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Chapter 373 Playoffs against Doncic in the first round
Speaking of which, Brother Antetokounmpo is really unlucky.

If it weren't for Wang Feng, he should have won the first regular season MVP trophy in his career last season, and completed the defense this season, becoming one of the few top superstars in history who can win two consecutive MVPs.

However, due to Wang Feng's breakthrough, he not only snatched his first regular season MVP, but now this second trophy is also very likely to be lost.

No way, who made Brother Antetokounmpo inferior to Wang Feng in all aspects?

In terms of scoring, 29.7vs35.4.

In terms of hit rate, both of them are around 55%.

Rebound Antetokounmpo has a slight site advantage. 14 rebounds are 12.7 more than 1.3, but who cares about these 1.3 rebounds?

When it comes to assists, the gap between the two sides is immediately apparent.

Antetokounmpo's assist chaining ability is actually not bad. As a big player with a height of 2 meters, he can average nearly 11 assists per game, which is definitely above the middle level.

But this is undoubtedly much inferior to Wang Feng's average of 10.4 assists per game.

What's more terrible is that Wang Feng averaged 10.4 assists per game and only 3.3 turnovers per game, while Antetokounmpo's 5.6 assists averaged 3.7 turnovers per game.

The personal data is not comparable, and the team record is not as good.

After all the calculations, Antetokounmpo's only advantage is the background of Wang Feng's two consecutive regular season MVPs.

放眼联盟历史，也只有三人曾经有过三连常规赛MVP的成就，分别是60到63赛季的比尔.拉塞尔，65到68的赛季维尔特.张伯伦以及83到86赛季的拉里.伯德。

Even if it is as strong as Michael Jordan, the five regular season MVPs can only achieve two consecutive games.

And Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who has won the most regular season MVPs in history, also failed to achieve three consecutive regular season MVPs six times.

Will the league allow a Chinese player like Wang Feng to win three consecutive MVP honors?This is indeed a big question mark.

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In any case, the regular season is over, the records of the Eastern and Western teams are determined, and the list for the playoffs is also generated.

Wang Feng has traveled for many years, and the butterfly effect has almost completely destroyed the original historical process.

The epidemic did not happen, and there were no shortened seasons and play-offs affected by the epidemic.

In the West, the 66-win Lakers held the top spot in the West without any suspense.

In addition to Wang Feng, who averaged a triple-double for the Lakers, the performances of Butler and Ingram are also impressive.

Among them, Butler averaged 23.6 points, 5.2 rebounds and 3.9 assists per game. He played far better than last season and fully assumed the responsibility of the team's second leader.

And Ingram got more possessions this season, and he didn't disappoint. He averaged 20.5 points, 4.1 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game, and shot 44% from the field. As the team's third offensive point, he performed well. point, and people are looking forward to its performance after further growth.

In addition to the Big Three, the Lakers scored in double figures with Kuzma and Lopez, who also started. It's just that compared with last season, the Lakers scored a lot on the bench, and none of the substitutes scored in double figures.

But this is also inevitable. The five starting players of the Lakers have averaged 102 points per game, occupying a lot of shots and possessions, and there are not many opportunities for substitute players to play. Only players like Howard is a blue-collar player who is mainly responsible for protecting rebounds and defending the frame on the court.

The rest, such as Jordan Poole who was newly selected to the team, Jordan Clarkson with an annual salary of tens of millions, Seth Curry and others did not perform very well.

The second best record in the Western Conference is the Los Angeles Clippers with 59 wins.

The combination of James + Leonard is indeed extremely strong, not inferior to the combination of James + Davis of the Lakers in another season.

James averaged 26 points, 8 rebounds and 9.8 assists per game, while Leonard averaged 27.2 points, 7.3 rebounds and 5 assists per game. The two fronts complemented each other, and Louis Williams, who averaged 18.7 points per game, achieved the Clippers' second record in the Western Conference.

Ranked third in the West is the Golden State Warriors with 55 wins.

This season's Warriors only have the old Big Three, Curry, Thompson and Green, but with the butterfly effect leading to the health of all members, the Warriors still maintain a good competitiveness.

Curry, who occupies a large number of ball possessions, played the best performance of his career, averaging 31.2 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists per game, shooting 48% from the field, ranking third in the scoring list, second only to Wang Feng who averaged 35.4 points per game and James who averaged 34 points per game . Harden.

Thompson also averaged a career-high 25.5 points per game.

The only one who pulls his hips is Green. Green, whose offensive ability is constantly weakening, does nothing on the offensive end, and he is not very good at dealing cards in the top arc. Active pressing defensive ability.

He averaged 8 points, 6.7 rebounds and 6.2 assists per game, and his shooting percentage was 38.9%.

Fourth in the West is the 51-win Denver Nuggets, and Nikola Jokic has finally begun to rise.

Although the data of 24.4 points, 9.7 rebounds and 7 assists per game is slightly different from another time and space, the strength is indeed quite strong.

From No.5 to No.8 in the West, they are the Utah Jazz, Oklahoma City Thunder, Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks.

In this way, the matchups in the first round of the Western Conference are Lakers VS Mavericks, Clippers VS Rockets, Warriors VS Thunder, Nuggets VS Jazz.

The Eastern Conference on the other side is the Milwaukee Bucks, No. [-] in the East, VS Orlando Magic, No. [-].

The second Brooklyn Nets in the Eastern Conference VS the seventh Miami Heat.

The Toronto Raptors, No. [-] in the Eastern Conference, vs. the No. [-] Indiana Pacers.

The fourth Boston Celtics VS fifth Philadelphia 76ers.

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The Lakers' opponent in the first round of the playoffs is the Lone Ranger, and there is no suspense in this matchup.

The Lone Ranger's current lineup is a dual-core configuration, with Luka Doncic partnering with Boss Porzingis.

两人常规赛数据分别为28.7分9.3篮板8.7助攻和19.2分9.5篮板，看上去还算不错，但全队第三得分点是场均15.8分的蒂姆.哈达威二世。

The gap in lineup strength is very obvious.

And among the three main players, only Tim Hardaway II has playoff experience, and he was with the Hawks in the 16 and 17 seasons.

Compared with the Lakers, the Mavericks are still too young.

In addition, the core of the Lone Ranger is Luka Doncic, who serves as a shooting guard and small forward, while Wang Feng and Butler are both well-known defensive players in the forward position, and they can contain Doncic very well on the field. play.

In the eyes of most fans and the media, there will not be much suspense in this series, and the Lakers will definitely win by a big score.

The same is true.

On April 4, the opening match of the first round of the playoffs began one after another.

The Lakers ushered in the challenge of the Dallas Mavericks, the eighth in the West, at the Staples Center at home, and successfully won a good start with 117:102.

Wang Feng, who just won the honor of scoring and assists king, played well, scoring 40 points, 11 rebounds and 12 assists in a triple-double performance, Ingram 21 points, Butler 16 points.

As for the Lone Ranger, Porzingis scored a team-high 16 points on 7 of 26 shots, while the team's head star Doncic played abnormally under the care of Wang Feng and Butler, two old hooligans. He only made 20 shots, scored 6 points, 18 rebounds and 7 assists, and had 6 turnovers.

Doncic, who participated in the playoffs for the first time in his career, deeply felt the malice from the playoffs.

But after all, he is a rising top star in the future league. Although the first game encountered a strict defense, Doncic quickly adjusted in the second game and scored 34 points, 10 rebounds and 9 assists. double data.

It's a pity that the luxurious data can hardly prevent the team from losing the game.

No way, who made the Lakers have a bigger brush than Doncic?
即第一场比赛砍下40+11+12的三双数据后，王峰第二场比赛再度砍下36+12+16三双数据，单场送出16次助攻的同时失误仅维持在5次。

Two crisp victories directly brought the total score of the two teams to 2:0.

Doncic's strong rebound in the second game surprised many media. They did not expect Doncic to perform so well under the test of Wang Feng and Butler.

On the contrary, Wang Feng was not very surprised.

In another time and space, Doncic, who made it to the playoffs for the first time, encountered the Los Angeles Clippers in the first round. At that time, the Clippers had a combination of Leonard + George, and their defensive ability was not inferior to Wang Feng + Butler.

But even in the face of such a strong combination, Doncic still averaged 6 points, 31 rebounds and 9.8 assists in 8.7 games, shooting 50% from the field, and his performance was even better than Leonard.

What's more worth mentioning is that in the following 20-21 season, the Lone Ranger and the Clippers met again in the first round. Doncic showed a stronger dominance, averaging 35.7 points, 7.9 rebounds and 10.3 assists per game. The force dragged Pisa into the tiebreaker, and it was a regrettable loss to the Clippers in seven bloody games.

The two-season playoffs against the Clippers not only demonstrated Doncic's personal strength, but also honed his strength to a great extent. After all, the opponents in the playoffs were Leonard and George This top defender, even if he didn't win, Doncic's experience value also skyrocketed.

The current situation between the Lone Ranger and the Lakers is actually similar.

But Wang Feng is not worried, no matter how fast Dongcic's experience value grows, will he come soon if he cheats?
The future is not Dongcic's, but Wang Feng's, and not only the future, but also his present!

On April 4, the third game of the series, the arena returned to Dallas, home of the Lone Ranger. Fans flocked to the game, eagerly expecting the Lone Ranger to win a game.

But the result was the Lakers 132:105, a 27-point victory at the Mavericks' home court.

Wang Feng scored 31 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists. Before the end of the three quarters, he clocked out of get off work early.

Jimmy Butler scored 26 points.

The most explosive player is Ingram. This young player who is similar in age to Doncic and has a higher draft pick has played two more seasons in the league than Doncic, but now the status of the two is skyrocketing. Different.

Doncic is already the core leader of a team. As an All-Star starter, he played in the All-Star Game and was placed at the same level as Wang Feng, James, Leonard, Durant and Antetokounmpo. discuss.

But Ingram is still the potential player who is regarded by the team as the future hope...

This contrast makes Ingram very unhappy.

If you smash it, it will appear that you are powerful?

In the G3 series, Ingram, who was in a particularly unhappy mood, broke out.

整场比赛16投11中，三分球12中8，罚球9中8，高效砍下38分。

The sudden and somewhat unexpected powerful scoring points made the Lakers' winning process easy and comfortable. Even if Doncic scored another 30+10+10 quasi-triple double, it could not prevent the Mavericks from being defeated across the board.

At the end of the game, the total score of the two teams has reached 3:0, and there is no suspense at all.

In the fourth game of the series, the Lone Ranger, without the pressure and burden, completely let himself go and played very unrestrained. Doncic, Porzingis and others all played well, especially Doncic, who scored 40+ points. point.

The Lakers were forced to be in a hurry for a while, especially in the last game, Ingram, who was super god, seemed to have let go of his big move and entered a weak period. He felt ridiculously poor, and only made 15 of 5 shots.

When the game entered the fourth quarter, the Lakers even trailed the Mavericks by more than double digits.

The Lone Ranger is within easy reach of their first win of the playoffs.

But Wang Feng didn't want to create extra problems.

In the fourth quarter of the game, he broke out strongly, especially in the last 2 minutes, Wang Feng, who activated the key shooter, scored 11 consecutive shots, scored [-] points, directly equalized and scored a lore, strangling the Lone Ranger's victory in the cradle.

The game score was 117:116, with a total score of 4:0. The Lakers completed their sweep of the Mavericks and easily entered the second round.

Doncic averaged 4 points, 29 rebounds and 7.8 assists in 9.2 games, shooting 47% from the field, and his performance was quite impressive. Considering that this is only the first time in his career to participate in the playoffs, the future can be expected.

At least the Dallas Mavericks' management is very satisfied with Doncic's performance and looks forward to his further growth in the future.

As for the Lakers, Wang Feng still contributed steadily and averaged a triple-double in 4 games.

34.3分10.8篮板11.2助攻，得分虽然较常规赛略有下滑，却依然是恐怖的30+10+10三双数据，无可挑剔。

Dongcic may represent the future of the Mavericks, while Wang Feng represents the present of the Lakers!

(End of this chapter)