mountain top

Chapter 126 Award Selection, No. in the World! (Updated with words per day, please subscribe)
The wild first round of the Western Conference playoffs ended with victories for the Jazz, SuperSonics, and Spurs.

The Suns, who had overdrawn their regular season record, lost to the Jazz in a disappointing Game 7 at home.

Kirilenko and Boozer's magical performance helped the Jazz win this thrilling offensive battle on the road.

全场比赛，俄罗斯原装正版“AK47”总计砍下19分7篮板5助攻5抢断5封盖。

比赛里，总会通过挡拆把小斯换到自己身前的布泽尔24投16中，罚球6罚6中，轰下38分12篮板4助攻。

The Suns were unexpectedly eliminated in the first round of the playoffs this year, which objectively reflected how wise the Warriors' "what is more important" battle plan was before the start of the regular season.

Maybe, committing to every night can help the Warriors win more games in the regular season.
But if that happens, by the time the playoffs come around, the Warriors will inevitably be as weak as the Suns this year.

Chris Paul averaged 20 points, 4 rebounds and 9 assists per game in the series against Steve Nash.

Although he learned from Stockton's tricks, it did not affect Nash's average of 24 points, 3 rebounds and 11 assists for the Suns.
But in this winner-takes-all era
Thanks to the outstanding performance of his brothers, Paul, who defeated Nash in only his sophomore year, was named the "Point Guard God" by the commentator from the mysterious East.

In the seventh game against the Lakers, the Supersonics, who underestimated their opponent and had to fight a life-and-death battle with the Lakers in KeyArena, played a perfect positional offense and defense, forcing Kobe to face the Los Angeles sun at 4 a.m. in advance.

The ambitious Lakers have been unable to unleash the power of their triangle offense in this series.

Pau Gasol, who had been labeled a "soft egg" by Qin Yue himself before, was kneaded into a ball of fragrant Spanish white dough by "Quan Li Te" on the court.

Gasol was inevitably criticized by the Los Angeles media after the seventh game.

However, Kobe, who was in the worst mood among the Lakers, still supported Gasol and said: "The loss was definitely not caused by Paul (Gasol).

He's the highest IQ big man in the league today, and we're not letting him do what he does best."

Gasol's characteristics are his mobility, his ability to pass the ball, and his gorgeous offensive skills.

In the Lakers' first round of the playoffs this year, Gasol, who had to take on a lot of rim protection work, was simply using his own weaknesses to attack the opponent's strengths.

Phil Jackson and his think tank foresaw this in the second half of the regular season.

However, it was too late for the Lakers to "rob" to get a reliable center for the team.

After all, even if Qin Yue traveled through time, as long as I wanted, the Dallas Mavericks would lose their minds and give Luka Doncic to my Lakers.
We also need to talk about the “Basic Law of Robbery”.

Same night.

Under the supervision of the entire Warriors team, the seventh game between the Mavericks and the Spurs became the most "sad" round of the series for Qin Yue and his teammates.

If the Warriors' opponent in the second round is the Mavericks, Qin Yue is even prepared to open the bottle of champagne airlifted from Istanbul to celebrate the Warriors' advancement to this year's Western Conference Finals in advance.

However.
After all, General Johnson is the fatal weakness of the Mavericks.

Although Kidd, who always likes to grab the coach's tactical board, has repeatedly suppressed Johnson's restless and suicidal heart in this series.
But Johnson was still unconscious and dragged the entire Mavericks into the abyss in the seventh game.

"Dirk had already scored 25 points for them in the first three quarters. Why did they have to use Josh Howard as the main attacking point in the fourth quarter?" Baron Davis asked with a puzzled look on his face.

"In my opinion, this is not the most outrageous thing. The most outrageous thing is that they actually wanted Jason Kidd to end the game."

In this seventh game against the Spurs, Kidd took a total of 15 shots and only made 4 of them.

Moreover, in the most crucial final quarter, Kidd took 5 shots alone.

If Josh Howard, who took over the banner from Nowitzki, could at least use his solid basic skills to punish the Spurs' wing defense that could only be supported by iron blood and toughness.
If Avery Johnson wants to use Kidd to kill the game, then he can only say that it is a bit unrealistic.

According to the schedule, in the Western Conference semifinals, the Warriors will face the Spurs, while the Supersonics will face the Jazz.

With a more intense defense tacitly allowed in this year's playoffs, the Warriors must forget their good old win over the Spurs last year.

Every season is a fresh start.

In Qin Yue's memory, the Spurs, who will win the championship this year and use this championship to keep Duncan, will definitely be an extremely tough opponent.

As for supersonic speed.
The restraint that the Jazz have placed on them in terms of playing style will inevitably put them in a tough battle.

With Garnett's assistance, Yao Ming is indeed not so afraid of the double-turret lineup consisting of Okur and Boozer.

But the weak point guard of the Supersonics had already quietly set up a big stage for Paul, saying "come if you dare."

Sam Cassell, 37, Gary Payton, 38, and Earl Watson, who is about the same height as Paul.
Such a gorgeous back line
If Paul cannot punish him in the game, then Qin Yue can only say.
The NCAA championship trophy he won with Paul in college may be the greatest achievement of his entire career.

……

On the 7th, the NBA officially announced the major regular season awards for the 06/07 season.

Auckland.

Angry Warriors fans attacked the NBA's official website almost instantly.

"Shady! Shady! Shady!"

In response, I said that the Alliance I have seen in this episode was confused.

Because they confirmed it several times.
I also didn't find any problems with the news release they wrote.

Qin Yue was elected as the regular season MVP of the NBA in the 06/07 season with a high vote.

And became the first MVP from Asia in NBA history.

Moreover, Qin Yue became the third player in NBA history after Michael Jordan and Hakeem Olajuwon to win the regular season MVP and DPOY in the same season.

David Stern doesn't understand, such a Qin Yue
How else does the alliance need to support the world to be satisfied?
"Why isn't the Messiah a unanimous MVP? How can LeBron James steal votes from him?"

"Shameful vote thief! The league ruined the Messiah's perfect season with their own hands!"

"You despicable Jew, you will be burned alive one day!"

Obviously, it is impossible for the NBA to give Qin Yue both the MVP and DPOY trophies at the same time and have him be elected MVP with a unanimous vote.

After all, in that case, if Qin Yue, who is only 23 years old, performs miracles again in the future.
Where in the league can he find room for improvement?

In fact, if it weren't for Qin Yue's good defensive data this year.
In addition, the league also wanted to appease the fans who were angry last year because Qin Yue failed to win the MVP. Stern didn't even want Qin Yue to win the best defensive player this year.

However, the league finally chose to give the DPOY trophy to Qin Yue this year, which was a wise decision.
He also inadvertently saved this great honor that would have been tarnished by Marcus Camby.

Historically, by averaging 3.2 blocks and 1.2 steals per game in the regular season, in the 06/07 season, Camby raised the average height of the DPOY honor while also lowering the value of the honor.

This season, if we only look at the defensive data, Qin Yue is far better than Camby.

Moreover, given Qin Yue's unwillingness to be a data-brusher, he will sooner or later use his continuous progress in defense to prove his "offense and defense integration".

So, compared to Camby holding this trophy that he is destined to lose, this DPOY trophy
It must be Qin Yue!
In addition, this year's best rookie award was won by "Elvis" Brandon Roy.

The Most Improved Player and Sixth Man of the Year awards went to Monta Ellis of the Lakers.

Cavaliers head coach Mike Brown narrowly edged out Mike Malone for Coach of the Year.

Since the Warriors were already the defending champions before Malone coached them, this also affected his rating among his peers.

It is worth mentioning that Brown and Malone, who ranked first and second in the best coach selection this year, worked together last season.

Therefore, this also makes people feel the strength of the Cavaliers coaching staff.

However, Qin Yue, as James' good brother, saw through the intentions of this group of people with ulterior motives at a glance.

impossible!
Absolutely impossible!
From "young Zhan" to "old Zhan", as long as Qin Yue's memory is correct.
When has James ever worked with a "great coach" throughout his career?

Brown and Malone are just mediocre coaches who benefited from the Chosen One and the Messiah respectively!

Even though Brown was unanimously elected as the best coach in the NBA in Qin Yue's memory, and even though Malone, who had assisted James as an assistant coach for many years, would lead the Nuggets to sweep the Lakers led by "Thanos James" in the future.
That doesn’t prove they are “great coaches”!
In Qin Yue's eyes, only the top 15 coaches like Doug Rivers and Steve Kerr can be called great coaches.
If you must ask Qin Yue whether he wants to be coached by these two top 15 coaches
Then Qin Yue could only say
As long as Mullin dares to let these two brothers coach the Warriors, he will take the initiative to apply to be sent to Toronto and Minnesota.

On the day of award selection, the results of the best team and best defensive team were also the focus of fans' attention.

The results of the 06/07 NBA All-NBA Team and All-Defensive Team selections are as follows:
The best lineup: Yao Ming, Nowitzki, Qin Yue, Kobe, Nash.

Second team of the best lineup: Stoudemire, Duncan, James, Wade, Paul.

The third team of the best team: Howard, Garnett, Anthony, Arenas, and Billups.

The best defensive team: Ben Wallace, Qin Yue, Duncan, Kobe, and Bell.

Second team of the best defensive team: Camby, Garnett, Prince, Bowen, Kidd.

Although the emergence of Qin Yue has greatly changed the original historical trajectory of the NBA, Qin Yue's memory remains the same.
This year's selection results marked the only time in the NBA that both the All-NBA First Team and the All-Defensive First Team were selected by players from the same conference.

The Suns, who had overdrawn their regular season, still received two consolation prizes in the selection of the best team.

The solid performance of the Supersonics, which formed the Big Three, in the regular season allowed Kevin Garnett, last season's "power forward without a lineup", to return to the All-NBA Team and the All-Defensive Team.

The progress Howard and Paul have made this season has not gone unnoticed.

Although the former has made Patrick Ewing cry
But you can't deny the defensive area and rim protection that Howard provides to the Magic on the defensive end.

The latter seems to have received strong support from the league.

after all
Paul's "brothers" are clearly the key to our team's ability to break through the first round of the playoffs for two consecutive seasons.

James, who stole several MVP votes from Qin Yue, was only selected to the second team of the best lineup. This was the league's intention to compensate for the overly competitive Western Conference this year.

There is no way. The NBA cake is only this big every year, and Stern can't cut the cake evenly for every player.

That is unrealistic and may even lead to the NBA destroying the basic laws of award selection.

Oracle Arena.

The Warriors held a grand press conference for Qin Yue as an award ceremony.

Since this year is the year with the least suspense about the regular season MVP in NBA history, this also gives Mullin, the "alcoholic", more time to prepare.

The entire Warriors team, Nike executives, and two of Qin Yue's close associates, Evans and Rachel, all attended Qin Yue's award ceremony in formal attire.

At this grand "posthumous ceremony", Qin Yue, who had already crowned himself last year, thanked everyone he should thank as usual and said, "Many people want to know the secret of my success.
In my opinion, the secret to success is to make sure you live in the present, give your best every day, refuse to take shortcuts, and take every step down to earth.

I hope I can inspire everyone in the world to stay true to themselves, to be humble and to be grateful for all the gifts in life.

Finally, I am extremely honored to be your MVP and DPOY this season, thank you everyone!"

Qin Yue's 15-minute acceptance speech was not only clear and coherent, but also portrayed another "him" whose past decadence and decadence were transformed into a naive act before he realized his mistake and turned back.

Qin Yue's vivid narration of his subsequent process of self-redemption even moved many reporters on the scene.

“He deserves it all! We only saw his success and forgot how much hardship he went through before he achieved success.

Success in life is only temporary, while failure is the main theme. When butterflies fly across the ocean, how can people not love such a Messiah? " Kwame Brown commented in an interview at the award ceremony.

"His talent is both a gift from God and a reward for his hard work. I have been with him since college. Every time he runs, it is a desire for victory and a persistent pursuit of his dreams." As Qin Yue's personal steward, Evans also shed exciting tears on the spot.

This is destined to be a beautiful night and a happy day.

Before the Western Conference semifinals against the San Antonio Spurs, Qin Yue, who won both the MVP and DPOY trophies, will sit in the Oracle Arena with this joy and face Tim Duncan again on the playoff stage.

As Duncan's junior, Qin Yue specially invited Duncan to dinner on the day the Spurs arrived in Oakland.

Contrary to what many fans have historically believed, Duncan would never leave the Spurs.
In fact, in the first decade of the 21st century, Duncan's relationship with the Spurs has always been quite delicate.

In addition to the sensational "runaway" incident in which Duncan almost joined the Orlando Magic
In 2003, when Duncan signed a seven-year, $7 million contract extension with the Spurs, he left room for maneuver in the future.

In this contract, in order to ensure that he could have the initiative, Duncan deliberately added a player option to the contract.

This option will take effect in the summer of 2007.

Only if Duncan chooses to exercise this option can the Spurs ensure that Duncan can stay in San Antonio until at least 2010.

而从2000年与马刺签下的那笔3年3260万美元的续约合同开始，到2003年夏天重新续签，再到邓肯在2007年夏天拥有的球员选择权.
A more real and more realistic Tim Duncan has emerged before the world.

no one is perfect.

In the NBA, a league that has always prioritized profit, how could Duncan, who had studied in college for four years, be so foolish as to reveal his one-sided loyalty to the Spurs?

In the 02/03 season, the Spurs won the championship and Duncan renewed his contract.

In the 06/07 season, the Spurs won the championship and Duncan chose to exercise his player option in the summer.

The story of one man, one city will certainly always become a good story in the NBA.

But the star player will only choose to be loyal if the team will not betray him.

"Have you ever considered leaving San Antonio and starting over somewhere else?" At the dinner, Qin Yue showed his curiosity to Duncan from the beginning.

And what about Duncan?

The next second, after picking up a piece of carrot cake and swallowing it whole, Duncan fell into a rare long silence.

"I do not know."

About three minutes later, Duncan satisfied Qin Yue’s curiosity with his answer.

"I am already the third player in NBA history to win both MVP and DPOY."

"Ok?"

"I'm going to celebrate this year with a second championship ring."

"Um!?"

"So, be prepared, Tim! You can start thinking about whether you should use that player option now. I will personally destroy your chances of winning the championship in the next round of the Western Conference semifinals."

"Um!??"

At this moment, looking at Qin Yue with surprise
Duncan discovered that his junior seemed to have far surpassed himself in changing other people's mentality.

"Are you really just curious whether I will leave the Spurs?"

"I admit that my curiosity stems from my desire to mess with you before the game starts."

"You are naive. But you did hurt me."

"It's okay. When the game comes, I will hurt you every night, my dear senior."

"I really shouldn't have come to this dinner."

"But you came anyway."

"Why on earth did I come to this dinner? Just so you can mess with my mentality?"

"bingo."

……

PS: The first update of 10,000 words will be delivered! I will try to be on time in the evening! Please give me monthly tickets and subscriptions!
(End of this chapter)