After the game against the Mavericks, the Lakers ushered in a wave of back-to-back games against the Memphis Grizzlies, Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana Pacers.
These three teams are currently at the bottom of the league.
Needless to say about the Grizzlies, the era of black and white has long passed. Even Gasol and Randolph are no longer playing for the Grizzlies.
The Thunder traded Paul away from the team in the offseason, determined to completely destroy the rebuild.
As for the Pacers, due to core player Oladipo's accidental injury that affected his career, the team's record, which finally improved somewhat, has returned to the starting point, and is currently only ranked outside the top ten in the Eastern Conference.
Facing these three teams, the Lakers won the game relatively easily.
Wang Feng, who just scored 83 points and broke the Lakers' single-game scoring record, is in good condition. He scored 37 points, 41 points and 35 points in the three games respectively. At the same time, he also had double figures in rebounds and assists, recording a triple-double.
At this time, the league schedule is already halfway through. After more than 40 games, Wang Feng's 83 points did not add much to his average points per game. It just changed the original average points of 42.2 points per game to 43 points.
As the games continue, this average score will continue to decline.
After all, even someone as strong as Wang Feng cannot score more than 40 points in every game. At least Wang Feng's physical fitness cannot do it when he needs to take into account the multiple tasks of team organization, rebound protection and defense.
Wang Feng plans to be successful as long as he can stabilize his scoring average above 40 points per game at the end of the regular season.
After defeating the Pacers, there have been 45 games in the regular season schedule. Wang Feng averaged 42.6 points per game. In the remaining 37 regular season games, as long as he can maintain an average of 36.8 points per game, he will average 36.8 points per game at the end of the regular season.
The score can be maintained above 40 points.
Averaging 40+ points per game is quite difficult for Wang Feng, but around 36 points can still be achieved with a little effort.
In Wang Feng's eyes, the average scoring data is much more important than the points scored in a single game, because this will determine Wang Feng's season evaluation.
The system's season evaluation is a comprehensive evaluation score based on Wang Feng's personal data and the team's regular season record.
This season, due to Butler's reimbursement for the regular season, the Lakers' record is bound to decline significantly compared to last season. This can be seen from the Lakers' record halfway through the season.
In 45 games, the Lakers achieved 30 wins and 15 losses, ranking third in the Western Conference, with a winning rate of only 66.7%. Compared with the 80% winning rate of the entire season last season, they won 66 wins, and the 64 wins in the 18-19 season were 78.
% winning rates are very different.
According to this winning rate, after 82 games in the entire regular season, there will only be about 55 wins, which is only a little better than Wang Feng's first season with the Lakers.
Of course, a record of 55 wins is also an extremely good result for most teams in the league. Normally, in a season where the competitiveness is not particularly high, a record of 50 wins or more can already enter the top half of the division.
There is home field advantage in the first round of the playoffs.
But for the systematic season evaluation, this is not necessarily the case.
From 66 wins last season to 55 wins and 11 more losses, God knows how many points the system will deduct. Whether it will take into account the impact of Butler's regular season reimbursement, Wang Feng doesn't know.
Therefore, the only thing he can do is to try to make his average data more luxurious, so that he can increase his evaluation points in the season evaluation.
The elite enhancement points as an additional reward for reaching S level during the season are quite important to Wang Feng and must be taken seriously.
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The time is quickly coming to the end of January.
The list of participants for individual events will begin to be announced during the All-Star Weekend.
Not surprisingly, Wang Feng signed up for all the projects again.
It's just that this time, everyone's attention is not very high.
This happens every year, no matter who you are, you will feel aesthetic fatigue.
Last season, everyone was looking forward to whether Wang Feng could complete the All-Star Game Grand Slam.
But when Wang Feng actually won the AMVP in all competitions, including the All-Star Game, the fans lost interest and lost interest.
Only the fans from China will join in the fun online and shout a few words, "Let him swipe! Let him swipe!"
However, many basketball commentators have publicly criticized Wang Feng's behavior. They believe that Wang Feng is too utilitarian and does not even let go of such trivial honors. He is too petty and does not give other players a chance to show themselves.
Wang Feng sneered at this.
If you really want to be capable, are you afraid that you won't be able to show yourself?
Aaron Gordon has never won a slam dunk trophy so far, but who would think that he is not one of the best dunk players in the league?
The other participating players are unable to gain popularity. Is that because they are too bad? Does it have anything to do with Wang Feng’s continuous participation?
Moreover, these competitions can provide Wang Feng with real rewards, and he will never give up easily.
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All the competitions in January passed quickly and it was February.
In early February, the Lakers lost again in an away game against the Nets, 102:110, and suffered a double defeat by the Nets in the regular season.
The Nets are indeed quite strong this season.
When the Big Three of Durant, Irving, and George are all healthy, their scoring ability is extremely terrifying.
It's not just the Big Three that are scary for the Nets.
With the Lakers' Butler retiring from the regular season, the Nets directly topped both the strength list and the championship odds list. And due to the Clippers' poor regular season record, the Big Three did not successfully integrate. The Nets'
The record can be regarded as unparalleled. Only the Jazz, a sudden rise in the Western Conference, has the same record as the Nets.
Under such circumstances, many players who want to win a championship at the end of their careers have turned to the Nets, including former All-Star power forward Blake, who has just reached a buyout agreement with the Pistons.
.Griffin.
In early February, Griffin reached an agreement with the Nets, signing a one-year veteran's minimum salary contract to play in the Nets' remaining regular season and playoff games this season.
Although Griffin averaged only 12 points per game for the Pistons this season and his field goal percentage was only 36.5%, he is after all an All-Star power forward who has been able to contribute 20+10 points all year round.
When healthy, he still averages 24.5 points, 7.5 rebounds and 5.4 assists per game.
Even though he has lost his former courage due to injuries and age, Griffin still cannot be ignored, especially joining the Nets with the cheapest basic salary. For the Nets' originally weak substitute rotation lineup and insiders, it is definitely a timely help.
exist.
This signing has undoubtedly made the Nets stronger than before, and the outside world is more convinced that Durant is about to win the second championship of his career, which is a very important championship.
Due to Wang Feng, Durant only won one championship in three years with the Warriors.
Durant, who held two championships in another time and space, is also questioned, let alone one championship.
He did not hesitate to bear the infamy and embarked on the "most difficult" road. He partnered with Curry, the two-time regular season MVP winner, to form the most luxurious team in the history of the league. The gold content of Durant's championship is extremely limited. After all, although he relied on
The luxurious data took away the FMVP, but the Warriors are a team with Curry as the core after all. No one would think that Durant was the team boss when the Warriors won the championship.
But the Nets are different.
Although the lineup is equally luxurious, with the Big Three configuration of Irving + George, there is no dispute that the core player of the Nets is Durant.
Durant is really embarrassed now.
He has been chasing James's footsteps throughout his career. However, as he chases, the gap with James is not close, but has even widened further. Not only that, there is another Wang Feng emerging between him and James.
If Wang Feng, who has five crowns and three MVPs, hadn't had a short career and accumulated relatively few other honors, he might even have suppressed the momentum of James, who has three crowns and four MVPs. Durant, who currently has only one crown and one MVP, is even more...
Totally exploded.
Even Durant's most proud scoring ability seems so insignificant in front of Wang Feng.
So far, Durant has a total of four scoring titles, the most among active players.
Wang Feng has three scoring champions, but looking at his current average of 43 points per game this season, he may not be far away from the fourth scoring champion in his career.
Among the four scoring champions, Durant averaged 32 points per game in the highest season of his career, while Wang Feng's lowest scoring average among the first three scoring champions was last season when he averaged a triple-double.
35 points.
In terms of scoring ability, Durant was completely outperformed by Wang Feng. Especially with Wang Feng scoring 83 points in a single game, the debate about who is better at scoring between the two became even more meaningless.
Looking at it this way, Durant is really unlucky.
He was completely covered by James in the first half of his career, and was crushed by Wang Feng in the second half of his career. He never had an era of his own.
This year the Nets have a strong team, Wang Feng, the Lakers and James' Clippers both have problems. It can be said that this is the season where Durant has the best chance to win the championship. If he can't seize the opportunity this season, unless Durant leaves again
He has to go on an extremely "difficult" road, otherwise he may only have one championship ring with the Warriors in his entire career.