"The best player in the NBA league in the East in December - Chen Mu!"

When you open the latest issue of the Philadelphia City Journal, the first thing that catches your eye is such a big headline.

With Justin's status as a reporter with the team and the team's players as "their own people", the Philadelphia City Newspaper is currently gaining more and more fans among Philadelphia sports fans. Justin can always get some good material that others can't get, and it is not difficult to see from his report that he obviously knows more about the 76ers players than other reporters, and the reports he writes are very readable, so that many fans comment on the Internet, feeling that reading Justin's report is "like being in a face-to-face communication with the 76ers players".

This situation is naturally what the city newspaper wants to see the most, from the beginning of the fledgling want to rely on maverick reports to open up the situation to attract attention, to now gradually and smoothly through the "rookie period", began to gain a firm foothold in the major newsstands, the rise of the city newspaper is very rapid, causing a lot of controversy in the media circle in the United States, many new generation of media are following the practice of the Philadelphia City Newspaper, sending young and energetic, affinity young reporters to deal with the players of the local team, make friends, and find ways to get exclusive resources.

Even this new model has attracted the attention of the Chinese media far away from the ocean, and more and more journalists have begun to make friends with the athletes, and the effect is quite good. The successful cases of the media that have taken the lead in doing so, such as Dong Rina, Li Xiang and others, also provide theoretical support for this approach.

This is all a matter of the media circle, and Chen Mu doesn't care too much, but Chen Mu won consecutive awards in the first two months of the new season, and the ending is naturally ......

"Chen, ...... tonight"

"I'm in for a treat, I'm in for a treat!"

Without waiting for Iguodala to finish speaking, Chen Mu immediately "raised his hand to surrender" and contracted dinner with a smile. The players in the team were also jubilant and laughing. In particular, Lowry, a newcomer to the team, is both novel and fond of this wonderful harmonious atmosphere in the 76ers.

"Darko, Reggie!" Iguodala laughed and gave Chen Mu a thumbs up, then stepped in front of the two substitute insiders, and said with a smile: "You didn't come to the best treat of the month last time, you must come today!" ”

"Say it again." Milicic was not angry, glanced at Chen Mu, and then went to practice.

"Can you fight Chen Lian again before eating??" Evans was full of rebounds.

With a lot of practice and a lot of laughter, the Philadelphia 76ers had a pretty easy time on this game-free day.

After the victory over the Trail Blazers, the 76ers finally recovered from the shadow of consecutive losses to strong teams. The record began to stabilize, and there were not too many strong ups and downs, basically maintaining a win rate of about 50%, and the ranking also firmly occupied the seventh place in the East.

It's a season of change, a season of change after the big trade, but it's also a season of clarity, a season that you can see from the beginning to the end.

Since the first month of the season, in addition to the 76ers' rightful sharp decline, and the Heat's rightful rebound. The other teams' standings have changed very little. It seems to be lively everyone, but the overall change is not much, and the trend is not obvious.

Teams such as the Celtics, Lakers, and Suns, which have been soaring since the beginning of the season, have remained strong until now. The second-tier Pistons, Cavaliers, Hornets, Jazz, Spurs, Rockets and other teams are also determined that Qingshan will not relax and occupy the playoff spots.

Why is this happening? Obviously after so many big trades, there are many teams that need to be run in the new season. The performance should fluctuate greatly, but why is this the situation now?

According to experts, there are two reasons for this.

First. Among the teams that made the big trade, except for the Mavericks who got Kidd, which caused the team's overall offensive and defensive system to be messed up and needed to be re-established, the rest of the teams did not shake their tactical foundations.

On the Celtics side, Rondo was in charge of distributing the ball last season, and Rondo is still in charge of distributing the ball this season. Last season, Pierce was the No. 1 singles player, and this season it is still Pierce who is the No. 1 singles player.

Although Garnett and Ray Allen, who came to the team, are both superstars, they have an unparalleled sense of teamwork and are not sticky at all. The other one-handed three-point kung fu is amazing, and it is even more non-sticky. It can be said that the addition of these two people not only did not affect the original tactical system of the Celtics, but added new chips to the system itself, making the Celtics' offensive and defensive operations more smooth, making up for the shortcomings, and adding new firepower points.

Therefore, on the Celtic side, the record began to soar with almost zero run-in, and it has been recognized by 80% of fans as being able to enter the finals.

The reason why it is said that there is "almost" zero run-in is because the Celtics' big three are still at the tail of their peak after all, and they can quickly integrate in place with experience in defense, but there is still some jerky in offense. However, as the season progresses, this problem will gradually ease. Looking at the strength of the playoff-caliber teams throughout the East, the Celtics' road to the Finals seems to be a foregone conclusion.

On the western side, the Lakers and Suns are not "almost" zero run-in, but completely zero run-in.

Lakers coach Zen master Phil Jackson, who left briefly in the 2004-2005 season and returned a year later, still maintains the overall tactical thinking of the Lakers' triangle offense. It's just that because the strength of the players has not reached that level, they have not been able to make a breakthrough.

Now that Gasol has arrived, the high-IQ technical European interior line has adapted to the triangle attack, which is like a fish in water, and the statistics may not be as amazing as the Grizzlies, but the role of the court is increasing day by day, and it is extremely powerful.

The Lakers entered the new season with zero run-in, and the team's record has remained stable since the beginning of the season, and now it is firmly climbing to the top of the West. In the real-time odds given by many betting institutions, the Lakers' probability of winning the championship this season is second only to the Celtics, ranking second in the league.

The one who can influence the Lakers' road to the finals is naturally the Suns, and the Suns get Howard, a superstar who doesn't need to have the ball in his hands to make a huge difference. The overall tactics with Nash as the instigator point have not been adjusted much, run-in? In addition to O'Neal in the original timeline, how many of the players who came to his team at the peak of Nash needed to be re-honed to be effective?

With zero run-in and a strong debut, the road to the playoffs for the Lakers and Suns is very clear.

Tactical solidity is one of the reasons why the rankings and results of the new season have not changed significantly since the tone was set at the beginning of the season.

The second reason is that the alliance has completely entered the era of many oligarchs with a huge gap between strength and weakness.

Regardless of the East or the West, the playoff teams and the teams that hope to make the playoffs, how can any other team be a bad word.

The teams in the East, such as New York, Bucks, and Bobcats, have been weak for many years, and it is still very early to turn over, and the Timberwolves, Clippers, Grizzlies and other teams in the West are also very bad. The disappearing Seattle SuperSonics have the core Durant in the future, but to turn over, there are still a few important roles that you and I are well aware of.

These two points complement each other and create a situation where the overall tone has been set from the beginning of the season, and it seems clear who will make the playoffs, who will go far enough in the playoffs, and who will have a chance to compete for the championship.

And what about the Philadelphia 76ers? In the hearts of fans and experts, what is the position of the 76ers this season?

"DAMN, actually said that we can only make a luxury round of the playoffs? Justin, this kid, I'm going to call and scold him! ”

After reading the report in a huff, Iguodala turned around and went to find his mobile phone to call and scold Justin, and everyone naturally laughed. After the amusement, in the sound of Iguodala opening his mouth to scold Justin, everyone began to think.

This season, are we still in the first round?

If there is no significant change in the rankings, and we end up meeting the Pistons in the playoffs, they are a year older, we have grown up for a year, and the roster has been adjusted to a certain extent, do we have a chance to beat them?

Chen Mu didn't know what other players thought in their hearts, but in his own heart, he already had an abacus.

"If we run into the Pistons again, we've got to win."

Chen Mu's voice was not loud when he said to himself, but the players around him heard this sentence, and even Milicic, who was practicing hard, was stunned when he heard it, his movements stopped, and his eyes looked at Chen Mu with bright eyes.

Yes, definitely win!

A round trip? If we have already swam last year and have not improved this year, how can we be worthy of the Philadelphia fans who still support us when we are at our lowest point and can't even make the playoffs?

Do a good job, continue to work hard to improve yourself, we are young, we are unstable, our results are up and down and look like a stock candlestick chart, but we have infinite potential!

With more than half a season to go, we still have room for improvement, and by the time the playoffs start, we'll be able to go even further. The Pistons, which were extremely powerful last year, don't seem to be so terrible this year, and there is definitely hope for winning!

Thinking like this, everyone fell silent, but they all had a resolute look on their faces, and they trained hard.

Be sure to win......!!

And winning the title of Eastern Player of the Month means that Chen Mu has once again got the opportunity to improve the badge. In addition, throughout December, Chen Mu also won the Player of the Week title once, the week he scored 51 points against the Trail Blazers.

In the four games that week, Chen Mu averaged 36 points and 14 rebounds per game, and the number of assists declined significantly, but he relied on his infinite firepower on the offensive end to drag the team forward, went through the ice period when everyone's hands were cold, and ushered in a new spring.

With two player titles and two badge promotion opportunities, Chen Mu made up his mind to make his offensive flame burn even more heroically! (To be continued......)

PS: The scoring record has been broken, and the next thing is ...... Hey, hey, you guess~