Chapter 412 The championship and the system upgrade task (6000 words)
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Successfully winning the first game of the Finals on the road boosted the morale of the Lakers, but it was a heavy blow to the Nets.
Winning the important home game is secondary, the key thing is how to solve the problem of Wang Feng marking Irving.
In a short period of time, the Nets coaching staff could not think of any way to deal with it.
With Irving's own personal ability alone, it is basically difficult to make any breakthrough against Wang Feng. Wang Feng's perimeter defense ability is really too strong. In the past, he could use pick-and-roll screens to find ways to avoid him, but now this method has been eliminated.
It doesn't work anymore.
Now Wang Feng is like a pair of eyes on the back of his head. He can judge the pick-and-roll position of the screener every time and dodge in advance. The larger center is slow and can easily be bypassed by Wang Feng, and his movements are relatively slow.
The agile little player is not broad and strong enough, so Wang Feng can get around more easily.
The time that ordinary pick-and-roll screens can block Wang Feng is extremely limited. It is only enough for Irving to attempt a shot from the outside. If he breaks through with the ball, he will run into Wang Feng who bypasses the pick-and-roll as soon as he takes the first step.
Of course, the effect of a double pick-and-roll screen is quite obvious, and it can successfully isolate Wang Feng, but high investment often comes with high risks. If two players are pulled out to help Irving pick-and-roll screen, it is basically equivalent to completely giving up the offensive rebounding ability.
Fight for.
Although the Nets' lineup is not good at fighting for rebounds, whether they are good at it and whether they are good at rebounding are completely different concepts. Even a team with poor rebounding ability is still an NBA-level team after all. On average, every game can
After grabbing about 8 to 10 offensive rebounds, it would be unwise to give them up.
Moreover, even if Wang Feng is separated by a double pick-and-roll screen, Irving still needs to face the defense of other Lakers players, and he may not be able to successfully score the ball.
Both head coach Nash and team core Durant know very well that how to liberate Irving will be the key to whether the team can win!
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On June 3, the second game of the Finals will still start in Brooklyn, the home court of the Nets.
After another fierce battle, the Nets home fans, whose hearts were in their throats, finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The Nets finally defended an important home court, defeating the Lakers 117:112, tying the total score to 1:1.
Irving's performance in this game was still tepid. He made 5 of 12 shots and barely exceeded 40%. He scored 16 points.
The real key to winning is the two giants Durant and George.
In this game, Durant still continued the touch he had in G1, scoring 44 points and 6 rebounds. George also successfully suppressed his opponent Butler in this game, scoring 34 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists, plus Irving's 16
The Big Three scored 94 points together.
And it's not just Durant and George who performed well. Blake Griffin, the former All-Star power forward on the Nets bench, performed well in this game. He made 6 of 7 shots from the field and scored extremely efficiently.
15 points and 8 rebounds became the most critical factor in the outcome of the game.
For the Lakers, Wang Feng scored a game-high 46 points, 16 rebounds and 10 assists, a triple-double in two consecutive games. However, Butler was suppressed by George in this game, shooting just over 40% from the field and scoring 18 points.
It’s not surprising that Butler was suppressed by George. After all, Butler missed the entire regular season due to injury. Although he recovered well from the injury, his condition is still worse than before the injury. It was also an away game and the G1 game.
It was beyond many people's expectations to be able to play neck-and-neck with George.
Ingram's performance in this game was also very average, making 7 of 15 shots and also scoring 18 points.
After losing this game, Lakers fans didn't feel much.
Being able to win a game at the enemy's home court is already a great success for the Lakers. Returning to Los Angeles, the Lakers' home court, is the moment to show their true strength.
The Lakers did not disappoint fans.
On June 6, in the G3 game after returning home, the Lakers immediately asserted their sovereignty with a hearty victory.
122:104, the Lakers won by 18 points at home!
Wang Feng rarely scored only 28 points, 11 rebounds and 7 assists, because when the game entered the third quarter, the point difference between the two teams was already so large that he did not need to play at all.
Not only him, Butler and Ingram both scored just over 20.
In this game, the role players of the Lakers performed extremely well. Six players from the team scored in double figures. Kuzma, Lopez and Jordan Poole all scored in double figures, scoring 16 points, 18 points and 14 points respectively.
On the Nets side, only three people scored in double figures, Durant's 35 points, George's 18 points and Irving's 2 or 8 points.
After three games, Irving has finally made a significant improvement in his personal performance. In this game, his shooting percentage reached 45%. However, his outstanding performance is meaningless. If you even look at the game carefully, you will find that Irving's scoring is huge.
Part of it was actually done in the garbage time later, when Wang Feng was already sitting on the court.
After three games, the score between the two teams became 2:1.
The Lakers, who had taken the lead, made great efforts, and then scored another victory in the G4 home game on June 9, narrowly defeating the Nets 111:110, a heartbreaking victory! They got the match point at 3:1!
In this game, the Nets were extremely tenacious and even took the lead at the last moment. However, they encountered the Lakers, led by Wang Feng, the king of the final quarter. With the last 6 seconds left in the game, the Lakers had the ball.
Wang Feng attacked with the ball, pressed the game time to the last second, and hit the buzzer-beating ball to end the game.
The trend of the outside media has collectively changed. Everyone believes that the Lakers will most likely eliminate the Nets, win the O'Brien Cup for the third consecutive year, and create a dynasty.
This is a long period of time. The last time a dynasty team appeared in the league was the Lakers under the OK combination nearly 20 years ago. Who would have thought that 20 years later, the NBA team that would create a dynasty again would actually be the Los Angeles Lakers.
Lakers fans have begun to celebrate the upcoming three consecutive championships, but the Nets obviously don't want to sit still and wait.
G5 returned to their home court. Under the leadership of Durant, the Nets launched an extremely fierce counterattack and won the game at their home court, with the score reaching 3:2.
In response, the Lakers said, your turn is over, and now it’s my turn.
In Game 6 of the Finals, at the Staples Center, the home court of the Lakers, the stadium was packed. The fans were all wearing golden T-shirts, dyeing the entire stadium into a golden sea. Amidst the cheers of the mountains and tsunamis, the three consecutive champions
The cry was deafening.
On the field, the players of the two teams were still competing, but not many people were paying attention to the game, because the scores of the two teams were clearly displayed on the big screen in the center of the field.
114:102, the Lakers lead by 12 points, and there is less than 1 minute left in the game.
"The game has completely lost all suspense. The Lakers successfully reached the end among all the powerful players and won the O'Brien Cup for the third consecutive year. A new dynasty team was born!"
Major media outlets rushed to report it, and famous commentators such as Barkley and O'Neal were deeply moved.
No one expected that the first dynasty team born after the OK team in the new century would actually be the Los Angeles Lakers led by a Chinese player.
James couldn't do it at his peak, and the Warriors, who have the strongest lineup in history, couldn't do it either! But Wang Feng did it!
In the 6 games of the finals, Wang Feng averaged 41 points, 15.6 rebounds, 11.8 assists, 1.4 blocks and 2.1 steals per game. His performance was almost impeccable and he was successfully elected as the Finals FMVP without any suspense, winning this honor for the third time in his career.
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Six championships, three FMVPs, and four consecutive regular season MVPs.
Wang Feng, who has been blessed with these honors, has a historical status that has even surpassed that of James, and is as close to the god of basketball as Michael Jordan!
Thousands of fans in China, who had already anticipated this moment, rushed to tell each other and spread the shocking news quickly.
On the stage of the finals, Durant looked ugly, but he still hugged Wang Feng to congratulate him out of face.
Losing to Wang Feng once again and missing his best chance to win the championship, Durant's annoyance could not be described in words.
Throughout the entire series of the Finals, Durant and Wang Feng did not face off directly many times. The Lakers arranged for Wang Feng to defend Irving throughout the entire series, limiting the opponent's performance, which also completely liberated Durant's firepower on the offensive end. 6
He also averaged 38.9 points, 8.2 rebounds and 5.4 assists per game. His scoring average was only less than 2 points behind Wang Feng.
The main reason why the Nets were defeated by the Lakers 2:4 was because of Durant's teammates.
George performed fairly well against Butler in the finals. He scored 30+ points in two games and ended up averaging 25.8 points, 7.2 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game. The problem lay with Irving.
Wang Feng, the number one point guard of a certain sound, completely lost this series in the hands of Wang Feng. In 6 games, he averaged only 38% shooting from the field, 16 points and 6.2 assists per game, and averaged 4.8 turnovers per game.
In fact, this cannot be completely blamed on Irving. Irving's strength is unquestionable and he is definitely the top point guard. However, the defensive player he encountered was Wang Feng.
Wang Feng's defensive ability is at the top level in the league, on par with Leonard. He needs speed, strength, and defensive awareness. His defensive awareness of 90 is equally good.
More importantly, the purple Hall of Fame-level defensive intimidation badge has a too great impact on Irving, who mainly focuses on difficult shooting offense.
With his excellent dribbling skills, Irving can create an opening in front of Wang Feng to take a shot. However, the problem is that this kind of shot is usually difficult. Coupled with the reduced hit rate caused by defensive shock, it is almost impossible to hit.
Looking at the current league, apart from Curry, there is probably no point guard who can excel in the hands of Wang Feng, and even Curry needs his teammates to cover in pick-and-rolls, and with the help of his super-fast shooting speed,
The only way is to grab the open shot before Wang Feng gets around the pick-and-roll.
The Nets failed to crack the Lakers' defensive tactics against Irving, and the Big Three scored unevenly. Even if the role rotation players have a slight advantage, it doesn't make much sense.
For the Lakers, in addition to Wang Feng who has 40+ points among the Big Three, Butler averaged 20.4 points in 6 games in the finals and shot 46% from the field.
As a player who has returned from injury after missing the entire regular season and most of the playoffs, this performance is satisfactory enough.
Ingram also lived up to the large number of shooting opportunities and vigorous training given to him by the Lakers during the regular season. In the six games of the finals, he averaged 24.4 points and 6.2 rebounds. Although he was completely outplayed by Durant throughout the game, his performance was still impressive.
Can be ordered.
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A moment later, on the makeshift podium, the NBA president awarded the championship trophy to the Lakers. At the same time, legendary star and King of the Ring Bill Russell also officially handed the Finals FMVP trophy to Wang Feng.
"Young man, your number of championships has already equaled Michael's. Keep up the good work and try to chase me."
The old Russell said jokingly when handing the trophy to Wang Feng.
"I will." Wang Feng responded with a smile.
Russell won 9 championship rings as a player and two more as a coach, for a total of 11 championship rings.
Looking at the history of the league, the only person with more championship rings than Russell is Phil Jackson, who holds 13 championship rings. But unlike Russell, only 2 of Phil Jackson's 13 rings are as players.
They were obtained by players, and he was a marginal player in the team's rotation and substitute role at the time. The remaining 11 were obtained as the head coach of the Bulls and Lakers.
This is why Bill Russell and not Phil Jackson were awarded the Finals FMVP trophy.
Wang Feng's words were not bragging. He really thought he had a chance to catch up with Russell.
The existence of the system directly determines that the more honors Wang Feng wins, the more rewards he will receive, and his strength will naturally become stronger and stronger.
Moreover, the current lineup of the Lakers can definitely maintain its peak period for more than two or three years. Even if the team cannot retain players such as Kuzma, Lopez and even Poole, it only needs the three core players of Wang Feng, Butler and Ingram.
Now, there is every chance of winning another three consecutive championships like Jordan's Bulls.
Wang Feng, who already has six championship rings, won three more championship rings, bringing the number of championships to 9, officially tying Russell's total number of championships. By then, Wang Feng will only be 32 years old and is still at the peak of his career.
Fully capable of continuing to pursue the championship.
Wang Feng did think so at the time, but the moment he received the FMVP trophy, a series of system prompts sounded.
As before, it was all season evaluation and season reward statistics and distribution, but when these prompts were completed, the system's voice did not stop, but continued to talk about itself.
Wang Feng was stunned, because he felt something was very wrong.
"Ding - Congratulations to player Wang Feng for winning the sixth championship in his career and creating a three-consecutive championship dynasty! The legendary achievement has been achieved, and now the system upgrade task begins."
"Please note that this task is an optional task. Players can choose to give up the task. The system will still retain the existing reward mechanism, but new system functions will not be upgraded and opened. The results of this choice are irreversible. Please choose carefully."
"System upgrade task 1: Lead the team to win two world-level championships. The current progress is 1/2."
"Upgrade Task Two: Lead a team with a winning rate of less than 30% last season to the finals. At the same time, the team is not allowed to have players who have been selected to the All-NBA Team or All-Stars in the past three years."
"When the two mission goals are achieved, the system will be upgraded, the reward system will be restored, and more functions will be added."
Wang Feng: "...???"
The sudden task made him a little confused.
This is a long-lost system task. He has never received a system release task since his rookie season.
It’s just that the difficulty of this system’s tasks is a bit too harsh, right?
Led the team to win two world-level championships and led a team with a winning rate of less than 30% and without the best lineup and all-stars to reach the finals?
The former is actually to allow Wang Feng to defeat the American men's basketball team to win the championship in the next Tokyo Olympics, because he has already led the team to win the Men's Basketball World Cup once before. As long as he can win the gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics, he can fulfill the requirement of condition one.
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The latter made it clear that for Wang Feng to target poverty alleviation, he must go to a team with a regular season winning rate of less than 30% last season to reach the finals, and there is no player in the lineup who has won the best team or all-star in the past three years.
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In his opinion, this difficulty level is even more difficult than the first one.
After all, the Olympic Games is a single-elimination competition, and one game determines the outcome. Even if the opponent is the American men's basketball team of the dream team, Wang Feng can still think of a way to some extent with his 99 overall rating and personal ability blessed by the badge.
But leading a bottom team without any All-Stars and with a winning percentage of less than 30% last season to the finals is a completely different level of difficulty.
There are 82 games in the regular season, and the playoffs require winning four games in each round to advance, making it impossible to win by surprise. Opponents from all walks of life will thoroughly study Wang Feng's team and design targeted tactics.
, and the lineups of teams like the Nets, Clippers, etc. are actually not much better than the Dream Team!
"...What does the system mean? Don't you want me to continue to stay with the Lakers?"
Wang Feng remained silent, his expression a little grim.
For him, this is not good news.
The current lineup of the Lakers was carefully crafted by him. It must be strong and deep, and it must be at the top level of the league.
Therefore, he now has two choices before him. First, give up the upgrade task and continue to stay with the Lakers to ensure the opportunity and number of championships. This can maximize Wang Feng's existing rewards, even if he cannot continue.
Winning the regular season MVP, but there are also awards in the finals and FMVP, and you can also get a guaranteed purple badge of your choice.
The second option is to perform the mission. In order to complete the mission, he must leave the Lakers, choose a weak team in the league, lead a group of weak players to struggle in the regular season, fight for their lives in the playoffs, and desperately lead the team.
Enter the finals stage.
During this period, if you fail, you will have to do it all over again next season, and you will not be able to win the championship. Naturally, you will not be able to get the purple optional badge of the championship plus FMVP reward.
In addition, Wang Feng, who has been the MVP of the regular season for four consecutive years, joins a weak team. Even if he can successfully lead it into the playoffs, unless he really performs among the best in the league, his chances of competing for the MVP will be slim.
This also means that once Wang Feng fails, he may not even get a badge for the entire season. Moreover, due to the requirements of the mission conditions, a 30% winning rate and no All-Star teammates, such conditions are likely to be a failure.
You may not be able to do it in a few years, or even in your entire career, and the risk is still very high!
This is not surprising. There are many All-Star players in the league who have never been able to play in a finals in their lives. The Eastern and Western finals are quite competitive stages for them.
Even if Wang Feng has an overall rating of 99 and is blessed with multiple badges, he is not sure that he can lead his team to the finals!
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"Huh? It's strange. We saw that Wang Feng, who was holding the FMVP, had a serious expression and didn't seem very happy. What's going on?"
Director Yu, the CCTV sports commentator who conducted the live broadcast of the awards, was very curious.
However, it’s not just once or twice that Wang Feng was distracted during the award ceremony. Wang Feng’s fans have become accustomed to it and believe that this is also Wang Feng’s unique style, as if he doesn’t pay attention to these personal honors and awards at all.
Of course, fans don’t know that the reason why Wang Feng is in a daze every time he wins an award is not because he is really indifferent to fame and fortune, but because the system always distributes rewards at such times. Wang Feng, who is focused on his conscious space, certainly seems to be able to do so.
It's like being in a daze.
However, this distraction was temporary. Soon a smile appeared on Wang Feng's face, he held the FMVP trophy high and celebrated his third championship trophy with his teammates.
But no one knew that at this moment, Wang Feng made a decision that shocked the entire alliance.
"System! Accept the mission!"
After just a moment of hesitation, Wang Feng had already made up his mind to accept the mission!
There is no doubt that this is a very challenging task with great risks. It requires him to give up his current comfort zone with the Lakers, go to an uncompetitive team and reach the finals.
With the mission being so difficult, we still don’t know what kind of rewards we will get after completing the mission. The system only gives instructions on upgrading the system and opening up new module functions. Are the new functions worth paying for a few purple level badges?
Wang Feng didn't know the price.
But since the system has given this task, is there any reason not to do it?
Even if for this task, Wang Feng may miss one or even multiple purple badges of his choice, and his behavior of joining the bottom team may also be criticized by the outside world, but he will not regret it!