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Chapter 304 Goal - The Youngest MVP in History
After the sun fell, the Rockets did not encounter any decent resistance behind them, such as the Nets, Kings, and Bobcats.The Hornets, Pistons, and 76ers are all teams in the lottery zone. They have no intention of defeating the Rockets. This season is very polarized. Some teams will fight for the playoffs. Some teams are headed towards the goal of the draft from the very beginning, and they have all kinds of tricks from the beginning. Compared with the battle between the strong teams for the home court advantage of the playoffs, it is different from the beginning to compete for the regular season rankings. , they also have a style of fighting from the beginning of the regular season, every team of this type is acting, every team of this type is eager to lose, although even the league No. 1 from the bottom, they are not sure to win the No. [-] pick, but at least they are one step closer to the top pick.

Although next year is not a big draft year, Kyrie Irving is undoubtedly a big favorite in the draft. The future Uncle Drew is still playing at the University of Southern California, but in terms of offensiveness, all scouts who observe him already think that he It will not be worse than some qualified starting point guards in the NBA. His historical level of ball sense is the key to Irving's success. His dribbling is very good. Unconstrained breakthrough skills to disintegrate the opponent's double-team. Now Kyrie Irving's mid-range shooting and three-pointers are not very good, but Irving is obviously aware of this problem. He also began to practice his shooting skills hard in college. It's hard to imagine how terrible it will be for this friend who can average 16+ points per game just by making breakthroughs. At least all teams without star point guards won the No. [-] pick. Are you hesitant to choose him to join your team as the cornerstone?

In addition to Owen, the insiders in this year's draft are also very interesting. Biyombo, the third-generation uncle in Africa, Valanciunas, the Lithuanian behemoth, and Tristan Thompson, who is very famous in later generations. A full-fledged insider with excellent jumping ability is the meat and potatoes that all major teams need. Of course, none of these guys are very good. Totoro who has crossed knows that this year's top ten rookies except Uncle Drew , only Kemba Walker with the No. 9 pick has played a little bit, and all other rookies have no stars at all. On the contrary, it is Buddha with the 11th pick, Kawhi Leonard with the 15th pick, and Kawhi Leonard with the 30th pick. Jimmy Butler, Isaiah Thomas with the 60th overall pick, played more or less an All-Star presence.

However, the traverser is a great advantage. Other teams have not cheated. They can't know who will be able to play and who will not be able to play in the next few years. Now Thompson is just a three-shot in the eyes of the bricks. A white big man with points but no defense and breakthrough. The specific positioning is similar to that of Novak in the Rockets. Kawhi has a little bit of any ability, but no ability is outstanding. Not to mention Isaiah Thomas, scouts didn't pay attention to him at all, and no one would think that a small man with 175 could make a name for himself in the NBA.

Therefore, in their eyes, the potential rookies this year are still the first few rookies whose talents can be seen with the naked eye. As a draft Mavericks, if they want to win, they need to get a good ranking in this year's regular season. So when they heard that they were playing against the Rockets, other strong teams were frowning, but these poor teams were happy, because they could finally lose openly, and no one would blame them if they couldn't beat the league. There is no need to worry about the ball market and public opinion, anyway, no one has any hope for them before the start of the game.

When David Stern was here, the league did not object to the team's rest. Although the league has always encouraged stars to participate frequently to stimulate the market, but when the team has its own plans, the league will not take compulsory measures to interfere. The Spurs The team's Popovich is a master of this. It is not surprising that the young and strong Spurs can win the championship, but the old Spurs can still win a championship in the 2013-2014 season. I have to say that this is the old Popovich. The skill of taking turns off is reflected.

Adelman has also recently started a large-scale rotation in the Rockets. It can be seen from the fact that he let Yao recover from a minor injury at the beginning of the game. Apart from the regular season record, this red-nosed old man pays more attention to the team. When encountering a weak team, Adelman will always rest a few main players in a timely manner, giving more playing time to the substitutes and rookies, and those who always focus on the regular season and want to achieve results The coaches are different. Ashuai is also a good coach who is very considerate of his own players.

It’s just that Adelman can rest others, but he dare not rest Totoro, because now the Rockets can see the ambition of Totoro this season as long as they are not a fool. He wants to take the most valuable of this regular season. players.

Before him, the youngest most valuable player record holder in NBA history was Wes Unseld. In the 1968-69 season, Unseld was elected as the MVP at the age of 23 years and 9 days. The record has been in dust for almost 42 years.

Chinchilla is only a little over 20 years old this year, and he still has nearly two and a half years to break this record, but Chinchilla does not want to leave the opportunity until later, he wants to complete his established goal this season Goal, because this year he already has complete conditions to fight for all the personal honors he wants.

Team records, personal data, of course, the most important thing for MVP is the number of games played. People who have full attendance will always have more capital to compete for this award than those who do not sleep, because what MVP values ​​is the contribution to the team. Even bigger, if a head star misses too many games, who can prove that the team's good record is brought up by him alone?

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