73 points, 70 points! Become an ugly data brush! Even the MVP is worthless

Halfway through the NBA regular season this season, the situation in the East and West is gradually becoming clear, the Clippers have entered the top three in the West with the gorgeous rebound of 26 wins in the past 33 games, in fact, the Clippers do not rush to the first, it does not make much sense, the most important thing in the second half of the schedule is to keep Xiaoka and George healthy, as for Harden, Tyronn Lue's strategy is: the ball is given to you, you can play as much as you want, fully support. And with the blessing of this Harden's selfless system, the average data of several Clippers stars per game is actually not gorgeous, but they play relatively easily, and even Wei Shao has seamlessly connected with Harden, increasing air cuts and reducing ball holding, including the mobile cover cooperation of the two, the Clippers are indeed one of the most powerful existences in the West. On the Eastern side, the pattern of the Celtics, Bucks, and 76ers triumph will not be broken in the regular season.

After the Cavaliers are led by Mitchell and the Knicks are led by Brunson, including Anunoby after coming to the Knicks, the lower limit of offense and defense will be increased visibly, and the overall competition in the East will become more and more intense. It's interesting to note that in the middle of the season, the stars have exploded, and the 60+ or even 70+ games and records this season are enough to go down in history! In the game between the 76ers and the Spurs, Embiid was 24 of 41, 21 of 23 free throws, and slashed 70 points, 18 rebounds and 5 assists; In the game between the Timberwolves and the Hornets, Towns was 21 of 35, including 10 of 15 three-pointers, and he scored 62 points and 8 rebounds, and the key Timberwolves also lost in an upset! In the game between the Suns and the Pacers, Booker scored 62 points and missed the shot! In the game between the Mavericks and the Hawks, Doncic was 25 of 33, and he scored 73 points, 10 rebounds and 7 assists!

In the first 77 years of the NBA, there were only 11 times of 70+, and 4 times in the past 1 year! There have been 5 single-game 60+ performances this season (Brother Alphabet faced the Pacers with 64 points), the most in the NBA in the past 61 years! There have been 3 times in the history of the NBA that two people have scored 60+ on the same day, and in the past 1 week, there have been 2 times. We can say that we are witnesses of the NBA era, but does this kind of gorgeous data really prove that the ability of stars is improving? DeRozan has a good saying, this season there will definitely be stars who try to challenge Chamberlain's record of 100 points in a single game! 73 points! 70 points! Ugly data brush, you have successfully made the MVP lose its gold content. There are two sets of data: Doncic missed 3 games before, Irving averaged 40 points and 7.7 assists per game, and after Doncic returned, Irving averaged 17.5 points and 4.5 assists per game.

And when Doncic and Irving play at the same time, it is higher than when Doncic leads the team alone! This sentence is easy to understand, Doncic does not play with stars at all, he likes to play the ball-handling core, even to the point of squeezing his teammates' offensive threat. It is true that Doncic does have many ways to finish, and he can fully drive his teammates, but as a ball-holding core, if he can win with exaggerated statistics, then the team will have problems at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, the role players on the offensive end are not involved enough, the core of the defensive end will not use all his strength, and his teammates will be more tired! The American media always complains for Doncic, thinking that he lacks helpers, but look at the stars who have worked with Doncic, Brunson's data has skyrocketed to the Knicks, and after Irving came to the Mavericks, the efficiency has improved but the ball possession is declining. To put it bluntly, Doncic likes to play alone.

The key is to the playoffs, when you get 30+, it is impossible for the opponent to allow you to continue to play singles and roll call, on the confrontation on the pack, including the tightening of the referee's blowing penalty scale, not without this kind of example, in the playoffs, you want to get 50+ or even 60+, it is as difficult as the sky! Embiid is even more angry, although there are 11 times this season to clock out in the 3rd quarter, an average of 36 points per game, including 30+ consecutive games, and also catch up with Harden and even Chamberlain at the peak, but the 76ers are coaxing Embiid to be happy, how to be happy. Dribble over half court to launch an offense, forget it, pull to the outside to ask for the ball, and casual jump shots are also very efficient, but this style of play is also only applicable in the regular season! The most absurd thing is that Embiid has played several games over 45+ this season, the opponent does not pinch at all, let him score, and play as a guard if you want to be a guard.

In horizontal comparison, Harden is only averaging 17 points and 8.6 assists per game this season, Leonard is averaging 23.5 points per game this season, and at least half of the time in a game, these two guys are dealing with all kinds of pinch attacks, why? In the game with the 76ers, the pinching restricted Embiid, just for a regular season victory, there is no need to spend physical strength to entangle Embiid outside the three-point line, it is better to "complete" Embiid and let him live in his dream bubble. The key Embiid this way of playing cannot become the norm, in the playoffs, he continued to pull out of the three-point line, continued to dribble himself through the half, the opponent's defensive intensity came up, and the 76ers were taken down in a few rounds, and the Heat and Celtics have the ability to suddenly improve the defensive rhythm.

Talking about ugly data brushes is not to question the ability of Doncic or Embiid, but the current situation of the NBA regular season, so that everyone can not be interested in defense, as long as there is a confrontation, give free throws, throw three points on the outside a few times, and everyone is unwilling to do their best on the defensive end in the regular season, which has formed a consensus. Naturally, Embiid and Doncic became the first stars to enjoy the "fruit". But playing like this, first of all, the MVP will completely lose its gold content, and secondly, in the playoffs, these stars will show their original shapes!