Legendary star

Chapter 661 Playoffs

"Well, the best defensive player?" On May 2006, 5, after all the games in the first round of the playoffs of the 6-05 season were over, many awards for the regular season of the 06-05 season were released one by one. But what is surprising is that Meng Xu actually won the best defensive player of the season. Second player to win Defensive Player of the Year four times.

The NBA introduced a rule in favor of outside players at the beginning of this season, so Kobe Bryant, Allen Iverson, Gilbert Arenas, these outside super scorers, in this season's scoring The data has seen a blowout growth. Even LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony and other rising stars, their scoring average has also soared this season, but they have won the past four. Meng Xu, the three-time scoring champion in the season, has seen a precipitous drop in points per game. Meng Xu, who averaged 32 points per game last season, only scored 27 points per game this season. After the season ended, Only ranked seventh in the scoring list.

Perhaps it is precisely because of the reduced role on the offensive end that Meng Xu can put more energy on the defensive end. The data of 4 steals per game and 2.7 blocks per game are all career highs, with 325 steals in a single season. And 219 blocked shots, and created the first record of 300+ steals and 200+ blocked shots in a single season in NBA history.

An outside player sent 219 blocked shots in a single season, which seems to be a very appalling thing. However, this season's NBA also gave birth to a more perverted and appalling player than Meng Xu, Salt Lake Jazz small forward Andre- Kirilenko, in the case of only playing 63 games, sent as many as 220 blocks, and the average number of blocks per game was as high as 3.2 times. Not only that, Andrei Kirilenko also played as an outside player As the identity, he won the NBA block leader this season.

It is the first time in NBA history that an outside player has been crowned the block leader in the regular season. In addition, Andrei Kirilenko averaged 8 rebounds and 2.1 steals per game this season, so at the end of the regular season Afterwards, Andrei Kirilenko was called the best defensive player. Considering that Meng Xu had won the best defensive player three times, Andrei Kirilenko naturally became the best defensive player. However, in the final vote, Meng Xu still narrowly defeated Andrei Kirilenko, tying Dikambe Mutombo for winning the best defensive player four times. record.

There are gains and losses. After unexpectedly winning the best defensive player award, Meng Xu once again lost in the regular season MVP selection. After winning the best record in the regular season last season, he lost in the MVP selection to After losing Steve Nash, Meng Xu once again won the best record this season while missing the regular season MVP, but this time Meng Xu lost to Tim Duncan.

As Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker matured, Tim Duncan's role in the Spurs became lighter and lighter. The Spurs have even changed from a single-core team to a one-core team this season. A multi-core team, so compared to previous seasons, Tim Duncan's various statistics have declined to varying degrees. At the same time, both the number of appearances and the average playing time per game are career lows. That's it, Tim Duncan still defeated Meng Xu and won the second regular season MVP in his career.

After winning the regular season MVP for three consecutive seasons, Meng Xu is now facing the same predicament as Jordan did back then. No matter how good your record is or how explosive your personal data is, it is in the regular season MVP selection anyway. , you will be automatically ignored by most of the judges. For two consecutive seasons, Meng Xu had the best record in the regular season and his personal data was obviously better than his competitors, so he lost in the regular season MVP selection. Perhaps for these judges, if Meng Xu wants to win the regular season MVP again, the team's record must be better than the last time. However, considering that the last time Meng Xu won the regular season MVP, the Pacers With 74 wins and 8 losses, Meng Xu may not be able to get his hands on the most important award in the regular season for a long time to come.

The reason why Meng Xu missed the MVP of the regular season is very similar. The two teams with the best records this season, the head coaches of the Spurs and the Pacers, also missed the best head coach of the season because they had already won the best head coach. Best head coach, in the end, the best head coach award went to Dallas Mavericks head coach Avery Johnson. As a rookie head coach who has coached for only two seasons, Avery Johnson has done a very good job with the Mavericks. , Following the 58 wins last season, Avery Johnson took the Mavericks a step further this season and won the first regular season 60 wins in his coaching career.

In the selection of other individual awards, Chris Paul of the New Orleans Hornets averaged 16.1 points, 7.8 assists, 5.1 rebounds and 2.2 steals per game and was elected as the best rookie of the season.In addition, Mike Miller of the Memphis Grizzlies was elected as the best sixth man of the season, and Boris Diaw of the Phoenix Suns was elected as the fastest player to make up.

If last season was a season in which many young players emerged, then this season is undoubtedly a season in which they seized the spot. In the selection of the best team this season, many veteran stars disappeared. Vince Carter, Tracy McGrady, Kevin Garnett among the four power forwards, Chris Webber, who was also a member of the four power forwards, Jason Key, once the league's first point guard Germany, failed to be selected for the best team of the season.

Unlike a large number of young players pouring into the best team, most of the best defensive team selections this season are old faces, Ben Wallace, Meng Xu, Andrei Kirilenko, Kobe Bryant and Jason Kidd was named to the All-Defensive First Team.Marcus Camby, Tim Duncan, Bruce Bowen, Tayshaun Prince, and Chauncey Billups were selected to the second team of the All-Defensive Team. The three teams with the fewest points conceded, the Pistons, Spurs and Pacers, each had two players selected to the All-Defensive Team.

Like the previous selection of the best team, this season's selection of the best team still gives people a feeling that there are too few places, especially the loss of Kevin Garnett, which has caused a lot of controversy. Although the Timberwolves The record this season is not ideal, and even missed the playoffs for the first time in seven seasons, but Kevin Garnett averaged 7 points, 21.8 rebounds, and 12.7 assists per game. The best lineup lost all three teams.

So those media who supported Kevin Garnett slammed Kobe Bryant and Carmelo Anthony in the first round of the playoffs. The performance of Carmelo Anthony and Carmelo Anthony in the first round of the playoffs is really unreasonable. The Nuggets led by Carmelo Anthony were defeated by the Clippers, the sixth place in the Western Conference. The Lakers led by Kobe Bryant, even more With a 3-1 lead, it was reversed by the Suns, so most of the media's spearheads were aimed at Kobe Bryant and Carmelo Anthony for a while.

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