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Chapter 291 Among the five piston tigers, the most important part is the bull! [The first update, please subscribe]

On the day off, the second game between the two sides continued at the United Center in Chicago. The situation was still one-sided. The final 106-87, the Bulls beat the 76ers.

Lu Yu and Richardson felt average in this game, but the Bulls still won very easily, because almost in addition to the outside, the Bulls are also better than the 76ers on the inside.

Miller rode on the opponent's neck this time.

He played 38 minutes, scored 33 points, 19 rebounds and 2 blocks. The penalty area became his world, and he felt like an incarnation of O'Neal.

Lu Yu's poor hand also contributed 20 points.

Richardson focused his energy on defense.

The key is that the Bulls are not only good starters, but more role players can stand up in time to help the team score when the main player is not feeling well. The striker formed by Van Horn and Coleman was defeated by Boozer and Artest. Sturt and Chandler played a bit ugly.

Iverson made 13 of 5 shots and scored 12 points and 23 assists with 5 free throws. The data is much better than the previous game, but the Bulls still haven't found a loophole.

76ers head coach Larry Brown is a little desperate. His proud defensive formation is useless in front of the Bulls, and being swept is a high probability event.

Even Iverson said frustratedly in an interview: "Only offense is the best defense, blindly defending, when we encounter an unstoppable opponent, that's when we lose the game, and now we touch Here we go, it's the Bulls."

After the second round of two games, the regular season awards will be announced one after another.

Lu Yu caused a huge butterfly effect, and the Bulls became the biggest winner in the regular season this year. Because the regular season record of 77 wins is here, many awards must give priority to the players of the Bulls.

For example, for the Best Sixth Man award, Artest was elected unanimously. After all, he was a substitute for Lu Yu, not everyone can substitute for Lu Yu, not to mention this time last year, Artest Still the team's main starting lineup.

Artest averaged 21 minutes per game, scoring 16.3 points, 2.7 assists and 8.3 rebounds, shooting 54% from the field, 38% from three-point range and 85% from the free throw line.

In Lu Yu's previous life, this year's best sixth man was Bobby Jackson of the Kings.

那个赛季他效力于萨克拉门托国王，场均出战28.4分钟，为球队贡献15.2分3.7个篮板3.1次助攻1.2次抢断和0.1次盖帽的数据。

Not only can't compare with Artest in terms of data, but the efficiency is far behind, not to mention the record gap between the two teams.

Cartwright was elected the coach of the year. Only Popovich can compete with Cartwright this season. Phil Jackson of the Lakers has a poor regular season record, and the Spurs led by Popovich have won the league. The second 60 wins record, but unfortunately met 77 wins Cartwright.

If the coach of the 77-win team in the regular season can't win the coach of the year, it can only make people suspect that there is a shady scene.

However, the shady thing did not happen. Doc Rivers once used the Magic team with a winning percentage of just 50% to defeat the Lakers coach Phil Jackson with a winning percentage of more than 80%, and won the best coach trophy.

There is a high probability that the judges are relatives of his second aunt's family.

So before the selection was made, Cartwright could not be sure that he won the best head coach. Fortunately, there was no accident in the end, and the Bulls won another award.

The Most Improved Player award went to Arenas.

This is no different from Lu Yu's previous life, especially this season's Arenas has made more progress than Lu Yu's previous life, and he has a faint trend of becoming the league's top star.

You must know that in Lu Yu's previous life, Arenas became a super giant after he became a wizard.

Hence the Arenas Clause.

In this life, it is estimated that this clause will be renamed.

As for why no Bulls won the Most Improved Player award, the main reason is that the Bulls reached the finals last year, and the expectations of the judges must be higher, and most Bulls players perform their own duties. Do your own job well, there will be no particularly obvious explosive growth in the data, so naturally you will miss this award.

The Pistons' Ben Wallace won the Defensive Player of the Year award.

A regular season rebounder and blocked shot king, a typical restricted area patron, it is unreasonable not to get the best defensive player.

Of course, it is almost impossible to get it.

When basketball experts analyzed the defensive efficiency of several Bulls players, they found that not only Lu Yu, but also Hamilton and Richardson had higher defensive efficiency than Wallace.

Of course, the defensive efficiency here is also largely due to the good record.

All-Defensive First Team: Kobe, Christie, Lu Yu, Duncan and Ben Wallace.

Defensive second team: Bowen, Kidd, O'Neal, Snow and Artest.

Artest also became the only bench player in the defensive second team.

Then came the first and second teams that everyone cares about this season. Tracy McGrady and Kobe Bryant basically locked the spots in the backcourt first team. They occupied the top two points in the scoring list. , so far no other center can shake O'Neal's status.

The problem is the forward position.

There is no doubt that one of the candidates must be Lu Yu.

Then there is only one other left. The judges hesitated for a long time between Duncan and Garnett, and finally decided to let Duncan of the better Spurs be selected.

As for Garnett, he can only go to the second team.

Arenas, Iverson, Ben Wallace, Garnett and Nowitzki were selected for the second team.

Surprisingly, Yao Ming was actually selected for the third team, but this is normal for Lu Yu, because from now on, there will be fewer and fewer excellent centers in the United States. In Lu Yu's previous life, there is no center position in the third team this year. People can give, and finally selected a bunch of strikers out.

So after Yao Ming's outstanding performance, Lu Yu guessed that Yao Ming might be able to get a place in the third team.

In the end, it is the most important honor of the regular season.

Regular season MVP!

The top three most valuable players in the competition are: Tim Duncan of the Spurs, Lu Yu of the Bulls and Kobe Bryant of the Lakers.

The MVP selection rules are voted by sports reporters and broadcasters from the United States and Canada, with 1 vote from the NBA's official website.In each vote, 5 players can be voted in order, 10 points for the first vote, 7 points for the second vote, 5 points for the third vote, 3 points for the fourth vote, and 1 point for the fifth vote.

The voting results showed that Lu Yu got all the first votes.

Successfully elected the regular season MVP of the 2002-2003 season!

If the Bulls only get the best sixth man, the best head coach, and a first defense, even if the Bulls get 77 wins this year, it is not perfect.

Only when Lu Yu won the regular season MVP, this is a complete victory.

Now that the regular season has come to an end, they only have one goal left, which is to pursue a playoff victory.

Having won the regular season MVP, the Bulls held a press conference for him on May 5.

At the venue, all kinds of long guns and short guns filled the press booth. It can be seen that the major media attach great importance to this conference, which is enough to reflect Lu Yu's current super popularity. It is no exaggeration to say that the most famous star in the NBA this year is Lu Yu.

After taking some photos with the trophy, Lu Yu put the trophy on the table in front of him and began to accept the interview.

Jenny, as the team reporter for the Bulls, took the lead in saying: "You can give an acceptance speech first."

Lu Yu had already made a draft and said: "I am very happy to win the award. Of course, I cannot win this award without the help of my teammates. How to get the MVP of the regular season, here I also want to thank my family, it is your silent support that made me what I am now, and I also want to thank the management of the team, you choose to believe in me, I have the opportunity to play like this Performance, and finally I want to thank the fans in Chicago who are what keeps me going."

Lu Yu's answer was watertight, and he thanked him for a long time. Although it was in Mandarin, it was enough to move the fans.

Since Jordan retired, Chicago fans have been waiting for their superheroes to appear. Now Lu Yu is here. Lu Yu led the Bulls to an excellent record and even broke the historical record left by Jordan. Everyone fell in love with Lu Yu. Yu, no one cares about Lu Yu's skin color, everyone hopes that Lu Yu can lead the bulls back to the top.

After the testimonials, it is time for formal questions.

A reporter asked: "Before entering the NBA, did you think you would one day win the MVP trophy?"

"Of course, since the first day I played, I've fantasized about what it would be like to be an MVP, who didn't have a dream when he was young, but when the dream came true and everything happened, it still felt incredible. "

The reporter asked: "What is your next goal?"

"Leading the Bulls to win the championship, a team that won 77 regular season wins, if it can't win the championship, it is too unreasonable."

The big news came out, and all the reporters knew what to write for tomorrow's headlines.

The reporter asked: "What do you think is the biggest obstacle on the way for the Bulls to win the championship? Or which team in the West can prevent the Bulls from winning the championship?"

"If we have to say that the biggest obstacle on the way for the Bulls to win the championship, I think it may be ourselves. As long as we play normally, we are unstoppable." Lu Yu paused and smiled: "Of course, the magic of basketball is that Here, every game is an unknown, so what we have to do is to be prepared for everything, as for the final result, it is not me who has the final say."

Lu Yu knew that in the Western Conference this season, there is a high probability that the Spurs will rush to the Western Conference finals.

It can be seen from the current schedule that the four teams that have entered the second round are the Spurs, Lakers, Mavericks and Kings, which are no different from their previous lives.

Yao Ming's Warriors have been defeated by the Mavericks and go home to fish.

The butterfly effect of this point has also disappeared, and the remaining historical process, the high probability is the same as Lu Yu's previous life, the Spurs defeated the Lakers, and the Mavericks defeated the King.

The only variable is that the Mavericks have Wang Zhizhi as a bench player this year.

Don't know if the Spurs can beat the Mavericks.

Regardless of whether the Bulls' opponent in the finals is the Spurs or the Mavericks, the Bulls cannot take it lightly in the end. Lu Yu must win the championship this year. Only with the championship ring can his personal honor reach its peak.

If he can't get it, then the glorious 77 wins at this time will become his personal shame.

Specifically, you can refer to the Warriors who won 73 wins, but did not win the championship that year, and was hung on the pillar of shame by fans countless times.

The Warriors of that year had both the right place and the right person, but it was a pity that James took away the time and achieved his great achievements, brought the first championship trophy to his hometown, and left the Warriors in a mess.

Achieving 73 wins means they have to be super focused all season.

The 82 regular-season games lasted nearly five months, and it would be a challenge for any team to not lose the chain for such a long time.

The Warriors didn't stay until the end.

A string of suspensions and injuries brought them down.

Lu Yu didn't dare to brag about Haikou yet. He wasn't sure about the attitude of the league. If the league was really determined to protect the Western Conference team and win the championship, unless the Bulls' strength could be suppressed even by the referee, otherwise It's really hard to win.

That night, Lu Yu flew to Philadelphia to prepare for the third game between the two sides.

The next day, the media also reported Lu Yu's interview. Although all teams know that the Bulls' goal this season is the championship, this is the first time a player has spoken out.

The Bulls have officially positioned the championship as their ultimate goal of the season!
The home fans of the 76ers cheered for Iverson with all their strength, hoping that Iverson could replicate the miracle of the Lakers back then, but unfortunately Iverson is no longer magical this time. After the two wars, the Bulls easily swept the 4ers 0-76. , the first to advance to the Eastern Conference finals.

The Bulls' players performed very well, and most importantly, their defense was also better, allowing points to be controlled at around 90 points per game.

You must know that their average points per game are as high as 109. With such a ratio of gains and losses, it is difficult not to win.

The 76ers performed poorly, Iverson was fine, and everyone was used to the poor three-point shooting rate, but he rushed inside again and again and fell to the ground again and again, winning the sympathy of many fans and winning Approved by the referee's whistle, he averaged 8 free throws per game.

Lu Yu just wanted to say: Who said Harden was the first generation of porcelain kings, and Iverson was the one?

It's just that Harden belongs to modern touch porcelain. He uses the smallest price and superb acting skills to get the referee's whistle. But Iverson is worse. After being run over on the thigh, get compensation and exchange one leg for money, although they both touch porcelain, the difference between the two is vastly different.

Harden was scolded as "ha a point", but Iverson won the title of a lonely hero!
After the game, the head coach of the 76ers was scolded badly, especially since Iverson also said that he had a problem with his defensive tactics. In addition, he and Iverson did not get along, and he became the target of criticism from fans.

Brown said that Iverson does not train, but in the eyes of fans, Iverson is a model of conscientiousness, diligence, hard work, and perseverance.

Are all struggling to score points, what do you want Iverson?

Iverson's injury is not the result of your damn defensive tactics!
In Lu Yu's previous life, there was nothing wrong with Brown's tactics, otherwise he would not have led the Pistons to win the championship in 04, but his tactics were too ugly, so ugly that the league couldn't stand it in the end.

"Play the right way", fans familiar with the NBA must not be unfamiliar, it has almost become Larryism.

So, what is the "right way"?
"I don't know where I learned that, but I always tell my players, 'Play hard, play smart, remember teamwork, enjoy basketball, and play hard,'" Brown said. ."

The elder Brown has stuck to these principles throughout his three-decade-plus coaching career.

This also brought him two championships. He led the University of Kansas to win the NCAA in 88, and led the Pistons to win the NBA championship in 04. His career more than 1000 wins ranked fourth in NBA history, with a winning rate of 57.1%. Amazing, especially considering he's completed seven teams' revamps and rebuilds.

The 03-04 NBA champion was the Detroit Pistons.

As one of only four coaches with [-] wins, this is just the old Brown's first championship ring, but it is extremely important - because it confirms the concept of "playing basketball the right way".

It can be said that the Pistons gave the old Brown a chance to prove himself.

Lu Yu didn't know whether the 76ers would fire Brown this time, or whether Brown would go to the Pistons again. He only knew that even if Brown went to the Pistons, the Pistons would not be able to help him prove the concept of "playing basketball the right way."

Because of the Pistons, the most important link, Hamilton, is now in the Bulls!
In an interview, Brown said: "The Bulls are Lu Yu's team, but in my opinion, it is Hamilton who has brought qualitative changes to the Bulls. As long as Hamilton is still in the Bulls, I think other teams are very It's hard to beat them."

(End of this chapter)