davis" versus Ricky Davis, the game became a mirror game, and the Timberwolves with one more Garnett won easily.
Lin Yu was also surrounded by the Timberwolves' multiple defenses. He made 9 of 23 shots and scored an inefficient 25 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals.
"Linsanity" is starting to go downhill.
After bidding farewell to Ricky Davis and returning to his home court, Lin Yu was also successfully elected as the Rookie of the Month in January. At the same time, he also entered the selection of the Best Player of the Month, just because of the game the team lost.
Too many, and he failed to defeat Chauncey Billups, who had similar statistics and a better record.
In the first game back at home, the Celtics faced a challenge from the Clippers.
Lin Yu took another gamble, but this time, the characteristics of "Linsanity" made Lin Yu completely African. He drew the attributes of Austin Rivers, son of Doc Rivers.
On the whole, Rivers' attributes are not as good as Lin Yu's own attributes.
Lin Yu was sleepwalking the entire game. He made 5 of 20 shots and only scored 13 points, 3 rebounds and 5 assists.
After this game, "Linsanity" officially came to an end.
However, the topic of Linsanity continues to be a hot topic in the basketball world. The end of Linsanity has given media reporters and expert commentators the opportunity to draw conclusions about "Linsanity".
"Sports Illustrated" summarized "Linsanity": "If you include the game against the Timberwolves, Linsanity should have averaged 42.2 points, 8.8 rebounds, 7.0 assists, 2.3 steals, and 0.8 blocks in six games.
, for a role player who only averaged 8.2 points per game before going crazy, this six-game craziness is indeed surprising and even shocking."
"Especially in the third game, the miracle of hitting all 26 shots is still remembered by people. In that game, China Lin also set many records."
"If we want to summarize 'Linsanity', this is obviously a carnival for role players. A bottom player in the league who was sitting on the bench at the beginning of the season has directly become the hottest player in the league thanks to this crazy journey.
star player!"
"This is a typical counterattack by a small person. A story that can only happen in those inspirational novels, movies, and TV series, but it actually happened in our real life."
"No one will be surprised if 'Linsanity' is written into a novel and adapted into a movie or TV series in the future. Just like Michael Oher's story was adapted into "Weakness: Progress of the Game," Lin Yu's story also deserves to be adapted into