Chapter 242: Regular Season MVP
Wang Dapao was desperate for playing at the Lakers' home court, because compared to at home, Wang Dapao still felt that he could inspire his passion even more away, especially when he saw the Lakers fans supporting the Lakers at home, but could only watch the team's loss of the game helplessly, which was really refreshing.
As for how to win, Wang Dapao was not very worried. The Lakers' inside line is indeed slightly stronger than the Clippers' inside line, but it is only slightly stronger. And once he joins, the word "slightly stronger" can be completely removed.
In Wang Dapao's opinion, Negro's troubles were nothing, because when Negro first considered how to deal with the Lakers' inside, he forgot one thing, that is, Wang Dapao's defensive ability in the inside.
This season, Wang Dapao is mainly responsible for the Clippers' offense, so Negro has a little forgotten what Wang Dapao is best at.
When Wang Dapao first joined the league, he played as a power forward! And he played guest center on the court not once or twice.
Since joining the Clippers, Wang Dapao has rarely played inside because of Griffin and Jordan Jordan, but this does not mean that Wang Dapao's inside defense is no longer good. 99's inside defense has been blocked and steals, which is not for viewing.
After the second game, Wang Dapao specifically talked to Negro.
The content of the conversation was very concise and clear.
"Head coach, in the next game, I'll defend Bydam, there are only two issues you need to consider, the first one, how to limit Kobe, the second one, how to limit Gasol."
Wang Dapao's arrogant words surprised Negro. To be honest, he really didn't believe that Wang Dapao could defend Bai Dapao. After all, the height difference between Bai Dapao and his is too big. As long as Bai Dapao uses a hook in the inside, no matter how high Wang Dapao jumps, he will not be able to defend smoothly.
But since Wang Dapao said that, Nigro could only bet, because he didn't know what to do. Griffin and Jordan Jr. had too little experience in the playoffs. In other words, they were still too young. Compared to Bydam, who was 17 years old, who followed the Lakers to play for the playoffs and Gasol, who was in his early 30s, they were really too young.
Since Wang Dapao took the initiative to ask to defend Baidham, the other people's defensive arrangements will be much easier. Jordan Jr. defends Gasol and Griffin defends Ci Shiping. Anyway, Ci Shiping's speed is no longer as fast as before. Even if Griffin defends, there will be no big problems.
Matthews is still defending Kobe. His defense for Kobe in these two games is already very good. Apart from Wang Dapao, the entire Clippers cannot find another person as good as Matthews.
The only thing that worried Negro was Wang Dapao.
Looking at Wang Dapao who was warming up on the court, Negro couldn't help feeling uneasy. This season, he had witnessed many abnormal moments of Wang Dapao. But no matter how perverted Wang Dapao is, he is still a person after all, and the defense of the inside is very physically exhausting. In this case, can Wang Dapao still maintain his previous high-efficiency attack?
Before the competition, there was another small episode, which was the awarding of the regular season MVP award.
Previously, Wang Dapao finally defeated James Durant and his teammate Paul and others by averaging 30 points, 16 rebounds, 5 steals and 5 blocks per game, and successfully won the regular season MVP. At the Lakers' home court today, this award will be officially awarded to Wang Dapao.
To be honest, Wang Dapao is 26 years old this year. Compared to Ross, the youngest regular season MVP, this award is not a particularly awesome thing at all. Guys like Kobe and James were about the same age when they got the MVP. As a cheater, Wang Dapao was not something worth boasting about to win the regular season MVP.
But in the eyes of others, things are not that simple.
How many years has Wang Dapao joined the alliance? Two years have you been there!
It took only two years to see how many honors he received.
In the 10-11 season, Wang Dapao was the league's rebounding king, stealing king, blocking king, and the best defensive player. He is the MVP of the All-Star Rookie Challenge and the MVP of the All-Star Game. In the playoffs, he also won the MVP of the Finals.
Wang Dapao was even more proud of the 11-12 season. On the basis of the previous period, the regular season honors also added a scoring champion and regular season MVP. If the Clippers can go all the way to the finals, Wang Dapao will definitely be the winner of the finals MVP. In this way, Wang Dapao won all the MVP honors this season, and such a thing has never happened in the entire NBA history.
Many people don’t know whether the Clippers can reach that point, but if they do, Wang Dapao will probably become the well-deserved first person in the league.
Originally, Wang Dapao, the most elected regular season MVP trophy, can choose the location, as long as it does not interfere with the competition schedule.
Wang Dapao thought for a long time and didn't know where to hold the award ceremony.
Finally, Wang Dapao had an idea and said directly to the NBA official: "No need to worry about that, just give it before the game with the Lakers!"
Wang Dapao said this, and the NBA official staff couldn't say anything. After all, there was no clear provision for such a thing. Since Wang Dapao said this, it was just right, so the NBA official staff members would not run around with Wang Dapao.
So, Wang Dapao's regular season MVP award ceremony was simply built on the Staples Center Arena.
Although this is the home court of the Lakers, it is also the home court of the Clippers. It is no big deal for Wang Dapao to do this. Of course, this is in the eyes of others.
In the eyes of Lakers fans, this is "chiluo"'s naked show-off and provocation.
What a big deal? Isn’t it just a regular season MVP? Is it necessary to get us so blatantly to stimulate us? It’s like we haven’t got it before!
In fact, the Lakers are really scarce about regular season MVP. Although Kobe was once the best player in the league, his honors in this area are pitifully small. In his entire career, Kobe only won the regular season MVP once in 2008. For a player who dominates the entire league, it is indeed a bit small. After all, like James, there are already two regular season MVPs, and the previous basketball god Jordan had as many as 5 regular season MVPs.
Although this is the first time Wang Dapao has won the regular season MVP, considering that he has achieved such a result in just two years since joining the league, it is indeed a bit jealous.
When Stern personally handed over the regular season MVP trophy to Wang Dapao, there was quite warm applause on the court. Of course, these applause did not come from the fans at the Lakers' home court, but from the Clippers' fans.
Seeing this scene, Wang Dapao couldn't help but laugh. This was the picture he expected. Yes, the main reason he chose to hold the award ceremony at the Lakers' home court was to disgust the Lakers.
Now, including Lakers fans and Lakers players, they all looked unhappy, especially Kobe, who stood on the sidelines and looked here with a scary face, although he was a black man himself.
"Congratulations, Wang Dapao." Stern looked at Wang Dapao with a smile on his face.
Stern is quite fond of Wang Dapao. Although his perverse personality makes people feel a little trouble, when Yao Ming retired and Chinese players were not in the NBA, such a Chinese player suddenly popped up. The promotion of the NBA in China is like a timely help. So even if Wang Dapao himself is a troublemaker, Stern will turn a blind eye, as long as Wang Dapao is not particularly excessive.
For Stern, it is quite worthwhile to condone a player and effectively promote the entire league.
"Say something! The new regular season MVP!" Stern smiled and took a photo with Wang Dapao, and handed the microphone to Wang Dapao.
"Cough cough." Wang Dapao did not refuse and took the microphone directly. Then he coughed twice as he pretended to be.
Lakers fans immediately started to curse.
"Damn! What a shame!"
"Didn't you just get a regular season MVP? Do you think you are creating a dynasty? What's so awesome?"
Wang Dapao was immediately happy when he saw the chaotic scene at the scene. Such a scene was exactly what he expected.
It is indeed very interesting to do something like hatred.
"I'm glad I've won this award. Here, I want to thank CCTV, American TV, Clippers TV... and so on for getting the wrong manuscript."
Wang Dapao's words made the fans of the Celestial Empire sweat, but the fans at Staples were confused because they didn't understand what Wang Dapao said in Chinese.
"What is he talking about? Is he in Chinese?"
"It seems to be right, it looks similar to the one on TV..."
"Basketball is a five-person game, so being able to get this regular season MVP is inseparable from the support of the Clippers' teammates and coaches." They all understood what Wang Dapao said this time, because it was said in English. "In order to repay their support, I will definitely thank them with a better performance."
The fans present at the audience were a little different after listening to Wang Dapao’s proper comments. Is this still Wang Dapao? In the past, Wang Dapao did not say anything that made people sweat when he was interviewed?
Of course, soon, they stopped thinking so.
"So, I will do my best to win this game, and strive to win all of the next games and advance to the Western Conference Finals as soon as possible."
When Wang Dapao said this, the entire Staples Arena instantly fell into a brief silence.
Stern, who was standing next to Wang Dapao, had a little stiff smile on his face.
In just a moment, the entire stadium exploded again, and then it became extremely noisy.
"What a joke! There must be a limit to arrogance. The next game will sweep the Lakers to advance to the finals? Who do you think you are? How dare you say such big words?"
"Idiot! You will pay the price for your words! Kobe and the Lakers will let you know! You are responsible for what you say!"
Wang Dapao's short words completely aroused the anger of the entire Lakers. Wang Dapao's arrogant attitude made this wealthy team feel extremely humiliated.
The Lakers have always been the only one who swept others. When has the Lakers fallen to the point where they are told to sweep others?
Fortunately, the Lakers' home court was no longer full of Lakers fans, and nearly half of the seats were seated with Clippers fans. Therefore, when Wang Dapao was criticized by angry Lakers fans, there were also many people who supported Wang Dapao.
"Beautiful job! Wang Dapao! You're right! The Lakers are not our opponents at all. Sweeping them can show our strength. Losing a game before was already a big mistake. We must never make mistakes like before in the next game!"
Compliments like this also filled the entire arena.
"Hahaha." Stern laughed dryly. Even though he had been ruling the league for decades, he didn't know what to say for a while when facing this situation, "The game is about to begin, play well."
After saying such a dry sentence, Stern hurriedly left. It would be bad if Lakers fans became angry and threw some mineral water bottles at Wang Dapao and implicated themselves.
Stern obviously thought too much. Although the Lakers fans were angry, they still remained calm. They also knew that in this case, the best way to teach Wang Dapao a lesson is not to move their fists.
In the NBA, the best way to solve problems is always just basketball, and winning or losing can represent everything.
Instead of doing something wrong, it is better to let the game start as soon as possible and let the Lakers use their actual performance to teach this guy who speaks wildly.
So soon, the pre-match preparations ended, and the players from both sides stood in the middle of the stadium to prepare for jumping the ball.
When Bydam stood in the middle circle, he was stunned for a moment because Wang Dapao stood opposite him.
"Is this going to jump with me?" Of course Bydam knew that Wang Dapao, who had the same perverted jumping power, might not be able to jump to basketball himself. However, since Wang Dapao joined the Clippers, he has basically not participated in jumping balls. After all, the Clippers also have jumping men like Griffin and Jordan Jordan.
So. When I saw Wang Dapao appearing in this position, somehow, Baidam felt a bad feeling in his heart.
On the other side, Wang Dapao was also observing Bydam.
He has not fought with Bydam once or twice. To be honest, in today's league, Bydam is already the best center. Although he is not very good.
There is no way, who makes the current excellent inside players in the league extremely scarce?
Compared with Noah, the super blue-collar centers like Gasol, who majored in defense and rebounding, Bydam, a center who has been learning to attack for many years with Jabbar, is already quite good.
He has good defensive skills in the interior. He has the ability to play singles in the state, so he can no longer find an inside player like Bydam in the entire league.
Although Howard is better than Bydam, his offensive methods are much worse. After all, Howard relies more on his body to play.
The Nets' Lopez is better than Bydam's offensive methods, but he is much worse in rebounding, inside defense, etc.
Anyway, Bydam has indeed grown into one of the best centers in the league.
But then again, this so-called center forward, which is one of the best in the league, is based on the current perspective. If it were the era when the four center forwards were rampant in the past, Bydam might just be an ordinary starting center forward, that's all.
O'Neal, Olajuwon, Ewing, and Robinson, which of these people is not an average of 25+10 per game, with extremely rich offensive capabilities and almost unsolvable existence? Not to mention Bydam, even the current league's recognized number one center Howard was probably just a slightly better first-class center in that era.
Now is no longer the era when centers rule the league, and small forwards are the mainstream of the era.
James, Durant, Anthony, and all kinds of small forwards are in charge, and the role of center has been reduced to a minimum.
This season, even Wang Dapao has been playing as a small forward. Indeed, in terms of offense, the current league tactical settings are more suitable for the outside rather than the inside.
Therefore, it is not particularly difficult to defend Bydam.
First of all, Bydam can obtain no more ball rights. Secondly, Bydam's offensive range is limited to the inside line. As long as there is a target, it will definitely have a good effect.
At this time, the referee had already walked between Wang Dapao and Bydam with the ball.
After looking around Wang Dapao and Baidam, he talked about some precautions for the game, and then threw the basketball into the air.
Wang Dapao and Baidam stared at the basketball and jumped up at the same time almost the moment the basketball rose to its highest point.
However, Wang Dapao's bounce was obviously much better than Bydam. Although Bydam was much taller than Wang Dapao, Wang Dapao still pushed the basketball back before Bydam.
Paul received the jump ball and took the ball to advance towards the half-court. At this time, the third game of the playoffs Clippers VS Lakers Series officially began.
On the defensive end, Wang Dapao was ready to defend Bydam, but on the offensive end, the Lakers were still responsible for defending Wang Dapao. Although Ci Shiping could not play a restrictive role at all, the Lakers could not find any other suitable players to guard Wang Dapao.
Ci Shi is in a position to defend, and others are at any time to defend. This is the best way for the Lakers to deal with Wang Dapao.
Chapter completed!