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Chapter 307 Competition for the Scoring King
王峰68分大胜森林狼后，湖人队在1月27日对阵菲尼克斯太阳，116:107轻松取胜，但是随后的1月29日，主场对阵费城76人再度输球。

这场比赛76人队内线乔尔.恩比德统治了比赛，尤其是在内线，20投16中砍下36分11篮板6助攻。

The Lakers' inside defensive ability is still a bit poor. McGee's ability to protect the frame is there, but it can't be considered strong.

At least when facing the fiery Embiid, McGee couldn't guard against it at all.

Later, Wang Feng also tried to defend Embiid, but although his interior defense reached 90, the effect was not very good because he did not have any badges related to interior defense.

After losing to the 76ers, the Lakers challenged the city rival Los Angeles Clippers away on January 1.

The two teams fought fiercely until the last 2 minutes and the score remained stalemate. However, with the activation of Wang Feng's key shooter, he scored 2 consecutive three-pointers and 2 mid-range and long-range jumpers to score 10 points in a row, helping the Lakers finally win.

The Lakers won 123:120 with a 3-point advantage.

For the Clippers, James scored 24 points, 14 rebounds and 9 assists, while six of the team scored in double figures.

On the Lakers side, 4 players scored in double figures, and Wang Feng scored 44 points, 14 rebounds and 4 steals.

The schedule in January is officially over. In the 1 regular season games in January, the Lakers achieved a record of 1 wins and 15 losses. Although they are still far ahead in the record list, they are obviously declining compared to the two months of 10 and 5. obvious.

But this is actually expected. As I said before, the Lakers' schedule in November and December is relatively easy, and the strength of the opponents is generally not strong, but since February, the opponents the team has faced have all quality improvement.

Teams such as the Warriors, Rockets, Clippers, Jazz and 76ers are not easy to deal with.

The schedule into February is also not easy.

Due to the All-Star Weekend in February, there were only 2 games throughout the month, but the Lakers still had to face challenges from the Warriors, Celtics, 9ers, Rockets and other teams.

And in January, the best player of the week in the Western Conference was given to James Harden. Harden, like another time and space, played a explosive performance in January, averaging 1 points, 1 rebounds and 42.8 assists per game. Although the data is slightly different, there is a difference. Not big, except that the Rockets are just 7.9-8.2 in January.

Now that the season has progressed, the Rockets' sluggish state has finally begun to pick up gradually, but their performance in the regular season is still far from last season.

Wang Feng's data in January is slightly inferior to that of Harden, but he also averaged 1+15 data in 41 games.

From the perspective of shooting percentage, Wang Feng is obviously more efficient than Harden, but the record of the Lakers has become worse than last month, and even though the Rockets have 8 wins and 6 losses, their winning percentage has improved compared to last month. Therefore, the Player of the Month award was awarded to Harden.

Although he failed to beat Harden in the scoring competition in January, Wang Feng didn't care too much.

The average points per game of the two in January were close, which prevented the point difference between the two sides from being shortened too much. Wang Feng was still in the lead, and that was enough!

The scoring match between Wang Feng and Harden in January was really a rare visual feast.

Looking at NBA history, it is extremely rare.

In January, Harden had 1 game of 1+, 60 games of 2+, 50 games of 5+, and only one of the remaining games scored less than 40 points, scoring 35 points. His performance was extremely shocking.

王峰在1月份则砍下过一场68分，一场50+得分，40+得分场次达到8场，剩余的比赛得分也都在30分以上。

The result of this is that Harden's scoring average in the season has directly increased from 34 points to 37.2 points, and Wang Feng's scoring average has reached 39.6 points, close to 40!

Below Wang Feng and Harden, Antetokounmpo Antetokounmpo, who is ranked third, averaged only 27.9 points per game at this time, which is nearly 10 points behind Harden and 11.7 points lower than Wang Feng!
This year's scoring champion can be said to have no suspense and at the same time suspense.

Between Wang Feng and Harden, one of them will definitely become the scoring champion, and there cannot be a third competitor.

It is still difficult to see which of these two will eventually win the scoring title.

Wang Feng's offensive efficiency is higher, and he leads Harden by 52 points after 2.4 games in the regular season. Regardless of the 2.4 point difference, it is actually close to 124 points in total.

In the last 30 games, if Harden wants to surpass Wang Feng in points per game, he must maintain the same attendance rate as Wang Feng and score 124 more points than Wang Feng. How can this be so easy?
If Harden can still maintain the super output frequency of about 2 points per game in January in February and March, it is quite possible, but Wang Feng will definitely increase his shots when he sees Harden scoring points. It is absolutely impossible for him to hand over to others, even if he is said to be a data brush!

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The schedule entered February, and the Lakers immediately ushered in a third battle with the Warriors in early February.

On February 2, the Lakers challenged the Warriors in an away game, and finally lost the game 2:101. The regular season record of the two sides became 115:1, and the Warriors came from behind.

The loss of this game is really helpless.

Before the game, Jimmy Butler, who had secured his second position in the Lakers team, felt uncomfortable due to a sprained ankle in the previous game, and finally decided to truce this away game for the sake of safety.

Without Butler, only Ingram, Kuzma, Rondo and Rose are left beside Wang Feng. Naturally, it is impossible to compete with the Warriors with a complete lineup, including Cousins.

Wang Feng scored a game-high 38 points and 11 rebounds. Ingram also scored 20 points. Kuzma, Rondo, Rose and Lopez scored in double figures.

But this can't stand the five All-Stars on the Warriors' side.

考辛斯这场比赛难得地高光了一次，在25分钟的有限出场时间里13投8中砍下18分10篮板4助攻。

Curry, Durant and Thompson scored 16, 21 and 28 points respectively.

If Butler plays in this game, the Lakers still have hope of winning. As long as the game can be dragged into the last 2 minutes and the point difference is not too big, Wang Feng is sure to come back and even give the Warriors another lore .

But it's a pity that without Butler's assistance, the point difference has already reached 20 points after three quarters, and even Wang Feng has no way to recover.

Jimmy Butler's attendance rate in recent years is actually very good, especially in the playoffs in the next few years, his performance is quite amazing. It is indeed quite hard to reach the finals with such a lineup of Heat, But in the 18-19 season, Butler's attendance rate in the regular season was indeed not particularly high. He only played 65 games in another time and space. Now he only occasionally misses one or two games with the Lakers, which is already very good.

(End of this chapter)