Legendary star

Chapter 818
"I'm not criticizing the selection rules of the best team. Don't you think that the Thunder, as the team with the second record in the regular season, did not have a player selected for the first team of the best team. It is a bit unreasonable?"

On May 2013, 5, just after the NBA announced the best lineup for the 5-12 season and the list of winners for each award, Scott Brooks, the head coach of the Thunder, was interviewed by reporters. Concealed to express dissatisfaction with the selection rules of the league.

As the team with the second record this season, the Thunder, which has a record of 60 wins and 22 losses, is undoubtedly the favorite for many regular season awards, such as the best coach. Compared with last season, the Thunder won 13 more games this season , but the best coach was awarded to George Karl, who was defeated in the first round of the playoffs.Another example is the regular season MVP. Although LeBron James, who has the best record in the regular season, is also eligible to be elected as the regular season MVP this season, but considering that the Heat are a group of three superstars, and in the past four years, LeBron James James has already won three regular season MVPs, so Kevin Durant, who is the star of the Thunder, has a very high voice to be elected this season's regular season MVP, but the final voting result is LeBron James with an absolute vote. The advantage defeated Kevin Durant and was elected the regular season MVP of this season.

If you miss the above two awards, you will miss it. After all, both LeBron James and George Karl have rich reasons for being elected, but the results of the selection of the best team made Scott Brooks a little unacceptable. When the team record and personal data are all dominant, none of the Thunder's two leading stars was selected for the best team, no best coach, no MVP, and now they don't even have the best team. Such a result is undoubtedly The Thunder, which represents the second-best record in the regular season, lost all four during the regular season.

Kevin Durant, who averaged 28.1 points, 7.9 rebounds, and 4.6 assists per game, lost to Meng Xu, who averaged 25.5 points, 7 rebounds, and 6.3 assists per game. Russell Westbrook lost to Chris Paul, who averaged 23.2 points, 5.2 assists, and 7.4 rebounds per game, which made Scott Brooks question the league's selection rules.

The results of this year's best team selection are indeed controversial. The best team composed of Tim Duncan, Meng Xu, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, and Chris Paul, not only Questioned by Scott Brooks, even Kobe's teammate Dwight Howard expressed dissatisfaction with the results of the selection of the best team. Being squeezed into the third team by Tim Duncan and Marc Gasol, how can Howard, who has been selected to the first team for five consecutive seasons, accept it.

Although after his comeback, Meng Xu's condition has always remained very good. Even in the second month of the new season, Meng Xu also played 30+10+10 data and won the best player of the month. But after the All-Star Weekend, when the Spurs' large-scale rotation began, Meng Xu's playing time and average data began to plummet, and there was even an embarrassing situation where he failed to score in double figures in three consecutive games. When the selection of various honors began, Meng Xu was still fully prepared, but the final result made Meng Xu a little unbelievable, because Meng Xu was not only selected for the first team of the best team, but also selected for the best defensive team For a while, Meng Xu also ranked in the top three in the selection of regular season MVP and best defensive player.

While Meng Xu was selected for the double team, Tim Duncan was also in the spring of this season. After missing the best team for two consecutive seasons, Tim Duncan was selected for the best team at the age of 37 this season. The first team and the second team of the best defensive team, and in addition to Meng Xu and Tim Duncan, Tony Parker was selected to the third team of the best team this season, and Kawhi Leonard was selected to the second team of the best defensive team In the first team, two main players were selected for the first team, and three players were selected for the best team and the best defensive team. The Spurs can be said to be the biggest winners in the selection of the best team this season.

While the controversy caused by the selection of the best team was still spreading, as the biggest beneficiary, the Spurs were steadily preparing for the upcoming Western Conference semifinals with the Warriors.

Although the Warriors' record this season is only ranked sixth in the Western Conference, the Spurs did not care about the slightest. Instead, they treated the Warriors as a strong opponent, because the Warriors just hacked the Clippers, the third in the Western Conference. It is absolutely not to be underestimated.

As for the Warriors' last trip to the playoffs, it was the time when the Mavericks achieved the miracle of black eight. In front of such a team that wants blacks at every shot, no team dares to be big, especially It is a hacked professional like the Spurs, and they have to be more careful when they encounter the Warriors.

The Warriors' black-eight miracle that year seemed to have exhausted the luck the Warriors had accumulated over the years, and the Warriors have been hovering on the edge of the playoffs since then.After missing the playoffs for many consecutive seasons, the exhausted old Nelson chose to retire.

Mark Jackson, who took over the Warriors after Nelson retired, simply chose to make a big breakthrough, sending away the team leader Monta Ellis and helping Steve Curry, who was handpicked by Nelson. , and entrusted Klay Thompson, who had just entered the league, with a heavy responsibility. Just when the outside world thought that the Warriors would be farther and farther away from the playoffs, the Warriors, led by Steve Curry and Klay Thompson, played With a record of 47 wins and 35 losses, the Warriors returned to the playoffs after a lapse of five years. In the first round of the playoffs, they once again completed the miracle of the next game. The third nugget sent back to fish.

Before the start of the Western Conference semifinals, both the Spurs and the Warriors were very cautious. The Spurs were naturally cautious because they capsized too many times in the gutter, and the Warriors were purely because of their toughness against the Spurs. The strength is too fearful. Most of the players in the Warriors are raw melon eggs who made it to the playoffs for the first time. They have basically zero competition experience, while the Spurs are a team that has made it to the playoffs for 15 consecutive seasons. And the power to win three championships, so in front of the Spurs, from the head coach Mark Jackson to the team's core Stephen Curry, they are all extra cautious.

(End of this chapter)