Chapter 625: Consolation Prize
On April 18, the NBA's official website reported that the winners of the 2009-10 Defensive Player of the Year were officially announced, and Los Angeles Clippers center Ji Guoqiu was elected DPOY for the second consecutive year. The Clippers are currently facing the Memphis Grizzlies in the first round of the playoffs, and Grizzlies head coach Hollins called Ji Guoqiu the "Wonder Panda".
This season, Ji Guoqiu has set a number of all-time records, of which defense accounts for a large part, and rebounding, free throws and blocks all lead the league. Not only that, Ji Guoqiu also set the highest free throw shooting rate in the season, and was called "the strongest free throw machine in history" by fans.
Ji Guoqiu scored a total of 560 points in the selection, including 101 first-place votes, and only 122 people participated in the vote. Dwight of the Magic. Howard was second with 150 points, and Ji was third with 140 points.
"I think the MVP is judged by how many points a player scores, and that's fine, but defense wins championships and wins games. So, I hope that those who like to play basketball don't think about scoring as the only thing, and can try more other positions and roles, maybe you don't find your precious talent. β
Clippers coach Dunleavy Sr. said: "I think this is a very high recognition of Brother Panda, who is only 22 years old now, but he has won two awards. β
Ji Guoqiu was the youngest DPOY winner in history last season, and he has a good chance of winning this award in the future. It's a nightmare for any opponent to have a Panda brother on the inside, and the Clippers are shooting just 42.8 percent from the field this season, although that's not his credit alone. But Ji Guoqiu, who guarded the last level of the basket, made great contributions.
Billups used to be with another best defensive player, Ben. Wallace was a teammate for many years. He spoke very highly of Ji Guoqiu: "You know. Brother Panda will definitely win the award, he has a natural instinct to defend, and his talent is even better than Ben. "If we want to win games, we have to play around the Pandas, he's not only the heart of our defense, he's the heart of our playmaking, I've never seen a player like him, I think he's the current Bill. Russell. β
Ji Guoyi was squatting in the corner at this moment and secretly sad: "Can't you see my defense?" Without me, the rain comes and the wind goes. Plugging in the gaps everywhere in the southeast and northwest, can the dead panda be so beautiful? β
The winner of the NBA2009-10 Rookie of the Year season, Memphis Grizzlies power forward Blake Brown. Griffin was elected.
In his rookie season, Griffin averaged 19.1 points, 8.6 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.0 blocks per game, which is not much inferior to the animal brothers' first season.
Grizzlies coach Hollins said, "From the day he joined the team, when other players saw him playing, they volunteered to follow his command. β
The Grizzlies general manager also said, "You're going to see him become a real big insider, and it's very meaningful that he's shown his abilities from the first week of the regular season." β
Blake. The overall table of Griffin's first season was very good. His run, his control of the ball. His shooting, his self-confidence, and his toughness all give the Grizzlies as much confidence in the future as Durant does for the Thunder.
Of the 123 voters who voted, 51 voted for Griffin, and another superstar seedling, Evans, lost the team's record but also received 45 votes to Curry's 20.
Evans is the strongest rookie center guard in recent years, and he is the leading scorer of this rookie at 20.1 points per game, making him the fourth rookie in the past decade to score 20+ points in his rookie season. Evans ranked fifth in rebounds (5.3), second in assists (5.8) and second in steals (1.51).
In addition, Evans is also the fourth player in history to average 20 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists per game in his rookie season. Robertson, Michael? Jordan and LeBron? James.
Looking at it this way, Griffin's advantage is not big, just like Jordan and Olajuwon, although everyone knows that Jordan has great potential, but interior players are more important to a team, and most teams still want to pick an equally good interior player when faced with a choice. In the selection of awards, the inside line is also superior.
Contrary to his style of play, Griffin is a relatively low-key and reserved player, and after winning the award, he briefly said: "I want to take on more of a leader role and help the team as much as I can." "Griffin's personality is relatively introverted, but it doesn't mean that he is soft, he dares to take responsibility and dare to express himself.
Since the 03 generation in the NBA, these superstars are all good in terms of personality, and there are few guys who are perverse and alternative like Rodman, and even Ji Guoyi has actually not done anything to damage the reputation of the league.
Other representatives of the league, such as James, Anthony, Bosh, Howard, Paul, Durant, and Ji Guoqiu, have not caused trouble for the league off the court, and they are all good babies off the court. Secondly, Wade and Ji Guoyi, these more sassy guys, are actually much stronger than the older generation of stars, at most there are some disgraceful records of calling chickens and fighting, but C poison, X poison, strong J and other bad incidents have not happened at all, David. Stern does a good job in this regard, and the image of the NBA is much better than that of the 80s and 90s.
2009-2010 Sixth Man of the Season Winner - Jamal Crawford.
In this category, players have been on the bench more than starters in the season, and Crawford has played all 79 regular season games this season, fully qualifying.
Crawford's average playing time this season has dropped to 28 minutes per game, and his personal tally is only 16.5 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game, but Crawford's shooting percentage has improved a lot from last season, shooting 45.5% for the first time. He also shot 40.2 percent from three-point range. Such a number is also a personal record for Crawford. Among the many candidates for the best sixth person. Crawford was the one with the highest shooting percentage, so the award was given to him in the end.
A total of 122 journalists and narrators from the United States and Canada participated in the award for Best Sixth Man, and Crawford received 82 first-choice votes and 455 points, far more than Jason, who received only 24 first-choice votes and 290 points. Terry, without controversy, received the award.
There was drama in the 2009-2010 Most Improved Player award, with the two most voted not former role players and young players, but two rookie kings who don't need to be justified by the award.
Ji Guoyi and Durant fought for a season in the title of "scoring champion" this season, and in the end, Ji Guoyi relied on the team's stronger overall ability. Killed the small schoolbag that was still being grabbed from him in the Thunder.
The Foxes had the best season of his career, averaging 33.2 points, 10.4 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game this season, and improving his scoring average by a whopping 6.1 points per game from last season. Among all the players in the NBA who have qualified for selection, Ji Guoyi's average points per game increase ranks second, but if you talk about gold content, Ji Guozhi is obviously higher.
If a player increases from 12 to 20 points per game, it is certainly not as difficult as increasing from 27 to 33 points. After a player averages more than 25 points per game, it is much more difficult to improve, and a player like Ji Guoyi who has increased from 27 points to 33 points in a season is rare in the entire NBA history.
General. The number of individual players has increased dramatically, and the team's record usually changes in the opposite direction. But there is no need to talk about the excellent record of the Clippers this season, so this year's Clippers players will have a great advantage if they want to compete with others for honors, Crawford is the same, and Ji Guosha is no exception.
In the Most Improved Player award, the league invited a total of 123 sports journalists and TV commentators from the United States and Canada to write their top three choices on their ballots. Ji Guosha can score up to 615 points, he got 301 of them, and Durant got 220 of them, the gap between the two is not big, Ji Guosha beat Durant by a small margin.
However, Ji Guoyi, who won the award, couldn't be happy, why is this award so much like a consolation prize?
In the 2009-2010 season, only one team in the league had a record of more than 60 wins, the Clippers' 74 wins and 34 consecutive wins, either of which was enough for the elder Dunleavy to win the honor. Although everyone knows that the old Dunleavy is just a puppet coach with his thighs hugged, but what can he do, no one in the league can compete with him, and that's enough.
The last award, of course, is the much-anticipated Most Valuable Player award.
Kobe Bryant is good enough, he has only narrowly won one in this life, and the player who can win this award must be the best among all players in the league this season, the king of kings!
But alas, this is a Chinese civil war, and the suspense is only a matter of foxes and pandas, and nothing else at all.
The last individual award announced on the NBA's official website is the final attribution of MVP, if you look at the picture, you can't tell which guy is in the photo, but fortunately, the jersey number can still be recognized, and the clear number "6" brings Ji Guo a feeling of shame, just like the shameful video of him and little Hermione was posted on the Internet, his brain died at the time, and now what he wants most is to kill this dead panda!
The MVP winner of the 2009-2010 season was released, and the result was naturally expected, anyway, it was either the elder brother or the younger brother, and it was normal for either of these two guys to get it, and it made sense that they couldn't get it.
Ji Guoqiu became the 10th player in history to win the regular season MVP, in addition to him, Russell, Chamberlain, Abdul-Jabbar, Moses. Malone, Larry. Bird, "Magic" Johnson, Michael. Jordan, Tim. Both Duncan and Nash have been voted regular season MVPs in back-to-back roles.
However, for Ji Guoqiu, there are still records ahead of him that need to be surpassed, and at present, Bird, Russell and Chamberlain have all won MVP three times in a row, which is a super difficult challenge.
Although Ji Guoqiu has won two MVPs in a row, he has only won two MVPs so far in his career. Jordan as the greatest player in NBA history. He has won a total of five regular season MVPs in his career. But Jordan isn't the player with the most MVPs either. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has won a total of 6 MVPs in his career. And the same as Jordan. Bill. Russell has also won five MVPs. Others such as Chamberlain won 4 regular season MVPs, Moses. Malone, Larry. Bird and Magic Johnson scored three.
It is worth mentioning that Ji Guoqiu has become the only player in the league to win MVP and Best Defensive Player for two consecutive seasons at the same time. If the Clippers continue to win championships this year, Ji Guoqiu will become the only player to win MVP, Defensive Player of the Year and Finals MVP at the same time for two consecutive seasons.
At this time, Brother Fox must be very sad, his personal number jΓΉ is fully capable of competing for MVP, but his style of play is not appreciated by the judges, so Brother Panda's victory is easy to understand.
Ji Guoqiu has played 78 games this season. He averaged 21.2 points, 15.1 rebounds, 6.9 assists, 3.4 blocks and 3.2 turnovers per game while shooting 54.9% from the field, 42.6% from three-point range and 98.1% from the free throw line.
How can such a number be described except as a metaphor for "dominance"?
Coupled with Ji Guoqiu's bright red 98.1% free throw shooting rate, the fox brother was not wronged in losing, Ji Guoqiu secretly made a fuss about free throws, which became the decisive factor that overwhelmed Ji Guoqiu. This panda is so black-bellied, how about helping you brush up points, I secretly brush free throws. Now dumbfounded, right?
The Los Angeles Clippers' Pandas won the honor for the second time after winning the regular season Most Valuable Player last season, and have been the MVP for nearly 20 years. We will be surprised to find that only 5 MVPs were able to win the championship that year, and the remaining 8 MVPs all fell into tragedy.
From the 1990-91 season to the present, the NBA has produced a total of 13 MVPs, in 1991 and 1992, Jordan won the regular season MVP, and the Bulls defeated the Lakers and Trail Blazers to win the championship in those two years. In the 1995-96 season, the Flyers led the Bulls to an epic 72-10 record, and the legendary record also made Jordan once again the regular season MVP, and finally the Bulls defeated the SuperSonics in the Finals to regain the championship. In the 1997-98 season, the last year of the Bulls' dynasty, Jordan was once again named the regular season MVP, and the Bulls also defeated the Jazz in the finals to win three consecutive championships.
In addition to Jordan, the other three people who won the MVP and won the championship were Olajuwon, O'Neal, Duncan and Ji Guoqiu last season.
In the past 20 years, in addition to the above four figures, the remaining 9 MVPs have all become tragedies.
Barkley won the regular season MVP in 1992-93, but the Suns were defeated by the Bulls in the Finals; 1994-95 season David. Robinson won the MVP trophy, and then the Spurs fell to the Rockets in the Western Conference Finals; In the 1996-97 and 1998-99 seasons, Karl. Malone was elected MVP, but the Jazz lost in the Western Conference Finals and Western Conference Semifinals, respectively; In the 2000-01 season, the protagonist of the tragedy was Iverson's turn, and the OK group teamed up to bully the answer.
Garnett in 2003-04, Nash in 2004-05 and 2005-06, Nowitzki in 2007, and Kobe Bryant in 2008 all won MVPs, but they couldn't stand on the championship podium.
The MVP winner must first have a good record and a good record, so these superstars are often expected to be very high, but there are many variables in the NBA, and many times the MVP can only be a background for the season.
However, last year, Ji Guoqiu had already proved that this curse had no effect on himself, and this year the Clippers are stronger, and they will not be afraid of this curse.
Finally, there is the collective honor.
2009-2010 NBA First Team:
Forward: LeBron. James, Cleveland Cavaliers.
Forward: Ji Guoyi, Los Angeles Clippers.
Center: Ji Guoqiu, Los Angeles Clippers.
Guard: Kobe. Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers.
Defender: Dwyan. Wade, Miami Heat.
2009-2010 NBA Second Team:
Striker: Dirk. Nowitzki, Dallas Mavericks
Forward: Ammar. Stoudemire, Phoenix Suns.
Center: Dwight. Howard, Orlando Magic.
Defender: Kevin. Durant, Oklahoma City Thunder.
Defender: Steve. Nash, Phoenix Suns.
2009-2010 NBA Third Team:
Striker: Tim. Duncan, San Antonio Spurs.
Striker: Cameron. Anthony, Denver Nuggets.
Center: Yao Ming, Houston Rockets.
Defender: Joe. Johnson, Atlanta Hawks.
Defender: Delon. Williams, Utah Jazz.
2009-2010 NBA All-Defensive First Team:
Center Ji Guoqiu, Los Angeles Clippers.
Point guard Rajan. Rondo, Boston Celtics.
Small forward LeBron. James, Cleveland Cavaliers.
Shooting guard Kobe Bryant. Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers.
Power forward Ji Guosha, Los Angeles Clippers.
2009-2010 NBA All-NBA Second Team:
Center Dwight. Howard, Orlando Magic.
Organizational defender Dwyan. Wade, Miami Heat.
Small forward Josh. Smith, Atlanta Eagles.
Power forward Tim. Duncan, San Antonio Spurs.
Shooting guard Gerard. Wallace, Charlotte Bobcat.
2009-2010 NBA Rookie First Team:
Blake. Griffin, Tyreck. Evans, Blanton. Jennings, Stephen. Curry, Darren. Collison.
2009-2010 NBA Rookie Second Team:
Marcus. Thornton, DeJuan. Blair, James. Harden, Jonny. Fry, Thai. Gibson. (To be continued......)