[NBA regular season "data brush" strange phenomenon: 70 points, 73 points are frequent, what is the value of MVP?]
Recently, the NBA regular season ushered in a wave of scoring frenzy, and stars have staged gorgeous performances of 60+ or even 70+ in a single game. However, behind this seemingly lively data feast, it has triggered in-depth thinking about the essence of the game and the gold content of MVP.
Halfway through the season, the East-West landscape gradually became clear, with the Clippers relying on team basketball and Harden's excellent play to rebound strongly, while the East fell into a three-legged competitive situation. However, what is surprising is that in recent times, Embiid, Towns, Booker and Doncic have scored super high scores, breaking a number of historical records, and its Doncic has scored 73 points, 10 rebounds and 7 assists.
While these dazzling numbers are dizzying, some commentators believe that this phenomenon is not a sign of the improvement of star ability, but rather a reflection of the current NBA regular season defensive intensity and over-reliance on stars to go it alone. For example, Doncic has been criticized as a ball-handling core, and his high scoring may lead to an imbalance in the team's overall offense and defense, a lack of role player involvement, and such scoring methods are difficult to replicate in the high-intensity confrontation of the playoffs.
In addition, Embiid's scoring performance in the regular season was also controversial, with opponents often choosing to let him shoot from the outside rather than defend with all his might, which not only obscured the criteria for selecting the MVP of the regular season, but also raised questions about the true strength of the star and the team's playoff prospects.
To sum up, the emergence of "data brushes" in the current NBA regular season has challenged the gold content of the MVP award, and also exposed the problems that the league needs to think about urgently in terms of rules and competition concepts. While pursuing personal data, how to balance the overall performance of the team and return to the essence of basketball competition has become an important topic worth discussing.
