The convulsion superstar of basketball

Chapter 333 332. Finals MVP

With all the players of the Lakers out of the home court, at the center of the entire Orlando arena, only the Magic team were celebrating wildly.

Similarly, in the surrounding auditoriums, the Orlando fans are doing their best to revel at the moment, because this championship is of great significance to the city of Orlando.

You know, before the history of the Magic team, there have been players with outstanding personal abilities such as Shaquille O'Neal, Penny Hardaway, Grant Hill and Tracy McGrady.

But no matter who it was, ultimately failed to bring Orlando the first championship trophy in team history.

So with the successful victory of the Magic at this moment, the city of Orlando has already fallen into excitement. For Orlando fans, this night is destined to be a sleepless night.

In addition to the carnival crowd at home at this time, when the game is over, the fans who are responsible for watching the game on the Internet are also different.

For Magic fans, this can definitely be called a shocking moment.

But for fans who don't like the Magic, when the game ended, these people immediately turned off the video screen, because in this case, these fans really don't want to watch the Magic's next awards ceremony.

As everyone in the Magic team calmed down on the court, Mr. Stern, who is the president of the league, walked onto the court with a microphone.

On the playing field, the staff awarded championship hats to each of the Magic players.

At the same time, Mr. Stern was standing in the center of the arena with a microphone, speaking to the fans at the scene to celebrate.

Putting on the championship hat issued by the staff, Su Jiu's mood at this time is simply hard to express, because even if he was killed before, he would never have imagined that one day he would be able to stand on the field and accept all these celebrations with peace of mind.

Putting on the championship hat issued by the staff, when Su Jiu looked at Iverson beside him, it was obvious that Iverson's personal mood fluctuated.

At least compared with other players around him, he helped the team successfully win the championship trophy. Although Iverson was also very excited, he was different from other players in terms of personal emotions.

For this point, Su Jiu, who has been a man for two generations, can understand it. After all, the magic team's lineup can be said to be very young, and the team should still be dominated by young players.

Most of the young players are young and energetic, and have not experienced the cruelty in the league and the beatings of others, so they always feel that they will be more promising in the future and have more opportunities.

It can be said that after winning the NBA championship, most of the emotions of young players are excitement and excitement, but for Iverson, the significance of this championship trophy can be described as huge.

Especially at the moment when Iverson is on the verge of retiring, so at this moment, apart from Iverson himself, even Su Jiu can't really understand Iverson's mood.

If this championship trophy happened ten years ago, then with Iverson's bohemian character, I'm afraid he wouldn't take it to heart, and he wouldn't have too many emotions to speak of.

But now, this championship trophy has too much meaning for Iverson.

Although at that time when the competitive pressure was so cruel, Iverson could completely overwhelm others, and he could be said to be a man standing at the top of the league.

But it is a pity that in the most glorious time of his career, he has never led the team to win the championship trophy. The closest time to the championship, the Lakers led by the OK combination were also eliminated 4:1.

Under such circumstances, even Iverson himself thought that he would become a new generation of uncrowned king, another powerful player in the league, but a tragic figure who failed to win a championship for life.

But people are not as good as heaven. At the end of Iverson's career, he and the Pistons management were basically incompatible.

During that later period, most teams in the league already had a resistance to Iverson, thinking that Iverson was a complete thorn on and off the court.

At this time, Iverson still couldn't recognize the fact that he was no longer at his peak. With too many shots on the court, he couldn't deliver the data at his peak.

The most important thing is that at this time, Iverson is often as defiant as he was back then, but with the decline of personal strength, the team's head coach and management are obviously unable to feel satisfied with Iverson's state.

Especially when Iverson personally told the media that he would never play as a substitute anyway, no other team in the league dared to accept Iverson's thorn.

Just when the fans thought that Iverson might choose to retire after this season, it turned out that the Magic took out their team's main point guard Nelson in the middle of the season and made a deal that can be described as a ruined deal in the eyes of outsiders.

It is no exaggeration to say that this deal was ridiculed and questioned by most people in the league at the time.

Some people even bluntly praised in an interview with the media that the arrival of Iverson will destroy the atmosphere of the Magic team, and the Magic team just showed signs of being able to hit the championship this season will definitely be completely extinguished by the arrival of Iverson.

As a result, no one expected that after Iverson came to the Magic, although in the early run-in stage, the overall momentum of the Magic has declined compared to the early season.

But after the playoffs, Iverson once again proved his value on the court.

It proved that I can not only serve as the C position again on the court to contribute to the team, but also provide a kind of alternative encouragement for the overall morale of the team on the spiritual level.

It can be said that this year's championship trophy can not only make Iverson's career more perfect, but also allow Iverson's personality to complete self-salvation.

Finally, coupled with the various difficulties in the league for so many years, when Iverson wore the championship hat exclusively for the championship, this bad boy who was always defiant in normal times became very quiet at this time.

The whole person stood quietly in the middle of the court, as if waiting for the staff to hand out the championship trophy, and even more as if he was drawing a successful end to his previous career...

After Mr. Stern spoke some provocative and encouraging words to the audience, an old man came up from the sidelines.

This person holds the finals MVP trophy in his hand, and it seems that he wants to announce the finals MVP next.

This is none other than the legendary "Lord of the Rings" Russell of the NBA Celtics.

Lasse was not a player with outstanding personal abilities, but his defensive ability was the top of that era.

In the personal matchup with the basketball emperor Chamberlain, Russell did very well on the defensive end.

The most important thing is that in Russell's personal career, he won a total of 11 championship rings, including a long eight consecutive championships.

In February of this year, NBA President David Stern announced that in order to recognize Bill Russell's outstanding contributions and immortal legend, the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award was officially renamed "Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award".

Being able to name an award in the NBA league after his own name, it is not difficult to see from this that Russell's contribution to the league can definitely be said to be huge.

As Bill Russell walked into the arena holding the MVP trophy, David Stern, who was in the middle of the court at the moment, picked up the microphone and announced to the audience the MVP of this round of the series.

"Let's congratulate, congratulations to Dwight Howard for successfully being elected the Most Valuable Player of the Finals this season with the highest vote!!"

As David Stern's voice fell, the entire Orlando Arena was in an instant.

Everyone in the Magic team played steadily in this round of the series, but among them, the one who contributed the most is definitely none other than Warcraft Howard.

If Su Jiu, Iverson, and Lewis supported the Magic's offensive system, then Howard supported the defensive system alone.

It is no exaggeration to say that in this round of the series, although Van Gundy has been single-handedly defending Kobe, and let Pietrus close to Kobe without hesitation, so that he can better interfere with Kobe.

But under the premise of this defensive method, that is, Howard must sit at the basket.

Because Pietrus was defending Kobe at the same time, even if Kobe passed Pietrus' defense, then he would still need to face Howard's overwhelming presence in the penalty area.

Therefore, the reason why Pietrus was able to personally interfere with Kobe in this round of the series is that at least [-]% of the credit should be given to Howard behind him.

After all, when Howard sits under the basket to protect the penalty area, it is extremely difficult for offensive players to attack the basket.

在本轮系列赛里，霍华德在这四场比赛里场均要出场41.1分钟，个人可以贡献出19.2分16.3篮板1.4抢断以及2.9次的封盖，且投篮命中率同样是高达了59.7%。

From the data alone, it is very obvious that Howard completely dominated the penalty area in this round of the series.

Both offensive and defensive ends have contributed to efficient personal performance.

Especially when the little shark Bynum failed to play in the last two games, Howard's presence on the court was like a beast out of the cage, and he could completely wreak havoc in the penalty area.

After all, apart from Bynum being able to compete with Howard a little in the penalty area, the other insiders of the Lakers have big and small disadvantages when facing Howard.

Among them, those who are as strong as Howard are not as fast as Howard, those who are faster than Howard are not as tall as Howard, and those who are faster, stronger and taller than Howard...

Sorry, there's not a single player like that in the entire league.

Therefore, for Howard to be elected as the MVP of this year's finals, this can definitely be called a well-deserved name.

Even from a sentimental point of view, if the finals MVP can be awarded to Iverson, it will definitely become a good story.

However, since the Finals MVP is the award finally selected by 11 media units plus fan votes, under absolute strength, Iverson can only miss this year's FMVP competition.

Of course, Iverson's performance in this year's finals was also very eye-catching, especially when Van Gundy arranged for Iverson to lead the second team to grab points, and Iverson's offensive efficiency obviously soared.

After all, with the growth of personal age, although Iverson has a big gap with the league's top stars, if he just leads the second team to grab points and act as a bench gangster, it can definitely be called more than enough.

这轮系列赛里，艾弗森场均可以上场34.1分钟，在进攻端可以贡献出15.7分2.1篮板2.7助攻以及1.6次的抢断。

Among them, although the three-point shooting percentage is only a poor 23.7%, the overall personal shooting percentage has reached 44.6%.

And the shooting percentage of 44.6%, which in Iverson's career, has obviously created a new high in the efficiency of the playoffs.

Because when he was in the Magic, Iverson had a group of teammates who could share the pressure for him on both ends of the offense and defense.

He is no longer a lonely hero, nor is he the "answer" who led the team alone and could only choose one to five.

Maybe the city of Orlando is not Iverson's hometown, because Iverson has dedicated all his youth and prime to Philadelphia.

But we believe that during this time in Orlando, it can definitely be called the happiest time in Iverson's career.

Here, he has friends who can give him trust, and a group of teammates who are full of vigor and hope for the future.

The most important thing is that after coming to the Magic, Iverson finally experienced what is called team basketball.

You know, whether it was during the Philadelphia 76ers period or the Denver Nuggets period, Iverson's personal dictionary seems to be the two words heads-up and singles.

Because all the head coaches who have Iverson will take him as the absolute core and arrange according to Iverson's offensive habits, so in Iverson's career, it is really rare to appreciate the help given by his teammates.

Some people say that Iverson's arrival is obviously a pity, because at this time Iverson has entered the twilight of his career.

But in Su Jiu's view, the arrival of Iverson in his old age is obviously just right, because at this time, Iverson just happens to be a little less bohemian and more mature and steady.

And Su Jiu also began to firmly believe that after this year, no one in the league would say that Iverson is a cancer.

Because compared to Iverson's very thorny personality, fans obviously believe that other teams just failed to find the key to use Iverson...

(End of this chapter)