After playing a quarter of the NBA regular season in the new season, each team basically has a rough set range, like the Timberwolves and Thunder dominate the top two in the West, and the Magic firmly hold the top three positions in the East. Since the establishment of the Warriors dynasty by the three brothers of Kutang, including the continuation of the follow-up Durant, the league has entered the era of small ball, and it is not uncommon to score 130+ or even 140+ points at every turn, which has also led to a large number of stars ushering in a data blowout. Take this season as an example, Embiid averaged 33.8 points per game, Doncic averaged 32 points per game, Antetokounmpo averaged 32 points per game, Durant averaged 30.8 points per game, Alexander averaged 30.4 points per game, and there were 14 people who averaged more than 25 points per game!
In those days, all superstars who could score more than 20 points per game were Anthony (27.4 points per game), James (27.1 points per game), Love (26.1 points per game) and Harden (25.4 points per game) who averaged more than 25 points per game! James has a stable output, and the thick eyebrows are getting better and better after the return of his blue-collar teammates, and Leonard gradually establishes the role of the absolute core of the team + the first shot in the case of Harden controlling the court + George's staggered travel!
In the first month of the game, the average of thick eyebrows fell to less than 22 points per game, and thick eyebrows, as in the past few seasons, are divided on the fifth position, saying that he can play the fifth position, but he cannot play dominant. To put it bluntly, the relationship between him and Lao Zhan is not so suitable, especially in the case of the injury of blue-collar teammates, the thick eyebrows are under a lot of pressure on the defensive end, and the offensive end is naturally unstable. With the return of Reddish, Hachimura, Vanderbilt and others, thick eyebrows are finally back on track, the last 3 games, the midseason finals, thick eyebrows in 41 minutes 41 points, 20 rebounds, 5 assists and 4 blocks, crushing the Pacers at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends; and the Mavericks, although the Lakers lost by 2 points, but thick eyebrows 15 of 21, 37 points and 11 rebounds, and the performance is still stable! and the Spurs back-to-back, thick eyebrows 37 points, 10 rebounds and 4 steals!
In these three games, he averaged 38 points, 13.7 rebounds and 2 blocks per game, and the shooting rate was 65%! And Leonard is similar to thick eyebrows, when Harden can finally control the team's rhythm in his own hands, the biggest beneficiary must be Leonard, because Harden can connect everyone, and as long as Leonard is trapped, the other party must have a leak, and Harden is the metronome. In the last three games, playing the Jazz, Leonard scored 41 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists, playing the Trail Blazers, Leonard scored 34 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists, and in the game with the Kings, Leonard scored 31 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists on 11-of-14 shooting.
He averaged 35.3 points, 5 rebounds and 4.3 assists per game in three games, shooting 64.3% from the field! In the third quarter, Leonard didn't care what the bag was, 4 of 4 in a single quarter plus 5 of 5 free throws, it was an unreasonable basket attack, 14 points, 31 points in the third quarter plus Harden continued to make kills, led the team to play the King of Flowers, clocked out of work! Back-to-back games, Leonard was not willing to play 1 second more, that game gave me the illusion that Leonard was scoring almost every round, why did he score 31 points in the whole game? Why did Leonard only average 21.9 points per game this season? The real strong man only appeared at critical moments, and he didn't care about fame.
In fact, the performance of thick eyebrows and Leonard in recent times has confirmed what it means to be a team leader. In the face of some teams with poor defense, the firepower is full of 40+, 50+ or even 60+ points, and when the game has been spent, they are still "fighting for the record" on the field, which will only make the data lose its gold content, and make the MVP competition + scoring champion competition involving data worthless! Jokic ranked first on the MVP list for a long time last season, but in March, Jokic took the initiative to rest a few games and gave the MVP first to Embiid.
In a long regular season, beautiful stats can satisfy vanity and come out on top in the race for honors, but it will overlook a lot of real problems. A true leader is always the type of person who fills in the gaps. If a team has to rely on the team boss to maintain a 30+ or even 40+ output, or even take a big bag in the face of some fish belly, it proves that the team has a big problem at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends. We don't evaluate the data of Brother Alphabet, at least Embiid is a typical representative of the regular season dragon playoff bugs. In the same way, that kind of data brush can't win respect.