Earlier today, the NBA officially announced the 21st week of the East and West Player of the Week, the Eastern Conference's best of the week by the just-returned Basketball star Durant, who averaged 30.7 points, 7.7 rebounds and 7.7 assists per game last week, helping the Nets achieve a 3-win record, while the elected player in the West is Doncic, who averaged 30.5 points, 11 rebounds and 6.3 assists last week, helping the Lone Rangers achieve a 3-1 record.
In this way, Doncic has already won two weekly bests this season (once on February 15), and it should be known that Embiid and Jokic, the two big hits of MVP, have only won one weekly best this season, and Doncic has won twice this time, which also makes people inevitably start to wonder whether Doncic wants to be a "Cheng biting gold" to compete for this season's MVP?
In fact, at the beginning of the competition, Doncic's performance was not satisfactory, the figure was obviously blessed, coupled with the knee injury, in the month just started in October, He averaged only 22.5 points per game, although the average increased to 27.3 points in November, but in december and January, Doncic's state began to repeat, and even missed the Lone Ranger game for a while because of a knee injury, but in February, thanks to the injury of the second boss Bo Shen, coupled with the fact that he was traded by the team to the Wizards, which also allowed Doncic to finally usher in a strong rebound.
If you take the All-Star before and after as a node, in the 8 games after the All-Star, Doncic can average 30.6 points, 10 rebounds and 6.5 assists per game, compared with the All-Star before the average of 27.5 points, 9.2 rebounds and 9 assists is indeed a certain degree of improvement, but considering that the MVP selection criteria is throughout the season, so even if Doncic "low open high", but limited by the previous months of the state is not so good, want to beat the has been relatively stable Embiid, Jokic this season, Even the alphabet brother, it is indeed very difficult.
In addition to Doncic, there is another player who has won more of the weekly best awards this season than him, this jun is DeRozan who switched to the Bulls in the offseason, as of now, DeRozan has won 3 weekly bests and 1 month's best, if you want to compare the number of weekly bests, DeRozan is more dominant than Doncic, but as mentioned before, the selection of MVP is the performance of the whole season, DeRozan and Doncic belong to the kind of players who perform well in a certain time period, if you want to look at the whole season, they compare Embiid, Jokic was still a little inferior.
With most teams with more than 10 games left in the regular season, Doncic, even if he can continue to maintain his hot form, it is difficult to make up for the sluggish performances of the previous months, so it is not realistic to pull down the two MVP hot candidates. However, for the 23-year-old Doncic, there is still a great opportunity to compete for the MVP award in the future, even if his performance at the beginning of the season is not ideal, but he can still hand over the all-around data of averaging 28 points, 9.3 rebounds, 8.6 assists and 1.2 steals per game, after the departure of Bo Shen, it is completely activated to fully activate his potential and lead the Lone Ranger to currently rank in the top five positions in the West. I believe that even if this time there is no MVP competition, but according to the dominance that Doncic has shown in recent years, he will definitely have the opportunity to make himself a veritable MVP in the future.