The next day, at noon on the 20th, Zhang Yang received good news—thanks to his average of 32.6 points per ga last week, leading the team to three consecutive victories, he won his first Player of the Week award this season.
Having just completed a 4-year, $86 million contract renewal, in the season after next...
The winners of the Eastern Conference Player of the Week for the first six weeks—Jas, Howard, Wade, Jas, Howard, Bosh, Zhang San finally broke the monopoly held by the mbers of the 03 and 04 drafts.
The winner of the Western Conference Player of the Week... Duncan.
Zhang Yang saw in the news that this was Duncan’s third Player of the Week award in six seasons, which he found quite absurd.
Every year he’s selected for the double teams, but in six seasons Duncan’s weekly and monthly best awards combined don’t match what Zhang San or King achieved in one season last year.
Zhang Yang looked at the Western Conference’s first seven weeks of Player of the Week winners: Gerald Wallace, Kobe, Billups, Nowitzki, Bynum, Roy, Duncan... each week without repetition, with the Mavericks having at most two winners.
Another day passed, on the 21st, after two days of rest, the Bobcats welcod the Cavaliers’ challenge at ho.
Last ti they faced off, the Cavaliers were full of fighting spirit, but this ti, the Cavaliers were fighting desperately with only three players left.
Over the past three seasons, the Cavaliers have lost all matches against the Bobcats. Veteran players were already despairing when they saw the Bobcats. Before the last ho ga against the Bobcats, Jas gave a pre-ga motivational speech, boosting the whole team’s morale... then their six-ga winning streak was ended, and now veteran players feel even more hopeless when they see the Bobcats.
The newly joined players, except for Mo Williams who is competitive and unaffected by the team’s low morale, already share the veteran players’ sentints when they face the Bobcats—they believe it’s impossible to beat the Bobcats’ three young stars.
The other two players still fighting are the unwilling Jas and the fearless Delonte West.
Jas turned into a shot-crazy player tonight, making 11 of 26, including 2 of 5 from three-point range, and 11 of 16 free throws, scoring a ga-high 35 points.
His isolation play was still lackluster tonight, but his off-ball offense and drawing fouls were excellent.
However, besides him, only Mo Williams with 12 points and 5 assists, and Delonte West with 11 points, 3 rebounds, and 3 assists scored in double figures for the Cavaliers.
Zhang Yang hit 7 of 17 shots, including 1 of 3 from beyond the arc, and made all 10 of his free throws, scoring 25 points, 6 rebounds, 7 assists, and 3 steals to lead the Bobcats to a 101-92 victory over the Cavaliers.
The Cavaliers’ offense was poor tonight, but their defense was decent, especially in double-teaming and helping against Zhang Yang, limiting his shot attempts and field goal percentage significantly. When they couldn’t stop him, they resorted to rough fouls to prevent him from scoring in play. Unfortunately, Zhang Yang was too accurate from the free-throw line tonight, making every shot, turning the Cavaliers’ rough fouls into free points.
Zhang Yang also took advantage of the attention paid to his defense to create many opportunities for Millsap and Brad Miller to facilitate and for the wing shooters to catch and shoot. The best-performing scorer was Mike Miller, who scored the second-highest on the team with 21 points.
After this ga, in both regular season and playoffs, the Bobcats have already won 22 consecutive gas against the Cavaliers!
This is what drives Jas’ fans crazy; no matter how good Jas’ stats are, how efficient he is, or how outstanding his performance is, they can’t win argunts against Zhang Yang’s fans because their team has never beaten his in club competitions.
As for the Olympics, Jas did beat Zhang Yang once, but with teammates that strong, they each only managed a draw, winning one ga each...
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The next day, on the evening of the 21st, at Tuhang Stadium, the Celtics players and the Bobcats players entered the arena successively.
More than a month later, Mayo’s transformation surprised Zhang Yang very much—it seed he had beco sowhat more composed?
At the beginning of the season, Mayo kept dissing him before the ga. During interviews, his speaking speed was so fast that it would be a waste if he didn’t beco a rapper.
This ti, before the ga, Zhang Yang did not see Mayo making any statents.
The changes didn’t stop there. After entering the arena, when Mayo looked at Zhang Yang, his gaze was still full of hostility but wasn’t provocatively fixed like last ti. Instead, the gaze seed sowhat... determined?
Zhang San: Is this still the ’Super Jordan’ I knew?
If Mayo knew what Zhang Yang was thinking, he would definitely shout at him—do you know how I have been living during this ti?
Half a year ago, when the Celtics just picked Mayo with the 7th pick, Boston fans were dissatisfied. They hoped the draft pick would be Joe Aleksandar.
Joe Aleksandar’s template—a more athletic version of Big Bird, with top-tier running and jumping ability, slender, with a soft shooting touch, and enthusiastic about showcasing his skills.
In his last college year, he scored an average of 16.9 points on 58% shooting with diverse scoring thods and could play at both the 3 and 4 positions.
Most importantly, he is white...
Rough draft, disliked by the ho team fans all sumr, as the rookie season began, Mayo put his all into it; in the first week he averaged over 20 points, the first month’s average was over 19 points, and with the frontcourt duo, led the team to a 9-6 record, ranking sixth in the East, which was impressive and won the cheers of the ho fans and praise from local dia and fans.
However, by December, with more strong opponents coming, and most importantly, opponents paying more attention to their newly rising team, they suffered a five-ga losing streak, and the previous flowers and applause vanished, the dia and fans began to criticize them again.
Even Mayo, who averaged 14 points and 5 assists during these 5 gas, i.e., entering the ’rookie wall’, heard boos and insults at ho gas.
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