The next morning, after Zhang Yang had breakfast, he spent so leisure ti before leaving by checking the news on his computer. He couldn’t suppress a smile.
He, Zhang San, dominated all the major portal sites!
In the sports forums, he was also everywhere.
On various search engines, there were multiple trending topics related to him.
In the first ga of the Finals, he hit 8 three-pointers, breaking the single-ga Finals record for threes; in four consecutive rounds of the series, he scored over 40 in the first ga, continuing to break historical records... Zhang San earned a new nickna—G1 Zhang.
"Epoch-defining three-point shooter," "G1 King," "Strongest Scoring King," "Strongest Shooter"... The news headlines were as exaggerated as they could be.
Most of the news he just found amusing, but there were so that caught his attention, and he took a closer look.
Such as the article listing his performances in the 12 series openers labeled ’G1 King’.
This year, he did great in every round’s first ga, he surely knew that, always over 40 points, including 51 points in the East Final G1, but he hadn’t realized that in the previous three years, across eight series, his G1 performances were mostly outstanding as well.
In his playoff debut against the Cavaliers, he secured a ga-high 22 points with a stellar shooting of 15 for 8, just 38 days shy of his 18th birthday, marking an illustrious playoff debut.
In his sophomore year, in four G1s, he recorded over 30 in the first three rounds, only under 30 points in the Finals G1 against the Spurs.
Last season, in two G1s, both were over 30, and this year was even more impressive, with 45, 41, 51, and 43 points.
Across 12 G1s he played, only in his rookie year’s second round against the Pistons, as an off-ball shooter then, he was chased down by Hamilton, resulting in 10 points with a 30% shooting rate.
Being called a ’King’ in so aspect, as long as it’s not ’Pit King’, ’Water King’... these sorts of ’King’, is not a bad thing, it’s impressive, even if it’s ’Iron King’.
The current ’Iron King,’ The Answer Iverson, has 11,500 iron (misses), surpassing the ’Eight-ti runner-up’ Baylor; ahead of The Answer, is the God of Basketball’s 12,345 iron.
Zhang Yang, upon seeing Jordan’s career misses, suspected this guy counted his misses in his final ga.
In that ga, Jordan was on the court for 28 minutes, nearly all facing Iverson’s singular defense. In that year of full attendance, with a 44.5% shooting average of 20 points a ga, mainly low-post backing, he was defended by Iverson to just 6 of 15 shooting in the first three quarters. It seed quite absurd, especially in the last 3 minutes with the ga trailing by 20, Jordan reentered to bid farewell to fans, without attempting a shot, while the accompanying Iverson repeatedly shouted ’Myke’ during 3 minutes and missed 3 tis...
Being called ’G1 King’ naturally made Zhang Yang happy, as this nickna was earned through sheer effort ga by ga, but thinking deeper, does an outstanding G1 an he ’starts high and goes low’ in every series?
He checked the 12 series he played, rookie year’s weren’t valid references, mainly analyzing the last three years, and after analysis, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Indeed, after each G1, his G2 scores would fall significantly, but assists often increased a lot, as opponents would tighten defenses on him due to his G1 performance, benefiting his teammates’ scoring environnt.
His scoring often ward up again by G3, leading to a relatively stable trend in subsequent gas, and when key matches ca up, requiring his critical steps up, he didn’t lack explosive performances. His way of exploding, of course, was scoring; his philosophy was scoring first, like 44 points in the 07 East Final G6, and this year’s second round Ga 7 was a ga-high of 34 points.
In conclusion, he believed, although he often delivered the best performance of the series in G1, it’s really not ’high start, low finish’.
As for constantly ’exploding’ in G1, he analyzed the reason—his progress exceeded his opponents’ estimation.
Preparing for a series definitely involves referencing recent direct match-up experiences, but from the last regular season eting to encountering again in the playoffs, quite so ti might have passed, like with the Lakers; the last regular ga was in early April, now it’s early June, two months have passed.
By G3 and G4 his scoring tended to stabilize, understandable, as after all playoff teams, no matter how much progress he made, after two or three gas, they could target him effectively.
The notably distinct G1 performance this year, probably was due to the situation heatedly discussed during the East Final—Zhang San’s accumulation over the first four years of his career erupted in this year’s playoffs.
Will the Lakers target him even more tomorrow? Based on past series, they probably will, which is a point that can be leveraged...
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Approaching noon, Zhang Yang arrived at Tuhang Stadium to grab a nutritious lunch.
The Big Brother Group mbers were also there. The prep eting started at 1:30 PM, so they chatted about last night’s ga after eating.
Okafor started, "I watched last night’s tape twice at the stadium this morning, and I think we won quite easily and luckily."
Zhang Yang agreed, "I feel the sa, Ariza and Garnett shot terribly from a distance last night. Our opening defensive targets were t very easily, not very telling."
Hill chid in, "Yeah, we can’t expect such a situation to beco routine, we need to be prepared for an ineffective defense, and the Lakers’ defense is really scary. I rember we got 29 points in the first quarter and 24 in the third, but we finished the ga with only 90 points..."
Millsap added, "Yeah, if it weren’t for Jack holding off Kobe in the third quarter, and Jack and Boss opening the last quarter with back-to-back 2 1s, we might have been overturned..."
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