You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 81
In mid-April, Wei Xia officially announced that he would stay in school for one year.

reason?

"The national championship is an experience that many players are proud of, and I want to have this experience." This is what Wei Xia said to the outside world.

Draft expert Chad Ford thinks Wesha made the wrong decision.

"Now is the best time for Wish's draft prospects. He is not the kind of player with a very high ceiling. We can see his ceiling at a glance. Playing in the college league for one more year will have a lot of adverse effects on his draft prospects. If his improvement next year does not meet expectations, he is likely to fall to the end of the first round or even the second round."

Ford's friend, ESPN columnist Bill Simmons unequivocally opposed him: "I think Wish is right. You can never take a year or two to judge a player's career. Talent is not absolute. He has advantages beyond talent."

The quarrel between the media people has nothing to do with Wei Xia. Now he has to maintain normal training, complete the homework assigned to him by the school, and raise his credits to above-average.

For a period of time after that, the NBA playoffs attracted the attention of many crowds.

As history shows.

The Pistons traded for Rasheed Wallace on the trade deadline to make them the most powerful team in the East, while the Lakers in the West experienced a 0.4-second lore against the Spurs and six games in the conference finals.

In the final, the F82 Tiantuan, which claimed to have 4 wins at the beginning of the season, not only failed to achieve results, but was eliminated by the Motor City within five games.

Wei Xia watched the whole process of the final at his home in Philadelphia. If he wants to find the person responsible for the loss, Gary Payton cannot escape.

He was beaten to pieces by Billups. For a while, Zen Master even arranged for Kobe to defend Billups. The F4 battleship looks magnificent, but it is actually fragile inside.

During the regular season, Payton averaged 14+6 per game and his shooting percentage was as high as 47%. But in the finals, he surrendered an epic diving performance with an average of 3 points per game and a shooting percentage of 32%. Billups played the best series of his career and won the FMVP.

Payton's blood collapse led to the collapse of the dominoes, and the Lakers were at a loss for what to do.

Payton has always been the starter, averaging 33.6 minutes per game. He couldn't score, couldn't defend, and his legs and feet were sluggish, like a classic car, forcing the Lakers to frequently adjust their tactics just to fill in the holes.The numbers aren't enough to show just how bad he is.

A typical moment.

With 2 minutes and 3 seconds left in the third quarter of Game 30, the Lakers served. Payton took the ball in the backcourt and faced Billups and Hamilton's frontcourt pressing.He stops the ball inexplicably, Kobe wants to respond, and Prince's long arm interferes in place.Payton couldn't get the ball out, probably because he was worried about the eight-second violation, and he was anxious, and his foot movements were not clear. In less than four seconds, he walked away.

The second responsible person is Malone.He was injured, there is no need to take the blame, and no one wants to be injured. This is not his subjective behavior, but his injury made the Lakers unable to play pick-and-rolls, and an important part of the tactics was missing.More importantly, he hit the Lakers' interior depth hard.

Once he falls, the Lakers are left with Sharks who can't catch the ball and a series of cats and dogs that don't need to be mentioned here.

The third responsible person is Kobe Bryant, who is inefficient and ignores the shark's cancer.

If you can look at the series objectively, you should know that Kobe's responsibility is not because of his low shooting percentage. In fact, Kobe's shooting percentage is considered high in the team ([-]), and there are a lot of pot shots during the game.Because the team's tactics are tightly locked, Kobe often has to forcibly deal with the dead tactical ball.

Kobe has only two problems. One is that he failed to grasp the limited singles opportunities, failed to score the goals he usually scored, failed to force the Pistons to make tactical adjustments, and failed to play Jordan-level pressure.His biggest problem is that he starts to act recklessly when he is behind by double digits, ignoring his teammates in singles, but his singles ability is obviously not high. The Lakers, who are behind by a large score, encounter Kobe who is not in the state, and it is naturally worse.

⑴ The average points and shooting percentage of the other Lakers in the series, Fisher, 6.4 points, 30.6% shooting, Devin George, 5.8 points, 39.3 shooting, Medvedenko, 3.6 points, 35.3% shooting, Rush, 3.6 points, 31.8% shooting, Walton Jr., 3.3 points, 38.5% shooting, Cook, 1.3 points, 18.7% shooting , Fox, 2.7 points, 57.1% shooting (less than 2 shots per game, meaningless) Oh, by the way, the second elder in F4 should also be added.Malone, 5.0 points, shooting 33.3% from the field, Payton, 3.0 points, shooting 32.1% from the field.

Compared with them, does Kobe average 24 points per game and shoot 38% from the field? Doesn't it look so bad?

The most important question, why can't the Sharks catch the ball?
The problem isn't that he can't catch the ball, it's that he hasn't had it since the playoffs in 2003-04.

He averaged 13 shots per game against the Rockets in the first round, 14 shots per game against the Spurs in the second round, 14 shots per game against the Timberwolves in the conference finals, and 16 shots per game against the Pistons in the finals.

If you increase the volume a little bit more, counting the regular season, he only averaged 14.1 shots per game.Well, even so, it is possible that Kobe used his mind to control Payton/Fisher and others not to pass the ball to him, so open your eyes and look back.The Sharks averaged 05 shots per game with the Heat in 15, 04 times more than the Lakers in 0.4, so Wade doesn't pass the ball? In 06, he averaged only 13.6 shots per game in the Heat. Wade is alone?Needless to say after that, the number of shots has gradually declined, which is related to the rules, and the aging of the Sharks cannot be ignored.

(Writing these only hope that some people can view the so-called "Kobe does not pass the ball to Sharks" more intuitively.)
Kobe is not a point guard, he can't decide whose hands the ball goes to, what he needs is not the right to the ball, but the right to shoot.The direct reason for the Sharks not being able to catch the ball is that after the legalization of the Pistons' defense and zone defense, the living environment for traditional centers has become increasingly difficult. Encountering the Pistons, who are capable of limiting the opponent's scoring average to less than 75 points per game for five consecutive games, how easy is it to catch the ball?Looking at the shooting percentages of those above, it is not their fault, but the Lakers' offensive system has been destroyed by the Pistons' defense.

In summary, Wei Xia (I) thinks that the Lakers' F4 defeat to the Pistons is nothing tricky. What kind of infighting, Kobe's non-passing is just nonsense.

After watching the finals, Wei Xia will also start preparing for his sophomore season.

This is his last college season, and before entering the draft next year, he hopes to play a perfect performance and help the team succeed in the new season.

(End of this chapter)