Chapter 91 The Data King

The playoffs were about to begin, and with the official conclusion of the 13/14 season's regular season, the league's various statistical leaders were also revealed.

Su Feng, with his outstanding performance of averaging 35.0 points, 14.2 rebounds, 6.8 assists, 2.8 steals, and 1.8 blocks per game, won the scoring title, rebounding title, and steals title for the 13/14 season, becoming the first player in NBA history to simultaneously win the scoring, rebounding, and steals titles in a single season.

In the just-concluded 13/14 regular season, Su Feng played 82 games for the Lakers, starting all 82. He averaged 37.8 minutes per game, totaling 2870 points, 1164 rebounds, 558 assists, 230 steals, and 148 blocks.

His field goal percentage was 54.3%, three-point percentage was 41.4%, free throw percentage was 93.9%, basket percentage was 71.1%, and true shooting percentage was 72%.

In addition to being selected into the "180 Club" for ten consecutive seasons, Su Feng also became the only player in NBA history to achieve a back-to-back true shooting percentage of over 70%.

Moreover, this was the first time in NBA history that a perimeter player had won the league's rebounding title.

In response, the famous Su Feng fanatic Charles Barkley commented on Su Feng's overall performance in the 13/14 season: "You can't imagine that this is a scorecard handed in by a 36-year-old veteran.

To this day...

He is still surpassing himself...

He is still climbing upwards...

He is still breaking record after record...

Without a doubt, he is the only basketball god in my heart!"

So, isn't it said that English is far less concise than Chinese?

Because Barkley said so much...

What he wanted to express in his words was nothing more than two words:

Feng Ge niu bi (Brother Feng is awesome)!

In short...

For Su Feng personally, although he didn't even reach 20 field goal attempts per game this season in order to cultivate the team's young players...

But this was definitely another season of winning big.

But...

You might not believe it if I told you.

Even with such efficiency from Su Feng.

He was currently only leading Kobe by a mere 19 points in their "scoring game."

Because according to the rules of Su Feng and Kobe's game, they were comparing 48-minute scores, and this rule also meant that some of Su Feng's high-scoring games couldn't be counted, so to quote Kobe himself...

"If you, who only led me by 19 points in this scoring game, are the basketball god.

Then I must be at least 0.99 of a basketball god, right?"

In the 13/14 season, Kobe played 80 games for the Lakers, starting all 80, averaging 30.5 minutes per game, totaling 2224 points, 592 rebounds, 672 assists, 112 steals, and 48 blocks.

His field goal percentage was 42.5%, free throw percentage was 86%, three-point percentage was 38%, basket percentage was 62.5%, and true shooting percentage was 64%.

In addition, while averaging 27.8 points, 7.4 rebounds, 8.4 assists, 1.4 steals, and 0.6 blocks per game for the Lakers, Kobe's field goal attempts this season also dropped to 17.2.

Thanks to Harden/Curry-style shot selection, plus Su Feng driving inside more often this season, Kobe, who attempted 11.1 three-pointers per game, also set his personal single-season three-point record with 336 three-pointers made.

It was just a pity that in the second half of the regular season, Kobe suffered an unrelenting gank (attack) from the years.

Otherwise, his personal statistics panel would have looked even better this season.

However, even though the two old men of Lower Merion delivered such a perfect report card in the just-concluded 13/14 season...

Online, Su Feng haters and Kobe haters were still talking nonsense with their eyes open.

For example, they attributed all of Su Feng and Kobe's achievements in the 13/14 season to their high number of free throws.

Admittedly, Su Feng and Kobe averaged 10.8 and 10.5 free throws per game this season, respectively.

But these people didn't use their brains to think...

With the number of times Su Feng charged to the basket this season...

Did the Feng Emperor have to be beaten to death before he could step on the free throw line?

Moreover, even though Kobe had a lot of free throws every game...

Compared to the little chubby from Chicago...

No opponents complained about Kobe's number of free throws in the game.

Because Kobe earned those free throws with his skills using pump fakes...

Why couldn't they be included in his final statistics?

In fact, in the just-concluded regular season...

Harden, Wade, and others all had more free throws per game than Su Feng and Kobe.

Even Little Zhan Zhan, who was constantly fighting wits with his teammates every game, had nearly 9 free throws per game.

Therefore, this time, the views of Su Feng haters and Kobe haters were untenable and were destined to be laughed at.

In addition to Su Feng successfully taking home the scoring, rebounding, and steals titles, the assist title for the 13/14 season was also won by a Lakers player.

Rajon Rondo, who had a lot of value extracted from him by Su Feng and Kobe last season, successfully won the assist title this season with an average of 8.4 points, 7.2 rebounds, and 10.8 assists.

This season, because the Lakers reduced the frequency and number of Su Feng and Kobe's isolations.

Therefore, Rondo, who regained control of the ball, also used his outstanding personal performance to slap the faces of those who thought that Su Feng and Kobe ruined point guards.

In the face of real gold and silver, statistics that didn't contain any "moisture"...

Who said that the Lakers' point guard could only be responsible for dribbling on the court?

Look at Rondo!

What is called a ball-handling master and a passing genius?

Not long after the end of the regular season, you should know that in ESPN's ball usage rankings, Su Feng and Kobe couldn't even squeeze into the top fifty...

Therefore, those haters who used to say that Su Feng and Kobe used too much of the ball were undoubtedly blindly hating Saint Feng the Emperor and Black Mamba!

Of course...

Although this time, the haters really couldn't hate on Su Feng and Kobe for ruining point guards and hogging the ball...

But...

"No!

I put in a lot of effort to grab rebounds for the team!

What do you mean I grabbed all the rebounds, resulting in the Lakers' inside players having bad rebound statistics?" This day, while browsing a certain forum, Su Feng was anxious when he saw a post that blatantly hated him for only grabbing his teammates' rebounds.

Ahem!

To be fair.

In the just-concluded 13/14 season, apart from Adams, who could rely on offensive rebounds to support himself...

Gasol and Whiteside were really numb.

You should know that one of these two had more assists per game than rebounds, while the other had almost the same number of blocks per game as rebounds...

But...

Grabbing a few rebounds from teammates couldn't prove that Su Feng was a cancer.

After all, according to ESPN's statistics...

This season, the Lakers were indeed the best team in the league at transition offense.

Moreover, with the development of modern basketball, NBA teams were also consciously strengthening the awareness of perimeter players to protect defensive rebounds.

Because compared to traditional perimeter players leaking out early...

When perimeter players protected defensive rebounds, a team's overall pace of pushing the ball forward would obviously become faster.

In addition to the four statistical titles being swept by the Lakers, the block title for the 13/14 season was won by Anthony Davis.

As in Su Feng's memory, in his second year, Davis delivered a "20+10" report card.

This season, Davis was Middleton's main competitor for the Most Improved Player award.

After saying goodbye to their rookie seasons, both Middleton and Davis played at an All-Star level this season.

"These people only know how to hate on me for 'ruining teammates.'

Did they forget that many players who have partnered with me have won the Most Improved Player award?"

In order to avoid being hated to death by haters before the arrival of the playoffs, Su Feng, who had always been open-minded and tolerant, ultimately didn't bother to argue with these haters.

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On the 22nd, sitting at home in the Staples Center, the Lakers officially welcomed the team's first playoff game this year.

The Nuggets, who got the last ticket through the play-in tournament, were highly motivated.

It had to be said that compared to his memory, Stoudemire's fate in this life had also changed a lot.

Due to a chain reaction caused by a fire hydrant, Stoudemire had one less trip to the factory for major repairs than in his memory... (Note 1)

So although this "Little Overlord" was no longer as brave as he once was, with his experience and awareness, he did create a lot of trouble for the Lakers in this game.

The Nuggets' overall strength was average.

However, it was precisely relying on the energy injected by Stoudemire that made the all-out team always able to burst out with amazing combat power in the game.

Garnett, who proactively surrendered to the Feng Emperor last summer, became a key player for the Lakers in this playoff opener.

In the second half of the game, it was precisely because of Garnett's several single-defenses against Stoudemire that the Lakers pulled away the score.

In the end, the score of this playoff first round Game 1 was 108 to 125.

The Lakers took the lead and successfully achieved a winning start to the playoffs.

On the 25th, the Lakers and Nuggets' playoff Game 2 continued at the Staples Center.

In this game, Coach Lu adjusted the Lakers' starting lineup, putting Garnett in the starting lineup.

As a result, because the Nuggets' bench lineup couldn't withstand the second lineup composed of Middleton, Livingston, Green, and others...

The Lakers led the Nuggets by as many as 30 points in the first half alone.

After the game, inspired by this game, on the 28th and 30th, Coach Lu simply changed Middleton's role in the team's Game 3 and Game 4 against the Nuggets.

In the regular season, because they had to help Middleton level up, both Su Feng and Kobe were obviously restraining their offensive desires on the offensive end.

But in the playoffs...

Due to the increase in the level of defense, the star players had to increase their frequency of attack, so, in Coach Lu's view, splitting up Su, Kobe, and Middleton to lead the team would be more conducive to the Lakers retaining their physical strength before the decisive battle.

It had to be said.

This Coach Lu now...

Was indeed becoming more and more thoughtful.

Many times, without even Su Feng's hints, he could make the most correct adjustments based on his judgment of the game situation.

In the end, on the evening of the 30th, after defeating the Nuggets 128-97 in the Denver Highlands, the Lakers easily advanced to the next round with a score of 4-0.

There was no way around it.

Even if the Nuggets players worked harder, they couldn't make up the gap between their strength and the Lakers in a short period of time.

According to the schedule, the Lakers' opponent in the Western Conference Semifinals would be the winner between the Grizzlies and the Clippers.

Since the first four games between the Grizzlies and the Clippers had resulted in a 2-2 tie, the Lakers had to wait patiently for a while.

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In May, while waiting for their Western Conference Semifinals opponent...

This day, together with Kobe, Su Feng personally went to the training center to observe the workout of the Lakers' future core interior player for the next decade.

As a result...

Before this workout could even begin.

Kobe couldn't bear it anymore.

"That's it?

That's it?

Is he the interior player you told me about who will 100% surpass Mark?" Pointing to the fatty on the training ground who was holding a 2.5L bottle of cola and "gulping, gulping, gulping," Kobe asked with a puzzled expression.

As a person with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder...

As everyone knew.

In the NBA, apart from Little Zhan Zhan, Kobe was also famous for his self-discipline in his approach to basketball.

Therefore, when he saw a professional basketball player.

And when this professional basketball player was very likely to be his teammate in the future...

Kobe would always treat this player with his own standards.

So at this moment...

Looking at Nikola Jokic, who weighed over 260 pounds and was eating a burger and drinking cola before the start of the workout...

You could simply understand it as...

It was like an Italian watching a British chef put pineapple on a pizza dough, which was just as uncomfortable.

"Is he really a professional player?" After suppressing the countless criticisms in his heart, Kobe asked with a curious expression as he watched Jokic, who had fallen on the court because he hadn't stood firmly before the workout began.

Hearing this, Su Feng, who also wanted to complain, scratched his head and said, "Should... should be, right?"

"No, I heard that you approved him drinking cola before the workout?" Kobe, who was almost angered to death, glared at Su Feng with his nostrils and questioned him.

Su Feng nodded, "Before the workout started, he asked our coach.

So I approved it."

Kobe became anxious, "How can you be like this?

You are our leader! How can you condone our future teammates being so undisciplined?"

Su Feng clicked his tongue.

Because he couldn't tell Kobe that he had already added some "seasoning" to the cola that Jokic was going to drink beforehand, after thinking for a while, Su Feng said, "Hey, how come you only remember that I'm the Lakers' leader at times like this?"

Kobe: "......"

On the training ground, after patting Kobe on the shoulder, Su Feng continued, "Don't worry, what if this kid impresses you during the workout later?"

Kobe shook his head, "I don't have any hope for that at all."

Su Feng spread his hands.

Indeed...

Anyone with a normal mind couldn't understand how Jokic would one day drink cola while dominating a group of interior players in the league.

But...

This dead fatty just did it, what could you do?

Moreover, what Su Feng didn't know at this moment was...

Not long after his rebirth, in his original timeline, Jokic even became the NBA's regular season MVP.

Although for current NBA players...

Even the highest calories would be burned off by their high-intensity training.

But...

Looking at the long river of NBA history.

A player like Teacher Jokic, who could make the famous soccer player Wang Yongpo cry after taking off his shirt, was definitely unique.

One pack of abs conquering the world.

Cola is combat power.

Don't ask.

If you ask, it's just that this dead fatty is naturally gifted.

On the training ground, after patiently waiting for the previous players to finish their workout, Teacher Jokic walked onto the court like this, "duang, duang, duang."

On the sidelines, Kobe completely despaired.

Because in his opinion...

If the Lakers really used their first-round draft pick this year to select this fatty from Serbia...

Then it would be better for him to retire on the spot!

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ps: Uh... I really can't think of how to praise myself today, never mind =. =, here's a kiss, continue tomorrow!

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