One Thousand Three Hundred and Thirty-Seven. Xiaobawang, You Won the Prize

Over time, not defending has become a habit.

The same is true for bumping into porcelain. Although Harden was talented at that time and he showed his strength when the Thunder did not pay attention to him, he had to take on all the offensive responsibilities of a team and could only find ways to score more easily. The big brother's big loop has been evolved to the ultimate here...

Now with Curry, a talented teammate who has become the scoring champion, Harden does not need to be a traffic commander. The offensive end is also very easy. Just play normally. If you can't play, there is a receiver like the big brother to pass the ball.

In this game, Harden showed the strong defense of Wade at this age during the All-Star Weekend. Excellent physical fitness, quasi-top mobility, excellent defensive judgment, love of confrontation... defended Ginobili and Gay very well.

Although Harden was also defended to only 10 points and 3 assists, Ginobili and Gay only scored 11 points and 13 points. Curry was mainly responsible for offense tonight, making 10 of 22 shots and 6 of 13 three-pointers, scoring 34 points.

However, Parker was at his peak, scoring 16 points, and Duncan... let's just say he was at his peak, scoring 27 points, 21 rebounds and 4 blocks, the best single-game performance in the playoffs in the past five years. The Spurs defeated the Warriors 89-84 and advanced to the second round!

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The opponent is determined!

On the morning of May 4, Sun Ce separated from the two girls and one boy and went to San Antonio with the team.

The second round may start on the 6th at the earliest and the 8th at the latest.

It depends on whether the Nets, who are 2-3 behind after last night's game, can drag the Pacers into a tiebreaker.

At present, the four second-round teams in the West have all come out, and there are no surprises. The Lakers, Spurs, Grizzlies, and Thunder have advanced to the second round.

In the East, the Heat, who are leading 3-2, will play the sixth game with the Celtics tonight. The Cavaliers have already advanced and will play the second round with the winner of the two teams.

The Bulls won the series easily 4-1. On the night Howard was eliminated, he was ejected because he elbowed Holiday and almost caused a fight. When he left the court, he tore his jersey, as if to declare that he was not happy and was going to a happy place.

Now there are only two series between the Heat and the Celtics, and the Pacers and the Nets that have not yet been decided.

After arriving in San Antonio, Sun Ce took a break. At noon, he had lunch with his teammates and went to the ATT Arena for training in the afternoon.

The Spurs did not do those tricks this time and opened the arena in advance. According to the rules, the team playing at home only needs to open the arena one day before the game.

But Memphis fans are more capable than San Antonio fans. The Spurs are afraid! The Clippers' water and power outages seemed to make them see the forced demolition of the Celestial Empire...

Sun Ce ate lunch while checking the news. Gasol was absent-minded when eating and choked several times when drinking cold water.

At 12 noon, the NBA official website announced the Best Defensive Player Award!

Sun Ce saw the news and immediately shouted: "Mark, you won the award!"

Gasol has been saying "I don't care", "No problem, it doesn't matter whether you win or not", "Don't worry about me..." since he got on the plane this morning

But when he heard "won the award", Gasol crossed the table, kicked over the dinner plate, rushed to Sun Ce and snatched the phone away...

2012-2013 NBA Best Defensive Player - Marc Gasol.

Gasol looked at this sentence and burst into tears!

His hand slipped and returned to the first quarter. Marc Gasol saw that under the headline of the refreshed page, there was another relatively unimportant award - the Most Improved Player Award, which read "The Lord won the Most Improved Player Award again".

"Noah, you got an award too!"

"Watt?"

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The Grizzlies didn't get the Best Manager, Best Coach, or Best Sixth Man award...but they got the Best Defensive Player award. The Grizzlies didn't just win all the regular season awards this season.

In recent years, Chris Wallace and Coach Hollins have been the favorites for Best Manager and Best Coach, but they only won the award in the 09-10 season, when they got Sun Ce and broke the team's best record at the time to enter the playoffs.

However, although some media had previously hyped up Sun Ce's Most Improved Player award, not many people really took it seriously.

However, Sun Ce really won the Most Improved Player award... Moreover, Sun Ce's 51 first-place votes were more than double Harden's 22 first-place votes in second place!

What's more interesting is that this year's MVP James also got two first-place votes, with a total of 29 points...

By winning the Most Improved Player award twice, Sun Ce made history!

At 5 pm on May 4, after the Grizzlies finished training, they held a press conference for Gasol. The Grizzlies were preparing to return to their home court to play, and the awards were presented in front of the home fans. By the way, Sun Ce, who refused to attend the press conference, was officially announced to have won the Most Improved Player Award.

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Sun Ce didn't want to read the comments of netizens at all. He felt bad about winning the award.

There is no doubt that most of them were joking and teasing. Fortunately, James, who scored 29 points, was also dragged into the water. Sun Ce decisively opened a small account, pretending to be Durant's pretending James fan, and commented everywhere that James should win the Most Improved Player Award.

In addition to Sun and Gasol, Lillard was elected the best rookie with 115 votes, without any suspense.

As for the best defensive player, Sun Ce read the news again and saw the distribution of votes. He felt that Gasol won the best defensive player by a narrow margin!

This may be the lowest number of votes for the most improved player in NBA history. Gasol's total score is less than one-fifth of all the scores!

He only had 25 first-place votes, one less than James' 26 first-place votes, but more second-place votes, but 6 fewer second-place votes than Ibaka, but only 5 more first-place votes than Ibaka.

There was no candidate with more than 30 first-place votes.

He, Sun, had 2 first-place votes, ranking behind Gasol, James, Ibaka, Duncan, Chandler, Noah, Tony Allen, Paul, and Josh Smith, and ranked tenth in the best defensive player ranking with a total score of 3.23%.

This score made Sun Ce feel that it was difficult for him to be selected for the first-team defense this year. Not to mention that it was difficult for him, it was also difficult for Duncan to be selected for the first-team defense.

Although the NBA has become very different from what Sun Ce remembered, his increasingly strong wings have made the direction of the basketball world very different from what it was originally, but the era is still moving towards the small ball era. This is mainly due to the changes in the players. Now there are more and more high-quality role players with single functions, and even some stars have become role players in the traditional sense. They are just very strong, but their playing style is that of role players, so it is inevitable to move towards the small ball era.

And the past few years are the last madness before entering the small ball era!