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Chapter 227 Sweeping the Mavericks in the first round, the best lineup announced

The frightening thing about Wang Chao this season is not just as simple as averaging a triple-double per game. He leads the scoring, assists, and top ten rebounds. Steals and 2.3 blocks, ranked third in the list of steals, second only to Chris Paul and Ricky Rubio with 1.1 steals!
1.1 blocked shots is not enough to make Wang Chao famous in the blocked shots list, but with an average of 2.3 steals per game, it seems really a little exaggerated.

Looking at the league, players who average more than one steal and block per game are the top defensive players, and the 1+2 data can only be achieved by some talented top defensive players in the league.

For example, Kevin Garnett, who is currently on the same team as Wang Chao, has done it in two seasons in his career, but Garnett usually has 1.5 steals plus 2.2 blocks.

Andrei Kirilenko, known as a defensive wizard who once caused great troubles to Wang Chao, has done it in 5 seasons. At his peak, he averaged 1.6 steals, 3.3 blocks and 1.9 steals and 2.8 blocks.

In the future, Draymond Green won the best defensive player in the season, and he also achieved similar defensive statistics.

Although the two values ​​​​of steals and blocks cannot fully reflect a player's true defensive ability, they are definitely important reference standards for defensive strength.

Wang Chao’s defensive efficiency this season can reach 98, ranking fifth in the league. There are only four players with higher defensive efficiency than him, namely Tim Duncan of the Spurs, Roy Hibbert of the Pacers, and Paul A. George, Marc Gasol of the Grizzlies.

This season, various media in the league have praised Wang Chao's defense more than once. Wang Chao, who mainly plays point guard, can almost defend from the first to the fifth position on the court. Even in the face of height and weight, he is stronger than him. The center forward can also rely on his good explosive power to temporarily top for a while, and insist on Garnett or Dayao to support him. There are basically no obvious shortcomings on the defensive end.

A player who is invincible on the offensive end, now has such outstanding abilities on the defensive end, how can it not be scary?
After the regular season, the selection of various season awards has already begun. With Wang Chao's performance, the regular season MVP and the best first team are definitely a certainty, and the best defensive team may also have him a spot, even the best defensive team. For the player DPOY award, even if Wang Chao can't win the award, he can still get a place to participate in the voting.

Excellent offense and defense, omnipotent without dead ends...

Wang Chao, who was born in November 83, is now almost 11 years old. He is not young in age, but he is still making progress and becoming stronger. It is really scary!
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The first round of the playoffs will begin on April 4.

The Rockets sit at home and welcome the challenge of the Dallas Mavericks.

The Mavericks, ranked eighth in the Western Conference with a record of 42 wins and 40 losses, are certainly not the opponents of the Rockets. It is not just a matter of being crushed in terms of record. The current starting lineup of the Mavericks is point guard Dalen Collison and shooting guard Harden. , small forward Sean Marion, power forward Dirk Nowitzki, center Elton Brand.

The team mainly revolves around two core players, Harden and Nowitzki. In addition, Vince Carter, who has an annual salary of 300 million on the bench, averaged 13.4 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists per game, making the Mavericks stand out among the strong competitors. stand out.

But when facing the Rockets, this lineup does not have an advantage in even one position.

At the point guard position, Collison, who is only 1 meters tall, has to face Wang Chao, who is 83 meters tall. Chased and intercepted by top perimeter defensive players, Sean Marion is now 2 years old, and he is no longer the "hacker" who flew into the sky and escaped from the ground during the Suns.

This season, Marion averaged only 12.1 points and 7.8 rebounds per game. His main role in the game is defense. However, considering his current annual salary worth 800 million, such data performance can be regarded as qualified, but it is only qualified.

As a power forward, Dirk Nowitzki is indeed a difficult opponent. With a height of 2 meters and a shooting style of a complete outside player, Nowitzki has a very good offensive environment.

But it just so happens that the Rockets have a rival that is enough to give Nowitzki a headache, Kevin Garnett.

Garnett's height and weight are almost the same as Nowitzki's, but unlike Nowitzki's soft style of play, the league's evaluation of Garnett has always been tough playing, tough style and so on.

It can be seen how terrible stereotypes are.

Is Nowitzki soft?Indeed, his offense mainly relies on mid-range and long-range shooting. He doesn't like it and tries to avoid hand-to-hand combat with other big men in the interior as much as possible.

What about Garnett?During the draft, Garnett intentionally lowered his height in order not to play a center forward, and mid-range jump shots accounted for more than 50% of Garnett's career offensive points. Although the proportion is not as high as Nowitzki, it is absolutely Not less.

But why do people have a soft impression of Nowitzki, but a hard impression of Garnett?
It is probably because Garnett roared passionately and hammered his chest every time he hit a mid-range shot, making people feel like he scored such an amazing goal. This is also the origin of the iron-blooded jumper.

The topic is far away, regardless of whether Garnett is soft or hard, his defensive ability is at the top level among interior players. An inside player with shooting skills who are not good at weight and strength.

In this game against the Mavericks, Garnett didn't need to think about offensive issues at all. The only task was to keep a close eye on Nowitzki and not give him any easy shots.

The two veterans have played against each other many times in their careers, and they have won and lost each other.

诺维斯基在面对加内特时，场均可以得到23.9分8.8分2助攻，而加内特与诺维斯基对位则有22分12篮板4.4助攻的数据。

In terms of scoring, Nowitzki won by 2 points, but lost 3.2 rebounds to Garnett, and also had 2.2 assists, which fully reflects the difference in style between the two players.

It's just that in this series, neither of them is obviously the protagonist in the game. To be precise, there is no player who can be called the protagonist on the Mavericks side.

In the first game, the Rockets kicked off the series with a crisp victory.

120:91, the Rockets beat the Mavericks by 29 points at home.

In the first half alone, the Rockets led the Mavericks by 60 points 47:13. In the second half, the Mavericks were unable to support the collapse of the whole line. By the time of the fourth quarter, they had voluntarily replaced all the main players and surrendered in advance. .

The two cores of the Mavericks, Harden, under the turns of Leonard and Butler, made 19 of 6 shots and only 31.6% from the field. Gene, made 7 of 7 free throws in the whole game, and barely scored 20 points.

而诺维斯基在加内特的纠缠下全场15投7中，罚球5中4，得到18分7篮板。

The Mavericks, whose dual-core efficiency is not high, naturally cannot be the opponent of the Rockets.

Wang Chao didn't even put much effort into it. He scored 24 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists symbolically in the game, and got a small triple-double.

Like him, Dayao, who scored 21 points, clocked out of get off work.

Unlike Garnett, who was fighting wits and courage with Nowitzki, Dayao was simply invincible under the basket of the Mavericks.

The main center of the Mavericks, Elton Brand, is just an ordinary blue-collar center. His height is only 2 meters. Although his weight is similar to Dayao after weight loss, the huge height difference makes him unable to defend at all. Dayao's offense at the basket.

In a healthy state, Dayao's offensive ability at the basket is really a bug, regardless of his physical fitness.

If it was ten years ago, the league could still find some outstanding centers who could cause some troubles for Yao, but now it is 2013, in the era when the league's centers are dying, Yao is indeed a bit like Shaquille O'Neal.

The Rockets, who easily won the first game, then won three games in a row, and directly completed the sweep in Dallas, the home of the Mavericks.

The owner of the Mavericks, Cuban, was about to turn purple with anger. It's not that he couldn't accept the loss of the Mavericks. After all, the black eight has never appeared a few times in the history of the league.

But such a disastrous defeat to an opponent without any resistance is still too irritating.

In four games, the Mavericks lost an average of nearly 20 points per game, and almost every game was unable to support the collapse of the whole line when it reached the third quarter or so.

The offense is not smooth, and the defense can't defend the opponent. The whole series is completely like an adult beating a child. Is the Mavericks so weak now?

Of course not, it's just that the Rockets are too strong. It's not a joke to win 72 wins and 10 losses in the regular season to tie the Bulls' record.

The Rockets, who easily swept the Mavericks 4:0, took the lead in entering the second round. Like the Mavericks, they swept the Celtics 4:0 in the first round.

Without Garnett's defense, the Celtics are no match for the Heat.

The opponents of the Rockets in the second round, the winner between the Nuggets fourth in the West and the Clippers fifth in the West.

These two teams can be said to be rivals, and they staged a life-and-death struggle in the first round.

From the perspective of lineup strength, the Clippers are obviously better. After all, they have Chris Paul, the league's top superstar, and the No. 09 pick in [-], Blake Griffin.

Under the standard premise of dual-core inside and outside, the Clippers also have the best sixth man Jamal Crawford, inside blue-collar center DeAndre Jordan, and Caron Butler, Matt Barnes and other players.

But with such a lineup, the Clippers still lag behind the Nuggets in the regular season record rankings in the Western Conference. It can be seen that the Nuggets track and field team is by no means in vain.

Although the Nuggets don't have any particularly strong superstars this season, and the only All-Star player is Andre Iguodala, the entire team's athletic ability is very strong, especially in Denver, the league's home court. One of the scariest home games of the devil, the Denver Nuggets located in the highlands played 41 regular season games at home this season, achieving an exaggerated record of 38 wins and 3 losses. Even the Rockets also fell at the home of the Nuggets.

In the first round of the playoffs against the Clippers, the Nuggets immediately showed their strong fighting power at home. They scored a clean 2:0. Back at home in Los Angeles, the Clippers tenaciously scored two games in a row to tie the score. 2:2, but then lost the key Tianwangshan battle at the Nuggets' home court.

In the sixth game of the series, Paul scored 31 points, 5 rebounds and 11 assists, led the Clippers to win the game, and tied the score again, but in the final tiebreaker, the venue returned to the home court of the Nuggets In Denver, the result was that after seven bloody games, the Clippers lost to the Nuggets and were eliminated in the first round after losing to their opponents.

The Nuggets, who eliminated the Clippers, will face the Rockets in the second round of the playoffs.

The tie-break between the Nuggets and the Clippers is over, and the results of several other games in the East and West have also been decided.

In the west, the Thunder defeated the Warriors 4:2, and the Spurs eliminated the Grizzlies 4:3.

东部尼克斯4:1击败雄鹿，步行者4:2战胜老鹰，公牛4:3击败篮网。

In the second round of the divisional semifinals, the four matchups are Rockets vs Nuggets, Thunder vs Spurs, Heat vs Bulls, Knicks vs Pacers.

Before the start of the second round of competition, according to league practice, the selection results for the season awards will be announced one after another.

The first is the selection results of the best team and the best defensive team.

There is actually no suspense in the list of the best team, and it is the same as before.

The five players selected for the best team are Wang Chao, Kobe, James, Durant and Duncan.

It’s interesting to say that Wang Chao, who was voted according to the striker position during the All-Stars, changed his position to point guard in the final season’s evaluation, but Wang Chao has indeed been in the position of point guard this season. The only difference It is Paul, not Durant, who was squeezed out of the position by Wang Chao.

This is probably what the alliance meant. Although Paul is also very popular, he is obviously worse than Durant, who is gradually rising. The alliance also wants to praise Durant and make him Wang Chao's old enemy. similar image.

After all, apart from James in today's league, only Durant can get a little bit of Wang Chao. The two have ranked No. 2 in the scoring list for many years.

Moreover, Durant is much ahead of Paul in terms of personal data and team record this season, and he is more worthy of the best team list than the latter in terms of circumstances and reason.

Paul, who was squeezed out for a while, could only be ranked in the best second team. He was also selected with Westbrook, Anthony, Griffin and Dayao.

Yao’s selection to the All-NBA Second Team was due to his gradual recovery from injuries after the All-Star Game. At the end of the regular season, Yao averaged 17.8 points and 8.2 rebounds per game, which was close to the data of Duncan in the first team. Of course, Yao The contribution on the defensive end is still much worse than that of Duncan of the Spurs. Combined with the Rockets' record of 72 wins and 10 losses in the regular season, they were finally ranked in the best second team position, which is well deserved.

The five players in the best three teams are Tony Parker of the Spurs, Harden of the Mavericks, Paul George of the Pacers, Chris Bosh of the Heat and Marc Gasol of the Grizzlies.

This is a big change from the best three teams in the 12-13 season in the original history. The main reason is that Wade and Howard, who should have been selected for the best three teams, were squeezed out by the extra Wang Chao and Dayao because of the butterfly effect. go down.

But the Heat won 65 wins in the regular season anyway, and only James was nominated for the All-NBA team, so he couldn't see it. Therefore, Chris Bosh, who averaged 16.6 points and 6.8 rebounds per game, replaced David Lee of the Warriors. The best three teams.

(End of this chapter)