Chapter 777: 331. Ticket King! _2
Average 5.5 assists, which is quite difficult for Zhang Yang, purely pulled up by 11 assists in a single ga against the Nuggets last night.
Basically, he saw that he was only two points away from 40 5 5 in a single week, and his obsessive-compulsive disorder kicked in.
Over in the West, the Player of the Week award went to Kobe, with the Lakers winning all four gas last week. Kobe averaged 31 points, 6 rebounds, 4.5 assists, and 1.5 steals.
After accepting the award and finishing the dia interview, Zhang Yang did not stay behind for extra practice and went ho to rest.
While surfing the internet, he ca across a report – four super scorers with a mid-season scoring increase bucking the trend.
So far this season, players averaging 20 points per ga have mostly seen their scoring decrease in January. Those with strong abilities have seen a smaller decrease, but most marked a decline.
Only four players averaging 20 points had a scoring increase –
On January 1st, Kobe’s average score was 26.8 points, by the end of this month, it reached 27.9 points.
Iverson’s average on January 1st was 25.8 points, currently averaging 26.5 points.
Jas on January 1st had an average of 31.7 points, now averaging 32.5 points.
Zhang Yang is the one escalating the most aggressively, starting from the ga against the Bucks where he scored 42 points. In the current 9 gas, he’s averaging 40.2 points, boosting his average to 33.4 points, lifting it by 2.2 points over these 9 gas, surpassing Jas, and steadily widening the gap.
The report is quite popular, with lots of comnts. Zhang Yang went through them and saw many reasonable analyses.
For instance, the analysis on the causes of their mid-season scoring rise – the team needs them to score more.
For Kobe, teammates Kidd and Garnett, their scoring abilities seed insufficiently strong in mid-season, requiring Kobe to shoot more.
Jas is the Cavaliers’ only top-tier scorer, with Larry Hughes’ average dropping to 15 points due to injuries and less ball possession, and Big Z aging quickly, regardless of the reasons, Jas scoring aggressively is positive for the Cavaliers.
On Iverson’s side, Anthony’s lackluster scoring performance in January necessitated more shots.
Anthony actually has a tough style, with an average of 2.4 offensive rebounds per ga, ranking first among all small forwards in the league, nearly 1 more than Jas, whose main scoring thod is attacking the basket.
When it cos to catch-and-shoot and clutch shots, Anthony isn’t slacking.
The ‘soft’ side of Anthony is that he doesn’t seem to have a lot of competitive spirit, not playing with as much vigor as Jas did this mid-season.
Zhang Yang rembers the confrontation earlier in the month, where he scored 60 points, overshadowing Iverson’s 40 10; in a post-match interview, Anthony stated: “I feel really lucky to witness such a spectacular matchup.”
Zhang Yang finds it difficult to evaluate Anthony’s mindset in playing, perhaps this is the core reason why Anthony is surpassed by Jas and the gap is widening.
No matter what Jas thinks internally, when it’s ti to play hard, he truly gives it his all.
There’s no need to elaborate on Iverson, NBA’s king of attempts for many consecutive years, and Kobe also insists on throwing even when told not to.
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The last day of January 2008 arrived.
Early past 8 o’clock in the morning, Felton, after half a month, ca early to the gym again, changed into his training gear, walked to the 3rd practice court, pushed the door forcefully, and shouted: “Kids, Daddy’s back!”
Felton was greeted by the breath saring from his junior comrades and punches and kicks.
After ssing around for a while, the Big Brother Group comnced the pre-ga mini-eting with the leader back after more than half a month.
Today’s eting atmosphere was particularly high spirited, everyone is thrilled about Felton’s return from injury.
Mike Miller was one of the most excited individuals.
Reflecting on the past 5 away gas, he felt it was incredibly tough!
For this series of 5 away gas, his average attempts per ga nearly doubled compared to the previous 30 plus matches, averaging 19 attempts, nearly exhausting him.
Last season, he was used as the first scoring option with the Grizzlies, playing close to 40 minutes per ga, shooting only about 15 tis per ga; that was already his limit, as the main scoring point, he could handle only that many shots.
It’s only with the Bobcats, 80% of his shots are open spot-up shots, catch-and-shoot after running into position, catch-and-shoot while trailing, nearly all shots are uncontested catch-and-shoot, only getting by because opponents’ defense was poor in these gas.
But this has already nearly worn him out, when playing against the Suns, he was almost unable to shoot anymore, after resting for two days and then playing the Nuggets, he recovered enough to go for it again.
If this playing style continues, he estimates he wouldn’t even make it to the All-Star break, ending up sidelined like Hill and Okafor.
After playing one season as the number one scorer with the Grizzlies, he has co to terms with reality, acknowledging his inability to be a star, rely a drag shooter.
He doesn’t feel very unyielding because of this, every player has different strength levels, suitable roles for themselves, forcing oneself to do unsuitable things or things beyond one’s ability leads to no good outco.
There was soone even more excited than Mike Miller.
Coach Lue: Finally, I can comfortably be an ‘intern assistant coach’ again!
During this 5 away gas, he averaged 20 minutes, most of the ti just digging holes, finding open shots but failing to make them, over 5 gas threw 10 three-pointers, almost all open, yet only made 3.
Aside from rhythm control and good timing on positioning and cuts, there’s little else to praise, the once-proud speed is also gone now.
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