Chapter 516: MVP competition

A slaughter victory, from the results, win 1 point and win 58 points are the same.
But the public opinion results and psychological effects are completely different.
The Lakers decided to start ruining. The defending champions were basically retained, and the main lineup was basically retained. With only one rookie missing, they were crushed by injuries, age and various adverse factors.
Without Old Bath, the internal struggles of the Lakers never stopped.
Jenny Bass and Jim Bass can't fight for control of the team.
Jenny Bass tried to buy Li Liang as his help last season, but unfortunately did not succeed.
Can Li Liang control her?
The internal battles fought off the cohesion that the players built last season.
Without Li Liang scolding with a hair dryer in the back, everyone felt no motivation to race.
And the Clippers have embarked on the road to the highest stage.
After sweeping the Lakers, some Los Angeles media have already begun to "respect the king" impatiently.
The Los Angeles Times uses a huge space to announce that the new king of Los Angeles is born.
In fact, the playoffs are far from beginning.
The Clippers continued their victory.
Paul gradually found his state, and the Clipper finally appeared.
The entire team reached its best form in the regular season in March, and they began to sweep all the way.
On March 8, the Clippers defeated the visiting Atlanta Hawks at 121:109 at home.
The Eagles were inseparable from the Clippers in the final stage of the fourth quarter, and then in a two-minute period, Li Liang was beaten by a wave of 9:0 by himself, raising his hand to surrender.
On March 10, when the Suns fought again, the Clippers still did not give the Suns a chance.
115:100, another three-game punchdown victory that didn't give the Suns any chance.
After this time, the Clippers' record came to 56 wins and 9 losses, the number of wins has exceeded the Clippers last season's wins by 55 wins.
This is already the highest number of wins in a single season in Clippers history.
The Clippers didn't stop and they continued to make history.
On March 12, the Clippers broke the Warriors at home with a score of 119:97 and a huge advantage of 22 points.
Li Liang hit eight three-pointers in a single game, more than Curry and Thompson combined.
And this benefited from Paul's needle threading, frequently giving Li Liang a three-point assist.
It is said that Deron Williams hits Paul, and Paul hits Curry.
Every time he plays against the Warriors, Curry can play well.
The last game lost to the Warriors, the Clippers just did not match Paul and Curry, so Curry broke out.
Paul scored 18 points in this game and sent 12 assists.
On the bench, one player played very well and scored the team's second-highest score: Danny Granger.
Two weeks ago, the trade deadline for the 2014 season, on February 21st, the East Indiana Pacers completed a shocking deal to send the former team boss Danny Granger to the Philadelphia 76ers. In exchange for the 76ers' top pick Evan Turner.
Granger was selected by the Pacers in 2005. Prior to the 2004-2005 season, the Pacers had hoped that the Pacers would fall apart due to the Auburn Hills Palace incident.
Granger, who slipped to the 17th spot due to injuries and injuries, began to grow in the Pacers.
After O'Neal Jr. was finally traded because of a fall in injury, Granger became the leader of the Pacers.
He became the team's scoring leader, the league's fastest player, led the Pacers back to the playoffs, and the Heat.
As a result, as the Pacers completed the reconstruction and began to impact the championship, Granger fell down due to injury.
He embarked on the old road that was once O'Neal, and the Pacers were sent off by the Larry Bird transaction on the trade deadline when the Pacers were in the spotlight this season.
Because in Bird's view, Granger has no value on the pitch.
The Pacers' record in the first half of the season can be said to be short-lived with the Clippers, only to have a downward trend in the middle of the season.
After completing the deal and sending away Granger who rarely appeared, and getting a healthy role model Turner, most people think that the Pacers are a big profit, and they are one step further from the finals.
In a few games just after the trade ended, the Pacers won a winning streak, and they ran towards 50 wins.
As a result, on March 4, they lost to the Warriors. On the 5th, they lost 20 points to the Bobcats. On the 7th, they lost 25 points to the Rockets, and they lost to the Lone Ranger two days later.
An unexpected four-game losing streak, and there is no suspense in the field, almost no overnight.
In contrast to the Clippers, on March 1st, the Clippers chose to sign Granger, who was cut by the 76ers, to make up for the vacancy left by Caron Butler.
Butler has been on truce for more than a month due to elbow and knee injuries, and the return date is undecided.
The Clippers bench needs a spare tire to add height and firepower, and Granger is undoubtedly a good target.
After coming to the Clippers, Granger seemed to be activated at once.
He has played brilliantly in several games.
Including this victory over the Warriors, Granger's performance was simply hitting Byrd's face.
By March 14th, the Clippers had beaten the Jazz at 109:95 and 14 points in Salt Lake City. They had already won ten straight games!
The Clippers now feel overwhelming.
Then, the Clippers defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers, Detroit Pistons, Denver Nuggets and Milwaukee Bucks at home, with 62 wins and 9 payouts with 11 venues left before the end of the regular season!
For a time, public opinion that the Clippers could break the Bulls' record of 72 wins and 10 losses was once again very popular.
After all, the Clippers' 14-game winning streak is really shocking.
It seems that Granger's arrival screwed the last screw of the aircraft carrier, and this big ship could not stop at all.
Li Liang played a vital role in this wave of winning streak.
He completely became the first tactical core of the Clippers on the court, the soul of the team.
Li Liang's soul style is just two words!
In March, his condition is getting better and better. It's not how good the score is, but that every game is smooth.
He scored more than 20 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and sent seven or eight assists. His turnovers were controlled by about three.
His three-point attempts have declined, his shooting percentage has further increased, and every game is in good shape.
There are no injuries, not many ups and downs, and the mentality is very stable, and the training is on time and on time.
Recently, Li Liang suspended the completion of the system task. After he improved his ball control to 50 points, he learned a long pass with Slick Watts and increased his weak long pass ability point to 30 points.
After that, Li Liang stopped working for the time being, and instead devoted himself to the team training, practicing with his teammates.
Without being late, without leaving early, Mike Brown moved to tears, and felt that Li Liang was finally completely awakened!
Please, if Li Liang doesn't train at home, how do you think he is progressing so fast?
The effect of the joint training is remarkable, and the cooperation between Li Liang and his teammates becomes more and more tacit.
At the beginning of the season, the jerky disappeared without a trace, and the team's overall offense reached a very high level.
Gentry is indispensable in this. In the design of offensive tactics, he is not limited to fixed routines, but communicates with players from the overall offensive thinking.
The Clippers' offense is not blindly fast. Although fast is the core, Gentry has been trying to make the Clippers' offense fast and stable.
Li Liang and Gentry actually have quite a lot of daily communication, even more than Mike Brown.
From this excellent coach, Li Liang can learn a lot.
At the same time, Gentry also found that Li Liang has a better understanding of basketball than Chris Paul.
Paul is already known for having a high basketball IQ, but in terms of comprehension ability, Gentry believes that Li Liang is definitely an "invisible elephant and loud voice" level.
Of course, these two idioms Gentry don't know, that's how he feels.
The more Li Liang learns, the deeper he understands tactics.
He understands that the overall style of the Lakers last season was "stable and fast". It seems to play a slow pace, but the positional battle is very sensitive and flexible, so the success rate is very high.
The Clippers don't have that strong positional ability, so they need to be "fast and stable", with fast as the main, but they can't be messy.
As an organizer, we must grasp this degree.
Li Liang is the first to take the lead. It's not how well organized he is, but he is the first to be bold and full of confidence, so it's really quick to get up fast.
Afterwards, because there is Paul, Paul can control the scene when necessary and speak with experience.
After setting this tone, the two had a division of labor, coupled with the team's cooperation, the players were in excellent condition, outstanding personal ability, naturally in the regular season.
This kind of fast-word style of play, the regular season encounter is more advantageous, it is easy to beat opponents.
The playoffs are hard to tell.
Rivers sees this point more clearly, so when he recently asked the Clippers to tie the Bulls’ 72-win record, or break the 70-win record, they said they would not deliberately pursue record-breaking, and the team had all the home-court advantage. enough.
As soon as the words were finished, the Clippers lost.
On March 26, the Clippers played away with the Pelicans. This was the last regular season game between the two sides.
Anthony Davis returns this game.
In terms of strength, even if Davis returns, the Pelicans will still not be the Clippers' opponent.
But the NBA regular season has absolute strength and weakness, and there is no absolute victory or defeat.
The Clippers overturned in this game, and the fundamental reason for the overturning was that Chris Paul, as the team's point guard, scored two points in the game!
Two points!
You change to a normal fan and go up to beat. You can get two points from free throws.
Paul was 0-for-12 from the field, and Master Kiddji was possessed, but he didn't make it.
Rely on free throws to score two points.
When your All-Star point guard scores only 2 points, you can hardly win.
As a result, the Pelicans beat the Clippers at 98:96 at home with a weak two-point advantage.
It is a pity that Li Liang's final lore is not hit, not every time you can change your life.
Especially changing the life of Paul in 0 is too difficult!
After the game, Paul apologized to all the players in the locker room and bluntly said that his poor performance made the team lose.
Li Liang stood up generously and said, "If you can't shoot in the future, pass the ball to me!"
Paul didn't speak, there was no way, who made you shit?
As soon as the game ended, remarks about "trading Paul" began to appear again.
Of course, this is mainly a joke, because now the trading deadline has passed, and if you want to trade, you have to wait for the summer.
Although the game was lost, it didn't affect the Clippers' momentum too much.
At the same time, Li Liang's position on the MVP leaderboard has also become more stable.
When they were determined to win the league's first record, Li Liang's regular season MVP has also been put on the discussion agenda.
The current accepted view is that if the Clippers can get 70 wins, then it goes without saying that this MVP must be Li Liang.
Sophomore leader, absolute core, beautiful data, 70 wins?
Even if he is an Asian who is not valued in the sports world, this MVP is properly attributed to him.
And because Li Liang made trouble in the middle of the season, who was talking about skin color and race was putting himself on the fire.
If you get 67 wins or more, then this MVP is basically not much suspense.
67 wins is one to Kan, so far only 10 teams in NBA history have done so.
Eight of the teams won the championship. Only the Celtics in 1973 and the Lone Ranger in 2007, both failed to make the finals.
After 2007, no team has reached this win rate.
Including 08 Celtics, 66 wins, 09 Lakers 65 wins, 66 wins for the Heat last season.
Because James lost the regular season MVP with 66 wins last season, if the Clippers fail to reach the benchmark record of 67 wins, media people have every reason to award the MVP trophy to James.
James' performance this season is also at the MVP level, and the Heat's record is also running away with 60 wins.
After the hard training in the summer, the hard work and the transformation, James' strength has improved.
Born in 1984, he will be 30 years old in December this year, and his personal basketball skills are still improved.
It's just that the promotion is not as scary as Li Liang's. After all, people are hanging out.
However, this improvement has definitely given the media and fans the extra points of impression~EbookFREE.me~People were fatigued with James last season, so they gave MVP to Kobe.
Now James has a new change, and everyone is surprised that "he can still improve", after all, people are often said to "rely on the body, 30-year-old can not do" players.
Therefore, James has an advantage in impression points. If Li Liang wants to win in the MVP battle, he must completely overwhelm James on hard conditions.
Such as the team's record, this is the hardest.
There are personal data, Li Liang's data is good, but it is not enough compared with the data blame James.
Therefore, it depends on the record.
Does Li Liang want to take MVP? Nonsense, who doesn't want to!
Time is not waiting for me, Li Liang does not want to experience the same regrets as Paul, he must fight for this MVP.
If Paul lags behind, he will certainly scold him without hesitation!