Chapter 655: End of the Season
After the Spurs and Rockets played, they don't have many games left this season.
The end of the season is coming.
At the end of the season, teams care not only about their playoff standings, but also about the season's awards.
There is no problem with the Spurs' record in the league this year, and now his family is approaching 60 wins, and everyone else is working hard for 50 wins, and it is estimated that in addition to the Spurs, only the Heat in the East can challenge 60 wins this season.
Therefore, if nothing else, in this year's season awards, the best coach should be the Spurs, it depends on whether Mr. Popovich wants to win it himself, after all, Popovich also qualified to win the best coach last year, but he was not interested in this award, and finally gave it to Mr. Carlisle of the Nuggets.
Except for the best coach, Ginobili is also very hopeful of winning the best sixth man again this year, the MVP of last year's finals can contribute 16 points, 3.2 rebounds, 5.6 assists, 1.3 steals and 1.1 blocks per game this year, and the team's record is so good, it should be no problem to win the best sixth man again.
Of course, Ginobili has a play, Maddie also has a play, this season Maddie and Ginobili share the position of the Spurs' sixth man, the two have about the same playing time, one is 22 minutes and the other is 21 minutes, the Spurs are equal to a double sixth man combination, because of the two of their activities, Parker's average playing time this year has dropped to 30 minutes, and Duncan only plays about 28 minutes in the regular season, naked "pseudo-starter".
Maddy has also been very efficient this season, averaging 13.7 points, 4.3 rebounds and 7.8 assists in 21 minutes per game, which is even a career-high assist. It shows that his assist talent is indeed not blown, Maddie's transformation is very successful, according to this efficiency, converted into more than 34 minutes of playing time, Maddie averages 20+10 (assists) per game without any problems, naked super point guard data.
So, if nothing else, the best sixth man was also booked by the Spurs, either Ginobili or Maddie.
As for Crawford, who has won the best sixth man all year round, he also has a little hope, after all, in terms of scoring data, he is better than Ginobili and Maddy, averaging 19.5 points per game and is the third scorer of the Clippers, but the Clippers' record this year has dragged behind, and now the Clippers are only fifth in the West, and the gap between the Spurs, the boss of the West, is quite large.
The best coach and the best sixth man are here, and there is also hope for the Spurs, which is the most improved player, and this award is strongly prepared to be won by the Spurs' Whiteside this year.
Whiteside was fished out of the NBDL by Qin Yan to join the Spurs halfway through last season, and his height and defense made a huge contribution to the Spurs' championship last year, but unfortunately he did not play enough last season, and many awards did not meet the selection criteria.
This year, Whiteside has secured the position of Spurs' center forward, and has entered the summer of hard training, coupled with so many excellent passers in the team to feed him the ball, his statistics are a big step compared to last year, in 33 minutes of playing time, Whiteside can contribute 15.8 points, 12.3 rebounds and 3.4 blocks, of which 3.4 blocks are currently leading the league, and Jordan Jr., who is in second place, is 3.1.
If it weren't for Whiteside's fact that he was too young this year, it is likely that he would have been able to play the best defensive player.
It is equivalent to saying that the Spurs have locked up at least three awards this year, and in the most important regular season MVP selection, Qin Yan has always been the top two, Qin Yan is a threat to Durant and James, but although James has a good record, the data is not as good as Qin Yan and Durant, and the Thunder's record is no worse than the Heat, but there are too many teams with good records in the West, and the Thunder is not so conspicuous.
What's more, the Thunder has been ranked second in the West for a long time this season, and even if they are slightly overtaken by the Rockets by half a win, the Thunder may not be able to catch up.
So if you really choose one of the two, the MVP should be born between Durant and Qin Yan.
Qin Yan can now be sure that his scoring champion should have no problem, during this time he has scored stuck points, and now he averages 34.1 points per game, which is a new high score after Kobe Bryant's 35.4 points won the scoring title, and Durant 33.2 and Anthony's 32.8 are also very scary, and they can also win the scoring title in other seasons, but there is a Qin Yan this year, so he can only give up this honor.
Unless they brush 50+60+ in each of the next games, and then they have to pray for Qin Yan to wave by himself, otherwise it will be useless.
Compared with Qin Yan's average of 34.1 points per game and Durant's 33.2 points, James's average of 28.4 points per game this year is not enough.
Of course, Stern still hopes that James will win the MVP, after all, this is Stern's last season as president, he doesn't like the Spurs, even if Qin Yan has the Chinese market behind him, he prefers the James he single-handedly. As for Durant, in Stern's eyes, he has always been synonymous with "second", if you want to praise Durant, you can praise it a long time ago, but wait until now?
But Xiao Hua, as the president who is about to take over, he really hopes that Qin Yan will win the MVP this year, and if he succeeds, he will refresh the record of the youngest Mr. MVP, and in Xiao Hua's view, Qin Yan is his own favor, James is Stern's support, Stern, an old man, it is impossible for his henchman Xiao Hua to reuse after retirement.
Once a son of heaven and a courtier, this principle is the same everywhere. (In reality, Xiao Hua praised Curry and the Warriors)
But if Qin Yan wins the MVP, it will really leave a glorious mark in the history of the NBA, the first yellow MVP, the MVP can't escape the black and white colors before, Yao Ming was powerful but didn't have a strong honor (because of injuries and the like, Uncle Yao hasn't been for a while), if Qin Yan succeeds, it will really create history.
However, this is obviously not an easy task, so although Qin Yan has the intention to compete for MVP, he is not very optimistic about the success rate.
For him, it is a little more likely to take FMVP.
After all, Ginobili's FMVP has been compensated last season, and this season is given to Leonard according to history, but now with the existence of Qin Yan, Leonard is definitely impossible, and the rest of the Spurs are even more impossible, as long as the title is successfully defended this year, Qin Yan's FMVP should not be able to run (unless Qin Yan is injured in the finals like last year).
Who will win these awards in the end? It wasn't long before it became known......