Today's regular season ends with a letter truce, which means that Emperor Embiid locked in this year's regular season scoring champion.
Before the game between Philadelphia and the Pistons, Lao Li announced that neither the Emperor nor Harden would play, while joking that Doncic could cut 168 points and then take the points.
Such a huge score is particularly humorous with the unique hoarse voice line of the old wire ball brush pot, but the NBA history has not been in the history of the scoring king and wanton brush points.
The first famous scoring champion came in the 1977–78 season, when the protagonists of the story were David Thompson, who was playing for the Nuggets, and George Gervin, the Iceman of the Spurs, and the competition for the scoring champion became an important storyline that season.
At the end of the regular season, Gervin led the season's scoring charts with an average of 26.2 points per game — 0.2 points ahead of Thompson.
Thompson, of course, was not convinced, and since he started the game first that day, he decided to take the lead. Thompson scored 32 points in the first quarter, setting a new NBA record for single-quarter scoring at the time, scoring 53 points at halftime and 20 points in the second half.
With 73 points on the field, Thompson's average of points per game rose to 27.15 points per game, surpassing the Iceman.
After the Nuggets game, the Spurs immediately calculated that the Iceman needed to score 59 points to win the top scorer, and it was obviously difficult to play normally.
So the teammates all fed Gervin the ball, but probably due to nervousness, Gervin's first 6 shots all hit iron, the Iceman seems to have lost the confidence to surpass Thompson, he told his teammates not to feed him the ball.
But his teammates didn't listen, and the Iceman had to keep charging, only to score 33 points in the second quarter, directly refreshing the single-quarter scoring record that Thompson had just set, which was almost a clear indication that Skywalker would become the Iceman background board.
In the end, the Iceman scored 53 points in the first half, 63 points on the whole game, and averaged 27.22 points per game, beating Thompson by a slight margin of 0.07 points to win the scoring champion of the year.
What does the story of the Iceman and Skywalker illustrate?
Explain that the first fat is not fat, the latecomer comes first. It also shows that the Spurs have always been a fairly united team, and the second famous brush points snatching king incident is also related to the Spurs.
It was the 1993-94 season, and "Admiral" David Robinson trailed the Sharks by just 0.06 points before the final day of the regular season.
The Spurs were fourth in the West with a 54-27 loss, and their final opponent was the 11th-place Clippers in the West, and the win or loss would not affect either team.
So John Lucas, then the Spurs head coach, devised an extremely simple game plan: let the "admiral" stay in the game as much as possible, and the whole team gave him a pass and let him take every opportunity to score.
The Spurs even deliberately fouled the Clippers in order to buy Robinson more time and scoring opportunities, and the "admiral" continued to shoot wildly on the court near the end of the game, when the Spurs led by 20 points.
With the efforts of the whole team, Robinson played 48 minutes, shooting 26 of 41, 18 of 25 free throws, and scoring 71 points, 14 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 blocks.
At the same time, the average score per game jumped to 29.787 points to surpass the Sharks, which meant that the Sharks had to score 68 points in the game against the Nets to rebound, and in the end, the Sharks only scored 32 points, with an average of 29.346 points per game, and lost the scoring king.
Of course, the Sharks are Sharks after all, and in the second year of missing out on the scoring king, he regained his first scoring champion of his career with an average of 29.3 points per game.
It was the years when Joe became a second-rate baseball player, and the four centers ruled the league, but it was not the two scoring kings, the Admiral and the Sharks, who won the championship, but Olajuwon, who had learned to play the ball.
It wasn't until 2000 that the Sharks took the scoring champion and the championship into their arms at the same time, and even if they were as dominant as sharks, they had only done it once in their lives. In the 21 years since, the scoring king seems to have an invisible spell that has never touched a championship again.
This year is the 22nd year, the Emperor has become the first center player to win the scoring championship after the Sharks with an average of 30.6 points per game, how many people believe Philadelphia can win the championship this year?
Even if you don't just look at the years after 2000, there are only a few people who string the entire 75 years of the NBA together, and there are only a few who have won scoring and championships at the same time: George McCann in the 1948-49 season, as the first superstar in NBA history, his dominance is unquestionable; the 1970-71 season; Jordan during two triple-titles and the Sharks in 2000.
There are many well-known scoring monsters in the history of the NBA: Zhang Dashuai, Kobe Bryant, Iverson without solutions, and james, who is now chasing 40,000 points, have not done it, why?
First, the distribution of energy.
James is a good example, he reached the Finals for eight consecutive years from 2010 to 2018, and the more he got to the back, the less he cared about the regular season record and various regular awards, focusing on the playoffs, it was naturally difficult to get the scoring king.
Kobe Bryant after 2007, Durant after 14 years, Curry after 16 years, including this season's alphabet brother have similar feelings.
In turn, the regular season investment is too large, and the playoffs are easy to play more and more weak, such as Harden at the peak of the Rockets. Harden's play in the playoffs is of course due to will, but he also has to admit that he is really tired.
Second, the scoring king can easily become a black hole in the ball, only in and out.
When everyone goes to see a player's scoring king, it is often a type of bag, give me the ball, and I will finish.
In the process, teammates are slowly domesticated. Over time, the team's system will become more and more simple, and the functions of role players will be instrumentalized and singled.
This model is fine in the regular season, but it doesn't work in the highly targeted playoffs.
In the case of the core players being targeted, it is difficult for the role players to come forward to help solve the problem, and the fans will feel that these role players are too garbage, as if nothing will happen. But no way, it's the result of a season of honing.
Just like the teacher does primary school arithmetic for the child every day, the final exam is higher mathematics, and the child is directly confused.
And the scoring king must have looked at the basket the first time he received the ball, and the playoff opportunities are all electric stone fire, and the opportunity you can give your teammates as soon as you look at the basket is made up by the opposing defense. When you look at your teammates again, you're often left with the most unreliable one.
So at this time, the scoring king also wants to lead the team to win, either transform and learn to play the ball, or require him to have absolute dominance, if you can score the ball with three or four people or even the other team, then the other party is not rudderless.
And the above-mentioned George McCann, Skyhook, Jordan and sharks are such people.
The path of the scoring champion and the championship may be inherently contradictory.
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