Chapter 819: The Road to the Championship (1)
"Toot!"
The synthesized electronic sound sounded, the whole stadium was boiling, all the fans were up, and the final time of the game itself was actually complete garbage time. But none of the fans left, but stayed in the stadium, chatting with each other, waiting for something with excitement.
What awaits you?
Will anything bad happen after this game? What ritual or something?
Not really.
As is tradition in Philadelphia, if the final game of the season is at home, the owner will come out to speak.
But this game is clearly not Philadelphia's last home game, and Philadelphia will have plenty of time to defend their home dignity in the upcoming playoffs.
There is no ceremony or anything, the season has just ended, and the players' statistics have just been released. It's unlikely that the league will give out any awards at such a time, and besides, the awards in terms of data and the award ceremony itself are not very popular.
But the fans are still waiting.
Because in their eyes, there is hope.
“EVERYONE!!!”
The DJ's shout rang out, and there was a bit of hoarseness in this shout. It seems that as the atmosphere builder of Philadelphia's home stadium, the hard work of a whole season will also drain the DJ's energy.
But the hoarseness of the voice can't stop the enthusiasm and excitement in it, and the kind of Qiji for the future in the shouting can't be concealed no matter what.
"Woo-woo!"
The sound like a train whistle sounded, loud and high, resounding in all corners of the stadium.
On the large central screen, a line of text appears.
“BACK-TO-GLORY”
Back to glory!
"This season, we're going to get back to glory!!"
"Whoop!!
The DJ's shouting, accompanied by the crazy chanting of the fans, Chen Mu and his opponent hugged each other and high-fived, and after a greeting, he also noticed this scene and raised his eyes.
That line of text also seems to contain some kind of strange magic, which can make people's blood boil in an instant.
Back to glory.
Philadelphia 76ers, back to glory.
And I will be the oracle that will lead the team in the search for miracles once again.
I am the king!
"Roar!!
With the flying streamers flying in the sky, the first record in the East, the first record in the league, and the playoffs for three consecutive years, etc., what Philadelphia has done this season has been presented on the screen one by one, which has made fans excited.
Chen Mu's roar was accompanied by a group of beasts in the team...... Ah no, a bunch of beasts were also inspired. Iguodala and Carney were the quickest to react, and single-celled creatures were the most easily led by this atmosphere, bursting out with enthusiasm, and came to Chen Mu's side in a few steps, and roared at all parts of the stadium with Chen Mu.
The teammates also surrounded them, for this moment, they tried to endure, they were criticized, despised, belittled, smeared, and experienced how many white eyes and unbearable things along the way.
Now, the East is the first, for the second year in a row.
Playoffs...... Here we go!
"Oracle of Philadelphia!"
After a team data, Chen Mu's nickname appeared on the big screen, and the fans' shouts were slightly lighter, watching and waiting carefully, not knowing what else the team would give.
“STATS”
Data.
Chen Mu, what kind of terrifying data has he won this season.
At this moment, it will be revealed.
"Look, look! It's coming, it's coming!! ”
"Get out of the way, get out of the way! I'm going to take a picture of the !! who tweeted ”
"Don't get in my way! Why are you so excited?? Where can't I check the data? Wouldn't you know it all if you looked it up on the Internet?? ”
"Then you won't check it yourself?? Aren't we excited to see it live?! ”
"That's right, what's the noise, look at it!!"
There was a lot of commotion, and there was a lot of commotion all over the stadium.
Chen Mu's data was listed item by item.
"Points per game"
The first line of letters appeared, and everyone waited with bated breath for the data to refresh out.
"34.7 points, ranking ......"
"United Nations, Alliance, One, One-!!"
Close to Kobe's season of sealing the devil, close to the highest season average per game record of the new century, surpassing Iverson's career-high season average points per game.
Chen Mu became the league's top scorer for the second year in a row.
Successfully defended the title!
"It's a pity LeBron!"
Chen Mu naturally knew this result for a long time, according to the scoring difference between LeBron and him, even if he didn't score a point in the last game, LeBron had to score nearly 90 points in a single game to complete the surpass. The difference of about one point per game in points, on average, in 82 games, will be extremely terrifying.
"It's a pity, he himself has already given up the scoring title. After all, this season, they are also going for the championship. If such a lineup can't succeed in winning the championship, it is estimated that the Cavaliers will really start a complete rebuild and start over. ”
Chen Mu was relatively calm, nodded and waved his hand, and kept signaling to the fans in the audience, looking like a leader going to the countryside, looking very stinky.
Because he knows that the most exciting thing is not this data.
He also wants to take a good look at what kind of scene his gorgeous data statistics table will appear on the big screen and be worshiped and shouted by tens of millions of people.
"Rebounds per game"
Here's the point!
The shouting of the fans did not stop, the next line of text appeared, and everyone's shouting stopped in an instant. It seems that only after the shouting stops, and the data appears and then shouted, can the data be respected enough.
"20.1, ranking first in the league."
“…… Wow!!! ”
“AND”
As soon as the shouting sounded, everyone's shouting did not stop, and on the screen, behind the "first in the alliance", another AND appeared.
AND what? Is there anything else special about this data?
"In the 1968-1969 season, after Wilt Chamberlain, the first season after Wilt Chamberlain averaged more than 20 rebounds per game."
“…… Wow!!! ”
This data is not something that any fan can think of directly. Even veteran fans can only guess that the last player who averaged more than 20 rebounds per game should have been in the era of Chamberlain, Russell, and Abdul-Jabbar. But it is impossible to imagine who it is and in what season.
In 1969, Chamberlain performed the last spectacular performance in NBA history averaging 20 rebounds per game in a single season. After that, there was an endless stream of rebounders, from Moses Malone to Rodman, from Ben Wallace to Garnett.
But there has never been anyone who can touch this high ground.
Chen Mu, it was done.
"I'm ......!"
This data also made Chen Mu stunned, although he is a super fan, this kind of data will only be roughly recorded.
At the end of the season, Chen Mu, who found that his average number of rebounds per game had reached about 19, suddenly realized this:
I have every chance to hit this historical record.
Especially after the game against the Spurs and winning the god-like 40+40 game, Chen Mu felt that he was getting closer and closer to this honor.
In addition, from the coach to the team doctor, Chen Mu was required to conserve his physical fitness in the next game and not work too hard. Especially on the offensive end, reduce individual ball-holding singles, especially face-frame dribble singles - because for a big man like Chen Mu, when the face-frame dribbles, actions such as changing direction back and forth, and making sudden stops and jumps are too damaging and load-on-the-knee for the knees.
For the sake of insurance, Chen Mu did reduce singles in the following games and relied more on tactical cooperation to score points. More energy was put into rebounding.
And Chen Mu's "decentralization" also gave other players more opportunities.
The most significant impact was on the two-point guard duo in the starting lineup, Lowry and Curry.
Lowry's performance this season is tepid, you say that compared to the previous Grizzlies, it is naturally much better, at least he is a fairly qualified backcourt commander, and the entanglement and pressing on the defensive end is also very handy, which is eye-catching.
But you said that he really reached any height, and it seems that he is still far from an All-Star, and it seems that there is no hope of being selected in the short term.
More honors such as the best team, assist king, steal king, etc., it will be even further.
As for Curry, the situation is even simpler, and before the start of the season, it is not the majority who are really optimistic about him playing. In a small year of the draft, a skinny shooter would be nice to be a qualified rotation.
What the? Philadelphia gives him starter treatment? Playing time is fast to 30 minutes per game?
So what.
It's about what level it is, everyone can see it.
After a Rookie of the Month title, Curry was a little quieter and failed to win Rookie of the Month in the following months.
But in the final stage of the game, Curry's stats changed a lot. If it weren't for the fact that the official announcement hadn't been made yet, fans would have already had a certain number in their hearts: the rookie of the month in the East in April is Curry.
After Chen Mu relinquished power, Carlisle boldly gave Lowry and Curry, a dual point guard combination, with enough space and tactical deployment.
On the offensive end, Lowry is responsible for scheduling the whole team, sorting out the offense, and increasing the frequency of individual breakaways and heads-ups. Chen Mu's singles opportunities were more or less evenly distributed to Lowry, Iguodala and others. For Lowry, it's a pretty good opportunity to try.
Curry, on the other hand, has gradually transformed from a rookie shooter who is almost a pure runner and occasionally single-handedly looking for opportunities, to the second point of distribution after Lowry. Iguodala's ball-distributing tasks were also lightened, and Curry picked up some of the big beams and performed quite well.
The completely different styles between the two make Lowry and Curry complement each other. Lowry's sophistication and composure, and Curry's perverse and presumptuous, combined with the Philadelphia backcourt, are quite terrible on the offensive end, not invincible, but they are definitely not weaknesses.
What's even more gratifying is that Lowry is usually calm, but at some critical moments, he will make mistakes from time to time, which makes people speechless.
Curry is used to being arrogant on weekdays, but when it comes to critical moments, he is calm and ruthless, as if he has been doing lore work all his life.
This kind of offensive combination actually allowed Philadelphia to win a few more games, which can be regarded as an additional surprise.
And another additional surprise is about to appear in Chen Mu's personal data list. (To be continued.) )