NBA: James wants to team up with me

No one would think that Wang Chong's low score is due to his own decline. It is simply because the Bulls have too many scoring points now. Five players on the team scored in double figures. The starting lineup includes Wang Chong, Curry, Gasol and Gasol. There are four Butlers, and there is Thomas Jr. on the bench. It can be said that Wang Chong deliberately reduced his own shooting opportunities in order to provide more opportunities for others to play.

After all, this is Wang Chong. He has been the league's scoring champion for eight consecutive seasons. He has surpassed Jordan, who has led the scoring for seven consecutive years, and Wang Chong is not far away from Jordan's record of ten scoring champions in his career!
However, if Wang Chong did not have a strong desire to compete for the scoring title, his record of consecutive scoring titles would probably stop at eight consecutive scoring titles.

The top scorer this season is Kevin Durant, who averages 33.6 points per game.

Thanks to Wang Chong, Durant's previous six-year career was fruitless, not even a scoring champion.

This season, Wang Chong has not had a particularly strong desire to score from the beginning of the season, and Durant finally sees hope of competing for the scoring title.

In addition, as Paul Pierce's age increases and the Celtics' competitive level declines this season, the Green Army only has Durant, a strong offensive point from the outside.

With the support of the entire team, Durant averaged 22 shots per game, a career high, and averaged 33.6 points per game, much ahead of the current Wang Chong.

It can be seen that Durant is determined to win the scoring title this time. Even though his scoring is far ahead of the second place, Kobe, who averages 28.4 points per game, has 5.2 points more, and he has no intention of reducing his shots.

Relying on Durant's super scoring performance, the Celtics' record is also outstanding in the Eastern Conference. Following closely behind the Heat, the two teams have maintained a victory difference of about one to two games, keeping pace.

This actually made the league officials' eyes light up.

They are actually still worried. James' two consecutive MVPs have brought them a lot of infamy. Who will compete with Wang Chong for MVP this season? Is it still James? No one thinks that James deserves the honor of three consecutive MVPs, and James has been hard to win until now.

But they were unwilling to award the MVP to Wang Chong like this. At this time, Durant came out of the blue, which finally gave them hope.

With Durant's current scoring ability and data, as long as the Celtics can achieve more than 55 wins in the regular season this season, there will be no controversy in awarding the regular season MVP to Durant.

The Bulls are indeed very strong this season, but judging from the current record, they are basically at the level of 60+ wins. Due to the impact of injuries, it will be difficult for the Bulls to repeat the miracle of 73 wins in the regular season. With 70+ wins, Wang Chong's current scoring average of 27 points per game is indeed not competitive enough.

As the schedule progresses, everyone can see that the situation has gradually become clearer, and Wang Chong naturally understands it too.

If it were in the past, he might actually be interested in giving Durant a try to see who is stronger.

But now, he has no interest at all.

I don't know when it started, but Wang Chong's mentality gradually began to change.

Perhaps it was because of the birth of his daughter and being a father for the first time that Wang Chong gained a lot of insights.

Or maybe it's the harvest of various honor records that Wang Chong has become accustomed to.

But there is no way. Anyone who has dominated the league for several consecutive years and taken away all championships and victories with a near-monopoly will inevitably have this feeling.

To put it simply, it is like playing an RPG game. When you first start practicing with a blank slate, you have all kinds of goals and directions, and the prospects are very positive.

But as the game progresses, the original whiteboard zero-level account has become a full-level invincible account. It has no difficulty in sweeping all the maps. The once passionate dungeon is only filled with grinding. It would be a lie to say that it is not boring. .

The only goal Wang Chong needs to surpass now is Jordan, but whether in his own eyes or in the eyes of everyone outside, it is only a matter of time for Wang Chong to surpass Jordan.

The more important honor gap between the two is one MVP, one FMVP, and two scoring champions. Wang Chong, who has won these honors, will tie Jordan in all major honors, and as long as Wang Chong gets another FMVP, then This means that his number of championships will also reach 7, surpassing Jordan's six championships, and there will be no dispute that he will be the first person in history.

Even if Wang Chong's extra championship was won as the third boss of the Lakers, the third boss is also the core of the team, and he also has a share of the medals for winning the championship.

Moreover, Wang Chong was the undisputed number one core in other championships. He led the Bulls to an unprecedented four consecutive championships and 73 wins in the regular season. These are all surpassing Jordan.

Therefore, for Wang Chong, it is really not difficult to take Jordan as his career goal. When he officially surpasses Jordan and becomes the first person in the history of the league, what is the significance of him continuing to play in the NBA? Continue to set records and make the position of the first person in history unbreakable? To be fair, even Wang Chong's current achievements will be difficult to replicate in the next few decades or even hundreds of years.

When he thinks of this, Wang Chong will have much less motivation to play. That is to say, he can cheer up a little when playing against several strong teams including the Heat.

In this mental state, Wang Chong really has no interest in competing with Durant for the scoring title this season.

Of course, this is only part of the reason. The more important reason is that Wang Chong selectively reduced his ball rights for the better growth of other players in the team.

To put it bluntly, Wang Chong felt that the most important thing was that Durant made him less interested.

Although his original growth template was Durant, who is also recognized as the top scorer in the history of the league, but one thing is that due to physical limitations, Durant's scoring explosiveness is insufficient. With such a strong scoring ability, Durant only averaged more than 30 points per game twice in his career.

Compared with Durant, Wang Chong feels that Harden in a few years may be more able to arouse his desire to win. After all, at his peak, Harden averaged 36.1 points per game in the regular season. This score is even Wang Chong’s so far. None of them have been reached. Wang Chong's highest scoring average in a single season was 05 points when he competed with Kobe Bryant for the scoring title in the 06-35.6 season.

The change in mentality also made Wang Chong slightly confused.

But no matter what the mentality is, the Bulls are still unstoppable, advancing all the way, and constantly harvesting victory after game.

There is no way, the current Bulls lineup depth is too exaggerated.

时间来到2014年1月，公牛1月的15场比赛，取得13胜2负战绩，球队总战绩来到38胜7负，84%的胜率继续领跑全联盟。

The results of the remaining rounds of All-Star voting in January have also been announced. It’s not much different from the first round of voting.

On the Eastern side, the forward position votes from high to low are Wang Chong, James, and Durant, while the guard positions are Curry and Wade.

As a result, the Eastern All-Star starting lineup is Curry, Wade, James, Durant and Wang Chong.

Howard, who ranked fourth in the forward vote, and Irving, who ranked second in the guard position, had no choice but to accept the grievances and become All-Star substitutes.

Compared to the Eastern All-Stars, the Western All-Star starting lineup looks a little shabby.

Kobe, who was still active even without injury, became the vote leader in the Western Conference, but the number of votes he received could only rank fourth in the Eastern Conference, significantly lower than Wang Chong, James and Durant.

There is nothing that can be done about it. Although Kobe did not suffer a serious injury like Achilles tendon rupture and was reimbursed for the season, Kobe is already 35 years old in the new season. Even if he still maintains an average of 27+5+5 per game, the Lakers The decline in the team's record is uncontrollable.

The Lakers are currently ranked eighth in the Western Conference and appear to be expected to enter the playoffs. However, the schedule is only halfway through and the second half of the schedule will be more intense. It is difficult to say whether the Lakers can maintain the eighth position in the Western Conference.

Moreover, although Kobe averaged 27+5+5 per game and ranked among the top five in the league in scoring, which did not seem to be much different from the past, his shooting percentage exposed the fact.

Kobe's shooting percentage this season is only 40.8%, the lowest in his career, and his offensive efficiency has dropped significantly.

It is worth mentioning that Bosh, who came to the Lakers, changed his feeling of being a frustrated little wife when he was in the Heat. He averaged 21 points and 7 rebounds per game and became the Lakers' inside pillar.

It was thanks to Kobe's 27 points and Bosh's 21 points, plus the firepower of substitute sixth man Jamal Crawford who averaged 16 points per game, that the Lakers stayed in the top eight in the Western Conference.

Let’s get back to the subject, back to the topic of the Western Conference All-Star starters.

The changes in the quality of stars in the East and West can be seen from the players selected as starters for the Western Conference All-Stars.

The remaining four players selected as starters for the Western Conference All-Stars with Kobe are Chris Paul of the Clippers, Blake Griffin of the Thunder, Kevin Love of the Timberwolves, and LaMarcus Al of the Trail Blazers. Derich.

Of the five starting players, only Kobe and Paul can compete with the Eastern Conference All-Stars in terms of guard positions. The remaining three, whether Griffin, Love or Aldridge, are just ordinary stars in the eyes of many fans. , how can he be qualified to compete with the All-Star starters in the Eastern Conference?
In the past, it was said that the West is strong and the East is weak, but now that superstars such as Wang Chong, James, Durant, and Howard gather in the East, this trend has long been broken.

This All-Star Weekend will be held in the same time as in previous years. It will still be held in mid-February, from the 2th to the 15th.

This time during the All-Star Weekend, Durant, who is in the limelight, became the biggest winner.

In the All-Star game, Durant made 27 of 14 shots, scored 38 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists, helping the Eastern All-Stars defeat the Western All-Stars 160:155. With this performance, he was successfully elected to this year's All-Star Game. AMVP.

The next day, the entire Internet was filled with news that Durant won the All-Star AMVP.

It can be seen that the league has begun to build momentum for Durant. They obviously hope that Durant can win the All-Star AMVP, regular season MVP, scoring champion and other honors at the same time this season. If possible, he can also win in the playoffs. For the championship, it would be best if we also take back the FMVP.

It is a pity that the ownership of the championship is not decided by the media. It is too difficult to operate in the dark. At most, the referees can work secretly to provide some help to the team they hope to win. But if the strength gap is too great, Next, it is difficult to change the result.

After all, the league has not yet reached the point where it can really ignore public opinion in order to influence the game, and the referees have helped unscrupulously.

So that's all they can do to help Durant.

The Bulls' record fluctuated significantly in February, mainly because Gasol Jr. was injured and missed many games. As a result, the Bulls had 2 wins and 13 losses in 9 games, and their record further declined.

In the sprint stage of the second half of the regular season in March, Wang Chong, who felt the pressure of the team's injuries, chose to give players a proper rest as in previous years. Therefore, even if Gasol returned from injury, the Bulls' record would be There has been no recovery and the record continues to be close to that in February.

This brought the Bulls' record to 3 wins and 57 losses after the schedule ended in late March, and their winning rate fell below 17% to 80%.

But even so, the Bulls' record is still the best in the league. The San Antonio Spurs, who are second in the league and first in the Western Conference, have a winning rate of only 75%.

By April, the Bulls had only the last 4 games left, and the opponents were generally not high-intensity, including the Hawks, Bucks, Wizards, Timberwolves, Pistons, Knicks, Magic and Bobcats.

Among these teams, the Hawks, Bobcats and Knicks, who are hovering on the edge of the playoffs and need three teams to compete for two playoff spots, are a little more difficult.

The Bulls have clear goals this season. They only need to ensure the league's best record and always have home court advantage in the playoffs. Therefore, after defeating those weak teams in the first few games, they have to fight hard to face these three teams. When it comes to teams, the Bulls are all half-players and half-leavers.

最终8场比赛公牛取得6胜2负战绩，最终战绩定格在63胜19负，高于取得60胜22负的马刺，继续以联盟第一战绩进入季后赛。

Although this is almost the Bulls' worst record in recent years, no one dares to underestimate the Bulls, because until now, they are still the most popular team in the league with the odds of winning the championship.

The external media's evaluation of this Bulls team is very objective and fair.

"Although the Bulls once encountered injuries and had some troubles during the regular season, it is obvious that they have completely overcome the injuries. Although the Bulls' 63-win record this season is slightly less than satisfactory compared to the past few years, the Bulls' performance in the season The fact that they didn’t intend to give up part of the game clearly shows that they want to put more energy into the playoffs.”

"Today, the Bulls have a complete lineup, all injured players have returned, and they are facing the playoffs with a complete victory. It is difficult to imagine which team in the league has the ability to compete with them. The Bulls have a 7% chance of defending the title this season. Above! At least that’s what we think.” (End of Chapter)