Chapter 387 Regular Season Award Evaluation

The Lakers defeated the Jazz on April 13, and they had to adjust for three days before welcoming the next game on April 17.

During these three days, the media in the league was busy, and basketball practitioners entered the most intense and busy moment at the end of the season.

The first is the statistics of the regular season record. The ranking of the regular season is already clear, which also means that the situation of the playoffs is clear. Analysis of the situation in the first round of the playoffs, will there be a dark horse? After all, the current first round is still a 5-match 3-win system, which gives many teams a chance to beat the strong with the weak.

Then the evaluation of various awards in the regular season, many awards are selected by media commentators. Such as MVP, best defensive player, best coach, best rookie.

There are still many controversies about the MVP of this season. The Bulls and Lakers scored 70 wins, which posed a great problem for the commentators. It stands to reason that the records of these two teams are a level ahead of other teams, and the stars of the two teams are also the strongest players in the league. But this MVP is really hard to give away.

for Jordan? He just won an MVP last year. Even if he is the first player in the league, if he does not surpass his achievements last year, it will be difficult for the media to award him the MVP award again.

To O'Neill? O'Neal's strength and leadership performance are enough to prove that he is the number one center in the league. Olajuwon was slightly suppressed in front of him. The Admiral was absent due to injury. Ewing was old and was blown away by O'Neal. It's a pity that the twenty-odd games that O'Neal missed due to injury were too critical. Without Kemp's push, then this year's O'Neal has already won the MVP of his career. Moreover, during the absence, the Lakers' record was not greatly affected, which also caused O'Neal's rating to drop significantly.

For Kobe? Too young? He is only 18 years old! Not even of legal drinking age, even though his performance is fierce. He also failed to prove himself as a truly trustworthy superstar in the playoffs. In the sports world where seniority ranking is serious, if Kobe gets the MVP, it will be a subversion for everyone. Even if this year's media commentators think Kobe's performance is worthy of an MVP, they will not vote for him. Kobe still has a long way to go in the future, let's give the honor and opportunity to the experienced veteran now!

For Pippen? Don't kidding, although he is the second head of the 70-win team, his true strength has been very obvious during the period when Jordan retired. He is just an ordinary star, not a superstar at all. Such a mediocre player, a player with 21+7+6, is not qualified to take part in the highest honor of the NBA regular season. No one would agree to give him this award.

So even if the Bulls and Lakers won 70 wins, they were still excluded from the regular season MVP selection.

The rest are Malone, Olajuwon, Hill, Mourning, and Kevin Johnson.

Media commentators held their own opinions and voted for different players. Wait until the end of the season for the final draw.

The best defensive player, there are several candidates for this award. Mourning and Uncle Mu were the first to bear the brunt, followed by Kobe and Jordan Pippen on the outside. The defensive aggressiveness of the three of them is the strongest in the NBA, and they are also the players who contributed the most wonderful defensive shots.

The award for the best defensive player is actually a bit strange. Sometimes there will be a situation where the best defensive player is not in the best defensive first team. This is because the best defensive players are voted and commented by media commentators. Many of them are impressionists. The more famous they are, the easier it is for players to be selected. The best defensive team is made up of coaches, who pay more attention to the real defensive ability on the field.

Defense wins championships, but fewer and fewer players rely on defense to dominate the game. After Olajuwon gets old, this award for the best defensive player is no longer a superstar patent. After all, compared to offense, it is much rarer to use defense to dominate the game.

The award for the best coach was almost voted for Silver Fox Del Harris without any suspense. Harris has won the best coach once in the 94-95 season, and this is his second best coach in three years.

Harris' coaching performance with the Lakers this season is really amazing. First of all, he has developed Kobe's raw jade to an unbelievable level, although this is inseparable from Kobe's own talent and hard work. But if Harris thought Bryant was too young to bench him, no one would be wrong.

But Harris didn't, he directly put Kobe in the starting lineup. From the beginning of the season, the 18-year-old high school student has been given the right to initiate the offense, which has never been seen in the NBA. The opinion of media commentators is that if this is not the case, there is no way for Kobe to grow into a superstar player after one season, and become the strongest rookie king in history. This is all due to Harris' insight.

And another shining point is Harris's pinching of Kobe and O'Neal. As we all know, the more stars there are, the more they will inevitably affect each other when they play together on the court. The ball rights in this era are extremely limited, which is why this era There are no co-existing team bosses.

And Kobe and O'Neal seem to have broken this law, becoming the rare co-existing superstars like Magician and Skyhook. This is absolutely indispensable for Harris' tactical arrangement. He perfectly inspired the tacit understanding between Kobe and O'Neal, allowing them to play like teammates who have worked together for many years.

The last point that has convinced other coaches in the league and college coaches is some small tactical applications of Harris, such as some three-point tactics, elevator doors, hand-offs, explosive serves, small lineups, one shark and three shooters, etc. Wait, wait, these are tactics that make basketball practitioners shine. And the Lakers have indeed gained a lot of advantages by virtue of these tactics.

There are only a few coaches who can threaten Harris. One is Pat Riley who led the Heat to the second place in the East, one is the new Suns coach Danny Ainge who made the dying Sun Jedi survive, and the other is leading a Jazz with a very poor lineup on paper to win the second place in the West Jerry Sloan.

The Rookie of the Year award is even less suspenseful than the Coach of the Year award.

The golden generation of 1996 came out in large numbers, and even those who averaged more than 15 points per game included Kobe, Iverson, Comparable, Anthony Walker, Raheem, Marbury, Kiedles and so on. This is rare in any era. It stands to reason that the competition for the best rookie should be very fierce, because there are too many good rookies in the golden generation.

But - there is a man named Kobe.

Averaged 29.2 points, 4.2 rebounds, 7.8 assists, 2.1 steals, 0.8 blocks and 3.1 turnovers per game.

Can anyone match this performance? Kobe's comparison object is no longer a rookie. And those superstars in history.