937. We All Love Sewers (4th More Recommendation Vote)
After returning to the hotel, his agent was already waiting for him in his room to return.
The Great Crisis!
40+ quasi-triple-double, won in Maddison, James performed so well, but the headlines on major websites after the game were the news that Sun Ce got the 34th triple-double of his career, tying James and ranking 6th on the all-time triple-double list.
Seeing James return, Rich Paul, the nominal owner of James' newly formed agency, Cruge Sports Group, greeted him and said, "KING, things aren't going well right now. ”
"I know." James walked into the living room, put things down, and just wanted to say something, he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "I have already excluded the lord from the ranks of MVP competitors, even if he won the best of the month in January and February, I don't think he can win MVP again, it is difficult to win MVP for two consecutive years, but now ......"
James said silently, it was so hard! James never thought that a guy who won the MVP at the age of 21 would have a chance to be the MVP at the age of 22!
He is currently averaging 42 minutes per game, averaging 28 points, 8.2 boards, 8.3 assists, 1.9 steals and 1 block per game, with a shooting rate of 53 percent, a career high, and a three-point shooting rate of 37 percent, which is also a career high......
Also, it was a performance he played without a referee's whistle and even dropped to a new low of 7.8 free throws per game since his sophomore year, and in the more than a year since joining the Heat, his skills have improved significantly in all aspects.
But as soon as he overpowered Rose and Evans and Durant in terms of public opinion, the guy he admired was threatening him from another angle.
Rich Paul turned on his laptop, and the screen was the stats he had listed while waiting for James to come back: "KING, your current overall efficiency is completely around the Lords except for rebounding and blocking, and due to the short schedule this season, there will not be a particularly huge gap in records, as long as it is the top three in the East and West, there is not much difference in the sense of record, the difference between 45+ wins and 50+ wins."
I just talked to the guys at the company, and before tonight, we all felt that you had the best chance of being the MVP this season, and that you were going one step further on the defensive end this season, limiting opponents to just 96 points per 100 possessions.
This kind of performance is higher than Tyson Chandler, Tony Allen, and Duncan, who limit opponents to 100 points per 100 possessions, Mark Gasol and Dwight Howard with 99 points, and Serge Ibaka and Garnett with 98 points.
Even if you don't win the Defensive Player of the Year, it will greatly increase your chances of winning the MVP......"
Listening to Richie Paul's analysis, James kept nodding.
He has worked so hard this season, and he has worked the defensive end more than he has worked hard in any previous year, just to maximize his probability of winning the MVP.
For a player of his calibre, the rewards for hard work are obviously quite significant.
His performance this season, although his reputation is still very poor, no one can deny that he is the first person in the league, and when Sun Ce and Jeremy Lin were at the height of the showdown during the All-Star Weekend, some people compared him, and felt that his average performance throughout the season was not worse than the performance of the two in their highlight moments.
The best defensive player only looks at defense, but MVP is a comprehensive performance, and James's strong defensive performance has helped him a lot to score MVP points.
Originally, everything was going well, but now suddenly there is a change!
"Now it's not a question of whether we perform well or not, KING, your performance this season is already the best in the league, but once the Lords are regarded as MVP candidates, those media and fans who oppose you will compare you with the strong aspects of the Lords, the rebounding gap can be offset by points, the block gap can be offset by assists, the effect of the help defense is similar to you, the single defense is much stronger than him, and he is the defending MVP, this performance is not enough.
But the three doubles are too powerful, although we, the media, and the fans all know that the three doubles are nothing, but this time it will definitely be used by the media as a weapon to manipulate public opinion. ”
This is very true, James agrees, although the number of triple-doubles is not a particularly important thing in the whole career, but this season is very important, because he and Sun Ce are directly compared!
"At present, I predict that there are two scenarios for the ownership of MVP, one is that the lord compares King to you, and he competes with Durant, Rose, and Evans for MVP;
On the other hand, if the lord is not really considered to be the MVP of the banker, then you are still the MVP favorite, but this is very unlikely. Rich Paul summed up the situation.
"That guy compared me to me, isn't he the number one favorite for MVP?" James questioned this time.
"It's an honor that those media are just looking for someone who can suppress your MVP probability, it may not matter who it is, after you are suppressed, others still have to compete." Rich Paul shrugged, not to mention the rest of the rest, James himself is to blame.
At that time, if I had thanked my old club, begged for the understanding of my old club's fans, and expressed my desire for the championship, nothing would have happened, and even if there were, it would not have been like this.
James knew what Rich Paul didn't finish and didn't answer, who said people don't regret it, he really regretted it, and that incident had a big impact on his business value.
Rich Paul continued: "I don't think the Lords' triple-doubles this season should be much worse than last season, and you, KING, you've done your best, triple-doubles shouldn't be a factor that affects you to win the MVP, but public opinion has a big impact on the MVP, and we can use this season as a foreshadowing to get the fans to recognize your performance and come back next season ......"
"This season is important for us!" James emphasized, "How could I give up because of something like this? Isn't it just a triple pair? I can too. ”
"You've fought so hard this season, I'm worried about your physical ......"
"It's okay, I'm the strongest LeBron James in the universe!"
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"Emperor Eater: MVP Journey Phase 5 Event,
Goal: By the end of the 2011-2012 regular season, the host's career triple-doubles will be higher than LeBron James' career triple-doubles.
Event Reward: 1 experience card for the top 10 random players on the NBA all-time triple-double list as of the 11-12 season.
Failure penalty: 1. The event in this stage is scored as C. 2. For the host, the public opinion effect should not be expanded for two consecutive seasons to win the regular season MVP. ”
Sun Ce, who returned to the hotel, watched the incident and watched the Internet begin to hype the fact that he and James had the same number of career triple-doubles......
This is the first time this season so far that he has been truly included in the regular season MVP discussion.
Even though he has been ranked first in the MVP rankings for 7 weeks and 4 times of the Weekly Championship so far this season, both of which are ranked first in the league, Rose has been the most vocal MVP before, Kobe Bryant and Parker are second, Evans and Durant are third, James is fourth, and his grandson is only fifth.
The reason is very simple, he won the MVP last year, and at the beginning of his career, it is already difficult to consolidate and strengthen the performance he played last season, and there is no qualitative improvement in strength, and the performance is the same.
It's rare to be able to continue to make steady progress after getting a big contract in the third season after playing such an amazing sophomore year, which is incredible, and it has smashed the faces of a lot of people with "talent ceiling theory".
But his continued improvement this season is shocking and does not conflict with the negative attitude of public opinion towards him as Lianzhuang MVP, Lianzhuang MVP should have crushed all opponents, and Sun Ce is still a little short, James is obviously the best player this season.
If Sun Ce didn't win the MVP last season, there would be no such problem, the key is that he won it!
And after All-Star Weekend, after their Grizzlies' 11-game winning streak passed, James' call for an MVP became louder and louder.
Sun Ce is also waiting for an opportunity for the media and fans to list him as an MVP candidate, so that people can recognize him as enough to win the MVP of Lianzhuang.
Now the opportunity has come, but this opportunity ...... Sun Ce felt that it was better to look forward to getting lucky and getting a Durant card and Kobe Bryant to score a wave of points.
And James than a triple-double?
If public opinion did not take the triple-double so seriously and did not use it as a tool to suppress James, who is currently gaining momentum, Sun Ce is not afraid, the opponent has too many quasi-triple-doubles to count, and he did not deliberately brush the triple-double.
But this does not mean that James is not capable of getting a triple-double, on the contrary, Sun Ce feels that James can really average a triple-double per game, if Sun Ce doesn't know the way that guy plays, he thinks that it should be impossible to average a triple-double per game, but it turns out that nothing is impossible......
Moreover, James's desperateness this season is obvious to all, and Sun Ce knows that James desperately wants to win the MVP.
Of course, Sun Ce doesn't think James will sacrifice the team to satisfy his triple-double, if he loses because he is going to get a triple-double, obviously James will also lose the opportunity to win the MVP, after all, at this stage of the season, James has no chance to average a triple-double per game, and the Heat are the favorites to win the championship, James will not get a triple-double at the expense of the team.
However, the Heat team is strong, and in the East, most of the remaining games are played with Eastern teams, and there are many weak teams in the East......
Sun Ce just deliberately checked the Heat's record and schedule.
The Heat currently play 44 games, 30-14 and sit second in the East, with 22 games remaining, including 14 opponents who are non-playoff teams, mostly Eastern Conference teams.
Even if James only got a triple-double in half of these games, there are 7 games! And there is no guarantee that James will not get a triple-double if he plays a strong team, but he is more likely to get a triple-double, and playing a weak team will also hinder face, in case the point difference is too big and it is too early to enter the garbage time, Sun Ce doesn't think James will be cheeky to brush it.
But at least according to 7-10 games, their Grizzlies also have 22 games left, that is, in the remaining 22 games, he must ensure that he has 11 or more triple-doubles to ensure that he will have more triple-doubles than James in his career this season!
Moreover, because the media strangely took the triple-double so seriously, it also affected his competition for MVP.
In other words, whether it is for the MVP itself or an incident related to James, this staged event must be completed, not to mention anything else, and it should not even be the effect of the public opinion of Zhuang MVP.
Sun Ce didn't just want to compete for MVP because of the incident, he didn't think he had a chance to be the MVP at first, and when the opportunity was in front of him, he would certainly go for it.
Who wouldn't want to win MVP?
Sun Ce determined that James also very much wants an MVP to reverse his image, no matter how many people oppose him winning the MVP, as long as he gets it, he can occupy the advantage of public opinion, for example, his fans can use this to refute the fans and media who oppose James.
Public opinion is very important, and what can reverse public opinion is real honor.
adjusted his emotions, the matter has come to this point, and Sun Ce can only bite the bullet!
"Should my grandson go buy an eye mask or something to change his look? The Green Hornet's blindfold is pretty good......
Hey, I didn't expect that LeBron, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, is going to love the sewer, and the world is getting worse and the rest of the people's hearts are not ancient......"