Halfway through the NBA regular season this season, the situation in the East and West is gradually stabilizing. As many stars choose to join forces to win the championship, the league is gradually falling into a state of polarization, the Big Four of Tatum + Brown + Boshen + Holiday of the Eastern Celtics, the Big Four of the Western Clippers Leonard + George + Harden + Westbrook, including the Big Three of Suns Durant + Booker + Beal, the team is piled up, and personal data is destined to decline, as Leonard said, working with great players, will understand the meaning of self-sacrifice for the team's victory. But there are also some super scorers, with four stars averaging 30+ per game this season, Embiid averaging 36.4 points per game, scoring more than playing time, Doncic averaging 33.7 points per game, Alexander averaging 31.5 points per game, and Antetokounmpo averaging 31.4 points per game. It's a skill to get a high score, but it's hard to say whether you can win respect.
In fact, Doncic and Alexander, two supernovas, have the same attributes in essence, Doncic is the core of the ball, in the Mavericks lineup, there is only Irving as a helper, Doncic can't score, and the Mavericks want to win is a luxury. The Mavericks ranked 24th in the league in defensive efficiency in the first 17 games, 10th in the league in defensive efficiency in the last 20 games, and third in the league in defensive efficiency in the last 10 games! Doncic leads by example at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends to ensure that the Mavericks hold the top six positions in the cruel West. And Alexander's average of 31.5 points, 6.0 rebounds, 6.4 assists and 2.4 steals per game (first in the league in steals) is also a representative of the ultimate offense and defense, Alexander's shooting rate at critical moments is 63.3%, and the winning rate of the team at critical moments is 65%!
And these two stars don't spend garbage time brushing up on the stats and deliberately staying on the pitch for some historical record. But there's one superstar that's different, the Bucks, who started the game 25-12 and finished second in the East. Since the Bucks sent away Holiday and Allen and ushered in Lillard, the defensive efficiency has been hovering in the 20th in the league, but the offensive efficiency + shooting percentage is third in the league, and the average points per game are second in the league. As the core of the team, Brother Alphabet has staged some incomprehensible "operations" again and again this season. For example, in the game against the Pacers in mid-December, Brother Alphabet exploded with 64 points, 14 rebounds and 4 steals, breaking 9 major records in the first game, and also breaking the Bucks' single-game team history scoring record. But at the last moment of that game, Brother Alphabet was brushing up on the data.
In the last 1 minute, the 15-point difference was opened, and he was still making foul free throws, including when the opponent had given up resistance, Brother Alphabet was still roaring with a quick dunk, so when the game ended, the Pacers players directly took the game ball, to put it bluntly, they looked down on Brother Alphabet's behavior. And the farce of Brother Alphabet rushing back to the locker room also confirms his objective understanding of the matter of scoring itself, and of course he also knows why the other party did it! Afterwards, Brother Alphabet can use "the coach asked me to break the record" to prevaricate, but he got 32 free throws in one game, and the league is really a bit too much! Including the Bucks' latest game against the Jazz, Brother Alphabet got 25 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists, and in the first three quarters, Brother Alphabet had 18 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists, and the team went from 33 points behind to only 10 points.
In the fourth quarter, Brother Alphabet went on the court to chase points continuously, and when he returned to the single-digit point difference, Brother Alphabet stopped attacking. started looking for Middleton, looking for Beecham, looking for teenager Livingston, and looking at the statistics, one assist was missing. When the brother was satisfied with the triple-double data, the Jazz opened up a 16-point deficit, and the game was completely spent. Is a triple-double important? Does Brother Alphabet also have to transform to chase Wei Shao and Robertson? Coincidentally, in the game between the 76ers and the Knicks, Embiid was also brushing data in the fourth quarter, and the team was 20+ behind Originally, there was still a trace of suspense, when Oubre felt hot and Maxey actively asked for the ball, Embiid made mistakes with the ball in 3 consecutive rounds, and finally scored 30 points on free throws, and the difference was 36 points, and the game was spent! And Embiid also achieved a 30+10 consecutive record as he wished, and he can continue to compete with Chamberlain and Abdul-Jabbar!
It turns out that Brother Alphabet and Embiid are both the same kind of people. They can't be blamed for deliberately brushing data for some records or honors, but their behavior is the greatest harm to those stars who sacrifice themselves for the sake of team victory. The simplest example, Leonard averaged 23.8 points, 6.1 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 1.8 steals per game this season, can it be said that he is not as good as Brother Alphabet and Embiid? Really in the playoffs, in 19 years, Leonard grabbed seven kills and beat Embiid, fell behind the Bucks 0-2 in the Eastern Conference Finals, completed a 4-2 reversal, and broke down Brother Alphabet's mentality! But has Leonard been respected enough? Embiid has been the MVP first for 5 consecutive weeks, to put it bluntly, isn't it just looking at the data? Leonard has been leading the team to a 13-1 record since December, with only one MVP nomination (outside of the top 10)! Is it still fair?
Even James and Sabonis can be ahead of Leonard! The NBA era has really changed! The data theory of football stars, especially in the regular season, has given birth to a large number of "pseudo-stars". Comparatively speaking, Brother Alphabet is not bad, anyway, he also led the team to win the championship in 21 years, and also achieved the personal honor slam. As for Embiid, he really didn't achieve anything in that playoffs, and he still dreamed of being the MVP and scoring champion in the regular season. I really hope there will be less of this, because only gold can shine all the time!