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Chapter 443 - 201. On Women’s Day, you must host guests!_2

Chapter 443: 201. On Women’s Day, you must host guests!_2

But he thought of their team’s nickname—the Bad Boys Legion, Violent Cats...

Moreover, Kidd had been dominant in the East for many years. Although he wasn’t favored by the media and head coaches and wasn’t as popular as the new generation of talents, he had a lot of loyal fans, most of whom were seasoned basketball watchers.

Western Conference: Mavericks 67 wins and 15 losses first, Suns 61 wins and 21 losses second, Spurs 58 wins and 24 losses third, Jazz Team 51 wins and 31 losses fourth, Rockets 52 wins and 30 losses fifth, Nuggets Team 44 wins and 38 losses sixth, Lakers 42 wins and 40 losses seventh, Warriors 42 wins and 40 losses eighth.

Mavericks vs. Warriors, Zhang Yang wanted to watch!

Stats leaderboard, Kobe consecutively won the scoring title for two years, averaging 31.6 points; Garnett averaged 12.8 rebounds to become the rebounding champion; Nash averaged 11.6 assists to become the assists champion; Camby averaged 3.3 blocks to become the blocks champion; Gerald Wallace averaged 2.2 steals to become the steals champion.

As for MVP predictions, although Kobe matched O’Neal’s historical record from the ’99-’00 season by getting Player of the Month three times in a single season, he only ranked third in the award probabilities, acting more like a runner-up.

Kobe’s scoring was high, and his March scoring spree was astonishing. People still considered his performance in March the strongest single-month scoring show of the modern basketball era after they saw him score 62 points in three quarters and 81 points in a single game...but his team’s record was too poor.

Nowitzki won 67 games, averaging 24.6 points, with a shooting accuracy of 50.2%, a three-point accuracy of 41.6%, and a free throw accuracy of 90.4%, hitting over 50% for the first time in his career and reaching career highs in all three shooting percentages.

Nash played 76 games to achieve 61 wins, averaging 18.6 points and 11.6 assists, the second-highest in his career for scoring and a career high for assists. His shooting accuracy was 53.2%, and his three-point accuracy was 45.5%, both career highs. His free throw percentage was 89%, and the Suns lost all 6 games he missed, shifting from suppressing the Mavericks to significantly trailing in the standings.

Nowitzki’s predicted award probability was 60%, Nash 30%, Kobe only 10%, and no one else stood a chance.

Actually, if Nash hadn’t already won MVP twice in a row, his award probability would be even higher.

This leaderboard was voted on by basketball journalists from the largest media outlets under Time Warner, including various websites, television networks, and newspapers. It was highly representative, and without any surprises, no other player would receive a first-place vote.

Rookie of the Year predictions firmly placed Roy in first.

Best Coach, Best Manager, the predictions were all for the Toronto Raptors.

Most Improved Player award...

Ellis, Deron, Kevin Martin, Zhang Yang made the list of nominees.

Zhang Yang looked at the comparison of his data between his sophomore season and rookie year.

In his rookie year, he scored 1333 points, averaging 16.2 points, 4.5 rebounds, and 2.1 assists per game.

In his sophomore year, he played 76 games, scoring a total of 1844 points, averaging 24.2 points, 4.8 rebounds, 2.5 assists, 1.5 steals, 0.7 blocks per game, with a shooting accuracy of 46.8%, a three-point percentage of 33.9%, and a free throw percentage of 85%.

Averaging 24.2 points, he ranked eleventh on the scoring leaderboard, with the top ten being Kobe, Arenas, Anthony, James, Iverson, Carter, Yao Ming, Joe Johnson, McGrady, Nowitzki.

It seemed he really was at risk of winning an award... for the first time, he didn’t want to be on a positive leaderboard!

Zhang Yang then checked his teammates’ performances.

Okafor played 78 games, averaging 17.2 points, 9.9 rebounds, 1.5 assists, 2.3 blocks per game, and a shooting accuracy of 52.5%... Zhang Yang remembered that Okafor had averaged 20+11 at the start of the season. He could understand the decline in scoring, but the drop in rebounding surprised him...

Rondo attended all his rookie season games, averaging 5.5 points, 5.8 rebounds, 6.4 assists, and 1.3 steals!

It was hard to say Zhang San and little Duncan’s failure to average 5 and 10 rebounds respectively had nothing to do with this rookie teammate.

Rondo’s shooting accuracy was 47.5%, his 5.8 rebounds and 6.4 assists were both the highest among the team’s guards.

Felton played all 82 games, averaging 17.1 points, 2.5 rebounds, 6.2 assists per game, with a shooting accuracy of 45.1%, and a three-point percentage of 39%, being overtaken by Rondo in assists by mid-March.

Gerald Wallace played 60 games, averaging 15.6 points, 6.5 rebounds, 3.7 assists, 2.2 steals, and 2.1 blocks per game.

Millsap played 74 games, averaging 6.5 points and 4.5 rebounds; Muhammad played 82 games, averaging 5 points and 5.5 rebounds...

The newly arrived Jarett Jack played 20 games, averaging 11.2 points and 3.4 assists.

Zhang Yang saw from the team’s statistic board that this season, their team was still relying on four core players to win games, with the team averaging 104 points per game, and those four players contributing an average of 74 points together... Of course, you can’t just add it up directly like that, as only Felton has perfect attendance, and when others are out due to injuries, the remaining players’ scores will definitely be higher, plus there are changes brought about by trades.

But the team’s internal data is indeed very concentrated, even more so than the Mavericks, who concentrate the data on a few key solo players.

About this, he had already been asked by the media in an interview last night, whether this could become a flaw in their playoff performance.

His answer—"No, this is the responsibility we should take."

...

After scrolling through the news for half an hour, the groceries and meat he had reserved from the supermarket were delivered, and Zhang Yang got up to make dinner. As dusk approached, his parents and younger brother arrived at the apartment.

From the end of the regular season to the start of the playoffs, the Bobcats got three days of rest... they were ’disappointing’ themselves, with a record not as good as the Western Conference’s first-place Mavericks. The four teams on the Mavericks’ playoff advancement path were starting on the 22nd, while the teams on the Bobcats’ path were starting on the 21st.

An extra day of rest and preparation is a privilege for the league’s top team.

Zhang Yang hadn’t had dinner with his parents for two months, so now that he had some free time, they gathered together.

He has a physical examination tomorrow morning and will start preparing in the afternoon; tonight is the only free time he has.

During dinner, they mainly talked about life, with everyone being part of society, working, doing business, understanding the daily hardships, and not discussing those in their leisure time.

After a warm dinner, Goku asked his brother to watch Naruto with him, and they just happened to reach "The Homeland in the Early Morning Mist." Zhang Yang immediately became enthusiastic, turning on explanation mode.

Zhang Yang: "This Naruto is just an official’s son who doesn’t know he is one. He’s done a bunch of illegal stuff, damaging the village’s greats’ statues, stealing village secrets, and if it weren’t for his good dad who left him an inheritance, he would have been sentenced to death by firing squad a long time ago...

And look at this, yes, Itachi Uchiha. When massacring his own clan, he just had to leave a little brother behind. If he had killed Sasuke too, all of these issues later on wouldn’t have happened.

Killed his parents and relatives, left a brother behind and then threatened the village’s second in command with, ’If you dare to touch my brother, I’ll leak village secrets to enemy countries’...

What was clearly a struggle for power between two regimes and two families, he talked about it as if he was saving the country and the people. In his eyes, the opposing family seemed to be dearer to him than his own parents...

That island nation is just an island nation. In their eyes, the world is only 300,000 square kilometers; the largest country can be run across in 3 days by running non-stop..."

Goku didn’t really understand what his brother was saying, but now, instead of getting pumped up when Naruto said, ’My dream is to become the Hokage,’ he didn’t feel anything at all.

Zhang Chen and Yang Jing whispered to each other on the side.

Yang Jing, "Should we stop Yangyang from destroying Goku’s dreams?"

Zhang Chen, "Yangyang has a unique perspective on watching anime, but I think he makes sense."

Yang Jing, "I also think it makes sense, but it just feels wrong..."

The next day, April 19th, the Bobcats started preparing for the first round.

During the morning’s physical, Zhang Yang sighed, "Here it comes, the joy of the home-court advantage has finally arrived, no rush for the physical, no need to go to an away game this afternoon."

Okafor, "Yeah, the time and energy before the first game don’t have to be wasted on travel, and no worries about being harassed by away fans, it’s definitely beneficial for our preparation."

Felton, "Speaking of being harassed by away fans, have our fans gone to bother Kidd?"

Zhang Yang, "I think I saw on the forums that some underground band was organizing activities, but their tricks are all too unoriginal."

Felton, "Jack, should we help them come up with some ideas?"

Okafor, "Please don’t! We are all people of standing!"