Ultimate Decoding|Looking at today's Yo Teacher & Murray You know how horrible the "OK" was back then
After three games in this year's Finals, the Nuggets:
Mr. Yo averaged 33.3 points, 14.0 boards and 9.3 assists per game, shooting 59.0%,
Murray averaged 26.0 points, 6.7 boards and 10.0 assists while shooting 50.8 percent from the field.
Twenty years ago, the Lakers 4-0 Nets in the 02 Finals:
The Sharks averaged 36.3 points, 12.3 boards and 3.8 assists per game, shooting 59.5% from the field.
Bryant averaged 26.8 points, 5.8 boards and 5.3 assists while shooting 51.4 percent from the field.
If you haven't seen how the "OK combination" ran amok two decades ago, really look at this year's Nuggets.
They'll tell you a bloody NBA fact:
In the face of extreme talent, even the best collectives and teams have their own heights that cannot be reached.
Taken alone, Murray, Porter, Gordon, and Pope are not ruthless characters in the league.
But with the magical increase of Yoshimori, they look like each can go against the strongest opponent.
Jamal Murray, a guard who averaged 16.9 points, 3.7 boards and 4.2 assists per game in this career, and averaged 21.2 points per game in the strongest season, played the role of Kobe Bryant to O'Neal next to Mr. Joe.
Those who think Kobe won the championship with O'Neal's thigh can recall what happened to Mr. Jo in the playoffs in the past three years.
In the 21-22 playoffs, because of Murray's absence, the best outside promoters around Mr. Jo were Will Barton and Highland, so we can see that he will always be targeted by opponents in key moments.
Can challenge his decisiveness with the ubiquitous pressing of the whole court like the Warriors, and shoot with the open space of teammates at key moments,
You can also use Ayton to stick to Mr. Jo like the Suns, cut the pass route for the whole team, and then test his teammates with pinching shots at key moments.
At that time, Teacher Jo will also become a tree without roots, a water that breaks its source.
Like the Sharks in the three seasons from 1996 to 1999, he was eliminated by the Jazz (8-1) and Spurs (4-0) in the first three years of the Lakers.
When he doesn't have a good assistant on the outside to create opportunities for him and share the pressure, the opponent will pour all his defensive resources into him, and in the end, he will still not be able to escape the defeated end.
The 1999-2000 season was Zen's first year in charge and the first time in Kobe's career that he averaged 20+ per game and was selected for the first defensive team.
So O'Neill's first career title came naturally.
Similarly, Jamal Murray's comeback activates the Joryo teacher, who may be the most versatile center in history.
In the two seasons Murray was absent, Jokic proved his prolific and efficient offensive firepower with two consecutive MVPs, and made the playoffs two years in a row with not-so-good teammates, losing to the final Western Conference championship two years in a row.
He is already the most comprehensive and least easily limited giant in history, but in the face of mature warriors and suns, he has once again proved another truth of the NBA:
The pinnacle of a super-big man often really appears because of a great little man.
Just as the magician is to the sky, GDP is to Duncan, and Kobe is to the shark. In the 77-year history of the NBA, there are too many amazing inside and outside combinations.
And the teacher of the G3 finals and Murray completed another unprecedented feat.
Jokic 32 points, 21 boards and 10 assists, Murray 34 points, 10 boards and 10 assists.
The second pair in history to complete a triple-double in the Finals (Curry & Dream in the '19 Finals).
and the first pair in history to cut the "30+ triple-double" duo on the same field.
You've never seen two people on a team in the NBA who can do so much for the team and each other while cutting high scores!
About Mr. 30+20+10 we have become commonplace, in his two MVP seasons we have witnessed and believed many times,
As long as he wants, he can type those horror statistics that only Wilt Chamberlain can play.
Surprisingly, Jamal Murray, beside the big tree of Mr. Yo, frantically absorbs nutrients and finally blooms the brightest flowers.
It was the most classic goal of the finals G3 and even the entire series.
Murray and Jokic were on the strong side of the two-on-two, Josir ruthlessly turned his back on Adebayo, who was defending the second team this year, and Caleb Martin, who was supposed to be eyeing Murray, had to move sideways to assist.
At the same time, Murray adjusted his position to find the best shooting space, asked the teacher to get the ball to let Murray receive the ball in the most comfortable position, even if Butler was already in place to prevent the three-point shot.
This is the biggest helplessness of the Heat when facing the Nuggets.
They can't limit Mr. Yo with a single person, even Adebayo, the team's best interior defender. And when Murray and Jokic made a strong two-man turn, because of Jokic's high efficiency and high yield, they could only empty Murray to bag and choose "the bottle of poison that is slightly inferior".
But Murray's game-high 34 points show that he is no less than Jokic when it comes to scoring and finishing.
If Mr. Joe's current omniscience and omnipotence can indeed compete with the sharks at his peak, then Murray is still in the underdog in all aspects compared to Kobe Bryant in the three-peat championship.
Even in this era of outside scoring and full firepower, in terms of strength, talent, and achievements, he is not even better than Lillard, Mitchell and other defenders.
But with Jokic back to the tree, he was able to perform 100% or even 120% on the most advanced stage.
Just sympathize with the hapless Miami Heat, who have reached the Finals twice in the last four years.
Once met the only healthy Zhan Mei for a whole year, and once met Joe Teacher & Murray, who played fully for the first time in four years.
The strongest duo after Durant & Curry were met by them in the Finals.
If you don't do it, you can't do it.
Maybe he and this Heat are truly destined in NBA history
It is to filter out those false strong people, and then fall heroically in front of the real champions.
As "Admiral" Robinson said in 2001 after being swept 4-0 in the Western Conference Finals:
"When the Sharks and Bryant are standing there, the Lakers are like putting two bottles of poison in front of you and letting you pick."
More than two decades later, today's Heat once again experienced the helplessness of the Spurs, and the top team is sometimes so helpless in the face of extreme talent.
If you haven't seen "OK" twenty years ago, take a look at Mr. Yo and Murray today.